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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Oct 24, 1944
Page
4
Bright pastel hats and spring dresses advertised with luxury hats at victory prices. Features include assorted hats in waterfowl yellows pinks and teals, new season fabrics, silk frocks, floral designs, and two illustrated versions. Coupons and specials noted.
A crowded schedule features films and vaudeville acts including The Miracle That Made The Whole Darned Country Open Thy Eyes and The Boss. Audiences will see Patents of pirates and a Laugh Riot offering THU and THUR performances with townwide exhibition details.
Numurkah district music history records its first orchestra in 1893 led by C. H. Bowles with players and contributors across professions. It describes successive ensembles, venues, and notable musicians, including performances at Shamrock Hotel social rooms and Mooroopna Hospital fund concerts, and traces continuities through early 20th century orchestral activity and key local figures.
The piece notes Parliament adjournment into 1945 and cabinet tensions among Curtin Ward Evatt, with Ward’s controversial statements about plane crash survivors. It recounts a marbles incident in Sydney and reflections on political liberty, then shifts to a history of a 1940 town orchestra, its formation, members, and community concerts, ending with hopes for revival after the war.
The piece notes Syaney the strikers pressuring for newsprint via Senator Keane while declaring the paper illegal. It cites daily circulation over 100,000 and critiques Calwell’s 1 million pound yearly abroad publicity plan. Mentions Wonthaggi losses, Referendum costs, and NZ housing output, with Evatt remarks and the Commonwealth Housing Commission's activities.
The Cobram Agricultural Society votes to stage its show on the first Saturday in October next year. Church notices list listed services across Numurkah Cobram Strathmerton and surrounding districts with multiple denominations and ministers.
Progress reports show £725 banked under a patriotic appeal. A Sep 19 wedding in Mywer choo and Miss Curtin. Numurkah show held despite drought. Nathalia bowling green opened by President R W Cobble dick. Sirune’s bakery and residence at Picokt destroyed by fire. Sand clogging boreal Picola. pumping hindered by rubbish. George W Judd killed at Numurkah station crushed between two trucks. Farewell to Constable Delirue as he transfers. Cobram wins Goulburn Valley Premiership third straight by beating Muckatah 6.8 to 8. Best Cobram: Grant, Wyatt, Mortis, Bolton, Tuck. Muckatah: Burke, Hurn, Lambert, Flynn, Graham.
The report notes Austinal canned vegetables totaling over 123 million pounds for the year ended June 30, surpassing pre war output. It also cites wartime costs to Canadians, from 3 cents a day per person in 1939 to 1 dollar 16 cents per day last year. It mentions the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force, formed in March 1941, now exceeding 18,000 members.
The piece stresses digestion as key to healthy blood and overall well being. It links constipation and liver torpidity to headaches and uric acid linked rheumatic issues, promoting Guenther's liver pills and rheumatic pills as remedies available for immediate course.
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