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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Mar 28, 1944
Page
3
Market reports note forthcoming sales and agent activity in Shepparton area listings. Various entries reference properties for lease and sale, including streets and property types, with anticipated auctions or transfers slated in the near term.
Spectators from Numurkah and Nathalia watched a well contested inter school carnival on Friday afternoon March 17 at Nathalia. Numurkah won by 160 points to 147.2 as senior girls and other events were staged, with visiting teams entertained at afternoon tea.
Fragmented OCR notes detail a Numurkah event with multiple races and participants. Mentions include N Walsh, Carty, Wright, Lang, and Hutchins among others. Various age groups and distances are listed such as 25 and 50 metre sprints, novelty events, and a life saving race, with unclear outcomes and several dead heats referenced.
Readable fragments show a girls swimming program with 12 and under events including 20 and 25 metre races. Names such as Nay LB Binger and Wilson Sw appear along with strokes like backstroke. The partial list reflects participants and distances in a local meet with multiple young swimmers noted.
Local notices outline a range of public events in Numurkah and surrounding areas. The Numurkah Town Hall hosts a women support meeting and a card evening at the Strathmerton venue. Nutwerk Agricultural Society plans an annual meeting with W.O. Ken McLeod and his Maggien Revue featured.
By appointing THE NATIONAL TRUSTEES COY as your Executor and Trustee you ensure that your Estate will be soundly administered and the welfare of your dependents safeguarded.
Nurmurkah Nathalia Picola Cobram Katamatite advertise trust moneys to lend at lowest rates sworn local agents for Dodge Bros six cylinder motor cars and trucks Orient Line of steamers The Rodential Life Assurance Co Ltd The Estates Lane Sueldow Crude Oil Tract.
Auction notices list sales at Mechanics Hall Cobram Numurkah and Tocumwal including 434 acre Boosey parish estate 220 acre Naring lease auction 1058 acre Headford parish and a house sale on Meiklejohn Street plus a Masonic Hall Tocumwal listing for the Gena under executors of John Casey and partners with Albert Brown and John McNamara and Co. of Yarrawonga involved.
A compact notice lists Numurkah stock sales with multiple entries dated April 14 and 21 and 28, naming agents McNamara Co Kil and Kilpatrick McLellan Co Young husband Limited Local Agents for Dennys Lascelles et Victaria Insurance Co Ballarat Trustees Execute and Agency Co Bunge Aut P.y. Ltd and Wheat Tracks Cooper's Sheep Dip Wesre as sole local agents. The item reads like a clustered advertisement detailing stock sale dates, participating firms, and local agency representation in Numurkah.
New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co Ltd will auction after instruction from Mrs R Thompson estate administrator of Matthew Thompson deceased. Items include McKay header, Massey Harris binder, combines, ploughs, wagons, harness, hay, seed wheat, oats, motor car Chevrolet sedan 1937, jinker outfits, scales, farming tools, cows, horses, sheep, poultry and more. 20 acres of wheat and grazing land to be offered for sale at 2 pm cash. Sale near Nathalia railway siding with five paddocks and a five room dwelling. Tea by Yalea South Red Cross.
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