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Newspaper
Traralgon Record
Location
Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
Date
Aug 24, 1909
Page
3
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During a council meeting in the Shire Hall discussion centered on extending electric light to households. Debates covered private company involvement, expected capital costs, gas works condition, data access for ratepayers, and who should bear the light’s expense. Needing more information, the council considered estimates and future steps for providing street and domestic illumination.
The notice lists items sold and offered at rooms on August 21 including household goods, groceries, vegetables and farm produce. It notes a clearing sale at Gormandale on the Urrectors of the Gormandale Butter Factory property including timber brick and relics, all cleared at satisfactory prices.
The Gippsland Presbytery met to transact ordinary business with Rev H M Burns as moderator. Attendees included J Millar, W Huey Steele, J Moebell, G M Loutive as clerk, Rev J Roberts, and new representative M Bartow. Reports covered Maffra pulpit vacancies, Moniee Mission Festival arrangements, funds for tables, and a planned retreat in Cuninghame. The Bairnsdale congregation received Jubilee fund grant approval and deputies were to visit Gippsland congregations.
An advertisement touts a man remedy for coughs bronchitis colds and chest complaints claiming rapid relief and prevention of chronic coughs priced 28 and 4/6 or by post 3 and 5. The notice also lists a funeral for Matilda to Traralgon cemetery tomorrow with service at 10 and procession routes. He requests readers to follow the hearse to the Traralgon cemetery and notes undertaker Grubb Cadertaker and solicitor Mr Sandford for money lending and property offers in Traralgon and district.
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