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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jul 23, 1915
Page
4
Immigration Bureau announces a party of domestic servants arriving in Melbourne by air. Employers urged to specify needs early. workers include experienced young women and some younger girls seeking placement. Wages range from 81 to 10s weekly for new arrivals and up to 22s 15d for experienced. Contact Bureau at 565 Flinders Street, Melbourne.
A customer narrates a long term kidney claim cured five years ago by Doan's Backache Kidney Pills. He describes severe backache and river trouble before treatment, noting lasting relief and urging others to seek the remedy. The ad lists price and postal order details from Parker McClellan Co for the pill, urging readers to buy only DOAN'S.
The Numurkah Water Trust held its ordinary monthly meeting on a Tuesday discussing water supply from Casey’s Weir and the Broken Creek. Concerns included engineering works, obstruction removal, and potential cross-bore channel schemes with authorities in Melbourne and Gowangardie, along with budget estimates and decisions on next steps.
Lom Nasirkab visit Shepparton for a Saturday rifle shooting match known as the football special. Nawarksh secured victory by 42 points with T. J Aber of Numurkah high scoring 07, while royal clubs claimed a 13-point margin in the ram invasion. Events list cadet officers, WOs and sergeants applauding the performance and naming many participants.
A wartime notice urges readers to contribute to soldiers by making or sending items. It details a form for postal addresses, specific shipping rates, and guidance on accepted items, including footwear and clothing. The piece references church figures, local committees, and a push by Victorian Red Cross branches to support wounded troops with improvised articles.
Fragmentary OCR reveals a 1915 letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury to King and Prime Minister. It discusses moral obligation in war, condemns German actions, warns against traitorous plots, urges national unity, and calls for mobilization and resolve in the early WWI context. The text reflects period rhetoric and statesmanlike appeals.
A wartime appeal from Melbourne asks newspapers and residents to send copies to the Australian Soldier Newspaper Depot at 280 Collins Street. Donations fund and stock the depot groaning with papers for wounded service members, with strict separation of new and old issues for trenches and hospital use.
An association meeting collapses into delays as delegates quarrel over a proposed arbitration and the future of the Mackatah club. Howell and Wilcox oversee as Tallyergropp delegates seek a path to salvage the season. Pending decisions include whether Muckatash, Saqueezed, and Tellyganntee play in a later round and if Mackeenholf is obliged to participate under reform terms.
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