Ram raid at Bottle-O causes huge damage

WHEN Numurkah Bottle-O owner Brad Kerry responded to a security alarm at the store in the early hours of January 5, he did not expect to be met with a scene of carnage.

“I came in through the back, and the front door of the store was completely smashed in and the back end of a ute was in the store,” he said.

Lucky local wins first division

ONE Numurkah person saw in the new year in style, after scooping a first division prize in the final Tattslotto draw of 2018.

The lucky individual, who wishes to remain anonymous, was one of 17 first division winners in the December 29 draw, which had a first division jackpot of $30 million, and will receive just shy of $1.8 million.

Numurkah bowlers win big in Wunghnu tournament

Numurkah Town bowlers Alan Rogers (s), Don Staggard and Gary Roulston took out the $2,400 first prize at the Wunghnu Bowls Club's annual triples tournament played on January 5 and 6.

Rogers, Staggard and Roulston combined extremely well on Wunghnu’s free running greens, winning all six of their 15 end games, with a combined shots up of 71 an indication of the threesome’s dominance.