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Logging near Extons Rd

● An aerial shot of the logging area, supplied by Kinglake Friends of the Forest.

■ The ‘Kinglake Friends of the Forest’ is obThe group says there are “massive amounts jecting to a le\gal logging operation in the Mount of Greater Gliders spread all over the coupe”.

Robertson area, near Extons Rd. “These animals are a gauge of the health of “This area survived three major fires in their the forest, and as such we are calling on the lifetimes – the 1926, 1968 and 2009 fires, - and Government to be responsible and protect this now they are being intentionally destroyed, said iconicAustralian forest,” says resident Maryan group spokespeople Sue McKinon, Leigh Devos. “Vicforests should have decided to not Wykes, Cam Tozer and Gayle Cole. log this area.”

“The paradoxes are that the government is “VicForests’ own documents show that 81 proposing to spend millions on a fire museum per cent of the wood taken from this destruction whilst they are increasing the fire threat to com- is pulp grade, so will be delivered to the paper munities,” said the group. mill to make paper and cardboard.

“It is spending millions of dollars for protecKyle Meyer of Meyer Log Cartage said the tion of threatened species whilst their logging is protesters on site means that his company has the greatest threat to threatened species .” been unable to go about its lawful business for Members have walked in to the area to pro- two days, meaning their income is frozen. test the removal of high conservation value forMr Meter’s father, Brad, started the Romseyest which is the habitat of several colonies of based company more than 30 years, and has threatened Greater Gliders. concentred on the Central Highlands area.

New fire unit at Buxton ■ Buxton Fire Brigade last last May achieved a major milestone when it took delivery of a new community funded appliance to replace their slip-on unit.

The new appliance wasplaced in operational service on Sunday (July 7) when CFA District 12 endorsed the vehicle to go on-line with the Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority.

The new vehicle provides improved capacity for the brigade to serve Buxton and the wider community. The brigade now has two tankers with similar features that complement each other.

Captain Matthew Carlton said: “Everyone in the brigade can be proud of work put in to getting the appliance operational.

"It has been a long journey since the decision to pursue a replacement for the slip-on unit", he

said. The vehicle was funded through the Volunteer Emergency Services Equipment Program which requires the brigade to make a contribution to the overall costs. “"The greatest benefit of the vehicle is that it is a crew cab vehicle which means the entire crew rides together inside the cab", Mr Carlton said. This is much safer for the crew.

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DEATHS ARTHUR (Fountain) - Gwenda Kathleen 28.11.1939 – 5.07.2019 Beloved wife of Reg (dec.), loved mother of Andrew and Ashley and Nanna of James.

Eldest child of Doris and Keith and sister of Judith, Ken (dec.), Joan and Dorothy.

Thank you for everything.

Always in our hearts.

WILSON - Robert Neil (Neil) 18.09.1933 - 01.07.2019 Beloved husband of Valerie for 62 years.

Loved father of Vicki and Trevor, Pa of Cassy, Kallagun and Tara and great grandfather of Alara.

A Lifetime of Memories.

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ARTHUR (Fountain) - The funeral service celebrating the life of Mrs Gwenda Arthur will be held in the RSL Hall, Snodgrass St, Yea on Thursday, July 11, 2019 at 11.00 am. At the conclusion of the service the cortège will proceed to the Yea Cemetery.

WILSON. A Service celebrating Neil’s life will be held on Friday, July 12, 2019 at 1.30 pm in the Murrindindi Chapel, 21 Johnston St, Alexandra.

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People

Photos: Ash Long

New friends at Yea Railway Market

Photos: Ash Long

● Josie and Paul Calabro of Calabro Olive Oil.

● Damian and Ashlee Cavanagh

● Chris Helleren, The Cheese lady

● Sharon and Darren Young of Goulburn Valley Park

● Avihu Donde of Deli Nuts

● Christine Sheather and Kaitlyn Sanderson

● Kevin Hall and John Bladewell, with 1928 Chev., of Seymour District Car Club

● Musician Rod Gear performed at the Yea railway Market.

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Letter to the Editor Human tragedy of Murray Darling Basin Plan ■ Sir, The scientific research by eminent scientists Professor Peter Gell, A. Helfensdorfer and others have provided indisputable evidence that the Lower Lakes have always been estuarine prior to the 1940s, when human intervention changed the local hydrology, with the construction of a network of barrages intended to prevent the ingress of the Great Southern Ocean.

This infrastructure has resulted in slowing the flow by 70 per cent of the Mundoo Channel, which is directly opposite the Murray Mouth, causing silt and sand accumulation to drop and over the intervening years form Bird Island, which as it builds will eventually completely close the Murray Mouth.

This is why dredging the mouth is continually employed at the cost to tax-payers so far, in excess of $100 million.

And why the Basin Plan objective of keeping the mouth open 95 per cent of time without dredging is a complete impossibility; regardless of how many megalitres of expensive freshwater is forced downstream in a futile attempt to clear the Murray Mouth.

Even in 2008 Professor Gell was in Canberra informing the Federal Government that, "Prior to about the 1950s, for the six or seven thousand years in which the Coorong has been in existence, it has been strongly tidal, and in fact, quite separated from the influence of the river Murray… what we need to do is get water in there, but it needs to be water from the ocean and not very expensive water from the river."

The tragedy of the Murray Darling Basin Plan is that its entire premise is based on a lie or a falsehood that the Lower Lakes and Coorong have essentially been 'freshwater' for the last 7000 years.

Put very simply, under the Basin Plan environmental requirements, the Federal Government and its agency the MDBA have imposed a man-made continual drought on the communities and agricultural industries within the basin on the pretence that the Lower Lakes were never estuarine and must be kept full with fresh water.

Intent on perpetuating the 'freshwater' falsehood, the Federal Government has spent almost $9 billion of tax-payers money on a plan that is failing dismally and cannot meet its stated objectives as legislated " - to provide integrated management of basin water resources in order to improve water security , optimise economic, social and environmental outcomes and provide productive and resilient water dependent industries and communities with confidence in their long-term future.(Basin Plan Explanatory Statement).

The Plan that is being foisted upon over two million people in communities of the Murray Darling Basin is failing on every front, economic, social and environmental.

We are also in the throes of a drying climate cycle, experiencing less rainfall over the catchments, a change in timing of seasonal rainfall with a 25-50 per cent decline in run-off and extremely reduced streamflows throughout the basin, with more and more pipelines being built from the Murray and Goulburn Rivers to supply towns and regions whose water supply has already run out, or will be exhausted in the very near future.

There is basically insufficient stream inflow in the basin to supply the many proposed environmental requirements under the Basin Plan and to also sustain critical human requirements, and sustain agricultural production sufficient to feed ourselves as exemplified by the collapse of the dairy industry in northern Victoria and southern NSW .

With the onset of the forthcoming irrigation season we will see the crisis of water shortages evolve into an absolute catastrophe for our agricultural industries if the Bureau forecast for a continued dry winter and spring into summer eventuates.

It is imperative that the MDBA acknowledge the best available science has determined the Lower Lakes and Coorong has always been estuarine until mankind ● Turn To Page 00 intervened.

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Celebrating NAIDOC Week ■ This week, Murrindindi Shire celebrates NAIDOC Week.

Mayor Cr Sandice McAulay said it is important to take the time to reflect on and celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal people.

"NAIDOC Week is a chance for us to step toward ensuring indigenous histories and cultures are recognised equally in our national story and identity,” Cr McAulay said.

“It is about advancing the relationships, understanding and unity between all the people that call, or once called, this land home.

"We at Murrindindi Shire Council are acknowledging the Taungurung Clan as both traditional owners of this land, and as our friends.

"Though we feel sadness reflecting on some aspects of our history, we are committed to creating a great future together.

“Education is the path to this future.

“And events like the ones held by the Y Water Discovery Centre and the Alexandra Library are fundamental in helping us,

and our children, to learn the truth of our shared history and the value of indigenous culture," Cr McAulay said.

Ban lifted

● Cr Sandice McAulay

■ Yea resident Jack Russell may nowe speak at open forum sessions at Murrindindi Shire Council.

“I undertook to review the restriction on Mr Russell's participation in Open Forum in six months time with no specific due date,” said CEO Craig Lloyd. I have done so and he is allowed to participate and has participated in this evenings Open Forum,” Mr Lloyd said.

Local Briefs Helicopter crashes

■ A helicopter carrying two occupants crashed in Piries, south of Mansfield, shortly before 3pm Saturday. The aircraft reportedly struck wires before crashing on private property.

One occupant escaped with minor injuries while a female sustained serious injuries to both legs. Both are aged in their 40s.

Paramedics transported the female to Melbourne via air. CFA brigade units, along with Victoria Police and Ambulance Victoria, attended.

Councillor absent ■ Murrindindi Shire Councillors voted to accept the apology of Cr Charlie Bisset who was unable to attend the June 26 meeting.

Semester 2 courses ■ Whittlesea Community House has just released its Semester 2 schedule which is full of classes, activities and groups. Phone 9716 3361 or email:wchi@whittleseach. com.au www.wchi.com.au

Position at VFF ■ Charles Everist has left the employ of Cindy McLeish, MLA for Eildon. Mr Everist has taken on a new role as a policy adviser with the Victorian Farmers Federation

Rail and road tour Vale Gwenda Arthur ■ The funeral service celebrating the life of Mrs Gwenda Arthur will be held in the RSL Hall, Snodgrass St, Yea tomorrow (Thurs., July 11) at 11am. At the conclusion of the service the cortège will proceed to the Yea Cemetery. Mrs Arthur was wife of Reg (dec.), mother of Andrew and Ashley, and grandmother of James. She was eldest child of Doris and Keith Fountain. Mrs Arthur was in her 80th year.

■ Restored former State Royal Carriages and 110-year-old wooden and 81-year-old steel carriages will feature in a combined rail and road tour being conducted by the Seymour Railway Heritage Centre on Saturday, August 10 from Southern Cross to Seymour, then by coach to Mt Buller for a day in the snow or a Ned Kelly History Tour.

For details visit www.srhc.org.au or call us on 0477 707 411.

In The Picture

Kinglake supermarket re-opens

● Evan Kordos and Sarah Gibson

● Geoff Kordos and Dora Kordos

● Sue Wardle and Meredith Trevillion

● Alex Kordos and Monnie Burton

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Ticks & Crosses

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Local Briefs Saturday sport

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League footballer Travis Cloke kicked seven goals for Yea against Kinglake this month. Is there a possibility that he might don the Tigers guernsey for the Gembrook match, at home, on July 27? ● Travis Cloke Is Murrindindi stirrer Jack Russell looking to move house from Yea to Mansfield?

■ This Saturday (July 13) sees Round 12 of the AFL Outer East Division 2 competition: Gembrook-Cockatoo v Powelltown, Thornton-Eildon v Seville, Yarra Glen v Kinglake, Yea v v Alexandra. Yarra Junction has the bye.

■ Division 1 Seniors: Belgrave v Doveton, Monbulk v Emerald, Mt Evelyn v Pakenham, Officer v Warburton-Millgrove.

■ Premier League: Cranbourne v Woori Yallock, Healesville v Olinda-Ferny Creek, Upwey-Tecoma v Narre Warren, Wandin v Beaconsfield.

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New e-waste rules

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Seymour Performers Workshop is holding auditions for Footloose the Musical, to be performed in Seymour this November. The show features hits from the 80s, including Let's Hear it for the Boy, Holding Out for A Hero, Almost Paradise and the Kenny Loggins chart-topper Footloose. Auditions will be held on Tuesday (July 16) at 7pm, and Sunday July 21 at 3pm, at The Schoolhouse Theatre, 50 Tallarook St, Seymour.

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Voted as a sucess was the Probus Club of Yea’s ‘Christmas In July’ function, which included a performance by the Four Fathers (John Handsaker, Charles Rattray, Russell Hogg and Terry Hubard). A traditional Christmas dinner was served by Deb's Delights.

● Kinglake Pub makes a point Winter potholes are causing problems for motorists in the Kinglake region.

So much so that the Kinglake Pub made its point with its billboard during the week. We’re not sure whether the Murrindindi Shire Council or VicRoads was in their sights.

A big tick for the Yea Community Charity Anual Fundraising Dinner to be held at the Yea Shire Hall this Saturday from 7pm, with tickets at $80 each. A $150 meet-and-greet is being held beforehand on the balcony of the Royal Mail Hotel, Yea. Guests include Dayne Beams, Jordan de Goey and Joffa Corfe.

Kinglake and Pheasant Creek people faced yet another planned electricity outage last week. The Flying Tarts Cafe were forced to close for most of Wednesday.

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Australia Post deliveries in the Yea district are now being presorted by new operators who have instructions to deliver ‘as addressed’. RMB and RSD no longer exist.

Anthony and Christine Hyde, of Seymour, who have been living in Australia since 2009, have been given permission to stay in Australia as permanent residents, with their sick son, Darragh. Darragh was dianosed with cystic fibrosis. The trio was refused a visa, on the grounds that Darragh would be a burden to the state. Immigration Minister David Coleman reviewed the residency status.

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.

● Jeffrey Parker gave Daniel Draper a helping hand in the half-the huddle as Thornton-Eildon Reserves played on Saturday against Powelltown.

Local News

School resumes

NAIDOC Week at Yea ■ NAIDOC Weekhonours the rich and diverse culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, the oldest continuous living culture on the planet.

NAIDOC stands for ‘National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee’.

To celebrate the week, the Taungurung Lands and Water Council has collaborated with the Y Water Discovery Centre in Yea to present an exciting program of exhibitions and workshops.

This year’s event is inspired by the theme “Voice, Treaty, Truth”.

The indigenous voice of this country is over 65,000 plus years old. They are the first words spoken on this continent.

There are languages that passed down lore, culture and knowledge for over millennia.

They are precious to our nation.

The Taungurung are the Traditional Owners of a large part of central Victoria including the Yea region.

Workshops will feature

■ The State Government's e-waste landfill ban kicked off last week on July 1. This means e-waste (anything with a cord, plug or battery that is unwanted or no longer working) can be recycled for free at Nillumbik Shire Council’s Recycling and Recovery Centre in Plenty.

● Cassie Leatham Taungurung women, Angela ten Buuren (Franklin) and Cassie Leatham, who will impart their knowledge of indigenous plants and traditional uses.

Children won’t miss out, with a school holiday art activity to be held today (Wed., July 10) July with artist Cassie Leatham and a storytime session on Saturday (July 13) with Taungurung Elder Uncle Larry Walsh.

The program includes: ■ Sunday, July 7 - Sunday, July 14 . 9am to 5pm. Cel-

brating Taungurung Culture An exhibition curated by Taungurung woman Angela ten Buuren.

■ Wednesday, July 10. 10m to 11:30am. School Holiday art activities with Taungurung artist Cassie Leatham.

■ Wednesday, July 10, 7.30pm - 9pm. Medicinal and traditional uses of Aboriginal plants session with Cassie Leatham ■ Saturday, July 13, 10am and 2pm. Walk in the Wetlands and a Taste of Taungurung. Angela ten Buuren discusses traditional uses of indigenous plants ■ Saturday, July 13. 12noon - 2.pm. Barbecue. Enjoy kangaroo burgers and kangaroo sausages ■ Saturday, July 13, 1pm 2pm. Story Time with Taungurung Elder Uncle Larry Walsh ■ Sunday, July 13. 11am.

Taungurung Land and Waters Council CEO, Matthew Burns talks treaty. What does Treaty mean? What does Treaty look like?

Deputy Mayor under fire ■ Kinglake Ward Councillor Leigh Dunscombe has come under considerable fire from residents keen to establish a cemetery near Frank Thomson Reserve.

Cr Dunscombe, who is Deputy Mayor of Murrindindi Shire, led a unanimous vote late last month to deny a planing scheme amendment. Cr Dunscombe emphasised that he was not against a cemetery, but sought increased public participation in the decision.

“Council officers have not formed a firm view about the proposal but believe exhibition of a proposed amendment is appropriate to more fully elicit and consider the range of community views and submissions in relation to the proposal,” said a report to the Council meeting.

Social media posts claimed that Cr Dunscombe was failing to represent the views of Kinglake Ward residents.

Cr Dunscombe, and his son Aiden, had a firey exchange of messages with locals.

One resident said: “The whole point is that the trust never consulted with the community or have been open and transparent. They don't declare who is even on the trust. They were trying to get planning zoning changed so they don't have to consult with the community or put plans on display. This is why the council voted against it.”

■ Victorian schools resume next week, with Term 3 extending until September 21. The Spring holidays are from September 22-October 8.

Truth and healing ■ The community is invited to an Aboriginal Voices Forum complete with a didgeridoo performance at Eltham Library to mark NAIDOC Week. The event will be held on Thursday (July 11) from 6.45pm-8pm and will focus on Voice, Treaty and Truth. It is being hosted by the Nillumbik Reconciliation Group and Yarra Plenty Regional Libraries.

Juniors are back ■ Seymour District Junior footballers and netballers did not play last Sunday (July 14) because of a general bye. This weekend sees: ■ Under 10 Football. 10am. Broadford v St Mary’s. Seymour v Alexandra. Wandong v Euroa. Yea v Tabilk.

■ Under 12 Football. 11am. Broadford v St Mary’s. Seymour v Alexandra. Wandong v Euroa. Yea v Tabilk.

■ Under 14 Football. 12.15pm. Broadford v St Mary’s. Seymour v Alexandra.

Wandong v Euroa. Yea v Tabilk.

■ Under 16 Football. 1.30pm. Broadford v St Mary’s. Seymour v Alexandra. Euroa: Bye.

At Speaker’s desk

■ McEwen MHR Rob Mitchell has been elected as Second Deputy Speaker for the Federal Parliament.

Tea at Terip Terip

■ Terip Morning Tea returns this morning (Wed.) at 9.30am at the Community Hall at the Recreation Reserve. Locals are welcomed to join for a catch-up and an opportunity to bring along any items to swap or give-away.

NFNL fixtures

■ Football this Saturday (July 13) in the NFNL comprises these matches: ■ Division 1. Northcote Park v Montmorency. Macelod v Bundoora. Lopwer Plenty v West Preston-Lakeside. North Heidelberg v Hurstbridge. Heidelberg v Greensborough.

■ Division 2. Eltham v Diamond Creek.

Fitzroy Stars v Thomastown. St Mary’s v Watsonia. Whittlesea v Epping. Banyule: Bye. ■ Division 3. Reservoir v Mernda. Old Eltham Collegians v Heidelberg West.

Kilmore v Laurimar. South Morang v Panton Hill. Lalor: Bye.

Beggars active

● Cr Leigh Dunscombe this month

■ Diamond Creek has had several men begging outside its local supermarkets

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We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we live and work.

Go Shinboners ■ In Murrindindi, one of the most impressive clubs is the Thornton-Eildon District Football Netball Club.

Week in, week out, the Shinboners show incredible spirit, taking to the field against the odds.

Two footy teams, two netball teams, and now a women’s football side, line up for battle.

Long Shots was this week asked if we could track the club’s history.

Although there was a Darlingford ‘friendly’ match in the 1880s, we have been able to trace Thornton Football Club’s first match to August 2, 1890.

There have been a number of incarnations of the Club over the year, including joining with Eildon, and earlier being known as TAV (Thornton Acheron Valley).

That means the Boners will be able to hold a 130th anniversary year in 2020.

Beware the Roo!

Long Shots

with Ash Long, Editor Previous winner, Victoria’s best local reporter

Now in his 50th year of local newspapers.

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■ The local football and netball club is the heart of small country towns in Australia.

No better example is Yea, where weekends see match days for senior and junior sides.

Throughout the week there are training sessions and social events.

At the helm of the Yea club is Brad Watts. It is no secret that the Tigers are having a challenging time on the ground in 2019.

Brad is always on duty, for the betterment of the club and its players.

When the Yea Reserves had trouble fielding a team against Yarra Junction on Saturday, Brad togged up. The side ended the game with 14 players ... with pride intact.

Within minutes after the game, Brad acted as a water carrier for the Seniors.

It is called leadership. Well done Brad.

NAIDOC Week ■ It’s NAIDOC Week, and the Y Water Discovery Centre at Yea is leading the way with events.

It has brought good publicity for our region, with a story even appearing in the Pastoral Times newspaper at Deniliquin.

Earlier this year, we wrote about our own Aboriginal links.

I am proudly a descendant of the Gunditjmara people from the Portland-Gorae region.

We have been making wonderful discoveries of late. Read more at www.Long. com.au

Policy changes

● Brad Watts, lined up as a player for Yea, at Yarra Junction on Saturday.

■ Murrindindi Shire Council has adopted a revised Grants and Contributions Policy.

It has also ■ rescinded the Business and Tourism Innovation Grants Policy ■ rescinded the Community Grants Policy ■ rescinded the Waiving of Planning and Building Permit Fees for Community Groups Policy.

Shire spends

Best kept secrets

■ Long Shots had a busy schedule last Saturday.

After photos were taken at the Yea Railway Market, more

were needed at Alexandra, then Powelltown and Yarra Junction.

We took the advantage of using the Marysville-Warburton Road (‘The Acheron Way’).

What a beautiful stretch through the Marysville State Forest. In the GrantonDonna Buang stretch, only three cars came from the opposite direction.

Fortunately, volunteers with chainsaws had been through to clear the numerous trees over the road.

What a glorious part of ‘our neck of the woods’.

● Soon after the Reserves game, Brad Watts ran as a water carrier.

■ There will be a spend of $328,000 on pathway improvements, including $57,500 towards improvements to disability access in urban areas of Yea. Murrindindi Shire Council will also spend $70,000 to upgrade the kitchen and restore external columns at the Alexandra Shire Hall

Editor’s Diary Editor Ash Long first started newspaper work in 1969. He began writing for local newspapers in 1973. Over those 46 years he has kept extensive diaries and local photo files.

From Our Files - 30 Years Ago July 1989

Snow falls

■ Snow fell in the Yeaa Shire, 30 years ago.

The white powder fell heavily in the Highlands, after a sub-zero morning. Flls on Mt Broughton could be seen from the Yea township.

YHS crisis meeting

■ The threat that Year 11 and 12 classes might be withdrawn from Yea High School were discussed at a crisis meeting held at the Yea Shire Hall. The Ministry of Education sought the Yea community’s opinion on the future provision of post-primary education.

Nod to Ian, Joyce

■ Dr Ian Sharp, of wife Joyce, of ‘Nayloch’, Kinglake, were accorded a special invitation to a Yea Shire lunch at the Grand Central Hotel. The Sharps were congratulated on recognition in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Also invited were Tom and Dorry Dignam.

Misrepresentation

■ Yea Shire said that a petition, claiming that the Council was starving the Kinglake State Emergency Unit of funds, was a misrepresentation. Cr Kim Chadband presented the petition; Cr Lyn Gunter denied the claim of misrepresentation.

Guest speaker

■ Fr Terry Pidoto, priest at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Yea, was guest speaker at the Apex Club of Yea, where Robert Wood was inducted as President. Fr Pidoto spoke of his work as Scouting Chaplain.

Yea books audit

■ Chartered accountants Ernst and Whinney told Yea Council it needed to pay attention to a number of areas: ■ time-sheets, ■ authorisation of pay rates, ■ authorisation of payroll journal report, ■ fuel stocktaking, ■ municipal accounting regulations adherance, ■ accounts receivable write-offs, and ■ investment account error.

99 goats released

■ Yea Council’s By-Law Officer Don Roderick said that 99 goats were released from the Pound.

Appointed Dean

■ Former Yea cleric, Don McMonigle, had been appointed new Dean of Wangaratta.

The appointment was announced by the Bishop of Wangaratta, Rt. Rev. Robert Beal.

Pistol charge

■ Yea Police charged a man with unlawful pistol offences, following a single car accident. Alexandra and Yea police co-operated in attending the accident and investigation.

Yea’s losing streak

■ “Conversation on the Yea football bus returning from Lancaster centred a good deal on the forthcoming cricket season,” wrote Tom Dignam in 1989.

Officials mustered a team, more than half of which were Seconds, the rest Seniors playing two games, a couple of lads, and veteran non-playing coach Bernie McCarthy.

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Murrindindi Inc looks at tourism strategy ■ Murrindindi Inc has prepared a submissi n to the draft Murrindindi Shire Council Tourism Strategy.

The submission was assembled after input from members at a Murrindindi Inc meeting. and conversations with Industry groups and affected groups.

The submission says that some members were “very dissatisfied with crucial sections of the report”. Some members were happy with certain sections.

Once criticism is that a section of the draft “does not make reference to the State Wide Review of Regional Tourism and the possible impacts of this on Murrindindi”.

Another is that the draft “does not come to terms as to why there is not the investment and real strategies that will lead to change”. “ The reality check is where is the money going to come from for the marketing if there are not the businesses in existence with the appropriate marketing budgets.”

The comments agree that “the marketing and competitive strengths are Marysville/Lake Mountain and Lake Eildon”.

● Mike Dalmay, Chair, Murrindindi Inc. “The Great Victorian Rail Trail has great potential but disagree it is currently a known marketing strength,” says the Murrindindi Inc. document.

Murrindindi Inc. disagrees “that the village destinations of Yea, Alexandra, Kinglake Ranges are well known village destinations outside of Murrindindi.

“They currently do not have the accommodation to even be considered a marketing strength.

“They may attract day trip-

ers or people on the way to other destinations. For example, village destinations that are well known are Daylesford, Beechworth, Bright and Echuca."

The Council is told that “boating and water sports is not even on the radar”.

“This creates significant concern about the creditability and depth of this report,” says Murrindindi Inc. “Further, it does not mention Agri-Business Tourismincluding Food and Wine and the potential of growing the market that happens in the Yarra Valley and expanding it into Murrindindi, especially the Yea and Surrounds Quadrant or Segment of Murrindindi.

“Again, this highlights limited consultation, as the Murrindindi Winemakers are not even referred to in this report.

“The executive of the Murrindindi Food & Wine Group has not been consulted which has led to incorrect and out of date information in the report,” says Murrindindi Inc. “The statement that there is not a role for Murrindindi Inc is totally rejected.

Body disappointed at report ■ Murrindindi Inc. has expressed disappointment that it has been largely ignored in the draft Murrindindi Shire Council Tourism Strategy.

The strategy is said to have concluded that there is not a role for Murrindindi Inc. to play.

“It is extremely disappointing that such a statement can be made without any consultation with the executive of Murrindindi Inc. “Tourism is extremely important to Murrindindi Inc. but it is not all of the businesses it supports.

“Murrindindi Inc is always open and prepared to assess its role and how it can better deliver for the businesses it represents.

This leads to the statement of greater leadership by Murrindindi Shire is needed.

“This is of great concern as a Government authority will tell businesses what to do. This smacks of a top down approach by people who do not operate businesses.

“Unless businesses have ownership and are prepared to invest their own dollars and can see a return for that investment, we are wasting our time.

“There is certainly an important role for Murrindindi Council officers to work with businesses and their representatives to help facilitate positive outcomes that deliver on the Council Plan as well as deliver positive benefits to business.

“This suggestion again provides a lack of confidence in this report and it gives an impression of nothing different from many previous

reports that are gathering dust.”

Murrindindi Inc. suggests that the Council work with and facilitate the decision of local tourism businesses as represented by their respective associations as to the most appropriate avenue and methods to market their businesses regionally.

Murrindindi Inc. warns that an increased spend on tourism by the Council “runs the risk of not being relevant in the market place or a good idea not based in reality”.

Warning about ‘top down’ approach ■ Each community in Murrindindi is different, Murrindindi Inc. warns in its reply to Council’s draft tourism strategy.

Murrindindi Inc. says there are four different ‘quadrants’ in the municipality.

It calls for reducing the volunteer workload on management issues.

“Having an admin support

committee would be invaluable,” says the reply.

“Having one person working in this manner for all VICs in the Shire is seen as a big positive.

“This would add to collaboration and sharing on marketing material, volunteer training etc.”

Murrindindi Inc. says the Council is in danger of adopting a ‘top down’ approach.

It rejects the idea of a ‘summit’.

“Businesses are sick of talk fests; they want action and to see results that make a difference to their businesses.

“If Murrindindi Inc is supported and through it to its members, there should not be a need for such a summit.”

Yea and Kinglake Ranges are not established as tourism destinations, the reply states.

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Work for local young people

■ Local swimming pools are an important part of our communities, and it is not just about cooling down on hot summer days.

Every year Council employs some 30 casual staff to work as lifeguards and facility operators at Murrindindi Shire's four aquatic facilities?

Murrindindi Shire Council CEO, Craig Lloyd, said these jobs run between October and March every year and Council is currently recruiting for the 2019/20 season.

Council provides full on-the-job training for successful applicants, so all that applicants need to do is to ensure they have Pool Lifeguard and Level 2 First Aid certifications.

"Working at the pools is an important source of local employment, particularly for our young people who haven't had the chance to get much work experience yet,” Mr Lloyd said.

“It's also a really fantastic opportunity for students returning home from university for the summer to earn some money and reconnect with their communities.

"Our four pools are extremely valuable assets and the health, wellbeing and economic value they provide to our communities cannot be underestimated.

“That being said, they are expensive to maintain and operate, and over the past decade, we have been seeing a gradual decline in the use of the pools.

“It was great to see a little increase in visitation during the 2018-19 pool season, but it's still really important to ensure the pools are meeting the community's needs and expectations so that ratepayers and pool users alike are getting value for money.

"As you might recall, Council ran a survey earlier this year asking the community for feedback on how and when they use the four pools in the Shire, and what changes they would like to see at the facilities in the future.

“We were absolutely thrilled to receive more than 500 responses to the Pools Survey and we're using that feedback to develop plans for the future of the aquatic facilities in Murrindindi Shire.

"A big thank you to everyone who took the time to share your thoughts and ideas - stay tuned for developments on that front.

“And, of course, if you, or someone you know, is interested in some casual work this summer, be sure to check out Council's Lifeguard positions at www.murrindindi. vic.gov.au/jobs," Mr Lloyd said.

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Local Briefs Fireworks action

■ The public is being asked for its say on whether Nillumbik Council bans fireworks on private rural land or advises residents to apply for a permit which it then has the power to refuse.

$10,000 grants ■ Local not-for-profit organisations in the community are invited to apply for grants of up to $10,000 with the launch of the 2019 Australia Post Community Grantsprogram. www.auspost.com.au/grants

Royal train ■ Seymour Railway Heritage Centre is presenting a special Royal Train tour in Seymour. on Saturday, August 10..

The tour will have the recently restored former Royal Carriages, State Number 4 and 5.

“This will be the first time these carriages have been used in Seymour; following a number of months at Castlemaine,” says Marketing Officer, Stephen Baker.

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What The Papers Say Tres bien

■ Lovers of France are invited to celebrate Bastille Day on Sunday (July 14) at Killara Estate in Seville East.

A local group called BonjourYarra Valley will be hosting the event and are looking forward to celebrating French culture.

- Mountain Views Mail

Best manager

■ Whittlesea IGA Liquor store manager Munish Bansal has been recognised as best store manager in Australia by the IGA group and previously best manager in Victoria.

- Whittlesea Review

Gallery facelift

■ The Seymour and DistrictArt Galleryhas a new lease on life after a massive facelift.

The gallery had been closed for several weeks due to comprehensive and muchneeded painting and renovations by a team headed by Mitchell Shire’s Neil Clothier.

The Old Courthouse in High St is now light-filled and perfect for displaying the region’s artistic talent.

- Seymour Telegraph

Oh, deer!

■ Careless hunters who shot a deer while on private property on Nillumbik’s fringe have been warned to hold their fire or risk an innocent person being killed.

Oswald Gonzalez discovered a headless deer rotting on his Glenburn farm and realised that hunters trespassed in order to snatch the animal’s head.

- Diamond Valley Leader

Letter to the Editor ● From Page 10 The solution is to use the might of the Southern Ocean to allow the Lower Lakes and Coorong to revert to its natural estuarine state.

This should include upgrading the barrage infrastructure and the building of Lock Zero ( A Better Way, Ken Jury, marine investigative journalist, Goolwa, SA), which would enable fresh water to be released into the lakes on demand when tidal flows are suitable.

This method would save 2700GL plus of fresh water annually which could be put towards improving agricultural production, guarantee Adelaide's fresh water supply and protect the environment.

Minister Littleproud is still in denial and simply following the bureaucratic line when he continues to state, " the plan is far from perfect, but is also the best we're going to get, because it gives twomillion Australians living in the Basin certainty around water for the first time in almost a decade." Nothing could be further from the truth.

Since the plan began there has been absolutely no security of supply for irrigators or communities, with poor environmental outcomes such as bank slumping, sediment build up reducing channel capacity, historically record high fish kills, carp population explosion and an increase in hypoxic blackwater events.

There is a long list of basin plan failures, mismanagement and destructive consequences . The current Plan is unachievable, unviable and simply cannot work as proposed.

To continue with the current basin plan format is to impose severe and perverse environmental, economic and social impacts on communities, jeopardise our national agribusiness and food security while ignoring the fact that regional Australians, who live in the Murray Darling Basin, deserve the same respect, consideration and hope for the future as everyone else.

The Plan must be paused immediately, comprehensively and independently reviewed and reset to achieve a true triple bottom line outcome.

Jan Beer, Representative Upper Goulburn River Catchment Association, Cheviot Hills, Yea

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Court Lists Seymour Magistrates’ Court - Criminal Case Listings Thursday, July 18 Plaintiff / Informant / Applicant vs Defendant / Accused / Respondent. Information Division.

Victoria Police - Brown, P (29838) v Hanson, Paul John.

Uni-Wallan Vic Roads - Kontossis, D v Guha, Hitesh. Vic Roads Vic Roads - Green, B v Starvaggi, Guiseppi. Vic Roads Victoria Police - Hemsley, C (43658) v Goggin, Dylan.

Uni-Sunshine Victoria Police - Fraser, P (35913) v Cameron, Michael.

Uni-Kilmore Victoria Police - Bennett, N (36915) v Mazzeo, Joseph Mark. Ciu-Mitchell Victoria Police - Fraser, P (35913) v Rohde, Dale Gregory. Uni-Kilmore Victoria Police - Broadway, B (42074) v Marshall, Benjamin. Uni-Alexandra Victoria Police - Rossetti, T (42521) v Carbis, Kristy. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Voisey, A (41594) v Rohde, Dale. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Voisey, A (41594) v Bradford, Rebecca.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Voisey, A (41594) v Speechley, Adriana Heather. Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Voisey, A (41594) v Gunes, Kenan. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Voisey, A (41594) v Lemke, Sarah. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Grant, B (28598) v Hanson, Paul John.

Ciu-Mitchell Victoria Police - De Bruyckere, M (33701) v Finn, Luke. Highway Patrol-Wallan Victoria Police - Moodie, T (43055) v Browne, Lucia. UniSouthbank Victoria Police - BougoureLatchford, H (43770) v Bell, Dean John. Uni-Mordialloc Victoria Police - Haddad, M (44362) v Isse, Jabir Mohamed. Uni-Broadmeadows Victoria Police - Bova, L (31851) v Johnston, Brendan.

Uni-Kilmore Victoria Police - Bova, L (31851) v Johnston, Brendan.

Uni-Kilmore Victoria Police - Renton, S (40967) v Browne, Lucia. UniMoorabbin Victoria Police - Baker, N (36147) v Schembri, Taylah.

Transit Central 2 Victoria Police - Rogers, M (40077) v Mahon, Glen. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Crossing, J (42422) v Harrington, James.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Garbutt, E (35708) v Sherwood, Jemery Leigh. Highway PatrolSeymour Victoria Police - Haddad, M (44362) v Martin, Bradley James. Uni-Broadmeadows Victoria Police - Webster, B (41109) v Tant, Christopher.

Uni-Whittlesea Victoria Police - Mullett, K (39188) v Stoneham, Mark.

Ciu-Mitchell Victoria Police - Bova, L (31851) v Kearns, Adam. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Houguet, B (40313) v Valentine, Stephen William.

Victoria Police - Voisey, A (41594) v Khavari, Mohammad Reza. Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Garbutt,

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E (35708) v Laffan, SarahAnn. Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - Voisey, A (41594) v Crispin, Hayley Anne. Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Kamali, V (42448) v Garbutt, Leigh. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Malane, B (36738) v Crispin, Hayley. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Woosnam, J (31061)v Ferguson, James Andrew. Uni-Nagambie Victoria Police - Crossing, J (42422) v Best, Michelle Louise. Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Farquharson, R (32984) v Sims, Terry James. Highway Patrol-Yarra Victoria Police - Holcombe, S (39769) v Finn, Luke. UniBroadford Victoria Police - Westgarth, R (32813) v Turner, Craig. UniKinglake Victoria Police - Shortt, T (40203) v Pollard, Warren. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Pezzimenti, P(32040) v Nunn, Allan. Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - Engel, M (21896) v Kipping, Joel Christopher. Ciu-Alexandra Victoria Police - Walton, A (40916) v Bradley, Sally Anne.

Uni-Kilmore Victoria Police - Sanderson, L (41694) v Garbutt, Leigh.

Operations Response Team One Victoria Police - Prosser, A (42155) v Mason, Melissa.

Uni-Southbank Victoria Police - Wright, A (31459) v Sims, Terry. Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - Rossetti, T (42521) v Bradley, Sally Anne.

Uni-Kilmore Victoria Police - Mcclure, R (40291) v Rocke, Arron. UniCobram Victoria Police - Mcniece, S (36460) v Finn, Luke Anthony. Transit North 1 Victoria Police - Turner, J (34532) v Borell, Keenen. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Webster, B (41109) v Browne, Lucia.

Uni-Whittlesea Victoria Police - Rhead, A (40227) v Alexander, Ami. Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - Rourke, M (41690) v Robl, Khoner. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Reynolds, J (31151)v Evangelista, Anthony. Uni-Eildon Victoria Police - Garbutt, S (33632) v Love, Clinton. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Chief Commissioner Of Police (00008) v Stuart, Luke. Office Of The Chief Commissioner Victoria Police - Chief Com-

missioner Of Police (00008) v Bateman, Howard. Office Of The Chief Commissioner Community Corrections Centre - Cochrane, S v Colenso, Ricky. Community Corrections Centre Victoria Police - Barclay, J (36190) v Waters, Leesa. Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - Valher, K (42277) v Noorman, Rachel.

Uni-Cranbourne Community Corrections Centre - Cochrane, S v Colenso, Ricky Keith. Community Corrections Centre Community Corrections Centre - Macdougall, M v Nicolosi, Benjamin. Community Corrections Centre Friday, July 19 Victoria Police - Bova, L (31851) v Meloury, Kevin. UniKilmore Environment Protection Authority - Ryan, M v Byriell, Geoffrey Noel. Environment Protection Authority Community Corrections Centre - Masunu, A v Meloury, Kevin. Community Corrections Centre Mansfuield Magistrates’ Court - Criminal Case Listings Monday, July 15 Victoria Police - Newbury, D (22528) v Iezzi, Luciano.

Traffic Camera Office Wednesday, July 17 Victoria Police - Magnay, E (42352) v Gugliandolo, Giandomenico. Uni-Mansfield Victoria Police - Swan, P (39871) v Trellu-Coker, James.

Highway Patrol-Mansfield Victoria Police - Smith, B (29408) v Maguire, Andrew Robert. Uni-Alexandra 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.

Highway Patrol-Mansfield Victoria Police - Nolan, M (31536) v Mckenzie, Ben Craig. Uni-Mansfield Victoria Police - Mcdonald, G (40664) v Hendley, Zachary.

Highway Patrol-Mansfield Victoria Police - Wood, D (38944) v Haynes, Dennis Peter. Heavy Vehicle Unit Victoria Police - Cusack, S (28652) v Stillman, Aaron. CiuAlexandra ● Turn To Page 100

From Our 1919 Files

Local football

■ The Yea Trades (junior) played the Alexandra District Returned Soldiers on Saturday, at Alexandra, when Yea defeated their opponents by 24 points.

The score was: Yea, 7 goals 5 behinds; Returned Soldiers, 3 goals 5 behinds. J. Stephens (5) and W. Smith (2) were the goalkickers for Yea. After the match, Alexandra lodged a protest against Yea on the grounds that they played a senior player (Stephens). The protest will be dealt with at a meeting of delegates to be held this week.

Yarck and Alexandra played at Yarck on Saturday. A well contested game resulted in a win for the former by 2 points.

- Yea Chronicle

Orange blossoms

■ On June 3, a very pretty wedding was celebrated, when ex Corporal Reuben Leslie Hanning, eldest son of Mr and Mrs R. Hanning, of Riversdale road,Alexandra, was united in the holy bonds of matrimony to Miss Mar garet Elizabeth Waters, second daughter of Mr and Mrs J. Waters, of Alexandra.

The ceremony took place at the residence of the bride's parents, Grant street, Alexandra, the officiating clergyman being the Rev G. Brammall, vicar of St John's.

- Alexandra and Yea Standard

Peace celebration

■ A thanksgiving service for the blessing of peace after the disastrous war was held in the Shire hall on Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m, Unfortunately the church authorities, to whom the wire from the Central Peace Committee on Friday asking that a service be held was referred, felt that the time to arrange the service was too short in view of the fact that their own country services had already been arranged. The telegram was placed before the Shire Council on Saturday, but no action was taken, The failure of public bodies to recognise responsibilities in connection with the service was regretable. The time was short but ample, and no excuse can be fairly made for the omission. - Yea Chronicle

Christmas Hills Red Cross

■ On Thursday, July 3rd, the above branch held its final meeting at Grandview. There was a full attendance of members. This branch, which was formed on July 7th, 1915, by the common consent of a dozen scattered families, has worked well and faithfully throughout the pa:st four years, during which period it has collected over £130, chiefly by means of con certs and social evenings held at the local Mechanics' Institute.

- The Advertiser

Drama performance

■ The YeaAmateur Dramatic Society gave another of their pleasing entertainment in the Shire hall on Wednesday night of last week with the object of raising funds for the soldiers' memorial. There was a good attendance, notwithstanding the unfavorable weather, the body of the hall and the balcony being well filled by a very appreciative andienee. An additional attraction was provided on this occasion by the Yea string orchestra, who played several selections. Two pieces were staged - Dr. Mason, M.D, or the Lady Doctor, and Just Plain Folks.

- Yea Chronicle

Welcome home

■ Since our last issue seven more soldiers have returned to the district - Privates Norman Drysdale, McGillivray, S. Hickingbotham, Pemberton, R, White, H Davis, Gunner J. Collins. Each were met at the railway station by the people and Salvation Army band accorded them a hearty welcome home, after which speeches were delivered and a procession was formed.

- Yea Chronicle

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History

Whitcombe’s History of Alexandra ■ In August 1930, Frank Whitcombe, ofThe Weekly Times, penned his history of Alexandra: Fortunes were made out of Luck'sAll, at Warner's Creek.

About 1872 a party took it on tribute — Tom Spargo, Charlie Collins, Bill Knowles, and Frank Baudewin.

They had hard luck broke, struck a block of rich stone.

It was generally supposed they got about £ 6,000 a man out of it in two years.

Bill Knowles already had his family at Thornton, where he owned the punt. He settled there perma nently and became a shire councillor and a J.P. Frank Baudewin bought the Thornton Hotel and property, where he died in 1877.

Charlie Col lins eventually settled down as a farmer on the Taggerty.

Mr F F. Bainbridge was deputy mining registrar under S. K. Vickery at Gobur in its boom time, when the lead was supposed to run down the valley, which was pegged, jumped, and re-pegged several times for over a mile; the ground being held under the wet frontage clause of the mining by-laws; the flat became known as the "cribbage board."

A company, headed by Captain Kenney, of St. Kilda baths, endeavored to buy up 50 of these claims, with the intention of forming a company, but owing to the number of disputed titles to the ground, the idea was abandoned.

As it turned out, only three claims gave payable returns — the Working Miners, Sons of Freedom, and the Red Streak, the last being barely worth working.

Two coaches, one driven by Morgan and the other byClyne(anAmerican), plied between Alexandra and Godfrey's Creek, as it was then named .

When assisting in surveying ground applied for on lease above the Never Can Tell, a small gully thickly grown over with wattles was pointed out as a likely place for gold.

This was afterwards known as Nuggety Gully, where Charles Edwards found Gobur's largest nugget.

THE PRESENT At time of writing Alexandra's fore most, industry is Clark, Pearce and Grant Bros.' timber mills, adjoinining the railway station, where floorings moldings, linings and furniture boards from the products of the Rubicon Forest are Kiln dried and marketed under the name of "ruoak."

The Shire of Alexandra stock returns for 1929 shows: Sheep, 159,944; lambs. 40,464; dairy cows, 2738; other cattle, 7327: horses, 1369; pigs. 855.

Many mining men acquainted with the district retain faith in the exist ence of gold that has never been gotten and escaped the picks of early days.

It will be remembered that Sir J. Patterson in 1894. when un employment was rife, deputed David B. Walker to report on our neglected goldfields, one immediate result of which was the finding of the big Poseidon Nugget.

In the pamphlet issued by the Government at that time reference was made to the Big River field, where a number of reefs had been worked with great profit in the 60's.

The alluvial deposits in this river were exceedingly rich, and after the

‘Many mining men acquainted with the district retain faith in the exist ence of gold that has never been gotten and escaped the picks of early days.’

● The Corner Hotel, Alexandra (also known as the Commercial Hotel) bed had been turned over a couple good, and a Mansfield paper pub- of the early days carrying on busiof times the banks were at tacked lished in 1867 described how a creek ness in Alexandra He established his near Alexandra, was pegged out for busi ness in Grant Street in 1871 . and found to be rich also.

Adver tisements of the following In working the bank claims reefs five miles, the sinking being from 2 were struck. and in some cases very to 8 feet, with nuggets ranging from appeared in the columns of the Alexandra Times in June, 1868: — 1oz. to 7oz. found freely. pro fitably dealt with.

This diggings was discovered by Thomas Badger, general store; When the rich alluvial deposits were exhausted the miners went four men, who their sale of £900 Thomas Hall, grocer, Rappiport, away, the few left being unable to worth of gold aroused suspicion, and Davis and Co, general merchants; carry on any kind of mining that led to quickly found in the neighbor- James Doran, veterinary surgeon, hood. 28 being reported as aurifer- next Eldorado Hotel; H. Franks, would give an immediate return Little Wonder Store, Grant Street; For years Enoch's Point was a ous in a very short time.

The deepest shaft in the district is T. Veen, cordial manufacturer: de cayed mining camp.

Notwithstanding the enormous at Yea, where the Welcome Company George Bamford, tailor; John Caperichness of the river bed. which af- sunk 800 feet and raised over £30,000 ness, carpenter; George Graham, carpenter. ter being worked to the bedrock for worth of gold.

W. Morgan kept stables with Near Alexandra the reefs that a distance of 40 or 50 miles, was abandoned, nobody concerned had proved at all valuable were confined horses for hire; Eagles and Gruby sufficient capital to prospect prop- to three lines — the Lucky, Home- were drapers; Kerwan kept the Sham- rock Hotel; Jack Levy the ward Bound, and Mysterious. erly for reefs.

On the Lucky some small parcels Montezuma Hotel, uncle of Joe ThIn the palmy days of Enoch's Point a few good reefs were found, yielded as high as 17oz. to the ton ompson and brother Jack the boxer; these including Luck's All (Warner's while from 987 tons there were ob- H. Woods kept the Pig and Whistle, opposite present site of the Union Creek), the Unknown, Seek and tained 4843oz.

In the prospecting claim 13 00oz. Bank; Pat Buggy. Union Bank HoFind, the Reliance, and the True were obtained from 800 tons, the tel; Charles Raeuber, Champagne Blue.

Charlle Hotel.

Of these, the Luck's All was the deepest shaft being 200 feet.

TWELVE HOTELS In the Alfred Company's claim richest, but beyond the one claim it Alexandra had at least 2 hotels in was not traced, and, after paying its 2049 oz. were obtained, but in the principal claim on the line, the No. 2 1868 — Royal Mail, John Smith pro shareholders some £60.000 In dividends, it was practically Albert Vulcan. 20,140oz. were prietor; S. Milligan's Commercial aban doned. One of the first crush- raised, and £47,000 paid in dividends. (late Power's), Grant Street; Power's, The main shaft was down over next the Eldorado Hotel; the Eldoring was taken from a depth of 20 ado Hotel, J. A. Cooper and Edward feet, when 510 tons averaged only 400 feet.

The Ajax Seenndus gave Cooper, proprietors; Miners' Ex5dwt.

This was in 1865, and at the same 4,000oz.. out of which £ 10,000 was change Hotel, afterwards Alexandra time the prospecting claim on the paid in dividends; while on the Fire- Hotel.

John Gibbons; Union Bank Inn, Unknown reef, at a depth of 30 feet, works £6000 dividends were paid in M. Gaffney; Tara's Halls Hotel, two years. averaged 29dwt. for 554 tons.

On the Homeward Bound Grant Street, Ellen Lawler propriJust about the same time the True Blue and Seek and Find reefs were £19,000 was paid in dividends out of etress; Duke of Edinburgh; Bridge; Cummings' Albion Hotel; Cook's the 9,140oz. raised. opened up. with good results.

The No. 1 South yields. known to Hotel; New York and London HoA few months later the Luck's All gave 280oz. from 300 tons taken out be large, in one crushing of 149 tons tel, C. Jones, proprietor.

Concerts three times a week; of a depth of 30 feet, while the gave nearly 1000 oz.

The Mysterious line was repre- Hamea and Ashbec's Corner Hotel, Unkown, which was then down 60 feet, averaged 27dwt for 120 loads. sented by about 3800oz. The now the Commercial Hotel.

Down Molesworth way there On the Seek and Find reef, the difficulity with the Alexandra roofs Hope On Hope Ever Com pany, in was water which at a depth of about were The Pig and Whistle (Anderthe September quarter of 1886 300 feet became too strong except son and Ruby proprietors) and A. crushed 489 tons for 718oz. the stone for machinery, and there had been Smith's Punt Hotel, near Sloan's being taken from levels varying in the difficully of enlisting foreign capi- punt.

The Full Belly Hotel, Dry Creek, tal through the wastefulness in prior depth from 40 to 155 feet. be tween Alexandra and The Hope On Hope Ever in 1868 times.

At Godfrey's Creek in the early Darlingford, was kept by Stephen was down 320 feet, with a reef 2 feet thick, the average yield having been 70's verv rich alluvial was found, Jones, who claimed to be the first 27dwt., but a few years later the reef numbers ranging as high as 60oz. and man who ever swam the Goulburn.

Others in business were: — J. 100oz being not uncommon, and was lost as in Luck's All. The lost reefs have been proved some good fields from one or two Patton, butcher; Cronin and rich, and many others are known to quartz reef found in the ranges, with O'Callaghan, grocers and wine and which the place is surrounded, were spirit merchants; J. Peterkin, grocer exist in the ranges. and spirit mer chant; Maurice obtained.

CREEK PEGGED Mr R. E. Edwards, of the Red Raphael, auctioneer and mining FOR FIVE MILE The early alluvial fields were Boot Store, is the only living pioneer agent; James McNemy, millwright

and engineer; E. J. Aston, gold smelter and refiner; John Downey, surveyor.

Thomas Cameron was a general storekeeper at Darlingford. Glasson Collins and Co. were general blacksmiths at the Bridge. Kelly and Dunn were general storekeepers at Darlingford.

J.P. Bainbridge represented the Union Bankat Alexandra.W. Downing was an auctioneer, mining and general agent; and Frederick Coster a solicitor.

ANOTABLE RESIDENT A notable link with the early days is Sir John Barnewall, baronet, at present 80 years of age, and residing at Darlingford.

His father came out from Ireland with his wife in the year 1840; as at that time his suc cession to the title seemed very re mote.

The members of the family at present in Australia were all born here.

The eldest was Catherine Lucy (the late Mrs Rennie) of Mansfield.

Then Barbara (Mrs T. Tossol, of Thornton); Eleanor (Mrs W. McMartin, Malvern); Sir John Robert, of Thorn ton ; Marietza (Mrs. R. Nicholas, of Thornton); Adeline (Mrs F. Downey, of Hurst Bridge); and Eliza (Mrs John O'Rourke, of Thornton).

Sir John succeeded to the title in 1909. The family left Yea in 1847, and settled on the Big River, at Darlingford, the first white family to go there.

After living on the Big River for a while, they moved to Jerusalem Creek, and later to the very numerous, but were not trouble some, the greatest trouble the family had to contend against being that of obtaining supplies, which had to be brought from Melbourne by bullock waggon, their delay through bad tracks in bad weather occasioning hardship and privation.

Flour was £10 a bag and difficult to obtain. Supplies and mails came through once a year, and the bullock waggons took the wool back to the city on their return journeys.

Oftimes the father and mother were absent from home, and on such occasions all the pro tection the little children had was a faithful bloodhound and an efficient guard he ever proved.

One night a madman wandered to the homestead, and alter he had been overpowered the father mounted guard over him all night with a gun.

In the morning he was taken to the police camp. There happened to be a snake charmer in the settlement that day, and the wretched maniac, escaping from custody, plunged his hands among the reptiles and was bitten, dying shortly afterwards.

In November, 1875, Catherine, the eldest of the family, was married to Robert Rennie, and the young couple settled on the Goulburn River, about a mile from the old home, and there three sons and a daughter were born to them.

Robert Rennie, who was very popular, and a man of enter prise, had great faith in the district, He established the first creamery in Thornton, and afterwards started a cheese factory on the Acheron.

His wife was an accomplished horse woman and her kindly and genial dis position secured her a host of friends. ● Continued on next page

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History ● From previous page Her family consisted of Robert (who died in 1918), John of Kilmurry, Acheron; James, who died when 14 years of ago; and Eliza (Mrs F. Davies, of Mansfield).

Robert Rennie, senr., died in Melbourne in 1893, and after his death his widow continued to reside in the old home until the Government acquired her property in connection with the Eildon weir.

THE PIONEER Henry W. Alston, a native of London, arrived in Melbourne as a midshipman of the Black Swan in 1858, at the age of 18; and engaged in mining at Ballarat.

Sandhurst, also in New South Wales, and at Woods Point, until 1869, when he became identified with the Shire of Alexandra as rate collector and remained in of fice for 49½ years.

G. A. Cookson, in 1 873, went to Alexandra to take charge of his father's farm, which later reverted to him.

Richard W. Wightman, native of Lancashire, arrived in Victoria in 1854; and, following gold mining for two years, turned to farming in 1856.

In 1868 he selected land at Thornton and was elected to the Shire Council.

George Arthur Cookson born in Whittlesea in 1859, became an auctioneer in both Mansfield and Alexandra.

He was son of Charles Cookson, of the Education Department, and one of a committee which inaugurated the firstAgricultural Show in Victoria.

George established his busi ness in 1890, and was several times president of the Shire.

As a member of the first team of Mounted Rifles, he visited England under command of Major McLeish.

Wilham Hoskin Whiting, another auctioneer of Grant Street, was born in Violet Town in 1864.

His father was George Whiting.

J.P., of the Oaks, near Alexandra, who estab lished the present business.

Wm. H. Whiting, president of the Shire in 1892, was, as the outcome of his Queensland experience, noted as a fine judge of stock.

Mr John Wylie, J.P., at the age of 14, came from Castlemaine district with his father, who carried on dairying and farming at Taggerty.

Enter ing the Alexandra Shire Council in 1895, he occupied the presidential chair on ten occasions; and has been president of the Hospital and Agri cultural Society, in both of which bodies he has taken active interest.

At present he is the returning officer for the Upper Goulburn electoral district, and resides in town, having dis posed of his farm in 1921.

George Payne, a pioneer of the 70's was one of the early carriers from Tallarook; built the National Bank, kept a store and butcher's shop and proved a very public-spirited friend of the hospital and agricultural shows.

James Leckie, came to Victoria in 1863, and after mining and storekeeping at Woods Point, settled down to storekeeping and grazing in Alex andra.

His son, John, took over the business on the death of his father in 1897; but he relinquished it for farming at Ayr, distant about a mile from Alexandra.

In 1904 he attained to the chair of the president of the shire.

The conception of a hospital for the mining district took form on July 9, 1868, when at a meeting pre sided over by John Peterkin, John

● John Whitelaw, proprietor of the Alexamdra Times Sidney Gullett, prior to taking over 1878 with Wally Moon as sleeping Whitelaw moved that one be erected the Lancefield paper had been con- partner. at Alexandra.

Wally, a young man in the Lands With about £150 col lectcd in the nected with the press at Tatura and district and a Government subsidy Woodend.

Department in Alexandra, having reInto the Lancefield office came ceived pro motion to Swan Hill, sold of £2 to £1, it was con sidered suffimany men of note: "Jimmy" Gunn his interest to Fred Wheeler, chemcient money would be available.

The present institution was incor- (Maluka), of We of the Never Never ist. porated in 1871 andMr HarryWood, and ‘Monty’ Somers (later secretary Bill Dickson left for Melbourne J.P., has been the sec retary since of the Royal Agricultural Society of in 1883, and died in 1885.

N.S.W.). The present deputy leader The Alexandra Times was first 1902.

Close upon 200 patients are of the Opposition in the House of published in 1868. treated during the year, and the daily Representatives, Mr Harry Gullett, AGRICULTURALENTERPRISE was a scholar at the State school at At the 51st annual show of the average is 8.7.

Lancefield. and nephew of Sidney Alexandra Agricultural and PastoTHE FIRSTNEWSPAPER Romance suffuses the birth of the Gullett. ral Society, held in November last, During J. J. H. McColl's owner- the prize money amounted to £210, first, local newspaper. John Whitelaw had established the the Woods ship of the Standard, in 1878, there not withstanding that many of the old identities connected with - the SociPoint Mountaineer when that field re sided.

In Alexandraa Presbyterian min- ety have passed away or left the diswas at its height.

With the collapse of the great ister, by name McDougall, who had trict.

The late G. A. Cookson who died boom he was compelled to seek a brother a compositor at fresh fields and decided on starting Maryborough who was induced to in May last, was secretary In the early days. J. E. Scale, now at Alexandra, which at the time was accept the position of editor-manager, coming to the front with splendid re- and who brought with him two jour- of Melbourne, used to take a very ney men compositors. viz.. Bill active interest in shows; and in more turns from its mines.

The plant was carted from Woods Dickson and Sam Rowe. recent times Wm Lade, Robert Dobarrangement lasted only a son, John Hindlay, George Payne, Point and the Alexandra Timesmade fewThis months, and McDougall and while the younger generation include its bow to the public on June 2, 1863 Rowe packed their carpet bags and Hugh Gilmore, Bert Dobson, Tom In 1877 he disposed of the busi- the concern was carried on by Bill Hodson and A. W. Gorman. ness to a local squatter, John James Dickson. Martin Donovan and Bob The last-named devote his time McColl.

Little, who, incidentally, in addition to the breeding of prize Ayrshire stock Mr McColl, not being in posses- to his role of printer's devil, was emsion of practical knowledge of the ployed to run the rabbit to the Corner at "Cathwart," three miles from business, had to depend on others for Hotel, then kept by Alf and Charlie Alexandra; and George Rayner of the success, or otherwise, of his new Hamea, assisted by Stanley Alexandra, specialises in Jerseys.

The president of this important soventure.

McDonald who measured out the He, however, altered the name beer for the subscribers and other ciety is. MrA. N. Walsh, of Korieila, of the paper to the Alexandra Stan- visitors congregated at the Standard and the secretary is Mr J. Guthridge Alexandra Dairy Companyat the dard. on publishing night. last Royal Show took the champion In 1880 Samuel Allardyce, owner A. M. Curtis, who on occasion asof Riversdale Station, became pro- sumed the pen name of "Toby," then prize of Australia for salted or fresh prietor and later sold to J. A. Gor- took up the editorship in conjunction butter, and first prize for 56 b. box of don, who for many years occupied with his auctioneering business, as- plain butter suitable for local trade, the position of shire secretary. sisted in times of emergency by Ted and for several years has been a conOn his death the paper was taken Gale, a free lance and farmer of sistent winner The company's finan cial position over by Thomas A. Fox, who Whanregarwen. launched out as a municipal reforE. G. Woolaston, a local school- is a very sound one. The office-bearmer. master and cricketer of some note, ers are Messrs Robert Dob son, In May, 1920, the paper was ac- was also an honorary contributor on chairman of directors; Thomas O'Brien, manager; and Arthur Kidd, quired by the present proprietor Mr various subjects.

Joseph T. Guthridge, who had About 1880 the paper became the secretary.

Eildon Weir is 18 miles from Alex served his apprenticeship with Sidney property of Sam Allardyce, of Gullett, of the Lancefield Mercury Riversdale sta tion, who shortly af- andra, at the junction of the GoulThe Gullett family was prominent ter sold on easy and extended terms burn and Delatite Rivers.

The pro posal to build a reservoir in the newspaper world. to Bill Dickson, (during whose regime Henry Gullett was editor of the A. G. Moon, the then Shire secre- at Eildon was first officially put forSydney Morning Herald; Philip tary; Ted Gale and H. W. Alston ward in November, 1912.

The reservoir, which cost Gullett was a well-known (Moon and Alston in honorary caMelbourne journalist; and after- pacity) did most of the scissor work £1,500,000, was filled to its full capacity of 306,000 acre feet on Auwards edited papers at Hamilton and and editing.

Ballarat.

Allardyce then sold to J. A. Gor- gust 21, 1927, for the first time.

For a year and eight months the don, who arriv ed in Alexandra in

dam appeared to function satisfactorily.

On April 26, 1929, a subsidence of the bank on the upstream side of the concrete core wall took place, exposing the wall to a maximum depth of 26 feet.

A Board was appointed by the Governor-in-Council to inquire into (1) the cause of the subsidence (2) whether the whole structive is efficient for the purpose for which it was designed; and (3) the appropriate means of remedying such subsidence or defects (if any).

The Board in its reports stated that the efficiency of the structure in the future will depend on the success which attends the remedial measures advised by them.

Repair work is still being carried out. The weir at Eildon (which is also called "Sugarloaf" ) is connected with the Goulburn irrigation system.

Sugarloaf-Rubicon hydro -electric scheme, as adopted by the State Elec tricity Commission, is based on five hydro-electric stations, with an approximate horsepower aggregating 35,450, viz.: Sugarloaf, 18.000; Royston, 1050; Rubicon, 12,000: Lower Rubicon, 4000; Rubicon Falls, 400; total. 35,450 B.H.P. Sugarloaf station is at Eildon, but as the weir ls now empty the station is closed down.

The other four stations are operated by mountain streams in tho Rubicon Forest.

Lower Rubicon is about 12 miles from Alexandra, and the other stations of the mountain group are further back in the forest.

PARADISE FOR TOURISTS Up in the ranges, where, some 3000 feet above sea level, the mists con dense amongst the gums and dis charge their moisture along runnel and stream into the Royston and Rubicon rivers; leaping from rock to rock, and swirling over the falls, they engage in their last dance of liberty with a riot of indescribable loveliness before reaching the man-made power houses, where their gravitational en ergy will be harnessed for commercial purposes and be converted into electric light and horsepower.

Alexandra, a pre-eminently unpretentious town in a land of peace and plenty, has the privileged compensation of being able to banish from its vocabulary the sense of monotony.

All its roads and byways, winding among the hills, traverse fresh pictures along well-watered pastures and rises, their summits except where the still virgin slopes of the departmental reserves are clothed with their profuse growths of limber.

In such localities the flowing Goulburn and its tributaries supply an accompani ment of babbling waters as far as Eildon Weir or the turbulent falls of the Rubicon, rushing over its rocky bed to the power stations; while on every hand are gullies of verdant profusion.

To attempt to enumerate the mounts and water foils, mineral springs and reservoirs, and more purely agrarian scenes on rich farm ing soils and pasture lands would be futile.

Nevertheless, passing reference may be made to A. W. Gorman's famous stud farm, where the renowned "Cathcart" Ayrshires are bred, three miles out of Alexandra.

Little need be added beyond the fact that artists, botanists, anglers and bird-lovers among the trout and gorgeously plumed parrots, proclaim the place a paradise of beauty and gratified longings.

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Weekend sport: around the grounds

Photos: Ash Long

● Brodie ‘Bizkit’ Arnott, Reserves coach, demonstrates the Boners spirit.

● Alexandra Under 18 took on Berwick at Rebel Bark on Saturday.

● Yarra Junction overpowerd Yea Reserves (and Seniors).

● Daniel Draper takes the ball against the Demons at Powelltown

● Alexandra Thirds line-up for their quarter-time huddle on Saturday.

● Tim Polson (Thorton) blocks Powelltown’s Simon Roberts

● Jeffrey Parker and Matthew Herridge assist in a Thornton possession.

● Tayissa Coppinger (Yea) tries to block Yarra Junction GS Amanda Finn.

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Origins of Thornton-Eildon DFNC ■ What are the origins of football around Thornton-Eildon?

Most of the pre-1900 games were challenges or ‘friendlies’ involving teams from Alexandra, Thornton, Mansfield, Yea, Jamieson and others.

More formal competition came with the Alexandra-YeaAssociation formed in 1902. Teams included Thornton, Yarck, Kanumbra, Yea aned Alexandra.

There were also teams at johnson’s Creek, Marysville and Taggerty, and some matches were played on Wednesday afternoon, notes Brian Lloyd in Alexandra and District (incorporating The Red Gate

by Gerard Noble).

One of the first references that we can locate is an item in the Alexandra newspaper of September 12, 1884.

It involves a practice match between the Darlingford and Alexandra clubs: “Mr. F. Hall, secretary of tile Alexandra Football Club, has received a challenge from the Darlingford club, to play a friendly game at football on Saturday week, at Mr. Barnewall's farm, Upper Thornton.

“We understand the challenge has been heartily taken up, with the exception that the names of the opposing team has been requested.

“This is a step in the right direction, for it would be folly to follow the challenge, and then to learn that the Darlingford team was comprised chiefly of residents of another district.

“Tomorrow afternoon is the only opportunity afforded for a good practice, and all members are requested to put in an early appearance.”

There had been attempts in 1872 and 1883 to form a football club at Alexandra.

It was mid-1884 when a Darlingford team was proposed.

‘Onlooker’ wrote in the Alexandra and Yea Standard: “Saturday last gave me another opportunity of witnessing a couple of hours hard work between the members of our local club.

“The afternoon was all that could be desired, and the attendance far above the average.

“Several new players turned up, and though young at the game, are of the right stamina.

“I allude to J. Stack, J. Lawler, G. Milroy, E. Kent, and J. Cocking. The first two, with a little practice, will prove of great weight to the club.

“Cocking and Milroy are both very fast, but like Parsons, cannot run with safety.

“My advice to a player when contesting a game, should he be fleet and new to the game, is to be sure of his kick, not to attempt to pass a better man, for his hard run is of no avail “Another hint to both old and young in marking the ball, never delay; kick it off immediately.

“H. Ainsworth and E. Kent will make good players. The game on Saturday was a very spirited one, and ended in an easy victory for C. Wilson's side.

“W. Empey and Wilson captained the respective sides, and though the former had the best pick, he failed to score, the game being-Wilson's side 3 goal 6 behinds; Empey's side, 4 be hinds.

“For the victors, the play of F. Hall, C. Wilson, Stack and Lawler, is deserving of special mention, the

● Thornton Football Club, premiers in 1913. Back row, from left: Jack Baker (President), ?, HArry Rob, C. ‘Snowy’ Taylor, Mick Lee, Budge Rob, George Kent, Long Wat Robb (Secretary). Centre: Jack Treadway, ?, Reginald John Barnewall, Bill Taylor, Harold Robinson, Arthur Barnewell. Front: Norman Robb, Ron McPherson (Captain), Stood Robinson, Tom Nicholas, Joe Barker, Fred Barton. Colopurs were navy blue and royal blue hoops.

Photo: Sir Reg Barnewall and Chris Robb. tainly too small to play in a match. being told by Fox that he would call This did not dishearten "our boys." a meeting of the team, and see what for sooner than disappointment they could be done, Kelly informed him decided to make up the fifteen from that he would wait till three, that beoutsiders. ing the hour of appointment.

But, oh what a change came o'er Here the Alexandra team adthe scene whrn the Alexandra cap- journed to the house where it was tain had a look round, and heard it proposed, seconded, and carried that whispered that a " big licking" was in a representative match should not be store for the Alexandrians. played, only two hands being held Nothing daunted, an inspection up in favor of playing - Wright and was made of the ground, which was Lawrence. very rough, but the best to be proThe members then stripped, and cured for the occasion. went back to the paddock and inBefore proceeding to busi.ness the dulged in nearly an hour's play; I forAlexandra captain enquired of the got to say that it was raining steadily Darlingford (or rather Jamieson) from the time of our arrival up to the ● An advertisement in the August 30, 1872, issue of captain for a list of his team, and re- time when the supposed match (only the Alexandra Times, placed by H.M. Taylor, sought a ceived an answer that he would fur- in the ideas of the Darlingford meeting to form a football club at Alexandra. nish same at 3 o'clock, as only three scratch 15), commenced. two first-named in particular, both be classed as juniors. I do not think or four of his men were present.

Twenty minutes past three arThis did not suit our players, and rived; when could he seen the of whom "went" from start to finish, there would be any harm to try conand played excellently. clusions with a thoroughly represen- somethmng more explicit was re- Alexandrians taking shelter under a “For the losers I would give W. tative team, providing they play the quired before that hour arrived, I tree from the rain, with their captain mean, that our secretary not having waiting for the list of the Darlingford Hubbard first place on this occa- game. sion. for the able manner in which “The following should most cer- been furnished with the names that men. he repeatedly marked the ball. tainly be selected :- Harker, were to represent Darlingford (or as Upon the same being handed to “This play, with short marking, Lawrence, Wright, Lipscombe, their captain innocently designated Fox the names were read out, but his are special features in the game of Long, Parsons, Wilson, O. and M. them a scratch Darlingford fifteen), men had already decided not to play, football, and to which I would draw Coughlan, F. Hall, Fox, Stack, another question was asked, if there and again informed Kelly of the fact. attention.

Lawler, Hubbard, Empey, were any "foreigners" (Jamieson Fox here left the ground. After “W. Parsons, W. Empey, C. Har- O'Connor, Milroy, Kent, Cocking, men) in the team? some time had been lost Kelly asked This was met with an ejaculation the Alexandra men to play them. her, and H. Lawrence, are entitled to Watt. and J. Davis,” ‘Onlooker’ that the "best Jamieson men" were a place among the distinguished, for wrote.

To make matters short they did going to play. they fought a hard game. ★ not want to have anything.to do with This took the members of the him, but it was out of sheer consid“The goals were kicked by F. The match was scheduled, but Hall (2), and E. Kent (1). there was a problem which was was Alexandra team by surprise, and was eration of Mr. Harnewell's kindness “Before closing I would like to reported in the September 26, 1884, objected to by Fox, on behalf of his in providing such an excellent spread, team, and very wisely too, for it was clearing the ground, &c., that our club say something anent the proposed edition: match with a Darlingford team,” The long looked for match, perectly well understood long before played. said Onlooker.

Alexandra v. Darlingford did not the match came off that our men This the members of our team “The secretary has been in- come off on Saturday last, although would not play any but Darlingford wish me most particularly to make structed to write to Mr Kelly to see if a scratch Alexandra team journeyed men; anyhow preparations for the known so that no misunderstanJing a match could be arranged but be- to Mr Barrnewall's, at Upper match were pushed on, during which may arise.

Kelly tried lard to show that it was fore rushing too far ahead the mem- Thornton, to play.

The members of the Alexandra bers ought to first certain whether it My reasons for saying that it was Fox's fault that no match could be team look upon the affair as a very is a Darlingfold or a combination of a scratch team are, that not until the arranged. mean action on the part of Kelly, and Fox and his team were willing to I fully concur in their unanimous that place, Enoch's Point and players had reached the ground Jamieson, that they will be pitted could a team be selected, several play a scratch match, but not a rep- opinion, for a greater swindle could against. who had promised to play leaving resentative one seeing that he was not have been connived, when it is “If so, I say stop at home and en- the captain in the lurch at the last four men short, and that the odds were understood that Kelly was perfectly greatly against him, the opposing aware that our club would not play joy your own game, for to travel such moment. a distance to meet a good strong team Upon mustering the men only team being a conglomeration of other than a Darlingford team, in as would be folly. eleven could be found, including Eildon, Thornton, Darlingford, much its our secretary wrote to Kelly “It must be remembered that the Asling who was picked up on the Enoch's Point, Gaffncey's Creek and informing himt that our club was but chub is but in its infancy, and the majo road, after having walked 12 miles, Jamieson. a junior.

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The Arts I Hunger For You

■ Arts Centre Melbourne in association with Curator Sophia Brous presents I Hunger For You by Kimberly Bartosik/daela on Friday, August 23 in the Fairfax Theatre.

Presented as part of Supersense: Festival of the Ecstatic, I Hunger For You creates a space where internalised forces of faith pulse through each dancer’s body which in turn confront one another.

Emanating from Bartosik’s personal experience with charismatic spirituality, the work delves deeply into the heart of losing one's self in ecstasy, ritual, and desire, riding an edge of barely controlled abandon and vibrating stillness.

Developed from ideas of faith, violence, compassion and life force, I Hunger for You has been able to transpose these thinkings into a work that speaks to an ecstatic, resilient experience through instinctive and primal rhythms, and a deep level of precision.

“Working in close collaboration with my exquisite cast and extraordinary designers, I Hunger for You spilled out of us over the period of a year with incredible force. We found ourselves enmeshed in sweaty, intense practices based on personal reflections excavating a kind of pulse from the body’, says Bartosik.

Choreographer/Artistic Director: Kimberly Bartosik. Performers: Christian Allen, Dylan Crossman, Burr Johnson, Lindsey Jones, Joanna Kotze and Dahlia BartosikMurray. Lighting and Set Design: Roderick Murray. Original Music Composition: Sivan Jacobovitz arranged with Kimberly Bartosik.

Costume Design: Harriet Jung.

Performance Date: Friday, August 23 at 7pm. Venue: Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne. Duration: 52 minutes (no interval). Age Suitability: 12+. Bookings at artscentremelbourne.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold

Art of Incarceration

■ From inside a Victorian Correctional Centre, feature documentary The Art of Incarceration provides a personal insight into three indigenous inmates and the path their artistic expressions take them.

On Sunday July 28, the film will have it is premiere at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival to a sell-out audience. An encore screening has been scheduled for Wednesday July 31.

Given unprecedented prison access to Fulham Correctional Centre in Gippsland, emerging filmmaker Alex Siddons tracks inmates Christopher, Troy and Robby’s experience with the Indigenous Arts in Prisons and Community Program run by not for profit organisation, The Torch.

The film gives insight into the inmates’ quest for cultural identity and spiritual healing as they prepare for The Torch’s annual Confined exhibition and for life on the outside.

This narrative documentary both analyses and humanises the over-representation of Indigenous Australians within the prison system, whilst seeking answers and striving for solutions.

“Art provides the inmates with hope and an opportunity to transcend their cycles of imprisonment whilst strengthening their fractured connection to culture and identity," says Director Alex Siddons.

The Confined exhibition represents a middle ground between prison and society, providing the inmates with ‘experiences that no one can take away from us, no matter how dark the times get’. However, beyond the walls of the gallery, the artists’ quest for freedom is truly exposed.

Without any funding or industry support, Director/Producer Alex Siddons began work on the documentary 3½- years ago and filmed over 100 hours of footage over 16 months.

Dates: Sunday July 28 at 8.45pm (Sold Out!) and Wednesday July 31 at 6.30pm Address: Cinema Nova, 380 Lygon St, Carlton Tickets: $21 full price, $16 Concession Bookings: https://www.cinemanova.com. au/events/melbourne-documentary-film-festival. Running time: 90 minutes - Cheryl Threadgold

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Once Upon a Drag Storytime

● Mark, Gavin and Keith in Once Upon a Drag Storytime. Photo: Nayt Housman Po Po Mo Po founderKimberley Twiner says, ■ Po Po Mo Co bring queer comedy kids show to Footscray with their show Once Upon a Drag “This is so much more than your average Storytime at the Footscray Community Arts storytime, it’s a sketch show, it’s a drag show and it’s a rainbow celebration for all.”

Space.

This show is partnered with Rainbow FamiHosted by the troupe’s Drag Kings and lords of daggy dad dance, Mark, Gavin and Keith, lies Victoria ,Victoria’s largest network of LGBTIQA+ families, Hares and Hyenas who take audiences on a theatrical ride.

This take on storytime is said to include pup- Bookshop and is supported by Yarra City Counpetry, song, dance, lip syncs, character play and cil.

Dates: Saturday 13 July embodied storytelling.

Times: 2pm Venue: Footscray Community Physical and visual comedy is influenced by early nineties Play School , Lift Off, The Ferals, Arts Centre, 45 Moreland St Footscray Tickets: Full $25 / Concession $15 / Family Sesame Street and Ru Paul’s Drag Race.

Beneath the comedy is a show that celebrates (Up to 4 members) $65 Bookings: visit footscrayarts.com individuality, rainbow families and reflects the - Cheryl Threadgold ever-changing performativity of gender.

For emerging composers ■ Award-winning Arts Centre Melbourne mentorship program 5x5x5 gives emerging Victorian composers the chance to increase their skills, professional networks and public profiles.

Under the direction of Artistic Mentor, Dr Calvin Bowman, each participant has created an original composition of five minutes.

The compositions were recorded at ABC Studios Southbank and performed with the support of Melbourne Youth Orchestra.

Thecompositions can be heard while walking between Hamer Hall and the Spire throughout July. They can also be heard online.

Beyond the Sound – Music and Lyrics by Imogen Cygler

● Dr Calvin Bowman I Have – Music by Alexander Owens. Lyrics by Amelia Evans.

Recognition – Music by Daniel Riley. Lyrics by Chi Vu. Soapbox – Music by Timothy Mallis. Lyrics by Morgan

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The Dream Is Not Yet Realised – Music by Jessamie Kaitler. Lyrics by Tim Hassall.

Piano: Dr Calvin Bowman (except Imogen Cygler on Beyond the Sound) Violin: Emma Amery Cello: Sarah Wang Clarinet: Liam Murphy Vocalists: Olivia Federow-Yemm – I Have Alex Toussait-Jackson – Recognition and Soapbox Dean Fisher – The Dream Is Not Yet Realised Imogen Cygler – Beyond the Sound Arts Centre Melbourne Creative Producer: Joshua Cowie This is a free, non-ticketed event.

Kevin’s stand-up show ■ The Butterfly Club presents Kevin Peterson’s Stand Up Show! from July 22-27 at 7pm.

Written and directed by Max Paton, the show tells of Kevin Peterson feeling a little bit lost.

After leaving university, he really thought that he wanted to be an artist or a theatre-maker.

He's not exactly sure, though, because he’s been trying to write this play and it's not going very well.

On the brink of a breakdown and struggling to express himself, Kevin has a miraculous idea - stand-up comedy.

Why not? The only problem is he is apparently emotionally unstable, and never performed stand-up in his life.

Part backstage comedy, part millennial soapbox, and part existentialist fever-dream, Kevin Peterson's Stand-Up Show follows a young man's plight to make sense of himself despite

health, art, and identity in a trial-by-fire of the mind's own creation.

Drawing on the post-university experiences and observations of writer and director Max Paton, Kevin Peterson’s Stand Up Show is promoted as being both personal and relatable.

“It’s about doubt, unease, self-worth, identity and the desire to create meaning both in life and in art, in an oversaturated and uncaring world the journey from self-passivity to activity, in whatever stupid form that takes”, says writer and director Max Paton.

The show is performed by emerging artists Catherine Holder, Daniel Hurst, Fraser Mitchell, Isabella Octigan and Stuart Anderson.

Dates: Mon .July 22 to Sat. July 27 (No Show Tues.). Time: 7pm. Cost: $26-$35. Venue: The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, Melbourne. Tickets: thebutterflyclub.com

What’s On Laser Beak Man

■ Arts Centre Melbourne and Australian Music Vault present Laser Beak Man from September 19-21 at Arts Centre Melbourne.

World renowned awarding-winning Australian artist Tim Sharp’s colourful superhero Laser Beak Man will be brought to life on stage in a “part puppet show, part pop rock concert”.

Dead Puppet Society’s theatrical powerhouse boasts an all-star creative line-up helmed byArtistic Director David Morton, Executive Producer Nicholas Paine and Sharp himself, with original music from Ball Park Music front man Sam Cromack and design by Helpmann Award winner Jonathon Oxlade.

Laser Beak Man is based on the drawings of Queensland artist Tim Sharp, who has autism, and has won fans from around the world with his unique sense of humour and happy and very original art.

Sharp created the character Laser Beak Man when he was 11 years old to show the world his sense of humour and his original way of looking at life.

Since then his work has been exhibited internationally, inspired a eight-part animated series on the Cartoon Network, has been the subject of the numerous documentaries and a book, Double Shot of Happiness, as well as appearing as a motivational speaker with his mother Judy.

The stage adaptation is jam-packed with Sharp’s trademark visual witticisms and kaleidoscopic characters brought to life by seven actors, more than 35 original puppets, including fully-functional 3D puppets, Dead Puppet Society’s trademark form-pushing animations and a live soundtrack by Ball Park Music’s Sam Cromack.

Local hero Laser Beak Man works hard to maintain Power City’s reputation as the most beautiful city in the world.

Drawing energy from the underground Magna Crystals that power the City, his beak has the ability to shoot lasers that turn bad to good. That is until Peter Bartman, evil genius and Laser Beak Man’s estranged childhood friend, steals the Magna Crystals, robbing our colourful superhero of his powers.

Dead Puppet Society creates puppetbased, visual theatre in Australia and the United States.

Uniting an old world aesthetic with cutting edge technical elements the company conjure immersive worlds where the mythic sits alongside the macabre, and the old school meets the technological.

Laser Beak Man is the company’s biggest undertaking to date, developed transnationally over four years including a development offBroadway at the New Victory Theatre; New York City’s oldest theatre in the heart of Times Square.

Laser Beak Man. By David Morton, Nicholas Paine and Tim Sharp. With music from Sam Cromack (Ball Park Music) Thursday, September 19 – 7pm Friday, September 20 – 7pm Saturday, September 21 – 1pm and 7pm Arts Centre Melbourne, Playhouse Recommended for children aged 8+ years and older Bookings: artscentremelbourne.com.au or 1300 182 183.

- Cheryl Threadgold

Steve Price moves

■ 3AW evening presenter Steve Price is moving to present an afternoon program on Sydney radio station 2GB, which will be relayed to Brisbane’s 4BC, but not Melbourne.

There was speculation that Price’s 12 Noon-3pm program would be relayed into Melbourne, replacing Denis Walter.

New Idea Royals

■ New Idea Royals will begin publishing as a dedicated monthly magazine from tomorrow (Thurs., July 11).

The title had initially been launched as a weekly supplement, and continues to cover royal content in news, fashion, food and more.

New Idea Royals is edited by Rebecca Hyde, and features contributions from royal experts.

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Local Theatre Look Back In Anger

■ Eltham Little Theatre’s choice for the July season was John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger.

A story of Jimmy Porter, his wife Alison, their friend and Jimmy’s business partner Cliff, Alison’s friend Helena and Alison’s father, Colonel Redfern.

The play opens on a lazy Sunday afternoon in a one room attic flat in a town with Alison ironing and the two men reading the Sunday papers.

ELT built a good interior of a one roomed flat, busy with the full complement of what would be expected.

Alexander Loadman played Jimmy, an intelligent man who was in partnership with his friend Cliff in running a street-corner candy stand.

He also likes playing the trumpet which no-one else thinks he can.

Loadman captured the role with expertise, giving a great and highly energetic performance particularly in a couple of fight scenes with Cliff.

His wife, Alison, was played by Tamasin Mummery, who also captured the character in completely ignoring her husband’s tirade against everything yet giving a moving poignant performance particularly in the final scenes.

An excellent portrayal. Jimmy’s mate Cliff was played by Jason Triggs.

Cliff felt sorry for Alison and interfered when he thought things had gone too far.

Triggs gave a great and another energetic performance particularly in the fight scenes with Jimmy.

Alison’s friend and Jimmy’s lover, Helena, was portrayed by Ada Jean.

As Helena Jean caught the essence of a good friend but who also despised Jimmy but could not bear to be without him.

Jean gave an outstanding performance in the role capturing the character with aplomb.

A small part was Alison’s father, Colonel Redfern. Played by Adrian Quintarelli who gave the character realism carrying the role as envisaged by the author.

A good evening of theatre from ELT and this is a company not to be missed. .

- Review by Peter Kemp

Back in the swing

■ David Campbell is returning to the stage in his first solo tour in eight years for his Back in the Swing Tour.

For one night only on Thursday October 24, one of Australia’s most popular entertainers will light up Hamer Hall to celebrate his musical roots.

Having spent the last 10 years working on the small screen, radio and in musicals, Campbell is returning to his first love, singing.

With his 14-piece band, Campbell will perform tracks from his newly released album Back in the Swing where he blends together genres of swing, ballads and R&B from artists such as Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra and Billy Joel, with his own personal style.

Yumi’s problem

■ KIIS radio presenter Yumi Stynes has revealed the extent of her battle with alcohol in an open letter, detailing how the addiction impacted her life.

Stynes, who is also a presenter for the ABC Radio podcast Ladies, We Need to Talk, wrote: “I was very addicted to alcohol. I’d been drinking heavily since I was 13 and from a family that had lots of alcohol around — boozing daily was all very normal.”

Les Norton

■ Colourful crime caper series Les Norton , starring Rebel Wilson, David Wenham and, in the titular role, Alexander Bertrand will air on ABC and iview on Sundays at 8:30pm from August 4.

The 10-part series, set in 1985 and based on Robert G. Barrett’s classic Australian novels, follows the hijinks of Les Norton, a country bloke from outback Queensland.

On the run from a troubled past, he blows into Sydney where he lands a job as a bouncer at a notorious illegal casino in Kings Cross.

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Observations It’s A Wonderful Life

Talk is cheap, gossip is priceless

It’s Cabin Fever ■ In show business there is an old maxim, “Never work with children or animals” (attributed to W.C. Fields, actor comedian circa 1940s) and with The Cabin! we have just that be it with many children and just one koala.

A collaborative work The Cabin! is “a horror show written by kids, for adults” and fined tuned for stage by multiart performer Joseph O’Farrell and co-devisorEmily Tomlins.

Material gathered over many months from some 200 primary school students from the UK and Australia, the local City of Darebin schools, Reservoir East and Views P.rimary Schools and the Charles LaTrobe P-12 College makeup The Cabin!, unleashing a succession of wild and gory misfortunes.

A child virus in epidemic proportions has swept a school preparing for their ‘community theatre spectacular’, leaving 90 per cent of the cast bedridden.

The day is saved by ‘Cereal Box 5, immune to the virus, five children in black with heads covered with cereal cartons representative of Corn Flakes, Nutra grain, Special K and more.

What appears to be cutesy spookiness however descends into horror with giant inflatable monsters, talking bins, an unsociable koala and much uncertainty with a kid led zombie apocalypse that is set to destroy

● Joseph O’Farrell (JOF) and cast in The Cabin!

Photo: Bryony Jackson us all. self, does it work? Certainly With much mayhem, some the experience of the characthat defies recognition this dark ter scripting, set design and comedic theatrical experience sound being designed by priwhile specially for adults has mary school students is the drivgiven a host of children back ing force that should not be stage an opportunity to create overlooked. and participate while out front Performances five demonic kids, a disgruntled Dates: Until July 13 teen guitarist Chris Green who Time: 8pm was disposed of, with the body Venue: Northcote Town Hall of the work performed by two Arts Centre, 89 High St, straight laced adults in Northcote O’Farrell and Tomlins.

Details: www.darebin You need to judge for your- arts.com.au/thecabin

On planet Solaris ● Fode Simbo in Solaris. Photo: Pia Johnson ■ Astronaut psychologist, Dr Kris Kelvin Dr Sartorius (Jade Ogugua) and computer (Leeanna Walsman), arrives at a remote space scientist Dr Snow (Fode Simbo), have both been station orbiting the distant planet Solaris on a visited by ghosts of their past. mission.

The returned are representations, alive but The space station’s human inhabitants have incomplete. been incommunicado, and Kelvin needs to find What is this alien god-like being able to resout why. urrect the dead?

Only three of the crew are left. The captain, Is it malevolent?

Dr Gabarian (Hugo Weaving), has succumbed What is its purpose? to cancer and via video diaries tells us that the These questions are never answered, and the cancer was planted in him by the planet. audience is left a little baffled.

Solaris is no ordinary planet; Solaris is covAfter a slow build, despite good performances ered by a vast ocean and the ocean has conall around, the play seems to end with a beat sciousness. missing.

Adapted from Stanislaw Lem’s cult classic The existential crises triggered by the return 1961 sci-fi novel by David Greig, with Paul of loved ones in Lem’s novel are not replicated Jackson’s lighting and video projections of a menacing, pitching ocean, and Hyemi Shin’s in the play well enough for the audience to clever space-age set. Solaris feels other-worldly fathom why Kelvin chooses to stay and Sartorius, who and oppressive.

Almost immediately, it seems, the ocean has had her daughter returned to her, would senses Kelvin’s grief and loneliness and counters choose to return to Earth.

Performance Season: Until July 21 by providing a ‘visitor’ for her in the form of her long-dead lover, Ray (Keegan Joyce).

Venue: Merlyn, Malthouse This is not the only visitor the planet has ofBookings: www.malthousetheatre.com.au fered to the crew.

- Review by Kathryn Keeble

● Llaaneath Poor, Kadey McIntosh and Paula McDonald in It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play.

Photo: David Belton ■ What is instantly remarkable about Heidelberg’s production of It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play is the quality of sound.

Without detracting from some very remarkable performances, sound (Andrea Cole), gave the production the necessary authentic radio heyday quality and authenticity it needed.

Add to the mix, man-made sound effects (Phil Holmes), lighting effects (Emma Fox), and costumes (Wendy Drowley), and you are transported.

Playwright Joe Landry’s adaptation of Frank Capra’s 1946 movie, It’s A Wonderful Life is a celebration of the golden age of radio.

It’s also an actor’s dream where performers play myriad characters with as much diversity and free will as the script and an American accent will allow.

It’s no wonder director Terese Maurici has revived her 2017 VDL nominated production!

Beautifully accompanied by pianist Jack Stringer, the play revolves around George Bailey (Mark Yeates).

Growing up in a small town, George has dreams of travel, study and building big things.

Unfortunately, circumstances keep him home to protect the family business from the evil clutches of Mr Potter (Liam Gillespie).

As two-time director of the play you would expect a tight production from Maurici but the first act lags.

Replacing the awkward and slow-paced opening with Gillespie’s energetic audience warm-up would be a far more effective and engaging place to start.

The cast is strong.

Gillespie is outstanding for his range, energy and skill as he effortlessly switches character, voices and accents.

Yeats, a huge talent, works the microphone beautifully with the impeccable nuance of a seasoned radio actor, before delivering heart-wrenching and desperate emotion.

Llaaneath Poor, George’s wife, has wonderful stage presence and delivers Mary with understated maturity.

Tim Camilleri, Paula McDonald, Gavin Baker and Kadey McIntosh give quality performances.

The 1940s style ensemble radio ads are an absolute highlight - beautifully performed with perfect irony.

Congratulations to cast and crew on a highly entertaining evening of theatre.

Performance season: 8pm, Wednesday to Saturday until July 20, matinee 13 July at 2pm Venue: Heidelberg Theatre, 36 Turnham Ave, Rosanna , Tickets: $27-$24 Bookings: 9457 4117 or htc@htc.org.au - Review by Beth Klein

6 recipients

■ Six newly awarded fellows will embark on a once-in-a-lifetime international opportunity at leading cultural institutions in Australia and the United Kingdom, as part of the National Museum of Australia’s Encounters Fellowship Program for 2019.

The recipients are Naomi Appleby, Kyra Edwards, Kyra Kum-Sing, Harold Ludwick, John Morseu and Sherika Nulgit.

- National Museum of Australia

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Books Sisters In Crime

● Joanne Drayton ■ Sisters in Crime has announced that award-winning New Zealand author, Joanne Drayton, will present its 19th DavittAwards for the best crime books by Australian women.

The Davitts will be awarded at a gala dinner at Saturday, August 21, 6.30pm for 7pm, at South Melbourne’s Rising Sun Hotel.

The hotel, Sisters in Crime’s usual meeting place, will be decked out for the occasion with white table cloths, flowers and candles.

This year a record 127 books written by Australian women and published in 2018 are competing for the Davitts in six categories: Best Adult Crime Novel, Best Children’s Crime Novel, Best Young Adult Crime Novel, Best True Crime Book, Best Debut Book (any category) and Readers’ Choice (as judged by the members of Sisters in Crime).

Prior to the presentations, Dr Drayton will discuss her life in crime with Melbourne author (and serial Davitt winner) Emma Viskic.

National convenor, Carmel Shute, said that Dr Draytonwas one of the stars of Rotorua Noir, New Zealand’s first crime writing convention (January 2019) and has won global recognition for her work.

“Dr Drayton is the biographer of New Zealand’s most famous crime writer, Ngaio Marsh, who at her peak in the 1930s, was one of the four ‘Queens of Crime’ dominating the genre, along with Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh: Her Life in Crime (2008) was a Christmas pick of the Independent newspaper when it was released in the UK in 2009,” she said.

Dr Drayton’s research then took her to the case of Juliet Hulme whom, in 1954, at the age of 15, was convicted of participating in the murder of her friend’s mother.

The story was immortalised in Peter Jackson’s 1994 Oscar-nominated movie, Heavenly Creatures.

Kate Winslet played Hulme. It was her screen debut and kickstarted her career. After serving her five-year sentence, Hulme changed her name to Anne Perry and has gone on to write over 50 Victorian-era mysteries that have sold more than 20 million copies internationally.

“Amazingly, Dr Drayton won the trust of the notoriously reticent Anne Perry and got her to open up. The result was The Search for Anne Perry (2012), which was numbered in the top 10 non-fiction books on The New York Times bestseller list in 2015, was a finalist in the NZ Book Awards in 2013; was the subject of a 60 Minutes program, and a cover story for the NZ Listener,” Shute said.

Dr Drayton’s latest book, Hudson & Halls: The Food of Love (2018), was a cover story for the NZ Listener and won the Royal Society Te AparangiAward for General Non-fiction in May this year.

Hudson and Halls were pioneering TV chefs in New Zealand who camped-up television in a repressed era, but they kept a lid on more than just their sexual orientation.

The woman Halls believed to be his mother, Mary Ethel Hudson, ran an illegal abortion clinic in Melbourne and was tried for murder in 1926.

The Davitt Awards are supported by Swinburne University of Technology, Department of Media and Communication.

Sisters in Crime will announce the Davitt shortlist in mid-July.

Event Date and Time: Saturday, August 31, 6.30pm for 70pm Venue: The Rising Sun Hotel (upstairs – no lift), cnr Raglan St and Eastern Rd, South Melbourne.

Tickets: $60 (no concession). Drinks at bar prices. Men or ‘brothers-in-Law’ welcome.

Bookings essential by Wednesday August 28: https://davitt-awards.eventbrite.com - Cheryl Threadgold

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Entertainment

Coodabeen Champions

● The Coodabeen Champions: Jeff Richardson, Billy Baxter, Ian Cover, Andy Bellairs, Torch McGee and Greg Champion.

■ Arts Centre Melbourne in association with ABC Radio Melbourne presents The Coodabeen Champions in a Father’s Day Spe■ The 19th Annual Helpmann Awards are cial on Sunday, September 1 at 3pm in The Playbeing presented for the first time at the Arts house.

Centre Melbourne.

All their skills will be on display thanks to a The Helpmann Awards are the premier hefty dose of the Coodabeens’ brand of banter, celebration of Australia’s vibrant live perlive footy talkback and a chance to singalong formance industry. with Champs and his interpretations of hit songs.

The Awards will bne broadcast live on Covey, Champs, Billy and Richo will hit centhe ABC Comedy Channel at 8pm on Montre stage running with outside help from Young day (July 15).

Andy and wily veteran Torch up forward.

There will be a repeat broadcast on ABC The Coodabeen Champions are a uniquely TV at 10pm on Sunday, July 21. Watch anyMelbourne institution who are celebrating 39 time on Iview. years in radio.

Commencing on community radio before moving the ABC over two decades ago, this will be their sixth performance at Arts Centre ■ Fauziah Ibrahim has re-joined ABC Melbourne. The Coodabeen Champions News as a Presenter.

Footy Show can be heard each Saturday mornShe returns to the channel after a recent ing on ABC Radio Melbourne and Victoria from stint as a Presenter at Your Money, having 10am. worked as a Presenter at the ABC for three Performance Details: Sunday, September 1 years prior to that. . at 3pm. Venue: Arts Centre Melbourne, Playhouse. Bookings: artscentremelbourne.com.au

Helpmann Awards

Returning to ABC

Latest shows, auditions SHOWS ■ 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 ■ Heidelberg Theatre Company: It's a Wonderful Life (adapted by Joe Landry) Until July 20 at 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna. Director: Terese Maurici.

Bookings: www.heidelbergtheatre.org.au ■ Hartwell Players: One Act Play Season Until July 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) Until July 20 at the Eltham Performing Arts Centre. Director: Drew Mason.

Bookings: www.elthamlittletheatre.org.au ■ Geelong Repertory Theatre: The Book of Everything Until July 20 at 15 Coronation St. West Geelong. Director: Ryan Bentley. Bookings: GPAC 5225 1200.

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

■ Ballarat National Theatre: Speaking in Tongues (by Andrew Bovell) Until July 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.

SHOWS

■ 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 ■ The 1812 Theatre: Baskerville: The Sherlock Holmes' Mystery (by Ken Ludwig) August 8 - 13 at The 1812 Theatre, Rose Street, Upper Ferntree Gully. Director: Justin Stephens.

Bookings: www.1812theatre.com.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.

■ Warrandyte Theatre Company: 1. Contractions (by Mike Bartlett) 2. Elegy for a Lady (by Arthur Miller) 24 July at 8.00pm, 28 July at 6.00pm at Warrandyte Mechanics' Institute Hall, Yarra St., Warrandyte. Directors: David Tynan and Adrian Rice. Enquiries: 0439311428 or 0431572511 ■ Torquay Theatre Troupe: Parramatta Girls (by Zina Carman) July 28 at 2.00pm at 16 Price St., Torquay. Director: Zina Carman. Further details: zinacarman@gmail.com ■ Encore Theatre: Almost, Maine (by John Cariani) July 28 at 3.00pm and July 29 at 7.00pm at Fleigner Hall, 31-39 Highland Avenue, Oakleigh East. Director: Laura Bradley. Enquiries: laurachaela@gmail.com

What’s On Festival of Jewish Arts and Music ■ The Festival of Jewish Arts and Music, formerly Shir Madness Melbourne, takes over the Melbourne Recital Centre in a daylong immersion of contemporary Jewish culture with performances across music, theatre, dance and conversation on Sunday, September 8.

Inspired by Lou Reed’s urgent call to Walk on the Wild Side, the program features more than 140 international and homegrown artists who are breaking or have already broken convention to carve new paths.

Among the international headliners making their Australian debut are Israeli beatmaker and producer Noga Erez; American singer-songwriter Chris Cohen (formerly of the band Deerhoof); and stalwart British journalist and performer Vivien Goldmanaka ‘the Punk Professor’.

Also on the international roster is Zackary Drucker, who speaks about the intersections of queer and Jewish identities.

In the Festival’s headline performance, Transformer - A Tribute to Lou Reed, indiepop artist Gabriella Cohen serves as musical director to artists including Alex Gow (Oh Mercy), Emily Lubitz (Tinpan Orange) and ARIA-winning post-punk legend Deborah Conway, who perform songs from Reed’s iconic album Transformer.

Deborah Conway and Willy Zygier also curate and perform in festival favourite Song of Songs, a tribute to Jewish songwriters and composers.

Elsewhere on the program, Gabriella Cohen and her full band present a sonic wonderland of works off her new album.

Deborah Conway and Vivien Goldman in Conversation: Jews. Rebels. Feminists. has both women reflecting on what those things meant to them in the ‘80s and what they mean to them now.

Curator and choreographer Gideon Obarzanek presents his Circle Dance work, based on an Israeli folk dance, and Israeli choreographer Israel Aloni shakes things up with his solo performance My Body, My Nation.

Asis D’Orange, a household name in Tel Aviv’s underground drag scene, performs The Carrot.

Esteemed Australian composer George Dreyfus with his quartet celebrates a life in music.

Russian-Israeli avant-garde artist Mary Ocher performs a solo set on piano and closes out the festival with a DJ set.

“We are bringing together critically acclaimed and emerging artists working across music, dance, drag, comedy, theatre and moving image from Australia, Israel, Russia and England,” said FOJAM Artistic Director LiorAlbeck-Ripka.

“Whether it be through their performance, their process, composition or ideas, each artist is trying something new, and this year, we are asking our audiences to do the same.

“The festival is a celebration of Jewish identity, history, culture and arts – an expression of freedom,” says Festival Producer, Jesse Lubitz.

“We hope artists and audiences walk away from FOJAM delighted, inspired, and maybe even challenged to reconsider their idea of the Jewish experience.”

Performance Details: Sunday, September 8, from 10.30am Melbourne Recital Centre Full Day $180 ($110 conc) Daytime/ Evening $90 ($70 conc) VIP Full Day $220 (includes premium seating, artist meet and greets plus more) Further enquiries and bookings: melbournerecital.com.au or 9699 3333 - Cheryl Threadgold

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Crossroads

By Rob Foenander info@countrycrossroads com.au

Boomers back

■ Boomers Juke Box will be doing a fundraiser to support the Choir Of Hard Knocks at the Hampton RSL on Sunday September 22 from 1 pm. For info, contact Mike, 0417 343 574.

The band will also be performing at the Neighbourhood Watch 4th annual fundraiser dinner dance at Noble Park RSL on Saturday, August 3. Bookings RSL 9548 3750.

Aaron’s album

■ Melbourne singer-songwriter Aaron Schembri will launch his debut album City Lights at the Memo Music Hall, St Kilda, on September 25.

The album, a mix of original songs and covers will feature an A-list of Australian artists including Normie Rowe, Ross Wilson, Russell Morris, Colleen Hewet, Wilbur Wilde and other well knowns singing alongside the 25 year old fast rising star.

Five dollars from each ticket sale will be donated to Support Act, the heart and hand of Australian music. More info www.aaronschembri.com

Strathmore country

■ The fourth Country Comes To Town show plays at the Strathmore Bowls Club on August 24. Artists scheduled to play on the night include the Michelle Gardiner Trio, country swing and honky-tonk with Twilight In Tulsa and hosted by Aussie country rockers Rattlincane. Online bookings are now available at http://bit.ly/CCTTStrathmore - Rob Foenander

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Magazine

Sisters make their own luck

■ John Rozentals explains his liking for South Australia's Bremerton.

Rebecca and Lucy Willson, who between them run South Australia's Bremerton, are like most pairs of clever sisters.

They see pretty much eye-to-eye on the important things - in this case about running a business, producing stunning wines and having a good time - and have splendidly entertaining disagreements around the edges.

They're lucky in a couple of ways.

They inherited a solid business from wine-loving parents, and that business was in Langhorne Creek, near enough to Adelaide to be accessible to markets, remote enough to disappear into when required, and smack bang in the middle of a great wine region.

But they have also made their own luck by making their wines and the business sing their own song.

Rebecca, the elder, has adapted skilfully to winemaking, while Lucy seems a natural at management … girls just want to have fun, make some stunning wine, and run a successful business.

In short, I love their wines and I love their approach to life.

WINE REVIEWS Bremerton 2014 Walter's Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon ($56): A powerful, elegant red wine dominated by blackberry notes and some delightful French oak.

Crossword Solution No 7

● Rebecca and Lucy Willson: a great partnership.

Will reward cellaring and prob- the 19th century on Caversham Es- good booze I'll even forgive her for having me search the kitchen draw ably needs it to show anywhere near tate. its best - a decade or so at least.

Fittingly, this is quite an old-fash- for an old-fashioned corkscrew to Then drink with a richly ioned red with richness and earthi- open her rightly vaunted benchflavoured lamb roast. Sorry, no ness the twin keys. Look for spicy mark.

This solid, robust wine shows cheapies this time around. red fruits and gentle, quite soft Sandalford 2017 1840 Shiraz tannins, and drink with hearty cold- just how good and how contemporary Langhorne Creek shiraz can ($50): Sandalford may source most weather tucker. be, with great depth of spicy flavour of its fruit from Margaret River WINE OF THE WEEK these days but it certainly isn't letBremerton 2015 Old Adam and the makings of a great match ting go of its Swan Valley origins in Shiraz ($56): Rebecca makes such for the best char-grilled steak.

Observations

with Matt Bissett-Johnson

Mike McColl Jones

Top 5

THE T OP 5 NUCLEAR DEVICES TOP A US TR ALIA C OULD USE T O USTR TRALIA COULD TO TERRIFY THE ENEMY ENEMY..

5.The enemy can only attack during an RDO. 4. Nuclear-tipped Nulla Nullas.

3. Rubber-coat Uluru so that missiles will bounce back.

2. General Sir Peter Cosgrave with a .303, hovering over Darwin in a hang glider.

1. Let the Melbourne City Council run things.

They won't let anything into

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Stateside with Gavin Wood in West Hollywood

Aussie foreign correspondent bows out ■ Hi everyone, from my suite at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites comes this week's news.

Out and About

Robert Penfold, all class

California v Texas

■ Robert Penfold has won many awards during his career which indicates the depth and talent of this highly respected journalist.

He won the Thorn Award for his coverage of a deadly Sydney fire, a PenguinAward for an attack on mourners during an IRA funeral in Belfast, and a Logie Award for Sydney winning the 2000 Summer Olympics, a Walkley Commendation after coming under fire in Iraq and then in 2006.

Robert won the prestigious Walkley Award for his amazing coverage of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans.

Robert has been reporting on the hot stories all over the world and has brought the world into our living rooms for more than 35 years.

He has been the North American Bureau Chief for the Nine Network since 1997. Robert has reported on the Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump presidencies.

He was there when Nelson Mandela was freed and when the Berlin Wall came down.

What a career and on a personal level Robert is one of the kindest and supportive people you would ever meet. The industry did not change him.

He is still that wide eyed reporter from his first job at the Macarthur Advertiser in his home town Campbelltown, NSW. Happy semi-retirement my friend, you have earned it.

Stock market autopilot ■ It's no secret that machines are taking up a bigger and bigger share of investing, but the extent of their influence is approaching shocking proportions.

It is as high as 80 per cent, according to one major investing firm.

Passive investments such as index funds and exchangetraded funds control about 60 per cent of the equity assets, while quantitative funds, those which rely on trend-following models instead of fundamental research from humans, now account for 20 per cent of the market share, according to estimates from J.P. Morgan.

This means so much of stock trading is now in the hands of automated buyers and sellers that the market is increasingly sensitive to headlines and more prone to sharp price swings, many notable investors believe.

Omega Advisors founder Leon Cooperman previously said computer trading is creating a ‘Wild West’ with the markets, calling for an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

● Pictured at his Ozcar Award ceremony presentation at Cicconi's in West Hollywood is Robert Penfold with Alan Johnson, Managing Director of Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites.

Vulnerable system

Health care for ‘illegals’ ■ California is set to become the first state to provide government-funded health care to people who are living in the US illegally.

State lawmakers agreed to a budget deal that will open up its From my Suite at the Medicaid program to undocumented low-income adults between Ramada Plaza Complex the ages of 19 and 25.

"California believes that health is a fundamental right," said on Santa Monica Blvd State Sen. Holly Mitchell, a Los Angeles Democrat who led the budget negotiations.

Officials have estimated the program will cover around 90,000 people and cost the state around $98 million.

The budget agreement must now be approved by the full state ■ If you are considering a move to Los Angeles or legislature. Lawmakers had to enact a budget by midnight on just coming over for a holiday then I have got a special June 15 or risk losing their pay.

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Suburb runs out of cash ■ Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are the richest people in the world, worth $119 billion and $107 billion respectively.

Amazon is headquartered in Seattle and Microsoft is just outside the city, and both billionaires have homes in the nearby small town of Medina, Washington.

With a population of just over 3000, Medina is the seventh richest zip code in the US with a median home value of $2.77 million, and the town has a median household income of $186,464 in 2017, the most recent data available.

By comparison, the 2017 median household income in the US was $60,336 yet Medina is running out of money and the irony is lost on no one.

■ There is a long-running battle between the Lone Star State and the Golden State.

Except it's not really a battle since one side seems determined to lose.

For instance, Mark Perry of the American Enterprise Institute often uses extensive tables filled with multiple variables when comparing high-performing states and low-performing states.

But when comparing California and Texas, sometimes all you need is one data source because it makes a very powerful point.

Which is what he recently did with that data on one-way UHaul rental rates between California cities and Texas cities.

There's a very obvious takeaway from this data, as Mark explains there is a huge premium for trucks leaving California for Texas and a huge discount for trucks leaving Texas for California.

U-Haul's one-way truck rental rates are market-based to reflect relative demand and relative supply.

In California there's a relatively low supply of trucks available and a relatively high demand for trucks destined for Texas; in Texas there's a relatively high supply of trucks and a relatively low demand for trucks going to California.

Therefore, U-Haul charges 3-4 times more for one-way truck rentals going from San Francisco or LA to Houston or Dallas than vice-versa based on what must be a huge net outflow of trucks leaving California leading to low inventory and a net inflow of trucks arriving in Texas.

In 2016 the ratios for the same matched cities were much smaller, 2.2 to 2.4 to 1, suggesting that the outbound migration from California to Texas as reflected in one-way U-Haul truck rental rates must have accelerated over the last three years.

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Please mention 'Melbourne Observer' when you book and you will receive the 'Special Rate of the Day'.

Please contact: Jennifer at info@ramadaweho.com Happy Holidays, Gavin Wood

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■ Multiple federal agencies kept up an outdated security system over the past decade that left Americans' personal information vulnerable to theft, according to a damning new Senate report.

The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations found the failures came from the Departments of State, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, Transportation, Education,Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, and the Social Security Administration.

The Hill reports all eight agencies used outdated "legacy systems," with six failing to install system patches when they should have, and seven failing to provide adequate protections.

One of the most significant failings came from the Social SecurityAdministration, which risked leaking the personal information of more than 60 million Americans.

Subcommittee Chairman Rob Portman (R-OH) said the agencies "failed at implementing basic cybersecurity practices, leaving classified, personal, and sensitive information unsafe and vulnerable to theft."

Increasingly angry ■ Nearly 9 in 10 Americans say people are more likely to express anger on social media than in person.

Do you find yourself getting ticked off more often than you used to?

If the answer is yes, you're not alone.

Some 84 per cent of people surveyed said Americans are angrier today compared with a generation ago, according to the latest NPR-IBM Watson Health poll.

When asked about their own feelings, 42 per cent of those polled said they were angrier in the past year than they had been further back in time.

Anger can have an effect on health.

"I think of anger as a health risk," says Dr. Anil Jain, vicepresident and chief health information officer at IBM Watson Health.

"The fact that the survey showed that we have a generation of Americans who believe that they are more angry than they were a generation ago tells me that this is going to lead to some consequences from a health point of view."

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■ When I was a lot younger I went to the pictures to see Fred Astaire in many films - I was not a fan of his dancing but I loved to see him onscreen.

As I grew older my tastes changed and I began to appreciate that this man was a brilliant dancer and I became a huge fan.

My big regret was that I did not get to see him when he was in Melbourne to film On The Beach in 1959.

These days I love to watch the old films with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers - that was when we had real family films. I went to a preview of a new Hollywood film recently and I felt as if I was at a porno movie - I ask myself how much lower can we sink and whatever happened to style and class?

Frederick Austerlitz was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1899. His mother was born in America and his father emigrated from Austria.

Fred was six years old when his father lost his job and the family moved to New York to concentrate on establishing Fred and his sister Adele as a juvenile vaudeville singing and dancing team.

The youngsters were successful and changed their surnames to Astaire. By the time Fred was 18 they were appearing in Broadway shows and on London's West End. When Adele married in 1932 the team broke up and Fred began working with a new stage partner, Claire Luce.

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Fred Astaire

By Kevin Trask of 3AW and 96.5 Inner FM

Fred auditioned for RKO Pictures and after his screen test the famous comments were noted, "Can't act. Slightly bald. Also dances."

Despite these comments RKO cast Fred opposite Joan Crawford in his first on screen appearance in the film Dancing Lady. He got fifth billing in Flying Down To Rio in 1933 - but it was the film that launched his career.

The public loved Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and wanted to see more of them dancing onscreen. Over the following 16 years Fred and Ginger made another nine films together which included Carefree, Follow The Fleet, The Gay Divorcee, Roberta, Shall We Dance, The Story Of Vernon and Irene Castle, Swing Time, Top Hat and The Barkleys Of Broadway.

● Fred Astaire He worked with his personal choreographer Hermes Pan and they developed original dancing routines for his films. Fred was a perfectionist and insisted working for long hours to get it right.

He also liked to film the routines in one shot wherever possible. His classic films include Holiday Inn, Blue Skies, Easter Parade, Three Little Words and Royal Wedding.

He married Phyllis Potter in 1933 and they had three children, Peter his stepson and their own two children Fred Jnr and Ava. Fred was

devastated when Phyllis passed away in 1954 at the age of 46.

In his later years he continued to make television and film appearances. When he was in Melbourne in 1959 he played golf with Tony Charlton and joined Bruce Skeggs in the commentary box at the trots.

Tony Perkins recalled happy times playing piano at the Showgrounds whilst Fred sang along during the filming breaks and my friend Bill Bennett appears in a scene with Fred in On The Beach.

His final musical film was Finian's Rainbow in 1968. Fred married Robyn Smith, who was a jockey, in 1980 and they were very happy in his final years.

Fred Astaire died from pneumonia on June 22, 1987. His last request was to thank his fans for their years of support. In a final quote from Frank Sinatra - "I have only one thing to say about Fred: He could have been the classies performer I have ever known in all my years in showbusiness."

- 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

Churchillian devotion to the bubble

■ Having led Britain to victory in World War II as his nation’s Prime Minister and then seen his party thrown out of office in the first election after that war, Winston Churchill had one particularly important job in mind when he was re-elected again by voters in 1951.

And that was to stock-take the cellars when he moved back into the Prime Ministerial home and office at Number 10 Downing Street. And critically for just how many bottles of Champagne they held, and of those how many were of the Champagneloving Churchill’s favourite drop, Pol Roger.

When the reply came back that there was none, Churchill got straight on the phone to the Champagne house’s owner and his friend, Mme Odette Pol Roger in Epernay, who within an hour had a few cases heading to Number 10 post-haste.

And all this before Churchill had even held his first Cabinet meeting there.

Although he’d been enjoying Pol Roger for years, it was only in 1944 during a visit to Paris after the liberation of France by the Allies, that Churchill first met Jacques and Odette Pol Roger at a luncheon at the British Embassy.

He was swept away both by Odette’s beauty and her wit (“as sparkling as her Champagne,”) and openly praised her courage as a bicycle courier for wartime’s French Resistance.

As their friendship developed, the Pol Roger’s named their finest premium Champagne as Cuvee Winston Churchill, while he in turn named one of his race horses Pol Roger, and during the last 10 years of his life ordered over 500 cases of Pol Roger Champagne – literally a carton a week.

And 46 years after his death in 1965, the French street in which the Pol Roger cellars are located was renamed in 2011 by the local Epernay Municipality, Rue Winston Churchill.

Pie-time ■ Pie eaters unite – June’s around the corner and that means it’s time again for Australia’s biggest celebration of everything pies in NSW’s Southern Highlands… that becomes the Southern Pie-lands for all of June.

OK. With John O’Keefe Tom Elliott is a good egg

● Tom Elliott ■ Tom Elliott was asking people to phone into his 3AW Drive program with funny names people called their friends. In the case of Tom’s Dad his nickname was ‘Egg’ which could well make Tom the original ‘Egg Boy’.

Boom, boom. ● Winston Churchill and Odette Pol-Roger award in the 2017 Qantas Tourism Awards for best Destination Marketing Campaigns.

And last year’s Southern Highlands Best Pie Competition has been expanded this year to become the NSW and ACT Best Pie Competition, with five categories of pies both savoury and sweet and with the winning pies being available for visitors to search out and chomp into.

Plus Pie Time’s month long celebrations will culminate in a two-day “Pie Fest” on the weekend of June 23 and 24 that showcases all things pies and their best accompanying wines, beers, ciders and spirits made in the Southern Highlands, and further afield, will this year be held at the vast Bong Bong Picnic Racecourse just outside Bowral to accommodate a greater number of stallholders and with David Ellis activities – and with Based on the towns of Bowral, plenty of visitor parking as last year Mittagong and Moss Vale and the over 4000 attended the weekend. many picturesque little mountain vilOrganisers suggest pie-lovers inlages around them, the Southern High- terested in visiting this year’s Pie Time lands have more pie bakeries and pie book any accommodation needs early, outlets per capita than any other re- and can do this and get any further gion in Australia, and is arguably the information, by phoning Destination unofficial Pie Capital of the country. Southern Highlands on 1300 657 559 Last year’s inaugural Southern or visiting www.visitsouthern Highlands’ Pie Time drew thousands highlands.com.au of pie-lovers to the Highlands through And ask also about Pie Time’s Pithe month of June who, with enthusi- not and Pie Tours, Pie Trike Tours and astic locals, chomped their way the Pie-cycle for cycling enthusiasts through just over 100,000 pies – and to enjoy their sport and a pie or three which helped win Pie Time a major along the way.

Struth

Fired up over 2008 blaze

■ Sheryl Crow has blown the lid over a fire in 2008 that destroyed some of her most precious master tapes, along with others belonging to legendary performers of the ilk of Chuck Berry, Duke Ellington, Buddy Holly, Billie Holliday and others.

The fire occurred in a storage vault at Universal Studios, California.

Sheryl Crow is fuming and legals are sure to be launched.

The big question everyone is asking is why the hell did it take so long for the 2008 fire to come to the surface?

You be judge on Final Quarter

■ It was in the dying days of The Footy Show that Sam Newman made the controversial statement “Adam Goodes , you’re a jerk”.

Now’s the time to make up your mind, one way ,or the other. Truth will be revealed when the Adam Goodes story, the Final Quarter is screened on Ten, Thursday, July 18 at 7.30 pm.

Julie Bishop’s TV career

■ Rumour doing the rounds is Julie Bishop could be fronting a new TV show involving interviewing a selection of the most powerful women in the world.

Michelle Obama, Princess Mary, JacintaArdern, Oprah and others are on the list to be interviewed. Concept is at pitch stage to TV networks with working title The Conversation with Julie Bishop.

Imagine the frequent flyer points Julie and crew could amass if the project is a goer .

Rick pulls up stumps

■ Sydney-born actor Richard Springthorpe, aka Rick Springfield, has called off his close and personal music fest Rick Springfield and Friends The event was to be held later this year in Dominican Republic but the danger of tourists falling ill in the Republic made Rick pull up stumps – maybe sometime next year and he promises to sing Jessie’s Girl.

Rick turned 70 last February.

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Movies, DVDs with Jim Sherlock, Aaron Rourke What’s Hot and What’s Not in Blu-Rays and DVDs FILM: US: Genre: Horror/Thriller.

Cast: Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Anna Diop, Elisabeth Moss.

Year: 2019.

Rating: MA15+ Length: 116 Minutes.

Stars **** Review: In order to get away from their busy lives, a family takes a vacation with the plan of spending time with their friends, but soon after settling in one night, four mysterious people break into the home where they're staying, with shattering consequences.

Following his 2017 feature debut with the chilling smash hit "Get Out," writer, producer, director Jordan Peele has proven beyond any doubt that he is a force nature with "Us," a fearless, devilishly funny, nail-shredding and spine-chilling horror-thriller that places him among the ranks of the best of Alfred Hitchcock, most notably "Vertigo" and "The Birds," Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone," Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining, John Carpenter's "Halloween" and "The Thing" and William Friedkin's "The Exorcist," to name a few.

Woven among the shrill-shrieking terror and deliciously dark moments of laugh-out-loud humour, Peele has filled his startling horror tapestry with delectable cinematic nuggets and political cultural references, all brought vividly to life by a stand-out performances, most notably Lupita Nyong'o in a powerhouse performance of extraordinary depth and range as the tormented mother, and a special mention must go to Michael Abels for his hair-raising music score.

Intelligent, gripping, inventive, haunting and thought provoking, this is "mouth" and "eyes-wide-open" scary, the type of horror movie throughout which your drink and popcorn end up everywhere than where they should .... if "Get Out" was the surprise of the year in 2017, then this is the surprise of the decade! Sensational! Don't see it alone!

FILM: THUNDER ROAD: Genre: Comedy/Drama.

Cast: Jim Cummings, Kendal Farr, Nican Robinson.

Year: 2018.

Rating: M. Length: 92 Minutes.

Stars ***½ Review: A police officer faces a personal meltdown following a divorce and the death of his mother.

Genuinely effective low budget indie award-winning psychological tragic-comic-drama that manages to intertwine chuckles with genuine sadness and poignancy set among crazy antics due to a stellar singular performance, intelligent screenplay and well balanced grip and sensitive direction by its star, writer and director, Jim Cummings.

Simple in its structure and execution, Cummings manages to capture confusion, turmoil and understanding with great focus, a movie that finds its tone and its poetry from its very first image, and even when its emotions seem to go a bit over the top, it holds its ground firmly, all aided by a strong supporting cast including Chelsea Edmundson as his wife, Nican Robinson as his long suffering but understanding police partner, and most notably, Kendal Farr as the daughter.

A crazy, sensitive, and most importantly, a least judgmental film about relationships, break-ups and family death, and though it may have an awkward and uncomfortable identifiable element for some, purely on an entertainment level, this is a small film with a big heart that is a strong and positive refection that succeeds sublimely with an unconventional vulnerability and acceptance that is sure to satisfy the most hardened palate.

FILM: THE HAPPY PRINCE: Genre: Biography/Drama.

Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson.

Year: 2018.

Rating: MA15+ Length: 105 Minutes.

Stars: *** Verdict: The story of the last days in the tragic times of Oscar Wilde as he observes his own failure with ironic distance and regards the difficulties that beset his life with detachment and humour, as he journeys through England, France and Italy, creating a portrait of the dark side of a genius.

A decade long passion project for first time writer, director, and its star Rupert Everett, this is an exceptionally well made biographical drama, and even though it is exceedingly down-beat and decadent throughout, there are also enough high spirited high points to relish in this dark Victorian age final curtain to the legendary and controversial 19th century Irish poet and playwright.

Rupert Everett is near flawless as the declining Oscar Wilde, commanding every frame, every word from his screenplay well chosen and delivered with biting cynicism and savage wit to near perfection, however, it lacks an emotional pathos and more balanced emotional structure, but nonetheless, this is close to the most revealing and engaging of the complex and outrageous and sometimes grotesque Oscar Wilde on the big screen so far, matched only

by Stephen Fry in "Wilde" in 1997.

Rourke’s Reviews Booksmart ■ (MA). 102 minutes. Opens in selected cinemas July 11.

For those who (understandably) think that good Hollywood teen comedies are a thing of the past (Eighth Grade, Edge Of Seventeen and Lady Bird were rare, shining examples), then you will soon be able to rejoice, as Booksmart is one of the best films of its type to come from the US in a long time.

The story follows Molly (Beanie Feldstein) and Amy (Kaitlyn Dever), two high school students who are about to graduate.

Both have worked tirelessly to produce top marks and assure themselves entry into the university of their choice.

But when they discover that other classmates, who appeared to party more than study, also achieved high grades, Molly and Amy decide to let their hair down and go to the big party organised by cool, popular jock Nick (Mason Gooding), who Molly has a secret crush on. But their plan will encounter many obstacles.

The scenario could have easily descended into the tasteless and crude, but writers Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Susanna Fogel, and Katie Silberman joyfully guide their characters down a much more good-natured path, while not ignoring the wild things that teenagers get up to.

Plenty of other teen films and film-makers have provided obvious inspiration (Say Anything, Juno, Lady Bird, the John Hughes canon, particularly Sixteen Candles, to name a few), but the quartet make sure that these young people have their own personalities and journeys.

The unexpected detours also reminds one of ANight On The Town and After Hours.

Actor Olivia Wilde (who recently delivered a standout performance in the taut, effective revenge thriller A Vigilante) makes a tremendous directorial debut, treating the material and characters contained within with genuine care and affection, allowing the talented young cast to vibrantly bring their roles to life (she even includes a stop motion animated sequence that harks back to Savage Steve Holland's Better Of Dead and One Crazy Summer). Feldstein and Dever are outstanding, and display excellent chemistry, but everyone scores big (Jason Sudeikis is probably the weakest link, as the harried school principal).

While it doesn't quite reach the heights of the brilliant Eighth Grade, Booksmart is a welcome addition to the genre, and hopefully shows that American teen comedy isn't dead just yet.

RATING - ****

Krasue : Inhuman Kiss ■ (MA). 122 minutes. Now streaming on Netflix.

Constructed of an interesting array of elements and themes, this well-mounted effort makes for captivating viewing, even if its dips into multiple genres does slow it down at times.

Set in rural Thailand during the 1940's, the story centres on Sai (Phantira Pipityakorn), a young woman who works as a nurse at the local, makeshift hospital.

Childhood friend Jerd (Sapol Assawamunkong) has eyes for Sai, however she longs for the pair's other longtime pal, Noi (Oabnithi Wiwattanawarang), who has been studying medicine in Bangkok.

When Noi suddenly returns to the village, he brings with them a band of hunters, lead by Tad (Surasak Wongthai), who specifically hunt down Krasue, ghostly apparitions who appear at night to devour cattle and babies.

When told that their village is suffering at the hands of a Krasue, Tad and his mercenaries begin the task of tracking down the monster, but Noi discovers what is responsible for the unsettling attacks.

Screenwriter Chookiat Sakveerakul entwines drama, war, romance, folktale mythology and horror into a compelling brew, while director Sitisiri Mongkolsiri (Girl From Nowhere TV series, Last Summer) confidently keeps each facet relevant, though the numerous strands does affect the film's overall pacing, so patience is required.

Nicely shot, well-performed, and containing convincing special effects, Krasue : Inhuman Kiss is certainly inspired by other movies, but definitely builds an identity that is all its own.

RATING - ***½

Yesterday ■ (M). 116 minutes. Still showing in cinemas.

After the muted returns on his last two films, the wonderful T2 Trainspotting (2017) and the brilliant but puzzlingly ignored Steve Jobs (2015), director Danny Boyle goes for safety with Yesterday, a plastic crowdpleaser that places formula and contrivance over invention and genuine emotion.

What is most noticeable is that the raw, imaginative energy normally associated with Boyle's work is totally missing here.

The one saving grace is, of course, the music, but you're better off going and listening to the real thing rather than having to endure this predictable, soulless imitation.

RATING - **

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Bleak House - by Charles Dickens Upon this there was a buzz, and a laugh, and a general withdrawal of the bystanders, and a bringing in of great heaps, and piles, and bags and bags full of papers.

I think it came on “for further directions” — about some bill of costs, to the best of my understanding, which was confused enough. But I counted twenty-three gentlemen in wigs who said they were “in it,” and none of them appeared to understand it much better than I. They chatted about it with the Lord Chancellor, and contradicted and explained among themselves, and some of them said it was this way, and some of them said it was that way, and some of them jocosely proposed to read huge volumes of affidavits, and there was more buzzing and laughing, and everybody concerned was in a state of idle entertainment, and nothing could be made of it by anybody. After an hour or so of this, and a good many speeches being begun and cut short, it was “referred back for the present,” as Mr. Kenge said, and the papers were bundled up again before the clerks had finished bringing them in.

I glanced at Richard on the termination of these hopeless proceedings and was shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face. “It can’t last for ever, Dame Durden. Better luck next time!” was all he said.

I had seen Mr. Guppy bringing in papers and arranging them for Mr. Kenge; and he had seen me and made me a forlorn bow, which rendered me desirous to get out of the court. Richard had given me his arm and was taking me away when Mr. Guppy came up.

“I beg your pardon, Mr. Carstone,” said he in a whisper, “and Miss Summerson’s also, but there’s a lady here, a friend of mine, who knows her and wishes to have the pleasure of shaking hands.” As he spoke, I saw before me, as if she had started into bodily shape from my remembrance, Mrs. Rachael of my godmother’s house.

“How do you do, Esther?” said she. “Do you recollect me?”

I gave her my hand and told her yes and that she was very little altered.

“I wonder you remember those times, Esther,” she returned with her old asperity. “They are changed now. Well! I am glad to see you, and glad you are not too proud to know me.” But indeed she seemed disappointed that I was not.

“Proud, Mrs. Rachael!” I remonstrated.

“I am married, Esther,” she returned, coldly correcting me, “and am Mrs. Chadband. Well! I wish you good day, and I hope you’ll do well.”

Mr. Guppy, who had been attentive to this short dialogue, heaved a sigh in my ear and elbowed his own and Mrs. Rachael’s way through the confused little crowd of people coming in and going out, which we were in the midst of and which the change in the business had brought together. Richard and I were making our way through it, and I was yet in the first chill of the late unexpected recognition when I saw, coming towards us, but not seeing us, no less a person than Mr. George. He made nothing of the people about him as he tramped on, staring over their heads into the body of the court.

“George!” said Richard as I called his attention to him.

“You are well met, sir,” he returned. “And you, miss. Could you point a person out for me, I want? I don’t understand these places.”

Turning as he spoke and making an easy way for us, he stopped when we were out of the press in a corner behind a great red curtain.

“There’s a little cracked old woman,” he began, “that — ” I put up my finger, for Miss Flite was close by me, having kept beside me all the time and having called the attention of several of her legal acquaintance to me (as I had overheard to my confusion) by whispering in their ears, “Hush!

Fitz Jarndyce on my left!”

“Hem!” said Mr. George. “You remember, miss, that we passed some conversation on a certain man this morning? Gridley,” in a low whisper behind his hand.

“Yes,” said I. “He is hiding at my place. I couldn’t mention it.

Hadn’t his authority. He is on his last march,

Charles Dickens miss, and has a whim to see her. He says they can feel for one another, and she has been almost as good as a friend to him here. I came down to look for her, for when I sat by Gridley this afternoon, I seemed to hear the roll of the muffled drums.”

“Shall I tell her?” said I. “Would you be so good?” he returned with a glance of something like apprehension at Miss Flite. “It’s a providence I met you, miss; I doubt if I should have known how to get on with that lady.” And he put one hand in his breast and stood upright in a martial attitude as I informed little Miss Flite, in her ear, of the purport of his kind errand.

“My angry friend from Shropshire! Almost as celebrated as myself!” she exclaimed. “Now really! My dear, I will wait upon him with the greatest pleasure.”

“He is living concealed at Mr. George’s,” said I. “Hush! This is Mr. George.”

“In — deed!” returned Miss Flite. “Very proud to have the honour! A military man, my dear.

You know, a perfect general!” she whispered to me.

Poor Miss Flite deemed it necessary to be so courtly and polite, as a mark of her respect for the army, and to curtsy so very often that it was no easy matter to get her out of the court. When this was at last done, and addressing Mr. George as “General,” she gave him her arm, to the great entertainment of some idlers who were looking on, he was so discomposed and begged me so respectfully “not to desert him” that I could not make up my mind to do it, especially as Miss Flite was always tractable with me and as she too said, “Fitz Jarndyce, my dear, you

seemed quite willing, and even anxious, that we should see them safely to their destination, we agreed to do so. And as Mr. George informed us that Gridley’s mind had run on Mr. Jarndyce all the afternoon after hearing of their interview in the morning, I wrote a hasty note in pencil to my guardian to say where we were gone and why.

Mr. George sealed it at a coffee-house, that it might lead to no discovery, and we sent it off by a ticket-porter.

We then took a hackney-coach and drove away to the neighbourhood of Leicester Square. We walked through some narrow courts, for which Mr. George apologized, and soon came to the shooting gallery, the door of which was closed.

As he pulled a bell-handle which hung by a chain to the door-post, a very respectable old gentleman with grey hair, wearing spectacles, and dressed in a black spencer and gaiters and a broad-brimmed hat, and carrying a large goldbeaded cane, addressed him.

“I ask your pardon, my good friend,” said he, “but is this George’s Shooting Gallery?”

“It is, sir,” returned Mr. George, glancing up at the great letters in which that inscription was painted on the whitewashed wall.

“Oh! To be sure!” said the old gentleman, following his eyes. “Thank you. Have you rung the bell?”

“My name is George, sir, and I have rung the bell.”

“Oh, indeed?” said the old gentleman. “Your name is George? Then I am here as soon as you, you see. You came for me, no doubt?”

“No, sir. You have the advantage of me.”

“Oh, indeed?” said the old gentleman. “Then it was your young man who came for me. I am a

ago — to come and visit a sick man at George’s Shooting Gallery.”

“The muffled drums,” said Mr. George, turning to Richard and me and gravely shaking his head.

“It’s quite correct, sir. Will you please to walk in.”

The door being at that moment opened by a very singular-looking little man in a green-baize cap and apron, whose face and hands and dress were blackened all over, we passed along a dreary passage into a large building with bare brick walls where there were targets, and guns, and swords, and other things of that kind. When we had all arrived here, the physician stopped, and taking off his hat, appeared to vanish by magic and to leave another and quite a different man in his place.

“Now lookee here, George,” said the man, turning quickly round upon him and tapping him on the breast with a large forefinger. “You know me, and I know you. You’re a man of the world, and I’m a man of the world. My name’s Bucket, as you are aware, and I have got a peace-warrant against Gridley. You have kept him out of the way a long time, and you have been artful in it, and it does you credit.”

Mr. George, looking hard at him, bit his lip and shook his head.

“Now, George,” said the other, keeping close to him, “you’re a sensible man and a well-conducted man; that’s what YOU are, beyond a doubt. And mind you, I don’t talk to you as a common character, because you have served your country and you know that when duty calls we must obey. Consequently you’re very far from wanting to give trouble. If I required assistance, you’d assist me; that’s what YOU’D do.

Phil Squod, don’t you go a-sidling round the gallery like that” — the dirty little man was shuffling about with his shoulder against the wall, and his eyes on the intruder, in a manner that looked threatening — “because I know you and won’t have it.”

“Phil!” said Mr. George.

“Yes, guv’ner.”

“Be quiet.”

The little man, with a low growl, stood still.

“Ladies and gentlemen,” said Mr. Bucket, “you’ll excuse anything that may appear to be disagreeable in this, for my name’s Inspector Bucket of the Detective, and I have a duty to perform. George, I know where my man is because I was on the roof last night and saw him through the skylight, and you along with him.

He is in there, you know,” pointing; “that’s where HE is — on a sofy. Now I must see my man, and I must tell my man to consider himself in custody; but you know me, and you know I don’t want to take any uncomfortable measures. You give me your word, as from one man to another (and an old soldier, mind you, likewise), that it’s honourable between us two, and I’ll accommodate you to the utmost of my power.”

“I give it,” was the reply. ‘“But it wasn’t handsome in you, Mr. Bucket.”

“Gammon, George! Not handsome?” said Mr. Bucket, tapping him on his broad breast again and shaking hands with him. “I don’t say it wasn’t handsome in you to keep my man so close, do I? Be equally good-tempered to me, old boy! Old William Tell, Old Shaw, the Life Guardsman! Why, he’s a model of the whole British army in himself, ladies and gentlemen.

I’d give a fifty-pun’ note to be such a figure of a man!”

The affair being brought to this head, Mr. George, after a little consideration, proposed to go in first to his comrade (as he called him), taking Miss Flite with him. Mr. Bucket agreeing, they went away to the further end of the gallery, leaving us sitting and standing by a table covered with guns.

Mr. Bucket took this opportunity of entering into a little light conversation, asking me if I were afraid of fire-arms, as most young ladies were; asking Richard if he were a good shot; asking Phil Squod which he considered the best of those rifles and what it might be worth first-hand, telling him in return that it was a pity he ever gave way to his temper, for he was naturally so amiable that he might have been a young woman,

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After a time he followed us to the further end of the gallery, and Richard and I were going quietly away when Mr. George came after us. He said that if we had no objection to see his comrade, he would take a visit from us very kindly.

The words had hardly passed his lips when the bell was rung and my guardian appeared, “on the chance,” he slightly observed, “of being able to do any little thing for a poor fellow involved in the same misfortune as himself.” We all four went back together and went into the place where Gridley was.

It was a bare room, partitioned off from the gallery with unpainted wood. As the screening was not more than eight or ten feet high and only enclosed the sides, not the top, the rafters of the high gallery roof were overhead, and the skylight through which Mr. Bucket had looked down.

The sun was low — near setting — and its light came redly in above, without descending to the ground. Upon a plain canvas-covered sofa lay the man from Shropshire, dressed much as we had seen him last, but so changed that at first I recognized no likeness in his colourless face to what I recollected.

He had been still writing in his hiding-place, and still dwelling on his grievances, hour after hour.

A table and some shelves were covered with manuscript papers and with worn pens and a medley of such tokens. Touchingly and awfully drawn together, he and the little mad woman were side by side and, as it were, alone. She sat on a chair holding his hand, and none of us went close to them.

His voice had faded, with the old expression of his face, with his strength, with his anger, with his resistance to the wrongs that had at last subdued him. The faintest shadow of an object full of form and colour is such a picture of it as he was of the man from Shropshire whom we had spoken with before.

He inclined his head to Richard and me and spoke to my guardian.

“Mr. Jarndyce, it is very kind of you to come to see me. I am not long to be seen, I think. I am very glad to take your hand, sir. You are a good man, superior to injustice, and God knows I honour you.”

They shook hands earnestly, and my guardian said some words of comfort to him.

“It may seem strange to you, sir,” returned Gridley; “I should not have liked to see you if this had been the flrst time of our meeting. But you know I made a fight for it, you know I stood up with my single hand against them all, you know I told them the truth to the last, and told them what they were, and what they had done to me; so I don’t mind your seeing me, this wreck.”

“You have been courageous with them many and many a time,” returned my guardian.

“Sir, I have been,” with a faint smile. “I told you what would come of it when I ceased to be so, and see here! Look at us — look at us!” He drew the hand Miss Flite held through her arm and brought her something nearer to him.

“This ends it. Of all my old associations, of all my old pursuits and hopes, of all the living and the dead world, this one poor soul alone comes natural to me, and I am fit for. There is a tie of many suffering years between us two, and it is the only tie I ever had on earth that Chancery has not broken.”

“Accept my blessing, Gridley,” said Miss Flite in tears. “Accept my blessing!”

“I thought, boastfully, that they never could break my heart, Mr. Jarndyce. I was resolved that they should not. I did believe that I could, and would, charge them with being the mockery they were until I died of some bodily disorder. But I am worn out. How long I have been wearing out, I don’t know; I seemed to break down in an hour.

I hope they may never come to hear of it. I hope everybody here will lead them to believe that I died defying them, consistently and perseveringly, as I did through so many years.”

Here Mr. Bucket, who was sitting in a corner by the door, good-naturedly offered such consolation as he could administer.

“Come, come!” he said from his corner. “Don’t go on in that way, Mr. Gridley. You are only a little low. We are all of us a little low sometimes.

I am. Hold up, hold up! You’ll lose your temper with the whole round of ’em, again and again; and I shall take you on a score of warrants yet, if I have luck.”

He only shook his head.

“Don’t shake your head,” said Mr. Bucket. “Nod

Magazine it; that’s what I want to see you do. Why, Lord bless your soul, what times we have had together! Haven’t I seen you in the Fleet over and over again for contempt? Haven’t I come into court, twenty afternoons for no other purpose than to see you pin the Chancellor like a bulldog? Don’t you remember when you first began to threaten the lawyers, and the peace was sworn against you two or three times a week? Ask the little old lady there; she has been always present.

Hold up, Mr. Gridley, hold up, sir!”

“What are you going to do about him?” asked George in a low voice.

“I don’t know yet,” said Bucket in the same tone. Then resuming his encouragement, he pursued aloud: “Worn out, Mr. Gridley? After dodging me for all these weeks and forcing me to climb the roof here like a tom cat and to come to see you as a doctor? That ain’t like being worn out. I should think not! Now I tell you what you want. You want excitement, you know, to keep YOU up; that’s what YOU want. You’re used to it, and you can’t do without it. I couldn’t myself. Very well, then; here’s this warrant got

by Mr. Tulkinghorn of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, and backed into half-a-dozen counties since. What do you say to coming along with me, upon this warrant, and having a good angry argument before the magistrates? It’ll do you good; it’ll freshen you up and get you into training for another turn at the Chancellor. Give in? Why, I am surprised to hear a man of your energy talk of giving in. You mustn’t do that. You’re half the fun of the fair in the Court of Chancery. George, you lend Mr. Gridley a hand, and let’s see now whether he won’t be better up than down.”

“He is very weak,” said the trooper in a low voice.

“Is he?” returned Bucket anxiously. “I only want to rouse him. I don’t like to see an old acquaintance giving in like this. It would cheer him up more than anything if I could make him a little waxy with me. He’s welcome to drop into me, right and left, if he likes. I shall never take advantage of it.”

The roof rang with a scream from Miss Flite, which still rings in my ears.

“Oh, no, Gridley!” she cried as he fell heavily and calmly back from before her. “Not without my blessing. After so many years!”

The sun was down, the light had gradually stolen from the roof, and the shadow had crept upward. But to me the shadow of that pair, one living and one dead, fell heavier on Richard’s departure than the darkness of the darkest night.

And through Richard’s farewell words I heard it echoed: “Of all my old associations, of all my old pursuits and hopes, of all the living and the dead world, this one poor soul alone comes natural to me, and I am fit for. There is a tie of many suffering years between us two, and it is the only tie I ever had on earth that Chancery has not broken!”

Chapter XXV— Mrs. Snagsby Sees ItAll There is disquietude in Cook’s Court, Cursitor Street. Black suspicion hides in that peaceful region. The mass of Cook’s Courtiers are in their usual state of mind, no better and no worse; but Mr. Snagsby is changed, and his little woman knows it.

For Tom-all–Alone’s and Lincoln’s Inn Fields persist in harnessing themselves, a pair of ungovernable coursers, to the chariot of Mr. Snagsby’s imagination; and Mr. Bucket drives; and the passengers are Jo and Mr. Tulkinghorn; and the complete equipage whirls though the law-stationery business at wild speed all round the clock. Even in the little front kitchen where the family meals are taken, it rattles away at a smoking pace from the dinner-table, when Mr. Snagsby pauses in carving the first slice of the leg of mutton baked with potatoes and stares at the kitchen wall.

Mr. Snagsby cannot make out what it is that he has had to do with. Something is wrong somewhere, but what something, what may come of it, to whom, when, and from which unthought of and unheard of quarter is the puzzle of his life.

His remote impressions of the robes and coronets, the stars and garters, that sparkle through the surface-dust of Mr. Tulkinghorn’s chambers; his veneration for the mysteries presided over by that best and closest of his customers, whom all the Inns of Court, all Chancery Lane, and all the legal neighbourhood agree to hold in awe; his remembrance of Detective Mr. Bucket with his forefinger and his confidential manner, impossible to be evaded or declined, persuade him that he is a party to some dangerous secret with-

out knowing what it is. And it is the fearful peculiarity of this condition that, at any hour of his daily life, at any opening of the shop-door, at any pull of the bell, at any entrance of a messenger, or any delivery of a letter, the secret may take air and fire, explode, and blow up — Mr. Bucket only knows whom.

For which reason, whenever a man unknown comes into the shop (as many men unknown do) and says, “Is Mr. Snagsby in?” or words to that innocent effect, Mr. Snagsby’s heart knocks hard at his guilty breast. He undergoes so much from such inquiries that when they are made by boys he revenges himself by flipping at their ears over the counter and asking the young dogs what they mean by it and why they can’t speak out at once? More impracticable men and boys persist in walking into Mr. Snagsby’s sleep and terrifying him with unaccountable questions, so that often when the cock at the little dairy in Cursitor Street breaks out in his usual absurd way about the morning, Mr. Snagsby finds himself in a crisis of nightmare, with his little woman shaking him and saying “What’s the matter with the man!”

The little woman herself is not the least item in his difficulty. To know that he is always keeping a secret from her, that he has under all circumstances to conceal and hold fast a tender double tooth, which her sharpness is ever ready to twist out of his head, gives Mr. Snagsby, in her dentistical presence, much of the air of a dog who has a reservation from his master and will look anywhere rather than meet his eye.

These various signs and tokens, marked by the little woman, are not lost upon her. They impel her to say, “Snagsby has something on his mind!”

And thus suspicion gets into Cook’s Court, Cursitor Street. From suspicion to jealousy, Mrs. Snagsby finds the road as natural and short as from Cook’s Court to Chancery Lane.And thus jealousy gets into Cook’s Court, Cursitor Street.

Once there (and it was always lurking thereabout), it is very active and nimble in Mrs. Snagsby’s breast, prompting her to nocturnal examinations of Mr. Snagsby’s pockets; to secret perusals of Mr. Snagsby’s letters; to private researches in the day book and ledger, till, cashbox, and iron safe; to watchings at windows, listenings behind doors, and a general putting of this and that together by the wrong end.

Mrs. Snagsby is so perpetually on the alert that the house becomes ghostly with creaking boards and rustling garments. The ‘prentices think somebody may have been murdered there in bygone times. Guster holds certain loose atoms of an idea (picked up at Tooting, where they were found floating among the orphans) that there is buried money underneath the cellar, guarded by an old man with a white beard, who cannot get out for seven thousand years because he said the Lord’s Prayer backwards.

“Who was Nimrod?” Mrs. Snagsby repeatedly inquires of herself. “Who was that lady — that creature? And who is that boy?” Now, Nimrod being as dead as the mighty hunter whose name Mrs. Snagsby has appropriated, and the lady being unproducible, she directs her mental eye, for the present, with redoubled vigilance to the boy. “And who,” quoth Mrs. Snagsby for the thousand and first time, “is that boy? Who is that —!” And there Mrs. Snagsby is seized with an inspiration.

He has no respect for Mr. Chadband. No, to be sure, and he wouldn’t have, of course. Naturally he wouldn’t, under those contagious circumstances. He was invited and appointed by Mr. Chadband — why, Mrs. Snagsby heard it herself with her own ears! — to come back, and be told where he was to go, to be addressed by Mr. Chadband; and he never came! Why did he never come? Because he was told not to come.

Who told him not to come? Who? Ha, ha! Mrs. Snagsby sees it all.

But happily (and Mrs. Snagsby tightly shakes her head and tightly smiles) that boy was met by Mr. Chadband yesterday in the streets; and that boy, as affording a subject which Mr. Chadband desires to improve for the spiritual delight of a select congregation, was seized by Mr. Chadband and threatened with being delivered over to the police unless he showed the reverend gentleman where he lived and unless he entered into, and fulfilled, an undertaking to appear in Cook’s Court to-morrow night, “‘to — mor — row — night,” Mrs. Snagsby repeats for mere emphasis with another tight smile and another tight shake of her head; and to-morrow night that boy will be here, and to-morrow night

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Mrs. Snagsby will have her eye upon him and upon some one else; and oh, you may walk a long while in your secret ways (says Mrs. Snagsby with haughtiness and scorn), but you can’t blind ME! Mrs. Snagsby sounds no timbrel in anybody’s ears, but holds her purpose quietly, and keeps her counsel. To-morrow comes, the savoury preparations for the Oil Trade come, the evening comes. Comes Mr. Snagsby in his black coat; come the Chadbands; come (when the gorging vessel is replete) the ‘prentices and Guster, to be edified; comes at last, with his slouching head, and his shuflle backward, and his shuffle forward, and his shuffle to the right, and his shuffle to the left, and his bit of fur cap in his muddy hand, which he picks as if it were some mangy bird he had caught and was plucking before eating raw, Jo, the very, very tough subject Mr. Chadband is to improve.

Mrs. Snagsby screws a watchful glance on Jo as he is brought into the little drawing-room by Guster. He looks at Mr. Snagsby the moment he comes in. Aha! Why does he look at Mr. Snagsby? Mr. Snagsby looks at him. Why should he do that, but that Mrs. Snagsby sees it all?

Why else should that look pass between them, why else should Mr. Snagsby be confused and cough a signal cough behind his hand? It is as clear as crystal that Mr. Snagsby is that boy’s father. ‘“Peace, my friends,” says Chadband, rising and wiping the oily exudations from his reverend visage. “Peace be with us! My friends, why with us? Because,” with his fat smile, “it cannot be against us, because it must be for us; because it is not hardening, because it is softening; because it does not make war like the hawk, but comes home unto us like the dove. Therefore, my friends, peace be with us! My human boy, come forward!”

Stretching forth his flabby paw, Mr. Chadband lays the same on Jo’s arm and considers where to station him. Jo, very doubtful of his reverend friend’s intentions and not at all clear but that something practical and painful is going to be done to him, mutters, “You let me alone. I never said nothink to you. You let me alone.”

“No, my young friend,” says Chadband smoothly, “I will not let you alone. And why?

Because I am a harvest-labourer, because I am a toiler and a moiler, because you are delivered over unto me and are become as a precious instrument in my hands. My friends, may I so employ this instrument as to use it to your advantage, to your profit, to your gain, to your welfare, to your enrichment! My young friend, sit upon this stool.”

Jo, apparently possessed by an impression that the reverend gentleman wants to cut his hair, shields his head with both arms and is got into the required position with great difficulty and every possible manifestation of reluctance.

When he is at last adjusted like a lay-figure, Mr. Chadband, retiring behind the table, holds up his bear’s-paw and says, “My friends!” This is the signal for a general settlement of the audience.

The ‘prentices giggle internally and nudge each other. Guster falls into a staring and vacant state, compounded of a stunned admiration of Mr. Chadband and pity for the friendless outcast whose condition touches her nearly. Mrs. Snagsby silently lays trains of gunpowder. Mrs. Chadband composes herself grimly by the fire and warms her knees, finding that sensation favourable to the reception of eloquence.

It happens that Mr. Chadband has a pulpit habit of fixing some member of his congregation with his eye and fatly arguing his points with that particular person, who is understood to be expected to be moved to an occasional grunt, groan, gasp, or other audible expression of inward working, which expression of inward working, being echoed by some elderly lady in the next pew and so communicated like a game of forfeits through a circle of the more fermentable sinners present, serves the purpose of parliamentary cheering and gets Mr. Chadband’s steam up. From mere force of habit, Mr. Chadband in saying “My friends!” has rested his eye on Mr. Snagsby and proceeds to make that ill-starred stationer, already sufficiently confused, the immediate recipient of his discourse.

“We have here among us, my friends,” says Chadband, “a Gentile and a heathen, a dweller in the tents of Tom-all–Alone’s and a mover-on upon the surface of the earth.

To Be Continued Next Issue

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Local Sports History ● From Page 20 Furthermore, a special message was forwarded him for the names of his players.

This, for some reason best known to himself, he withheld. Had such a list of players been sent as was handed to Fox on Saturday last, our team would have certainly preferred staying at home, they having no particular desire (just yet) to play the best part or portion of any recognised established football club, such as Kelly chose to pick to form his scratch fifteen.

If the team he brought together on Saturday was a scratch Darlingford one, wliat must "the" fifteen be ike? The following is a list furnished by Mr. T. Knowles to Fox, from which the men would be selected, at the same time expressing himself to the effect that no Jamieson men were to be picked:Kelly, Hughes, Barncwall, Tossol, Coller (2), Waterson (3), McLure, Garrett, Nichol (2), Knowles, Hard, Fry, Adam, and Garthwaite.

It is pretty well known by this time that Fox did not take part in the match, and very wise of him, after his team decided not to.

Now to give a siort sumuary of the game as played. The following is the Alexandra team hat stripped to play:-Wilson, Wright, Long, Harker, Watt, O'Connor, Hall, Hubbard, and Asling.

Tiese nine players faced the big 15 of the combined including Kelly (Enoch's Point), Gummow, Peterson, and Ware (Jamieson), Hard (Gaffney’s Creek), and several other first class players.

Wilson captained " our boys," and added three more to the field viz.-G. Robinson, of Thornton, who intended to play with Kelly ; W. Dobson (Acheron), and A. Hardy Alexandra. Empey, Fox, and O. Coughlan would not play.

This weakened the team considerably, but at half-timte Empey was persuaded to play.

It will thus be seen that Alexandra played three men short the first half, and two in the second half of the game.

The play now commenced. Wilson possessed the lucky coin, and elected to kick towards the river.

Read Murphy acted as contral umpire, and was very fair indeed.

Owing to the narrowness of the ground the ball was frequently kticked out. Of the play, very little can be said, with the exception of the admirable way in which the Alexandra team defended their citadel.

The efforts on two or three occasions put forth to score were strongly thwarted, the sphere being speedily down again, the result being Combined, 2 goals, 12 behinds; Alexandra, 3 behinds.

Five or six free-kicks were given against thie combined for infringement of rules, and had no objection been raised when Gummow kicked the first goal it would have not been allowed, I'm sure, for he ran nearly 12 yards beforo he kicked.

A clallenge has been sent for a return match. ★ The May 29, 1885, issue of the local newspaper reported: Darlingford v Alexandra A grand day greeted the above teams on Saturday last, to contest the first match of the season, and, I believe, the first over witnessed in Alexandra.

O'Connor, the untiring secretary of the Alexandra club, worked his utmost to bring this most pleasant game about so early in the season.

The appearance of so many members in costume is to be attrib-

● Allen‘s Darlingford Hotel and General Store, 1910.

First football team was based at Darlingford

■ The small town of Darlingford (named after Sir Charles Darling, Governor of Victoria), near the junction of the Big and Goulburn Rivers, came into being in the 1860s after gold was discovered in the area.

It had seven hotels, five policemen, a log jail, shops, post office and a small slab hut used as a school.

Eildon station, a run of 25,500 hectares was first started in 1846 by Mr and Mrs Archibald Thom.

The name Eildon was chosen by the couple because the area from Darlingford to Thornton reminded them of Mrs Thom’s birthplace, the Eildon Hills near Abbotsford in Scotland.

Sugarloaf Reservoir construction commenced in 1915 and was finally completed in 1929. The Sugarloaf Reservoir Dam Wall still exists under the water of Lake Eildon.

The capacity of the Sugarloaf reservoir was only around 10 per cent of the capacity of Lake Eildon.

The township of Darlingford was flooded by the building of the Sugarloaf Reservoir.

To house the men working on the reservoir, the new shanty town of Eildon began to arise.

The State Rivers and Water Supply Commission built houses for their staff, a large mess room and single men’s accommodation. However, some of the workers were still housed in tents. A state school was built and staffed and this building was also used as a community hall and church. uted to the energics of the secretary.

Fox, the originatcr of the club, who had made up his mind not to play this seoason, could not resist the temptation, and therefore took charge of the local brigade.

Captain Kelly, unfortunately,did not play on account of having received an injury to his log.

This was a great loss to Darlingford, for although the captaincy was placed in the hands of their best player, W. McLure, he failed to keep control of his men.

This was most particarly noticeable; for i'nistance, instead of having four men “forward on goal” he nly had two, Tossol and Waterson, and these were but feeble against 0.

Coughlan and Milroy.

Watt and Fox, who played "centre" and "back" respectively, had it all their own way, as also did the "goal minder"Fooks, no one being set. to watch them, thus showing that Darlingford required all their available forces to protect their citadel from the " forwards" and “followers" of Alexandra, wrho proved too good.

I will refrain from given adv ice rn the game, knowing that Darlingford possess men more able than myself to do that.

It was decided that the match should be played 15 a-side, the game to commence at 2 o'clock, and to terminate at 5.

It was ultimately arranged that three quarters of an hour should be played each way.

The following are the names of the representative teams :-Alexandra - C. Wilson, W. Empey, C. Harker, E. Lipscombe, A. W att, W. O'Connor, H. Lawrence, W. Dobson, G. Milroy, T. Mensforlh, O. Coughlin, T. A. Fox (captain), F. Docking, C. Fooks and A. Long.

Darlingford - Fry, Waterson (3 ). E. Hall, Tossol (2), Allan (3), McClure (captain), Garthwaite, Hewes, Sawers, and McMartin.

In consequence of being one man short, Hall played for Darlingford.

Punctually at 2 o'clock, the visitors were on the groiund, but it was some time before the Alexandrans put in appearance.

I was extremely pleased to see Mr H.Sabine officiating as field um pire, his equal being difficult to find.

This gentleman is a great admirer of the game, and some years ago played under my captaincy in the Western District, with Mr. J. J. Madden, M.P., and Frank Allen, the "trundler."

J. Nash acted as goal umpire for Darlingford, and T. Watt filled the same position for Alexandra, the latter being called upon nearly20 times to give his decision, which lhe gave unhesitatinglv.

Nash who had little to do, gave no room for dissatisfaction.

At a quarter to 3, McClure sent the coin spinning, and fortune favoring him, he elected to kick down towards the hill.

Alexandra was soon in position, and away went the ball, which was!speedily returned.

After about five minutes excellent play No. 1 goal was registered

by O'Connor.

This was the signal for great cheering, especially from the "barrrckers," who mustered in great force.

Indeed, a number of the fairer sex added their quota with kerosene tins.

The men in position again, Darlingford soon sent the ball into Alexandra territory, where Coughlan secured it, and by an excellent run sent the ball in the middle of the ground.

Here some very close play took place, between McClure. Wilson, Dobson, Fry, Lawrence, Garthwaite, O'Connor, and the Allans.

Notwithstanding the stubborn resistance of the Darlingford men, our boys were too much for them.

Several times Darlingford forced the ball down in close proximity to the goal, but the back players of Alexandra were too strong, and consequently sent it quickly to the front.

The play was certainly one-sided, it being easily seen that the visitors were over matched, though their physique was far and above that of our team, but lacked that amount of prowess that is essential to football playing.

Two more goals, one kicked by Lawrence, and the other by Harker, were soon scored, beside a numbei of behinds.

Soon after the ball had been started again, the Darlingford team rushed in a body down the wing, and seemed for a moment as if they intended to storm the Alexandra fortress, buit upon reaching the corner they were met by Milroy and Fox, but they could do nothing in the face of such a force.

Tile " followes" of Alexandra were left in the rear, and this oversight nearly caused a goal to be kicked, for while working the ball from the corner, and when within 15 yanis of the goal, the ball was very smartly picked up by McClure and kicked for goal, but, unfortunately, struck the post.

Half time was called, the game standingAlexandra, 3 goals, 6 behinds; Darlingford, 2 behinds.

After ten minutes rest, the ball was thrown up, and quickly taken down

by Alexandra in front of goal.

This was the order of play until the finish, the ball occasionally reaching Alexandra territory.

Some excellent sport was afforded the spectators during this part of the cnme, but the manner in which Alexandra handled their opponents.

Some very good play, also short markring, was exhibited by a few of the visitors, but I could not ascerinin their names.

The excellent play all through of Wilson, Lawrence, Empey, Harker, Dobson, O'Connor, and Long, the " forwards" of Alexandra, was greatly admired.

Those deserving of mention for Darlingford are - McClure, Hewes, J.Allan, Fry, and Tossol.

Darlingford played one man (Hewes) short the concludingpalf.

Time was called shortly before 5 o'clock, Darlingford being unable to add more than they secured in the first half.

The game resulted in an easy victory for Alexandra, viz.:-- 8 goals, 11 behinds, to 2 behinds.

The 5 goals in latter half obtained

by Alexandra, were kicked by Lawrence (3), and Dobson (2).

Out of the 8 goals, 5 were kicked

by Lawrence.

After the usual compliments had been passed, an adjournment was made to Host Edwards' hotel, where a sumptuous repast awaited the hungry combalnnts.

After justice had been done, Captain Fox was called upon to propose the health of ' The Darlingford Team."

This was done in a few and appropriate words, and responded to

by Captain Kelly.

A special feature in the game was the friendly spirit exhibited. ★ The newspaper added a note about the after-match celebrations: General Booth and the Blue Ribbon Army would have little work to do if the world teemed with youths after the fahion of the twenty odd players who took part in the football match between Alexandra and Darlingford last Saturday.

At the conclusion of the match, Mr. Sabine, the energetic field umpire, invited the contestants to partake of a glass of wine with him.

On the landlord of the hotel to which they adjourned enquiring for the orders, it was found that twenty one out of the twenty-two yoimths assembled calledl for lemonade, ginger ale or other soft drinks, and that they were all teetotalers of their own free will, not a single one belonging to a temnperance society of any kind whatsoever.

We strongly advise the boys to continue through life on the same grand principle. ★ The enthusiasm continued, with the May 29 edition recording: The excitement attending the football match played between Alexandra and Darlingford on Saturday last, has caused several of our stalwart inhabitants to enrol themselves in the ranks of the former and we hope to see this favourite game pursued more energetically in the town ship.

Alexandra should possess a club capable of defending the " posts" against all comers. ★ Other football matches in 1885 involved Alexandra against Tallarook, Jamieson and Doon.

In 1888, there was talk of a combined team from Ruffy, Gobur, Yarck and “thereabouts”.

The football correspondent wrote, on April 27, 1888: “I hear it whisnered that the Thorntonites intend to form a club.

“Well done Thornton. I would suggest that Thornton and Darlingford combine, but form the club on good lines, I mean don't borrow from Jamieson, as Darlingford did, some seasons ago, but confine your members to play for one club only.

“I was sorry to hear our ex-captain ask the question if he might join the Thornton club.

“This would ie very unfair, so soon after the expiring of his office.

“Turn up, William, and give us your assistance, we will require it,” commented ‘Onlooker’ ● Continued on Next Page

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Thornton’s first game, 129 years ago ■ Interest in football at Thornton had been shown with calls to form a local club in 1888. Nothing seems to come of the call in that year.

Two years later, interest was again building, if a local newspaper public notice is any indication.

R. Black, Secretary of the Alexandra Football Club, inserted the notice in the Alexandra and Yea Standard (April 18, 1890): “The Party who took as football away from the Rubicon Hotel on Easter Monday is requested to return it to the Secretary of the Alexandra Football Club, to save further trouble and expense.” ★ It is not known if the missing football was located, but in the same issue there was a notice about forming a Thornton Football Club.

The ad stated: “Ameeting will be held at Baker’s Rubicon Hotel on Saturday, the 24th inst. (May 24), at 7 o’clock sharp, for the purpose of forming a Thornton Football Club.

All interested are requested to attend.” ★ The local newspaper published reports in 1890 about matches involving Alexandra, Yea, Jamieson and Mansfield.

The only football activity in Thornton involved the local schools, according to a June 30 report: LOWER THORNTON V. UPPER THORNTON SCHOOLS A very interesting match took place last Saturday between teams representing the above schools, in a paddock kindly lent by Mr J. Barnewall, and notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather a fair number of spectators assembled to witness the game.

Owing to the wet and slippery state of the ground, spills were the order of the day.

The Lower team consisted of J. McMartin (captain), G. Taylor, J. McCallum, Robb(3), C. Munckton; H.Alston, Christie (2), and Walter Robinson.

The Upper school was represented by W. Beever (captain), A. andH. Beever, Chant(2), R. Mitchell, R. Elliott, B. Barnewall, and Rennie (3).

The game resulted in an easy victory for the visitors, who obtained 3 goals (kicked by McMartin, Taylor, and Christie) 13 behinds to their opponents' nil.

At the conclusion three lusty cheers were given for Mr George Robinson, who filled the onerous duties of field umpire with satisfaction to both sides, not one of his decision being questioned, and three more cheers for the teachers Messrs Raynor and Hammet.

An adjournment was then made to the schoolroom, where some of the residents had hospitably laid out

● A public notice advertisement from April 18, 1890. refreshments for all hands in the form of sandwiches, cakes, tarts and a boiler of tea, and, needless to say, ample justice was done to them.

A return match is expected to take place at Lower Thornton some time during July.

In connection with the above we have been informed that a match is contemplated between the Alexandra school and a com bined team from Upper and Lower Thornton schools. ★ The Standard’s correspondent, ‘Follow Up’, noted in the July 4 issue of the Alexandra v. Thornton match: My Thornton correspondent informs me that a junior match will take place there to-morrow between teams representing Upper and Lower Thornton.State Schools versus the Alexandra State School. Players to be on the ground at 1; p.m.

The following are the names of the respective teams :-Thornton:P. McMartin (Capt.), Christie (2), Gilmore (2,). Beever (2,)Remnie (2,) A Baker, G. Taylor, W Robinson, W. Robb; H. Whigtman and A. Scorar.

Alexandra - Waymouth (capt) C. Kellock, A. Stone, J. Cocking, W. Peck, A. Hubbard, F. Ainsworth; F. Ainsworth, G. Watt, A. Baker, H. Woods, C. Hall, A. Armstrong, J. Knight, 1. Magee. Emergencies -J. Payne, G. Payne, G. Paxin. Should the weather be fine I have no doubt a very interesting game will be witnessed.

A July 11 press report noted: The game was played in a paddock opposite Mr Henry Baker's Rubicon Hotel, and the grotesque costumes assumed by some of the players cansed a good deal of merriment.

The Alexandra youths arrived on the ground about 1 o'clock, and many of them were hospitably entertained at dinner by Mrs H. Baker, who gave all and sundry ahearty good welcome.

I was pleased to notice amongst the visitors our worthy and esteemed Shire President, Mr F. Wheeler, who seemed to take deep and lively in-

● The ad from April 18, 1890, calling for the formation of the Thornton Football Club.

terest in the game. The three head teachers Messrs. Hammett, (Upper Thornton), Raynor, (Lower Thornton), and Cole (Alexandra) were also present, and their presence no doubt incited the lads to do their best.

Though the game resulted in a draw, I must confess I was a bit surprised, as on viewing tile two teams, weight and physique were certainly in favor of the local boys, but their opponents outstripped them in snmartness entirely The play of W. Robinson and W. Beever (the latter kicking the only goal for their side) being equal to adult skill. ★ It appears that Thornton Football Club’s first-ever game was on Saturday, August 2, 1890.

Some of the original newspaper clipping from 129 years ago is now impossible to decipher but it appears that Alexandra 6 goals 6 behinds defeated Thornton 0 goals 8 behinds.

Football writer ‘Follow Up’ noted: Another glorious day greeted the footballers last Saturdat, when a match was played on the local ground between teams representing Alexandra and Thornton.

The latter is a newly formed club, and contains many members belonging to the town club.

Therefore it was a happy idea to arrange a friendly contest between the two, as it gave the respective players a good opportunity of gauging the playing of each other, besides being a bit of good practice for both.

The match excited a good deal of interest, as was manifesteed by the large number of townspeople who wenbded their way to the ground, especially the fair sex, all of whom seemed to keenly enjoy the game.

MrA.E. Stillman of course acted as central [umpire], and as usual, gave the utmost satisfaction.

The following are the names of the respective teams:Thornton - A. McMartin (cap.), mCMartin, Tossol (2), Robinson (2), Hemmings, Finlay (2), Rob, McKenzie, Allan, Gartwhite, Newman, Francis.

Alexandra - W. Dobson (cap.), R. Dobson, Lee, Parsons, Hubard, Mensforth,. Milroy, Barnard, Vining, Long, Baker, Davies, Sampson, Evans and Watt.

The game started at 3.15 and was played in 25 minute [sections].

A. McMartin captained the visitors, while Wille Dobson took his usual place for the locals.

Thornton kicked off, and soon had the ball in motion, and considering this was the first appearance of a number of players in the field, they shaped exceedingly well.

Several marks were obtained in quick succession, and J. Tossol was exceptionally smart in getting hold

of the ball, but unfortunately too far off to make a score.

The game was a most friendly one throughout, and the smartness displayed by the newly formed club as a whole was considerable.

Several of them are worthy of mention, such as J. Tossol, Finlay, Rob, McKenzie, Garthwaite, Allan, the two Robinsons, and the two McMartins.

A return match was organised for Saturday, August 9, 1890, with the newspaper summary noting: Thornton v Alexandra Return Match The return match between the above two clubs was played at Thornton on Saturday last.

The weather fortunately was fine, though the ground was in a fearfully sloppy state, owing to tlhe heavy fall of rain the two previous days The distance from town not being great the drive out there was most pleasant, in spite of the dirty roads, and there were a good many visitors from Alexandra, including several ladies, who boldly braved the roads and elements.

The battle ground is situated at the rear of the Rubicon Hotel, the host and hostess of which did all they possibly could for the comfort of the playing visitors, providing them with dressing room, etc.

A capital lunch andrefreshments were provided on the ground,to which ample justice was done at half time.

The followiug are the names of the respective teams:-AlexandraW. Dobson (cap), R. Dobson, W. Parson, T. Mensforth, R. Vining, A. Long, J. Baker, J. Davies, S. Sampson, Evans, A. Watt, A. P. Bladen and G. Hubbard.

Thornton - A. McMartin, (cap), McMartin, Tossol (2), Robinson (2), Finlay (2), Hemmings, Robb, McKenzie, Allan, Garthwaite, Newman andd Francis.

The game was commenced at 3.30 and was played in 25 minute spells.

Thornton set the ball in motion, and by abit of. good play on the part of Garthwaite and J,. Robinson soon had it in front of their oapponents’ sticks, when a really smart bit of scrimmaging took place, and it was the red and black could do to prevent a mark.

However, after a stgruggle Mensforth got hold of the ball and sent it out of danger, and it was kept of the wing for some time.

The local men were playing excellently, and Archie is certainlyto be complimented on the way he had his field laid out. Evety little chance was taken advantage of.

After a game struggle on the wing Allan got a mark and sent the ball into his opponents’ territory where it was tightly held by M. Robinson, who with a neat kick sent it through the posts, thus marking the first score in the shape of a goal for Thornton.

This was received with tremendous cheering by the Thornton barrackers, amongst whom was a noisy individual who made himself rather conspicuous and very obnoxious by his expressive language.

I have no objection to hearing pure barrack, but when such expressions as ‘By ----------”are uttered every fibne minutes, I think it time such individuals were turned off the ground.

The ball was no sooner kicked off than it was again hovering round the Thornton sticks, and out of a

scrimmage a behind was punted.

The red and black now wired in with the result that was a behind was immediately scored to their credit by Hubbard.

After the kick off a severe struggle took place on the wing about fifty yards from the sticks, and Mensforth by a curious and lucky kick sent the ball just over the heads of the players and it landed between the posts sufficient to equalise the scores.

No one was more surprised than the kicker, and of course it was a sheer bit of luck.

Time was now called. Result Alexandra 1 goal 1 bhind; Thornton, 1 goal behind.

Ends were now changed and immediately after R. Dobson obtained the ball at a rather acute angle, but he successfully negotiated the try, and put the visitors’ score ahead.

Again the ball was set going and it kept in the centre of the ground for sometime, when the Thorntonites gradually worked it up to their own territory, and Hammett got a mark off Robinson, but failed to score, the ball being cleverly stopped by R. Dobson.

Immediately after Tossol got a mark within many distance, and the ball was carried away to the end where another behind was punted by the visitors.

Again the ball changed ends and Hammett got a mark off Finley.

Afraid of a making a score Hammett passed the ball on to G. Robinson, who, it was thought, was certain of a goal, but he wasn’t equal to the occasion, and the ball was soon all over the field again.

However, McKenzie soon after got a mark from Hemmings, but too far off, and only a behind resulted.

The visitors got hold of the ball and by desperate fighting kept it in their own country and Davies had a shot for goal but missed.

Long got a mark off Evans, who passed it on to Hubard, and the latter from a long kick scored the third goal for Alexandra.

As soon as the ball was kicked off time was called. Result Alexandra, 3 goals, 2 behinds; Thornton, 1 goal, 2 behinds.

An adjournment was now made for lunch and refreshments. After a quarter of an hour’s rest the ball wasagain not going, but nothing resulted on either side until within a few minutes of time when Robinson punted another behind for Thornton.

The final quarter was a fierecly contested one, the ball being sent all over the ground, giving the central plenty to do. Out of a scrimmage Alexandra secured another behind.

The locals again rfallied and got the ball close up to their own sticks when H. Robinson had another shot for goal, but a bit of hard luck the ball was just touched by Parsons as it went through, resulting in a behind only.

At the latter part of this last spell the visitors got several marks, wehich resulted in two or three more behinds, and when time was called the game stood Alexandra 2 goals 8 behind; Thornton 1 goal 4 behinds.

Amongst those who played well for Thornton may be mentined the two Tossols, two Robinsons, Garthwaite, Francis, Allan, Mckenzie, and the two McMartin’s.

After a brief sojourn at Henry Baker’s, the visitors returned home well satisfied with their day’s outing.

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Yea did not win 1896 flag outright ■ Yea Football Club’s first premiership win is documented as occurring in 1896.

The Yea newspaper recorded the matches against Tallarook:The first match (Sept. 19) levelled the teams as minor premiers.

The second match (Oct. 3) was a ‘test’, or grand final, and was drawn.

The September 24, 1896, local paper reported of the first match: On Saturday last the long looked for football match between Yea and Tallarook took place, on the local reserve, but it proved a hollow affair and resulted in an easy win for Yea. T. Dozey captained Tallarook, and had a weak team under his command, although all of the best players from Dabyminga were present.

Barrett skippered the locals and Bayne acted as umpire.

In the first quarter Yea predominated and with a good breeze in their favor put up three goals six behinds to one behind; whilst in the second they added against the wind, one behind to a goal and three behinds

by Tallarook.

After the interval the locals led off with renewed vigor and put up four goals three behinds in rapid succession, to two behinds; and in the final spell three goals five behinds were recorded for Yea, and two goals one behind for Tallarook.

The final scores were: Yea, 10 goals, 15 behinds; Tallarook, 3 goals, 7 behinds.

The game was unevenly contested, but good form was displayed by a number of players.

For the winners Barrett exercised splendid judgment in marking and kicking, but on the whole took matters rather easily, while Stewart Drysdale's high-marking was the most brilliant feature of the game.

M. McLeish,A. Devlin, Bandiwig, R. Williamson, McClelland, Grey, Christie, Hamilton and Robinson were responsible .for good serviceable work; while for Tallarook, Kennedy (3), Costello, Madigan, Hedley, and O'Connor were moat prominent.

The goal-kickers for Yea were: M. McLeish (3), S. Drysdale (2), Christie, Burns, Barrett, J. Hamilton and A. Devlin; and for Tallarook, P. Madigan, J. Kennedy, and P. Costello. ★ The glory of Yea’s win was shortlived as this October 1, 1896, clipping shows:

● An advertisement in the Yea newspaper. Sept. 17, 1896 “The Yea team of footballers in has taken the ground this season; and consideration of their pl aying their; which comprises members of the final match at Tallarook instead of olden time team now scattered Seymour were offered three-fourths throughout the district. of the gate-receipts.

Barrett won the toss and decided “This offer was accepted,and a on taking advantage of a strong.wind gate-keeper was taken from Yea at that was blowing and kicked for the an expense of some five or six shil- northern goal, in the hope of getting a good lead in the first quarter. lings.

From the bounce: the locals were “The disgust of the Yea players and committee can well be imag- hard pressed and the play hovered in ined when they were awarded the front of their goals for the best part of insiginificant sum of five shillings the spell; but the home team were and tenpence as their share of the well.acquainted with the ground and proceeds, out of which the half cost were satisfied to drive the ball on to the deep wings rom which it is diffiof a football has to be deducted.” cult to score. ★ Thus the Yea team had all the best The October 1, 1896, issue reof the quarter though they only sucported on the final match: The Yea and Tallarook clubs hav- ceeded in scoring one behind to nil.

In the seosnd quarter the locals ing scored equal points for the,.premiership of the N.E.F.A. met with aid of the wind expected to reon the Tallarook ground on Satur- verse matters and easily triumph over the Yea boys; but in this they were day last, to play a deciding game.

Barrett captained the Yea team disappointed and for the first part of and had in hand the strongest com- the quarter thed visitors played a bination that has yet fought for the most plucky game, and attacked suc-cess of the Yea club, although the Tallarook goal on several occathiswould have.been strengthened sions in the face of a very, strong had J. Leckie and W. Dobson been breeze.

Under such odds, however, the able to attend.

Phil. Hedley took charge of the attack could not be maintained for Tallarook team, the strongest that any length of time, and. coming with a rush the ball was carried to the opposite end and Paddy Costello recorded a goal for Tallarook.

Then the '’Rooks, having tasted of success, made a fast anl cotinuouus ouslaught, but the visitors ■ The North Eastern Football Association was in a mess in the weeks defended in splendid style and the and months before the Yea-Tallarook finals matches in 1896. half-time bell rang with the scores, The September 3 issue of the Yea newspaper reported: Tallarook 1 goal, 2 behinds; Yea 2 “The association match to have have been played between Seymour behinds. and Yea on the local reserve on Saturday has resulted in a walk-over for Having gained a better knowlYea. edge of the ground the Yea boys com“The final now rests between Tallarook and Yea for the medals and menced the third quarter with the locals ought to stand a good show as the match will be played on the good.hopes of suecess; and by keepYea ground. ing the ball well in the centre were in “The following letter was received by Mr. J. Conlan, from Mr. Webb, good position to score. secretary for the association re the match: At length `Jack Hamilton scored "August 31st, 1896. Dear Sir,-I regret to say our club will not turn up and by a splendid place kick raised to play Yea on Saturday next, not being able to get a team. both flags for Yea. “Re inquiry re Broadford v. Seymour match the former wired inabilFrom the bounce the game was ity to get team. Contests therefore now narrowed down to Yea and at once carried to the Tallarook end, Tallarook, Seymour and Broadford being disqualified. and Yea should have had several -Yours, &c., Henry Webb, Seymour." opportunities to score, but failed.

“Extract from the rules of the association :-. Reference was made to Barrett.at last secured, and by a the dissstisfaction frequently caused through clubs failing to keep their well-judged kick put up Yea's second appointments, and it was agreed that any club neglecting to fulfil one goal. engagemeit be disqualified for the remainder of the season."

Three-quarter time wasshortly af“Yea will therefore not go to the Broadford on the 12th inst.” ter called, and the Yea defence was

North Eastern Football Association was in a mess

strengthened.

The game was veryfast and was carried to all parts of the ground.

Yea forced the home team back time after time and had several shots for goal against the wind, but without success.

Tallarook then pevailed and the Yea goal was in danger, but was not succesffully attacked.

The loealsdefended in good style, but Tom Kennedy was accidentally slung and; awaded a free-kick.

The angle was a most difficult one, but unfort.nately for Yea the ball landed apparently fairly between the posts.

The result might have been a doubtful one, for only a person directly in a line with the two posts could give a correct decision.

However, the flags were raised and the scores were thus equalised.

A deseerate tussel then ensued until time was called and on several oceasions the premiership was within a few inches of beingdecided, but only behinds resulted, and a splendid game, and the game of the season, ended, Yea, 2 goals, 5 behinds Tallarook, 2 goals 5 behinds Of the visitorsevery man did his share, but the ruck players had thebriint of the fight of the fight and they bore it bravely..

Barrett, McLeish, Devlin, Bob Williamson, "Jigger," S. Drysdale, McColl, Smith, Bandiwig, and Gray, played wth indomnitable pluck throughout.

For Tallarook Paddy Costello was the most conspicuous, but he was closely followed by Tom and J. Kennedy.

C. Kennedy, W. Ryan, A. . Wallis, Hedley, O'Connor, Baird, and Doherty were also in good form, and did splendid service for their side.

The game was most evenly contested, though the Yea team displayed the better form against the wind.

The result being a draw.the premiership remains undecided, and it is probable another match will be will be played at Yea but this was to been decided at a meeting of the association last night. ★ The October 8 issue reported: “Matters in connection with the premiership of the North-Eastern Football Association terminated in a peculiar and unsatisfactory way.

“The Yea and Tallarook clubs having tied for the leading position a match was arranged to be played at Seymour to settle the matter, but by agreement of the clubs interested it was arranged to play at Tallarook instead.

“This match took place in due course, and resulted in a draw.

“It was then thought and seems only reasonable that Tallarook should play a further match on the Yea ground, but the association decided, as the two clubs could not come to an amicable arrangement, that the net proceeds of the association be divided by them and the premiership held jointly.

“The association has thus apparently no authority, and unless it is next year constituted on a better footing, with a reasonable code of rules, it would be well to allow it to become defunct.”

Yea Football Club’s premiership pedigree

■ According to the Yea Football-Netball Club website, Yea has won premierships in 1896, 1902, 1912, 1919, 1945, 1946, 1950, 1960, 1968, 1976, 1982 and 1984.

The September 4, 1902 issue of the Yea newspaper had a report from ‘Nemo’ on the final played against Alexandra: “The final match to decide the premiership of the Alexandra D.F.A. took place on Saturday last on the Recreation ground, in the preserice of alarge assemblage of interested spectators, the visitors, as usual, bringing a goodly number of representative supporters and partisans.

“The day was rather too warm for football, which may, in some measure account for the periods of dull and listless play.

“Each club had obtained twenty points, which necessitated a playoff. Tlhe choice of grounds, according to the rules, had to be drawn for, and resulted in favor of the Yea ground.

“Both teams were well matched, and each confident althoughYea were slightly favorites. The home team was weakened by the absence of Drysdale, owing to the recent death of his mother, whereas their rivals had considerably strengthened their team by the inclusion of Armstrong, McKenzie,. and Wakeham, each of whom played particularly well for his .side.

“Devlin again took his place in the team, which, with this .exception, was unaltered. “ The game, though interesting, was not so fast nor brilliant as that against Thornton. The Alexandra players did not exhibit nearly the same form as on' their previous visit; the result that the local players ran over them, especially in the last quarter.

“However, the game was a much better one than the scores indicate,.and none were readier than the visitors to admit that the better team had won.

“The local players well deserve their success, having played evenly and consistently throughaout the season, and, in the hands of an experienced and capable coach, would soon prove a particularly hard nut for most up country teams to crack.

“At present they lack experience, and play more often witli their feet.than their hands and heads,but the material is there,and good enough.

“It is as gratifying to note the success of the younger players as it is to record the continued success of.the older members of the team and they all shopuld be found in their places next year doing battle for the same old club, which could ill spare any or either of them.

“The Yea players all wore black bands of their arms as a mark of respect to their comrade, A. Drysdale, who recently suffered a bereavement.”

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Alex., Yea battle for 1902 premiership ■ “At the bounce Wakeham (centre) took possession, and forwarded on smartly to Yea's goal where Purvis (back) marked and saved,” commeneced the Yea newspaper’s coverage of the 1902 grand final football match.

The newspaper continued: The visitors continued to press the local lads hotly, who, as.usual were all at sea starting, and could not get the ball across the centre line.

Johnston marked well in the air, but McLeish saved any damage for the time being, until Stillman was awarded a free kick and put up a nice goal for Alexandra.

Wakehamn was again conspicuous and showing good form. He obtained and passed on to the forwards, but the dashing and reliable Clark Bros. beat off the attack, and Monaghan and Williamson rushed it forward, but a free kick to T. Woods annulled their efforts.

Monaghan was to the fore, but Docking (back) saved his side with a fine run and kick.

Oliver woke up and marked well to Steuart, who passed it to S. Baird in front, and a single was Yea's first score.

Williamson, playing in his usual form, kicked well to Hansen, who took a nice mark and registered Yea’s first goal.

Armstrong (Alexandra), a fine open player, here went into the ruck and soon made his presence felt in an assault on the Yea goal, which Purvis, safe and effective, repelled.

Ball, (ruck) by fine strong play, obtained possession and marked to Steuart, who put the ball well in front where Baird took a splendid mark, in a crowd.

T. Woods and Johnston worked it away again, but Ball again marked to Gray, who with a splendid left foot place kick, as straight as an arrow, secured: second goal.for Yea. Armstiong forced the play to the local's territory, but the backs and half-backs were now working in concert, and the Clarks were as conspicuous as usual.

Lee marked well, but put up one flag only. Armstrong marked the kick-off without result, and Todd with a free kick within range failed to score.

The scores were:Yea, 2 goals, 1 behind: 13 points Alexandra, 1 goals, 2 behinds, 8 points On crossing over Williamson forwarded , but N. Johnston saved.

Oliver, who was very fast and begining to beat his man, marked to Cox, who kicked well in front, where Baird got a free kick for being pushed from behind, and put up a goal.

Shortly after Hansen marked well, and smartly and unselfishly played is on to Baird, close up, who made a miserable shot, but in a second attempt got his second goal.

The play was mostly in Alexandra’s territory till Armstrong to McKenzie, to Lee carried it forward, where Ball got a rather heavy fall in going for a mark, but he marked to Steuart, who kicked in well in front, where Hansen, who was playing cleverly asnd coolly, snapped a bhind.

Ball, who was playing the best game on the ground, got three behinds in rpaid succession, got three behinds in rapid succession mostly by his own individual efforts.

Gray, cool and using his head and hands, staved off a rush by Wood

‘Yea are therefore premiers for 1902, having been defeated once out of seven games. Alexandra are the runners-up, having been defeated twice.’

● Bros. and McKenazie, but Lee taking a magnificent high mark put up a single for Alexandra.

McIntosh and Cox worked hard for a point, but Armstrong marketing to Stillman saved the side.

A. Smith, playing in much better form, returned, but McKenzie with a good dodging run marked to Hoskin without result.

When bell rang the board showed Yea, 4 goals, 5 behinds: 29 points Alexandra, 1 goal, 1 bind: 7 points Williamson had received a heavy fall in this quarter and sprained one of his wrists.

After usual interval thed Alexandrians, nothing daunted , strove to reduce the land of their rivals.

Ball secured and played it on to the wing forwsard, where Hansen marked and kicked a behind.

O. Johnston and Armstrong worked it forward, and Toldstrup cleverly snapped a goal for the red and blacks.

A. Smith and H. Clark, with a clever exhibition of hand-ball, worked the ball along the wing, but T. Woods ably defended and passed to Toldstrup, Clark Bros. and Smith, with a nice run from a long kick, put up one flag.

Cox, well out, marked the kickoff and played to Hansen, who immediately put up another single.

McLeish, following, instead of Williamson (back), marked the kickoff,. but lost it.

Wakeham forwarded to Stillman to Toldstrup, who got a behind for Alexandra.

Clark, out of the scrimmage, kicked to J. Devlin, who took a skyscraping mark to good style, but Alexandra, not to be denied, came with a rush, and Hoskens secured another behind for them.

The play was now dull and listless till Monaghan cleverly beat the ruck in the centre, McLeish marked to Hansen, who put up another behind.

The red legs were everywhere but in their places, and appeared demoralised, whilst the visitors were playing a much steadier and better game.

The quarter ended with Yea, 4 goals 9 behinds, 33 points Alexandra: 2 goals 4 behinds, 16 points

Yea’s football premiership side, 1902 At the bounce Armstrong For Alexandra, Armstrong was missed, and little Monaghan carried their best player, and did the work of it on Baird, to Hansen, who marked ten men. well and put up a nice goal.

The Johnstons were constant, Forbes, with a dash, played to McKenzie clever and effective, Oliver, who forwarded to Steuart well Wakeham was stylish and fast, up, and the latter kicked a splendid whilst Stillman, who was not in the goal. best of health, showed glimpses of Bert. Johnson put in strong play, his brilliant play at times. which resulted in Stillman taking a Veteran Lee played in splendid clever mark and putting up his sec- form, reminiscent of a few years ago. ond goal for Alexandra.

Hoskins, Toldstrupand W. Clark beat McKenzie, who was Woods worked hard, and T. Woods playing well, but L. Johnson relieved. deserves special mention for his able A. Smith received from Clark, defence, high-marking, and splendid and sent the ball well down towards kicking-off. Docking (back) was reAlexandra’s citadel, and Hansen got liable. another behind on the ground.

Mr Geo. Jones, who hasn’t Williamson marked the kick-off, missed a match, wieled the flags for and kicked to Baird, who marked Yea, and Mr Sugden for Alexandra. high in the air, and put up another Messrs Stillman and McCann kept major. time.

Hansen got two more behinds Each team was photographed one from a free kick and the other before starting play. from a snapshot - before the bell rang.

Baird (3), Hansen (2), Gray and The scores then read:Steuart (1 each) got the goals for the Yea: 7 goals 12 behind: 54 pts winners, and Stillman (2) and Alexandra: 3 goals 4 behinds: Toldstrup (1) for the losers.

22 pts At the conclusion of the match Mr Chas. Begg umpired the game both teams were invited to tea at the in his usual strict, impartial, and and Caledonian Hotel by Mr Hutton, of effective style, and kept down every Alexandra. tendency to rough play. ★ Throughout the game Yea had 32 The Alexandra Standard had less free kicks give against them and to report in its columns regarding the Alexandra 24.

1902 loss: Ball plyed the best game for Yea “Alexandra suffered a crushing and indeed on the ground. defeat at the hands of Yea, on SaturWilliamson and Monaghan were day last, when the concluding match untiring an effective, the latter being of the season was decided on the exceptionally smart on the ground ground of the latter. and in the ruck.

“The result was not disappointMcLeish, Forbes, Clark Bros., ing as several of the visiting team Purvis and Gray (back and half- were incapacitated through sickback) were reliable, formidable, and ness. unflinching throughout the game.

“It was.known for more than a Borrie, McIntosh, Steuart, Devlin week previous that it would be a difand A. Smith on the wing were all ficult matter to put a team in the field playingin their usual form, and doing fit and able, but Alexandra kept their effective work, while the forwards, appointment and deserve the greatCox, Baird and Hansen (who kicked est credit for it.

2 goals and behinds), made the most “The scores were as follows :of their opportunities, and were alYea; 7-12; Alexandra, 3.4. ways dangerous.

“Yea are therefore premiers for Hansen deserves a line for his all 1902, having been defeated once out round play and goal kicking; he was of seven games. Alexandra are the always confident and sure. runners-up, having been defeated Oliver, on centre though often twice.” called on, was never wanting, to★ wards the finish he was playing as The rivalry continued into the well as any man on the ground.

1903 season.

Smith, Baird, Gray, and Clark The Alexandra Standard made its Bros., were most successful in hit- opening remarks about the next seating the ball to their comrades. son in its March 27 issue:

“The football season will soon bo upon us and it behoves the lovers of the game in Alexandra to be up and doing.

“Thornton are mustering forces and intend to have a formidable 18 when the time arrives.

“Kean and Barbour are in the district and other strangers are mentioned, as having notified their intention of plaing for Thornton.

“From what we are able to learn Alexandra will not have so strong a team as last year, several having announced that they will not play.

“Yea intend to again join the association; they are boasters of having a tip-top team.”

The ‘They Say’ column of The Standard went further in its April 3 issue: ■ That it is time Alexandra made a move in football matters.

■ That Thornton are already practising, and will take a lot of rubbing out.

■ That Yea intend to make a bold bid this season for premiership.

■ That Yea will be proud when they see the Wood's pennant flying.

■ That Thornton and Alexandra should combine and contest Yea and Mansfield.

■ That Alexandra will be no match against Thornton.

■ That Thornton's new blood are of the first rank.

■ That the annual meeting of the Alexandra Football Club should be held on Saturday night week.

■ That Yarck will have a far better team this season than last.

■ That the residential qualification should be removed this season.

■ That the local football ground should be cleared of the debris of thelate floods.

■ That the gronnd will be in good condition to play on.

■ That several new players are mentioned to strip for Alexandra.

More came in the April 10 issue: ■ That Taggerty intend to have a say in football matters; if so, they musat keep t heir engagements.

■ That Thornton have 12 fresh men.

■ That it is about time Alexandra made a start.

In a report about the Alexandra District Football Association, the press report said: “The chairman, in making the pre sentation, said it afforded him the greatest pleasure to present the trophies to the Yea Football Club, one being the handsome pennant presented by Mr. Harry Wood, bearing the words, " Premiers, 1902," worked with the club's colors, red and blue; the other being Mr. Redpath's trophy, £3 3s., with which he was informed the premier club intended buying caps for their players, as he considered, (from what he was able to learn, not being resident in the district during last football season) that they had nobly won same.

“They all know that Yea had always long distances to travel, which, however, did not damp their ardour.

The club had played all through the season and only suffered one defeat.”

Thornton were the winners of the 1903 competition. The final match, Yarck vYea, was reported as: “Yea journeyed to Yarck by rail, with about a dozen players, and were, in consoquence, again defeated. The game was very rough from start to finish, and the players were all, more or less, knocked about.”

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Latest on Golden Rose Classic

■ Former Darren Weir-trained youngster, Yes Yes Yes, now with leading Sydney trainer Chris Waller, has firmed into second favourite for the classic three year-old race, the Golden Rose.

A flood of money came for him, after the first nominations for the rich event to be held at Rosehill on September 21 over 1400 metres, were taken.

The team Hawkes galloper, Exceedance, still holds sway at present, after a win and a good third, at his only three starts to that point in good fashion.

Yes Yes Yes, a winner at Moonee Valley and Flemington, before being transferred to the Waller camp, has impressed with great track work and has shown he has good ability and the 1400-metre trip will be right up his alley.

Money has also come for the Sydney colt, Castelvecchio, by the New Zealand sire, Dundeel, and has impressed good judges with his form so far.

From his five starts he has won three with two thirds, and is a colt you can ride up on the pace or take a sit.

Prepared by Richard Litt at Warwick Farm, he is a strong chance in the big race.

The powerful Snowden team, father Peter and son Paul, have a capable youngster in Cosmic Force, who recently won the Pago Pago Stakes at Rosehill, and is smart.

His record stands at two wins and two seconds from his five trips to the track. He is right up there with them in an open race.

On the next line is, Kubrick, a good second to Prince Fawaz, at his last start in the Atkins Plate at Eagle Farm.

Next is the Anthony Cummings-trained Prince Fawaz, a nice type of colt by leading sire, Fastnet Rock, and won the Atkins in good style.

Cummings, one of the best judges in racing, has a high opinion of the colt.

Another with top form is the consistent sprinter, Microphone, a Flemington and Sydney winner with loads of ability.

The Cummings team is heaping praise on the youngster, who is racing well.

The Chris Waller-trained, Tassort, a onetime favourite for the Golden Slipper, before sustaining an injury, has got out a bit in the betting after opening up nearly favourite.

The Waller camp has a big opinion of the colt, and feels he is a great chance to make up for him missing a run in the Golden Slipper.

Another of Waller's team, Accession, always puts in and has won two with two minors from his eight starts.

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Blue Diamond record

■ The Melbourne Racing Club is over the moon with record entries received for the rich Ladbrokes Blue Diamond Stakes to be run at Caulfield on February 22 next year.

A record 1767 yearlings have been nominated, beating last year's record nomination of 1688, for next year's showpiece.

Young trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace, who train in partnership, top the list of Blue Diamond nominations for the first time, entering 132 yearlings, in their pursuit of a maiden Blue Diamond Stakes title.

This year they had the early favourite in Loving Gaby, who was never out of trouble in the big one.

The pair edged out the powerful Lindsay Park team of David Hayes, his son Ben, and nephew, Tom Dabernig.

The group has entered 126 yearlings, with the top Sydney training combination of Peter and his son Paul Snowden, nominating 101.

Reigning Blue Diamond champions, Godolphin, in the care of James Cummings, has entered 85 yearlings of their own, including Blueblood, Namazu, and filly Jadida, both of whom will be hoping to emulate the deeds of their Blue Diamond winning mothers, Earthquake and Miracles of Life.

Sydney's premier trainer, Chris Waller, also unveiled his next generation of equine stars, among his 84 nominations, is a half-sister to champion mare, Winx, named Convent Garden, a half-brother to the recently retired top liner, Shoals, and a regally bred colt by Deep

Young hoop’s class

■ Top young Victorian rider, Ben Thompson, is pulling out all stops riding overseas with yet another feature win in Singapore.

Thompson comes from a family of one of the best known trainers and breeders in the greyhound industry.

His father Jason and his mother, Seona, have been friends of mine since I had a bit to do with greyhounds earlier in my life, racing a few of them.

A couple of years ago Ben had his first ride in a Melbourne Cup and was over the moon.

Unfortunately it missed a place, but since then he has certainly made a name for himself.

Now 22, the young rider secured his third feature win in Singapore just recently.

Ben took up riding in Singapore, around Janu-

uary this year and hasn't looked back. He secured a contract with the Singapore Turf Club and officials with the Club have been greatly impressed.

Since January he has ridden 22 winners, and is currently sixth on the premiership table, with Aussie hoops, Vlad Duric, on 43 wins, and Michael Rodd on 33.

Thompson booted home What's New to victory in the $400,000, Group Two Steward's Cup, for trainer Cliff Brown, a former Australian trainer.

Cliff trained many winners in Victoria, and was one of the best trainers going around in our State.

It is common knowledge that our young riders travel overseas, they acquit themselves well.

I feel it is the way our apprentices are taught to ride by people like Darren Gauci, and now Alf Matthews, just two of the best around.

One thing that I have noticed for many years is that Australian riders ride very tight, whilst most other jockeys from other countries leave plenty of space between each other, England for one, and American jockeys.

This comes at a time when young Australian rider, Damian Lane, rode many winners in Japan including some classic races.

- Ted Ryan

Boom sire, I Am Invincible, who will be mated with Winx, leads the way as the best represented stallion among those nominated, with no less than 98 of his progeny in Blue Diamond contention.

I Am Invincible has thus far produced 17 stakes-winning two year-olds in his short time at stud.

Victorian stallion, Written Tycoon, sire of the 2018 Blue Diamond Stakes winner, Written By, is next with 88, followed by the evergreen champion sire, Snitzel, then, Zoustar, on 64, and in the in-demand Golden Slipper winner, Vancouverwith 56.

A total of 208 yearlings are also eligible to win the 2020 Inglis Blue Diamond Bonus.

On behalf of Inglis, the half a million dollars bonus will be split equally between catalogued vendor and the supplier sold at the 2019 Melbourne Premier Yearling Sales if they win the 2020 Blue Diamond.

The Ladbrokes Blue Diamond Stakes series commences with the Blue Diamond Previews on January 25 over 1000 metres for Group 3 fillies, colts and geldings.

First declarations for the Blue Diamond close at 12 noon, on Tuesday November 19, for a fee of $330.

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Handy win for ECDRA shooters

■ The day of the final McAuliffe Shield pennant match between the East Central District Rifle Association and the Shepparton/Nathalia Maroon team was a perfect winters day.

Cool with good light and quiet warm in the sun with almost no wind. We say “almost”, but as we have learnt at Violet Town there is no such thing the air is always on the move and Saturday was no exception.

The Shepparton Nathalia team is one of the best around and includes both State and National Team members.

The local ECDRA Mountain Marksmen were determined to finish the McAuliffe pennant matches with a win.

Practice during the week indicated that things were good, the Mountain Marksmen and their gear were in good shape. The range was in almost perfect condition.

The match started with a bang as Des Coulter, Andrew Braden and David Wallaceall posted 60 with David shooting 8 super centres to Andrew's 7 while Des had 2.

The smile on David Wallace’s face went from ear to ear, as this was his first team shoot following a serious back operation, David was back with a bang.

The Shepparton-Nathalia team start was equally impressive as the top score in the class they were shooting is 50.10; David Black 50.9 Tony Barker 50.7 and Rob Richards 50.5.

The match was well and truly on and as each

shooter andASH their coaches got down to it.

PHOTO: LONG The match flowed back and forth so that by the time they were to move back from 500 to the 600 yards stage there was nothing in the match.

The result was going to come from the team that got the best score at the longest range. Des Coulter started 600 with no points down and the fickle wind was just too much for him and he finished with a 59.5.

Graeme Kerr who was two points down finished with a 60.6 and Terry Gee a 60.4 to match his second stage 60.4.

They were matched by the Maroon team with Tony Barker and David Black both scoring maximum points with David as top score with a 150.21 to Tony 150.18.

The hard luck stories came from the ECDRA team with Rosco “had a seniors moment” and donated a good shot to the Maroon team by shooting on the wrong target an instant loss of 6 points. Richard Godden after a good 58.5 at the second stage at 600 found that the vertical adjustment on his telescopic sight had failed costing him over 20 points.

Paul Watkins just could not take a trick all day and his string of 55’s was consistent but he was looking for much more.

All the action was not restricted to the Violet Town range as the shoot was “live” on the internet and Dr Bob was watching the match shot by shot in Scotland, and Robert Chaffe

was disappointed that his constant coaching calls did not make it out of his home in Alexandra.

Both Bob and Robert had to wait for the calculations to be done to find out the actual winners.

Off Rifle it was clear the ECDRA team were the top team on the day and so it was when the handicap scores were calculated it was ECDRA winners with 898 out of 900 while SheppartonNathalia Maroon were 883 points the win was also confirmed with the mixed category score index giving the match to the ECDRA 1306.8 points to the Shepparton /Nathalia Maroon team 1286.1.

Top score “off-rifle” for the ECDRAwas Des Coulter with 179.11 closely followed by Graeme Kerr 178.14 and for Shepparton -Nathalia Maroon David Black with 150,21 followed by Tony Barker 150.18.

The shooters all agreed that it was quite a special day to see good team shooting with such good scores almost the perfect way to finish the McAuliffe Shield pennant.

The win puts the ECDRA team in a good position for theAvenel Shield that is determined on both the short and long range pennant shoots, the long range Chas Hayes Pennant is due to start later this month.

Let's hope our Mountain Marksmen can reain their good form and that those who did not have the best of days on Saturday can find ways

to improve.

The scores for the ECDRA Team "off rifle" on Saturday were: Des Coulter, 60.04, 60.02, 59.05 = 179.11; Graeme Kerr 59.02, 59.06, 60.06 = 178.14; Terry Gee 57.03, 60.04, 60.04=177.11; David Wallace 60.08, 57.04, 58.01 = 175.13,Neal Hambridge, 56.04, 59.03, 59.03 = 174.10; John Maccioni 59.03, 57.04, 53.01 = 169.08; Rosco Davis 58.04, 51.04, 57.04 = 166.12; Paul Watkins 55.01, 55.02, 55.02 = 165.05; Glenn Chisholm 54.03, 56.02, 53.01 = 163.06; Randell Underwood 50.0, 53.02, 56.02 = 159.05, Richard Godden 52, 58.05, 39 = 149.05 : and with one stage only Andrew Braden 60.07.

The midweek results were: T-Rifle Graeme Kerr40.01; F-Std - AGraeme Kerr 57.04; F-Std - B Glenn Chisholm 54.03, 52.03, 57.04 = 163.10; Richard Godden 56.3, 53.1= 109.04, Doug Moser 58.03 and Richard Adi 43.00;FOpen - A Neal Hambridge 60.6,59.4,58.4 =177.14.

A good work out. Captain Neal reminded everyone that next week will be a club championship shoot and there will be plenty of space for those who need to test things that were not working well at the match on Saturday.

New shooters are most welcome and the web site www.ecdra.com.au which contains all the latest details in the calendar section regarding shoots and shoot times.

- Robert Chaffe

Rebels undermaned and outnumbered ■ The AFL Outer East League Round 12 of the 2019 season saw the Rebels return to Rebel Park with the Club's Under 18s hosting Berwick who started well with eight unanswered goals in the first quarter before adding seven unanswered goals in the second quarter.

The undermanned and outnumbered Rebels kept working hard in the second half and were rewarded with a goal but the visitors continued to display their superior skills and ball movement to convert their opportunities on the scoreboard with a convincing win, 29.14 (188) to 1.2 (8) Awards: Bundalaguah Engineering award Angus Smith, Hadfield Contractors award - Tom Rouget, Alexandra Tyrepower award - David Ray, Alexandra Apparel award - Willem Woolford, Alan and Betty Parsons award -Aaron McDonald, Steyger Family award - Jacob Bourke. The Under 18s have a general League bye next Saturday. ★ RESERVES The Reserves, in sixth place on the ladder took on the second placed Gembrook-Cockatoo and in a dominant first quarter added five goals from nine scoring shots whilst the visitors recorded two goals straight.

The Brookers hit back in the second quarter and kicked three goals to one to narrow the margin to less than two goals at the main break.

An even third quarter saw the Rebels add two goals to one with the margin 15 points at the last change as the Rebels worked hard in the last quarter and added another three goals to two to record a great win, 11.10 (76) to 8.5 (53).

Awards: Caltex fuel card - Daniel Roper, Alex Sportspower - Peter Hoornweg, JAMMM Catering - Aaron Daly, Buxton Hotel - Andrew Wood, Grant St Grocer - Ryan Carter. ★ SENIORS The Seniors named an unchanged side after last week's win at Thornton and were keen to reverse the early season result at Gembrook but the Brookers took control of the game in the first quarter with eight goals to one leaving the Rebels shell shocked, the Brookers continuing the damage in the second quarter with another six goals to two.

Some half-time reflection on the 11-goal deficit spurred the Rebels as they kicked four goals to one in the third quarter and then four goals to two in the last quarter to narrow the margin to six goals at the final siren, 11.6 (72) to 17.6 (108).

Awards: Endeavour Petroleum award -

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● Alexandra wins the ruck duel in the Under 18s at Rebel Park on Saturday.

Darren Ritchie, Alex Standard award - Conor vests @ $70, Club stubby holders @ $7, travel Heaslip, JAMMM Catering - Patrick Ferguson, mugs @ $15, peaked caps and beanies @ $25, Buxton Hotel - Blake Azzopardi, Vibe Hotel bumper stickers are free. The Alexandra HisMarysville - Tom Halligan, Grant St Grocer - tory Book is also in stock, available at the Ben Woollard.

Alexandra Newsagents @ $30. ★ ★ NETBALLAWARDS CLUB NOTES Caltex $25 fuel card award - Kate Mullins; Last Thursday's Rebel Raffles saw Conor Vibe Hotel Marysville $20 meal - Monique Heaslip unsuccessful at finding the Holmesglen Mann; Christy's Beauty Therapy $15 voucher - @ Eildon Joker Jackpot, other winners were Emma Kidd.

Reddrops Foodworks / Houseboat Sales Lake A-Grade won 51 - 37: JAMMM Catering Eildon - Chris McKay, Eildon Bakery / Outdoor $20 meal - Ellie Hedger, Grant St Grocer $10 Education Group - Melissa Crane, Alexandra meal - Caitlan Haggis.

Quality Meats / AFNC canteen - Roger Welch, B-Grade won 74 - 24: JAMMM Catering Yea Chinese Restaurant / Bailey Funerals - Max $20 meal - Katherine Quinsee (congratulations Church. on 100 game milestone), Grant St Grocer $10 The Holmesglen @ Eildon Jackpot will be meal - Bethany Cairns. worth $500 this week so come along and buy C-Grade won 77 - 9: JAMMM Catering $20 some tickets at $1 each but you need to be at the meal - Kelsey Purcell, Essence Coffee Lounge Club rooms at 8pm for the draw. $10 meal - Kylie Cairns.

Next Saturday the Rebels travel to Yea for D-Grade won 54 - 34: JAMMM Catering two games of football and four games of netball, $20 meal - Taite Ritchie, Essence Coffee with the Under 18s having a bye.

Lounge $10 meal - Chelsea Brent.

Everyone is invited back to the Mt Pleasant Do not forget to order your Club merchan- Hotel for the awards, everyone is welcome. dise - polo shirts, warm up shirts @ $50, hoodies,

● Holding the man?

Alexandra Under 18s at home. for Saturday, July 20 has been cancelled and the Club Ball which was initially postponed has now been cancelled for this year.

The Club apologises for any inconvenience caused.

- Ray Steyger

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Shinboners can walk tall ■ This round saw all of Thornton Eildon head for away games . The women’s football team ventured to Monbulk, and the rest of our club headed to Powelltown for two games of football and two of netball.

Our club couldn’t provide a win on the weekend, but this has not disheartened anyone as the positive progression that’s happening right across the board at all levels is still remaining strong.

It does not take away from the disappointment of players giving it their all, however realistic attitudes and appreciation for the process is highly valued as well as seeing the positives taken out of the journey.

WOMEN’S FOOTBALL Our women’s team didn’t register a win, but what an almighty game for the Shinboners girls this week.

Monbulk sits second on the outer east ladder one win behind the leader, and Thornton fifth.

This twilight match saw a couple of late withdrawals from the team going into the game, Thornton came out hard hitting with intensive tackling pressure however Monbulk took a 14-point lead at quarter-time.

Thornton tightened up defensively in the second quarter.Daphnie Tripodi kicked her first goal for the club. Half-time saw Monbulk 16 points up.

The third quarter was a real arm wrestle with Monbulk able to get the first two points on the board until Jess Slapp snapped a goal which lifted the whole team into action.

With the final quarter under way with the difference at 22-point margin Yolanda Vinycomb broke free, kicking the opening goal in the first 25 seconds.

Tripodi kicked her second for the game keeping Thornton with Monbulk, however Monbulk were able to remain composed holding onto their 22-point margin to take out the game.

Our Thornton girls came off the ground knowing they can match it with the best teams in the competition and are capable of registering good scoring opportunities.

Next round will see Thornton versus Belgrave with a top four spot on the line.

Thornton 4.2 (26) to Monbulk 7.6 (48) Goals: Tripodi 2, Vinycomb, Slapp Best: Norris, Kerr, Ha,y Fitzpatrick, Tripodi, Brown. ★ SENIORS It was very disappointing result last weekend against Powelltown, Thornton arched it with the opposing side first quarter however the second quarter saw a shift in momentum of the Thornton game and allowed Powelltown to kick seven majors heading into the main break.

Thornton fought the game out like the Shinboners do, and had opportunities early in the last quarter however being a few players down after half-time meant the margin blew out.

Powelltown 25.18 (168) to Thornton 6.9 (45) Goalkickers: L. Smith 2, C. Kalogirou 2, J. Matcham, A. Stevens Best Players: C. Kalogirou, J. Lowe, L. Smith, J. Scotland, R. Deray, R. Hurst ★ RESERVES With poor numbers again we let this one slip from our hands. The boys put in a good effort but with lack off numbers only getting 18 on the ground with no interchange and dropping down to 17 players in the last quarter, Powelltown just ran over the top off us once again.

I would like to thank the Marysville Villains players that helped out and my boys for a never give-up attitude It’s two games a piece overtwo years now withPowelltown so it is turning in to a great rivalry match.

Powelltown 12.13 (85) to Thornton 4.6 (30) ★ C-GRADE NETBALL Powelltown 55 d Thornton 16 C-Grade saw our players take on the lovely team at Powelltown.

In true Thornton style our C-Grade players held their heads high throughout a fast paced and heavily defended game, right to the final siren.

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Sports Briefs Lakers’ Reunion

■ Kinglake Football-Netball Club is planning a reunion of its 1994 premiership team for Saturday, August 17. There will be a marquee with free drinks for past players with a 2019 membership (now reduced to $25).

Games against Seville will be played at home. Food trucks will be there from 4pm.

Live music will be provided by Matt Mogan and Mick Quee.

Goal umps busy

■ Stanhope Reserves kicked 62.30 (402) against Ardmona 0.1 (1) in the Kyabram District Football League on Saturday.

In the Riddell District Seniors, Wallan 60.18 (378) d Rockbank 3.5 (23).

Bridges hopeful

■ Hurstbridge kept its NFNL Division 1 finals hopes alive with a dominant 75-point victory over Lower Plenty at Ben Frilay Oval in Round 11.

Leading by 43 points at the main break, the Bridges went on with the job with a ninegoal to three second half to win 20.12 (132) to 7.15 (57) and take a two-match buffer over the last-placed Bears.

Hurstbridge coach Jarrod Tilley was pleased with the result, especially with his side’s unrelenting pressure even after the result was beyond doubt.

“Obviously since we’ve been in Division 1 we haven’t had many opportunities to get on top of a side like that so we set our personal goals today and we achieved them,” Tilley said.

- Jarrad Gardner, nfnl.org.au ● Jeffrey Parker rises above the pack for Thornton-Eildon Reserves at the Powelltown Recreation Reserve on Saturday afternoon.

Some great defence from Elley Morrison, Tickets for our first Ladies Day are still availJess Bellman and Sam Martens saw great pres- able $50 pp including entertainment, lunch sure consistently applied in the opposing ring, guests, excellent company, celebrating women with some great deflections and intercepts by leaving their mark in a traditionally male domiElley and Sam. nated platform.

Fantastic passages of play downcourt by new Our club is proudly inclusive and feels paskid Jessie Williams, with Sam again in tow on sionate about bringing real change and spirt to the attack, and Jayne Farnan and wildcard Bella promoting positive experiences socially, physiWestwood resulted in 16 well-deserved goals cally and emotionally. for our side, with cheers all round as the ball It’s a great chance to come met current footdropped each time. ball/netball players, in a relaxed environment.

This team has shown amazing amounts of This event is in support of the Alice Sloan improvement, versatility and resilience, and we Trust and for our band of girls feel it’s a great can't wait to see their skills and team style con- cause which supports young women within our tinue to improve over the coming games. community and greater.

Keep working hard C-Grade. We're all suFeel free to always reach out to any of our per proud of you. club members or president Dave Stirling, as our ★ club is really striving to build momentum into B-GRADE NETBALL achieving our goals going forwards strong then Powelltown 52, Thornton 33 ever.

We took to the court with hearts full of ambiIt’s a great chance to get on board or back on tion and a close game in sight, however board even in a tiny way. We appreciate all supPowelltown's experience and speed forced each port our club receives and values patiencewhile quarter further out of reach for our persistent B- working through club priorities to set strong founGrade players. dations going forth.

Some awesome attack moves by Jess Thank you all. Go Shinboners.

Gorman, Tayla Lovett and Rosie Kealy saw - Sarah Stevenson the ball in our ring time after time.

This, accompanied with Keely Grant's suRIDDELL DISTRICT per star shooting and fantastic movement around FOOTBALL LEAGUE the ring, saw the power duo at strength again for the game.

SCORES AT A GLANCE Defenders were kept busy, much like old times, with Shantelle Matcham, Maggie Rigby, ■ Seniors. Results. Round 12. Saturday, Heather Mason and Jess Slapp holding the fort July 6. Riddell 14.11 (95) d Diggers Rest and blocking leads left right and centre.

10.13 (73). Woodend Hesket 14.10 (94) d Despite all of these efforts, Powelltown's atMelton Centrals 9.14 (68). Wallan 60.18 tack side proved stronger and resulted in their (378) d Rockbank 3.5 (23). Rupertswood final goal total.

19.17 (131) d Broadford 8.3 (51). Lancefield: Once again, the resilience and persistence our Thornton players show through thick and Bye. Romsey: Bye. Macedon: Bye. thin is to be commended - now that we've tasted ■ Reserves. Results. Round 12. Saturday, where hard work can reach for us, we won't be July 6. Diggers rest 7.16 (58) d Riddell 8.6 winding down any time soon.

(54). Woodend Hesket 13.10 (88) d Melton Thankyou for all your hard work and efforts Centrals 4.5 (29). Wallan 37.21 (243) d B Grade. Can't wait to see the level we end on Rockbank 0.0 (0). Rupertswood 27.18 (180) in the coming weeks. d Broadford 0.0 (0). Lancefield: Bye. ★ Romsey: Bye. Macedon: Bye. CLUB NOTES Next week will see Thornton at home ■ Under 18. Results. Round 12. Saturday, against Seville after hitting the training track this July 6. Diggers Rest 7.7 (49) d Riddell 6.10 week.

(46). Melton Centrals 10.10 (70) d WoodendAll community members welcome for a Hesket 8.7 (55). Wallan 6.7 (43) d cheap delicious meal Thursday evening at the Rupertswood 4.12 (36). Lanecfield: Bye. club rooms; bar open, merchandise available.

Push-Up Challenge

■ The Push Up Challenge is an annual initiative that aims to bring people together and shine the spotlight on mental health kicks off this week across the country.

The Challenge asks those who sign up to complete 3128 push-ups over 21 days, representing the number of lives lost in Australia due to suicide in 2017.

Kev won the car ■ The winner of Kinglake Football Netball Club’s Reverse Draw was ticket number 033 held by Kev Maloney, who receives a 2019 Mitsubishi Mirage valed at more than $15,000.

SC Tennis Club ■ Steels Creek Tennis Club is holding a Christmas in July event at the Community Centre at 6pm on Saturday, July 27. Cost is $25 per person. Reservations: Mark Newell, phone 0411 111 839.

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Yea Golf Club Ladies take lead ■ Wednesday saw the start of the three week

mini-gender challenge at Royal Yea Golf Club.

Winning for the Ladies was Margie Wright with 41 points. Second was Bob Glenister with 36 on CB from Adrianne Anglin. Fourth on 35 points was Marj Gouldthorpe. The team average worth five points went to the Ladies. So after week one, the Ladies lead 32- 10.

Second for the Men was Peter Johnston with 34 and third was Ken Whitford with 33 points. Martin Lowe was NTP and Ivor Brayley won the Club Award.

Saturday golf saw new member Steve Rumney (33) win his first competition with 36 points on CB from Rob O’Halloran (17).

Third was Brian Priestly (28) with 32 points on CB from fourth Martin Lowe (14).

NTP on the second was Trevor Connell, and Wayne Rowe won the Club Award.

Doreen Lehman, our new ladies vicecaptain, won the chook and lucky Steve Rumney the stubbie holder in Chooklotto.

- Alan Pell

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NORTHERN FOOTBALL LEAGUE: FOOTBALL SCORES AT A GLANCE DIVISION 1

■ Seniors. Results. Round 11. Saturday, July 6. Hurstbridge 20.12 (132) d Lower Plenty 7.15 (57). Macleod 13.9 (87) d Heidelberg 8.10 (58). North Heidelberg 12.7 (79) d Montmorency 10.16 (76).Northcote Park 9.6 (60) d Bundoora 5.11 (41). Greensborough 20.14 (134) d West Preston-Lakeside 10.12 (72).

■ Ladder. 1. Greensborough, 2212.96, 14.

2. Heidelberg, 159.97, 32. 3. North Heidelberg, 126.70, 30. 4. Bundoora, 87.62, 20. 5.

Northcote Park, 79.47, 20. 6. Macleod, 97.35, 18. 7. West Preston-Lakeside, 87.09, 16. 8.

Montmorency, 85.47, 16. 9. Hurstbridge, 79.41, 16. 10. Lower Plenty, 60.19, 8.

■ Reserves. Results. Round 11. Saturday, July 6. Lower Plenty 7.14 (56) d Hurstbridge 6.17 (53). Heidelberg 11.13 (79) d Macleod 11.10 (76). Montmorency 20.19 (139) d North Heidelberg 6.9 (45). Bundoora 29.17 (191) d Northcote Park 1.2 (8). Greensborough 12.17 (89) d West Preston Lakeside 10.5 (65).

■ Ladder. 1. Greensborough, 407.92, 44. 2.

Bundoora, 205.75, 36. 3. Heidelberg, 115.62, 28. 4. Montmorency, 106.57, 28. 5. North Heidelberg, 99.74, 28. 6. West PrestonLakeside, 129.00, 24. 7. Macleod, 108.75, 16.

8. Lower Plenty, 51.93, 8. 9. Hurstrbidge, 53.65, 4. 10. Northcote Park, 27.85, 0.

■ Under 19. Results. Round 7. Saturday, July 6. Eltham 1 22.18 (150) d Banyule 3.6 (24). Diamond Creek 9.8 (62) drew with Montmorency 9.8 (62). Greensborough 1 28.19 (187) d Macleod 1.2 (8). Heidelberg 9.9 (63) d Whittlesea 3.7 (25). Bundoora 13.6 (84) d St Mary’s 2.9 (21).

■ Ladder. 1. Eltham 1, 214.45, 40. 2.

Bundoora, 183.09, 32. 3. Heidelberg, 150.72, 32. 4. St Mary’s, 141.65, 32. 5. Whittlesea, 148.78, 28. 6. Montmorency, 96.72, 26. 7.

Greensborough 1, 102.19, 20. 8. Diamond Creek, 98.24, 18. 9. Banyule, 33.48, 8. 10.

Macleod, 26.74, 4.

DIVISION 2

■ Seniors. Results. Round 11. Saturday, July 6. Banyule 25.23 (173) d Watsonia 6.3 (39). Whittlesea 10.11 (71) d Diamond Creek 6.12 (48). Eltham 16.11 (107) d Epping 7l.7 (49). St Mary’s 11.9 (75) d Thomastown 8.14 (62). Fitzroy Stars: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Banyule, 222.61, 36. 2. Eltham, 138.15, 28. 3. Whittlesea, 114.40, 28. 4.

Thomastown, 109.40, 20. 5. Fitzroy Stars, 94.72, 18. 6. Diamond Creek, 90.44, 18. 7. St Mary’s, 72.35, 12. 8. Watsonia, 72.34, 12. 9.

Epping, 52.81, 4.

■ Reserves. Results. Round 11. Saturday, July 6. Banyule 15.6 (96) d Watsonia 8.11 (59). Diamond creek 8.5 (53) d Whittlesea 3.5 (23). Eltham 20.16 (136) d Epping 2.1 (13). St Mary’s 9.12 (66) d Thomastiown 4.10 (34). Fitzroy Stars: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Eltham, 271.77, 36. 2.

Whittlesea, 187.59, 28. 3. Fitzroy Stars, 149.60, 28. 4. St Mary’s, 141.12, 24. 5.

Banyule, 137.75, 24. 6. Thomastown, 94.26, 16. 7. Watsonia, 84.87, 12. 8. Diamond Creek, 61.30, 8. 9. Epping, 10.39, 0.

■ Under 19. Results. Round 8. Saturday, July 6. Mill Park 14.14 (98) d Greensborough 2 3.4 (22). West Preston-Lakeside 29.25 (199) d Hurstbridge 1.7 (13). Laurimar 11.5 (71) d Eltham 2 5.3 (33). South Morang 12.7 (79) d Lower Plenty 10.10 (70). Mernda 18.9 (117) d Bulldog Bloods 8.7 (55).

■ Ladder. 1. South Morang, 231.90, 44. 2.

Mill Park, 213.10, 32. 3. Mernda, 129.47, 32.

4. Lower Plenty, 236.04, 24. 5. Laurimar, 86.94, 24. 6. West Preston-Lakeside, 159.71, 20. 7. Greensborough 2, 54.84, 16. 8. Eltham 2, 54.13, 16. 9. Hurstbridge, 25.03, 8. 10. Bulldog Bloods, 41.98, 4.

DIVISION 3

■ Seniors. Results. Round 12. Saturday, July 6. Heidelberg West 22.15 (147) d Reservoir 5.5 (33). South Morang 20.17 (137) d Lalor 7.9 (51). Laurimar 11.13 (79) d Old Eltham Collegians 10.7 (67). Panton Hill 17.10 (112) d Mernda 7.4 (45). Kilmore: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Laurimar, 173.84, 44. 2. Panton Hill, 244.40, 32. 3. Kilmore, 168.04, 32. 4.

South Morang, 111.66, 26. 5. Heidelberg West, 119.35, 24. 6. Mernda, 102.60, 20. 7.

Old Eltham Collegians, 73.77, 10. 8. Lalor, 47.08, 4. 9. Reservoir, 32,.66, 0.

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W’sea Firsts defeat Diamo ■ Whittlesea Seniors 10.11 (71) were too good for Diamond Creek 6.12 (48) on the Centenary Oval on Saturday (July 6) in Round 11 of the NFNLDivision Two.

SENIORS

WHITTLESEA ............. 2.2, 3.3, 8.5, 10.11 (71) DIAMOND CREEK ...... 2.1, 3.3, 4.9, 6.12 (48) Whittlesea. Goalkickers: J. Murphy 2, N. Pupillo 2, T. Falls, B. Bell, M. Andrews, C. McCabe, M. Langford, B. Watson. Best Players: J. Murphy, N. Stefanile, M. Andrews, M. Langford, C. McCabe, B. Bell.

Diamond Creek. Goalkickers: D. Limbach 2, R. Pingaree 2, T. Barnes, M. Rogneda. Best Players: B. Adams, R. Noble, R. Pingree, J. Randall, T. Barnes, D. Fleming.

RESERVES

DIAMOND CREEK ........... 1.2, 2.3, 5.4, 8.5 (53) WHITTLESEA .................. 1.2, 2.5, 2.5, 3.5 (23) Diamond Creek. Goalkickers: J. Barnes 4, R. Constance 2, J. Taylor 2. Best Players: D, Morano, J. Barnes, R. Constance, T. Hall, J. Liddiard, H. Wall.

Whittlesea. Goalkickers: C. Rowe, E. Gorski, S. Indian. Best Players: B. Toll, E. Gorski, J. Brennan, J. Robinson, B. Burgess, S. Indian.

UNDER 18

HEIDELBERG .................. 1.1, 1.3, 5.6, 9.9 (63) WHITTLESEA .................. 1.1, 1.2, 3.4, 3.7 (25) Heidelberg. Goalkickers: S. Wright 2, J. Kleiman 2, I. Silic, K. Kearns, E. Ridewood, J. Daniel, H. Sier. Best Players: J. Kleiman, B. Butling, K. Kearns, T. Howarth, J. Elwick, J. Daniel.

Whittlesea. Goalkickers: B. Goodwin, B. Fitzgerald, J. Coco. Best Players: C. Newport, E. Kynaston, B. Caldow, B. Fitzgerald, K. McMillan, K. Green. ★

DIV. 3 SCOREBOARD

■ Reserves. Results. Round 12. Saturday, July 6. Heidelberg West 28.23 (191) d Reservoir 5.0 (30). South Morang 14.12 (96) d Lalor 12.4 (76).

Old Eltham Collegians 18.16 (124) d Laurimar 6.4 (40). Mernda 8.15 (63) d Panton Hill 6.10 (46). Kilmore: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Heidelberg West, 396.39, 40. 2.

Kilmore, 213.37, 32. 3. Old Eltham Collegians, 125.10, 28. 4. Mernda, 101.10, 24. 5. Panton Hill, 133.48, 20. 6. South Morang, 97.13, 20. 7.

Lalor, 68.28, 16. 8. Laurimar, 55.74, 8. 9. Reservoir, 21.37, 4. ★

SUNDAY FOOTBALL

■ Division 1 Women’s. Montmorency 1 7.10 (52) d West Preston-Lakeside 2.1 (13). Darebin Falcons 1 10.11 (71) d Bundoora 1.2 (8). VU Western Spurs 1 9.19 (73) d Diamond Creek Women’s 1 0.1 (1).

■ Division 2 Women’s. Darebin Falcons 2 8.10 (58) d St Mary’s 3.5 (23). VU Western Spurs 20.25 (145) d Diamond Creek Women’s 2 2.4 (16). South Morang 6.8 (44) d Eltham 0.1 (1).

Heidelberg: Bye. ■ Division 3 Women’s. Laurimar 1.2 (8) d VU Westermn Spurs 3 1.1 (7).Montmorency 2 6.5 (41) d Reservoir 5.5 (35). Greensborough 6.9 (45) d Hurstbridge 3.7 (25). Wallan 1.5 (11) d Mernda 1.4 (10).

■ Under 18 Girls. Research 6.10 (46) d Whittlesea Panton Hill 0.1 (1). Darebin Falcons 16.18 (11) 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. Research 13.13 (91) d Montmorency 6.6 (42). Eltham 22.10 (142) d Greensborough 6.3 (39). West Preston-Lakeside 11.11 (77) d South Morang 10.8 (68). Kilmore 10.9 (69) d Yarrambat 4.10 (34). Diamond Creek: Bye. ■ Under 16 Blue. Laurimar 7.13 (55) d Mernda 3.5 (23). Yarrambat 14.8 (92) d West PrestonLakeside 5.6 (36). Greensborough 16.23 (119) d Montmorency 3.5 (23).

■ Under 16 Red. Diamond Creek 13.2 (80) d Kilmore 10.3 (63). Whittlesea 16.14 (11) d Hurstbridge 8.5 (53). Bundoora Park Thunderbolts 7.11 (53) d Research 5.8 (38). Eltham 10.7 (67) d Mill Park 6.8 (44). Wallan: Bye. ■ Under 16 Blue. Yarrambat 5.5 (35) d Research 3.5 (23). Diamond Creek Wiomen’s 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. Darebin Falcons 5.1 (31) d Whittlesea 2.6 (18). Eltham 6.8 (44) d Mill Park 0.1 (1). Diam ond Creek Women’s Blue 13.10 (88) d South Morang 2.0 (12).

■ Under 16 Blue. Yarerambat 18.9 (117) d Laurimar 3.9 (27). 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. Northcote-Reservoir 10.6 (66) d Keon Park 3.6 (24). Mernda 11.14 (80) d Greensborough 5.9 (39). 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 14 Blue. Whittlesea 5.6 (36) d Kilmore 1.2 (8). Eltham Bl;ack 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).

■ Under 14 Red. 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. 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 11.12 (78) d Panton Hill 3.2 (20).

■ Under 14 Girls Blue. South Morang 10.3 (63) d Research 3.1 (19). Bundoora par4k Thuidnerbots 6.3 (39) d Montmorency Black 2.2 (14). Diamond Creek Women’s Blue 6.12 (48) d Laurimar 0.0 (0). Whittlesea 8.5 (53) d Eltham 0.0 (0).

■ Under 14 Girls Red. Diamond Creek Women’s Red 4.6 (30) d Wallan 2.1 (13). West Preston-Darerbin 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. 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).

■ Under 13 Red. Bundoora Park Thunderbolts 8.10 (58) d Greensborough 1.3 (9). Whittlesea 6.14 (50) d Hurstbridge 2.2 (14). Mill Park 12.8 (80) d Kilmore 0.4 (4). Research: Bye. ■ Under 13 Green. Lauirmar 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,.7 (19).

■ Under 12 Blue. South Morang 7.2 (44) d Eltham Red 4.6 (30). Eltham Panthers 5.9 (39) d Montmorency Black 3.3 (21). Whittlesea 9.9 (63) d Wallan 0.0 (0).

■ Under 12 Red. 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 12 Green. Research 9.11 (65) d Bundoora Park Thunderbolts 1.4 (10). Thomastown 6.7 (43) d Epping 5.11 (41). Montmorency White 4.4 (28) d Mernda Red 2.7 (19). Diamond Creek 8.8 (56) d Reservoir 1.3 (9).

■ Under 12 Girls Blue. 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 Womens 5.14 (44) d Laurimar 0.2 (2).

■ Under 12 Girls Red. Whittlesea 4.6 (03) d Montmorency White 2.2 (14). Mernda 3.3 (21) d Yarrambat 2.3 (15). Hurstbridge 5.6 (36) d Northcote 2.1 (13).

■ Under 11 Blue. West Preston-Lakeside 6.5 (41) d South Moranfg 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. 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 (33) d Eltham Panthers 2.4 (16).

■ Under 11 Green. Mill Park 7.12 (59) d Greensborough 0.1 (1). Bundoora Park Thunderbolts 4.7 (31) d West Ivanhoe 4.4 (28).

Kilmore 6.19 (55) d Montmorency White 1.2 (8).

■ Under 11 Silver. Hurstbridge 4.6 (30) d Reservoir 2.3 (15). Keon Park 6.3 (39) d Mernda Red 1.4 (10). Northcote Yellow 6.12 (48) d Northcote Blue 2.3 (15). Whittlesea 3.10 (28) d Epping 1.1 (7). ★

NETBALL

■ Section 1. Bundoora 1 47 d Greensborough 1

45. 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. Craigieburn 1 3r4 d Heat 1 23.

Heidelberg 2 16 d Greensborough 2 13. Laurimar 1 30 d St Marys 1 26. Ivanhoe 2 34 d Northcote Park 129.

■ Section 3. Old Eltham Collegians 24 d Heidelberg 3 23. Ivanhoe 3 29 d Diamond creek 3 d Diamond Creek 3 0. North Heidelberg 2 33 d Watsonia 1 29. Thomastown 1: Bye. ■ Section 4. Craigieburn 2 39 d Diamond Creek 4 19. St Mary’s 2 27 d Kilmore 26. Hurstbridge 1 28 d Bundoora 2 27 North Heidelberg 3 41 d Ivanhoe 4 31.

■ Section 5. Watsonia 2 30 d Heat2 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. Kilmore 2 30 d Laurimar 2 29.

Heidelberg 4 0 v Diamond Creek 5 0. Heidelberg West 1 35 d North Heidelberg 4 23. Fitzroy Stars 2 27 drew with Thomastown 2 27.

■ Section 7. Whittlesea 1 24 d Craigieburn 3 16. South Morang 1 31 d Mernda 119. Epping 1 34 d Bundoora 4 29. Hurstbridge 2 25 d St Mary’s 3 23.

■ Section 8. Mernda 2 37 d Fitzroy Stars 2 15.

La Trobe 2 43 d Heat 3 31. Macleod 2 36 d Montmorency 2 26. Watsonia 3 43 d Reservoir 2 19. South Morang 2: Bye. ■ Section 9. Reservoir 1 31 d Thomastown 3 29. West Ivanhoe 1 15 d Northcote Park 3 14.

Kilmore 3 30 d Whittlesea 2 21. Epping 2 30 d Lower Plenty 1 28.

■ Section 10. 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. Montmorency 4 26 d Laurimar 3. Mernda 4 22 d Hurstbridge 4 12. Fitzroy Stars 4 25 drew with bundoora 6 25.

Country Leagues GOULBURN VALLEY

■ Seniors. Results. Round 13. Saturday, July 6. Benalla 12.15 (87) d Shepparton Swans 5.5 (35). Shepparton United 7.13 (55) d Tatura 8.6 (54). Echuca 15.11 (101) d Seymour 9.8 (62). Kyabram 20.15 (135) d Shepparton 4.4 (28). Euroa 13.9 (87) d Rochester 9.6 (60). Mansfield 10.10 (70) d Mooroopna 7.7 (49).

■ Reserves. Results. Round 13. Saturday, July 6. Shepparton Swans 8.7 (55) d Benalla 7.6 (48). Tatura 10.8 (68) d Shepparton United 4.8 (32). Seymour 8.13 (61) d Echuca 7.8 (50). Kyabram 11.7 (73) d Shepparton 5.9 (39). Rochester 10.15 (75) d Euroa 8.3 (51).

Mansfield 7.15 (57) d Mooroopna 8.8 (56).

■ Under 18. Results. Round 13. Saturday, July 6. Benalla 10.8 (68) d Shepparton Swans 8.5 (53). Shepparton United 13.20 (98) d Tatura 1.0 (6). Echuca 4.9 (33) d Seymour 4.3 (27). Kyabram 7.11 (53) d Shepparton 6.3 (39). Rochester 15.13 (103) ed Euroa 3.6 (24).

Mooroopna 10.10 (70) d Mansfield 4.4 (28).

KYABRAM DISTRICT

■ Seniors. Results. Round 12. Saturday, July 6. Avenekl 10.18 (78) d Shepparton East 4.12 (36). Nagambie 20.11 (131) d Merrigum 10.12 (72). Tallygaroopna 45.21 (291) d Rushworth 2.3 (15). Stanhope 62.30 (402) d Ardmona 0.1 (1). Dookie United 14.14 (98) d Violet Town 9.12 (71). Longwood v Murchison-Toolamba. Undera v Girgarre.

Lancaster: Bye. ■ Reserves. Results. Round 12. Saturday, July 6. Violet Town 17.14 (116) d Dookie United 8.9 (57). Avenel 13.16 (94) d Shepparton East 4.2 (26). Nagambie 17.6 (108) d Merrigum 3.4 (22). Tallygaroopna 30.18 (198) d Rushworth 0.0 (0). Stanhope 31.20 (206) d Ardmona 0.1 (1). Longwood v MurchisonToolamba. Undera v Girgarre. Lancaster: Bye. ■ Under 18. Results. Round 12. Saturday, July 6. Shepparton East 26.6 (162) d Avenel 0.2 (2). Nagambie 10.3 (63) d Merrigum 5.5 (35). Rushworth v Tallygaroopna. Stanhope 17.10 (112) d Ardmona 7.4 (46). Lancaster v Murchison-Toolamba. Undera v Girgarre.

Dookie United: Bye.

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Alexandra scores netball quadrella ■ Alexandra achieved the netball quadrella in Saturday’s Round 12 competition.

NETBALL SCOREBOARD

DISIONN 2 ■ A-Grade. Results. Round 12. Saturday, July 6. Kinglake: Bye. Alexandra 51 d GembrookCockatoo 37. Powelltown: Bye. Seville 62 d Yarra Glen 26. Yea 76 d Yarra Junction 42.

■ B-Grade. Results. Round 12. Saturday, July 6. Kinglake: Bye. Alexandra 74 d GembrookCockatoo 24. Powelltown 52 d Thornton-Eildon 33. Seville 46 d Yarra Glen 36. Yarra Junction 45 d Yea 41. Kinglake: Bye. ■ C-Grade. Results. Round 12. Saturday, July 6. Alexandra 77 d Gembrook-Cockatoo 9.

Powelltown 55 d Thornton-Eildon 16. Seville 51 d Yarra Glen 24. Yea 30 d Yarra Junction 23.

Kinglake: Bye. ■ D-Grade. Results. Round 12. Saturday, July 6. Alexandra 54 d Gembrook-Cockatoo 34.

Powelltown: Bye. Seville 48 d Yarra Glen 19.

Yea 46 d Yarra Junction 10. Kinglake: Bye.

ALEXANDRA V GEMBROOK-COCKATOO

A-GRADE ALEXANDRA .............................. 14, 26, 40, 51 GEMBROOK-COCKATOO ....... 13, 20, 29, 37 Alexandra. Goals: Louise Chapple 19. Best: Monique Man, Caitlan Haggis, Brooke Lloyd.

Gembrook-Cockatoo. Goals: Ashleigh Taylor 7, Brylee O’Neil 13. Best: Hollie Burton, Asheligh Taylor.

B-GRADE ALEXANDRA .............................. 21, 33, 54, 74 GEMBROOK-COCKATOO ....... 6, 13, 19, 24 Alexandra. Goals: Kirsty Brook 40, Emma Kidd 34. Best: Bethany Cairns, Katherine Quinsee, Kirsty Brook.

Gembrook-Cockatoo. Goals: Madison Francis 2, Brylee O’Neil 22. Best: Ashleigh Frost, Nicole Hampton, Meaghan Crawford.

C-GRADE ALEXANDRA ............................ 18, 39, 57, 77 GEMBROOK-COCKATOO .............. 1, 3, 6, 9 Alexandra. Goals: Mandy Gesler 26, Michelle Jack 19. Best: Shanon Whittaker-Prendeville, Mandy Gelser.

Gembrook-Cockatoo. Best: Mikayla Scott.

D-GRADE ALEXANDRA .............................. 16, 27, 39, 54 GEMBROOK-COCKATOO ......... 9, 19, 29, 34 Alexandra. Goals: Kate Mullins 6.

Gembrook-Cockatoo. Goals: Goergia Pike 10, Sue-Anne Jozsa 6, Emilk Kee 18. Best: Ebony Cortese, Sue-Anne Jozsa.

POWELLTOWN V THORNTON-EILDON

B-GRADE POWELLTOWN ........................ 18, 29, 41, 52 THORNTON-EILDON ............... 10, 18, 25, 33 Powelltown. Goals: Tayla Morton 36, Jodie Stenhouse 16. Best: Sonja Traynor, Jaime Lord, Tayla Morton.

Thornton-Eildon. Goals: Keely Grant 20, Rose Kealy 13. Best: Jess Gorman, Tayla Sturges, Keely Grant.

C-GRADE POWELLTOWN ......................... 10, 28, 41, 55 THORNTON-EILDON ................... 5, 7, 13, 16 Powelltown. Goals: Shelley Gray 32, Sarah Woodward 17. Best: Shelley Gray, Glenda Crofts, Erin Benham.

Thornton-Eildon. Goals: Jayne Farnan 0\9.

Best: Elley Morrison, Jayne Farnan.

YARRA JUNCTION V YEA

A-GRADE YEA .............................................. 15, 33, 53, 76 YARRA JUNCTION .................... 10, 26, 33, 42 Yea. Goals: Nikki Watts 18, Meliisa Martinov 53. Best: Melissa Martinov, Meg Sundblom, Samantha Coppinger.

Yarra Junction. Goals: Amanda Fin 30, Amelia Rose Michelle 10. Best: Amanda Finn, Amelia Rose Michelle, Stacey Davis.

B-GRADE YARRA JUNCTION .................... 10, 19, 32, 45 YEA .............................................. 10, 26, 30, 41 Yarra Junction. Goals: Indiya Besebn 9, Shelby Lewer 23, Laura Versluis 13. Best: Rebecca Gysberts, Shelby Lewer.

PHOTOS: ASH LONG

Natalie Boxell 1, Jessica Ellwood 13. Best: Jessica Ellwood, Cara Doyle.

D-GRADE YEA .............................................. 15, 26, 33, 46 YARRA JUNCTION ........................ 3, 7, 10, 10 Yea. Goals: Hanah Broderick 16, Kim Slavin 11. Best: Kim Slavin, Susie Bennett.

Yarra Junction. Goals: Jessica Ellwood 10.

Best: Jessica Louise Dixon, Belinda Conway, Gemma Cole.

NETBALL LADDERS

A-GRADE 1. Yea, 170.45, 48. 2. Seville, 177.10, 40. 3.

Kinglake, 142.99, 32. 4. Alexandra, 94.64, 32.

5. Yarra Glen, 90.26, 32. 6. Yarra Junction, 89.23, 24. 7. Powelltown, 83.30, 20. 8. GembrookCockatoo, 35.86, 8.

B-GRADE 1. Seville, 217.22, 48. 2.Kinglake, 142.60, 36. 3, Yarra Glen, 137.71, 32. 4. Alexandra, 136.97, 32. 5. Powelltown, 98.76, 128. 6. Yea, 96.97, 24.

7. Yarra Junction, 95.05, 24. 8. Thornton-Eildon, 59.29, 12. 9. Gembrook-Cockatoo, 32.40, 4.

C-GRADE 1. Seville, 329.52, 48. 2. Alexandra, 219.91, 44.

3. Powelltown, 160.71, 36. 4. Yarra Glen, 121.83, 32. 5. Yea, 136.05, 28. 6. Yarra Junction, 86.32, 20. 7. Kinglake, 71.73, 16. 8. Gembrook-Cockatoo, 32.19, 8. 9. Thornton-Eildon, 22.32, 8.

D-GRADE 1. Seville, 183.71, 48. 2. Alexandra, 144.33, 40.

3. Yea, 138.14, 38. 4. Yarra Glen, 104.19, 34. 5.

Powelltown, 127.68, 28. 6. Gembrook-Cockatoo, 92.50, 22. 7. Kinglake, 73.39, 18. 8. Yarra Junction, 20.49, 8.

YEA NETBALL REPORTS

B-GRADE This game was a tussle for fifth position on the ladder and unfortunately the Tigers fell short by four goals in the end.

Both teams had a good half each, Yea the first, shooting 26 goals, and Junction the second half, coincidentally shooting 26 goals in a match winning half.

At quarter-time it was clear that this was going to be anyone’s game, with scores locked at 10 apiece.

The Tigers then had a dominant second quarter and with a half time lead of seven looked like they could go on with the game.

Junction had other ideas and came out the much better team after half-time, moving the ball with great efficiency down court to their goalers who both shot well.

The home team took the lead late in the last ● Melissa Martinov shoots for Yea A-Grade 76 defeating Yarra Junction 42. quarter and led 32-30 at the last change of ends.

(No Yea A-Grade or D-Grade reports were to hand when we went to press.)

There was only one break of centre in the last quarter which went Junction’s way, coming away deserving four-goal victors.

The Tigers will look to improve and match a highly fancied Alexandra team next week.

Yarra Junction 45 def Yea 41 Goals: M. Sundblom 28, C. Hayes 11, B. Bond 2 Best: M. Sundblom, C. Hayes, L. Cronk. ★ C-GRADE C-Grade had a hard fought win over Yarra Junction by seven goals.

Yea’s first quarter was their best, playing at high intensity and with free flowing ball movement.

Chels and Deb turned everything their way, allowing Junction only three goals for the quarter to the Tigers 10, a lead at quarter-time that proved crucial for the remainder of the game.

Yarra lifted their game and pressure in the middle quarters making the Tigers work hard for every goal they got.

Basic errors cost the Tigers at times as Yarra chipped away at the lead to get within two goals of the lead at ¾-time.

The team took a deep breath at the break and were asked to concentrate on the basics and treasure possession and they did that, starting the quarter well to get some breathing space on the scoreboard through Fi and Jess under the post.

From then on, the team continued to score from their centre passes to maintain the lead and run out winners. Well done girls. ● Nikki Watts goes into attack for Yea. Yea 30 def Yarra Junction 21 11, Brydee Bond 2. Best: Meg Sundblom, Cindy YARRAJUNCTION ...................... 3, 10, 19, 23 Goals: J. Armstrong 24, F. Purvis 6.

Yea. Goals: Jessica Armstrong 12, Fiona purvis Hayes, Lauren Cronk.

Best: M. Jarvie, C. Helder, K. Alldrick 18. Best: Molly Jarvie, Chelsea Helder.

C-GRADE Awards: Fiona and Deb. YEA ............................................ 10, 15, 21, 30 Yarra Junction. Goals: Caitlin Conway 9,

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AFL OUTER EAST FOOTBALL SCORES AT A GLANCE DIVISION 2

■ Seniors. Results. Round 12. Saturday, July 6. Gembrook-Cockatoo 17.6 (108) d Alexandra 11.6 (72). Powelltown 25.18 (168) d Thornton-Eildon 6.9 (45). Seville 27.8 (179) d Yarra Glen 9.3 (57). Yarra Junction 21.15 (141) d Yea 3.7 (25). Kinglake: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Yarra Junction, 213.69, 44. 2.

Seville, 199.10, 40. 3. Kinglake, 143.70, 40.

4. Yarra Glen, 126.64, 32. 5. Powelltown, 116.12, 24. 6. Gembrook-Cockatoo, 116.07, 24. 7. Alexandra, 88.24, 24. 8. ThorntonEildon, 33.15, 8. 9. Yea, 28.43, 4.

■ Reserves. Results. Round 12. Saturday, July 6. Alexandra 11.10 (76) d GembrookCockatoo 8.5 (53). Powelltown 12.13 (85) d Thornton-Eildon 4.6 (30). Seville 4.13 (37) ed Yarra glen 5.6 (36). Yarra Junction 29.18 (192) d Yea 1.2 (8). Kinglake: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Yarra Glen, 268.54, 40. 2. Yarra Junction, 183.27, 40. 3. Gembrook-Cockatoo, 144.09, 36. 4. Seville, 181.38, 32. 5. Kinglake, 177.92, 32. 6. Alexandra, 118.50, 28. 7.

Powelltown, 66.03, 16. 8. Yea, 26.11, 8. 9.

Thornton-Eildon, 19.06, 8.

DIVISION 1

■ Seniors. Results. Round 10. Saturday, July 6. Belgrave 13.11 (89) d WarburtonMillgrove 8.15 (63). Monbulk 13.12 (90) d Officer 9.7 (61). Mt Evelyn 14.16 (100) d Emerald 12.6 (78). Pakenham 14.15 (99) d Doveton 9.4 (58).

■ Ladder. 1. Monbulk, 189.36, 40. 2.

Pakenham, 163.52, 36. 3. Doveton, 114.54, 24. 4. Mt Evelyn, 132.51, 20. 5. Officer, 102.31, 16. 6. Enerald, 76.82, 8. 7. Belgrave, 63.74, 8. 8. Warburton-Millgrove, 49.80, 8.

■ Reserves. Results. Round 10. Saturday, July 6. Warburton-Millgrove 12.8 (80) d Belgrave 6.6 (42). Officer 13.10 (88) d Monbulk 5.10 (40). Mt Evelyn 17.21 (123) d Emerald 3.2 (20). Pakenham 10.7 (67) d Doveton 1.6 (12).

■ Ladder. 1. Mt Evleyn, 350.73, 36. 2.

Pakenham, 336.36, 36. 3. Doveton, 163.34, 24. 4. Officer, 131.40, 24. 5. Monbulk, 91.88, 16. 6. Emerald, 58.87, 16. 7. Belgrave, 33.55, 4. 8. Waburton-Millgrove, 24.26, 4.

PREMIER LEAGUE

■ Seniors. Results. Round 11. Saturday, July 6. Berwick 26.26 (182) d Healesville 3.4 (22). Beaconsfield 10.10 (70) d Narre Warren 8.11 (59). Olinda-Ferny Creek 19.6 (120) d Upwey-Tecoma 8.10 (58). Woori Yallock 16.14 (11) d Wandin 9.10 (64). Cranbourne: Bye. ■ Ladder. 1. Berwick, 243.90, 40. 2. Narre Warren, 186.59, 36. 3. Beaconsfield, 177.00, 32. 4. Woori Yallock, 100.97, 32. 5.

Cranbourne, 136.66, 24. 4. Wandin, 71.33, 20.

7. Olinda-Ferny Creek, 73.26, 16. 8. UpweyTecoma, 58.58, 12. 9. Healesville, 39.22, 8.

■ Reserves. Results. Round 11. Saturday, July 6. Berwick 37.23 (245) d Healesville 0.0 (0). Narre Warren 10.6 (66) d Beaconsfield 6.7 (43). Upwey-Tecoma 15.16 (106) d Olinda-Ferny Creek 1.3 (9). Wandin 10.10 (70) d Woori Yallock 5.10 (40).

■ Ladder. 1. Berwick, 611.05, 40. 2. Narre Warren, 449.57, 36. 3. Beaconsfield, 396.23, 36. 4. 4. Cranbourne, 109.16, 28. 5. UpweyTecoma, 132.12, 24. 6. Wandin, 59.15, 24. 7.

Olinda-Ferny Creek, 59.81, 12. 8. Healesville, 17.61, 8. 9. Woori Yallock, 12.63, 8.

■ Under 18. Results. Round 11. Saturday, July 6. Berwick 29.14 (188) d Alexandra 1.2 (8). Narre Warren 12.7 (79) d Beaconsfield 4.9 (73). Upwey-Tecoma 19.16 (130) d Olinda-Ferny Creek 2.3 (15). GembrookCockatoo 15.20 (110) d Berwick Springs 3.3 (21). Woori Yallock 15.12 (102 d Wandin 4.7 (31).

■ Ladder. 1. Narre Warren, 474.91, 44. 2.

Berwick, 479.56, 40. 3. Beaconsfield, 295.58, 32. 4. Upwey-Tecoma, 191.79, 28. 5. Woori Yallock, 100.45, 26. 6. Gembrook-Cockatoo, 82.49, 24. 7. Berwick Springs, 47.16, 14. 8.

Olinda-Ferny Creek, 24.40, 6. 9. Alexandra, 27.60, 4. 10. Wandin, 22.04, 4.

Sport

Glum round for Dindi teams ■ Alexandra, Thornton-Eildon and Yea senior football teams all had disappointments last week. Kinglake had the bye.

The only side to enjoy scoreboard victory was the Alexandra Reserves, with a 23-point win at Rebel Park against Gembrook-Cockatoo.

ALEXANDRA V GEMBROOK-COCKATOO

SENIORS GEM.-COCK. ......... 8.1, 14.2, 15.3, 17.6 (108) ALEXANDRA ............... 1.2, 3.3, 7.4, 11.6 (72) Gembrook-Cockatoo. Goalkickers: M. Templeton 6, M. Brown 4, D. South 3, L. Scott 2, M. Firrito, B. Wareham. Best Players: D. Scott, M. Templeton, M. Firrito, D. South, M. Brown, L. Henzen.

Alexandra. Goalkickers: S. Steiner 3, J. Daniel 2, B. Cooper 2, T. McKinlay, C. Heaslip, T. Halligan, C. McKay. Best Players: C. Heaslip, P. Ferguson, B. Azzopardi, T. Halliganm, S. Steiner.

RESERVES ALEXANDRA ................. 5.4, 6.6, 8.8, 11.10 (76) GEM.-COCK. .................... 2.0, 5.1, 6.5, 8.5 (53) Alexandra. Goalkickers: I. Hedger 3, A. Daly 2, P. Hoornweg 2, N. Dundas, R. Marks, A. Westworth, S. Kidd. Best Players: D. Roper, P. Hoornweg, A. Daly, A. Wood, R. Carter, R. Marks.

Gembrook-Cockatoo. Goalkickers: A. White 5, B. Neyland, D. Wilkie, S. Strohbeck. Best Players: D. Smith, C. Vernal, A. White, T. Bastow, D. Kelly, A. Mitchell.

POWELLTOWN V THORNTON-EILDON

SENIORS POWELLTOWN .... 4.4, 11.9, 19.16, 25.19 (168) THORNTON-EIL. ........... 2.3, 4.4, 5.4, 6.9 (45) Powelltown. Goalkickers: J. Rohan 5, J. Garthwaite 3, D. Roy 3, J. Mullan 3, L. Miller 3, D. Fraser 3, R. Nayna, J. Walker, N. Moody, J. Iacono, J. Ashby. Best Players: R. Johnson, R. Nayna, T. Stokes, N. Moody, B. Wratten, J. Rohan.

Thornton-Eildon. Goalkickers: L. Smith 2, C. Kalogirou 2, J. Matcham, A. Stevens. Best Players: C. Kalogirou, J. Love, L. Smith, J. Scotland, R. Deray, R. Hurst.

RESERVES POWELLTOWN .......... 2.5, 6.7, 9.11, 12.13 (85) THORNTON-EIL. ........... 3.0, 6.3, 4.5, 4.6 (30) Powelltown. Goalkickers: B. WEalker 6, L. Meiszies 2, D. Fraser, J. Neale, M. Wood, C. Osborne. Best Players: B. Walker, M. Wood, E. Cranmer, L. Winter-Annette, D. Traynor, D. Fraser.

Thornton-Eildon. Goalkickers: A. Learmont 7, B. Arnott, D. Fleming. Best Players: S. Bradshaw, M. Herridge, B. Arnott, J. Parker, D. Fleming, T. Polson.

YARRA JUNCTION V YEA

SENIORS YARRA JUNC .......... 4.4, 12.8, 15.11, 21.15 (141) YEA .................................. 1.1, 2.3, 3.4, 3.7 (25) Yarra Junction. Goalkickers: T. Wheeler 4, S. Morton 4, J. Gilbert 4, C. Hoare 2, H. TindleyRoe, K. Ousley, S. Cannon, B. Clark, E. Wadsworth, T. Armstrong, L. Hoffman. Best Players: J. Gilbert, T. Ferrell,A. Chandler, M. Brown, D. Brookes, L. Spaulding.

Yea. Goalkickers: A. Chisholm, J. Carroll, J. Sandells. Best Players: A. McCarthy, A. Chisholm, R. Aldous, A. McSpeerin, X. O’Dwyer, S. Bowler.

RESERVES YARRA JUNC. ...... 7.6, 12.11, 20.16, 29.18 (192) YEA .................................. 0.0, 1.0, 1.2, 1.2 (8) Yarra Junction. Goalkickers: B. Freedman 7, S. Kearney 5, J. Rice 4, K. Davis 3, B. Conder 2, D. Pottage, C. Collins, A. Witt, T. Conder, W. ERobertson, J. Taylor, D. Bebarfeld, A. Ward.

Best Players: D. Pottage, J. Rice, B. Freedman, A. Dos santos, S. Kearney, W. Robertson.

Yea. Goalkicker: D. Web. Best Players: D. Webb, D. Clue, D. Pell, H. Janke, B. Watts, T. Hayes.

YEA FOOTBALL REPORTS SENIORS Yarra Junction 21.15 (141) defeated Yea 3.7 (25)

PHOTO: ASH LONG

● Yea's Ash Walsh puts pressure on Yarra Junction's Daniel Chapman in Saturday’s AFL Outer East Div. 2 match at Junction.

Yea fought hard against ladder leaders Yarra The Tigers took the field with just 15 players Junction but were outclassed from start to fin- and fought bravely against one of the league's ish, going down by 116 points. strongest outfits.

Jarrod Sandells kicked the opening goal David Webb was outstanding and slotted the within minutes, but the Eagles took control and visitors’ only goal, well supported by Dean Clue flew out to an early lead of 21 points at the first and Eoin Fay, who both doubled up in the senior match. change.

Darcy Pell was tireless in the ruck, Brad An eight-goal-to-one second term from the home side shut the door on the contest but the Watts wound back the clock and Hayden Tigers hit back in the third, evening things up to Jannke provided plenty of run.

The Tigers will take on Alexandra at home keep Yarra Junction to three majors for the on Saturday. quarter.

Yea. Golkicker: D. Webb Adrian McCarthy and Andrew Chisholm Best Players: D. Webb, d. clue, D. Pell, H. worked hard in the midfield, Xavier O'Dwyer defended grimly and Riley Aldous found a lot of Jannke, B. Watts, T. Hayes.

- Patrick Evans the football.

Aidan McSpeerin competed well against Eagles coach John Holmes, while Cameron Evans was involved all day and Sam Bowler gave great drive from defence, ● From Page 33 Yea host Alexandra this weekend.

Victoria Police - Towner, P (21184) v Yea. Goalkickers:: A. Chisholm, J. Carroll, Trellu-Coker, James Henri. Ciu-Benalla J. Sandells Victoria Police - Parker, H (39579)v Best Players: A. McCarthy, A. Chisholm, R. Bell, Joel. Uni-Eildon Aldous, A. McSpeerin, X. O'Dwyer, S. Bowler Victoria Police - Yon, A (43926) v Mclean, RESERVES David. Uni-Heidelberg Yarra Junction 29.18 (192) Victoria Police - Walsh, M (38049) v defeated Yea 1.2 (8) Legge, Simon. Uni-Marysville It was a tough day the office for an underVictoria Police - Young, S (25481) v manned Yea outfit, put to the sword by Yarra Reynolds, Bruce John. Uni-Mansfield Junction away from home.

Victoria Police - Leach, N (38967) v Breier, Paul. Highway Patrol-Mansfield Victoria Police - Watkins, R (33441) v Cowton, Jeffrey Alan. Highway PatrolMansfield Victoria Police - Stephens, S (40205) v Bell, Joel. Uni-Alexandra Victoria Police - Woodstock, S (39399) v Kirby, Luke. Highway Patrol-Mansfield Victoria Police - Owen, D (42851) v Graham, Freeman. Uni-Mansfield Victoria Police - Hunter, S (33941) v Clark, Brendan.

Victoria Police - Lee, J (31468) v Bell, Joel. Uni-Marysville Victoria Police - Blackall, J (39856) v Dark, Nicholas. Uni-Mansfield Victoria Police - Chief Commissioner Of Police (00008) v Ball, Shamus James. Office Of The Chief Commissioner Victoria Police - Carroll, T (35729) v Reid, Albert Ian. Ciu-Benalla Community Corrections Centre Macdougall, M v Stillman, Aaron. Community Corrections Centre Victoria Police - Waters, K (24408) v Scott, James Charles. Uni-Mansfield Victoria Police - Chief Commissioner Of Police (18457) v Bevan, Christian John. ● Club treasurer David Stares Victoria Police Executive lined up for Yea on Saturday.

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