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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Oct 31, 1933
Page
2
Rate of insertion sixpence per time with a minimum charge two shillings. Advertisements include Christmas greetings, personal cards, and a variety of goods and services from Glenny & Heard and local trades. Notices cover lost items, farm stock, wagons, and business inquiries in Numurkah and surrounding areas.
Amusements and notices list events at Numurkah with a croquet meeting at the club on Wednesday November 1 at 4 30 pm and an invitation to St George's Church of England tennis court opening on Saturday November 11 at 2 pm with free admission and a cordial invitation from Harry Scurry.
The meeting of the executive is at Shire Hall at 8 15 p m Friday next. Those with books badges or similar items should send returns to the secretary at once and those with accounts against the committee are asked to render them immediately.
The notice directs all applications to The Cooperative Wheat Group located at 575 584 Little Flinders Street Melbourne. It details submission from Katunga Numurkah Waaia Nathalia regions for the pool operations.
Applications are invited and will be received until 12 noon on Saturday November 11, 1933 for weighbridge keeper positions at various weigh bridges in the Shire. Wage ten shillings per day payable monthly. Applicants to state bridge preferred. STRINGER Shire Secretary.
The Numurkah district prints thank you notes for a recent issue and reports on the Soulburn Valley Fire Brigades Association annual meeting in Shepparton with officers elected. Tenders are invited for shire works and notices recap probate, hospital bequests, and public notices including a killing works visit and a fancy dress ball event.
Mr R Adams and family sincerely thank friends for expressions of sympathy in their recent sudden bereavement. They acknowledge visits letters cards and telegrams and ask readers to accept this gratitude from Ellerslie Katanga.
Reports from Numurkah Drumanure and South Presbyterian churches show a call being sent to Rev Fred Smith of Trafalgar to take up duties around early December. The note also mentions moves of Garrieu Mesure J Hickey K Kiteley and Paterson to Well v Me Ballarat and Rushworth assignments for the band as cornetists.
An unclear OCR snippet from a district news item provides fragments about a community update. Readable terms mention a district and a possible event or notice, but key names, dates, and places are missing or garbled. The item lacks a coherent, reportable fact to summarize.
The death of Mr Filzwater, longtime Numurkah resident and public figure, is recorded with tributes to his active town service and leadership. Survived by wife, two sons, and others, he died after a surgical illness while visiting Melbourne, prompting memorial appeals by the Red Cross and local committee.
A tangled OCR fragment lists players Katunga Wen, Cottam, Maudesley, and Hooper in a dual meet with vague results. Mentioned are Miss Wright, Miss Maudesley, and Miss Hynes, plus scores like 4 62 and 6 00. A court decision cites a licensing act or cigarette purchase issue. Weather notes describe hot drying wind and rain disruptions affecting crops, with urgent needs after recent moisture.
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