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Outstanding Ballroom ■ A fabulous array of colourful, frothy costumes sparkle aplenty in Strictly Ballroom: The Musical playing at the Cardinia Cultural Centre until March 8. Presented by the Cardinia Performing Arts Company (CPAC), Strictly Ballroom explores the world of competitive ballroom dancing, where award-winning dancer Scott Hastings yearns to perform new steps and his own dance style. “TheMelbourne Arts Centre for a season of 11 performances, starting on August 3. This challenges the dance-sport establishment’s sacrosanct rules book and his mother Shirley’s dreams for his future. Spanish and Aussie cultures merge when Scott meets dance beginner Fran, and her family inspires him to dance in the Championships, his way.

Director Scott Hili’s impressive attention to detail includes successfully creating this production within limited facilities and designing the clever set, depicting scenes ranging from a glittery performance venue to Fran’s family milk bar and Scott’s home, effectively identified by projected images. Hili also designed and coordinated the superb costumes. Musical director Po Goh’s orchestra renders with verve the terrific tunes, and Kristy Hamshire and Nicole Everett’s vibrant, well-executed choreography is visually entertaining. It is not possible to mention all performers, but Hili’s well-rehearsed cast of principles and ensemble work with energetic cohesion, exuding joy in their performance. Jason McMurray is outstanding as the personable JJ Silvers. Some sound issues will no doubt be worked through during the season, but overall this show is a credit to Hili and his team. Great to see a wide range of ages onstage, too. Performance Season: Until March 8. Venue: Cardinia Arts and Cultural Centre, Lakeside Drive, Pakenham. Bookings: www.cardiniaperforming arts.com/current_production

■ Retired newspaper columnist Lawrence Money is making his debut as a stand-up comedian as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, appearing at Speakeasy HQ, Flinders St from March 28 to April 20.

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Killingworth Hill Cafe & Whisky Bar 36 Killingworth Rd, Killingworth (Yea) Open 11am-8pm Friday-Sunday

Yea’s best kept secret opens its doors. Today’s Menu Charcuterie Boards: Your choice of a meat platter, cheese platter, terrine platter or fish platter all accompanied with fresh home grown and made produce, for example, vegetables, gluten free pesto’s, chutneys, nuts, etc,

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● Your regular columnists are in the new look Melbourne Observer magazine section, starting on Page 31. See Melbourne Confidential (Page 36), Rob Foenander ‘s Crossroads (Page 35), comedy man Mike McColl Jones (Page 35), Gavin Wood in West Hollywood (Page 43), Kevin Trask’s Whatever Happened To (Page 44), John O’Keefe (Page 44), David Ellis’s ‘Struth (Page 44), movie men Aaron Rourke and James Sherlock (Page 69), local theatre with Cheryl Threadgold (Page 72), plus Len Baker on harness racing (Page 98) and Ted Ryan on racing (Page 97).

Saving Carter’s

● The iconic Carter’s Milk Bar in High St, Yea ■ The Yea and District Historical Society’s appeal to purchase Carter’s Milk Bar to use as a Yea Museum has hit close to the $100,000 mark. Society President John Bett says that $300,000 needs to be raised by the settlement date of April 15. Fundraising letters have been sent this week to potential major donors. Society stalwart Elaine White writes: “The Yea and District Historical Society is appealing to the public for support in their bid to purchase the former 'Carters’building in Yea's main street. “Members feel this is a prime site for a Yea Heritage Centre and the shop and dwelling sit on a very large block of land which has the potential for expansion of the building and still have plenty of space for vintage machinery or other outdoor displays. “The Society also feels that this iconic building holds a very special place in the hearts and minds of locals who remember the amazing service the two generations of the Carter fam● Bernie McCarthy ily has given to the local community. “This site has quite a history being the original site of Eaton Purcell and Donald McNeil's first general store. “When E.S Purcell built his large brick Gen■ Yea football legend Bernie McCarthy eral Store opposite, which still stands today, his has died at the age of 75. old store on Carter's site was demolished and Bernie played with Yea, as did his younger Yea's first bank, the Commercial Bank was built brothers Shane and Gavan. Bernie McCarthy went on to play 148 which also served as the Gold Assayer's office games, with 80 goals, for North Melbourne, in the early gold rush days of this district. and was later at Preston and South “The present building is believed to have Bendigo. been built as a fruiterer and tea rooms in the He was named in Assumption College’s 1920s. greatest-ever team as forward pocket. “The Yea & District Historical Society was A funeral was held at St Mary’s Cathoformed in 1995 by Glen Jones before he left the lic Church, Seymour, on Monday (Feb. 25). Yea district. He is survived by by his children Nicole, “He was a former Principal of Yea High Paul, Simone, Michelle, Cael, Teagan and School and the researcher and author of the partners, Tony, Madison and Travis. History of Molesworth and was passionately He was Grandfather of Declan, Ronan, Asher, Ryan, Liam, Harry, Lachlan, interested in our local history. He, together with Charlie and Oliver. He was brother of Doug Lade, Ron Drysdale and Alan Thorley Michaela, Tom (dec. ), Gabrielle (dec. ) are Life Members of the Historical Society, Gavin, Paul (dec. ), Jack, Shane, Maureen honouring their dedicated service. and Patrice. ● Turn To Page 10

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Index to major display advertisers Across Technology .................. Pages 19, 109 Adds Up .......................................... Page 47 Advanced Myotherapy .............. Pages 14, 46 Affinity Australia ............................. Page 54 Alexandra Quality Meats .................. Page 25 All Things Natural and Organic ....... Page 24 Argosy, Cairns ................................. Page 59 Artisans of Fashion ........................ Page 53 Bailey’s Funeral Services .............. Page 105 Billanook College ............................. Page 23 Brick Lane Bazaar .......................... Page 50 Camberwell Sewing ......................... Page 27 Centre State Drilling ....................... Page 102 Clarinda Charloais ....................... Page 108 Classified Ads ................................ Page 87 Country Club Hotel, Yea ................... Page 5 Crump Spreaders ........................... Page 84 Dalton Building, Garden Supplies .. Page 63 Doveton Medical Centre ................ Page 51 Eddy’s Transport & Towing .............. Page 62 Embling Rural ................................. Page 21 Emu Wire Industries ....................... Page 26 Extensions Unlimited ..................... Page 38 Fold Out Furniture .......................... Page 39 Geoff Lambert ................................ Page 11 Gilson College .................................. Page 4 GLA Real Estate ..................... Pages 110, 111 Grand Central Hotel, Yea .................. Page 6 Gosvenor, Cairns .............................. Page 32 Hall’s Funeral Services .................... Page 3 Holmwood Aged Care ...................... Page 65 Hoogies of Yarra Glen ...................... Page 68 Ivanhoe Cycles ........................... Page 29, 82 Japan Snow Holidays ....................... Page 107 Killingworth Hill Whisky Bar & Cafe .. Page 2 Kosnar Framing .............................. Page 24 Landmark Harcourts ..............,....... Page 112 Little Bumble ................................... Page 40 Manfred’s Shoe Lounge ................. Page 33 McCormack Funerals ...................... Page 28 Melbourne Mediation Centre .......... Page 12 Melb. Wildlife & Pest Control .......... Page 61 Metro Cinemas Boronia ................. Page 81 Mooroolbark Church of Christ ........ Page 19 Nalinga Steel ................................... Page 100 Neil’s Aussie Beer Shed .................. Page 690 Neil Beer Seymour ........................... Page 7 North Central Hire ........................... Page 64 North-West Drilling .......................... Page 109 Northern Sky Limousines ............... Page 66 Old Victorian Fencing ...................... Page 73 Oldies Collectables ................. Pages 48-49 On The Move ................................... Page 106 Palmers Wire Fencing ...................... Page 8 Pierrepoint B&B Cellar Door ............ Page 54 Planning Victoria ........................... Page 34 Progressive Controls ..................... Page 99 Rosicrucians ................................... Page 75 Rotary Club of Leongatha ............... Page 58 Santorini On Mudjimba ................... Page 74 Seville Tractors .............................. Page 86 Shepparton Tile Centre .................. Page 83 Simply Helping Goulburn Valley ..... Page 30 Slocum Floorcoverings ................... Page 13 Solartronics ................................... Page 94 Star Tree Services ......................... Page 25 Stihl Shop Seymour ....................... Page 109 Terry Miller Concrete Tanks ............. Page 67 TGA Legal ......................................... Page 37 Think Smart .................................... Page 45 Tilco ................................................ Page 76 Trades and Services Guide ..... Pages 88-92 Travelabout ..................................... Page 55 Tribute Funeral Services ................ Page 82 We Sell Doors ................................. Page 93 Whittlesea H Hardware ................... Page 79 Woodlands Retreat ........................ Page 87 Yarra valley Brazzen ................... Page 56-57 Yarra Valley Dental .......................... Page 20 Yea Automotive ................................ Page 22 Yenckens Hardware ........................ Page 85

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Rotary’s multi-club aid program ■ The Rotary Club of Alexandra has joined a miluti-club aid program. Currently 10 schools in rural communities in North East Malaysia are part of a project to improve their students Englishproficiency. It is an ambitious project and the local Rotary Club of Kora Kinabalu Pearl has sought aid to expand the project to all 300 schools in the area. David Anderson, a past District Governor from the Rotary Club of Yea, took up the challenge and has coordinated the response from the Rotary Clubs of Southern Mitchell, Seymour, Kinglake Ranges, Yea, Alexandra and Mansfield to make the project a Sub-District 9790 effort. When David addressed the Rotary Club ofAlexandra last Wednesday night, he explained that $835 from each club will support two new schools to enter the program. It is aimed at years 4, 5 and 6. First step is to give each student an English – Malay dictionary, then establish ‘English Corners’ in each school, providing 700 books in English

Photo and report by Rob Chaffe

● Rotary Club of Alexandra’s International Director Lynda Robinson hands over a cheque for $835 as Alexandra’s share of the multi club english language aid program to the Program co-ordinator Past District Governor Rotarian David Anderson.

and TVs and videos in English to improve these critical English language skills. Teachers have specialised English

language skills training and the tools to present the program. The project has developed to the point

that an application has been made for a matching grant from Rotary International’s Foundation.

Kellock Lodge appeal ■ Members of Friends of Kellock Lodge Inc are invited to an Open Day on Sunday, March 3, 2pm to 4pm. Maurie Pawsey writes: “If you are not a Friend and you feel excluded, you can always join the Friends, it only costs $5 per annum per person. “The Friends Fundraising Committee meets today (Wed., Feb. 27) at Kellock Lodge to plan the ongoing Appeal. “We again thank those who have already donated to provide Kellock with some reserves and to replace the payment we have to make to the Diocese to buy-back Kellock Lodge, for this community. “Total contributors is approaching 100 individuals. “The Total for the Appeal continues to move up steadily; as follows: ■ Cash in Hand, $ 301,443 ■ Promises- Pledges over 2019-20, $75,000 The Committee advises that there are many ways to make a donation: ■ Cash or cheque direct to Kellock Lodge ■ Direct deposit to Kellock`s AppealAccount BSB 063-628, Account number 10167775 Please send your bank receipt by email to: wecare@kellocklodge.com.au, so that we can send you a tax

● Maurie Pawsey receipt. Depending on your We remind you of the Gala online banking system, you Ball to be held on Saturday, may also be able to set up a May 11 at the Alexandra Shire monthly Direct Deposit to take Hall. away some of the impact of an “The Event of the Year immediate donation in full. Fundraising for the We Care “This has already been cho- Appeal We will advise when sen as an option by one com- and where tickets, at $80 per munity member person, will be available in ■ Credit card or PayPal. Visit coming weeks our web page at: “A major raffle will be held www.kellocklodge.org.au/we- to be drawn on the night. The care-appeal prize is a generous travel “Leaflets are available from voucher for $1250 to be used Kellock Lodge or Convenor as you wish. Tickets will be Maurice Pawsey on 5772 2157. available soon in Grant St and “Donations are tax deduct- at the Easter Fair. ible, can be made, ie. as a be“There will also be a Wood quest or a donation to name a Raffle in April and this may be Wing of Kellock, or a dining a joint activity with the Footroom or one of several Court- ball-Netball Club,” Mr Pawsey yards. said.

David said the 300school target is achievable and the trial work that began in three schools is now working effectively in 10. Key issue for any aid program is to have a local champion and the Rotary Club of Kota Kinabalu Pearl have stepped up and committed to this very ambitious goal. It is a collaborative project between Rotary, Sabah State Education Department and School Parent Teachers Associations. Knowing your dollar will make a difference and that the school is getting the full 100 cents in the dollar builds the confidence that will ensure success. David is enthusiastic about the potential of international understanding this project will create. The central highlands of Victoria now have some new friends in Malaysia. Kota Kinabalu is five days travel from Singapore so it is quite remote even in Australian terms yet with today’s modern com-

munication systems English is essential for future success for these students. Being on a similar time zone David is sure that the relationships with this part of Malaysia will grow significantly. In receiving the cheque from Rotary Club of Alexandra’s International Director Lynda Robinson, David congratulated the Club on its commitment to International Service which is added to now with support for this English language learning program. He thanked the Rotary Club of Alexandra and the Alexandra district community who support the Rotary fundraising events like the Easter Art Show that enable these programs to be supported. The matching grant program means that the local contribution will double and the impact on the ground brings the 300 school target so much closer. - Robert Chaffe

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Yea Historical Society Appeal “The Society already has an extensive collection of memorabilia and treasures relating to the history of our district and we know of priceless collections in the community which have been waiting for a place to display them,” Mrs White said. “The Society has been an incorporated body with an ABN ever since these requirements were introduced by the Consumer Affairs Commission and has complied with all their requirements over the years. “In March 2016 the Yea & District Historical Society was registered as a charity and achieved Deductable Gift Recipient Status. “The society opened a Gift Recipient Account in 2018 and have specially printed receipts to claim your taxable deduction on any funds donated to this Museum account. “Donations can be made by direct debit or at the counter at the Yea Community Bank to BSB Number 633-000, Account Number 16213-7889. “The name of the account is Yea Historical Society Gift Account. Please give your name as the reference as you will need the official receipt to claim your tax deduction on your gift. “Cheques can be given to President of the Society, John Bett, phone 0499 556 494; Vice-President Nola Yorston, phone 0408 060 590; or Secretary/Treasurer, Elaine White, phone 5780 1274; or posted to Yea & District Historical Society, RMB 6585, Yea.3717. “A Crowd Funding page has been opened and we urge everyone to share this site to their Facebook pages. “The crowd funding address is http:// www.givenow.com.au/yea-historical-society We are delighted to report that we already have $80,000 donated to the appeal. “Your support would be greatly appreciated and any donation, large or small, will be gratefully received. Help us to secure the Carters building and make the dream of a museum for Yea a reality,” Mrs White said.

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Local Briefs Fires statement

■ Murrindindi Shire Mayor Cr Sandice McAulay intends to make a statement at tonight’s Council meeting in relation to the 2009 Bushfires and the recent 10-year anniversary commemorative events. The meeting is scheduled to take place at 6pm (Wed.) at the Alexandra Council Chambers.

More pages soon

■ The Local Paper and Melbourne Observer newspapers are being upgraded. Several features have been held over from this week’s publication. Although the issue is 112 pages, we did not have room for all features. The Dindi.TV website has been launched, and will build soon to a seven-day-a-week service.

To Healesville

● Yea might be 105-kilometres from Melbourne, but it is only 45 minutes drive from outer northern and outer eastern suburbs. The town is rast evolving as a health hub, with people being able to easily access a number of modalities, after a relaxing drive. The team at 7 The Semi-Circle gathered for an official opening last Friday (Feb. 22). Services include dentistry, denture clinic, Reiki, massage and other health disciplines. More photos on Page 18.

Ticks & Crosses

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Congratulations to Murrindindi Shire Council which, after six years, is putting out its local advertising this month, to tender. So long to the Yea St Pat’s Race Club with a 60-year tradition of meetings, preceded by many years of the Gymkhana run in association with Sacred Heart Church. St Pats is joining with Yea Race Club for combined meetings in future. No-one deserves hate mail. Yea rabble rouser Jack Russell has been the subject of an anonymous note calling for him to be out of town. “His tupid, self agrandising legal actions are costing Murrindindi Shire Council almost $200,000 a year in legal costs, and hours of wasted staff time to address,” the letter states.

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● Dana Vlamis was one of the entertainers at the charity fundraiser held at the Grand Central Hotel;, Yea, last Saturday. Photo: Facebook A Kinglake property owner did all that he should have done. A resident was grinding in his paddock. He’d checked the weather. The grass was cut short. He’d wet down the immediate work area. He had water and plenty of it, at his disposal in the event of fire. But it still ignited. And despite his best efforts, it kept getting away. He was left with no option but to call 000 and ask for help. With the grass so short and so little wind, the spread of the fire was minimal. Kinglake CFA assisted.

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Whittlesea Superules football veterans have a 10-round fixture this year, starting with a home game against De La Salle. Readers’ contributions to the ‘Ticks & Crosses’ column are welcomed. Send your contribution to: editor@LocalPaper.com.au Contributions will be published at the sole discretion of the Editor.

Local News

135-hectare rural living plan at Yea ■ A development plan proposal submitted for 45 Carey Rd, Yea, is likely to get the tick of approval at the Murrindindi Shire Council meeting to be held tonight (Wed.) at Alexandra. Lots as small as two hectares are expected to be allowed. The land is located abuts Williamsons and Carey Rds is 123 hectares in area, and is approximately 2.5 kilometres north-east of the Yea township with access via Killingworth Rd. The site varies from gentle slopes to over 15 per cent slopes on the southern portions of the land. “The land was zoned Rural Living under Amendment C14 in July 2006 and has the Development Plan Overlay 3 (Rural Living Zone) applying to it,” says a report to Councillors. “Minimum and average lot sizes of four and six hectares respectively originally applied to the land when it was first rezoned to Rural Living in 2006. “Amendment C55, implementing the Yea Structure Plan 2014 in August 2016, reduced the minimum lot size in this location to two hectares in area. “Rural services are available to the land. Road access would be provided via Carey and Williamsons Roads, water would be from onsite collection, wastewater disposal would be onsite through septic systems and electricity is available to the land.” The development is likely to attract the criticism of Yea developer Bill Anderson who has been denied similar permission to develop two hectares blocks at his Ewing Wynd property on the former ‘Azwarby’ family property.

■ Kinglake Football Netball Club will this Friday (Mar. 1) support the Rett Syndrome Awareness Cup Match to be held at the Healesville Sporting Complex on Don Rd. Netball will begin at 6.30pm; football to begin at 8pm. A Mee’s bus will pick up from the Royal Mail Hotel in Whittlesea at 5.30pm and then from the Kinglake Pub at 6pm.

Bev Brock speaks

■ Bev Brock will speak at an International Women’s Day function at 6pm-9.30pm on Thursday, March 7, at the Eltham Community and Receptikon Centre. With a range of business experience, charity work, a background in teaching and a love of the Nillumbik Shire, Bev has many stories to tell.

Thornton bid

■ J. Crowe is submitting an application to tonight's Murrindindi Shire Council meeting for construction and use of a single dwelling and construction of an agricultural shed at 91 Christies Rd, Thornton.

Recycling halt

■ The Environment Protection Authority has ordered recycling processor SKM to stop receiving material at its Coolaroo, Laverton and Geelong facilities until stockpiling issues are resolved. This affects many councils across Melbourne and regional Victoria, including Nillumbik. Murrindindi deals with Visy and is not affected at this time.

McLeish pushes Yarck 60-limit ■ Eildon MLA Cindy McLeish is continuing her push on behalf of Yack locals to have the township speed limit reduced to 60-kmh. Ms McLeish was in State Parliament last week, and upped her calls on the Andrews State Government to introduce the road safety measure. Ms McLeishasked theMinister for Roads whether or not the Victorian Government lower the speed limit on the Maroondah Highwaythrough Yarck from 80kmh to 60kmh. "Yarck locals have been kept in the dark by VicRoads and the government over the proposed speed limit change. With increased traffic on the road, many local residents are concerned about safety." Ms McLeish said she had already tabled two petitions parliament on behalf of local residents in with a combined 280 signatures calling for the speed limit to be reduced. The action prompted

VicRoads to undertake a consultation process with the local community, which included a community engagement session in July and an online survey that closed in August. "Despite this work six months ago, the Yarck community has not heard a peep about whether the speed limit will be reduced or when the change could be expected to take place," Ms McLeish said. Under Parliamentary rules the Minister has 30 days to respond to Ms McLeish's question.

Council finances ■ Financial reports to Murrindindi Shire Council indicate that that the predicted deficit of $2.84 million in 201819 is likely to become a deficit of $233,376.

Saturday market ■ The first Saturday of the month will see the Yea Railway Market in action at the Station St site.

Plaque in place ■ Panton Hill CFA volunteers had hoped to have its Black Saturday memorial in place at the Firefighters' Memorial Park by February 7 for the 10th anniversary. “We didn't quite make it but it is fixed in place now,” says the unit.

Four-year review ■ Murrindindi Shire Council looks likely to tobnight (Wed.) adopt the four-year review of the Murrindindi Planning Scheme under the Planning and Environment Act 1987.

Eildon petition ■ Murrindindi Shire Council will tonight (Wed.) further consider a petition from Eildon landowners about open drains in The Boulevard area,. accompanied by a request to give a 25 per cent rebate of rates back to ratepayers. A Shire officer is recommending that the Council “continue to work with Goulburn Murray Water on remediation works within the drain”, not grant a rate, and have the Council reply to this effect to the disgruntled ratepayers.

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■ With plenty of warm weather ahead yet - meaning there's still fruit ripening - more volunteers are needed in the effort to research the presence of Queensland Fruit Fly in and around Murrindindi Shire. As part of the Upper Goulburn Landcare Network Project - supported by Murrindindi Shire Council and Agriculture Victoria - free traps are available for anyone interested in monitoring the presence and number of Queensland Fruit Flies in their garden or orchard. Murrindindi Shire Council Mayor Sandice McAulay said a community volunteer in Trawool has recently discovered what looks alarmingly like a Queensland Fruit Fly in a backyard trap. "It's bad news for farmers and gardeners alike if QFF has made it to our region,” Cr McAulay said. “As many gardeners know, QFF is an extremely destructive insect which attacks fruit trees and fruiting vegetables, decreasing the plant's productivity and making its fruit inedible. "We need to take steps to tackle the problem now before it gets out of hand. “ But we need more information about QFF presence in our Shire so that we can join in with Agriculture Victoria's statewide management initiatives. “So if you can, please help by getting involved in this project - it's really easy and doesn't take up much time, but your contribution could make a big difference," Cr McAulay said. "You can collect a free trap and information sheet from any Council office or from the UGLN office at 5/10 High St in Yea. Once you get it home, you'll need to install your trap about 1.5 metres above the ground in a tree. "It's really important though that you are able to check the trap frequently for the presence of fruit flies. “The data collected and reported by volunteers will help to determine what QFF management initiatives happen in the future," Cr McAulay said. The QFF Monitoring Program will run for the next couple of months until the weather cools down. For more information about the Program, phone Murrindindi Shire Council on 5772 0333 or Judy McGill at UGLN on 0418 595 928. - Contributed

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Get your hands dirty this Sunday ■ Murrindindi Council is encouraging residents to get their gloves on and get involved in the Clean Up Australia Day events happening on Sunday (Mar. 3). MayorCr Sandice McAulay said the spectacular natural environment is one of the main reasons residents love living here and visitors love coming here. "It's a bit of a tradition for Murrindindi Shire Council and the wonderful Upper Goulburn Landcare Network to collaborate and organise numerous 'clean up' events. This year we'll be working together again with a number of events happening around the Shire," Cr McAulay said. "In 2018, an estimated 670,087 volunteers removed around 15,616 ute-loads of rubbish from more than 7098 registered Clean Up Australia Day locations across the country. Food packaging, beverage packaging, cigarette butts and plastic were the most common types of rubbish collected. "Clean up Australia Day is an opportunity for all of us to do the right thing for our environment.

● Cr Sandice McAulay “We're thrilled that Alexandra Primary School and Yea High School have registered to run clean up events with their students. “Hopefully this might inspire some mums and dads, aunties and uncles, grandparents and everyone in between to get involved as well. "So why not sign up for a Clean Up Australia Day event near you - as well as helping our environment out, it's a great way to get outside and get active for a few hours.

“Maybe you could participate as a family and make a day of it? It's a great way to share the message of responsible rubbish disposal and the importance of caring for our environment to our children," Cr McAulay said. This year Clean Up Australia Day events in Murrindindi Shire are being held on Sunday (Mar. 3). Events include: Sunday, March 3 ■ Yea Wetlands, meeting at Cummins Reserve, 9am-11am ■ Strath Creek, meeting in the Strath Creek Park, 8am10am ■ Kinglake, Bollygum Park, 10am-12pm ■ Narbethong, meeting at the Hermitage Track carpark, 9am-12pm ■ Homewood, meeting at the Homewood Station car park, 9am-12pm ■ Taggerty, meeting at Meet at the CH@T site (formally Taggerty Primary School), 9am-12pm Sunday, March 24 ■ UT Creek Alexandra, meeting at Rotary Park BBQ, from 9.30am www.cleanupaustraliaday .org.au

Yea construction starts on Friday ■ Based on input from more than 75 community members, the design for the Yea Railway Reserve Playground redevelopment has been finalised and construction is set to start on Friday (Mar. 1). Cheviot Ward Councillor, Rebecca Bowles, said the new and improved Yea Railway Reserve Playground will be a great asset to the Yea community. "The Playground is a really important and much-loved fun hub for our most junior community members. It's also a meeting place and recreation space for people of all ages. That's why Council has committed to turning the Yea Railway Reserve Playground into an 'agefriendly' facility, Cr Bowles said. "As well as traditional favourites - like the good old swing set - the Yea Railway Reserve Playground will soon be home to play equipment designed for older kids as well. “I'm particularly excited about the flying fox and rope climbing structure. The new play equipment is also ideal for parents and carers wanting to interact with their kids on the playground. "We've put lots of pathways and seating into the design so that everyone can come and enjoy the atmosphere, even if they don't want to swing themselves silly," Cr Bowles said. "Construction of the Yea Railway Reserve Playground starts on March 1, with a partial reopen planned in time for the school holidays. Finishing touches will be completed by the end of April. A special thanks to the Victorian Government too, without the support of a grant from the Community Sports Infrastructure Fund our Play Space wouldn't be a reality," Cr Bowles said. ■ VicRoads advises they will be conducting line-marking maintenance works on Maroondah Hwy between Dom Dom Saddle on the Black Spur, through Alexandra to Mansfield from today (Wed.) until Friday.

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■ “For Council, as for many Murrindindi Shire community members, reducing the amount of waste being sent to landfill, improving recycling and minimising resource consumption are important priorities,” says a news release. Cr Eric Lording said Council's goal is to improve environmental outcomes while maintaining waste service affordability for the community. "Gone are the days where we purchased and discarded things without a second thought. These habits have seen us use up extraordinary amounts of natural resources and throw away - often carelessly - huge volumes of rubbish," Cr Lording said. "You might've heard about recycling processor SKM being ordered to close two of its facilities in Melbourne last week. Thankfully, this closure won't affect kerbside recycling here in Murrindindi Shire, but it is yet another reminder that we all need to play our part in the thoughtful disposal of rubbish. "Council has taken some important steps toward facilitating a more sustainable future for Murrindindi Shire. Importantly for recycling in our Shire, we have worked with Visy to ensure our kerbside recycling service continues. "We have also made disposing of green waste free at all five of our Resource Recovery Centres. We have launched two 'Scrap Shacks' which see reusable items rescued from our tips and sold for bargain prices to the community. “We have supported the Alexandra Community Composting Project and Clean Up Australia Day events around the Shire. And we have worked with DELWP and Parks Victoria to launch an anti-rubbish dumping campaign targeting visitors to the Shire during holiday periods. "Late last year, we welcomed Grace Davies-Williams to our team. Ms Davis-Williams is leading a three-year waste education program, which is a collaborative initiative between Murrindindi, Mitchell and Strathbogie Shire Councils. The position has been funded through Visy and Cleanaway. "As Regional Waste and Resource Education Officer, Ms Davis-Williams will be facilitating waste education activities such as school visits, community tours, workshops, information events and online advertising. Through these activities, we hope to get everyone involved in managing waste more effectively and contributing to a more sustainable future. "While there's some key challenges and opportunities - such as what can and can't be recycled, how to compost and how to reduce consumption - we're also really keen to hear from the community on waste issues nagging them and ideas for education events. “As such, Ms Davis-Williams will be 'popping up' in a few spots around the Shire in the coming weeks, so be sure to take this opportunity to shape the future of waste in our region," Cr Lording said. ■ At the Rotunda on Grant Str in Alexandra between 9am and 12pm on Friday, March 15 ■ Outside Yea Foodworks between 1pm and 5pm on Friday, March 15 ■ At the Marysville Market between 9am and 1pm on Sunday, March 24 ■ At Flying Tarts Bakery in Pheasant Creek between 8am and 11am on Friday, March 22 "You can also fill in a survey at any Council office, library, visitor information centre or Resource Recovery Centre in the Shire. Alternatively, the survey is also available to fill out online at www.murrindindi.vic.gov.au/ wastesurvey "This is your chance! All the feedback and ideas we collect from these surveys and consultation sessions will be incorporated into the Waste Education Strategy, and inform Council's waste management priorities into the future," Cr Lording said. - Contributed

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LAWYER DISQUALIFIED ■ LAWYER Kugan Kanagaiyan has been disqualified until April 2020, after being convicted of serious offences. Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal Senior Member Gerard Butcher last week ordered that the disqualification of Mr Kanagaiyan was justified. The Tribunal hearing followed proceedings brought by the Victorian Legal Services Board. Mr Kanagaiyan was charged by Victoria Police with multiple counts of obtaining finnacial advantage by deception. Allegations were made that Mr Kanagaiyan and his wife had submitted false and/or misleading documents to obtain home loans from financial institutions, with the loans totalling approximately $1 million. Victoria Police learned that there was ap pending prosecution by the Commonwealth Department of Public Prosecutions for immigration offences dating back to approximately 2009.

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Murder by Natural Causes ● Trevor Mills and Tina Bono in Murder by Natural Causes. Photo: Gary Fevreau ■ So reliable are The Basin Theatre Group santly self-assured Arthur with a constant enfor choosing entertaining shows that your ergy that drives the performance. smile upon entering the theatre is almost as Trevor Mills gives little nuance to Gill big as when you leave. Weston, but is enjoyable to watch. Andrew This season’s must-see mystery thriller McIver and Charlie Jean as George and JesMurder By Natural Causes is directed by Bob sica are equally enjoyable and great additions Bramble. to the cast. The scenario appears simple at first. Arthur Mel Ecclesston is simply outstanding as is successful, world-famous in fact, and en- the astute publicist. Her energetic perforjoying the wealth that comes with it. mance and charm makes this minor role a Unfortunately Arthur’s beautiful wife, memorable one. Allison, is every husband’s nightmare: she’s Valerie Mitchelmore is delightfully droll as devious, greedy and wants to rid herself of Marta and Ante Kreso’s small role as Eddie him. does not go unnoticed. He plays his character She devises a cunning plan to ensure she (I will give no spoilers!) to a tee. gets away with Arthur’s murder. The only Murder by Natural Causes is a thriller problem? He’s a mentalist. How does a wife adapted by Tim Kelly from the television play keep secrets from a man who can read minds? by Richard Levinson and William Link. The Prepare for a wild, and sometimes nail- 1979 Levinson and Link television film starred biting, ride as the action unfurls. Even though Hal Holbrook and Katherine Ross. you’ll guess at what’s coming, you won’t be Performance Season: Until Saturday right. March 9 Tina Bono is scintillating as Allison Times: Thurs-Sat 8pm; Sun 2pm Sinclair, and gives her best when the drama Venue: The Basin Theatre, Doongalla Rd, The intensifies. Basin Paul Wanis perfectly captures the inces- Review by Deborah Marinaro

Mr Kanagaiyan pleaded guilty to three charges to the migration offences. Magistrate Doherty sentenced him to an aggregate fine of $10,000 and $980 costs, with conviction. He was also ordered to pay a pecuniary penalty of $12,100 relating to the professional fees he charged the visa applicants, the subject of the migration offences. Mr Kanagaiyan pleaded guilty, in April 2015, to three charges of obtaining finajncial advantage of deception; one charge of using a false document; and one charge of making a false document in relation to the loan offences. Judge Allen convicted Mr Kanagaiyan and sentenced him to 30 months’ imprisonment, wholly suspended. Mr Kanagaiyan was admitted to legal practice in New South Wales on August 26, 2005. He had worked as a legal practitioner employee at the law sole practice of Karthigesu P. Aravindan (trading as Charritaas Solictoris) and held a Victorian employee without trust authorisation practising certificate. Between 2006 and 2009, Mr Kanagaiyan worked as a legal practitioner employee at the sole practitioner law practice of Ravi James (trading as Ravi James & Associates). From 2009 to 2015, he worked as the princiapl of his sole practitioner law practice trading as S.K. Lawyers, with a Victorian Principal with trust authorisation and practising certificate. He surrendered his authorisation practising certificate in April 2015. The Tribunal heard that Mr Kanagaiyan had obtained at least three bank loans stating he had no children (he has two), overstating his income and assets, and understating his liabilities.

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Tim McGraw signs for Deni Ute Muster ■ International star Tim McGraw has been confirmed to headline with Lee Kernaghan, John Williamson and Beccy Cole at the Deni Ute Muster on October 4-5. Also appearing will be Ross Wilson, Travis Collins, Adam Harvey, Sunny Cowgirls, Ben Ransom and Aleyce Simmonds. This will be the 21st Deni Ute Muster. Edward River Flat, Wheat Fields, Rice Paddy and Peppin Paddock campsites are already sold out. The Muster annually attracts close to 20,000 people of all ages. More than 1000 volunteers mobilise each year to help put on the event which donates close to $100,000 back to community groups. Back in 1999, a group of community minded locals came together with the aim to start a rural themed festival to bring visitors to Deniliquin, a vibrant town on the edge of the outback, which was struggling with a crippling drought. In its first year, the Deni Ute Muster had approximately 5000 patrons and set a new Guinness World Record for the most number of legally paraded utes at 2839 – a record which still stands today. McGraw is an American country singersongwriter and actor. McGraw has released 15 studio albums. 10 of those albums have reached number 1 on the Top Country Albums charts, with his 1994 breakthrough album Not a Moment Too Soon being the top country album of 1994. Lee Kernaghan reinvigorated Australian country Mmusic in the 1990s, synthesising traditional country themes with his own brand of rural rock and images of an evolving regional culture. Songs like The Outback Club, Boys from The Bush, Hat Town, She’s My Ute and Australian Boy are now modern day anthems. With a career nearing 50 years, John Williamson released his 20th studio album, Butcherbird, in August 2018. Beccy Cole has been delighting Australian music fans with her unique brand of true entertainment for 25 years.

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Victorian Arts Sans Frontières A survey of paints, paintings, and drawings by Damon Kowarsky. Contained within the many structures that man has built across the earth for habitation, ritual and gatherings is an inherent power. Sans Frontières presents a global perspective in the way structures embody narratives of culture, power and agency. Exhibition: March 10-May 5. Warrnambool Art Gallery 26 Lieberg St, Warrnambool - Peter Kemp

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Entertainment

Gasworks gala night

What’s On What Would Bill Murray Do?

National Gallery Liquid Light: 500 years of Venetian Glass Venetian Glass is famous throughout the world for its vibrant colour and crystalline clarity, elaborate design and unmatched craftmanship honed over hundreds of years by local artisans on the island of Murano in Venice, Italy. Liquid Light: 500 Years of Venetian Glass draws upon the National Gallery of Victoria's extensive holdings of Venetian Glass, ranging in date from the 16th to the 20th century including ANGV's especially rich material from the 19th century revival period. In displays exploiting the characteristic brilliance and vivid colour palette of Murano glass, the exhibition traverses five centuries of style - from Baroque to post-modernism through display of glassware, including elaborate champagne flutes and goblets, bowls and vases, tableware and decorative objects. Highlights from the exhibition include an opulent Serpent-stem goblet from the early 17th century, replete with intertwining dragons that coil around its stem, and a bottleshaped Patchwork by Fulvio Bianconi, c.1950, created by masterfully fusing blocks od coloured glass into a kaleidoscope of colour. In 1871 a large collection of Venetian Glass was acquired by the NGV directly from Venice by the proconsul in the Kingdom of Italy, and a further group of works was acquired in 1874, from the manufactory of Antonio Salviati, the father of the Venetian Glass revival. Further important groups on 19th century Venetian glass entered the Collection from the Italian displays at the 1880-81 Melbourne International Exhibition. Exhibition March 8 - April 13. National Gallery of Victoria 150 St Kilda Rd., Melbourne - Peter Kemp

Time Machine Ian the time machine The physic Brian Greene says, "The bottom line is that Time Travel is allowed by the laws of physics". Artist Cameron Semmens wanted to allow that possibility through this fun, fully interactive time machine called IAN - wholly powered by imagination. There are dials to turn, buttons to press, levers to pull and children are invited to imagine themselves as babies, as teenagers, as adults and even beyond death - to travel through the potentials of their life … and maybe to dream some dreams never before dreamt. IAN is created out of recycled tech, cardboard and gaffer tape. He is 12-foot-long fivefoot-high and contains eight control/play panels, 49 digital clock radios and a central control unit with toy-stick and time helmet. IAN is a marvellous monstrosity of manic play potentials. Exhibition: February, March, April. Venue: Burrinja Foyer. Burrinja Gallery 351 Glenfern Rd, Upwey - Peter Kemp

Heide History History Tour Heide Past and Present: Learn about the fascinating history of Heide, from the early days when John and Sunday Reid first purchased the property in 1934 through to its evolution into a museum of modern and contemporary art and public sculpture park. Every Sunday 2pm. Heide Museum of Modern Art 7 Templestowe Rd., Bulleen

● Dolly Diamond. Photo: Lachlan Woods ■ When it comes to launching cabaret you can The festival also features two daytime offerbank on the panache and wicked dynamism of ings. For singers, Ginger and Tonic’s Singing host Dolly Diamond. in Harmony workshop will teach the basics of On Gala Night she unveiled The Gasworks vocal percussion. Park Cabaret Project 2019 with an evening of Treat yourselves to this one as the G and T’s preview performances by the festival artists. give you the chance to sing one of their own Buzzy, song-writer/comedian Jude Perl en- four-part arrangements. gaged us in story, song and on keyboard with The Candy Totts billed for 10.30am on SatI’m a Good Person, hinting at her autobiographi- urday (Mar. 2) promises to be wild. Advertised cal festival piece The Saga of SugarHope as dance/song extravaganza best suited to baRecords. Hailed cabaret artist Selina Jenkins’s trans- bies, pre-schoolers and their parents. Additionally, Milke is conducting an evening ported us along with two women choosing life on the road to escape misery of house rental in workshop for self-producers, independent producers and artists providing the basics in show Thy Neighbour. Selina’s voice, lyrics, blues and dark com- production including budgeting and marketing. Jointly produced by Gasworks Art Park and edy captured the essence beautifully. Multi ARIA winner Sally Cameron was in Backpack On Productions, this thrilling four superb voice presenting excerpts from her New day event is an outstanding, all-female line-up American Tune, a selection of soulful Eva of local talent performed in the Theatre and Studio spaces of the Arts Park Cassidy songs. Venue: 21 Graham St , Albert Park A capella superstars Ginger and Tonic gave us a taste of their Australian Treasures and Guilty Bookings: 8606 4200 Pleasures. They have adopted a fresh approach frontdesk@gasworks.org.au to their signature style in their show of favourite Dates: Until March 2 Australian songs, rock anthems and pop hits. – Review by Sherryn Danaher

One Man Breaking Bad ■ Following the success of Better Call Saul and in advance of the Breaking Bad movie, One Man Breaking Bad plays a limited run for this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival plus select shows around Australiacapital cities. Devised in Melbourne by comedy writer extraordinaire Matthew Hardy (Chick Flick, Graham Norton Show, Effie the Virgin Bride), One Man Breaking Bad was the smash hit of the Edinburgh Festival (twice), sold out in New York, London, Brussels, Mumbai, Sydney, Auckland and even The Roxy on Sunset in LA. Australian fans again have the chance to see Miles Allen, all the way from LA, recreate every character from the TV series. Allen smacks the senses with his supercharged, crazily accurate renditions of all the iconic characters, including Walter White, Jesse, Saul, Skyler, Hank, Walt Junior, Mike and Gus Fring. Allen’s impersonations break all six seasons down into one tour de force performance. Melbourne Season: Thornbury Theatre. Friday April 5 Croxton Hotel. Saturday, April 6 Caravan Club. Sunday, April 7 . (3.30pm) Espie Gershwin. Wednesday, April 10 Croxton Hotel. Thursday April 11 Yarraville Club. April 12 and April 13 Doors: 8.30pm -10.45pm. Tickets: From $39.90. Bookings: http://davidroywilliams.com/

● David Toecl ■ What Would Bill Murray Do? is presented for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival from March 27-April 8 at the Imperial Hotel, Bourke St, City. The show is written and presented by David Tieck, who promises to show off at least 37 weird, reckless and flippantly foolish ideas, as well as possibly up to as many as one profound idea. Taking a note from Bill Murray’s beautiful approach to life and comedy, this visceral show weaves together mischievous characters and sublime silliness with poems, songs and ridiculous joy. Tieck and Murray have a lot in common; they both studied at The Second City Chicago, they both have brothers, they’re both survivors of horrific cystic acne and they both love to leave audiences with a new life philosophy on how to have the most fun ever. Melbourne based Tieck is coming off the back of sold out shows at MICF 2018, Edinburgh Fringe 2018 and Adelaide Fringe 2019. He was a Dandy Minion in Taylor Macs: A 24 Decade History Of Popular Music at last year’s Melbourne Festival. And fun-fact, Tieck has published three books, and regularly writes freelance humour features for the Herald Sun. This will be Tieck’s first MICF solo show, directed by Sharnema Nougar (Fringe Wives Club). Venue: Imperial Hotel, 2-8 Bourke St, Melbourne Time: 6.30pm. Running Time: 50 mins Dates: March 27-April 8 (no show Wed April 3) Tickets: Full Price $22 Concession $18, Groups $18, Bookings: comedyfestival.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold

Artiost Initiative

■ As part of rebranding the gallery, Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery is pleased to announce that the Gallery is offering one free exhibition to a local artist or group living and/or working in the City of Maroondah. This initiative aims to support and foster the local artists and to showcase the talents of the artistic community. The selected artist or group will be invited to exhibit in the newly opened Gallery 2 space, adjacent to 1. To apply go to Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery application form (docx.10KB) Further information phone 9298 4553. Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery 32 GreenwoodAve, Ringwood - Peter Kemp

Schwarz Gallery

● Miles Allen in One Man Breaking Bad.

Cataract by Daniel von Sturmer Cataract is an innovative new work, constructed of a 9x9 grid of screens that play a series of 81 short videos, capturing small scale 'events' in the world. Recorded with an Exhibition opened February 2 and closes March 23. Schwarz Gallery 185 Flinders Lane, Melbourne - Peter Kemp

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■ Two young professionals working in Colac have launched a campaign to raise the speed limit of the Princes Hwy between Colac and Werribee. Rebecca Alexander and Anna Fitzgerald want the State Government to increase the speed limit on the major arterial road to 110 kilometres an hour - Colac Herald

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Gift money returns

■ Stawell Gift prize money levels have been restored through a new agreement between the State Government, Northern Grampians Shire Council and the Stawell Athletic Club. The three parties have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding, with the agreement restoring prize money levels and retaining broadcast arrangements for the 2019 Stawell Gift. - Ararat Advertiser

Sexual assault

■ Sexual Crimes Squad detectives are investigating after a woman was sexually assaulted in Echuca. Police said the woman was on Goulburn Rd when she was assaulted about 3.15am on February 10. - Riverine Herald

New leader

■ Gippsland and East Gippsland Aboriginal Co-operative has welcomed a new chief executive officer in Jamie Williamson. Mr Williamson has extensive experience in aboriginal affairs and was previously the Koori Liaison Officer based in Bairnsdale some years ago before leaving Gippsland to further his knowledge. - Bairnsdale Advertiser

Hemp licensed

■ With a beef farming background, Cathy Briant and Andrew Peart admit they have little expertise in cropping. But, they have taken on a crop that is creating a lot of interest. Industrial hemp is an industry in its early stages in Australia. Cathy and Andrew hope they can be part of its growth. Licensed under the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act, Cathy and Andrew are licensed to grow industrial hemp that has to meet strict testing and security guidelines. - Warragul Gazette

Be prepared

■ Simpson and District Community Centre joined forces with the Cobden and District Community Bank to produce 1000 emergency bags to be distributed in the wider community. Centre co-ordinator Debra Smith said the ‘Be Prepared Bag’ would act as a bit of a prompt for people in an emergency. “There’s a list of things you might need in an emergency on one side and the other one is a list of emergency contact numbers. They have CFA information as well as kids’ colouring tools inside,” she said. - Cobden Timboon Coast Times

MP slammed

■ Comments by Member for Mallee, Andrew Broad, that politics was tougher on women because of “the very nature of biology” have been slammed as outdated and disrespectful. Mr Broad made the statement on Thursday in a doorstop interview after Julie Bishop announced her departure from politics. - Sunraysia Daily

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■ A prionerring scientist and a $300,000 philanthropic donation from a local family has seen the creation of one of Australia’s most powerful fluorescence microscopes, based at Bendigo’s La Trobe University. The family providing the donation wish to remain anonymous. - Bendigo Weekly

● Aimée Sanderson (Aunt Bella), Cat Jardine (Aunt Gert), Henry Smith (Arty) and Robbie Nicholson (Jay) in Lost in Yonkers. Photo: David Belton ■ A wonderful interpretation signed by Gayle Poor and Owen false entries, Calvary Health of Neil Simon’s ‘dramedy’ Lost Evans transports the audience Care ACT Ltd reported earnin Yonkers plays in Rosanna into this time and place in Yon- ings of $1.925 million in the until March 2, presented by the kers, with admirable attention June 30, 2014 financial report. HeidelbergTheatre Company. to detail. Once the entries were reUnder Gayle Poor’s direcCongratulations also to the adjusted to reflect the true fition, this show exudes the pow- staging team for their effi- nancial position, Calvary erful energy known as ‘enter- ciently choreographed set Health CareACT Ltd reported tainment’, capturing the emo- changes, and to Emma Fox a loss of $9.451 million. tion and sadness threaded (lighting design) and Rob Mr Armistead was senthrough Simon’s script, and Wanless (sound design) for tenced this month. In relation making us laugh with great de- their well-executed contribu- to causing the false entries, Mr livery of the witty one-liners. tions. Armistead was sentenced to a Set in 1942, the story tells of When drawn together, the $1000 good behaviour bond for teenage brothers Arty and Jay threads of the play reaffirm the two years. He was also fined being sent to live with their importance of the strength and $3000. German-Jewish immigrant love of a family, despite flaws He was sentenced to a grandmother in New York for and resentments. $1000 good behaviour for two 10 months while their father, Don’t miss this show. Qual- years and fined $2000 in relaEddie, travels to work and re- ity theatre in the ‘burbs indeed. tion to the charges of providpay a debt incurred during their Performance Details: Until ing false information to the late mother’s cancer treatment. March 2 company auditor. Their new digs are shared Venue: Heidelberg Theatre, As a result of his conviction, with the delightful but mentally- 36 Turnham Ave, Rosanna Mr Armistead is automatically challenged Aunt Bella and gunBookings: www.htc.org.au disqualified from managing carrying small-time hood, or 9457 4117. companies for five years. Uncle Louis. - Cheryl Threadgold ASIC’s investigation folDirector Poor has aslowed the lodgement of a resembled an excellent cast. port by the company auditor. Firstly, Henry Smith as Arty The matter was prosecuted and Robbie Nicholson as his by the Commonwealth Direcbrother Jay present terrific, tor of Public Prosecutions. naturalistic performances as ■ Wayne AllanArmistead, of two polite, yet normal, teenage Portland, has been convicted boys in their new, at times chal- after pleading guilty to two Australian Securites and Investlenging, situation. Aimée Sanderson (Bella) ments Commission charges of lights up the stage with her ef- causing false entries to be re- ■ Riley Nottingham has comfervescent portrayal of her lov- corded in the financial records menced as Associate Producer able, unpredictable character, of Calvary Health Care ACT of ABC’s The Weekly with while Seth Kannof’s sincerity Ltd and providing false infor- Charlie Pickering. as Eddie underpins justification mation to the company auditor. ■ Deputy Editor at Between September 2012 Mumbrella, Josie Tutty, will for the boys’ situation. Lindy Yeates (Grandma) and July 2014 Mr Armistead, depart the publication on April commands the stage with her who was the Chief Financial 5. stooped presence, embodying Officer of Calvary Health Care ■ Former AFL player Nick the hard exterior/sad interior of ACT Ltd, caused 28 false en- Riewoldt has been secured by this hard-working, formidable tries to be made in the finan- Crocmedia for 2019. Nick will cial records of Calvary Health appear on 1116 SEN's Breakwoman. Another top performance is Care ACT Ltd to incorrectly fast program every Monday, enjoyed from Liam Gillespieas state revenue for the 2012-2013 and will also co-host the show charismatic Louis, perceived and 2013-2014 financial years. for a number of weeks in July. Between July and August ■ Alistair Finlay has been as the family protector, but 2014 Mr Armistead gave in- promoted to Editor of the questionably employed. Cat Jardine is great as Gert formation to the company au- Ballarat Times and Golden with her nervous breathing ditor relating to the affairs of Plains Times. He was previproblem, adding glamour with Calvary Health Care ACT Ltd ously the Associate Editor for that he knew to be false. both titles and has been in jourher stylish costume. Primarily as a result of the nalism for five years. The living room set de-

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● Oliver Cowen in Silent Knight. ■ Hearsay Theatre presents the mime sketch show Silent Knight in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival from April 1 – 7 in Globe Alley (formerly Belleville). This physical comedy performance features Oliver Cowen performing a variety of characters. Follow John the Knight (aforementioned man in aforementioned terrible knight costume) on a voyage through the imagination of an emotionally-stunted man-child as we meet a cowboy, Godzilla, a marathon runner, a recreational swimmer, a priest, a sheep, and a very, very good magician. Oliver Cowen first debuted in the 2018 Melbourne International Comedy Festival with fellow performer Kayla Hamill in The Tales of Witchmen. This was developed into a solo show for the 2018 Melbourne Fringe Festival. This show is designed to be accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing. Not child friendly. Performance Dates: April 1 - 7 Time: 6pm Cost: $25 - $30 Venue: Globe Alley (formerly Belleville) Tickets: https://www.comedyfestival. com.au/2019/shows/silent-knight - Cheryl Threadgold

Altar Boyz ■ PEP Productions presents Altar Boyz until March 2 at the Doncaster Playhouse. Altar Boyz is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Gary Adler and Michael Patrick Walker and book by Kevin Del Aguila. The story tells of a fictitious Christian boyband on the last night of their national Raise the Praise tour. The Boyz are five all-singing, all-dancing heartthrobs from Ohio: Matthew, Mark, Luke, Juan and Abraham. As they perform their signature hits such as Rhythm In Me, The Calling and I Believe, the Boyz question their loyalty to each other and ask whether or not faith is really holding them together. PEP Productions’ show is directed by Melanie Xavier, with musical direction by Benjamin Samuel and choreography by Melanie Ott. Dates: Until March 2 Venue: Doncaster Playhouse, 679 Doncaster Rd, Doncaster Tickets: Adult - $32 Concession - $27 Group Booking (10 tickets or more) - $25 Online: www.trybooking.com/ZPSU Phone: 0418 549 187. - Cheryl Threadgold

Boroondara Arts New Community Exhibition opens at Town Hall Gallery Come along to the Town Hall Gallery to see the newest community exhibition, Hot Options by Linda Judge. Hot Options is a collection of approximately 20 small, acrylic works depicting items from the artist's wardrobe from the past 28 years. For each painting Linda has depicted an item of clothing carefully recording the label, the date of purchase and he place where she wore it. Over time, this ever-increasing body of work has become a diary of the artist's life, commemorating significant events. Exhibition closes March 10. Boroondara Arts 360 Burwood Rd, Hawthorn - Peter Kemp

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Events Nightsongs

● Composer and musician Natasha Moszenin ■ In Nightsongs, consummate composer/ songwriter/musician Natasha Moszenin relates the literal and emotional darkness of the human experience. She accompanies three talented vocalists (Claire Nicholls, Jai Luke, Lara Vocisano) performing 17 songs, mostly written by Natasha but also Leo Taylor, Charles Mercovich and Antonella Salvestro. Exploring anxiety, fears, love, loss and insomnia, Hello Anxiety, I Would Rather be Blind and Sleep Waiting hit home for their stark pathos. Lighter, but thought-provoking, contemporary issues, are humorously portrayed in Superlative City, on the foibles of technology and Detox Queen depicting perfection through fad diets. Jai Luke’s gestures and facial expressions added dimension to his performance. Lara Vocisano occasionally showed signs of vocal restraint as if the venue were too small for her powerful voice. Singing both ensemble and solo, the trio are a perfect complement to Natasha whose virtuoso keyboard performance glides the audience through this odyssey. – Review by Sherryn Danaher ★ Our Little Evening of Misery If it takes a lifetime of observation to collect actor, poet, songwriter Leo Taylor’s satirical offerings, it’s worth waiting for. Written and performed by Leo, Our Little Night of Misery is, ironically, a delight. From his opening remark on his chosen outfit, stereotypical poet’s garb of jeans, long black coat, hat and dark glasses, through to his perspectives on pet-owners, Leo has a nose for pretence and the ridiculous. His sensitive commentaries on society’s injustices towards the marginalised, frequently illustrated by personal story, capture the heart. He employs imagination and levity to deal with his lifelong cogitations on the Bible, war, violence towards women, black deaths in custody, being born on the wrong side of the tracks and even Lucifer’s raw deal at the hands of God. Leo’s deep, resonant voice beguiles with this night of poetry, narrative, song and a touch of rap. The double bill of Nightsongs and Our Little Evening of Misery played at the MC Showroom, Prahran. – Review by Sherryn Danaher

Burrinja Gallery Returning to my Home Country: Jonathan Kumintjarra Brown (1960 1997) Retrospective. As a member of the stolen Generations Kumintjarra Brown grew up with white foster parents. The trauma of forced separation and cultural disconnection never left him. At Neil McLeod's Tecoma studio in the 1990s he met artists like Lin Onus and Rover Thomas and took to painting. Following on from Burrinja's award-winning touring exhibition Black Mist Burnt Country, inspired by Jonathan's paintings, this retrospective tells a uniquely Australian story. Exhibition runs to March 24. Burrinja Gallery, 351 Glenfern Rd, Upwey. – Peter Kemp

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Places To Go

Worst little Warehouse

● Lala Barlow and Robbie Smith in The Worst Little Warehouse in London. Photo: Ben Fon ■ When 12 people live under the same roof in the real-life couple were living in a converted a converted warehouse in North London, what warehouse in North London. Struggling with could possibly go wrong? exorbitant rents and the city’s ongoing housing The Worst Little Warehouse in London is crisis, the pair lived with 10 housemates for over being presented from March 25-31 at The But- a year, discovering so many tales that were too terfly Club. good not to share. This comedy follows Lala Barlow and Robbie Co-creator Robbie Smith says: “Almost evSmith as two wide-eyed koalas fresh off the ery day something would happen in the wareboat, looking for the perfect place to call home. house and you would think ‘you just can’t come Shortlisted for Best Musical and Best Caba- up with this stuff’ and eventually we decided ret at Edinburgh Fringe Festival and currently that we had to get these characters on stage.” playing Adelaide Fringe, they relive their year Performance Details: March 25 - 31 at 7pm living at Daisy Mill as they discover high ceil- (60 minutes) ings, bathroom baskets and very thin bedroom The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place (off Little walls. Collins), Melbourne Directed by Sarah Redmond and starring Tickets: $27-34 every worst housemate ever, The Worst Little To book tickets: thebutterflyclub.com/show/ Warehouse In London is based on a true story. the-worst-little-warehouse-in-lo The cabaret’s inspiration came about when - Cheryl Threadgold

‘Estate’ on exhibition

● A snapshot of Marnie Haddad’s photographic works from The Estate. ■ Photographic artist Marnie Haddad unveils nited Haddad’s artistic sensibilities. She recalls her new exhibition, The Estate at Graham being mesmerised by a flickering theatre scene Geddes Salon from March 15-22. where ordinary objects take on deeper meanHaddad’s new works draw inspiration from ings - the pink fluted glass, the arranged flowher love of classic film, depicted in her evoca- ers, the street lights casting stripes through the tive and poetic portraits utilising shadow and venetian blinds, the curtains locked in folds, the subtle illumination. heavy velvet that sits and fades with the migratHaddad’s cinematic staging, rich painterly ing sun. hues, technical precision and romantic underHaddad’s quest is to keep alive and tangible currents are beautifully articulated in this latest the fantasy that sometimes exists only in our photographic essay. minds. The result is the creation of an etched In this series, Haddad illustrates “a time that memory that is everlasting and invites you to stands still”. She commented – “it’s neither com- dance within the possibilities. forting nor unsettling, but focuses on the kind of Exhibition Address and viewing times: Gratimeless travel that stops the clock and allows ham Geddes, 883 High St, Armadale. your imagination to transport you”. Details: 11am – 3pm Friday March 15, SatThe fantasy that cinema brings has long ig- urday 16, Tuesday 19, Wednesday 20 .

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● Leta Hong Fincher ■ As part the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre celebrations to mark International Women’s Day, Leta Hong Fincher, author of Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China, will feature in a free lunchtime conversation with Bhakthi Puvanenthiran, Associate Editor of crikey. com on March 6. The lunchtime talk is one of a number of free events during the week for the Centre. On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese Government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for 37 days. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf, and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. But the Feminist Five are only symbols of a much larger feminist movement of university students, civil rights lawyers, labour activists, performance artists and online warriors that is prompting an unprecedented awakening among China’s urban, educated women. In Betraying Big Brother, journalist and scholar Fincher argues that the popular, broad-based movement poses a unique challenge to China’s authoritarian regime today. Through interviews with the Feminist Five and other leading Chinese activists, Leta Hong Fincher illuminates both the difficulties they face and their “joy of betraying Big Brother,” as one of the Feminist Five wrote of the defiance she felt during her detention. Tracing the rise of a new feminist consciousness now finding expression through the #MeToo movement, and describing how the Chinese government has suppressed the history of its own feminist struggles, Betraying Big Brother is a story of how the movement against patriarchy could reconfigure China and the world. Leta Hong Fincher has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Dissent Magazine, BBC, CNN and others. She won the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award for her China reporting. Fluent in Mandarin, Leta is the first American to receive a PhD from Tsinghua University’s Department of Sociology in Beijing. She has a master’s degree from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree with high honours from Harvard University. The Queen Victoria Women's Centre is also hosting other free events for International Women's Day: Reflection, an indoor garden in the Lonsdale St entrance of the Centre celebrating the long-time practice of plants in marking moments on our lives – from sorrow at a memorium to the love and hope of a little sapling presented at citizenship ceremonies. It’s for all to pop in, take a seat, drink from the cooler and have a break surrounded by plants and sculptures created by Eliza Jane Gilchrist in the former hospital entrance. Fo[r]epast – an event that invites visitors to bring a plate and settle in for a chat. Tables of women in the QVWC’s historic Victoria Room can undoubtedly come up with some great conversations. This event will be facilitated by artist Jamie Lewis who specializes in feeding the art of conversation with food and provocation. Together with 10 table hosts from a range of professional backgrounds including sports, art, public service, science, and more Jamie will prod, push and smooth discussions about place, places, placemaking in the context of host specialisations, with questions inspired by this year’s IWD theme #BalanceforBetter - Cheryl Threadgold

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Crossroads By Rob Foenander info@countrycrossroads com.au

Elgee Park country ■ Elgee Park Winery in Dromana will come alive with country music on Sunday, March 17, March from 1.30pm onwards. Bands listed to play include The Distance, Leadbetter and Swain, Movin On, The Dynamic Duo,The Dalton Gang, Danny Stain plus Rough Cut. Tickets at elgeepark.com.au or at Mornington Music.ood Friday Appeal.

Chess sessions ■ Australian music great Chris Stockley along with guests James Black, Kelly Auty and Robert Price are set to celebrate an extraordinary hot bed of Blues, Soul, RandB and Jazz at the Memo Music Hall, St Kilda. The set list will cover music from the famous Chess records roster that included some of America's biggest stars namely Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Etta James. Sunday (March 3) commencing 3 pm. Tickets at Trybooking or at the door if available.

Brunswick 2019 ■ The annual Brunswick Music Festival kicks off on March 3 for two weeks of live music in the heart of Melbourne's most popular suburb for songwriters. Street parties, a Music Photography Exhibition, Dolly Parton Tribute Night and more, plus lots of activities and fun for the whole family is on offer. - Rob Foenander

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Midnight Cuvée cools off ■ I live in relative luxury in the CentralWest NSWtown of Molong - high, ornately decorated ceilings, long velvet curtains, elegant staircases, and all within a short stroll of the Town Hall and a couple of pubs. They're certainly much grander digs than I could have afforded in Sydney, though I probably should have listened more closely to a friend when she raised the potential problem of heating the place in winter. That's the season when I live in my office with fan-heater on and door shut, and scurry to the bedroom and kitchen. But if I needed any convincing on the reality of global warming it has come through the relenting heat of this summer. Not that I've been alone in the realisation, with plenty of folk, including some winemakers and grapegowers, reacting to the situation. Andrew Koerner, Chief Winemaker at the normally coolclimate central Victorian Blue Pyrenees winery and vineyard, has taken in fruit from the even cooler Macedon district to the south-east for his premium bubbly, Midnight Cuvée. "The warmer vintages of late have necessitated the inclusion of even cooler climate, higher natural acid grapes to maintain the continual improvement of Midnight Cuvée," he said.

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Stateside with Gavin Wood in West Hollywood

Post-Oscar parties all over WeHo ■ Hi everyone, from my suite at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites comes this week's news.

Out and About

Eat and stay with Aussies

■ E.P. & L.P., run by Grant Smillie, originally from Melbourne, is located at 603 North La Cienega Boulevard, West Hollywood. E.P. is an Asian Eating House without regional boundaries. With solid roots in Thai cuisine, E.P. combines overtones of Chinese, Fijian and Vietnamese influences, blending them with the freshest Californian produce to create an offering unlike any other. Their menu is designed to be shared family style. L.P. Rooftop Bar has spectacular views of the Hollywood Hills and the Sunset Strip, L.P. is one of the largest format roof decks in Los Angeles. ■ A stay at Ramada Plaza Hotel West Hollywood Hotel and Suites places you in the heart of West Hollywood, within a 15minute walk of Melrose Avenue and Whiskey a Go Go, situated at 8585 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, which has now become tourist central. Both locations are run by Australians from Melbourne. E.P. & L.P. is run be Grant Smillie who not only is a world famous D.J. but he is an entrepreneur with new and fascinating restaurants opening around the world. Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites is run by Alan Johnson who is a world famous hotelier and entrepreneur. It gives great comfort to travelling Australians to know that these two venues are usually the first port of call when travelling into a city for the first time.

Danger in kitchens

● Pictured outside Cicconi's restaurant in West Hollywood at a post Oscar party are Grant Smillie and Alan Johnson.

Warning on scooters

Peter Tork dies at 77 ■ Peter Tork, bassist, keyboardist and singer for iconic late '60s pop-rock band The Monkees died last Thursday (Feb. 21). He was 77. Tork's death was confirmed by his sister, Anne Thorkelson, though Thorkelson did not share the cause of death or where Tork died. Tork rocketed to fame as the elder statesman at 24 of The Monkees in 1966, when the band's show debuted on NBC. The Monkees was created to mirror the success of The Beatles' music and movies of the era. While the band's show only lasted for two seasons, it won an Emmy Award for outstanding comedy and turned the band into recording superstars. The Monkees with Tork on bass, keyboards and vocals, Michael Nesmith on guitar, Micky Dolenz on drums and Davy Jones on vocals sold 35 million albums in 1967, according to The Post, doubling both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones combined. A string of singles released by the group shot to the top of the Billboard chart, including Daydream Believer, I'm a Believer, and Last Train to Clarksville.

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Help for smokers? ■ It has been one of the most pressing unanswered questions in public health: Do e-cigarettes actually help smokers quit? Now, the first, large rigorous assessment offers an unequivocal answer: yes. The study, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that e-cigarettes were nearly twice as effective as conventional nicotine replacement products, like patches and gum, for quitting smoking. The success rate was still low 18 percent among the e-cigarette group, compared to 9.9 percent among those using traditional nicotine replacement therapy but many researchers who study tobacco and nicotine said it gave them the clear evidence they had been looking for.

Americans getting fatter

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■ What has the greatest influence on air pollution since sliced bread? Toast. A new study from the University of Texas at Austin warns that toasters, candles, and other household smoke makers expose people to more air pollution than standing in a busy intersection does, The Times of London reported. The most dangerous of these is toasters, which immediately send toxic particles into the air once they're turned on, researcher Marina Vance told The Times. Burnt toast is particularly harmful. If you can't quit the buttered bread, researchers suggest only heating it to light crisp. Other culprits include house cleaners, air purifiers and sprays. Cooking activities like roasting and frying can also pollute the air in your home.

■ Americans are getting fatter and fatter and not just because it's the holidays. A new federal report released says American men and women of all ages have gotten heavier and thicker during the 21st century so far. Women's average waists grew over 2 inches from 36.3 in 1999-2000 to 38.6 inches in 2015-16 while men's have stretched just over an inch, from 39.0 to 40.2 inches during the same 17-year period. The report was based on data gathered through the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which looked at weight, height, waist circumference, and body-mass index in about 45,000 Americans over 20 years old. "It's what your grandma would have told you, and hearing it from a professor now is no less important," said Shailendra Patel from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. “You need a varied diet, a balanced diet, with smaller portions. Your plate should look colorful, and you need to be exercising at least three times a week."

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■ Broken bones and head trauma, with only 5 per cent of patients wearing helmets, are among the serious injuries documented by a UCLA Medical Centre study of electric scooter riders seeking emergency room treatment in Westwood and Santa Monica findings that support anecdotal reports by local doctors and lawyers that scooter injuries have become an ongoing problem. The UCLA study published Jan. 25 in the peer-reviewed medical research journal JAMA Network Open accounts for 249 patients treated for scooter-related injuries at UCLA Medical Centre Santa Monicaand UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Centre between Sept. 1, 2017, and Aug. 31, 2018. The vast majority of patients had been riding scooters, but 11 were pedestrians hit by a scooter, five had tripped over a parked scooter, and five had been attempting to lift or carry a scooter not in use. The average age of the patients was 33, 10.8 per cent were younger than 18, and 4.8 per ecnt had a blood alcohol level higher than 0.05 or were "perceived to be intoxicated by a physician," according to the study. "Injuries associated with standing electric scooter use are a new phenomenon and vary in severity. In this study, helmet use was low, and a significant subset of injuries occurred in patients younger than 18 years old, the minimum age permitted by private scooter company regulations.

NYC, financially stressed ■ New York City is officially the most financially distressed metropolis in America, according to local debt counselors and financial analysts. The city's credit card delinquency rates and level of bad personal debt are the highest in the nation, which saw household debt and credit soar by $219 billion, or 1.6 per cent, to $13.51 trillion, in the third quarter of 2018 a record $837 billion more than its previous peak in 2008. Facing an environment of mounting personal bankruptcies and financial meltdowns, unprecedented numbers of local residents are just one paycheck away from total monetary disaster. The latest surge in toxic debt is blowing a huge hole in New Yorkers' personal finances, these experts say. Forty percent of Americans recently said they could not cover a $400 emergency.

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■ If you are considering a move to Los Angeles or just coming over for a holiday then I have got a special deal for you. We would love to see you at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites, 8585 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood. I have secured a terrific holiday deal for readers of the Melbourne Observer and The Local Paper. 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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■ Frank Wilson began his showbusiness career in 1948 and during his lifetime worked as a singer, television host, film, stage and television actor. Frank was one of our finest veteran character actors. Frank Wilson was born in Northcote in 1924. He served with the Australian Army in Borneo and Papua New Guinea during WWII. He was in a stage show at the Melbourne Tivoli in 1948. Around this time Frank married his wife Beryl. In the early 1950s Frank worked in the UK and had a very small role in the Charlie Chaplin film, A King In New York. In 1958 he was back in Australia and onstage in the first successful Australian musical comedy - Lola Montez. In 1960 I remember Frank Wilson hosted Club Seven which was a night time variety show on Channel Seven in opposition to Graham Kennedy's In Melbourne Tonight. In 1962 he had a guest role in the popular American television series Wagon Train. Frank joined Channel Nine in 1963 and hosted the talent quest show New Faces for 12 years. In 1972 he won a Logie Award for his work on New Faces. He also hosted an afternoon quiz show titled, Take The Hint. Frank was a guest star in many of the Australian television drama series such as, Homicide, Division 4, Cop Shop and Matlock Police. He had a wonderful role in the mini series

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Power Without Glory where he played Tom Trumbleward. In 1986 Lauren Bacall was in Australia for a national tour of the stage play The Sweet Bird Of Youth and Frank Wilson was cast as ‘Boss Finlay’. Frank suffered a heart attack during the Melbourne season at The Princess Theatre. Apart from his family, Lauren Bacall was a regular visitor to the hospital to give support to her co-star during his convalescence. His film credits include Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll, The Club, Breaker Morant and Crackerjack. David Williamson wrote the stage play Travelling North especially for Frank. One of his

● Frank Wilson final roles was in the brilliant television series - Kevin Trask Changi. On the day before he died in 2005 Kevin can be heard on 3AW Frank was delighted to be told that he had won The Time Tunnel on Nightline - Thursthe Best Actor Award at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival days at 10.10pm with Philip Brady and for his role in a short film, The Chess Set. Simon Owens. Frank Wilson was a great ‘all rounder’ who And on 96.5 FM applied himself to many areas in the entertainThat's Entertainment - Sundays ment business. Thank goodness that future generations will at 12 Noon. see for themselves what a marvellous film actor www.innerfm.org.au he was.

Selling flowers by the footy field OK. With John O’Keefe Packer’s split personality

● Kerry Packer ■ The stories surrounding the late Kerry Packer when he ran the Nine Network are legendary. Another story reached a climax last week. Kerry could be extra generous as exemplified when he gave Producer Gavin Disney a new Mercedes for raising the ratings on Hey, Hey It’s Saturday. A very generous gift. The same Mercedes went under the hammer when Gavin’s deceased estate was auctioned off. On the flip side Kerry could get very angry when things went pearshaped. In a tense meeting with cricketer Tony Greig, Packer hurled a cricket ball at Greig – fortunately it missed and conversation continued .

Healp is on the way

● Busy on the ground, some 280 battery-powered trolleys and a complete miniature-railway-like system shuttle 20-million flowers and decorative plants around the vast 52ha Aalsmeer Flower Auction building near Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport daily. ■ The next time you’re worrying lung countries as Australia, Ecuador, about what flower, rose or maybe potColombia, Ethiopia and Kenya, with ted plant to buy for that special someroses (live and cut) the biggest sellers one, give a thought to those in the float 28 per cent of all sales ... three times ral industry charged with going along as many, in fact, as tulips sold. and buying at the daily Aalsmeer Some E4.6-billion (AU$7.3-billion) FlowerAuction in the Netherlands. worth of flowers sell here annually Because here is the biggest flower using the Dutch Auction system, in auction in the world, and held in a buildwhich the price starts high and works ing with one of the largest floor areas its way down, with daily trading starton earth – an amazing 20-million flowing at 7am and being all over by 11am ers and decorative plants being sold (Thursdays 9am.) here to commercial buyers every day, Something like 280 battery-powin a building whose floor area of ered “scooters” haul shuttles of trol518,000 square metres is 52 hectares, leys, plus a form of miniature railway, or around the equivalent of 100-plus are used to move each day’s 20-milfootball fields. lion flowers around the vast building. The first Aalsmeer flower auction An elevated Visitors’ Walking Galwas held way back in 1911 in a simple lery for viewing the flowers on dislocal eatery – the Café Welcome – and play and the auctions in progress has after that, auctions moved around variinformation panels in four languages... ous sites as they grew in size over the and be prepared for a long walk to next 60-odd years, until the current with David Ellis take-in as much as you can, for regigantic purpose-built market was opened in 1972 near Amsterdam’s Flowers now sold here come from member this building has a floor area Schiphol Airport as the-then world’s of 52 hectares. across Europe, and such diversely farbiggest building by floor area. - David Ellis

Struth

■ Word on Hollywood’s Celebrity Street is a major, major performer is undergoing help for depression. The star is seeking help from family and church, and future appearances have been postponed. In fairness to those concerned we will refrain from mentioning names at this point, and if there is truth in the rumour we wish him a speedy recovery.

Mates on a mission

■ You may recall the mini-series The Full Monty last year on Seven, ‘ Ratings were encouraging enough to give the concept another go, and filming has already begun. Featuring Shane Jacobson, Todd McKenney, Kris Smith and Brian ‘BT’Taylor, the series titled Mates On aAMission will visit countries around the globe examining medical remedies . Assume that a fund raiser is attached to the series. Watch program guides for telecast dates.

Welcome home to Melbs

■ Paying Melbourne a welcome visit are Pat Carroll and husband John Farrar . Pat and John live in Malibu with their two sons who have inherited the love of music and kept busy performing with rock bands. Pat is sure to catch up with pal, Denise Drysdale who is resident in Queensland recovering from a fall , and an eye operation. Now 90 per cent fit, Denise considering an invitation to return to Studio 10 .

Ozzy, Ozzy, Ozzy

■ Vintage rocker Ozzy Osborne has been forced to cancel his headline tour ofAustralia at the Download Festival. Ozzy’s health is pretty BA - upper respiratory infection appears to be the problem. Refunds are being provided by booking agencies. - John O’Keefe

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■ Doveton Medical Centre has been servicing the local community for 55 years. Dr Ravi Wijesekara joined the practice in 2016. Dr Ravi is now the owner and Practice Principal along with co-owner Dr Priyanthi Gunawardana. Dr Ravi graduated in Sri Lanka in 1994 and has been practising as a GP in Australia since 2007. He began his career in Australia at Western Health and has worked in various departments including the Emergency Department and Psychiatric Unit. He and his family then moved to East Gippsland and he worked in rehabilitation before moving into General Practice in 2009. Dr Ravi has a special interest in skin procedures and all areas of general practice. Dr Pryianthi graduated in Sri Lanka in 1994 and also began working in Australia in 2008. She began her career in Australia at the Western Hospital in the Emergency Department and then moved to East Gippsland working in Latrobe Hospital Emergency Department. Dr Priyanthi gained extensive experience in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Psychiatry and then moved into General Practice. Doveton Medical Centre is fully accredited, with onsite pathology, pharmacy next door and walk ins are welcome. Doveton Medical Centre Practice Nurse Kylie Griffiths has been practicing for 16 years and began her career at The Valley Private Hospital. Kylie worked on a variety of wards at Casey and Dandenong Hospital, including theatre. She then moved into general practice. She has a special interest in weight manage-

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Movies, DVDs with Jim Sherlock, Aaron Rourke What’s Hot and What’s Not in Blu-Rays and DVDs FILM: THE CHILDREN ACT: Genre: Drama. Cast: Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Ben Chaplin, Fionn Whitehead. Year: 2018. Rating: M. Length: 105 Minutes. Stars: ***½ Verdict: As her marriage to Jack flounders, eminent High Court judge has a life-changing decision to make - should she force a teenage boy to have the blood transfusion that will save his life? ... and her unorthodox visit to his hospital bedside has a profound impact on them both. Written for the screen (from his novel) by Ian McEwan (On Chesil Besch, Atonement), though at moments seemingly too tidy, this is overall a well written, well made, sensitive, respectful and thought provoking drama that examines the complexity of moral questions through relationship, religion and personal responsibility. Oscar winner Emma Thompson as the High Court Judge gives a towering and spellbinding award worthy performance with a piercing emotional punch, every moment of her screen time gripping and truly heart-felt as she so convincingly and effectively battles a judiciary system and personal human emotions. Along with fine performances by Stanley Tucci as her husband and Fionn Whitehead as the equally tormented boy in question, director Richard Eyre (Iris, Notes on a Scandal) has created a strong drama that can only succeed in reaching its emotional impact high point on the written word and performance, and this is one soars with Emma Thompson in a role that reaches a new level of excellence in an already well established award winning career. FILM: THE SEAGULL: Genre: Drama. Cast: Elizabeth Moss, Saoirse Ronan, Annette Bening, Brian Dennehy. Year: 2018/. Rating: M. Length: 98 Minutes. Stars: *** Verdict: Set in the early 20th century Russia, an aging actress pays summer visits to her brother and her son on a country estate, bringing with her a successful novelist, and as a young neighbouring girl falls in love with the novelist, things begin to spiral downward between the actress and her estranged son, among others. Though its theatrical roots are deeply embedded, this exquisitely made, slow burning character driven period drama based on the celebrated play by Anton Chekhov survives this transition to the big screen with good effect due to a briskly refined screenplay, respectful and solid direction by Michael Mayer, and delightfully quirky and commanding performances from a stellar cast, most notably Annette Bening as the eccentric and narcissistic aging actress, Irina, and Saoirse Ronan as the love struck Nina. Co-produced by Tom Hulce (Amadeus), among others, not without flaws, obviously due to budgetary restraints, however, the period detail, production design, costume design and beautiful filming location make up for any shortcomings, but make no mistake, this is an acquired taste, and if yours has a theatricality tinged with a sense of the dramatic, tragedy and a devilish twist in its tail, delivered by a cast all clearly impassioned by the material and at the top of their game, then this little nugget is just for you. FILM: THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB: Genre: Fantasy/Horror/Mystery. Cast: Clair Foy, Sylvia Hoeks, Sverrir Gudnason, Lakeith Stanfield. Year: 2018. Rating: MA15+ Length: 117 Minutes. Stars: ** Verdict: Young computer hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals, corrupt government officials and global nuclear annihilation. Disappointing addition to the "Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" series is a watchable but ultimately unfulfilling far-fetched thriller in that our heroine, or anti-heroine, has transpired from uniquely chilling and intensely searing computer hacking revenge artist, to a female James Bond style action adventure super-hero, or heroine, and the results are mixed throughout, mashing and missing much of the chemistry and idiosyncratic essence that drove her, and our interest, originally. With Beautiful filming locations throughout, Claire Foy passes the test as the cold and calculated Lisbeth Salander, along with Sverrir Gudanson as replacing Michael Nyqvist as journalist Mikael Blomhvist, comic Stephen Merchant as Frans Balder and Sylvia Hoeks as Camilla Salander, however, the main issues are not the performances, but a poorly constructed and muddled screenplay (from the superior novel by David Lagercrantz), and inferior and uninspired direction by Fede Alvarez. Created by author Stieg Larsson in the world-wide blockbuster series of books, and originated on screen in the trilogy (with Noomi Rapace), and the subsequent David Fincher U.S. remake with Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig, like the books, they all retained a formula of intense individualism, drive, compassion and intensity, but here, in attempting to turn her into a studio bloated formulaic super-hero franchise figure, she is nothing more than a poor shadow of her former self. - James Sherlock

Rourke’s Reviews The Guilty ■ (M). 85 minutes. Opens in selected cinemas February 28. For those who have felt starved of genuinely gripping thrillers in recent years, then this superb effort from Denmark will be a major shot in the arm, a magnificently satisfying film filled with twists, turns, and tension. Set at an Emergency Services Call Centre, the story centres on Asger Holm (Jacob Cedergren), a police officer currently under investigation, who has been relegated to dispatch operator until the matter has been concluded. Dismissive and condescending to those who call in, Asger soon finds himself in uncomfortable territory when he takes a call from a woman who suggests she has been kidnapped, but cannot say anything as her abductor is right next to her. As the situation becomes more dangerous, Asger tries to help the woman any way he can, before everything goes pear-shaped. Director Gustav Moller, working from a taut, intelligent script by he and Emil Nygaard Albertsen, keeps proceedings claustrophobic and intimate, never wasting a moment as he slowly turns the screws on both his main character and the audience. Cedergren is exceptional as Asger, bringing considerable dramatic weight to the production's one-set location. Will be one of the best films of the year. RATING - ****½

The Sisters Brothers ■ (MA). 121 minutes. Opens in selected cinemas February 28. Renowned French film-maker Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Rust And Bone) makes his english language debut with The Sisters Brothers, a smart deconstruction of the traditional western, which sees its title characters in an increasingly unique light. Using the Gold Rush as its backdrop, we are introduced to bounty hunter brothers Eli (John C. Reilly) and Charlie (Joaquin Phoenix), whose ruthless reputation precedes them, as they carry out their tasks with no questions asked. Their powerful boss, known as The Commodore (a barely glimpsed Rutger Hauer), enlists the duo to hunt down Kemit Warm (Riz Ahmed), who has apparently stolen from him, but will not go into specifics. Also on the case is Morris (Jake Gyllenhaal), who is already closely watching Warm, but circumstances change when all three pursuers find out what Warm has in his possession, leading to numerous unforeseen complications. Based on the 2011 novel by Patrick deWitt, cowriter/director Audiard lovingly plays with the western's form, stripping the genre of its mythology and carved-in-stone righteousness, while instilling the material with striking humanity and heart (its finale is particularly moving). Performances are outstanding, with Reilly and Phoenix sharing wonderful chemistry together, while Ahmed is much better here

than he was in Venom. Beautifully crafted, The Sisters Brothers is a film to seek out and savour, providing strong entertainment for adult audiences. RATING - ****

The Drug King ■ (MA). 139 minutes. Now streaming on Netflix. Packed with talent in front of and behind the camera, this large scale examination of the biggest drug dealer who ruled South Korea during the 1970's, is a massive disappointment, failing to make its story engaging or compelling in any way. Song Kang-ho stars as Lee Doosam, who after entering the criminal world through the UN gang in 1972, quickly transforms into a force to be reckoned with, becoming rich and powerful by distributing methamphetamine (more commonly known as crank) in Japan, then in his homeland of South Korea. On his trail is prosecutor Kim In-Goo (Cho Jung-seok), but as the political climate becomes more unstable, Lee's hold on power starts to wane, even after befriending high-ranking lobbyist Kim Jung-A (Bae Doo-na). While there is nothing inherently bad about The Drug King, writer/director Woo Min-ho (who appears to be a huge fan of Scarface) keeps the subject at arm's length, never drawing the viewer into its potentially fascinating world, which is strange considering his last effort was the critical and commercial success Inside Men, which also dealt with criminal behaviour and government corruption. The strong cast do what they can, but one wishes that Song (The Host, Snowpiercer) and Cho (The Face Reader, Hit-And-Run Squad) could have swapped roles, and the immensely talented Bae (A Girl At My Door, Air Doll) is sadly wasted. The Drug King is watchable, but should have been so much better. RATING - **½

King of Thieves ■ (M). 100 minutes. Opens in cinemas February 28. Based on the 2015 Great Hatton Garden robbery, which rocked the London jewel district, this slick but empty telling offers up an amazing cast but little else, coasting too much on nostalgia and screen personas rather than compelling, intricate writing and measured, focused direction. After the death of his wife, retired criminal Brian Reader (Michael Caine) re-unites his old gang (played by Ray Winstone, Jim Broadbent, and Tom Courtenay) to pull off a seemingly impossible heist, helped by the much younger Basil (Charlie Cox), who knows how to access the building. The plan appears to be a success, but the group start to fall prey to the phrase 'no honour among thieves'. The script follows the basic mechanics of the genre, but unfortunately nothing more. The cast are all professional, but cannot overcome the substandard material.

Top 10 Lists FEBRUARY 24-MARCH 2 THE AUSTRALIAN BOX OFFICE TOP TEN: 1. ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL. 2. WHAT MEN WANT. 3. GREEN BOOK. 4. ESCAPE ROOM. 5. THE MULE. 6. HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U. 7. ON THE BASIS OF SEX. 8. COLD PURSUIT. 9. GULLY BOY. 10. THE WANDERING EARTH. NEW RELEASES AND COMING SOON TO CINEMAS AROUND AUSTRALIA: FEBRUARY 21: STAN & OLLIE, UNDERMINED: TALES OF THE KIMBERLEY, VOX LUX. FEBRUARY 28: A DOG'S WAY HOME, FLYING THE NEST, GRETA, KING OF THIEVES, THE GUILTY. THE DVD AND BLU-RAY TOP RENTALS & SALES: 1. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY [Biography/Music/Drama/Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Mike Myers]. 2. THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB [Crime/ Thriller/Drama/Claire Foy]. 3. BOY ERASED [Drama/Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Lucas Hedges]. 4. A STAR IS BORN [Music/Drama/Romance/Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Sam Elliott]. 5. THE CHILDREN ACT [Drama/Emma Thompson, Fionn Whitehead, Stanley Tucci]. 6. HALLOWEEN [Horror/Thriller/Jamie Lee Curtis, Will Patton]. 7. THE CLOVERFIELD PARADOX [Sci-Fi/ Horror/Elizabeth Debicki, Daniel Bruhl]. 8. WILDLIFE [Drama/Carey Mulligan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Bill Camp]. 9. BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE [Crime/ Drama/Thriller/Jeff Bridges, Dakota Johnson]. Also: THE SEAGULL, SERENITY, AMERICAN ANIMALS, DON'T WORRY HE WON'T GET FAR ON FOOT, VENOM, HUNTER KILLER, ALPHA, GHOST STORIES, ZOO, IN LIKE FLYNN. NEW HOME ENTERTAINMENT RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK: THE OLD MAN & THE GUN [Crime/Comedy/ Drama/Biography/Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek]. WIDOWS [Crime/Drama/Thriller/Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki, Liam Neeson]. DVD AND/OR BLU-RAY NEW & RE-RELEASE CLASSIC MOVIES HIGHLIGHTS: FOOTLOOSE - with Bonus A3 Poster [Drama/Music/Romance/Kevin Bacon, John Lithgow]. NEW RELEASE TELEVISION, DOCUMENTARY AND MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS: CHEERS: The Complete Series 1-11. EMMA FIELDING MYSTERIES COLLECTION. - James Sherlock

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● Diana Nguyen in Dirty Diana. ■ A left of the middle stand-up show, Dirty Diana, hits the ground running at Storyville, Lonsdale St, Melbourne, March 27- April 21 amidst a blaze of storytelling, song, and dance. Covering an array of lively topics including her Mum, men, and her Mum's opinion on the topic of her and men, Diana Nguyen is talking dirty during the 2019 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Diana Nguyen just wants more work in the entertainment industry. She wants to buy a house and raise her fantasy children and she suspects that if Pauline Hanson could focus more on Asians again she might be able to keep her dreams alive. Celebrating life through the trials of a 33year-old single Vietnamese-Australian comedian, this is no longer her mother’s nightmare. It's hers. “My previous show Naked was all about my email account being hacked and a friend downloading nude images of me.”, explains Diana. “It was humiliating. I was violated and it took a long time, but I decided I didn't want to stay silent anymore so I wrote a show around it. Since Naked I've found a strength and catharsis in addressing confronting and taboo topics in my life through comedy”. Performance Season: March 27 – April 21. March 27 – April 7 Tues - Fri and Sun 7.15pm, Sat 6.15pm April 9 - 21 Tues - Fri and Sun 9.45pm, Sat 8.45pm Tickets: $29 Full ($21 on Wed and Sun), $21 Concession, Preview, Tight Tues and Grps 4+ Venue: Storyville Melbourne. 185 Lonsdale St, Melbourne (Corner of Waratah Place) Bookings online at www.diananguyen. com.au/dirtydiana and www.comedyfestival. com.au/2019/shows/dirty-diana

OPEN STUDIOS 2019 Dandenong Ranges Open Studios Come and explore the secrets of the Dandenong Ranges with this creative and inspiring cultural experience. The Dandenong Ranges Open Studios take you down the fern lined lanes of the hills to discover 36 of the most intriguing studios. Explore and connect with artists, ignite your creative imagination and step into the hidden ems, curious constructions and aweinspiring spaces of the artists creative environments. Visit the exhibition at the Sherbrooke Art Gallery and select the studio that most intrigue or inspire you. You will have the unique opportunity to purchase artwork and hand- crafted items directly from the artists informed by new insight into their creative world. Weekend: Saturday and Sunday, March 30 and 31. Visit the studios between 10am and 5pm. - Peter Kemp

Good People at Mordy ■ Mordialloc Theatre Company has assembled an award-winning director and cast to present their first production for 2019. Good People by David Lindsay-Abaire can be seen at the Shirley Burke Theatre, Parkdale until March 2. Directed by Helen Ellis, Good People is set in Southie, a Boston neighbourhood, where a night on the town means a few rounds of bingo, this month’s pay cheque covers last month’s bills, and where Margie Walsh has just been let go from yet another job. Facing eviction and scrambling to catch a break, Margie thinks an old fling who has made it out of Southie might help her get a fresh new start. Margie is about to risk what little she has left to find out. The play explores the struggles, shifting loyalties and unshakeable hopes that come with having next to nothing among America's working poor. President of Mordialloc Theatre Company, Juliet Hayday, spoke about the Tony Awardwinning play: ‘Swinging between comedy and drama, with some truly hilarious moments, this play is directed by Helen Ellis, who gave you Outside Mullingar in 2017, a production which scooped the pool at the Victorian Drama League awards that year. Helen knows how to

● Juliet Hayday and Susan Strafford in Good People, playing in Parkdale until March 2. Photo: David Ellis bring out the humour in a play, and Good People is no exception’. The cast includes multi-award winners Julie Arnold (All Things Considered, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks), Juliet Hayday (Outside Mullingar, The Importance of Being Earnest), Stephen Shinkfield (Outside Mullingar, Bullshot Crummond), Nicholas Opolski, Susan Strafford and Hazel Marita. Performance Season: Until March 2 Venue: Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd., Parkdale Bookings: https://mordialloctheatre.com/ book-a-ticket/ or 9587 5141.

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■ Mordialloc Theatre Company: Good People (by David Lindsay-Abaire) Until March 2 at Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd., Parkdale. Director: Helen Ellis. Bookings: 9587 5141 or www.mordialloctheatre.com ■ Heidelberg Theatre Company: Lost in Yonkers (by Neil Simon) Until March 2 at 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna. Director: Gayle Poor. Bookings: www.htc.org.au (03)9457-4117. ■ Eltham Little Theatre: Hotel Sorrento (by Hannie Rayson) Until March 2 at Eltham Performing Arts Centre, Main Rd.., Research. Director: Kath Buckingham. Bookings: http:// www.elthamlittletheatre.org.au ■ Malvern Theatre Company: Mr Bennet's Bride (by Emma Wood) Until March 2 at 29 Burke Rd., Malvern East. Director: Susan Rundle. Bookings: 1300 131 552. ■ Brighton Theatre Company: After Miss Julie (by Patrick Marber) Until March 2 at Brighton Arts and Cultural Centre, Brighton. Director: Loretta Bishop. Bookings: 1300 752 126. ■ The Basin Theatre Company: Murder by Natural Causes (adapted by Tim Kelly from the play by Richard Levinson and William Link) Until March 9 at The Basin Theatre, Cnr Doongalla and Simpsons Rds., The Basin. Director: Bob Bramble. Bookings: 1300 784 668. ■ The 1812 Theatre: Breaking the Code (by Hugh Whitmore) Until March 16 at 3-5 Rose St.., Upper Ferntree Gully. Director: Malcolm Sussman. Bookings: 9758 3964. ■ Strathmore Theatrical Arts Group (STAG): Outside Edge (by Richard Harris) Until March 3 at the Strathmore Community Centre, Cnr Loeman and Napier Sts., Strathmore. Director: Robert Harsley.Tickets: $20/$15. Bookings: 9382 6284 or www.stagtheatre.org/reservations ■ PEP Productions: Altar Boyz Until March 2 at the Doncaster Playhouse, 679 Doncaster Rd., Doncaster. Director: Melanie Xavier. Bookings: pepproductions.org.au 0418 549 187 ■ Cardinia PerformingArts Centre (CPAC): Strictly Ballroom Until March 8 at the Cardinia Arts and Cultural Centre, Lakeside Drive, Pakenham. Bookings: http:// w w w. c a r d i n i a p e r f o r m i n g a r t s . c o m / current_production ■ Ballarat Lyric Theatre: Jeckyll and Hyde February 28 - March 10 at Wendouree Centre for Performing Arts, 1220 Howitt St., Ballarat.

Director: Stephen Armati. Bookings: wcpa.com.au 5338 0980. ■ CPAC (Cardinia Performing Arts Company): Strictly Ballroom (Based on Baz Luhrmann movie) February 23 - March 8 at Cardinia Cultural Centre, Lakeside Blvd., Pakenham. Director: Lee Geraghty. Bookings: 0407 090 354 www.cardiniaperformingarts.com ■ Gemco Players: Extinction (by Hannie Rayson) March 8 -23 at 19 Kilvington Drive, Emerald. Director: Sharon Maine. Bookings: www.gemcoplayers,org. ■ Panorama Theatre Company: The Producers April 5 - 14 at the Frankston Arts Centre. Directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman. Tickets: thefac.com.au or 9784 1060. ■ Heidelberg Theatre Company: Over the Bridge (by Arthur Miller) May 3 - 18 at 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna. Director: Chris McLean. Bookings: htc.org.au or 9457 4117.

AUDITIONS ■ SLAMS Musical Theatre Company: Bookends February 27 at Knox Community Arts Centre, Cnr Mountain Hwy and Scoresby Rd., Bayswater. Director: David Woods; Musical Directors: David Youings and Samuel Loomes; Choreographer: Katrina Katz. Audition booking: h t t p s : / / w w w. t r y b o o k i n g . c o m / b o o k / event?eid=471417& ■ Williamstown Little Theatre: A Man of No Importance March 3 at 1.00pm, March 4 at 7.00pm at 2 Albert St., Williamstown. Director: Barbara Hughes; Musical Director: Janet Provan. Audition bookings: 0417 589 015 or bhughes@wlt.org.au ■ Strathmore Theatre Arts Group (STAG): The Tin Woman (by Shaun Greunan) March 4 at 6.30pm, March 6 at 6.30pmat Strathmore Community Theatre, Loeman St., Strathmore. Director: Stephen Andrews. Audition booking: 0407 802165 ■ The Basin Theatre Group: Boeing Boeing (byMarc Camoletti) March 10 at 7.00pmat The Basin Theatre, Doongalla Rd., The Basin. Director: Pip LeBlond. Bookings: 0400 350 792. ■ Malvern Theatre Company: The Mystery of Irma Vep - A Penny Dreadful (by Charles Ludlam) March16 at 1.30pm and March 18 at 7.30pm at Malvern Theatre, 29 Burke Rd., East Malvern. Director: Andrew McMillan. Audition bookings: MalvernVep@optusnet.com.au

GREEN ROOM AWARDS ■ 36th Green Room Awards Nominations. For work presented on Melbourne stages in 2018 – winners to be announced on Monday, April 1. Cabaret Artiste Selina Jenkins – Thy Neighbour (Selina Jenkins) Reuben Kaye – Reuben Kaye (Reuben Kaye) Jude Perl – I Have A Face (Jude Perl) Geraldine Quinn – Queen Bitch (Geraldine Quinn) Ensemble Baby Bi Bi Bi – Samantha Andrew, Annabel Larcombe, Erin Pattison (Flesh Coloured Panties Productions) Creatures Of The Deep – Ryan Smith, Sean Sully, Jake Edgar, Chris Harris, Cat Sanzaro, Sarah Wall (Picked Last For Sport) Double Denim – Michelle Brasier and Laura Frew (Hey Boss and Double Denim) The Aspie Hour – Sophie Smyth and Ryan Smedley (Sophie Smyth) ‘Tis The Season – Maverick Newman and Stacey Thomsett (Maverick Newman and Stacey Thomsett) Writing Anni & Maude Davey, Teresa Blake and Anna Lumb – Retro Futurismus – Brave World (Retro Futurismus) Telia Neville – Untitled No. 7 (Telia Neville) Kit Richards – Wool! A History of Australia’s Wool Industry: The Musical (Kit Richards) Sophie Smyth and Ryan Smedley – The Aspie Hour (Sophie Smyth) Original Songs Maverick Newman and Stacey Thomsett – ‘Tis The Season (Maverick Newman and Stacey Thomsett) Jude Perl – I Have A Face (Jude Perl) Geraldine Quinn – Queen Bitch (Geraldine Quinn) Otto & Astrid Rot with Marius Müllbach – Rock Bang (Circus Oz in collaboration with Otto & Astrid) Ryan Smith, Sean Sully and Sarah Wall – Creatures of The Deep (Picked Last For Sport) Musical Direction Casey Bennetto – Rock Bang (Circus Oz in collaboration with Otto & Astrid) Geraldine Quinn – Queen Bitch (Geraldine Quinn) Shanon Whitelock – Reuben Kaye (Reuben Kaye) Production Creatures Of The Deep (Picked Last For Sport) I Have A Face – Jude Perl (Jude Perl) Reuben Kaye – Reuben Kaye (Reuben Kaye) Thy Neighbour – Selina Jenkins (Selina Jenkins) Contemporary and Experimental Performance Production Crackers n Dip with Chase n Toey (Carly Sheppard & Josh Twee presented by Arts House) This is Grayson (Gold Satino, the SUBSTATION and Melbourne Fringe) Vanitas (Robert Walton and Jason Maling in association with Arts House) The Director (Lara Thoms presented by Arts House) Performance (by an Individual or Ensemble) Sarah Houbolt – Koo Koo the Bird Girl (Darebin Arts Speakeasy) Ensemble – Casting Off (A Good Catch) Ensemble – Crackers n Dip with Chase n Toey (Carly Sheppard & Josh Twee presented by Arts House) Scott Turnbull – The Director (Lara Thoms presented by Arts House) Ensemble – This is Grayson (Gold Satino, the SUBSTATION and Melbourne Fringe) Innovation in Site Responsive Performance This is Grayson (Gold Satino, the SUBSTATION and Melbourne Fringe) Vanitas (Robert Walton and Jason Maling in association with Arts House) Carnival of Futures (one step at a time like this) SK!N (TerryandTheCuz) SEER (House of Vnholy) Pe r formance for Young Audiences This is Grayson (Gold Satino, the SUBSTATION and Melbourne Fringe) Jugg Life (Jugg Life Productions, Melba Spiegeltent and Circus Oz) The Pilgrim (Bello Abril * Theatre of Coincidences) Innovation in Curatorial Contribution & Programming Blak Sonic Futures (Still Nomads) XS (Melbourne Fringe Festival) Ritual (Next Wave Festival) Public Cooling House (Punctum presented by Arts House) Sidesault (Circus Oz at the Melba Spiegeltent) Innovation in Durational Performance Landing (Tanya Lee) SQUASH! (Meg Wilson) ICON (Field Theory) Endless Romantica (Field Theory) Contemporary Sound Performance Cruel Optimism – Lawrence English (The SUBSTATION and Room 40) LoveSongs–ThembeSoddell(TheSUBSTATIONandRoom40) PolarForce–SpeakPercussion(SpeakPercussion) TLSQxASMR–LetterStringQuartet(TheLetterStringQuartet) Circus Production End Grain (Skye Gellman) Casting Off (A Good Catch) HellisOtherPeople(LoveistheDrug,MelbaSpiegeltentandCircusOz) Innovation in International Collaboration SK!N(TerryandTheCuz) UnknownNeighbors(RantersTheatreandCreativeVaQi(KR)presentedbyTheatreWorksaspartoftheFestivalof LiveArt) Dance Performer Joel Bray – Dharawungara (Chunky Move) DeanneButterworth–Year’sWork Janessa Duffy – ab (intra) (Sydney Dance Company) RebeccaJensen–Overture(ArtsHouseandJoLloyd) JarrydMadden–Year’sWork(TheAustralianBallet) CarolineMeaden–LadyExample(Slown,SmallenedandSon) James Vu Ahn Pham – Nether (Chunky Move) TaraJadeSamaya–CommonGround(ChunkyMove) YumiUmiumare–ButohOUT!(YumiUmiumareandTakashiTakiguchiinpartnershipwithAbbotsfordConvent) Luigi Vescio – The Venusian Slip (Harrison Hall) Duet or Ensemble Performance ab (intra) (Sydney Dance Company) LadyExample(Slown,SmallenedandSon) Overture(ArtsHouseandJoLloyd) RainbowVomit(Dancenorth) Spartacus (The Australian Ballet) Visual Design Benjamin Cisterne (Lighting Design) – Spartacus (The Australian Ballet) Jennifer Hector (Lighting and Set Design) – Overture (Arts House and Jo Lloyd) Paul Jackson (Lighting Design) – Common Ground (Chunky Move) Govin Ruben (Lighting and Set Design) – Rainbow Vomit (Dancenorth) Ben‘Bosco’Shaw(LightingDesign)–Colossus(ArtsCentreMelbourne,MelbourneFringeandStephanieLake Company) Music Composition and Sound Design Emah Fox (Sound Design) – Lady Example (Slown, Smallened and Son) AlisdairMacindoe(CompositionandSoundDesign)–Year’sWork DuaneMorrison(Composition)–Overture(ArtsHouseandJoLloyd) Max de Wardener, Genevieve Lacey and Wang Peng (Composition) – One Infinity (Playking Productions and Jun Tian Fang in association with Dancenorth and Beijing Dance Theatre) NarethaWilliams(Composition)–Dharawungara(ChunkyMove) Shirley McKechnie Award for Outstanding Choreography KylePageandAmberHaines–RainbowVomit(Dancenorth) Anouk van Dijk – Common Ground (Chunky Move) DeanneButterworth–RemakingDubbing(DeanneButterworth) JoLloyd–Overture(ArtsHouseandJoLloyd) StephanieLake–Colossus(ArtsCentreMelbourne,MelbourneFringeandStephanieLakeCompany) Production Common Ground (Chunky Move) LadyExample(Slown,SmallenedandSon) Overture(ArtsHouseandJoLloyd) RainbowVomit(Dancenorth) Independent Theatre Performer ChrisBeckey–TheHamletApocalypse(TheDangerEnsemble) ZoeBoesen–Fallen(SheSaidTheatre) KaiBradley–MoralPanic(DarebinArtsSpeakeasyandDoubleWaterSign) Ross Daniels – Bighouse Dreaming (Brunswick Mechanics Institute, Critical Mass, and Deadly Fringe) DeclanFurberGillick–BighouseDreaming(BrunswickMechanicsInstitute,CriticalMassandDeadlyFringe) BenGrant–TheRug(LaMamaTheatre) SandyGreenwood–Matriarch(JindaProductionsandDeadlyFringe) MishGrigor–TheTalk(DarebinArtsSpeakeasy) ChanellaMacri–MoralPanic(DarebinArtsSpeakeasyandDoubleWaterSign) Jennifer Vuletic – The Nightingale and The Rose (Little Ones Theatre) Ensemble Apokalypsis (The Substation in association with Next Wave) BighouseDreaming(BrunswickMechanicsInstitute,CriticalMassandDeadlyFringe) LoveSongDedications(withoutRichardMercer)(TenTonneSparrow) MoralPanic(DarebinArtsSpeakeasyandDoubleWaterSign) Romeo Is Not The Only Fruit (Jean Tong)

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Bleak House - by Charles Dickens

Continued From Last Issue I rang the bell, the servant came, and Mr. Guppy, laying his written card upon the table and making a dejected bow, departed. Raising my eyes as he went out, I once more saw him looking at me after he had passed the door. I sat there for another hour or more, finishing my books and payments and getting through plenty of business. Then I arranged my desk, and put everything away, and was so composed and cheerful that I thought I had quite dismissed this unexpected incident. But, when I went upstairs to my own room, I surprised myself by beginning to laugh about it and then surprised myself still more by beginning to cry about it. In short, I was in a flutter for a little while and felt as if an old chord had been more coarsely touched than it ever had been since the days of the dear old doll, long buried in the garden. Chapter X— The Law–Writer On the eastern borders of Chancery Lane, that is to say, more particularly in Cook’s Court, Cursitor Street, Mr. Snagsby, law-stationer, pursues his lawful calling. In the shade of Cook’s Court, at most times a shady place, Mr. Snagsby has dealt in all sorts of blank forms of legal process; in skins and rolls of parchment; in paper — foolscap, brief, draft, brown, white, whiteybrown, and blotting; in stamps; in office-quills, pens, ink, India-rubber, pounce, pins, pencils, sealing-wax, and wafers; in red tape and green ferret; in pocket-books, almanacs, diaries, and law lists; in string boxes, rulers, inkstands — glass and leaden — pen-knives, scissors, bodkins, and other small office-cutlery; in short, in articles too numerous to mention, ever since he was out of his time and went into partnership with Peffer. On that occasion, Cook’s Court was in a manner revolutionized by the new inscription in fresh paint, PEFFER AND SNAGSBY, displacing the time-honoured and not easily to be deciphered legend PEFFER only. For smoke, which is the London ivy, had so wreathed itself round Peffer’s name and clung to his dwellingplace that the affectionate parasite quite overpowered the parent tree. Peffer is never seen in Cook’s Court now. He is not expected there, for he has been recumbent this quarter of a century in the churchyard of St. Andrews, Holborn, with the waggons and hackney-coaches roaring past him all the day and half the night like one great dragon. If he ever steal forth when the dragon is at rest to air himself again in Cook’s Court until admonished to return by the crowing of the sanguine cock in the cellar at the little dairy in Cursitor Street, whose ideas of daylight it would be curious to ascertain, since he knows from his personal observation next to nothing about it — if Peffer ever do revisit the pale glimpses of Cook’s Court, which no law-stationer in the trade can positively deny, he comes invisibly, and no one is the worse or wiser. In his lifetime, and likewise in the period of Snagsby’s “time” of seven long years, there dwelt with Peffer in the same law-stationering premises a niece — a short, shrewd niece, something too violently compressed about the waist, and with a sharp nose like a sharp autumn evening, inclining to be frosty towards the end. The Cook’s Courtiers had a rumour flying among them that the mother of this niece did, in her daughter’s childhood, moved by too jealous a solicitude that her figure should approach perfection, lace her up every morning with her maternal foot against the bed-post for a stronger hold and purchase; and further, that she exhibited internally pints of vinegar and lemon-juice, which acids, they held, had mounted to the nose and temper of the patient. With whichsoever of the many tongues of Rumour this frothy report originated, it either never reached or never influenced the ears of young Snagsby, who, having wooed and won its fair subject on his arrival at man’s estate, entered into two partnerships at once. So now, in Cook’s Court, Cursitor Street, Mr. Snagsby and the niece are one; and the niece still cherishes her figure, which, however tastes may differ, is unquestionably so far precious that there is mighty little of it. Mr. and Mrs. Snagsby are not only one bone and

Charles Dickens one flesh, but, to the neighbours’ thinking, one voice too. That voice, appearing to proceed from Mrs. Snagsby alone, is heard in Cook’s Court very often. Mr. Snagsby, otherwise than as he finds expression through these dulcet tones, is rarely heard. He is a mild, bald, timid man with a shining head and a scrubby clump of black hair sticking out at the back. He tends to meekness and obesity. As he stands at his door in Cook’s Court in his grey shop-coat and black calico sleeves, looking up at the clouds, or stands behind a desk in his dark shop with a heavy flat ruler, snipping and slicing at sheepskin in company with his two ‘prentices, he is emphatically a retiring and unassuming man. From beneath his feet, at such times, as from a shrill ghost unquiet in its grave, there frequently arise complainings and lamentations in the voice already mentioned; and haply, on some occasions when these reach a sharper pitch than usual, Mr. Snagsby mentions to the ‘prentices, “I think my little woman is a-giving it to Guster!” This proper name, so used by Mr. Snagsby, has before now sharpened the wit of the Cook’s Courtiers to remark that it ought to be the name of Mrs. Snagsby, seeing that she might with great force and expression be termed a Guster, in compliment to her stormy character. It is, however, the possession, and the only possession except fifty shillings per annum and a very small box indifferently filled with clothing, of a lean young woman from a workhouse (by some supposed to have been christened Augusta) who, although she was farmed or contracted for during her growing time by an amiable benefactor of his species resident at Tooting, and cannot fail to have been developed under the most favourable circumstances, “has fits,” which the

parish can’t account for. Guster, really aged three or four and twenty, but looking a round ten years older, goes cheap with this unaccountable drawback of fits, and is so apprehensive of being returned on the hands of her patron saint that except when she is found with her head in the pail, or the sink, or the copper, or the dinner, or anything else that happens to be near her at the time of her seizure, she is always at work. She is a satisfaction to the parents and guardians of the ‘prentices, who feel that there is little danger of her inspiring tender emotions in the breast of youth; she is a satisfaction to Mrs. Snagsby, who can always find fault with her; she is a satisfaction to Mr. Snagsby, who thinks it a charity to keep her. The lawstationer’s establishment is, in Guster’s eyes, a temple of plenty and splendour. She believes the little drawing-room upstairs, always kept, as one may say, with its hair in papers and its pinafore on, to be the most elegant apartment in Christendom. The view it commands of Cook’s Court at one end (not to mention a squint into Cursitor Street) and of Coavinses’ the sheriff’s officer’s backyard at the other she regards as a prospect of unequalled beauty. The portraits it displays in oil — and plenty of it too — of Mr. Snagsby looking at Mrs. Snagsby and of Mrs. Snagsby looking at Mr. Snagsby are in her eyes as achievements of Raphael or Titian. Guster has some recompenses for her many privations. Mr. Snagsby refers everything not in the practical mysteries of the business to Mrs. Snagsby. She manages the money, reproaches the taxgatherers, appoints the times and places of devotion on Sundays, licenses Mr. Snagsby’s entertainments, and acknowledges no responsibility as to what she thinks fit to provide for din-

ner, insomuch that she is the high standard of comparison among the neighbouring wives a long way down Chancery Lane on both sides, and even out in Holborn, who in any domestic passages of arms habitually call upon their husbands to look at the difference between their (the wives’) position and Mrs. Snagsby’s, and their (the husbands’) behaviour and Mr. Snagsby’s. Rumour, always flying bat-like about Cook’s Court and skimming in and out at everybody’s windows, does say that Mrs. Snagsby is jealous and inquisitive and that Mr. Snagsby is sometimes worried out of house and home, and that if he had the spirit of a mouse he wouldn’t stand it. It is even observed that the wives who quote him to their self-willed husbands as a shining example in reality look down upon him and that nobody does so with greater superciliousness than one particular lady whose lord is more than suspected of laying his umbrella on her as an instrument of correction. But these vague whisperings may arise from Mr. Snagsby’s being in his way rather a meditative and poetical man, loving to walk in Staple Inn in the summer-time and to observe how countrified the sparrows and the leaves are, also to lounge about the Rolls Yard of a Sunday afternoon and to remark (if in good spirits) that there were old times once and that you’d find a stone coffin or two now under that chapel, he’ll be bound, if you was to dig for it. He solaces his imagination, too, by thinking of the many Chancellors and Vices, and Masters of the Rolls who are deceased; and he gets such a flavour of the country out of telling the two ‘prentices how he HAS heard say that a brook “as clear as crystial” once ran right down the middle of Holborn, when Turnstile really was a turnstile, leading slap away into the meadows — gets such a flavour of the country out of this that he never wants to go there. The day is closing in and the gas is lighted, but is not yet fully effective, for it is not quite dark. Mr. Snagsby standing at his shop-door looking up at the clouds sees a crow who is out late skim westward over the slice of sky belonging to Cook’s Court. The crow flies straight across Chancery Lane and Lincoln’s Inn Garden into Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Here, in a large house, formerly a house of state, lives Mr. Tulkinghorn. It is let off in sets of chambers now, and in those shrunken fragments of its greatness, lawyers lie like maggots in nuts. But its roomy staircases, passages, and antechambers still remain; and even its painted ceilings, where Allegory, in Roman helmet and celestial linen, sprawls among balustrades and pillars, flowers, clouds, and big-legged boys, and makes the head ache — as would seem to beAllegory’s object always, more or less. Here, among his many boxes labelled with transcendent names, lives Mr. Tulkinghorn, when not speechlessly at home in country-houses where the great ones of the earth are bored to death. Here he is to-day, quiet at his table. An oyster of the old school whom nobody can open. Like as he is to look at, so is his apartment in the dusk of the present afternoon. Rusty, out of date, withdrawing from attention, able to afford it. Heavy, broad-backed, old-fashioned, mahogany-and-horsehair chairs, not easily lifted; obsolete tables with spindle-legs and dusty baize covers; presentation prints of the holders of great titles in the last generation or the last but one, environ him. A thick and dingy Turkey-carpet muffles the floor where he sits, attended by two candles in old-fashioned silver candlesticks that give a very insufficient light to his large room. The titles on the backs of his books have retired into the binding; everything that can have a lock has got one; no key is visible. Very few loose papers are about. He has some manuscript near him, but is not referring to it. With the round top of an inkstand and two broken bits of sealingwax he is silently and slowly working out whatever train of indecision is in his mind. Now tbe inkstand top is in the middle, now the red bit of sealing-wax, now the black bit. That’s not it. Mr. Tulkinghorn must gather them all up and begin again.

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From Page 77 Here, beneath the painted ceiling, with foreshortened Allegory staring down at his intrusion as if it meant to swoop upon him, and he cutting it dead, Mr. Tulkinghorn has at once his house and office. He keeps no staff, only one middleaged man, usually a little out at elbows, who sits in a high pew in the hall and is rarely overburdened with business. Mr. Tulkinghorn is not in a common way. He wants no clerks. He is a great reservoir of confidences, not to be so tapped. His clients want HIM; he is all in all. Drafts that he requires to be drawn are drawn by specialpleaders in the temple on mysterious instructions; fair copies that he requires to be made are made at the stationers’, expense being no consideration. The middle-aged man in the pew knows scarcely more of the affairs of the peerage than any crossing-sweeper in Holborn. The red bit, the black bit, the inkstand top, the other inkstand top, the little sand-box. So! You to the middle, you to the right, you to the left. This train of indecision must surely be worked out now or never. Now! Mr. Tulkinghorn gets up, adjusts his spectacles, puts on his hat, puts the manuscript in his pocket, goes out, tells the middle-aged man out at elbows, “I shall be back presently.” Very rarely tells him anything more explicit. Mr. Tulkinghorn goes, as the crow came — not quite so straight, but nearly — to Cook’s Court, Cursitor Street. To Snagsby’s, Law–Stationer’s, Deeds engrossed and copied, Law–Writing executed in all its branches, &c., &c., &c. It is somewhere about five or six o’clock in the afternoon, and a balmy fragrance of warm tea hovers in Cook’s Court. It hovers about Snagsby’s door. The hours are early there: dinner at half-past one and supper at half-past nine. Mr. Snagsby was about to descend into the subterranean regions to take tea when he looked out of his door just now and saw the crow who was out late. “Master at home?” Guster is minding the shop, for the ‘prentices take tea in the kitchen with Mr. and Mrs. Snagsby; consequently, the robe-maker’s two daughters, combing their curls at the two glasses in the two second-floor windows of the opposite house, are not driving the two ‘prentices to distraction as they fondly suppose, but are merely awakening the unprofitable admiration of Guster, whose hair won’t grow, and never would, and it is confidently thought, never will. “Master at home?” says Mr. Tulkinghorn. Master is at home, and Guster will fetch him. Guster disappears, glad to get out of the shop, which she regards with mingled dread and veneration as a storehouse of awful implements of the great torture of the law — a place not to be entered after the gas is turned off. Mr. Snagsby appears, greasy, warm, herbaceous, and chewing. Bolts a bit of bread and butter. Says, “Bless my soul, sir! Mr. Tulkinghorn!” “I want half a word with you, Snagsby.” “Certainly, sir! Dear me, sir, why didn’t you send your young man round for me? Pray walk into the back shop, sir.” Snagsby has brightened in a moment. The confined room, strong of parchment-grease, is warehouse, counting-house, and copying-office. Mr. Tulkinghorn sits, facing round, on a stool at the desk. “Jarndyce and Jarndyce, Snagsby.” “Yes, sir.” Mr. Snagsby turns up the gas and coughs behind his hand, modestly anticipating profit. Mr. Snagsby, as a timid man, is accustomed to cough with a variety of expressions, and so to save words. “You copied some affidavits in that cause for me lately.” “Yes, sir, we did.” “There was one of them,” says Mr. Tulkinghorn, carelessly feeling — tight, unopenable oyster of the old school! — in the wrong coat-pocket, “the handwriting of which is peculiar, and I rather like. As I happened to be passing, and thought I had it about me, I looked in to ask you — but I haven’t got it. No matter, any other time will do. Ah! here it is! I looked in to ask you who copied this.” ‘“Who copied this, sir?” says Mr. Snagsby, taking it, laying it flat on the desk, and separating all the sheets at once with a twirl and a twist of the left hand peculiar to lawstationers. “We gave this out, sir. We were giving out rather a large quantity of work just at that time. I can tell you in a moment who copied it, sir, by referring to my

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essary to shovel it away — the lawyer and the law-stationer come to a rag and bottle shop and general emporium of much disregarded merchandise, lying and being in the shadow of the wall of Lincoln’s Inn, and kept, as is announced in paint, to all whom it may concern, by one Krook. “This is where he lives, sir,” says the law-stationer. “This is where he lives, is it?” says the lawyer unconcernedly. “Thank you.” “Are you not going in, sir?” “No, thank you, no; I am going on to the Fields at present. Good evening. Thank you!” Mr. Snagsby lifts his hat and returns to his little woman and his tea. But Mr. Tulkinghorn does not go on to the Fields at present. He goes a short way, turns back, comes again to the shop of Mr. Krook, and enters it straight. It is dim enough, with a blotheaded candle or so in the windows, and an old man and a cat sitting in the back part by a fire. The old man rises and comes forward, with another blot-headed candle in his hand. “Pray is your lodger within?” “Male or female, sir?” says Mr. Krook. “Male. The person who does copying.” Mr. Krook has eyed his man narrowly. Knows him by sight. Has an indistinct impression of his aristocratic repute. “Did you wish to see him, sir?” “Yes.” “It’s what I seldom do myself,” says Mr. Krook with a grin. “Shall I call him down? But it’s a weak chance if he’d come, sir!” “I’ll go up to him, then,” says Mr. Tulkinghorn. “Second floor, sir. Take the candle. Up there!” Mr. Krook, with his cat beside him, stands at the bottom of the staircase, looking after Mr. Tulkinghorn. “Hi-hi!” he says when Mr. Tulkinghorn has nearly disappeared. The lawyer looks down over the hand-rail. The cat expands her wicked mouth and snarls at him. “Order, Lady Jane! Behave yourself to visitors, my lady! You know what they say of my lodger?” whispers Krook, going up a step or two. “What do they say of him?” “They say he has sold himself to the enemy, but you and I know better — he don’t buy. I’ll tell you what, though; my lodger is so blackhumoured and gloomy that I believe he’d as soon make that bargain as any other. Don’t put him out, sir. That’s my advice!” Mr. Tulkinghorn with a nod goes on his way. He comes to the dark door on the second floor. He knocks, receives no answer, opens it, and accidentally extinguishes his candle in doing so. The air of the room is almost bad enough to have extinguished it if he had not. It is a small room, nearly black with soot, and grease, and dirt. In the rusty skeleton of a grate, pinched at the middle as if poverty had gripped it, a red coke fire burns low. In the corner by the chimney stand a deal table and a broken desk, a wilderness marked with a rain of ink. In another corner a ragged old portmanteau on one of the two chairs serves for cabinet or wardrobe; no larger one is needed, for it collapses like the cheeks of a starved man. The floor is bare, except that one old mat, trodden to shreds of ropeyarn, lies perishing upon the hearth. No curtain veils the darkness of the night, but the discoloured shutters are drawn together, and through the two gaunt holes pierced in them, famine might be staring in — the banshee of the man upon the bed. For, on a low bed opposite the fire, a confusion of dirty patchwork, lean-ribbed ticking, and coarse sacking, the lawyer, hesitating just within the doorway, sees a man. He lies there, dressed in shirt and trousers, with bare feet. He has a yellow look in the spectral darkness of a candle that has guttered down until the whole length of its wick (still burning) has doubled over and left a tower of winding-sheet above it. His hair is ragged, mingling with his whiskers and his beard — the latter, ragged too, and grown, like the scum and mist around him, in neglect. Foul and filthy as the room is, foul and filthy as the air is, it is not easy to perceive what fumes those are which most oppress the senses in it; but through the general sickliness and faintness, and the odour of stale tobacco, there comes into the lawyer’s mouth the bitter, vapid taste of opium. “Hallo, my friend!” he cries, and strikes his iron candlestick against the door. He thinks he has awakened his friend. He lies a little turned away, but his eyes are surely open.

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Local Railway History with Lance Adams

Forgotten stations of the local line ■ When the Tallarook-Yea line opened in 1883 the intermediate locations were 5 mile gatehouse, Trawool, 9 mile gate house, Kerrisdale and Homewood. Later, after the opening of the line an additional station, Wrights Siding (later renamed Granite) was added to service a granite quarry (supplying granite stone to the monumental trade). This location was about 3 km on the down side of Trawool. Over its existence, Granite had two separate stations. The first one situated on the Up side of the line on the Up end of Falls Creek (recently renamed Trawool Creek) and a later replacement station which was situated on the down side of the line, at the down end of the Falls Creek bridge. Both platform structures were of wooden construction and just what date the replacement station was brought into use I don't know. At right is an early photo from circa 1920 of a Tallarook-Yea hauled by a DD class loco on a mixed train standing at the second Granite platform. This station ceased to exist from the 1950s. This location situated right at the bottom of the steepest pull on the line (the Granite bank) was spoken about often, by 1950's local enginemen as being a particularly difficult, slippery climb when coming from a standing start on a frosty morning. This station had long been removed when I came on to the line firing in the 1960s. Not much remains at this location now, although an earthen mound of dirt, exists on the Up side of the former line near Trawool Creek. This had nothing to do with the Granite station site, and its origins are unknown to me at present. Another station that did not survive the 87 years on the Mansfield extension was Balham. This location just past the Tunnel was originally a construction siding for the line when it was being built in the late 1880s/early 1890s. A large homestead in the area was Balham which utilised this siding almost exclusively. In the early 1890s, the Balham Homestead made application to the Railways Department for the spartan amenities at this location to be upgraded to a full station. The railway department stated that if the station was to be upgraded, the ‘Balha’" homestead would have to bear the expense and not the railway department. A stand off took place and the siding and site were consequently removed. When I first came on the line some 70 years after Balham was removed, the previous layout and wooden platform face were clearly visible. This area was severely ravaged in the bushfires of January1969, and precious little now remains. A walk around the area today would still turn up some archaeological gems.

● DD541 at Granite

● Trawool Station, circa 1910

● Area where the Balham platform and goods shed once stood

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Yea Bowls Club dates to 1898 ■ The first reference to the Yea Bowls Club that we can locate in newspaper files is in 1898. “A meeting of the Yea Bowling Club will be held on Saturday evening, and of the Yea Athletic Club on Tuesday evening. Full attendances at both are desired,” noted The Yea Chronicle on November 10, 1898. That same issue noted that the Yea Shire Council received a letter from the Yea Bowling Club “applying to the council for a piece of land 150 x 100 feet opposite the Post Office, facing High and Station Streets for a site for a bowling green, and requesting council to fence in same, cost of which would amount to £18”. “Cr. Ryan said he considered this was a matter worthy of support. To his own knowledge bowling greens in other towns had received the support of the;local bodies and quoted as an instance how the Seymour Council had fenced in piece of a road for a similar purpose. “The public of Yea had subscribed £50, and the club was prepared to spend £70 or £80 in improving the ground. “Cr. Dunn asked if the public would be blocked from the ground. “Cr. Ryan said there would be no charge for admisalon, and in fact the public could see much from the outside. . “Cr Scale said it would be necessary to apply to the Public Works Department as the laud asked for was a portion of the road. “Cr.Ryan moved that the secretary be instructed to apply to the Lands Department for the piece of land in question and that the council donate £18 towards erecting a fence round same; “Cr. Olney seconded the motion which was carried. “At a later stage in the council meeting Cr. Ryan brought forward a resolution that the sum of £18 donated by the council towards erecting the fence should come out of the 'general revenue'of the shire. “He considered that all the ridings should contribute for this purpose. “Cr. Olney seconded the resolution. “The motion on being put was carried, Crs Dunn, Draper O'Callaghan voting against.” Within three months, the land had been secured, according to a February 9, 1899, report. “The committee of the Yea Bowling Club met at Ryan’s Hotel on

● An early view of land opposite the Yea Post Office which became the Bowls Club area Saturday evening. Present: Messrs. intending members, the payment of Taite (in chair), McCann, Ryan, annual subscription of £1 1s. to reDobson, Clark and Sharland. main in abeyance until required. The “In view of the desired site hav- meeting then adjourned.” ing been secured, and the council Yea Bowling Club Secretary H. havcing gained assistance towards McCann placed an advertisement fencing same, it was decided to call calling for tenders to erect picket tenders for fencing with a view to fencing on the Yea Bowling Green. submitting same to next council meetBy May 1899, Jack Dunlop had ing for approval, also to at once call been unanimously appointed honorup the entrance fee of £1 1s. from ary engineer to the Yea Bowling Club

● A local press clipping from February 9, 1899

in conjunc tion with Mr. Sharland. Tenders were received for the construction of the bowling green: James McAsey .....................23 18 0 Clydesdale Bros .................. 25 2. 6 K. McIntosh ...................... 28.10.0 McGillivray ......................... 33 11 6 M. McAsey ......................... 34 19 0 E. McKay (2items only) .......20 0 0 James McAsey won the tender. A parcel of seeds was gifted from Mr. Fraser, of South Melbou rne, through his friend Mr. James Drysdale, " Mussgrove," Yea. Cr. Olney undertook to sow the seeds and tend young plants until ready. for placing round the green.. The entrance fee of a guinea (£1 1s.) each was received mid-year from W. Knox, M.L.C.; C. Tyson; J.C. Sanders; J. Taite; E.H. Dobson; E. Rule; H. McCane; D. Olney; J. Quinlan; E.S. Purcell; D. Ryan; J.D. Hamilton; S. Wall; J. Wild; and half a guinea from Messrs. M.K. McKenzie, M.L.A.; J. Campbell, M.L.C.; and Jas. Balfour, M.L.C.

● The original tender advertisement. Feb. 23, 1899.

● A view of the Yea Bowls Club land from the War Memorial.

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Australian Guineas: top field

■ The Australian Guineas for the three-year olds to be run at Flemington on Saturday (March 2) has attracted a number of star three-year olds to contest the time honoured event. In early markets, betting agencies have the smart Tasmanian, Mystic Journey, on top. From her only 11 starts she has won eight in good style including two Group Two events. On top of that she will have no trouble with the 1600 metres of the Australian Guineas. On the second line are two top gallopers in The Autumn Sun and Amphitrite. The Autumn Sun is being tipped as the next big thing after Winx retires. He is with master trainer, Chris Waller, who has steered the ship with Winx and has a high opinion of the three-year old. You only have to have a look at what he did to his fellow youngsters in the Caulfield Guineas last year, a race he could have won by six lengths. He is reported to have run excellent sectionals for the Waller camp. So much so that at one stage, the Waller team were thinking of running him against Winx and company in the last Cox Plate won by the Queen making it four on end in the classic. The Autumn Sun is all class and the one to beat come the Guineas. On the next line is Hawkshot, who just recently joined the Hayes-Dabernig camp from Darren Weir's team. He was having his first outing for the Hayes team at Caulfield after running second at Moonee Valley behind Halverson. His new stable was confident of Hawkshot running a big race in the Autumn Stakes at Caulfield, and that he did winning in great fashion. Hawkshot is by the Melbourne Cup winner, Fiorente, and will have no trouble getting the 1600 metres at Flemington. He has now raced eight times for three wins and three seconds, so he is always around the money and a big strong type. On the next line is another two young horses in Ringerdingding, and Verry Ellegant, who are both smart. Ringerdingding having his first run for Chris Waller from the Weir team was a good third behind Hawkshot, and has a ton of ability. The filly, Verry Elleegant, ran a good second behind her former stablemate, Amphitrite, in the Group Three Vanity at Flemington. Another who is showing a bit is the Mike Moroney youngster, Chapada, who wasn't far off them in the C.Hayes at Flemington, and has plenty of ability. On the same line of betting is the Chris Waller trainer, Dealmaker, who was a good second to Hawkshot at Caulfield and will be in it for a long way. Last but not least among the field is the tiny Tasmanian colt, The Inevitable, who won in great style at Flemington in a good field.

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■ With the disqualification of leading trainer, Darren Weir, a number of his former staff are still looking for work in the industry. Top young trainers, Ciaron Maher and David Eustace, who have taken over Weir's Ballarat stables have been able to replace most of his team, but there are still a few looking for work. Racing Victoria did mention they would look after anyone that needs work, so let's hope they can pick up work, as most have dependents and need the work, which is not the highest pay. Through Darren Weir finishing up there are a number of jockeys and track riders which were connected to his big team also searching for work, especially jockeys. A Ciaron Maher representative said that their stable had placed 61 ex-Weir staff, but unfortunately a dozen had to be made redundant. ● The Autumn Sin blitzes them in the Caulfield Guineas. Racing Photos The number of horses at the location had trainers who may inject horses with steroids. been reduced by around 35 per cent with the The grant includes a $300,000 research grant reduction in staff members at 16 per cent. for the Australian National Universityand Racing New South Wales to improve drug detection. Researchers hope the money will help them ■ Leading jockey, Brad Rawiller, who has been identify chemical changes in horses that have sidelined since October after a bad fall at been illegally injected with naturally occurring Cranbourne which left him with neck fractures to the C4 and C5 vertebrae, has returned to the steroids like testosterone. Lead researcher Associate Professor, saddle with a jump out out at Caulfield. By all reports, he has been back for about Malcom McLeod said detecting natural steroids like testosterone was the greatest challenge for three weeks and back in the saddle two of those. He has been on several horses trotting and drug testing in all sports. The project will look at the chemical mark- cantering and feels he is picking up strength each ers of the steroid to detect the very small changes day. that arise in the profile when the drug is adminHe is one who will miss Darren Weir as he istered. rode a numbers of horses for him both in Other projects funded by the Federal Gov- trackwork and in races over a long period. ernment include $540,000 to detect cyber leaks - Ted Ryan

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Lance Justice takes the Cup ■ The biggest night of the season for theArarat Harness Racing Club was held last Friday featuring the $35,000 (Group 2) Renown Silverware Ararat Pacing Cup for M0 or better class over 2195 metres, supplemented by the $14,500 Yabby Dam Farms Ararat Trotters Cup for T5 or better class over 2570 metres. ■ Melton horseman Lance Justice was successful in taking the Pacing Cup with 7Y0 Kiwi bred Jeremes Jet-Chevyover gelding Love Ina Chevy, returning a mile rate of 1-57.5. Showing plenty of speed from gate six, Love Ina Chevy was unable to head off the lightning beginner Perspective in gate four, resulting in him having to race exposed for the entire trip. Showing a great will to win on turning, Love Ina Chevy outstayed the leader to register a 2.2 metre margin on the wire, with Dikerry coming from last to finish third after weaving inside runners on turning. ■ A big group of happy owners were delighted when their smart ex-New Zealand 4Y0 gelding Stress Factor snared the Trotters Cup. A winner of the Victoria Trotters Derby last season, Stress Factor trained at Bolinda by Brent Lilley and driven by Chris Alford came into the race on bad terms as he was only assessed as T3 class, meaning that he was giving away two races against much higher assessed opposition, however class prevailed when the son of Majestic Son and Fear Factor jumped straight to the front at barrier rise and was never headed. Despite being kept honest mid-race by a hard pulling All Lit Up outside him, Stress Factor kicked clear on turning to score by 6.4 metres in a rate of 2-07.1, with Fratellino running a terrific race for third 3.6 metres away after an irregular gallop at the start .

Scored untouched

■ The Cobram HRC held an interesting meeting on Monday February 18 catering for most classes and Torrumbarry part-owner/trainer Faye McEwan's very honest 4Y0 Majestic SonLeavemein gelding Majestic Time brought up a hat-trick of wins when successful in the Bill Farrell Memorial Trotters Handicap for T0 or better class over 2170 metres. Driven as usual by Bolinda based Josh Duggan, Majestic Time began brilliantly from 20 metres to trail the pacemaker Madena Bay which began like a rocket from 10 metres. Enjoying a great passage, Majestic Time used the sprint lane to perfection, scoring untouched by 6.4 metres over Madena Bay and Tennoeagle who was 1.4 metres away after trailing the pair. The mile rate 2-06.1.

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■ Extremely talented concessional reinsman Ryan Duffy presently employed at Michael Stanley's Burrumbeet stable, enjoyed a most profitable afternoon finishing the day with a treble of wins - they being Flight Officer and Watchawaitingfor for Glenn Douglas and Interest Me for father Steven Duffy.

Raced exposed

■ Narrandera border hoppers Anthony Craig (trainer) and Drew Kenna (driver) took the prize back to NSW after 4Y0 Bettors DelightLancome mare De Lancome greeted the judge in the 2170 metre Terry Daniels Pace for C1 class. Beginning fast from gate five only to be left in the open, De Lancome was driven with urgency to assume control hitting the back straight on the first occasion and after controlling the race, defield all challengers to register a 2.6 metre margin in advance of Harry Turbo along the sprint lane in a mile rate of 2-00.2, with Villareal 2.8 metres away in third place after racing exposed.

Bounded clear

■ Ballarat raced on Tuesday and Kyneton father and son - Greg & Steve Leight's free running home bred Lawman-Scarlett Ribbons 5Y0 gelding Lawman led throughout from barrier five to land the 2200 metre Triquetra Visions Trotters Handicap for T2 or better class in a rate of 2-05.1.

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with Len Baker Taking over from Chevals Racer (barrier two) shortly after the start, Arrested after a heady drive bounded clear over the concluding stages to score a 5.1 metre margin ahead of Chevals Racer and a death-seating Classy Lola who was 1.8 metres back.

Prevailed by neck

■ Anton Golindo provided five runners to contest the Cavalry Wines Heathcote 3Y0 Trotters Mobile over 1710 metres at Ballarat, however Andy and Kate Gath spoilt the party when Majestic Son-Rosenmaryz Luck gelding Majestuoso scored in a rate of 1-59.6. Despite racing exposed from gate five outside the Golino hope Montpellier, Majestuoso was too strong at the finish, prevailing by a neck. Sammy Showdown was third 6.8 metres back after a cosy three pegs passage.

Unextended

■ Parwan's Craig Demmler was victorious with smart Somebeachsomewhere-Spitfire Shadow 5Y0 gelding Somebeachshadow in the Hewitt & Whitty Pace for C4 & C5 class over 1710 metres at Ballarat. Beginning swiftly from gate three, Somebeachshadow led throughout, scoring unextended by 4.9 metres from a death-seating Courageous Affair. The well supported Ghadastar was third 2.5 metres away after an easy one/one trip. The mile rate 1-57.6.

Ginger’s time

■ Long time participant - Balliang part-owner/ trainer/driver Ginger Gleeson was in the winners stall at Yarra Valley on Wednesday, when 4Y0 Majestic Son-Smilin Eyes entire Majestic Eyes when having start number 38, broke his maiden status by taking the aptly named National Seniors Lilydale Trotters Mobile for T0 class over 2150 metres. Raced in partnership with close associate Steve Warren, Majestic Eyes from the pole was given every opportunity trailing the leader Meziah which flew away from outside the front line, before using the sprint lane to register a 1.2 metres margin, with the hot favourite Majestic Devil 4.6 metres away in third place after racing exposed from gate three. The mile rate 203.2.

Speared away

■ Toolern Vale's Gary Hoban landed the 2150 metre Bulleen/Templestowe Probus Pace for C1 class at Yarra Valley with smart 4Y0 Always A Virgin-Libbys First mare Maxines Delight in a mile rate of 1-58.9. Quickly away from a solo second line draw to possie in the running line at the tail of the field as heavily backed favourite Divine State speared away from outside the front line to lead, Maxines Delight commenced a three wide forward move in the last lap and despite making the final bend very wide, sustained the run to prevail by a head from the pacemaker, with Bao Nien using the sprint lane from three back the markers to be third 6.6 metres away after walking away from the pole.

Plenty of time

■ At Mildura on Wednesday evening, local Irymple trainer Sandra O'Connor's season got even better after chalking up a treble during the night. The biggest victory coming from 11Y0 Modern Art-Satin Ridge gelding Did It Alone in the Yo Yo Joe's Tigers Pace for C3 & C5 class over 2190 metres. Driven by Jack Laugher, Did It Alone raced exposed from gate five for the entire journey, showing age is no bar by outstaying his rivals to score by 2.1 metres from Miss Meteor which trailed the weakening leader Always On who got clear in plenty of time on turning, with Straight Thru Blue (four back the markers) running home late to be third 6.8 metres back. The mile rate 2-00.7. Sandra's other winners were : The Last Parisian which snared the 2190 metre C0 class Tasco Petroleum Pace in 2-02.6 and Badlands Ginger in the Mario's Bar At The Grand Pace for C0 class over 2190 metres, both driven by Alex Ashwood.

Led throughout

■ Toolern Vale trainer Adam Kelly made the long trip to Mildura worthwhile after snaring an easy stable double - 7Y0 Major In Art-Isabella Lombo gelding Lucky Lombo leading throughout in the fast class race of the evening - the $7000 Mildura Workingman's Pace for C6 or better class over 1790 metres and 4Y0 Western Terror-Nomoneynoproblems mare Western Debt the C1 class Tankard Dental Pace over 2190 metres, both driven by the stables Zac Phillips. Lucky Lombo led all of the way from gate three, accounting for Gollahman and Regardless in 1-56.1, as did Western Debt, defeating Happyaslarry and Markleigh Jill in 2-01.4.

Cries of joy

■ There were cries of joy, congratulations and both kisses and tears aplenty at Bendigo on Thursday, when 16-year-old Wahring reinswoman Olivia Weidenbach having her first drive, guided 4Y0 Smiling Shard-Jules Hanover entire Smart Little Shard to victory in the 2150 metre Cloud Copy Click Pace for C2 & C3 class. Trained by John (Bulldog) Nicholson at Mt Cottrell, Smart Little Shard was eased to the tail

Sulky Snippets This Week

■ Wednesday - Mildura, Thursday Maryborough/Shepparton, Friday Cranbourne, Saturday - Melton, Sunday Hamilton, Monday - Charlton@Maryborough, Tuesday - Shepparton

Horses to follow

■ Ideal Velocity, Elianna Franco, Hypersonic Drive, Chevals Racer, Courageous Affair, Divine State, Gollahman, Luv Me Or Hate Me, Sixty.

of the field from gate six as polemarker Bundy Playboy led. Driven with the patience of Job, Smart Little Shard was sent forward three wide approaching the home turn and despite making the final bend very wide, finished full of running to blouse the pacemaker by a neck in a rate of 1-58.7. Mickilla Express was third 6.9 metres back along the sprint lane after trailing Bundy Playboy. Olivia is the daughter of Paul and Rosie Weidenbach, with Rosie a being a member of the Mifsud dynasty.

Welcome to Oz

■ It was Lynne McPherson Breed For Speed heat night at Bendigo withAnton Golino and Pat Driscoll enjoying a highly successful night winning the first heat of the Gold Series for T4 or better with Dance Craze, the Aldebaran Park 3Y0 Trotters (Mataderos), the Worlds Best Hoof Oil 3Y0 Trotters (Chateaubriant) and the Hygain Pace (Sounds Of Terror). Mataderos was driven by Finish reinsman Antti Ruokonen giving him his first victory in Oz. Chris Lang snared the Bronze Series for T0 class with Bullion Lady, while Andy and Kate Gath captured the Silver Series for T1 to T3 class with Moonlight Dream.

Arts Extra Boat Show

But there is a message in this performance told with pathos and also humour. The idea of ■ Aristophanes’ The Birds was first per- welcoming those seeking refuge in a better formed in 414 BC. SPARC Theatre’s The place told by descendants of the first wave of Greek Mythological Boat Show is a new take migrants from war-ravaged Europe is one modon this ancient Greek comedy, 2,500 years later. ern Australia needs to hear. This is a story of migration and belonging - Review by Kathryn Keeble told through myth. ‘In the beginning, there was a vibe,’ the Oracle (Stezzo Gray) tells us. Voyaging to their new home, each performer is allowed to bring a treasured posses- ■ QV Melbourne will host an impressive twosion to the new world. hour line up of fiercely feminine comedy in An assortment of treasures follows. ‘My QV Square on Friday, March 8, along with toothbrush, toothpaste and a little bag of good- music and dance in celebration of International ies,’ says Rodney (Rodney Leibel). ‘My TV,’ Women’s Day. says Spiros (Spiros Dendrinos). ‘Water,’ says Kicking off at 6:30pm, the QV Melbourne a forward-thinking John (John Eslick). event will be hosted by comedian and broadPandora’s Box also travels to the new world caster Geraldine Hickey, with a razor-sharp bringing pain and suffering. So many elements program of entertainment including comedian come together to make this performance what Cal Wilson, gender transcendent diva Mama it is: film, animation, music, spoken word, not Alto, outrageously colourful dance duet Glitter to mention the SPARC performers’ moving and Snatch, female led musical comedy duo personal narratives, many of whom have experience of long-term psychiatric disability and The Pick Upand an all-female hip hop dance crew. acquired brain injury. Cal Wilson is a regular face on Australia’s The narrative is interspersed with song inbest variety TV shows, Cal’s comedy special cluding a rousing rendition of Abba’s Mama Mia sung in Greek. Props Maker Jason was released on Netflix this year. Tickets to International Women’s Day are Ochotnicki’s fabulous bird headdresses help to transport us to the mythical paradise that is on salenow via qvcinema.com.au At just $12 (plus $1 booking fee), the price Fernaokiya where the Oracle guarantees there will be ‘at least one person exactly on your also includes QV Cinema’s screening of Wonder Woman, best enjoyed with a deckchair dinwavelength’. The one element that soars above all else ner from Grill’d, Schnitz or any of the many from this production is an infectious sense of other eateries surrounding the square. - Cheryl Threadgold fun.

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Sport DIAMOND VALLEY CRICKET ASSOCIATION SCOREBOARD BARCLAY SHIELD

■ Results. Round 11. Saturdays, February 23 and March 2. Riverside 5/97 S Gibbs 34 X Youngman 29 v Epping 88 CM Salm 4/8 TJ Knox 4/24. Diamond Creek 3/48 SS Taggar 2/8 v Bundoora 78 L Campitelli 4/16 M Keenan 2/ 14 R Tolley 2/20. Plenty 116 R Wise 3/39 G Rigg 2/16 DK O'Leary 2/19 JN Swainger 2/23 v Macleod. North Eltham Wanderers 165 T Beers 35 TL Baker 32 L Burgoyne 5/25 LA Costa 3/55 v Lower Eltham 0/2. Rosanna 206 S Sheehan 98 N Carlton 47 N Weerakkody 8/52 R Shaman 2/32 v Montmorency 0/8.

MONEY SHIELD

■ Results. Round 11. Saturdays, February 23 and March 2. Lower Plenty 0/18 v Greensborough 176 JD Perichon 30 T Vilchez 25 J Henkel 3/33 S Neary 2/31 J Kulikowski 2/ 51. Eltham 9/332(cc) L Mash 192 M Chrimes 49 G Turner 28 A Lamont 25 v Mill Park. Lalor Stars v Bundoora United 8/235(cc) N Rukshitha 79 A Hamilton 48* T Sanjeewa 40 N Curtin 25 P Higgins 5/68 J Steele 2/37. Mernda v Heidelberg 319 L Turner 68 P Cashen 66 M Favrin 49 J Whitcher 31 H Frazer 28 A Greenough 4/95 D Earp 2/57. Old Paradians 9/258(cc) UJ Ranasinghe 91 DP Wegener 49 SA Barker 30 JA Hannan 5/61 NP Murray 2/48 v Banyule.

MASH SHIELD

■ Results. Round 13. Saturdays, February 23 and March 2. Research Eltham Collegians 7/271(cc) J Turner 91 W Purvis 77* P Zumbo 44 KS Heckmann 5/80 v South Morang. Thomastown United 56 R Ford 7/21 R Hobbs 2/ 10 def byPanton Hill 7/84 L McInnes 31* J Sandford 3/12 S Mitreski 3/21. Whittlesea v Hurstbridge 8/311(cc) K Edussooriya 217 N Blackwood 43 BA Avola 5/76. Laurimar 6/ 472(cc) L Richardson 180 RJ Boddy 160* J Zerella 54 J Carruthers 26 L Fellows 2/46 SS Kethbevilage 2/51 v Thomastown.

DIAMOND VALLEY CRICKET ASSOCIATION SCOREBOARD F1-GRADE

■ Results. Round 12. Saturdays, February 23 and March 2. Diamond Creek 6/315(cc) M MacDonald 96 A Putto 65* J Boland 56 JD Tassone 49 v Heidelberg. South Morang v Old Paradians 200 DS Leslie 59 JR Piscitelli 40 N James 39 MA Robinson 2/66. Bundoora 1/117 D Brennan 58 R Caracella 50* v Rosanna 101 C York 37 V Sindhu 4/28 A Tak 3/28 D Brennan 2/ 5. Macleod 8/193(cc) D Bosso 76 JH Curtin 39* J McEntee 2/22 HT Sparks 2/22 G O'Neill 2/42 v Eltham.

F2-GRADE

■ Results. Round 12. Saturdays, February 23 and March 2. Lower Plenty v Riverside 100 S Merrifield 27 L Caldera 2/9. Lalor Stars 3/ 119(dec) L Miranda 57 v North Eltham Wanderers 74 V Greenhill 25* R Scott 6/17 JA Griffin 2/14 and 1/35 J Collins 25. Lower Eltham 154 AAndrews 44 S Hone 43* E Pendlebury 31 v Whittlesea 0/0. Rosanna 77 A Sacco 4/12 JD MacDonald 3/23 v Mill Park 0/33.

F3-GRADE

■ Results. Round 12. Saturdays, February 23 and March 2. Bundoora United 2/5 R Pearce 2/5 v Diamond Creek 253 S Farrar 132 DJ Kingsley 44 A Jarram 30 C Webb 4/52 S Culhane 2/20 B Sharkey 2/33 I Jinadasa 2/58. Old Paradians v Plenty 6/275(cc) C Alexopoulos 70 E Weir 57 ZT Johns 42 J Tilley 31 JR Di Giuseppe 5/123. Thomastown United v Epping 8/295(cc) N Tsimiklis 4/52 L Juricic 3/14. Thomastown East Reserve (Oval #2 South). Banyule def Mernda.

G1-GRADE

■ Results. Round 12. Saturdays, February 23 and March 2. Montmorency 9/193(cc) R Siede 55* DA Barnett 40 S Norton 26 S Hayse 3/63 K Lawry 2/25 A Volpe 2/44 v Lalor Stars. South Morang 101 V Sharma 26 A Hussen 5/21 N Kovac 3/23 v Macleod 0/0 . Thomastown 136 B-GRADE R Mitchell 4/15 R McCormick 4/22 v Diamond ■ Results. Round 13. Saturdays, February Creek 4/34. Laurimar 281 C Cunningham 3/29 23 and March 2. Montmorency 9/170(cc) J A Asdagi 2/35 G McGrath 2/47 R Young 2/51 v Harrison 30* B Woodhouse 29 S Dunbar 3/13 Research Eltham Collegians 0/15. BJ Ellis 2/33 J Wolczko 2/35 A Khanna 2/51 v G2-GRADE Rosanna. Epping vRiverside 5/240(cc) BT ■ Results. Round 12. Saturdays, February Money 69 M Doyle 56 G Smyth 42 M Brooker 23 and March 2. Lower Plenty 52 v Epping 8/ 40. Bundoora 147 LR Smart 53 V Siwas 30 A McCormick 5/51 DH Bedurke 2/29 v Diamond 134 C Veal 2/39. Riverside 0/156 L Morgan Creek 1/37. Macleod 221 J Chiminello 50 T 124* v Lower Eltham 123 J Atkinson 4/12 M Crowley 31 M Bosso 29 J White 28 L Taylor 4/ Coates 3/30. Diamond Creek 7/74 v Laurimar Teal 179 JP Merrett 3/23 LR Rowley 2/19 JR 34 J Marshall 3/33 v Mernda 1/2. Rowley 2/33 AA Elward 2/40. Greensborough C-GRADE 99 D Williams 4/18 D Van Oorschot 3/29 v ■ Results. Round 13. Saturdays, February Laurimar Black 2/42. 23 and March 2. Bundoora United v Lalor Stars UNDER 18 8/248(cc) C MacDonald 59 A Jordanidis 48* ■ Results. Round 9. Fridays, February 15 and NA Horman 37 M Ceravolo 28 S Peat 2/30. Lower Plenty: Bye. Eltham/Dennis 5/151(cc) Mill Park 1/1 v Eltham 300 K Sheehan 76 S 22. Kirkright 45* H Khan 2/19 def by Mernda 6/ Sceney 63 B O'Loughlin 32 R White 27 S Oakley L 152 Burton 34 JW Ladiges-Tucker 26 M Obst 25 J Raddino 3/50 M Zivanovic 2/22 V Sheth 2/ 2/7. CMontmorency 9/174(cc) R Coleman 61 J 30 C Fernandes 2/50. North Eltham Wanderers Clark 3/31 B Crick 2/12 by Lower Eltham 8/ 0/8 v Old Paradians 260 BP Campbell 58* MP 179(dec) E Pendleburydef 48 O 40 A Cocks 35 NM McGinty 34 BJ Sergi 34 C Lyall Andrews 25 R Patmore 3/29 LHargreaves Rendell 2/39 3/45 AR Mann 2/20 C Mackay 2/69. Heidelberg Andrew 2/43. Mill Park 126 MA Hayse 31JH S 251 L Biggs 76 J Smith 60 D Gattuso 35* S Kumar 5/17 E Kunelius 2/18def by Epping 6/ Klepp 4/42 J King 3/27 v Plenty 1/4. 190(cc) TA Mane 54 F Kafi 45 L Gioskos 2/21.

D-GRADE

■ Results. Round 13. Saturdays, February 23 and March 2. Lower Eltham v Lower Plenty 9/229(cc) AC Horner 65* LM Sirianni 63 G Arnott 31 T Smith 30 M Parremore 2/23 K Richards 2/48 J Mitchell 2/55. Hurstbridge 96 H Dhillon 4/14 R Russell 3/18 B Lewis 2/18 v Riverside 4/84 A Merrifield 29* H Ellks 25. Greensborough 2/209(dec) D Patullo 107* C Voce 76 v North Eltham Wanderers 61. Banyule 9/268(cc) A Samad 65 JN Wilson 40 SR Place 40 TD Elmer 40* v Research Eltham Collegians.

E-GRADE

■ Results. Round 13. Saturdays, February 23 and March 2. Riverside 123 M Newell 26 A Nolan 26 T Goodman 4/34 S O'Brien 3/9 C Snelson 2/4 v Montmorency 3/55 A Nolan 2/12. Mernda v Banyule 6/359(cc) WG Barnes 78 DL Rodda 55 SJ Veal 55* JD Bowler 54 SM Pinner 49. Panton Hill 9/279(cc) P Moore 3/54 P Perera 2/21 v Thomastown United. Thomastown 0/14 v Laurimar 145 H Foster 38 MJ Howes 3/6 J Poonia 3/25 S Bhatnager 2/17.

UNDER 16 BLUE

■ Results. Round 9. Fridays, February 15 and 22. Diamond Creek 6/103(cc) H Downes 30* def Bundoora Park Bulls 67 JR Rowley 4/9 R McCormick 2/7 H Downes 2/8. Montmorency 8/178(dec) A Crick 30 B Binion 29* B Jones 27* B Khan 3/39 def Laurimar 113 B Khan 46 W Rutley 3/12 A Crick 2/20 and 1/50 N Welsh 32*. Epping 119 S Warrillow 3/16 A Turner 2/8 N Willis 2/19 A Asdagi 2/2 def by Research Eltham Collegians 6/125 A Turner 38* FL McColgan 33. Mernda 128 def by Bundoora United 8/ 185(cc) J Lemire 100* W Brennan 37 M Cromie 5/14 ZJ Davies 2/31.

UNDER 14 BLUE

■ Results. Round 9. Fridays, February 15 and 22. Riverside 122 J Atkinson 31 NJ Bowler 2/8 MJ Pantalone 2/10 AJ Polatos 2/18 def Banyule 121 BL O'Connor 35 TT Gannon 35* B Livy 2/ 12 N Gleeson 2/16 M Coates 2/18. Montmorency 78 A Sharma 3/9 def by Epping 313 N Sharma 77* M Kumar 56 D Digvijay 50* P Londhe 30* J Glover 2/7 R Plant 2/25 I Pote 2/41. Research Eltham Collegians 4/88(dec) K Hamit 41 Z Mills

DIAMOND VALLEY CRICKET ASSOCIATION SCOREBOARD

ALEXANDRA FOOTBALL NETBALL CLUB REPORT

2/21 def Macleod 74 H Guard 26 L Shepherd 5/ 11 A Toffolo 2/12 and 5/141 Z Mills 44 CJ Dawson 31* N Kilby 2/17. Rosanna 6/220(cc) L Dench 53* I Yarlagadda 26* A Katsaros 2/27 def Old Paradians 99 B Jain 32 K Lawson 30 L Dench 3/14 B Wolczko 2/5.

anyone that would like to come along and join in, everyone is very welcome. Any enquiries please contact Ray Steyger on 5772 2627. Pre-season matches for Senior and Under 18s football and netball are organised and the details are as follows: ■ Saturday, March 16 against Whitehorse Pioneers at Rebel Park, start times to be confirmed with the canteen and bar operating; ■ Saturday, March 30 against Old Eltham Collegians at Rebel Park, start times to be confirmed with the canteen and bar operating. In junior football and netball, pre-season training will get under way for some teams this week with details to be confirmed for each team and distributed through school newsletters and the media in the next week. In junior football, the Club is seeking expressions of interest from anyone interested in coaching the Under 14s football coach. All 2018 players are invited to re-register for 2019 through the SportsTG system for footbal and the VNA system for netball. The Seymour District Junior FootballNetball League season starts with Round 1 on Sunday, April 7, which is the start of school holidays, Round 2 will be Sunday, April 14 which is the middle weekend of the school holidays and the following round is a general bye for the Easter weekend with a fixture due to be confirmed in coming weeks. The Waranga North East Football League past players got together on Monday, February 11 for lunch at the Broadford Football Club rooms with around 130 past champions (in their own memories) in attendance. Former Alexandra players Robert Jane, Norm Stace, Bill Thompson, Doug Joyce, Hans Schonekas, John Murphy, Alec Rowan, Ivan Fox and Noel Serong along with past Thornton players Ross and Barry Coller, Bill Newman Pat Halit, Rob Singline and Graeme Robb enjoyed catching up with former opponents to relive old conquests. Many speakers recalled the strength of the old Waranga North East Football Leaguewhich disbanded in 1976. The WNEFL, with Seymour as the larges town, was always able to select a team that often defeated the much larger surrounding Leagues in inter-league matches. All in attendance enjoyed the day and are keen to continue the concept into the future. - Ray Steyger

UNDER 12 BLUE

■ Results. Round 9. Fridays, February 15 and 22. Riverside 187 G Coates 104 W Nyman 2/7 M Hudson 2/9 N Whewell 2/14 def Laurimar 7/ 162(cc) M Hudson 27* M Bohan 2/21. Research Eltham Collegians 140 A Robinson 27 J Lynch 2/9 def Lower Eltham 126 G Crea 40* J Shepherd 2/6 C Davie 2/19. Mernda 3/178(cc) M Fernando 30* A Simonsen 25 v Epping. Banyule 3/179 def Montmorency 79 T LaFerlita 27* C Smith 27.

NORTHERN METRO MANION SHIELD SCOREBOARD ■ Results. Round 10. Saturdays, February 23 and March 2. Preston YCW District 3rd XI211 J Warnock 47 S Mitchell 3/16 M Somasuntharan 2/29 P Ellis 2/43 v Rivergum 4th XI1/18. Reservoir Mayston 2nd XIL: Bye. Kinglake53 M Di Tonto 7/22 H Singh 2/19 def by Lalor Warriors 2nd XI3/175 DN Sinclair 52 T Georgopoulos 36*.

SEYMOUR DISTRICT CRICKET ASSOCIATION SCOREBOARD A-GRADE

■ Results. Round 13. Saturdays, February 16 and 23. Yea Tigers 9/228 (cc) C Armstrong 90 M Steiner 62 LWatts 4/55 W Dundon 3/24 def Tallarook 126 M Steiner 3/15 B Tarran 2/29 CAMalcolm 2/29. Avenel 214 K Duncan 38 D Lowis 34 H Wheeler 31 H Jones 30 T Burke 29 BG Bryant 4/31 B Speechley 2/24 D Bergowicz 2/28 def Eastern Hill 179 DG O'Sullivan 80 O Bryant 31 H Jones 3/27 M Lawrence 2/30 KD Hippisley 2/46. Broadford 124 J Connell 31 J Buttler 5/56 AR Lovick 4/41 def by Kilmore 176 M Davern 73 AR Lovick 37 B Hickey 5/49 N Woods 2/28 J Connell 2/44.

B-GRADE

■ Results. Round 18. Saturday, February 23. Eastern Hill 6/155 KJ Grant 44 Z Wyatt 40* L Wyatt 37 def Avenel 151 H Szczykulski 3/14 B Page 2/10. Kilmore 83 J Kidd 3/26 J Reynolds 2/10 def by Alexandra 3/84 DL Malcolm 41* J Purcell 31. Pyalong v Yea Tigers. Seymour S Van Duinen 54 def by Broadford 6/98 J Frankel 2/17 H Gawne 2/18. Tallarook 50 J Morgan 3/ 12 T Clarke 3/17 T Martin 2/3 def by Royals 8/ 163(cc) T Orgill 49 J Lewin 35 G Cole 25*.

C-GRADE

■ Results. Round 18. Saturday, February 23. Royals v Broadford Black. Kilmore 8/114(cc) def by Puckapunyal Wanderers. Puckapunyal Noamds 66 D Fountain 3/4 S Bruce 2/4 MR Culina 2/7 def by Seymour 3/68 J Voogt 39*. Broadford Red v Eastern Hill. Alexandra 6/165 def Pyalong 116.

ALEXANDRA FOOTBALL NETBALL CLUB REPORT ■ The AFL Outer East Football-Netball League Division 2 commences on Saturday, April 13, and Alexandra has the bye, the League having a general bye the following week for Easter. Alexandra hosts Thornton-Eildon at Rebel Park for Round 2 on Saturday, April 27 before travelling to Gembrook Cockatoo in Round 3 on Saturday, May 4. Alexandra's football pre-season continues for all open age players at 6. pm on Mondays and Wednesdays at Rebel Park. Pre-season training for all open age netball players continues at 6 pm on Thursdays at Rebel Park. The Club and coaches are pleased to welcome all past players, football and netball, and

TEA TIGERS CRICKET CLUB REPORT

■ Last Saturday saw Yea host Tallarook for the second week of their two-day match. Last week Yea put themselves in a dominant position putting up a total of 9/228 from their 80 overs. The Tigers were keen to put their stamp on the game right from the start of their bowling innings, and opener Marc Steiner did exactly that. In an outstanding opening spell, he grabbed the first 3 wickets and had figures of 10.2 overs 1/15, when he unfortunately suffered an injury and was unable to continue bowling. Yea continued to apply the pressure, and when Luke Smith grabbed the key wicket of Tallarook's in form number 3, Yea were right on top. A solid partnership through the middle over saw Tallarook make up some ground, but when their captain was dismissed for 58 the rest fell quickly. Ben Tarran bowled impressively, sending down 22 overs strait to take 2/29, while Corey Malcolm also claimed figures of 2/29 in another good performance. All in all, it was a very accomplished all-round performance with bat and ball from Yea, leading them to a commanding 100 run win over the top of the ladder side. This concludes the home any season for this year, with Yea finishing third on the A-grade ladder, meaning they will travel to second placed Avenel next weekend in a massive semi-final. The two teams have met twice this year, and it's one win apiece, so this promises to be a cracking matchup with a spot in the grand final up for grabs. - Andrew Chisholm

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Local History

John Whitelaw was first publisher

● John Whitelaw Photo: Alexandra Fire Brigade ■ The year 1868 - 151 years ago saw the start of the Alexandra Times newspaper. The newspaper was first published twice-weekly (Tuesdays and Fridays) by John Whitelaw from June 2, 1868. First copies were described as “for circulation in Wood's Point, Ghin Ghin, Yea, Maindample, Mansfield, Doon, Merton, Jamieson, Lauraville, &c.” (A string of small villages appeared in the Gaffneys Creek valley, and these were subsequently amalgamated and collectively named Lauraville by the Government Surveyor in honour of his wife, Laura.) In its first editorial the Alexandra Times newspaper committed to "representing the commercial and mining interests of the district". The newspaper’s motto was veritas vincit omnia, truth conquers all. Issues of the Times for May 1869September 1869 had the subtitle: Godfrey Creek and Yea Advertiser. Whitelaw was born in 1819, and was almost 50 years of age when he began the Alexandra Times. During his career, he was also a teacher and an auctioneer. (Whitelaw lived to age 80, passing away on September 19, 1899. He was buried at Sorell Cemetery, Tasmania.) Whitelaw was an Alexandra Shire President in 1873 and 1874, with him holding a Councillor’s position from 1873-1879. The Alexandra Shire Presidents ebook published last year by Murrindindi Shire Council notes: “John was born in 1819, son of George Whitelaw of Kelvin Grove, Glasgow, United Kingdom. “He migrated to Australia around 1840, possibly disembarking in Sydney as records show he was a teacher of over 60 pupils at Dunmore, NSW, in 1838 and married Elizabeth (Eliza) Simpson on July 16, 1842 at Hopewell, NSW. “By the early 1850s he was operating as a auctioneer in Bourke Street, Melbourne (opposite the General Post Office). “He moved to the Woods Point district during the Gold Rush there and established the Woods Point Times and Mountaineer newspaper as well as being elected the Mayor of Woods Point in 1867. “Around 1868 as the Woods Point Gold Rush subsided, he moved to Alexandra where in June of the same year he established Alex-

● First issue of The Alexandra Times on Tuesday, June 2, 1868. andra's first newspaper, The AlexThe Mountaineer newspaper was any earlier publication, despite the andra Times. first published on July 4, 1864; the assertions of a Mansfield Historical “In 1874 he appeared as one of Woods Point Times followed in Janu- Society review of newspapers in 1984.” 21 men displayed on an Alexandra ary 1865. Kirkpatrick continues: “Adam Fire Brigade poster and in June 1877 Rod Kirkpatrick, writing in The he sold the Alexandra Times to J.H Bold Type: A History of Victoria’s Burgess, who had been proprietor of McColl who renamed it the Country Newspapers, notes that the the Wood’s point Leader, shifted his Alexandra Standard. two publications amalgamted on press to Mansfield when he closed “John then returned to May 27, 1865; competing with the his mining-town paper. “He launched the Mansfield CouMelbourne where he purchased and Wood’s Point Leader from October rier on July 3, 1867, aiming to win ran the Carlton Cigarette - a Labor 6, 1865. Party political publication - until fi“These mountain papers faced subscriptions and advertising from nancial ruin. peculiar difficulties: the Mount- ‘Mansfield, Alexandra, Benalla, “He then conducted agency work aineer’s editor wrote of ‘ascending Jamieson, Wood’s Point, Longin Melbourne before returning to and descending hills at an angle of wood, Merton, Doon, Matlock, Alexandra with his wife. something like 45 degrees, panting, Lauraville, &c.” It was published twice weekly. “He went on to serve in the Shire puffing and blowing like a broken“The Wood’s Point Times and for many years. winded old horse; searching for in“In 1897, with declining health, formation on the summits of our high- Mountaineer responded tothe ‘large he moved to Tasmania to live with est ranges, creeping into tunnels 200- share of vulgar abuse’ it copped in his daughter Mrs McRae. 300-feet long, and struggling through the first issue of the Courier. “’We, and our readers,’ says the “At this time it is believed that he almost impenetrable scrub.” was the oldest serving Justice of the The Wood’s Point Leader machin- Mountaineer, ‘have been too long Peace in the Colony. ery was moved to Mansfield in early accustomed to the misrepresentations “His health subsequently im- 1867 to start that town’s first news- and unfounded calumnies from that quarter to be in any way influenced proved in Tasmania and he lived until paper. September 19, 1899. Similarly, the Mountaineer’s plant by all the venom he can put forth.’ “In the Mountaineer’s judgment, “He was described as a large jo- was transferred to Alexandra in the Leader died because ‘Wood’s vial and jolly fellow who was a great 1868. story teller and always wore a top The Mansfield Courier cel- Point and surrounding districts had hat (stove-pipe bell topper). ebrated its 150th anniversary in 2017. become tired of it and would no “He carried a walking stick in his Kirkpatrick notes: “There have longer subscribe. “And now that it is has been relater years, which was replaced with been two Mansfield Couriers, but the a large umbrella when raining. Courier of today cannot claim to be moved about 80 miles from us, the “In 1922 local identity Mr A.P. a descendant of the first Courier, al- editor would make us believe that ‘distance lends enhancement to to the Downey described John Whitelaw though it was doing that in 1984. as ‘a Scholar and a Gentleman’ in “In fact, it is stretching a long his- view’. “The Courier survived only until an article in the Alexandra Standard torical bow to suggest even that titled The Early Days.’ today’s Courier is descended from about April 1869, and a later Mans-

field newspapper proprietor said it had been “a signal failure’ and had warned othersby its ‘untimely fate’. With The Alexandra Times founded in 1868, the same year saw the Benalla Ensign proprietor John Liston seeking to dredge up Mansfield news and advertisements, and then launching the Mansfield Independent and Mining, Agricultural, Pastoral and Commercial Advertiser on June 5, 1869. There was a series of “the most scurrilous and insulting articles” about Shire Secretary Hageman, renowned for his quietness and peaceful nature. Hageman armed himself with a whip and administered a severe beating to the Independent’s local agent and sub-editor H.R. Tilt. John George Goodall launched the Mansfield Guardian and NorthEast District Advertiser in February 1871, continuing under various owners until February 1885, when Edwin James Welch bought the business, closed it, and launched the Mansfield Coureier with which is incorporated the Mansfield Guardian and Delatite Free Press. At Alexandra, John James McColl took over the newspaper business in 1877. Frank Whitcombe, writing in The Weekly Times in 1930, said that McColl was not in possession of practical knowledge of the business, and had to depend of others for the success, or otherwise of his new venture. In 1880 Samuel Allardyce, owner of Riversdale Station, became proprietor, and later sold to J.A. Gordon, who for many years occupied the position of Shire Secretary. On his death, the paper was taken over by Thomas A. Fox, who launched out as a municiapl reformer. In May 1920, the paper was acquired by Joseph T. Guthridge, who served his apprenticeship with Sydney Gullett of the Lancefield Mercury. The Gullett family was prominent in the newspaper world. Henry Gullett was editor of the Sydney Morning Herald; Philip Gullett was a well-known Melbourne journalist and afterwards edited papers at Hamilton and Ballarat. Sidney Gullett, prior to taking over the Lancefield paper, had been connected with the press at Tatura and Woodend. During J.J.H. McColl’s ownership of the Standard in 1878, there resided in Alexandra a Presbyterian minister, McDougall by name, who had a brother, a compositor at Maryborough, who was induced to accept the position of editor-manager, wrote Whitcombe. He brought with him tow journeymen compositors, Bill Dickson and Same Rowe. “This arrangement lasted only a few months, and McDougall and Rowe packed their carpet bags, and the concern was carried on by Bill Dickson, Martin Donovan and Bob Little, who incidentally, in addition to his role of printer’s devil, was employed to run the rabbit to the Corner Hotel, then kept by Alf and Charlie Hamea, assisted by Stanley McFonald, who measured out the beer for the subscribers and other visitors congreagted at the Standard on publishing night,” Whitcombe remembered.

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