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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 22, 1935
Page
3
At the Goulburn Valley District Council annual meeting in Nurmurkah on Friday afternoon Mr J McEwen MLA and Brigadier General Bourchier MLA spoke to the gathering and discussed party matters and wheat supplies for their needs.
Brigadier General Bourchier praises pioneers as Victoria faces pests and disease in gardens. The March state elections loom with Country Party leverage and debates over Local Government Act amendments, water charges, and relief funds for producers. Discussions cover scale insects, thrips, and spraying with destruxel nicotine, as well as debates on wheat bounty, tariff relief, and ministerial negotiations.
An expert, D A Hl Martin, notes children imitate swearing from frequent exposure and that taboo words gain emphasis. He cites that correcting a child matters, as uncorrected swearing tends to be forgotten and repeated. The piece also mentions locust pests and plant diseases with remote advice on control.
The markets report yarding including lo pikes and prime fat wethers with cattle, while Nathalia hosts an opening stock sale and a rental offer for the Kotupna grazing property. Auctioneers Henry Henley Fairman Macarthur Macleod will lease the nine paddock property with Wakiti Creek water, capable of 800 ewes and 100 young cattle, sale at 2.30 pm. J McNamara & Co announce Cobram stock sale results with keen lamb demand from Nathalia Picola Numurkah Yarrawonga Melbourne and others, noting strong ewe demand and clearances despite variable quotes.
Campbell and Co and Namurkah firms announce stock sales and land auctions across Cobram East Numurkah Nathalia Invergordon Cobram area under instructions from estates and administrators. Listings include stock, poultry, seed wheat and farming plant sales, with multiple dates in January February and March. Land for sale across Victoria and New South Wales by Stock and Station Agents.
Kilpatrick McLellan & Co Pty Ltd operates as stock and station real estate and business agents with offices in Numurkah and Shepparton. The ad lists multiple agency affiliations including Jobe Darling Son Grain Merchants and National Trustes Co. Limited and notes contact numbers for after hours.
Unreserved sales announced for Numurkah and surrounding towns include sheep cattle horses pigs poultry and furniture for Mrs L Smith and other estates. Multiple auctions listed with Kilpatrick Co McNamara & Co Dennys Lascelles Ltd and local agents promoting extensive clearing sales and livestock specials across Invergordon Numurkah Tatura Shepparton and Yarrawonga with catalogue items wheat grazing and dairy properties featured.
A Mittagong NSW resident guaranteed by an AMP policy for £250 in 1910 pays £4 16s 1d yearly yet bonuses to 1932 total £155 2s and a overall cover of £405. In 1932 the bonus was £8 2s, compared with £4 16s 1d in premiums, illustrating mutual life assurance gains.
Tocumwal to Shepparton sedan service timetable lists stops Tocumwal Barooga Cobram Strathmerton Nureka Shepparton with maid dining room link to Melbourne train. Times show morning arrival Tocumwal 8 6 am, Shepparton 8 15 am and return departure 8 15 pm.
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