the local paper. march 2, 2016

The Local PaperWEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2016

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YEA FOOTBALL CLUB:

OLDER THAN WE KNEW

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●●●●● Bridie McSpeerin, a pupil at Sacred Heart Parish School

at Yea, swam in the 9/10 Butterfly event at the Seymour

District Swimming Competition. The School had 16 com-

petitors who contested individual swims and relays. Bridie,

Abby Christie and Reece Hargreaves go on to compete at

the next level at Shepparton. Photo: Victoria Wissell

Tigers historydates back to 1887

■■■■■ YEA Football Club’s history is about

to be re-written with the new discovery

of match files dating back to 1887.

The Tigers’ published history book, pre-

pared by the late Tom Dignam, put the

start of the club at 1894.

The Local Paper has discovered press clip-pings indicating that the first Yea match wasplayed on June 4, 1887 - some seven years ear-lier than first thought.

This would mean that the 130th anniversaryof the club will take place next year.

Reports of the first match, between Yea andAlexandra, were discovered in the June 10, 1887publications of the Seymour Express and theAlexandra and Yea Standard.

The newspaper clippings refer to the “re-cently formed club”. The match was played inYea. Alexandra, 2 goals 5 behinds, restrictedYea to 2 behinds.

Yea’s guernsey in those days was a whitejumper with blue hoops. Best players for thelocal team in the first match were listed as Lees,Long, Dods and Davis.

It was reported that because of the badweather, the ‘Yeaites’ did not expect Alexandrato make the journey for the match: “The 2pmmatch did not start until almost an hour later.

“The vsiitors were entertained that night atRankin’s Hotel.”

Other games in 1887 included a Tallarook vYea clash at Yea (2.9 d 2.8); and a return matchwith Alexandra (7.12 d Yea 0.1).

In 1889, a grudge match was held betweenYea and Alexandra Councillors.

In July 1889, a Yea-Alex. game came to ahalt and there was a “wrangling match” betweenplayers who disputed an umpire’s decision.

In 1892, Yea and Homewood combined for amatch against Alexandra.

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●●●●● Yea Football Club players in 1902. The club is older than originally thought.

SHIRE LOOKSTO RE-APPOINTABBEY AS CEO

●●●●● Margaret Abbey, CEO

■ Murrindindi Shire Council wants to of-fer a two-year contract extension to ChiefExecutive Officer Margaret Abbey, withoutadvertising the position as being vacant.

The Council discussed Ms Abbey’s pro-posed re-appointment in secret, in a part oflast Wednesday’s Shire meeting closed to thepublic.

Ms Abbey was first appointed to the posi-tion in June 2010.

“The CEO has sought re-appointment fora further two-year term (which she has doneby letter to the Mayor and Councillors datedDecember 1, 2016 (sic) ,” says the Councildraft minute.

The reference to December 2016 isthought to be a Council typographical error.

Local PeopleYea St Pat’s Races

At Yea Racecourse

Photos: Ash Long

●●●●● Winning St Pats Cup trainer Paul Kramer (Riley’s

Rocket) with race sponsor Neil Beer. ●●●●● Leonard Sheahan, Cindy McLeish, Gary Buckley

●●●●● From left at Fashions on the Field: Hannah Williams, best dressed filly; Peta

Bell, best hat and filly runner-up; Lorna Slavin, runner-up, mares; Jane Webb; and

Ella Noble. ●●●●● From left: Nola Jensen, Margaret Mahon and Marie Sier

●●●●● Yea Race Club President Denis Smith

pictured with Peter Juliar (betting service) ●●●●● Shannon Park and Neil Park ●●●●● Penny Noonan and Marg Lockhart

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●●●●● Philip and Jane Webb, Webb Pastoral, Glenburn

- The Local Paper - Wednesday, March 2, 2016

●●●●● St Pat’s Race Club Yea President Richard Forde

with Healesville Club President David Purcell ●●●●● Garnet Bailey and Hank Kreemers ●●●●● Gerard Hauser, Rebecca Christie, Helen Hauser


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LocalBriefs

●●●●● Don Lawson of Mansfield with Graeme Broadbent of Yea

●●●●● Linda Dessau, State Governor

Photo: Aust. Jewish News

■ Victorian Gover-nor Linda Dessau willbe guest of honour atthe opening of a newbuilding facility at theMernda campus ofIvanhoe GrammarSchool.

‘Her Excellency’will open ‘The Round’Senior Years and Sci-ence Centre at the‘Plenty’ campus onTuesday afternnon,March 22.

Ms Dessau will bewelcomed by theSchool Chairman Pe-ter Kempen, itsnewly-appointed Prin-cipal Gerard Foley,and Deputy PrincipalDeborah Sukarna.

Ms Dessau hasbeen the Governorsince July 1 last year.She was formerly ajudge of the FamilyCourt of Australiafrom 1995 to 2013.

■ Yea Rotarians GlendaWoods, Julie Lynch and PeterLynch were amongst those to hostvisitors from Sweden to a rangeof activities over the past week.

Strong bullsale at Yea

■ Rodwells of Yea achieved aclearance of all 32 bulls at the YeaSaleyards on Wednesday.

Adam Mountjoy notes that theaverage price was $4900 for thevendor Daryl Jenkins of VioletHills Charolais in the CentralHighlands of New South Wales.

Top seller was $8000. Accord-ing to Stock & Land newspaper:“Violet Hills Kidman, by VioletHills Hilston, out of Violet HillsGenevese, an August 2014 dropbull, was sold to Greg McGrath,St Clair, Jeetho.”

There were a number of buy-ers, predominately from SouthGippsland and Tasmania, withlocal farming identities present in-cluding John McCormack, DonLawson and Graeme Broadbent.

Localvehiclestripped■ A dark colouredFord Territory, sto-len from the YeaWhittlesea Rd nearJunction Hill , hasbeen discoveredstripped and burntout.

The vehicle wasfound by FawknerHighway Patrolmembers.

Anyone whomay have seen thevehicle parked onthe side of the roadnear Sichlaus Rd isasked to contactLeading Sen.-Const. Eaton at theYea Police Station.

Break-in

■ Police from Yeaare investigatingthe attempted bur-glary of a house inUpper Ti Tree Rdat Junction Hill onThursday (Feb.25).

Offenders at-tempted to breakinto the propertybetween 9.30amand 11.30am

Anyone whowas in the area andsaw anything sus-picious should con-tact Yea Police.

Market■ The Yarra GlenRacecourse Mar-ket will be heldfrom 9am-2pm thisSunday (Mar. 6).

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75-year link with Yea

■ A 75-year link between Yea and IvanhoeGrmmar School is due to be celebrated nextyear.

Students from the Grammar School wereevacuated to board at Beaufort Manor, Yea,in 1942-43, during the hostilities of World WarII. The move was led by theSchool’s Head-master, the Rev. Sydney Buckley, with localarrangements managed by Bill Purcell.

Classes were conducted at locations in-cluding Beaufort Manor, the Recreation Re-serve, St Luke’s and a High St shop.

A book has been published with the ‘boys’memories of their time in Yea.

●●●●● Ivanhoe Grammar School pupils on

the lawns of Beaufort Manor in 1942-

43, after they were evacuated to Yea

during the World War II hostilities.

Fireworks duringTotal Fire Ban

■ Two males were detained by Yea Police af-ter Snodgrass St residents reported fireworksbeing lit last Wednesday, a Total Fire Ban day.

The males, aged 15 and 22, from High St,Yea, will be charged on summons for offencesin regard to a Total Fire Ban Day, and posses-sion and lighting of fireworks.

Yea Police mem-bers - Sgt TrevorConnell and LeadingSen. Const. SimonEaton - were swift toattend the incident.

Local residentswere furious that thefirworks were set offnext to a large openpaddock in dangerousconditions.

Nearby residentswould have had verylittle to no time to re-act to a fire right ontheir front door steps.

Police have spokento several residentsabout the incident butwould still like tospeak to anyone elsewho witnessed the in-cident. Phone 57976230.

The group enjoyed a trip to theYea Wetlands, the KerrisdaleRailway, Healesville Sanctuary,and an Aussie barbecue at Lime-stone-Murrindindi.

Visitorsat Yea

Wetlands

Visitorsat Yea

Wetlands

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For the future in the distance,For the future in the distance,For the future in the distance,For the future in the distance,For the future in the distance,And the good that we can do”And the good that we can do”And the good that we can do”And the good that we can do”And the good that we can do”

Ash On Wednesday Short Shots

Powerline focus■ We were happy this week to be helpful ingetting some follow-up information for aGlenburn resident who wanted to apply tothe Powerline Replacement Fund for cashfor underground power lines.

CCTV question■ Last week’s Local Paper front-page lookedat the Department of Justice’s offer to footthe bill for closed-circuit TV cameras in Yea... but Murrindindi Shire Council, it seems,is baulking at the cost of maintaining the sys-tem.

Yea residents tell us that no mention wasmade of the CCTVproposal at the safety fo-rum held at the Yea Council chambers onWednesday (Feb. 24).

A number of frustrated residents walkedaway from the meeting in disgust.

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●●●●● Long before the Melba Highway was even contemplated

... here is a 1913 photo of Bell St, Yarra Glen, showing

Scott and Allen's Store. The photo comes from the Yarra

Glen and District Historical Society.

Early days of Yarra Glen

Bogus orders■ Being an editor - even of a small localpaper - puts you in the public eye. Your lifemust be an open book.

Part of an editor’s territory is receiving hatemail and nuisance phone calls. Readers fromdecades ago will recall a number of peoplefacing serious charges for their threats.

At the moment, we are getting a series ofletters after bogus orders have been lodgedon our behalf.

‘Ash Pong’ supposedly ordered a love ringfrom Bradford Exchange. ‘Ash Wong’ or-dered a hearing device from Hearing Life.

Perhaps Long Shots should have a re-minder sent to them about the Crimes Act andits imprisonment penalties for making falsedocuments.

■ Local Paper read-ers have asked usabout our opinion ofthe MurrindindiShire Council, andhow it delivers ser-vices to the Yea-Kinglake portion ofthe municipality.

There is one thingfor certain. The vastmajority of the resi-dents of the westernhalf of the shire per-ceive that they are‘hard done by’.

Our observationabout Council writtenreports is that the Shirestaff includes a num-ber of extremely well-paid executives whoare expert report-writ-ers, and not adverse toself-congratulation.

Securitymeeting

■ Let’s take the ex-ample of the publicforum called for lastWednesday (Feb. 24)afternoon in Yea aboutsecurity.

Organisers wereasking for interestedresidents to attend athree-hour session(4.30pm-7.30pm).The biggest Hollywodblockbuster doesn’trun for 180 minutes.

Curiously, themeeting was set for atime when the Coun-cil meeting was beingheld at Alexandra,which prevented anyCouncillors or seniorofficers attending.

Yea residents tell usit seemed to be a meet-ing that was almostdesigned to fail.

Rateschatter

■ Let’s take the mat-ter of proposed ratesincreases in Murrin-dindi.

Rates are alreadycomparatively high,and residents are en-titled to question ifthey are getting valuefor money.

Many residentsperceive they are be-ing short-changed.

Tradition in Yea

●●●●● Peter Vlamis and Sof Vlamis

■ The Vlamis brothers - Andrew, Peter andJohn - and their families have had a longhistory of doing business in Yea with enter-prises including the Amble Inn Cafe, YeaTake-Away and the original Yea Mobil ser-vice station built on the Cassell’s Garage site.The Local Paper photographer captured Pe-ter Vlamis with nephew Sof at the Yea Take-Away this week.

●●●●● Peg O’Connor and Ruth Crockett

■ The St Luke’s Op Shop in High St, Yea,has developed more like a department store.The extensive stock is marketed by a team ofvolunteers. Peg O’Connor and Ruth Crockettwere attending the front counter when thisphoto was taken this week.

Op Shop volunteers

●●●●● More volunteers are required for

the book shop run by the ‘Friends of

the Yea Library’, particularly manning

the High St store, as Cheryl Worthing-

ton is pictured doing.

Busy book shop

Murrindindi ShireCouncil has done apoor job in explainingwhy it needs a 5.4 percent rates increase tobalance its books.

The State Govern-ment has told Coun-cils across Victoriathat rate increasesshould be 2.5 per centat most.

Strangewelcome■ Let’s take the ex-ample of our own en-terprise.

Our family ownedYea’s newspaper for10 years between1984 and 1993. Wewon the Westpac Aw-

ard for Best Local Re-porting for our ener-getic coverage of YeaCouncil doings.

We have a long his-tory of local commu-nity involvement.

Yet, apart from thepress releases whichwe sought, we havenot heard a singleword of welcome fromthe Council.

We had a chancemeeting with the ShireCEO, Margaret Ab-bey, in Yea on Austra-lia Day and introducedourselves.

We haven’t heard aword since. Haven’theard a word from theMayor, Cr MargaretRea. Have only heardfrom two Councillors,on the quiet. Peculiar.

Wide net■ Murrindindi Shirehas lodged paid adsregarding its plannedCEO appointment inthe Lions Club-runMarysville TriangleNews; and three news-papers all owned byNewspaper House:the Alexandra Stan-dard, Yea Chronicle,and North Central Re-view.

As far as we canascertain, the NorthCentral Review is notdistributed in theMurrindindi munici-pality.

Why would theCouncil spend rate-payers’ money in thisway?

Happybirthday

■ Marie Sier of Lime-stone celebrated her80th birthday with agirls only affair (exceptfor husband Adrianand Brendan McCar-thy) at the MaranathaHall on Saturday.

We hear the high-light was Marie andHelen Hauser donningwigs to perform theirrendition of DancingQueen.

Order inHouse

■ Indi Federal MHRCathy McGowan, onMonday, spoke inFederal Parliamentabout Yea’s public toi-lets.

Ms McGowan con-gratulated Murrin-dindi Council obtain-ing $18,000 for theYea Toil Art StrongerCommunities round 1project.

“It is flush with fed-eral funding for aproject to improve ac-cess to this popularamenity block in thetown,” said the MP,congratulating Marga-ret Abbey and NaomiMcNamara

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They Say . . .

★That Yea’s history buffs are puzzled aboutwhen priceless 1890 rates books will be

returned from the Alexandra offices of theMurrindindi Shire Council. The historianssay the return of the books was promised tohappen in two months’ time - and that wasseven months ago.

★That amongst the collection of valuablereferences being held by the Shire are

the ‘pan-man’ books and the barbed wirebooks.

★That some Murrindindi Shire Council-lors and staff members have been told

they may not express their personal views inthe local press. What fears do the Councilheirarchy have? What are they afraid ofpeople saying?

★That the Yea Tigers footy club hasrecuited James Flynn from the Ovens

and Murray Football League. He will bringanother level of experience to the group.

★That the Hume Action Group was at theCraigieburn Arts Festival last weekend

to engage Amnesty International campaigns.

★That one public-paid official has tried todeflect responsibility on an overdue lo-

cal project by making reference to delays at agovernment department. The government de-partment says “never heard of him.”

Local Briefs

Sir,It strikes me as absolutely ridiculous that

despite the obvious problems with the spreadof Queensland Fruit Fly, the relevant depart-ments have seemingly taken a “sit on ourhands” attitude.

Last year a scattering of this insidious pestwere reported in the Mitchell Shire and a fewdedicated individuals tried their best to arrestthe problem.

This year it has spread, we have two lovelypeach trees in our back yard and last yearthey escaped infection.

This year, with a bumper crop of peaches,they were clear until the last dozen or so onone tree were found to contain maggots. Westripped the fruit and bagged it.

So far our tomatoes are going OK withoutany sign of infection.

Next year no doubt the Fruit Fly will againbe present, and from what I am told by othersthat know more about it than me; it will marchfurther South.

Maybe when it reaches the BacchusMarsh area and decimates that industry theGovernment might wake up but I won’t beholding my breath.

Perhaps the real skeleton in the closet isthat the powers that be want this pest to infectour produce, no back yard food means moresupermarket aisles full.

So what to do? Set traps, be diligent pick-ing up fallen fruit and hope.

The problem is though that while we dothe responsible thing, next door don’t care be-cause they rent, the house across the street isvacant and the trees growing wild no bodylooks after.

It requires action on a much bigger scale,a State Government scale.

While that action goes begging you cansay goodbye the great Aussie tradition of grow-ing your own and can suffer the tastelessbought tomatoes city dwellers consume.

- Dave Palmer

4 Redbank Rd, Seymour

Regional BriefsDementia info day

■ Alzheimer's Australia is presenting a freeinformation session on dementia, causes,symptoms and typical changes. The sessionis scheduled for 1.30pm-4pm on Tuesday(March 8) at the Mansfield Community Cen-tre, Erril St, Mansfield.

Phone Lisa Reed on 1300 526 576. Book-ings are essential.

Meeting changes■ Secret ballots will be abolished under anew local law being proposed by MansfieldShire Council. Other changes include rightsof CEO to reject a notice of motion if it isobjectionable, behaviour rules for all attend-ing a Council meeting, rules about the receiptof petitions and resident verbal, presentations,and guidelines about how question time willbe conducted. Questions from the public willbe able to be rejected if they are considereddefamatory, or about confidential matters.

Yea helps Fijians■ Yea businessmanGrant Oppy is co-ordinating the receiptof donations for vic-tims of Cyclone Win-ston in Fiji.

Grant has joinedwith John Purvis ofElders Yea, and LarryTaylor of Highlands(phone 0411 87 3982),to gather tools andequipment, as well ascash.

The trio want tohelp fill a containerthat will leave Mel-bourne on March 17,bound for Taveuni,the third largest islandin Fiji.

Gusts of 330-kmhhit the islands, withFiji government offi-cials confirming 42people have died.

Islanders say theyhave no buildings, nofood and no waterfrom the worst cyclonein memory.

●●●●● Devastation in Fiji caused by Cyclone Winston. Photo: Neale Wright


●●●●● Grant Oppy is receiving donations for Fiji victims

‘We need any toolsto help build sheds’

■ Secondhand tools that will help build shedsare sought from donors by local organisers GrantOppy, John Purvis and Larry Taylor.

Items required include tin snips, pliers, ham-mers, hand saws and chisels.

Grant Oppy, proprietor of Country Woman,in Station St, Yea, says all donated goods will beloaded into a shipping container leavingMelbourne on March 17.

The goods will be bound for Vuni on the southof Taveuni, a poor island in Fiji, where CycloneWinston has hit hard.

Melbourne man Neale Wright’s father-in-law, Elia Niubalabu, a Church leader on theisland, will co-ordinate receipt of the goods.

Neale told The Local Paper: “We have con-tacted Customs in Fiji and have been told to getpre-approval in writing to avoid paying duty onthe goods on arrival.

“The island of Taveuni has a population ofaround 11,000. Like most of the islands off themainland it is very poor with some, but notenough tourism to supplement an agriculturalindustry of principally taro and kava.

“It is known as the Garden Island and is oneof the most naturally beautiful in Fiji with a post-card waterfall and a unique flower thetagimoucia (tears of a princess). It is mostlyCatholic.

“Cyclone Winston was expected to travelaround 200km south of Taveuni, then it changed

direction, and increased its speed and intensity.“Fijians tend to leave things to the last minute

and were caught offguard - better preparationprobably wouldn't have saved much more prop-erty but they would have stocked up with tinnedfood, fuel, and phone credit.

“It hit Taveuni and Koro around 9am on Sat-urday and passed over by 4pm in the afternoon.

“The devastation reaked over this time wasnear complete - invisage an atomic wind fromhydrogen bomb test in the deserts of Navada; itknocked over everything in its path,” Neale said.

“Some of our relatives shetered in watertanks and others under the floors of their homes.

“Some coastal villages suffered a sea surgethat had exaactly the same effect as a Tsunamiwashing away much of the building materialthat may have been reused.

“Many lives were lost this way. We are hear-ing horrible stories of people losing infants theywere carrying and others who clinged to treesonly to finally surrender to the water, exhausted.

“Thirty-metre wide wharfs have beenwashed away and slabs of concrete deposited50 metres away.

“The death toll continues to rise. It is a sadirony; Winston is by far the worst cyclone to hitthe South Pacific ever and because it smashedall and so many communication towers we areonly now starting to get an idea of the true deathtoll. It is almost certain to be in the hundreds.”

Lesley bears it

●●●●● Lesley Monteath with one of the

bears in the plush department of the

St Luke’s Op Shop in High St, Yea.

Railway history■ The Local Paper has been delighted to hearfrom Yea former railway man and postal de-livery contractor Lance Adams.

Lance has been recovering a stroke an dhave had to retire from all work. He has re-turned home after a 12-month stint in the Yeaand District Memorial Hospital, and theRosebank complex.

Lance was approached by the Yea His-torical Society to put together something onthe former railway line

The essay, with photos, will be publishedin future issues of The Local Paper.

Lance says: “It was written so that indi-viduals traversing the rail trail would knowwhere all the points of history were, and whatthey were looking at as well as some briefhistory.”

●●●●● Lance and Reé Adams outside the

North East portal of the Cheviot tun-

nel in May 2013. Photo: Grant Knight

Letters to the Editor

●●●●● Dave Palmer

Beware fruit flies


Local PeopleJust Briefly

High tea at Manor

Local News

New chopper at helipad

●●●●● One of the new Augusta 139 machines at the Yea helipad.

The Local Paper - Wednesday, March 2, 2016 -

■ The new Ambu-lance Victoria ‘August139’ helicopters havestarted flying in to theYea helipad.

This machine wascommissioned on NewYears Day. It and simi-lar machines fly out ofEssendon, Ballarat,Warrnambool and theLatrobe Valley.

The air-condi-tioned unit has a pilot,plus crew of two, onebeing trained withparamedic skills.

This helicopterwas pictured at theStation St helipad lastWednesday (Feb. 24).

A patient requiredurgent attention at theRoyal MelbourneHospital, a flight ofapproximately 17minutes.

Next month marksthe 25th anniversaryof the Yea Helipad inApril 1991 by then-CrPeter Hauser.

Thanks to Rotary

■ Yea’s Citizen of the Year, Paul Bannan,has written to the Rotary Club of Yea to thankits members for making him a ‘Paul HarrisFellow’ on Australia Day.

“Time was against us on Australia Dayfor me to fully acknowledge the honour youbestowed upon me.

“I am truly humbled by being installed asa Paul Harris Fellow and I will always rate it,along my involvement in ANZAC Day in Yea2015 as my being a citzen of the Yea commu-nity. Thank you one and all.”

At Sacred Heart■ The families of Sacred Heart PrimarySchool came together this month for a joyouscelebration to mark the commencement of anew school year.

The school was said to be “rocking” with150 adults and children joining together in cel-ebrating a new school year Mass followedwith a delicious Indonesian dinner which wasfollowed by fun-filled Indonesian familygames.

Grade 6 School Team Leaders were pre-sented with their leader badges and all theGrade 6 students pledged service to the schooland the wider community.

The new Prep children were welcomedto the school community and presented witha commemorative candle by their Grade 6buddies.

The Indonesian dinner was plentiful anddelicious with parents cooking authentic In-donesian dishes for everyone to share.

Children sang Indonesian songs for theparents and then the games began. Both par-ents and children participated.

“All in all, an absolutely fun filled night,very memorable and one that reflected thegreat school community spirit alive and wellat Sacred Heart School,” said PrincipalVictoria Wissell.

●●●●● Paul Bannan

●●●●● Flashback: (from left) Colin Purvis, Norm Pincott and

Ray Cooper at the April 1991 opening of the Yea Helipad.

What’s On

U3A courses at Yea

■ Many courses at U3A (University of theThird Age) are available for people over 50, atthe Yea Pioneer Reserve (old Primary School).

The activities include ‘Have You ReadThis?’, geneaology, history of migration, lunchgroup, table tennis, Renaissance Italy, Tai Chiand painting.

●●●●● Enjoying the U3A line dancing classes in Yea on Wednesdays are (from left)

Trish Maxstead, Joan Baumgarner, Barb Guttridge, Annette O’Leary, Judy Hard

and Kaye Baynes.

There is also a film group, music concertgroup (which attends shows in Melbourne), acraft group, plus a ‘Myths and Legends’ class.

There are no academic prerequisites or en-trance requirements other than a passion for andinterest in learning and wherever possible shar-ing your own knowledge and skills.

●●●●● Lisa Cornwall and Wendy Wood-

yard pictured at the Y Water Discov-

ery Centre

■ A Mothers Day ‘High Tea’ is beingplanned for Sunday, May 14, at BeaufortManor, Yea. Proprietor Lisa Cornwall saysthe event will include a harpist, bush balletand a soprano. There will be more in TheLocal Paper in coming weeks.

A reunion of the Waddell family, formerlyof the Yea district, will be held at BeaufortManor on April 9.

At Strath Creek■ Residents of Strath Creek and ReedyCreek were invited to an information sessionlast Saturday (Feb. 27) at the Village Greenand Pavilion to discuss fire survival plans,and how to be fire safe.

The local CFA, through contact point GavinHodge, wants to help educate local peopleon how to know if a fire is in a resident’s area,what to do, and where to go.■ The Reedy Creek Brigade was formed in1926 and the Strath Creek Brigade in 1936.Both were formally joined as one brigade in1965.

Whittlesea Lodge■ Ishan Ozmen is scheduled to join theWhittlesea Lodge of Freemasons Victoriatonight (Wed.). The Lodge is overseen byMaster Laurie Fitzpatrick, Secretary DougAshley, wardens Frans Buissink and PhilBennett.

Red Balloon Day■ Ken Howson of Yea NeighbourhoodWatch passes on details of the Red BalloonDay that was held last Sunday (Feb. 28) tohonour and thank brave and courageous firefighters Australia wide.

The concept was simple” to fly a 'ThankYou Fireys' balloon from letterboxes, fencesand business windows (the last official day ofSummer in Australia), to let fire fighters knowjust how much their dedication, hard workand tireless efforts in protecting lives, homesand communities has been appreciatedthroughout the year.

Award for M’dindi

■ The Goulburn Broken Greenhouse Alli-ance has presented Murrindindi Shire Coun-cil with the Victorian Premier's AncillarySustainability Award in recognition of its in-volvement in the Watts Working BetterStreetlight upgrade project. Alliance Executive Officer Tom Brownpresented the award and congratulated Coun-cil on its commitment to sustainable prac-tices.

The Watts Working Better streetlight up-grade project took out the Premier'sSustainability Awards in the built environ-ment category at the end of last year at anaward ceremony in Melbourne.

●●●●● Tom Brown and Margaret Rae

●●●●● Staff member Susan Spagnolo

and parent Amanda Hard.

More photos on Page 8


Council News

●●●●● Teacher Allison Penhale and parent Jo Dignam ●●●●● Poppy Stewart and Annie Dignam

●●●●● Making music with the angklung ●●●●● Sacred Heart parents enjoying the games

Local People Sacred Heart School: Indonesian Night

Local People

Important to compare apples with applesLocal talent time■ Committee members of Yea CountryMarket are keen to help local artisans byoffering an opportunity to display their fea-ture product/s on the Local Larder Stall.

A different product or range of productscan be displayed each month and sold on theLarder Stall by themselves or the marketcommittee.

This is done as a service to the artisan andas an opportunity to showcase local goods.

Locals with a product to sell or promote,should contact Jan Wealands, Market Sec-retary, on 0417 561202 to reserve a date tosuit their needs.

Yea Country Market continues to striveto make its monthly market a place wherelocals and visitors enjoy spending time.

The Will To Fly■ Karen Oliver advises that the gala pre-miere of The Will To Live will take place atThe Star Theatre, Mansfield, at 7pm onWednesday, March 9.

Star, Lydia Lassila, and producer-direc-tor Kate Bender, will be at the theatre. Guestswill enjoy canapes and drinks. Premiere nighttickets are $25. Mansfield Armchair Cinemascan be contacted on 575 2049.

Yea weather■ Ken Howson advises of the Februaryweather for Yea: Feb. 1. 4.2, heavy showers.Feb. 3. 2.8, showers. Feb. 4. 0.2, drizzle. Feb.16. 0.0, trace/drizzle/overcast. Feb. 23. 0.0,trace/light showers. Feb. 24. 0.0, trace/lightshowers.

February 2016. 7.2 rain fell on 6 days.Year to date = 119.2 over 20 days. Compari-sons: Feb. 2015. 56.0 rain fell on 6 days, YTD= 95.0 over 12 days. Feb. 2014. 18.2 rain fellon 6 days. YTD = 35.0 over 10 days. Feb.2013. 67.2 rain fell on 7 days. YTD = 67.2over 7 days. Feb. 2012. 161.8 rain fell on 9days. Feb. 2011. 114.2 over 12 days. Feb.2010. 63.4 over 8 days.

- Ken Howson

■ At the Februarymeeting of Council aresolution was passedto submit an applica-tion to the EssentialServices Commissionfor a 5.4 per cent rateincrease.

There has beenmuch thinking, debateand discussion withinand outside of Councilregarding this andthere are varying lev-els of understanding ofthe figures.

Looking at statisticsand percentages canbe confusing as theseonly make sense when'apples are comparedwith apples', as it were.

For example, therate rise applied to theGeneral (ie Residen-tial Rate) last year was6 per cent; the addi-tional amount ulti-mately collected re-flected an increase of9.9 per cent.

And that's exactlywhat should happen.

The actual revenuecollected in a year notonly includes the ex-isting properties at thebeginning of the year,but also the supple-mentary income thatarises during the yearfrom development ac-tivities, new housebuilding, and from up-grades and improve-

ments to properties - allof which increase thecapital improvedvalue.

Whilst last yearwas more than usualbecause of the intro-duction of additionaldifferential rates, weshould in fact be wor-ried if the total revenuedidn't increase be-cause that would meanthat we were failing togrow the rate base.

Growing the ratebase by bringing onnew developments,new houses and en-couraging rebuilding isabsolutely essential forour long term sustain-ability.

Our Strategic Re-source Plan took thisinto account when pro-jecting revenue andexpenditure over thenext ten years - and,as the calculationsnow show, a 2.5 percent rate cap will re-sult in a shortfall ofaround $22 million dol-lars over that period.

It is difficult, if notimpossible, to see howthis can be achievedwithout impactingnegatively on the com-munity.

that sit at the heart ofCouncil's decision.

Council resolvedthen that this was thebest way forward tomeet our obligations,to fulfil our fiduciaryresponsibilities and tomaintain service lev-els to the community.

Nothing in our cir-cumstances haschanged in the mean-time.

If we were re-quired to implement a2.5 per cent cap -which I freely ac-knowledge could stillbe the case, irrespec-tive of today's decision- there are only twoways to do this.

Mayor’s Column

●●●●● Keeping a watchful eye over proceedings at the

St Pat’s Race Club meeting in Yea on Sunday were Sen.

Const Gary Brennan and Leading Sen. Const. Mick Voisey.

This is why I sup-port an application fora variation to the cap -and I would like toshare with you what Isaid in Council whenthe matter was consid-ered.

Key issues for mein considering thiswere:■ We have spent thelast three years work-ing very hard to iden-tify and understand thecost pressures onCouncil;■ A great amount ofdata has beenanalysed and manymodels developed toaid this analysis;■ There was an ex-tensive outreach pro-gram to the commu-nity to receive feed-back and gauge com-munity feelings for thepreferred options.

These are listed inthe agenda and all ofthese are longer terminitiatives;■ This then informedthe development ofthe SRP which is pro-jected over the nextten years.

It is the integrity ofthat document and ofCouncil's decisions

■ short term expedi-ency such as a cut tocapital works whichwill simply resurfaceat a higher cost andimpact on a futureCouncil, or■ long term perma-nent savings, whichwill inevitably impacton service deliveryand consequently onthe community.

Councillors do notcome into these roleswith the intention ofraising rates.

Neither can we orshould we make deci-sions on whether wewill be liked or dis-liked.

We have a duty un-

der the Act to fulfil therole and objectives ofa Council which state(amongst others):

"The primary ob-jective of a Council isto endeavour toachieve the best out-comes for the localcommunity having re-gard to the long termand cumulative effectsof decisions," and akey role of Council is"maintaining the vi-ability of the Councilby ensuring that re-sources are managedin a responsible andaccountable manner."

- Cr Margaret Rae,

Mayor, Murrindindi

Shire Council

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Local HistoryPages From The Past30 Years Ago:

Success for Yea Pictorial memories of Kinglake

■ Killingworth trainer John Tainton’s ches-nut mare Dancer Val “flew home for a bril-liant first in the maiden handicap” at Alex-andra, we reported in our February 26 issuein 1986 - 30 years ago.

The mare recorded a time of 56.2 secondsto complete the 1000-metre circuit.

“It was the first horse that John Taintonhad trained to come home a winner.”

$3000 theft in Yea■ “Expensive two-way radio equipment andtools were stolen from Gorman’s Transportdepot, off Recreation Ave, Yea,” we reportedin 1986.

“Police say an offender broke into the White‘Road Boss’ truck cabin to steel the ‘electro-phone’ two-way radio and tools estimated to-tal more than $1000.”

Yea Police on alert■ “Yea policemen Sgt Ray Sheather andSen. Const. Peter Abrahams were place onalert yesterday to set ip a roadblock if neces-sary at the Goulburn Valley Hwy-King Par-rot Creek Rd intersection,” we reported in1986.

“This was after Major Crime Squad de-tectives had a shoot-out with a man in a panelvan near Kalkallo. The man shot two police -one in the shoulder, the other in the body -before driving the van away.

“Police have been on the look-out for ‘MadMax’, alias Max Cook, for close to a year.”

People Pars■ Yea “young ladies” Kelly Bacon and LeighHandsaker won 12-month exchanges toAmerica through the Youth For Understand-ing organisation.■ A stray dog had been found at FlowerdaleCellars, the Shire Ranger Franc Coppo re-ported to Councillors.■ Parishioners at Scots PresbyterianChurch, Yea, had their hopes high for MaxVan Dyke, the Glenburn man who sufferedburns when a car exploded in a fireball at aMountain festivity. Mr Van Dyke was in theintensive care ward of the Royal MelbourneHospital.

100 Years Ago:Harvest Festival

■ “Harvest festival services will be held inthe Church of England at Yea on Sundaymorning and evening, and at Murrindindi inthe afternoon at 3 o'clock,” it was reported100 years ago, on March 2, 1916.

“At the evening seryice the choir will ren-der the anthem The Earth is Full of ThyRiches, Miss Ruby Ramsden being the solo-ist.”

Honour boards■ “Next Saturday afternoon, at 4 o'clock, thepublic unveiling of of the first two of theHonour Boards to be erected by the ShireCouncil will take place in the Yea Shire hall.

“Cr J. Quinlan, who holds the distinctionof being the oldest councillor, he having beenin the council for about 40 years, is to be askedto perform the ceremony of unveiling.

“The boards have been placed on eachside of the stage, in front of the proscenium,so that at all times they will be in full view ofthose who visit the hall. They are made ofblackwood, and a the design is a very prettyone. The lettering is the work of our local art-ist, Mr R Sambrook.”

●●●●● John Tainton and Doug Smith with

Alexandra Race Club President John

O’Brien

●●●●● Howgate family’s picnic at Kinglake ●●●●● On the road to Kinglake, early 1900s

●●●●● Kinglake West Post Office ●●●●● Kinglake Post Office

●●●●● Countryside around Kinglake, circa 1920 ●●●●● Picnic at Kinglake, circa 1900-1910

●●●●● Kinglake State School, c1900 ●●●●● Kinglake Hotel, circa 1900

Councillor’s CommentThe Local Paper - Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - www.LocalPaper.com.au

Local News■ I have been receiving complaints fromfarmers that they pay more rates than anyother group and the funds are spent in thetowns for facilities and programs that theydon't need, want or can't get to enjoy. Howwide spread is the concern and do they havea case?

Since I became a Councillor, I have triedto allocate my time and energies along thelines of a third on Ward concerns, a third forinternal Shire-wide issues and a third address-ing external matters that impact the Shire.

In doing so, I believe I have developed anunderstanding of the interactions of the asso-ciated financial pressures brought to bear lo-cally, across the Shire and from State andFederal decisions.

In our current position, the Commonwealthhas reduced grant funds and the State has puta limit on any increase in rates.

We know if the Council is to sustain itscurrent services and a reasonable range ofcommunity assets (although with a reductionin facilities we currently have) we need tomake a greater contribution than that laid downby the State.

Hence, the current debate about what canbe forgone across the Shire or what variationin the rate cap can be achieved through theEssential Service Commission review pro-cess.

But where am I at when considering thelocal cost, benefit and sustainability balances?It has been the case for many years thatKoriella Ward with its many farming proper-ties has made the greatest contribution of allthe Wards to rates and municipal charges.

Further, given the anomalies of a ratingsystem solely based on the value of property,rural ratepayers have been contributing a dis-proportionate level of rates.

Rural 1 ratepayers on farms comprise 13.7per cent of the rate base and contribute 22.6per cent of rates and municipal charges, com-pared to Residential ratepayers at 56.1 percent of ratepayers contributing 45.6 per centof rates and municipal charges.

The problem is compounded when onelooks at rate funds directed towards providingservices and amenities within townships withgreater difficulty and cost for rural ratepayersto share in those facilities.

Further, many facilities in smaller ruralcommunities are provided by the locals whilesimilar facilities in larger towns are paid forthrough rates - a portion of which are alsopaid by the smaller communities.

I am a strong believer in the long-term vi-ability of Murrindindi Shire being a vibrantand prosperous community. But I am also astrong believer in striving for fairness in thesystem. And this is where I am grapplingwith a conflict.

We have a long term plan that ensures ourfuture success and provides a level of reserveto handle future risks. However, the sustain-able financial future is currently underpinnedby having one sector of the community con-tinuing to make a disproportionally high con-tribution

So while I see the need for rate increasesgreater than the State imposed cap to meetthe long term goals expressed in Vision 2030I am having trouble justifying any increase,even at the level of the cap, when it hits harderon one sector of the community.

I also believe that to support the coher-ence of the Shire, which will be essential forour long term success, the unfairness of thesystem cannot be ignored.

One option that could be implemented isto provide an increase in the Rural 1 discount.

The discount could never be of a size thatwould eliminate the disproportion that hasbeen built up over time but could be aimed atslowing the widening gap in cash contribu-tions being made by the different sections ofthe Shire.

A decrease in the Rural 1 share would beoffset by comparatively very small increasesspread across the much greater numbers inthe other rating categories.

Councillors are obliged to ensure rates arelevied after considering equitable distributionof the rate burden and the ability to pay.

Over time, the balance has shifted to wherethere seems to be ongoing assumptions thatthe inequities are acceptable and some willalways have the ability to pay even more.

If farmers want the situation to change theyneed to contact their Ward Councillors in thenext few weeks and tell them.

- Cr John Walsh

Thanks to Club

●●●●● Paul Jackson of the Yea High Country Pipes and Drums on Sunday

●●●●● Jan Beer with local Parliamentarian Cindy McLeish at the St Pat’s Races

●●●●● Ian King of Traralgon with Colin Stockdale at the Yea Saleyards

●●●●● Bill Lynn of Orbost with Merv Taylor at the Violet Hills sale in Yea

■ The Local Paper extends its thanks to StPat’s Race Club Yea for ths hospitality shownto the newspaper’s staff on Sunday.

Associate Editor, Lisa Hodgson, wholooked after the Club’s advertising schedulein The Local Paper and Melbourne Observernewspapers, gave special thanks to clubtreaasurer Leonard Sheahan and the teamfor the way in which they hosted at the club-house.

At Strath Creek■ Entertainer Russell Morris, supported bySteve Eales, wwill perform at the FlowerdaleEstate on Sunday, March 27 (Easter Sun-day).

Gates open at 5pm. Ticket prices are $90for adults and $30 for children. Tickets in-clude the barbecue food festival cinner, withdrinks available at bar prices. No BYO.

Limited accommodation is available atFlowerdale Estate, which is located 2285Broadford-Flowerdale Rd, Strath Creek.

Bookings: phone 5784 9280 or online atwww.moshtix.com.au

Barefoot Bowls

●●●●● Local Paper Editor Ash Long

and Associate Editor Lisa Hodgson

Photo: Fleur Long

●●●●● Bev and Howard Purcell

■ Yea-ites Bev and Howard Purcell were atRosanna Bowls Club on Sunday for a bare-foot bowls day organised by the IvanhoeGrammarians and Admiral CollingwoodMasonic Lodges. Howard is a Past Masterof the Duke of Clarence Lodge, Yea, whichreturned its warrant in October 2014.

Happy with report■ Murrindindi Shire Mayor Margaret Raeis pleased with the progress on actions for the2015-16 financial year.

“Of the actions underway this financialyear, 3 per cent are complete, 90 per centofactions are well on the way to completion byJune 30, 2016, 5 per cent are not yet sched-uled to commence and only 2 per cent of theactions were reported as experiencing de-lays,” said Cr Rae.

Cl’s safety audit■ Murrindindi Shire Council issued a newsrelease after the ‘forum’ on community safetyheld in Yea last Wednesday (Feb. 24).

The Department of Justice and Regula-tion is offering up to $250,000 per municipal-ity through the Public Safety InfrastructureFund. Aim is crime prevention.

Councils are encouraged to work togetherin partnership with community organisationsin seeking funds under the grant.

““Council is open to discussing a widerange of projects with interested members ofthe community in order to gather informationwhich will form a ‘community safety audit,”said CEO Margaret Abbey. “This audit willin turn be used to assess project suitabilityand the potential for submitting a funding ap-plication in the 2016 funding round.


Strictly No BYO

RUSSELL MORRISsupported by Steve Eales

Sunday, March 27(Easter Sunday)

Gates open at 5pm

$90 Adults$30 Children

Tickets include BBQFood Festival dinner

What The Papers Say

You decide: paper■ A front-page headline of ‘You Decide’promotes Mitchell Council’s question toratepayers of whether rates should rise by 4.5per cent, or by the State Government’s rec-ommended 2.5 per cent.

“Either (ratepayers) ‘support maintainingcurrent service levels and infrastructure andseek a rate exemption for a 4.5 per cent rateincrease’’ or they opt to ‘support cuts to ser-vices and capital works to meet a 2.5 per centrate cap with longer term financialsustainability deteriorating and a limited abil-ity to meet growth needs and obligations’.’’■ A similarly-worded report also appears onthe front-page of the North Central Review.

- Seymour Telegraph

‘Do It’ Festival■ More than 70 community groups, healthand wellbeing services, and education andemployment services are registered to par-ticipate in the ‘Mansfield Do It’ festival inmid-March..

Mansfield Shire Council Mayor PaulSladdin said: “The festival is shaping up tobe a fantastic celebration of the rich and di-verse array of opportunities available in theMansfield Shire.”

- Mansfield Courier

Acting editor■ Alexandra Newspapers has appointedAnna Baker as Acting Editor until a perma-nent Editor is appointed. “Ms Baker hails froma strong editorial background in Sydney andarrived in Alexandra in April 2015.”

Outgoing Editor Robyn Antanovskii wasthanked for her work over the past two years.

- Alexandra Standard

Drinks on the deck■ The start of the Labor Day long weekendwill see a Drinks On The Deck event beingheld at the Hghlands Community Hall from6.30pm on Friday, March 11.

“Bring food to share for a meal togetherand catch up with friends old and new. Allwelcome - especially new faces. Gold coindonation to cover power. Contact JudyCameron, 5796 9247.”

- Granite News

Plan for possums■ A plan to save the Leadbeater’s Possumfrom extinction has been released by the Fed-eral Government, with recommendations tosave populations in the Central Highlandsand Yellingbo.

There is a three-month consultation pe-riod surrounding the 101-page document. Theaim is to reduce the possibility of the animal’sextinction over the next 100 years to one percent.

- Mountain Views Mail

Skyrail at Mernda?■ There continues to be a divide in the com-munity over the Mernda rail extension, a newinteractive map shows. Comments on the mapshow a split in the community about whetherMarymede or Hawkstowe station should bebuilt and whether the rail should run under-ground or as a skysail.

- Whittlesea Leader

Banana shakes Cl.■ The person who dressed as a banana andforced the shutdown of Mitchell ShireCouncil’s meeting has revealed herself asKilmore East local Annie Goble.

- North Central Review

Tradie’s trailer■ ‘Vigilante’ tradie Phil Thompson, wenton a wild ride when he saw his stolen trailer,says he was let down by police.

The Chirnside Park man was on his wayhome from football training when he spottedhis work trailer – which had been stolen with$10,000 worth of tools. Mr Thompson alertedthe Police and started pursuing the driver.

- Lilydale Leader

Regional News

●●●●● Regional firefighters have just returned from Tasmania. Last week saw the

fourth and final day for the second crew rotation of Strike Team 1432. Firefighters

from nine brigades spanning three CFA districts worked together under some

challenging circumstances to ignite, contain and black-out a 200-hectare burn

in the Dip Range. This provided a buffer between the main fire and the popu-

lated coast. Members from St Andrews, Christmas Hills, Research, Torquay,

Newham, Clarkefield, Plenty, Craigieburn and Hoppers Crossing who made up

the team are pictured here with the vehicles from St Andrews, Research, Wild-

wood, Bulla, Doreen and Whittlesea-Diamond Valley Group.

Council News

Shire hosts conference■ Murrindindi ShireCouncil will next weekwelcome more than150 leaders for a Ru-ral Councils Victoriasummit.

The delegates willattend at Marysvillefrom March 9-11.

“More than 150Councillors, CEOs,leaders of businessand industry, and eco-nomic and commu-nity development prac-titioners from acrossthe state will sharetheir knowledge,ideas and experienceon a broad range ofissues,” said a Coun-cil spokesman.

Murrindindi ShireMayor, MargaretRae, said that thisyear’s Summit willemph-asise the needfor rural Victorians todo things differently,.

She says that apoint to be highlightedwill be the importance

●●●●● Cr Margaret Rae, Mayor

of rural communitiesbeing equipped withthe information andskills necessary todrive economicgrowth and long-termsustainability.

“The theme of theSummit is FutureProofing Rural Com-

munities, with topicsincluding attracting in-vestment, creatingglobal enterprises inrural towns, and im-proving opportunitiesfor young people..

“We are very ex-cited to announce animpressive line-up of

key note speakers in-cluding RusselHowcroft, fromABC’s Gruen Trans-fer; Holly Ransom,CEO of EmergentSolutions; and com-munity economics ex-pert, Michael Shu-man, who will lead anengaging program ofdiscussions.

“I am expectingsome healthy dia-logue, and feel it willbe a great opportunityto share with other ru-ral Councils some ofthe challenges andsuccesses we’ve hadin our Shire.

“Population andeconomic declinehave been ongoingchallenges for ruraltowns, but now manyrural communities arealso dealing with ma-jor natural disastersincluding storms,flood inundation,bushfire recovery andmore.”

Murrindindi Shire Watch

Council chases investors■ Murrindindi Council wantsto attract investment in themunicipality, and is going toengage an expert contractor todevelop an investment prospec-tus.

The Council, led by CEOMargaret Abbey, is this weekadvertising for a skilled con-tractor to develop an implemen-tation plan.

The Prospectus is due forcompletion this month.

The Council has securedfunding from the State Govern-ment under the Doing Busi-ness Better project to undertakea range of investment attractioninitiatives associated with theprospectus from now until 2018.

The contractor will have towork with Council’s Develop-ment Services team, Murrin-dindi Incorporated and otherkey stakeholders to secure anddeliver investment and devel-opment outcomes.

The Council’s fact sheetsays the funding associatedwith this role is $20,000 peryear.

“Given the nature and loca-tion of the project, it is highlydesirable that the contractorhas a well developed under-standing of the rural and re-

gional context and the localeconomic environment,” saysa Murrindindi Council ‘factsheet’.

“Since the role is part-time,a high degree of flexibility andthe capacity to work with mini-mal direction is essential.”

The Council calls on appli-cants to have a skill-set includ-ing marketing and promotion,strategic thinking, facilitation,change management, writtenand verbal communication, andtime management.

Applications have to belodged by Thursday next week(March 10).

Murrindindi Council saysit wants to attract investmentinto new developments acrossthe shire along with its plans togrow the rate base.

The completion date for theproject is December 2018. Thetotal budget for the project is$60,000.

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ST ANDREWS CFA

80 Years AgoFrom the Eltham & Whittlesea Shires

Advertiser. March 6, 1936

Christ ChurchWhittlesea’s

70th anniversary■ One of the State's oldest: churches, ChristChurch of England, Whittlesea, recently cel-ebrated its 70th Anniversary in a most fittingand successful manner.

A week of spiritual and social activitiesmarked the auspicious occasion, which at-tracted 300 former and present residents toservices and other functions during the week.

Leading Anglican Clergymen, includingArchbishop Head, conducted services,which were attended by record congrega-tions. The climax of the week, a monster teaparty, drew a particularly large attendance.

A feature was the cutting of the birthdaycake by the oldest parishioner; Mr J.Coulthard.

●●●●● Mr J. Coulthard

Crash atWattle Glen

Four Escape in Early Morning AccidentCrashing into the side of a two roomed

dwelling on the Kangaroo Ground road atWattle Glen, a motor truck was wrecked onThursday morning.

The four occupants had miraculous es-capes, only two sustaining injuries, and thosebut slight.

The truck, which was being driven by MrW. Richardson, of Kangaroo Ground, con-tained three other occuants W. Carroll and J.Stevenson, both of Kangaroo Ground, andH. Browne, of Research.

Eltham to leaveDiamond Valley

■ It is now apparent that Elt ham will leavethe Diamond Valley Football Association toenter a suburban association.

The club delegates waited upon the V.F.A.Sub-District and the League Sub-District as-sociations and in each case overtures wereaccepted. A meeting of club members willdecide as to which body the team will enter.

Nude swimmersat QueenstownSunday Visitors Cause Annoyance

Residents are bitter in their complaintsiegarding the alleged conduct of some Sun-day visitors. One indignant resident allegesthat on a recent Sunday a number of menwere bathing in the creek adjacent to the road,in the nude. It is reported that others stolefruit from orchards, the owners of which arenow forced to maintain a strict watch overtheir means of livelihood.

Sports Carnival■ A monster Sports Carnival has been ar-ranged, in the Eltham Park for Saturday, April4. Proceeds will go to hall funds. Aprogramme full of interest vwill include foot-running (registered :under V.A.L.), horseevents, wood chops and novelty events.

●●●●● Margaret Abbey

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Yea footy club’s history challenged■ Evidence of local Yea footballmatches prior to the accepted for-mation date of 1893 has been dis-covered.

It had been generally acceptedthat the first meeting to form a YeaFootball Club was held in 1893.

(An advertisement in The YeaTelegraph of March 27, 1890, askedthose willing to form a football clubto attend a meeting. “Documentaryevidence confirms that nothing cameof it, although a match was playedagainst Tallarook shortly after,”notes the Tigers club webssite.)

“Locally, a competition started in1893 after a meeting was held at theRoyal Mail Hotel Yea, on Wednes-day, April 18,1893 to form the YeaFootball Club.

“This was four years before theformation of the Victorian FootballLeague in 1897.”

However, an 1887 edition of theAlexandra and Yea Standard givesdetails of clubs in both towns, sixyears earlier than the 1893 forma-tion date quoted.

“The football match played onSaturday afternoon last on the localground, between the Yea andAlexandra clubs drew together agood concourse of patrons of thegame, and had the contest been of amore even character it would havebeen a most interesting match to theonlookers,” reported the July 29,1887, issue of the Standard.

“For the visitors (Yea), Messrs.Lee and the Kelson brothers did goodservice, and showed to advantagemany times in the game, the play ofLee being singularly good in manyinstances.

“Unfortunately the Yeaites havenot the experience in the game of

●●●●● Turn To Page 24

●●●●● Details of an 1887 match are in the July 29

issue of the Alexandra and Yea Standard of that year.

our (Alexandra) members, whooutmatched them from start to fin-ish.

“As usual, E. Lipscombe coveredhimself with laurels by really splen-did play, His quickness of judgementand action being the means of ob-taining two capital goals, which weredeserving of every credit, while his

●●●●● Details of an early Yea match are in an edition of the

Alexandra & Yea Standard, published on July 29, 1887.

smartness and unwearyness in thefield were more than a match for anynumber of his opponents.

“Messrs. R. Dobson, Cocking, J.Davies and McMartin were also con-spicuous by good and sterling play,Davies making a splendid and diffi-cult kick between the posts towardsthe close of the match.

“The game was contested in afriendly spirit throughout, the onlycause for regret being that the Yeaiteshad not better luck,” said the 1887report.

There had been an earlier matchfor Yea, in the previous month.

On June 3, 1887, the SeymourExpress local Yea correspondentwrote: “A football match is to beplayed Saturday next between thelocal club and a team fromAlexandra. A deal of (?) is mani-fested in the match and wagers havebeen made."

The June 10 edition of theAlexandra Standard reported Yea’sfirst recorded game against Alex-andra (see next pages).

In the pevious year, the openinground of the competition had beenconducted on Good Friday, reportedthe Alexandra and Yea Standard onApril 23, 1886.

“An unusual thing is to be pre-sented to the public today (Good Fri-day). Opening match of the season.prize, a football - Alexandra v. Doon.Betting: 5 to 1 on Doon.

“Very much against the grain ofsome of our members and towns-people too, that the match be held.Doon are to be invited to a spread inthe evening.”

Later that year, Bonnie Doonwrote to the Alexandra club, notingcomments made by the columnist inthe Alexandra and Yea Standard.

“The only matter for considerationwas the receipt of a letter (mentionby me last week) from Doon, to theeffect that unless a letter was pub-lished condemning "Onlooker", andthat Alexandra admit their defeat, nonotice would be taken of our club inthe future.”

●●●●● Eaton Stannard Purcell, J.P. travelled to Alexandra to

protest Yea’s case about a drawn result with the Alex. club

‘Yea will bepremiers’

■ “On Saturday last when theMansfield train came to a stand-still at Cathkin, it was found thatthe Yea footballers were aboard,”noted a report in the Alexandra &Yea Standard of July 18, 1902.

“It was not long before the re-sult of their match with Yarck wasknown. Everyone was anxious toknow how Alexandra had fared atthe hands of Thornton.

“Before the train departed,word was received through therailway telegraph office thatThornton had been successful.

“The wildest excitement pre-vailed and three hearty cheerswere given for the victors, andmore than one player was heardto exclaim, ‘Yea will he pre-miers’."

Another early contestant wasJamieson. “Up boys and at ‘em,”urged The Standard in 1885.

One of Onlooker’s columns ofthe era makes the plea: "Does anymember know what hass become ofthe inflator. for filling the ball, if so,please advise?”

In 1890 came the appeal for a“few rustic seats”: “During the win-ter months the grass is always damp,and to expect ladies to stand duringa two hours' match would be veryungallant.”

Formation of an Alexandra foot-ball club was noted in The Alex-andra Times on August 30, 1872.

The May 30, 1890 issue of theAlex. newspaper talks of their sidetravelling to Yea.

“To-morrow the local footballerswill journey to Yea to play the returnmatch with that town.

“As will be seen below a strongteam has been picked, which I thinkYea will have some trouble to anni-hilate, in spite of the rumour that theyare going to walk rings round our

boys on their own. ground.“Therefore, should the weather

prove fair, there is every probabilityof a well contested and excitinggame.

“In order to lighten expenses, Iam informed that several of the lo-cal tradespeople have offered bug-gies to convey the playing team asfar as Molesworth, from which sta-tion they will ceed to their destina-tion by train.

“As I intend being present, I shallendeavour to give the readers of theStandard a faithful account of thematch.

“The following are the names ofthe local team : -W. Dobson (cap.)R. Dobson, T. Mensforth, J. Davies,J. Clarke, J. Maddeford, C. Lee, R.S. Black, G. Robinson, H.Robinson, J. Tossol. E. Gregg, A.Long, J. Baker, W. O'Connor, W.Hubbard, R. Vining, H. Asling, J.Lyons, and F. Hammit.”

Football scoring was different in1890, with the match being declareda draw: Yea, 1 goal 7 behinds;Alexandra, 1 goal 8 behinds.

“If behinds counted for anything,Alexandra, would of course have aslight advantage,” wrote the Alex.correspondent in his July 6, 1890report.

The Yea team was listed as:C.Hills (capt.), F. T. Hills, S. Wall, J.Humc, A. Develin, W. Develin, M.Kilmartin, J. Antony, W. Gray, R.Stanfield, F. Kelly, J. Toohey, J.Ryan, G. Hughes, W. Mullens, J.Mullens, W. Drysdale, J. Robertson,M. McLeish, A. Snodgrass.

The press correspondent paints athorough canvas of the match:

“The return match between Yeaand Alexandra came off last Satur-day on the ground of the former.

“The day was a most suitable onefor the players, though rather foggyand cold for onlookers.

“Owing to previous rains theground was very slippery, and theball soon became so muddy and



130 Years of Local Press greasy that it was scarcely holdable.

“I cannot say much for tlheground, and it.is not a patch on ourown. Besides several large treesthere is a nasty bit of terrace near theeastern wing, which caused a dealof trouble during the play, as whenthe ball once got there it was a diffi-cult mattter to get it away again, anda lot of useful time was lost.

“I should certainly advise my Yeafriends to select a more fitting pieceof ground.

“The Alex andra team arrived atYea a little after 8 o'clock by rail fromMolesworth, and as the match wastimed to start at 2.30 p.m., there waslots of time for the visitors to viewthe pleasant little township and sur-roundings.

“It is almost needless to say thatthe Alexandra boys received ahearty welcome at host Davey's, whosoon had a special breakfast pre-pared, to which ample justice wasdone.

“Of the match itself I must saythat it was a stubbornly contested one,though inclined to be a bit rough attimes.

“Then again the ground was aw-ful greasy, and the falls were ofcourse more frequent, and the won-der is that more hurts were not in-curred besides the nasty one to HarryAsling.

“During a scrimmage in the sec-ond spell this player fell and receiveda severe kick over the forehead,which neceasitated his removal tothe local surgery, where the hurt wasskilfully attended to, but his team hadto suffer his loss for the rest of thegame.

“The match was played with 20 aside. Mr F. Hills acted as centralumpire, and certainly did his best togive satisfaction, and where the gamewas so fast and rough his pretty con-stant demand for "ball up" was aboutthe best decision he could give whenthere were tiny doubtful marks.

“Messrs J. Rose and A. Popplefilled the position of goal- umpiresfor Yea and Alexandra respectively.Yea having won the choice of goals,W. Dobson kicked off for the red-and-black towards the township end,and the play at once became mostexciting.

“For the first ten minutes the redand-blacks managed to keep the ballin close proximity to tihe sticks, andHubbard obtained a mark at rathera difficult angle, but only a behindresulted, which was followed di-rectly after by another fromMaddeford.

“ The local men at last got the

●●●●● From Page 23

Dispute overYea-Alex.

match score■ In 1903, there was a fierce dis-pute over the result of a footballmatch between Yea andAlexandra.

The Alexandra & Yea Stan-dard, in its June 26 issue, reported:

“A meeting of the delegates ofthe Alexandra and Yea DistrictFootball Association was held atJennings' Shamrock Hotel, onWednesday after noon last.

“The following were pre sent:-Messrs: W. Buckley and G. Kent(Thornton), Redpath and Purcell(Yea), J. W. Leckie and T. A. Fox(Alexandra), and S. Carmichaeland W. Payne (Yarck).

“Mr. W. Buckley was voted tothe chair on the motion of Messrs.Leckie and Redpath.

“The minutes of the previousmeeting were read and confirmed,on the motion of Messrs. Leckieand Kent.

“The matter of the differenceor disagreement of reports re-ceived from Alexandra and Yeain connection with points scoredat the match on June 13, was thenmentioned.

“Alexandra was the first to tolodge results, which showed thematch to have ended in a draw,4.10 each; on the other hand Yeaclaims to have won the contest bya point.

“Mr Leckie, who representedthe case as one of a cross verdictbetween the umpires, entreatedthe Yea delegates to withdraw asthe inference appeared to be thatAlexandra was entitled to the be-hind that the Yea umpire failed toacknowledge.

“A long and desultory discus-sion ensued, which was con-cluded with the following motion:- By Messrs Leckie and Kent-That the match in dispute be de-clared a draw. Carried.

“An amendment by MessrsPurcell and Redpath, that the casebe submitted to the League, waslost.

“A further amendment, that thematch be played over again on theYarck ground, was also defeated.

“The conduct of the field um-pire in connection with this dis-pute was adversely commentedupon.

“In lieu of the match on July 4,with a combined Mansfield team,it wasdecided - That a match be-tween the combined associationbe played on August 22, say atMerton, and that the four captainsselect the team on the followingbasis:- Five from the two leadingclubs and four from each of theother two clubs.

“The following donations wereread out as having been promised:-Mrs W. H. Whiting, £2 2s.; MrH. Wood, pennant or equivalentin cash; Mr Redpath, £3 3s.; Mr.Buckley, £2 2s. A vote of thanksto the chairman concluded thebusiness.”

●●●●● Alexandra footballers travelled by buggy to Molesworth, then by train to Yea in 1890.

hinds to their score, one of whichshould have been a goal, butunfortunatoly the ball struck the post, “During this spell, Asling of thevisiting team, got a nasty blow on thehead, which causecd his retirementfrom the field, Alexandra thus play-ing one man short for the rest of thedray.

“Half time was now called, thegame standing -Yea, 4 behinds;Alexandra, 5 behinds.

“During this spell the Yea goalwas vigorously atdacked. Hubbard,Black, J. Tossol, and Davies were -most prominent in the fray, .while W.F. Mullens, Stanfield, Kelly, andRyan shone in the defence .

“The Yeaites showed some ex-cellent marking in this spell, fromwhich our boys might take aprofitablc lesson.

“However, out of a good scrim-mage another behind was added tothe visitors' score. The local menafter a hard struggle got the ball intotheir own country and W. Develingetting a mark within about 30 yardsof the posts just managed to send theoval through, amidst thunderous ap-plause from the Yea barrackers.

“From the throw down Alex-andra prevailed, and Hubbardmarking at a long distance hadanotlier shot for the coveted spot, butonly added another to the behindscore.

“Game - Yea, 1 goal, 4 behinds;Alexandra,7 behinds.

“The last quarter was very fast,

the red-and-blacks working like Tro-jans to equalise the score, and at lastwere sucessful, Maddeford cleverlykicking the ball out of a scrimmagethrough the posts.

“The game was now equal, butthe visitors wanted to head the poll,and worked gallantly, though un-sucesesfully, for the desired result. "

“’Keep the ball on the wing’,"yelled the Yea captain, and I mustsay the men well obeyed his orders;but the red-and-black were not to beso easily repulsed, and Charley Leegot a try for the wanted honor, butthe behind score again received at-tention.

“Just before the finish of the spell:W. F. Mullens got a neatly kickedmark from Snodgrass, and it wasthought that Yea was.in for top score,but the leather refused to go straight,and the game ended in a draw.

“If behinds counted for anything,Alexandra, would of course, have aslight advantage.

“Game - Yea 1 goal, 7 behinds;Alexandra 1 goal, 8 behinds.

“After the fray both sides showedrough useage, torn gurnseys andbrusies being in the aicendant.

“However, the game was asplendedly contested one throughout,and not the slightest bit of ill-feelingwas evinced, and the usual conclud-ing congratulations were given withgreat vigor.

“After the match the visitors wereentertained at Davey's hotel in a mostgenerous and hospitable manner,and a couple of hours was spent in avery pleasant and social reunion, af-ter which the Yeaites acconpaniedthe visitors to the train and gave thema rattling send off.

“I must not omit to mention thatour worthy President (Mr C.Munckton) accompanied the team,and his tall form and stentonian lungscould be seen and heard all over thefield, spurring his boys on to victory,

“I am sure the many friends ofthe home club will scarcely needreminding that the annual plain andfancy dress ball and supper takesplace in the shire hall tonight, andfrom what I can gather I have everyreason to believe that the affair willbe a great success.

“I cannot conclude without add-ing my regret to the sudden and un-expected loss of the cluh's energeticand indefatigable secretary.

“In filling the latter position MrBlack proved himself to be the rightman in the right place, and I amafraid the club will find it a difficultmatter to satisfactorily fill the va-

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ball ouit of ,danger, and into their ownterritory, Develin, Robinson and C.Hill playing a splendid gaine, the lat-ter getting a mark wvitin a nice easydistance of the posts, but his kick wasa failure and brought the first behindto the local score.

“The ball now got on the terrace,before mentioned, and in a goodsrimmage the Yea boys managed topunt another hehind.

“Once away from the terrace thered-and-black were not long in get-ting the ball close to their own quar-ter, and just before the bell rangscored atnother behind.

“Game-Yea, 2 behinds; Alex-andra, 3 behinds.

“Ends were.now cha nged, and agrand tussle took place at.tlie Yeacitadel, the red-and.black acting en-tirely on the defensive, and thoughtheir opponents were ma rking splen-didly, the sticks.wore well protectedby Clarke, O'Connor, and R, Dob-son.

“Black now got hold of the halland smartly ran it down to the otherend, and his captain getting a mark,a certain goal was looked for, but hemade a mull of it, and the localsworked the ball back again into theirown territory, scoring a couple ofbehinds in quick succession.

“This bit of smartness riled thevisitors, who rallying, again suc-ceeded in collaring the ball, and by abit of good play on the part of G.Robinson, Long, and Vining, suc-ceeded in adding a couple more be-

Yea played football throughtout 1880s■ Yea had an active football history well before theaccepted formation date of 1893. After 1887:■ July 1889. The Alexandra & Yea Standard carrieda report of an Alexandra vs Yea game. Yea played incolours of “blue stripes on a white ground”.

“Owing to an unfortunate dispute in the last quarterthe game was brought to a sadden termination. Duringa fierce scrimmage near the western houndary the ballwas held by E. Hall (Alexandra) when he was sud-denly pushed from behind which caused him to "throw"the ball.

“The opposing team immediately claimed a " freekick." The central umpire deeming that the " throw"was not intentional, refused the claim, and ordered theplayers to "'play on." This the Yeaites refused to do,and a "' wrangling match" then wound up the proceed-ings.

“Certainly it did not much matter to the local teamwho had the game well in hand, still the last quarter ofan hour could have easily turned the tables, as the Yeamen were decidedly improving and playing desperate.

“However, the umpire had given his decision, whichcould not be revoked; and the game concluded in favourof Alexandra by 3 goals 12 behinds to nil.”

■ August 2, 1889. “The Yea Football club journeyedup the Muddy Creek on Thursday last, and sustainedanother defeat at the hands of their redoubtahle an-tagonists there. The result was, Muddy Creek, 2 goals,10 behinds, to 2 behinds: the ground (M'Leish's,Glenmore) was in a very sloppy condition, and hin-dered any good play on either aide being shown. TheTallarook team visited Yea on Saturday and playedtheir first match this season. The odds before the gamestarted were all in favour of the visitors, who possess agood record this year, and certainly their play did notbelie the good opinion ex pressed of them, their mark-ing and play ing together was a pleasure to see. Theyhad shot after shot for goal but had no luck. Yea, on thecontrary had the good fortune to obtain one goal, andwon their first match this season. To show the numberof shots the visitors had, the results at the end of thegame were Yea 1 goal 4 behinds, to 14 behinds. TheTallarook team were entertained at dinner and left bythe evening train. While on the subject of football, Ifancy the Alexandra team is expected here on Satur-day next.■ September 6, 1889. “The Yea Football Team intendjourneying to Tallarook on Saturday (tomorrow) to tryconclusions with the team there.”

cancy.“Mr Black held the position of

teller in the local branch of the Colo-nial Bank here, and I am sure I .amechoing the wish of his comradesthat his removal will mean a stephigher in the social ladder.

“He has been removed to Jamie-son, and on Monday a good fewmembers of the club paid him a pleas-ing tribute by attending at the coachoffice to see him off and.wishing himall future prosperity.”

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130 Years of Local Press

Count revealed 23 players■ Newly-discovered press filesshow the Yea was active in footballprior to the commonly accepted 1893formation date.

Contemporary reports offer matchdescriptions from;■ 1887 and 1889: against Alexandraand Tallarook;■ 1890: against Alexandra andMuddy Creek.

The first match appears to havebeen on June 4, 1887, against visi-tors, Alexandra (see below, right).

Other games that year were alsoplayed against Tallarook (see matchdescription on next page).

No press reports can be found forlocal football for 1888, but the fol-lowing year sees fixtures alsoorganised at Muddy Creek (Glen-more).

The 1889 report of the Tallarookmatch was published on September13:“The football match, Yea vTallarook, played on Saturday last,ended in the defeat of the former by5 goals 5 behinds to 2 behinds.

“It is only fair to the Yea team tostate that several of their best play-ers did not put in an appearance, andthat their opponents played with 23men against 16 up to three-quartertime, when the men were ranged upand counted.

“Tallarook then gave Yea threemen, and with this assistance Yeapressed their antagonists very hardindeed, just missing a goal or two.”

The Seymour Express newspaper(June 28, 1889) had previewed theYea-Tallarook match: “The recentlyformed football club are practisingregularly in anticipation of a chal-lenge from Seymour or Tallarook.If either event comes off 'our boys'will not be far behind.”

A report in the Alexandra & YeaStandard from April 4, 1890, sug-gests that Yea had a football heritagegoing back much earlier.

“The annual meeting of the foot-ball club was held at Davey's Hotel,on Mon day, when it was ultimatelyand unanimously decided to reformthe club thoroughly, go regularly topractice, and endeavour to re-achieve the honors the club used topossess some time ago.”

In the previous year, the Club hadbeen active socially. The press scribenoted in the Standard’s ‘Yea Jot-tings’: “I hear it is the intention ofthe football club to close the seasonwith a ball, to be held in the shirehall.”

Teams in the region also includedcombinations from Yarck, Gobur,Ruffy, Thornton, Tallarook.Seymour Mansfield andDarlingford.

There was certainly a ‘Yea Foot-ball Club’ in existence in 1889. Itwrote a letter to the Yea Shire Coun-cil seeking a refund. The SeymourExpress (Sept. 17, 1889) reported:

“From Yea Football Club, re-questing that a portion of rent paid bythem for use of Sliire Hall be re-funded. — Cr Purcell was of opinionthat no refund should be made.

“It cost the council 7s 6d eachtime the hall was used, and he thoughtwhen it was used for the purpose ofholding an entertainment, those us-ing it ought to be able to pay for it. Noaction taken.”

On July 4, 1890. The Yea corre-spondent wrote: “A football matchwas played here on Saturday be-tween a scratch team fron.Glenmoreand the local men. The game wasvery very unequal, Yea having the

game in their own hands kicking 7goals 4 behinds to one behind. It isonly fair to state Glen more did notplay with anything like their bestteam but they expect to turn the tableswhen Yea visits Glenmore.”

In 1893, the Alexandra and YeaStandard quoted The Yea Chronicle:

“Commenting on the recent foot-ball match betweeda Alexandra andYea, the Chronicle says:-" The Yeaplayers would have shone muchmore brilliantly had they remem-bered the golden rule of football, i.e.,Stick to your places and not rove all

good cricketers always do.“The Geelong and Carlton clubs


1889 grudge match between Yea-Alexandra councillors■ “An unexpected visit from the Alex andra Rangers quite took our youngmen by surprise on Saturday last, as it was understood the football matchwas off,” reported the Yea correspondent to the Alexandra and Yea Stan-dard on August 30, 1889.

“However not to disappoint the visitors the local men mustered 20 strong,the game coimmencing about 2.30. p.m.

“It was evident from the start that the Rangers were not on a par with ateam of a partly somewhat similar name hailing from Alexandra, their playbeing at times anything hut good, with exceptions of course.

“Yea, I must say, played remarkably well, and although the team wasnot a strong one, shared good form.

“A lad named Clarke, from Tasmania, played an excellent game as didMcCann who kicked an almost impossible goal, also Anthony, Develin,Toohey, M' Leish and several others.

“For the .Rangers - Watt, (1 goal), Stillman, Vining, Asling, McMartin,(2), Tossol, (2), showed very fair form.

“The game resulted as follows :-Yea, 2 goals 12 behinds ; Rangers, 1goal 4 behinds. I must mention in all fairness to the losers that they playedwith only 18 men, while their opponents had their full complement anddeclined although asked to play with equal numbers.

“Mr Stillman mentioned this fact in replying (as captain) for his club.Mr J. Robinson made a very fair and impartial umpire.

“The football match of the season is about to take place shortly, andintense interest is being evinced as to the probable result of the match, viz,that between the Alexandra and Yea Shire Councillors.

“Money is changing hands in this, the greatest event of the year insporting circles. Several councillors are privately taking lessons and tuitionin the rules of the game.

“I suppose all the officers will be allowed to take part in this game ,poundkeepers included.

“It seems to me that the man who will desire most sympathy at the endof the game will be the central umpire.

●●●●● A football match between Yea Shire and Alexandra Shire

councillors was organised in 1889, reported The Standard.

■ “On Saturday afternoon last a return football match between the(Alexandra and Yea-Homwood Combined teams) was played atJohnson's Creek, opposite the Belle Vue Hotel, in a paddock kindly lentfor the occasion by Dr E. W. Sampsson, it was reported on September30, 1892.

There was a fairly large gathering of spectators, amongst them beingDr Jee, Messrs Doberty, Munckton, Graham, Jackson, J. Murphy, J.McMinn, McNicol, H. Maubey, E. W. Sampson, A. Stillman, A. Baker,Oates (Yea), and Elliott (Miller's Ponds).

Amongst the ladies on the ground were Mrs.Hutchinson. Miss Thom,Miss Barras, Miss N. McMinn, Misses Johnson, Miss Robinson(Thornton), and Mrs Parsons.

Mr W. Parsons was central umpire, the goal umpires being A. Hall(Alexandra) and Pettigrew (Yea).

The play all through the match was not up to much. In fact, it was veryunlike football.

At quarter time the score stood Yea’s goal 1 behind, Alexandra nil.Half time: Alexandra 1 goal 2 behinds, Yea.1 goal 1 behind.In the third quarter Yea added a behind and in the fourth Alexandra

scored two, the final result being Alexandra 1 goal 4 behinds, Yea 1 goal2 behinds.

Alexandra's goal was kicked by Kenny, and Yea's by M. McLelsh.The former's behinds were scored by Kellock, Peck (2), and Lee, thelatter's by McPherson and Drysdale.

For Alexandra, Kellam, Kenny, Lee, Maddeford, and H. Robinsonplayed best; and for the visitors Maynard (captain), M'Pherson, Antony,M'Leieh, Robinson, W. Williamson, Burns, and Mitchell well.

Yea and Homewood combinefor match against Alexandra

over the ground.“May they profit by the lesson. So

far as the records go, Saturday’s beat-ing was the worst the Yea boys everhad, and Giles and his team are to becomplimented on the effective wayin which they did their work.

“I hope to see Yea, in the returnmatch, retrieve the disaster, if they do not actually turn the tables on theirvictorious opponents

“One thing must be mentioned totheir credit, viz.. they took their gruel,though given with a pot-stick lnsteadof a spoon, like genuine footballers.

“They meed practice in themeantime, and the men must keepto their positions in the field just as

●●●●● A press report of what is believed to be Yea’s

first football match, against Alexandra, printed in the

Alexandra and Yea Standard on June 10, 1887.

First game may have beenplayed on June 4, 1887

■ Old newspaper clippings indi-cate that Yea’s first football matchmay have been held locally on Sat-urday, June 4, 1887, againstAlexandra.

Reports in both the SeymourExpress and Alexandra and YeaStandard newspaper point to amatch at Yea, manned by the “re-cently formed” club.

The June 10 Standard says thematch ended with Alexandra scor-ing 2 goals, 5 behind; with Yea re-stricted to 2 behinds.

Yea’s best players were namedas Lees, Lang, Dods and Davis.

It was reported that because ofbad weather the ‘Yeaites’ did notexpect Alexandra to make the jour-ney for the match.

The 2pm match did not start untilalmost an hour later.

The visitors were entertainedthat night at Rankin’s Hotel.

A return match, with Yea visi-tors travelling to Alexandra, wasstaged on July 23. A game againstTallarook was played on July 9.


arrival the game was started. Barrettcaptained Yea boys, and Giles actedin a similar capacity for theAlexandrians, while Stillman under-took the arduous duties of centralumpire.

“Almost as soon as ball wasbounced the home team scored by akick out of a scrimmage; after thesecond bounce ball was taken to Yeagoal, and by a lucky kick put throughagain.

“The Alexandra players seemedquite at home, while at the Yea boyswere all at sea, but they last woke upto their responsibilities, and managedto keep the other side busier,

“The first quarter ended with 3goals 3 behinds to 'Xandra, and 1behind to Yea.

“The last quarter was all in favorof Alexandra, who put on 3 moregoals, making the final scores:Alexandra, 9 goals 9 behinds; Yea, 1goal 4 behinds.

For the winners Croughey was thebest, well seconded by Rance, Her-ring, Dobson, Robinson, and Giles.For Yea, in addition to those previ-ously mentioned, were Carr, Smith,and Maynard.

“The game throughout was playedin a most friendly spirit and temper,and Still man carried out his dutiesto everyone's satisfaction.”

A letter writer, ‘H.B.’, suggestedthat the Yea players don fancy dressto generate funds for “the terribledistress existing in Melbourne.” HBsuggested a silver coin donation.

took the premier position for yearsby systematic passing and kicking,and Essendon achieved distinctionin the same way last season,” theYea scribe penned.

In 1891, the Seymour Expressnoted: “Seven acres of land at north-ern side of Snodgrass-street, Yea,have been reserved for a recreationground.”

Meeting toform club

■ It was on April 19, 1893, that ameeting was held at the Royal MailHotel, Yea, “for the formation of aYea Football Club”.

The meeting was convened byChas. Carr.

A July press report said a matchwith Alexandra did not go ahead be-cause the visitors had an outbreak ofmeasles.

“Tne Yea Footballers weredeemed to disappointment throughthe Alexandra team not being ableto put in an appearance last Satur-day owing to the prevalence ofmeasles.

“The match will, however, beplayed on some future date.

“On Saturday next the Yea teammeet Homewood on the ground ofthe latter.

“The Yea team will be chosenfrom the following :- Barratt, Ander-son, Blackburn, Burns, Borrie,Cleeland, Corlhue (Corlass?), Carr,Dean, W. Drysdale, R. Dryslale, J.Hume, Lloyd, M'Asey, McManus,McLeish, A. Smith, E. Smith,Snodgrass, Thompson, Wilson,Withers.”

On September 21, 1893, localpaper readers were told: “On Satur-day next the Yea footbhallers travelto Flowerdale.

“The Yea team will be chosenfrom the following players :- Burns,Barrett, Blackburn, Baird, Borrie,Corlass, Carr, Cleeland, Drysdale(3), Hume, McAsey, Snodgrass,Dean, Thompson, Sandilands, E.Smith, A. Smith, McManus,MnLeish, Maynard, Lloyd, Sheard,and Dillon.

“As this is the last match to beplayed from home, the Yea boys areexpected to turn up in full force.

The Chronicle reported that afootball match between the Seymourand Yea Shire Councils would prob-ably take place on Saturday week(Sept. 30), and ‘Lonehand' in theSeymour Express, tought that somereally good fun may be expected.

" Cr Condon says he will grassthe entire Seymour team before theday is over, but the president and Cr.Donaldson have already been ap-pointed to shadow him, so that theboot may be on the other foot beforethe game is over.

“A prominent Seymour council-

First matchFOOTAL L.

ALEXANDRA V. YEA.“On Saturday last fifteen

members of the Alexandra foot-ball club journeyed to Yea to"battle" with a like number of theclub recently formed at the latterplace.

“Real football weather greetedthe players, for when theAlexandra contingent left it wasraining in torrents and continueduntil Yea was reached.

“At noon the rain ceased andmade the game somewhat moreagreeable than otherwise wouldhave been the case, footballersheeding not the mud and slosh. solong as there was an absence ofrain ...

“The following is the team thatrepresented Alexandra: E. Hall.W. Hubbard, A. McKay, T.Mensforth, G. Milroy, R EmpoyW. Dobson (captain), J. Davies(vice-captain), H. Dobson, W.Cocking, J. Tossel, A. McMartin,E. Lipsconmbe, W. Hemmings,and C. Fooks.

“It was arranged that the matchshould commence at two o'clocksharp, but owing to the badweather the Yeaites did not ex-pect that Alexandra would ven-ture the journey

“This caused a considerableamount of delay, as not only didthe Alexandra team arrive early,but were on the ground in allreadiness a quarter of an hourbefore the appointed time, andspent three quarters of an hour inpractice.

“The game was started shortlybefore three o'clock and CaptainDobson, of Alexandra, winnirgthe toss took choice of goals.

“Captain Lang, of Yea, kickedoff and for the first part of thegame the play was very even.

“Shortly before the firstchange Alexandra forced the balldown and secured first goal,kicked by Milroy.

“Upon changing positions itwas seen that Alexandra had thegame in their own hands, and atcall of time the result was -Alexandra 2 goals 5 behinds; Yea2 behinds.

“Mensforth registered thesecond goal for Alexandra. Thosedeserving of mention forAlexandra are-Mensforth,Dobson's (2), Lipscombe, E. Hall,G. Milroy, and Cocking; and forYea - Lees, Lang, Dods, andDavis.

“The visitors were entertainedin the evening at an excellent sup-per at Rankin's hotel, and allseemed highly pleased with theassociations that had been formedthat day.

“Mr. E. Hall, the energeticsecretary, deserves the thanks ofthe club for the arranging of tlismatch, and has proved himselfmost worthy of the officerecerntly vacated by his brother,Mr Fred Hall.

“The club is certainly to becomplimented upon gaining thefirst victory in this district this sea-son, and we hope that it will notbe the last.

“It is expected that matcheswill be played with Doon,Tallarook, Kilmore, Mansfield,Jamieson, and probably a teamfrom Melbourne, selected by Mr.W. O'Connor.

“This gentleman is particu-larly anxious that Alexandrashould meet a junior teaml fromthe mntropolis, and no doubt theiAlexandra Football Club willwillingly consent to such if thearrangements are officially con-veyed.”- Alexandra & Yea Standard

June 10, 1887

Tallarook in1887 game

Tallarook v. Yea.(Held over from last week)“A well contested match was

played at Yea on Saturday, 9thinst., between the abovenamedclubs, Tallarook playing 12 men,and the locals 15.

“Winnell captained the visi-tors, and Laing the local club.

“At half-time the game stoodTallarook 1 goal, 4 behinds; Yea,1 goal 2 behind.

“Shortly before half-time wascalled one of the Talla rook teamkicked the ball, it striking anotherof his team, and went through theposts, the umpire giving it as a goalto Yea, which they (Tallarook)disputed, but the umpire allowedit to Yea.

“The final result wasTallarook, 2 goals 9 behinds; Yea,2 goals 8 behiuds.

“Roberts, J. Howe, Winnell,Maddigan, Ryan, and Woodsplayed a good game forTallarook, as did Lee, Home,Laing, Mullens and Toohey forYea.

“At the conclusion of the matchthe Club entertained the visitorsat Rankin's Hotel, where an ex-cellent luncheon was laid.

“After the usual toasts wereproposed and responded to thevisitors left by the 6.30 train afterone of the most enjoyablematches played this year.”

- Seymour Express,

July 22, 1887

●●●●● Australian Rules football spread widely across Victoria in the late 19th Century. In 1886,

a crowd of 34,000 people was attracted in Melbourne. Yea’s first games appear to have been

played in 1887. This sketch, provided by the State Library, shows play at Yarra Park.

Early days■ Formed in 1859, Melbourneand Geelong are among theworld’s oldest football clubs.

They were soon followed byCarlton (1864) and NorthMelbourne (1869).

More teams were created inthe 1870s; including Essendon(1871), St Kilda (1873), and Haw-thorn (1873).

By this stage, football clubs hadalso formed in other parts ofVictoria

Huge crowds soon attendedgames in Melbourne.

In 1880, big matches might at-tract crowds of 15,000. In 1886 aSouth Melbourne v Geelonggame attracted 34,000, “possiblythe largest football crowd in theworld up to that point” accordingto Prof. Geoffrey Blainey.

lor is also anxious to meet the presi-dent of the Yea Council, but believ-ing discretion to be the better part ofvalor, that far-seeing gentleman hasdecided that his position will be inclose proximity to the goal umpire."

Also in Septembver 1893, the Yeanewspaper reported: “TheYeafootballers journed to Alexandra onSaturday last to try conclusions withthe local team there.

“With the exception of two orthree good players, notably Gray andAntony, they had a good team,

“Arrangements were made toplay on the Alexandra footballground, so that the cabs drove righton to the " scene of battle," and inless than a quarter of an hour after

Yea struggles in its first season■ The Yea footballers battled to find success in the first matches reportedby local newspapers.■ June 3, 1887. Alexandra 2.5, d. Yea, 0.2. At Yea.■ July 9, 1887. Tallarook, 2.9 d Yea, 2.8. At Yea.■ July 23, 1887. Alexandra, 7.12, d Yea, 0.1. At Alexandra.

●●●●● The Yea correspondent of the Seymour Express (July 9, 1889)

documented a football match against Muddy Creek.

●●●●● An advertisement in The Yea Chronicle on April 13, 1893,

called for people to attend a meeting at the Royal Mail Hotel

to form a football club.

130 Years of Local Press●●●●● From Page 23


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Lyons St, Yea. Phone:

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Morang

Wed., Mar. 97pm. Yea Camera Club

Inc. Meeting. ‘Back To

Basics’. At Yea RSL,

Snodgrass St, Yea.

Phone: 0439 852

375.

2nd Sunday10am-2pm. Bollygum

Community Market.

Sept.-May. At Bolly-

gum Park, Kinglake.

Phone: Cheryl Phillips,

5786 1696.

Northern Football

League. Opening

Round special match.

(Good Friday): Eltham

v Greensborough.

Fri., Mar. 25‘Good Friday’. Holiday

weekend.

Wed., Mar. 236pm. Murrindindi

Shire Council. Month-

ly meeting. At Strath

Creek Hall.

Royal Children’s Hos-

pital Good Friday Ap-

peal. Donate.

10am. Rotary Club of

Alexandra Easter Art

Show. At Alexandra

Community and Lei-

sure Centre. Open

until March 28.

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6.30pm. Rotary Club of

Eltham. At The Com-

mon, 26 Commercial

Place, Eltham. Con-

tact: Ann Lynch,

0419 008 759. ★

9am. Sunday Service.

Scots Presbyterian

Church, Yea. Station

St, Yea. Phone: Val

Borrie, Secretary.

5792 2286. ★

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Mary’s Catholic Par-

ish, Kinglake. Phone:

Fr Martin Ashe, Par-

ish Priest, 9717

6482. ★

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tary Club of Yea. At Yea

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Sat., Mar. 269am-5pm. Molesworth

Easter Bazaar and

Clearing Sale. Two

auctions running ad-

jacent to each other:

farm machinery,

tools, household and

garden items, bric-a-

brac. Food and

drinks. At Moles-

worth Hall and Rec-

reation Reserve.

Phone: Les Ridd,

5797 6252. www.

molesworth.info

9.30am-5pm. Hurst-

bridge Model Train Ex-

hibition. Adults, $8.

Children, $5. Family,

$20. At Hurstbridge

Hall, 974 Hurst-

bridge-Kinglake Rd,

Hurstbridge.

Sun., Mar. 27

10am-4pm. Alexandra

Easter Fair. Entertain-

ment, l ive music,

food and wine, arts

and craft, children’s

rides. At Rotary Park,

Alexandra. Phone:

0418 266 038. E-

Mail: andrew.

embling@landmark.

com.au

Easter Sunday. Holi-

day weekend.

Mon., Mar. 28Easter Monday. Holi-

day weekend.

Water Fun at Yea Wet-

lands. Activities ap-

propriate for primary

school-aged children.

Gold coin donation

appreciated. At Y Wa-

ter Centre. Phone:

5797 3394. www.

ywatercentre.com.au

10am-4pm. Hurst-

bridge Model Train Ex-

hibition. Adults, $8.

Children, $5. Family,

$20. At Hurstbridge

Hall, 974 Hurst-

bridge-Kinglake Rd,

Hurstbridge.

Sat., Apr. 2Cycle Dindi. Family

friendly bicycle event

on the Great Victo-

rian Rail Trail in

Murrindindi Shire, in-

cluding Yea and Alex-

andra townships. Wel-

come pack, lunch at

Cathkin, bush dance.

Run by Rotary Clubs

of Alexandra and Yea.

To raise funds for The

Community Boys Jour-

ney. Contact: Me-

linda, 0418 378

806, or Julie, 0447

767 557. www.yea

rotary.org.au

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Tues., June 286.30pm. City of

Whittlesea Council

monthly meeting. At

Council Chambers,


Morang

Tues., July 196.30pm. City of

Whittlesea Council

monthly meeting. At

Council Chambers,


Morang

Tues., Aug. 96.30pm. City of

Whittlesea Council

monthly meeting. At

Council Chambers,


Morang

Tues., Aug. 306.30pm. City of

Whittlesea Council

monthly meeting. At

Council Chambers,


Morang

Tues., Sep. 20

6.30pm. City of

Whittlesea Council

monthly meeting. At

Council Chambers,


Morang

Tues., Oct. 116.30pm. City of

Whittlesea Council

monthly meeting. Dur-

ing Council election

period. At Council

Chambers, 25 Ferres

Blvd, South Morang

Tues., Oct. 277pm. City of

Whittlesea Council

monthly meeting.

Statutory meetiong to

swear in new Council-

lors and elect Mayor.

At Council Cham-

bers, 25 Ferres Blvd,

South Morang

Tues., Nov. 156.30pm. City of

Whittlesea Council

monthly meeting. At

Council Chambers,


Morang

Tues., Dec. 136.30pm. City of

Whittlesea Council

monthly meeting. At

Council Chambers,


Morang

Sat., Oct. 1AFL Grand Final Day.

Fri., Sep. 30Grand Final Eve. Pub-

lic Holiday.

Tues., Nov. 1

7pm. City of

Whittlesea Council

monthly meeting.

Statutory meetiong to

swear in new Council-

lors and elect Mayor.

At Council Cham-

bers, 25 Ferres Blvd,

South Morang

Melbourne Cup Day.

Public Holiday. First

Tuesday in November.

Hospital stance■ Indi MHR, Cathy McGowan , is callingon the State and Federal Government to sortout the mess with hospital funding.

Ms McGowan said patients in Wangaratta,Wodonga and Benalla will be impacted ifhospitals are forced to cutback services dueto the drop in funding.

Last week, the State Government an-nounced that Albury Wodonga Health, NorthEast Health Wangaratta and Benalla Healthwould lose $1.8 million from budgets.

In Question Time on Monday, MsMcGowan asked Minister for Health, SussanLey, if the Government would commit to fundextra capital works due to the apparent short-fall in funding for operational needs.

Ms Ley blamed the State Government forthe funding impasse and labelled it as asneaky attempt to game the system.

Ms McGowan said while the truth was hardto discern, residents in need of healthcaredeserved answers.

"It's clear the major parties are disputingeach other's claims and I call on them to ur-gently solve this issue," Ms McGowan said.

"Patients in Benalla, Wodonga andWangaratta hospitals should not be held toransom."

Ms McGowan said she would continue tostand up for patients and work to get this is-sue resolved

Acoustica launch■ Murrindindi Shire Council is promotingits 2016 Acoustica Programthat was launchedon Friday (Feb. 26) at Alexandra with a liveperformance from the Triangle CommunitySteel Pan Bands.

Mayor Cr Margaret Rae welcomed thelarge audience which had gathered behindthe Alexandra library building to enjoy theperformance and the sunny weather.

Acoustica is held on the last Friday of eachmonth and showcases the talents of localmusicians and bands.

Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided andattendees are encouraged to bring along theirlunch and enjoy the live music.

Racing transfer■ Racing Victoria has announced that theFlemington race meeting on Saturday, April9, will be transferred to Ladbrokes Park(Sandown) following a request from theVictoria Racing Club.

The VRC has sought additional time to con-duct its annual autumn renovation of the trackto ensure that its racing surface is in optimumcondition up to and throughout the MelbourneCup Carnival.

Works will commence as planned imme-diately after Flemington’s iconic Super Sat-urday meeting on March 12 with racing toresume at Flemington on ANZAC Day –Monday, April 25.

RV Executive General Manager – Rac-ing, Greg Carpenter, said, “Thanks to thecooperation of the Melbourne Racing Clubthe industry has been able to facilitate a re-quest by the VRC for an additional two weeksto conduct their annual autumn track renova-tion.

“The Saturday metropolitan meeting onApril 9 will now be conducted on the Hillsidetrack at Ladbrokes Park Sandown with theListed Galilee Series Final headlining themeeting.

“Prizemoney will remain the same for allraces with minor distance changes to occuracross the majority of the program.”

Traditionally the Flemington course properhas been afforded two breaks from racingeach year for comprehensive renovations.

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Let’s Go Country. With Brian Sillett. 12 Noon.

Ray’s Music Mix. With Ray Mathieson. 5pm.

The Bright Side. With Penny Paxman. 7pm.

The Message. With Big Jim Eagles and Marga-

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LBS Country Hour. With Marg Seeber. 2pm.

Anything Goes. With Paul Duncan. 4pm. The

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6.30am. The Rock Shop Brekky Show. With Big

Jim Eagles. 9am. Seeds. With Sarah Southam.

10am. The Chix. With Sheree and Silvia. 12

Noon. The Cruel Music Show. With Dingoman.

4pm. Starting The Weekend. With Michael

Mawson. 7pm. UGFM Sport. With Peter Weeks

and Gerald O’Brien. 9pm. The Batman and Robin

Show. With Peter Weeks. 12 Midnight. BBC

World News. 12.06am. Amprap Air It Charts.

1am. Community Radio Network.

SATURDAYNews, sport and weather on the hour.

6.30am. Good Morning Murrindindi. With Mike

Dalmau. 10am. Best Of The Best. With Frank

and Thea Arendse. 1pm. Sounds of the Upper

Goulburn. With Ray Mathieson or Pam Young.

3pm. Country Collection. With Peter Rice and

Ian Hewitt. 5pm. High Country. With Chris

Deutscher. 8pm. Saturday Night Live. With

David Lydford. 10pm. New Release Show. 11pm.

Home Brew. 12 Midnight. BBC News. 12.06am.

The National Rock And Blues Show. With Ray

Jennings. 3am. Community Radio Network.

SUNDAYNews, sport and weather on the hour.

7am. Country Folk Around Australia. With

Declan. 10am. Fairly Folk. With Larry Kelly,

Jim Whitten, Peter Weeks, Margaret

McLachlan. 1pm. The Polly Waffle Show. With

Rita Guenzel. 4pm. Campfire Country. With Brian

Sillett. 7pm. All That Jazz. With Peter Guest.

10pm. The Conversation. 12 Midnight. BBC World

News. 12.06am. Community Radio Network.

MONDAYNews, sport and weather on the hour.


7am. Walk The Line. With Michael Ray and

John Coffey. 9am. Video Killed The Radio Stars.

With Ian Hewitt and the Dame Pattie Menzies

Centre team. 12 Noon. Lunch. With Mishel

Stastra. 2pm. The Ditzy Chix. With Sheree Scott.

4pm. That Music. With Graeme Tyers. 6pm.

The Jam Sessions. Live from Alexandra Sec-

ondary College (every 2nd week, during term).

7pm. The Nick and O’Bie Show. With Nick Klein

and Gerald O’Brien. 9pm. The Blues Bus. With

Keith Rogers. 10pm. Off The Record. With Brian

Wise. 11pm. Stormy Monday. With Austin

Harrison. 12 Midnight. BBC World News.

12.06am. Community Radio Network.

TUESDAYNews, sport and weather on the hour.


6.30am. Country Brekky. With Peter Rice. 9am.

The Rock Shop. With Big Jim Eagles. 11am.

Ripper Rita. With Rita Guenzel. 12 Noon. Ech-

oes Of The Valley. With Gypsy Rose. 2pm. Pi-

lots Of The Airwaves. With Naomi and the

Dame Patties Menzies Centre team. 4pm.

Celtic Journey. With Brendan Dalton. 6pm.

Crank It. With Ritchie Frew. 8pm. After Work.

With Bryan Slader. 10pm. Community Radio

Network.


Court Lists

Seymour Magistrates’ Court -Criminal Case Listings

Thursday, March 3Plaintiff / Informant / Applicant vsDefendant / Accused / Respondent.Information Division.

Victoria Police v Carter, Aaron.Uni-Kinglake

Victoria Police v Jackson, CraigAllan. Uni-Kilmore

Victoria Policev Brown, AdamWilliam. Dtu-Seymour

Victoria Police v Pelly, Anthony.Uni-Kilmore

Victoria Police v Deleo, Reb-ecca. Highway Patrol-Seymour

Victoria Police v Newton,Darren. Uni-Seymour

Victoria Police v Kaul, Sandeep.Traffic Camera Office

Victoria Police v Frigula, Ben-jamin. Uni-Nagambie

Victoria Police v Lombardo,Zachary. Traffic Camera Office

Victoria Police v Luxford,Nathan. Traffic Camera Office

Victoria Police v Collins, RobertPaul. Uni-Seymour

Victoria Police v Dalvean, Mich-ael. Uni-Yea

Victoria Police v Brokov, Zoran.Uni-Yea

Victoria Police v Kunz, Jurgen.Uni-Kilmore

Victoria Police v Martin, Re-becca Maree. Uni-Kilmore.

Victoria Policev Rickman, MarkAnthony Uni-Seymour

Victoria Policev Green, Ben-jamin. Uni-Seymour

Victoria Police v Carbone,Lorenzo, Highway Patrol-Seymour

Victoria Police v Tassell, NathanBrendan Highway Patrol-Seymour

Victoria Police v Higgins, JackCarlin. Highway Patrol-Seymour

Victoria Police v Brain, David.Highway Patrol-Seymour

Victoria Policeb Brown, AdamWilliam. Uni-Seymour

Victoria Police v Lawry, Belinda.Uni-Seymour

Victoria Police v Bray, Aaron.Uni-Seymour

Victoria Police v Bray, Corey.Uni-Seymour

Victoria Police v Gandolfo, Jes-sica. Ciu-Mitchell

Victoria Police v Jones, Olivia.Uni-Seymour

Victoria Police v Frigula, Ben-jamin Franz. Uni-Seymour

Victoria Police v Tabone, JasonFrank. Uni-Yea

Victoria Police v Brown, Adam.Socit-Diamond Creek

Victoria Police v Jordan, Matt.Uni-Kinglake

Victoria Police v Mcclure,Malcolm Uni-Kinglake

Victoria Police v Mcdonald,Stacey. Highway Patrol-Seymour

Victoria Police v Brown, Adam.Uni-Seymour

Victoria Police v Jones, Olivia.Highway Patrol-Seymour

Victoria Police v Lee, Gerald.Highway Patrol-Seymour

Victoria Police v Nguyen,Tommy. Highway Patrol-Seymour

Victoria Police v Fitzpatrick,Darren Charles. Heavy VehicleUnit

Victoria Police v Bridges, PeterRobert. Uni-Seymour

Victoria Police v Poulton, Ben-jamin. Highway Patrol-Seymour

Victoria Police. Jones, Olivia.Uni-Kilmore

Victoria Police v Derwent, NoelFrancis. Arson & Explosives Squad

Victoria Policev Nguyen,Tommy. Ciu-Darebin

Victoria Police v Grubb, Daniel.Office Of The Chief Commissioner

Victoria Police. Simpson, BarrieOwen. Office Of The Chief Com-missioner.

Victoria Policev Murray, ShaneTristen. Office Of The Chief Com-missioner

Victoria Police v Fry, DavidCary. Highway Patrol-NorthernGrampians

Victoria Police v Harkness,Zenaan. Uni-Kinglake

Victoria Police v Harkness,Zenaan. Highway Patrol-YarraRanges

Victoria Police v Harkness,Zenaan. Uni-Kinglake

Victoria Police v Collins, Rob-ert. Office Of The Chief Commis-sioner

Victoria Police v Turner, CraigGeorge. Office Of The Chief Com-missioner

Victoria Police v Owen, Sean.Chief Commissioner's Office

Friday, March 4Community Corrections Centre

v Mcdonald, Shane Graham. Com-munity Corrections Centre

Victoria Policev Stoneman,Mark. Uni-Kilmore

Victoria Police v Stoneman,Mark. Echo Taskforce

Victoria Police v Stoneman,Mark Francis. Uni-Kilmore

Victoria Police v Stoneman,Mark. Uni-Kilmore

Victoria Police v Mcdonald,Shane Graham. Uni-Marysville

Victoria Police v Stoneman,Mark Francis. Uni-Kilmore

Victoria Police v Mcdonald,Shane Graham. Uni-Alexandra

Victoria Police v Stoneman,Mark. Family Violence-Shepparton

Victoria Police v Mcdonald,

Shane. Uni-AlexandraVictoria Police v Stoneman,

Mark Frances. Uni-KilmoreVictoria Police v Mcdonald,

Shane Graham. Uni-SheppartonVictoria Police v Stoneman,

Mark. Uni-WallanVictoria Police v Mcdonald,

Shane. Uni-AlexandraCommunity Corrections Centre

v Mcdonald, Shane Graham. Com-munity Corrections Centre.

Community Corrections Centrev Mcdonald, Shane Graham. Com-munity Corrections Centre.

Civil ListFriday, March 4

Empire Stallions CorporationPty Ltd v Brisbane Pastoral Com-pany Pty Ltd

Tuesday, March 8Murrindindi Shire Council v

Stamm, Michael WilliamMitchell Shire Council v Woods,

Trinity LeeStenner, Jeff v Oliver, Darren

Mansfield Magistrates’ CourtWednesday, March 9

Criminal Case ListingsVictoria Police v Crawford, Bra-

dley James. Uni-MansfieldVictoria Police v Fogarty,

Kearen Uni-MansfieldVictoria Police v Canavan,

Daniel. Highway Patrol-MansfieldAustralian Taxation Office v

Fricke, Rodger Wayne. AustralianTaxation Office

Australian Taxation Office.Fricke, Rodger Wayne. AustralianTaxation Office

Australian Taxation Office vAtwell, Aaron Dean. AustralianTaxation Office

Australian Taxation Office vAtwell, Aaron Dean. AustralianTaxation Office

Australian Taxation Office.Nemeth, David Ralph. AustralianTaxation Office

Victoria Police v Coceski, Jane.Uni-Woods Point

Australian Taxation Office vNemeth, David. Australian Taxa-tion Office

Victoria Police v Wyatt, Alex.Uni-Marysville

Victoria Police v Cook,Veronica. Office Of The ChiefCommissioner

Victoria Police v Warton, Brian.Uni-Mansfield

Victoria Police v Willgoose,Simon Paul. Highway Patrol-Mansfield

Victoria Police v Turner, Barry.Uni-Mansfield

Victoria Policev Macdonald,Gordon Stewart. Uni-Mansfield

Victoria Police v Grech, Silvio.

Uni-Mansfield.Victoria Police v Turner, Barry

Allen. Uni-MansfieldVictoria Police v Letchford,

Adam James. Dtu-SeymourVictoria Police v Hudswell,

Danny Reginald. Uni-MansfieldVictoria Police v Crumpen,

Leila. Uni-AlexandraVictoria Police v Alfonso-Hine,

Jeremy Jordan. Uni-AlexandraVictoria Police v Cashion, Ricky

John. Uni-AlexandraVictoria Police v King, Jesse

James. Uni-JamiesonVictoria Police v Holloway,

Kelly Leigh. Highway Patrol-Mansfield

Victoria Police v Mchale,Simon. Uni-Mansfield

Victoria Police. Nieuwhof,Adam. Uni-Alexandra

Victoria Police v Askwith,Steven. Uni-Mansfield

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NFL partnership■ The Northern Football League has an-nounced that The Meadows will remain a pre-mier partner for a further year following agree-ment to renew the ongoing arrangement.

The Meadows will become the naming rightspartner of the NFL’s top-flight competition, Mead-ows Greyhounds Division 1.

The Meadows, at Broadmeadows, is a lead-ing greyhound racing association, with facilitieshaving recently undertaken a $3 million renova-tion, and the capacity to provide function andconference facilities for up to 350 people,

Girls’ football■ The Northern Football League will run sixfree football development sessions for girls aged8-18 during the 2016 school holidays.

All participants must register before FridayMarch 11. The first session will be held from1.30pm - 3.30pm on March 30 at Ikon Parkhome of the Carlton Football Club.

Sessions 2-6 will be held at Barling ParkReservoir. These sessions will run from 10 am -12 Noon on April 6, June 29, July 6, September21 and September 28.

At Healesville■ Healesville Amateur Racing Club will con-duct its next race meeting, the Kubota GoldenThong, on Saturday, April 2.

Gates open at 11am, first race approx 1pm.Admission: adults $10; pensioners, $5; under 18,free Healesville racecourse is the perfect settingfor a family picnic. There is plenty of lawn spaceand many shaded areas. The racing is keen withlarge fields.

Kinglake on track■ Kinglake Football Club is actively trainingtowards the start of the 2016 season. Seniorcoaches are Brad ‘Wilko’ Wilonson andCameron Arnot. Nathan Booker is Reservescoach, and Cameron Caine is Under 18 coach.

The club has developed an ‘app’ for support-ers to follow activities, news and results.

Mar. 25 countdown■ The 2016 Northern Football League home-and-away season begins on March 25, wherelast year's Division 1 runner-up Greensboroughtakes on preliminary finalist Eltham in the an-nual Good Friday blockbuster

Cyclists’ trail■ Murrindindi Shire Council is starting on thedetailed design for the proposed construction ofa trail connecting Alexandra, Thornton andEildon to the Great Victorian Rail Trail. Thedesign is being funded as part of the VictorianState Government’s Advancing Country TownsProject. The Great Victorian Rail Trail is ashared pathway for cyclists, walkers and horseriders that stretches 134 kms from Tallarookthrough Yea to Mansfield, with a branch line fromCathkin that terminates in Alexandra.


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New Yea U18 coach

■ Eddie Neilson will coach the Yea FootballNetball Club Under 18 football team in 2016.Ed was Senior Football Assistant Coach lastyear and is a well respected leader of the Club.“He will bring a great deal of experience andknowledge to a young playing group,” a Clubspokesman said.

AFL Yarra Ranges■ The AFL Yarra Ranges (formerlyYVMDFL) will have an enclosure deal at theYarra Valley Cup on Sunday, March 20 atYarra Glen. Tickets may be purchased to aprivate AFL Yarra Ranges Trackside Enclo-sure for $15 a ticket (normally $25).

In the swim■ As reported on the front-page of this week’sLocal Paper, 16 students from Sacred HeartSchool, Yea, participated in the Seymour Dis-trict Swimming Competition/ Going on tocompete at the next level in Shepparton areAbby Christie in 12/13 year old butterfly;Reece Hargreaves in 12/13 year old breast-stroke; and Bridie McSpeerin in 9/10 year oldbutterfly.

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www.LocalPaper.com.au The Local Paper - Wednesday, March 2, 2016 -

Riley’s Rocket takes the Cup

●●●●● Eddie Neilson

PHOTO: FACEBOOK/

YEA TIGERS

●●●●● Yea’s Under 14 cricket team were victorious against Alexandra in their Grand

Final this month. Back row: Back Row: left to right: Max Hargreaves, Ruby O'Dwyer,

Reece Hargreaves, Jack Christie (Captain) Dan O'Dwyer (Coach), Nathan Beattie

(man of the match), Ethan Aldous, Oscar Lawson. Front row: left to right: Austen

Ross, Abby Christie, Monty Lawson, Riley Slevin, Luke McMaster, Johnny Turvey.

Local Junior Sport

●●●●● Abby Christie

●●●●● Reece Hargreaves

Midweek bowlers in Elim. Final■ This week was the final week of the homeand away pennant season.

Congratulations to he Yea midweek pennantteam which finished fourth and will now playKilmore in the elimination final.

However the mid week team suffered a sur-prising lost by 10 shots this week to Eildon

R. Branch and team lost 19-32; J. Branchand team won 25 - 15; while R. Hatty andteam lost 21-28.

Division One Pennant Team travelled toAlexandra for the last game for the season, andlost overall by 36 shots.

J. Branch, D. Sharman T. Mc Grath and C.Hildebrand lost 15 - 32.

P. West, B. Sier, D. Dashwood and J. Greenlost17 -31.

Ruth Hatty, B. Loughman, L Sheahan andJ. Levee lost 28-19

R. Branch, M. Barnes, T. Laurent and R.Hall won 21 -- 17

Division Two Pennant Team playedAlexandra at home with A. McCarthy andteam being the only successful rink

Twilight bowls concluded last Wednesdayafter a successful competition where the finalscores indicated the closeness of the competi-tion.

The players expressed their gratitude and lookforward to Twilight bowls during February in2017.

- Leonard Sheahan

■ Sunday’s six-race program of the St Pat’sRace Club Yea attracted a healthy crowd, withevents sponsored by Yarragundry Plantations,Limestone Beef Producers, Hansen Angus Yea,Neil Beer Seymour, Webb Pastoral and ManarkPrinting.

The races included healthy fields: Race 1, 9norminations; Race 2, 12; Race 3, 5; Race 4(Cup), 9; Race 5, 8; Race 6, 9:

Race 1. Restricted Trophy. 1200m. 1. DiabloDelago (7). 2. Stan The Man (1). 3. PlayboySpike (2).

Race 2. Restricted Trophy. 1300m. 1. Pirolo(1). 2. Soul Glo (9). 3. Hot Lei (5).

Race 3. Maiden. 2100m. 1. Belle Cherie (4).2. Regal Master (2). 3. Strogar (4).

Race 4. Cup. 2100m. 1. Riley’s Rocket (9).2. True Bravo (1). 3. Dornale (4).

Race 5. Restricted Trophy. 1600m. 1. RedRosa (4). 2. Silent Dance (3). 3. Little Red Wagon(2).

Race 6. Trophy Race. 1600m. 1. Parvenu (1).2, Chancery Downs (6). 3. Frisky No More (3).

The St Pat’s Race Club Yea meeting wasunder the supervision of Mr R.N. Forde, Presi-dent; Mr J.R. Brick, Vice-President; Mrs S.Cunningham, Secretary; Mr L. Sheahan, Trea-surer; and Mr H. Brewer, J. Anselmi,C.Pellegrino, Stewards.

Other officials included: Mr R. McAdam,Starter; D. Murphy, Judge; Victoria Shaw, RaceCaller; Mr P. Heath, Doctor; Mr P. Julier, Bet-ting Service; Mr A. Bowe, Farrier; Mr R.Cumming, Mr S. Glass, Clerks of Course; MrS. Luck, Clerk of Scales; Yea Vet. Hospital,Veterinary/Swab Stall; Mr A. Duff, Mr J.Macauley, Mr R. Best, Mr A. Banks, Mr J.Raynor, Barrier Attendants; Mr A. McCarthy,Scratching Board; Mrs P. Noonan, Mrs J. Forde,Mrs M. Mallia, Mrs S. Murphy, Mrs N. Harry,Mr L. Regan, Committee.

●●●●● Riley’s Rocket, ridden by Courtney Pace, wins the St Pat’s Cup. Photo Alan Cole

■ The large crowd which attended the St PatsRaces, was treated to an enjoyable day at the races.

The course was picture perfect with the greenlawns, the shady trees and the beautiful settingwithin the hills of Yea.

There was a picnic atmosphere amongst the crowdas it enjoyed a pleasant sunny day of good racingwith an average of eight runners for each of the sixrace program.

Winner of the St Pats Cup was Riley'sRocket, ridden by Courtney Pace, and trainedby Paul Kramer from Pakenham.

In presenting the Cup, Neil Beer , from NeilBeer Seymour, congratulated the winners and ac-knowledged the great contribution that previousPresident, Frank Hargrave, had made to the StPats Race Club over many years.

Accepting the Cup, Paul Kramer thanked StPats for their great meeting and said that the StPats Cup was a favourite race of his, that he hadwon before and hoped to win again.

The Fashions on the Field was once again popu-lar. The winner of the Filly section was HannahWilliams from Melbourne with the runner-up

being Peta Bell from Geelong . The winnerof the mares section was Jan Webb, withrunner-up being well known local identity andracing enthusiast, Lorna Slavin. DarcyTait won the foals section with Ella Noblefrom Yea the runner up.

Fine dining in the club rooms was a featureof the day with local Chef Naomi Harry andthe Sacred Heart school parents and staffpresenting a delightful meal for the near 60 whoattended. Other food options from the barbecueto the picnic hampers and the buffet luncheonwere also popular.

Children were kept well entertained with theKelly Sports program and the variety of ac-tivities that they conduct. There was also theanimal farm, the pony rides and the face paint-ing available.

Race goers showed great interest in the cardisplay. Some rare Aston Mar tins wereamongst the display. T

The St Pats Race Club is very pleasedwith the day that provided a day of good rac-ing and good family entertainment. - L.S.

●●●●● The Local Paper welcomes

sports reports. Please lodge your

report by 10am Monday by sending an

email to [email protected]

Local cricket■ Yea Tigers 4/108 (dec) and 4/75 (cc) de-feated Seymour 67 and 175 at Yea Recre-ation Reserve in the two-day round inSeymour District Cricket Association A-Grade.

Yea Tigers 4/108(dec) R Akers 59* DEvans 29* M Hunter 3/24 and 4/75(cc) CArmstrong 37 MC Woldhuis 2/17 defSeymour 67 A Chisholm 4/12 D Evans 3/4 CArmstrong 2/15 and 175 D Murphy 45 MCWoldhuis 28 B Pointon 25 D Evans 5/40 BClements 3/41.

Nagambie 210 and 4/50 defeated Avenel115. Alexandra 250 d Kilmore 177. Tallarook137 d Broadford 94. Eastern Hill: bye.■ B-Grade. Royals 168 M Beattie 4/29 JChristie 3/43 def Yea Tigers 108 A Butter-worth 54 .

Kilmore 6/182 (cc) d Pyalong 173. East-ern Hill 2/128 d Alexandra 9/124 (cc). Avenel6/177 (cc) d Nagambie 67. Puckapunyal 6/281 (cc) d Seymour 122. Broadford 2/100(dec) d Tallarook 7/96 (cc). Flowerdale 8/223 d Merton 6/219 (cc).■ C-Grade. Puckapunyal 6/147 d Avenel143. Kilmore White 9/142 (cc) d Flowerdale146. Pyalong 9/208 d Kilmore Blue 9.207(cc). Eastern Hill 5/88 d Broadford Red 81.Broadford Black: bye.■ Under 16. Eastern Hill 4/160 (cc) dKilmore 9./125 (cc).

Across the Association, best bats this sea-son were Terry Crother (Puckapunyal) bat-ted 105 against Seymour. Adrian Zeidens(Merton) achieved a knock of 91 againstFlowerdale, also in B-Grade; and JaysonMeade (Pyalong) scored 85 against Kilmorein C-Grade.

Yea’s Daniel Evans achived 5/40 againstSeymour in A-Grade. Andrew Chisholmbowled 4/12 (both Round 13).

Mark Beattie captured 4/29 in B-Gradeagainst Royals (Round 18).

- Grandstander


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