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Rex Tate OAM remembered

■ Friday (Oct. 20) had Government House in Melbourne host recipients of the Queens Birthday list Australian Honours and Awards.

State Governor Linda Dessau presented the reciopientss.

The late Rex Hamilton Tate of Alexandra was awarded posthumously the medal of the Order of Australia in the General Division (OAM) in recognition of his service to the Alexandra and district community through a range of organisations.

The honour was received by his son Dr Stephen Tate in the company of Rex's daughter Christine Middleton, her husband Tim Sheed and Rex's granddaughter Kristy Penrose.

This week marks the first anniversary of Rex's death, at the age of 93.

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Local beef studs do well ■ Local Yea beef cattle studs competed successfully at this year's Royal Melbourne Show.

A large number of cattle studs from most states in Australia exhibited at this year's Show.

Competition was strong in most breeds of cattle, the quality was outstanding with big numbers in all classes, to win a ribbon was a big achievement.

Philip and Jane Webb, owners of Webb Pastoral at Glenburn, had an outstanding show with their two Black Simmental heifers taking out first and second places in their class.

Webb Mystical was named Junior Champion heifer and then teamed up with her stable mate to win the coveted Pair of Heifers title.

The Webbs also had two of their Angus steers selected from a strong line up to represent the Angus breed in the Borthwick Trophy which is judged with three purebred steers both on the Hoof and Hook.

This trophy holds a lot of pride and prestige at the Royal Show, the Angus team went on to finish second.

Tambo River Charolais, owned by Duncan and Sue Newcomen, also exhibited in the Charolais section, coming up against strong competition from interstate and local studs.

With only a small team they gained first place in the bull class, 18 to 20 months, a second with their heifer and a third with their cow and calf.

Both Webb Pastoraland Tambo River Charolais will be hosting an open day during the Beef Week field days on February 3 at Break O'day Rd, Glenburn.

Congratulations goes to Cindy Coad, assistant manager at Webb Pastoral, for preparing the cattle for the show.

Both studs will continue to show at local shows cumulating at the 102rd Yea Show on FridaySaturdayt, November 24-25.

Both Duncan and Cindy are on the cattle section committee. One of the highlights will be the heifer show judged in front of the grandstand on the main oval at 6.30pm on Friday, November 24.

Call on Yea locals to support Show next month

● Webb Mystical, Junior Champion Heifer at Royal Melbourne Show.

Last year this attracted heifers from some of the leading studs throughout Victoria and New South Wales.

It was especially pleasing to have Finley High School bring their cattle down; the students competed successfully, both in the stud section and Hoof and Hook competition, winning Grand Champion Carcase with one of their school steers.

At the conclusion of the judging on the Friday evening there will be a band playing, the bar will be open and food available.

The Yea Show committee has numerous other activities running during the evening and even more events and competitions on the Saturday which makes it a family event not to be missed. One ticket will get you in on both days.

The Yea Show Committee has worked extremely hard to get the local show back on its feet. The residents of Yea and district have been called upon to support their show and have a really enjoyable weekend.

- Duncan Newcomen

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$2.6 MIL. LOSS TIPPED Another pay rise for CEO?

More delays on Shire Hall works

● Murrindindi Shire Council expects to now hand down a $2.6 million loss in 201718. Pictured, back row, from left: Crs Rebecca Bowles, Leigh Dunscombe, Eric Lording, Jackie Ashe and Margaret Rae. Front row: Deputy Mayor Cr Sandice McAlay and Mayor Cr Charlie Bisset.

● On-again, off-again Yea Shire Hall works look likely to be delayed yet again by Murrindindi Shire Council. This time until 2018-19.

■ Planned improvement works at the Yea Shire Hall, listed for the past two financial years by Murrindindi Shire Council, look likely to be delayed again.

Under a plan being put to theCouncil meeting tonight (Wed.) at Alexandra, Councillors are being asked for improvements to be held over.

The reason for delay, given by Council officers, is that they have identified possible extra grant money for which an application is yet to be made.

Scope of additional renewal works is: ■ remove the old toilets and convert to meeting space, ■ restore the original toilet box located under the stairs, ■ retrofit glass to balustrade in balcony to make safe for users, ■ recosntruct the floor finish in the foyer in materials to match heritage style, ■ restore the projection box, ■ repair and refurbish the stairs and handrails, and ■ restore the cinema setaing.

Council originally planned to repair the clocks on the external tower of the Yea Shire Hall.

More losses coming

■ Councillors plan to have $½-million losses in each of the following three financial losses, according to their medium-term four-year plan.

These three $500,000 losses, along with the current $2.5 million projection, will total $4 million over four years.

■ ONLY one year since they were Original deficit elected, Murrindindi’s ‘new-look’ Councillors appear to be no bet- was planned to be ter at finances than their prede$249,110 cessors.

A report due to be tabled at the CounThe Council’s spending is now expected to cil meeting at Alexandra tonight (Wed.) be $900,000 more than expected at the start of financial year. predicts the Shire’s annual loss for 2017- theExpenses are now expected to be $33.96 18 will blow out to $2.6 million. million, instead of the planned $33.00 million The planned 2017-18 deficit stated in the Council’s budget, passed only months ago, was to have been $249,110.

The projected deficit for the 12 months to June 30, 2018, is more likely to be $2,664,266, according to the ‘Statement A’ financial report Council documents say that an early State Government grants payment of $2.2 million made in late June is the major reason for the revised financial result.

Those funds were included in the 2016-17 result instead of this year.

‘Underlying $5.2 million deficit’

Council’s ‘alternative format’ income statement, said to indicate the ‘underlying operational result’, indicates a $5.2 million deficit for the 2017-18 year.

In the midst of this loss, Councillors are due tonight to discuss a pay rise for Chief Executive Officer, Margaret Abbey, who currently receives a $248,000 annual package.

The Council is required to review the CEO’s remuneration package annually, within one month following a performance review.

The review looks at the officer’s achievement of performance criteria, and the extent of any increase over the preceding 12 months in the Consumer Price Index (CPI All Groups, Melbourne) as issued by the Australian Statistician.

Council’s budget was based on $32.7 million revenue, which has been revised to $31.5 million - $1.2 million less than expected.

● Margaret Abbey, Chief Executive of Murrindindi Council

Crs to discuss $253,456 for Margaret Abbey

Projects ‘scoped’

■ The Chief Executive Officer of Murrindindi Shire Council, Margaret Abbey, is likely to receive a $5456 annual pay rise tonight (Wed.).

The $104.92 weekly pay rise represents an increase of 2.2 per cent.

Councillors are scheduled to vote on a review of Ms Abbey’s remuneration package, taking it from $248,000 to $253,456.

This means that Ms Abbey would be paid $694.40 each day of the year.

The average full-time female salary in Australia is $70,392 per annum, or $1353 per week.

The 2.2 per cent increase is in accordance with the minimum increase limit set in Ms Abbey’s contract of employment. It represents the annual Consumer Price Index figure.

An “officer recommendation” to Councillors is that they approve the back-dating of the increase to the one-year anniversary date of the contract of employment.

Back-dating to July 1 means 16 weeks of extra $104.92 payments, totalling $1678.72.

Stormwater program works are “currently bring scoped”, due for commencement in January.

Works at the EildonAlliance Boat Ramp will be completed by June next year, the report anticipates, dependent on water levels.

Kinglake Community Centre drainage and barbecue works should be finished by July 2018, as will drainage works at Kinglake Memorial Park Oval.

Pioneer Reserve traffic management is due to be completed in June, with construction underway, says the Council report.

■ Margaret Abbey is currently taking leave as Chief Executive Officer of Murrindindi Shire.

Stuart McConnell, General Manager Infrastructure and Development Services, will be Acting CEO until Friday (Oct. 27).

Michael Chesworth, General Manager Corporate and Community Services, will then be Acting CEO until Wednesday, November 8.

budget.

The Shire’s capital works budget is expected to blow-out from the orginal budget of $7.43 million to $10.89 million - an increase of $3.46 million.

A number of uncompleted capital works projects, totalling $2.7 million, have been carried forward from last financial year.

Council’s sealed road and bitumous sealing program is expected to be completed by March 2018, with the contract awarded.

The Gravel Road Resheeting Program is due to start in December, and be completed by April, with works tendered, and evaluation currently underway.

The bridge program, with contract awarded, is due to be completed in December.

The path program, tendered this month, has an anticipated completion date of May 2018.

A similar completed date is listed for the kerb and channel program.

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High St stories told ■ Yea students were entertained by High St storytellers for ELF Day last week.

Deb Robinson, real estate agent, was pictured on social media, reading a book to local youngsters.

Deb is key to the local theatrical group, Yappers, which is presenting There’s A Dead Body In The Graveyard and Love To Deceive at St Luke’s Parish Hall, Yea, on Friday night (Oct. 27), and Saturdays, Oct. 28 and Nov. 4.

There are 2pm and 7.45pm Saturday shows. Adults: $20, concession $15, and children $10.

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EPA visit to Yea

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● Yea real estate agent Deb Robinson had local youngsters entertained as she read a book to them for Elf Day. ■ Billcart Derby in Yea, ■ Open Gardens in Alexandra, ■ Bushfire Planning Workshop at Taggerty.

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● Peggy Chivers ■ A notice appears in this week’s Local Paper Classifieds, notifying of the passing of Yea resident Peggy Chivers at age 92.

The Yea CWA ladies pay a fine tribute to their mate.

Peggy was a fine and interested neighbour when we lived in Hill St, Yea, in the late 1980s/early 1990s.

Big week ahead ■ Some of the attractions in the region in the week ahead are: ■ Alexandra Races on Saturday (Oct. 28), ■ Festival of Flowers at St John’s Anglican Church,Alexandra,

■ There are only eight more issues of The Local Paper prior to Christmas.

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Short Shots ■ Attempts are being made to commence a summer netball competition in Yea. ■ November 16 has been set as a completion date for the Yea High School upgrade work (Art room, Wood/Metal and Music/ Drama Space).

■ Thornton-Eildon District FootballNetball Club is now due to conduct its Annual General Meeting on Sunday (Oct. 29).

Tick for leaders ■ Yea High School's 2017 School Captains, Dean Mercuri and Alexandra Huggins, have set a great example to the school community, says Principal Bruce Skewes and deputy Brian D’Arcy.

Nominations are soon to be called for for School Captains and School Council representatives for 2018.

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From Our Files - 30 Years Ago Wednesday, October 28, 1987

■ Benalla-based representative of the Environment Protection Authority, Alan Ragg, made a visit to Yea to inspect the old saleyards area, ahead of its expected reopening. Mr Ragg was due to meet with Yea Council representatives, 30 years ago, to discuss concerns about the saleyards operation in a residential area.

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■ In 1987, we published a letter from veteran stock agent Jim Elliott, responding to concerns by Yea businessman Ian Findley about the saleyards. Mr Elliott said that he had never experienced complaints in the half-century in which he had worked as a stock agent.

“People who have purchased housaes in the vicinity of the saleyards should have realised that the yards have been there for many years and have never been closed.

“I suppose it is like buting a house near Tullamarine, and then complaining anout noise of planes passing by.”

By-election hint

■ A Police promotion for Cr Peter Beales might mean a by-election for Yea Shire Council, according to 1987 speculation. Cr Beales, of Currajong Ave, Kinglake, had won a job appointment as Inspector at Korumburra. He had been a Senior-Sergeant at Fitzroy, and an Acting Inspector at North Carlton.

Kilmore’s 150th ■ Kilmore Shire was due to celebrate its 150th anniversary, 30 years ago, with thenShire President Cr Ian Still proclaiming the start of celebrations at each school and post office in the district

Sins for farmers

■ Yea Shire decided to push the Road ConstructionAuthority for signs to be installed at Glenburn to promote the location of the Glenwaters development.

Cr Ian Bell said that signing should be promoted for both the Tabak’s Berry King Farm (Glenburn), and the ElginStucynski’s farm at Molesworth.

Cup evenings

■ Two local functions were being planned, 30 years ago, ahead of the 1987 Melbourne Cup. The annual Glenburn Hall Cup Eve function was being planned, as well as the Rotary Club of Yea’s second annual event at Beaufort Manor.

Nine ribbons

■ Nine ribbons were gained with eight head from the Lowanna Stud, Flowerdale, at the inaugural Hereford Show held at Holbrook.

Lowanna Stud was then conducted by J.P. & E. Racovolis.

School closure

■ Strath Creek Primary School risked closure, we reported in 1987. The following year’s small number of enrolments posed a threat to the ongoing future of the school, reported the Kilmore Free Press. Only three students had enrolled, seven were needed.

Principal Doug Elliott and teacher Jean Coward looked after 16 children at the school in 1987.

F’dale CWA closes ● This photo of Yea was taken from the roof of Thorley’s grocery shop in The Crescent, Yea, in the early 1940s.

Photo: Vic Thorley, sourced by Alan Thorley, of the Yea and District Historical Society

■ Joan Mackrell announced the closure of the Flowerdale branch of the Country Women’sAssociation in 1987, after 40 years of service. Thanks were expressed to local, Yea and Strath Creek communities.

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Your Stars with Kerry Kulkens ARIES: (March 21-April 20) Lucky Colour: White Lucky Day: Friday Racing Numbers: 5.6.2.3.

Lotto Numbers: 1.12.15.25.29.33.

Not a very good period for taking chances, leave speculations until a later date. You might not have the right answers now, so do not advice others in important matters.

TAURUS: (April 21- May 20) Lucky Colour: Green Lucky Day: Monday Racing Numbers: 4.6.2.5.

Lotto Numbers: 1.12.15.29.34.40.

A very good period in your career matters and progress in business can be expected. Plenty of energy and interest in new ideas and a more harmonious relationship with loved ones.

GEMINI: (May 21- June 21) Lucky Colour: Silver Lucky Day: Wednesday Racing Numbers: 1.3.5.8.

Lotto Numbers: 1.12.24.40.9.44.

You could be ready for some changes in your relationships. Not the right time to push your favourite issues, gentle persuasion will work out a lot better and will leave you a chance to negotiate.

CANCER: (June 22- July 22) Lucky Colour: White Lucky Day: Friday Racing Numbers: 2.3.6.5.

Lotto Numbers: 2.13.5.45.40.33.

You could be guessing very right during this period and time to reap what you have sown earlier on. Try to keep away from quarrelling people and compromise will be better than defeat.

LEO: (July 23-August 22) Lucky Colour: Cream Lucky Day: Tuesday Racing Numbers: 5.6.2.1.

Lotto Numbers: 5.12.24.40.39.36.

Lots of social contacts and a busy period for entertaining is indicated. Good news from a distance and financial benefits coming your way. Keep your head clear for some interesting new ideas.

VIRGO: (August 23- September 23) Lucky Colour: Peach Lucky Day: Friday Racing Numbers: 9.8.4.2.

Lotto Numbers: 8.15.24.42.40.22.

Some important decisions to be made concerning your future security, including your career prospects. Some very good opportunities coming your way very soon.

LIBRA: (September 24- October 23) Lucky Colour: White Lucky Day: Wednesday Racing Numbers: 8.6.4.2.

Lotto Numbers:8.12.40.25.29.19.

A much better mood is prevailing and friends could surprise you in a happy way. Now is the time in which you should be able to gain most of the things that have been on your mind.

SCORPIO: (October 24- November 22) Lucky Colour: Blue Lucky Day: Monday Racing Numbers: 9.6.2.1.

Lotto Numbers: 1.12.15.29.34.36.

Very irritating aspects operating and your patience is put to the test. Try to take it all in good humour and it will become less frustrating. Some good luck through a partner.

SAGITTARIUS: (November23- December20) Lucky Colour: Fawn Lucky Day: Saturday Racing Numbers: 4.6.2.3.

Lotto Numbers: 4.12.26.25.5.22.

Not the time to trust anyone with your secrets, they could use them against you at a later date. Business will not mix with pleasure or family matters even during this period, keep them separate.

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New tavern planned for Glenburn: Council ● A profile drawing of the planned Glenburn Hotel to be discussed tonight (Wed.) ■ Intended operating hours for a new Glenburn Tavern would be 11am-11pm Fridays, 7am11pm Saturdays, and 11am10pm Sundays, according to a letter from Melissa Crane to Murrindindi Shire, due to be tabled at the Council meeting tonight (Wed.).

Wychwood Estates Pty Ltd is apllying for a permit to construct and use of a tavern, removal of one tree, and a reduction in car parking require● Glenburn Hotel prior to the 2009 fire. ments.

Photo: gdaypubs.com.au An officer’s recommendation suggests that no more than may take place in the tavern at February 2009.

100 patrons be allowed on the any time the tavern is permitThe new proposal is for the ted to be used. site. construction of a tavern that inFunctions including live en- cludes an eating area, bar, The proposed permit being put for the vote of Councillors tertainment with the use of cafe, kitchen, bathroom facilithat permitted use over five amplifiers may be permitted on ties, small stage, office and days a week be over 7am- six occasions per calendar staff room.

11pm Monday-Saturday, and year, it is suggested.

It is proposed to be open for Outdoor lighting would have breakfast, lunch and dinner on 10am-11pm Sundays.

“The business can operate to be designed, baffled and lo- selected days. seven days per week subject cated so that no direct light is Plans are that no more than to an upgrade to the effluent emitted outside the boundary of 100 patrons be on site, with prodisposal to the satisfaction of the land, which is at the corner vision for 39 car spaces on site. the Responsible Authority,” of Melba Hwy and reak-O’Submissions received by suggests the Council officer’s Day Rd. Council include concerns with Direct access to Melba Hwy waste and rubbish managereport.

A suggested permit condi- would not be permitted, under ment, specific hours, effluent tion is that the external the permit. Break-O’-Day Rd disposal, and the need for claddding including the roof would be constructed to the sealed car parking, not gravel. and trims be coloured green, satisfaction of Murrindindi A submitter said they were Shire Council, to the satisfac- concerned that when the tavbrown or charcoal.

It is suggested that pre-re- tion of the Roads Corporation. ern shuts, patrons will camp ilThe original Glenburn Ho- legally in nearby public spaces. corded background music or unamplified live performance tel was destroyed by fire in- Ash Long

One objection to Kinglake West move

CAPRICORN: (December 21- January 19) Lucky Colour: Pink Lucky Day: Friday Racing Numbers: 2.6.2.1.

Lotto Numbers: 2.13.25.24.40.33.

People seem to be expecting more from you and your time will be very much taken by the demands of others.

If planning to travel, you must be rather ruthless in your demands to get what you want.

AQUARIUS: (January 20- February 19) Lucky Colour: Dark Blue Lucky Day: Friday Racing Numbers: 5.6.3.2.

Lotto Numbers: 5.12.23.36.39.30.

You might not be in agreement with loved ones about an important issue. Do not let it get too big to handle. There are more demands on your time and your ability.

PISCES: (February 20- March 20) Lucky Colour: Mauve Lucky Day: Monday Racing Numbers: 5.6.1.9.

Lotto Numbers: 5.19.26.34.37.35.

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● Kinglake West Adventure Camp. Photo: www.krwc.com.au ■ A planning permit amendment for Kinglake The suggested permit conditions include West Adventure Camp will be put to the gravelling of the access road for the first 400 Murrindindi Shire Council meeting tonight metres.

(Wed.) at Alexandra.

The Council will hear that the proposed speed Frencho Pty Ltd wants the refreshed permit humps, signage and works should be carried out to allow land for an adventure camp and associ- to the satisfaction of the authority. ated tourism activities, construction of a covThere is a suggestion that the Parks Victoria ered area, interpretive centre, three ropes courses Team Leader at Kinglake be contacted to arand a pump track bike circuit. range a site meeting, so a contractor could be The company is also applying for an alterna- “inducted” seven days before the commencetive road approach to trhe camp entry at 1419 ment of any works.

Whittlesea-Yea Rd. Access should be via existing tracks, CounA Council officer’s report suggests that the cillors are being advised. condition for driveway access include signage Any damage to existing tracks must be reand traffic ‘calming’, with 20-kmh speed paired as soon as possible at the operator’s cost signage and three speed humps. to the satisfaction of Parks Victoria.

Here’s where to grab your weekly copy ● ALEXANDRA. Foodworks. 102 Grant St. ● ALEXANDRA. Landmark Real Estate. 56 Grant St. ● ALEXANDRA. Murrindindi Shire Offices.

Perkins St. ● ALEXANDRA. Newsagency. 82-84 Grant St. ● ALEXANDRA. Simpsons Fuel. 25 Aitken St. ● ALEXANDRA. Totally Trout. 2/42 Downey St. ● BUXTON. Post Office. 2187 Maroondah Hwy. ● DIAMOND CREEK. Newsagency. 62A Main Hurstbridge Rd. ● DOREEN. General Store. 920 Yan Yean Rd. ● EILDON. Foodworks. 18 Main St. ● ELTHAM. Newsagency. 2/963 Main Rd. ● FLOWERDALE. Community House. 36 Silver Creek Rd. ● FLOWERDALE. Hazeldene Store. 6 Curlings Rd. ● FLOWERDALE. Hotel. 3325 WhittleseaYea Rd ● GLENBURN. United Petroleum. 3883 Melba Hwy. ● HEALESVILLE. Newsagency. 195 Maroondah Hwy. ● HURSTBRIDGE. Newsagency 800 Heidelberg-Kinglake Rd. ● KANGAROO GROUND. General Store.

280 Eltham-Yarra Glen Rd. ● KINGLAKE. Bakehouse. 10 WhittleseaKinglake Rd. ● KINGL AKE. Foodworks. 12 Main St. ● KINGLAKE. Library. 19 WhittleseaKinglake Rd. ● KINGLAKE. Pub. 28 WhittleseaKinglake Rd. ● KINGLAKE. United Petroleum. 2 Kinglake-Glenburn Rd. ● LAURIMAR. Newsagency. 8/95 Hazel Glen Dr. ● LILYDALE. Newsagency. 237 Main St. ● MANSFIELD. Foodworks. 119 High St. ● MERNDA VILLAGES. Post Office. 50 Mernda Village Dr. ● MARYSVILLE. Foodworks. 49 Darwin St. ● MOLESWORTH. Hungry Horse Hotel.

4364 Goulburn Valley Hwy. ● MOLESWORTH. Store.4353 Goulburn Valley Hwy. ● NARBETHONG. Black Spur Inn. 436 Maroondah Hwy. ● PHEASANT CREEK. Flying Tarts. 888 Whittlesea-Kinglake Rd. ● PHEASANT CREEK. Store. 884 Whittlesea-Kinglake Rd. ● RESEARCH. Post Office. 1544 Main Rd ● SEYMOUR. Newsagency. 66 Station St ● ST ANDREWS. Store. 10 Caledonia St. ● STRATH CREEK. Post Office. 8 Glover St. ● TAGGERTY. Store. 26 Taggerty-Thornton Rd. ● THORNTON. Store. 1365 TaggertyThornton Rd. ● TOOLANGI. Tavern. 1390 Myers Creek Rd. ● WATTLE GLEN. Peppers Paddock General Store. 13 Kangaroo GroundWattle Glen Rd. ● WHITTLESEA. Bowls Club. 101 Church St. ● WHITTLESEA. Champions Supa IGA. 2/ 16 Church St. ● WHITTLESEA. El-Azar Milk Bar. 13 Church St. ● WHITTLESEA. Foodworks. 65 Church St. ● WHITTLESEA. Whittlesea H Hardware.

2420 Plenty Rd. ● WHITTLESEA. Newsagency. 45 Church St. ● WHITTLESEA. Royal Mail Hotel. 29 Beech St. ● YARCK. Hotel. Maroondah Hwy. ● YARCK. Store. 6595 Maroondah Hwy ● YARRA GLEN. IGA. 1/38 Bell St. ● YARRA GLEN. Newsagency. 32 Bell St. ● YEA. Amble Inn Cafe. 24 High St ● YEA. Bakery. 44 High St. ● YEA. BP. 31 High St ● YEA. Cafe Christies. 17 High St ● YEA. Country Woman. 6 Station St. ● YEA. Foodworks. 10 High St ● YEA. Library. 15 The Semi-Circle ● YEA. Manna Fest. 94 High St. ● YEA. Marmalades. 20 High St ● YEA. Mint and Jam. 46 High St ● YEA. Newsagency. 74 High St ● YEA. Peppercorn Hotel. 21 Station St. ● YEA. Provender Bakery. 56 High St ● YEA. Rendezvous. 10 High St ● YEA. Royal Mail Hotel. 88 High St. ● YEA. Take-Away. 68 High St

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The Yea Story: Part 22

‘Financial calamity on the horizon’ ■ “At a suitable moment in the course of the banquet”, it wasw suggested, “the subject of the Upper Goulburn Railway can be discussed, and a committee of the Upper Goulburn Railway League can be quested to co-operate with the Councils in arranging the banquet”.

But even while the menu was being arranged, the shadow of financial calamity appeared on the horizon.

The manager of the Colonial Bank wrote a stern letter pointing out that the overdraft was more than overdue and demanded immediate attention.

Reluctantly, the Council put its banquet plans to one side for long enough to inform the bank that “the reason the overdraft has not been paid before this is owing to the Shire not having been paid the government subsidy we expected, wnd what is more we shall require a further advance of monies”.

Before the ink was dry on the letter, a Council member was speeding toward Melbourne by express coach to urge the immediate payment of a government subsidy to pacify the bank.

Filled with foreboding over the Shire’s financial difficulties, and perhaps still brooding over Mr Maxwell’s appointment as inspector of bridge works, the shire president, Cr Grant, resigned one month later, before his term had expired.

James Daniel Webster took his place, but even he had no suggestions to meet the financial crisis.

One wild idea put forward, but fortunately not adopted, was the Shire shoukd try to borrow £1500 privately in Melbourne, and then pay it back “by appropriating all government monies received on account of special grants and other subsidies”.

Meanwhile, with a payment to the bridge contractor looming up, the Council decided to “give Mr Miller a certificate for £1000, and as soon as we have got sufficient funds we will pay him £500, telling him we expect to be able to do so at our next meeting.

“Meantime we pay him £360 out of the £600 we are about to receive.”

Continuing to be dazzled with the idea of its Grand Bridge Banquet, which hopefully would warm the hearts of visiting Parliamentarians and loosen governmental purse strings, the Council proceeded with its plan.

The sum of £20 was promised to the Railway League so that it might prepare its propaganda with which to bombard the unwary official guests expected, “and it can be intimated to the League that our cheque will be forwarded as soon as we are in funds”.

Meanwhile, councillors Webster and McLeish were sent as a deputation to the worried bank manager asking him not merely to hold his hand on the overdue overdraft, but to arrange for a further cash advance against expectancies.

Quite sure that it would get its overdraft, a hefty government grant, and a railway linking Yea with Tallarook and Melbourne, once the visiting ministers and parliamentarians had been suitably entertained at its banquet, the Council then decided that what was needed to attract tourists from Melbourne was a racecourse, so it fired off a letter to the Commissioner of Crown Lands asking for 266 acres to be set aside for a

● Molesworth Bridge. Early 1900s. Photo: Lindsay G. Cumming. “modern racecourse and suitable tion, but our No 3 Pale Ale is neces- proached the government, suggesting it should pay its subsidy directly sarily a pure and honest beer. auxiliary amenities”.

“Anxious as we are to promote to the contractor “so as to relieve us Deciding perhaps, that it could be shot for trying, it also sent yet an- Colonial industry in this respect, we in part from paying the large sum of other deputation to Melbourne “to ask your patronage solely on the money we are at present being point out the desirability of the gov- ground of the thorough excellence charged for interest”. This, the government now paying the whole of the of the article we propose to supply”. ernment declined to do. The Of the meats, bread, pastries and Council’s Melbourne solicitor, Mr cost of the Molesworth Bridge”.

While those ambitious castles other foods supplied there is no Coster, was then asked to circularise the city’s banks seeking a £3000 loan were being built in the air, the more record.

But there was certainly no short- and retaining a percentage for his mundane affairs of the Shire were age of liquid refreshments for the efforts; but Mr Coster apparently was pressing for attention.

The annual winter rains were entertainment of the large party of not at all impressed with the idea.

With the second of the sweeping the township again, and official guests.

People came to Molesworth from contractor’s £1000 certificates comHigh Street was once more under miles around to see the party of par- ing up for redemption at the end of water.

The Council blithely authorised liamentarians and commissioners 1875, the Council’s financial situathe expenditure of £30 to set a drain welcomed, and to hold their own tion became even more desperate, and it was decided to ask the Bank on the south side of High Street be- celebratory picnics.

The Banquet and rejoicings ex- of New South Wales to meet the tween the Courthouse and the Post Office, and fill up the lagoon “if nec- tended into the early hours of the next certificatre as they came due, the essary” where a horse had recently morning, and according to local leg- Council to pay its debt at the rate of been drowned opposite Mr end only came to an end when some £1000 in successive Decembers, McNamara’s house, “the money to of the more exuberant spirits hurled plus interest.

Soon after the elections of 1875, be paid some time when were are in the various trestles, forms and tables into the Goulburn from the middle at which James Daniel Webster was funds”.

Instead of his expected cash in- of the bridge and watched them car- elected president, the Council stalment, the bridge contractor was ried into the darkness downstream learned that the government subsidy would be forthcoming, but the Shire’s toward Yea. issued with a certificate of £1000.

The official party from neigh- accumulated debts had become so But money had to be obtained from somewhere. So secret negotiations bouring Alexandra set out on their large that even the government opened with a rival bank, the Union return by coaches and drays during money would not be sufficient to reat Alexandra, and an advance was the night but lost the local chemist gain solvency.

So in some desperation, the Counobtained on a promissory note for half somewhere on the way; he was disof the Shire’s annual rate revenue covered the next day under a way- cil wrote to the Colonial Bank with the optimistic request that “in the evnt side gum, nursing a broken leg. of £1854 - some £927.

Among the sore heads left in the of us paying into your bank the subThe Grand Banquet for the opening of the Molesworth Bridge in 1874 wake of the Bnaquet must be sidy now due, will you honour all turned out to be all that its organisers counted those of the councillors who cheques to the extent of this amount, had hoped - in fact they may have were now faced with the bill, plus all we being not at present in the positheir other pressing financial com- tion to reduce the overdraft?” got more than they bargained for.

Forseeing, perhaps, the bank’s The catering was done by a local mitments.

At their next meeting, they asked reaction, the Council added to its publican, Mrs Forbes, of the Royal Mail Hotel and the bill, £16 3s 3d, their engineer Mr Downey, to request Minutes a private note that “in the was a tremendous one for those days. leave of absence for at least six event of a refusal, we agree to open Mrs Forbes supplied cases of months, “this Shire not being in funds an account at the Bank of New South imported Irish whisky (Scotch did to carry on any public works at Wales, Melbourne and lodge the government subsidy there instead”. not become really popular in Aus- present”.

When the Colonial Bank refused Not surprisingly, as recounted in tralia until World War I), Superior Old Tom gin, distilled and bottled by an earlier chapter, Mr Downey re- to entertain the scheme, the Council tried similar tactics on the Bank of W.M. Foster, of 31 Little Bourke signed some 12 weeks later.

To add to the Council’s woes, the New South Wales, asking if that inStreet, Melbourne, and quantities of Vaughan and Wild’s No 3 Pale Ale, Central Board of Health, which had stitution would allow the Council to been growing more and more con- draw upon any monies paid in “notbrewed in Collingwood.

In their circular soliciting the cerned with the stagnant water lying withstanding that they have a claim Shire’s custom for their No 3 Pale in Yea township’s streets in winter, on us in respect of Mr Miller’s debt”.

Once again, if the bank proved Ale, Messrs Vaughan and Wild de- demandede that an immediate start scribed it as “eminently suited for be made on special drainage works unwilling, “then we will pay all monies into the Bank of Australia ingeneral consumption, alike by the estimated to cost at least £172.

To the Board’s demands, the stead”. family requiring a light, wholesome One way or another, the Council and eminently palatable beer, as in Council replied asking for a special the hotel where solid refreshment is grant of assistance, “as we have ex- was determined to get its hands on hausted all our resources and are the government subsidy to meets its needed. most immediate debts, and noted in “To imported Ale something has now sorely in debt”.

Once more, the Council ap- its Minutes that just as soon as the always been added to kill fermenta-

Shire Secretary was informed into what bank the funds were to be paid, then he could start drawing cheques to meet the claims of the Shire’s most pressing creditors.

By June 1876 however, it was evident that the debts must be consolidated and a real effort made to place the Shire’s financial affairs on a sound footing.

So formal application was made to raise £3000 by the sale of 60 debentures at £50 each at an interest rate of 7 per cent, through the Bank of Australasia.

The repayment of the debentures was to be secured by the annual investment of £25 per £100 in State Government stock.

Of this loan, £1000 was to be used to repay the Colonial Bank, and £1000to repay the balance of the Bank of New South Wales loan for the Molesworth Bridge debt.

However, the Council had lost neither heart nor its taste for bridges, for with the balance of the loan it immediately decided to build another bridge over Boundary Creek in Yea township, as well as to allocate £200 for the road between Yea and Cotton’s Pinch, and £500 for the construction of municipal offices.

The Molesworth Bridge debt was destined to drag on for several years to come, and the Council was not at all happy at its interest charges, for early in 1877 it decided to seek counsel’s advice on the legality of continuing to pay interest to the luckless Mr Miller.

Mr Higginbotham, QC, duly advised the Shire that there was no legal barrier to paying the contractor interest on the outstanding debt and advised them to do without further argument.

Rather reluctantly, it seems, the Council then sent Mr Miller a cheque for £100 and promised him the balance at 8 per cent at regular intervals up to the final payment at the end of 1879.

So the saga of the first Molesworth bridge drew to a close. It had brough the Shire perilously close to bankruptcy, but by replacing the inadequate punt built by John Sloan had opened up the highway to Alexandra, Mansfield and the goldfields at Wood’s Point.

The bridge did sterling service for about a quarter of a century, but by 1898 it had become unsafe for heavy wheeled traffic, and placards were erected at either end warning all who crossed it that they did so at their own risk.

Stones were dumped to make a ford for those willing to use it, and the Government was asked for a grant to build a new bridge, to be built in co-operation with the Alexandra Shire Council.

The Government suggested instead that the old bridge should be re-built, using any of the old materials that might still be sound, and made £1000 suitable for the purpose.

Perhaps with memories of its financial woes over the old bridge, the Council proceeded more cautiously this time, and debentures were issued to raise the remainder of the money needed before a contract was let.

The old bridge had to be closed to allow reconstrucytion, so to keep the road open a new punt had to be built, and new wire ropes were installed on the old site of the original punt. ● To be continued next week in The Local Paper.

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Local MP speaks about death of her mother ■ Eildon MLA Cindy McLeish has spoken in State Parliament about the death of her mother, Irene, in last week’s debate on voluntary assisted dying: “I rise to contribute to this extremely important bill that is before the house, the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2017.

This is a bill that can change the way our society deals with people at the end of their life.

This bill has, I must say, consumed me more than any other bill. I have worked long and hard, focusing on the concept and the bill in detail.

I have wavered greatly on whether or not I should support this bill. Everybody will agree that we do not want people to suffer, and at the end of life this is even more important.

We want the end of life to be the best it can be for that person.

I am fairly convinced that palliative care does make a huge difference in this area.

We are all victims of our circumstances and our experience — every one of us here. Our backgrounds shape us. Our family values and our beliefs set our way forward.

I wonder if I have been torn when it comes to my position on this bill because I know that my mother would not have supported it but my father most definitely would have.

I do recall that possibly 20 years ago my father put it to my mother that perhaps they should together, when they were elderly, take their lives.

Mum looked at him in a very steely way and said, ‘Don’t you make any plans for me, pal’.

She was prepared to go gracefully and gently, and that is what happened. She passed away with a terminal illness in the Yea hospital, a small country hospital that was able to provide a level of palliative care for her.

They provided a wonderful tranquil environment. The doctors, the nurses and the staff at the hospital were second to none and can only be praised.

I think, knowing my mother as they knew my mother, it was possibly easier for them, but I have no doubt that they provide such great care for everybody.

Conversely my father had been on dialysis for a couple of years. He took charge eventually and decided not to continue on that course, and of course he passed away several days later.

Interestingly, though, my father was involved in palliative care some 18 months prior to his life ending.

He had been in Melbourne with kidney disease, and through Cabrini Hospital they started this process, which surprised me at the time because he was not at that point dying, by any means, but he was dependent on palliative care.

They explained to me that you could have palliative care in the community through Cabrini, and I was most impressed with this.

He had become so well, still dependent on dialysis, that he no longer required that palliative care.

When he moved back to Yea he was in the aged-care facility, and they took great care of him for the short time that he was there.

I have been inundated with information for this debate, which I have considered very carefully.

● Cindy McLeish, MLA for Eildon As members of Parliament, all That is actually what is the hard of us have had numerous opportuni- part, because while I thought I would ties to hear from proponents of the be inclined to support a bill such as legislation and those who are against this quite easily, I have been quite it, whether they are doctors, lawyers surprised by my wavering and the or specialists. concerns about the safeguards and I greatly appreciate the time that whether those safeguards are these very busy people took out of enough. their schedules to come in to ParliaI know many in the wider comment, some on many occasions, to munity support the notion of euthamake sure that as many MPs as pos- nasia, but I know a lot of them do not sible were across the reasons for understand what is in this bill, and being either pro or against this bill. they think people are eligible when Also I have been contacted by so they are not eligible. many from my community, who That is understandable because have shared their views and their sto- when a bill is before the Parliament, ries. very few people in the general popuSome of their stories were awful, lation go to the detail of precisely from dreadful suicides and deaths what is in the bill. alone to brain cancers and everything There are sections of the bill that in between, and I certainly greatly I am comfortable with, and there are appreciate the differing opinions and sections that I am not comfortable the stories that were told to me. with.

People came into my office; As such, I have had amendments sometimes, if I was not there, they drafted, and so under standing orders left messages; they phoned; they left I wish to advise the house of the emails; I had meetings; and I also amendments that I am putting forsent a couple of petitions to the minward to the Voluntary Assisted Dyister on behalf of a number of groups.

We all know stories of death. We ing Bill 2017 and request that they know the good and the bad stories, be circulated.

(Amendments circulated.) and we do not want people to suffer.

I will continue while these are But death is interesting because it can bring out the best and the worst being circulated. Essentially there in families. It is not something that are two amendments. In part 2, we tend to talk about, but we should clause 9, ‘Eligibility criteria for acreally start having these conversa- cess to voluntary assisted dying’, I am proposing that rather than the illtions at home.

I think it is next year that the ad- ness being expected to cause death vance care plans kick into action, and within 12 months, that required time I hope that they will offer clarity and frame be reduced to six months.

I also propose an insertion in choice for some, but it still requires clause 18 requiring a referral for a a conversation to be had.

In addition to the people who have specialist opinion regarding a treatcome to see me, I canvassed views able medical illness. Depression from others. I canvassed the views comes to mind most readily.

With regard to prognosis, we all of family, friends and colleagues.

When I look at what is before us know the stories of people being today, we are not voting on the prin- given 12 months to live and they have ciple of whether we support eutha- lasted years; they have recovered, nasia or not; it is the bill. It is the they have been discharged and they proposed legislation that has been put have had productive lives. We know the opposite as well. before the house.

We know people who have been given 12 months to live and who have lived only a short time.

We know people who have been given a couple of months and have lasted a couple of months and people who have been given a couple of months and have lasted a very long time.

I have concerns about clinical depression. With the amendments, a person would not be eligible if they were suffering from a treatable mental illness that may be affecting the decisions that the person makes regarding voluntary assisted dying, and this includes requiring an assessing practitioner to refer out to the specialist if they are not able to determine for themselves whether or not the person has such a mental illness.

Diagnosis of depression is not clear-cut. Many GPs would miss it, and oncologists could miss it. It is something that requires quite a specialist skill.

We have had the parliamentary inquiry into end-of-life choices that was conducted by the Legal and Social Issues Committee in the upper house, the report of which was tabled in 2016 and which, I say, set the framework for this bill.

This bill did not arise out of a preelection commitment and was not particularly driven by the government; it came through this inquiry.

This bill specifically gives voluntary access to medication causing death — lethal drugs — for adults or those over 18 with decision-making capacity who are expected to die within weeks or months from an advanced progressive or incurable illness that is causing intolerable suffering.

While that may sound good at the high level, it is when I start to drill down that I have my concerns.

The main provisions of this bill are that no person, patient or health practitioner is obliged to participate in this process, and there are mechanisms for health practitioners not to participate. They are detailed in the bill.

I am pleased to see that doctors are not obliged to be involved in this process, but conversely having them not involved may require people going out doctor shopping.

There are specific details about being an adult, a resident of Victoria and that, in itself, if you live in a border community, could be quite challenging.

You must, as I said, have the decision-making capacity and your disease or illness is advanced, progressive and expected to cause death in a relatively short period of time.

I am not comfortable with the 12 months because I do not think that is very easily diagnosed at that point.

You have to have two independent doctors co-ordinating and consulting who will be satisfied that the person qualifies for voluntary assisted dying and that the request is voluntary, informed and enduring. In country areas where you have GPs — you might not often have specialists — this could be difficult to access.

A local GP or a local specialist might understand the context around that person. They may understand whether there is likely to be coercion or abuse.

When you have to leave the town to find a doctor or a specialist who will be involved with this, I think it

certainly offers challenges and risks.

I am pleased that this bill has not adopted the Netherlands approach because I believe that that is a slippery slope and things are not always reported there and shortcuts are looked for.

This one is based on the Oregon model, which is less of a slippery slope and has been in operation for 20 years.

The figures I have been given show that 1700 people have had the prescription and 1150 took it. I think they said the take-up was about 65 per cent.

My concerns here are about the risks and if the safeguards are enough.

I have mentioned doctor shopping. I worry that this creates a belief that suicide is okay because we are talking about people over 18. Not everybody who will be accessing this will be in their 80s by any means.

There could quite easily be people who are 19 or 20, and you do not want their friends at that impressionable age thinking that this is okay.

I am very concerned about elder abuse and coercion, particularly emotional and financial abuse.

I know that State Trustees and the Australian Law Reform Commission also have reports on this.

I have before me the State Trustees financial abuse report, and I will quote from it. It says that one in five — 21 per cent — of Victorians have experienced someone taking advantage of a vulnerable family member.

Most of the cases where elder abuse is suspected is because of financial reasons. You can have family members who are more vulnerable and some are pretty happy to make the most of this.

I have had people ring my office to say that they are very worried about how their children will approach this legislation. Some have gone as far as to say, ‘I don’t trust my children’.

The State Trustees is very concerned about the increase in the risk of elder abuse, and I am not sure how you best work to stop that.

The Honourable George Brandis has had the Australian Law Reform Commission produce a very comprehensive and lengthy report — 432 pages — and it talks about the high incidence but states that a study is required to establish its prevalence.

It is certainly growing, but it could be hidden.

I have concerns about the lethal medication, about what it is and what happens once it is prescribed. It is in safe storage — storage in a locked box.

Our guns are kept in a much safer way than that, and we have strict legislation about the storage of guns.

If somebody gets it just under 12 months and they live for a longer period, what happens? Where is it?

Is it available to others? If they do not take it, then what happens to it?

And who is there when they want to administer it? We are talking about coercion in being eligible for this process, but when it is administered this person could be on their own.

One of the other things that concerns me greatly is that the medical fraternity is not overwhelmingly supportive.

It seems to be that it is pretty well half and half.

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Special Report

Yan Yean MP quotes poetry in Parlt.

■ Yan Yean MLA Danielle Green chose poetry to illustrate her pointof-view in last week’s Parliamentary debate on voluntary assisted dying: It is indeed a very deep responsibility that all members in this place are facing.

They are facing a choice to support this Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2017.

I want to pay my respect to everyone who has respectfully joined this debate and explained to this house — on behalf of their communities, in line with their consciences — how they intend to vote.

I want to thank the Legislative Council Legal and Social Issues Committee, which did such a comprehensive report, which is what has led to this bill.

I want to thank the health minister not only for sharing her own personal stories but also for championing this as the health minister because she believes it is the right thing to do.

I also thank the Premier. It is not easy to share a story such as he did yesterday about what his mum, Jan, and his wife and kids went through at the passing of his much-loved dad, Bob. I have had to really examine what would influence me in how I will vote and what it is that I should thinking about.

The member for Buninyong said that we have all had to think about how this has influenced us.

We have had to think about our own experiences of death and our families’ experiences of death.

The member for Buninyong said that he had had correspondence from a constituent saying that he should not do that.

Well, I agree with the member for Buninyong. I think that we absolutely should be doing that.

Because this is a conscience vote, we need to draw on our own experiences.

We are all going to die. I have been seeing on the ABC recently an ad for the British television show Doc Martin.

He is a grumpy GP in a local community and is abrupt with a child. The child, with some minor illness quietly asks, ‘Am I going to die?’.

Doc Martin says, ‘We’re all going to die’. Well, we do not want people to say it to us in that way. We do not want our practitioners to say it in that way, but we are all going to die.

I have been a fan of literature and poetry, including the poems of William Blake and Emily Dickinson. One I remember particularly is by Emily Dickinson, Because I could not stop for Death.

Because I could not stop for Death — He kindly stopped for me — The Carriage held but just Ourselves — And immortality We slowly drove — He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility — We passed the School, where Children strove At Recess — in the Ring — We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain — We passed the Setting Sun — Or rather — He passed Us — The Dews drew quivering and Chill — For only Gossamer, my Gown — My Tippet — only Tulle — We paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground — The Roof was scarcely visible — The Cornice — in the Ground —

● Danielle Green, MLA for Yan Yean

Since then — ‘tis Centuries — and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses’ Heads Were toward Eternity.

That is a beautiful poem. I think we all hope that our death will be like that — a slow passing, a slow reflection and without pain.

Fifty-one of my constituents contacted me about this bill, and they ranged in age from 23 to 81.

I want to thank each and every one of them for sharing that with me.

I actually think when I hear from other members that that was quite low. I think that because I have such a young electorate it is not something that is overwhelmingly filling their daily lives, because they are focused on living.

But that said, to those 51 who have contacted me: please rest assured I have read all of your entreaties to me and I have considered them in coming to my position.

I have thought about death in my family. We are pretty lucky that there has not been a whole lot of cancer that has been fatal.

Most of the deaths of people I have known have been swift, either by accident — indeed shocking — or heart attacks, like my dad.

He was only 45. Another of his brothers also died in his 40s. What you always say when someone dies in that way is, ‘At least it was quick’.

That is what we all want — to die in our sleep at a fine old age.

Aside from the heart attacks and the accidents, almost everyone else in my family has lived to a long age — 99, 97, 97 and 87. They were lives well lived, as one would say, and with relatively little pain, just old age.

They sort of faded away and were able to say goodbye.

In particular I my remember my grandmother Eileen Brady-Plozza.

She had heart failure and died slowly over a couple of days, and we were able to say goodbye to her.

There was not a lot of pain, and I think we all agreed it was a good death.

More recently my uncle Alan Radford, who I have spoken about in this place before, was beset with tumours from what he believed was exposure to PFOS and other chemicals at the Fiskville Country Fire Authority training college.

I think of my late stepfather, Ron, who had asbestosis. We discovered afterwards that it was mesothelioma.

I was grateful that his heart gave out before he suffocated from that ter-

rible, terrible illness. My great political mentor Peter Cleeland, and Val McKie, the mother of one of my old schoolfriends Julie — both died in terrible pain from motor neurone disease.

I am a lifelong Essendon fan, and we are all looking at the journey of Neale Daniher.

I want to read out an email that I got from someone, not a constituent: Dear Ms Green, Yes, I am going to die. The cause of my death will probably be slow suffocation, struggling to get a breath and unable to move — that is, unless I have a choice.

Why am I writing to you? The reason is that while you may have already decided your position in relation to assisted dying, I certainly respect that position, but it does not hurt to hear from someone directly affected by your decision.

Geoff Woodrow refers to a recent Melbourne article where I was interviewed in relation to my terminal illness and my thoughts on the proposed bill.

During the course of the interview I was asked what I would say to those MPs who were still undecided on how they may vote. I would like to share that statement with you in case you missed it — Having the choice whether to live or die is an extremely personal one, and one that can only be made by the person themselves and no-one else, so I would say this: put aside your thoughts as to what you would want if it was your own loved one — maybe a wife or a husband or even a parent.

Instead try and put yourself in the position of having no hope and knowing with full certainty that you are going to die. Add to this, if you can, that you are suffering unbearably, whether in constant pain, unable to breathe or experiencing something else that has taken away all quality of life.

Then ask yourself if you are happy to continue with this existence for as long as it takes until you die, or would you prefer to pass away peacefully at a time of your choosing?

I want to thank Geoff Woodrow from Never Give Up, which supports those with motor neurone disease, for contacting me, because I have often thought, ‘What would my political mentor Peter Cleeland want, and what would Val McKie want?’, those two people who died of motor neurone disease.

I spoke in detail with Val in the earlier stages of her illness. She was a vibrant woman with a fine mind.

She was the local church secretary at St Pius in Warrnambool and then up on the Sunshine Coast when she moved there.

She had a fine mind at a time when women were not necessarily rewarded by education and career, but she put her nous into community volunteering.

She was absolutely terrified of having no voice and not being able to say how she felt, how she loved her family and what she would need for pain.

Such diseases we do not want to ever imagine afflicting us, but they are afflicting people today. I know it is not parliamentary to refer to people in the gallery, but I hope that you will indulge me so I can mention my friend Tricia Malowney, who has just come into the house. I am delighted to see her because I was already

● The late Peter Cleeland, MHR for McEwen going to mention her, and I have amendment. It is particularly for mentioned her many times in my those with disability. public life.

If we stop pretending that death Trish emailed me very early on does not happen and if we stop prein this debate. When I saw the head- tending that death is going to be in line of the first thing she sent me I the way it was in the Emily thought, ‘Trish is going to be opposed Dickenson poem — now that you to this. Gee, I am really going to have are in the chair, Acting Speaker to think about this’.

Spence, I will say that it really moved I was delighted to see that Trish me when you talked about that young was included in the Minister for woman, Flowers. I have forgotten Health’s deliberations, because her first name. there is no-one I respect more as The Acting Speaker (Ms Spence) someone who has lived with a dis- — Angelique. ability but who has also been an adMs Green —Angelique Flowers, vocate and a champion for people from a decade ago. Death is not alwith disability her whole adult life. ways pretty. The member for SouthI refer the house to a recent ar- West Coast and I went to the same ticle in the Guardian, ‘As people with school; we went to St Ann’s College disabilities we shouldn’t be denied in Warrnambool. access to assisted dying’.

The member for South-West To anyone who has not yet spo- Coast, like almost every nurse who ken on the bill, you should read this has contacted me, has talked about article. harrowing deaths and deaths not beTrish writes: Planning your death ing pleasant — the smell, the pain is difficult for most people — and it and the screaming. is no different for people with a disIt is not always a death where we go quietly. The more we have this ability.

Like everyone else, we wish for discussion, this conversation, to a safe, peaceful and compassionate gether with the 68 safeguards that are in this bill, the more there will be death.

It is quite a long article, but I re- only a small number of people who ally want to thank Trish for the time will take up this option.

But I believe with serious illshe has taken in writing it, because having been the Labor Party spokes- nesses such as cancer and motor person for disability services, it was neurone disease, where we know one of the things that I really had to there is no cure and where there is take into account in determining my less than 12 months of life, I do not position on this bill. think it will be a slippery slope.

I know that any change to this bill One of my constituents Ashleigh is a young woman who lives with dis- will have to come back before this ability. She is in a motorised wheel- house and that all 128 members chair, she has an intellectual disabil- across this house and across the upity and she has limited speech, but I per house will take the same thought know that Ashleigh knows me. as they have done about those She laughs, and she has got a changes, consulting and listening to their community. great sense of humour.

She is regularly hospitalised beI think the more we talk about cause of inhalation pneumonia, like death the clearer it is that doctors many who live in wheelchairs and and nurses need regulation and suphave less mobility. port in how they use morphine and Almost every time she goes to in how it might be used.

But everyone deserves respect in hospital her family contacts me because they are terrified that the way that they move out of this Ashleigh’s wish to be resuscitated life.

I thank everyone who has made will not be respected. There are alcontact with me. I am in support of ways two sides to this debate.

I believe that by now starting to this bill and I am speaking against talk about this, there will be more the reasoned amendment.

I want to thank everyone who has respect for everyone to die the way taken such thought over this bill, and they want to.

I flag now that I am in support of the staff in the minister’s office as this bill and against the reasoned well.

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MURRINDINDI, YARRA VALLEY, DIAMOND VALLEY, PLENTY VALLEY

Photo magic of Lindsay G. Cumming

● Acheron Bridge

● Beekeeping camp. Circa 1940-1950.

● Hospital Sunday, Alexandra

● Woman (possibly Margaret Cumming, holding a koala ■ Photographer Lindsay G. Cumming lived in Alexandra and set up a studio and bike shop in the main street circa.

1910 He was later a bee keeper and he ran a Ford dealership.

His photographs document the history of the Alexandra district between ca. 1910 and ca.

1950. He lived from 1894 to 1979.

His collection was donated to the State Library of Victoria by Joan Edwards. The photos reproduced are out of copyright, according to the State Library.

More photos overleaf

● Oakland Model 34 (1917-22) in the snow.

● Lookout point and wooden bridge, near Alexandra. c1910-1930

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Kate Bush, Nina Simone, Eurythmics, Judas Priest, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Dire Straits and Moody Blues were also nominated for the first time.

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"He was a great performer, full of the light, a friend, and I'll never forget him."

Dylan and Petty collaborated multiple times during the 1980s: Petty and The Heartbreakers toured with Dylan in 1986; Petty backed and produced Dylan on the 1986 song Band of the Hand, the theme song for a film of the same name; and, perhaps most famously, Petty and Dylan were two members of rock super group The Traveling Wilburys, alongside George Harrison, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne.

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■ Approximately 10 million people in the US saw Facebook ads purchased by Russian buyers to influence the 2016 election, Facebook said last week.

Facebook recently handed Congress 3000 ads, which it says were purchased by Russians to sow division in the US before and immediately after the presidential election.

Of those 3000 ads, 44 percent were viewed before the election and 56 percent after the election, Facebook said.

99 percent of the ads were purchased for $1,000 or less.

American Idol re-boot

■ Lionel Richie has finalised a deal to join American Idol as a judge.

The move to secure Richie rounds out the revived singing competition's on-camera talent roster for its upcoming first season on ABC, with Richie joining fellow judges Luke Bryan and Katy Perry as well host Ryan Seacrest.

It also puts "Idol" back on schedule.

With shooting on live auditions slated to begin, ABC and producer Fremantle Media faced the possibility of having to delay the start of production if the judges' table had not been set.

● Cher says she was duped in a share deal

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■ Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has hired a team of highpowered lawyers ahead of "bombshell" stories that have dropped in the New York Times and New Yorker.

The stories are centered on sexual harassment allegations from women who spoke to reporters on the record.

The 65-year-old Miramax Films and Weinstein Company co-founder hired attorneys David Boies, Lisa Bloom and Charles Harder to rebut the claims. ★ ■ Dolly Parton always has one, well two, things to rely on.

"When all else fails, do a boob joke," Parton told Fox News with a laugh.

It's a mantra the country legend, known for her ample assets, lives by.

The 71-year-old said she was forced to fall back on a "boob joke" at the 2017 Emmy Awards on September 18. ★ ■ Jimmy Kimmel, who grew up in Las Vegas, delivered one of the most emotionally searing monologues in his show's 14year history as he honoured those killed and injured in Sunday night's shooting, and challenged President Trump and Congress to act against gun violence.

Just as he did in his attacks on the Republican health care bills this year, Kimmel used plain, pointed language while acting as a social conscience as he called out politicians, the National Rifle Association and complacent citizens. ★ ■ Julia Roberts is well aware of her reputation as being less-than-sweet during her peak as America's sweetheart.

"I was my priority, a selfish little brat running around making films," Roberts, 49, told Harper's Bazaar UK. Roberts was previously rumoured to be so difficult to work with that she earned the nickname ‘Tinkerhell’ due to her behaviour on the set of 1991's Hook, in which Premiere magazine described her demeanour as "sometimes sombre, sometimes at the near edge of hysteria." ★ ■ Kirstie Alley suggested Americans’ "mass usage of psychiatric drugs" is a "common denominator in shooters. " The avowed Scientologist's tweets came in response to the horrific shooting in Las Vegas which left more than 50 people killed and more than 500 hospitalised. ★ ■ Hugh Hefner has been buried next to Marilyn Monroe, the Hollywood star whose radiant looks helped launch his publishing career.

The Playboy founder, who died from natural causes at age 91, purchased the crypt next to Monroe's at L.A. cemetery Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park for $75,000 in 1992. ★ ■ Cher filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleging that Los Angeles billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong and others duped her into selling her shares in a promising drug company at a fraction of the stock's value.

In January 2016, Cher sold her shares in a Florida-based biopharmaceutical company, Altor, at $1.50 each for a total of $450,000 which the suit described as "an unreasonably below-market price." She sold her shares back to the company. ★ ■ Panic - Las Vegas Witness: “It Was Just Mass, Mass Blood Everywhere” Witnesses described scenes of horror as tens of thousands of people fled the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas as a gunman opened fire from 32 stories above the show, with music fans dropping to the ground after being hit and strangers rushing to the aid of those wounded.

"We were all dancing, we were having a good time, and all of a sudden I heard all of these shots," said Candace LaRosa, of Huntington Beach, California.

At first, she thought the sounds were coming from a fireworks show.

"It was just mass, mass blood everywhere," she said.

Festival worker Heather Kerr said the emergency became clear when the stage went dark, and she ran to cover in a concert trailer.

Kerr said people were helping victims at the scene, making makeshift tourniquets from belts to stem out-of-control bleeding. Others said a man with a truck knocked down a fence penning in the crowd in order to get everyone out.

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Photos from the past: Lindsay G. Cumming

● Early model Ford in paddock near Alexandra.

● Group of horses pulling carts or jinkers

● Rubicon River

● Group of men wearing medals, and three women. circa 1910-1920

● Construction works at Sugarloaf Dam, Eildon. circa 1915-1935

● Taggerty sports, 193.

● Group of men, women and children. circa 1910-1915

● Train district, Alexandra. circa 1910-1940

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Movies, DVDs with Jim Sherlock, Aaron Rourke What’s Hot and What’s Not in Blu-Rays and DVDs THE GODFATHER COLLECTION - 2017 45th ANNIVERSARY DVD & BLU-RAY BOX SET RELEASE: FILM: THE GODFATHER: Genre: Crime/Drama/Thriller.

Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall.

Year: 1972.

Rating: MA15+.

Running Time: 175 Minutes.

Stars: ***** Verdict: After four decades in Hollywood the classic gangster genre reached blockbuster status with this epic saga of an aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty who transfers control of his empire to his reluctant son. Francis Ford Coppola created a tough, tense, violent and exciting experience, set a whole new benchmark and standard for all others of the genre to follow. Oscar winner for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Screenplay. A cinematic MASTERPIECE! FILM: THE GODFATHER - PART II: Genre: Crime/Drama/Thriller.

Cast: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall.

Year: 1974.

Rating: MA15+.

Running Time: 200 Minutes.

Stars: ***** Verdict: Francis Ford Coppola's continuing story of the Corleone crime dynasty equals if not surpasses its Oscar winning predecessor in every way, overflowing with outstanding period detail, screenplay, direction and performances, Al Pacino punches a whole right through the screen with a tension filled and brutally captivating performance. A cinematic tour-de-force, this powerful epic saga continues to enthral and influence to this day, and became the first sequel to win the Oscar for Best Picture.

FILM: THE GODFATHER - PART III: Genre: Crime/Drama/Thriller.

Cast: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Andy Garcia, Talia Shire, Sophia Coppola.

Year: 1990.

Rating: MA15+.

Running Time: 162 Minutes.

Stars: **** Verdict: The concluding chapter in the epic Godfather saga has the aging mafia don Michael Corleone trying to legitimize his business dealings in the late '70s and seeks to vow for his sins while taking a young protégé under his wing, but things don't quite work out as planned. Due to the replacement of Winona Ryder (due to ill health) with Sofia Coppola, the noticeable absence of Robert Duvall and enormous studio pressure, this flawed, but no less gripping, final screen bow of the Corleone crime family is a powerful and fitting epic filled with moments that made its predecessors the classics they are. *All Godfather films for 2017 45th Anniversary release are also available individually.

FILM: THE BEGUILED: Genre: Drama.

Cast: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, Angourie Rice.

Year: 2017.

Rating: M. Length: 93 Minutes.

Stars: ***½ Verdict: At a decaying girls' school in Virginia during the American Civil War (Circa: 1864) headed by tight fisted yet velvet gloved head-mistress Martha Farnsworth, played by Nicole Kidman, almost all of the students, teachers and slaves have left, and only teacher Edwina Morrow, played by Kirsten Dunst, and a few of the students remain sheltered from the outside world, and Their almost idealic and surrealistic situation is disrupted when a badly wounded Union soldier, in the form of Colin Farrell, is stumbled upon and taken in, but before long the house is taken over with psychological, psycho-sexual tension, obsession, betrayal and tragedy.

Based on the novel of the same name (originally published as A Painted Devil) by Thomas P. Cullinan, and a reimagining of the 1971 classic directed by Don Siegel and starring Clint Eastwood, writer-director Sofia Coppola has created a strikingly beautiful, multilayered, atmospheric and multi-textured Southern gothic tale.

Performances, cinematography, period detail and production design are all first rate, and like a slow burning fuse, this is very much an ambiguous, thought provoking, dark, tense, haunting, brooding and beguiling tale of survival well worth taking.

Just imagine "Picnic At Hanging Rock" meets "Misery" meets "Wait Until Dark" meets "The Twilight Zone."

- James Sherlock

Rourke’s Reviews: Halloween Special ■ It's that time of year, where kids go trick-or-treating, adults roll their eyes at having to hand out so much candy, and movie-goers are on the look-out for a decent horror movie.

The latest Saw entry, entitled Jigsaw, and directed by talented Aussie siblings Michael and Peter Spierig (Undead, Daybreakers, Predestination), doesn't open until November 2, so here are some other new All Hallows' Eve titles, along with some traditional favourites.

Happy Halloween everyone.

Little Evil (MA). 95 minutes. Now showing on Netflix.

After bursting onto the scene with the hilarious 2010 horror parody Tucker And Dale vs Evil, actor-turned-director Eli Craig has kept fans waiting, who have been eagerly anticipating what his next feature would be.

Seven years later we finally have that answer, and while not as good as that wonderful deconstruction of the hillbilly subgenre, Little Evil offers solid, frequently amusing entertainment.

The story centres on Gary (Adam Scott), who has just married the woman of his dreams, Samantha (Evangeline Lilly).

Feeling like the luckiest man in the world, Gary has just one small issue; he has had a tough time trying to connect with Samantha's five year-old son Lucas (Owen Atlas), who is less-than-enthused about the new union.

What Gary slowly comes to realise is that Lucas is in fact the Anti-Christ.

Writer/director Craig cleverly works off the mythology laid down in Richard Donner's 1976 blockbuster The Omen (Atlas is the spitting image of Damien), while also threading numerous references from other famous horror flicks, but never forgets to keep his characters likeable and relatively believable.

Those expecting outright hilarity will be disappointed, as this plays everything quite dryly, so it's a film that requires a little patience.

But for those who are prepared to give it a chance, will find themselves with a big smile on their face when the end credits begin to roll.

By the way, if you haven't seen Tucker And Dale vs Evil, please race out and do so, as you'll never look at Deliverance in the same way again.

RATING - ***½

Gerald’s Game (MA). 103 minutes. Now showing on Netflix.

Remember back in the 80s and early 90s when every second film was a Stephen King adaptation?

Well, we seem to be getting a second wave, with 11.22.63, The Mist TV series, The Dark Tower, and It having already been released, while Castle Rock will be coming soon to the small screen.

Amongst this onslaught is Gerald's Game, a slick, well-acted

● Gary (Adam Scott) gets the woman of his dreams, but with one small catch, in the clever and amusing Little Evil, now showing on Netflix. thriller that unfortunately outstays its welcome.

The film stars Carla Gugino (Snake Eyes, Sin City) and Bruce Greenwood (Thirteen Days, The Sweet Hereafter) as Jessie and Gerald Burlingame, whose 11year marriage is now on thin ice.

To try and re-ignite the passion that used to exist between them, the two agree to spend a weekend at a secluded lake house, and experiment sexually in the bedroom.

Not long after they arrive, everything goes terrifyingly wrong.

Screenwriters Mike Flanagan (who also directed) and Jeff Howard keep the dialogue sharp and absorbing for a while, but soon allow some sequences to go on too long, and accompanied with that unnecessary subplot, protract the material more than is needed.

There is also an artificial, almost stagey atmosphere to the scenario, and certain incidents are somewhat telegraphed.

Performances from Gugino and Greenwood are excellent, and keep things interesting even when the script starts to falter.

Flanagan, a talented film-maker who has come close to hitting a bullseye (Absentia, Hush), again achieves a near-miss, but his genuine care for character is a breath of fresh air in the horror genre, and it won't be long before he hits one out of the park.

Gerald's Game may not be perfect, but it is definitely a cut-above a number of new films playing at the moment (especially the abysmal, obnoxious The Babysitter), and is certainly worth your time.

RATING - *** The following all come highly recommended.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); The Evil Dead (1983); Night Of The Living Dead (1968); Dawn Of The Dead (1978); Day Of The Dead (1985); The Haunting (1963); Psycho (1960); Psycho II (1983); The Thing (1982); An American Werewolf In London (1981); Halloween (1978); Halloween II (1981); The Fog (1980); Dressed To Kill (1980); Hellraiser (1987); Nightbreed (1990); A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984); The Descent (2005); Ring (1998); Ju-On : The Grudge (2003); One Missed Call (2003); Marebito (2004); Martyrs (2008); Inside (2007); High Tension (2003); Jacob's Ladder (1990).

- Aaron Rourke

Top 10 Lists

OCTOBER 22-28.

THE AUSTRALIAN BOX OFFICE TOP TEN: 1. BLADE RUNNER 2049.

2. THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US. 3. HAPPY DEATH DAY. 4. KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE. 5. THE EMOJI MOVIE. 6. CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS: THE FIRST EPIC MOVIE. 7. IT. 8. VICTORIA AND ABDUL. 9. THE LEGO NINJAGO MOVIE. 10. BATTLE OF THE SEXES. NEW RELEASES AND COMING SOON TO CINEMAS AROUND AUSTRALIA: OCTOBER 19: BIG TIME, GEOSTORM, HOME AGAIN, JUNGLE, PATHS OF THE SOUL, SECRET SUPERSTAR, THE SNOWMAN, THE SON OF BIGFOOT. OCTOBER 26: AMERICAN PASTORAL, BRIGSBY BEAR, INGRID GOES WEST, SUBURBICON, THE MIDWIFE, THE UNTAMED, THOR: RAGNAROK. THE DVD AND BLU-RAY TOP RENTALS & SALES: 1. SPIDER-MAN - HOMECOMING [Action/ Fantasy/Drama/Tom Holland, Robert Downey Jr].

2. TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT [Sci-Fi/Action/Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins].

3. MY COUSIN RACHEL [Drama/Mystery/ Romance/Rachel Weisz, Iain Glen, Sam Claflin].

4. DETOUR [Drama/Thriller/Tye Sheridan, Emory Cohen, Bel Powley].

5. IT COMES AT NIGHT [Horror/Mystery/Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott].

6. CHURCHILL [Biography/Drama/Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson].

7. HOUNDS OF LOVE [Crime/Drama/ Stephen Curry, Emma Booth, Ashleigh Cummings].

8. WONDER WOMAN [Action/Fantasy/Adventure/Gal Gadot, Chris Pine].

9. CHICKEN PEOPLE [Comedy/Drama/ Documentary].

Also: DESPICABLE ME 3, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Volume 2, THE MUMMY, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES, ALIEN COVENANT, VICEROY'S HOUSE, ALL EYEZ ON ME, JOHN WICK 2, FREE FIRE, THE PROMISE. NEW RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS ON DVD THIS WEEK: THE BEGUILED [Drama/Thriller/Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Elle Fanning].

CAGE DIVE [Thriller/Horror/Josh Potthoff, Megan Hill, Joel Hogan].

UNA [Drama/Benedict Andrews].

THE PURGE [Horror/Thriller/Lena Headey, Ethan hawke].

THE PURGE: ANARCHY [Horror/Action/ Thriller/Zach Gilford, Frank Grillo].

THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR [Sci-Fi/Horror/ Action/Frank Grillo, Elizabeth Mitchell].

NEW RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS ON BLU-RAY THIS WEEK: THE BEGUILED [Drama/Thriller/Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Elle Fanning].

CAGE DIVE [Thriller/Horror/Josh Potthoff, Megan Hill, Joel Hogan].

THE PURGE [Horror/Thriller/Lena Headey, Ethan hawke].

THE PURGE: ANARCHY [Horror/Action/ Thriller/Zach Gilford, Frank Grillo].

THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR [Sci-Fi/Horror/ Action/Frank Grillo, Elizabeth Mitchell].

Bram Stoker's DRACULA 4K + Blu-ray [Horror/Winona Ryder, Gary Oldman, Anthony Hopkins].

MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS [1974/ Crime/Mystery/Sean Connery, Albert Finney].

DEATH ON THE NILE [Crime/Mystery/Peter Ustinov, Bette Davis].

EVIL UNDER THE SUN [Crime/Mystery/Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, James Mason].

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CHIVERS - Peggy. Passed away peacefully, Tuesday, October 17 at Yea Hospital. Aged 92 years. In loving memory of Peggy. Long-serving and treasured member of the Yea branch of the CWA. Peggy will never be forgotten each time the Collect is recited and at our meetings, Peggy will be there.

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■ Myke Dyer was a radio announcer and television producer who worked in Melbourne and is probably well remembered by our readers.

Michael David Dyer was born on October 2, 1932 in London. He was the son of Carleton Leroy Dyer and his wife Dorothy who were both from Canada.

In 1940 Michael accompanied his mother, sister and brother to Ontario where he attended Lakefield Naval Boarding College and Oakville High School. During that time he developed a strong Canadian accent.

Myke studied radio and television in Toronto during the early 1950s. He worked in various jobs before coming to Australia in 1954 on his father's advice.

Myke came to Melbourne and was employed by radio station 3DB. He produced the variety show The Happy Gang and worked with people such as Bill Collins, Dick Cranbourne and Shirlene Clancy.

On January 7, 1956, at the Memorial Church in East Malvern, Myke married Judith Tilton.

They had two children during their marriage, Jo Anne and Peter.

Myke had a keen interest in jazz music and began broadcasting a popular late night radio show on 3DB which was titled Sound Study.

In later years he also did the show on 3XY and 3AK. Thanks to Mike McColl Jones I was given reel to reel tapes of many of these shows.

I have been working through the tapes and it

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By Kevin Trask of 3AW and 96.5 Inner FM

is amazing how many famous jazz stars were interviewed by Myke for his program. He managed to interview Bob Crosby, Mel Torme, Dave Brubeck, Jerri Adams, George Shearing and Earl Grant.

Myke joined GTV Channel 9 and worked in television. He produced the Logie award-winning show, It Could Be You, hosted by Tommy Hanlon Jnr. Myke also did a radio show with Tommy Hanlon Jnr on 3AK titled The Tom and Myke Show.

He compered jazz concerts and lectured on the history of jazz at such diverse establishments as the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Pentridge Prison.

● Myke Dyer Myke was also a panelist on Bert Newton's New Faces television talent quest show on GTV9.

He became publicity manager for Channel Nine and served in that capacity for two years prior to leaving and forming his own television production house.

On January 7, 1978, just two days before he was due to take up a new appointment with Armstrong Audio Video Pty Ltd, Myke went swimming in the surf at Mullaway Beach, New South Wales.

He was tragically swept out to sea by a strong rip and drowned at the age of 46. It was a huge shock to his family, friends and fans.

In later years his son Peter continued in his father's footsteps and was a presenter on the ABC radio program, Jazz Up Late.

Judy Dyer attended the radio Survivors luncheon in 2016 but sadly passed away earlier this year. She was Graham Kennedy's first private secretary and was also a talented ceramic jewellery designer.

She designed cuff-links for all members of the ‘Merkin Club’ which was a regular luncheon club each Friday at James Smythe's Toorak Hotel.

Mike Walsh was President, Mike McColl Jones was the secretary and members included Jim Murphy, Gordon French, James Smythe, Bill Beams, Bob Cribb, John Mc Lachlan and many other television people.

- Kevin Trask Kevin can be heard on radio: The Time Tunnel - on Remember When - Sundays at 9.10pm on 3AW That's Entertainment - 96.5FM Sundays at 12 Noon 96.5FM is streaming on the internet.

Winx on Saturday, better than bank interest ■ The classic Manikato Stakes to be run at Moonee Valley on Cox Plate Eve this Friday has attracted a top class field of sprinters over the 1200 metre trip.

The Hayes-Dabernig trained Vega Magic, who is racing well, heads the market at just under each way odds.

The former Western Australian gelding, now six, has taken all before him since joining the HayesDabernig team, and ran a cracking race in the rich Everest at Randwick.

To put it bluntly, David Hayes said after the Everest. "He should have won; the race was like a horror movie".

Adding that he felt he was a good thing beaten, he got on the wrong leg on the reverse way of going in Sydney, yet only got beaten three quarters of a length.

Since coming from WesternAustralia he was won three races with the second in the Everest for the Hayes-Dabernig Team.

Top sprinter, Redzel, added over $5 million to his already mounting kitty to the nearly two million already won for the Snowden team owners.

Vega Magic will be hard to beat around the tricky Moonee Valley course.

On the second line is the smart Sydney mare, In Her Time, who beat a good field of sprinters in the Sydney Stakes over the 1200 metre trip.

She has now won seven of her 16 starts, with three placings.

In her Time is prepared by Ben Smith at Newcastle and will give them something to chase in the Manikato.

In the Sydney Stakes she beat some good sprinters like Ball of Muscle, who ran third, Japonisme, Derryn, Washington Heights and Bonny O'Reilly.

The glamour grey, Chautauqua, is on the next line at the luxurious odds of nearly 8-1.

He ran a great fourth in the Everest, and his rider, Brenton Avdulla, came under fire from many quarters for going along the rails at the strong grey made his run.

His customary style is being hooked to the outside where he can get a good look at them.

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In Her Time is good, but the tricky reverse way and the Moonee Valley track, could be against her.

Chautauqua, if he is on his game and patiently ridden, would come up home hard wide out and would be hard to beat.

OK. With John O’Keefe

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with Ted Ryan Everest and a couple of strides past the post was nearly in front.

Tommy Berry, who usually rides Chautauqua in his Sydney races was unavailable as he is riding overseas, while his Melbourne rider, Dwayne Dunn, was also tied up at the Caulfield Guineas.

Dunn was committed to the Guineas favour-ite, Royal Symphony, who got into more trouble than the early settlers, and got more checks than a leading bank.

Of the others competing in the Manikato, we have the Sydney sprinter, Impending, from the powerful Godolphin team, but I feel the older horses will be too strong.

Malaguerra, with the Peter Gelagotis team at Moe is a good sprinter, not without a chance.

Then we have the Newmarket winner, Redkirk Warrior, from the HayesDabernig team, who failed to flatter in the Everest, but it was pretty classy field, Hayes later said that he didn't handle the track in the Everest at Randwick.

We then have the good sprinting mare, Super Cash, but I think they will be a bit hot for her.

Viddora is racing well, but way out of its class her, and Spieth appears to have lost all form after a disappointing run in Melbourne and finishing last in the Everest.

Summing up, I feel that Vega Magic, being able to be up on the pace will be

■ "How in the hell" are they going to beat in the Cox Plate coming up this Saturday at Moonee Valley?

Someone suggested they tie her to the stalls, thus giving the other runners a fair chance.

Look let's sum it up.

Winx has won the last two Cox Plates by streets and this could be the same again.

Her win in the Turnbull had to be seen to be believed, when she won by a conservative 6.5 lengths, looked like eight to me, but I am not the Judge.

The market has her currently at $ 1.20, in the old, five to one on.

Returning $120 for each spot put on.

Now that is better than bank interest.

On the second line, not that it matters, is the Darren Weir trained Gailo Chop, who won Caulfield Stakes in good style, but no Winx.

Gailo Chop is being quoted at around $17 , with the Epsom Winner, Happy Clapper and the Toorak Handicap winner, Tosen Stardom, at around $21.00.

Further down the market is Bonneval, Humidor, Kementari, second in the Caulfield Guineas, and the impressive Johannes Vermeer.

An interesting nomination is three year-old colt, Royal Symphony, who should have won the Caulfield Guineas and will most likely run with Kerrin McEvoy tipped to ride at the weight of 49.5 kilos.

There is not a runner in the Cox Plate that can compete with Winx on times over the last 600 metres in a race over 2000 metres.

Just get on, grab the $1.20, it is good value.

- Ted Ryan

● Sir Bob Geldof

Busy Bob

■ Sir Bob Gelldorf made a flying visit to the Gold Coast in the week before last. First he addressed the Association of Financial Advisors on the Gold Coast.

Then he was off to Perth to perform a duet with Alice Cooper.

Then back to London with a swag full of frequent flyer points.

Ins and Outs

■ Channel 31 has been given an extension of life on free to air until June 2018 , if not longer ■ Tongues are wagging for the one night stand of Gene Simmons, doing a solo singing gig at Margaret Court Arena, February 3.

■ The Irwin family are back on cable TV with the return of Terri, Bindi and Robert in a new series on Discovery Channel of their Animal Planet.

Final chapter for Book Club

■ ABC 'S The Book Club finishe December 19 after 15 years on telly.

Host of The Book Club, Jennifer Byrne, will call it quits at same time.

TV pay packets

■ Extra to the salary Channel 10 has to stump up for Lisa Wilkinson, there is the extra six figure sum that .Lisa's management has engineered for Lisa to flog a brand of vitamins.

Commercials are already appearing on most frre-to-air channels including the Nine Network which Lisa no longer calls home.

Rocking good show

■ OK was ortunate to catch Scott Cameron at Crown Palms in his tribute show to the late and great Buddy Holly.

Scott, the boy from the Gold Coast, is perfectly cast as Buddy and the show has captivated audiences worldwide with great energy and great memories.

Scott tells the story how he suffered a suffered a serious heart attack last time he visited Australia. With a twinkle in his eye he burst out singing one of Buddy's chart toppers, Heartbeat.

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By Rob Foenander info@countrycrossroads com.au

Frankie and Derek

■ Frankie Stevens and Derek Redfern will return to the New Atrium on November 10 for a repeat performance of their classic hits extravaganza.

The two have been busy this year working on their new show with audiences embracing the duo with much excitement.

So much that it's prompted the Atrium management to book them again. Bookings for dinner and show: 5981 8123.Go

Collegians release ■ Melbourne band Collegians continue on their musical journey with the upcoming release of their second single.

Black Mass is the latest work from the boys. It follows on from their chart success of their debut release Vaccine that enjoyed national airplay earlier this year.

More info: www.collegiansmusic.com

Dogapalooza ■ Melbourne's dog friendly music festival Dogapalooza will be held at Burnley Park, Richmond, on Sunday, November 12.

A host of artists - including Deborah Conway, Abbie Cardwell, Evangeline and Triple J's Lanks - amongst others will entertain dog lovers from 11 am onwards.

All proceeds go to Oscars Law Melbourne and other animal rescue groups.

More info: www.facebook.com/ DogapaloozaMelbourne - Rob Foenander

Tannins are top of the taste ■ JOHN ROZENTALS returns from Mudgee thinking about fullbodied dry reds and urges readers to go with the flow of the tannins.

Tannin structure is critical to the way that a red wine tastes and responds to food, yet I doubt that most winelovers understand tannins.

Tannins come mostly from the skins of red grapes and aren't bitter, they're astringent. There is a big difference.

They have a high affinity for proteins and combine with them to form long-chain insoluble molecules.

That's why they dry the mouth.

Saliva contains a lot of protein.

Red wine combines with these proteins and hence your mouth feels dry - and you can sometimes scrape red-coloured residue off your tongue with you teeth.

It's why protein-based fining agents, such as egg-white and skimmed milk, are sometimes used to remove tannins from red wines.

Foods such as red meat contain a lot of protein, so when you consume them with red wine, the wine's drying effect on the tongue is lessened.

That's one reason they go well together, and it's certainly why you should taste wine with appropriate food before buying it.

The tannin structure of grapes - and hence of the wines they make - depends much on

● Tim Stevens working on a Huntington Estate red ronment, grape variety, growing food … In time the fruit and conditions, timing of harvest, etc. tannins integrate to become subThe extraction of that tannin, lime," he said. and its persistence in the wine, "Our wines are old-style and depends much on winemaking don't suit tastes where body and techniques. complexity are not important.

Its the regionality that comes “The style of Mudgee reds is to the fore when Huntington Es- not something we can change, tate owner and winemaker Tim even if, God forbid, we wanted to.

Stevens claims the area can pro“This is because of our unique duce some of the best red wines climate and soils, which are what in Australia, and hence in the they are. world.

"Time and again, I have seen "There is no doubt that our style Mudgee winemakers (myself inof red wine is unique; we have high levels of high-quality tannin cluded) try to tame these tannins and acid that can make the wines by manipulating the vineyard consomewhat astringent when young. ditions or playing too much with “I make no apologies for this, the wine in the cellar. Invariably, as the structure makes the wines the wine becomes stripped or dull. great for ageing and great with “Handled properly, Mudgee wines

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with Matt Bissett-Johnson

are full-bodied, have loads of super-fine tannins, good acid levels, with concentrated and complex flavours that last of the palate.

"The trick is to be guided by the vineyard and intervene as little as possible. Go with the tannins, not against them."

WINE REVIEWS Angullong 2017 Fossil Hill Orange-Region Rosato ($24): This wine recently went a treat with the nibblies we grazed on before a suitably long lunch in Angullong's vineyard near the locality of Panuara, on the southern slopes of Orange's main landmark, Mt Canobolas. It may be quite a frivolous pink in colour, but this wine has some substance to it. It's made from the Italian red variety envisangiovese, completely dry and packed with quite a delicious, more-ish flavour.

Angullong 2016 Fossil Hill Orange-Region Sangiovese ($26): grapevines are propagated from cuttings and different source materials show variations that are known as clones. This mediumbodied dry red is made from the 'brunello' and 'piccolo' sangiovese clones, which produce smaller, more intensely flavoured berries than the 'grosso' clone, which is proving ideal for making the Angullong Rosato. I like this dry red a great deal and find it a good match for range of red meats, especially rare beef.

- John Rozentals Originally published on October 2016

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Top 5

THE T OP 5 TOP NEW SS TORIES NEWS ST YOU MIGHT HA VE MIS SED HAVE MISSED 5. Twenty-two race horses sit in Flemington grandstand and watch 100,000 people run two miles.

4. 90-year old woman bashes and robs 27 bikies.

3. New Zealand has first Same Sux marriage.

2. Bernard Tomic qualifies for Australian Open as a spectator.

1. Harvey Weinstein shock! Minnie Mouse tells all.

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What The Papers Say Telstra fails

■ Despite promising to have at least five black spot mobile phone towers operational

by Christmas, Telstra is yet to begin construction on any.

Sawmill Settlement, Tolmie, Goughs Bay, Ancona and Woods Point were all due to have mobile coverage by now, with Enoch’s Point and Taylor Bay to be live by Christmas.

“Telstra is still in the planning stage and working to obtain all approvals for the nominated site,” Telstra area general manager, Loretta Willaton, said of the Sawmill Settlement tower.

Telstra was unable to provide a progress update on the other six towers at the time of going to print.

- Mansfield Courier

Laurel for Weir

■ Goulburn Weir, Australia’s oldest major irrigation structure and heralded as an engineering marvel of its time, has been awarded international heritage status.

The structure was completed in 1891 and, under the management of Goulburn-Murray Water, continues to supply properties in the Shepparton and Central Goulburn Irrigation Districts as well as filling the Waranga Basin water storage and forming Lake Nagambie.

Its sterling service was recognised in Mexico City, where delegates to the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage gathered for its triennial conference.

- Seymour Telegraph

Ruffy opening

■ The official opening of the Ruffy Recreation Reserve kitchen, which was built in part with sponsorship from AusNet, has been held.

The sponsorship, to the value of $ 3000, was added to by local fundraising.

Bill Eddy and Pam Sprunt, two of the local reserve committee members also expressed their appreciation for the efforts of the local community in helping to raise the additional $4000 it took to complete the kitchen renovations.

They were keen to mention the contribution of the Ruffy ArtsFest which donated $1000 to the cause.

- Euroa Gazette

Head-on crash

■ A collision on the Warburton Highway on Thursday (Oct. 19) was the second serious incident there in the past few months.

Two cars collided head on, about 5pm , prompting closure of the road between Carter St and Alpine Blvd.

Police believe a four-wheel drive vehicle travelling from Launching Place towards Woori Yallock lost control and veered into the oncoming lane colliding with a small hatchback travelling in the opposite direction.

The two occupants of the smaller vehicle were trapped for nearly an hour before emergency services were able to free them.

- Mountain Views Mail

More pokie pain

■ A State Government bill that will allow the number of Whittlesea pokies to almost double is a “trade off in misery”, says a leading family violence advocate.

Whittlesea Community Connections principal solicitor Chris Howse said he was “disgusted” by the bill introduced by Victorian Gaming Minister Marlene Kairouz last month.

Under the amendment, Whittlesea will go from a cap of 212 machines to 411 due to a 25 per cent rise in the regional cap.

- Whittlesea Leader

Special school

■ A mum's dream to get a better education for her son, who has autism, could see a new independent school set up in Lilydale.

Melissa Handbury has been working to open Lyrebird College for two years, and the idea grew after planning for the future of nineyear-old son Logan.

- Lilydale Leader

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100 Years Ago

Praise for Addison ■ Yan Yean MLA Danielle Green has spoken in State Parliament about Doreen girl Addison Hunnisett .

“Today I rise to put on record the heroic efforts of a young constituent in my electorate — eight-year-old Addison Hunnisett from Doreen,” Ms Green told the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday. “ Addison’s father, Ashley, has hailed his eight-year-old Addison a hero after she saved him from drowning at a public swimming pool.

“Ashley contacted my office, and the story featured on the front page of a recent edition of the Whittlesea Leader.

“The newspaper reports: ‘Ashley Hunnisett was in the play lane of Greensborough’s WaterMarc’s 50-metre pool with daughters Addison, 8, and Jacinda, 12 … when he struck trouble after accidentally drifting to the deep end.

● Addison Hunnisett Photo: Herald Sun “Mr Hunnisett, who had only been learning to swim for a month, sank to the bottom of the pool and struggled to get back up “Addison swam 10 metres to her father’s aid and helped him to the edge of the pool, where he was pulled from the water by onlooker Alex Velasquez.

“Ashley recounted the situation and said he feared he would drown.

“I want to congratulate Addison for helping her dad, saving him from drowning and ultimately saving his life.

“As a Bronze Medallion holder and former swim teacher myself, I applaud the government’s policy for all grade 6 children to be able to swim a lap of the pool before completing primary school.

“We have seen over the last 20 years a decline in the number of children who can swim.

“It was really welcome to see Kingswim at Mernda Central College.

“It was expected the school would be fully subscribed for swim lessons within two years, but it was fully subscribed within 90 days.

“This shows there is a huge need, and I am proud to see a local school meeting this need.

Glamping at Taggerty ■ Classy camping known as ‘glamping’ may become an attraction at Taggerty, if an application to tonight’s Murrindindi Shire Council meeting is successful.

H.E. Moss is asking for a permit to use land at 3100 Maroondah Hwy, Taggerty, for the tourist development.

The property is near the corner of the highway and Cathedral Lane.

Council officers are recommending issue of the permit.

From Our 1917 Files

Yea exchange ■ Commencing from to-day, the local telephone exchange will remain open until 9 p.m.

Subscribers will be able to use the phone up to that hour without extra fee, excepting in cases where the conversation is carried on outside the ordinary radius.

King George ■ The King's generous ofer to deprive his collection of postage-stamps of one of its priceless gems, the proceeds of the sale of which will go to the Red Cross, will be appreciated by all, says a writer in the Observer, but more especially by philatelists.

His Majesty has had unique opportunities of enriching his collection, and the members of his family have often added a rare specimen to those he already possessed.

Queen Victoria seldom destroyed letters or their envelopes, and as Her Majesty's correspondence dated back to the days before stamps existed; many rare and valuable specimens, both English and foreign, were to be found among her private papers.

Days of the horse ■ There is every evidence of a conspiracy on the part of fate against the horse. On the furrowed battle fronts the average equine life has been reduced to a period of eight days, when an animal is in active service. The Country Gentleman (U.S.A.) states that for an army of 2,000:000 men we shall need 416,000 horses and mules.

An average of 33,000 horses a month has been exported for the Allies since the beginning of the war, and 11.000 horses a month are being drafted for military service in this country.

Meeting of ladies

● Aerial photo of the Cathedral La., Taggerty property.

Six objections have The recommendabeen received by the tion to Councillors is ● From Page 00 Council. They raise that the occupier take matters of visual im- all necessary steps to pact, bushfire risk and ensure that no noise or effluent diposal. other disturbance emaThese matters “can nates from the preI think I would certainly feel a lot more com- be addressed with ap- mises. fortable if you had 75 per cent of the medical propriate conditions”, A Bushfire Emerfraternity, the people who are dealing with the according the officers’ gency Plan would end of life, on board, but that is not the case. advice to Councillors. need to be developed All of us have had letters from palliative care “The proposed use to the satisfaction of clinicians and geriatricians. There is a letter from will increase the ac- the Country Fire Au101 oncologists. commodation options thority.

If you look at the Australian Health Practi- in the area”.

It is proposed that tioner Regulation Agency annual report, 226 The recommenda- one communal toilet registered medical practitioners list their sub- tion says b black and battery specialist practice as medical oncology and a Buildings and room be provided at further 105 list it as radiation oncology. works should be 30 the site. In addition About half of those — may be a little bit un- metres away from the there would be a comder a half — have signed a petition already to waterway. munal kitchen and us. We had a petition signed by 34 young doctors Councillors are mess room. that have concerns about the bill. urged to put a limito f The property is I know that there can be improvements in seven tents on the prop- 18.28 hectares, with palliative care, and I think everybody wants that. erty, six of them for private property to the I am extremely pleased to see that the coalition rental. east and south. has put a policy out about a funding boost for No solid fuel heatObjections argue palliative care to help support another 8000 Vic- ers or cooking appli- that the development is torians and really increase the support for com- ances can be used not in charcter with the munity palliative care. within the tents. area.

I am very pleased to see this. I worry that this bill has been rushed. I am concerned that in the United Kingdom and New Zealand that this has ■ Murrindindi Shire Council is due to conbeen seen as being too dangerous. sider its DomesticAnimal Management Plan I want to finish with a quote from Mark at tonight’s meeting to be held in Alexandra.

Sneddon from the Institute for Civil Society.

Some 237 responses were received from He says:”This bill may assist strong-minded the public to a survey conducted about the people who retain sound judgement and are in Plan. 89 per cent of respondents supported full control of their environment …” some form at cat curfew.

Cindy McLeish on assisted dying

Animal Plan

■ A meeting of ladies was held in the Council chamber on Saturday afternoon for the purpose of making preliminary arrangements for providing afternoon tea in the Show ground on Show day, the proceeds from which are to be banded over to the local Red Cross Society.

The ladies present were:-Mesdames E. Y. Shiel, J. Rice, A. McLure, W. T. Almond, J. Bett, M. A. Cannon, and the Misses K. McLeish, Turnbull, Lang (2), Purcell, M. Quinlan, J. Drysdale, J. McDonald, Steuart, and Wall, Messrs, G,.Liddell (president) and R. A. Well (secretary) were also present on behalf of the Agricultural Society.

Special effort ■ A public meeting convened by the Shire President (Crs R. S. McAlpin), in accordance with a motion passed at the last Council meeting, was held in the Shire hall on Saturday afternoon for the purpose of considering the. advisability of making another special effort to raise funds in the Shire for patriotic purposes. The Shire President presided.

There was not a large attendance. The following were present:- Cr R.S. McAlpin, Cr E.Y. Shiel, Cr A.McLure, Cr T. McLeish, Cr A. B. Anderson, Cr G: S. Lawrance, and Messrs J. Aldoas, G. Buckley, and W. Tomkins.

At the outset Mr G. Buckley suggested that the matter be postponed until the new year. He thought it would be a great mistake to make another appeal to tlie public following so closely after the recent appeal on behalf of the Y.M.C.A.

Freedom ■ When men. go forth to fight for England they go to fight for "Old England"- not for a -new-fangled one which is to be destitute of alcohol, cats, dogs, merrimentrand sport. The programme projected by killjoys would leave us a country not fit to dwell in. Because we do not like and do not practise, lawful things that others do, we must not imagine we have a right to stop them. I have never attended a bargain sale, but I wouldn't deprive any woman of the luxury.' We. must expand and not contract our ideas of freedom.

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In Our Schools Sov. Hill trip

■ Yea Primary School Grade 3/4 students are preparing for their camp trip to Sovereign Hill, Ballarat, planned for November 1-3.

Students learn about life was like on the goldfields for miners and their families.

■ Eight Grade 5 students were due to be travelling to Melbourne yesterday (Tues.) for the end a two-day conference in preparation for the 2018 Kids Teaching Kids day.

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Festival of music

■ Parliamentarian Vicki Ward spoke last week in the Legislative Assembly about attending the Festivcal of Music at Eltham High School.

“Eltham High School, as this place well knows, has a strong history of music excellence. The performance on this night, as it was on the Thursday night before, was nothing short of outstanding,” Ms Ward said.

“One of the real joys of being an MP is seeing the development of young people over the years.

“I see them as year 7 students just starting to learn their instruments with nervousness in their first performance and pride in their achievement, and I see the development of these skills all the way to year 12.

“I want to pay particular regard to these excellent Eltham High School students who have performed for the last time at this annual event: Tobi Azeez, Benjamin Bahlen, Jes Broeren, William Burgess, April Butterworth, Lidia Byrne, Stephanie Deague-Hall, Jack Dimech, Declan Ditchfield, Benjamin Evans, James Farrough, Peter Frampton, Hannah Glynatsis, Jade Gregg, Amy Harris, Drew Holland, George Hubbard, Bailey Hume, Isabel Longworth, Indigo McKinnon, Marcus McLennan, Harrison Petrou,Ailish Sells, Hannah Smith, Madeline Vincent-Gilmartin, Anna Weeding and Georgia Williver.

“I congratulate them all on their contribution to the music program over the years and their wonderful performances on the night. I wish them all the best for their upcoming exams and their future careers.”

■ Yea Primary School Principal Deb George has announced the structure of teachers for 2018.

Louise Fillmore will be working for the first few weeks of Term 1 before taking family leave.

“There will be seven grades next year as this year but the breakup will be different.”

Grade P/1: Sal Phillips and Lauren Cronk on Fridays Grade P/1: Teacher to be employed Grade 2: Lynette Sommer (three days) and Prue Smith (two days) Grade 3/4: Susie Benne Grade 3/4: Tracey Ukosich Grade 5/6: Sarah Priestley Grade 5/6: Jonathan Fisher Deb Male will be teaching Science to all grades and running a literacy intervention program. Jo Madden will be teaching Art in conjunction with MACC which visits the school every fortnight. She will also teach Phys Ed to all grades. Lou Reed will continue with reading and numeracy intervention with many of students paticularly in the upper grades.

● Celebrations at Strathewen Primary School. Photos: Cindy McLeish MLA ■ Cindy McLeish, Eildon MLA, has told State Parliament of the centenary celebrations of Strathewen Primary School.

“What a joyous occasion and wonderful celebration it was," Ms McLeish said.

"Dancing, music, singing, art and colour were all constant features.

“It is incredible to think that such a small community can support a school for such a long period.

"There were so many people at the celebration. I am convinced every living past student and teacher turned up on the day.

“The ever enthusiastic and spirited principal, Jane Hayward, and her team did a marvellous job.

"The planning team, school council, parents club, teachers and students are to be congratulated for their role in this milestone event.

"Barbara Joyce, known for her chooks, was coordinating a commemorative felt project.

“Rhiannon Menze baked a large cake, which was cut by ● The 1914 petition urging formation of the school.

Allan Horne, the oldest living "On display were the beauex-student, who started at the local roads.

“Ian McKimmie said that tiful books The Promise: The school 81 years ago, with Logan Hunt, the youngest student at times his family were 50 per Town that Never Forgets and cent of the school population The Poppy, reflecting the hisnow.

"One of my favourite dis- and are seventh generation in tory and the bond forged between the towns of Villersplays was the 1914 petition the area.

"A favourite moment was Bretonneux in France and by families in the area to the Minister for Education the song written by Strathewen stemming from thestudents, Starting from World War I, which saw the to establish the school.

“Following consistent Scratch, telling the story of town in France repay an almost campaigning, three years later how they rebuilt their school century-old debt by raising following the Black Saturday money to support the children they had success.

"I recognised so fires, a time of grief where 27 in Strathewen inrebuilding their many family names because community members were school following the fires," Ms McLeish said. they are the names also of lost.

Breakfast Club

Push for W’sea station upgrade

Yea PS teachers

■ Yea High School has thanked the Rotary Club of Yea, and in particular Rotarian David Ngo, who provided a monetary donation to support the Breakfast Club. This donation will allow the club to continue to operate Term 4.

Final day for VCE ■ Yesterday (Tues.) was final day of scheduled classes for Year 12 at Yea High School.

The school planned to farewell the class at an assembly which will include a slide show tribute. The Year 12 class was to lunch with the staff and then depart for an afternoon and evening of enter tainment in Melbourne.

Examinations commence on Wednesday next week (November 1).

■ Improvements to Whittlesea’s ageing Police Station would be appreciated, Yan Yean MLADanielle Green told the Legislative Assembly on Thursday (Oct. 19).

“My constituency question is to the Minister for Police,” Ms Green said. :What are Victoria Police’s priorities for police infrastructure in Whittlesea?

“The Plenty growth corridor is seeing significant community safety investment, with the new Mernda police station becoming operational next month.

“Forty-five extra police are on the beat for that police service area, and the Whittlesea police response area will be moved to Grants Rd, Whittlesea, rather than it currently being all the way to South Morang.

“All of these initiatives will make a big difference to community safety in Yan Yean, as did previous police stations built by Labor at Wallan, Kinglake, Diamond Creek, Hurstbridge, Eltham and Warrandyte.

“A future upgrade for the Whittlesea police station would be another significant step forward and would be supported by my constituents,” Ms Green said.

Regional Round-Up CFA problems

■ Evelyn MLA Christine Fyffe spoke in the Legislative Assembly last week about the State Government’s management of Country Fire Authority matters.

“The government chose to laugh, sneer and make jokes when asked about harassment and bullying of women in the fire services,” Ms Fyffe said.

“The Premier should be standing up for women, but instead he refuses to condemn Peter Marshall and the United Firefighters Union (UFU).

“Media articles about Professor Caroline Taylor’s report — a report the UFU and the government want to keep hidden — all this week, and in particular the editorial by James Campbell in today’s Herald Sun, raise the question: what is the hold that Peter Marshall has over this Premier?

“Are the rumours, the allegations, true?

The Premier needs to tell Victorians if there is any truth in the allegations that Peter Marshall has a recording of him making inappropriate comments.

“Is there any truth in the allegations of incorrect procedures and deliberate concealing of facts regarding a traffic incident that the Premier was involved in?

“If there is no truth in these allegations and these rumours, the Premier needs to tell Victoria why Peter Marshall has this hold over him,” Ms Fyffe said.

Historical Society

■ Eltham MLA Vicki Ward has mentioned the Eltham District Historical Society in State Parliament.

“This year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Eltham District Historical Society (EDHS),” Ms Ward told the Legislative Assembly on Thursday.

“This is a tremendous and important community group which helps our community know and understand whence they came.

“Their ongoing dedication to collating, collecting, archiving and protecting our history is priceless.

“There is a dedicated team at EDHS who work very hard in their lovingly refreshed cottage to display our history and celebrate it.

“Their dedication is to be commended. A shout-out to them for their Eltham Barrel trays — I am so glad they found them, and I display them proudly in my office,” Ms Ward said.

Well done League

■ Danielle Green, MLA for Yan Yean, has commended local football and netball leagues.

Speaking in State Parliament on Thursday, Ms Green said: “I rise to commend the efforts of all local football clubs for another great season in the 2017 Northern Football Netball League and Riddell District Football League competitions. Melbourne’s north has some of the highest participation rates in football and other organised sports in Victoria,” Ms Green said.

“Well done to coaches, team managers, trainers, umpires and the hundreds of volunteers who make these great contests possible.

“All clubs and players no doubt drew inspiration from the first-ever AFL Women’s season with all clubs fielding more women’s teams than ever.

“I was delighted to see that Diamond Creek zone full forward Chloe Malloy has been the number one draft pick to Collingwood women’s football club.

“Diamond Creek is again disappointed at being runners-up to the Darebin Falcons.

“Small town legends Whittlesea Football Club and Hurstbridge Football Club retained their well-earned positions in division 1.

“Laurimar Football Club fielded both senior men’s and women’s side for the first time ever, which is great for a new suburb.

“Wallan Football Club made the finals in the Riddell League in both reserves and under-19s.

“Diamond Creek Football Club made the finals in the seniors, reserves and under-19s.

“It was a great effort from all clubs, and I thank them for the great work that they do.

“Diamond Creek’s Kate Maloney, a bornand-bred netballer from Diamond Creek, has played for the first time in the Aussie Diamonds, winning four to nil against New Zealand recently.,” Ms Green said.

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Just Briefly Kinglake arrest

■ Alexandra Crime Investigation Unit members, with the assistance of the Critical Incident Response Team, arrested a Kinglake man on Friday morning at 5am in relation to an on-going investigation.

The man was questioned by Police and allowed to leave pending further enquiries.

Carers’ Walk

■ Plenty Valley Community Health and WINGS (autism support group) are partnering to host a monthly carers walk.

This walk will take place on the last Friday of every month, with the first walk happening on October 27.

Walkers will meet at the Whittlesea Community House (92A Church St, Whittlesea) at 10am, walk together and then finish at Ruby Green’s Café in Church St, Whittlesea.

This walk will provide carers of any age the opportunity to get physically active, connect with others, gain support and new friendships. As numbers increase over time guest speakers will be invited to join the walk each month.

Safeminds

■ Safeminds aims to: • enhance early intervention mental health support for children and young people in schools; specifically regarding mild mood disorders (anxiety and depression) and selfharm • increase engagement of parents and carers with schools to more effectively support their child’s mental health; and • develop clear and effective referral pathways between schools and community youth and mental health services.

A seminar will be held at 6.45pm for 7pm on Wednesday, November 1 at Orchard Road Community Centre, 121 Orchard Rd,Doreen.

Attendees asked to please make a booking – phone 9404-8800. Light supper provided Child care. Limited childcare places available: Pre-Booking essential.

A panel of local services will also be included in this event to provide information and for attendees to ask questions.

K’lake speaker

■ Sales trainer Roger Watson will be guest speaker at a business function to be held at Lawson’s Restaurant, Kinglake Pub at 6.30pm for 7pm on Tuesdayt, November 14.

The Kinglake Ranges Business Network is holding the function to assist businesses improve customer service.

‘Commit to W’sea’

■ Wendy Lovell, the Liberal Member for Northern Victoria, has called on the Andrews Labor Government to commit to a refurbishment of the Whittlesea Police Station in next year’s State Budget.

The call came during the latest Parliament sitting week, when Ms Lovell also tabled a petition signed by 855 Whittlesea residents demanding the government ensure there was no reduction to the authorised staffing levels at the police station.

“The Whittlesea community are fully behind their local police and want a guarantee from the Government that the station maintains its full complement of staff,” Ms Lovell said. “The community are also angry at the terrible conditions their police are forced to work in and they are seeking a commitment for refurbish works to be included in the 201819 State Budget.”

The petition, organised by the Save Our Station action group, comes in the wake of a public meeting last month, where more than 400 members of the Whittlesea community met to show support for their police station amid concerns positions had been moved to the new Mernda station.

“Apart from being painted and security fencing installed the station has received little refurbishment work since it was constructed in the early 1960’s. More concerning, the station is riddled with asbestos, forcing the station commander to implement a management plan to protect his staff and the public,” Ms Lovell said.

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Council News

Plan ahead for fire season ■ Murrindindi Shire Council is urging all residents in the Shire to plan ahead for this coming fire season.

Last week the Victorian Government launched Fire Action Week, kicking off its annual fire awareness campaign in partnership with emergency services.

Murrindindi Shire Council Mayor Cr Charlie Bisset said the long term outlook for this summer was for drier and warmer conditions, and current forecasts suggested an early start to an above average fire season.

"Nearly half of our Shire is native forest. While this is of course one of the things that makes the area so attractive, I can't emphasise strongly enough the importance of ensuring you're properly prepared for bushfire season," Cr Bisset said.

"As most of us are only too aware, taking the right steps now to prepare will help make our decisions in an emergency easier and clearer."

Cr Bisset said some simple planning and preparation tips to ensure readiness for fire season include: ■ Make a plan ... work out what you'll do in the event of a fire and discuss this with your family, and write your plan down.

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■ Make sure you have a written/printed copy of your fire plan ready and put it on the fridge or a location known by all household members.

■ Keep grass short. Fire can travel quickly through long grass.

■ Get rid of dry grass, leaves, twigs and loose bark around your home.

■ Remove or prune shrubs near windows and under branches of mature trees.

■ Keep gutters and roof areas clear of leaf litter (if you are physically able to - if not, consider hiring a handy-person to assist you).

■ Remove all loose materials that could burn around the outside of your home, such as boxes, furniture and woodpiles.

■ Be prepared for power failure in extreme weather conditions. Read the Power Outage Guide to learn more (http:// bit.ly/2zfBrFc).

"I'd encourage everyone to stay informed by using a range of information channels. fires can start quickly and people need to understand where they can obtain the necessary information to put their fire plan into action," added Cr Bisset.

■ Tune in to ABC radio or UGFM for information on emergencies - both are endorsed emergency broadcasters ■ Watch Sky News TV or ABC Television ■ Phone the VicEmergency Hotline (1800 226 226) ■ Visit emergency.vic.gov.au, and download the VicEmergencyApp. Warnings are also available on VicEmergency's Twitter (@vicemergency) and Facebook accounts (facebook.com/vicemergency) ■ CFA's Twitter (@CFA_Updates) and Facebook (facebook.com/ cfavic) "It's also vital to understand the three fire warning levels and what they mean - 'Advice'; 'Watch and Act' and 'Emergency Warning'," Cr Bisset said.

"Also remember they are not necessarily issued in any order - the first warning you hear could be an Emergency Warning."

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Billy ‘after party’ in Yea ■ Entertainment will continue after the Billy Kart Derby in Yea on Saturday (Oct. 28) with the FReeZA MAD Billy After Party.

The event will live performances from Avenues End, Jasper Kay Hicks and Little Bee; the party will kick off at Yea Railway Reserveat 5pm and will run until 9pm.

Murrindindi Shire Council's Community Services Portfolio Councillor, Sandice McAulay, said this was the first time the After Party event was being held, organised by Council's FReeZA, Program.

"Young people in the Yea area said they wanted more to do after the MAD Billy Kart Derby was over for the day. We heard and agreed this was a good idea. So Council's FReeZA program organised this great event," Cr McAulay said.

"FReeZA is Council's youth leadership program which encourages our young people to host events for young people. It's a smoke, drug and alcohol free program which is fully supervised.

"The event will include rides, food vans and a free raffle for all young people attending.

"In particular we have an 'open mic' session

where our budding performers can get up on stage and perform solo or with their mates.

“I understand some of the performing band members are also keen to get involved, supporting our young performers."

Cr McAulay said there would be a Q&A session where young people at the event can ask Melbourne duo Little Bee any questions they like about their music, the music industry, and touring, music writing and performing.

"This is a great opportunity for anyone interested in getting into the industry and people can even email the FReeZA team with their questions for Little Bee if they want to get in early.

"FReeZA is always looking for local young people interested in taking on a variety of roles, including performing, MC-ing, event management, sound and lighting, photography, video, marketing, social media, directing. And we want to hear young people's ideas for future events."

■ For more information about the event, to submit questions for the Q&A or for more information about getting involved in FReeZA, contact Heidi Stewart on 0402 759 296 or hstewart@murrindindi.vic.gov.au - Contributed

Chilean needle grass check ■ Chilean Needle Grass is regarded as one of the worst weeds in Australia and Murrindindi Shire's property owners need to be vigilant to ensure it is kept in check.

Chilean Needle Grass usually flowers and sets seed from late September through to November. The flowering seed heads have a distinctive purplish colour and the seeds are very sharp at the point.

Murrindindi Shire Council's Natural Environment and Climate Change Portfolio Councillor, Rebecca Bowles, said this tussocky perennial grass has earned its

reputation as a 'Weed of National Significance' because of its invasiveness, its potential to spread, and its potentially disastrous economic and environmental impacts.

"Originating in South America as its name implies, this grass spreads quickly and can infest both our pasture and native grasslands," Cr Bowles said.

"Our livestock can't eat it and it can out-compete the other grass species we need on our land. According to the Australian Department of Environment and Heritage, this grass can decrease farm pro-

ductivity by as much as 50 per cent during summer and can contaminate farm produce."

"It can also hurt stock. Chilean Needle Grass' long and sharp seed head can corkscrew into fleece or muscle injuring stock and downgrading not only our wool quality, but also the animals' skins and hides."

For more information about Chilean Needle Grass, or for assistance with identifying it, please contact Murrindindi Shire Council's Environment Officer on 5772 0333.

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News Briefs Ban at Longwood

■ RSPCA Victoria has successfully prosecuted two people in relation to the housing of a large number of dogs at a property in Longwood.

Diane O’Mara and Brian Knight each pleaded guilty in Seymour Magistrates' Court on Friday (Oct. 20) to multiple charges under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act relating to the housing and veterinary care of 71 dogs and a cat.

The court heard that RSPCA Victoria inspectors seized 71 animals, living in squalid conditions, from O’Mara and Knight’s Longwood property in June last year.

All but 11 of the animals were subsequently surrendered to RSPCA Victoria and have since been rehomed. Four deceased dogs were also found at the property.

O’Mara and Knight agreed to a 10-year banning order on owning dogs, with monitoring, and with the provision to keep three companion dogs.

Magistrate Watkins ruled that the pair forfeit ownership of the majority of the remaining animals in RSPCA Victoria’s care.

Three dogs will be returned to the pair, but must be microchipped and registered with the local council, and desexed subject to veterinary approval. The couple will also jointly pay costs of $7093.

RSPCA Victoria Senior Prosecutor Daniel Bode said the court ruling would allow eight animals that have been in Protective Custody Hold for more than a year to finally be rehomed.

“Today’s result is a reminder to all pet owners to consider the welfare of each individual animal in their care to ensure each has appropriate housing and receives appropriate veterinary care,” Mr Bode said.

A separate investigation relating to dogs seized from another Longwood property by RSPCA Victoria in June 2016 is ongoing.

Lost in the bush

■ A pair of bushwalkers are making their way back to an established track in the Cathedral Ranges, south ofAlexandra, on Monday afternoon.

Police and emergency services were assisting the pair to navigate back to the track, with the use of a mobile phone.

It is understood that the pair had suitable clothing, and there were no fears for their safety or well-being.

Yea’s polio fight

■ Since 1985, the eradication of polio has been Rotary's most significant project. And it's nearly there.

The number of cases on the world over the following thirty-two years has declined from in excess of 300,000 world-wide to just 11 reported cases this year in two countries.

But as long as the wild polio virus as survives anywhere in the world, anyone is at risk including the unvaccinated in countries such as Australia.

Without full funding and political commitment from governments around the world, this paralyzing disease could return to previously polio-free countries, putting children everywhere at risk.

World Polio Daywas Tuesday (OCt. 24) and the Rotary Club of Yea will observe the day with two events.

The Club's meeting on Thursday will be an official event of the World's Greatest Meal project initiated by Rotary in Cairns and London to create awareness about polio and raise funds for its eradication. And every dollar raised is matched two for one by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

And on Friday, there will be a sausage sizzle outside Foodworks from 12 Noon until 2pm. It's free - but contributions made by the public are also matched by the Gates Foundation.

Rotary has contributed more than $2 billion to the eradication of polio including in excess of $10,000 from the Rotary Club of Yea. Members of the Rotary Club of Yea are among millions reaching out on World Polio Day to raise awareness, funds and support to end polio - and end it forever.

- David Anderson

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CENTRAL BOWLS DIVISION. SATURDAY PENNANT SCOREBOARD

SEYMOUR DISTRICT CRICKET ASSOCIATION LOCAL SCOREBOARD

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NORTHERN METRO E-GRADE (SAULT SHIELD) SCOREBOARD

Saturday Pennant. Division One. ■ Results. Round 2. Saturday, October 21.

■ Alexandra 105, 18 d Yea 73, 0. Alexandra: Larry Scott 29, 2.Graeme Matthews 28, 2. Robert Benghamy 23, 2. Dick Gilmore 25, 2. Match Total: 105, 8. Side Points: 10. Totals: 105, 18.

Yea: Rowland Branch 18, 0. James Levee 14, 0.

Justin Branch 22, 0. Darren Sherman 19, 0. Totals: 73, 0.

■ Kilmore 103, 17 d Wallan 84, 1. Kilmore: Philip Skehan 20, 2. Trevor Young 22, 1. Scott Fletcher 26, 2. John Reimann 35, 2. Match Total: 103, 7. Side Points: 10. Totals: 103, 17.

Wallan: Brian Smethurst 18, 0. Paul Warren 22,1. Graham Edmonds 23, 0. Paul Newell 21, 0. Totals: 84, 1.

■ Broadford 96, 15 d Seymour VRI 85, 3.

Broadford: Robert Chapman 28, 1. George Bilton 28, 2. Denise Hogan 26, 2. Jim Hinchcliffe 14, 0. Match Total: 96, 5. Side Points: 10.

Totals: 96, 15. Seymour VRI: Stephen McGregor 28, 1. Wayne Flint 20, 0. Mario Furletti 14, 0. Ian Cashill 23, 2. Totals: 85, 3.

■ Eildon v Seymour. Scores not to hand.

■ Fixture. Round 3. Saturday, October 28.

Broadford v Kilmore. Seymour v Alexandra.

Wallan v Seymour VRI. Yea v Eildon. ★ Saturday Pennant. Division Two. ■ Results. Round 3. Saturday, October 21.

■ Broadford 67, 14 d Alexandra 59, 2. Broadford. John Fitzgerald 12, 0. Wendy Reardon 29,.

2. Hannah Green 26, 2. Match Total: 67, 4. Side Points: 1. Totals: 67, 14. Alexandra. Pat Sund 32, 2. Jason Cassee 13, 0. Mark Stone 14, 0.

Totals: 59, 2.

■ Kilmore 64, 14 d Wallan 61, 2. Kilmore: Kenneth Campbell 22, 2. David Taffe 16, 0.

Peter Wood 26, 2. Match Total: 64, 4. Side Points: 10. Totals: 64, 14. Wallan. Steven Doig 18, 0.

Mark Sims 20, 2. Brad Collins 17, 0. Totals: 61, 2.

■ Seymour 15, 16 d Sey,our VRI -15, 0.

■ Ladder. 1. Seymour, 211.24, 44. 2. Kilmore, 96.8, 32. 3. Seymour VRI, 177.88, 28. 4. Broadford, 95.69, 20. 5. Wallan, 75.4, 18. 6. Alexandra, 43.85, 2.

■ Fixture. Round 4. Saturday, October 28.

Broadford v Seymour VRI. Seymour v Kilmore.

Wallan v Alexandra.

Overs ........................................................... 44.0 Bowling (O-M-W-R): W. Dundon 8.0-1-0-20, A. Dundon 9.0-4-2-21, K. Winnell 3.0-0-1-17, B. Coyle 9.0-3-0-18, L. Irving 9.0-1-0-41, J. Smith-Irving 4.0-1-2-12, M. Whiteman 2.0-0-014.

■ Fixture. Round 4. Saturday, October 28.

Avenel v Kilmore. Tallarook v Nagambie. Yea Tigers v Broadford.

batted fluently to quickly make his way to 20.

However, when he was caught cover it started somewhat of a collapse for Yea. Ryan Akers and Andrew Butterworth (13) steadied the ship for the Tigers. Butterworth's wicket brought Andrew Chisholm to the crease, and to together with Akers, they were able to put together a well constructed run chase.

Despite needing 48 runs off the final 10 overs, Yea lost no further wickets and reached their target with an over to spare thanks to some clean ball striking from Akers (38 not out) and Chisholm (26 not out).

Yea is now 2 wins and 1 loss in A-Grade this season and will take great confidence from beating last year’s premiers away from home.

Next weekend sees Yea take on Broadford at home in what should be a terrific contest.

- Andrew Chisholm

This left Kinglake with 14 overs to face before stumps were scheduled to end the day’s play.

Kinglake opened their innings with Alex Hybinett and Jason Gaffee. Unfortunately Jason was bowled in the 10th over by J. Magripilis having faced 26 balls 32 minutes for a total of 12 runs.

This brought James Gibbs to the crease who partnered Alex for the balance of the allotted overs. He starts next week’s innings on 15 and his partner Alex resumes at the other end on 21 runs.

This will leave Kinglake with a target of 292 runs for a possible first innings lead with a maximum of 70 overs for the day’s play.

- Bruce Stonehouse

SEYMOUR DISTRICT CRICKET ASSOCIATION LOCAL SCOREBOARD A-GRADE

■ Results. Round 3. Saturday, October 21.

Tallarook def by Yea Tigers Venue: Tallarook Recreation Reserve Umpire: Eric Franklin Result: Tallarook lost First Innings Toss won by: Tallarook Batted first: Tallarook 1st Innings: Tallarook L. Marshall, lbw b C. Armstrong ................... 14 +T. Muir, run out (B. Clements) .................... 44 J. Smith-Williams, c M. Lockhart, b B. Clements ............................................ 49 C. Muir, b C. Armstrong .................................. 1 A. Dundon, lbw b C. Armstrong ..................... 0 *L. Irving, lbw b C.A. Malcolm ...................... 7 B. Coyle, b C,A. Malcolm .............................. 2 K. Winnell, not out ......................................... 10 B. Cooney, b A. Chisholm .............................. 6 M. Whiteman, not out ..................................... 1 W. Dundon, dnb Extras (nb 0, w 4, b 3, lb 7) ........................... 14 Total .................................................. 8/148 (cc) Overs ........................................................... 45.0 FOW: 60 (T. Muir), 67 (L. Marshall), 69 (C. Muir), 75 (A. Dundon), 97 (L. Irving), 99 (B. Coyle), 132 (J. Smith-Williams), 146 (B. Cooney).

1st Innings: Yea Extras (nb 0, w2 0, b 2, lb 7) ........................... 9 Total ........................................................ 6/152

B-GRADE

■ Results. Round 3. Saturday, October 21.

Yea Tigers def by Tallarok Venue: Yea Recreation Reserve Result: Yea Tigers lost First Innings Toss won by: Yea Tigers Batted first: Yea Tigers 1st Innings - Yea Tigers Extras (nb 6, w 5, b 3, lb 1) ............................ 15 Total .................................................. 9/143 (cc) Overs .......................................................... 45.0 Bowling: A. Howard 9.0-2-0-24, T. Potts 9.0-12-25, C. Durkin 9.0-4-2-15,J. Maher 4.0-0-0-15, D. Matthew 5.0-1-1-24, D. Short 9.0-1-2-36, 1st Innings - Tallarook *D. Short, lbw b L. Beattie ............................ 22 K. Minter, c ?, b L. Beattie ............................ 25 A. Howard, c ?, b A. Cook ............................ 31 C. Jones, c ?, b D. O’Dwyer ........................ 12 D. Matthew, b D.O’Dwyer ............................ 21 C. Durkin, not out ............................................ 5 T. Potts, not out ................................................ 1 J. Black, dnb +K. Howes, dnb D. Oakley, dnb B. Maher, dnb J. Maher, dnb Extras (nb 5, w 21, b 2, lb 3) .......................... 31 Total .......................................................... 5/148 Overs ........................................................... 41.0 FOW: 30 (D. Short), 90 (K. Minter), 104 (A.Howard), 138 (D. Matthew), 142 (C. Jones).

■ Fixture. Round 4. Saturday, October 28.

Seymour v Puckapunyal, Flowerdale v Alexandra, Kilmore v Avenel, Broadford v Yea Tigers, Royals v Pyalong, Eastern Hill v Tallaroook.

UNDER 16

■ Results. Round 3. Saturday, October 21.

Broadford def by Yea Tigers Venue: Harley Hammond Reserve Result: Broadford lost First Innings Toss won by: Broadford Batted first: Broadford 1st Innings - Broadford Extras (nb 5, w 4, b 2, lb 1) ........................... 12 Total ............................................................... 70 Overs .......................................................... 17.2 1st Innings - Yea Tigers Extras (nb 4, w 1, b 0, lb 1) .............................. 0 Total ......................................................... 2/103 Overs .......................................................... 17.0

YEA CLUB REPORTS A-GRADE

■ Saturday saw Yea travel to Tallarook to take on the reining premiers on their home turf.

Skipper Ben Tarran lost the toss, and Tallarook elected to bat first on what appeared to be a batsmen friendly pitch.

The home side made a strong start to their innings, with an opening stand of 60 laying a strong platform, before Brad Clements effected a brilliant run out to break the partnership.

This led to a momentum swing Yea's way with Cam Armstrong claiming three wickets through the middle overs, ably supported by tidy spells from Tarran and Aidan McSpeerin.

Corey Malcolm's second spell was outstanding, claiming two wickets and proving hard to get away, with Tallarook struggling to 6/99.

Some later over hitting saw Tallarook finish strongly to make total of 8/148 from their 45 overs, a tough chase for Yea. Yea's innings started steadily with openers Darcy Pell (16) and Ben Tarran (28) negating the early overs nicely.

Cam Armstrong came in at number 3 and

B-GRADE

■ B-Grade this week played in a top of the table clash against Tallarook with the winner taking the number one spot on the ladder.

Yea batted first with Ash Cook continuing his impressive form making a classy 30.

Ben Broadway batted well again as did Lachy Beattie. Yea finished their 45 overs on a respectable score of 143.

Tallarook started off well and continued on the way after Beattie picked up the first wicket.

Tallarook lost three late wickets but it was their day chasing the score down in the 41st over. I t was the Tigers’ first loss for the year but will be looking to bounce back next weekend against Broadford away.

- Andrew Butterworth

NORTHERN METRO E-GRADE (SAULT SHIELD) SCOREBOARD ■ Results. Round 3. Saturdays, October 2128.

Preston Druids 3rd XI v Kinglake.

Match In Progress.

Venue: A.H. Capp Reserve Toss won by: Preston Druids 3rd XI Batted first: Preston Druids 3rd XI 1st Innings - Preston Druids 3rd XI Extra (nb 26, w 9, b 6, lb 1) ............................ 42 Total ................................................ 6/345 (dec.)

1st Innings - Kinglake Extras ............................................................... 0 Total ............................................................ 1/54

KINGLAKE REPORT

■ October 21 saw the start of a two-day game between Preston Druids 3rd XI and Kinglake at A.H. Capp Reserve in West Preston.

Preston Druids won the toss and elected to bat first. During the second over being bowled

by Kinglake’s Captain Jason Gaffee, the bails were dislodged by a fine piece of bowling when the batsman failed to connect with the ball. 14 runs for 1 wicket.

The wickets seemed to fall at a fairly regular rate until the fourth wicket, lost at 79 runs. There was then a partnership of 53 runs for the fifth wicket, and a 107 run partnership for the sixth wicket.

After 56 overs were completed Preston Druids declared their innings closed with the score at 345 for 6 with an unfinished partnership of 106 runs.

Best batsman for Preston Druids was R. Magripus with 88, and the not out batsmen S. Thompson (64*) and L. Claxton (62*).

Kinglake used eight bowlers through the course of the innings and they had mixed success results with their efforts with the ball.

Jason Gaffee 8-0-30-1, James Gibbs 16-390-2, Edward O’Hara 5-0-32-1, Max Murray 9-0-56-1, Tim Stonehouse 7-0-49-1 were the wicket takers while Lachlan Martin 3-1-5-0, Josh Green 5-0-36-0 and Ken Aitken 3-0-40-0 were the unlucky bowlers.

YEA GOLF CLUB REPORT

■ Gary Pollard won the Yea Golf Club Men's Championship on Saturday after a see-sawing final round with Brian Simmons.

Gary started the day one shot in front, was behind after 5five holes but then regained the lead and finished with a solid round of 81. Brian was runner up and Michael Spagnolo was third.

There were exciting finishes in B- and CGrades with a playoff held to decide both titles.

Jonathan Fisher and Greg Clements finished tied on 265 in B-Grade with Jonathan winning the sudden death play off on the 10th with a par.

Malcolm Bett and Terry Chaplin finished tied on 280 in C-Grade and Terry won the play off, also on the 10th hole.

The 27-hole handicap events held in conjunction with the Championships were won by Gary in A-Grade (nett 218), Greg in B-Grade (nett 221) and Terry in C-Grade (nett 220).

Gary's score of 218 also won the Clark Trophy for the best handicap score overall.

Gary completed a good day by winning the daily stroke event with a nett n71 Neil Peterson and Peter Johnston on 72 and Terry Chaplin on 73.

Brian Simmons won the daily putting with a low 23 putts and Neil Peterson was NTP on the 14th

EAST CENTRAL DISTRICT RIFLE ASSOCIATION

■ The local East Central District Rifle Association 5 shooter team took second place in the State F-Class Standard Competition held on the Victoria Rifle Association Range at Welford Bendigo on Sunday (Oct. 22).

The Results were 1st. Western District 819.25, ECDRA 817 .34, Wimmera 810.25, Goulburn Valley 800.24, Ovens and Murray 795.28, Inner West 765.17 and South West 718.15.

ECDRA’s Graeme Kerr got the team off to the best possible start at 500 yards with a possible 60.5 (one of only two possibles shot all day).

The high centre or X count (34) for the ECDRA shows just how good the coaches led

by Geoff James were at keeping the shooters in the dead centre of the target and was only the very difficult conditions at 900 yards at the end of the match that cost our team the victory.

Graeme Kerr was first up at 900 and as the “test" shooter helped the coach get things sorted but the cost was Graeme’s 49 well out of his normal range and, as he said he could have found those two points in his shoot alone.

Despite being the second best five shooter team in F Standard 2017 the shooters all said it had been great fun and they would be back again next year - this time to win.

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■ A-Grade. Avenel 114 J Hesse 57 M Jones 29 J Shepherd 4/14 Z Winter-Irving 2/15 J Moore 2/24 def Nagambie 107 C Hogan 5/22 M Lawrence 3/18. Broadford 8/163 A Wood 83 S Topham 2/16 RJ McLeod 2/22 J Buttler 2/38 def Kilmore 9/159(cc) J Pryor 46 B Hickey 4/25 JP Bradshaw 3/35.

Tallarook 8/148(cc) J Smith-Williams 49 T Muir 44 C Armstrong 3/33 CA Malcolm 2/33 def by Yea Tigers 6/152 R Akers 38* B Tarran 28 A Chisholm 26* J Smith-Williams 2/12 A Dundon 2/21.

■ B-Grade. Royals 53 B Pointon 3/5 J Pollock 2/5 S Van Duinen 2/7 H Gawne 2/15 def by Seymour 2/56 S Van Duinen 41*. Flowerdale 67 R Emmins 39 J Ruddick 4/10 M Fairweather 4/14 def by Pyalong 2/75 G Thomson 27. Kilmore 6/94 LJ Zelvys 34 R Parkinson 32 T Bradshaw 3/30 N Tyers 2/29 def Broadford 91 H Phillips 4/19 J Lowe 3/24 N Gayapersad 2/22. Puckapunyal 6/ 114 S Herring 41* D Webb 25 T Peacock 2/10 H Szczykulski 2/15 def by Eastern Hill 8/175(cc) M Brown 55 G Loraine 52 B Speechley 28 J Frankel 3/26 J Marshall 3/34. Yea Tigers 9/143(cc) A Cook 30 C Durkin 2/15 T Potts 2/25 D Short 2/36 def by Tallarook 5/148 A Howard 31 K Minter 25 L Beattie 2/28. Alexandra def Avenel.

■ C-Grade. Puckapunyal Wanderers 2/157 M McMahon 79* A Allen 38 def Puckapunyal Nomads 8/145(cc) D France 3/25 D Chegwidden 2/15 P Brooks 2/36. Broadford Red def Royals. Pyalong 7/69 def Kilmore 65 Mv Zoch 2/8 AR Pratt 2/8 Ma Ruddick 2/15 J Cadman 2/16 MT Pratt 2/18. Seymour Gold 98 D Murphy 34 G Brock 25 MR Culina 6/9 C Kirby 2/16 def by Seymour Maroon 7/105 D Fountain 39 J Voogt 30 S Bruce 3/21 D McLarty 2/25. Alexandra def

Eastern Hill. Nagambie 141 K Shepherd 52 J Vilinskis 2/12 LS Withers 2/16 C Tinney 2/27 L Rigoni 2/36 def Broadford Black 9/139(cc) LS Withers 52 T Hands 33 WA Ulrich 4/12 J Boyer 4/32.

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EAST CENTRAL DISTRICT RIFLE ASSOCIATION

DIAMOND VALLEY CRICKET ASSOCIATION SCOREBOARD BARCLAY SHIELD

■ Results. Round 2. Saturdays, October 21 and 28. Epping 176 A Licovski 84 S Mitchell 4/ 46 R McKinnon 2/26 D Fernando 2/47 vLower Eltham 0/0. Bundoora 247 SS Taggar 82 HP Schumacher 36 A Sing 33 N Sharma 28 C Jones 25 TK Groom 3/52 T Taylor 2/17 O Anderson 2/31 v Montmorency. North Eltham Wanderers v Diamond Creek 9/298(cc) J Adams 89 J Benney 55 JA Ramsey 46 D Kambouris 44 TL Baker 4/94. Old Paradians 43 T Wise 6/15 G Rigg 4/13 v Macleod 6/152 R Wise 69 RJ Boddy 33* RD Thomas 3/22. Rosanna v Riverside 3/ 351(cc) S Money 152 D Hoyne 96 S Villani 90 .

MONEY SHIELD

■ Results. Round 2. Saturdays, October 21 and 28. Plenty Power 1/2 v Lower Plenty 155 NJ Gardiner 37 S Neary 36 BA Jenkin 34 A Coles 3/18 M Johnson 2/31 K Peters 2/38. Eltham v Heidelberg 8/280(cc) J Whitcher 132 P Cashen 69 FW Stewart 31 G Turner 3/58 M Hogg 2/57.

Lalor Stars 108 M Marshall 26* A Volpe 25 J Turner 5/32 v Research Eltham Collegians 1/53 W Purvis 25* B Timewell 25*. Bundoora United 1/32 v Mill Park 111 N Andrews 32 LC Stewart 28 SC Barnett 4/24 L Symons 2/6. Banyule 5/81 RJ Hartnett 32 MK McAuley 2/16 D Earp 2/35 v Mernda 164 S Wright 99 MJ Hannan 5/43 BL O'Connor 3/19 JA Hannan 2/55.

MASH SHIELD

■ Results. Round 2. Saturdays, October 21 and 28. South Morang 1/2 v T h o m a s t o w n United 152 J Lalios 51 P Sritharan 34 KS Heckmann 6/50 D Bell 3/4. Hurstbridge 192 v Greensborough. Panton Hill 4/107 L McInnes 33* R Harland 26 v Laurimar Cricket Club 95 DG Sinclair 29 R Hobbs 5/18 R Ford 4/20.

Whittlesea v Thomastown 193 J Cope 70 H ShaHzai 31 BA Avola 4/47 RS Mendis 3/41. ● State Team Championships at the Welford Range Bendigo. The 700 yard stage is just about to get underway with ECDRA Captain Marty Kelly in the foreground (prone) with Geoff James (next) seated coaching Graeme Kerr in the checked shirt.

The seemingly lifeless flags soon gave way to quite difficult wind conditions keeping scores down across the board.

The ECDRA individual scores were Marty Marty Kelly had a horror 700 yards and Kelly 169.8, David Wallace 166.8, Graeme Kerr Matt Frazer followed with a similar shoot at 165.6, Vaughan Murphy 162.9 and Geoff James 900 yards. It was good to see Marty and Matt 155.3. contesting state titles because last year they At the same time the F Class Open five were both shooting F standard and Marty narshooter team competition was being contested rowly won the right to represent the ECDRA at and for the first time the ECDRA entered a team. the State titles.

The results in F Standard Regretfully this “young” team did not have put E Warrender in first place with 168.12 the services of the ECDRA regular coaches and points, D. Stanford in second place with 162.5 under the difficult wind conditions the team points and in third place Marty Kelley 161.5 struggled to keep their shots in the dead centre. points ( just one point off second place!)

The F class open five shooter team results Marty’s scores were 56.2, 48.1 and 57.2 for were first Gippsland 864.44, Bendigo 862.46, a total of 161.5, we can see how costly that 700 Western District 846.93, Goulburn Valley yard range shoot was given that if he had shot as 832.29, Inner West 815.26and ECDRA 794.27. well last the other two ranges he would have The individual ECDRA team members scores been state champion, perhaps next year. were: Des Coulter 168.3, Paul Watkins 160.7, Matt Frazer in F Open was up against some Norm Lienhan 157.8, Matt Frazer 157.4 and really top shooters in this highly competitive class Chai Somlong 152.5. and he shot 56.3, 58.4 and 47.1 for a total of Entering two teams in the State titles required 161.8. a big effort by all involved especially for the F Again a tail of lost opportunities with the diOpen team as its limited coaching experience sastrous 47.1 at 900. Even so Matt said it was meant that everyone had to do jobs that they had great learning experience and he now knows limited experience with yet both teams came up just how the wind can be read at Bendigo, the trumps. only way to learn is to have a go.

The ECDRA "over eighties" featured in both It looks as if Matt is shaping up to give the teams along with members who had only a few 2018 titles a good go. However based on the months experience, over all a great team effort scores from the team shoot on Sunday there are by all. Congratulations. a number of shooters who have a similar ideas.

Last year the F class standard team was While the Individual F class shoots were placed fifth so there is no doubt that the top spot being held on Saturday the State Target Rifle will be theirs next year, all being well.

Teams event was being contested and this year ★ the 10 shooter team from the Goulburn Valley Saturday was the day of the individual F class took the title, it was great to see our area so Standard and Open competition for the cham- successful at this the highest level of the sport in pion of champions for Victoria. the State.

Matt Frazer shot in the F Open event and On Friday night the pennant teams from the Marty Kelly in the F Standard event.

Goulburn vValley including the ECDRA will Marty said that the conditions on Saturday gather in Mooroopna for the annual presentawere no better than Sunday with the cold wind tion dinner and our ECDRA will feature as it cutting to the bone and the shooters were glad of picks up two of the three team prizes, more news a cuppa after the event concluded at 900 yards. next week.

- Robert Chaffe

B-GRADE

■ Results. Round 2. Saturdays, October 21 and 28. Riverside 5/308(cc) N Bragg 118 M Doyle 74 B Gedge 54 L Morgan 32* BJ Giarrusso 3/60 v Bundoora United. Montmorency 139 B Symons 51 D Compton 26 v Epping. Macleod 128 M Copsey 40* M Elzink 5/17 C Sexton 2/22 v Diamond Creek 3/33 JT Cleary 2/14. Mernda 150 R Corrigan 41 D Mercuri 32 AJ White 7/7 v Bundoora.

C-GRADE

■ Results. Round 2. Saturdays, October 21 and 28. Eltham 202 B O'Loughlin 76 L RushtonMcCoach 54 v Lalor Stars 0/2. Mill Park v North Eltham Wanderers 8/343(cc) J Lambert 78 B Whyte 71 L Baker 40 N Ross 36* A Curl 35 AR Mann 27 G Stewart 3/54 S Ahmed 2/84. Rosanna 8/266(dec) JT Felton 4/51 v Lower Eltham 0/ Heidelberg 0/3 v Old Paradians 136 DJ Bubis 50.

D-GRADE

■ Results. Round 2. Saturdays, October 21 and 28. Lower Plenty 5/177(dec) JR Grimble 89 HM Hunt 36 J Ryan 36 v T h o m a s t o w n United 46 HP Jenkins 5/10 AC Horner 2/17 and 2/46. Riverside 1/47 AAmenta 28 v Banyule 239 D Juchnevicius 5/58 W Ali 2/30. Research Eltham Collegians 128 JA Hardy 41 M Gilbert 27 SR Daly 3/17 J Burge 3/18 J King 2/12 v Plenty Power 2/58 J Jackson 2/12. Greensborough v Hurstbridge.

E-GRADE

■ Results. Round 2. Saturdays, October 21 and 28. Riverside 193 M Nolan 70 CD Drake 34 I Lobo 28 v South Morang 4/21 D Rowley 3/ 5. Montmorency 7/164 S Woodhouse 55 R McNamara 36* R Marnell 2/23 M Denney 2/ 29 W Reece 2/34 v Mernda 78 G Greenough 29 S Woodhouse 4/10 S O'Brien 3/9. Thomastown v North Eltham Wanderers 9/199(cc) J Corbin 61 N Anderson 43 AM Stacey 26 S John 5/49.

Laurimar Cricket Club 111 B White 5/34 S Tung 2/4 M Tung 2/23 v Panton Hill 7/65(cc).

UNDER 18

■ Results. Round 2. Friday, October 20. Lower Eltham: Bye. South Morang 4/67 def by Eltham

DIAMOND VALLEY CRICKET ASSOCIATION SCOREBOARD

3/145(cc) L Kirkright 52* JC Kammerhofer 35.

Research Eltham Collegians 8/129 D Poole 32 AM Arandt 3/9 A Pannell 2/5 def by Banyule/ Heidelberg 5/153 LM Sirianni 51* A Pannell 36.

North Eltham Wanderers 4/83 R O'Donnell 39 def Lalor Stars 9/76(cc) R O'Donnell 4/16.

UNDER 16 BLUE

■ Results. Round 2. Friday, October 20. Montmorency 4/111(cc) JH Andrew 50* L Sutherland 34 def Research Eltham Collegians 2/95(cc) L Jessop 29* O Hargreaves 25*. Hurstbridge 7/ 75(cc) N Breaden 25 B Roberts 3/5 K Asdagi 2/ 5 def by Lower Eltham 1/81 L Macciocca 50* .

Mernda 45 def by Diamond Creek 6/86(cc) J Baker 2/13.

UNDER 16 TEAL

■ Results. Round 2. Friday, October 20. Montmorency 4/61(cc) LJ Chilcott 2/7 def by Lower Plenty 8/62(dec) RJ Cotterill 3/3 WJ Richardson 2/7 RT Mudge 2/15. Banyule 1/91 NJ Sinnett 51* def Plenty 7/75(cc) JA Neilson 3/17. Heidelberg 7/59(cc) B Ryan 3/3 def by Riverside 1/ 89(cc) R Gleeson 30*. Laurimar Cricket Club 3/138(cc) N Welsh 53* B Eastaway 37 C Arnold 2/34 def by Bundoora 6/142(cc) D Brennan 58* M Brennan 50*.

UNDER 14 BLUE

■ Results. Round 2. Friday, October 20. Epping 6/91(cc) A Joshi 28 E Elango 2/12 def South Morang 6/87(cc) S Uruththiran 35 B Cass 27* JJ Singh 2/8 T Kunelius 2/10. Lower Eltham 4/ Research Eltham Collegians 1/75(cc) def Montmorency 5/62 A Toffolo 2/4. Panton Hill 3/124 S Tung 44* R Hogg 39* FA Davis 2/10 def Banyule 6/119 F Burak 37 ZJ Brown 34 A Kotlarewski 2/4.

UNDER 12 BLUE

■ Results. Round 2. Friday, October 20. Montmorency: Bye. Diamond Creek 3/92 def Mill Park 7/50 B Chapman 2/9. Epping 6/83(cc) L Hannam 2/10 def Riverside 6/59(cc). Banyule 4/80(cc) M Bainbridge 2/1 def Mernda 9/51(cc) M Bainbridge 28* JI Heaney 3/9 TM Manolakakis 2/0.

F1 GRADE

■ Results. Round 2. Saturdays, October 21 and 28. Bundoora 178 D Meehan 87 M Brennan 46 v Heidelberg 2/7 D Meehan 2/0. Macleod 0/ 6 v Banyule 219 S Brandt 4/35 T McKinlay 3/ 26 T Ciarlo 2/48. Old Paradians 256 N Silva 61 DS Leslie 41 TC Hill 39 RB Landers 25 J McEntee 3/27 T McEntee 2/62 v Eltham.

Rosanna v Whittlesea 6/281(cc) B Mills 72 KA Reeves 70 NA Heaney 68 DP Shiel 38.

F2 GRADE

■ Results. Round 2. Saturdays, October 21 and 28. Lower Plenty 2/246(cc) S Nayef 114 JD Mechkaroff 102* v Mill Park. Diamond Creek 1 120 G Milner 62 R Pearce 4/24 P Gurung 3/22 MP Trainor 2/8 v Diamond Creek 2 7/48 LK Sewell 3/20 NJ Farren-Price 2/12.

Lalor Stars 227 N Hoobin 4/44 J Miles 2/11 C Bragg 2/24 v Riverside. North Eltham Wanderers def by Lower Eltham.

F3 GRADE

■ Results. Round 2. Saturdays, October 21 and 28. Epping 136 D Pratap 30 F Sergi 4/29 AM Suraweera 2/18 GT Hill 2/34 v Old Paradians 3/10 N Muir 3/1. Bundoora United 1/104 C Zealley 63* v Rosanna 117 A Wolczko 56 I Gordon 31 L McMurray 6/25 B Lee 3/17.

Thomastown United v Mernda. Thomastown v Plenty 9/252(cc) JM Osborne 49 D Buckley 33 S Quilliam 29 T Avramov 3/36 A Mohammed 3/61 S Valasapalli 2/91.

G1 GRADE

■ Results. Round 2. Saturdays, October 21 and 28. Lower Plenty 85 S Meredith 26 v Lalor Stars 2/104 JV Hardiman 2/39. Research Eltham Collegians v Montmorency 9/192(cc) S Pendlebury 72 D Turner 43 S Maxfield 28 H Klaster 3/18 D Wilcox 3/28 C Padfield 3/39.

Macleod v Bundoora United. Banyule 0/14 v Diamond Creek 130 P Ritchie 34 S Mangin 30.

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