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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Oct 01, 1945
Page
3
A troubled excerpt details discussions about the ancient game of bowls and expansion of greens. It mentions committees, resignations, and forthcoming meetings, with references to local officials and various individuals involved in the club’s governance and annual reports.
Arrangements for Numurkah Agricultural Society’s Victory Show are underway. District residents are urged to submit entries early to aid book completion and enable distant exhibitors to participate. The secretary has secured a Victory Show building on Melville Street with multiple cups and competitions announced for cattle dairy, sheep, pigs, and horses, plus expanded accommodations and track improvements to handle increased entrants.
A scan listing films and stars including Greer Garson Walter Pidgeon Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders. Mentions Bergman winning awards and a range of Metro-Goldwyn films with show nights and cast highlights across the week.
October events include the Annual Meeting of the Bowling Club Amocinter and a final screening of Mrs Parkington at Town Hall. A Red Cross social for returned prisoners of war is planned, along with the opening of Nomurkal Bowling Green and Carnival at Yalea South. A working bee is listed and a Victory Show is scheduled at Nomurkiah Show grounds.
The Mundoona and Mundoona North State schools trace back to 1877 with the first head James Macgregor later a councillor and shire resident. The district also notes shifts in location and staffing, including Mrs Elizabeth Macgregor, Miss Morton, Miss May Saunders, and Mr J F Boswell, plus the growth of enrollment to 38 by Mr Sergeant’s leadership and the community efforts funding a windmill and a school residence.
J McNamara and Co stock and station agents list services for Numurkah Cobram area including trust moneys lending and valuations. Local notices promote lodges, 6 cylinder motor trucks, commercial unions insurance, trustees executors agency, Orient Line steamers, Prudential life, Australian Estates Lanz bulldog crude oil tractors.
Unreserved stock and household furniture sales announced for Numurkah Nathalia Cobram and Cobram South. Auctions include J McNamara Co Young Husband Ltd Kilpatrick McLellan Co and O Dwyer family estates with sales dates to be fixed.
Local agents announce genuine unreserved sales of surplus furniture for Mrs Cave and Miss Hall at Numurkah and Tocumwal Road. Items listed include sideboard, dining chairs, lounge chairs, beds, stoves, crockery, toys, lawn mower, and more. Young Sale at 3 pm covers 237 acres near Marungi for Mr H Sullivan with E A Norton. Auctions note Numurkah reopens business and offers furniture removal across the state and Riverina.
Nathalia Irrigation District seeks farm properties in the Nathalia district with or without homesteads. Owners wishing to sell whole or part holdings should contact for prompt inspection arrangements.
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