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Honour for Alexandra’s Anne Reid

Aquatics and Community Development Officer Permanent Part Time – Three Days Per Week (Band 5) Are you passionate about supporting healthy, connected and inclusive communities?

Murrindindi Shire Council is looking for someone experienced in aquatic or recreation services and community engagement to help our communities plan, collaborate and connect with Council. Could this be the next step in your career?

The successful applicant will have proven leadership, facilitation and project management skills. Strong communication and relationship building skills are also essential, as is the ability to work autonomously and juggle competing priorities.

We are seeking someone who is keen to roll up their sleeves and work closely with community, and across the organisation, to support progressing key Council strategies and projects. If you think you could make a valuable contribution, please apply to come and work with our fantastic team in our beautiful Shire.

For more information about this role, including the position description, see www.murrindindi.vic.gov.au/jobs or call Council’s Coordinator Community Development, Stuart Coller on 5772 0333.

To be competitive in your application, please refer to the selection criteria listed in the position description.

You can submit your application and any accompanying attachments: • online at www.murrindindi.vic.gov.au/jobs (you will receive an email notification confirming your submission) or by email to msc@murrindindi.vic.gov.au Applications close: 5pm Wednesday, 31 July

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■ Alexandra Rotarian Anne Reid has been again honoured for her community service work.

Rotary District 9790 Governor Malcolm Kerr presented Anne Reid with a sapphire pin to complement her Paul Harris Fellow award at the District changeover dinner held in Wangaratta on Sunday (June 30).

Malcolm complimented Anne for her tireless service both as past Assistant Governor and then as Rotary District 9790 Secretary in 2018 2019. Anne has spent countless hours following up District matters while at the same time encouraging clubs to reach their full potential.

Her untiring service is an example of the Rotary motto “Service above self” at work in the community.

The "sapphire pin" represents a donation of $US1000 to the Foundation of Rotary International onAnne’s behalf.

The Rotary Foundation, begun in 1927, funds health and humanity works around the globe. The Polio Plus program, that aims to eradicate Polio from the whole world, is just one of the Rotary Foundation’s projects.

- Robert Chaffe

Yea Golf Club

■ Peter Johnston (16) continued his good form with a win on Wednesday Golf.

Playing Bisque Par, Peter had a square score to win from Ray Partridge (26) and Brendan Chenhall (15) on -1. There were 13 men who ventured out in to play in the foggy conditions.

Carl Maffei was NTP on the 18th and Ivor Brayley won the Club Award.

Eight players assembled for the Saturday ritual amidst the elements and it was agreed to wait and see. It was said "The wind will push the rain away" Also said was "the next rain cell would be over in 15-20 minutes."

An hour passed and we were no longer homeless. The Club award was shared by those with a radar app. Footnote: the rain will do the course wonders.

- Alan Pell

Mr Patience continued: “I cinspected the works on Monday, June 24, and noted that Council has completed kerbing and chaneling in Station St, but has not complied with the full conditions of the VCAT order, that is, kerb and channel, footpaths, drainage and nature strip along Station St and around into Pellisier St. “Indeed, I noted a large pool of water has collected at the corner of Pellisier and Station Sts at the end of the new kerbing.

“At the VCAT hearing the Member issued a VCAT order in February 2-018. In addition, the Member advised your lawyer that Council needed to assign a budget to complete the abovementioned work,” Mr Patience said.

DEATHS ● Anne Reid.

Hospital wombat

■ The TV program, A Country Practice, had a local hospital with a wombat, ‘Fatso’.

Now, Yea and District Memorial Hospital has its own wombat, as yet unnamed.

The marsupial has made its home on the front lawn of the Hospital grounds, alongside Station St, as it recovers from ‘mange’, a skin disease.

Staff member, Yvonne, says the wombat is being looked after by the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning.

Council problems

■ Property co-owners Ian Patience and John Spark say they are having troubles with Murrindindi Shire Council fulfilling the requirements of a Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal order.

Mr Patience wrote to Murrindindi Shire CEO Craig Lloyd on Monday (July 1): “As the co-owner of this property I recently arranged to have completed the four crossovers to the property on the corner of Station and Pelissier Streets as previously agreed.

“I have complied with all Council and VCAT conditions accordingly.

ROWE - John Phillip (Jackson) 10.10.1945-22.06.2019 Loving father of Darren, Wayne, Shane and Adrian. Former partner of Sandra (Dawn). Father-in-law to Andrea, Ailsa, Georgina and Ineka. Poppy to Maddison, Zayne, Ella, Sienna, Tamika, Angus, Sidney, Charlotte and Archie.

His love and generosity will be dearly missed by all our family. Thank you for your support during this difficult time.

Rest in peace

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ROWE A memorial service to Celebrate the Life of John Phillip Rowe will be held at the Flowerdale Community Hall, 3380 Whittlesea-Yea Road, Flowerdale on July 5, 2019, commencing at 11.00am. If you want, wear your best flanette or Bombers colours as a tribute.

There’s a new destination in Yea for locally-made gifts and craft Looking for a gift for a friend - or yourself?

Take a look at the expanded range of gifts and craft, now on view at Yea Newsagency.

Lyn Bailey has opened up her store, and added an extra room at the back of the shop. It’s packed with plenty of NEW items.

Plus there’s a whole lot of stock from local people including Lee Lambert (Arashel), Peter McLeish (art), Marnie Muir (crochet), Christine Priest (knitting) and Jodi’s Soy Candles.

So, not only, can you select a quality item, you’ll be supporting local business and artisans.

Check out the individual one-off blankets, throws, scarves and jackets.

It’s easy to shop at Yea Newsagency. Park right outside. There are no steps. And you can take all the time you like to make your selection.

Yea Newsagency 74 High St, Yea. Phone: 5797 2196

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People

Photos by Ash Long

‘Worksafe Day’ for Yea-Kinglake footy, netball

Photos: Ash Long

● Jo Aitkins, of Yea, sings the National Anthem.

● Travis Cloke wore the number 11 guernsey for the Yea Tigers.

● Ricky Nixon and Peter Knights.

● Dana Howes and Julie Bond.

● Fiona Shutt, Cindy McLeish (MLA for Eildon), Miriam Slattery

● Mick Wearne and Ben Brown

● Allister Paterson and Don McLeish

● Elaine Annetts and Mwai Kumwenda (Melbourne Vixens)

● Craig and Susan Lang

● Greg and Tammy Bowe

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Local News Catering team

■ Five Yea young people worked to raise money for a charitable cause at the Rotary Club’s changeover dinner at Beaufort Manor on Thursday night (June 27).

The team comprised Riley Ball-Tilbrook, Bethany Freeman, Cheyenne HansonAristides, Johnny Hamilton and Arienne Holdsworth-Rose.

Their project is working with the Rotary Club of Milawa Oxley on providing a spring box to the Yalobi village in Fiji.

Yalobi currently sources water from a contaminated well; children dying from water borne diseases is not uncommon.

The village has been given two years to raise $6000 (10 per cent of the project). To date they have raised $3 000 from selling fish caught and vegetables grown in the village.

This is the fourth year the Yea teenagers have supported Fiji as part of the Paying it Forward program.

In that time some 45 students have travelled and spent nearly $50,000 directly within the Fijian community.

The project was created and is coordinated by the Rotary Club of Albury Hume as part of its youth portfolio.

Total cost covers everything including flights, accommodation, meals, transfers and insurance.

This is a volunteer project and as such 100 per cent of funds are used for the project and is subsidised by the Rotary Club of Albury Hume.

- With thanks to Amanda Hard

Arts at Yarck

■ The comedy Three Birds, One Cock will play at the Yarck Hall this Saturday night (July 6). Tickets are $30 each which includes a two-course dinner. Show tickets are $25. Tickets: Robyn, 0467 413 767.

Store closes

■ The Yarck General Store is now closed, according to a social media notice posted on Sunday (June 30).

Yea nominee

■ Photographer Hannah Elizabeth Gallinar of Yea has been nominated for the AusMumPreneur awards. Hannah also works in film.

The awards focus on areas such as business excellence, product development, customer service and digital innovation. Winners will be anounced at a gala dinner to be held in Melbourne in September.

All in the family

● Harry Caine (centre) is congratulated by mother Laura and father Cameron on his first senior game for Kinglake on Sunday at Yea. Photo: Laura Caine/Facebook

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Chris joins Alex. Rotary ■ Chris Barry was formally inducted as a member of the Rotary Club ofAlexandra at the changeover meeting on June 19.

Melinda Jackson, Club President, officiated.

Chis has been a friend of Rotary for many years, helping out with numerous service projects.

His work as a computer software specialist has involved extensive travel both nationally and internationally, and Chris was not able to commit to regular attendance.

Now his work requirements have changed and he can make the commitment to be a Rotarian.

Melinda reminded that Chris now joins 1.2 million Rotarians in more than 30 000 clubs around the world committed to health and humanity for all.

Rotarians actively work toward better understanding and the opportunity for all people to reach their full potential.

Chris’s professional expertise will be welcome as he shares his vocational skills in computer software with his fellow Rotarians.

Rotary, like most organisations of the 21st century, seems to rely more and more on computer based systems for they effective operation.

In accepting his membership Chris said it was an honour to be part of Rotary through a club like Alexandra with its rich history of service in the five avenues of service.

He is pleased taht his vocational needs now allow him to commit to being an active Rotarian.

He was also pleased that he could serve the community as a friend of Rotary, as it is a way to be involved when business and family commitments restrict the opportunity of becoming a Rotarian.

Chris was welcomed with acclamation by one of the biggest gathering of Rotarians at the Golf Club.

Rotarians had a chance to shake his hand and personally welcome him to Rotary.

If you would like to serve the community as a friend of Rotary please contact the secretary Chris Jackson.

- Robert Chaffe

Local Briefs Local Masons meet

■ The Albert Edward Lodge will meet at 7.30pm on Thursday, July 18 at the Alexandra Masonic Centre, Cnr Webster and Nihil Sts, Alexandra. A rehearsal will be held on Thursday, July 11.

1% levy for Arts

■ Nillumbik Shire Council is asking the public to have its say on a number of innovative and far-reaching arts policies, including the proposed RegionalArt Gallery.

Councillors last week endorsed three major draft art policies for community consultation including the revised Art Collection Policy and the introduction of a new Public Art Policy.

The Public Arts Policy would see a contribution of 1 per cent of all major community infrastructure projects being allocated to public art – to be funded either by negotiations with developers, or in the case of civic projects, by the Council.

The feasibility study for a Regional Art Gallery found there was sufficient demand for a gallery and proposes a new cultural hub that would house Council’s valuable collection, act as a destination drawcard and provide a platform for established and emerging local, national and international artists.

93rd birthday

● Alexandra Rotarian Chris Barry. Photo: Robert Chaffe

● Rupert Bamford with his mum, Paddy Bamford, at Charters Towers.

■ Older Yea readers will remember Paddy Bamford , who celebrated her 93rd birthday late last month. Her son, Rupert, sent this photo from Charters Towers, Queensland.

Woodturners are best

■ Stormy weather on Saturday created extended electricity outages at localities including Kinglake, kinglake Central, Flowerdale, Yea, Homewood, Limestone, Murrindindi, Merton, Acheron, Koriella, Yarck, Ghin Ghin, Whanregarwen, Kanumbra, Alexandra, Cathkin, Gobur and Killingworth.

Power outages

Bushfire research ● From left: Merv Haggarty, Norm McDonald, Ernie Hunt, Ken Wraight and Barry Cleary ■ The local Peppin Point Wood moon’ with the success of his small Turners have been judged to be group. the best woodturning club in AusIt was four years ago that the tralia. group began working with Ken and Members were named as the top jobs were millimetre perfect. intermediate and novice wood turnThe group regularly work to tolers at the Annual Australian Wood erances of one-tenth of a millimetre turners Exhibition held at the and finishing now involves workMoorabbin City Hall last month. ing through the grits for hours on The function room was packed end. with hundreds of entries ranging in Ernie Hunt said that he had been size from a thimble to platters over finishing one piece that involved 600mm in diameter. hundreds of hour.

The work on display was exquisTwo car loads went o view the ite, of particular note was the atten- exhibition and collect their prizes. tion to detail and the use of a vast It took nearly two hours just to array of Australian timbers. walk around the exhibits and then Timbers like “jam” from the a cuppa was the order of the day.

Goldfields Region of WesternAus- The group was bubbling with the tralia used for fence droppers 60 excitement of doing so well and the years ago are now prized turning main conversation was about what wood. they plan to work on for next year’s Local turners Barry Cleary, exhibition.

Ernie Hunt, Merv Haggarty and The Australian exhibition is reNorm McDonald won a total of 30 ally the icing on the cake for the prizes from the 93 on offer in the group who were very successful at novice and intermediate classes. the Rotary EasterArt Show where Their mentor and coach Ken they were recognised by the judge Wraight was absolutely ‘over the and had the best sales ever.

■ Professor Lisa Gibbs and her colleagues at the University of Melbourne are planning to get back in touch over the next few monthswith the original study participants of the Beyond Bushfires study.

The survey will look at how people are managing 10 years after the 2009 bushfires, to build an understanding of the longer term experiences of those affected by disasters. steelscreek.vic.au/beyond-bushfiresresearch-to-continue-10-years-on/

Fix-it Fridays

■ Whittlesea Community House is piloting a new combined help service outreach.

The free service has experts from Department of Justice – Sherriff, Births Deaths and Marriages, Whittlesea Community Legal Service, Whittlesea Community Connections Social Work team, La Trobe Uni Law School Fines Clinic, and Expresso Legal . The next session is at 10am-2pm on Friday, July 26 at 92A Church St, Whittlesea.

Speed limit cut

■ A cut in the default speed limit on Victorian country roads from 100-kmh to 80-kmh is being contemplated byVictorian authorities, says The Weekly Times.

This would affect more than 80 per cent of the rural road network, the paper says.

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Ticks & Crosses

Local Briefs Vale Jackson Rowe

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Eildon MLA Cindy McLeish scored a job promotion when she was welcomed as ‘Deputy Prime Minister’ by outgoing Yea Rotary President Ken Maxfield at last Thursday’s club changeover dinner. He amended that to Deputy State Opposition Leader.

It’s not easy to get a photo of camera-shy Anthony Callander, so we have lifted a Facebook image. We wanted to say thanks to Anthony and Jenn Callander for their Yea street mail de● Anthony livery service in past Callander years. They were unsuccessful in securing the mail delivery tender this time around, and a new contractor took over on Monday (July 1). Jenn and Anthony will still be at the Yea Post Office, instore, smiling, and ready to help with posting, parcel pick-up, banking, bill pay and identity services, gift purchasing and confectionery.

They have been exceptionally supportive of this paper, and we thank them sincerely.

A big tick for funeral director Mick McCormack who promptly found another 30 seats for last Thursday’s service for Jordan Purcell at the Alexandra Shire Hall, when numbers went past the 600 mark.

■ A celebration of the life of the late Mr Jackson Rowe will be held at 11am this Friday (July 5) at the Flowerdale Community Hall.

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Rubicon issues ■ Daniel Clark and Kath Sanders spoke at last week’sMurrindindi Shire Council meeting about ongoing matters affecting them at Rubicon Village.

196-kmh danger ■ Mansfield Highway Patrol officers are appealing for witnesses following a speeding incident in Merrijig on Friday morning. A grey Audi station wagon was observed allegedly overtaking a red dual cab ute about 9am. The Audi was clocked at 196kmh and pulled over a short time later. The driver, a 21-year-old Vermont South man, has been charged with reckless conduct endangering life and other traffic matters.

Saturday sport

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Kinglake Foodworks is set to reopen today (Wed.). There has been a big investment in refurbishment. Good wishes to Dora, Geoff and Evan in their enterprise.

● "For heaven's sake, stop laughing, this is serious." Thornton-Eildon and Alexandra netballers enjoyed their sport on Saturday, despite the wet and windy conditions. The ball was hard to control in the conditions. From left to right, Kirsty Norris, Rosie Kealy, Fiona Stephens, Keely Grant. Photo: Ash Long

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Award winners

Crime story at Yea ● A 1927 press clipping noting the new Kinglake National Park.

Kinglake has been alive over the past week with discussion about plans for a cemetery at 265 Whittlesea-Kinglake Rd. It would be good if Council documents honoured district pioneers by spelling their names correctly. It was Frank THOMSON, not Thompson.

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A man in the southern part of Murrindindi Shire has been bothering women with unwelcome approaches. The ladies have had enough, and are gathering a collection of his online messages, and taking them to Police.

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Charges by different media companies for a charity event’s advertising reveal much. Glenn Milliken, Open Gardens Chair for the Rotary Club of Yea, made the figures public last week for last year’s event. Net sales including gate takings were $20,174.60. Costs included: booklet, $868; posters, $500; Murrindindi Guide, $242; Fairfax Senior Traveller, $622.05; Shepparton Newspapers, $517.50; The Local Paper, $250; Euroa Gazette, $125; Seymour Telegraph, $200; Alexandra Newspapers, $717.50; Mountain Monthly, $171; North East Media, $110; UGFM, $121; North Central Review, $73; sign costs, $176; general and food expenses, $467.57. The surplus was $15,013.98 for the charity event.

Readers’ contributions to the ‘Ticks & Crosses’ column are welcomed.

Send your contribution to: editor@LocalMedia.com.au Contributions will be published at the sole discretion of the Editor.

■ A true crime story will be performed at Beaufort Manor, Yea, on Saturday next week, July 13.

Yea Arts Inc is presenting L'amante Anglaise at 7pm for 8pm. This is being done in conjunction with Critical Stages Touring, the Yea Community Bank, Regional Arts Victoria and Creative Vic. This modern classic psychological thriller from celebrated French author Marguerite Duras takes audiences right inside the heart and mind of the perpetrator.

It is a fascinating and compelling true crime story.

Pierre (Rob Meldrum) and Claire Lannes (Jillian Murray) are ordinary human beings leading everyday lives until catastrophe occurs.

A brutal murder is committed in a small town in France.

The dismembered corpse is dropped from a railway viaduct onto passing trains below ... all except the head.

Based upon an actual event, L’amante Anglaise is a beautifully poignant and emotionally powerful portrait of lost passion.

Over the course of the drama, the players effortlessly reveal the beauty and brutality of their inner selves, and create a painstaking portrait of lost passion.

Performed exquisitely and directed by Laurence Strangio, L’amante Anglaise is a rare and unmissable work of theatre.

It is a rare distinction for any production to have three consecutive seasons in Melbourne, but L’amante Anglaise proved so popular that its first two seasons at La

■ AFL Outer-East Division 2. Saturday, July 5. Alexandra v Gembrook-Cockatoo.

Powelltown v Thornton-Eildon. Seville v Yarra Glen. Yarra Junction v Yea. Kinglake: Bye. ■ Division 1. Warburton-Millgrove v Belgrave. Monbulk v Officer. Mt Evelyn v Emerald. Pakenham v Doveton.

■ Premier League. Healesville v Berwick, Beaconsfield v Narre Warren, Olinda-Ferny Creek v Upwey-Tecoma, Woori Yallock v Wandin. Cranbourne: Bye. ■ Cr Jackie Ashe spoke at last Wednesday’s Council meeting to congratulate Murrindindi Business Awards winners: ■ Status Luxury Houseboats ■ Alexandra Dental Clinic ■ KESelec - Kinglake Electrical Services ■ Grant Street Grocer ■ Country Tech LeadingAppliances ■ Bradley Irvine - young business person of the year.

NFNL fixtures

■ Northern Football Netball League matches for this Saturday (July 6) are: ■ Division 1: Hurstbridge v Lower Plenty, Macleod v Heidelberg, Montmorency v North Heidelberg, Bundoora v Northcote Park, West Preston-Lakeside v Greensborough ■ Division 2: Banyule v Watsonia, Diamond Creek v Whittlesea, Epping v Eltham, Thomastown v St Mary’s. Fitzroy Stars: Bye. ■ Division 3: Heidelberg West v Reservoir, Lalor v South Morang, Laurimar v Old Eltham Collegians, Mernda v Panton Hill.

Kilmore: Bye. ● Jillian Murray and Rob Meldrum will appear in L'amante Anglaise in Yea on Saturday, July 13.

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Whisky tasting ■ Men and women, Freemasons and nonMasons, are invited to a Whisky Tasting Night being held by Ivanhoe Grammarians Lodge at 7.30pm tomorrow (Thurs., July 4) at Ivalda Masonic Centre, 40 Salisbury Ave, Darebin. $35 per person. Bookings essential: WWW.TRYBOOKING.COM/BBSGH

NAIDOC Week ■ An Aboriginal Voices Forum, complete with a didgeridoo performance, will be held at Eltham Library to mark NAIDOC Week.

The event on Thursday, July11 , will focus on Voice, Treaty and Truth and is being hosted by the Nillumbik Reconciliation Group and Yarra Plenty Regional Libraries.

Sewing Day ■ A community sewing day will be held at Steels Creek Community Centre from 10am4pm on Tuesday, July 23 under the guidance of Denise Naffa. BYO own lunch. Cost $10.

Phone Denise on 0410 540 407.

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No election

■ Yea Shire did not have to vote in 1989, when only three people nominated for four vacant Councillor positions. Peter Hauser, Betty Wood and Lyn Gunter again became Councillors for three-year terms.

In the previous year, nine candidates stood; elected were Crs Don Lawson, Ken Olcorn, Kim Chadband and Dougal Drysdale. Unsuccessful were Ian Bell, Ian Clark, Peter Beales, Jim McMahon and Jim Hackett.

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From Our Files - 30 Years Ago July 1989

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Editor’s Diary

● The original Thomson’s Kinglake Hotel, Kinglake, circa 1910.

Photo: Eltham District Historical Society ■ One of the early He told the court families of the Kingthat the nearest pub to lake families was the Kinglake was at Thomsons.

Queenstown, between The Kinglake Hoeight and nine miles tel was established by away.

51-year-old Harry There were 11 Thomson and his rooms in the house wife, Elizabeth, and he could accomknown locally as modate 25 people ‘Lill’, in 1908. overnight.

Mick Robertsfrom His wife’s new post the TimeGents weboffice, 10 by 12 feet, site tells: had been built 80 The couple were metres away on anmarried in 1883 and other road, and the old worked a Kinglake post office would befarm known as The come the bar of his Oaks, before moving proposed pub. with their young four Although there young children to continued to be some nearby ‘Aurelia Villa’ opposition to the guest in 1898, where they house becoming a ran a guest house to with Ash Long, Editor pub, the magistrates cater for the growing this time agreed, and Previous winner, Victoria’s best local reporter number of tourists visthe Kinglake Hotel Now in his 50th year of local newspapers. iting the spectacular was granted a license mountain scenery. on Friday, February 7, “For the cause that lacks assistance, Harry was also the 1908 at the Lilydale ‘Gainst the wrongs that need resistance mail contract to and Licensing Court.

For the future in the distance, from Kinglake and reHarry retired from And the good that we can do” mained so for 25 the bar of the years.

Kinglake Hotel at the Phone: 1800 231 311 The mails were age of 57 in 1914, and Personal Web: www.L ong.com.au first carried from his son, Frank to the Queenstown (St reins. Harry and Lill Andrews) on horsecontinued running the back, then three times nearby post office. a week from Steel’s In 1927, The AdCreek and later daily vertiser reported on from Yarra Glen.

Frank Thomson doHe was said to nating land for a rehave been a fearless serve. horseman, and had “At the first meetsheltered an outlaw or ing the (Kinglake two in his stables.

Progress Association) Harry and Lill also placed on record its ran the Kinglake Post keen appreciation of Office from the guest Mr. Frank Thomhouse, which would son's generous gift, in hamper their attempt presenting the people to have the building liof Kinglake with a censed as a pub in very fine site for the 1908. public hall and a valuThe police and able site for a recresome residents argued ation and sports that having a post ofground. fice operating in the “Though only resame building could cently formed, much be harmful to young work of a progressive children, and was not nature has already appropriate. been arranged for.

The magistrates “Busy-bees have agreed, and the first been active. Last Satattempt to have urday afternoon a ‘Aurelia Villa’ limottor track was censed failed. made on the top of the Later that year beautiful Bald Spur; Harry tried again, and when certain rees built new premises to have been removed a house the post office, ● Frank Thomson sorts plates after magnifi cent panwhich his wife was the Kinglake Hotel fire in 1926. oramic view will be now running.

Photo: Weekly Times exposed.”

Long Shots

Local censored ■ Karma Hastwell of Kinglake wrote to complain that Mountain Monthly newsletter had “censored” her Nature Notes column. She had finished her submission on bats with: “Human are the ugly destructive beings. Take a drive along the KinglakeKinglake West Road.”

Basketball AGM ■ The Yea Basketball Asociation conducted its 1989 annual general meeting. Officer bearers elected were: Jan Beer, President; Trisha Wilson, Vice-President; Wayne Hine, Secretary; Leanne HuPnt, Treasurer; Richard Ivey, Public Officer; Bev Naismith, Grades Secretary.

Toolangi award ■ Binz nursery, Toolangi, was one of the first seven to receive Victorian Nurserymen’sAssociation Accreditation Certificates at a special function .

Degradeable bags ■ Yea Rite-Way supermarket owner Ian Findley introduced photo-degradeable shopping bags, which started to degrade after being exposed to ultra-violet (sun) rays. The process would not stop even if the bags were buried. Mr Findley also re-introduced brown shopping bags for the environmental-conscious shopper.

Yea footy teams SENIORS B: J. Roycroft, P. Rollason, P. Bryant HB: G. O’Dowd, A. Cassell, A. Walker C: D. Payne, P. Cuningham G. Bowe HF: B. Chenall, P. Tunnis, G. Tainton F: J. Lockhart, V. Dignam, R. Wills R: B. Dignam, G. Barker, A. Bowe Inter.: G. Wilson, J. Christie RESERVES B: M. Bickley, L. Finch, G. McMaster HB: J. McLeish, S. Rogers, D. McCarthy C: B. Bett, L. Gates, D. Wareham HF: C. Hodge, M. Finch, G. Garlick F: A. Aldous, J. Mcmaster, A. Gates R: R. Kirkham, G. Christie, J. Pumpa THIRDS B: D. Palmer, A. Callander, J. Yorston HB: G. Osborn, J. Long, C. Walter C: P. Lawrance, P. Ryen, P. Bigham HF: M. Payne, R. Ivey, J. Potts F: T. Lawson, D. Ivey, W. Peacock R: C. Morgan, R. Comerford, S. Christie Inter.: C. Briffa, T. Hodge, M. Parnell

Rotary DG visits ■ Rotary District Governor Ron Sibley was to visit the Yea club’s meeting at the Molesworth Hotel, meeting earlier with President David Evans and Secretary Peter Mangan.

Mr Sibley had been a local government engineer, working at places including Violet Town, Ripon (Beaufort), Rutherglen, and Bright for 22 years.

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Why the Kinglake Cemetery plan failed ■ Deputy Mayor, Cr Leigh Dunscombe, has explained why Councillors unanimously voted against the latest Kinglake Cemetery proposal to be put to Murrindindi Shire Council.

“I would like to make it absolutely and unambiguously clear that I do not oppose a cemetery for the Kinglake Ranges and I am abundantly aware and accept that there is a community consensus about the desire and the need for a facility of this type,” Cr Dunscombe said, “I am also aware that a plot of land has been set aside for this purpose for 100 or so years and I am fully aware of the difficulties and obstacles associated with the use of that particular plot of land for this purpose. That plot of land however is not the subject of this proposal.”

The meeting had heard about a proposal for 265 Whittlesea-Kinglake Road, Kinglake Central.

“My opposition is not about the establishment of a cemetery, nor the potential for a crematorium for that matter, I do not necessarily even object to the proposed new location,” Cr Dunscombe said.

“My opposition rests wholly and solely with the level of community consultation, the lack of detail and the reluctance of the committee to engage with the community in an open and honest manner or indeed to consider alternative ideas.

“In fact, this proposal isn't even about the establishment of a cemetery.

“It's about removing the communities right to have a say, to make an informed decision or even to object.

“It's about declaring a pristine piece of public land in the Frank Thomson Reserve precinct as suitable for nothing else but a cemetery/crematorium in perpetuity and removing the communities right to object, consider alternative uses or even be consulted.

“The proponents wouldn't even be required to submit design plans for community perusal or comment, and that is the crux of this proposal and the source of my opposition.

“The only impediment to the establishment of a cemetery on this site right now is the requirement to apply for a permit, submit design plans for public display and for Council to consider the submissions that is informed community consultation.

“Now I am aware there have been many letters of support (for a cemetery) submitted tonight, I get that and I support the establishment of a cemetery in Kinglake as well.

“What I don't accept is that these letters of support have been submitted with adequate knowledge or understanding of the proposal that is before us tonight.

“I know they have been

● Cemetery plans for 265 Whhittlesea-Kinglake Rd tation, and as such I cannot in all good conscience support this proposal.”

Maureen Jackson Planning, acting for the Kinglake Cemetery Trust, said that the the justification for the amendment was broadly as follows: ■ The parcel of Crown land is appropriate for the proposed use and development as a cemetery being predominantly cleared of trees, close to townships, and able to service Kinglake and surrounding neighbourhoods within the municipality.

■ The land is not proposed to be used as a crematorium.

■ The land has been reserved ● Cr Leigh Dunscombe in accordance with the Crown written without proper consid- Land (Reserves) Act 1978 for eration of the design plans - be- cemetery purposes and decause they are not available. clared a public cemetery by the “I know that many do not Governor in Council under the realise the significance of the Cemeteries andCrematoria Act proposed site and its proximity 2003, to be managed by the to Frank Thomson Reserve.

Kinglake Ranges Cemetery “I know that many have not Trust by Order in Council , considered the potential for the March 10, 2016. establishment of a cremato- ■ Crown Allotment 2022, rium in the future (although I Parish of Kinglake is retained accept that this is highly un- as Public Use 7- Other and can likely). be used for community pur“I know that many have not poses as required. considered potential alternative ■ A 4.0hectare parcel of and perhaps better uses for the Crown land located at 825 site.

Whittlesea-Kinglake Roadhad “I know that they have not been set aside for the purpose considered alternative sites, be- of a cemetery in 1889, howcause none have been offered ever is considered unsuitable and I know that many people for development of a cemobject who have not and will etery. not be given the opportunity to This land is zoned Farming, be heard if this current proposal is heavily vegetated and rewere to go ahead. quires several approvals for “We rejected this proposal removal of vegetation and other the last time it came before us earth works. with a clear message to the ■ The amendment will meet committee about our desire for the needs of the community in proper open and honest com- the most cost effective and munity consultation. least intrusive environmental “I live in Kinglake and I manner. have seen none. No commu- ■ Evidence of community nity meetings or forums, no support is included in the form notices on community websites of individual petitions from the or Facebook pages, no public surrounding area and is atnotices in print media or on ra- tached to this report and indio. cludes approximately 166-168 “I didn't even see a survey signatures of support. in any shops or public locations. ■ The proposal is supported “A questionable committee by the State and Local Planselection process and some ge- ning Frameworks of the neric letters of support for a Murrindindi Planning cemetery based on incomplete Scheme and is consistent with and obscure questions does not the recommendations for plan- in my mind - qualify as open ning in the area, Maureen Jackand honest community consul- son Planning said.

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Budget adopted

■ Murrindindi Shire Council adopted its Budget for 2019/20 at its June 26 ordinary meeting.

Mayor Cr Sandice McAulay said Council was thrilled to pass this Budget - the third in the life of this Council.

"We are proud that our community has had lots of opportunities to get involved with the creation of this budget,” Cr McAulay said.

“In late 2018, before we even put pen to paper, we asked the community for its ideas about what work we should prioritise.

“So we were thrilled to receive more than 50 submissions from community members.

"With that input, we then created our Draft Budget which went on public exhibition from May 1-31.

“We received a further six community submissions for additional items to be funded in the Budget and these were tabled for discussion by Council at its Special Meeting on June 12.

"We have done our best to ensure this budget reflects the sorts of items which are prioritised by our community.

“For example, $30,000 has been allocated to develop concept designs for the improvement of the streetscape in Kinglake West and Pheasant Creek, which is keenly sought by this community.

"And we are very pleased to be able to deliver this Budget while still keeping our rate rise consistent with the State Government's 2.5 per cent Fair Go Rate Cap. “We are also continuing to reduce our reliance on loan funds, with no new borrowings forecast for the second year in a row.

"Our plans for 2019/20 are promising. Key items and initiatives include the following: ■ Council has again committed $230,000 to the Murrindindi Shire Council Grants and Contributions Program, following the great take-up by the community last year ■ We have allocated funding to implement a range of strategies to better guide tourism and events, communications and recreation and open space management ■ We have allocated $95,000 to our 'Customer First' Project to continue to modernise our internal systems and make them more responsive to our customers' needs and expectations.

■ $105,000 to a range of environmental initiatives including continuing our roadside weed and pest control program, significant revegetation works, and an environmental forum "To ensure we are being strategic in finding solutions to waste management issues, we have allocated $2.6 million to further develop our landfill sites, our management of e-waste and to allow minor upgrades to our Resource Recovery Centres. And we are again funding the very popular free green waste disposal at our all of our RRCs," Cr McAulay said.

"Ensuring the good condition of our infrastructure is always a top priority - for the community and Council.

“We have allocated $4.95 million to sealed and unsealed roads and related infrastructure. We also have allocated $328,000 on pathway improvements, including for disability access in urban areas in Yea. We have set aside $361,000 for recreational facilities, including $216,000 allocated for femalefriendly change facilities at the Yea Recreation Reserve and $22,000 for perimeter fencing at the Kinglake Memorial Reserve.

"We think this is a great budget - it delivers equitable services across the Shire, is responsive to our community's needs and is financially responsible.

“Of course, we can only create a budget that meets the needs of our community if we know what those needs are.

“A big thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts about the budget," said Cr McAulay.

If you are keen to learn more about Council's Budget for 2019/20, go to: www.murrindindi.vic.gov.au/budget

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What The Papers Say Paterson’s Curse

■ With the very dry summer and the increase in bare ground it’s anticipated that we could have a large increase in weed infestation this year including Paterson’s Curse.

Hughes Creek Catchment Collective is now looking for expressions of interest from all landowners to join in with the Landcare group in its annual helicopter spraying for Paterson’s Curse. The spraying will take place in August - September.

- Granite News

Farm burglary

■ Thieves forced their way into a Yellingbo farm warehouse and stole up to $8000 in tools.

Yarra Ranges CIU Detectives are investigating the incident, which occurred at the Healesville-Kooweerup Rd site at 1.35am on Sunday, June 23.

The thieves left with a Holden Statesman and tools valued between $5000 and $8000.

Police are reviewing CCTV footage.

- Mountain Views Mail

Man evicted

■ Lancefield’s Robert Green is shocked after being banned from entering Macedon Ranges Shire Council offices following an ongoing development issue.

On June 12, Mr Green received a letter from Macedon Ranges Shire Council signed by chief executive Margot Stork stating that he interacted with council staff disrespectfully in the reception area.

“I know that I didn’t, but it’s their word against mine. I was born in Lancefield and my family have been here since mid-1840s – I’ve never had any priors to this. I could get a criminal record,” Mr Green said.

“I am very aware that my behaviour has been watched for a long time, I would be foolish at any stage to act inappropriately.

- The Free Press

Million use train

■ More than one million passengers have used the Mernda rail line in the nine months since the extension opening.

Minister for Public Transport Melissa Horne met with Member for Yan Yean, Danielle Green, to visit the station and reveal the statistic.

“Last year we brought passenger trains back to Mernda for the first time in 60 years – one million trips in nine months show this was the right thing to do,” Ms Horne said.

- Whittlesea Review

Doug Seymour OAM

■ Doug Seymour has been recognised for his work in the Warrandyte community, most notably with the Warrandyte CommunityAssociation, where he has been on the central committee since 2012.

Doug was also a foundation member of the Warrandyte Environment League in 1970, where he served as President for more than six years.

- Warrandyte Diary

Matildas ready

■ La Trobe has emerged as a frontrunner in the search for the home of women’s soccer in Australia.

The Matildas, who made it through to the final 16 in the Women’sWorld Cup in France, are looking for a new headquarters. And two locations in Melbourne’s north have been short-listed.

La Trobe University’s sports park in Bundoora and another site in Darebin, believed to be John Cain Memorial Park, have been given the nod by Football Victoria as suitable homes.

- Diamond Valley Leader

Making a splash

■ An Olympic-sized swimming pool in Mernda would bring vital job opportunities to the area and help put the fringe community on the map, ratepayers say.

- The Advertiser

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Court Lists Seymour Magistrates’ Court - Criminal Case Listings Thursday, July 11 Plaintiff / Informant / Applicant vs Defendant / Accused / Respondent. Information Division.

Victoria Police - Rossetti, T (42521) v Ulm, Dale. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Egan, C (29904) v Woodman, Tessa.

Ciu-Melton Victoria Police - Porter, I (33403) v Spencer, Anthony.

Ciu-Mitchell Victoria Police - Cotterill, P (42022) v Jones, Daniel. UniBroadmeadows Victoria Police - Warr, S (32403) v Jones, Daniel Ryder.

Uni-Romsey Victoria Police - Pezzimenti, P (32040) v Xiang, Li. Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - Crossing, J (42422) v Gattellaro, Santino.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Sowden, D (36568) v Pamount, Rene. UniPyalong Victoria Police - Porter, I (33403) v Zuzek, Anton. CiuMitchell Victoria Police - Derecki, N (42695) v O'donoghue, Brian Anthony. Uni-St Arnaud Victoria Police - Fidler, T (41595) v Henderson, Kihrya.

Dtu-Seymour Victoria Police - Voisey, M (27261) v Catton, Khadija. UniYea Victoria Police - Voisey, M (27261) v Didcock, Ryan. UniYea Victoria Police - Grant, B (28598) v Panozzo, Dean Daniel. Ciu-Mitchell Victoria Police - Mackey, A (42625) v Hunter, Zachary.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Oraha, Y (42872) v Newton, Sean. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Gordolo, C (30144) v Keioskie, Stephen.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Mulabegovic, O (42383)v Bombardieri, Stephen. Uni-Wallan Victoria Police - Mullett, K (39188) v Bux, Jamie. CiuMitchell Victoria Police - Wright, A (31459) v Annett, Trevor. Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - Broadway, B (42074) v Francis, Margaret. Uni-Alexandra Victoria Police - Thomas, S (40419) v Litchfield, Jason.

Uni-Mernda Victoria Police - Rhead, A (40227) v Rider, Danielle.

Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - Oxnam, G (33435) v Charles, Shawn. Solo Unit Victoria Police - Turner, J (34532) v Furlong, Murray.

Uni-Kilmore Victoria Police - Bortolotto, C (40740) v Turner, Matthew Victoria Police - Duff, D (35543) v Pollard, James. UniNagambie Victoria Police - Mackey, A (42625) v Llewellyn, Shane.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Lock, M (42446) v Williamson, Daniel Mark. Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Lock, M (42446) v Llewellyn, Shane.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Thomas, S (40419) v Baines, Dion Christopher. Uni-Mernda Victoria Police - Tait, W (37033) v Stevens, Jan. UniNagambie Victoria Police - Malhotra,

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S (36661) v Markham, Olivia.

Uni-Wallan Victoria Police - Crossing, J (42422) v Biddlestone, Jake.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Fidler, T (41595) v Henderson, Kihrya.

Dtu-Seymour Victoria Police - Shortt, T (40203) v Solomon, Phillip.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Cavanagh, J (38037)v Willis, Valerie.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Poulopoulos, C (42417)v Williamson, Sam. Uni-Kilmore Victoria Police - Bennett, N (36915) v Brothers, Christopher. Ciu-Mitchell Victoria Police - Kyte, G (41961) v Hunter, Zachary.

Uni-Sunbury Victoria Police - Haddad, M (44362) v Biddlestone, Jake.

Uni-Broadmeadows Victoria Police - Gellis, C (43205) v Meagher, Steven.

Uni-Doncaster Victoria Police - Newsome, J (42138)v Meagher, Steven.

Operations Response Team Two Victoria Police - Kamali, V (42448) v Austin, Daniel. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Wetherall, A (37132) v Meagher, Steven.

Uni-Richmond Victoria Police - Sanderson, L (41694) v Rohde, Dale Gregory. Operations Response Team One Victoria Police - Mullett, K (39188) v Hunter, Zachary. CiuMitchell Victoria Police - Bortolotto, C (40740) v Davies, Matthew Victoria Police - Varnam, H (41854) v Biddlestone, Jake.

Dru-Mill Park Victoria Police - Groves, L (33643) v Meagher, Steven Michael. Uni-Greensborough Victoria Police - Rogers, M (40077) v Shanahan, Kevin James. Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Webster, B (41109) v Stone, Luke Anthony. Uni-Whittlesea Victoria Police - Baker, N (36147) v Candy, Bradley.

Transit Central 2 Victoria Police - Taylor, Y (36839) v Stone, Luke. SocitSeymour Victoria Police - Thomas, S v Jones, Ronald. Seymour Community Corrections Centre - Macdougall, M v Henderson, Kihrya. Seymour Community Correction Centre Victoria Police - Binks, D (40350) v Cathie, Tristan. UniHastings Community Corrections Centre - Peacock, Tv Biddlestone, Jake Seymour Community Correction Centre Community Corrections

Centre - Macdougall, Mv Ennis, Daniel Joel. Community Corrections Centre Community Corrections Centre - Cochrane, Sv Brothers, Christopher. Seymour Community Correction Centre Victoria Police - Binns Saxby, M (38713) v Mowbray, Adam. Uni-Kyneton Victoria Police - Chief Commissioner Of Police (18457) v Bush, Benjamin Reece.

Victoria Police Executive Friday, July 12 Mitchell Shire Council Rickard, S v Jg & Jm Holdings Pty Ltd. Mitchell Shire Council Mitchell Shire Council Rickard, S v Croos, Nithiya.

Mitchell Shire Council Victoria Police - Thomas, S (40419) v De Graaf, Kevin Daniel. Uni-Mernda Community Corrections Centre - Macdougall, M v De Graaf, Kevin Daniel. Community Corrections Centre Community Corrections Centre - Macdougall, M v De Graaf, Kevin. Shepparton Victoria Police - Davidge, K (37856) v Butler, Joshua. CiuCasey Mansfield Magistrates’ Court - Criminal Case Listings Monday, July 15 Victoria Police - Newbury, D (22528) v Iezzi, Luciano.

Traffic Camera Office Wednesday, July 17 Victoria Police - Smith, B (29408) v Wilkins, Mark. UniAlexandra Victoria Police - Mcgill, M (33080) v Hayles, Samantha.

State Highway Patrol South East Victoria Police - Scannell, M (35182) v Ryan, Glenn. UniMansfield Victoria Police - Young, S (25481) v Drew, Jeremy. UniMansfield Victoria Police - Scannell, M (35182) v Lavender, Dean.

Uni-Mansfield Victoria Police - Mcdonald, G (40664)v Bytschkow, Mark Alexander. Highway PatrolMansfield Victoria Police - Stephens, S (40205) v Goschnich, Dean Gregory. Uni-Alexandra Victoria Police - Parker, H (39579) v Bell, Joel. Uni-Eildon Victoria Police - Stephens, S (40205) v Cullen, Alexandra.

Uni-Alexandra Victoria Police - Dwight, K (26884) v Goodman, Michael John. Uni-Woods Point Victoria Police - Owen, D (42851) v Alexander, Kane Grant. Uni-Mansfield Victoria Police - Nolan, M (31536) v Ingpen, David Thomas. Uni-Mansfield Victoria Police - Swan, P (39871) v Berrington, Taylor.

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Highway Patrol-Mansfield Victoria Police - Wood, D (38944) v Haynes, Dennis Peter. Heavy Vehicle Unit Victoria Police - Cusack, S (28652) v Stillman, Aaron. CiuAlexandra Victoria Police - Towner, P (21184) v Trellu-Coker, James Henri. Ciu-Benalla Victoria Police - Parker, H (39579) v Bell, Joel. Uni-Eildon Victoria Police - Yon, A (43926) v Mclean, David. UniHeidelberg ● Turn To Page 96

From Our 1939 Files

Kinglake trucks

■ Those whose duty it is to enforce the law often descend to questionable practices to secure convictions, but this paper will never admit that it is right for the agents to incite persons to break the law, particularly by the telling of hard luck stories or by appeals to the sympathies of those they desire to trap.

It is reported that truck drivers running between Kinglake and Melbourne have been stopped on the road by persons who have said that they missed the train, that they wished to visit a sick wife (or other near relative) and begged for a ride to Melbourne.

One driver ‘fell' for this story, and was promptly 'booked' for an offence against the Transport Regulations. It is stated that one of the agents provocateurs is dressed as a swagman. Such methods are not in accordance with British fair play.

- The Advertiser

Alexandra P&A

■ The annual meeting was held on Friday last. Twenty members were present, and the retiring president (Mr. T. C. Fox) occupied the chair.

The balance sheet for the year just ended was read, showing a credit balance of £88/ 11/10. The Association started the year with a credit of £73/14/2. The principal receipts were - Members' tickets £109/4/, donations £55/7/, entry fees £28/17/6, and net proceeds of dance £14. The expenditure included £200/ 15/ for prize money. The balance sheet was considered very satisfactory, and it was adop ted on the motion of Messrs. W. B. Scale and K. Cumming.

- Alexandra & Yea Standard

Nutfield news

■ A social evening in the form of a kitchen tea to Miss Flora Herbert was held last Thursday evening in the local hall. Many useful gifts were made by well-wishers of Miss Herbert, whose marriage with Mr. W. Sutherland takes place on Saturday next.

The evening took the form of a euchre party the winners being— Ladies, Mrs. A. Verso; Gents, Mr. A. C. Wallis. On behalf of those pres ent, Mr. L. Brock presented the gifts to Miss Herbert, and then Cr Owens on behalf of the Doreen Cricket Club presented Mr. Sutherland with a beautiful carving set. He mentioned in his speech that Bill Sutherland had been the mainstay of the club for many years.

- The Advertiser

Car stolen

■ On Monday night Messrs. Girdwood Bros.' light car (Austin 8) was taken from in front of the Fire Brigade station. The police made investigations, and word has since been received that the car was found abandoned between Whittlesea and Kinglake. A couple of youths from another State are under suspicion, - Alexandra & Yea Standard

William Sawers

■ Mr. William G. Sawers, of Thornton, died on Friday night last, at the age of 76.

With the exception of a few years in West Australia, Mr. Sawers spent practically all his life in the mountains. He followed the quest for the golden metal, and when the years began to tell, re tired from mining and took things easy. Quiet and unassuming, he was held in high esteem by residents of Thornton and Darlingford districts. The funeral took place on Sunday, and was largely attended. The coffin-bearers were: Messrs.

A. Nicholas, R. J. Findlay, R. J. Briggs, S. Saw ers, G. V. Sawers, V. Newman. Pall-bearers: L. Beaver, H. Robb Snr., J. Sawers, H. Sawers, J. Cameron, C. E. Treseder. The Rev. G. Nathan read the burial service, and Mr. A. Howell attended to the funeral arrangements. The deceased had five brothers (Charles, Robert, George, John and Harry, and two sisters (Janet - Mrs. A. McMartin and Elizabeth).

- Alexandra & Yea Standard

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Indignation as Yea Council fails to meet ■ Local business people, who could not get paid by Yea Shire Council , called an ‘Indignation Meeting’ in 1885.

Just before Yea had its own newspaper (The Yea Telegraph) in 1885, the Seymour Express reported on the problems facing the Council: In consequence of ordinary and special meetings of the Yea Shire Council having lapsed through a quorum not mustering, a good deal of dissatisfaction prevailed in the town ship on Saturday last.

Contractors especially felt aggrieved at being twice disappointed in getting their accounts paid; and opinions were freely expressed that the ratepayers ooght to take some action in the matter.

Eventually it was decided to call an indignation meeting for three o'clock; and although the notice was very short, a considerable number turned up at the Shire Hall at that hour.

Mr Bannerman was appointed chairman. He said they were assembled for the purpose of considering deadlock in council.

As a contractor, he felt they should take some action to protect themselves.

He was working for council for fifteen weeks ; but he could not obtain any money.

He came down on last Saturday; but there was no meeting. On Monday he and two others came in and were told there would be a meeting on following Saturday; but as they all knew it was again allowed to lapse.

Ever since the last election there was nothing but petty squabbling and bickering going on in the council; and it was the duty of the ratepayers to protest against such fooling; and demand an explana tion. (Hear, hear.)

MrW. Holliday said the council were neglecting their duty ; and ought to resign ; and allow better men to fill their places.

The President next addressed the meeting. He said : The only explanation I can give, Mr Chairman and gentlemen, is that I and three other members attended on last Saturday.

We waited until half past eleven ; and then adjourned until 1.30, thinking a quorum might assemble at that hour. I and the same councillors again came to the hall at half past one; and none of the others appearing, of course the meeting lapsed.

Several contractors complained to me about not getting their money; and we called a special meeting for to-day, but some councillors appeared to thick this action was illegal, and the meeting again lapsed.

The Chairman considered the attention of the Minister of Pablic Works should be drawn to the conduct of those members who refused to attend.

A voice : Why don't the town mem bers give an explanation?

Mr Webster: I'll do so. I came down on Saturday to do business, but siing the doors all shut, I asked out side if there was a meeting, and was informed that there was not.

Shortly afterwards I met Cr Purcell, who told me the council had adjourned until 1.30. I told him I was going to move a resolution and asked him to second it, which he agreed to do, after it was slightly modified. (The President : After you excised the reference to the dynamite. (Laughter.)

There was no reference to dynamite. At half past 1 the doors were shut and I waited about till 3 o'clock, when I went home.

To day I came down, but would not attend hecause meeting was illegally convened.

However, we have called a special meeting for next Saturday in order to pay the contractors.

Mr Holliday: How are we to get our money ?

Cr Webster: I am aware there is a revenue of £6000 — Mr Holliday: That's not answering my question ! (Laughter.)

Cr Webster: I was going to explain what money there was and what was done with it.

Mr Holliday: Answer me first.

(Laughter.)

Cr Webster: I am about telling you that I reported to the department the way in which the business was conducted. An officer was sent to report; and he said the ratepayers ought to ask the council to resign.

(Hear, hear, and laughter.)

Mr Holliday: What about my question ? (Renewed laughcer.)

Cr Webster: When a man accepts a contract he runs a certain amount of risk. (Laughter.) Now I shall read the resolution. I came down here to move on Saturday.

The Chairman: I don't think it is business for this meeting.

Cr Webster : I want to show I was coming here Cr Purcell: Several people think the resolution ought not to be read here.

Cr Webster: Of course if Cr

● Cr E.S. Purcell Purcell wishes to withdraw his name as seconder, I shall not press resolution at shire meeting ; but I shall ask those present will it be read now.

Several voices: Go ahead !

Cr Webster: This is the resolution then. At a meeting of the Yea Shire Council, held to-day, it was moved and seconded that secretary forthwith forward a copy of this motion to the Pieinier and his colleagues, conveying to them our most grateful approval of their manly and statesman like policy in promptly protesting against the apathy of Imperial Government in allowing part of New Guinea with other important islands in the Pacific to be annexed by foregn powers, who doubtless see what we Australians are destined to be; and wish to cripple us in our infancy. If so 'tis cowardly; and oh, is it not sadly to be deplored that the same apathetic feeling prevailed until the life of one of England's greatest, bravest and best sons was sacrificed.'

There's no dynamite there. (Laughter.) Now I've explained; and I am always glad to attend a public meeting, as my hands are clean; and I've nothing to fear.

Cr Cairns did not see why such a fuss should be made over a lapsed meeting, unless some busy agitator was at the bottom of it.

There were two reasons why he did not attend on Saturday. He was busy attending to some hay; and a few days previously he was assaulted by one of the shire officials.

Having an acute feeling on matter, he thought it more discreet to remain away for a while; but at the

same time had he thought the meeting would lapse, he would have been down at any inconvenience.

As to a special meeting it -was altogether illegal — Mr Holliday; What about my money?

Cr Cairns: We will pay you mext Saturday.

The chairman: If a difficulty arises, Cr Cairns, is it not better meet it ?

Cr Webster: I protest against the chairman catechising any member of the council. (Uproar.) I say it is monstrous. Who is he or what is he?

Several voices: Order, sit down.

Mr R. Underwood : Why didn't you adjourn the meeting Cr Cairns?

Cr Cairns: Because I wasn't there.

Mr Underwood: Why wern't you?

Cr Webster: I must — A voice: Order Cr Webster.

Cr Cairns: Here is an ex-councillor asking a most absurd question.

A voice: That's your opinion !

Cr Cairns:Any councillor, or the secretary could adjourn the meeting.

Cr Purcell said no doubt there was an apology due. On last Saturday he saw four councillors going across to He then went to dinner, and returned about two o'clock, met the President who said the meeting had lapsed.

Under the circumstances he took all the blame, although he would have attended at. any sacrifice, had. he for a moment supsected the-meeting would have lapsed. The special meeting, it was illegal.

The President : That's your indivi dual opinion.

Underwoods would also be in, so that there would be a quorum. Having some particular business to transact he got over it as quicky as possible ; and was just about going across when he met Cr Webster. They had a talk about a resolution, and after a short time went over.

The doors were shut, however, and some members told him the council was adjourned until half past one.

Cr Purcell: I'll lay £5 I'm right any way.

The President: Betting is a fools argument. (Laughter.) ; Cr Parcell: Well two did councillors agree with me in my opinion.

The President: Youi are not an authority.

Cr Purcell (excitedly): I am a far better authority than the President ever was!

Cr Webster (triumphantly): hear; you gave him that straight!

(Great laughter.)

Cr Purcell: I would fiave attended to-day only I was afraid a majority would have decided to proceed with an illegal meeting. On the Saturday they adjourned, till 1.3, the President says; but there's not a solitary entry in minute book.

The President: Youand another councillor admit having distressed a motion in a public house before bringing it forward at the council table ! Is that creditable?

Cr Purcell attempted to explain but a scene of great confusion ensued Cr Websfer violently protesting against having words put in his mouth which he did not use.

When order was restored, Cr Purcell said the motion referred to was in the annexation question ; and it was a shame that it did not come sooner.

He thought it far better to prepare such a motion outside than to lose time at the council table.

The President: So yon approve of that style of doing business?

Cr Purcell: No; unless on important occasions. | The President: Did you refuse to attend because you could not get a majority against the engineer?

Cr Purcell: No; certainly not The President: You did sir. Here is my authority, Cr John Quinlan.

(Uproar.)

Cr Purcell: I did not. I said the offices of engineer and secretary should be divided so as to allow the secretary to be at the office every day.

Here Cr Webster read portion of resolution excised at suggestion ot Cr Purcell.

It merely expressed indignation at apathy of the Government.

Cr Quinlan : Both the President and Cr Purcell are sightly incorrect.

What I said was that Cr Purcell stated he did not care about going over until the officers were divided.

The President : Did he ask you to divide them. j Cr Quinlan: Yes. This concluded the business, and usual vote of thanks. Brought the meeting to a close.

The Express said that another meeting was called and lapsed. Crs Quinlan (in chair), Scale, McCormack, C. Underwoodand T. Underwood.

Minutes of previous meeting read.

Before they were confirmed, Cr Purcell entered, and took exception to a paragraph.

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Rotary Club of Yea Changeover

● Ric Long presented the David Long Community Service Award to David Ralph.

● President Ken Maxfield welcomed more than 100 to Beaufort Manor.

● Sandra Davey spoke after being inducted as the newest Yea Rotarian.

● Anne Read (District Governor Designate) and Stuart Bett

■ More than 100 people attended the immaculately-prepared function room of Beaufort Manor on Thursday (June 27) for the 33rd Changeover Dinner of the Rotary Club of Yea. Outgoing President Ken Maxfield reviewed the past 12 months, and welcomed incoming President Sue Carpenter.

Paul Harris Fellow presentations were made to Janet Forde, Terry Chaplin, Julie Lynch, Glenda Woods, Les Hall and Terry Hubbard.

Presentations were also made: ■ Donations In Kind, to Past President David Mellor, ■ Australian Rotary Health, to Past District Governor Greg Ross, ■ the David Long Community Service Award to David Ralph.

The Toast to Rotary International was proposed by Past President Bob Dewar.

A response was offred by District Governor Malcolm Kerr.

Sandra Davey was inducted as the newest member of the Rotary Club of Yea. Rodney Ridd acted as Master of Ceremonies; David Anderson, a Past District Governor, assisted with the induction of Sue Carpenter.

Sue gave an address, and introduced the club’s 20192020 Board members.

David had spoken on how the Rotary had its origins in 1905 when Paul Harris and three of his colleagues met in Chicago.

The 2018-19 Yea team had been: Ken Maxfield, President; Carol Hogg, Seceretary; Sue Carpenter, PresidentElect; Marj Hamilton, VicePresident; Russell Hogg, Treasurer; Rodney Ridd, Sergeantat-Arms; Terry Hubard, Community Service; Tracey Ukosich, Bulletin; Carol Hogg, Art Show; John Sinclair, Membership; Glenda Woods, Public Image; David Anderson, Foundation; Julie Lynch, Youth Service; Ann Drysdale, Vocational; Will de Castella, Attendance; Glen Milliken, Open Gardens; Jim Osborne, Garden Expo; Julie Lynch, Cycle Dindi; and Pat Sichlau, Fellowship.

Honorary members of the Club include Daryl Callander, Norm Berndt, Dick Dashwood, Doug Zerbe, Graeme Broadbent and Terry Chaplin.

Also present on Thursday night were Charter Members Ash Long, Editor of The Local Paper; and Ric Long.

In the Annual Report, President Ken Maxfield said: “A year in the role of a Rotary club presidentcan only be successful with the support and involvement of all club members, and I believe the Yea club has had a successful year because of the input of each member.

“Special thanks to all Board members for their guidancfe and assistance to me, and for chairing their portfolios with care and attention to detail.

in a timely manner.

“The Family of Rotary role has maintained close links with our members and families’ health and wellbeing.

“The International Family of Rotary has this year been enhanced by the club hosting Rotary Exchange student kimberley Bay from Switzerland for 12 months: a tremen“Each of them will have dous experience for both provided a review of the area Kimberley and the club.

“Also in March, the club in which they have been involved, and therefore, I won’t hosted a visiting Rotary Frienddouble up by reviewing those ship Exchange team from Sweden. A fun-cilled three days of areas.

“I am pleased to comment activities with many friendships on Club Service within our club. made.

“Thanks to those members “Each of the five Avenues of Service is important, but with- who so genrously opened their out a club which continues top homes to host our visitors.

“The reason you are receivgrow in number and maintain a happy and vibrant ing such a high quality Annual mermbership, the other four Report is that Glenda sets it out, avenues have less chance of puts it together, gently nudges those who are slow with their success.

“Fun and laughter are the reports and arranges for it to be first steps to a vibrant club and printed.

“Thank you to all members, our club continues with them as a cornerstone for service to partners and friends who have others. Patty and Marj have been associated with our Rogreatly assisted in that area tary Club this year and have with our fifth Thursday social contributed to our local and overseas activities and pronights.

“Sergeant at Arms Rodney grams.

“I hope that your involvehas started each meeting on time, to the second - who hasn’t ment has been an enjoyable seen him on his phone, count- experience, and that you and your families continue to make ing down to 7pm.

“Fundraising enables us to the most of opportunities to fund our good works and sup- serve others while supporting port Australian and interna- Sue Carpenter during the 2019-2020 Rotary year,” Ken tional Rotary projects.

“The Art Show chaired by Maxfield said.

Rotary Foundation DirecCarol, Garden Show Expo chaired by Jim, Open Gardens tor David Anderson said: “In chaired by Glenn, and Cycle focusing on the goals throughDindi chaired by Julie, are the out the year, the Club has had major income earners in a year in which every member should be filled with pride.” fundraising.

David Andedrson offered “Membership and retention has been high on our list of pri- reports on a number of Rotary orities and John Sinclair kept Foundation areas in which the Ken at his best to maintain a Club was active: necesary growth rate - a frac- ■ End Polio Now, tion under 10 per cent from 44 ■ Contributions to the Rotary Foundation, to 48 members.

“Mike and assistant Jill have ■ Daysprings Children’s Vilprovided us with wonderful lage Global Grant, speakers and interesting topics ■ District Foundation grants, ... not always an easy role to ■ recognition for the Rotary Foundation. achieve.

“Let’s all, Rotarians and “Public Image with Glenda at the helm keeps Rotary at non-Rotarians alike, continue front of Yea residents via news- to be the inspiration to our world and our community by continupaper articles.

“Facebook and our website ing to support our Foundation are maintained by Ian Lynch. so that the work of the Foun“A successful addition this dation continues to grow enyear has been our shop win- suring that Rotary connects the dow notifying projects we are world,” said David, who involved with and future activi- chaired the Club’s Foundation ties if interest to residents ... Committee.

Ann Drysdale, the Vocasome of which they can be intional Service Director, said volved.

“A sometimes frustrating there were two main events, role in Attendance Officer and and members were inspired by despite the odd hioccup, Will guest spekaers who shared has maintained a sterling effort their own vocational stories.

“Once again we offered the to get the number as close as Year 10 students at Yea High possible for the caterers.

“Photographer Ken Foletta School the opportunity to precontinues to record our history pare resumes and present to a through the camera lens with panel in a realistic mock interthe professionalism some pro- view process.

“This gave the students the fessionals would want for themopportunity to research their selves.

“The Bulletin editor can career of interest.

“The 18 students who took have a thankless task of producing a weekly resume of club part in the mock interview prohappenings and rosters for the cess all gained enoromous excoming weeks, and thanks to perience and confidence to Tracey, with support from take with them for future appliGlenda, it has been produced cations.”

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Dinner: 100 at Beaufort Manor ■ Rotary Club of Yea Treasurer Russell Hogg provided a 10½-month snapshot of financial activity of the organisation, when the Changeover Night was held last Thursday (June 27).

The audited annual accounts are presented to the club’s AGM in November.

Disbursements haved included: ■ Australian Rotary Health,

Rotary Club of Yea members ■ David Anderson, Keith Baumgartner, John Bett, Sue Carpenter, Gary Cocks, Will de Castella, Bob Dewar, Eoghan Dowling, Ann Drysdale, Gary Fitzgerald, Ken Foletta, Richard Forde, Laurie Frogley, Paul Geeson, Les Hall, Marj Hamilton, Sandra Hanley, Bob Hentschel, Mike Hirons, Carol Hogg, Russell Hogg, Val Howard, Terry Hubbard, Tony Jacobs, Paul Kellett, Ian Lynch, Julie Lynch, Jill Maddison, Ken Maxfield, Sue McGovern, Glenn Milliken, David Ngo, Jim Osborne, Catherine Rattray, Charles Rattray, Rodney Ridd, Ian Sichlau, Pat Sichlau, John Sinclair, Janet Troup, Russell Troup, Peter Tull, Tracey Ukosich, Di Welsh, Elaine White, Glenda Woodsa, Sam Wright.

$2000; ■ Cancer Council/Big Morning Tea, $1000; ■ Community Dinners, $500; ■ Disaster Aid Australia, $1000; ■ Donations in Kind, $1000; ■ Drought Relief, $3000; ■ End trachoma 2020, $1000; ■ Interplast, $1500; ■ Ovarian Cancer Australia, $500; ■ Project REAL, $7510; ■ Project SILP, $36,000; ■ Rotary Friendship Exchange, $528; ■ Rotary Foundation, $4000; ■ Rotary Foundation Polio Plus, $1500; ■ Rotary Oceania Medical Air for Children, $500; ■ Rotary Youth Leadership Awards and RotaryAdventure in Citizenship, $3300; ■ Shane Brunt Trivia Night, $1100; ■ School Bursaries, $2225; ■ Scouts Shed, $1000; ■ Senior Citizens Dinner, $992; ■ Shelterbox, $2400; ■ Youth Exchange, $3403; ■ Yea Community House, $750.

The Club’s interim financial statements show the club administration receipts to be $58,353 for 10½-months, and the ‘club fundraising, service and projects account’ to be $95,755 for the same period.

Other account balances include Cycle Dindi, $6812; the Ruth Koning Bequest, $20,451; and the Global Grant, $114,486.

Other reports included those

by Membership Director, John Sinclair, who noted numbers standing at 47, plus six honorary members, “the largest ever membership in the history of the club”.

Youth Service Director Julie Lynch (who mentioned the work of her husband Ian in her Paul Harris Fellow acceptance speech) mentioned: ■ Youth Exchange, outbound and inbound.

■ Rotex ■ Rotary Youth Leadership Award ■ School Bursaries ■ Rotary Adventure In Citizenship.

“Our next echange student, Louis Thevenet from Saumur in France, will arrive shortly after Kimberley [Bay’s] departure.”

Kimberley, who has now returned home to Switzerlaned, said: “Rotary Youth Exchange is the best program or organisation I have ever heard of”.

She already has plans to return to Australia in six or seven years.

Terry Hubard, Community Service Director, spoke of thework with the Garden Expo, Yea Open Gardens, the Molesworth Bazaar, Cycle Dindi and the Biggest Morning Tea. He also mentioned Rotary’s involvement with the Yea Show, Australia Day breakfast, the Senior Citizen’s Christmas Dinner, moving the Yea Community Garden, and discussions about a senior independent living facility in Yea.

● 2019-20 President Sue Carpenter looks to the future.

● Ken Maxfield thanks theteam: Riley Ball-Tilbrook, Bethany Freeman, Cheyenne Hanson-Aristides, Johnny Hamilton, Arienne Holdsworth-Rose, John Brick

● ‘Paul Harris Fellows’ Janet Forde and Terry Chaplin

● Julian Lauicus provided musical entertainment at the changeover night.

● Les Hall and Terry Hubbard - Paul Harris Fellows with Sapphire Pins

● Paul Harris Fellow presentations. From left: Janet Forde, Terry Chaplin, Julie Lynch, Glenda Woods, Les Hall and Terry Hubbard.

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Re-Opening of St Luke’s Anglican Church, Yea ■ The above church, which has for the last eight months been closed for repairs, was re opeoadon Tuesday last, by His Lordship, the Bishop of Melbourne, reported the Seymour Express on June 12, 1885.

A chancel and vestry have been added to the main building, and the Church will now compare favorably with any in the country districts.

There were present at the- ceremony, in addition to His lordship, the Revs. W. Green. Toomath.

Jennings and Stackhouse, all of whom took part in the service.

The Bishop delivered a most eloquent and impressive sermon, dwelling upon the-doctrine of the Trinity, and concluding with the reason for building churches.

He was listened to with rapt attention by a good congregation who availed themselves of tbe intellectual treat.

Tbe choir, assisted by Molesworth and Alexandra, did their part very creditably.

At the termination of the service, everything was bustle, preparing for the tea at 5 o'clock, in the Temperance Hall, and at the hour mentioned all was ready.

There were five tables, No. 1 given by Mrs D. McLeish, of Murrindindi ; No 2, Mesdames Wadkins, Scale, and Lock; No. 3 Mrs Purcell; No. 4 Mesdames G. Coles, Smith, and Miss Janes; No. 5 was given by the bachelors of Yea and presided over by Misses M'Kay (2), Miss A. Webster, Miss E. M'Leish, and Miss Wall.

All the tables were loaded with delicacies of the season, fruit of every description being abundant, and although it is scarcely fair to individualise the tables, yet that given by the bachelors was splendidly got up.

No expence or pains seerned to have been spared, and may. they; live long and do likewise, is the wish of one who did ample justice to the good things provided. .

In fact the whole of the tables would have done credit to any teafight in the metropolis, and the hearty thanks accorded to the ladies was really deservedly earned by them.

The youngsters rallied round manfully and put away their shillings worth with a gusto, and to use the words of a great humorist ' They 'et and 'et and by Jerusalem they did eat.'

When all had been attended to, many willing hands set to work and in a very short time the hall was made ready for the meeting at 7.30.

The building was well filled, and after a hymn and prayer, the Rev. A. R. Stackhouse, as chairman, gave a short account of the reason for completing the Church.

He referred to the late Mr Ker, who had ever been readv to assist in everything connected with it and his splendid donation of £100 towards finishing it, was not to be lost sight of by the guardians who put their shoulders to the wheel and raised the necessary amount.

He trusted that the inhabitants would assist in reducing the debt and after thanking them for the past assistance he introducd the Rev. A. Toomath who on coming forward was received with applause.

This gentleman gave a brief description among the Yeaites in 1866 and in a very humourous maner related some of his adventures in the days of the goldfields.

Plaques of note

● St Luke’s Church, Yea, circa 1905.

● St Luke’s Church, Yea, circa 1912.

● St Luke’s Church, Yea, circa 1940s. Photo: Thorley family.

● St Luke’s Church, Yea, circa 1968.

■ There are a number of plaques at St Luke’s, Yea. Aplaque by the National Trust - Victoria records: St Luke's Church - Nave built 1868 - Sanctuary and Vestry added by 1907 - Architect Albert Purchase.

A plaque records: Ecclesia Anglicana - For the teaching of The Catholic Faith - and to the Greater - Glory of God - This Parish Church of St Luke - consecrated October 21, 1984 - Rector - The Rev D W McMonigle - BA BD - + Maxwell - Bishop of Wangaratta.

Many memorial plaques and gifts are noted inside the church building including: A M D G - In memory of - Eaton Stannard Purcell - A faithful worker & Regular Worshipper - 1876 - 1933 - Erected by Parishioners & Friends.

He as one of the pioneer clergymen of the district spoke from experience and he could not contrasting Yea of ‘66 with Yea of ‘85.

The choir then sang the Anthem I Was Glad &c, the solo part being sang by Mrs Scale with great taste and feeling.

Then followed a song, O rest in the Lord, by Mr Rasche.

A recitation by Mr Bates was given in a masterly maner by that gentleman; after which, the chairman anounced His Lordship the Bishop, who on coming forward, was received with loud and prolonged applause.

His argument was whether any any one by bettering his fortune bettered his position, and by way of illustrating, he chose two persons, John L. West, the Miser, and Socrates, the Athenian.

The first he said after receiving £250,000, concentrated all his energies on the one subject.

Socrates, on the other hand, placed no value upon the filthy lucre; but was content with his doing his utmost to better his fellow men.

Which of the two were tio be admired? His Lordship for upwards of 45 minutes kept the people thoroughly entertained, and great was the sorrow felt when he resumed his seat.

Another anthem was sung by the choir, and the benediction pronounced.

The bachelors, who had ample provisions left, decided to have another spread.

The table was soon ralaid, and those who had a distance to go, or any who felt inclined to remain, were accommodated with a splended feed, the attention of the young ladies being most lavish; and if those present did not make themselves at home it was their own fault, for everything that could be done for their comfort was done by ladies and bachelors.

After hearty cheers for the bachelors and becheloresses, the Hall was cleared, and everybody made for their abodes well satisfied with meeting held on 9th June, 1885.

The proceeds amounted to about £29.

The additions to the Church, which were carried out satisfactorily by Mr James Lyster ofSeymour, cost £480, a portion of which is yet due.

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The Arts Eno, Lattimore and Barwick

■ Sonorous but somnambulant in nature, Roger Eno’s music can lull one to sleep which is dangerous if you are a reviewer.

Juxtaposed against a visual presentation, notes linger or, as in one instance, appeal to an image on screen such as when numbers appear on a hymnal board inspiring echoes redolent of church choruses.

Mary Lattimore’s contribution to the evening of ambient music added vocal texture as she sampled her voice and replayed the intonation in various guises whilst playing the piano. Her visuals were more psychedelic.

Harpist Julianna Barwick, as the third performer, added further dimension as the notes, chords and sounds were variously plucked, struck, strummed and began cascading in a corollary of sampled sound that repeated, fell back on each other, complemented and created a layered pastiche of sound.

The coup de grace, however, was an improvised duet between Lattimore and Barwick. In reusing sound electronically, one captures the various sounds of an instrument which can be repeated and against which one can instrumentally interact in real time.

The genius of the Lattimore and Barwick collaboration was the texture of voice, piano and harp. All these elements and their echoes conversed in an impromptu dialogue that was, in parts, intriguing, unexpected and captivating.

That energy was needed at the end of the 3½-hour evening where there was a danger of falling into the cradle of sleep. Ambient music has that capacity as it tends to prolong, round out and elongate a cadence and become soporific if not careful.

Presented at the Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre.

- Review by David McLean

Warmwaters

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Pomona at Red Stitch

● Mona Mina Leon can be seen in Pomona at Red Stich Theatre.

■ Red Stitch presents the Australian premiere After graduating in 2017 with a Bachelor High of Pomona from July 14 to August 11 at Red Distinction having studied Drama at the Royal Stitch Theatre, St Kilda.

Institute of Cinema Theatre and Sound in Written by UK playwright Alistair McDowell Brussels, Belgium, Mona completed a Masters as a dystopian vision of the dark side, and di- in Drama in 2018. rected by Gary Abrahams, Pomona is billed as She has had two internships in the Nether“a gripping and deeply unsettling tale of inner- lands and acted in Title With Logo (at the city lowlife”. veenfabriek) and Ondine (The National TheA dark horror story, Pomona is a powerful atre) as well as performing in the short films modern thriller, telling of a secret place right Etangs noirs, which was selected for BFI Film inside the concrete heart of the city. Pomona.

Festival in London 2018, and Stacey and the Nobody knows what’s in there, it’s like a place Alien. Mona is multilingual, speaking Dutch, time forgot. But every day a delivery van ar- English, French and German. rives and departs. What’s going on in there? Do This show contains adult themes, graphic lanwe really want to know? Or do we simply have guage and stage violence. no choice?

Performance Details: July 14 -August 11 Mona Mina Leon joins the Red Stitch EnTimes: Thurs – Sat 8pm; Wed and Sun semble as one of the Graduate Actors in 2019, 6.30pm appearing in the show with fellow ensemble Venue: Red Stitch Theatre, Rear 2 Chapel member Dion Mills, alongside guest actors St., St Kilda. Tickets: $55 Arthur Angel, Jessica Clarke, Nicholas Denton, Bookings: 9533 8083 or www.redstitch.net Julie Grace and Artemis Ionnides.

- Cheryl Threadgold

Faulty Towers ● Faux Folk Duo Warmwaters, Bridget Boyle and David Megarrity.

Photo: Shaun Kelly and Grant Heaton.

■ The Butterfly Club presents a Debase Production: Warmwaters on July 31 and August 1 at 8.30pm.

Warmwaters are a faux folk duo who say they are worse than they think they are, but better than they know.

Starring Bridget Boyle and David Megarrity, this is the last stop of an Intranational Tour launching their new recording: InExperience - a concept EP. They say folk music lovers will love the show, but folk music haters will ‘love it even more’.

Warmwaters is a comic cabaret show featuring the duo’s original love and protest songs blended with classics.

A cross between Spinal Tap, The Kransky Sisters and David Brent, Warmwaters aim to leave audiences with a smile on their face.

Revitalised by the creation of their new recording ‘InExperience’, Warmwaters return to the stage with a whole new direction, while keeping everything exactly the same.

Dates and Times: 8.30pm July 31 and August 1 Venue: The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, Melbourne Bookings: https://thebutterflyclub.com/ show/warm-waters - Cheryl Threadgold

■ Interactive Theatre International presents Faulty Towers The Dining Experience on Friday, July 26 at 7.30pm at the Stamford Plaza Hotel, Collins St, Melbourne.

Following five-star reviews at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, this fully immersive and completely original show returns with Basil, Sybil and Manuel serving up more mayhem than ever.

Anything can happen… and they say it usually does, and with 70 per cent of the show improvised, it is never the same show twice.

During two hours of comedy, a three-course meal will be served at the Stamford Plaza.

The show has been receiving critical and audience acclaim for over 22 years.

During this time, 40 countries have been visited and in 2019 the show is touring Europe, Scandinavia, Asia and Australia, with nearly a million seats sold around the world.

It also has an ongoing residency in London’s West End and is appearing at its 12th consecutive Edinburgh Fringe.

Faulty Towers The Dining

What’s On Death of a Demi Diva

● Willow Sizer in Death of a Demi Diva.

■ Madame (Willow Sizer) decried being ‘entombed’within the reviewer’s words but in this, the rehearsal before her supposed last stage performance, she will live eternally.

Moving effortlessly between her stage persona and the insecurities of a fragile diva at the end of her career, Madame takes us on a journey through her career.

She is brutally unkind to her ensemble, Rachel (composer and arranger (Rachel Lewindon) and long suffering Ute (Elijah Bradbury) who both manage to keep her on task and ‘on song’.

But it is Sizer who steps between the world of the stage and the frailties of a performer by catching the cabaret spotlight showing a sense of how a performer comes alive when the music starts or when she is lit.

Thomas Duncan’s lighting highlighted that transition, capturing the sense of the cabaret performer’s stage.

Jayde Kirchert’s direction gave Madame the requisite props, the fur stole and coffee cup (should it have been champagne?) and the sense of nuance revealing what takes place behind the performance.

There were original compositions and song pastiches sung with a suitable vibrato denoting Madame’s declining ability, and those pieces were filled with the requisite suggestiveness as one would expect in a cabaret interpretation.

Just as the art of cabaret will continue – this is the tenth year of the Melbourne Cabaret Festival – there will always be a diva that never quite dies forever looking for the spotlight and the opportunity to sing one last song.

Death of a Demi Diva was presented at Chapel off Chapel.

- Review by David McLean

Haushka

● Rob Langston (Basil) kicks Anthony Sottile (Manuel) in Faulty Towers, coming to Melbourne at the Stamford Plaza on July 26.

Experience is a successful Date: Friday, July 26 interactive comedy show payTime: Doors open 7pm. ing homage to Fawlty Towers, Show starts 7.30pm. the BBC TV series written by Tickets: $99 pp – all tickets John Cleese and Connie Booth. include a 3-course meal and 2Their TV scripts are not hour interactive show. used in Faulty Towers The DinBookings and enquiries: ing Experience, which uses its 1300 308193 or customer own original scripts and format. s e r v i c e @ i m a g i n a t i o n Venue: Stamford Plaza w o r k s h o p . c o m Melbourne, 111 Little Collins www.faultytowersdining.com St, Melbourne - Cheryl Threadgold

■ The first to perform in the evening’s trio of items in the ambient, neoclassical concert were Five Below, an ensemble convened for this occasion.

Their variety of rhythms, sounds and composition intrigued.At times, jazz like, one wondered how they conversed or how such music might be transcribed as metrical conventions were broken though tunes were sustained.

The diversity and collaboration was intriguing.

Haushka’s performance that followed perhaps gave a sense of where Five Below might have found the touchstone for their musical journey. Haushka’s reputation stems from his use of electronic sampling and the engineering of his instrument. In placing a weight on the strings of his grand piano he was able to elicit unexpected sound.

Such physical and electronic distortions often began in melodic familiarity but became more mesmeric in the ambient aftermath. The use of a smoke machine and mood lighting then added to the effect.

Andrew Tuttle with his sampling of guitar and banjo had quite an act to follow. He added a filmic dimension but the visuals often overlapped creating a distortion and blurring that was off-putting. You couldn’t focus.

The diversity of sound by the composers shows that experimentation with sound and the way it is manufactured has real scope but often defies definition or explanation. It can be absorbing to hear where music and composition may lead.

Presented at the Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre.

- Review by David McLean

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Victoria Pictorial

● Beach at Frankston. 1907.

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Historic Photo Collection

● The main street, Frankston. 1907.

● The Chalet, Warburton. 1937.

● Panorama from Post Office tower, Ballarat. 1936.

● Princer Henry’s Hospital, Melbourne. From the gardens. 1955.

● Great Ocean Road, Wye River. 1930.

● The beach road, Dromana. About 1920?

● ‘Myers’, Chadstone. 1960.

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Local Theatre Shows ■ Malvern Theatre Company: The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful (by Charles Ludlam) Until July 6 at 29 Burke Rd., Melbourne. Director: Andrew McMillan.

Bookings: 1300 131 552.

■ Mordialloc Theatre Company: Mr Bailey's Minder (by Debra Oswald) Until July 6 at Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd., Parkdale. Director: Martin Gibbs. Bookings: 9587 5141 or www.mordialloctheatre.com ■ Williamstown Little Theatre: A Man of No Importance (by Terrance McNally, music by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty) Until July 13 at 2-4 Albert St., Williamstown.

Director: Barbara Hughes. Bookings: wlt.org.au ■ Adelphi Players Theatre Company: The Golden Pathway Annual (by John Harding and John Burrows) Until July 7 at Booran Road Hall, 264 Booran Rd., Ormond (next to Uniting Church). Director: Michael Mace. Tickets: $15/$12. Bookings: 9578-0952 (Leave message). Limited seating, bookings essential.

■ Heidelberg Theatre Company: It's a Wonderful Life (adapted by Joe Landry) July 5 July 20 at 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna. Director: Terese Maurici. Bookings: www.heidelbergtheatre.org.au ■ Hartwell Players: One Act Play Season July 4 - 14 at the Ashwood High School Performing Arts Centre, 50 Vannam Drive, Ashwood. Bookings: 0422 010 830 ■ Eltham Little Theatre: Look Back in Anger (by John Osborne) July 5 - 20 at the Eltham Performing Arts Centre. Director: Drew Mason. Bookings: www.elthamlittletheatre.org.au ■ Geelong Repertory Theatre: The Book of Everything July 5 - 20 at 15 Coronation St. West Geelong. Director: Ryan Bentley. Bookings: GPAC 5225 1200.

■ Diamond Valley Singers: Annie Get Your Gun July 5 - 13 at the Warrandyte High School Theatre, Alexander Rd., Warrandyte. Performed with the Eltham Orchestra. Enquiries: 9439 7843.

Bookings: www.dvsingers.org.

■ Western Arts Theatre Company: Seussical the Musical July 4 - 7 at the Clocktower Centre, 750 Mount Alexander Rd., Moonee Ponds. Bookings: 9243 9191.

■ Ballarat National Theatre: Speaking in Tongues (by Andrew Bovell) July 6 - 13 at the Ballarat Courthouse Theatre. Director: Daniel West. Bookings: 5333 5888 or hermaj.com ■ Encore Theatre: Well Hung (by Robert Lord) July 12 - 27 at the Clayton Community Centre, 9-15 Cooke St., Clayton. Director: David Collins. Bookings: 1300 737 099.

■ Frankston Theatre Group: Yes, Prime Minister (by Antony Jay and Jonathon Lynn) July 26 - August 4 at the Mount Eliza Community Centre. Director: David McCall. Bookings: 1300 665 377.

■ Williamstown Musical Theatre Company: Aladdin Junior August 2 - 11 at the Centenary Theatre, 71 Railway Place, Williamstown. Bookings: 1300 881 545 or wmtc.org.au

Auditions ■ The Mount Players: The Graduate July 20 and 21 at 10.00am at Mountview Theatre, 56 Smith St., Macedon. Director: Robert Wallace. Enquiries: 0438 542 613.

■ Encore Theatre: Almost, Maine (by John Cariani) July 28 at 3.00pm, July 29 at 7.00pm at Fleigner Hall, 31-39 Highland Ave., Oakleigh East. Director: Laura Bradley. Enquiries: laurachaela@gmail.com ■ Peridot Theatre: Stage Kiss (by Sarah Ruhl) July 29, 30 at 7.00pm at the Unicorn Theatre, Lechte Rd., Mt Waverley. Director: George Werther. Enquiries: 0402 222 090.

- Cheryl Threadgold

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Bring It On The Musical

● Original cast in Bring It On The Musical. Photo: Nico Keenan “This is the first leading role for Jasmine, ■ The Broadway hit Bring It On The Musical is being presented in Melbourne from July 11 – and it’s clear she has a big future ahead of her," says director Alister Smith, a multi Green Room 27 at the Athenaeum Theatre in Collins St. After a nationwide search auditioning more Award nominee (Pacific Overtures, Urinetown! than 400 hopefuls, producer David Venn has The Musical, The Drowsy Chaperone).

Other new cast members performing princiannounced the Australian cast.

Following an extended premiere season and pal roles include Dayton Tavares (Billy Elliot, three Green Room Award nominations, includ- In The Heights, West Side Story) as Twig, Coby ing Best Production of a Musical, the stage show Njoroge (Carmen, Saturday Night Fever) as inspired by the cult classic movie of the same Cameron, Baylie Carson (Hello, Dolly!, Dusty) name, returns for a national tour with a cast of as Bridget and Sebastian Johnston as Steven.

Reprising their principal roles in the sell-out 28 triple-threat actor-singer-dancers and Australian premiere is Karla Tonkich cheerleading champions.

In the lead role of Campbell, squad captain (Brigadoon, Legally Blonde, We Will Rock You, and cheer-royalty at Truman High School, triple Grease) asEva, Thomas McGuane (Jersey Boys, threat performer Kirby Burgess has been cast. The Drowsy Chaperone) as Randall, Hollie Kirby recently wowed audiences as the Ring- James (Rocky Horror Show,My Fair Lady) as master in Barnum opposite Todd McKenney, Kylar, Emily Thompson (Little Shop of Horand starred as the Australian Baby in the 10- rors, Urinetown) as Skylar, Samantha Bruzzese year anniversary global tour of Dirty Dancing - (The Bodyguard, In The Heights) as Nautica and MartyAlix (In the Heights) as La Cienega. the Classic Story on Stage.

The ensemble cast includes Jayden Wall, Set to star alongside Kirby is newcomer Jasmine Smith, in the role of headstrong and Luca Dinardo, Annie Chiswell, Ben hardworking Danielle, the dance crew leader at Scarmozzino, Braide Mullane, Celina Yuen, Daniel Ham, Maxine Champion, Jordan neighbouring Jackson High School.

A final year musical theatre student at VCA, Turner, Sena Fujiwara, Leigh Sleightholme and Jasmine’s past credits include The Production Ned Zaina.

Choreography and aerial stunts will be perCompany’s The King and I and Arts Centre formed by cheerleading champions Ossie Melbourne’s Morning Melodies.

“Our audition process has been truly exten- Mclean who originally hails from Perth, Daniel sive. It’s no mean feat to find a cast that can not Buyeske, Katherine Abela and Caitlyn only sing, dance and act, but also have the acro- Hammond.

Choreographer Michael Ralph (Georgy Girl, batic skills required to perform awe-inspiring flips, lifts and cheerleading stunts,” says pro- Loving Repeating, The Boy from Oz 2018) returns fresh from his Green Room Award for Best ducer David Venn.

“We are thrilled to have cast Kirby Burgess Choreography for Bring It On The Musical’s in the role of Campbell. She is perfectly suited Australian premiere.

Melbourne Performance Details: July 11 – to the role and brings a wealth of main stage experience with her. We are also lucky to have 27. Venue: The Athenaeum Theatre, 188 Collins snapped up new talent in Jasmine Smith for the St., Melbourne. Bookings: bringitonthemusical. com.au - Cheryl Threadgold role of Danielle.

Bring It On The Musical ■ Face Fashion is the brainchild of East African born, Marvin Osifo.

He migrated to Australia as a child in 1992, studying and working in fashion and business management.

He wanted to create a platform for up and coming new designers and help them get a leg up in the competitive fashion design industry. 2019 marks the 13th year of this event.

After waiting in the foyer, set up in Warehouse 35, Moorabbin for almost an hour, we were shown to our front row seats and greeted with a very full show bag with goodies from the event sponsors.

Unfortunately there were only three designers on show this year in Melbourne – half the number of the previous year – and the fashion parade was finished in less than 30 minutes.

The audience numbers

were low so a lack of publicity may have been one of the contributing factors.

The designers on show for this event were Kwill, Blaykley and SRT. Designer Katie Williams, originally from Perth, opened the event with a strong black/ white/red statement showing structured jackets, varying length leggings and pants, tops and camisoles.

The added red splashes included a tartan fabric and striking red tulle eveningwear.

Carefully constructed designs of black beading added a touch of class to the outfits. Her Kwill range can be found at Kwilldesigns.com.au The design team at blaykley followed with a variety of their fashions featuring classic blazer design, camisoles, pants and dresses in black, mustard and leopard prints.

This range had lots of ba-

sics that could be dressed up or dressed down at leisure. I also loved the large hooped earrings worn by all the models.

This range can be found at Blaykley.com SRT designer, Susan Rose Tovar was inspired by the enchanting Peruvian Rainbow Mountains.

The eclectic mixture of textiles and knits floated down the catwalk. The use of alpaca yarns was inspired. This is certainly a different approach and stood out as a strong individual statement. This range can be followed on Instagram at susanrosetovar.

Having an MC or some sort of announcement letting patrons know when to enter and when the show had finished could benefit this event. Everyone expected more and were quite bemused that the actual event was so short.

- Review by Lyn Hurst

What’s On Tusk Tusk

■ Patalog Theatre Co.’s production of Tusk Tusk, skilfully directed by Ruby Rees, brings a youthful, edgy vitality to the stage with its Melbourne premiere at St Martin’s Theatre.

Written by UK playwright, Polly Stenham in 2009 when she was 22, the story is drawn from her own life observations, although not autobiographical.

It is the tale of three siblings who, living alone in a flat in London when their mother has gone AWOL, are waiting for her to phone them.

Eliot, played by Ben Walter, is 17 years old and the eldest sibling who has made a pact with his 15-year-old sister, Maggie (Markella Kavenagh) and Finn (Liam Smith), seven years, to not divulge their living situation to the outside world fearing the grips of welfare who would remove and separate them.

Eliot, leaves the apartment to find food while Maggie plays mother figure and tries to control their meagre funds.

Maggie and Eliot seek to protect Finn through games, dance and parties.

The story unravels with a growing sense disquiet through sibling rivalry, exposure of Eliot’s immaturity, his cruel streak and inability to handle the pressure.

Many moments of humour and tenderness between the siblings provide light relief.

Set in the apartment living room of a newly moved into house, we experience increasing chaos with the trio entirely alone until family friends unwittingly pay a visit and revealing secrets unfold.

The entire cast of Tusk Tusk played their characters convincingly with stand-out performances by Markella Kavenagh and Ben Walter.

Stenham has written a strong script for young actors and for a young and also more mature audience.

On the edges of her generation looking in, Stenham reports on disconnection and mental health issues within families irrespective of class or wealth.

Dates: Until July 7 Venue: Irene Mitchell Studio, St Martins Theatre, 28 St Martins Lane, South Yarra Bookings and times: www.patalogtheatre. com/tusktusk - Review by Sherryn Danaher

White Night

■ As winter fades and on the eve of spring, a ‘Reimagined’ White Night experience will transform Melbourne’s inner-city parks and gardens over three consecutive nights in three key precincts, for the first time this year.

After dark, revellers will experience the spaces of Carlton Gardens, Treasury Gardens and Birrarung Marr host the three realms of White Night Reimaged.

Artists from across the city and across the globe will take the audience on journeys mythological, mysterious and mesmerising.

Melbourne’s iconic cultural institutions will, once again, come alive with their own special programming and will open for extended hours.

In 2019, food and music offerings will complement the event, showcasing some of Victoria’s best local produce and talent. www.whitenight.com.au/melbourne - Cheryl Threadgold

War Horse

■ The National Theatre of Great Britain’s award-winning production of War Horse will tour Australia in 2020, including a Melbourne season from January 10 at the Regent Theatre.

Based on Michael Morpurgo’s novel, War Horse, with a 34-strong cast, is directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris.

Nick Stafford’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s remarkable story of courage, loyalty and friendship tells of a young boy called Albert and his horse Joey, set against the backdrop of the First World War. This is a show of inventiveness, filled with music and songs, featuring ground-breaking puppetry work by SouthAfrica’s Handspring Puppet Company, which brings breathing, galloping horses to life on stage.

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Crossroads

By Rob Foenander info@countrycrossroads com.au

Mentals at Memo ■ Popular Aussie group Mental As Anything will play a show at the Memo Music Hall, St Kilda, on August 4, commencing 4pm.

The new wave/pop rock band that formed in Sydney in 1976 is still playing to huge crowds around the country and also overseas.

Their hits, The Nips Are Getting Bigger, Too Many Times, If You Leave Me and other iconic tunes have been part of the Australian music soundtrack over the decades.o

Jimmy upgrades ■ Due to overwhelming demand from fans, rocker Jimmy Barnes has changed venues for his Melbourne show on October 12.

Along with special guests Jet, The Shutting Down Your Town concert will move from Margaret Court Arena, to across road at Rod Laver Arena on the same night.

New from Gaz ■ Narre Warren country music pioneer Gary Ellis has recorded a new album which adds to his vast catalogue of career releases.

Believing In Me is yet another collection of popular country tunes and duets sure to please his loyal fans around the country and overseas.

- Rob Foenander

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Margaret River's sppedy vinous success ■ It hardly seems feasible that in just half a century, the Margaret River district, tucked away in Australia's extreme, extreme south-west corner should emerge as one of Australia's and the world's finest, that it should produce some 20 per cent of the country's fine wine, that Western Australia's largest producers should gravitate there from the Swan Valley, and that it should sprout more than 200 wineries.

Yet all of that - and quite a deal more - has happened in the years since its potential was realised, and if much of its growth has been led by largish Californian-style enterprises so be it.

Much of the initial success was on the back of chardonnay and cabernet sauvignon, perhaps the world's two best-known premium grape varieties, but it has since proven itself almost as worthy with shiraz and with blends of sauvignon blanc and semillon, a delicious, refreshing blend that has become almost synonymous with the area.

One of the district's viticultural pioneers was Dr John Lagan, who established Xanadu Wines, not far from Margaret River township, in 1977.

It was purchased by Melbourne's Rathbone family in 2005, the same year that Glenn Goodall was promoted to the role of Senior Winemaker.

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Symbol of changing America ■ Hi everyone, from my suite at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites comes this week's news.

Out and About

Get your kicks on Route 66

■ US Route 66 is a part of a former United States numbered highway network in the state of California that ran from the west in Santa Monica on the Pacific Ocean past the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood and down through Los Angeles and San Bernardino to Needles at the Arizona state line.

It is usually and traditionally travelled from east to west, that is, from Chicago to LosAngeles.

Route 66 is iconic and a symbol of a changing America. Known as "America's Highway" during its heyday, Route 66 was driven by millions of drivers between Illinois and California.

The same plan for national highways that birthed Route 66 also helped bury it. After World War II, the highway system needed an overhaul.

Route 66 crosses eight states and three time zones. The states that the Mother Road runs across are: Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.

In 1926 only 800 miles of Route 66 were paved.

Nowadays it is a tourist attraction and one of the most recognisable highways and iconic travel destinations in American history.

Celebrating the fact that the Ramada Plaza on Santa Monica Boulevard features on Route 66 is this memorial plaque which indicates its importance to the travelling tourists.

Homelessness on rise

● Pictured at the Ramada Route 66 sign is the Managing Director of the Ramada Plaza, Alan Johnson, Ian Hand former Australian Trade Commissioner and Ramada General Manager, Bill Karpiak.

Free meal or me?

Buzz over Russell Crowe ■ The seven-episode portrait of the late Fox News CEO, touching on his media and political influence and his alleged acts of sexual misconduct, hits US cable channel Showtime.

When Roger Ailes, played brilliantly by Russell Crowe, resigned from Fox News in 2016 it was amid a cloud of sexual misconduct allegations being leveled against him by various women.

But before his fall from grace, the Fox News CEO, who died in 2017, was a media titan and influential political figure.

Promotional materials for Showtime's upcoming limited series, The Loudest Voice, based on the 2014 Gabriel Sherman book of the same name, have touched on these various, different aspects of Ailes' persona.

The big question is, how much is the show, which will air over seven weeks, about Ailes' political influence and how much is it about his alleged inappropriate behavior towards women?

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■ Who says chivalry is dead? A new trend has emerged on the U.S. dating scene in which a person schedules a date with someone they aren't really interested in, just to get a free meal. The tactic has been dubbed a "foodie call," and while it sounds absolutely ridiculous at first consideration, new research reveals it is happening quite often.

Researchers at Azusa Pacific University and UC Merced had 357 heterosexual women answer a series of questions about their personalities, thoughts on traditional gender roles, and their personal foodie call histories. Interestingly, 33 per cent of the participants admitted to engaging in at least one foodie call. A second study was also performed, this time on 820 women. Of the women collected, 85 per cent reported being heterosexual, and they were used as the focus of the study. Respondents were asked a similar set of questions as the first group, and 23% acknowledged participating in a foodie call. It's worth noting that most of the women surveyed believed a foodie call was anywhere from moderately to extremely unacceptable. Among both groups of women, those who admitted to foodie calls scored higher in the "dark triad" of narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism of personality traits. Women who expressed belief in more traditional gender roles were also more likely to engage in a foodie call.

Trump is more popular ■ A survey recently released by the Public Policy Institute of California found that President Donald Trump is more popular in the deep blue state than the Democratic legislature.

Democratic consultant Steve Maviglio recently told the Los Angeles Times: "All they hear from Sacramento are proposals for more taxes and more spending for everyone except the middle class.And they rightfully wonder where the high taxes they already are paying are going." While the president's approval ratings are underwater with only 38 per cent of Californians approving of his job, this pales in comparison to the state legislature having only 34 percent among likely voters having confidence in them.

With voters still anxious about a gas tax hike pushed through last year, recent suggestions of a $2 billion tax hike on everything from water to phones by California Gov. Gavin Newsom hasn't eased that apprehension.

Newsom holds a job approval rating of 45 per cent among likely voters with 29 per cent disapproving and a 26 per cent responding "don't know."

■ Andrew Dice Clay is going on tour with Roseanne Barr and they're doing it for America.

The comedian, the first to ever sell out Madison Square Garden, despite being banned from MTV for life for his material told Fox News that the "Mr and Mrs America" tour was inspired by the national obsession with political discourse and, occasionally, the alleged policing of comedians' language.

Clay, 61, and Barr, 66, have known one another for nearly three decades, and the Brooklyn native doesn't believe the Roseanne star truly has a mean bone in her body.

"She's a comic because she's wacky.

“I've known her since we were kids, when people ask about what she said, I say, 'She's a comic!' We gotta stop policing comedians. This is America!" Clay said.

Doesn’t want to be alone ■ This Hollywood Vampire refuses to die alone. Rock legend Alice Cooper has made a death pact with his wife of 43 years, Sheryl Goddard insisting, "We are going to go together."

"We've made a pact, there is no way of surviving without each other," the 71-year-old rocker said.

Cooper, the front man of Johnny Depp's super group, The Hollywood Vampires insisted he has "never cheated" on his wife since they met in 1975.

The School's Out hit man now insists their devotion is so strong they are planning the shocking twist to the "till death do us part" part of marriage vows.

"I couldn't live without her. We always said there will never be a time when one of us will be mourning the other," Cooper said.

■ Los Angeles is in troubled waters on a ship without a captain, and though there might be a few pretenders on the bridge, nobody trusts them. The city and county spent $600 million last year to chip away at the number of homeless people, the total increased by 16 per cent to nearly 60,000.

L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti is the guy who has presided over the astounding spread of homeless encampments and trashstrewn streets after persuading voters to reverse the trends by taxing themselves.

Garcetti had a worse week than that heavyweight champ who got clobbered by an unknown contender from Imperial County. And nobody else in the local political class looked much better. L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas said local leaders were "pretty well stunned by this data" on the increase in homelessness. I slapped myself and read it again.

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■ Irene Hewitt was born in 1922 and began singing at an early age. Irene was 18 when she became the resident vocalist in Tye's Radio Revue on 3XY, which was broadcast every Sunday night from the Princess Theatre.

The compere was Eric Pearce, and Irene sang Ida Sweet As Apple Cider as her debut song on the show. On many occasions Irene sang duets with Jack Perry.

She sang at many of the local dances and was also resident vocalist at the Coconut Grove Nightclub in Chapel St, South Yarra.

Around that time she married her first husband, who played saxophone in the band at The Coconut Grove. Irene also sang regularly at the famous Chevron Hotel.

In 1954 Irene appeared on the national radio show Australia's Hour of Song with Dick Fair.

She was a regular guest on ABC radio shows and sang on cruise ships.

In 1957 Irene was cast in the television series Take That which was a ‘live to air’15-minute school classroom comedy. It was one of the first comedy shows produced by Crawford Productions, a bit like Yes What, the old radio series.

Take That also starred English actor Phillip Stainton, Joff Ellen, Frank Rich, Keith Eden and Jack Perry.

Irene sang on many television variety shows during her career. Her film credits include Blue Fire Lady, Dimboola, I Live With Me Dad and Lonely Hearts.

During the 1970s Irene performed in Sydney night clubs as a comedienne and worked with

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In 1981 Irene was cast as Mrs Swabb, the housekeeper, in an Australian tour of the Alan Bennett-play, Habeus Corpus. The cast included a great bunch of popular television actors - English actor Frank Thornton (Are You Being Served), Pat McDonald (Number 96) and Liz Burch (The Flying Doctors) .

There was a night during the tour when a leg snapped off the stage settee that almost everyone had to sit on. Irene madly searched around back stage in the dark and finally walked onstage with a paint tin which she popped under the edge of the settee and the play proceeded without a hitch.

She remained friends with Frank Thornton

● Irene Hewitt

and his wife and they always sent each other Christmas cards. Irene played guest roles in many television series including Prisoner and The Henderson Kids.

Irene loved music and was a regular attendee at the International Sinatra meetings. Some of her recordings were - When Johnny Comes Marching Home, I Didn't Know The Gun Was Loaded and One More River To Cross (with Don Harper and His Orchestra).

In 1997 Irene was a guest vocalist at a special fundraising concert for 96.5FM. It was a big show with Val Jellay, Clyde Simpson, Bruce Skeggs, David McGee, Ray Lawrence, The Creole Bells and many others in the line up.

Irene Hewitt loved life and when she was very ill she just refused to give in and slipped ou of the hospital to visit her friends.

She passed away in 2004 and I attended her funeral. Long time friends Terry Gill and Carole Anne got everyone singing. Irene would have loved it and also the thunderous applause as the coffin was carried out of the funeral parlour.

One of the great singers and characters of the Melbourne showbusiness scene, Irene Hewitt.

Kevin Trask Kevin can be heard on 3AW The Time Tunnel - Remember When Sundays at 10.10pm with Philip Brady and Simon Owens.

And on 96.5 FM That's Entertainment - Sundays at 12 Noon. www.innerfm.org.au

Aussie gothic horror ‘Wake In Fright’ ■ Kenneth Cook’s classic 1961 novel Wake in Fright is the original, quintessential Aussie gothic horror.

The brilliant film version was emulated in later gothic tales such as Wolf Creek and Animal Kingdom.

Adapted for the stage by Declan Green who also directs, Cook’s novel has been turned into a monologue.

A lost weekend fuelled by alcohol in an outback mining town plunges a young schoolteacher, John, into a vortex of violence and toxic masculinity.

Set in the town of Bundayabba, this is the spiritual home of the ‘real’ Australia, frequented by the likes of Pauline Hansen or Fraser Anning.

Terrorised by the savage, ferocious townsfolk, including a deregistered alcoholic doctor and a ruthless town cop, John emerges traumatised and with a fractured sense of reality.

Green’s re-imagined ending is shocking in its brutality.

The monologue is interrupted by a frenetic soundscape by James Paul.

Arresting lighting design by Verity Hampson and projections by Nicholas James Brown and Misha Grace help to animate the space.

These work to a degree to create context, however, they can be hit and miss.

While the two-up scenes work well, the depiction of the famed roo shoot loses its awfulness and bloody, grisly detail through a surreal representation.

It’s harder to get a sense of the desperation that has driven John to the final scene other than a particularly bad night on the tiles.

That said, Green’s adaptation as a vehicle for a single actor is ambitious and original.

Zahra Newman, playing all characters, is a powerhouse and vividly and effortlessly captures the essence of each character.

Production Season: Until July 14 Venue: Beckett Theatre, Malthouse, Southbank Bookings: boxoffice@malthouse theatre.com.au or 9685 5111 - Review by Kathryn Keeble

OK. With John O’Keefe Denis Walter out at 3AW? ■ Rumours are always on the go within the Sydney radio industry and the last few days have seen the gossips in overdrive.

At 2GB , outspoken presenter Chris Smith is said to be under pressure.

Smith has cleaned out his office, briefed his legal team and that’s only the beginning.

Gossips claim the reshuffling at 2GB has a flow-on effect to sister station 3AW, Melbourne. Macquarie Media calls the shots for both stations and with a cost-saving campaign underway may see the dismissal of 3AW afternoon announcer Denis Walter to make way for Steve Price to be simulcast from 2GB. Repeat, it’s what being gossiped in Sydney.

Change of venue

■ Attention all Barnsie fans . The one and only Melbourne performance

by Jimmy Barnes this year has been upgraded from Margaret Court Arena to Rod LaverArena which can accommodate almost twice the number of fans over Margaret Court. Date of performance remains as October 12, patrons who have already purchased tickets are asked to apply for replacement tickets to see JB at Rod Laver.

All at sea over Billy Ocean

● Zahra Newman in Wake in Fright. Photo: Pia Johnson

Glen Eira Story Telling Festival ■ Do hot bagels drip honey? I think not. But Libbi Gorr ’s voice certainly does! As an ex Hot Bagel and one-time Elle McFeast, the author, performer and ABC Presenter, warmed the Glen Eira Gallery with her mellifluous tones as she opened the 9th Glen Eira Story Telling Festival.

Her anecdotes about growing up in Murrumbeena charmed the audience.

She was, she claimed, from Generation X and a ‘16 year old witch’.

Hard to believe now! Her participation in ‘Nostalgia and the ‘Burbs’, one of the Festival’s offerings on Thursday July 4, will be eagerly anticipated by Ms Gorr’s fans.

A Welcome to Country was provided

by Aunty Janet, who acknowledged the winter solstice on this day.

Her heritage is the Boon Wurrung people, whose traditional country spans Melbourne, from Wilsons Promontory to the mouth of the Werribee River.

The spirit of Bundjil taught the Boon Wurrung people to welcome guests, but required their promise to protect the land and its children. Her final message was that in learning we gain respect.

The Mayor of the City of Glen Eira, Jamie Hyams acknowledged the Welcome to Country and summarised the

impressive range and number of Festival events. He invited us to experience the new pop-up Festival Hub, where friends can meet for a pre-show gathering one hour before events at the Town Hall Theatrette.

Feeling thoroughly welcomed, we strolled around the gallery, admiring the superb works of art in Celebrating Culture: Contemporary Indigenous Art, by leading contemporary indigenous artists.

These included paintings, photography, drawings and installations, with themes of identity, colonisation, and cultural heritage. A marvellous range of poignant and humorous pieces. And all of this, whilst imbibing a glass of white and a generous array of delicious finger food.

There are over forty events running throughout the festival, in venues around the City of Glen Eira. These include story-telling, panel discussions, readings, art and music.

For the full program of events, visit: https:// www.gleneira.vic.gov.au/ourcity/arts-and-culture/eventsand-festivals/storytellingfestival - Review by Juliet Charles

■ All hell broke loose when more than a hundred fans of Billy Ocean rocked up to see him in concert in Melbourne . Tickets purchased from Viagogo were considered fakes until promoters replaced them with tickets but way up in the Gods. Not happy campers.

Fire bug lights up media

■ The media in two states was in the news for all the wrong reason – fire.

The mansion purposely built for the TV reality show Big Brother on the Gold Coast in 2000 was burnt to the ground and a gang of youngsters are suspects.

The mansion was awaiting transformation into a live – in accommodation for paintball players.

Next victim stricken by fire was the Melbourne building housing radio SEN, which was forced off air for a number of hours .

Loss of advertising revenue and inconvenience still being calculated.

Is there no end to Rove talents?

■ Rove McManus has won a Logie, had his own radio shows and now a publisher of children’s books.

Funny man Rove has written and illustrated two books slated for Australian release in October. Books include a picture book, and a fiction series with funny lines for all ages to enjoy.

90 not out

■ Doyen of the broadcasting industry in Bill Armstrong celebrated his ninetieth birthday with 200 of his pals . A true pioneer Bill was the inspiration behind most of the big names –artists and bands and along his journey owned record labels, a hi-tech recording studio - his advice was priceless.

Highlight of his birthday bash was a videotape resume of Bill’s life hosted by wild rocker Brian Mannix.

- John O’Keefe

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Entrancing and sublimely executed heartfelt look at the latter final years of painter Vincent van Gogh, Co-Writer & Director Julian Schnabel ("The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"-2007) embraces the character and his passion for painting in a visually unique and audacious neo-realistic and impressionistic cinematic style that defies the more traditional biopic, and in doing so, has created an intensely personal, soulful and spiritually raw portrait of the complex and enigmatic painter comparable to any of his paintings.

Four time Oscar nominated screen veteran Willem Dafoe, gives a well deserved Oscar nominated tour-de-force performance as the impassioned and embittered Vincent van Gogh, compelling us each step of the way to journey with him and see through his eyes the world that he see's through his paintings, and along the way, aided with a superb supporting cast of performances that includes Rupert Friend as Theo van Gogh, Oscar Isaac as Paul Gauguin, Mathieu Amalric as The Doctor, Mads Mikkelsen as The Priest and Emmanuelle Seigner as Madame Ginoux.

Beautifully photographed with moments of striking hand-held deep focus cinematography (by Benoit Delhomme), "At Eternity's Gate" is a radiant and poetic cinematic vision of a visionary artist that tears down conventional characteristics of filmmaking, a raw tapestry of despair and emotionally impassioned soul searching reflection, just like its subject, all encompassing a poignant tragic, thought provoking and ambiguous palate of colours and emotions that will both stimulate and divide, right to a final line of text will make your jaw drop.

FILM: IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK: Genre: Crime/Drama/Romance.

Cast: KiKi Layne, Stephen James, Regina King, Ed Skrein.

Year: 2018.

Rating: MA15+ Length: 119 Minutes.

Stars: ***½ Review: A newly engaged Harlem woman races against the clock to prove her partner's innocence of a crime he didn't commit while carrying their first born child and struggling with mixed family emotions.

Writer/Director: Barry Jenkins, who's previous credits include the Oscar winning "Moonlight" (2016), has crafted a beautifully fluent and meticulously filmed story of love, loyalty and racial injustice that flows in a poetic style with supreme patience and understanding, yet remains firmly grounded and faithful in its values of despair, race, perseverance and hope, an entrancing modern day romantictragedy with as much bite as it has heart.

Based on the acclaimed book by James Baldwin, at the forefront of the cast is piercing heartfelt performance by KiKi Layne as the pregnant girlfriend, Clementine "Tish" Rivers, trying desperately to prove her partner's innocence while battling family and financial issues, along with an Oscar nominate performance by Regina King as her Mother, Sharon Rivers, and equally impassioned and heartfelt performance by Stephan James as the wrongly convicted Alonzo "Fonny" Hunt, and Ed Skrein, who will make your blood boil as Police Officer Bell.

Beautifully written and directed for the screen (by Barry Jenkins) with a supremely lyrically tone and pacing throughout, and all brought to vivid reality with a searing palate and texture by cinematographer James Laxton (Moonlight), this is a journey of a time, culture, a system, values, frailty and strength, a poignant, powerful, humorous and touching tale .... like so many reflected in the legendary songs of The Blues that Beale Street is so deeply imbedded in.

Footnote: Beale Street in Memphis was home for such legendary Blues and Jazz artists as Louis Armstrong, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Big Mama Thornton, Cab Calloway, and many other Blues greats, the place that also inspired Elvis Presley.

Rourke’s Reviews Child’s Play ■ (MA). 90 minutes. Still showing in cinemas.

The latest iconic horror film to get the obligatory Hollywoodreboot is Child's Play, and although this new version doesn't sustain momentum and interest to the very end, it does prove to be a little better than expected, delivering an initially amusing mix of comedy and gore.

The story still centres on single mother Karen Barclay (a very restrained Aubrey Plaza) and her young son Andy (Gabriel Bateman), who have moved to a new city to make a fresh start.

Andy is somewhat of a loner, and does not get along with his mother's new boyfriend Shane (David Lewis), but does bump into affable local Detective Mike Norris (Brian Tyree Henry), whose extroverted mother Doreen (Carlease Burke) resides on the same floor.

The youngster also befriends teenagers Falyn (Beatrice Kitsos) and Pugg (Ty Consiglio).

When Karen gets Andy a much sought-after doll called Buddi (voiced by Mark Hamill) for his birthday, a creation that is selflearning and can connect with other software and electrical devices, Andy slowly realises that this Buddi (who eventually takes on the name of Chucky) isn't quite like the one advertised, with the toy's protective nature going to startlingly violent extremes.

The Child's Play premise goes from serial killer possession to tech domination, and it is a relevant new angle which could have provided a fascinating backdrop to all the horror antics, but unfortunately the subject isn't explored to its full potential.

Other topics that could have given the scenario added weight include slave labour/company ethics (seen during the film's opening sequence), and the type of unpredictable, casualised employment Karen and her colleagues have to endure.

The early scenes with Chucky work best, as Andy and his pluggedin pal begin to bond (including when Chucky starts to exhibit some decidedly odd behaviour), and there are several moments that offer up some decent laughs.

However, when the doll begins eliminating the standard line-up of expendable supporting characters, with Andy's fearful warnings predictably ignored, the film quickly falls into the routine, with a finale that feels like a toned-down version of one of the major set-pieces from the recent Puppet Master : The Littlest Reich.

Plaza (Safety Not Guaranteed, Life After Beth, The Little Hours, Ingrid Goes West) is a gifted per-

former, but her comedic skills are under-utilised here, but Hamill, taking on the role made famous by Brad Dourif, offers fine voice work as Chucky.

Most of the special effects involving Chucky don't involve CGI, which comes as a refreshing surprise, and adds to the fun.

With the original Child's Play series still going (Part Seven was released in 2017), a remake wasn't particularly needed, but while not hitting the bullseye overall, this new incarnation does provide enough chuckles to avoid being a complete misfire, and probably won't be fully dismissed by fans of the murderously mischievous doll.

And yes, it does leave the way open for a sequel.

RATING - **½

Thunder Road ■ (M). 90 minutes. Available on DVD July 3.

Expanding on his 13- minute 2016 short film of the same name, star/writer/director Jim Cummings has created one of those smallscale gems that will hopefully find an appreciative audience via positive word-of-mouth.

Cummings plays Jim Arnaud, a police officer who suffers a major breakdown when his mother dies and his wife divorces him in quick succession.

This fragile frame-of-mind causes problems at work, as well as at home, as Jim tries to get custody of his young daughter Crystal (Kendal Farr).

The opening sequence is uncomfortably raw, setting up a journey that is definitely worth taking.

Cummings is a talent to watch (his on-screen persona feels like a combination of Bill Paxton and Jim Carrey), so please try to track Thunder Road down, it is well worth the effort.

RATING - ***½

Border

■ (MA). 110 minutes.Available on DVD July 3.

Based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who authored Let The Right One In (which was superbly adapted into a feature film in 2008), Border is a strange concoction indeed, again using fantastical elements to deconstruct and subvert social mores and beliefs, while centring on a relationship between two lonely, misunderstood outcasts.

Writer/director Ali Abbasi, whose under-rated 2016 debut film Shelley also dealt with family and loneliness, taps into Lindqvist's surreal but affecting spirit extremely well, and delivers one of the most unique on-screen romances you will ever see.

RATING - **** - Aaron Rourke

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Bleak House - by Charles Dickens “Oh, Caddy, you really are an absurd girl,” returned Mrs. Jellyby, “to ask such questions after what I have said of the preoccupation of my mind.”

“And I hope, Ma, you give us your consent and wish us well?” said Caddy.

“You are a nonsensical child to have done anything of this kind,” said Mrs. Jellyby; “and a degenerate child, when you might have devoted yourself to the great public measure. But the step is taken, and I have engaged a boy, and there is no more to be said. Now, pray, Caddy,” said Mrs. Jellyby, for Caddy was kissing her, “don’t delay me in my work, but let me clear off this heavy batch of papers before the afternoon post comes in!”

I thought I could not do better than take my leave; I was detained for a moment by Caddy’s saying, “You won’t object to my bringing him to see you, Ma?” “Oh, dear me, Caddy,” cried Mrs. Jellyby, who had relapsed into that distant contemplation, “have you begun again? Bring whom?”

“Him, Ma.” “Caddy, Caddy!” said Mrs. Jellyby, quite weary of such little matters. “Then you must bring him some evening which is not a Parent Society night, or a Branch night, or a Ramification night. You must accommodate the visit to the demands upon my time. My dear Miss Summerson, it was very kind of you to come here to help out this silly chit. Good-bye! When I tell you that I have fifty-eight new letters from manufacturing families anxious to understand the details of the native and coffee-cultivation question this morning, I need not apologize for having very little leisure.”

I was not surprised by Caddy’s being in low spirits when we went downstairs, or by her sobbing afresh on my neck, or by her saying she would far rather have been scolded than treated with such indifference, or by her confiding to me that she was so poor in clothes that how she was ever to be married creditably she didn’t know. I gradually cheered her up by dwelling on the many things she would do for her unfortunate father and for Peepy when she had a home of her own; and finally we went downstairs into the damp dark kitchen, where Peepy and his little brothers and sisters were grovelling on the stone floor and where we had such a game of play with them that to prevent myself from being quite torn to pieces I was obliged to fall back on my fairy-tales. From time to time I heard loud voices in the parlour overhead, and occasionally a violent tumbling about of the furniture. The last effect I am afraid was caused by poor Mr. Jellyby’s breaking away from the dining-table and making rushes at the window with the intention of throwing himself into the area whenever he made any new attempt to understand his affairs.

As I rode quietly home at night after the day’s bustle, I thought a good deal of Caddy’s engagement and felt confirmed in my hopes (in spite of the elder Mr. Turveydrop) that she would be the happier and better for it. And if there seemed to be but a slender chance of her and her husband ever finding out what the model of deportment really was, why that was all for the best too, and who would wish them to be wiser? I did not wish them to be any wiser and indeed was half ashamed of not entirely believing in him myself. And I looked up at the stars, and thought about travellers in distant countries and the stars THEY saw, and hoped I might always be so blest and happy as to be useful to some one in my small way.

They were so glad to see me when I got home, as they always were, that I could have sat down and cried for joy if that had not been a method of making myself disagreeable. Everybody in the house, from the lowest to the highest, showed me such a bright face of welcome, and spoke so cheerily, and was so happy to do anything for me, that I suppose there never was such a fortunate little creature in the world.

We got into such a chatty state that night, through Ada and my guardian drawing me out to tell them all about Caddy, that I went on prose, prose, prosing for a length of time. At last I got up to my

Charles Dickens own room, quite red to think how I had been holding forth, and then I heard a soft tap at my door. So I said, “Come in!” and there came in a pretty little girl, neatly dressed in mourning, who dropped a curtsy.

“If you please, miss,” said the little girl in a soft voice, “I am Charley.”

“Why, so you are,” said I, stooping down in astonishment and giving her a kiss. “How glad am I to see you, Charley!”

“If you please, miss,” pursued Charley in the same soft voice, “I’m your maid.”

“Charley?”

“If you please, miss, I’m a present to you, with Mr. Jarndyce’s love.”

I sat down with my hand on Charley’s neck and looked at Charley.

“And oh, miss,” says Charley, clapping her hands, with the tears starting down her dimpled cheeks, “Tom’s at school, if you please, and learning so good! And little Emma, she’s with Mrs. Blinder, miss, a-being took such care of!

And Tom, he would have been at school — and Emma, she would have been left with Mrs. Blinder — and me, I should have been here — all a deal sooner, miss; only Mr. Jarndyce thought that Tom and Emma and me had better get a little used to parting first, we was so small.

Don’t cry, if you please, miss!”

“I can’t help it, Charley.”

“No, miss, nor I can’t help it,” says Charley.

“And if you please, miss, Mr. Jarndyce’s love, and he thinks you’ll like to teach me now and then. And if you please, Tom and Emma and me is to see each other once a month. And I’m so happy and so thankful, miss,” cried Charley with a heaving heart, “and I’ll try to be such a

“Oh, Charley dear, never forget who did all this!”

“No, miss, I never will. Nor Tom won’t. Nor yet Emma. It was all you, miss.”

“I have known nothing of it. It was Mr. Jarndyce, Charley.”

“Yes, miss, but it was all done for the love of you and that you might be my mistress. If you please, miss, I am a little present with his love, and it was all done for the love of you. Me and Tom was to be sure to remember it.”

Charley dried her eyes and entered on her functions, going in her matronly little way about and about the room and folding up everything she could lay her hands upon. Presently Charley came creeping back to my side and said, “Oh, don’t cry, if you please, miss.”

And I said again, “I can’t help it, Charley.”

And Charley said again, “No, miss, nor I can’t help it.” And so, after all, I did cry for joy indeed, and so did she.

Chapter XXIV— An Appeal Case As soon as Richard and I had held the conversation of which I have given an account, Richard communicated the state of his mind to Mr. Jarndyce. I doubt if my guardian were altogether taken by surprise when he received the representation, though it caused him much uneasiness and disappointment. He and Richard were often closeted together, late at night and early in the morning, and passed whole days in London, and had innumerable appointments with Mr. Kenge, and laboured through a quantity of disagreeable business. While they were thus employed, my guardian, though he underwent considerable inconvenience from the state of the wind and rubbed his head so constantly that not a single hair upon it ever rested in its right place, was as genial with Ada and me as at any other

time, but maintained a steady reserve on these matters. And as our utmost endeavours could only elicit from Richard himself sweeping assurances that everything was going on capitally and that it really was all right at last, our anxiety was not much relieved by him.

We learnt, however, as the time went on, that a new application was made to the Lord Chancellor on Richard’s behalf as an infant and a ward, and I don’t know what, and that there was a quantity of talking, and that the Lord Chancellor described him in open court as a vexatious and capricious infant, and that the matter was adjourned and readjourned, and referred, and reported on, and petitioned about until Richard began to doubt (as he told us) whether, if he entered the army at all, it would not be as a veteran of seventy or eighty years of age. At last an appointment was made for him to see the Lord Chancellor again in his private room, and there the Lord Chancellor very seriously reproved him for trifling with time and not knowing his mind — “a pretty good joke, I think,” said Richard, “from that quarter!” — and at last it was settled that his application should be granted. His name was entered at the Horse Guards as an applicant for an ensign’s commission; the purchase-money was deposited at an agent’s; and Richard, in his usual characteristic way, plunged into a violent course of military study and got up at five o’clock every morning to practise the broadsword exercise.

Thus, vacation succeeded term, and term succeeded vacation. We sometimes heard of Jarndyce and Jarndyce as being in the paper or out of the paper, or as being to be mentioned, or as being to be spoken to; and it came on, and it went off. Richard, who was now in a professor’s house in London, was able to be with us less frequently than before; my guardian still maintained the same reserve; and so time passed until the commission was obtained and Richard received directions with it to join a regiment in Ireland.

He arrived post-haste with the intelligence one evening, and had a long conference with my guardian. Upwards of an hour elapsed before my guardian put his head into the room where Ada and I were sitting and said, “Come in, my dears!” We went in and found Richard, whom we had last seen in high spirits, leaning on the chimney-piece looking mortified and angry.

“Rick and I, Ada,” said Mr. Jarndyce, “are not quite of one mind. Come, come, Rick, put a brighter face upon it!”

“You are very hard with me, sir,” said Richard.

“The harder because you have been so considerate to me in all other respects and have done me kindnesses that I can never acknowledge. I never could have been set right without you, sir.”

“Well, well!” said Mr. Jarndyce. “I want to set you more right yet. I want to set you more right with yourself.”

“I hope you will excuse my saying, sir,” returned Richard in a fiery way, but yet respectfully, “that I think I am the best judge about myself.”

“I hope you will excuse my saying, my dear Rick,” observed Mr. Jarndyce with the sweetest cheerfulness and good humour, “that’s it’s quite natural in you to think so, but I don’t think so. I must do my duty, Rick, or you could never care for me in cool blood; and I hope you will always care for me, cool and hot.”

Ada had turned so pale that he made her sit down in his reading-chair and sat beside her.

“It’s nothing, my dear,” he said, “it’s nothing.

Rick and I have only had a friendly difference, which we must state to you, for you are the theme. Now you are afraid of what’s coming.”

“I am not indeed, cousin John,” replied Ada with a smile, “if it is to come from you.”

“Thank you, my dear. Do you give me a minute’s calm attention, without looking at Rick.And, little woman, do you likewise. My dear girl,” putting his hand on hers as it lay on the side of the easychair, “you recollect the talk we had, we four when the little woman told me of a little love affair?”

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From Page 65 “It is not likely that either Richard or I can ever forget your kindness that day, cousin John.”

“I can never forget it,” said Richard.

“And I can never forget it,” said Ada. “So much the easier what I have to say, and so much the easier for us to agree,” returned my guardian, his face irradiated by the gentleness and honour of his heart. “Ada, my bird, you should know that Rick has now chosen his profession for the last time. All that he has of certainty will be expended when he is fully equipped. He has exhausted his resources and is bound henceforward to the tree he has planted.”

“Quite true that I have exhausted my present resources, and I am quite content to know it. But what I have of certainty, sir,” said Richard, “is not all I have.”

“Rick, Rick!” cried my guardian with a sudden terror in his manner, and in an altered voice, and putting up his hands as if he would have stopped his ears. “For the love of God, don’t found a hope or expectation on the family curse!

Whatever you do on this side the grave, never give one lingering glance towards the horrible phantom that has haunted us so many years.

Better to borrow, better to beg, better to die!”

We were all startled by the fervour of this warning. Richard bit his lip and held his breath, and glanced at me as if he felt, and knew that I felt too, how much he needed it.

“Ada, my dear,” said Mr. Jarndyce, recovering his cheerfulness, “these are strong words of advice, but I live in Bleak House and have seen a sight here. Enough of that. All Richard had to start him in the race of life is ventured. I recommend to him and you, for his sake and your own, that he should depart from us with the understanding that there is no sort of contract between you. I must go further. 1 will be plain with you both. You were to confide freely in me, and I will confide freely in you. I ask you wholly to relinquish, for the present, any tie but your relationship.”

“Better to say at once, sir,” returned Richard, “that you renounce all confidence in me and that you advise Ada to do the same.”

“Better to say nothing of the sort, Rick, because I don’t mean it.”

“You think I have begun ill, sir,” retorted Richard. “I HAVE, I know.”

“How I hoped you would begin, and how go on, I told you when we spoke of these things last,” said Mr. Jarndyce in a cordial and encouraging manner. “You have not made that beginning yet, but there is a time for all things, and yours is not gone by; rather, it is just now fully come. Make a clear beginning altogether. You two (very young, my dears) are cousins. As yet, you are nothing more. What more may come must come of being worked out, Rick, and no sooner.”

“You are very hard with me, sir,” said Richard.

“Harder than I could have supposed you would be.”

“My dear boy,” said Mr. Jarndyce, “I am harder with myself when I do anything that gives you pain. You have your remedy in your own hands.

Ada, it is better for him that he should be free and that there should be no youthful engagement between you. Rick, it is better for her, much better; you owe it to her. Come! Each of you will do what is best for the other, if not what is best for yourselves.”

“Why is it best, sir?” returned Richard hastily.

“It was not when we opened our hearts to you.

You did not say so then.”

“I have had experience since. I don’t blame you, Rick, but I have had experience since.”

“You mean of me, sir.”

“Well! Yes, of both of you,” said Mr. Jarndyce kindly. “The time is not come for your standing pledged to one another. It is not right, and I must not recognize it. Come, come, my young cousins, begin afresh! Bygones shall be bygones, and a new page turned for you to write your lives in.”

Richard gave an anxious glance at Ada but said nothing.

“I have avoided saying one word to either of you or to Esther,” said Mr. Jarndyce, “until now, in order that we might be open as the day, and all on equal terms. I now affectionately advise, I now most earnestly entreat, you two to part as you came here. Leave all else to time, truth, and steadfastness. If you do otherwise, you will do wrong, and you will have made me do wrong in ever bringing you together.”

A long silence succeeded.

Magazine “Cousin Richard,” said Ada then, raising her blue eyes tenderly to his face, “after what our cousin John has said, I think no choice is left us.

Your mind may he quite at ease about me, for you will leave me here under his care and will be sure that I can have nothing to wish for — quite sure if I guide myself by his advice. I— I don’t doubt, cousin Richard,” said Ada, a little confused, “that you are very fond of me, and I— I don’t think you will fall in love with anybody else. But I should like you to consider well about it too, as I should like you to be in all things very happy. You may trust in me, cousin Richard. I am not at all changeable; but I am not unreasonable, and should never blame you. Even cousins may be sorry to part; and in truth I am very, very sorry, Richard, though I know it’s for your welfare. I shall always think of you affectionately, and often talk of you with Esther, and — and perhaps you will sometimes think a little of me, cousin Richard. So now,” said Ada, going up to him and giving him her trembling hand, “we are only cousins again, Richard — for the time perhaps — and I pray for a blessing on my dear cousin, wherever he goes!”

It was strange to me that Richard should not be able to forgive my guardian for entertaining the very same opinion of him which he himself had expressed of himself in much stronger terms to me. But it was certainly the case. I observed with great regret that from this hour he never was as free and open with Mr. Jarndyce as he had been before. He had every reason given him to be so, but he was not; and solely on his side, an estrangement began to arise between them.

In the business of preparation and equipment he soon lost himself, and even his grief at parting from Ada, who remained in Hertfordshire while he, Mr. Jarndyce, and I went up to London for a week. He remembered her by fits and starts, even with bursts of tears, and at such times would confide to me the heaviest self-reproaches. But in a few minutes he would recklessly conjure up some undefinable means by which they were both to be made rich and happy for ever, and would become as gay as possible.

It was a busy time, and I trotted about with him all day long, buying a variety of things of which he stood in need. Of the things he would have bought if he had been left to his own ways I say nothing. He was perfectly confidential with me, and often talked so sensibly and feelingly about his faults and his vigorous resolutions, and dwelt so much upon the encouragement he derived from these conversations that I could never have been tired if I had tried.

There used, in that week, to come backward and forward to our lodging to fence with Richard a person who had formerly been a cavalry soldier; he was a fine bluff-looking man, of a frank free bearing, with whom Richard had practised for some months. I heard so much about him, not only from Richard, but from my guardian too, that I was purposely in the room with my work one morning after breakfast when he came.

“Good morning, Mr. George,” said my guardian, who happened to be alone with me. “Mr. Carstone will be here directly. Meanwhile, Miss Summerson is very happy to see you, I know.

Sit down.”

He sat down, a little disconcerted by my presence, I thought, and without looking at me, drew his heavy sunburnt hand across and across his upper lip.

“You are as punctual as the sun,” said Mr. Jarndyce.

“Military time, sir,” he replied. “Force of habit.

A mere habit in me, sir. I am not at all businesslike.”

“Yet you have a large establishment, too, I am told?” said Mr. Jarndyce.

“Not much of a one, sir. I keep a shooting gallery, but not much of a one.”

“And what kind of a shot and what kind of a swordsman do you make of Mr. Carstone?” said my guardian.

“Pretty good, sir,” he replied, folding his arms upon his broad chest and looking very large. “If Mr. Carstone was to give his full mind to it, he would come out very good.”

“But he don’t, I suppose?” said my guardian.

“He did at first, sir, but not afterwards. Not his full mind. Perhaps he has something else upon it — some young lady, perhaps.” His bright dark eyes glanced at me for the first time.

“He has not me upon his mind, I assure you, Mr. George,” said I, laughing, “though you seem to

suspect me.”

He reddened a little through his brown and made me a trooper’s bow. “No offence, I hope, miss.

I am one of the roughs.”

“Not at all,” said I. “I take it as a compliment.”

If he had not looked at me before, he looked at me now in three or four quick successive glances. “I beg your pardon, sir,” he said to my guardian with a manly kind of diffidence, “but you did me the honour to mention the young lady’s name — ” “Miss Summerson.”

“Miss Summerson,” he repeated, and looked at me again.

“Do you know the name?” I asked.

“No, miss. To my knowledge I never heard it. I thought I had seen you somewhere.”

“I think not,” I returned, raising my head from my work to look at him; and there was something so genuine in his speech and manner that I was glad of the opportunity. “I remember faces very well.”

“So do I, miss!” he returned, meeting my look with the fullness of his dark eyes and broad forehead. “Humph! What set me off, now, upon that!”

His once more reddening through his brown and being disconcerted by his efforts to remember the association brought my guardian to his relief.

“Have you many pupils, Mr. George?”

“They vary in their number, sir. Mostly they’re but a small lot to live by.”

“And what classes of chance people come to practise at your gallery?”

“All sorts, sir. Natives and foreigners. From gentlemen to ‘prentices. I have had Frenchwomen come, before now, and show themselves dabs at pistol-shooting. Mad people out of number, of course, but THEY go everywhere where the doors stand open.”

“People don’t come with grudges and schemes of finishing their practice with live targets, I hope?” said my guardian, smiling.

“Not much of that, sir, though that HAS happened. Mostly they come for skill — or idleness. Six of one, and half-a-dozen of the other. I beg your pardon,” said Mr. George, sitting stiffly upright and squaring an elbow on each knee, “but I believe you’re a Chancery suitor, if I have heard correct?”

“I am sorry to say I am.”

“I have had one of YOUR compatriots in my time, sir.”

“A Chancery suitor?” returned my guardian.

“How was that?”

“Why, the man was so badgered and worried and tortured by being knocked about from post to pillar, and from pillar to post,” said Mr. George, “that he got out of sorts. I don’t believe he had any idea of taking aim at anybody, but he was in that condition of resentment and violence that he would come and pay for fifty shots and fire away till he was red hot. One day I said to him when there was nobody by and he had been talking to me angrily about his wrongs, ‘If this practice is a safety-valve, comrade, well and good; but I don’t altogether like your being so bent upon it in your present state of mind; I’d rather you took to something else.’ I was on my guard for a blow, he was that passionate; but he received it in very good part and left off directly.

We shook hands and struck up a sort of friendship.”

“What was that man?” asked my guardian in a new tone of interest.

“Why, he began by being a small Shropshire farmer before they made a baited bull of him,” said Mr. George.

“Was his name Gridley?”

“It was, sir.”

Mr. George directed another succession of quick bright glances at me as my guardian and I exchanged a word or two of surprise at the coincidence, and I therefore explained to him how we knew the name. He made me another of his soldierly bows in acknowledgment of what he called my condescension.

“I don’t know,” he said as he looked at me, “what it is that sets me off again — but — bosh!

What’s my head running against!” He passed one of his heavy hands over his crisp dark hair as if to sweep the broken thoughts out of his mind and sat a little forward, with one arm akimbo and the other resting on his leg, looking in a brown study at the ground.

“I am sorry to learn that the same state of mind has got this Gridley into new troubles and that he is in hiding,” said my guardian.

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“So I am told, sir,” returned Mr. George, still musing and looking on the ground. “So I am told.”

“You don’t know where?”

“No, sir,” returned the trooper, lifting up his eyes and coming out of his reverie. “I can’t say anything about him. He will be worn out soon, I expect. You may file a strong man’s heart away for a good many years, but it will tell all of a sudden at last.”

Richard’s entrance stopped the conversation. Mr. George rose, made me another of his soldierly bows, wished my guardian a good day, and strode heavily out of the room.

This was the morning of the day appointed for Richard’s departure. We had no more purchases to make now; I had completed all his packing early in the afternoon; and our time was disengaged until night, when he was to go to Liverpool for Holyhead. Jarndyce and Jarndyce being again expected to come on that day, Richard proposed to me that we should go down to the court and hear what passed. As it was his last day, and he was eager to go, and I had never been there, I gave my consent and we walked down to Westminster, where the court was then sitting. We beguiled the way with arrangements concerning the letters that Richard was to write to me and the letters that I was to write to him and with a great many hopeful projects. My guardian knew where we were going and therefore was not with us.

When we came to the court, there was the Lord Chancellor — the same whom I had seen in his private room in Lincoln’s Inn — sitting in great state and gravity on the bench, with the mace and seals on a red table below him and an immense flat nosegay, like a little garden, which scented the whole court. Below the table, again, was a long row of solicitors, with bundles of papers on the matting at their feet; and then there were the gentlemen of the bar in wigs and gowns — some awake and some asleep, and one talking, and nobody paying much attention to what he said. The Lord Chancellor leaned back in his very easy chair with his elbow on the cushioned arm and his forehead resting on his hand; some of those who were present dozed; some read the newspapers; some walked about or whispered in groups: all seemed perfectly at their ease, by no means in a hurry, very unconcerned, and extremely comfortable.

To see everything going on so smoothly and to think of the roughness of the suitors’ lives and deaths; to see all that full dress and ceremony and to think of the waste, and want, and beggared misery it represented; to consider that while the sickness of hope deferred was raging in so many hearts this polite show went calmly on from day to day, and year to year, in such good order and composure; to behold the Lord Chancellor and the whole array of practitioners under him looking at one another and at the spectators as if nobody had ever heard that all over England the name in which they were assembled was a bitter jest, was held in universal horror, contempt, and indignation, was known for something so flagrant and bad that little short of a miracle could bring any good out of it to any one — this was so curious and self-contradictory to me, who had no experience of it, that it was at first incredible, and I could not comprehend it. I sat where Richard put me, and tried to listen, and looked about me; but there seemed to be no reality in the whole scene except poor little Miss Flite, the madwoman, standing on a bench and nodding at it.

Miss Flite soon espied us and came to where we sat. She gave me a gracious welcome to her domain and indicated, with much gratification and pride, its principal attractions. Mr. Kenge also came to speak to us and did the honours of the place in much the same way, with the bland modesty of a proprietor. It was not a very good day for a visit, he said; he would have preferred the first day of term; but it was imposing, it was imposing.

When we had been there half an hour or so, the case in progress — if I may use a phrase so ridiculous in such a connexion — seemed to die out of its own vapidity, without coming, or being by anybody expected to come, to any resuIt. The Lord Chancellor then threw down a bundle of papers from his desk to the gentlemen below him, and somebody said, “Jarndyce and Jarndyce.”

To Be Continued Next Issue

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Grand Final ump. smacked in the face ■ Alexandra’s local newspaper was published on Fridays in 1939, and the day before that year’s big match was announced: “Mansfield and Alexandra now have to play the grand final next Saturday on the showgrounds to decide the premiership, and should Mansfield reproduce last Saturday's form Alexandra will require all their energy and talent to counteract them.

“This match should be a dingdong go. May the better team win.”

War had been declared on September 3, 1939, so news of a premiership was a highlight of the September 15 issue: Alexandra easily defeated Mans field-Battery United in the grand final match, played at Alexandra on Saturday last.

The playing arena was in excellent order, thanks to the efforts of Mr. G. Payne, who put in some good work on Thursday in getting rid of surplus moisture.

There was a large attendance 600 odd adults and 100 children paying for admission. The gate takings amounted to .50/4/.

This is about £10 less than the "gate" at last year's grand final, but conditions are entirely different today to what they were twelve months ago, for with the nation at war fewer people are inclined to attend football matches.

Mansfield had a "day off." They put up a poor display, and were de feated by over 16 goals.

The spectators expected to see an “even go," and were very disappointed they complained about not getting their money's worth.

The fact that Alexandra were playing on their own ground had nothing todo with Mansfield's defeat, for the visitors never looked like making an interesting match of the contest.

Mansfield put on a bit of a sprint in the the third quarter, but faded away.

They played a rugged game in the last quarter, but were completely outclassed by Alexandra, who scored 8 goals 8 behinds to Mansfield's 1 goal 2 behinds.

Harper (Mansfield captain) won the toss and elected to kick to the grandstand end of the ground, which was slightly favoured by the breeze.

Mansfield's pace had Alexandra worried at the outset, but the attack failed because of the good defences of the local back men - Stillman, Gerdes, Hickmott and Puckey.

The Hewitt Bros. then appeared in the ruck and started the offensive on the Mansfield goal.

The bombardment was kept going for the rest of the quarter, and although Mansfield de fenders put up a great fight to stem the tide, they had no hope, however, of stopping the determined play put in by the ruck and Pollock and Payne (rovers), who assisted the forwards to score some easy goals.

Archer, early in this quarter, received a couple of technical "frees" and scored goals.

This seemed to unbalance the visitors a little. However, at the end of the quarter, Alexandra were 5 goals I behind to Mansfield I goal 2 be hinds, and according to their better to play deserved to be in the lead.

The second quarter started off with Alexandra making another determined attack on Mansfield's goal and it was not long before they had two more goals and several behinds

Town poet salutes the premier team Oh, Mr. Gallagher! oh, Mr. Gallagher!

Have you seen Alexandra's Football team ?

Gordon Carter on the wing, He'll beat any man they bring; And Kilpatrick in the centre, he's a king; Oh, Mr. Sheen! oh, Mr. Sheen !

It's the finest football team you've ever seen.

Linny Stillman is their flier, Every mark he goes tup higher, Is it Marysville, Mr. Gallagher ?

No, Alexandra, Mr. Sheen.

Oh, Mr. Gallagher! oh, Mr. Gallagher They're the finest lot of boys you've ever seen.

The Hewitt boys we'll greet, And Jack Pollock he's a treat, Cyril Archer kicked 10 goals, oh, what a feat.

● Early 20th Century photo of the Alexandra Showgrounds oval. on the board. About this time V. He was thanked for the splendid Congratulations on being PreHewitt was awarded a "free." miers for 1939. Considering the early financial assistance he had given the A Mansfield player appeared to difficulties and reverse the victory is club for the purpose of having a reguresent it and disputed the umpire's all the more meritorious. lar coach. decision.

Mr. T. D. Robb presented to Mr. Best players fnr Mansfield were He smacked the umpire across Hughes, Harper, Parsons, Fielding. L. Hickmott his trophy (a hand some Oh, Mr. Sheen! oh, Mr. Sheen! the face with his hand. silver cup) for the most im proved Progress scores : Macintosh is the best rover we Such a thing has never been seen Alex. Man'd player. have seen, before in Alexandra.

The cup for the best and fairest First quarter ..........................5.1, 1.2 Tarzan Garland does the trick, This incident spurred the Second quarter .................... 6.5, 1.3 player in the recent match against And Portingale, he runs so quick, Alexandra players on to do a full- Third quarter ........................ 3.4, 4.2 North Melbourne was presented to Is it Yea, Mr. Gallagher ? No, sized job, and they did it admir ably. Fourth quarter ...................... 8.8, 1.2 Mr. Jack Hewitt.

Alexandra, Mr. Shean.

They scored 6 goals 5 be hinds in On behalf of the club, Mr. J. 22.18, 7.9 this quarter to Mansfield's 1 goal 3 The winning team:-W. Wearne Guthridge heartily thanked the laOh, Mr. Gallagher! oh, Mr. behinds, and at half time , were lead- (capt.), L. Stillman, K, Stillman, M. dies for organising the ball. They had Gallagher! ing by 9 goals 1 behind.

Portingale, K. Gerdes, C. Kilpatrick, worked hard, and deserved every We'll fly the premiership flag o'er At the start of the third quarter G. Carter, J. Garland, B. Payne, L. credit for their effort to celebrate the green.

Mansfield began an attack and by McGorlick, L. Hickmott, V. Hewitt, Alexandra's victory.

Herbert Payne, he is a trier, Before the pennant was presheer hard work registered 3 goals, J. Hewitt, J. Pollock, C. Archer, R. And Ken Gerdes, he's a flier, but Alexandra were not in the least Popple, R. Puckey, C. McIntosh, sented, members of the team were And the Skipper, he can play anymarshalled at the front of the hall, perturbed - they appeared to be re 19th, E. Docking. where at all, serving themselves for a final effort.

Alexandra will receive Mr. G. and to spirited music supplied by the Oh, Mr. Sheen! oh, Mr. Sheen! orchestra they marched round the During the quarter the play was Sapsford's pennant.

Kevin Stillman is the baby of the hall, led by the vice-captain (Mr. more even and some very fine foot★ team, ball was witnessed.

The Premiership Ball was re- Len. Stillman) - the captain (Mr. W. "Puck" the certainty; Wearne) being unavoidably absent.

Mansfield depended mainly on ported in the October 6 issue: Popple, Hickmott, and the secreDuring the evening a barn dance short passing and handball.

A ball to celebrate the winning of tary, This is all right on wet days, but the premiership of the Mansfield. competition was held, and won by Is it Mansfield, Mr. Gallagher ? not on a day like Saturday, when Alexandra -District Football League Mr. Len Stillman and Miss Yvonne No, Alexandra, Mr. Shean!

Alexandra's high mark- long and was held in the Shire Hall on Tues Johnson.

It was attractively given and creThis event was for local long kicking were features. day night last.

On several occasions Mansfield About 250 dancers were present, footballers; and Cr. Payne kindly ated considerable interest.

Hoffman's orchestra provided had three to four exchanges, and and they spent a most enjoyable time. provided the prize.

A demonstra tion of a new dance- splendid dance music, and the ladAlex andra would relieve with one The arrange ments for the ball long kick, sending the ball further were made by the ladies, headed by "Boomps-a Daisy'"- was given by ies were to the fore with a very tasty back than where the exchanges Mrs. Splatt, and they worked hard Mrs. N. S Stillman and Mr. L. supper. Mr. N, Stillman acted as M.C. Stillman. started. to ensure its success.

The quarter finished up with Mans Visitors were present from field 51 points down, if Mansfield Delatite, Mansfield, Yea, and varisupporters expected their team to ous parts of the Shire. spring a surprise on Alexandra in the Prior to the supper interval, Mr. last quarter they must have been Geo. Sapsford handed over the pendisappointed, as Mansfield failed nant he had promised for the wincompletely, and never even made a ning team.

■ North Melbourne Seconds spent the week end at Alexandra, regame of it, for they only scored 1 Sir Reginald Barnewall (Presiported the issue of September 22, 1939: goal 2 behinds to Alexandra's 8 goals dent of Thornton Club) had been 8 behinds. asked to receive the pennant on beOn Saturday afternoon they played a match against the Alexandra Alexandra ran out winners by 15 half of the League, and in presenting team on the showgrounds. goals 9 behinds. it to the President of the Alexandra Both teams were not at full strength, but nevertheless an interesting Goalkickers for Alexandra- Ar- club (Mr. Geo. Orchard) heartily condisplay of football was witnessed by a fair crowd of spectators. cher 6, Wearne 5, Pollock 3, V. gratulated the Alexandra team on its Play fluctuated, and in the end North Melbourne ran out winners by Hewitt 3, McGorlick 2, B..Payne 2, success. a few points.

Popple 1. Mansfield - Hughes 3, They had worked harmoniously Mr. Kaiser, of North Melbourne, donated trophies for the best and Harper 2, Lewis 1, Humphries. to gether, and co-operated with the fairest playeron each side.

It is difficult to attempt to pick the committee, thereby greatly assisting best players, as the whole of the in paving the way to victory.

Jack Hewitt was awarded the cup for the local man, the presentation Alexandra team did their share of Mr. Orchard, in responding, said being made on the ground. the work, and at times each man they were very pleased indeed at The cup is suitably inscribed. was in the limelight with commend- being the recipients of the pennant, The Alexandra lospital received £5/3/9 as a result of the match. able play. which they hoped to unfurl next seaThe toasts of the North Melbourne and Alexandra clubs were honA team should work as a unit and son. ored at a dinner at McNair's Hotel, attended by the President (Mr. be in hiarmony with their officials Miniature pennants, kindly doOrchard) and secretary (Mr. Splatt) of the Alexandra club. and one another. nated by Mrs. Splatt, were presented Mr. Kaiser, who is an official of the North Melbourne Club, headed That is the only way to win to members of the team, the goal premlerships. Alexandra kept to that umpire, and other officials. the visiting party of over 30 players and supporters. rule.

Cr. R. E. Payne also received one

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When the ‘Saints’ won the flag ■ Mansfield were defeatedby Alexandra for the 1952 football premiership.

The local newspaper (Sept. 19, 1952) noted: In perfect conditions, with the oval at Euroa a perfect picture, Alexandra and Mansfield met to decide the winners of this year's flag.

The gate was a record - £470; and Jim Bradley, Alf Wilson and Wally Nash (Euroa) were given a great cheer on receiving their respective trophies.

In a close and interesting game Alexandra ran out winners by six points.

The football was the best of the final series, the kicking and high marking being of high standard, with Alexandra having a, slight edge all day in pace and superb defensive play.

The game was played in a fine spirit except for incidents when star players in J. Bradley and W. Reardon received unwarranted attention.

The Play.

Umpire Stevens was in charge, and Cotter, Alexandra's skipper, winning the toss, chose the town end.

Alexandra turned on the most brilliant start I can recall in senior football three goals straight in seven minutes.

At the bounce Bradley took Hall's knock out and sent to Lyn Stillman, who goaled beautifully 20 seconds after the start.

After Tarrant and Leehane, for the Blues, and Jane and Perry, for the Saints, held nice marks, Darveniza, with a 40-yard dash, passed to Lyn Stillman, and once more the vice-captain kicked truly for second major to Alexandra.

The aerial work of both sides was outstanding, and after Leehane and Bradley had pulled down two beauties Jane, roving well, sent to Duggan, who led out like a shot, marked, and snapped Alexandra's third.

Eighteenpoints to nil.Alexandra's strong start had bewildered the Blues, but with Tarrant now settling down to his true form they steadied.

They forced play forward through Arnold, who showed great pace, but Perry and R. Cumming. held the Blues out.

Leehane showed his undoubtable class by marking from Tarrant and making good position to kick a 60yard goal for the Blues' first score.

Butler caught Arnold in possession and sent to Wilson, for Alexandra's first single.

Twice W. Reardon, with heady play, made the loose man in the forward pocket.

Dolling shot a clever pass to him for Mansfield's second major, but he missed the big sticks from point blank range with his next try.

The Alexandra backs were play ing their usual close football, and the scoring slackened as both defences were settling down.

Miller and Hall were winning in the rucks, but Mansfield's control in the air was testing the Saints.

Ron Cumming sent to J. Cumming, giving a repetition of his classy positional game of the second semi-final.

His accurate pass found L. Stillman, but Hill and Franklin forced play out of bounds.

Tarrant, marking and kicking well, repulsed Alexandra three timbs, but Bradley chipped in to mark, and sent a daisy-cutter to

● Headline from the issue of September 19, 1952 Miller, whose accurate kick raised both flags to give Alexandra a handy lead of 13 points as the siren sounded: Alexandra, 4.1.

Mansfield, 2.0.

A feature of the quarter was Lyn Stillman's dominance of Alexandra's forward line for the first ten minutes, and then Tarrant’s sterling defence for the Blues.

Doolan sent to Hamilton and his long kick singled. Robinson was doing a great job against a dangerous opponent in Hamilton.

Cotter took over the kicking in for the Saints, and he was sending the ball 60 yards out with each kick.

Mansfield, showing great determination, had lifted their games, and when W. Reardon from a free in front goaled and Leehane after receiving from Patterson raised both flags, it was level pegging-4.1 each.

Honors across the centre were even as A. Hewitt and Butler, for Alexandra, and King and Arnold for Mansfield flashed into the play with pacy football.

Bradley was proving a handful for Doolan. Alexandra's fault of inaccurate kicking in front of goal was creeping into their play, as Duggan (twice), Boote, Hall and Wilson missed reasonable chances for minors only.

W. Reardon was being shadowed

by Darveniza, but he was still a power for the Blues.

He combined with John Reardon to send to Hamilton.

A doubtful mark gave him the chance to find Leehane and the Marisfield skipper raised fifth goal with a long drop kick.

Mansfield had hit the front, and Alexandra's good lead had been liquidated.

With pacy roving around the pack Wilson was in the forefront of the next attack as he handballed to Bradley, and his long kick put Alexandra five points up 5.6 to 5.1.

Within two minutes the same player received a lovely pass from the effective J. Cummings, and with the forwards covered Bradley made 40 yards and his long kick put Alexandra's sixth goal on the board.

This goal was a real highlight.

Umpire Stevens was very severe on "kicking out on purpose."

Franklin was penalised, Duggan just missing with an angle shot.

Tarrant, with beautiful marking and a 70 yard dash upfield, took Mansfield right into attack but Boote and Darveniza were in the way.

Jane marked in the centre against three opponents and sent to Bradley, a long way out, just as the bell rang.

He had his shot, but it fell short, and at the big interval Alexandra were 12 points up:

Alexandra, 6.8.

Mansfield, 5.2.

Bradley had given Alexandra an outstanding quarter.

Mansfield resumed brightly as J. Reardon and Arnold combined, to enable Millett to score Mansfield's next goal.

It was nip and tuck, with the high marking and long kicking delighting the large crowd as play swung between the respective half back lines.

J. Cummings was using the open spaces to advantage, and twice sent Alexandra forward, Jane to single and Duggan to kick a beauty for Alexandra's seventh goal.

Alexandra's pace was finding Mansfield out, and as they employed more vigorous tactics the frees were going against them.

Hall, with strong play, helped Wilson to find Bradley, whose beautiful kicking - a feature all day raised.both flags for the Saints, and they had run to the handy lead of 19 points.

It was all Alexandra as Lyn Stillman, with heady play, outwitted Tarrant twice to add singles.

A little fire crept into the game as Mansfield tried to stop Alexandra's run, and when J. Leehane marked in the teeth of goal he had the ball taken away for an infringement, palming an opponent's face. Jane goaled, and Alexandra were 9.11 to 6.2.

Umpire Stevens, who had done a good job, was a little difficult to follow as he deprived Jane and W. Reardon of what appeared to be definite marks.

As the Alexandra backs, not giving an inch, repulsed attacks started

by Doolan and Arnold, Bradley was floored unnecessarily.

Wilson, in his concern for his team mate, dropped out of the, play and Alexandra had only sixteen men in action as Mansfield attacked determinedly.

Leehane sent them right in, but Scheffer and Miller cleared two attacks as the siren sounded: Alexandra, 9.12.

Mansfield, 6.2.

Alexandra's lead was 28 points; and they had played a great quarter.

Lyn Stillman had taken a major part in Alexandra's improved forward work.

Walker had gone off for Mansfield, replaced by Jewell, and P. Dobbing had taken the place of S. Perry, injured ankle.

Mansfield started off with great determination to bridge the gap, and it was Alexandra's back men who were having a torrid time.

Keating sent to Leehane, but J. Cotter marked safely in goal.

Reardon was foolishly interfered with after disposal, and Hamilton took the penalty kick for Mansfield's

seventh goal.

It was Hamilton's first - a tribute to the fine job done by Robinson.

Wilson from Hall looked a good move for the Saints, but Edwards cleared dashingly to take the ball right round the wing to give Jewell a chance; but Robinson cleared again In a nasty incident W. Reardon was floored. From the penalty Millett just missed, and then Leehan's shot drifted away for another single-9.12 to 7.5.

Cotter was using good tactics, as Bradley took W. Reardon to one flank and then Cotter sent the ball great distances to Hall, keeping Mansfield in the bad pocket.

Hall marked well, but Alexandra were tiring and giving away unnecessary frees as Mansfield finished on.

Three times in succession the reliable Cotter marked to keep them out, but when Reardon marked in the teeth of goal from Meehan, Mansfield's eighth goal was registered and the difference was 13 points.

Cotter saved again, and with J. Stillman giving a great quarter Mansfield were held off.

Alexandra settled down after this torrid fifteen minutes, and a lucky bounce allowed Bradley's long kick to find Hall, who cooly goaled, to make the Saints 10.12 to 8.5.

J. Cummings and Leehane both marked clearly, but a bounce each time was the decision.

Millett singled for the Blues. Butler, with good position play, received from Lyn Stillman, to single for Alexandra. J. Reardon to W. Reardon to Patterson, and his long kick sailed through for Mansfield's ninth major, and Mansfield were throwing everything into a desperate finish.

Dolling's long shot hit the post at this critical stage, and Bradley marked Cotter's great clearing kick, with time on to play.

Leehane marked from Tarrant, and the siren rang out as Jewell marked and kicked Mansfield's tenth goal - but Alexandra had won the game by six points: Alexandra, 10.13.

Mansfield, .10.7.

Goal kickers:- Alexandra: Bradley (3), Duggan (2), L. Stillman (2), Miller, Hall and Jane. Mansfield: Leehane (3), W. Reardon (3), Millett, Hamilton, Pat terson and Jewell.

Best players:All of Alexandra's players carried out coach Cotter's instructions and gave a display that proved them to be worthy holders of the premiership flag.

J. Cotter has proved a most capable coach. His ability to impart his wide knowledge of the game, the re-

spect and discipline he has gained from the team have been features of the season's efforts.

His last quarter on Saturday was a superb effort, one which thrilled all lovers of football.

Robinson and T. Scheffer did their job well to make this line a very strong one.

Ron Cummings, although favoring a leg, played grandly against a worthy opponent in Leehane, and Perry (till injured) and J. Stillman were very safe all day.

Our centre line broke more than even, with J. Butler and A. Hewitt using the wings to advantage.

Jim Bradley shared the umpire's vote with J. Cummings, both giving great exhibitions in the final games.

Lyn Stillman (best and fairest in our last premiership team, 1939) played his best game of the year in winning out against one of Mansfield's top notchers, Tarrant.

Noel Miller got over his final jitters, and with J. Boote and M. Darveniza gave great assistance to Mick Hall to enable Alexandra to win in the ruck.

Hall ran himself to a stand still with a great exhibition of tireless ruck work.

George Duggan converted his opportunities well against a strong defence.

Alf Wilson and Alan Janeshowed the benefit of fitness by using their pace to keep Alexandra's ruck work mobile, and worried the opposition all day.

For Mansfield Leehane and. W. Reardon were outstanding.

Leehane delighted with his high marking, and W. Reardon was tireless in his at tempt to lift his side.

Keating and Tarrant were their best in defence, and of the others Arnold, Millett and Dolling played well.

There was great jubilation in Alexandra's room after this well merited win.

The president of the Mansfield Club offered the congratulations of his club.

Theo Greenlands spoke on behalf of Thornton, and Mr. Kelly, president of the W.N.E., presented Mr. Roy Smith, Alexandra's president, with the coveted shield.

Mr. G. Orchard, president of the last premier t am in 1939, offered congratulations on behalf of the old stagers.

Congratulations to John Cotter and the boys.

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Amanda comes out, all guns blazing

■ News that Victoria Racing Chair Amanda Elliott has come out with all guns blazing over the war with Racing New South Wales, over the positioning of major races in the racing calendar year, has racegoers interested.

Ms Elliott refers to the New South Wales move as ‘Pop Up Races’.

She wasn't happy after New South Wales Racing made a revamped move worth $45 million to their Spring Racing Program, which includes the new $7.5 million Golden Eagle Race, to be run on the same day as the Victoria Derby, a race for three-year-olds.

On top of that they have scheduled the $14 million Everest on the same day as the Caulfield Cup. Naturally Victoria Racing is concerned that it will blow a big hole in Victorian gallopers on both those days.

Ms Elliott has opened up before, about the, Chief Executive Peter V'Landys, labelling him as a "silly little man".

Without going overboard she specifically attacked her northern rivals this time, saying racing needed greater oversight.

She was quoted as saying: “I would hate to see the glorious sport of horse racing reduced to a conversation about prizemoney, or any racing jurisdiction's success being measured on the amount of its prizemoney" Stand by for more fireworks as time goes on.

Born in paradise

■ News that the world's greatest sprinter, Winx, who was recently retired, would be mated with top sire, I Am Invincible, has all racing lovers waiting with baited breath for the outcome.

I am Invincible has sired 28 individual stakes winners this season, including Invincibella, who won the Group One Tatts Tiara.

Winx's record stood at 33 consecutive wins against the best, and the owners of the champion mare certainly did their homework.

They sought advice of local and international bloodstock experts before settling on I Am Invincible, who stands at Yarraman Park.

Naturally the foal will be worth millions, but it hasn't worked for two of the greats, before Winx.

Both Makybe Diva, who won three consecutive Melbourne Cups, and Black Caviar, who won all of her 25 starts, to this stage haven't thrown anything of great note.

Very interesting to see what happens with the match born in heaven.

● I Am Invincible is to be mated with Winx. Racing Photos September 11 and October 9 , Cranbourne will race on September 18, and Ballarat on October 2. They will carry minimum prizemoney of $50,000 per race, up from $26,000, per race last spring, to ensure continuity of mid-week metropolitan racing in spring; Sandown has also been allocated an additional meeting on September 4 next year.

Other important changes include: ■ The All Star Mile- the second edition of the world's richest mile race will be held at Caulfield on Saturday, March 14 next year, retaining its position as a signature race in the Festival of Racing, one week after Super Saturday at Flemington.

■ Race Free Mondays and double-header Wednesdays-based on the strong overall wagering numbers over the past two years, racefree Mondays and double-header Wednesdays,

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Race date changes

■ Racing Victoria has released the change of race dates on all race tracks in Victoria.

The 12-month schedule of meetings will see Victoria host 558 meetings over 351 days-one more race meeting than this season, this is due to 2020 being a leap year.

The 558 meetings are split as follows: 115 metropolitan, 390 country TAB, 20 country nonTAB and 33 picnic meetings.

Victoria programmed 557 in the 2018-19 season, which is17 meetings less than a decade ago.

will continue from December 19 to March 2020.

■ Night and Twilight Racing-A total of 56 Night meetings and 20 Twilight meetings, equating to 13.6 per cent of total meetings, have been programmed in 2019-20.

■ This is the same as the current season, included within are new twilight meetings at Flemington on Sunday February 9 next year and Wednesday March 4.

■ Country Cups- As a result of the Sunday Twilight meeting at Flemington, the Colac Cup will be run one week later on Sunday February 16 next year.

■ The Yarra Valley Cup has been moved from its Sunday afternoon timeslot in March, to the Friday before Christmas, being December 20.

■ Synthetic Racing: The Synthetic racing season will conclude earlier than last year on Tuesday September 10, providing trainers more turf options, leading into the Spring Racing Carnival.

As a result the number of meetings conducted on synthetic has been reduced from 35, of which 18 will be held at Racing.Com Park and 17 at Ballarat.

■ Ballarat has an increase in the number of meetings programmed from, 30 to 36, as a result of the synthetic track being fully operational, and the turf track being able to conduct meetings in January and February.

■ Geelong has been allocated 25 rurf meetings, up from 21 in the current racing season, following the conclusion of synthetic at the venue in September last year.

In response to industry feedback, the 201920 race dates contain for additional mid-week metropolitan meetings throughout September and October, to be held at country venues.

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Murrindindi teams pay their respects

● One minute’ silence was observed at the Yea-Kinglake match (pictured), and the Thornton-Alexandra game, paying respect to Rebels player Jordan Purcell.

The second quarter saw Thornton trail by a scoreboard with Alexandra keeping Thornton The Reserves do have what it takes, and a bit ■ Thornton Eildon District Football and on work on the training track and consistency Netball Club last Saturday (June 29), for round few goals, there were a few sloppy passes and scoreless for the full first half of the match.

Daryn Leaumount, senior coach, felt his men on game days would really see this side flourish 11, hosted fellow local club Alexandra FNC and static play which enabled Alexandra to take full Yarra Junction women’s football team at our the advantage especially with their attacking end were trying to be a little fancy, and seemingly into a solid finals contending team. landing their goals confidently.

It can be hard to see the possibilities after couldn’t find their feet for effective game play home ground in Thornton.

Exceptional work rate this week from Elly through the field into their forward line. now two hard games played out under the belt.

It made for an extremely wet and soggy day Thornton went in at half -ime re-grouped Regardless, well done boys to everyone who out at Thornton, with Victoria receiving a fair and Paige who kept Alex fighting for the ball and and pulled together, coming out scoring 1 goal got the job done on the weekend in unfavourable amount of continuous rain right throughout the paying off with brilliant interceptions.

The attackers played well together in mov- and 2 behinds and defensively keeping weather conditions. day.

Let’s look towards next week when we see All five games were dedicated to young lo- ing the ball down the court, finding space and Alexandra only scoring three behinds which is Thornton head over the hill to Powelltown. cal man Jordan Purcell, who under tragic cir- getting the ball into the ring well to Jayne and an extraordinary effort by the team.

Best Players: D. Draper, R. Pezzimenti, D. This really goes to show this group does have cumstances sadly passed away early hours of Briana. They kept Alexandra’s defence on their what it takes, but really needs to find consis- Creed, B. Arnott, T. Polson, J. Gallagher June 16 in an accident in Alexandra township. toes.

In the end Alexandra were the stronger side tency in their game.

Well that’s the weekend wrap up for Thornton Jordan played football previously for In the final quarter it saw Alexandra push on this week. Training continues Tuesdays and Alexandra FNC and also cricket locally with T/ this game and took home the win but well played E members. Jordan will be sadly missed and to all the girls, you kept your heads up and battled bagging 2 goals and 5 behinds with Thornton Thursdays this week with Thursday’s meals behas touched the hearts of many especially at hard throughout the whole match never giving being able to add 1 goal and 3 behinds to the ing served at the club rooms for all members, up. supporters, families and extended community score board. our small club at Thornton.

Best: Briana, Paige, Jessie The team looks forward to next week versing members. This is a great way to enjoy a cheap WOMEN’S FOOTBALL ★ Powelltown with a couple of players expected to delicious meal and engage in your local comKicking off the day early, a stronger women’s B -GRADE make a return to the side from minor injury with munity. football team that we have seen for a while on Thornton 37 to Alexandra 42 Don’t be shy, we love welcoming new people hopes to turn their season around and keep propaper lead by team captain Tash Hay, headed This week saw the Thornton players take to gressing as a group. into our club in a small or large capacity. out on a wet ground versing third place on the the court against some familiar local faces, both Next weekend will see our club travel to Goalkickers: M. Anderson, J. Deary ladder Yarra Junction.

Best Players: J. Lowe, J. Scotland, R. Ander- Powelltown for two games of netball and two The game was a hard, tight contest with due to Thornton Eildon Netball Club past lives games of football, with our women’s team headson, J. O’Connell, J. Hehir, R. Deray.

Emily Kerr leading in defence constantly re- as well as local relationships.

With close to full B-Grade availability for ing to Monbulk for an afternoon game on Sat★ pelling the turning over the ball keeping the game this week, we brought everything we've been urday (July 7).

RESERVES MEN’S FOOTBALL very low scoring right to the end siren.

Thornton Eildon Football and Netball Club Thornton 1 to Alexandra 111 Junction headed into the last quarter with a working on throughout the season and tied it all together in a nail biter for the ages.

Brodie Arnott’s boys headed out with their is hosting a Ladies Day on July 13 at the two-point lead, Alex worked hard for every goal through our hearts on their sleeves this week, with a under- Thornton Club Rooms, tickets are $50 and we Thornton showed real strength pressing hard in their attacking end locking the ball constantly strong and well-polished defence, welcoming manned reserves side due to various reasons are supporting the Alice Slone Trust. back our power duo Maggie and Heather for saw some old faithful Shinboners pull on the It’s going to be a great day and would love to in.

Tash Hay was a clear possession winner this pressure until that ball goes through that net. blue and whites with some fresh faced new young welcome and invite all past present and future Shantelle, Cass and Tayla pumped hard in players pull the boots on new to the side. female members, supporters and family memgame, and in the final quarter was faced with Alexandra clearly had it all over Thornton bers. an opportunity at goal after Kristy Pearce was midcourt defence, with smooth intercepts, dePlease see our Facebook page for informaejected for blood rule, with the ball going through flections, second efforts and pressure applied as Thornton simply couldn’t convert their efthe whole way through.

- Sarah Stevenson forts up forwards registering on the scoreboard. tion. Go the Roos. for a point putting Thornton in front.

And we can't forget our gun attack side, pairWith 45 seconds to go, Junction pushed the ball back down their end and unfortunately ing with midcourt to provide Rosie and Keely the traction to sink our 37 goals for the game and awarded a free kick on the siren.

With the opportunity to steal the game for the huge cheers all round.

The level of improvement our players have win, Junction only managed a point deeming shown this year is incredible, rising to the chalthe game a draw.

The draw cements Thornton well and truly lenge without fail and building our strength and in finals contention with five games remaining capacity - all of this as a direct result of the for the season. Thornton 1.3 (9) to Junction commitment and hard work these players put in every single week.

1.3 (9).

Congratulations players and netball club supGoal: Tash Hay Best: Tash Hay, Maddie Oram, Tanika porters. We can't wait to see what this brilliant Brown, Alexia Andreau, Lucy McRae, Rosie energy can hook in for the rest of the season both on and off court.

Kealy Best: Tamara, Maggie and Tayla ★ ★ Netball SENIOR MEN’S FOOTBALL C-GRADE Thornton 2.5 (17) to Alexandra 8. 14 (62) Thornton 20 to Alexandra 52 In wet conditions, with a non-full strength Round 11 saw C-Grade Thornton take on team Thornton rolled out with a clear plan to Alexandra.

On a wet, cold, blustery morning the match take on Alexandra at Thornton’s home ground started off close, pretty much goal for goal for this week.

Right from the first bounce, Thornton the first quarter which is very promising signs ● The rain caused a heavy ball in the Thornton-Alexandra Reserves match. struggled to convert their efforts onto the

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Huge day at Yea Football-Netball Club

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● Jacky Baynes, Karen Baynes, Meagan Callander

● Brad Bird and Pam Wearne

● JUlie Corletto and Cameron Hutchison

● Jo and Nigel Aitkins

● Stuart Butterworth and Justin Hazelman

● Russell Akers and Russell Collins

● Noah Hildebrand, James Frankcombe, Paul Hildebrand

● Kim and Lorna Slavin

● Mick and Susan Spagnolo

● Kim Clements and Greg Clements

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Winter winds upset pennant matches ■ The East Central District Rifle Association pennant shoot this week against Shepparton / Nathalia Maroon was postponed to next Saturday (July 6).

Captain Neal Hambridge made the call early when the rain was pouring down in the hills to ensure that those who have to travel considerable distances were not disappointed by travelling to a postponed match.

His call proved to be the right one as the other two matches had to be shortened due to the weather.

The Mountain Marksmen were pleased that they had managed to get a mid week shoot in and that they did not have to shoot in miserable and wet conditions on Saturday.

The clubs that did shoot were restricted, by

detonating weather, to two 500 yard stages and the results were in the Parker Cup, Katandra 477.41 defeated Karramomus 470.34.

In the McAuliffe Shield, Nagambie 599.38 defeated Shepparton Nathalia’s 579.26 and Katandra 585.41 defeated Karramomus’s 583.34.

In the Avenel Shield the winners were Nagambie and Katandra.

Of particular interest were the outstanding scores, in what turned out to be deplorable conditions, shot by top scorers Barry Wood 182 and Craig Wearie 181.4 - or just 0.6 points out off a possible 200 points using the MCSI system to compare the different classes of shooting.

The mid week shoot this week involved members trying out old rifles and testing new

loads ready for the pennant match.

The results from the 500 yard range were: Target Rifle Phill Betts 46,6, 50,6 = 99.12 and Geoff James 23; F Standard Richard Godden 54.1,53.1, 49 = 156.2 and Brain Houlihan 55; F Open Neal Hambridge 59.6,59.3, 58.

How good it is to see such a new member shoot so well and to see both John and Captain Neal shooting in the 170’s and their scorers being only separated by one point.

Visitor Phill Betts’s 50.6 was the best score on the day, congratulations.

All shooters were looking forward to Saturday and a chance to show their skills in a penpennant match. Captain Neal’s early call proved top be a good one as Tatura and the Goulburn Valley were the location of some of the worst

storms in the State with over 30mm of rain and strong winds.

The many trees over local roads proved that even driving to and from the range was a big risk on Saturday.

Shooters are reminded that the postponed match will be shot next (Saturday July 6), weather permitting. Captain Neal will want to get started by 11am so shooters are asked to be at the range well before that to assist with the range set up.

Please consult the web site www.ecdra.com.au and go to the calendar for the latest information about all shoots.

New shooters are most welcome.

- Robert Chaffe

Rebels U18s forfeit. Wins for 2nds, 1sts SATURDAY The AFL Outer East League Round 11 of the 2019 season saw the Club's Under 18s unable to field a team and give a forfeit to Upwey Tecoma.

The balance of Rebels' teams travelled to Thornton for two games of football and two games of netball.

RESERVES The Reserves, in sixth place on the ladder, two wins and 70 per cent behind the fifth-placed Lakers, needed a win and percentage to keep their Finals hopes alive.

The Rebels started well with four unanswered goals in each of the first two quarters despite consistent rain and strong winds.

The Rebels added another eight unanswered goals in the second half as both teams worked hard but the home side was not able to convert up forward, Alexandra 16.15 (111) to 0.1 (1) at the final siren.

Thank you to Ben Jack and Nathan Stewart for running the boundary.

Awards: Caltex fuel card - David Ray, Alex Sportspower - Jarrod Williamson, JAMMM Catering - Cooper Phillips, Buxton Hotel - Ollie Jabore, Grant St Grocer - Ruben Marks.

SENIORS The Seniors had several changes for the team to take on Thornton Eildon in an important match to get the second half of the season started.

Both Clubs had the Reserves and Seniors line up for a minute's silence and the rains continued as the Rebels kicked three unanswered goals from six scoring shots in the first quarter, the ball becoming heavy and hard to handle as the Rebels kicked three goals straight in the second quarter.

The second half was a slog for all players in the freezing wintry weather, the Rebels kicking two goals from ten scoring shots for the half to run out 8.14 (62) to 2.5 (17) winners as all players looked forward to a warm shower.

Thank you to Ben Jack, not looking to walk the dog for a day or two, for helping brother DJ with the boundary in less than ideal conditions.

Thank you to Thornton for their hospitality after each of the football games.

Awards: Endeavour Petroleum award - Ray / Julie Steyger, Alex Standard award - Ryley Norris, JAMMM Catering - Brandon Kapakoulakis, Buxton Hotel - Tom McKinlay, Vibe Hotel Marysville - Michael Coombs, Grant St Grocer - Ben Woollard.

NETBALLAWARDS Caltex $25 fuel card award - Kelsey Purcell; Vibe Hotel Marysville $20 meal - Sue Haggis; Christy's $15 voucher - Carly Hill.

B-Grade won 42 - 37: JAMMM Catering $20 meal - Jayde Cairns, Grant St Grocer $10 meal - Bethany Cairns.

C-Grade won 52 - 7: JAMMM Catering $20 meal - Zarli Hoornweg, Essence Coffee Lounge $10 meal - Madison Richards.

CLUB NOTES Do not forget to order your Club merchandise - polo shirts, warm up shirts @ $50, hoodies, vests @ $70, Club stubby holders @ $7, travel mugs @ $15, peaked caps and beanies @ $25, bumper stickers are free.

The Alexandra History Book is also in stock,

available at the Alexandra Newsagents @ $30.

Thursday's Rebel Raffles will resume this week and the Holmesglen @ Eildon Jackpot will be worth $500 so come along and buy some tickets at $1 each but you need to be at the Club rooms at 8pm for the draw.

Next Saturday the Rebels return to Rebel Park and host Gembrook Cockatoo for two games of football and four games of netball, the Under 18s also at Rebel Park and hosting Berwick so there will be egg and bacon rolls available on the morning.

Everyone is invited into the social rooms after the games to enjoy the Club hospitality.

SUNDAY The Alexandra Football-Netball Club junior teams returned to Rebel Park last Sunday and round 11 of the 2019 season and hosted St Marys for four games of football and three games of netball, the facilities in terrific condition despite more than an inch of rain the previous day.

Under 12s Football Alexandra 21.18 (144) d St Marys 0.0 (0) Essence Coffee Lounge award Ryan Sproles; Reddrops Foodworks award Casey Collett;Alexandra Bakery and Café award Drew Coller; Provender Country Bakehouse award Noah Campbell; Coach's award Zac Wright.

Thank you to Max Church and Sam Kidd for umpiring.

Under 14s Football Alexandra 2.1 (13) d by St Marys 21.18 (144) Essence Coffee Lounge award Harry Correa; Reddrops Foodworks award Lachlan Armstrong;Alexandra Bakery and Café award Dylan Jack; Provender Country Bakehouse award Jackson Baker; Hadfield Contractors award Clayton Hibberd; Armstrong Family award Will Wright; Coach's award Tommy Meggitt. Thank you to Jake Keath and Chris McKay for umpiring.

Under 16s Football Alexandra 18.6 (114) d St Marys 5.14 (44) Essence Coffee Lounge award Billy Miller; Reddrops Foodworks award Ryan Lucas; Alexandra Bakery and Café award Bowen McCarthy; Provender Country Bakehouse award Brodie Humphries; Bundalaguah Engineering award Jesse King; Alan and Betty Parsons award Cameron Smith; Coach's award Jack Young. Thank you to Sam Kidd for umpiring.

Under 11s Netball Alexandra 9 defeated by St Marys 10 Reddrops Foodworks award Eva Twitchett; Alexandra Bakery and Café award Reagan O'Toole; HG Turf award Marli Coller.

Under 13s Netball Alexandra 27 defeated by St Marys 30 Reddrops Foodworks award Caeley Palmer; Alexandra Bakery and Café award Chloe Wales; Alex Physiotherapy award Tahlee Christie.

Under 15s Netball Alexandra 48 defeated St Marys 13 Reddrops Foodworks award Jordan Woehl; Alexandra Bakery and Café award Louise Hurrey; Alex Quality Meats award Sierra Pammer.

A very big thank you to the above award sponsors for their continued support of our junior footballers and netballers in 2019.

PHOTOS: ASH LONG

● Congested play in the rain between Thornton-Eildon and Alexandra Reserves.

● The Boners’Levi Ronalds went down in the Seconds match.

● Spectators took cover as an inch of rain fell at Thornton on Saturday.

League bye for the middle weekend of the school If anyone can assist with the canteen on home holidays, then travelling the following weekend games during the season please speak to Melto Kings Park to take on Seymour in three games issa Crane, Christina Irvine or Shona Miljkovic of football and three games of netball, the Un- to go on the roster. der 16 football having a bye.

- Ray Steyger

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NFNL Sunday matches DIV. 1 WOMEN’S

■ Results. Round 5. Sunday, June 30. West Preston-Lakeside 5.4 (34) d Bundoora 1.2 (8).

VU Western Spurs 1 8.11 (59) d Diamond Creek Women’s 1 0.2 (2). Darebin Falcons 1 6.12 (48) d Bendigo Thunder 0.0 (0).

DIV. 2 WOMEN’S

■ Results. Round 5. Sunday, June 30. VU Western Spurs 2 25.28 (178) d Diamond Creek Women’s 2 0.0 (0). Eltham 3.10 (28) d St Mary’s 0.2 (2). Heidelberg 5.1 (31) d Darebin Falcons 2 2.5 (17).

DIV. 3 WOMEN’S

■ Results. Round 5. Sunday, June 30. Hurstbridge 6.13 (49) d Wallan 1.2 (8). Reservoir 4.4 (28) d Mernda 3.1 (19). VU Western Spurs 3 3.4 (22) d Laurimar 0.4 (4). Montmorency 2 6.2 (38) d Greensborough 4.2 (26).

UNDER 18 GIRLS

■ Results. Round 10. Sunday, June 30. Research 6.10 (46) d Whittlesea Panton Hill 0.1 (1). Darebin Falcons 16.18 (114) d Northcote 0.1 (1). Montmorency 6.4 (40) d Diamond Creek Womens 5.3 (33). Eltham 1.2 (8) d Laurimar 0.0 (0).

UNDER 17

■ Results. Round 10. Sunday, June 30. Research 13.13 (91) d Montmorency 6.6 (42).

Eltham 22.10 (142) d Greensborough 6.3 (39).

West Preston Lakeside 11.11 (71) d South Morang 10.8 (68). Kilmore 10.9 (69) d Yarrambat 4.10 (34). Diamond Creek: Bye.

UNDER 16 BLUE

■ Results. Round 6. Sunday, June 30.

Laurimar 7.13 (55) d Mernda 3.5 (23). Yarrambat 14.8 (92) d West Preston-Lakeside 5.6 (36).

Greensborough 16.22 (118) d Montmorency 3.5 (23).

UNDER 16 RED

■ Results. Round 6. Sunday, June 30. Diamond Creek 13.2 (80) d Kilmore 10.3 (63).

Whittlesea 16.14 (110) d Hurstbridge 8.5 (53).

Bundoora Park Thunderbolts 7.11 (53) d Research 5.8 (38). Eltham 10.6 (66) d Mill Park 6.8 (44). Wallan: Bye.

UNDER 16 GIRLS BLUE

■ Results. Round 6. Sunday, June 30.

Yarrambat 5.5 (35) d Research 3.5 (23). Diamond Creek Womens Red 6.7 (43) d Wallan 2.8 (20). Kilmore 16.14 (110) d Northcote 0.2 (2).

Montmorency 6.10 (46) d Greensborough 1.1 (7).

UNDER 16 GIRLS RED

■ Results. Round 6. Sunday, June 30. Darebin Falcons 5.1 (31) d Whittlesea 2.6 (18). Eltham 6.8 (44) d Mill Park 0.1 (1). Diamond Creek Womens Blue 13.10 (88) d South Morang 2.0 (12).

UNDER 15 BLUE

■ Results. Round 6. Sunday, June 30. Yarrambat 18.9 (117) d Laurimar 4.8 (32). Montmorency 8.7 (55) d Eltham 5.13 (43). South Morang Blue 20.8 (128) d Wallan 8.6 (54). Research 10.17 (77) d West Preston Lakeside 7.11 (53).

UNDER 15 RED

■ Results. Round 6. Sunday, June 30.

Northcote-Reservoir 10.6 (66) d Keon Park 3.6 (24). Mernda 11.12 (78) d Greensborough 5.8 (38). Diamond Creek 19.15 (129) d South Morang Gold 3.6 (24). Mill Park 13.11 (89) d Kilmore 6.12 (48). Whittlesea: Bye.

UNDER 13 GREEN

■ Results. Round 6. Sunday, June 30.

Laurimar Teal 7.6 (48) d Eltham Red 5.7 (37).

South Morang 3.5 (23) d Keon Park 0.0 (0).

Wallan 9.7 (61) d Mernda 2.8 (20).

UNDER 12 BLUE

■ Results. Round 6. Sunday, June 30. South Morang 7.2 (44) d Eltham Red 4.6 (30). Eltham Pantheers 5.9 (39) d Montmorency Black 3.3 (21). Whittlesea 9.9 (63) d Wallan 0.0 (0).

UNDER 12 RED

UNDER 14 BLUE

■ Results. Round 6. Sunday, June 30.

Laurimar 5.5 (35) d Mernda Blue 3.3 (21).

Yarrambat 9.7 (61) d Kilmore 1.0 (6). Northcote 5.5 (35) d Eltham Black 3.6 (24). Mill Park: Bye.

UNDER 14 RED

■ Results. Round 6. Sunday, June 30. Research 9.11 (65) d Bundoora Park Thunderbolts 1.4 (10). Thomastown v Epping. Montmorency White 4.4 (28) d Mernda Red 2.7 (19). Diamond Creek 8.8 (56) d Reservoir 1.3 (9).

■ Results. Round 6. Sunday, June 30.

Whittlesea 5.6 (36) d Kilmore 1.2 (8). Eltham Black 3.10 (28) d Greensborough 3.3 (21).

Laurimar Black 10.7 (67) d Mill Park 1.0 (6).

South Morang 13.7 (85) d Yarrambat 3.4 (22).

■ Results. Round 6. Sunday, June 30. Diamond Creek 10.7 (67) d Montmorency 1.1 (7).

Epping 8.3 (51) d Northcote 3.2 (20). Research 10.8 (68) d Mernda 2.2 (14).

UNDER 14 GREEN

■ Results. Round 6. Sunday, June 30. Bundoora Park Thunderbolts 10.12 (72) d Eltham Red 1.2 (8). West Preston-Lakeside 10.11 (71) d Wallan 0.0 (0). Reservoir-Thomastown v Panton Hill.

UNDER 14 GIRLS BLUE

■ Results. Round 6. Sunday, June 30. South Morang 10.3 (63) d Research 3.1 (19). Bundoora Park Thunderbolts 6.3 (39) d Montmorency Black 2.2 (14). Diamond Creek Womens Blue 6.12 (48) d Laurimar 0.0 (0). Whittlesea 8.5 (53) d Eltham 0.0 (0).

UNDER 14 GIRLS RED

■ Results. Round 6. Sunday, June 30. Diamond Creek Womens Red 4.6 (30) d Wallan 2.1 (13). West Preston Darebin 6.5 (41) d Northcote 2.5 (17). Mernda 8.18 (66) d Mill Park 0.2 (2).

Montmorency White 2.0 (12) d Yarrambat 1.2 (8).

UNDER 13 BLUE

UNDER 12 GREEN

UNDER 12 GIRLS BLUE

■ Results. Round 6. Sunday, June 30. Green Searchers 6.7 (43) d Montmorency Black 0.0 (0). Wallan 10.7 (67) d Darebin Falcons 1.1 (7).

South Morang 4.4 (28) d Eltham 0.0 (0). Diamond Creek Women’s 5.14 (44) d Laurimar 0.2 (2).

UNDER 12 GIRLS RED

■ Results. Round 6. Sunday, June 30.

Whittlesea 4.6 (30) d Montmorency White 2.2 (14). Mernda 3.3 (21) d Yarrambat 0.0 (0). Hurstbridge 5.5 (35) d Northcote 2.1 (13).

UNDER 11 BLUE

■ Results. Round 6. Sunday, June 30. West Preston Lakeside 6.5 (41) d South Morang 1.3 (9). Yarrambat 8.2 (50) d Laurimar Black 5.2 (32). Montmorency Black 13.9 (87) d Research 2.3 (15). Eltham Black 4.4 (28) d Laurimar Teal 3.1 (19).

UNDER 11 RED

■ Results. Round 6. Sunday, June 30. Wallan 8.10 (58) d Whittlesea Blue 3.0 (18). Diamond Creek 6.7 (43) drew with Mernda Blue 6.7 (43).

Eltham Red 4.9 (53) d Eltham Panthers 2.4 (16).

UNDER 11 GREEN

■ Results. Round 6. Sunday, June 30. Montmorency 6.6 (42) d West Preston Lakeside 0.3 (3). Epping 11.11 (77) d Yarrambat 4.0 (24).

Eltham Black 6.9 (45) d Laurimar Black 5.5 (35). Diamond Creek 11.6 (72) d Northcote 5.0 (30).

■ Results. Round 6. Sunday, June 30. Mill Park 7.17 (59) d Greensborough 0.1 (1). Bundoora Park Thudnerbolts 4.7 (31) d West Ivanhoe 4.4 (28). Kilmore 6.19 (55) d Montmorency White 1.2 (8).

■ Results. Round 6. Sunday, June 30. Greensborough v Bundoora Park Thunderbolts.

Whittlesea 6.14 (50) d Hurstbridge 2.2 (14). Mill Park 12.8 (80) d Kilmore 0.4 (4). Research: Bye.

■ Results. Round 6. Sunday, June 30. Hurstbridge 4.5 (29) d Reservoir 2.3 (15). Keon Park 6.3 (39) d Mernda Red 1.4 (10). Northcote Blue v Northcote Yellow.Whittlesea Gold 3.10 (28) ed Epping 1.1 (7).

UNDER 13 RED

UNDER SILVER

Country football leagues GOULBURN VALLEY

■ Seniors. Results. Round 12. Saturday, June 29. Euroa 6.8 (44) d Benalla 4.12 (36).

Shepparton 10.24 (84) d Shepparton 10.24 (84).

Seymour 6.6 (42) d Mansf ield 6.5 (41). Shepparton United 11.9 (75) d Shepparton Swans 3.7 (25). Kyabram 8.14 (62) d Tatura 6.2 (38).

Echuca 10.9 (69) d Rochester 4.4 (28).

■ Reserves. Results. Round 12. Saturday, June 29. Rochester 5.9 (39) d Echuca 5.5 (35).

Euroa 15.5 (95) d Benalla 7.6 (48). Shepparton 6.9 (45) d Mooroopna 5.6 (36). Seymour 15.9 (99) d Mansfield 2.3 (15). Shepparton Swans 2.9 (21) d Shepparton United 3.2 (20). Tatura 5.8 (38) d Kyabra, 3.3 (21).

NFNL DIV. 3 SENIORS LADDER

■ Seniors. 1. Laurimar, 181.13, 40. 2.

Kilmore, 168.04, 32. 3. Panton Hill, 244.49, 28. 4. South Morang, 100.28, 22. 5. Mernda, 112,52, 20. 6. Heidelberg West, 104.93, 20.

7. Old Eltham Coolegians, 72.47, 10. 8. Lalor, 48.24, 4. 89. Reservoir, 33.76, 0.

■ Under 18. Results. Round 12. Saturday, June 29. Echuca 11.8 (74) d Rochester 7.5 (47).

Benalla 13.18 (96) d Euroa 2.8 (20). Mooroopna 7.4 (46) d Shepparton 5.6 (36). Mansfield 9.8 (62) d Seymour 9.7 (61). Shepparton United 7.10 (52) d Shepparton Swans 2.4 (16). Kyabram 7.15 (57) d Tatura 4.1 (25).

June 29. Ardmona 18.12 (120) d Undera 2.1 (13). Stanhope 8.5 (53) d Murchison-Toolamba 4.7 (31). Merrigum 5.7 (37) d Dookie United 4.3 (27). Girgarre 8.21 (69) d Longwood 3.4 (22).

Nagambie 20.14 (134) d Rushworth 6.8 (44).

Shepparton East 17.7 (109) d Talygaroopna 3.6 (24). Lancaster: Bye.

■ Seniors. Results. Round 12. Saturday, June 29. Undera 27.27 (189) d Ardmona 1.1 (7).

Avenel 9.1 (55) d Stanhope 4.5 (29). Girgarre 14.18 (102) d Longwood 0.2 (2). Lancaster 15.26 (116) d Violet Town 3.0 (18). Nagambie 11.24 (90) d Rushworth 4.9 (33). Tallygaroopna 14.13 (97) d Shepparton East 4.5 (29(). MurchisonToolamba: Bye. ■ Reserves. Results. Round 12. Saturday, June 29. Undera 27.23 (185) d Ardmona 0.0 (0). Avenel 5.3 (33) d Stanhope 1.2 (8). Merrigum 14.14 (98) d Dookie United 0.1 (1). Girgarre 22.20 (152) d Longwood 0.3 (3). Lancaster 17.18 (120) d Violet Town 0.3 (3). Nagambie 23.12 (150) d Rushworth 0.0 (0). Tallygaroopna 21.13 (139) d Shepparton East 0.0 (0). MurchisonToolamba: Bye.

■ Seniors. Results. Round 11. Saturday, June 29. Riddell 17.12 (114) d Broadford 0.1 (1) Melton Centrals 7.4 (46) d Macedon 4.5 (29).

Diggers rest 13.17 (95) d Lancefield 2.4 (16).

Wallan 6.12 (48) d Romsey 2.3 (15). Rupertswood 7.8 (50) d Woodend-Hesket 2.2 (14).

Rockbank: Bye. ■ Reserves. Results. Round 11. Saturday, June 29. Melton Centrals 9.11 (65) d Macedon 1.0 (6). Diggers Rest 6.15 (51) d Lancefield 1.3 (9). Riddell d Broadford. Wallan 6.17 (53) d Romsey 1.0 (6). Rupertswood 5.5 (35) d Woodend-Hesket 4.7 (31). Rockbank: Bye. ■ Under 18. Results. Round 12. Saturday, June 29. Wallan 4.9 (33) d Riddell 3.6 (24). Diggers Rest 8.17 (65) d Lancefield 3.3 (21).

Woodend-Hesket 6.5 (41) d Rupertswood 5.7

KYABRAM DISTRICT

RIDDELL DISTRICT

NORTHERN FOOTBALL LEAGUE: FOOTBALL SCORES AT A GLANCE DIVISION 1

■ Seniors. Results. Round 10. Saturday, June 29. West Preston-Lakeside 13.7 (85) d Northcote Park 7.5 (47). Greensborough 10.9 (69) d Maceloed 2.6 (18). Montmorency 13.13 (91) d Hurstbridge 5.7 (37). North Heidelberg 8.5 (53) d Lower Plenty 0.1 (1). Heidelberg 11.12 (78) d Bundoora 3.11 (29).

■ Ladder. 1. Greensborough, 227.25, 40. 2.

Heidelberg, 174.59, 32. 3. North Heidelberg, 129.33, 26. 4. Bundoora, 88.99, 20. 5. West Preston-Lakeside, 92.21, 16. 6. Montmorency, 84.54, 16. 7. Northcote Park, 76.46, 16. 8.

Macleod, 93.18, 14. 9. Hurstbridge, 70.45, 12. 10. Lower Plenty, 62.44, 8.

■ Reserves. Results. Round 10. Saturday, June 29. West Preston-Lakeside 12.7 (79) d Northcote Park 6.8 (44). Greensborough 10.14 (74) d Macleod 2.6 (18). Montmorency 13.10 (88) d Hurstrbidge 6.12 (48). North Heidelberg 5.11 (41) d Lower Plenty 5.5 (35).

Bundoora 12.3 (75) d Heidelberg 2.9 (21).

■ Ladder. 1. Greensborough, 481.93, 40. 2.

Bundoora, 169.31, 32. 3. North Heidelberg, 114.94, 28. 4. West Preston-Lakeside, 137.59, 24. 5. Heidelberg, 117.20, 24. 6. Montmorency, 94.38, 24. 7. Macleod, 110.42, 16. 8.

Lower Plenty, 51.93, 8. 9. Hurstbridge, 53.65, 4. 10. Northcote Park, 31.65, 0.

■ Under 19. Results. Round 10. Saturday, June 29. Eltham 1 5.15 (45) d Diamond Creek 4.4 (28). Heidelberg 10.12 (72) d Montmorency 6.8 (44). St Mary’s 20.12 (132) d Banyule 8.5 (53). Whittlesea 12.20 (92) d Macleod 0.3(3). Bundoora 11.7 (73) d Greensborough 15.9 (39).

■ Ladder. 1. Eltham 1, 171.98, 36. 2. St Mary’s, 171.43, 32. 3. Whittlesea, 179.46, 28.

4. Bundoora, 165.37, 28. 5. Heidelberg, 142.81, 28. 6. Montmorency, 96.21, 24. 7.

Diamond Creek, 97.85, 16. 8. Greensborough 1, 62.28, 16. 9. Banyule, 38.60, 8. 10.

Macleod, 34.03, 4.

DIVISION 2

■ Seniors. Results. Round 10. Saturday, June 29. Epping 5.8 (38) d Watsonia 2.6 (18).

Diamond Creek 8.15 (63) drew with Fitzroy Stars 8.15 (63). St Mary’s 8.15 (63) d Banyule 7.8 (50). Whittlesea 3.8 (26) d Eltham 3.4 (22). Thomastown: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Banyule, 204.76, 32. 2. Eltham, 131.22, 24. 3. Whittlesea, 111.74, 24. 4.

Thomastown, 112.17, 20. 5. Fitzroy Stars, 94.72, 18. 6. Diamond Creek, 92.70, 18. 7.

Watsonia, 83.73, 12. 8. St Mary’s 68.69, 8. 9.

Epping, 53.74, 4.

■ Reserves. Results. Round 10. Saturday, June 29. Watsonia 17.11 (113) d Epping 2.2 (14). Fitzroy Stars 9.7 (61) d Diamond Creek 4.7 (31). St Mary’s 14.7 (91) d Banyule 4.9 (33). Whittlesea 3.4 (22) d Eltham 2.2 (14).

Thomastown: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Eltham, 244.69, 32. 2.

Whittlesea, 200.52, 28. 3. Fitzroy Stars, 149.60, 28. 4. St Mary’s, 137.40, 20. 5. Banyule, 134.71, 20. 6. Thomastown, 98.39, 16.

7. Watsonia, 89.26, 12. 8. Diamond Creek, 56.09, 4. 9. Epping, 10.49, 0.

■ Under 19. Results. Round 10. Saturday, June 29. Mill Park 10.6 (66) d Eltham 2 2.9 (21). Lower Plenty 11.20 (86) d West PrestonLakeside 5.2 (32). Laurimar 12.19 (91) d Greensborough 2 5.4 (34). South Morang 18.12 (120) d Mernda 11.8 (74). Hurstbridge 8.13 (61) d Bulldog Bloods 5.13 (43).

■ Ladder. 1. South Morang, 261.87, 40. 2.

Mill Park, 195.53, 28. 3. Mernda, 119.25, 28.

4. Lower Plenty, 286.90, 24. 5. Laurimar, 78.i90, 20. 6. West Preston Lakeside, 121.87, 16. 7. Greensborough 2, 61.46, 16. 8. Eltham 2, 55.14, 16. 9. Hurstbridge, 30.64, 8. 10. Bulldog Bloods, 41.01, 4.

DIVISION 3

■ Seniors. Results. Round 10. Saturday, June 29. Old Eltham Collegians 8.14 (62) d Reservoir 4.2 (26). Kilmore 12.6 (78) d Heidelberg West 4.7 (31). Laurimar 13.15 (93) d Lalor 2.4 (16). Mernda 6.2 (38) d South Morang 5.7 (37). Panton Hill: Bye. ■ Reserves. Results. Round 10. Saturday, June 29. Old Eltham Collegians 17.16 (118) d Reservoir 1.3 (9). Heidelberg West 9.9 (63) d Kilmore 3.6 (24). Laurimar 5.8 (38) d Lalor 3.4 (22). South Morang 5.8 (38) d Mernda 4.10 (34). Panton Hill: Bye.

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NORTHERN NETBALL SCORES AT A GLANCE SECTION 1

■ Results. Round 5. Friday, June 28.

Greensborough 1 v Bundoora 1. Ivanhoe 1 69 d Diamond Creek 2 50. Heidelberg 1 46 d Fitzroy Stars 1 39. Diamond Creek 1 66 d North Heidelberg 1 59.

SECTION 2

■ Results. Round 5. Friday, June 28.

Craigieburn `1 34 d Heat 1 23. Greensborough 2 d Heidelberg 2. Laurimar 1 30 d St mary’s 1 26. Northcote Park 1 v Ivanhoe 2.

SECTION 3

■ Results. Round 5. Friday, June 28. Old Eltham Copllegians 1 24 d Heidelberg 3 23.

Diamond Creek 3 29 drew with Ivanhoe 3 29.

North Heidelberg 2 33 d Watsonia 1 29.

Thomastown 1: Bye.

SECTION 4

■ Results. Round 5. Friday, June 28.

Craigieburn 2 38 d Diamond Creek 4 19. St Mary’s 2 27 d Kilmore 1 26. Bundoora 2 d hurstbridge 1. North Heidelberg 3 v Ivanhoe 4.

SECTION 5

■ Results. Round 6. Friday, June 28.

Watsonia 2 30 d Heat 2 26. Ivanhoe 5 32 d Northcote Park 2 29. Montmorency 1 35 d Macleod 1 29. Bundoora 3 34 d Greensborough 3 31.

SECTION 6

■ Results. Round 6. Friday, June 28.

Kilmore 2 30 d Laurimar 2 29. Heidelberg 4 v Diamond Creek 5. Heidelberg West 1 35 d North Heidelberg 4 23. Fitzroy Stars 2 27 d Thomastown 2 27.

SECTION 7

Sport

Photos by Ian Porter

Alex. strong in SDJFNL footy SCOREBOARD UNDER 16 ■ Results. Round 11, Sunday, June 30.

Alexandra 18.6 (114) d St Mary’s 5.14 (44).

Broadford 13.9 (87) d Euroa 8.6 (54). Seymour: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Broadford, 368.06, 44. 2. St Mary’s, 147.65, 28. 3. Euroa, 93.89, 24. 4. Alexandra, 68.14, 24. 5. Seymour, 23.94, 12.

UNDER 14 ■ Results. Round 11, Sunday, June 30. St Mary’s 21.18 (144) d Alexandra 2.1 (13).

Broadford 4.2 (26) d Tabilk 2.7 (19). Seymour 11.9 (87) d Wandong 5.2 (32). Euroa 6.6 (42) d Yea 0.0 (0).

■ Ladder. 1. St Mary’s, 692.00, 40. 2. Euroa, 449.70, 40. 3. Tabilk, 250.35, 28. 4. Broadford, 211.64, 28. 5. Yea, 69.92, 20. 6. Alexandra, 52.07, 12. 7. Seymour, 25.84, 8. 8. Wandong, 13.28, 0.

UNDER 12 ■ Results. Round 11, Sunday, June 30.

Alexandra 21.18 (`144) d St Mary’s 0.0 (0).

Tabilk 15.6 (96) d Broadford 0.0 (0). Seymour 18.13 (121) d Wandong 1.1 (7). Euroa 9.8 (62) d Yea 1.1 (7).

■ Ladder. 1. Alexandra, 613.66, 44. 2. Euroa, 269.88, 36. 3. Seymour, 221.28, 32. 4. Tabilk, 229.90, 28. 5. Yea, 121.88, 20. 6. Broadford, 86.36, 10. 7. St Mary’s, 36.29, 6. 8. Wandong, 1.74, 0.

UNDER 16

ALEXANDRA ............. 7.1, 11.2, 14.4, 18.6 (114) ST MARY’S ................... 2.2, 5.6, 5.8, 5.14 (44) Alexandra. Goalkickers: R. Lucas 6, B. Humphries 4, J. Bourke 2, E. Russell 2, J. King

2, W. Cannan, B. Jack.

UNDER 12 St Mary’s. Goalkickers: N. Quigg 2, W. Weeks, It’s always a tough game against the well A. Elliott, D. Gleeson. drilled Euroa side. Congratulations to M. Papadoplous and L. McAlpin who played their UNDER 14 ST MARY’S .......... 6.6, 12.10, 17.13, 21.18 (144) first game in Under 12s, coming up from the ALEXANDRA ..................... 0.1, 2.1, 2.1, 2.1 (13) Under 10s to play with their brothers.

The Tigers did incredibly well considering St Mary’s. Goalkickers: O. Munro 8, S. Thompson 4, I. Joseph-Hunter 3, A. Hana 2, F. the number of outs they had and the visible difference in size of the players.

Rutherford 2, R. Wilson, C. Trodd.

In the first half the Tigers unfortunately Alexandra. Goalkickers: C. Hiberd, C. Kidd. couldn't get on the scoreboard, however this was EUROA ................................ 1.2, 3.5, 5.6, 6.6 (42) not through a lack of trying and they never YEA ..................................... 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 (0) dropped their heads.

Euroa. Goalkickers: M. Mercuri 2, J. Dunn, W. Their persistence paid off in the third and Smyth, C. Hall, T. McCabe. saw S. Gregory kick the only goal for the Tigers for the day.

UNDER 12 Yea 1.1 (7) defeated by Euroa 9.8 (62) ALEXANDRA .......... 6.6, 12.7, 15.15, 21.18 (144) Awards: E. Ockwell, W. Granter ,E. Fisher ST MARY’S ........................ 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 (0) - Deb Schickerling Alexandra. Goalkickers: R. Sproles 4, N. UNDER 14 Campbell 4, C. Collett 4, M. Waixel 2, W. Fallon The boys had a huge challenge ahead of them, 2, C. Carden 2, D. Coller 2, D. Woehl. taking on the reining premiers the Euroa MagEUROA ................................ 3.3, 4.5, 5.8, 9.8 (62) pies.

With a mind set to win they hit the field and YEA ..................................... 0.0, 0.0, 1.1, 1.1 (7) Euroa. Goalkickers: C. Robertson 3, B. Fraser put up the best fight ever. Defence was the main 2, A. Wilson 2, N. Watson, Z. Burton. theme with Dominik taking on anyone with the Yea. Goalkicker: S. Gregory. ball, Luke Kelderman was brilliant on the back line defending the goals and putting on plenty of YEA REPORTS pressure.

UNDER 10 The team played well together fantastic to The Under 10s travelled to Euroa to play the Magpies. The team spirit was amazing, all play- watch. Yea was defeated by Euroa with the fiing well together. Bradley made a few goals nal score 6-42.

Awards: D. Ciantar, L. Kelderman, F. and Jorja was in the thick of it all.

Awards: K. Crockett, T. Fairchild, B. Birchall. Archibald - Belinda Johnston - Belinda Johnston

■ Results. Round 6. Friday, June 28.

Whittlesea 1 24 d Craigieburn 3 16. South Morang 1 31 d Mernda 1 19. Epping 1 34 d Bundoora 4 29. Hurstbridge 2 25 d St Mary’s 3 23.

SECTION 8

■ Results. Round 6. Friday, June 28.

Mernda 2 37 d Fitzroy Stars 3 15. La Trobe 2 43 d Heat 3 31. Macleod 2 36 d Montmorency 2 26. Watsonia 3 v Reservoir 2. South Morang 2: Bye.

SECTION 9

■ Results. Round 6. Friday, June 28. Reservoir 1 31 d Thomastown 3 29. West Ivanhoe 1 15 d Northcote Park 3 14. Kilmore 3 30 d Whittlesea 2 21. Lower Plenty 1 v Epping 2.

● Yea Uinder 12: W. Granter

● Yea Under 12: S. Gregory

● Yea Under 12: J. Porter

● Yea U12 Awards: E. Ockwell, W. Granter E. Fisher

● Yea Under 10: S. Heyen

● Yea Under 10: L. McAlpin

● Yea Under 10: B. Birchall

● Yea U10 Awards: D. Ciantar, L .Kelderman, F. Archibald.

SECTION 10

■ Results. Round 6. Friday, June 28. South Morang 3 35 d Montmorency 3 15. Watsonia 4 28 d Hurstbridge 3 13. Kilmore 4 34 d Bundoora 5 19. Mernda 3 v Thomastown 4.

SECTION 11

■ Results. Round 6. Friday, June 28. Montmorency 4 26 d Laurimar 3 22. Mernda 4 22 d Hurstbridge 4 12. Fitzroy Stars 4 25 drew with Bundoora 6 25.

SECTION 12

■ Results. Round 6. Friday, June 28.

Bundoora 7 31 d Mernda 5 5. Heat 4 27 d Laurimar 4 12. West Preston 1 28 drew with Kilmore 5 28. North Heidelberg 5 v Heidelberg West 2.

Sports Briefs Raffle this Sat.

■ The Kinglake Football-Netball Clubholds its Dinner and Reverse Draw Raffle this Saturday (July 6). First prize is a Mitsubishi Mirage valued at more than $15,000.

There are 350 tickets at $120 each. The event is from 5pm-11pm at thed pavilion at the Kinglake Memorial Reserve.

Phone 0425 809 369 for tickets.

Catering help

■ Members of the Yea Girls Football team assisted with serving meals at the Worksafe Day held at The Rec. on Sunday (June 30).

Leading the effort to feed more than 100 people was John Brick.

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Trifecta for Yea netballers against Kinglake ■ Yea enjoyed a trifecta with A-, C- and DGrade victories in Division 2 netball against Kinglake, at home, on Sunday (June 30).

PHOTO: ASH LONG

DIV.2 NETBALL SCOREBOARD

A-GRADE ■ Results. Round 11. Saturday, June 29.

Gembrook-Cockatoo 26 d Yarra Junction 11.

Seville 33 d Powelltown 21. Alexandra: Bye. Yarra Glen: Bye. Sunday, June 30. Yea 44 d Kinglake 37.

■ Ladder. 1. Yea, 169.03, 44. 2. Seville, 171.48, 36. 3. KInglake, `142.99, 32. 4. Yarra Glen, 99.39, 32. 5. Alexandra, 89.99, 28. 6. Yarra Junction, 94.70, 20. 7. Powelltown,, 83.30, 16.

8. Gembrook-Cockatoo, 32.85, 8.

B-GRADE ■ Results. Round 11. Saturday, June 29. G. Sunday, June 30. Yarra Junction 43 d Gembrook-Cockatoo 20. Seville 41 d Powelltown 21. Alexandra 42 d Thornton-Eildon 37. Yarra Glen: Bye. Sunday, June 30.

Kinglake 41 d Yea 25.

■ Ladder. 1. Seville, 229.32, 44. 2. Yarra Glen, 146.71, 32. 3. Kinglake, 142.60, 32. 4. Alexandra, 126.12, 28. 5. Yea, 97.60, 24. 6. Powelltown, 93.50, 24. 7. Yarra Junction, 93.47, 20. 8.

Thornton-Eildon, 58.91, 12. 9. GembrookCockatoo, 32.40, 4.

C-GRADE ■ Results. Round 11. Saturday, June 29. G Sunday, June 30. Yarra Junction 34 d Gembrook-Cockatoo 15. Seville 44 d Powelltown 16. Alexandra 52 d Thornton-Eildon 20. Yarra Glen: Bye. Sunday, June 30. Yea 52 d Kinglake 14.

■ Ladder. 1. Seville, 349.30, 44. 2.Alexandra, 181.78, 40. 3. Powelltown, 148.31, 32. 4. Yarra Glen, 138.20, 32. 5. Yea, 136.60, 24. 6. Yarra Junction, 87.36, 16. 7. Kinglake, 71.73, 16. 8.

Gembrook-Cockatoo, 35.71, 8. 9. ThorntonEildon, 24.03, 8.

D-GRADE ■ Results. Round 11. Saturday, June 29. G Sunday, June 30. Gembrook-Cockatoo 26 d Yarra Junction 11. Seville 33 d Powelltown 21.

Alexandra: Bye. Yarra Glen: Bye. Sunday, June 30. Yea 39 d Kinglake 10.

■ Ladder. 1. Seville, 175.47, 44. 2. Alexandra, 141.25, 36. 3. Powelltown, 122.75, 34. 4. Yarra Glen, 122.44, 34. 5. Yea, 127.68, 24. 6. Yarra Junction, 101.08, 22. 7. Gembrook-Cockatoo, 73.39, 14. 8. Thornton-Eildon, 20.31, 8.

THORNTON-EILDON V ALEXANDRA

B-GRADE ALEXANDRA ................................ 8, 22,. 32, 42 THORNTON-EILDON .............. 10, 17, 30, 37 Alexandra. Goals: Carly Hill 6, Emm a Kidd 35, Rebecca Wallis 1. Best: Carly Hill, Emma Kidd.

Thornton-Eildon. Goals: Keely Grant 16, Rose Kealy 1, Tamara Norris-Thomas 3. Best Players: Keely Grant, Maggie Rigby.

C-GRADE ALEXANDRA ................................. 8, 26, 42, 52 THORNTON-EILDON ................... 3, 7, 13, 20 Alexandra. Goals: Mandy Gesler 25, Michelle Jack 1.

Thornton-Eildon. Goals: Jayne Farnan 4, Briana Calvert 3. Best: Paige Gardner, Briana Calvert.

YEA V KINGLAKE

A-GRADE YEA ................................................ 9, 17, 31, 44 KINGLAKE ................................ 11, 18, 28, 37 Yea. Goals: Nikki Watts 3, Melissa Martinov 32, Sharmini-Jane Philips 9. Best: Megan Leatham, Melissa Martinov.

Kinglake. Goals: Billie Cvijetic 11, Renee Wilson 1, Caitlin Ryan 1, Danielle Howe 4. Best: Bridget Wack, Alice Waack.

B-GRADE KINGLAKE ................................. 12, 22, 35, 41 YEA ............................................... 6, 13, 21, 25 Kinglake. Goals: Latoya Wards 3, Danielle Howe 9.

Yea. Goals: Meg Sundblom 3, Brydee Bond 3.

C-GRADE YEA .............................................. 13, 25, 33, 52 KINGLAKE .................................... 4, 7, 11, 14

After a great warm up the girls had a job to do and they came out strong.

The physical onslaught to Abbey Christie didn't rattle her despite her youth and with Kim Slavin backing her up they clocked up seven goals to Kinglake’s solitary one for the quarter.

The second quarter saw Yea hit another gear, Suzie Bennett’s early work at the center passes gave Judy McGill some easy options and Jaq Dalton’s intensity and defence made it difficult for Kinglake to even get the ball into their scoring third. Yea 20 to Kinglake 3.

The defensive pressure of Jilly Hargreaves and Sarah Lobley in the ring was like a wall that Kinglake couldn't penetrate and as soon as there was a turn over Kelly Petering created linkages and was able to bring the ball down for it to be converted. Yea 28 to Kinglake 6.

The last quarter saw the return of Teagan Britton in defence where she was able to get lots of hand to ball and combined seamlessly with Sarah Lobley in the ring.

The fact the Tigers were up by 20+ goals didn't stop their intensity and the team work was evident till the final whistle almost quadrupling the Lakers score, Yea 39 defeating Kinglake 10.

- Deb Schickerling

SDJFNL NETBALL SCORES

■ 15 and Under. Results. Round 11. Sunday, June 30. Alexandra 48 d St Mary's 13. Euroa 41 d Yea 17. Seymour: Bye. Tabilk 60 d Broadford 32.

■ 13 and Under. Results. Round 11. Sunday, June 30. St Mary's 30 d Alexandra 27. Euroa 56 d Yea 6. Seymour: Bye. Broadford 23 d Tabilk 7.

■ 11 and Under. Results. Round 11. Sunday, June 30. St Mary's 10 d Alexandra 9. Euroa 29 d Yea 2. Seymour: Bye. Broadford: Bye. ● Nikki Waghorn, Yea’s B-Grade centre, against Kinglake on Sunday.

Yea. Goals: Jessica Armstrong 33, Fiona Purvis the tight defensive pressure of Ellie Hendrie 16, Kathleen Alldrick 3. Best Players: Molly made it difficult for her player to get in the ring Jarvie, Kathleen Alldrick, Jessica Armstrong. and it left it to Lauren Cronk in a one on one Kinglake. Goals: Hayley Bawden 4, Stacey contest. Yea 21 to Kinglake 35.

Chalmers 5, Olivia Turner-Dickason. Best PlayThe last quarter saw a complete reshuffle of ers: Hayley Bawden, Chelsey Quillam, Olivia the Tigers midcourt Nikki Waghorn went into Turner-Dickason.

WA, Rachel Normington into C and Kathleen D-GRADE Alldrich who had already played a game in C in YEA ................................................ 7, 20, 28, 39 WD. KINGLAKE ...................................... 1, 3, 6, 10 The Tigers wouldn't give up and the changes Yea. Goals: Kim Slavin 16. Best Players: Kim made it difficult for the Lakers to get the ball Slavin, Jillian Hargreaves, Jacquiline Dalton. down into their scoring end however Yea still Kinglake. Goals: Melanie Gibson 6. Best Play- struggled getting it past the tall Lakers defenders: Errin White, Melanie Gibson. ers so were unable to convert lots of the turnby Kinglake 41.

YEA NETBALL REPORTS overs. Yea 25 defeated C-GRADE A-GRADE The Yea C-Graders weren't taking this game Being the Worksafe Game of the Month both A-Grade sides were lucky to receive special lightly and knew Kinglake wouldn't go down coaching assistance from ex Diamond, Julie without a fight although the game started and it Corletto, and injured Vixen, Mwai Kumwenda. was all Yea. The flow into the ring by Molly Jarvie and The rematch of last year’s Grand Final was always going to be a hotly contested game and Kathleen Alldrich was effortless and created lots of scoring opportunities for Fiona Purvis this one wasn't a disappointment.

The Tigers were a little slow to start and and Jess Armstrong in goals. Yea 13 to Kinglake Kinglake got the jump early, Yea 9 to Kinglake 4.

The defending duo of Chelsea Helder and 11.

Deb Schickerling were told by stand-in Coach The second quarter saw some positional changes which paid off and Yea was only down Nikki Watts to talk more which they did and it paid off by them being able to consistently turn by one at the break.

The second-half saw the score see-saw be- the ball over and the Lakers only being able to tween the two sides however Yea won the third score three for the quarter. Yea 25 to Kinglake 7.

31 to 28, and the final 44 to 37.

The third quarter saw some positional B-GRADE The last time these two teams met Kinglake changes for both teams with varied success inwon by four goals so Yea wanted redemption. cluding the Kinglake Coach putting herself into The game started and the defensive pressure GK where she had no impact.

The Yea changes on the other hand saw from the Lakers caused numerous turnovers which they capitalised on and a early injury to Ebony Edge into GD and Emily Watts and Kate zippy midcourter Maggie McSprerin didn't help Broadway flip ends from WA to WD and doubling the Lakers quarter score. Yea 33 to matters. Yea 6 to Kinglake 12.

Coach Nikki Watts asked her team to stop Kinglake 11.

Going into the last with a target of 50 in their forcing the ball into the goals by attempting to pass over their tall defenders and use reset op- minds the Tigers came out firing and combined for a relentless full court team effort. Yea the tions.

Meg Sundblom and Brydee Bond swapped victors 52 defeating Kinglake 14.

D-GRADE goalers bibs and it had an immediate impact in After a solid training session Thursday and the second quarter, however it was short lived, their loss last week against Seville, the D-GradYea 13 to Kinglake 22.

Kinglake also changed up their goalers and ers hit the court with purpose.

SDJFNL NETBALL LADDERS

■ 15 and Under. 1. Tabilk, 179.53, 36. 2. Euroa, 117.65, 30. 3. Broadford, 125.11, 28. 4. Seymour, 108.12, 24. 5. Alexandra, 99.25, 20. 6. Yea, 56.41, 14. 7. St Mary’s, 54.71, 4.

■ 13 and Under. 1. Euroa, 549.18, 40. 2.

Broadford, 125.56, 32. 3. Alexandra, 112.88, 24.

4. Seymour, 106.94, 20. 5. St Mary’s, 88.28, 20.

6. Yea, 30.40, 16. 7. Tabilk, 20.00, 4.

■ 11 and Under. 1. Euroa, 220.37, 36. 2. St Mary’s, 142.03, 32. 3. Broadford, 221.28, 28. 4.

Seymour, 145.61, 28. 5. Alexandra, 44.44, 20.

6. Yea, 6.80, 12.

SDJFNL NETBALL FIXTURES

■ There is a general bye for Seymour and District Junior Football and Netball League on Sunday, July 7. The next round of matches will be played on Sunday, July 14.

YEA JUNIOR NETBALL REPORTS

■ Due to the seniors club hosting the Worksafe game on Sunday (June 30), no match reports were written due to team managers not being at Euroa to organise. No photos were taken.

REPORT Yea headed north to a cold overcast Euroa.

The girls needed to keep moving on the court to keep warm.

Under 11's Coach Liz: “Huge improvement, determination to get the ball, rebounds jumping and defence. We still need to lead for all opportunities at the ball but an outstanding team effort, well done girls.”

Under 13’s Coach Cindy Hayes: “As usual every girl came off the court with a smile, all focusing on the positives out of the game. We wanted to pressure every ball and the girls worked hard to do this. Enjoy the break and we will hit the court again in two weeks.”

U15s Coach Cindy Newcomen: “Improving with each game the girls gave it all they had today and it was smiles and fun all round in the last quarter and so lovely to see. Well done to everyone and enjoy your week off.”

A big thank you to our umpire Scott Washington.

- Sarah Cunningham

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AFL OUTER EAST FOOTBALL SCORES AT A GLANCE DIVISION 2 SENIORS ■ Results. Round 11. Saturday, June 29.

Yarra Junction 9.11 (65) d Gembrook-Cockatoo 7.11 (53). Seville 10.15 (75) d Powelltown 5.10 (40). Alexandra 8.14 (62) d ThorntonEildon 2.5 (17). Yarra Glen: Bye. Sunday, June 30. Kinglake 16.10 (106) d Yea 11.10 (76).

■ Ladder. 1. Yarra Junction, 199.17, 40. 2.

Seville, 189.84, 36. 3. Kinglake, 143.70, 36.

4. Yarra Glen, 153.38, 32. 5. Alexandra, 91.37, 24. 6. Gembrook-Cockatoo, 112.89, 20. 7.

Powelltown, 101.85, 20. 8. Thornton-Eildon, 34.00, 8. 9. Yea, 29.49, 4.

RESERVES ■ Results. Round 11. Saturday, June 29.

Yarra Junction 9.11 (65) d Gembrook-Cockatoo 4.6 (30). Seville 10.18 (78) Powelltown 2.6 (18). Alexandra 16.15 (111) d ThorntonEildon 0.2 (2). Yarra Glen: Bye. Sunday, June 30. Kinglake 11.15 (81) d Yea 1.2 (8).

■ Ladder. 1. Yarra Glen, 290.85, 40. 2.

Gembrook-Cockatoo, 160.71, 36. 3. Yarra Junction, 147.80, 36. 4. Seville, 189.33, 28. 5.

Kinglake, 177.92, 28. 6. Alexandra, 115.60, 24. 7. Powelltown, 56.80, 12. 8. Yea, 31.87, 8.

9. Thornton-Eildon, 17.83, 8.

DIVISION 1

SENIORS ■ Results. Round 9. Saturday, June 29.

Doveton 12.18 (90) d Warburton-Millgrove 3.7 (25). Emerald 17.10 (112) d Belgrave 8.9 (57).

Monbulk 6.18 (54) d Mt Evelyn 6.8 (44).

Pakenham 9.5 (59) d Officer 6.10 (46).

■ Ladder. 1. Monbulk, 195.60, 36. 2.

Pakenham, 162.63, 32. 3. Doveton, 124.05, 24. 4. Mt Evelyn, 133.10, 16. 5. Officer, 107.11, 16. 6. Emerald, 76.67, 8. 7. WarburtonMillgrove, 47.77, 8. 8. Belgrave, 58.59, 4.

RESERVES ■ Results. Round 9. Saturday, June 29.

Doveton 10.13 (73) d Warburton-Millgrove 4.3 (27). Emerald 12.6 (78) d Belgrave 2.8 (20).

Mt Evelyn 10.12 (72) d Monbulk 4.1 (25).

Pakenham 16.6 (102) d Officer 8.3 (51).

■ Ladder. 1. Mt Evelyn, 329.92, 32. 2.

Pakenham, 326.24, 32. 3. Doveton, 198.91, 24. 4. Officer, 123.06, 20. 5. Monbulk, 99.62, 16. 6. Emerald, 67.87, 16. 7. Belgrave, 31.76, 4. 8. Warburton-Millgrove, 16.83, 0.

UNDER 18 ■ Results. Round 9. Saturday, June 29.

Doveton 15.14 (104) d Warburton-Millgrove 3.4 (22). Monbulk 9.5 (59) d Mt Evelyn 3.4 (22). Pakenham 4.12 (36) d Officer 4.5 (29).

Emerald: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Officer, 418.82, 87.50. 2.

Pakenham, 200.40, 87.50.3. Doveton, 137.90, 62.50. 4. Emerald, 102.79, 42.86. 5. Monbulk, 79.40, 42.86. 6. Warburton-Millgrove, 33.29, 18.75. 7. Mt Evelyn, 36.82, 6.25.

PREMIER LEAGUE SENIORS ■ Results. Round 10. Saturday, June 29.

Berwick 15.22 (112) d Wandin 5.6 (36).

Beaconsfield 12.7 (79) d Cranbourne 4.6 (30).

Narre Warren 13.20 (98) d Olinda-Ferny Creek 9.4 (58). Healesville 10.11 (71) d Upwey-Tecoma 8.14 (62). Woori Yallock: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Berwick, 217.49, 36. 2. Narre Warren, 200.39, 36. 3. Beaconsfield, 184.58, 28. 4. Woori Yallock, 94.06, 28. 5. Cranbourne, 136.66, 20. 6. Wandin, 72.67, 20. 7. OlindaFerny Creek, 63.77, 12. 8. Upwey-Tecoma, 59.82, 12. 9. Healesville, 43.43, 8.

RESERVES ■ Results. Round 10. Saturday, June 29.

Berwick 12.9 (81) d Wandin 1.5 (11).

Beaconsfield 16.13 (109) d Cranbourne 3.4 (22). Narre Warren 5.6 (36) d Olinda-Ferny Creek 0.0 (0). Upwey-Tecoma 23.14 (152) d Healesville 3.3 (21). Woori Yallock: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Beaconsfield, 506.03, 36. 2.

Berwick, 475.69, 36. 3. Narre Warren, 516.23, 32. 4. Cranbourne, 109.16, 24. 5. UpweyTecoma, 112.76, 20. 6. Wandin, 52.61, 20. 7.

Olinda-Ferny Creek, 68.21, 12. 8. Healesville, 21.28, 8. 9. Woori Yallock, 9.58, 8.

UNDER 18 ■ Results. Round 10. Saturday, June 29.

Berwick 12.7 (79) d Woori Yallock 5.3 (33).

Beaconsfield 16.16 (112) d Gembrook-Cockatoo 3.11 (29). Narre Warren 21.14 (140) d Olinda-Ferny Creek 4,.3 (27). Berwick Springs 15.15 (105) d Wandin 2.3 (15). UpweyTecoma v Alexandra.

■ Ladder. 1. Narre Warren, 506.50, 40. 2.

Berwick, 423.31, 36. 3. Beaconsfield, 361.11, 32. 4. Upwey-Tecoma, 153.79, 20. 5. Woori Yallock, 89.27, 20. 6. Gembrook-Ciockatoo, 69.12, 20. 7. Berwick Springs, 50.83, 14. 8.

Olinda-Ferny Creek, 26.08, 6. 9. Alexandra, 32.96, 4. 10. Wandin, 21.25, 4.

Sport

Cloke boots 7 goals for Tigers ■ AFLlegend Travis Cloke booted seven goals for Yea in its match against Kinglake at the Yea Rec. on Sunday afternoon (June 30).

PHOTO: ASH LONG

THORNTON-EILDON V ALEXANDRA SENIORS ALEXANDRA ............... 3.6, 6.6, 6.9, 8.14 (62) THORNTON-EILDON ..... 0.0, 0.0, 1.2, 2.5 (17) Alexandra. Goalkickers: B. Norris 3, B. Kapakoulakis 3, C. McKay, M. Coombs. Best Players: R. Norris, B. Kapakoulakis, T. McKinlay, M. Coombs, B. Woollard, P. Ferguson.

Thornton-Eildon. Goalkickers: M.Anderson, J. Deary. Best Players: J. Love, J. Scotland, R. Anderson, J. O’Connell, J. Hehir, R. Deray.

RESERVES ALEXANDRA.................................. 16.15 (111) THORNTON-EILDON ........................... 0.2 (2) Alexandra. Goalkickers: I. Hedger 4, DE. Rouget 2, D. Ray 2, C. Phillips 2, J. Williamson, A. Wood, D. Roper, P. Heveren, R. Marks, P. Brooks. Best Players: J. Williamson, O. Jabore, C. Phillips, R. Marks, D. Ray, I. Hedger.

Thornton-Eildon. Best Players: D. Draper, R. Pezzimenti, D. Creed, B. Aernott, T. Polson, J. Gallagher.

YEA V KINGLAKE SENIORS KINGLAKE ............... 3.3, 6.6, 13.7, 16.10 (106) YEA .............................. 2.2, 6.6, 9.9, 11.10 (76) Kinglake. Goalkickers: A. Burns 4, A. Fairchild 3, B. Robinson 3, C. Horman 2, E. Robinson 2, L. Adams, L. White. Best Players: B. Robinson, E. Robinson, A. Burns, J. McDonald, L. Hanah, L. White.

Yea. Goalkickers: T. Cloke 7, B. Clements, P. Evans, R. Aldous, J. Carroll. Best Players: A. McCarthy, R. Aldous, A. Chisholm, J. Carroll, A. McSpeerin, X. O’Dwyer.

RESERVES KINGLAKE ................ 3.3, 3.10, 8.12, 11.15 (81) YEA .................................... 1.0, 1.0, 1.2, 1.2 (8) Kinglake. Goalkickers: B. Gallichio, J. Nixon, R. Pratt, B. Howlett, C. Booker, H. Caine. Best Players: L. Harris, L. Styles, J. Nixon, J. Chalmers, B. Gallichio, H. Caine.

Yea. Goalkicker: M. Helder. Best Players: M. Helder, J. McMahon, C. Armstrong, D. Pell, D. Jannke, T. O’Dwyer.

YEA CLUB REPORTS

SENIORS Yea 11.10 (66) defeated by Kinglake 16.10 (106) Yea put in a spirited effort against Kinglake but ran out of legs, eventually going down by 30 points in the Worksafe Game of the Month.

When the two sides met on ANZAC Day in Round Two, the Lakers gave the Tigers an absolute belting but with Travis Cloke and a host of regulars coming into the team, Yea were up for the fight.

An even first term saw the visitors hold a slender seven-point advantage, before the hosts tightened things up to leave the score locked at 42-apeice at the major change.

The premiership quarter was the highest scoring of the match and it was where Kinglake flexed their muscle, slamming on seven goals to three to hold a 22-point buffer at the final break and killing the contest early in the last term.

Riley Aldous was relentless around the contest in his first game back in two weeks, ably supported by Adrian McCarthy and Andrew Chisholm, while Josh Carroll was strong in the ruck.

Cloke booted seven majors in a dominant performance up forward, while Trent McMahon produced his best game of the season.

The Tigers travel to Yarra Junction next weekend.

Yea. Goalkickers: T. Cloke 7, B. Clements, P. Evans, R. Aldous, J. Carroll Best Players: A. McCarthy, R. Aldous, A. Chisholm, J. Carroll, A. McSpeerin, X. O''Dwyer RESERVES Yea 1.0 (6) defeated by Kinglake 11.15 (81) Yea had a tough encounter against Kinglake, falling short by 75 points at the Recreation Reserve.

● Travis Cloke: kicked seven goals for Yea against Kinglake on Sunday.

The Tigers were competitive early, trailing by 15 points at quarter time and after some severe inaccuracy by the visitors in the second term (0.7), the margin was less than four goals at half-time.

The Lakers flicked the switch in the third quarter, slamming on five majors to zip before adding another three late to round out the match.

Matty Helder (one goal) looked a class above in tricky conditions early, Julian Mahon racked up possessions at will and CameronArmstrong was strong in the contest.

Darcy Pell was dominant in the air, Dylan Jannke found a stack of the football and Tom O'Dwyer was solid in defence.

The Tigers take on Yarra Junction on the road next Saturday.

Yea. Goalkickers: M. Helder Best Players: M. Helder, J. Mahon, C. ● Kinglake’s Jayden Butterworth Armstrong, D. Pell, D. Jannke, T. O'’Dwyer. gets the edge in the Reserves.

- Patrick Evans

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Magnificent Views:• 140 acres (56 Ha) of grazing hill country • 15Ac approx ideal for a hay paddock, several fantastic spots to build your dream home.

• 3 dams, a natural spring and amazing views of Mt Cathedral • Very private yet easy access $385,000

Immaculate Stylish Family Home:• Well designed home with 4 bedrooms, 2 living areas & home office • Wood heater and split system for heating & cooling • Large bathroom & Master with ensuite & walk through robe • Undercover outdoor entertaining deck & rear lane access $520,000

Yarck

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Unique business and lifestyle opportunity :Nestled on just over ½ acre of land are these delightful Guest houses. “The Churches of Yarck. Versatile layout, yet stylishly designed means that each studio is equally suited to a romantic couples' retreat or to accommodate families or groups. The Great Victorian Rail Trail lies to the rear of the property and there's plenty of room to store your bikes. Options are endless with township zoning for the astute buyer to secure a piece of local history $430,000

Alexandra

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Impressive Country Home offering:Nestled on nearly half an acre is this brick home featuring a lovely modern kitchen with stainless steel electric appliances, Open plan living with combustion wood heater and split system, Huge master bedroom with built-in robes and parents retreat/sitting room with separate entry and ensuite bathroom, double lock-up colorbond shed/workshop, and double carport. Well located only a stone’s throw from the Goulburn River. $445,000 -$465,000

Sales Specialist I Belinda Hocking 0418 115 574 Property Management I Sarah Brockhus 0457 537 222 Yea

Landmark Harcourts Alexandra 56 Grant Street, Alexandra I 5772 3444 6931 Goulburn Valley Hwy

130 plus Acres of softly rolling farm land & plantation This 130 plus acre farm also includes a 40 acre furniture timber plantation that has been wel managed for 10 years and a warm and welcoming mud brick home wrapped in deep veranda's.

The home has 5 bedrooms with a central bathroom, open plan kitchen family room plus a 2nd living / dining room. The kitchen is the heart of the home with timber cabinets, gas cooking and a serving bench, this room adjoins the family room with slow combustion fire and large windows overlooking stunning countryside.

The property is currently used for grazing cattle but flat to softly sloping pastures would make this property also ideal for horses and hobby farming There is good water to the property with fresh ainwater tank system and a large drought proof dam with an excellent fire and irrigation system to the house yard.

The Gum plantation is a wonderful investment and has been designed to stage the harvesting .

Just 7mins from Yea, 20 minutes to Seymour & surrounded by some large holdings this property is definitely one for you to consider for lifestyle, grazing or simply adgist the land and enjoy the panoramic $850,000

Real Estate Estate Sales Sales Professional Professional –– Kerryn Kerryn Rishworth Rishworth 0412 0412 346 346 169.

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Landmark Harcourts Yea 52 High Street, Yea I 5797 2799