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By Jo WinterbottomTHE decision to close the Hastings street market over winter has drawn criticism from a High St trader, who says she may have to lay off staff when the market goes into hiatus.

The proprietor of Coffee King sand-wich bar and cafe, Hilda Rachid said the shop’s takings on Thursday, market day, increased by up to $700.

“People love the idea of coming to have a walk around Hastings; we get people from as far away as Hawthorn,” she said.

“If I lost that income I’d have to cut down on staff.”

But the operator of the market, the Ro-tary Club of Hastings Western Port, said some High St traders were “very much opposed to this market”.

In a letter to stallholders announcing the closure of the market from 11 July to 5 September, Rotary club secretary Paddy Fincham said traders complained that stallholders did not adhere to a direc-tive that 70 per cent of stalls stock “home grown/homemade” products, they wanted the market changed to Tuesday or Satur-day, and some questioned the value of having a street market.

Mrs Rachid, who is gathering signa-tures on a petition in support of the mar-ket, said Thursday, pay day for many peo-ple, was the right day for the market.

“I don’t mind a bit of competition as long as it brings people to Hastings. We need to promote this town, not push peo-ple away.”

Closing the market over winter would

force stallholders and shoppers to go else-where.

“Getting people to come back will be very, very hard,” she said.

“We need to keep the market happening and introduce the changes we want.”

Responding to a review of the mar-ket conducted by Mornington Peninsula Shire, Western Port Chamber of Com-merce and Industry said that continuing the market in its current form was “not in the best interests of Hastings traders”.

“The WCCI committee suggests clos-ing the market over the winter and open-ing a brand new market in spring,” the WCCI told the shire.

The committee said the shire review did “not provide a comprehensive opinion of the traders” and requested time to con-duct its own survey of members.

Mrs Rachid, who with her husband Wally has run the High St cafe for more than 20 years, said she was not aware of the review.

“I was told by a stallholder that the mar-ket was closing; we haven’t heard from the council at all,” she told The News dur-ing the busy lunch hour last Friday.

“We pay our rates, but what are they [the shire] actually doing for us?

“You go to Mornington and they are doing everything there, but what are they doing for Hastings?”

Her ideas to improve the market in-cluded advertising outside Hastings and introducing live music. A meeting to discuss the market will be held at 10am on Thursday 18 July at the Hastings Club, Marine Parade, Hastings.

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Market angst: Hilda Rachid at her cafe in High St, Hastings, with a petition in support of the market, which she says is good for business. Picture: Cameron McCullough

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By Jo WinterbottomHASTINGS police have warned pedestrians to take extra care when crossing or walking near roads as winter sets in.

Senior Sergeant Alan Courtney of Hastings po-lice said pedestrians were much more likely to be involved in serious accidents in winter.

“Analysis of accident data over the past fi ve years shows that in July, serious injury pedestrian accidents rise by 50 per cent,” he said.

There were several factors at play including shorter, darker days; pedestrians being in a hurry and taking less care in cold, rainy weather; mo-torists being in a hurry to get home and out of the cold; and dark winter clothing being less visible.

“Take an extra moment when crossing the road,” Senior Sergeant Courtney said.

“Be seen and be safe; don’t let yourself become a statistic.”

Theft from carsTheft from carsIT is a common refrain from police on the Morn-ington Peninsula – “Lock up or lose it”.

Hastings police boss Senior Sergeant Alan Courtney said police continued to be surprised by the number of thefts from vehicles after numer-ous warnings to owners to lock up and remove valuables from their cars.

“Theft from cars remains a big issue and on av-erage there are about 20 reported offences every week on the Mornington Peninsula,” he said

More than 80 per cent of thefts related to cars left unlocked and in residential driveways.

“So here’s the question: why not lock your car and take your laptop and wallet or handbag out when you get home?” Senior Sergeant Courtney said.

“Thieves are opportunistic and will look for the easy target rather than try to snip a lock and risk getting caught.”

Gunfire incidentGunfire incidentA MAN who was found fi ring a rifl e aimlessly in his back yard in Bittern is yet to be interviewed by police. Senior Sergeant Alan Courtney said the 42-year-old man remained in hospital.

Police were called to the Bittern house on Tues-day 25 June after reports of a gun being fi red re-peatedly.

“Police attended and seized two fi rearms and a small quantity of marijuana, and the man was taken to Frankston Hospital for psychiatric as-sessment,” Senior Sergeant Courtney said.

“He will be interviewed in relation to potential drug and fi rearm offences at a later date.”

Robbery chargeRobbery chargeA 27-YEAR-old Somerville man has been charged with armed robbery at Somerville Hotel.

Senior Sergeant Alan Courtney said police would allege the man was armed with a knife when he stole a bottle of vodka and ran from the hotel late on Sunday 23 June.

CCTV footage of the alleged heist was viewed by police before the man was arrested at his home. He was remanded in custody.

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By Jo WinterbottomHASTINGS Community Bank celebrated its fi fth birthday with cupcakes and a jazz band, but its chairman expressed disappointment the branch had not yet paid a dividend to shareholders.

Chairman Vic Rodwell greeted customers and shareholders at the birthday at the branch in High St last Thursday.

Earlier in the month, he had written to share-holders thanking them for their patience as the branch struggled to record consistent profi ts, due to “extremely harsh trading conditions”.

“Just as we think we are where we want to be with profi tability, the goalposts shift once again,” he said in his end of fi nancial year letter to share-holders.

The branch had recorded a profi t in seven of 11 months to the end of May and total business had

grown to $63 million, while costs had increased by 5.2 per cent on 2011-12.

“Given that we have no control over some of our costs, this is a wonderful result,” he said.

“I still look forward to many profi table years ahead and hope that we can share these together.”

Mr Rodwell said the bank and its staff were proud of their achievements in the Hastings com-munity, including grants to community groups to-talling $180,000 since the opening of the branch in 2008. The funds were granted by Bendigo Bank as “a reward for business growth”.

“What other local business or organisation can boast this incredible achievement?” he asked.

“This may be the bank’s birthday but it is really celebrating the vision of our local businesses and people who support this branch so well and make this all happen.”

Many happy returns: Hastings and District Community Bank employees Kerry, Justine and Myrna at the fi fth birthday celebrations.

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SENIOR drivers aged over 60 are being urged to stay up to date with the latest road rules as part of a free “Keeping Older Drivers Safe and Mobile” seminar in Mornington.

The seminar aims to build older drivers’ self-confi dence and awareness of road safety issues.

A small group of senior drivers will get together to discuss how they can ensure they remain active and independent while ensuring their driving skills are current.

Seniors’ families and friends also are welcome to attend the course, arranged and funded by the TAC, RACV and Roadsafe with the support of Mornington Peninsula Shire.

“Seniors are some of the most responsible drivers but have to be aware of updated road rules,” course coordinator Nancye Gardner said. “If you don’t know the road rules, should you be on the road?”

Ms Gardner was keen to stress there are no assessments or tests. “It

is just a chance for senior drivers to remember all the road rules with the help of their peers,” she said. “No police offi cer is going to attend and take your driving licence from you.” “Keeping Older Drivers Safe and Mobile” seminar is from 10.30am-12.30pm Thursday 25 July at Peninsula Community Theatre, corner Nepean Highway and Wilsons Rd, Mornington. Bookings essential. Call Nancye Gardner on 5981 2148 or 0419 398 695.

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By Jo WinterbottomANOTHER crash at the intersection of Graydens and Boes roads in Hastings has brought a fresh round of calls for immedi-ate action to fi x the dangerous crossroad.

But buck passing between the state and federal governments and Mornington Pen-insula Shire appears to have stymied plans to install a roundabout at the intersection.

The collision last Wednesday morning was the third in June and the residents of surrounding properties are fed up with re-pairing fences and waiting for a fatality.

“We are becoming very frustrated with this situation,” Tyabb and District Rate-payers Group secretary Katrina Chalke said.

“This is becoming all too common and something needs to be done.

“How about the shire uses the money set aside for a ‘yes’ vote in the upcoming ref-erendum to put in a roundabout and save protect lives?”

The shire recently contributed $20,000 to a fund to push for a ‘yes’ vote in the 14 September referendum to enshrine local government in the Constitution.

The News reported last August that crash es at the intersection were occurring more frequently.

At the time, nearby resident David Lines said that, along with more traffi c using Graydens Rd, the sealing of Boes Rd had led to increased traffi c on what had previ-ously been a country laneway.

Nearly a year later, Mr Lines maintains email correspondence with shire traffi c of-

fi cers, but has seen little action at the inter-section he fears will soon claim a life.

In October last year he was told the shire had applied to VicRoads to have the in-tersection declared a “black spot”, which would help push its claims for state and federal funding for a roundabout, but this has still not occurred.

The shire’s manager of infrastructure strategy Alison Leighton issued a state-ment on Friday saying: “Mornington Pen-insula Shire is aware of the issues associ-ated with the intersection and is looking into both short- and long-term solutions to improve safety at the intersection.”

When The News reported two collisions at the intersection early last month, Hast-ings highway patrol boss Sergeant David Collins said it was one of the most danger-ous intersections on the peninsula.

He said a roundabout was the best solu-tion for the crossroads.

The speed limit on this section of Gray-dens Rd was reduced to 80km/h earlier this year, but Graydens Rd resident Rich-ard Thornton said motorists frequently ig-nored the limit and speeding vehicles were especially prevalent early in the morning and in the evening after 5.30pm.

In the crash last Wednesday, a Kia sedan travelling north on Boes Rd collided with a tradesman’s vehicle travelling west on Graydens Rd.

The utility travelling on Graydens Rd, which was towing a trailer, careered off the road, crashing through a fence on Mr Thornton’s property.

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Fender bender: As the number of crashes at the intersection of Graydens and Boes roads in Hastings mounts, residents and the Tyabb ratepayers’ group are keeping the pressure on all three levels of government to fi x the problem. Police say a roundabout is the best solution but no money has been allocated. Warning signs have been installed on both roads.


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By Peter McCulloughTHERE are hundreds of cemeteries in Victoria: some are massive while oth-ers such as Albacutya in the north of the state have a lone grave.

Some are well run and immaculately kept but others are overgrown and ne-glected.

One of the smartest cemeteries in the region is at Crib Point, which is fi ercely guarded by the inimitable secretary-treasurer of the trust, Clem Kleinig.

Mr Kleinig’s protective actions not-withstanding, the cemetery contains a controversial feature. While grave-stones are invariably grey or black, possibly brown or even white, at Crib Point there is a gravestone of pillar-box red. And does it stand out.

One resident suggested the grave was for a person who thought people had ignored him in life. By ordering a red tombstone, he would no longer be treated as if he wasn’t there.

We sought out Mr Kleinig for the true story. After pointing out that the bylaws were silent on the question of gravestone colour, he said the grave-stone was originally grey and the grave was initially occupied by the wife of “an old farmer from Balnar-ring”.

Kaine Les Maxwell was a fan of the colour red and every piece of machin-ery and equipment on his farm was painted red.

Mr Kleinig said Mr Maxwell was in the market for a new tractor. He found a John Deere tractor that best suited his needs but it was green.

Mr Maxwell mentioned this “fault” to the salesman who undertook to de-liver a red John Deere to his property.

At Cribby cemetery, take it as redAt Cribby cemetery, take it as red

The farmer left instructions with his grandchildren that one year after his burial in 1992, the tombstone was to be painted red.

This was done and Mr Kleinig re-ceived about 30 phone calls from out-

raged citizens. He was able to quote the bylaws as a defence but agrees the red tombstone is a real talking point in the town and among visitors.

And, Clem, put me down for a black one with a red stripe.

Bright spot: Kaine Les Maxwell’s grave in Crib Point cemetery is pillarbox red, the favourite colour of the Balnarring farmer who once ordered a green John Deere tractor and had it repainted.

It’s a limit not a It’s a limit not a challengechallengeYOUR front page story last week (“Go slow in memory of Jimmy”, 25/6/13) should be a reminder to every driver about speeding.

When I read the letter referred to in the story (Letters, 29/5/13) my fi rst re-action was, why did you even print it? However, I accept that you had your reasons.

There are two things that stand out – the writer of the letter is a former po-liceman and he was booked for doing 64km/h in 60km/h zone, which means he was probably doing 66km/h.

The man is a Crib Point resident and presumably travels on Stony Point Rd regularly, knows the speed limits and about the speed cameras regularly po-sitioned in the area.

When driving, it is very easy to be-come distracted and exceed the speed limit. What I don’t understand is why, having been booked, this man wrote to your newspaper about it.

I have no doubt that, as a policeman, he always displayed the best driving behaviour and that he booked a lot of motorists for exceeding the speed limit.

As the road signs in Tasmania read, “It’s a limit not a challenge”.

Name supplied, Bittern

Fanciful referendumFanciful referendumIT is really disappointing to see Morn-ington Peninsula Shire Council using $20,000 of ratepayers’ money to fund the “yes” case in the referendum on including local government in Aus-tralia’s Constitution.All a successful “yes” case would de-liver is more power and control over local government to Canberra.It is fanciful to think that giving more power to Canberra will result in more funding for councils.

Martin Dixon, MP for Nepean

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WESTERN Port Oberon Association is seeking a retired or semi-retired public relations person to contribute to the proposed Victorian Maritime Cen-tre in Hastings.

The association, which owns the Otama submarine moored at Crib Point, launched the maritime centre project in early June.

The centre will be built next to the Western Port Marina seawall in Hast-ings on reclaimed land with the sub-marine as its centrepiece.

The association is about to embark on a fundraising drive to fi nd $200,000 for studies of the marine environment

and mangrove area to accompany a planning application.

Project committee member Max Bryant said the PR person would be helping “bring to fruition a world-class tourist attraction”.

“Minister for Tourism Louise Asher said the project is important to ensure the commercial viability of our com-munity. We need to get it running as soon as possible,” Mr Bryant said.

He said the position was voluntary.Details: Write to Western Port Ober-

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By Mike HastA RATEPAYER group has accused Mornington Peninsula Shire of “deli-berately” adopting a budget strategy for 2013-14 “designed to mislead the public”.

The shire proposes a 5.9 per cent lift in the general rate in the dollar. This does not include the 12.5 per cent hike to a major compulsory charge, the mu-nicipal charge.

This gives “the appearance of the rate rise being less than 6 per cent”, the Mornington Peninsula Ratepayers’ and Residents’ Association says.

Calculations show that increasing the municipal charge by $20 to $180 will bring the rates rise to 7.7 per cent.

In a letter to the shire, the group de-scribes the shire move as “a cunning marketing ploy” intended to mask the real increase in rates. Rates notices re-fer to “rates and charges”, not simply the “rate in the dollar”.

“By stating the rise in this manner, the council knows full well that the

media and community perceive the in-crease in rates is 5.9 per cent,” the as-sociation said.

“We assert that council increased the municipal charge by $20 so it would give the appearance of the rate rise be-ing less than 6 per cent.

“The impact of this ploy is that coun-cil is disadvantaging those in the com-munity who are less able to pay.

“The council is more concerned about its image than its impact on the low socio-economic group in our commu nity.”

The letter contains a table showing how the municipal charge has rock-eted by a whopping 463 per cent since 2000-01, from $32 to the $180 now proposed. It has effectively become a de facto additional rate impost.

The charge is one of the state’s high est. It compares with wealthy Bayside’s $131, zero in Boroondara, $61.67 in Brimbank and Ararat Rural City’s $80. Some councils strive to keep the charge around $30-40.

Closer to home, the City of Casey did not impose a municipal charge in the current year. Kingston is proposing a $100 charge in 2013-14 and Frankston charged $126.30 in the current year.

The ratepayer group’s letter draws attention to a shire statement that “council’s past practices and decisions regarding rating are underpinned by equitable distribution of the rate bur-den across the community according to assessment of property value”.

The association says the statement is simply not true.

“Over the past 10 or so years the shire has shifted more of the rate bur-den to those in the lower socio-eco-nomic group by signifi cantly raising the municipal charge in comparison to the increase in the general rate.

“The table shows how the municipal charge has outrageously increased.”

The association’s letter is a submis-sion to the shire’s strategic plan for 2013-17. It criticises the shire’s ap-proach to the plan: “Based on previous

Shire’s budget ‘aims to mislead’Shire’s budget ‘aims to mislead’Increase in municipal charge since 2000-01

Year Municipal charge2000-01 $322001-02 $522002-03 $622003-04 $802004-05 $802005-06 $952006-07 $1002007-08 $1152008-09 $1302009-10 $1302010-11 $1402011-12 $1502012-13 $1602012-13 $180Increase 463%

history, it is our opinion that the shire’s strategic plans provide very little value because they are ignored by council.

“To demonstrate our point, we draw the shire’s attention to the comparison of the actual rate increases that have

occurred to those that have been ar-gued as being necessary in previous strategic plans.

“The actual increase in rates ... ap-proved in subsequent budgets is 30 per cent more than shown in the plans.”

The association says the only years when actual rates match strategic plan increases are when “the strategic plan and budget are produced simultane-ously”.

“The last strategic plan (2009-13) shows the shire has increased its take from ratepayers (from rates and charg-es) by about $40 million more than outlined in the strategic plan.”

The shire’s stated aim is to increase rates by no more each year than infl a-tion plus 2 per cent. It almost always substantially exceeds this fi gure, part-ly because of its addiction to debt – an addiction councillors have recently forced its management to confront.Additional material from David Harrison.

PENINSULA Community Legal Cen-tre is urging people with outstanding fi nes to take action before they fi nd of-fi cials from the Sheriff’s Offi ce knock-ing on their door to seize property, ar-rest them or clamp their cars.

The centre’s senior lawyer Kate Ross said many people were astonished at the far-reaching powers of the sheriff in relation to outstanding fi nes.

“Although the sheriff’s power to seize goods is fairly well-known, peo-ple are shocked to fi nd their wheels clamped in a shopping centre car park or fi nd their driving licence or car registration has been suspended,” she said.

“Increasingly, we are seeing clients with bundles of fi nes totalling tens of thousands of dollars, often from driv-

ing on toll roads without an e-tag, traf-fi c infringements or local council fi nes.

“Many clients are grappling with other problems in their lives but ignor-ing fi nes leads to growing costs and can soon reach crisis point, with some even facing jail for non-payment.”

Ms Ross said the legal centre as-sisted hundreds of people to deal with their fi nes each year.

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HASTINGS University of the Third Age has a grant from U3A Network Victoria for art supplies.

The group’s arts coordinator Helen Carmichael has issued an open invitation to “men and women aged over 55 who are retired or semi-retired and would like to try their hand at art who may fi nd the cost prohibitive”.

“With the funds provided by U3A Network, art supplies will be purchased and remain with the art group,” she said.

“New members will have access to the materials to try out painting with pastels, watercolours and other mediums.

“Just imagine learning to draw, paint and create a piece of work from beginning to end that can be taken home and shown to family and friends? It might encourage others to take up the brush or pastel.

“We are a group of people who enjoy art in a relaxed atmosphere, having fun and learning from each other.”

U3A is holding a morning tea for prospective art students to meet the tutor and group members from 11am-midday on Wednesday 24 July in the Uniting Church Hall, corner Victoria St and Hodgins Rd, Hastings.

Call Ms Carmichael to register attendance on 5979 4760 or email [email protected]

To fi nd out more about the group’s many courses, visit www.hastingsu3a.org.au

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VICTORIAN Local Governance Asso ciation has published an issues paper for stage two of the association’s Strengthening democracy: Improving local government elections project.

Based on qualitative research and data collected from election candi-dates, the paper explores a number of issues that emerged during last Octo-ber’s local government elections that require scrutiny, including candidate conduct, the infl uence of donations and voter participation.

VLGA president Cr Samantha Dunn said it was imperative the local gov-ernment sector and wider community “refl ect on how elections can be im-proved in order to achieve a strong and inclusive democracy”.

“Eight months after the 2012 elec-tions, where one in four voters failed to participate, we need to ask some key questions about how our local de-mocracies are functioning,” she said.

“Are donations a key factor in de-termining who is elected in local gov-ernment? Can more be done to ensure voters are aware of who they are elect-ing to the council chamber?

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“Responses will inform a report by the VLGA on local government elec-tions, and will support our work to promote increased participation, trans-parency and accountability in the local electoral process.”

Submissions are due 5pm Friday 26 July. The issues paper and details on how to submit a response can be found at www.vlga.org.au

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Junior driver: Sebastian Long of Red Hill tries out a car at Hastings Toy Library. Picture: Cameron McCullough

By Chris BrennanHARD rubbish collection piles reveal much about consumer trends past and present as one-time must-have items are laid to rest beside numerous ill-advised purchases we should have had the sense to avoid but every second family seems to have made.

Popular discards last year included “as seen on TV” steam mops and cheap, wooden-framed barbecues, both apparently failing to live up to numerous families’ high hopes.

But it’s the vast volume of once-loved toys discarded each year that never seems to change, as growing children move on to ever more expensive tastes and forgotten plastic joys start to exceed cupboard space.

But many parents have found the solution to short attention spans and shifting tastes, with the growing availability of community toy libraries.

Not only do toy libraries slash the cost of providing an endless stream of exciting new thrills, but also they provide a vast range of proven attention-grabbers.

Hastings has been home to a toy library for more than 30 years and its longevity has brought the added benefi t of creating a wealth of experience in the “toy expertise” department.

Operating three days a week from the library at the bay end of High St, the toy library community includes parents, grandparents, carers and community groups.

Coordinator Claire Kingdon said the toy library allowed toys to be matched to children’s individual needs, development levels and interests, while also freeing families of the need to fi nd space for bulky toys and of the frustrating

mistake of buying something of short-lived interest or not suitable at all.

She said research showed the average Australian household with children had more than 100 toys.

One in four families with children spend more than $500 a child per year on toys.

It has also been shown that children with too many toys can get overwhelmed and over-stimulated.

They cannot concentrate on one thing long enough to learn from it so they just shut down. In short, too many toys means they are also not learning to play imaginatively.

“Many of the puzzles and games we have are pretty expensive for parents to buy and the kids can get sick of them quickly so this is a much better option,” Ms Kingdon said.

“We have our own newsletter and we always have good advice on which toys are best for different age groups. We’ve also got toy reviews from members, which is very helpful.

“A party pack with lots of games and activities for birthday parties, and an outdoor pack with things like a teepee, large spinning top and a ride-on tractor are also available.

“We now have a small jumping castle for hire too.” Hastings Toy Library offers yearly family membership at $35 or $25 for concession holders. It is open on Monday 9.30-10.30am, Thursday 10am-midday and Saturday 10-11.30am. It is in the foyer of Hastings Library, 7 High St, Hastings. Details: 0411 294 838 or visit facebook.com/HastingsToyLibrary or email [email protected]

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By Neil WalkerHOUSEHOLDS will be slugged with a sharp jump in water bills starting this month.

The Essential Services Commission ruled re-tailer South East Water can increase prices by 22.8 per cent from 1 July.

The retailer services bayside suburbs from St Kilda to Frankston, the Mornington Peninsula, parts of the southeast and eastern Gippsland.

The independent regulator decided metropoli-tan water prices could rise by an average of 22.4 per cent, plus infl ation, with the majority of the increase required to recoup the construction of Victoria’s $5.7 billion desalination plant near Wonthaggi built by the Brumby Labor govern-ment and Melbourne Water.

The commission fl agged a possible 24.8 per cent rise for South East Water customers in a draft decision released in April (‘Steep rises in water costs from July’, The News, 21/05/13).

The fi nal pricing decision means the average annual South East Water bill will rise by $222 to $1196 in 2013-14, according to the commission.

Bills will go up in line with infl ation for a fur-ther four years until 2017-18, when the commis-sion is due to reassess water prices.

South East Water had lobbied for a 34.9 per cent price rise in 2013-14, but this was rejected by the commission after it identifi ed cost savings that can be made by South East Water and other metropolitan water retailers City West Water, Yarra Valley Water and Western Water.

However, South East Water’s 2013-14 price rise is the second-highest in the metro area, be-hind Yarra Valley Water’s 24.6 per cent jump and

ahead of Western Water and City West Water in-creases of 12.3 per cent and 19.2 per cent.

“After the fi rst year increase, price rises will plateau and will only move in line with infl a-tion,” Essential Services Commission chairman Ron Ben-David said.

Victorian Council of Social Service said low-income households would be hit hardest. “The price increases will hurt those least able to man-age the extra expense, including pensioners,” VCOSS acting CEO Carolyn Atkins said.

VCOSS is urging the state government to re-form a 35 per cent water bills discount currently offered to low-income households to include the latest price rise, not just the cost of infl ation.

“A 35 per cent discount on the entire bill, un-capped, would give better assistance to different-sized households and ensure people have equita-ble access to water,” Ms Atkins said.

The commission conceded some households would face diffi culties paying water bills. “We encourage those customers to contact their water business for assistance,” Mr Ben-David said.

Metropolitan retailers have been granted an ex-tra $5 million by the commission to “develop and maintain assistance programs”.

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By Toni BrientTHREE struggling families are about to receive a level of community sup-port they’ll never forget.

Thanks to the Mornington Penin-sula chapter of Habitat for Humanity, a non-profi t housing organisation, the families will soon be fi rst-time home-owners of new houses in Crib Point.

After reaching agreement with pe-ninsula building company Teekay Builders, Habitat’s peninsula branch said it was hoped to “dig the fi rst hole” at the Stony Point Rd site by the end of July.

“We’d defi nitely be looking at a site cut and fi ll by July,” said site manager Troy Kloszynski of Teekay, who is volunteering his services to Habitat.

Mavis Peet of Habitat said the va-cant, triangle-shaped block would hold two-bedroom, three-bedroom and four-bedroom houses.

Each will have a weatherboard exte-rior with a Colorbond roof, solar pan-els for hot water, carport and landscape garden. All three houses will have a six-star energy rating.

Concrete driveways will open to Campbell St, and there will be gates in the property’s paling fence to allow pedestrian access to Stony Point Rd.

The families will have the chance to work with Habitat to choose some fea-tures of the house, like paint and carpet colours.

“They’re all brand new homes, and we try to do all we can to make the houses as up-to-date as we can,” Miss Peet said.

“But they’re not over the top: we don’t have spa baths and we don’t put

dishwashers in – we leave a space.“It gives them a hand up, not a hand-

out.”Habitat works in Australia and over-

seas to provide affordable housing for low-income families. The organisation runs op shops and conducts charitable activities to fund community housing projects.

The houses are sold to needy fami-lies through a no-interest loan at fi ve per cent below market value. The loan is repaid to Habitat in installments pro-portionate to a quarter of the families’ incomes, with no fi xed term.

“Our partner families pay a small deposit of $1000,” Habitat Victoria ex-ecutive director Philip Curtis said.

“The repayments are capped at 25 per cent of the family income, whether they receive it weekly, fortnightly or monthly.

“We work around the idea of making sure it’s affordable rather than acceler-ating loan repayments.”

The “mortgage” repayments are used by Habitat in part to fi nance other housing projects.

Much of the labour for Habitat homes comes from volunteers who are trained and supervised by profession-als.

In addition to Mr Kloszynski, it’s expected that a number of local trades-people will donate their time or work at a discount.

As part of their agreement with Hab-itat, selected families must also con-tribute 500 hours of labour or “sweat equity” as it’s called by Habitat.

Habitat has agreements with compa-nies like Whirlpool and Bunnings to donate or discount building materials

and household items.Miss Peet said Dulux had agreed to

donate interior and exterior paint for the Crib Point houses.

“Most of the trades and supplies are from the southern peninsula,” said Mr Kloszynski, who is negotiating with local companies like Mitre 10 to secure building materials.

Habitat Victoria, the central offi ce that oversees the state’s local branches, purchased the quarter-acre block on the

corner of Stony Point Rd and Camp-bell St for $191,500 from estate agent Harcourts Hastings in April 2011.

Last July, Habitat held a public meet-ing in Crib Point and 21 families sub-mitted applications to purchase one of the houses.

Three months later, Habitat told three families their applications had been successful.

Philip Curtis said the value of the three houses differed slightly, accord-ing to their size. He would not disclose the exact price, but said it was “around

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Plan for profound change: Mavis Peet of Habitat for Humanity with the architect’s plans for the housing project at Crib Point. Picture: Toni Brient


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One of the families lives in Crib Point and two live in Mornington.

Miss Peet said all three families were eager to begin the building process.

“They’ve all been very patient, with one in very diffi cult circumstances of an overcrowded house,” she said.

“It’s a big thing for them. As they see the frames go up, then it gets exciting.”

Habitat Victoria began work on the plans for the Crib Point houses with McLauchlan & Associates of Mt Wa-verly in late 2012.

The preliminary building plans were received by Habitat Victoria in Febru-ary.

Habitat said building permits were approved by Mornington Peninsula Shire on 27 February.

Miss Peet said she received the long-awaited plans in April.

She had spent the past few months at the Habitat op shop in Rosebud – which is also the Mornington Penin-sula chapter headquarters – organising builders, electricians, plumbers and an army of volunteers.

Mornington-based Gilpip Homes is constructing the frame for one of the houses.

Habitat is talking with builders about the other two frames. Mr Kloszynski said he hoped to fi nalise contracts by the end of the week.

Despite admitting it’s a “stretch”, Habitat hopes to have the families in by Christmas 2014.

The 18-month schedule is six months less than the usual completion date for a three-house development.

The offi cial handover of houses to

families would be a “life-changing” event, Miss Peet said.

“Anyone who came to what we call a house dedication, when the keys are handed over, would have to be very tough if they didn’t shed a tear.”

The Stony Point Rd development is the Habitat branch’s fourth project. Its fi rst two, built in the 1990s, were also in Crib Point.

Since Miss Peet joined Habitat in 2001, four more houses have been built in the region: two in Eastbourne Rd, Rosebud, and two in Taranna St, Mornington.

Miss Peet estimated 22 children had been housed in the six Habitat homes.

She saw the lives of Habitat home recipients drastically changed.

“Otherwise, these people would nev-er own their own home. They never have enough money to put a deposit down. The banks wouldn’t lend them the money.”

She told about the day a nine-year-old boy and his mother settled in their Habitat house after a history of con-stantly moving to rental properties.

“He said, ‘Mum does that mean we never, ever, ever have to leave this house?’

“They can hang a picture on the wall, which you can’t do in a rental place. He could have his own dog.”

Habitat receives no government as-sistance to provide affordable housing for every family who applies.

“We don’t build quick enough, un-fortunately,” Miss Peet said.

Construction of the Crib Point hous-es will be fi nanced by funds raised at the Habitat op shop in Rosebud as well as funds from Habitat Victoria.

Habitat welcomes donations of goods and services to the project. Details: Mavis Peet, Habitat op shop, 20 Henry Wilson Drive, Rosebud, phone 5986 4827.

Ready to roll: Habitat for Humanity volunteers David Brown and Ian Story (on the mower) working on the Crib Point block last week to get it ready for the builders who arrive in a few weeks. Picture: Toni Brient


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LEGISLATION for a referendum to recognise councils and shires in the Constitution passed the federal parlia-ment on Monday.

It will be held in conjunction with the federal election on Saturday 14 September. Voters will be asked to vote yes or no to adding 17 words (in bold below) to the Constitution:

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Federal Local Government Minister Anthony Albanese said federal gov-ernments had for more than 40 years “worked in partnership with councils and shires to deliver essential commu-nity infrastructure and services”.

“This includes ... local roads, bridg-es, sports facilities, public libraries, swimming pools and childcare cen-tres,” he said.

“By including councils and shires in our Constitution, we are refl ecting the long-standing support ... communities receive and will continue to receive into the future.”

Mr Albanese said there would be no change to the role of the states in re-gard to the administration of councils.

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Books galoreBooks galoreRED Hill Opportunity Shop is holding a half price sale of books and clothing during the school holidays from Saturday 29 June till Saturday 14 July.

The clothing section is divided into sections and sizes, with wide variety of good quality garments for men, women and children as well as shoes, bags, hats and scarves.

Books are organised alphabetically and include a wide range of fi ction, sport, art, gardening and children’s works in good condition.

The op shop on Arthurs Seat Rd opposite the Red Hill Showgrounds is run by volunteers.

Proceeds go to Peninsula Home Hospice and local charities.

It is open on Wednesday and Fridays 10am-4pm and Saturdays 10am-2pm.

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A PILOT mentoring program for young and emerging artists on the peninsula has started at Point Nepean.

Connect – Young Artists in the Park – a joint venture of Parks Victoria, People and Parks Foundation and Mornington Peninsula Shire – aims to inspire creative expression and wellbeing through connection with nature.

Rosebud Secondary College students are receiving guidance from

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“This is a fantastic opportunity for students,” Parks Victoria ranger-in-charge Victor Teoh said.

“We are delighted to be working with People and Parks Foundation, the shire’s youth services department and established artists Miodrag Jankovic, a painter, and photographer Matthew MacKay to create opportunities for our youth to connect with nature.”

He said mentoring was an area the state government saw as vital

to young people staying engaged in education and training.

During July there will be an exhibition of works produced by students as well as Jankovic and MacKay at Point Nepean.

Painting days: Arden of Rosebud Secondary College shows his work to art mentor Miodrag Jankovic at the young artists project in Point Nepean National Park.


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AUSTRALIAN art expert and Shoreham resi-dent Susan McCulloch is guest speaker at the an-nual meeting of Shoreham Community Associa-tion later this month.

Ms McCulloch will present an illustrated talk called “Whistlewood and the McCulloch circle of artists on the Mornington Peninsula from the 1930s to today”.

Association secretary Gina McInnis said Ms McCulloch received the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2011 for services to the arts.

“She has a passionate interest in Aboriginal culture and art, and co-authored and published the standard reference in Australian art literature, McCulloch’s Contemporary Aboriginal Art: the complete guide as well as McCulloch’s Encyclo-pedia of Australian Art,” she said.

“The 1870s cottage Whistlewood on Tucks Rd has been the McCulloch family’s permanent home, artistic and company headquarters since 1951.

“Susan illustrated talk will provide a fascinat-ing insight into the history of art and the life of artists on the peninsula.”

The association started in 2011 to give a voice to residents, identify community needs, create an informed and active community, and advocate on behalf of the village.

Ms McInnis said the group’s achievements over the past year included: Liaising with the owner of the post offi ce and general store for “appropriately designed and sized” developments, which had been organised through the Shoreham Taskforce guided by a panel of Shoreham-based architects. Continuing lopment of the “Shoreham Tri-angle” beside Byrnes Rd and abutting the CFA land in partnership with the Mornington Penin-sula Shire. Liaising with the shire to form a new Old

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School Community Hall advisory group. Submitting a detailed list of seven projects wanted by residents and property owners to be funded by the shire including renovation of the Old School Community Hall, a plan for develop-ment of Shoreham Common, sensitive construc-tion of shared trails, a new community hall, tack-ling drainage problems, continuation of Shore-ham Triangle revegetation, and clearing up and maintaining road verges.

The association is seeking people for the next Shoreham Triangle planting day (behind CFA station in Byrnes Rd) at midday on Saturday 13 July.

Ms McInnis said more than 1000 plants from Mornington Peninsula Shire “need to be planted in the area, which is already looking good fol-lowing earlier voluntary work”.

A barbecue lunch follows the planting. Shoreham Community Association annual meeting, 11am Sunday 21 July in Shoreham Old School Hall. Barbecue after talk. All welcome. For details about the association: www.shore-ham.vic.au

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By David HarrisonMORNINGTON Peninsula Shire coun cillors have been cautioned not to tell their constituents what they think about using an old Arthurs Seat quarry as a rubbish tip and not to give advice on the contentious proposal.

In a document entitled Proposed Land fi ll Boundary Road Dromana, coun cillors have been told “it is not appropriate for council, councillors or council offi cers to provide advice to any party involved, or interested, in a particular development application or approval process”.

The advice effectively gags council-lors from discussing the tip.

At least one councillor has refused to answer questions from his ward resi-

dents about the tip application, which is currently before the state Environ-ment Protection Authority.

Tip proponent Peninsula Waste Man-agement is also seeking approval from the shire.

The shire document states, under the headline “How can council help members of the community oppose the proposed landfi ll?”: “Council cannot fulfi l its statutory duty as a responsible authority if it supports any particular party involved in a development appli-cation process.

“Council, and individual council-lors, must approach the proposal with an open mind. Council could not be considered free of prejudice or bias if it favoured one party over another or it provided assistance to one party it did

not offer to all other parties. “Council cannot make a valid deci-

sion under the Planning and Environ-ment Act as responsible authority if it is biased.”

The document states rules “set out in legislation” specify what and how “materials relevant to an application must be made available for viewing by the public”.

“Council once again must comply with these requirements or the deci-sion-making by council could be chal-lenged by affected parties” – that is, an ill-advised councillor comment could involve the shire in legal action.

The document also warns council-lors about their responsibility to avoid confl icts of interest.

“There are long established rules,

and legal precedents, about how coun-cil and individual councillors must con duct themselves when decisions are to be taken.

“Critically it is important that coun-cil, and individual councillors, note and acknowledge when a confl ict of interest exists and to act in accordance with the rules.

“It is also important that those coun-cillors taking part in the decision-mak-ing process do so with an open mind and able to take a decision without prejudice or bias.”

Peninsula Waste Management, a fully owned subsidiary of R E Ross Trust, which operates Hillview Quar-ries, wants to use its Pioneer quarry as a tip for rubbish from the peninsula as well as other municipalities.

The plan has caused widespread con-cern and is being vigorously opposed on grounds including pollution of groundwater and a creek, odour, bush-fi re risk, traffi c and noise.

The council document does not men-tion that fi ve councillors sit on the board of Mornington Peninsula Re-gional Waste Management Group, of which the shire is the sole member. Cr David Gibb chairs the group.

The shire website also does not re-cord which councillors are on the MPRWMG board.

Proposed Landfi ll Boundary Road Dromana is similarly silent on group membership and whether the fi ve face a confl ict of interest problem when councillors eventually vote for or against the proposed quarry tip plan.

Stay silent on tip, shire warns councillorsStay silent on tip, shire warns councillors

Tip site: The old Pioneer quarry on the Arthurs Seat escarpment at Dromana, which Peninsula Waste Management wants to use as a municipal rubbish tip. The proposal, currently before the EPA and Mornington Peninsula Shire, has generated vocal opposition. Picture: Yanni

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Leonie Worrall Mobile: 0420 979 956

Ray White Hastings69 High StreetHASTINGS 5979 4177

EMAIL:[email protected]

Sid FergusonMobile:0418 321 963

Satchwells1/97 High Street, HASTINGS 5979 1888

EMAIL: [email protected]

Sean CrimminsMobile: 0411 734 814

Baywest Real Estate2104 Frankston-Flinders Road, HASTINGS 5979 4412


Phil StoneMobile: 0412 226 758


L. Cooper Real Estate1067 Frankston-Flinders Road,SOMERVILLE 5977 7766

Wendy TallonMobile:0419 135 836

Ben Tallon Real Estate1/34 High Street, HASTINGS 5979 8003


Jason DowlerMobile: 0403 598 754

Harcourts HastingsShop 10, 14 High St. HASTINGS 5970 7333


Wilma Green Mobile: 0407 833 996

Century 21 Homeport2100 Frankston–Flinders Road, HASTINGS 5979 3555


OPEN FOR INSPECTIONSATURDAY 6th JulyBAXTER24 Deacon Crescent 12.00-12.30pmL.Cooper Real Estate 5977 77662 Toorak Avenue 1.00-1.30pmL.Cooper Real Estate 5977 7766

SOMERVILLE7 Clarendon Drive 10.15-10.45amL.Cooper Real Estate 5977 77666 Dianne Court 11.00-11.30amL.Cooper Real Estate 5977 77666 Snow Gum Place 12.00-12.30pmL.Cooper Real Estate 5977 77665 Brunning Court 1.00-1.30pmL.Cooper Real Estate 5977 776612 Owen Court 1.00-1.30pmBaywest Somerville 5977 966063 Stanley Street 2.00-2.30pmL.Cooper Real Estate 5977 776668 Dandenong-Hastings Road 3.00-3.30pmL.Cooper Real Estae 5977 7766

TYABB21 Central Avenue 12.00-12.30pmBaywest Somerville 5977 96604 Pine Grove 2.00-2.30pmL.Cooper Real Estate 5977 7766

HASTINGS27 Matthew Circuit 11.30-12.00 noonBen Tallon Real Estate 5979 80037 Matthew Circuit 12.00-12.30pmCentury 21 Homeport 5979 355519 Brydon Close 12.00-12.30pmSatchwells 5979 188824 Lefroy Lane 1.30-2.00pmSatchwells 5979 1888

8 Pinewood Drive 1.30-2.00pmHarcourts 5970 73331/93 Salmon Street 2.00-2.30pmTallon First National 5979 300027 Warranqite Crescent 2.00-2.30pmHarcourts 5970 733340 Elisa Place 2.30-3.00pmHarcourts 5970 7333

CRIB POINT4 Dartnell Close 10.30-11.00amHarcourts 5970 733386 Lorimer Street 11.00-11.30amCentury 21 Homeport 5979 35559 Milne Street 11.30-12.00 noonSatchwells 5979 18885 Milne Street 11.30-12.00 noonSatchwells 5979 188815 Pearce Street 12.00-12.30pmTallon First National 5979 300098 Lorimer Street 1.00-1.30pmSatchwells 5979 1888290 Stony Point Road 2.00-2.30pmCentury 21 Homeport 5979 35551/179 Disney Street 2.00-2.30pmSatchwells 5979 1888520 Stony Point Road 3.00-3.30pmSatchwells 5979 1888

BITTERN220 South Beach Road 12.30-1.00pmHarcourts 5970 733317 Wellington Road 1.00-1.30pmCentury 21 Homeport 5979 355532 Myers Road 1.00-1.30pmTallon First National 5979 3000

BALNARRING12 Halsey Street 12.30-1.00pmSatchwells 5979 18884 Sunset Court 1.30-2.00pmBay West Real Estate Hastings 5979 4412

SOMERS15 Belevedere Road 11.45-12.15pmHarcourts 5970 733384 South Beach Road 3.00-3.30pmBowman & Company 5975 6888

MOUNT MARTHA74 Hyperno Way 11.00-11.30amConley Luff Real Estate 5975 773311 Kotor Close 12.00-12.30pmHarcourts 5970 733376 Harrap Road 2.30-3.00pmBowman & Company 5975 688836 Amberley Drive 3.00-3.30pmConley Luff Real Estate 5975 77336 Sefton Grange 3.00-3.30pmConley Luff Real Estate 5975 7733

MORNINGTON1/49 Separation Street 11.00-11.30amConley Luff Real Estate 5975 773335 Nunns Road 11.00-11.30amConley Luff Real Estate 5975 77331a Karina Street 12.00-12.30pmConley Luff Real Estate 5975 773370 Nunns Road 12.00-12.30pmConley Luff Real Estate 5975 773331 Mariners Retreat 12.15 -12.45pmBowman & Company 5975 68888 Bareena Court 1.00-1.30pmConley Luff Real Estate 5975 77334&6/61 Green Island Avenue 1.00-1.30pmConley Luff Real Estate 5975 773316 Morning Mist Court 1.00-1.30pmConley Luff Real Estate 5975 773312 Halcyon Rise 3.00-3.30pm Conley Luff Real Estate 5975 7733

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Tallon

Janeen DaviesMobile: 0408 358 661

Tallon First National35 High Street, HASTINGS 5979 3000


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FEATURE PROPERTY <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

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Jason Richardson on 0421 190 318 or [email protected]

Through seasonal golden gown

Address: 24 Lefroy Lane, HASTINGSPrice: Offers over $865,000Agency: Satchwells Real Estate, 1/97 High Street, Hastings, 5979 1888Agent: Don McKenzie, 0419 955 177

ENSCONCED behind a cypress hedge and a feature stone wall incorporating a security gate, this stylish rural retreat is on a picturesque, 8096-square metres full of beautiful gum trees. At the end of a quiet country lane, the family home is well-designed with a lovely garden outlook from most windows. Walking into the grand entry reveals an expanse of fl oating timber fl oors and a pleasant neutral decor. There are two living areas, including space for formal dining, positioned on either side of an alfresco entertaining area. A formal lounge has a striking brick feature wall with gas heater and the central kitchen has a clean, functional look with stainless-steel appliances including a dishwasher and wall oven. There are three bedrooms, all with built-in robes, and the master bedroom has an ensuite with a spa bath. There is a second bathroom and a large laundry. A separate study could be a fourth bedroom. The property boundary is fully-fenced and there is a large machinery shed, discreetly hidden behind a tall hedge. A double carport is under the roofl ine. The park-like setting surrounding the home is still maturing, with many smaller trees planted to complement the tall, established gums. It is pleasing to see a quality rural-residential address where neighbours do not encroach too much on each other. This handsome, ranch-style home would appeal to families seeking privacy as well as the peace and quiet of a rural location.


HOME PORT

CENTURY 21 HOMEPORT PHONE: 5979 35552100 Frankston-Flinders Road, Hastingswww.century21hastings.com.au

BITTERN 17 Wellington Road

PRICE: $695,000-$720,000VIEW: Saturday 1:00-1:30pmAGENT: Ken Brown 0402 868 368

Well presented ranch style home on 2 ½ acres will tick all the boxes. The home is well appointed

with timber kitchen with large pantry and ample overhead cupboards, plus gas ducted heating and

r/cycle heating and cooling units throughout the home. Outside boasts a two bedroom bungalow,

double carport under roofline, four car garage, wood shed, storage shed, four water tanks and large

rear paddock. Contact Exclusive Agent.

BELLBIRD PARK

4 2 6

CRIB POINT 86 Lorimer Street

PRICE: $285,000VIEW: Saturday 11:00-11:30amAGENT: Ken Brown 0402 868 368

Situated on approx 672sqm corner allotment, this well presented very affordable BV with hardiplank

facade home features 2 bedrooms with B.I.R’s, r/cycle air-con & gas log fire in lounge area; plus

timber kitchen with gas chef stove. Outside boasts single carport, 2 x garden sheds, variety of fruit

trees, vegetable patch and paved BBQ area. Contact Exclusive Agent.

2 1 2

“MEANDER INN”

BITTERN 18 Daly Street

PRICE: Offers Over $900,000VIEW: By AppointmentAGENT: Ken Brown 0402 868 368

Well-built and well designed, this spacious & sophisticated residence on 9916m2 allotment is

situated in a secluded country lane amongst some of the most prestigious wineries of the

Mornington Peninsula. A statement in modern contemporary design, the formal entrance leads to

the very generous open plan living area. Boasting 3 B/R’s plus a study, 1 cottage for registered B&B,

2 B/R self contained unit & lock up 16x19m workshop. Contact Exclusive Agent.

LOVELY LIFESTYLE

8 4 8 1

PRICE: $619,500 All Offers ConsideredVIEW: By AppointmentAGENT: Chris Watt 0417 588 321

Located on the edge of town on 4316m2 (approx) allotment, this property offers the lifestyle we all

dream of! The home features four bedrooms with B.I.R’s, plus study off huge master suite with ensuite

and W.I.R. Outdoors offers a paved BBQ area, extra large double garage under roofline plus multiple

shedding. The land is just over 1 acre, lightly treed with mature gums and a pretty fernery.

Contact Exclusive Agent.

HASTINGS 225 Hendersons Road

KARI PARK ON 1 ACRE

4 2 4

Surrounded by a professionally landscaped native garden this 4 bedroom B/V home with remote

double garage is situated in one of the most sought after precincts of Hastings. Featuring master

B/R with ensuite and W.I.R, 3 additional bedrooms with double B.I.R’s, split-system in living area,

ducted heating, stainless steel appliances and side access to backyard. Outside boasts vegie

garden, cubby house & entertaining area. Contact Exclusive Agent.

HASTINGS 7 Matthew Circuit

PRICE: $390,000VIEW: Wednesday 3:00-3:30pm & Saturday 12:00 -12:30pmAGENT: Ken Brown 0402 868 368

4 2 2

NATIVE DELIGHT!

CRIB POINT 290 Stony Point Road

PRICE: EXPRESS SALEVIEW: Saturday 2:00-2:30pmAGENT: Ken Brown 0402 868 368

Take your pick! Choice of 2 & 3 bedroom residences, boasting Caesar stone benchtops, stainless

steel appliances, floating floors, heating & cooling, outstanding quality fixtures & fittings, plus huge

double remote controlled garage. Also featuring pebble paving & well fenced low maintenance back

yard, ideal for kids and pets. Minimum 5% return for investors.


BUILDERS SALE!

3 1 2

PRICE: EXPRESS SALEVIEW: By AppointmentAGENT: Chris Watt 0417 588 321

Take your pick! Choice of 2 & 3 bedroom residences, boasting large open plan living & dining area,

quality interior and fixtures & fittings. Landscaping & paved outdoor area. Other features include:

spacious kitchen with stainless steel appliances, Bathroom with shower & bath, carpet & tiling to all

living areas, ducted heating & split system cooling and remote controlled garage.


HASTINGS 3 & 4/14 Hilltop Rise

READY FOR YOU

3 2 2

4 4 4BITTERN 53 Bittern Boulevard

PRICE: Offers Over $570,000VIEW: By AppointmentAGENT: Ken Brown 0402 868 368

From the moment you step inside you will get a sense of just how impressive this home is. On the

ground floor you’ll find the perfect layout with 4 separate living areas, starting with the library then

the home theater and an open planned kitchen; with the dining and family area leading out to the

paved outdoor area. Featuring 3 double bedrooms all with well-appointed ensuites, plus master

suite with grand dressing room and full ensuite. Contact Exclusive Agent.


HOME PORT

CENTURY 21 HOMEPORT PHONE: 5979 35552100 Frankston-Flinders Road, Hastingswww.century21hastings.com.au

Immaculately maintained 3 or 4 bedroom family home in very quiet court close to foreshore and

shopping centre. Bay window to master bedroom with ensuite and W.I.R, tiled open plan main living

area with separate formal dining room or fourth bedroom, plus indoor/outdoor room with sliding

door access and clear cover blind. Drive through double garage to massive paved and roofed

pergola that goes the full length of the house. Contact Exclusive Agent.

HASTINGS 5 John Vear Close

PRICE: EXPRESS SALEVIEW: By AppointmentAGENT: Chris Watt 0417 588 321

3 2 2

FAMILY FOCUS

14 2 4

PRICE: $550,000VIEW: By AppointmentAGENT: Chris Watt 0417 588 321

Privately located in an exclusive waterside pocket, this beautiful 2.5 year old home features 4 separate

living zones including an open plan kitchen/meals/family zone, formal lounge, theatre room + informal

living area. Boasting a fabulous outdoor undercover alfresco area that overlooks the solar heated salt

chlorinated pool. Other features include duct heating & vacuum, Caesar stone benchtops & 5 year

builder’s warranty. Contact Exclusive Agent.

HASTINGS 6 Windrest Place

DREAM HOME!

Situated in the exclusive Old Tyabb area and updated throughout, this family home contains

polished floors along with newly renovated kitchen with granite benches and stainless steel

appliances. Both the family bathroom & ensuite have also been renovated. An undercover pergola

overlooking the spacious back yard (approx 830sqm) provides the perfect place for entertaining.

Double carport + shed for ample storage space. Contact Exclusive Agent.

HASTINGS 61 Lyall Street

PRICE: $379,950 NegotiableVIEW: By AppointmentAGENT: Chris Watt 0417 588 321

4 2 4

OLD TYABB!

ONLY 1 LEFT!

BITTERN 2/110 Dunlop Road

PRICE: $165,000VIEW: Go See!AGENT: Ken Brown 0402 868 368

Vacant Land in Prime Location. Situated in a quiet cul de sac this 468sqm block won’t last. With all

services provided and only a short stroll to the new Bittern Fields Village this is a rare opportunity to

build your dream home. Be Quick Won’t Last! Contact Exclusive Agent.

TITLES RELEASED

ONLY 5 LEFTSOLD

SOLD

CONTACT EXCLUSIVE AGENT CHRIS WATT 0417 588 321FOR DETAILS


Shop 1/34 High Street,Hastings,

B T R E (03) 5979 8003btre.com.au

HASTINGS $489,000

Situated in a lovely private court, among some of the most exclusive properties in town and within close proximity to Hastings foreshore, this deceivingly large family home boasts plenty of room and privacy. With 5 Bedrooms plus study, the master bedroom features large walk in robe and full ensuite. The open plan kitchen with stainless steel appliances and dishwasher is offset by a spacious meals and family room. Perfect for entertaining this property has the package. A large rumpus room/ home theatre, formal lounge, dining and alfresco area, what more could you want. Outside, there is ample off street parking, double lock up garage with rear access; and for the family boat or caravan, separate side access to yard. Nestled on 605m2 of land surrounded by low maintenance landscaped gardens, this property offers the lifestyle at an affordable price.

SPACIOUS FAMILY LIVING BY THE BAY

HASTINGS $225,000

with recent upgrades to hot water service, stove and heating, here is the opportunity to own your own home or buy into the investors market. Features include galley kitchen, meals and generous lounge room, fully fenced front yard and high fences in backyard which creates plenty of privacy, arge garage or workshop on slab and double carport. Give a little TLC to the bungalow and you have an extra room.

SENSATIONAL OPPORTUNITY

HASTINGS $429,000

This 4BR family home, set on 731sqm block, has recent improvements including new carpet, paint, light

booster. Entertaining couldn’t be easier with a central kitchen featuring gas cook top, electric oven and dishwasher, overlooking a beautiful paved alfresco area with zip track blinds and lighting that can be enjoyed all year round. Other features include lounge, meals area and family room, evaporative cooling, WIR & FES to main bedroom and BIR’s to other bedrooms. All completed with a double lock up garage and rear access, a generous back yard with 6m x 5m powered workshop on concrete slab and neat low maintenance gardens. This is the ideal family home.

NOTHING TO DO BUT MOVE IN AND ENJOY

HASTINGS - 27 Matthew Circuit

This 4BR home exudes perfection. The manicured gardens, paved driveway & colourbond roof give the front of this BV home an immaculate clean cut appearance. A modern kitchen is complete with s/steel appliances, d/w, plenty of cupboard space, pantry & breakfast bench plus spacious dining area. An undercover alfresco area has Merbau decking and balustrades. Two spacious living zones - a large lounge up one end and family room up the other - provide plenty of room and other features include BIR’s, WIR to main + FES, timber venetians, central heating, 2 x r/cycle air conditioners & double garage.

FABULOUS FAMILY LIVING - Inspect Sat 6th July 11.30am-12.00pm

HASTINGS $360,000 - $380,000

This 3 bedroom ranch-style cottage offers comfort and charm without the fuss. Set on a 521sqm , this

room that has Coonara woodheater, separate meals area and a central kitchen with ceramic electric cook top, under bench oven, plenty of cupboard space, pantry and dishwasher. A spacious 2nd living zone offers room for a rumpus or formal lounge. Other features include built in robes to two bedrooms and walk-in robe and ensuite to main. Two reverse cycle air conditioners and with 16 solar roof panels you will always be in credit with your power company.

THE PERFECT PACKAGE IN OLD TYABB

NEWLISTING

CRIB POINT $360,000 - $390,000

Looking for an affordable family home? Look no further. Set on a large 1012sqm block, this beautifully maintained home comprises of 3 bedrooms with BIR’s, a huge WIR off the main bedroom, central modern kitchen with s/steel appliances inc. dishwasher, breakfast bar, adjoining meals area and large lounge

room or even a fourth bedroom. No family home is complete without a study and the comforts of central heating and air conditioning, with one bathroom and two toilets and a European laundry. Other features include alfresco area and BBQ shed, large back yard and a monstrous 4 car remote garage. With only a short stroll to shops, schools and public transport, you really wont beat this for value

FANTASTIC VALUE

HASTINGS $1.2 MILLION NEGOTIABLE

Developers, here is a landmark property offering many possibilities and situated close to the foreshore. A chance to create 2 blocks of vacant land & incorporate the existing residence into the development or start

Option 1 - 2 x 1,000m2 blocks with the existing 30 square dwelling able to be easily split into 2 homes each on around 900m2Option 2 - Create an exceptional development site with high density bayside housing Option 3 - Enjoy the beautiful home and gardens and then develop or sell off bits later

HASTINGS $265,000+

When position is a priority you cannot beat this 3 bedroom unit located in Hastings central and tucked away in a private corner. New carpets, fresh decor and natural sunlight give this unit a light and airy feel as soon as you enter. Features include large living area, meals, kitchen with gas cook top and electric oven, BIR to main, central heating and rev cycle air conditioning. A large back yard and paved pergola area, plenty of room for entertaining, gardening, or childrens playground equipment. A single lock up garage with remote and medium size garden shed completes this tidy package. Close to public transport and around the corner from shopping centre, this property is suitable for owner occupier or investor.

SOLDIN 1 WEEK


Somerville Offers Invited Over $320,000

276 Jones RoadFirst home buyers/investors/downsizers – pick up the phone! Renovated home on sub-divided corner block boasting loads of natural light, open plan kitchen, daily meals, sunroom/study nook with French doors & spacious living areas. The oversized carport also doubles as an entertaining area. This is a real winner!

Sam Bucca 0412 755 544Contact Sam Bucca for Further Details

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1 Anne CloseEntry Level PricePick up the phone and make the call! With an entry level price tag how can you go wrong! Offering 3 bedrooms, cozy front lounge, original neat kitchen, dining area & central bathroom, whilst outside offers a large covered entertaining area or a double carport, garden shed and a large rear yard.


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12 Dominic MewsLet Me Entertain You!Quiet court location in a great little pocket. Great family home with features including decked front entrance landing, private deck off 4th bedroom, sep lounge & o/p kitchen/dining/living with doors opening the entire back corner of the home onto a huge covered decked alfresco area.


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Sam Bucca Senior Sales Consultant / Licensed Estate Agent

0412 755 544 [email protected]

Give Sam Bucca a shot and call for your free no-obligation market appraisal.

Selling real estate without the headache.

Your home could be worth more than you think!


www.hastings.harcourts.com.au

HarcourtsSINCE 1888

Hastings

10/14 High Street 03 5970 7333


*photo ID required to inspect properties

This grand home is is sure to impress all who inspect. With a picturesque entrance to the property, open plan living and great bay views, this home is well-suited to all families, professional couples and anyone after that ideal location. Comprising of 4 bedrooms, main with ensuite, walk in robes and balcony, open-plan kitchen, meals and family area, formal lounge and dining, central bathroom, upstairs retreat and established gardens. Special features include gas ducted heating, ducted vacuum system, ducted evaporative cooling, double car garage, additional off street access for a boat or caravan, outdoor entertaining area, loads of natural light and high ceilings. Close to Mount Martha Village, Ferrero Reserve, Gary Watson Oval, The Briars Park, beach access via the Estuary Boardwalk, local schools, Mount Martha Public Golf Course, the Peninsula’s leading wineries and great freeway access for a quick trip to town.

AUCTION Saturday 13th July at 12.30pmView www.harcourts.com.au/VHS3965Open Saturday 12.00-12.30pm*

Substantial and sought-after - with bay views!

Mount Martha 11 Kotor Close 4 2 2

Gavin Doig 0421 986 157 E [email protected]

FOR SALE



HarcourtsSINCE 1888

Hastings

10/14 High Street 03 5970 7333



Jason Stirling 0411 520 173 E [email protected]

From the moment you set eyes on this beautifully maintained property, you realise just how unique and special it is. This low maintenance Alpine style home offers more than you expect!!With polished floorboards throughout, large open plan living with gas coonara, central family bathroom and large updated kitchen/meals area on the ground level, this home represents great family living at its best. The large European style laundry and bathroom are situated to the rear of the ground floor, finishing this level off beautifully. Access to the first floor via a magnificent spiral staircase, comprises reverse cycle air conditioning, three bedrooms or two plus study and central built in robes. The property offers full side access for boat or caravan and has a single car lock up garage to the rear. Located in a well sought after spot of Hastings, this home is within walking distance to local shops, public transport, sporting grounds, boat ramp & freeways, making this the perfect property for those looking to live or invest.

AUCTION Saturday July 13th at 2.30pmPrice Guide $290,000 - $320,000View www.harcourts.com.au/VHS3949Open Saturday 1.30-2.00pm*

Alpine Classic

Hastings 8 Pinewood Drive

David Nelli 0403 111 234 E [email protected]

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AUCTION



HarcourtsSINCE 1888

Hastings

10/14 High Street 03 5970 7333



Tim Hughes 0410 470 515 E [email protected]

Jason Dowler 0403 598 754 E [email protected]

Architecturally designed by ‘Waterfront Homes’ this stunning example of aesthetic beauty, quality fittings & thoughtful living spaces is a must to inspect. Created with family life in mind this 3 to 4 bedroom home features 2 separate living zones plus dining and rumpus room, creating all the space you would possibly need. The master bedroom features a walk-in robe & en-suite while the remaining bedrooms all have double built-in robes. Featuring square set cornice the modern lines flow through to the contemporary open plan kitchen with stainless steel appliances & breakfast bar. While outside entertaining is made easy with north facing landscaped gardens & feature gazebo with expansive hardwood decking. Special features include double garage with internal access, gas ducted heating, split system cooling & gated side access. With nature walks, marina & High Street shopping just minutes away this property will not last long.

Price Guide $440,000 - $470,000View www.harcourts.com.au/VHS3958Open Saturday 2.00-2.30pm*

Winning Design In Exclusive Estate

Hastings 27 Warranqite Crescent

FOR SALE

3-4 2 2



HarcourtsSINCE 1888

Hastings

10/14 High Street 03 5970 7333



Andrea Hannah 0417 400 660 E [email protected]


Set atop the high side of Belvedere Road with water glances from the second level, this family home is located in a prime position only a short stroll to the beach & only minutes away from Somers General Store, Yacht Club & Somers Primary School. On the first level is a huge formal lounge that opens out onto the extensive balcony while downstairs the open plan living area features hardwood flooring throughout the modern kitchen & family area. Featuring 3 bedrooms & 2 bathrooms, the upstairs master bedroom has en-suite & walk-in robe while two other bedrooms downstairs have built in robes. Set behind feature brush fencing, the landscaped gardens provide an enviable outdoor lifestyle for all the family to enjoy for years to come. In addition there is a solar heated, salt chlorinated in-ground pool. Other features include double garage with internal & rear yard access, gas ducted heating, split-system cooling & handy wood panel studio or shed. With the enviable lifestyle Somers has to offer this property is a must to inspect.

Price By Negotiation $740,000 - $790,000View www.harcourts.com.au/VHS3953Open Saturday 11.45-12.15pm*

Designer Living At Its Best!

Somers 15 Belvedere Road 3 2 2

FOR SALE


HarcourtsSINCE 1888

Hastings

10/14 High Street 03 5970 7333




Centrally positioned, this home offers a well-designed floor plan with three separate living zones. Offering an impressive entry with a feature cedar lined wall and indoor garden, this home would be well-suited to a young family wanting lots of room to move. The kitchen has a walk-in pantry and the dining area is central to the action with direct access to the outdoor area. There is ample shedding (6m x 16m) for a workshop or home business. Other features are ducted vacuum, alarm system, 4 bedrooms plus study, including the main bedroom with walk-in robe & ensuite. Two of the separate living areas each have a distinct style, with one featuring a Coonara wood heater. Well-presented and meticulously maintained, this property exudes ambience and a homely comfort within a gorgeous garden setting.


Picture Perfect Two Acre (approx.) Lifestyle

Bittern 220 South Beach Road 4 2 10

FOR SALE

www.hastings.harcourts.com.au *photo ID required to inspect properties

For a fresh approach to real estate, let us help you achieve your dream!

“ We would like to thank Andrea & Tim for their outstanding service & successful result in the sale of our home. We will continue to refer them to our family & friends”-Alan and Elaine - Somers

Determined to change the face of the typical real estate experience, Andrea & Tim go that extra mile. As reputable & knowledgeable property specialists, Andrea & Tim provide an ethical, successful & enjoyable sales process for all their vendors.

A real estate experience with a difference!


Tim Hughes M 0410 470 515 E [email protected]


HarcourtsSINCE 1888

Hastings

10/14 High Street 03 5970 7333



Set in this sought after location, only a moments walk from Somers beach sits this stunning, fully-renovated 3 bedroom home. Ideally suited to young family’s, retirees or those looking for the perfect holiday retreat. Featuring open plan living & meals area, designer galley style kitchen with s/steel appliances & loads of clever storage solutions comprises the hub of the home. While a modern central bathroom services the 3 bedrooms all with BIR’s. Outside a resort style entertaining area framed by tropical gardens will impress. Boasting an in-built stacked stone kitchenette and stainless steel gas plumbed BBQ & preparation area creates the complete entertainers lifestyle package. All set behind feature brush fencing the huge well-appointed garage, powder room & expansive exposed aggregate driveway is ideal to house a myriad of cars, boats or caravans. So close to all the highlights a Somers lifestyle has to offer, this property is a must to inspect.

Price $580,000 - $640,000View www.harcourts.com.au/VHS3976Open By Appointment

Resort Style Living

Somers 2 Belvedere Road 3 1 3


Set in a sought after area within easy walking distance to the conveniences of Balnarring Village, this great 725m2 approx tree-lined block sits in a prime position tucked behind a wide reserve strip with access from Hurley Steet. This fantastic buy offers a clean slate ready to build your dream home allowing for a great floor-plan soaking in loads of natural light with north facing outdoor areas and living zones. With land like this so scarce in the Balnarring area you will need to act quick to secure your chance of building your ideal retreat in a magic area with a serene feel. Ideally located, this land will suit the retirees looking to down-size, young families or the new home owner looking for the more exclusive lifestyle Balnarring has to offer.

Price Guide $300,000 - $330,000View www.harcourts.com.au/VHS3897

Price Reduced To Sell

Balnarring 2 Hurley Street

FOR SALE



Tim Hughes M 0410 470 515 E [email protected]


HarcourtsSINCE 1888

Hastings

10/14 High Street 03 5970 7333



Unquestionably one of the greatest places to live in Victoria, Somers has lived up to its reputation offering a quiet, safe and enviable lifestyle for the young at heart. With properties highly sought after in the area, Somers boasts one of the most protected, safest & quietest beaches in Victoria, ideal for beach walks, swimming, sifting through rock pools or sailing. Just some of the attractions of a Somers lifestyle are the dolphins often seen frolicking close by the waters edge, resident koalas, lovely locals and the inviting atmosphere of the social meeting places - Somers Post Office, yacht and tennis clubs, Coolart Homestead and the local Boulevard Cafe.Despite very few small land subdivisions for housing, Somers has not seen any major development since the 1920’s and has retained much of the beauty Somers residents continue to love and appreciate. With the added advantage of the green wedge we see very little chance of any further development for many years to come.For many who crave an unsurpassable lifestyle, Somers Holiday Village offers an affordable opportunity to own your own piece of paradise with the added advantage of being one of the very few Villages offering you the vendor an opportunity to earn an income from your investment.

Starting as low as $140,000 for a 2 bedroom villa call us today to arrange a park tour.

Invest, Reside or Retire In Style

Somers Village Park



First Impressions will often determine the value of your home. Whether it’s your agent or a buyer looking at your home, making that extra little effort can make all the difference in your sales result. Remembering that your home is usually your greatest asset, when preparing your home for sale it is always in the vendors’ best interest to make your home stand out – for all the right reasons! Small improvements like fixing rusted guttering or fading paint work, tending to out of control lawns & gardens needn’t be an expensive procedure. Things like these as well as leaky taps, jammed doors or repairing cracked tiles can all be done by the home handy person, saving both time & money. Giving your home the treatment it deserves will pay off. It goes without saying an extra 10, 20 or even $30,000 earned from a little attention to detail is well worth the effort.

- Preparing Your Home for SaleWeekly Tips from Andrea & Tim


HarcourtsSINCE 1888

Hastings

10/14 High Street 03 5970 7333


Jason Dowler M 0403 598 754 E [email protected]

Conveniently located and stylishly fitted, this stunning family home is equipped with modern comforts and presents the perfect entertaining space for any occasion. The master bedroom offers walk in robe with full ensuite and a further three bedrooms all with built in robes. Further offering an open plan kitchen, meals and living area plus formal lounge, it truly provides privacy and space for all. The complete family lifestyle, it is enhanced only by an impressive outdoor entertainment zone with an alfresco dining space, extensive landscaping and ornamental pond. Features are abundant including ducted heating, evaporative cooling, split system in living area, remote panel lift garage and real roller door access, 5x8 metre workshop and so much more, sit back and enjoy as all the hard work has been done. Only a short distance to high street, supermarkets, schools and medical facilities.


Grace, Elegance & Lifestyle

Hastings 40 Elisa Place 4 2 2

FOR SALE


Specialising in the Hastings area call Jason Stirling and David Nelli

for a free market update on your property today

“A property well listed is half sold”

Jason Stirling 0411 520 173David Nelli 0403 111 234


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THIS quaint property in quiet Crib Point is a great opportunity to renovate or redevelop. Set on a 952-square metre block, external features include a double garage, a single carport and a backyard big enough for kids and pets. Inside has a rustic quality with polished fl oorboards, raked timber ceilings and a woodheater on slate tiles. Finished in gleaming white, the open-plan kitchen and lounge areas have a bright and spacious feel. The main bedroom features an ensuite and walk-in robe and two more bedrooms share a luxurious main bathroom with spa bath. Offered for sale at essentially land value, the charming home is a great proposition for a developer or someone looking to break into the property market and buy an affordable home close to schools and transport.

Bohemian rhapsody

Address: 4 Dartnell Close, CRIB POINTAuction: This Saturday at 11amPrice guide: $190,000 to $210,000Agency: Harcourts Real Estate, 10/14 High Street, Hastings, 5970 7333Agent: Pam Pester, 0499 621 116

Address: 27 Matthew Circuit, HASTINGSPrice: $430,000 plusAgency: Ben Tallon Real Estate, 1/34 High Street, Hastings, 5979 8003Agent: Wendy Tallon, 0419 135 836

THE great Australian dream of home ownership has never looked better than this striking, single-level family home in as-new condition. The neat, paved driveway and well-manicured lawns and gardens stand out. From the entry, there is a bright, formal lounge with reverse-cycle air-conditioning. Following the colourful terracotta tiles you walk through to a nice kitchen with stainless-steel dishwasher and underbench oven. There is an adjacent dining area. Perfect for kids and console games is a second living area at the far end of the home. Outside is a colossal undercover entertaining area highlighted by smart-looking stainless-steel and timber balustrades as well as merbau timber fl oors overlooking the pristine backyard. There are four big bedrooms, all with nice plush carpet. The main bedroom has a walk-in robe and ensuite and there are built-in robes in the three other bedrooms, which also share the main bathroom. Smart and stylish, this pleasing home measures about 223 square metres (24 squares) and is set on a 755-square metre block in a well-established residential area.


249 High Street Hastings, Victoria 3915

www.peninsula parklands.com.au

A lifestyle village for the over 50s - Safe- Affordable- Secure, long term tenure

After Hours - Brad Wilcox 0419 583 634

The lifestyle you want The freedom you deserve

email us at [email protected] 5979 2700

Low maintenance 24 hour security access A carefree lifestyle Freedom to travel Economical Full-time on site managers Social club Community centre

$159,900 $165,000 $210,000$155,000

Under instructions from State Trustees

$150,000

Bay West Real Estate (VIC) Pty. Ltd.2104 Frankston-Flinders Road, Hastings, VIC 3915Ph: 03 5979 4412Fax: 03 5979 3097Email: [email protected]: www.baywestrealestate.com.au

COVERING THE WESTERN PORT REGIONHastings, Somerville, Tyabb,

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RESIDENTIALBITTERN - 44a Throssell Street $250 PER WEEKTYABB – 11/7 Mornington-Tyabb Rd $275 PER WEEKHASTINGS – 35 Lomica Drive $330 PER WEEKMORNINGTON – 4/32 Adelaide Street $235 PER WEEKHASTINGS – 2/105 Salmon Street $340 PER WEEKHASTINGS – 9/16 Skinner Street $245 PER WEEK HASTINGS – 3 Otway Court $300 PER WEEKHASTINGS – 1 Warren Crescent $280 PER WEEK

COMMERCIALFACTORY HASTINGS - Frankston-Flinders Road$1650PCM SHOP / OFFICE HASTINGS - High Street Location$3885PCM

THINKING OF SELLING?We can help you every step of the way. Take advantage of

the most enthusiastic and dynamic real estate agency in the Western Port area today. Call and ask us about our low cost

Sean Crimmins 0411 734 814

BALNARRING - FORTHCOMING AUCTION $535,000 PLUS

MUST BE SOLD! QUIET, SPACIOUS AND COMFORTABLE• Master bedroom with WIR & FES, plus adjoining parents retreat • Gourmet kitchen with plenty of bench & cupboard space

• Formal and informal dining plus spacious living areas • Quality family bathroom

• Extensive undercover entertaining area leading to pool and spa • Double garage with extra workshop/storage area

SOMERVILLE $415,000 plus

LIVE LARGE ON ELAINE•Well-maintained home perfect for the growing family •Master bedroom with WIR & FES•Floor to ceiling panoramic window looking out to enclosed fernery •Two bedrooms with walk-in robes•Huge living area with cathedral ceilings and Coonara•Kitchen, open plan living & dining area

CRIB POINT $360,000 plus

LIVE LARGE! - SIX BEDROOMS ON A QUARTER ACRE (APPROX.)•5 huge bedrooms plus bungalow•Master bedroom with ensuite•Two living and two dining areas plus large rumpus room•Two bathrooms•Large outdoor entertaining area with bar•Dual driveways and carports

Inspect Saturday 1.30-2.00pm - 4 Sunset Court

SOMERVILLE $285,000 plus

LOW MAINTENANCE AND CENTRAL• 2 bedrooms, master with WIR, BIR to 2nd bedroom• Dual-entry bathroom• Separate living and dining areas• Well-appointed kitchen• Paved courtyard at rear• Single lock-up garage with workspace


197 Main Street Mornington VIC 3931T. 03 5975 6888

Somers Auction

Auction Saturday 27th July at 1.00pm

84 South Beach Road, Somers

The Best Of The Best - 10 Glorious Acres - Walk To Beach and Somers General Store

Peace, privacy and privilege are evident from the moment of entry through the remote gates and tree-lined avenue culminat-ing in a circular driveway. Cross the bridge to enter the home with its extensive wrap-around decking framing the spectacular views. Inside, the home follows the ethos of modern open-plan living with a desirable north-facing aspect. A vast open plan dining area integrating a stylish granite kitchen steps down to a stunning glass-framed north-facing living room with floor-to-ceiling glass opening to the deck. A separate parents wing overlooking the water includes a living room, a palatial main bedroom, his and her walk-in robes and a stylish ensuite. A top-floor offers a versatile studio or 5th bedroom with an en suite. The grounds provide extensive facilities for viable farming or horse pursuits with eight paddocks linked via a laneway, a huge machinery shed, a mounting yard and more. Appointments include double glazed windows, split system air conditioning, a mud room, more than 93,000 litres of water storage and a memorable, irreplaceable ambience making this estate completely unique.

Auction 27th July 1.00pmTerms 10% deposit balance due 60/90/120 daysInspection Saturday 3.00-3.30pmContact Robert Bowman 0417 173 103 Chris Wilson 0417 147 307 bowmanandcompany.com.au

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197 Main Street Mornington VIC 3931T. 03 5975 6888

Mount Martha For Sale

You Are Invited To Our Grand Opening On Saturday 27th July, 2.00 - 4.00pm

76 Harrap Road, Mount Martha

DELGANY – Your new lifestyle awaits...

Looking to downsize, but don’t want to compromise on quality or location? Then take a close look at “Delgany”, Mt Martha`s premier up-market development with grand gated entry and spacious, landscaped grounds. Freedom to choose from either single or double storey designs plus you can pick your colour scheme and more. Close to parks, transport and Bentons Square Shopping Centre. What are you waiting for?

Price From $435,950Inspection Wednesday, Saturday & Sunday 2.30-3.30pmContact Chris Wilson 0417 147 307 Robert Bowman 0417 173 103bowmanandcompany.com.au 22/3 2

Mornington Auction

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31 Mariners Retreat, Mornington

Single Level Beachside Luxury

This immaculate residence, situated in a prime location, is defined by the finest of fittings and contemporary fashion. Extensive alfresco entertaining enhance the homes appeal and interior spaces reflect the modern ideals of open plan zoned living with three separate living rooms and a spacious family room and dining area that opens on two sides to a decked entertaining garden with outdoor dining and lounge room. The kitchen features stone benchtops, Blanco appliances and a glass splashback. The luxu-rious main bedroom suite has parents retreat, WIR and FES with double shower. Also has double garage with internal access, ducted heating and air conditioning.

Auction 20th July 11.00amTerms 10% deposit balance due 60/90 daysInspection Saturdays 12.15-12.45pmContact Robert Bowman 0417 173 103 Deborah Quinn 0428 205 555bowmanandcompany.com.au

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Local Agents with Local Knowledge For Over 50 Years

www.satchwells.com.au1/97 High Street

14 Balnarring VillageHASTINGSBALNARRING

03 5979 188803 5983 5509

SatchwellsTYABB

Asking $370,000

home buyer. Master bedroomwith WIR & ensuite, living area, o/plan kitchen & dining area, electric oven gas burners, d/washer, GDH, air cond, 2 car garage.

GREAT 1ST HOME OPPORTUNITY!!Inspect by Appointment

CRIB POINTAsking offers over $310,000

One of the original homes in Crib Point, 3 BR/study separate lounge & good size

garage/workshop. On approx 1100m2 this property could be developed (S.T.C.A).

GREAT STARTER HOMEInspect by Appointment

BALNARRINGAsking $690,000-$750,000

This 60-year-old home on approx 5 acres is offered for sale for the 1st time. Features:

wall linings, mudbrick studio, bungalow, shedding, tank water & 3 fully fenced paddocks.

ENTRY LEVEL ACREAGE

CRIB POINTAsking $195,000 - $210,000

Situated close to public transport & Stony Point Jetty the original

sun-room, 1 bathroom and original combustion stove.

3 Point Street, Hastings

HASTINGSAsking $865,000+

Approx 2 acres in a very private pocket of Hastings. Property comprises of 3BRs plus study or extra bedroom, master with ens & 2 spacious open plan living areas. Renovated kitchen, heating & cooling, light & space, northerly aspect.

STYLISH LIFESTYLE LIVING24 Lefroy Lane - Inspect Sat 1.30-2.00pm

CRIB POINT Asking over $270,000+

heating & cooling (unit 6 only) gas ducted heating

ONLY 2 UNITS LEFT!!!!

BALNARRINGAsking $549,000

In a prime location this 4BR home features main with ens & WIR, living area adjoins kitchen, heating & cooling. All this leads to an outdoor

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Three units with high ceilings, double glass doors leading to a big open living room, and tiled meals adjoining a courtyard, kitchen with Blanco appliances and three bedrooms, main with FES, double garage with internal access.

WOW FACTOR AWAITS YOU

HASTINGSAsking $665,000

undercover entertainment area. Master bedroom with full ens, WIR, ducted heating throughout. The kitchen boasts quality gas appliances complete with dishwasher.

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This property is close to schools and public transport, upstairs is 3BRs with BIRs, master with ensuite. Kitchen, meals area, dining room, lounge & balcony.

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Family home located in the heart of Bittern on approx 1000sqm. The 4BR plus study home has a large kitchen, dining area, two large living areas, heating & cooling. Large backyard, undercover area, dble garage/workshop.

HASTINGS

Spacious 3BR home, WIR in 2BRs, kitchen with gas upright oven adjoins dining area. Huge air cond living area opens to a lovely decked area. The block is approx 750sqm with workshop. Currently tenanted on a month to month basis at $330pw.

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CRIB POINT Asking $370,000 - $390,000

Renovated 3BR home with study & open plan kitchen & dining area. Kitchen with gas & electric cooking overlooks living/dining room. BIRs, modern bathroom, gas duct heating, new evap cooling, storage & so much more. Set on approx 800sqm.

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This 6 year young 4BR home in Hastings is at the end of a quiet court. Master bdrm with ens & WIR, others have BIR. Two living areas, o/plan kitchen, ducted heat/cooling & fans. Outside solar panels, tank, dble garage with remote & room for a boat.

A RARE OPPORTUNITY AWAITSInspect by Appointment


Spacious 4BR home, master with ensuite, 2 bathrooms, 3 toilets, large timber kitchen, butlers pantry & d/washer, gas ducted heating, 3 s/s air conds, OFP & wood burner, ceiling fans. Substantial verandahs & balcony. Oversized dble garage.

Inspect by Appointment

BALNARRINGAsking $595,000 - $610,000

BALNARRING RIPPER

HASTINGS$525,000

This 3BR 2-Storey townhouse with views of parkland & Westernport Bay. Master with ens, WIR & parents retreat. Lower level has large o/plan tiled living & dining area opens onto a covered entertainment area. Features include designer kitchen, d/heating,and r/c s/system.

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for a caravan or boat. Bedrooms all have robes and the master bedroom offers a s/system. Kitchen has gas/electric cooking, dining area, second split system.

POSSIBLE SUBDIVISION POTENTIAL19 Brydon Court – Inspect Sat 12.00-12.30pm

HASTINGSAsking $385,000-$390,000

Quiet court location close to Hastings township. Four bedroom home with robes & ceiling fans in BRs1 & 2 , new carpet & paint th/out. Gas d/heating & 2 s/systems. Enclosed garage converted to living area/4th bedroom. Open plan kitchen & dining area.


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The original home to a recent 2 unit subdivision. The property is located very close to public transport and the local shops and doctors. Features of this unit include 3BRS with WIR & BIR to bedroom 3, split level dining & living area, racked ceilings, gas/electric stove,s/s heating & cooling. Newly built single car garage with remote.

SPACIOUS INSIDE AND OUT1/179 Disney Street - Inspect Sat 2.00-2.30pm

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SID FERGUSON


35 High Street,Hastings tallon.com.au 5979 3000

Tallon

CYNTHIADOBBINPhone:0438 773 627

NIGEL EVANSPhone:0439 540 055

HASTINGS

Neat & Tidy Budget Buying

For Sale: $275,000

This neat & tidy 3 bedroom, BV home is an affordable entry into the property market. Set at the end of the road with a picket fence out front, this home is well presented with three bedrooms, all with BIR’s, a good-size lounge with gas heating and a spacious kitchen and meals area. The block is 531m2 and includes plenty of space and a garden shed. For investors, rental return is currently $270 per week.

HASTINGS

Light Filled and Contemporary

For Sale: $320,000

This north facing 2BR unit is located only a hop, skip and a jump to the foreshore and Hastings town centre.

gas heating and s/system air-conditioning, there is a kitchen with s/steel appliances including dishwasher, that overlooks the dining area & front garden. There is a main bathroom and separate laundry, and outside is a courtyard with wind out shade awning.

BITTERN - 32 Myers Road

Myers Magic

Inspect: Saturday 6th July 1.00-1.30pmFor Sale: $360,000

renovated home has warmth and character with natural tones and hardwood features. An open-plan design consists of a lounge, meals area and kitchen with stunning hardwood bench tops and splash backs. Three bedrooms share a modern bathroom. Coonara & s/system heating & cooling and rumpus room.

Affordability Plus Potential

For Sale: $310,000

Located on a corner block this 3BR, BV home is

anyone looking for an affordable home in a growing area with plenty of potential. There is a large lounge with Coonara and air-conditioning, an updated kitchen with adjoining meals area plus a separate formal dining or second living room with sliding door access to a covered entertaining area.

CRIB POINT

TYABB

Invest, Nest Or Develop

For Sale: $320,000

or anyone interested in a subdivision project (STCA in sought after Tyabb. Within easy walking distance to shops and schools, the position is perfect for lifestyle and long term capital growth. Set on a large 898m2 block there are 3 bedrooms, a large kitchen, good size lounge and single carport. The options here are endless and at such an affordable price you can’t afford to wait.

BITTERN

Stately PresenceImmaculately presented home on 2 acres with large foyer, study & powder room to one side plus formal lounge with feature columns to the other. Glistening tiles through to the informal living & meals area. Stunning granite kitchen has walk-in pantry, twin draw dishwasher, gas s/steel cook top & wall oven. Upstairs is a theatre room, main bedroom with spa ensuite & WIR.

For Sale: $795,000

CRIB POINT - 15 Pearce Street

Family Friendly On 1/4 Acre

Inspect Saturday 6th July 12.00-12.30pmFor Sale: $365,000

Located on a quiet no-thru street this 3BR plus study home is ideal for a family looking for more space without blowing the budget. The home has exposed brick and timber paneling throughout and includes a lounge, master bedroom with FES and BIRs plus access to the study. There is a large family/dining room with s/system heating/cooling and a timber kitchen.

BITTERN

Bittern’s Best Block

For Sale: $180,000

This block of land is an ideal for anyone looking to create their dream lifestyle by building the home they want with-out compromising on a private and leafy location. Situated in a sought after area, this 462m2 approx allotment boasts a wide street frontage (25m approx) allowing you to create a home design with an impressive facade and sense of space. New fencing to 3 sides, some basic landscaping taken care of and all services are available.

HASTINGS - 1/93 Salmon Street

Seaside Villa

Inspect Saturday 6th July 2.00-2.30pm For Sale: $330,000

Smell the sea air from this beautifully located townhouse. This home comprises of 2BR’s with BIR’s, modern bathroom, separate toilet, large lounge with feature gas

large modern kitchen has s/steel appliances & adjacent dining area with high ceilings & polished hardwood

HASTINGS

Federation Corner

For Sale: $365,000

A long concrete driveway leads to this well-presented, 3BR, ranch-style home. With dual access bathroom, large

out to the covered entertaining area with cafe blinds and built-in mains BBQ. Nicely landscaped with rear carport for boat or caravan. Also featuring s/system air-conditioning. Set on a no through road.

CRIB POINT

Spacious, Character Filled Home

For Sale: $380,000

Charming double brick residence with picket fence and

timber kitchen with d/w and island bench plus formal dining room. Main bedroom with WIR & FES, BIR’s to two more bedrooms. Extra living space with family room featuring gas heating and split system air-conditioner which opens to paved , undercover entertainment area.

CRIB POINT

Pretty As A Picture

For Sale: $295,000

Why buy a unit that’s a dime a dozen, when you could have this beautiful home on its own parcel of land with real character and country charm? Immaculate presentation and a warm, inviting feel truly make this house a home. Featuring 2 bedrooms, country-style kitchen with gas cooking and plenty of cupboard space, a

Affordable Central Unit

For Sale: $275,000

Located within walking distance to town and all amenities this single level unit is ideal for retirees,

features 2 bedrooms, large lounge with split system air-con. and gas heating, bathroom and separate toilet and laundry. The practical kitchen overlooks the meals area which includes a sliding door leading out to the courtyard with access to the single garage.

HASTINGS

Here’s Your Chance

For Sale: $316,000

First home buyers or investors here’s your chance to get in! This 3 bedroom BV home is set on a corner block close to the foreshore and amenities of Hastings town centre. The home features a good size lounge with gas wall furnace and ducted exchange, a neat & tidy kitchen with gas cooking and dishwasher adjoining a meals area. All bedrooms have BIR’s and share the main bathroom plus separate shower room and separate toilet.

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Subdivision Potential

For Sale: $310,000

This property measures 744m2 (approx.) in size and is zoned Residential 1 and would suit development for a 2 lot subdivision (S.T.C.A). The existing dwelling is quite liveable and can be leased out while plans and permits are drawn up. There are 3 bedrooms, a timber kitchen, lounge area with space heater and s/system heating and cooling

front and rear decking, large boat shed & garden shed.

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A Touch Of ClassYou will be instantly impressed by the appealing facade and landscaped front garden of this stylish home. Featuring gleaming porcelain tiles, formal lounge, large study, master bedroom with FES & WIR, central kitchen with ample bench and cupboard space + s/steel appliances including d/w. Large open-plan dining & family room with access to covered entertaining area.

For Sale: $470,000 plus

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HASTINGS - FOR SALE

Chicken Farm With Solid Future

For Sale: $3,500,000

Situated on a large 25 acre (approx) block, thisoperational broiler chicken farm, converted to and operating as free range, features all necessary P & E with capacity for 104,400 free range and 144,000 under broiler operation. There may be room to grow, STCA for addition of more shedding. Current Inghams contract with excellent future prospects. Property also includes 4BR, 2 bathroom home with separate unit. Property is serviced by mains water with bore and dams.

tallon.com.au

35 High Street, Hastings

5979 3000DOMINIC TALLONPhone:0408 528 857

ALF TALLONPhone:5979 3000

TallonBAXTER - FOR SALE

Excellent Exposure

For Sale: $1,250,000

Dual access corner block measuring 1474m2 situated on Frankston-Flinders Road and Sages Road. Zoned Business 1, the site is let to a hand car wash + kebab shop with permits. 10 year lease with a 10 year option. Returning $80,000pa + GST + Ogs. CPI + market reviews in lease. Zoning allows for 2-3 storey develop-ment + underground carpark (STCA). Brick workshop (9mx7m) with toilet & dual roller doors. Site has three-phase power. Long settlement available.

6.4%RETURN

CARRUM DOWNS - FOR SALE OR LEASE

Warehouse / Factory + Takeaway ShopLocated just off Frankston Dandenong Road, this site has at the front, a take away shop of approx. 82sqm which is leased until January 2013 with 2 x 3 year options. Current rental is $24,288 pa (Gross) plus GST. At the back is a warehouse of approx. 454sqm which is vacant. Rental is $27,000 PA plus GST.Keep as an investment or occupy the rear factory, the choice is yours!

HASTINGS - FOR SALE

For Sale: $875,000 + GST

One of four new factories along Frankston-Flinders Road• 7 car spaces•• 3 phase power• 2 toilets•• Fire hydrants + extinguishers

As New With Excellent Exposure

For Sale: $730,000 For Lease: $33,000 per annum (REDUCED)

SatchwellsLocal Agents with Local Knowledge For Over 50 Years

1/97 High Street14 Balnarring Village

HASTINGSBALNARRING

03 5979 188803 5983 5509

www.satchwells.com.au

HASTINGS - FOR LEASE$3240 per calendar month + OGS + GST

New factory, measuring 598-square metres

Sid Ferguson 0419 955 177

BRAND NEW FACTORY / WAREHOUSE

HASTINGS - FOR SALEAsking $298,000 + GST

PRIME MAIN ROAD FRONTAGE

SatchwellsLocal Agents with Local Knowledge For Over 50 Years

1/97 High Street14 Balnarring Village

HASTINGSBALNARRING

03 5979 188803 5983 5509

www.satchwells.com.au

POSITION VACANT

REAL ESTATE PROPERTY MANAGER

[email protected]

INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL>>

Beach retreatURBAN Beach Retreats is a consistent performer and enjoys high occupancy levels all year round. This well-located residence is within easy walking distance of Rosebud beach and is an easily run, web-based business that would suit hands-on operators. There are a total of six bedroom that share three bathrooms with two communal living areas featuring a Coonara wood heater and split-system air-conditioning. The sizeable property also would suit dual living for an extended family.

Holiday accommodation, ROSEBUDPrice: $795,000 freehold and businessAgency: Kevin Wright Real Estate, 72 Main Street, Mornington, 5977 2255Agent: Russell Murphy, 0407 839 184


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$81,500 + sav

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CAFE & TEA ROOMSHOMEWARES, GIFTS ETC.

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shopping centre

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$180,000 + sav

Peninsula based, catering to locals, farms, holidaymakers with supplies & feed. Has aquariums,

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delivered. Website inc mailbox accounts.

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$215,000 + sav

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GARDEN SUPPLIESEst 25+ years, very well equipped with 4 trucks, loaders & handling equipment. Supply all types of garden & landscape materials. Many repeat customers inc

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business with huge potential for improvement.

$110,000 + sav

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$230,000 inc. stock

Iconic premises on the Peninsula, indoor/outdoor seating inc. deck

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$220,000 + sav

Large double storey premises on main road. Function areas,

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$250,000 + sav

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offered and recipes will be included.

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Orient expressOFFERING authentic, canteen-style Asian food, this popular licensed takeaway has seating for 20 people to eat in. Trading six days a week from 11am to 10pm, the business has a well-appointed kitchen featuring all stainless-steel equipment including a coolroom, four-wok burner and a large preparation area. Situated close to the Rosebud jetty, the business is popular with visitors and locals.

Licensed takeaway, ROSEBUDPrice: $90,000 plus SAVAgency: Latessa Business Sales 50 Playne St, Frankston, 9781 1588Agent: Tony Latessa, 0412 525 151

In heart of townTHIS hairdressing salon has an appealing fi tout and is in the heart of Mornington’s retail precinct. Operating for about 40 years, the business has been under current ownership for the past 11 years. Trading six days a week, the salon operates with one full-time and two casual staff members.

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Double diamond celebration for GrantsDouble diamond celebration for GrantsBy Peter McCulloughDIAMOND wedding anniversaries are not common. To have two such celebrations involving members of the same family is most unusual. This has been the pleasant experience of two members of the Grant family during the past few months. Valda Grant was the only daughter of Ray and Ruby Grant, orchardists and nursery tree growers of Denham Road, Tyabb. Ron was their only son.

GRANT-COLE: On 8 April 1953, Valda Grant married Harry Cole at St John’s Church, East Malvern, with the vicar of Hastings, Rev Geoffrey Simondson, offi ciating. The reception was held at Tudor Court in Caulfi eld. They honeymooned at Erskine House in Lorne and returned there several months ago as part of their diamond wedding celebrations.

Both Valda and Harry were born in 1927 and lived in the Tyabb area. Like Valda, Harry grew up on a large fam-ily orchard; he was the youngest son of Lew and Elma Cole who had fi ve children. Valda and Harry were pupils at Tyabb Railway school – when it had about 35 pupils – and then Frankston High School, whose 350 pupils came from the Mornington Peninsula and Pearcedale-Cranbourne area.

During the latter part of the Second World War, Harry served in the RAAF and then the RAN before returning to Tyabb to join his father as a partner in Coles Nurseries.

Meanwhile, Valda completed busi-ness studies in Melbourne, and joined the Australasian Steamship Owners’ Federation where she gained an in-terest in the maritime industry. This interest was further developed during fi ve years as personal secretary to the commodore at HMAS Cerberus.

With his continued interest in fl y-ing, Harry joined the Royal Victorian Aero Club, piloting Tiger Moths from Essendon and, later, from the newly opened Moorabbin Airport. During this time romance blossomed between the couple and they became engaged.

After marrying, Valda and Harry settled into a new home on Frankston-Flinders Rd in Tyabb where by 1960 they had welcomed three sons – Peter, David and Andrew – all of whom, with their wives and seven grandchildren, have brought the couple great joy.

To give their family some of the pleasures they had as children, Harry and Valda bought a beachfront proper-ty in Cowes, where many happy times were spent. Harry’s love of gardening and woodwork soon became evident there and in Tyabb where he built a boat for sailing on Western Port.

In the 1960s a change took place in the life of the Coles. Britain cancelled the Empire Preference Scheme for Australian products: the Goulburn Val-ley fruit canning industry was thrown into chaos, with soft fruit orchards up-rooted and nurseries throughout Victo-ria feeling the effects. Fortunately the change coincided with the growth of Golden Poultry in Somerville, allow-ing Harry and Valda to diversify into the poultry industry.

During those years their life re-volved around their home, Karawa-tha, where large social gatherings kept the place alive with the amplifi ed music their 1970s teenagers and their friends enjoyed.

“Fun and food” was the order of the day, with Valda well occupied cooking family and community dinners for up to 60 people.

Having spent time travelling across Australia in a campervan and tak-ing overseas visits during their “no-mad” years, Harry and Valda always returned home giving thanks for the

Joint milestones: Ron and Dorothy Grant as well as Harry and Valda Cole have celebrated their diamond anniversaries.Sixty years ago: Harry and Valda (below left) and Ron and Dorothy (below right).

beautiful Western Port district in which they live, for the value of family and friends, and for the ability to join in community activities.

The civic activities of Harry and Val-da have been many and varied.

Harry was involved with Tyabb fi re brigade in his younger days, particu-larly in radio communication. His main interest, however, has been in-volvement with the Anglican church: he was on the vestry at All Saints in Tyabb; was secretary and a lay reader in the Parish of Hastings for decades, and was parish representative on the Melbourne Diocesan Synod from 1957 to 1978.

Harry’s other interest has been histo-ry as a researcher, speaker and writer.

Valda has been an offi ce-bearer with a number of organisations: for many years she was on the vestry at All Saints; for shorter periods she held positions at Somerville Preschool Centre and Peninsula School ladies’ auxiliary. There were several years of involvement with St Paul’s Court for the Elderly in Frankston, and for many years she was honorary secretary of the Hastings Western Port Historical Society of which she is a life member.

Valda has had a life-long involve-ment in history: she has been a re-searcher and speaker as well as the

author of four books on Western Port, including the award-winning Pioneers and Preachers of Western Port.

She has also been the author of a number of articles that have appeared in the Victorian Historical Journal and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical So-ciety of Victoria where she has served on the research and library committee. Valda was awarded the OAM in 1999 “for service to the community through research into, and promotion of, the history of the Western Port area”.

PRICE-GRANT: On 20 June 1953, Ron Grant married Dorothy Price at All Saints Church of England in East St Kilda. Their reception was held at Tudor Court in Caulfi eld.

Dorothy was the only daughter of Roy and Amy (nee Unthank) Price and was born in 1929. Ron was born in 1930. He has recollections of seeing Dorothy travelling on the school bus on Friday nights in her Firbank Girls’ Grammar School uniform in about 1945.

Dorothy started her working life at the Australia Club on William Street, a club for farmers when they visited the city. Later she worked in the offi ce at the Tyabb Co-Operative.

By now it was 1950 and Ron was working in Melbourne with CSR. He

was down for the weekend and went to the co-op on Saturday morning with his father. When he saw Dorothy he asked his father who she was and Ray replied “Oh, that’s Harley Unthank’s niece.” That night there was a dance in the Tyabb Hall and, much to Ron’s de-light, Dorothy was there. A three-year courtship followed.

Ron’s best man was Roy Flood, a long-time friend who had been in scouts and played football at Hastings with him. Dorothy’s bridesmaid was Jean Lucas who also worked at the co-op. Ron recalled that throughout the photo shoot Roy was most concerned and kept saying to Ron, “Hold those gloves up higher, Ron; they look like a cow’s udder”.

Following their honeymoon at Bright and Mt Buffalo, Ron and Doro-thy moved into a small house in Den-ham Rd. Ron had already left his job in the city and returned home to work on the farm. Jennifer was born in 1954 in Hastings Hospital, and Dorothy and her newborn went home to another small house in Denham Rd. Jeff was born in 1957 and Mal in 1961. In 1962 the family moved into a new, typically 1960s, cream brick-veneer built by Somerville builder “Gaza” Shaw. The previous house was moved to Hast-ings Caravan Park as an offi ce and re-

mained there until recent renovations. The new house was quite close to

Ron’s parents’ home, and meant that Ron was now living where he worked.

Many happy years were spent there with the children attending Tyabb Railway Primary School and the fam-ily enthusiastic participants in town activities. There were many caravan holidays using caravans hired from Parnells of Moorooduc.

In October 1963, Ron and his father were involved in a serious tractor ac-cident that saw Ron spend six weeks in a Melbourne hospital before many months of rehabilitation.

Things changed signifi cantly for the Grant family in 1967. One day while Ron and his father were working in the nursery, they were approached by a man wearing a business suit, an unusual sight. He represented a com-pany that was interested in purchasing the farm. After initial rejection, he re-turned with a better offer and it was not long before the Grants and their neighbours had sold their long-time family properties to Lysaghts.

The Grant property, on the corner of Denham and Frankston-Flinders roads, is now mainly vacant land ex-cept for a section that is BlueScope’s recreational area.

In 1968 the family moved to the cur-rent property in Tuerong. Ron contin-ued growing nursery trees but left the apple orchard behind.

After the children grew up, Ron and Dorothy became enthusiastic travel-lers. During the 1980s they visited England, Europe, China, the United States, Canada, Alaska and the Solo-mon Islands. They also travelled ex-tensively with their caravan and din-ghy in Australia.

Until this year every January had been spent at Point Leo and every winter since 1991 had seen them head north. Initially they went to Clifton Beach in Cairns but later became win-tertime residents of Karumba in the Northern Territory. There Ron would indulge his lifelong passion of fi shing and Dorothy her lifelong passion of socialising with other “nomads”. Dur-ing the travelling years, in 1993, Ron was diagnosed with bowel cancer but beat the disease.

Ron and Dorothy were keen golfers and members of Cerberus and Flin-ders clubs as well as charter members at Devilbend Golf Club. Ron played football for Hastings in the post-Cole-man era before back problems put an end to his football career. He played cricket for more than 14 years, initial-ly with Brighton (1948) and then with Tyabb.

Ron was an active member of West-ern Port Lions since its inception (1971-2013). He is a life member of Mornington Peninsula Cricket As-sociation (1956-71) and was on the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Foot-ball League tribunal (1965-74). He had the reputation of dealing out harsh penalties and offenders did not fancy the idea of having to come before him.

Ron and Dorothy now enjoy the company of their family: Jenny (now Lewis), Jeff and Mal as well as their six grandchildren and six great-grand-children. This year has been special: they have not only celebrated their diamond anniversary, but also had the pleasure of joining Valda and Harry in their celebrations. Congratulations to all four.

Valda Cole and Jenny Lewis prepared notes for this story.


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It’s not a new fire levy, it’s a fairer fire levy.On 1 July 2013, as recommended by the Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission, the Victorian Government is replacing the old fire services levy with a fairer system.

Rather than being added to insurance premiums, the levy will now be collected with council rates. This means all property owners contribute a fair share to the Country Fire Authority or the Metropolitan Fire Brigade.

The levy is a fixed charge of $100 for residential properties and $200 for non-residential properties, plus a variable charge based on the property’s capital improved value.

All funds will go towards supporting Victoria’s fire services.

GST and stamp duty charged on the old levy have been removed and, for the first time, eligible pensioners and veterans will receive a $50 concession. These reforms will save households and business around $100 million a year.

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A PETITION calling for replacement of Dromana’s pier and signed by almost 7000 people has been tabled in state parliament.

The petition was created by the Association for Building Community in Dromana’s Save the Dromana Pier campaign, which started last August soon after it was told by Parks Victoria the 1960 pier had concrete cancer and could be closed within eight years if not repaired.

The tabling of the petition was organised by Nepean MP Martin Dixon but carried out by his Liberal colleague David Morris, the MP for Mornington, as Mr Dixon is a minister and cannot table petitions due to parliamentary rules.

Save the Dromana Pier committee chairman Ray Barnard-Brown said the campaign was started after the demolition at short notice of the tower on Arthurs Seat last August.

“The tower was pulled down after Parks Victoria said it had concrete cancer and could not be saved,” he said.

“The association decided the same fate could meet the pier, which also has concrete cancer. It is caused by moisture penetrating the concrete and corroding reinforcing steel. Rust produced by the corrosion expands and causes the concrete to split and eventually fall away, allowing the corrosion to accelerate until the concrete is no longer safe to use.”

Mr Barnard-Brown said the campaign was designed to bring the matter to the attention of the public in and around Dromana.

“Hopefully, it will create a demand

by the public that the pier must be replaced immediately after it is demolished. This is likely to occur within eight to 10 years, perhaps less.”

He said Parks Victoria was “willing to replace the pier but funds must be available to do so without delay or the replacement will be deferred and perhaps never carried out”.

“Imagine Dromana without the pier – it cannot be allowed to happen.

“Mr Dixon said the 7000-signature petition was the second or third biggest he could remember.

“The tabling of the petition closes phase 1 of the Save the Dromana Pier committee’s work and it must now endeavour to keep the issue before the public over the coming years until the pier is replaced.”

A pier of some kind has existed at Dromana since 1862. It was once the second-longest on Port Phillip at 1200 metres.

It was used by fi shing boats and had a rail line to move timber and other goods onto cargo ships.

It hosted the famous paddlesteamers Golden Crown, Lonsdale, Ozone, Hygeia and Weeroona during the golden age of sea travel on Port Phillip between the 1880s and 1942 when the last steamer, Weeroona, ceased operating. For details of the campaign, contact Association for Building Community in Dromana, PO Box 150, Dromana 3936 or email: [email protected]

Dromana pier petition goes to the parliamentDromana pier petition goes to the parliament

Rust never sleeps: Top, Dromana pier has concrete cancer and might last only another 8-10 years. Picture: YanniLeft, a petition has been tabled in the parliament calling for its replacement. At the parliament were, from left, Ray Barnard-Brown of ABCD, Mornington MP David Morris, David Buchanan and Gary Howard of ABCD and Nepean MP Martin Dixon.

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Compiled by Matt VowellFrom the pages of the Mornington Standard, July 5 1913.THE following article, bearing on the letter under the above heading ap-pearing in our columns on 28th June, is taken from the “Woonthaggi Crite-rion”:-

“In last Thursday’s ‘Age’ a passen-ger on the SS Genista from Cowes to Stony Point (a 20 minutes voyage), related a blood-curdling experience of the sea under the title of ‘Lost in West-ernport’. It appears that the steamer was beset by a fog which lasted some minutes, and the engines were slowed down for a short time. Meanwhile the vessel was drifting on the placid wa-ters of the land-locked bay and dread-ful visions of the fate of the Titanic arose in the writer’s mind. But he did not entirely lose his head. He care-fully counted the life buoys, life belts, fl oating seats and life boat; but alas! they were all inadequate, for there were seven passengers on board and the result of the examination was only an increase of his alarm. ‘The horrible fact dawned upon us,’ he says, ‘that we were lost at sea, drifting heaven knows whether, at the mercy of wind and wave, heatless, compassless, and unfriended,’ for his critical eye had judged the compass to be out of or-der. All at once the Genista, which had never been more than three or four miles from terra fi rma, landed her passengers in safety, and the woefully befunked seafarer was able to breathe again. No more harrowing story of the perils of the sea has been written since the recital of the lamentable Wreak of the Puffi n’ Billy in the 12ft square pond of a London garden. One shud-ders to think what would happen to

this alarmist traveller if he appeared to be lost in a fog in a quarter acre Gipp-sland paddock, with no human habita-tion nearer than 15 yards.

***A WOMEN was fi ned at Glasgow un-der the Children’s Act for selling to little boys of seven and nine a com-position of dandelion and other sub-stances, with the name of ‘The Boy’s Smoking Mixture.’

***MESSRS A. Perrott and Co., have purchased the butchering business at Hastings lately carried on by Mr F. Piper.

***MESSRS Brody and Mason will conduct their usual monthly sale at Somerville on Wednesday next, 9th July. Particulars are advertised.

***LARGE quantities of Swede turnips have been grown in the Somerville district this season, and have proved profi table to the growers. Winter spraying has been started, and or-chardists would appreciate a fi ne spell of weather.

***MESSRS T. R. B. Morton and Son will conduct an auction sale at Hast-ings on Friday and Saturday next, July 11th and 12th, when, under instruction from Mr M. O’Neill, they will offer for sale his stock of drapery, groceries, etc. The same fi rm will also, on 18th July, offer for sale the stock, plant and furniture of Mr A. E. Hitchins, on his farm three miles from Bittern.

***VOTERS’ Lists and Separate Vot-ers’ Lists are now open for inspection between the 8th and 14th July, for the following ridings of the Shire of

Frankston and Hastings:- North Rid-ing, Shannon’s Store; Centre Riding, P.O. Somerville; East Riding, P.O. Hastings. The same can be inspected between the same dates at the Morn-ington shire hall for the Shire of Morn-ington.

***THE Frankston Brass Band will play selections in Bay Street, Frankston, on this Saturday evening (weather per-mitting).

***DESPITE the low prices ruling for fruit through the early part of this sea-son, there is no diminuition in the de-mand for fruit trees. There seems to be no end to the quantity despatched from the Somerville district.

***THERE have been a number of cases of tonsilitis in the Somerville district lately, and the last to fall a victim is our genial State School teacher, Mr G. Reed. The school has been closed temporarily.

***THE Rabbit Inspector (Mr J. Kelleher) has drawn our attention to a slight er-ror in the article headed ‘A Talk with the new Rabbit Inspector.’ The words ‘lay thickly in a burrow’ should read ‘lay thickly in a furrow.’ He has also informed us that a shallow, narrow furrow is the best.

***THE Frankston Club has now com-pleted its preparations, and is to open its new billiards room tonight at 7.30. In our advertising columns the club announces its intention of having the billiards room open every evening from 7.30. The table is full size, one of Alcock’s best, and in perfect order, having had only a few months’ use.

***ACCORDING to our advertising col-umns, a splendid opportunity is given housewives during the present month for obtaining drapery, boots, shoes, ironmongery, crockery, groceries, etc, at ridiculously low prices at A. Nunn and Sons’ sale, Mornington, which commences on Monday next, the 7th inst. For full particulars see our adver-tising columns.

***ON Wednesday afternoon at the Mornington golf links, Mr Townsend, on behalf of the members of the club, presented Mr D. J. B. Tait with a hand-some set of ebony Military brushes suitably inscribed on a silver plate, in recognition of his valuable services as hon sec. and treas. to the golf club during the past two years. Mr and Mrs Tait were also entertained at afternoon tea (at the links) by the ladies.

***THE Minister of Lands on Thursday received a deputation from the Phil-lip Island and Woolamai shire; intro-duced by Mr Downward, M.L.A. The deputation asked that about 700 acres of land near the Woolamai railway sta-tion, on the Woithiggi line, should be made available for settlement. It was of no use for mining, for which it was locked up, but it would provide sever-al farms. A block might be retained for the erection of a school. Mr McKenzie promised to confer wilh the Ministers of Mines and Education regarding the requests.

***THE annual social gathering of the Tyabb and Hastings Fruitgrowers As-sociation was held in the hall on Fri-day week last. It is easily seen that this social has the effect of providing

an enjoyable evening for a greater number of the leading residents of the district than any other that is held during the year. Almost every resident for miles round is now a member of the association, and at the annual so-cial they may all be seen, both young and old, dancing and singing until the early hours, and then when tired out, express the fact that they have had a most enjoyable evening. There was not however quite as many present on this occasion, especially from the Hastings district. During the interval between the dances, songs were con-tributed by Mr H. Schmidt and Miss Doris Unthank, recitations by Mr Boe and a very appropriate address on Tyabb’s fi rst show by Mr Boe, and a stepdance by Cr Cole. A sumptuous laid out supper was provided by the ladies, and was heartily enjoyed about midnight.

At the ordinary monthly meeting of the association, held on the 19th, Mr H. H. Halfi eld, of the Vacuum Oil Co., delivered a very interesting lecture on spraying oils and the way in which they are prepared. The assistant chem-ist, of the same company, had also intended to be present and give prac-tical demonstrations showing how the various preparations are distilled from the crude oil, but unfortunately missed the train at the last moment, but Mr Hadfi eld promised that on some future occasion he would make arrangements for another demonstration of the same kind, and make sure that the chemist and the “still” would be present. A hearty vote of thanks was accorded Mr Hatfi eld, for his very interesting address.

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By Stuart McCulloughI HAVE no idea what we were thinking. Neither of us had started the day declaring that we needed to fi nd and purchase the worst piece of art in the known universe. Particularly one that featured as its sub-ject that most mysterious and mythical of creatures: the frog. But by the time the sun had been swallowed by the earth, we had done exactly that. I can only attribute our decision to part with an amount of money in exchange for a painting that neither of us liked to look at, much less wanted to own, as being the result of panic on my part.

I’m not even sure of its offi -cial title. But if I had to guess, I’d say it was something along the lines of Frog Conference, as it features four amphibians sitting on lily pads in a swamp, presumably discussing mat-ters of importance such as the impact of the high Austra lian dollar on the export market or, possibly, whether anyone from Team Joel has a cinder’s chance in hell of winning The Voice. Some works of art are hypnotic; they make it almost impossible to look away. This one defi ed convention and

seemed to actively spurn eye contact.

How we became the own-ers of this abomination says a lot about how eager we are not to disappoint others. We were driving through the country-side when we spotted a small bluestone building promising both “art” and “craft”. This, as things transpired, was putting things far too highly. Howev-er, it’s true to say that a store of this kind will rarely take an entirely honest approach to its contents. It’s enough to say that

you never see shops offering “bad pottery” or “dud paint-ings”.

The warning signs were ob-vious, even if the one at the front of the shop was not. As we entered, the guy behind the counter looked surprised if not a little alarmed to see us. It was immediately apparent that we were the fi rst people to step inside for quite some time. A small stereo sat on the counter and the sounds of Pour Some Sugar On Me by pop-metal poodles Def Leppard trick-

led out. The walls were lined with shelves and gave you the sense that the room was start-ing to close in on itself. Every available surface was covered with objects, all of which were equally hideous to the eye.

There were pottery frogs of every conceivable shape, size and dimension. It was as if we had stumbled into some kind of small-town cult where amphi-bians were regarded as dei-ties to be worshipped. And, of course, turned into pottery fi gu-rines that sold for $12 a pop.

Having been initially alarmed at our appearance, the gentleman at the front counter had now decided to talk up the place, asking us what we thought. A thousand descrip-tors sprang to mind, but the only one to escape my lips was, “It’s lovely”. A sign hanging from one of the shelves de-clared that if you break some-thing, you’ve bought it. For a moment I thought this was an invitation. Perhaps others had been so outraged by mediocre ceramic amphibians that they were unable to contain their an-ger, smashing pottery frogs to spare others from a fate worse than Def Leppard before being hauled away.

He began to follow us as we walked through the store. Whether he had us pegged as potential shoplifters or simply hadn’t seen other people in such a long time and had forgotten how to interact, I couldn’t say. Whatever the reason, it cre-ated a pressure-cooker envi-ronment, one in which we felt compelled to do anything other than leave empty-handed.

Pottery was clearly out of the question – what possible use could I have for a ceramic frog? Whereas a painting of several frogs hanging out and discussing the weather is some-thing you can use every day. After a couple of laps to try and lose the shop assistant, we set-tled for a painting. To suggest that it was possibly the best of a bad bunch doesn’t really do it justice. I was probably hold-ing it, thinking to myself how extremely vulgar and – to be frank – incredibly brown the piece was when the man who ran the store asked whether he should run it through the regis-ter.

For a moment, I couldn’t speak. Perhaps there was a frog in my throat. Given the circumstances, it would be no surprise if one of those little

beggars had managed to slip in and take up residence in my oesophagus. “Thanks,” was all I managed to utter. Like light-ning, the man had whipped the painting out of my hands and was wiping away the cobwebs from the register. It was too late; I was stuck.

When we got home a few days later, Frog Conference was given pride of place. Which, in our house, just so happens to under the bed along with the emergency toolkit, some old sneakers and the free weights I no longer use. It was by chance that I stum-bled across it a few days ago. It remains as stubbornly ugly as the day we fi rst bought it. Os-car Wilde once wrote that “all art is quite useless”. I suspect he wrote those words while staring at a print of Frog Con-ference and listening to Pour Some Sugar On Me. I think he had a point. I have no idea what to do with the thing. My fear is that, some time in the future, I will overlook someone’s birth-day and need a gift at short no-tice. Should I ever give you a painting of a bunch of frogs, let me simply say in advance: bet-ter you than me.www.stuartmccullough.com

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I WAS never big on Lady Julia. I’ve worked with and under females for years; in theatre, racetracks and un-ion committee meetings. Bosses and equals; some good, some not so good, like men. I liked her as Deputy PM; she answered the questions, but I fi g-ured back then she would be a differ-ent kettle of fi sh as numero ono; more of an instinct based on past experienc-es. A dyed in the wool leftwing union-ist; not an enemy, but a hardline op-ponent. I was sad when her lot shoved it up Kevvy, the wowser who cost me a fortune in cigarettes. He didn’t de-serve that, albeit he was into self-love. All up she’s done more good things than messy ones but overall is low on my list of heroes. I’m a Labor voter, or more to the point I’d never vote for the Conservatives. It’s all very messy at the moment, both sides, with the waters further muddied by the media vultures. We wait and watch.

***FROM NSW rugby league skipper Paul Gallen after being suspended for one match for fi ghting: “It’s a man’s game.”

Mark Robinson, Herald Sun foot-ball reporter, repeats this mantra on a weekly basis. So what does it mean

aside from telling us they’re in favour of thuggery? I suspect both would use another ridiculous phrase when it suits them, like “It’s un-Australian”. Maybe there’s an inference as to their misog-ynous thinking? The Australian wom-en’s cricket team plays a tough brand of cricket. One wonders what the boys would say if they went the biff.

***IT’S all a bit weird really. We have our mates (the Yanks) on the attack with Edward Snowden and Julian Assange classed as the epitome of evil while at the same time our American mates are reading this column on my computer. I liked this one, from Adrian Tabor in Point Lonsdale: “My wife sent me a shopping list in an email. I lost it. Will the AFP fi nd it for me, please?”

In fairness I should mention that while Assange supporters hold him up as a banner of truth, they don’t seem to mind that he doesn’t apply his same principles to accessing Chinese or Russian secrets.

***INTERESTING to read of Nathan Buckley’s talk of “non-negotiables” and the leadership group. “It gives the players ownership of their destiny and the way they want to go about their

football and the values they expect to adhere.”

Apparently they have this “leading teams” group overseeing this philoso-phy. I’m wondering how all this will shape up if (say) our captain or one or two others of the leadership group lose form? Human nature is never far away?

***TONY: “A country working and pay-ing taxes from day one.”

Let’s hope this includes everyone, like illegal drug pushers and fi xing those tax avoidance schemes.

Here on our glorious Mornington Peninsula (despite a Third World bus service), a cash economy abounds out of necessity. If the cost of my cappuc-cino increases by 50 cents, bang goes another $200 a year.

As far as I know, Cerberus was named after a mythical, three-head-ed dog guarding the gates to hell. It stands to reason therefore if we re-locate our naval establishment to the tip of Point Nepean we will go a long way toward stopping the boats? Will “Labor’s border protection crisis” as told to us become the “Liberals’ bor-der protection crisis”?

Well, yes, but we can expect our

media to explain it in a nicer way, like “Tony rolled his sleeves up to correct Julia’s mistakes”. Whatever.

***THIRTY-nine Australians have been removed as members of the Order of Australia. Those who interest me are Brian Quinn, Clinton Condon, Frank De Stefano, Dick Pratt, Steve Vizard and Alan Bond, all super-rich men be-fore the event that caused their reputa-tion to be tarnished.

I ask myself why, with all the money (and power) they have as a comfort and part of their everyday lifestyle – something that 99 per cent of us will never have – do they lie and cheat to accumulate even more?

An apartment 270 metres above Melbourne is for sale at $18 million; Eureka Tower. The entire 84th fl oor no less; swisho everything including uninterrupted views extending to Lah-Lah Land.

If they offerred it to me with a rental deal at $100 a week and the proviso that I must live there for fi ve years (health and holidays permitting), I’d tell them to go jump. Those half doz-en disgraced men could have bought something like this, if they didn’t al-ready have it, but no, they settle to

cheat to accumulate more. Fascinat-ing.

***THE anorexic idealisation of women is not my cup of green tea. Betty Gra-ble, even Mae West for me.

When your mother asks, “Do you want a piece of advice?” it’s a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you an-swer yes or no. You’re going to get it.

Passion without commitment is use-less.

“I met an old lady once, almost 100 years old, and she told me, ‘There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And who’s in charge?’” (Elizabeth Gilbert).

Farewell Betty Burstall, founder of La Mama 1968; structure, metal, sub-stance.Hooroo. cliffi [email protected]

Lots happening at Santa’s PlaceLots happening at Santa’s PlaceSANTA’S Place in Moorooduc hasn’t been taking it easy since Christmas.

It has been a hive of activity with worker-elves getting all manner of things accom-plished.

Judy Reaper said: “Santa’s Place is pleased to announce we now have a liquor licence and will be able to serve alcohol.”

“Our popular coffee shop will be back again this year, with some great improve-ments. It is family friendly,

and has a mother’s room. It also has disabled access.”

Christmas will come around fast, and Santa’s Place is kicking off the run-up with a July sale, right through the month.“There will be big discounts on everything, so get in early and save.

“There will be new stock arriving every week between now and Christmas, and new sale items during the entire six-month period.

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Arrgh:Here be the way those scurvy sea-dogs, Captain Ken and his crew at Wildes Fresh Meats, dressed up on Friday 21 June.

The following week it was cowboy outfi ts with Ken “The Duke” Wildes getting wagons in a circle.

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NEPEAN LEAGUEBy Andrew ‘Toe Punt’ KellyFRANKSTON Bombers defi ed the odds on Saturday in Nepean League, overcoming a host of injuries to beat Pearcedale by the smallest of margins.

The Bombers went into the match without top-liners including coach Duncan Proud, Jeremy Waixel, Allan Williams, Jay Reynolds, Marcus Bate, Luke Lewis and James Degenhardt.

Proud, Williams and Waixel represented half of the Bombers’ backline.

Proud said Williams and Degenhardt were expected back this week, while he, Waixel and Lewis were expected “to be right after the bye”. Reynolds, who tore a medial against Dromana, might be back before the fi nals.

For Pearcedale, Frankston Bombers were ripe for the picking.

The Panthers welcomed back Pat Heijden and Byron Hoe but lost coach Ben Cadd to work commitments.

If ever Pearcedale was going to beat Frankston, this was it.

And it looked as though it was going to happen when the home side booted six goals to two in the fi rst quarter.

Proud gave his Bombers’ charges a good, old-fashioned spray at the break, pleading with his players to reset their structures and play to the game plan.

The Panthers extended their lead beyond six goals midway through the second quarter before Frankston clicked into gear.

As requested by the coach, the Bombers started to use the footy better than the opposition, while the Panthers began to cough up the footy coming out of defence.

Frankston key forwards Zac

Longham (two goals) and Scott Foster (four) started to get some opportunities and Brian O’Carroll was in vintage form.

O’Carroll’s run and ball use through the middle was match-turning, while young Josh Francis on a wing dominated and did not waste a single possession.

The Bombers kicked the last three goals of the second term to get within 11 points at half-time.

Pearcedale kept its nose in front in the third but by the midway mark of the fi nal quarter, Frankston hit the front.

Pearcedale full-forward Pat Heijden and opponent Sam Drake, who took the honours, went toe to toe in one last-ditch effort for Pearcedale with a minute on the clock, but Frankston cleared, took the ball up the other end and won by a point, 12.15-87 to 13.8-86.

Chris Fortnam was outstanding for the Panthers, as was Chris Hensby, while Ben Mitchell won the battle in the ruck against Haydn Moore.

As expected, Duncan Proud was very happy after the match.

“It was going to be a tough ask with that many players out of the side but I couldn’t be happier to come away with the four points,” he said.

“We have played 11 blokes under the age of 21 in the past couple of weeks and they have really stood up.

“Brian O’Carroll and Shane Vandervalk were great in helping us get back into the game when we were six goals down and I thought Nathan and Ryan Lonie really stood up in the second half. Sam Drake and Josh Francis were also great, while Jack Foster came up from the under-18s and was sensational across half-back.”

On the other side of the fence,

Understrength Bombers see off Pearcedale Understrength Bombers see off Pearcedale as Sharks tear apart Somervilleas Sharks tear apart Somerville

By Andrew ‘Toe Punt’ KellyTYABB Football Club is offi cially in the market for a new coach after the club and coach Brad Coller agreed to part ways in the middle of last week.

The rumour mill was rife, some saying Coller was sacked while the offi cial word from Tyabb was he resigned.

Coller told The News “the decision was mutual”.

“The club was well aware that I wasn’t going to coach at Tyabb next season and it got to the stage where they wanted to start putting some things in place to prepare for 2014,” Coller said.

“I agreed that it would be easier for them to do that if I wasn’t around.”

Coller said the club was a fantastic one with many great people, but that wasn’t replicated on the ground.

“It was a tough gig and off-fi eld the

club was great, but we just couldn’t get it going on the fi eld,” he said.

“With 12 of your best players missing for two years, it makes it hard, but the reality is the buck stops with me.”

Star forward Ryan Jones was cleared back to Cranbourne during the week.

“Ryan came across to Tyabb with me in 2012 and I talked him into staying this season,” Coller said.

“He was happy to stay on but he has a lot of mates at Cranbourne and I think they have been in his ear for a few weeks.

“The club completely understood his stance and was more than happy for him to head back to Cranbourne.

“I’m looking forward to just getting around and watching a few games. I’m not sure at this stage where I might bob up next season.”

Tyabb coach and Tyabb coach and club part waysclub part ways

Josh Beard, who took the Pearcedale reins in the absence of coach Ben Cadd, was devastated with his team’s performance.

“We just turned over the footy far too much and all credit to Frankston; they made us pay,” he said.

“Losing Dylan Hoare early cost us too because he was up and about, and is such an important player.

“We had our fair share of chances to win but poor use of the football and bad decision-making at key times was the reason we lost. We just have to get better at these areas if we want to play fi nals and have an impact.

After a big week off the fi eld with the departure of coach Brad Coller, Tyabb’s onfi eld woes continued when it lost to Rye by 89 points.

Coller and the club parted ways and star Ryan Jones headed home to Cranbourne after being cleared.

The decision for Coller to leave was “mutual”, according to the former coach (see full story in sports section).

With Ray Hallal at the helm, the Yabbies were far from competitive against the Demons, losing 7.3-45 to 20.14-134.

Rye welcomed for the fi rst time this season one of its star recruits in Troy Wright, who broke a foot in a practice match.

He booted three goals, while Ben Holmes booted fi ve and Ben Winters-Kerr four. Grant Wilson also kicked

three goals in his 200th match, while Darren Booth and Adam Kirkwood continued their domination.

Rye is just one game outside the fi ve, but still has to play Dromana, Frankston Bombers and Sorrento.

Pearcedale plays Tyabb, Crib Point, Devon Meadows, Red Hill and Rye.

The third team in the equation for the fi fth spot is Crib Point, which plays Devon, Pearcedale, Hastings, Tyabb and Red Hill.

Sorrento turned it on by belting Somerville by 105 points.

We have been critical of Sorrento for not burying sides, but they did it on Saturday.

Ben Schwarze booted six, James Hallahan four and a further eight players contributed on the scoreboard.

Rhys Palmer was the best of the Eagles with two goals while Leigh Stewart also led from the front.

Red Hill was up and about against Devon Meadows, winning 14.11-95 to 9.7-61.

At half-time, the score was 10.5 to 2.6.

The Panthers went into the game without key players Alex Doria, Dean Watson and Stefan Baumgartner.

Dylan Jones booted four and Jarryd Douglas three for the Hillmen while Jake Mitchell and Jake Mold played well.

Andrew Oldmeadow and Jack Henderson were good for Devon, and 16-year-old Kane Spring was

outstanding across half-back.Panthers coach Brent Clinnick said

it was another tough day.“Once again, a slow start cost us

early and we coughed up the footy far too often,” he said.

“Our second half was good, outscoring them seven goals to four but we gave them too big a head start.”

Rosebud once again was on fi re and disposed of Hastings with relative ease.

The Buds opened up a four-goal break in the fi rst quarter and extended the margin at every change, winning 19.16-130 to 13.11-89.

Ben Schultz made it three bags of seven in a row to move to 39 for the season, and Matty Payne kicked four to take him to 28.

Sorrento’s Leigh Poholke leads the goalkicking table with 48, Ben Holmes is second on 43 and Pat Heijden has 40.

Colin McVeigh was Hastings’ best with fi ve goals and David Hull and Kain Stratton fl ew the fl ag yet again.

Dromana easily accounted for Crib Point, although inaccuracy cost them a bigger than 60-point win.

The Tigers kicked 16.19 to 8.7. Toby Banks was best on ground with four goals, and Sam Guerts and Braedan Dennis also were very good.

Matt Sloper and Luke Herrington topped the list for the Pies.

’Buds beat Blues: Hastings went down to Rosebud by 41 points. Pictures: Andrew Hurst


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PENINSULA LEAGUEBy Andrew ‘Toe Punt’ KellyKARINGAL has jumped back into the top three after smashing Mt Eliza by almost 10 goals in Peninsula League.

In the past six weeks, Mt Eliza has been the most consistent and dominant side in the competition, but Karingal put the Redlegs to the sword on Saturday.

It was an emphatic victory for the Bulls, 18.9-117 to 9.4-58, who once again proved their best is good enough to win the fl ag.

Small forward Dale Alanis was brilliant for his side with six goals, while Chris Hay’s inclusion in the team in the past fortnight has straightened up the Bulls.

Grant Goodall was at his dominant best in the ruck, while David Hirst has also hit a purple patch of form after a slow start to the season. It was also good to see coach Brendan Dunne back in familiar territory, dominating proceedings in defence.

The Bulls choked the free-running Redlegs through the middle, preventing key target Scott Lockwood from having one-out tussles all afternoon. Lockwood was restricted to one goal.

Jimmy Clayton and Rohan Heasley were the best of the Redlegs while Sam Gill was again among the team’s better performers.

The loss has seen the Redlegs drop

from outright second, where they were a game clear, to fi fth position, 21 per cent behind Bonbeach, which claimed second place.

Edithvale-Aspendale got back onto the winner’s list, ending Mornington’s season on Saturday.

The Eagles opened the game in lively fashion, leading by three goals at quarter time and by fi ve goals at the major break.

However, with its season on the line, Mornington hit back in the third and got within a point at the change.

Michael Altenkirch, Anthony Simpson and Daniel Moss were up and about for the Dogs while Smeeton and Forato racked up possessions.

The Eagles settled the better in the last quarter through the likes of Matt Kremmer in attack with fi ve goals, Nick Connellan in the back line and man mountain Markham Johnson in the ruck.

In a tense fi nal quarter, the visitors ran out winners 12.15-87 to 10.14-74.

Mornington coach Stuart Seagar refused to concede his team’s season was over.

“Things are very tough for us now, sitting two games outside the fi ve, but I still believe in the group and that our best is good enough against the top sides,” he said.

“While we don’t like to use excuses, the reality is that we have been hit pretty hard by injuries.

“The loss of Warwick Miller overseas hurt us because he’s one of the best three players in the competition, and I think people underestimate the loss of Josh McLerie, who was sensational for us down back.

“Jackson Calder now gets double- and triple-teamed by the opposition backs and our young blokes are starting to feel the pinch of a tough preseason and tough competition.

“There is no rest for teams this year. There are no easy games and it’s a challenge to come up every week, especially for one of the youngest lists in the competition.”

Mornington is now two games and 11 per cent outside the top fi ve. In a close season, it’s going to be extremely tough from here for the Dogs to play fi nals.

Importantly, Bonbeach grabbed an additional 18 per cent after belting Chelsea by a whopping 170 points.

The Sharks have a percentage of 129, 11 per cent higher than third-placed Karingal and 21 per cent better than fi fth-placed Mt Eliza.

In a tight season, the win will prove to be signifi cant.

The Sharks booted eight goals in the fi rst quarter, eight in the second, 10 in the third and six in the last to win 32.13-205 to 5.5-35.

Bonbeach had 12 goalscorers, seven multiple and six who booted three or more.

Calhan McQueen fi nished the afternoon with a career-high seven goals, Shane McDonald booted fi ve, Shaun Foster four and Mark Tyrell was again outstanding.

Ricky Ferraro played well and Paul Rebeschini dominated. Josh Bull played his best game of the season for the Sharks.

It was a long day at the offi ce for the Gulls. Brad Clark worked tirelessly, Ryan Stewart tried his heart out and Niz Abdallah did well for the second week on the trot.

Frankston YCW had a big scare at Lloyd Park against Langwarrin before steadying late in the game to win by 20 points, 13.7-85 to 9.11-65.

The Kangas dominated the fi rst quarter, keeping the reigning champions goalless, but squandered opportunities, kicking 2.5 for the term.

As expected, the Stonecats got back into the game in the second term with Ben Tellis and Jack Mazurek getting plenty of the footy.

Michael Chaplin was also starting to have an infl uence in attack. Regardless, the Kangas led by a goal at the big interval.

Frankston YCW got out to a fi ve-goal break in the third before Langwarrin kicked the fi nal three goals of the quarter to trail by a kick at three-quarter time.

Jason Curry and Jimmi Johnson were getting plenty of it and Mitch

Gill-Furness played his best game for the season.

Aaron Shaw with three goals and Luke Damon, also with three, were proving to be a handful for the usually sure Stonecats defence.

Langwarrin kicked the fi rst goal of the last quarter to draw level, but the Stonecats steadied and recorded a hard-fought win.

The result highlighted how close the competition is between top and bottom. It also showed the once-unstoppable Stonecats can be beaten.

In good news for the competition, power ruckman Ash Eames is just three weeks away from playing.

Seaford had its season on the line on Saturday against Pines. It was also a day of celebration for the 1993 premiership teams.

The Tigers responded, kicking 15 goals to eight in the second half to completely outclass the Pythons.

Tommy Shaw booted six goals and Aaron Walton, Dylan Sloan and teenager Rourke Fisher dominated for the Tigers, who led by just four points at half-time.

However, they were sensational in the second half, winning 23.11-149 to 15.9-99.

Dale Tedge with three goals, Beau Hendry and Nick Wilcox were the best of the Pythons.

Pines is in sixth position, six per cent ahead of Seaford, now in seventh.

Bulls put Redlegs to the sword as Bulls put Redlegs to the sword as Mornington’s season slips awayMornington’s season slips away

By Andrew ‘Toe Punt’ KellyDEVON Meadows coach Brent Clinnick believes his club is on the right track for sustained success, despite winning just one game this season.

Clinnick, who was reappointed coach for the 2014 season, said my comments about him and his players were “unfounded and absolutely untrue”.

Clinnick was scathing of comments made by me in The News last week and in the Football Record.

For the record, I wrote that Devon

Meadows played a defensive zone brand of football that it was unable to execute. I also questioned the team’s lack of Plan B and believed the players looked lost during games.

The remarks were based on seeing Devon Meadows’ games against Somerville (the only win) and Pearcedale.

Clinnick said he and his players were left bewildered by the comments.

“We simply don’t have a defensive game plan. We don’t train that way and we don’t play that way,” he said.

“It may appear that way when we are

under the pump because the players go into their shells. This has happened to us quite a bit. However, to say that we plan to push numbers behind the ball is just not right.

“We need to play to our strengths. We don’t have body size like others in the competition. We need to defend wide and fi nd players with space when we bring the ball out of defence. If that means we kick it across the ground to someone 40 metres on their own, that’s the way we play.

“Defending wide also makes it tough for the opposition to put our

backs under pressure if we turn the footy over.

“You need to remember that we are coming from a long way back.

“We haven’t played fi nals since 2001 and the culture of the club is not a winning one.

“We also came into this season without the top three in last year’s best and fairest – David Velardo (gone to Oakleigh Districts), Billy Hayes (working in Darwin) and Jesse Dehey (broken foot).

“Many of our good players like Callum O’Hare and Ash Adams don’t

do much of a preseason because of cricket.

“In the past two years we have recruited 20- and 21-year-olds who will be good players for us for many years to come.

“We want sustained success, not a quick fi x. With that comes some speed humps along the way.

“We are all trying very hard to turn things around and it doesn’t help when we read what you’re writing in the media,” Clinnick told me.

Panthers on right track: coachPanthers on right track: coach


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