Congratulations to Mr. P. J. Stormon, who has passed his final degree in the faculty of medicine. The young doctor is a son of Mr. and Mrs. M Stormon, jnr., of Eurobodalla.

The two 4-ton Ford trucks, with self-tipping bodies, recently purchased by the Eurobodalla Shire Council, have exceeded all expectations, and after being in use for three months at the southern part of the Shire, the maintenance men are delighted with the amount of work that can be accomplished with the machines. However, Moruya people will be able to judge for themselves, as the trucks have been brought to town and are now drawing stone from the Yarragee quarry.

Mr. W. Crapp had a narrow escape from serious injury the other night. He was driving his team of seven draught horses attached to the jinkers up Campbell St., and when passing a lorry, the pigs on board suddenly moved. The horses becoming frightened, shied and ran up the footpath (or embankment) near Mr. D. Buckley’s residence. In jumping off the vehicle, Mr. Crapp slipped and the locked wheel dragged his foot along the ground. The laces of his boots were cut from top to bottom by the tyre, and the brass eyelets were driven into his flesh. Mr. Crapp suffered severe pain, but is now able to get about again with a decided Alexandra limp.

The Postmaster-General’s Department expresses surprise that a number of users of wireless receiving apparatus have so far failed to obtain broadcast listeners’ licenses, and are continuing to make use of their sets illegally. … The position is obviously one which cannot be permitted to drift indefinitely before having recourse to legal action.

Information has been received from Messrs. Dorman Long and Co., the North Shore Bridge contractors, that their quarry manager and two assistants will be here next month. They have leased Mr. Preddy’s two cottages at the Heads and Mr. L. T. Jenner’s cottage at Mynora.

After 15 years of suffering from rheumatics, which she bore with true christian fortitude, Miss Helen Coman, aged 61 years, passed peacefully away at her home, Eurobodalla, on Monday evening last. For a number of years the patient had been confined to bed, and had been tenderly and devotedly nursed by her sisters. The funeral took place on Wednesday, the remains being interred in the R.C. portion of the Moruya cemetery. Deceased, who was the youngest daughter of the late William Coman, Esq., of Eurobodalla, is survived by two brothers, Messrs. John (Candelo), James (Narooma), and three sisters, Misses Mary, Kate and Alice Coman, Eurobodalla.

LOST – GOLD Eversharp Pencil. Reward. L. E. FINCH, Commercial Bank.

Extracted from the Moruya Examiner by the Moruya and District Historical Society Inc.