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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jul 29, 1946
Page
2
Tenders are invited and will be received at the Shire Hall Tungamah until 12 noon on Saturday August 3 1946 for Contract No 16/46 forming and reforming 101 chains reforming and gravelling 78 chains on various roads in the North-west Riding near Katamatite 17/46 and reforming and gravelling 3 chains on various roads in the South-west Riding.
The State Rivers and Water Supply Commission invites quotations marked Floor at 100 110 Exhibition Street Melbourne and from Yarrawonga Cobram Numurkah officers. Quotations must be to the Secretary and lodged by 12 noon 13 August 1946 in Melbourne. Also invites applications for a temporary position with evidence of experience and birth details, closing 6 August 1946, salary £195 per year plus cost of living adjustment.
A dense page of advertisements lists farm goods pets and livestock for sale tools and hardware services and job notices. Items include fencing posts woolpacks and seed orders from Gerald Heard Numurkah plus appliances like Hotpoint units and refrigerators from F B Amor Numurkah. Multiple wants buy orders for horses and scrap items appear alongside a lone employment notice and a woodworking or tailoring service.
Rupert Burkitt, aged 41, beloved husband of Daphne and father of James and Bobbie, died at the home of his sister on Knight Street Sherparton. He was the son of the late Emmis Burkit and brother of Ellen, Franc is, and Jean. Walled to Rest.
The Numurkah Leader announces subscription at 10 shillings per year for posted or delivered copies.
Local notes detail hospital fundraising totals and town group activities. Reports mention Memorial Hospital amounts, boy scouts achievements, election enrolment deadlines, reservoir readings, Red Cross officers and year totals, plus a social and literary column with author features and club sports results.
In Memoriam notices honor Len Jobson who died August 1940 with pegged family message. Terence Noel Zanelli died July 29 1944 at Wanglinu aged 2 years 11 months with loving parents recalling photo in a frame.
Mrs A Stringer and family express sincere gratitude to friends for cards letters telegrams and floral tributes after their bereavement. They thank Dr Coombs Mrs Pryde and the Rev Churchward and ask recipients to accept this acknowledgment of their sympathy.
unreadable OCR fragment mentions theater and performance names and dates with many garbled words. presents no clear event, participants, or location to identify a coherent news item or outcome.
Clearing sale at Dookie conducted by Messrs J M Una wara and Cow Shepparton with on line bidding begins Thursday at 2 pm. Sheep include Border Leicester and English Leicester cross aged two to four years. Cattle include dairy cows and heifers. Shepparton Sales New Zealand Ltd will run pig and calf sale at Shepparton on Monday next and store cattle sale the following day.
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