BITCON'S Winter Quilts and Runners Sale
BITCON'S offers Kapok quilts hearth rugs and RPET runners in a large varied stock. Prices are fair and selections are easy to satisfy with affordable options for winter needs.
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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 02, 1926
Page
6
BITCON'S offers Kapok quilts hearth rugs and RPET runners in a large varied stock. Prices are fair and selections are easy to satisfy with affordable options for winter needs.
The executive discussed meeting punctuality and welcomed new members including secretary G Fowler after his illness. Reports covered fences, sheep-proofing grounds, caretaker issues, and potential cottage building. A committee chair roster was set and plans for a training building with football club use were proposed. Experimental plots sowing was reported, with next steps and conveyance arrangements. Secretary salary increase to 60 pounds per year was proposed for the next meeting.
The piece argues that cancelling the commonwealths income tax subsidies to the states would leave the government to decide action on public revenue. It notes federation origins, the shift to old age pensions, and wartime debt. It contends the same taxpayer funds both levels, making centralized taxation unsound and enabling states to spend without revenue responsibility. It cites a state treasurer's admission of benefiting from transfers.
Delegates from municipalities including Rochester Deakin Echuca Cohung Numurkah met to form an infectious diseases ward at Echuca Hospital. Estimated cost 3000 with government paying half and the rest from local councils in proportions: Rochester 1100 Deakin 800 Echuca 600 Cohung 300 Numurkah 200. Dr W A Campbell presided and Mr A Stringer served as secretary.
Four townspeople endorse Doan's Backache Kidney Pills as a remedy for kidney pain and backache. Mrs John Grant of Numurkah recounts relief after a short course, noting reduced dizziness and fatigue. Sold by chemists at 2/9 a bottle or by Foster-McClellan Co in Sydney.
The Royal Stores advertise a broad range across Grocery Crockery and Hardware departments. Highlights include stainless cutlery lines, Thermos flasks, Hurricane lanterns, axe handles, farming requisites, lubricants, plough shares, and home conveniences. The note emphasizes experience and value in furniture, paint, plaster, roofing, and joinery supplies.
A fragmented OCR shows Presbyterians and Methodists across Numurkah, Yarroweyah, and surrounding towns with numerous initials and names such as Rev Patterson Rev Woods and Mr Martindale. It lists football style scores like Koonoomoo 44 and Cobram 7, plus entries for first aid cures and a motor coach schedule from Katamatite to Numurkah with bread prices at 2d per loaf.
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