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■■■■■ Friends brought champagne to Yeaand District Memorial Hospital thisweek to help Ruth Konig celebrate her73rd birthday, and to share the newsthat $A120,000 funding has beenapproved for a healthy water project atDaysprings Children’s Village in SouthAfrica.

Ruth, a Past President of the RotaryClub of Yea, personally raised $20,000by walking the 900 kms of the CaminoPilgrimage from France to Spain.

Ruth has epitomised the Rotary themeof 'Be a gift to the world' with her ad-vocacy, determination and indomitablespirit. Her passing on Sunday hasrocked the Yea district. More detailson Pages 6-7-8.

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ANOTHER FOOTY FLAG FOR YEALocalBriefs

■ Yarra RangesHighway Patrol isappealing for wit-nesses after a log-ging truck hit boomgates in Lilydaleon Thursday.

Police havebeen told a loggingtruck hit the gateson MaroondahHwy and continueddriving.

No-one was in-jured and Policehave identified thedriver involvedhowever there iaan appealfor any-one who witnessedthe incident tocome forward.

Contact YarraRanges HighwayPatrol on 97342402. ●●●●● Alan Thorley

■ Yea Football Clubhas an extra prem-iership flag that has notbeen included in someof its official records,says local historianAlan Thorley.

Thorley has un-earthed press clip-pings that show theYea footballers wonthe premiership in1920.

The ‘Tigerland’website boasts of flagshaving been won in1896, 1902, 1912,1919, 1945, 1946,1950, 1960, 1968,1976, 1982 and 1984.

“Footypedia.comstates that Yea playedin the Alexandra andYea Football Associa-tion in 1920.

“The teams com-peting were Alex-andra, Eildon Weir,Thornton, Yarck,Yea.

Yea beat Alex-andra in the 1920Grand final 8.5 (53) to4.13 (37) .

An article in theSeptember 24, 1920issue of the Alexandraand Yea Standardconfirms the missingpremiership.

“Captain Braim,of Alexandra, at a so-cial gathering of foot-ballers in the ShireHall on Wednesdaynight (writes The YeaChronicle) presentedthe cup donated byhim to the premierteam of the Alexandraand District FootballAssociation, and con-gratulated the Yea clubin having won the mi-nor and major prem-ierships,” says thenewspaper report.

“Mr L.W. McPher-son, president of theYea club, received thecup of behalf of theYea club, and thankedCaptain Braim for hishandsome trophy.

“Several otherspeakers alo con-gratulated the Yea clubon the success, and

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■ N i l l u m b i kMayor Cr BronnieHattam says herCouncil has adopt-ed a gamblingpolicy that takes aharm minimisationapproach.,

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●●●●● Yea’s 1920 premiership team. Back row: L. Forbes, A. Franklin, W. Bloomer, L.Bett, L. McLeish. Second row: Roy Borrie (trainer), E. Bloomer, S.C. McLeish, I.McPherson (President), W. Forbes, A. Smith (trainer), G. McIntosh (trainer). Thirdrow: Wilson (trainer), J. Tosh, M. Baynes, F. Franklin, J. Stanley (Captain), H. Franklin,C. Thorley, N. Drys-dale, F. Smith. Front row: A. Hamilton, P. Cuthbertson, R. Baynes(mascot), J. Stephens, A. McMillan (committeeman).

●●●●● A press clipping from the Alexandraand Yea Standard from September 23,1920, confirming the footy premiership.

Captain Braim wascongratulated on hisgenrosity.

“Songs, choruses,and recitations, with asumptuous repast

The Centenary ofFootball in Yea bookprepared by the lateTom Dignam in 1994,confirms the 1920flag.

“A special trainwas run to Yarck forthe grand final and650 people witnessed

made up the other por-tion of the night’s pro-gram, which was car-ried out in truefootballers’ style” saidthe Standard.

the game,” Dignamwrote.

“It seems thatYarck did not competein 1921, and after ahopeful season, Yeaagain lost a semi toAlexandra by 5points,” he said, 22years ago.

●●●●● Jono and April at the Young Leaders Conference.

Kinglakeleaders

■ Middle Kinglake Pri-mary School Captains Jonoand April attended the Na-tional Young Leaders' Dayat the Melbourne Conven-tion Centre on Wednesday(Mar. 2). Principal MeaganCallander says the day wasattended by more than 4000primary school studentsfrom across Victoria, whoall have a leadership rolewithin their school.

Guest speakers spokeabout their leadership jour-ney and passed on inspir-ing messages to the stu-dents. Jono and April havereturned to their school toshare and demonstrate theirideas about leadership.

Rail hit

●●●●● Cr BronnieHattam


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Bushwalking Mama■ An ex-Yeaite is the author of a new blog athttp://bushwalkingmama.blogspot.com.au/

The young Mum also has a Facebook pagethat is worth a look.

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Local WeatherLOCAL FORECAST - YEA

■ Wed, Mar. 9. Partly cloudy. 18°-34°■ Thu., Mar. 10. Showers. 19°-33°■ Fri., Mar. 11. Mostly sunny. 19°-35°

LOCAL FORECAST - KINGLAKE■ Wed, Mar. 9. Partly cloudy. 17°-33°■ Thu., Mar. 10. Rain. 19°-31°■ Fri., Mar. 11. Partly cloudy. 18°-34°

●●●●● Train D3 594 at Yarck Raileay Station, 1920s.■ The Local Paper has been looking out for photographs of the trainsthat would have transported Yea football players to matches after theline opened on November 16, 1883. This photo appears to date fromthe 1920s. One railfan, Mark Barille, says: “D3 in that condition wouldmake it mid 20s. By 1930 they had smoke deflection and electriclights.”

All aboard at Yarck station

Wastedtime

■ A correspondent toThe Local Paper haswasted their time anda stamp. Billing them-selves as ‘Yea HighStreet trader’ (whichwe doubt), the letterwriter fails to suppplytheir name and ad-dress. But they do givetheir identity away intheir bogus letter.

Partynoise

■ Long Shots hearsthat a number of Glen-burn residents com-plained to Police andMurrindindi ShireLocal Laws Officersabout noise from anongoing party atBreak-O’Day Rd atthe weekend.

Visit to Yea

■ Murrindindi ShireMayor Cr MargaretRae and CEO Marga-ret Abbey make muchin their storytelling thatthe municipality is ac-tively chasing invest-ment (and jobs).

But is it really?The Shire had just

nine news stories on itswebsite last week:■ A message thatresidents and visitorsare welcome to seekrespite from heat at li-braries and pools.■ Warning aboutroad clsoures at Eil-don.■ Line markingworks at Alexandra,Marysville and Eildon.■ Rail trail expansionat Alexandra, Thorn-ton and Eildon.■ Columns by theMayor and Cr JohnWalsh.■ A self-congratula-tory report about theShire budget (whichwill actually come inwith a■ A music event atAlexandra.■ Praise for a safetyforum at Yea, with theCEO later issuing anacknowledgementthat the Council hadhandled the timingpoorly.

These hokey snip-pets are NOT the typeof image that will winbig business to thearea.

$6.5 milloss tip

■ Murrindindi ShireCouncil has been ap-plauding itself with anews release with theheadline: “"CouncilPlan report shows posi-tive progress".

Possibly a betterheadline might be thatthe original budgetloss of $2.9 millionlooks like blowing outto $6.2 million.

This is the figurequoted in its won In-come Statement Un-derlying OperationalResult Format.

Hungry Horse

■ In another life more than 20 years ago,your scribe would have qualified as a ‘LifeMember’ of the Molesworth Hotel.

After a day at work, we would make ourway to ‘Molo’ for a cold beer with the late BillMorris, who soon after our arrival would drawthe curtains, saying “Haven’t you got a hometo go to?”

The pub has changed since then. GraceLamers, of Ti-Tree Creek Rd, Yea, withdaughter Anouk, and her partner DavidJames, have refurbished the hotel.

It has a large capacity for dining, and at-tracts a good number of passing tourists.

●●●●● The Hungry Horse at Molesworth

●●●●● If Yea is going to be a leading tour-ist town, the Murrindindi Shire Coun-cil needs to lift its game. At 1.25pmSaturday, the Yea Shire Hall clockswere two hours behind.

Behind the times

■ Some 90 people attended the Yea GolfClub’s ‘Nine and Dine’ function on Fridaynight (Mar. 4). Sixty participants playednine holes at ‘Royal Yea’ before a diningfunction that tested the capacity of theclubrooms (Two tables were outside).

●●●●● The late Bill Morris

●●●●● Ian Baynes

PHOTO: FACEBOOK/ANGIE ALDOUS

On the high seas■ Yea identities have hit the high seas. IanBaynes, Rupert Aldous and Ian Aldous leftSydney aboard an oceanliner at the week-end. 3717 will see them return in a few weeks.

●●●●● The Local Paper photographersnapped Yea visitor Ian Gould on hisreturn from a shooters meeting atSeymour, where is the financial officer.

Longweekend■ Traders are gear-ing for a tourist inva-sion over this comingLabor Day long week-end.

Long-range fore-casts predict tempera-tures of 33° and 31°respectively for Satur-day and Sunday in Yea.

H’landsworks

■ Residents in theHighlands, Ghin Ghinand ‘Switzerland’ ar-eas will be relievedwhen Highlands Rdroadworks are com-pleted.

There have beendelays as the road-workers completetheir tasks.

CycleDindi

■ Preparations arewell underway for theCycle Dindi event to beheld by the RotaryClubs of Yea and Alex-andra on Saturday,April 2.

Cyclists are beingasked to pay up to $50to use the Alexandra-Yea return journeyalong the Great Vic-torian Rail Trail.

Contact JulieLynch on 0447 762557.

●●●●● Highlands Rdnear Ghin Ghin

Regional NewsCouncil Watch

Sick days on rise■ Murrindindi Shire Council has a sick dayrate of 3.55 per cent, which is above the an-nual target, Councillors have been told.

Business analysts say that sick days areoften a gauge of the level of morale amongststaff at organisations.

“Staff sick/personal leave days for theOctober to December quarter averaged 3.55per cent which is tracking above the annualtarget of 3.24 per cent and above 2.7 per centrecorded for the same quarter in 2014-15. Oncurrent trend the leave pattern may exceedthe target.”

Rather than an increased figure, the Shirehad set an annual target to reduce sick leaveby 1 per cent.

More training days■ Murrindindi Shire Council staff are tak-ing an increasing amount of work days forstaff training, according to a report tabled thismonth the Councillors.

“In the October to December quarter coun-cil recorded 371 participants (equivalent to188 staff training days) who undertook train-ing and development in 17 different activi-ties, which is a 2.4 per cent increase on thesame quarter in 2014-15,” said the report.

Council has a target of increasing stafftraining days by 1 per cent.

Shire at Strath Ck■ The monthly Murrindindi Shire Councilmeeting will be held at Strath Creek Hallfrom 6pm on Wednesday, March 23.

Urgent follow-up■ Two Murrindindi Shire outdoor staffmembers have been referred for urgent medi-cal follow-up after skin checks wereorganised by the Council.

“A total of 45 staff members attended thisinitiative; with two staff referred for urgentfollow up, and nine recommended for followup,” said a report issued to Councillors thismonth.

Volunteer database■ “The Kinglake Ranges NeighbourhoodHouse is in the process of developing an onlinevolunteer database that can be extendedacross Murrindindi Shire,” this month’sCouncil meeting was told.

“The Volunteer Advisory Committee iscurrently not operational however there areplans to reinvigorate the group early in thenew year.”

Paint job complete■ Painting at Terip Terip Pavilion has beencompleted, a Murrindindi Shire Council re-port notes. The works schedule is listed in areport for Councillors.

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Research room delayWhittlesea Masons meet

●●●●● Whittlesea’s Freemasons gathered for their monthlymeeting at the Yea Rd temple on Wednesday night. Asecond degree ceremony was conducted.

Photo: Phillip Bennett

Horses database

■ CFA volunteer, Jenna Kelley, of PantonHill, has set up an Australia-wide networkfor residents to protect their horses during thebushfire season, connecting owners withequipment in emergencies.

Jesse Graham of the Mountain Views Mailreports that the National Equine Database, awebsite that aims to link property owners andhorse and animal owners, providing tempo-rary housing during emergencies.

Car wash at Yea■ Highlands Primary School will conducta car wash, at $5 each, at the Yea RACV,High St, yea from 8am-12 Noon this Satur-day (Mar. 12), says parent and fundraiserBridget Clarke.

Whittlesea Festival■ The City of Whittlesea Community Fes-tival will be held from 12.30pm-9pm on Sun-day, March 20, at the Public Gardens, BarryRd, Lalor. Attractions include music and cul-tural dance performances, community artactivities, kids and youth stages, market stalls,international foods and a fireworks finale.

Tennis Club day■ Yan Yean Tennis Club is holding an openday at the T.H. Hurrey Reserve from 10am-3pm on Sunday, April 17. There will be a freebarbecue, and a ball machine which childrenand adults can try without charge. Details areavailable from Doug Hamilton, phone 0438566 588.

Community Market■ The Saturday Community Market atWhittlesea College will be held on March 16.Details: 0419 357 395.

Cake stall at Yea■ The Yea Hospital and Rosebank Auxil-iary group will hold a Cake Stall and Raffleoutside Foodworks, High St, yea, from 9am-1pm on Saturday (Mar. 12). Donations ofcakes will be accepted. Phone: 0406 429 200.

●●●●● Jenna Kelley of Panton Hill CFA

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■ The opening of theYea and District His-torical Society andFamily ResearchRoom at the Yea Rail-way Station has beendelayed.

The room wasscheduled to beopened later thismonth.

However, the open-ing date has beenpushed back as shelv-ing, a phone line andthe internet have yet tobe installed.

The new openingdate will be announcedin a future issue of TheLocal Paper.

The opening of thereseach facilities ismuch anticipated.

Tourism numbersbecome unavailable

●●●●● Margaret Abbey, Shire CEO

■ Tourism visitationstatistics to Murrin-dindi Shire have be-come unavailable,Councillors have beentold.

“The GoulburnRiver Valley TourismBoard made a deci-sion not to renew thecontract with Data In-sights, and is under-taking discussionswith Roy Morgan Re-search to ascertain ifthere is another viablemechanism to collectvisitation statistics ona shire wide basis,”said a report to theFebruary 24 meeting.

The Council hasset targets for a 3 percent annual increasein day trips and over-night stays, but cur-rently has no way ofmeasuring if these tar-gets are beingachieved.

Visits to Visitor In-formation Centreshane increased.

“23,395 people vis-ited the four VisitorInformation Centresin October, Novemberand December 2015,”Councillors were told.

“This compares to19,854 for the sameperiod in 2014 - an in-crease of just under 18per cent over the year.”

The Council iscurrfently working onplans for the Alex-andra railway pre-cinct, and the GiantTrees Trail linking allState and NationalParks.

The Council wantsto help promote en-hanced tourism oppor-tunities and infrastruc-ture in the Shire suchas the Giant TreesTrail and Toolangi ZipLine.

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45,000 new residents■ A precinct struc-ture plan - including atownship centre - forDonnybrook andWoodstock was dis-cussed at a specialmeeting of WhittleseaShire Council lastweek.

Councillors weretold at the Tuesday(Mar. 1) meeting thatthe area is a nomi-nated growth areawithin the StateGovernment’s North-ern Growth CorridorPlan.

Key themes dis-cussed in this reportare:■ Development con-tributions and infra-structure■ Town Centre de-sign elements and con-figuration■ Biodiversity Con-servation areasLocal park loca-

●●●●● Plans of the Donnybrook precincttions■ Drainage align-ments and asset loca-tions■ Housing density re-quirements■ Treatment of theAPA gas pipelines.

The p[recinct cov-

ers approximately1785 hectares of landand is located ap-proximately 35kmfrom Melbourne’sCentral Business Dis-trict.

Existing busi-nesses, like the Don-

nybrook Hotel and theDonnybrook CheeseFarmhouse, have alsobeen recognised onthe plan.

The precinct cov-ers 54 properties andtwo road reserves.

Most of these prop-erties are owner-occu-pied and are currentlybeing used for farmingor rural residentialpurposes.

Currently, approxi-mately 65 per cent ofthe residential area isunder the control ofdevelopers.

It is anticipated thatat full build out the pre-cinct is likely to ac-commodate a popula-tion of more than45,000 residents andprovide for approxi-mately 3300 new jobs.

The retail area willinclude two super-markets.

World News

Yea project go-ahead■ A A$120,000 pro-ject, backed by theRotary Club of Yea,has been approved bythe Rotary Founda-tion.

News came in at3.35am Friday morn-ing that funding hadbeen officially sanc-tioned for the Day-springs Children’sVillage near Rusten-burg in South Africa.

It is the first ‘Glo-bal Grant’ forRotary’s District9790, which includeslocal clubs includingYea, Kinglake, Whitt-lesea, Diamond Creekand Eltham.

A social mediamessage congratu-

●●●●● Daysprings Children’s Village near Rustenburgin South Africa

lated Yea RotariansJulie Lynch, Glenda

Woods and RuthKonig, who have ac-

tively promoted theRustenburg project.

Yea News

Lions Club signs off■ Close to half-a-century’shistory has been completedwith the winding-up of the Li-ons Club of Yea.

Cash presentations to theYea Scouts and the L2P pro-gram have been made witheach organisation receiving$422.

Membership of the serviceclub had dwindled to four: RuthCrockett, Stewart Crockett,Frank Philp and Judy Murfin.

The Lions Club of Yea hasa rich history with achieve-ments including a busy op shop(through the Lions ladies), afood caravan, building of theYea Rotunda, Christmas din-ners in the Shire Hall, manyservice projects and fellowshipamongst members.

■ Don Cook bowled 2-5 in the Ruffy cricketside playing against Highlands at theMolesworth cricket ground, reports the Gran-ite News. Richard Eddy scored 41.

For Highlands, Cam Stewart bowled 2 for2 (off 2). Highlands won with nine balls tospare. Umpires were Duncan Ferguson andDavid Sleigh..

- Granite News

Youth mocks cops■ One of South Morang’s Jalal brothershas repeatedly mocked Police on social me-dia hours after being charged by counter-ter-rorism detectives.

Father, Michael, told the Herald Sun: “Myboys, I know they shouldn’t do that, but it’s allfake, it’s all make-up. It’s not a real gun, it’sjust a prank.”

- Whittlesea Leader

Banana shakes Crs■ Seymour Telegraph reader Mick Croziercommented on a person dressed as a bananaattending the Mitchell Shire Council meet-ing: “It just goes to show how thin skinnedsome of our past and present councillors forMitchell Shire are.

:The Mayor Sue Marstaeller, who quiteobviously does not have a sense of humour,spat her dummy and shut down the meeting.

“She is like so many councillors beforeher, full of her own importance, with her stat-ing ‘‘this is completely inappropriate and dis-respectful’’. All I can say is, well done AnnieGoble. Three cheers!”

- Seymour Telegraph

Tower up anyway■ A controversial mobile base station hasbeen installed in St Andrews despite hundredsof people signing a petition opposing it.

- Diamond Valley Leader

Legal challenge■ A Strathbogie Shire councillor has vowedto ‘lawyer up’ if council followed through withits threat to ban him from a discussion on thefuture of the shire’s public pools.

Cr Robin Weatherald was banned fromtaking part in this month’s meeting to discussa report and a survey on the future of theshire’s four pools and their viability.

Shire Deputy Chief Executive Officer PhilHoward said that Cr Weatherald had failedto “respect council’s policies in relation topublic comments and communications withthe media”.

- Euroa Gazette

Award knockback■ Maternal and child health nurses arethreatening strike action after a breakdown innegotiations over their enterprise agreementwith Yarra Ranges Council.

The 30 maternal and child healthcarenurses and 11 immunisation nurses want anextra week of annual leave.

- Lilydale Leader

Ombudsman visit■ Victorian Ombudsman Deborah Glass’sstaff will visit Mansfield on March 17 andwants to hear from people who have unre-solved issues about a state governmentagency or local council.

“My office is here to provide a free andfair service for Victorians who have a com-plaint about a government agency or depart-ment, or a local council,” Ms Glass said. Forappointments: phone 9613 6222

- Mansfield Courier

●●●●● Highlands v Ruffy at MolesworthPhoto: Scott McKay, Granite News

80 Years AgoFrom the Eltham & Whittlesea Shires

Advertiser. March 13, 1936

Future of StStephen’s, Mernda

Stormy Gathering Follows ServiceAfter removing his vestments, the Arch-

bishop with Mr Jessop returned and tookcharge of the meeting. The Archbishop thensaid, that he peronally and on behalf of thediocese wished to show how much the services of Mr Jessop were appreciated andhow grateful they all were for his .self.-sac-rificing and purely volun tary work. He thenhanded to Mr Jessop a cheque for £25.

The difficulties of the past would all nowbe remedied, because he had decided to givecharge of Mernda and Bundoora to Mr Page,of Whittlesea, and although he knew that theremust be financial .adjustments, he hoped theywould all accept the arrangement and hewould ask Bishop Booth to come up andmake the detailed arrangements.

This led to a very stormy meeting, al-though the Archbishop said it was not a meet-ing.

Diptheria fightat Eltham

Mild Epidemic in ShireAt the meeting of Eltham Council on

March 2, Dr Cordner reported a moderateepidemic of diphtheria at Hurstbridge,Cottie's Bridge, and Eltham and in all, 17cases of a mild nature had occurred;

As far as could be ascertained none ofthese persons had been imimunised.

There were a lso five cases of 'mild' scar-let fever, and one of typhoid, which inquiryindicated initiated from Coburg. There wasalso a mild epidemic of whooping cough..

Tennis challengeat Humevale

■ A challenge for a seven game tennismatch has been' ssued by Ex-Cpl Watts. toEx-Trpr Draper to decide the "Digger"Championship of Humevale. The challengeprovides that the gaines be played at theHumevale courts at 1.30pm. on Eight Hours'Day.

Women’s cricketat Kinglake

■ On Sunday next the, women's cric ketteam, the Raymonds will play Kinglake onthe home ground. Afternoon tea will be pro-vided by the ladies committee of theKinglake Cricket Club.

Farmers are busy picking peas and dig-ging potatoes. Crops could do with some; rain.

Ernie McDonald was one of the seventycountry boys to be picked for service on theVictorian Railways. Ernie commenced du-ties last Monday.

A meeting of the Kinglake Foot ball Clubwill be held shortly.

The Kinglake Cricket Club are to hold. aball in April.

Wandering stockMOTORIST STRIKES HORSE

Although Eltham is comparatively freefrom stock wandering on the roads, a. motor-ist was unfortunate enough to ,strike a horseheavily at the foot of the Hospital Hill; nearly£12 in damage to the vehicle being the result.

The. horsewas injured slightly.The animalwas walking across the 'road, and when thecar approached, it suddenly wheeled roundand was struck.

Whittlesea RoadIt is a miracle that more accidents do not

happen on the roads in Whittlesea Shire,where this question is of the utmost impor-tance to road users.

Herds of cattle are often to be found unat-tended on.' the roads, and at night it seemsthat even more are about.

Although there have been a number ofaccidents, none appear to have had.,any re-ally serious results so far.

●●●●● Photo Flashback. Lions Club of Yea membersat Molesworth: Rod Canning and Harold Purcell


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Local People

Sad passing of Ruth Konig■ Community worker Ruth Konigdied on Sunday (Mar. 6) just two daysafter her 73rd birthday.

Ruth had fought cancer, and wasadmitted to the Yea and District Me-morial Hospital. She told friends onFriday: “I thionk my race is run.”

Friends had gathered on Friday tocelebrate her birthday, and to sharethe news that the international Ro-tary Foundation is to financially sup-port a healthy water project in SouthAfrica that she had aqdvocated.

Ruth Konig had walked 900kilometres on the Camino Pilgrim-age from France to Spain in 2013 tohelp raise funds for the DayspringsChildren’s Village in South Africa.

Ruth and friend Robyn Kirbywalked the Pilgrimage in 47 days,and $20,000 was raised.

Sponsorship for the DayspringChildren’s Village was provided byindividuals, clubs and organisationsafter Ruth conducted many presen-tations at Rotary Clubs across thedistrict and at communityorganisations locally.

Support for DayspringsChildren’s Village had its genesissome years ago with the SacredHeart School students visiting aRotary meeting.

Interest was sparked, and supportgiven. Students from Yea PrimarySchool soon followed with donationsof clothing.

Friend and fellow Rotarian, JulieLynch, said: “Our Rotary theme thisyear is ‘Be a gift to the World’ andRuth certainly epitomised that withher advocacy, determination and in-domitable spirit – the Dayspringproject - ablution block, toilets and awaste water treatment plant.

“What an incredible journey pur-sued so passionately by Ruth. Shecan rest easy now that the projecthas finally been approved and theDayspring children and staff willbenefit from improved sanitation.”

Apart from the walk, Ruth raisedfunds through a variety of events in-cluding the book stall at the monthlyYea Community Market at RailwayPark.

Friends were quick to pay tributeto her life of service and communityinvolvement:

Sharyn Walker: “Ruth, youwhere a true inspiration to many in-cluding my sons Jake and Sam. Theworld is a better place for having youin it. You will be truly missed andnever forgotten, thank you.”

Cat McCluskey: "To Ruth. Yourlight shone in our lives infrequentlybut when it did it shone so brightlywe were all touched by your magic.

“I have a photograph of us when I

all of us forever. Thank you Ruth,rest now. xxx”

Sam Hicks: “Omg! So sorry tohear this news. What a huge loss forYea and her projects dear to her heart.I cherish the times back in YTA andwith the YAF. My thoughts are withall. RIP. Fly high lady, fly high.”

Phil Lusher: “A very sad day forher family, friends and Rotary. Goodbye Ruth Konig.”

Gary Doherty: “Ruth was anamazing women, who displayed de-termination that could only commandrespect . Your suffering is now over,may you Rest In Peace.”

Margaret Kilmartin: “Ruth wasan inspiration to so many and will besadly missed. Condolences to all.”

Zanni Waldstein: “What anamazing woman - I hope I get to belike Ruth at that age - incredible driveand energy and positivity. A sad loss.”

Jacqueline Kirby: “RIP Ruth!Glad I got to know you beyond justschool, always on the go! Alwayshelping others in need ! Very kindand selfless woman!”

Belinda Fisher: “Rest peacefullyRuth, your inspiration, drive and dedi-cation will be sorely missed.

Hannah Elizabeth Garlick:“Awww Ruth. Beautiful beautifullady. I will always remember you. Xx x”

Supattra Jittasathien: “Rest inPeace my super woman , you arealways in my heart.”

Tracey Ukosich: “Ruth was anamazing woman, so very involvedwith the community and her passingis a sad loss.”

Tori Glenister: “What a lovelylady, sad day for the Yea community.xo”

Ruth Byers: “Ruth, your drive,vision and determination is to be ad-mired. RIP.”

Kerry Noble: “Ruth Konig, youare an amazing woman, Teacher,Rotarian, God bless your soul.”

Don Cox: “An inspirational lady.Farewell Ruth.”

Allyson Dixon: “Very sad newsfor the Yea community.

Brett Perston: “So sad! She wasa lovely lady.”

Cheryl Edwards: “AwwwwLovely Woman! She did so muchfor our community.”

Tracy Pride-Elliott: “RIP Ruthyou where an amazing woman. xx”

Kelly Harris: “She was a veryspecial lady who will be deeplymissed.”

Ash O’Neill: “This is terrible tohear she was a lovely lady and agreat teacher.”

Louise Fillmore: “Thank youRuth for all of the wonderful thingsyou have done for our community!Very sad news. xxx”

Gaye Garlick: “A lovely lady whocontributed so much to our commu-nity along with the wider commu-nity.”

Erica Monagle: “So sorry to hearthis. Rest peacefully Ms.Konig x x”

Jan Wealands: “Such a positive,inspirational lady. Much admired. Ahuge loss to our community. ThanksRuth. X.”

Shona Miljkovic: “RIP Ruth. Itwas a pleasure to know and care foryou in your final days.”

Debra Collins: “Rest in peaceRuth you are amazing woman.”

Kelly McLeish: “How sad. Yeahas lost a very wonderful lady. RIP.”

●●●●● Ruth Konig at the end of her 900-km pilgrimage

●●●●● Ruth Konig on her Camino pilgrimage fund-raising walk

●●●●● Ruth Konig of Yea: passed away on Sunday (Mar. 6)

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was a baby in Australia, it is one ofmy most cherished possessions. Yourlast stay with us was wonderful Ruth,we were so glad you made it to us.

“Your next journey is beginningand wherever it takes you I knowyour light will shine as strong as ever.

“Thank you for being part of myfamily I love you. Catherine. RIPRuth xxx”

Lee Strahan: “To all who knewRuth. I was lucky enough to be withRuth over the weekend. She got tosee her global grant application ap-proved on Friday and celebrated her73rd birthday yesterday with familyand friends. She told David Ander-son on Friday night that she will bewatching from above. God bless youRuth. Now your most exciting jour-ney begins. I only hope you took yourlong walking stick with you. R.I.PRuth. Love Lee.”

Paul J. Bannan: “Aw Bugga! Shewas a wonderful lady, in every senseof the word ... a true inspiration tomany. I dips me lid.”

Bob Glenister: “So sorry to hearthis sad news. Barb and I will missher wonderful spirit and friendship.The ladies from the Yea market com-mittee will also miss this terrificlady.”

Elizabeth Fitzgerald: “A remark-able woman. RIP Ruth.”

Rebecca Gauci Maurici: “I'm sosorry. Ruth was an incredible womanand a wonderful Rotarian. Our con-dolences at with you all and her fam-ily. xx”

Heidi Neicho: “Such sad news.An amazing support to our youngpeople including the ongoing encour-agement to our daughter. Her deter-mination and courage will stay with ●●●●● Kids from the Dayspring Children’s Village, South Africa

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Living tribute to Ruth

Local People: Ruth KonigKathryn Natalie: “Sorry to hear

this. My sympathies with families andfriends, rest in peace

Meagan Callander: “Sad news.”Ian Davies: “RIP, an inspiration

this lady.”Deb Kaak: “I'm so very sorry to

hear that.”Suzi Essex: “RIP Ms Konig, such

a lovely lady.”Sheena Smith: “RIP A lovely ladyJan Tull: “RIP Ruth”Jess Holt: “Oh wow. RIP Mrs

Konig. A great teacher at YHS. Manymemories.”

Sue Stanley: “Sad news.”Emma Baynes: “RIP Ruth.”Matt Kells: “Rest in peace Ruth.”Sam K Wareham: “RIP Ruth.”Jane Marks: “Very sad news.”Phil Macdonald: “Bye Ruth.”Hendrik Wortmann: “Sorry to

hear this. Rest in Peace!”Don Baker: “RIP Ruth. Condo-

lences to the family.”

with the Sacred Heart PrimarySchool in Yea, jointly funded aproject to install a bore at the orphan-age and school.

The project will provide the schoolwith a modern sanitation and ablu-tion block, and the recycled grey wa-ter will be used as irrigation on thecommunity’s vegetable block.

Ruth Konig wass delighted withthe funding that the project has re-ceived from the Rotary Foundation.

“It has taken over two years tocomplete the project submission anda lot of hard work on the part ofRotarians in both Yea and in SouthAfrica but we have achieved ouraim,” she said just prior to her deathon Sunday.

“ The children, the staff and theDayspring volunteers will benefitfrom the project and it’s more healthyoutcomes”, she said.

Rotary District 9790 is home to65 Rotary clubs stretching from thenorthern suburbs of Melbourne toHolbrook and Deniliquin, and in-cludes the Shepparton/GoulburnValley area as well as the Albury/Wodonga area.

Founded in 1917, The RotaryFoundation provides funds to RotaryClubs for projects both locally andinternationally.

- with David Anderson

●●●●● From Page 7

●●●●● Clockwise from left: Robyn Kirby, Ann Drysdale, Ian Lynch, Julie Lynch, Glenda Woods, Ruth Konig and Sandra Hanley.

●●●●● Ruth Konig and Sandra Hanley.

PHOTO: DAVID ANDERSON

●●●●● Ruth Konig on her travels

●●●●● Rotary projects were dear to Ruth’s heart

■ The healthy water projects inSouth Africa will be an ongoing trib-ute to the selfless life of Yea womanRuth Konig.

The Rotary Club of Yea receivednews on Friday morning that itsproject was the recipient of the firstGlobal Grant from the Rotary Foun-dation to be awarded to a club inRotary District 9790.

The grant is for a project to de-liver an ablution block and biologi-cal waste water treatment plant atDayspring Children’s Village nearRustenburg in South Africa.

The grant received by the club isfor $A53,000. The Rotary Club ofYea $A27,000. A similar contributionhas come from the Rotary District9790 Foundation, whilst smallercontributions came from the hostclub and District in South Africa.

Total cost of the project is$A123,000]

Dayspring Children’s Village isan orphanage and school providinga safe environment and education forchildren who are the victims of pov-erty and whose parents have beenaffected by AIDS/HIV.

This is the second project under-taken by the Rotary Club of Yea atDayspring but the first involving aRotary Foundation grant.

In 2009, the club in partnership

●●●●● Healthy food and water are being provided at Daysprings


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●●●●● Richard Ewe of Gembrook with Kim Dalziel of Cora Lynn●●●●● John McGregor of Upton Hill with Mel Kelly-Hamilton of Pakenham

●●●●● Alan Munro of Costerfield (ex-Molesworth) and Paul Connors of Lockington

●●●●● Ian McLeish, sewing machine collector, of St Andrews ●●●●● John Sparks of Wallan

●●●●● Kelvin Gaskell of Whittlesea with his 1925 Fordson Model F ●●●●● Chris Minns of Bundoora with an early 1900s drag saw

●●●●● Cecil Lieschke of Walla Walla

Local People Whittlesea Autumn Heritage Rally

Photos: Ash Long


Local HistoryPages From The Past30 Years Ago:

Don’t like it, go! Early days at Molesworth

■ “If they don’t like what we’ve got in Aus-tralia, and what we’ve got to offer, they oughtto turn around and go home, “ RSL State Presi-dent Bruce Ruxton said of Asian people whenhe spoke to the Yea sub-branch ‘smoke night’in 1986 - 30 years ago.

“There are too many Asians coming intoAustralia ... You have an inherit right to de-cide who comes into Australia. There shouldbe one Australia for all Australians. We’veeffectively fractured this country.”

Peg Lade speaks■ Tom Diganm took the chair at the annualgeneral meeting of the local Brownies for theelection of office bearers: Heather Hilde-brand, President; Bev Matthews, Vice-Presi-dent; Lesley Gaffney, Secretary; and LorrainePurvis, Treasurer. Guest speaker was PegLade who told of the time of her daughter andson-in-law spent in Pakistan and Afghani-stan.

Rod, you beaut■ Reader Marylyn contributed an article, 30years ago, headlined ‘Rodney, you beaut!’:“Anyone who had their eyes glued to the tele-cast of the Australian Open Swimming Cham-pionships at Adelaide over the weekendwould have noticed the note of surprise in thevoices of the commentators when RodneyLawson swam his way into the Common-wealth Games team with a magnificent swimin the Men’s 200-metre breast stroke final.”

Black-tie affair

●●●●● Yea RSL sub-branch PresidentMaurie Spanjer, State President BruceRuxton and Yea RSL Senior Vice-Presi-dent Ken Moore

■ It was a black-tie affair at Sacred HeartCatholic Church, Yea, in 1986 when MonicaMahon married David Buckley. Monica woreher Grandmother Hauser’s 60-year-old wed-ding dress made from cream wool lace.

Matron-of-honour was the bride’s sister,Mrs Thérèse McGergor, who wore a lace andtuille frock in similar style to the bride’s gown.Monica is the daughter of Mr and Mrs JohnMahon of ‘Lisieux’, Killingworth.

100 Years Ago:ANZAC medallions■ “The children attending the Yea StateSchool have disposed of 265 of the medal-lions which were issued by the EducationDepartment in commemoration of Anzac Day.The amount realised by the sales was £8,which has been paid into the EducationDepartment's Patriotic Funds, said the 1916report.

●●●●● Thérèse McGregor looks on asDavid Buckley and Monica Mahonmarry at Sacred Heart Catholic Church.

●●●●● Goulburn River, Molesworth. Circa 1912. ●●●●● Molesworth Bridge. 1910-30. Photo: L. Cumming

●●●●● Molesworth picnic. Circa 1909. ●●●●● Molesworth picnic. Circa 1909.

●●●●● Molesworth Bridge. 1910-30. Photo: L. Cumming ●●●●● Entrance to Molesworth Railway Station.

●●●●● Molesworth. Mansfield train leaving. 1912. ●●●●● Goulburn River, Molesworth. Circa 1914.


●●●●● Peter Armstrong and Steph Webb help raise funds for the Yea and District

Children’s Centre, at the Yea Community Market at the Railway Station

●●●●● Larry Taylor of Highlands has been instrumental in Yea’s collection

of secondhand tools, bound for Taveuni island in Fiji after their cyclone

●●●●● Daves Bates at Gallery 34 with works by Linda Macaulay of Eltham

●●●●● Harmony Day was celebrated in Yea on Saturday at Yea Country Market. From left: Denzil Baker,

Jessica Brooks, Carren Hedger, Namoi McNamara, Dallas Woods and Tine Demelo, performing indigenous hip hop.

●●●●● Meagan Callander and David Pelosi ●●●●● Rotarians David Anderson (Yea), and Lee Strachan (Sunbury)

●●●●● Lauren Baker helps Jodie O’Neill at the Yea Sweet Co., 36 High St.

Local People Around Yea

Photos: Ash Long


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St Mary’s CARNIVAL 2016

11am-4pm. Sunday, March 20

Spinning Wheel • Face Painting • Pre-Loved Clothing

Food Hall • Cake Stall • Books • Produce

Mini Golf • Plants • Trash n Treasure

Showbags • Treats/Lolly Stall • Pop-Up Market Stalls

Hair Cuts • Secondhand Uniforms

BBQ • Raffles • Carnival Rides

Drinks • Krispy Kreme Doughnuts

St Mary’s College, Seymour

Come One, Come All

Lots of fun for the whole family

Pre-purchase a wristband and enjoy unlimited rides all day.

Wristband orders will soon be taken at the School Office and handed out on the day.

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Saturday 8am-12 Noon


Rural News

Record prices at stud sale■ An advertising campaign in The Local Paperpreceded a record-sale top price and record av-erage sale price for Le Martres Annual BullSale.

Leon A. Martin, Managing Director ofGrosvenor Range Pty Ltd, and Le MartresLimousin Stud Principal, reports that bulls inexcellent condition , with outstanding musclingand big 'butts', were presented

“In total 30 head; three mature bulls and 27yearling bulls, were offered in three colors: apri-cots, dark reds and blacks and, many bulls werepolled.

“Buyers came from as far north as TaralgaNSW and as far south as Toora (South Gipps-land).

“Eighty per cent of buyers were repeat cus-tomers and 20 per centwere first time buyersand, now join the Le Martres team,” Mr Mar-tin said.

“Thirty bulls were offered and 20 bulls sold ,67 per cent clearance: 10 apricot, 1 dark red andnine black bulls.

“The bulls were up to 16 months of age.“A new record sale top price of $7750 plus

GST was achieved twice.“A new record average sale price of $4900

plus GST (was registered),” Mr Martin said.Jack and Cheryl DeVanney of Gooram via

Euroa are the proud new owners of Le MartresBlack Kennedy K54, purchased for top sale priceof $7750 plus GST. LEM Kennedy weighed640 kg LWT and recorded a scrotal circumfer-ence of 40 cm. ●●●●● Peter and Leonie Adams of Staghorn Flat via Wodonga, proud new owners.

●●●●● David and Jill Weidner of Balldale NSW ●●●●● Hayden Need of Toora, new owner of Le Martres Kieran K37

●●●●● Winston and Glenys Hall of Burrumbuttock NSW ●●●●● Jack and Cheryl DeVanney of Gooram via Euroa

Local News

Open day at Lodge■ Have you ever wanted to see inside aFreemasons’ lodge room?

An open day is being held at the Greens-borough Masonic Centre, 23 Ester St, from9am-3pm on Saturday, March 19.

There will be a free sausage sizzle, teaand coffee. This is a rare opportunity to takea tour of a building not often open to the pub-lic.

Alex. Masons meet■ Stuart Dale, Secretary of Albert VictorLodge, Alexandra, says the next meeting ofthat organisation will be held at Cafe Alex,Grant St, at 7.30pm, Thursday, March 17.An informal meeting will be held.

Renovations at the Lodge’s centre areexpected to be completed by the end of themonth.

Harvest Picinc Day

●●●●● Sacred Heart School pupils -

Oliver Bree, Shanae Baker, Riley

Slevin, Grace Cunningham -

prepare for Harvest Picinc Day

■ The Connected Garden - Harvest PicnicDay will be held on Thursday, March 17 atthe Yea Recreation Reserve.

The Harvest Picnic is the grand finale ofthe Connected Garden Program.

This program has been encouraging chil-dren to grow and eat fresh food to come to-gether to share their experiences - boththrough a blog, theconnectedgarden.wordpress.com, and a Harvest Picnic at theend of the project.

The Connected Garden has been fundedthis year by Kinglake Ranges Foundation,and has included funding for irrigation andtimers to go into the participating gardens.

People with overgrown zucchinis areasked to donate them to the Yea CommunityHouse or Manafest Café for the zucchinistacking competition.

The program ran for the first time in 2014-15 with seven schools and centres.

Following on from the success of this ithas expanded this year to 11 schools andchildren’s centres - Yea Primary, SacredHeart Primary, Toolangi Primary, High-lands Primary, Yea and District Children’sCentre, Yea High School, Kinglake Primary,Kinglake Ranges Children’s Centre, MiddleKinglake Primary, Kinglake West Primaryand Flowerdale Primary.

For more information, contact ZanniWaldstein at the Yea Community House on5797 3070.


Local News

Court Lists

Seymour Magistrates’ Court -Criminal Case Listings

Thursday, March 10Plaintiff / Informant / Applicant vsDefendant / Accused / Respondent.Information Division.

Victoria Police v Smith,Michael. Uni-Wallan

Victoria Police v Parkyn, FrankRupert. Uni-Harrow

Victoria Police - Infringement vCarter, Aaron. Melbourne

Victoria Police v Ford, Callum.Uni-Wallan

Victoria Police v Tomlinson,Mark Paul. Socit-Seymour

Victoria Police v Parkin,Terrence. Socit-Seymour

Victoria Police v Ajder, Darko.Uni-Wallan

Victoria Police v Browne, Chris-topher. Operations Response Unit

Victoria Police v Smith,Michael. Uni-Wallan

Victoria Police v Skilling,Samual. Uni-Nagambie

Victoria Police v Brandi, Brett.Uni-Seymour

Victoria Police v Grantham,Kye. Operations Response Unit

Victoria Police v Lombardo,Zachary. Traffic Camera Office

Victoria Police - Infringement vBurdett, Adam John. Melbourne

Victoria Police v Hashoush,Abdal Rahman. Uni-Seymour

Victoria Police v Smart, Peter.Traffic Camera Office

Victoria Police v Bianco,Francis. Traffic Camera Office

Community Corrections Centrev Mckenzie, Stephen Clay. Com-munity Corrections Centre

Community Corrections Centrev Mckenzie, Stephen Clay. Com-munity Corrections Centre

Victoria Police v Lombardo,Zachary. Traffic Camera Office

Victoria Police v Clayton, KylieAnn. Socit-Seymour

Victoria Police v Chaaban,Khassan. Uni-Seymour

Victoria Police v Ramdhayam,Anil Sharma. Highway Patrol-Seymour

Victoria Police v Chant, RobertJohn. Highway Patrol-Seymour

Victoria Police v Sanderson,Mitchell John. Uni-Wallan

Victoria Police v Sanderson,Mitchell John. Highway Patrol-Seymour

Victoria Police v Biddle,Geoffrey John. Highway Patrol-Seymour

Victoria Police v Laurie, AlanJames. Highway Patrol-Seymour

Victoria Police v Mcqueen, JakeRobert. Uni-Seymour

Victoria Police v Webster, Ri-chard. Uni-Broadford

Victoria Police - Toll Enforce-ment v Neuchew, Nicholas.Melbourne

Victoria Police v Willison, MattUni-Kilmore

Victoria Police v Conci, ShanePaul. Uni-Nagambie

Victoria Police v Smith, Noel.Uni-Seymour

Victoria Police v Willcocks,Darren Leigh. Uni-Seymour

Victoria Police v Maher, AlanPeter. Highway Patrol-Seymour

Victoria Police v Jack, DanielWilliam. Uni-Seymour

Victoria Policev Dickson, JamesEdward. Uni-Seymour

Victoria Police v Hall, Brent.Ciu-Mitchell

Victoria Police v Hall, Brent.Ciu-Mitchell

Community Corrections Centrev Neuchew, Nicholas. CommunityCorrections Centre

Victoria Police v O'shea, Nicho-las John. Socit-Greater Dandenong

Victoria Police v Abdullah,Mohammed. Uni-Seymour

Victoria Police v Short, StephenCiu-Mitchell

Victoria Police v Short, StephenUni-Seymour

Victoria Police v Dryden, John.Uni-Healesville

Victoria Police v Burton, Joshua.Uni-Seymour

Victoria Police v Findlay, Jenni-fer Lee. Uni-Nagambie

Victoria Police v Loder, Glen.Uni-Wallan

Victoria Police v Edwards,Dylan Stephen. Uni-Kilmore

Victoria Police v Selim, Fred-erick Willam. Highway Patrol-Seymour

Victoria Policev Smits, Martin.Traffic Camera Office

Victoria Police v Dean, Brett.Ciu-Mitchell

Victoria Police v Dryden,Michael. Ciu-Alexandra

Victoria Police v Dryden, JohnLeigh. Ciu-Alexandra

Victoria Police v Dickson,James Edward. Uni-Seymour

Victoria Police v Gribble, Tif-fany Louise. Uni-Nagambie

Victoria Police v Gribble,Joshua. Uni-Nagambie

Victoria Police v Loder, GlennMatthew. Highway Patrol-Seymour

Victoria Police v King, Johnny.Uni-Seymour

Victoria Police v Amoroso,Damien Ronald. Office Of TheChief Commissioner

Victoria Police v Green, Jarrod.Uni-Sunshine

Victoria Police v Loder, GlenMatthew. Uni-Seymour

Victoria Police v Loder, GlenMatthew. Dtu-Seymour

Victoria Police v Short, Stephen.Uni-Seymour


Victoria Police v Parsons,Travis Ewan. Socit-Seymour


Community Corrections Centrev Short, Stephen Joseph. Commu-nity Corrections Centre

Community Corrections Centrev Garbutt, Leigh. Community Cor-rections Centre

Victoria Police v Carter, Aaron.Ciu-Hume

Victoria Police v Thompson,Nicolas. Office Of The Chief Com-missioner

Victoria Police v Branov, Paula.Dtu-Seymour

Victoria Police v Mckenzie,Stephen. Ciu-Hobsons Bay

Victoria Police v Mckenzie,Stephen Clay. Mounted Branch

Community Corrections Centrev Neuchew, Nicholas. CommunityCorrections Centre

Australian Taxation Office vBurdett, Adam. Melbourne

Community Corrections Centrev Garbutt, Leigh. Community Cor-rections Centre

Community Corrections Centrev Short, Stephen. Community Cor-rections Centre

Community Corrections Centrev Doyle, Christopher. CommunityCorrections Centre

Community Corrections Centrev Loder, Glenn Mathew. Commu-nity Corrections Centre

Victoria Police v Mckenzie,Stephen Clay. Socit-Fawkner

Friday, March 11Victoria Police v Robbins,

Daniel Robert. Office Of The ChiefCommissioner

Mitchell Shire Council v Cruz,Winston. Mitchell Shire Council

Mitchell Shire Council v Galea,Carmen Jean. Mitchell Shire Coun-cil

Mitchell Shire Council vTippins, Jessica Dawn. MitchellShire Council

Victoria Police v Brown, AdamWilliam. Dtu-Seymour

Victoria Police v Brown, AdamWilliam. Uni-Seymour

Victoria Police v Brown, AdamSocit-Diamond Creek

Mitchell Shire Council vMcarthur, Leigh Robert. MitchellShire Council

Mitchell Shire Council v

Crowley, Scott David. MitchellShire Council

Mitchell Shire Council v Th-ompson, Jody Lea. Mitchell ShireCouncil

Mitchell Shire Council v ZahraMargaret Adaline. Mitchell ShireCouncil

Mitchell Shire Council vBamford, Robert James. MitchellShire Council

Mitchell Shire Councilv DeanTanya Kathleen. Mitchell ShireCouncil

Victoria Police v Brown, AdamUni-Seymour

Mitchell Shire Council vStephenson, Chontel. Broadford

Victoria Police v Coyle, AndrewUni-Wallan

Victoria Police v Coombe,Philip Taylor. Socit-Seymour

Victoria Police v Luttgens,Tanya Lee. State Hwy Patrol-Cen-tral

Civil ListTuesday, March 15

Hume Anglican Grammar Lim-ited v Mclean, Chris

Murrindindi Shire Council vMccarter, Maria Concetta

Mansfield Magistrates’ CourtWednesday, March 9

Criminal Case ListingsCivil List

Wednesday, March 16Mansfield Shire Council v

Konyn, Danny JohnGoulburn Valley Water v Bray

David

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Auskick at Yea■ NAB Auskick will be at the Yea Recre-ation Reserve on Friday, April 15. Enquiriesto Tate McGillivray on 0417 556 376.

Hawaii theme■ An Hawaiian theme was celebrated at theYea Seniors meeting held at St Luke’s onMonday this week (Mar. 7).

Gerhard’s 80th■ Members of Yea’s Men Shed were due togather last night to celebrate member GerhardLudtke’s 80th birthday. The community din-ner, held by Mannafest today (Wed.) at theYea Railway Park, will also celebrate.

Fev’s time in Yea■ Is the remour true that footballer BrendanFevola mentioned Yea’s Royal Mail Hotelduring a discussion about food on I’m A Ce-lebrity Get Me Out Of Here.

●●●●● In the clubhouse at Yea Golf Club on Saturday afternoon were Carl Muaffei,

Jeff Aurisch and Bruce Kindred.

Local People

Yea RSL meets■ The March meeting of the Yea-KinglakeRSL Sub-Branch will meet one week ear-lier than normal in March because of Easter.Secretary Ken Howson says the get-togetherwill be at 12 Non on Friday, March 18, fol-lowed by a barbecue lunch. Members arenecouraged to b ing a friend / adult familymember. Please avise attendances, in ad-vance, by phone: 0439 973 305.

Curious policy■ Murrindindi Shire Council Chief Execu-tive Officer Margaret Abbey reportedly tolda media outlet that the Council was guilty ofa “genuine oversight” when it organised acommunity safety forum on the same day asthe monthly council meeting.

She said the meeting for Yea residents hadbeen advertised in the Marysville Triangle,the Alexandra Standard and King-lake’sMountain Monthly magazine?

How many Marysville, Alexandra andKinglake residents are interested in Yea town-ship safety issues, ask a number of local resi-dents.

Nola suffers fall■ Nola Yorston, of North St, Yea, suffered aserious fall on Saturday afternoon. Her son,Anthony, who was at the property, was ableto assist. X-rays have followed this week.

Store Sale on Fri.■ Yea’s monthly store cattlke sale will takeplace at the Selling Complex from 10.30am.The usual agents - Rodwells, Elders andLandmark - are handling the arrangements.

Blue Light event■ Leading Sen. Const. Jane Marks of YeaPolice advises that the Blue Light event willbe held at the Yea Shire Hall on Friday, March18. The Prep-Grade 6 event will take placefrom 5.30pm-7.30pm; the Year 7-12 event isscheduled for 8pm-10pm. Cost is $6. BlueLight is run by local Police and valued volun-teers.

Chicken Chatter■ Neil Penny, an ex-commercial poultry pro-ducer and judge, will be held at 1pm at theChicken Chatter session to be held this Sat-urday (March 12) at the Yea CommunityHouse. Discussion topics inlude breed selec-tion (egg, meat and dual purpose birds), back-yard breeding, self sufficiency andsustainability, processing a bird for the din-ner table.

Thanks Yea■ The collection of tools, clothing and othergoods from Yea families for Taveuni Island,Fiji, is continuing until the end of the month.More than $20,000 worth of goods and toolshave been collected to date.

●●●●● From left: Jack Christie, Ethan

Aldous and Nathan Beattie at the Yea

Rec. on Saturday with trophies from

the Yea Tigers Cricket Club presenta-

tion night. More details and photos are

on Page 23.

Junior champions


130 Years of Local Press

Major Purcell takes on a newspaper■ Major Frederick George Purcellwas proprietor of The Yea Choniclefrom January 1, 1907, until hisuntimelyand sudden death on August16, 1927 at age 52.

When he purchased the newspa-per business from Norman DugaldFerguson, Purcell launched into printwith his first editorial:

“With this issue of The.YeaChronicle 1 make my debut into thejournalistic world, having purchasedthe land, buildings, machinery, good-will. etc.. from the late proprietor,Mr N. D. Ferguson , and from thisdate forward the Yea Chronicle willbe conducted by me.

“My action in purchasing TheChronicle was not the sudden im-pulse of the moment, or the embrac-ing of an opportunity which just nowpresented itself, but a calm, deliber-ate, well thought out line of actionthat I conceived fully 10 years ago.

“It is my first actual ownership orpecuniary interest in any journial, butby no means the first time I haveshown a liking for journalism.

“I have for many year been a con-tributor, not onlyto the local and citypapers bit to papers in every part ofthe world that I have at various timesbeen located, having advocated andinstituted reforms and movementswhich I have had the extreme satis-faction of seeing carried into effect.

“A man to successfully conduct apaper (particularly in the country)must not be an egotist, rather shouldhe suffer from a consciousness ofhis own helpless insignificance.

“I have in my travels met andbrushed against many of the intel-lects of the world, and there is noth-ing I know more likely to make aman of anybody than to associate

regret to have to admit, I do not nowpossess, having bought my experi-ence.

“In each case I have philosophi-cally resigned myself to the inevit-able, believing with the Chinamanthat "the glory is not in never falling,but in rising every time you fall."

“Reverses are good for any man,and every man should have them,and I glory in my misfortune.

“My experiences have been var-ied, and as a young man with widepractical experience, I feel I am quiteequal to the task I have voluntarilyimposed upon myself.

“I am deeply interested in the wel-fare of this district; be it lamb rais-ing, wool growing. timber, dairying,commercial pursuits, gold, &c., allof which I have some knowledge andof some, expert knowledge. of 1 amalways anxious to help along practi-cally anything for the good of the dis-trict, country, or nation from animnprovement 'in a mouse or rabbittrap to a torpedo or flying machine.

“The retiring proprietor, in.hisfarewell article, doesnot paint a par-ticularly bright picture for me.

“He says: "The life of a countryeditor is not all wine and roses."

“This, I hope, will induce my read-ers to sympathise with me some-what, but what is all wine and roses.Nothing.

“Everything has its drawbacks,and so has the proprietorship of acountry paper.

A man must make enemies or heis no man. A writer of note says:"Show me a man who has no en-emies, and you show me a fool."

“I have them. I know it and amproud of it; but, however much theiropinion may differ from mine, letthem always be charitable.

“I hold a grudge against no manin this district. I am born and bred inyour district, and have been a school-mate of many who will in future bemy reader, and in takintg over the

Yca Chronicle, I can assure every-body of fair and generous treatmentwhen they deserve it, but will alsoreserve to my self the right (in thepublic interest) to impose censureshould it be deserved.

“No columns in, the Common-.wealth will be more easily accessibloto the general public to advocate re-forms or anything for the welfare andadvancement of the dis trict, no col-umns more rigidly closed to anybodyhurling personal abuse or stirring updissention in this community.

“Should any of my readers or thegeneral public at any time feel hurtover some little slip (they are boundto happen, however careful one maybe) adopt the manly and straightfor-ward course of going to headquar-ters, and ask if it is meant.

“A little explanation often clearsup what appear to be great difficul-ties, and often makes firmer friendsof the parties concerned, but secretdiscontent must always end disas-trously.

“I will put as much vigor, as timewill permit, into The Chronicle, and Ihope for the solid support of the wholecommunity, without which, successis impossible.

“The success I look for will notbe the amount of wages I pay, or themoney I make out of The Chronicle.

“If on my retirement, 1 cannotpoint to some good useful and per-manent reforms or improvements inthe district, then I will consider I havefailed, and failed badly, even if I re-tire a millionaire.

“I have my idea of what journal-ism should be, and cannot reconcileor. submit myself to the. dominanceor worship of the Almighty Dollar,which seems to be the highest idealwith many 19th century papers,”Major Purcell said.

The previous proprietor, NormanFerguson, had published a column,“Interregnum” (a period when nor-mal government is suspended, espe-cially between successive reigns orregimes), in his final edition for 1906(December 20).

The Kilmore Free Press later pub-lished that Ferguson was born at‘Flowerdale’ station, Strath Creek,being the third son of DonaldFerguson, “a popular settler in thatdistrict, and one of the most promi-nent in municipal affairs in connec-tion with the Broadford RoadBoard.

Ferguson died on May 30, 1929,at Armadale, and was rememberedas “of retiring disposition, a finetype of Australian native, and onewho was deservedly trusted andhighly esteemed by all who had op-portunity of estimating his admirablequalities.”

After he sold the Yea newspaper,Ferguson was connected with theStock and Station Journal inBendigo when he was invited to starta Melbourne-based stock and landnewspaper.

The first edition of Stock andLand was on the streets on July 1,1914. The weekly paper, now con-trolled by the Fairfax Media group,still survives giving a wide range ofnews and views of concern to thoseinvolved with the pastoral, agricul-tural, horticultural, wool, machineryand property trading.

Stock and Land billed itself as the"official organ of the AssociatedStock and Station Agents ofMelbourne".

It was published three times aweek to coincide with the oldNewmarket livestock selling days,and replaced the Melbourne Stock& Station Journal, which for manyyears was published as a weekly tocarry reports of livestock sales.

The idea to print three times aweek was to ensure farmers had themost up-to-date information.

Stock & Land targeted livestockand landholders in Victoria and theRiverina and initially cost one half-penny, until 1918 when the pricechanged to one penny.

A subscription set cost £5.Norman Ferguson prided him-

self in being the first man from theland to run a newspaper such as thisand outlaid a substantial amount ofmoney to get it off the ground.

In his final Yea Chronicle edito-rial, Ferguson indicated that he haddone well financially from the en-terprise.

“1 stood behind more money,made more money, and spent farmore money in Yea than did any ofmy predecessors.

“This is not a favor frorn you nora concession by me; it is the simplerecognition on both sides of an ordi-nary busitess principle.”

Ferguson said the printing andpublishing company was worth threetimes than the evening he took de-livery of the business in 1900.

●●●●● The Yea Chronicle office. High St, Yea. c. 1910.

●●●●● Studio portrait of Lieutenant Frederick George Purcell in the

uniform of the Victorian Mounted Rifles taken prior to his embark-

ing for the South African war with the 4th Victorian (Imperial) Con-

tingent. Photo: Andrew Barrie and Henry Weedon,

Talma Studios. c. 1900

●●●●● An informal portrait of Ma-

jor Frederick George Purcell,

the Assistant Director of Re-

mounts, at the Remount Depot

in Maribyrnong. c. 1916.

with those who are intellectually yoursuperiors, and to be aware of andadmit the fact.

“This is, and has always been myhappy state. Whatever my know-ledge may be on any subject I amalways open to conviction..

“I am anxious to learn, and will-ing to be taught. I have for a man of30 years had a wide and varied ex-perience.

“I have served in the capacity ofoffice boy, run messages, swept thefloor, and n response to the ring ofmy then employer,ran forthreepennyworth of snuff.

“Within seven years I had servedin every military rank from Trooperto Major, was the youngest man withthe rank of Major in the British Army,and hold the enviable distinction ofbeing the first Aus tralian officer thatorganised a purely Australian regi-ment after the con summation of theCommonwealth by special selectionand under the personal direction ofGeneral Lord Kitchener, the moststriking personality in the BritishArmy to-day.

“I was also specially selected toreport (a practical test) on the horsesof the various countries in use inSouth Africa, and furnish a report tothe House of Commons, and wasalso appointed as assistant directorof Field Force Canteen for all SouthAfrica, in consequence of organisingcapacity- an institution that had aturnover of £2,000,000 per annum,

“In each case I acquitted myselfwith credit, and in this, my nativetown and district, shared, and !thepublic of Yea have by handsome pre-sentations, addresses, &c., acknowl-edged the fact, and to then I owe adebt of gratitude that I sincerely hopethat in my new capacity I will be init some way able to return.

“I have suffered reverees in thelast few years, not from any lack ofbusiness capacity, but through a pro-found faith in human nature, which I



At war with ‘the opposition paper’■ For just on four years near thestart of the last century, a spirited warwas carried out between two weeklynewspapers in Yea.

Major Frederick George Purcellhad purchased the business of TheYea Chronicle from Norman DugaldFerguson at the start of 1907.

The first issue of ‘the oppositionpaper’, The Yea Telephone and Up-per Goulburn Advocate, hit thestreets on January 29, 1908.

There were 337 weekly issues ofThe Telephone, with it finally beingincorporated into The Yea Chronicleon March 6, 1912.

Both newspapers commencedbusiness in Station St, Yea. The YeaChronicle had commenced on Oc-tober 22, 1885, as The Yea Telegraphfrom premises believed to be nearwhere the Cassell family residencewas built in Station St.

The business changed “phoenix-like” to The Yea Chronicle after itsissue of April 17, 1890.

The Yea Telephone business wasstarted by the O’Brien brothers -Denis and Frank - from ‘The Hall’,believed to be the Temperance Hall,also in Station St.

It appears that they shared thebuilding with G.O. Forbes, grocer.

(The hall had opened in April 1885,according to the Alexandra and YeaStandard.)

The Yea Chornicle moved to 36High St, where the Yea Sweet Co shoptrades today.

The Yea Telephone moved to about56 High St, where the Yea Proven-der Bakery operates in 2016.

Within a month or so of comm-encing publication, The Yea Tele-phone approached the Yea Councilfor a slice of the Shire’s printing con-tract, which was worth £60 per year.

Likewise, The Yea Telephone ap-proached The Yea and MansfieldDairy Co. for its business.

The Chronicle’s proprietor, Ma-jor Frederick G. Purcell, seems tohave regarded these commercialapproaches as a business and per-sonal affront.

Over the coming years, readershad ringside seats to the battle, whichwas given more space than plans tosubmerge the town under the con-troversial Trawool scheme.

Major Purcell started proceed-ings in April 1908, with commentsthat his competitors, the O’Brien

Brothers, were guilty of “boastful,blundering attacks on citizens whosereputations are above reproach”.

It is possible there was an anti-Irish-Catholic tone to the O’Brien’s,in the Major’s approach.

He said: “They frequently in pri-vate conversation refer to this as aBritish country, and very often al-lude to British fair play, which, ofcourse, is a phrase that is commonlyand exclusively used by none butabsolutely loyal subjects of this glo-rious Empire. People who arepreparted to fight for it. No othersneed apply.”

Month after month, the O’BrienBrothers applied to the Yea Councilfor a share of the printing and ad-vertisements.

At the Dairy Company meetingof April 1908, the directors were toldof a critical letter from Mr Hoarepublished in The Yea Telephone.

Director Mr Hamilton said thatshowed the usefulness of two papersin a township: “Both sides of a ques-tion were placed before the people.

The paper quoted Mr Purcell:“Yes; but it is not everyone who canrun a paper; it takes a man of talent.”

A petition, signed by several hun-dred people, was gathered, suggest-ing that the Council share its busi-ness between the two Yea newspa-pers.

Major Purcell’s newspapereditorialised: “The utter absurdity ofany two individual members of acommunity attempting to solicit theaid of a body of people in a trumperymatter of this sort while value is be-ing given for money expended, issheer presumption and unadulteratedcheek.”

“We have no doubt the document,if ever it gets to the council table,will meet with the fate it deserves -the W.P.B.

“The mere fact of dividing theprinting simply because another pa-per has come amongst us, would bemaniacal for various reasons.”

Major Purcell criticised The YeaTelephone’s coverage of a meetingof the Yea Rifle Club:

“It contained as many lies as dif-ferent styles of type.”

He criticised The Yea Telephone’sjournalist: “The represenattive of theother paper had no right to enter thefestive room, and the person whoauthorised him to go in had no busi-ness to do so.

“No one knew that the reporter ofthe paper referred to had left theroom even by request.”

The Major was himself subjectedto the spotlight when he was involvedin an incident at the Yea Railway Sta-tion. He wrote a letter to the editor ofhis own newspaper:

“On Friday night last I had occa-sion to meet an elderly lady arrivingby the late train.

“It was very wet and I naturallydrew by buggy close to the entranceto the porch leading to the platformunder a big lamp so that she couldget in without getting wet (there be-ing no other conveyance in the yard), and stood in the porchway out ofthe wet to keep an eye on my horse.

“Shortly after a cab containing MrR. Coles and Mr Honig, driven bythe groom from one of the hotelsdrew up.

“Who ownes that - horse andcart!” yelled the driver.

“I felt that it was not me whom hewas addressing, seeing that I was Iwas driving an Abbott hooded buggy,but when he made the same remarkagain, I replied calmly, “Are youaddressing me?”

“Who owns that frame in thecart?” he again loudly ejaculated.

“I replied “If you are referring tothat horse and buggy, it is mine.

“Well get out of the way,” he re-plied.

“I replied that I would do nothingof the sort and that common polite-ness cost nothing and I objected tobe thus spoken to in a public place.

“He said he would see thestationmaster and soon see.

“At this moment, Porter Hodsonappeared, and informed me that thecabs paid a licence of one shilling

●●●●● The Yea Telephone ‘ex-

posed’ by The Yea Chronicle in

its issue of April 30, 1908.

●●●●● An incident involving Yea Chronicle proprietor, Major Frederick Purcell, at the Yea Railway

Station found its way into the ‘opposition paper’, The Yea Telephone. Major Purcell was furious.

After venting his spleen in his own newspaper columns, he then issued proceedings against a

groom working at one of Yea’s hotels. This railway station photo was taken in the early 1900s.

●●●●● Major F.G. Purcell,

proprietor of The Yea

Chronicle from 1907-1927.

‘The Duffer’sGazette’

■ There was no love lost be-tween The Yea Chronicle’s Ma-jor Purcell, and The YeaTelephone’s O’Brien Brothers.

In 1908, The Yea Chronicletook its opposition to task over thespelling of the word ‘remem-brance’.

It referred to its contemporaryas The Duffer’s Gazette, with theproprietors labelled as ‘MessrsBotch and Co-terie’.

The September 8 article saidit would treat “the writer of thearticle as a freak of nature andthe paper as a joke”.

On August 27, The Chroniclereferred to “questionable meth-ods of reporting”.

The Editor said: “We don’twish to engage this phase of jour-nalism - we leave that to otherswho partly owe their existence toit, and have neither character norrepuattion to lose.”

Earlier in the year, there wascontroversy when The Yea Tele-phone published a report about adinner of the Yea Rifle Club atthe Royal Mail Hotel.

The Yea Telephone alleged thatvisiting members of the Coll-ingwood Rifle Club had been“hurt and embarrassed”.

A May 1908 Chronicle head-line read:

YEA RIFLE CLUB ANDTHE OPPOSITION PAPER

Members resent O’BrienBros. and Co’s attack

on their CaptainPROMPT ACTION TAKEN,

COMMENDABLEBACKBONE DISPLAYEDThe Opposition ‘Falls In’Heavily. Resolutions That

Require No CommentThe Yea Chronicle reported

that a special meeting of the YeaRifle Club had been called to take“action as indicating local feel-ing about the extraordinary meth-ods of journalism being pursuedby the O’Briens”.

There was a vote that ex-pressed confidence in the Club’sCaptain Anderson, and that TheYea Telephone’s editions beingdescribed as “uncalled for, incor-rect and grossly insulting”.

The members voted that norepresentatives of The Yea Tele-phone be admitted to any dinnersor socials “until an apology begiven to the Yea Rifle Club”, saidClub secretary T. HarveyTempleton.

Brothersran business

■ The O’Brien Brothers started‘the opposition paper’ in Yea.

Denis O'Brien is thought tohave been born in New SouthWales in 1867.

Denis was the son of DenisEgan O’Brien and MatildaFrancis (Fowke), who had fourother children: Patrick (born 1866,died 1903), Charles (1866-1926),Francis, and Elizabeth Maria(later Mrs T.W. Minton) (1873-1949).

Francis O’Brien was knownas ‘Frank’, and later moved toAdelaide.

The Yea Chronicle chided thatthe O’Brien Brothers had no spe-cial qualifications: “These twomen have become very familiarfigures in Yea.

“They are as alike as twins,and their methods, habits, andmanners make it difficult indeedto distinguish one from the other.

“In their first issue they statedin their leading article that theyhad been journalists all their lives.

“In their very next issue theyconfess to having done some min-ing! It is certainly rather rough fora journalist to have to turn miner,not that the latter calling is not ashonourable as the first.”

The Yea Telephone passed intothe proprietorship of John PeterMurphy.

After the sale, Denis O’Brienwent on to the Bealiba Times(which was printed fromNovfember 13, 1909 to April 10,1931; later to start the short-livedPort Fairy Times, which closed in1918 due to the cost of paper; thenthe Birregurra Times circulatingin the Shire of Win-chelsea.

Denis O'Brien passed away atthe Melbourne Hospital on May26, 1931. His final address was43 Mitchell St, Brunswick.

His wife, Sarah Ann O'Brien(nee Jones), was aged 54 whenshe died on August 22, 1940.They had married in 1911 atBealiba. Her final address was 10Napier St, South Melbourne,. Shewas mother of Dorothy.

Both Denis and Frank are bur-ied in the Roman Catholic sec-tion of the Fawkner Cemetery.- Research by Alan Thorley

per month which entitled (them) tostand opposite the entrance.

“If that is the case, and if thedriver had told me the same thing Iwould have removed instantly. as Irealised he had a right to the psoition,for which the owner of the hotel herepresented he paid.

“I then advised the driver to bemore civil in future, and there theincident ended as far as I was con-cerned.

“It passed out of my mind, buttoday my attention was drawn tothe incident hashed up as humour inMessrs O’Brien Bros. and Co’s pa-per under the heading “How F.Rafferty Won The Stand”.

- Continued on Page 21



“It may be quite in keeping withMr O’Brien’s distorted views onother matters that law-abiding resi-dents of long standing should be thusinsulted in public places, and I feelthat by making a hero of the cabbyfor so doing he is consistent, and it isall that I could expect from him,”said Major Purcell.

“From a tainted source you ex-pect to get everything “tainted”, andseeing that Mr Denis O’Brien, theeditor of the paper containing the ar-ticle, is credited with having perhapsone of the strongest tongues in theShire of Yea, it is quite in keepingwith general principles that he shouldchampion the cause of those simi-larly gifted.

“It is a matter for regret that eachscandalous conduct should be tuslightly treated by any country paper,whose duty it is to try and raise, notlower, the moral tone of the district.

“I have given the names of everyperson present and challenge anyone of them to contradict my state-ment.

“Mr O’Brien’s reputation fortruthfulness is well established in Yea,but many outside are not aware of it,and he has thus forced me to make itknown.

“The incident is trivial, and doesnot merit the space, but a protestagainst his misrepresentations mustcome sooner or later, and it is just aswell now.”

Major Purcell may have statedthat the matter was just a trivial one,but he did not let it rest.

The Yea Chronicle reported onJuly 9, 1908, that the Major had is-sued the hotel groom, GeorgeO’Rafferty, with a summons.HOTEL GROOM PROSECUTED.

INCIDENT ATYEA RAILWAY STATION

Strong Remarks By The BenchDETECTIVE BORSUM ON

CITIZENS' RIGHTS“A case which created much local

interest, was disposed of at the YeaCourt of Petty Sessions, on Mon-day, by Mr R. Knight, P.M., and MrT.S. Scale J.P.

“A young man named GeorgeO'Rafferty, hotel groom, was pro-ceeded against by Fredk. GeorgePurcell, for having made use of in-sulting language in a public place onthe night of 19th ult.

“Mr T. Harvey Templeton ap-peared for informant, and Mr JasFynn for defendant.

“The informant, Fredk. G.Purcell, proprietor of The Chronicle,said that on Friday night, June 19, hedrove to the railway station in an ab-bot buggy, with the object of meetingan elderly lady, and he brought thebuggy up to within 10ft of the porchleading to the platform to obtain thereflection from a large lamp.

“He then got out of the vehicleand stood in the porch to watch thehorse. A few minutes later the de-fendant drove up in a cab from ahotel.

“He called out, " Whose ------horse and cart is this?" (referring toinformant's).

“Informant took no notice. Defen-dant again called out, " Hey, is thisyour ---- horse and cart ?"

“Informant inquired, " Are youaddressing me ?" Defendant said,

"Do you own that ------ frame withthe hood on it ?"

“Informant replied, " If you arespeaking about this horse and buggy; it's mine."

“Defendant then exclaimed,"Well, get out of the ----- road."

“Informant replied that he woulddo nothing of the sort.

“Defendant said, " Well, I'll ------soon see whether you'll shift - I'll see

●●●●● From Page 20

●●●●● A steam train on the Tallarook-Yea-Mansfield line

the stationmaster."“At that moment Porter Hodson

appeared and said "Oh, you'll haveto shift, Mr Purcell; this man pays alicence of 5s per month."

“Informant remarked, "If that isthe case I will remove my horse andbuggy. "

“Informant casually asked theporter if the defendant was drunk.

“Addressing defendant, infor-mant said, "Look here, civility costsyou nothing ; if there was a police-man here I would give you incharge."

“Defendant replied, "That woulddo you a lot of good, wouldn't it ?"

“Two men, Richard Coles and A.Honig, were in defendant's cab, andthey heard what was said.

“Mr Fynn (to informant): Didyou use any bad language towardsO'Rafferty ?-No.

“Do you mean to say that youobject to the use of the word used inthe presence of your wife and fam-ily?

“The P.M.: But were there anyladies about when defendant spoke?

“Informant: Yes; there were sev-eral in the porch at the station.

“Mr Fynn : You are the propri-etor and publisher of The Chornicle,are you not ?-Yes.

“You wrote a letter to the editorin which you gave the .whole of theincident, and commented on it - isthat so? -Yes.

“That was before you issued thesummons, was it not ? - Yes.,

“Mr Fynn : Well, your worships,does this not seem very unfair. Itseems like an attempt to interferewith the process of this court.

“The P.M.: I have not seen thepaper, Mr Fynn. At any rate, wehave nothing to do with that.

“Mr Fynn (to informant) : Doyou know you rendered yourself li-able in a higher cout for contemptfor doing such a thing ? - I would nothave said anything but for an articlein another paper which made a sortof scapegoat of me.

“You got a letter from me, andwas it not in consequence of that etterthit you issued the summons ?-Yes, I was compelled to.

“Exactly; you are therefore usingthis court for some ulteriorlobject? Itook exception to remarks whichwere made about me in a newspa-per.

“But no one knew they referredto you --You took care that they knewwho it was.

“Mr Fynn : I never had anything.to do with it.

“Didn't you tell Rafferty outsidethe court that you would not havebrought him to court but for what hadappeared in the paper ? - I told himthat the paper had rubbed it in, andpeople were being told that it wasme who was referred to.

“You say that the incident wastrivial, and that it passed out of yourmind almost immediately; in fact itwas not worth the space, given to it?-The Chronicle’s space is very valu-able, Mr Fynn. and it's worth half acrown an inch !

“You say it was a valuable buggyyou had - are you sere it was not adog cart ?- It depends what class ofdog you have in it!

“Was it not in consequence of re-ceiving a letter from Rafferty thatyou issue the summons againsthim?--The letter, claiming £10damanges, a withdrawal, and anapology. had not ,eached me when Iissued the somalmons.

“John Hodson, railway porter atYea , said he heard defendant makeuse of the exp ession complained of.Defendant spoke in a very abrupttone. -

“To Mr Fynn : Mr Purcell repliedsarcastically.

“Richard Coles, blacksmith, Yea,gave corrobative evidence.

“The P.M.: Did you anticipatetrouble by the tone of the cabman ? -Yes.

“Mr Fynn: I suppose it's wellknown that. the hotel owns that stand? -Yes..

“Why did you anticipate trouble?- I saw it coming, and walked away.

“The P.M.: But did it not occur toyou that you might be able to throwoil on the troubled waters by stayingthere. You might have been able torestrain the cabman? - I didn't wishto be mixed up in it.

“Alfred Honig, butcher, Yea. gaveevidence in support of the informant's case.

“Mr Fynn : Don't you think theword complained of is used ratherfrequently ?-Pretty frequently.

“I suppose you can hear the wordevery day ?- I have heard.it now andagain.

“At this stage the Police Magis-trate suggested the amending of theinformation so as to read "near apublic place."

“Consent was given, the alterationbeing made.

“Mr Templeton (to witness) : Doyou wish to convey the idea that thepeople in Yea are in the habit of us-ing the word complained of whilstaddressing one another? - Oh, no !

“The P M.: If so, we may expectto see a few more of these cases here!

“Mr Fynn, for the defence, saidthat the case was brought as the re-sult of something that had appearedin a newspaper. He thought it was anindecent thing for the complainant,after having published the incident inin his paper, to come into the court atall.

“The P.M, : It may have been in-advisable on his part. But we can'ttake that into consideration so longas he backs it up.

“Mr Fynn : But he says the wholething is trivial.

“The P.M.: He is on his oath.“Mr Fynn endeavoured, to show

that the word complained of was notregarded altogether as an offen siveone, owing to the frequency withwhich it was used, and the variety ofways in which it was applied in thecourse of speech.

“The Bench considered that theword could not be separated fromthe rest of the conversation. The of-fence was not one for a severe pen-alty, but the defendant must know thatit is not the correct thing to make useof such language in or near a publicplace.

“The P.M., said he had oftenheard peoule use the word in ques-tion, even in railway carriages, in thenext compartment; and in the street.

“Mr Fynn suggested that-thecase be dismissed.

"The P. M : The evidence provesto me that the language complainedof was used near a railway stationwithin the hearing of women and chil-dren, and where there is usually a lotof traffic. Young fellows ofdefendant's stamp would have to betaught differently. There appears tobe no justification for such conduct,

and I am for a conviction. I don'tknow. what my colleague thinks.

“Mr Scale, J.P.: There have beencomplaints of the bad language whichis being used; and it should be nippedin the bud. Those who make a prac-tice of usingit should know as soonas possible that the bench won't tol-erate it.

“The defendant was convicted,and fined 5s, in default 48 hours im-prisonment. Costs, amounting to £2Os 0d, were allowed.

“The Bench emphasised the factthat the only reason for the light pen-alty was on account of the heavycosts.

“At the conclusion of the caseRailway Detective Borsum, who hap-pened to be in the court awaiting an-other case, obtained leave rom theBench to state the very important factthat any gentleman, who had occa-sion to do business with the stationofficials, or had a desire to meet aperson by train, had a perfect right todrive into the station yard and oc-cupy any stand he wished.

“He had heard the evidence inthis case, and happily wished to cor-rect the false impression that onlythose who paid a licence had thisprivilege.

“They paid the licence fee to en-able them to ply for hire.”

Meanwhile, The Yea Telephoneand The Yea Chronicle continued todo battle for the Yea Shire Councilprinting contact.

Cr Redpath paid a price forspeaking against The Yea Chronicle.

The editorial columns savagelyattacked him, week after week:

“Cr Redpath's attitude causedconsiderable surprise, and whencompared. with his attitude in anotherdirection altogether, reveals him inhis true colours.

“In the whole matter he affectedto study the finances with a purelyimaginary grievance prompting him.

“He even made it appear that hecould be gulled by the statement thatthe work could be done for £35 ayear, while he conveniently misseda previous. statement by the saumeauthors that they could not execute itunder £55.

“As a matter of fact we could dothe lot for nothing, which is thecheapest offer of all ! This would bea means to an end, would it not ?

“But Cr Redpath is entitled to hisconvictions, and he will pardon us ifwe show him how inconsistent heis.”

The O’Brien brothers ran ‘theopposition paper’ for about one year.The Kilmore Free Press (Jan. 21,1909) noted: “The Yea Telephone,established about ̀ 12 months ago byMessrs D. and F. O'Brien, haspassed from the hands of thosegentlemen to Mr J. P. Murphy, for-merly of Ararat.”

Perhaps there was a link to print-ers F.J. and M Murphy who estab-lished the Ararat Chronicle, rival ofthe Ararat Advertiser.

●●●●● Yea railway station, 1906.



Journalist traced the story of Yea■ Former newspaper journalistHarvey Blanks was contracted bythe Shire of Yea more than 40 yearsago (1973) to pen The Story Of Yea.

Blanks lived near the corner ofGoulburn Valley Hwy and Lime-stone Rd, after having retired asEditor-in-Chief for World RecordClub.

(The property was later purchasedby the Lawrance family. Our family,the Longs, lived next door in the1990s.)

Blanks published The GoldenRoad: A Record Collector's Guide ToMusic Appreciation which was pub-lished in its complete form by RigbyLimited in 1968.

Blanks, a New Zealander, wasone of the primary selectors of re-cordings chosen for release forWorld Record.

Harvey Blanks enjoyed living inretirement in Yea, and would some-times have an excursion to the RoyalMail Hotel then run by Bob Newmanfor a social drink with the locals.

The Story of Yea was publishedby The Hawthorn Press (now de-funct) for the Shire of Yea, then un-der the presidency of Cr Clem Ridd,with the late Frank Berkery as ShireSecretary.

The book was commissioned forthe centenary of Yea’s shire status.But it was not the first publicationaimed at recording Yea’ early his-tory.

Yea: A Century of Local Govern-ment was published to mark the 1869-1969 period. It had been printed byJim Lowden of Kilmore.

Lowden’s book was printed, witha foreword provided by then-ShirePresident, Cr A.J. Bett.

Previously, Harry C. Gordon, of‘Murrindindi’ (previously owned byDaniel McLeish, assembled thebook, Yea - 1825-1920, published byThe Hawthorn Press in 1954.

His book, One Man’s Life, waspopularly seralised in the local pressin 1960.

Gordon recalled that E.S. Pur-cell’s store sent out provisions to‘Murrindindi’ once a month, as well

as the Gordon’s own weekly six-mile journeys into town by buggy.

Gordon served as Yea ShirePresident in 1924-25, and again in1931. He died in 1965.

Both Lowden and Gordon werecriticised by local families for whatthey viewed as inaccuracies.

Blanks wrote in 1973: “Some ofthose details have been challengedover the years, occasionally with jus-tification; however, my own investi-gations have tended to prove thatHarry Gordon was far more accu-rate than some people have givenhim credit for; efforts to pin down‘discrepancies’ and ‘mistakes’ havemore often than not seen them dis-solve into a vague cloud of generali-ties.

“The late Donald Drysdale, whodied in 1972 at the age of 92, person-ally annotated a copy of Harry

Gordon’s book in light of his ownlifelong knowledge of the Shire andits families, and rarely found causeto challenge any facts within its cov-ers, most of his hand-written notesonly add further detail at variouspoints.”

Blanks said there was often totaldisagreement between differentbranches of the one family when re-calling their common early history.

However, Blanks made someerrors too. He wrote: “Even localnewspaper files pre-dating the 190sare non-existent, having been de-stroyed by fire.

The State Library of Victoriaholds precious files of The Yea Tele-graph newspaper from 1885-1890.It was succeeded by The YeaChronicle, copies of which from1890-1920 are now easily accessibleon the internet on the Trove websitehosted by the National Library ofAustralia.

The 1920-onwards copies areavailable at the State Library ofVictoria on request, in microfilm for-mat.

We have even sighted copies ofThe Yea Telephone opposition news-paper that was conducted from 1907-12 by the O’Brien brothers, and laterby John Peter Murphy.

Even earlier archive copies areavailable for the Alexandra Times(1868-77), and theAlexandra & YeaStnndard which kept the title Yea onits masthead until June 24, 1949.

Standard proprietor Joseph T.Guthridge realised that the townswere two separate entities, oftencompeting against each other insporting contests (especially in theWaranga North Eastern FootballAssociation), and that a local news-paper could only serve one master.

Blanks criticised local Yea mu-nicipal files: “Even the Shire recordsfrom which much of this history hasbeen prepared have proved some-times of minimal value.

“Early minute books, written infaded and occasionally almost inde-cipherable longhand, are erratic inthe amount of detail they record.

“Doubtless, they were kept butwithout cross-references they areinfuriatingly incomprehensible to alatter-day researcher.”

Harvey Blanks would haveemraced Google!

He continued his commentary onthe state of municipal records, longbefore the Yea-Alexandra shires‘merged’ to become Murrindindi.

“Kept by a variety of people ofvarying educational qualifications,they are often ungrammatically andbewilderingly incomplete.

“Stabs at phonetic spellings ofproper names, sometimes never thesame on successive pages, mean thatsome early references can only beguessed at.

“The use of the archaic long-tailed ‘s’ by the original clerk, in hiscopper-plate style handwriting, ap-parently confused it as an ‘f’.

“But even allowing for such va-garies of handwriting and minutekeeping, the early records of Yea canmost charitably be called incomplete.

“There are vague references toevents and issues which must haveloomed large at the time but whichare only hinted at and nowhere elserecorded in detail.

“Personalities do, however,emerge with sometimes overpower-ing force - a reflection of less inhib-ited times than ours when spadeswere called more than spades andrivalries bit deeply and left bitterscars.”

Blanks summed up his work as aYea historian: “History is made bypeople, and therefore many names -some no longer associated with theShire - are mentioned.”

Perhaps the biggest debt is owedto the Yea press people who haverecorded the district’s history on aweekly basis for more than 130years:

1885-90: Richard Roland Cra-mer, Michael Lawrence Hickey, An-drew Robinson.

1890-1896: Patrick Galvin.1896-1900: Edwin Howard Dob-

son1900-1907: Norman Dugald

Ferguson1907-1927: Major Frederick

George Purcell1927-1929: Elizabeth Barbara

Purcell1928-1932: William Henry Tom-

kins1932-1934: Elizabeth Jane

Goodwin Thorley1934-1936: George Philip Arm-

strong1936: James Vincent Gannon1936-1968: Thomas Michael

Dignam and Edward Leo Dignam1968-1984: Thomas Michael

Dignam1984-1993: Ashley Lawrence

Long and Fleur Marian Long.Alexandra Newspapers Pty Ltd

has conducted its local publicationsin the area since.

They are connected with News-paper House which runs the NorthCentral Review, and previously con-ducted the Whittlesea Review (nowdefunct) and Kilmore Free Press(now incorporated into the Review).

Local Media Pty Ltd, publisherof the Melbourne Observer whichcirculates statewide, conducted ThePhoenix newspaper in the bushfireregion as a community serviceproject for 18 months after the BlackSaturday fires in 2009.

The Phoenix gifted free advertis-ing totalling $1.3 million to bushfirevictims, in a bid to re-establish theirlives and businesses.

The Local Paper is operated byLocal Media Pty Ltd.●●●●● Harvey Blanks, The Story of Yea author, pictured in 1967

●●●●● Colonel Lacy Walter Giles Yea

Districtnamed afterColonel Yea

■ Lacy Walter Giles Yea (1808–1855) was a British Army colo-nel, known for his role in theCrimean War , where he waskilled in action.

Born in Park Row, Bristol, onMay 20, 1808, he was eldest sonof Sir William Walter Yea, sec-ond baronet, of Pyrland, nearTaunton, Somerset, who married,on June 24, 1805, AnneHeckstetter (d. 1846), youngestdaughter of Colonel David Michelof Dulish House, Dorset.

Lacy Yea was educated at EtonCollege. He was commissioned asensign in the 37th foot on October6, 1825, obtained an unattachedlieutenancy on December 19,1826, was appointed to the 5thFoot on March 13, 1827, and ex-changed to the 7th (RoyalFusiliers) on March 13, 1828.

He served with it in the Medi-terranean and America, becom-ing captain December 30, 1836,major on June 3, 1842, and lieu-tenant-colonel on August 9, 1850..

In 1854 he went out in com-mand of the Royal Fusiliers toTurkey and the Crimea, with areputation as martinet.

At the battle of Alma his regi-ment was on the right of the LightDivision, and became engagedwith the left wing of the KazanRegiment, a deep column of 1500men.

The Fusiliers held their ownagainst this column when the restof Codrington's brigade hadfallen back, and at length forcedit to give way.

The regiment lost 12 officersand more than 200 men. Yea re-ceived a letter of congratulationfrom Sir Edward Blakeney, whohad led the regiment at Albuera,and was now its colonel.

At the battle of Inkerman theFusiliers, as part of Codrington'sbrigade, were on the slope ofVictoria ridge, acting on the rightflank of the Russians, but not veryheavily engaged.

Yea was mentioned in des-patches of September 28 andNovember 11, and was made bre-vet-colonel on November 28.

During the hardships of thewinter his care of his men wasexemplary.

In the summer he had com-mand of a brigade of the LightDivision, and in the assault of theRedan , on June 18, 1855, he ledthe column directed against theleft face.

It consisted of a covering partyof a hundred riflemen, a ladderparty of about 200, a storming partyof 400 men of the 34th, and a re-serve of 800 men of the 7th and33rd.

Leaving the latter under coverfor the time, he went forward withthe rest.

They had a quarter of a mile ofopen ground to cross undergrapeshot. Yea reached the abattiswith the wreck of his parties, butthere he was shot dead.

His body was brought in nextday, and he was buried on June 20.


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Yea cricket presentations■ The end of season formalities have con-cluded for the Yea Tigers Cricket Club for the2015-16 season.

The Club’s presentations were held on Sat-urday (Mar. 5) at the Clubrooms. There was aT20 game before the meal between parents andchildren.

The game was played in good spirit and ev-eryone had fun. The debate goes on as to whichside actually won!

This season the Club had two Under 12 sides,it was exciting to see these young players en-joying their cricket.

The junior presentations were held after thegame. Preceding a meal, the senior awards werethen presented. Congratulations to all players,the award winners are as listed:

Under 12Team Players; Fletcher Archibald, Jordyn

Beattie, Andrew Bree, Oliver Bree, DominikCiantar, Will Clarke, James Cudmore, GraceCunningham, Maclaren Egan, Riley Egan,Tyson Garlick, Jackson Grech, Leo HalfordMolinaro, Rhys Harding, Reece Hargreaves,Noah Hildebrand, Monty Lawson, MatthewLuke, Liam Mele, Rohan Mele, Ruby O'Dwyer,Austen Ross, Connor Sier, Riley Slevin, OliverWischer

Under 14Batting Average: Johnny Turvey - 40.5 (162

Runs)Bowling Average: Jack Christie - 6.29 Av

(14 Wickets)Best Season Player: Jack ChristieCoach’s Award: Ethan Aldous

B GradeBatting Average: Mark Beattie – 30.0 Av (270

Runs)Bowling Average: Ben Holman – 12.08 Av

(26 Wickets)Cricketer of the Season: Ben HolmanCaptain’s Award: Nathan Beattie

A GradeBatting Average: Cam Armstrong – 42.67

(512 Runs)Bowling Average: Daniel Evans – 14.23 Av

(22 Wickets)Cricketer of the Season: Cam ArmstrongCaptain’s Award: Brad Clements

ClubClubman Award: Dan O’Dwyer

Individual PerformancesUnder 14

Hat Trick: Nathan BeattieB Grade

8 wickets for 12 runs: Ben HolmanA Grade

161 runs: Cam Armstrong128 runs not out: Cam Armstrong7 wickets for 37 runs: Patrick Evans5 wickets for 5 runs: Cam Armstrong5 wickets for 27 runs: David Pelosi

●●●●● From left: Dan O'Dwyer, Ben Holman, Nathan Beattie, Mark Beattie,

Cam Armstrong, Daniel Evans.

●●●●● Austin Ross and Paul Hildebrand in the children and parents T20 game

numbered team shirt to please return it to Chrisor Donna Slevin .

The shirts will be reallocated to players fornext season to ensure all players have the cor-rect size.

We hope everyone has a good “off season”and we look forward to the start of the 2016-17competition.

- Craig Murphy, President

5 wickets for 40 runs: Daniel EvansThe club had a solid season with the Under

14’s taking home the premiership. Both seniorteams improved from last year and will aim highfor the next season.

The Cricket Club would like to thank all oursponsors for their support in the 2015-16 sea-son.

The Club asks all players who still have a

CFA volunteers qualifyLocal People

■ Members fromKinglake , kinglakeWest and ToolangiCFA units over thepast month have beenundertaking a Ther-mal Imaging Cameracourse.

Sunday saw the fi-nal exam, with hot firetraining at the SouthEastern TrainingCround.

Thanks have beenextended to PaulBuck.

There are nowhave 12 qualified TICoperators across themountain range, It ishoped that the TICoperations will be inplace from this week.

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Junior registration■ Yea Football Netball Club held a juniorregistration night at The Rec. on Friday (Mar.4). Young netballers registered for the Under12, Under 14 and Under 16 teams. Youngfootballers registered for the same teams, aswell as the Under 10 age group. A barbecuewas held afterwards.

U18 TAC Squad■ AFL Yarra Ranges Football League (for-merly YVMDFL) has announced that fiveplayers have been named in the EasternRanges Under 18 TAC Cup Squad.

They are Wandin's Joel Garner, MtEvelyn's Harrison Nolan, Emerald's LachlanSheppard and Upwey Tecoma duo HaydnStanley and Joshua Hannon.

“AFL Yarra Ranges is working hard withthe Eastern Ranges and AFL Victoria to hope-fully bring a TAC Cup match to an AFL YarraRanges venue which hopefully will come tofruition and feature our young guns,” said aLeague spokesman.

Thunder trainers■ The Yarra Glen Football Netball Club isseeking a Head Trainer fand sports trainersor 2016

For the Head Trainer position, revious ex-perience in a similar role would be advanta-geous but experienced trainers who are look-ing for a senior role are encouraged to apply.

For sports trainers, First Aid training andSports Trainer qualifications preferred but notessential as training can be provided. Stu-dents doing sports science, physiotherapy,nursing etc would find the experience andthe remuneration attractive.

Contact Vinny Erickson on 0431 680 990or email [email protected]

Panthers prepared■ A gruelling pre-season campaign hasEltham confident it will be able to improveupon last year’s third-place finish, writesSamuel Zito of the Northern FootballLeague.

“After winning just three matches duringMario Bandera’s first season at the helm,the Panthers were the top flight’s biggest im-provers last year – winning their first Divi-sion 1 final since 1977 and progressing to thepreliminary final.”

In the suburbs■ Watsonia Sporting Club and Mill ParkJunior Football Club have announced theestablishment of a new pathway between thetwo clubs.

The partnership will allow players whograduate from Mill Park’s under-17s to con-tinue playing football together in Watsonia’sunder-19 team, which will be renamedWatsonia-Mill Park, says a Northern Foot-ball League statement.

Junior umps need■ AFL Yarra Ranges, in conjunction withthe Yarra Ranges Umpires Association, isseeking junior umpires.

Training takes place each Monday nightfrom 5.30pm at Morrison Reserve AthleticsTrack in Mt Evelyn.

Minimum age is 12 and there is no maxi-mum age. Phone 0408536420 or [email protected]

Sports Shorts■ An advertisement for the Healesville Ama-teur Race Club appears in this week’s issueof The Local Paper to promote the “GoldenThong’ meeting on Saturday, April 2.■ The Yarra Valley Cup will be staged atthe Yarra Glen racecourse on Sunday, March20. There is $100,000 prize money for theJack Hirsch Memorial. There are extensivehospitality attractions. Fashions On The Fieldwill also be staged.■ The Seymour District Cricket Associa-tion presentation night is scheduled for Fri-day, March 18 at the Seymour Cricket Club,Chittick Park, Seymour.


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Sat., Mar. 26

9am-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.

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., Apr. 56.30pm. City of

Whittlesea Council

monthly meeting. At

Council Chambers,

25 Ferres Blvd, South

Morang

Tues., Apr. 266.30pm. City of

Whittlesea Council

monthly meeting. At

Council Chambers,


Morang

Tues., May 176.30pm. City of

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monthly meeting. At

Council Chambers,


Morang

Tues., June 76.30pm. City of

Whittlesea Council

monthly meeting. At

Council Chambers,


Morang

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MOBILE HOME. 40 ft x

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8371.

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10am-12 Noon. Yea

Pottery Studio.

Phone: 0408 401

458. ★6.30pm for 7pm. Ro-

tary Club of Alexandra.

At Alexandra Golf

Club, Gordon St,

Alexandra. ★6.30pm for 7pm. Ro-

tary Club of Kinglake

Ranges. At Rosewood

Cottage, 101 Whittle-

sea-Kinglake Rd,

Kinglake. Phone:

5786 2005 for cater-

ing only. ★6.30pm for 7pm. Ro-

tary Club of Alexandra.

At Alexandra Golf

Club, Gordon St,

Alexandra. ★

Wed., Mar. 9(2nd Wed.)

7pm. Yea Camera Club

Inc. Meeting. ‘Back To

Basics’. At Yea RSL,

Snodgrass St, Yea.

Phone: 0439 852

375.

Thu., Mar. 10

Fri., Mar. 118pm-10pm. Bingo. At

Yea Bowls Club. Ph:

5797 2770.★

6.30pm. Rotary Club of

Eltham. At The Com-

mon, 26 Commercial

Place, Eltham. Con-

tact: Ann Lynch,

0419 008 759. ★

6.30pm for 7pm. Ro-

tary Club of Yea. At Yea

Golf Club, Racecourse

Rd, Yea. Attendance

Officer: John Hand-

saker, 0419 152

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9am-3pm. Yea Men’s

Shed. Every Tues. and

Thurs. Phone: 5780

1459. ★

2nd Thursday

1.30pm. Yea Garden

Club. At Yea Tennis

Club rooms. Phone:

5780 2531.

WHAT’S ON

Sat., Mar. 194pm-10pm. Twilight

Market. At High St,

Yea. Run by Rotary

Club of Yea in con-

junction with the

Bunshrodders. Market

stalls; wine, beer and

cider stalls; food

stalls; rafle prizes;

bushrodders main

street cruising and

display; trade stalls;

kids face painting.

Live band: Blackhills

Ramblers.

9.30am-5pm. Alex-

andra Lifestyle and

Leisure Expo. At

Alexandra Community

Centre, Cnr Hall St &

Maroon-dah Hwy,

Alexandra. Phone:

0404 882 042. Site

Bookings: 0408 109

707. www.alexandra

expo.com.au

Fri., Mar. 186pm. Opening. ‘Cuts

Like A Knife’ Exhibi-

tion. Then open

10am-4pm daily. Free

entry. ‘Rustic Sim-

plicity’ at The Shear

N Sheds, 74 Grant

St, Alexandra. www.

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Mon., Mar. 14Labor Day. Public holi-

day in Victoria.

Tues., Mar. 156.30pm. City of

Whittlesea Council

monthly meeting. At

Council Chambers,


Morang

2nd Sunday

10am-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.

9.15am. Eucharist. St

Luke’s Memorial An-

glican Church, Yea.

Lyons St, Yea. Phone:

5792 2281. ★

10.30am. Sacred

Heart Catholic Parish,

Yea. The Parade, Yea.

Phone Fr Longinus

Onyechesi: 5772

1167. ★

Sun., Mar. 138.30am. Communion.

St Peter’s Memorial

Anglican Church,

Kinglake. Cnr Bald

Spur Rd and King-

lake-Whittlesea Rd.,

Kinglake. Phone: Rev.

Stephen Holmes,

9716 2042. ★

9am. Sunday Service.

Scots Presbyterian

Church, Yea. Station

St, Yea. Phone: Val

Borrie, Secretary.

5792 2286. ★

8.30am. Service. St

Mary’s Catholic Par-

ish, Kinglake. Phone:

Fr Martin Ashe, Par-

ish Priest, 9717

6482. ★

3nd Saturday

9am-1pm. Diamond

Valley Craft Market.

Arts and craft, plants,

homewares. kids

clothing, bric-a-brac.

At Diamond Village

Shopping Centre, 78

Nepean St, Watsonia.

Phone: 9438 3437.

Sat., Mar. 12

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

‘Easter Saturday’.

Holiday weekend.

8am-2pm. Eildon Lions

Easter Market. 100+

stalls. Fashion, cloth-

ing, fresh produce,

preserves, plants,

toys, arts and crafts,

secondhand goods,

badges, paintings,

food, amusements.

At Moore Park, Main

St, Eildon. Phone:

5774 2674.

9am-1pm. Taggerty 4

Seasons Market. Lo-

cal produce. At

Taggerty Hall, Tagg-

erty-Thornton Rd,

Taggerty. Phone:

0421 351 571.

FARM HAND/

MAINTENANCE MANAGER

Full-Time/Part-Time

We require a person capable of performing

the above dual roles, that is:

• experience in welding and cutting

• capable of repairing steel sheds, gates,

some fencing, some carpentry (small shed

building, etc)

• experienced at operating general farm

machinery

• some mechanical repairs when required.

Someone who is a self-starter but also able

to work with a small team when necessary.

‘Common sense plus a sense of

humour are most definitely required’

About Us:

LARKFIELD PASTORAL

runs an 8000-acre cattle, sheep and graz-

ing property in the Yea-Glenburn area.

Please reply to:

Frank Hargrave

0417 0417 77

9849 1741

We currently have a position vacant in our

bakery in Yea. We require a fully qualified

baker to join our dynamic team in produc-

tion. The candidate needs to be hardworking

and enthusiastic and be experienced in all

aspects of baking.

To be considered for this role you must:

• Be reliable, punctual and hard working

• Be experienced in mixing and baking as-

sorted products

• Ability to operate, maintain and clean

machinery and equipment

• Proficient in English

• Able to work in a demanding work envi-

ronment

• Have excellent literacy and numeracy

skills

• Have the ability to follow recipes accu-

rately

• Be accustomed to working early morning

starts.

If you feel this is the position for you

please send your resume to

Attention Annabelle

The Provender

Country Bakehouse

56 High St, Yea 3717

or email to: [email protected]


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■ Over the days andweeks the amount ofemail correspondencereceived is amazing.

It is certainly hardto keep up with andmuch of it is not directlyrelevant to what is cur-rently happening.

Sorting out thewheat from the chaff,as it were, does taketime and attention andsometimes it canseem like just toomuch trouble.

But people usuallyhave a very good rea-son for creating themessage they want todeliver and a purposein doing so.

My feeling is that,if I want people to readmy messages, then Ishould have the cour-tesy to read theirs.

In doing so, thereare gems to be discov-ered where people aredemonstrating theircare and compassionfor all sorts of things.

Whether these af-fect us directly or not,they undoubtedly af-fect our society andour quality of life.

So I thought Iwould share some ofthe recent communi-cations with you thisweek, to redirect ourgaze from the moremundane matters ofevery day and linkwith the broader com-munity.

March is EpilepsyAwareness Monthwith a focus on March26 as 'Purple Day'.

This is a grassrootseffort dedicated toraising awareness ofepilepsy worldwideand works to engagethe community tofundraise to reachtheir target of$200,000.

This will be used to

provide personal sup-port, education,awareness and under-standing of epilepsy tochange behaviour andattitudes towards epi-lepsy.

The aim is to en-sure that children,young people andadults with epilepsyare well supportedand can participate inour community totheir fullest ability.

There are manyways to use the colourpurple to demonstratesupport for their causeand more informationcan be found atwww.purpleday.com.au

This month alsosees the annual RedCross Calling cam-paign.

This campaign hasbeen held each Marchfor 68 years to raisevital funds to supportpeople in times ofhardship.

Across Australia,individuals and fami-lies, schools, commu-nity service groupsand businesses get in-volved to volunteertheir time to collectdonations for the workof the Red Cross in thecommunity.

Every day theywork with vulnerablepeople in communi-ties across Victoria -whether keeping in

touch with the elderlyliving alone, providinghealthy breakfasts tothousands of childrenwho might otherwisego hungry, assistingpeople to deal with theimpacts of disasters, orhelping those seekingasylum.

If you are inter-ested in becoming in-volved, there is infor-mation at www.redcross.org.au/calling.aspx

Neighbour Day2016 will rank as adouble celebration thisyear as it occurs onEaster SundayMarch 27 - a terrificoccasion for engagingwith our neighbours.

What better way tocelebrate communitythan by bringing to-gether the people nextdoor, those across thestreet, or from aneighbouring propertyand sharing a beer, abarbie or a cuppa.

The aim ofNeighbour Day is tobuild better relation-ships with those wholive around us, espe-cially the elderly andvulnerable.

You can find moreinformation at www.neighbourday.org

March is certainlythe month for commu-nity involvement andthinking about others.

We will also cel-ebrate Easter inMarch this year - atime when celebra-tions take place inmany different ways.

Whatever yourparticular cause or be-lief, I trust you will besharing it with friends,family and loved ones.

- Cr Margaret

Rae, Mayor,

Murrindindi Shire

Council

●●●●● Cr Margaret

Rae, Mayor, Shire

of Murrindindi

Councillor’sCommentBy Cr Christine

Challen

■ Have you madea new year's resolu-tion in 2016, and ifso, how's that go-ing?

Like me, did youhave high hopes fora brighter, thinner,stronger, kinder,wiser, better self ina year of discovery,personal fulfilmentand satisfaction?

Yep! On reflec-tion, I think we mayhave gone for toomuch!

Do you spend alot of time lookingback, or are youmost concerned withwhat's coming next?

Have you heardof the butterfly ef-fect? It's a theorythat a single occur-rence, no matterhow small, canchange the course ofthe universe for-ever. Therefore ev-erything matters.

If you changeeven the smallest oflife's details, youcompletely changeits outcome.

"Even the flutterof a butterfly's wingscan cause a hurri-cane on the otherside of the world".

As it applies tothe individual in ev-eryday life, what-ever is done this sec-ond affects what thenext second will be.

So, is trying not todo anything nega-tive the best insur-ance that the worldwill be better nextsecond, or at least,not worse?

But of course apositive action ofone may be under-mined by the 100negative actions ofothers, hence it canmean nothing.

However don'tyou still have to fol-low the dictum ofchoosing what youbelieve to be thebest/fairest/leastharmful option un-der the prevailingcircumstances atany given time?

Optimism im-plies the best out-comes will win outin the end.

At our last Coun-cil meeting, Coun-cillors voted by amajority to apply tothe Essential Ser-vices Commissionfor a variation to therate cap for a 5.4 percent rating increasefor the 2016-17 fi-nancial year.

I would like tothink this was an op-timistic decision.

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There's no doubt-ing that a vote to ad-here to the rate cap of2.5 per cent (based onCPI) would be super-ficially more popularand simpler for thisCouncil to complywith in its last year ofoffice.

However, I don'tbelieve this wouldhave been the ethicalor least harmfulchoice and changingour rating and strate-gic plans in the lastyear of our four-yearterm will create seri-ous repercussionsacross all sectors ofthe Shire.

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cost shifting with thatof metropolitan andgrowing interfacecouncils is like com-paring a bunch ofapples with a grain ofsand.

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Nelson Mandelaonce said a good headand a good heart arealways a formidablecombination.

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●●●●● From Page 25 services, such astransport, food andmedical care, has littlerelevance to Councilcosts for road making,bridge building, foot-paths, parks and gar-dens, libraries, plan-ning, building and fa-cilities maintenance,etc.

Small rural shiressuch as ours don't havethe populations or ca-pacity for raising rev-enues via means otherthan rates and grants,for example, some in-ner city councils earnmore in a year fromparking fees andcharges than our entirebudget.

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hood services andswimming pools, inorder to meet the StateGovernment's target.

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our communities andheritage, what ser-vices and facilitieshave priority and needprotecting and how wecan maintain and de-velop a savvy, attrac-tive, caring network ofvillages and towns inthe magnificent andsprawled environs ofMurrindindi Shire

"Destiny is no mat-ter of chance. It is amatter of choice. It isnot a thing to be waitedfor, it is a thing to beachieved," (W.J.Bryan).

We look forward tocommunity consulta-tions and Council wel-comes your input andreasonable discus-sions on this and otherlocal government con-cerns, challenges andopportunities that layahead.●●●●● Cr Christine Challen

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