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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Feb 22, 1944
Page
2
Mrs T. K. Hay and Mr and Mrs Hay and Family sincerely thank their friends for the expressions of sympathy shown during their recent sad bereavement especially to Mrs C. R. Gray Jones. Please accept this as a token of sincere appreciation.
Tenders are invited for the purchase and removal of a weatherboard residence at Ketunge. Details and tender forms available at Numurkeh railway station and Estate Office. Funeral notice and personal details embedded in the fragment mention Mortimer and family relations.
Amusements and meetings announce Learn to Swim Week from Monday February 28 to March 4 with instructors and Miss W C Shaw taking enrolments. Scout Week event includes a Scout and Cub Night in Manchester Hall on February 24 at 8 pm. parents invited. Easter Monday gala features Moorcooni Hospital benefit ball with Gervasoni orchestra.
Travel updates show that on Monday Wednesday and Friday afternoons only 10 tickets are sold to Melbourne travelers from Namurkah with priority to servicemen and return-half holders. Separate notes cover firebreak fines in Coreen Shire, an irrigation field day near Yarroweyah, a Scouts reading matter drive, and extended Bush Fires Relief subscriptions with local donations listed. The Mooroopna Hospital Board considered storeman applicants with a mix of views on prioritizing returning soldiers.
Jack McDonlad of Shepparton East calls on farmers and rural communities to organize, energize, and oppose exploitation. He asserts politicians must back producers, urges business and professional sectors to join, and vows continued advocacy for country needs in 1944. The letter reflects wartime rural activism and calls for collective action now.
Town Hall screens submarine espionage tale Submarine Alert with Richard Arien Wendy Barrie and others. Lost Canyon action thrills follows with William Boyd and Lola Lane. Jeanette MacDonald and Robert Young star in a Paris production with musical numbers and cartoons by Walt Disney and a Metro color feature Puss In Boots. John Wayne appears in Reunion in France coming soon.
Harvest thanksgiving services will be conducted in Numurkah Presbyterian Church next Sunday at 11 and 7.30. The annual congregational meeting will be held the following night. An instructor will be in attendance at the swimming pool from Monday next until March 4. The Younger Set will hold a dance in the Town Hall next Friday night for bush fires relief.
District residents gathered Saturday February 5 to honor Mr and Mrs Norman Coombs and their family as they depart the Invergordon area. The event filled the school with overflow seating and featured presentations from local leaders, gifts, and best wishes for health and prosperity in their new home.
The President Mrs F A Batey presided over a Thursday meeting with 10 members present. A parcel for heal quarters included 30 toilet bags magazines and old men. A donation of £15 was sent to headquarters for February. A groceries parcel competition raised £2 14 1. The monthly dance is set for February 26 with music from Miss Fate and Mr Kerr contributing in January.
Community notices list events at Numurkah Town Hall and various venues from February 23 to March 4 including a swimming instruction program, church meetings and a harvest festival. A Cobram pig and calf sale is scheduled March 1. The budget forecast notes Australia spending £1,677,000,000 on the war by year end and a rising volunteer pool. Women volunteers in naval, army and air services shift to active duties as support troops grow.
The Numurkuly Chamber of Commerce held a Thursday night meeting at Telegraph Hotel with better attendance. President F A Guenther was reelected as were other retiring officers. Members discussed work at home and related inquiries, while the secretary’s contributions and a gift to Mr and Mrs Hyde for their marriage were noted. The group urged improvements to irrigation, drainage, and town hall ventilation, and planned a depot visit to discuss the Minster’s duties, with future inquiries into postwar building and labor needs.
Fragmented OCR text shows church notices and scattered names and times. Readable items include names like Be heaivneit and Methoudeet SHR with fragmented phrases and numbers such as 230 Pleo Wesg. The source is partial and contains multiple unreadable segments.
A fragmentary article notes a Reconstruction committee proposal to establish mills, brickworks, and plating works funded by capital from the West and wheat produced locally. It mentions opposition, labor concerns, and debates over who would profit, with references to workers and reform aims amid economic restructuring.
Fragmentary health notes discuss cautions about fried foods and the shift toward raw fruits. The text mentions dietary advice values and stresses practical eating patterns, reflecting era specific concerns on nutrition and wellness.
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