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Major business excellence awards set to celebrate 25 years SHEPPARTON’S premier business awards, the Shepparton Chamber of Commerce and Industry White King / Pental Awards is set to return after being delayed due to COVID in 2020. The awards have seen 100s of businesses and individuals recognised over 25 years. Local manufacturer, Pental, which has experienced boom times due to high demand for its Shepparton manufactured household name products during COVID, continues to support the important regional awards. Continued Page 14 TOASTING THE NEW LABEL... In keeping with the historical significance, local vintner, Paul Phillips and his father Don Phillips pay homage to the new beer named after their family, former publicans at the Aussie Hotel in Fryers Street, Shepparton. Photo: Steve Hutcheson
A mid strength beer with a local connection
A pub that once had no beer now has its own label to celebrate its history By Steve Hutcheson THE Aussie Hotel on the corner of Fryer Street and Maude Street has a long history that dates back to 1895 when the streets of Shepparton were still unmade and the vehicles on the road were all being drawn by horses. Fifty years later, in 1944, Tom Phillips took ownership at a time
when beer was hard to get and when it was available, it was rationed to two bottles per man. Tom’s five boys and daughter ran the pub, serving the local farmers who had come in to sell their stock or wool clips or were down from Queensland to pick the fruit and had drifted into the pub to line up their beers before six o’clock closing. Continued Page 14