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Centenary year of the Great War 1914–1918 THIS year marks a century since the outbreak of the First World War. It provided air show organisers with a theme for the Tyabb 2014 Air Show – A Salute to Veterans. It will be a show that pays tribute to the service and sacrifice of all those who have served in Australia’s armed forces both in the past and the present day.

Veterans from all RSL clubs on the Mornington Peninsula have been invited to attend as guests of Peninsula Aero Club. A special veterans’ marquee has been arranged for them to gather and enjoy the event. At about midday, as part of the opening ceremony prior to the flying display, veterans will be driven past the line of spectators, enabling everyone to express their support. This will be a memorable part of the event.

The flying display will feature aircraft from the First World War, although with none of the originals still operational, we will be treated to some fabulous replicas. They will be followed by a pageant of aircraft from the

inter-war period. Monoplanes were replacing bi-planes, undercarriages were becoming retractable, cockpits were enclosed, and performance was increasing. Watch out for the very rare Vultee BT-13 Vibrator. It was also a time when aircraft designers foresaw the age of civilian air travel, when passage by air would compete with steam trains and steam ships. It was the dawning of a new age.

With the outbreak of the Second World War, the pace of technical change raced forward.

The Axis powers attacked with unstoppable aircraft. German, Italian and Japanese models were sophisticated and ready, having been tested in Spain, East Africa and China.

The air show will present Allied aircraft that were used to oppose the enemy such as the Wirraway, Harvard, Boomerang, Kittyhawk, Spitfire and Mustang. They have been out of production for decades yet fly today as the result of long-term restorations and continual expert maintenance from enthusiastic teams of appropriately qualified mechanics.

wings became the new imperative.

Pressurised flying suits, ejection seats and weaponry evolved to meet the new challenges. So profound and fastmoving was the pace of change that jet fighters had to change rapidly. The show will feature the North Amercian T-28 Trojan ground attack fighter, deHavilland Vampire jet, Britain’s first operational jet fighter, and the North American Sabre, the ultimate Korean War fighting machine.

support, the spectacle being enhanced by the inclusion of appropriate pyrotechnic effects.

The 2014 Tyabb Air Show is receiving generous support from the Royal Australian Navy and Royal Australian Air Force. We will be indebted to the navy for the excellent band plus the inclusion of several helicopters.

Courtesy of the RAAF, we will delight in a performance by an FA-18

When the Vietnam conflict entered our living rooms on television in the 1960s, it marked the dawning of the helicopter as an essential addition to any modern army. We are grateful to the Royal Australian Navy for the inclusion of a Bell Iroquois helicopter to be used during this segment.

As part of the presentation of the 2014 show, there will be a segment featuring ground theatre in the form of a military skirmish. Enthusiasts from the Geelong Military Re-enactment Group will provide the personnel and ground equipment. The ground fighting between two opposing sides will lead to a request for air

Hornet, specially tasked to come to Tyabb and present a solo display. The wing commander flying this remarkable aircraft began his flying career at Tyabb. In addition to the support of our armed forces, we are ably assisted by the Temora Aviation Museum with the inclusion of a Spitfire, Boomerang and Sabre.

A whole day of entertainment awaits, with the aerial display beginning at midday.

RAAF Museum’s Sopwith Pup replica.

Visitors will be able to get close and hear how they sounded, just as those who went to war with them in the 1940s. And who will be flying them?

These virtually priceless aircraft will be in the hands of former and current air force flight personnel, experienced airline captains and a few highly experienced general aviators with thousands of hours of flying experience.

After the Second World War came the Korean conflict. Not only did it herald the passing of the pistonengined fighter era, but also it was a time when aircraft design changed rapidly to meet the performance of the jet engine. Streamlining and swept

Other air show features THE show will include an on-ground display of several exciting, new general aviation aircraft. From AVIA, the newly appointed Australian distributor of the Cirrus line of aircraft, we are delighted to showcase the Cirrus SR-20 and SR-22 aircraft. Constructed of metal and composites, the Cirrus is a high performance, four-seat aircraft for experienced pilots.

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AS a result of generous support from the Royal Australian Navy, the show will feature a Bell Iroquois helicopter, which will star in the war skirmish presentation.

In addition, there will be a precision handling display by a pair of RAN Squirrel helicopters.

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The highlight of the show is bound to be the visit by an RAAF FA-18 Hornet fighter for a solo demonstration. The pilot will be Wing Commander Tim Alsop, a former student of Peninsula Aero Club at Tyabb.

Royal Australian Air Force Hornets refuel in mid-air.

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Thousands turned out on the weekend to enjoy the delights of the Western Port Festival. Trying hard to weave his magic during the parade along High St was a young Harry Potter. More pictures by Yanni on Page 55.

Hope colours Luke’s farewell

By Chris Brennan HUNDREDS of mourners gathered at Flinders Community Christian College on Friday for the funeral of 11-year-old murder victim Luke Batty.

Overcast skies and light misty rain on the morning of the funeral were offset by the brightly dressed mourners, who had been asked to wear a “splash of yellow� to celebrate Luke’s favourite colour, the colour of “happiness and optimism, of enlightenment and creativity,

sunshine and spring�, as he once wrote in a poem. Luke’s mother, Rosie Batty, was escorted to the service inside the school chapel by her mother, father and brother after arriving in a limousine.

Wearing a yellow jacket, flower and scarf, Ms Batty read Psalm 23 to the assembled mourners inside the chapel, while hundreds more listened and watched in the nearby school gym, where the service was screened. “Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for

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Mourners were told by the head of Flinders college’s junior school, Greg Partridge, that Luke Batty would always be remembered for his infectious laugh and mischievous sense of humour. “I know teachers found it hard to discipline him when they were laughing at what he had just done,� he said. “You will be missed dearly, Luke.�

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“I don’t think any of us for a moment thinks that possibly more good could come than the bad that has been perpetrated,� he said. “But, like me, I suspect you have marvelled as Rosie has sought to bring good out of the bad that’s taken place as she’s tried to bring a spotlight on domestic violence and bring that into the public conversation in the hope that we might minimise the harm that it causes.�

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was a young man whose “integrity drove him to understand what life was about�. “Luke would seek to ask not just the simple or the surface questions, he would ask the deep and the profound questions about life, about God, about meaning,� he said.

Rev Rietveld also praised the efforts of Luke’s mother in attempting to bring some good from the tragedy by highlighting the impact of domestic violence across the community.

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Lawyers call to fix broken system

By Keith Platt SOCIETY owes it to Luke and Rosie Batty to fix the “piecemeal and slow” system designed to protect children and families from violence.

In the wake of the murder of 11-yearold Luke Batty after cricket practice at Tyabb by his father Greg Anderson, the Federation of Community Legal Centres has joined the call for tighter policing of intervention orders.

Police said they shot Anderson dead when he threatened them with a knife after capsicum spray failed to subdue him.

“We owe it to Luke and the courage of his mother Rosie Batty to fix this broken system,” the federation’s senior policy adviser Dr Chris Atmore said.

“This means understanding that 26 per cent of Victorian family violence deaths involve parent-child or child-parent killings.

“These are shocking and traumatic – but it is important that we make the effort to understand how, in a society like ours where family violence is so common, they can and do happen.

“Putting in the hard work of accepting that fact and understanding what then to do about it is what we all need to do to heal as a community.”

Dr Atmore’s call to action on Friday came just hours after the funeral service attended by many of Luke Batty’s classmates at Flinders Christian Community College in Tyabb.

The federation said there was a need to focus on the lessons for family violence prevention in response to the deaths of Luke and his father.

The federation’s member centres help victims of family violence obtain inter-

Comforting hand: Rosie Batty receives a comforting hand from a fellow mourner during the funeral for her son Luke in Tyabb. See Pages 4 and 5.

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vention orders and the federation is a key member of Victoria’s Systemic Review of Family Violence Deaths Reference Group.

It was later revealed by Chief Commissioner Ken Lay that Anderson, despite being interviewed by police on 27 January, had escaped being locked up for failing to appear in court after breaching several intervention orders.

Mr Lay blamed Victoria Police’s outdated computer system for those police not being aware of five warrants for the 54-year-old Anderson’s arrest.

Rosie Batty has been reported as saying she wished only for “positive outcomes” from her son’s violent death.

“While the police have said that they will conduct their own investigation, and the Commission for Children and Young People is planning their inquiry, this tragedy must also be examined through the Systemic Review of Family Violence Deaths as part of the coronial inquests that should now occur,” Dr Atmore said.

“It is essential that all of these approaches are not only timely and well resourced, but work together with a common understanding of the realities of family violence and how they interrelate with issues like child protection. Then we can unpack exactly what happened and make concrete recommendations for change.

“The profound tragedy of family violence deaths is that they can be prevented.”

Dr Atmore said the current system tended to be “piecemeal and slow, with only the coronial process requiring mandatory responses from the agencies involved”.

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“Undoubtedly, progress has been made in recent years. The Sentencing Advisory Council’s report released last year, Family Violence Intervention Orders and Safety Notices: Sentencing for Contravention, showed that, compared with five years earlier, police are now applying for more intervention orders, prosecuting more breaches and more people are being imprisoned for breaches,” Ms Mullings said.

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“One of our key services is to provide assistance with the intervention order process and, in addition to advice and casework services, we operate a duty lawyer service for family violence intervention orders at Frankston Magistrates’ Court and for family law at the Federal Circuit Court in Dandenong,” she said.

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By Chris Brennan AS the tight-knit Tyabb community bid farewell to a cherished young soul taken far too soon, police, psychologists and trauma counsellors warned the healing process was likely to be long and difficult, particularly for Luke Batty’s family, friends, school colleagues and cricket teammates.

In an effort to help those struggling to come to terms with the trauma of Luke’s murder at the hands of his estranged father at the Tyabb cricket ground two weeks ago, a range of help and support services have been put in place.

Hastings police took to the cricket field last Wednesday to join a practice session with Luke’s Tyabb Junior Cricket Club teammates to help them feel safe at the place where the tragedy unfolded only a week earlier.

Senior Sergeant Alan Courtney said it was important Luke’s teammates felt comfortable and secure while continuing to enjoy playing cricket.

“Luke loved cricket and we want to make sure that his teammates understand it’s OK for them to keep playing, and to make sure they feel safe while doing so,” Senior Sergeant Courtney said.

“It’s obviously been very difficult for them and they need to know that there is support.”

The following evening, residents of Tyabb and surrounding areas were invited to attend a forum at Tyabb Community Hall to receive information about grief counselling services and how to best cope with grief.

Windermere Child and Family Services psychologist and trauma consultant Graham Clue attended the meeting on Thursday evening to talk about the tools and strategies people could use to deal with trauma.

A “pop-up” youth space providing professional support and counselling for young people will also operate at the same hall every Wednesday until the end of Term 1.

Mornington Peninsula Shire’s Watson Ward councillor Lynn Bowden said the youth space was an extension a the “safe space” set up at the

Colour of hope at Luke’s funeral Continued from Page 1

Moving forward: Senior Sergeant Alan Courtney of Hastings police joined Luke Batty’s teammates and coaches for cricket practice at Tyabb last Wednesday. Picture: Gary Sissons

hall immediately after Luke’s death to provide professional support and counselling for community members affected by the incident.

“This youth space is a direct result of this feedback and understanding that the community will require ongoing support – especially young people – in the weeks and months to come,” Cr Bowden said.

The mayor, Cr Antonella Celi, said that the impact of the Tyabb event have been felt across the community.

“The effects of events such as this ripple throughout the whole community. I sincerely encourage anyone – of any age, gender or location – to seek out help from any of the many services

throughout the peninsula that can offer assistance.

“Residents who require counselling or who simply wish to talk to someone about how they’re feeling are encouraged to drop in to their local community centre for more information or contact Lifeline Australia (13 11 14) or beyondblue (1300 22 4636) for telephone counselling.

“The Mornington Peninsula is a tight-knit, caring community and the shire will continue to support safe health and wellbeing outcomes for our community.”

The Tyabb youth space will operate every Wednesday from 3-5.30pm throughout Term 1 in the Tyabb Hall’s Annexe Room, 1535 FrankstonFlinders Rd.

Following the service, mourners cried and embraced each other as Luke Batty’s yellow casket, adorned with bright flowers and a stuffed Spongebob Squarepants toy, was carried through a guard of honour made up of hundreds of school friends and members of the community to a hearse where it departed for a private cremation.

A poem written by Luke included inside the funeral order of service shed more light on his love of the colour yellow.

“In the natural world, yellow is the colour of sunflowers and daffodils, egg yolks and lemons, canaries, bees and bananas,” Luke wrote.

“In our contemporary human-made world, yellow is the colour of Spongebob, the Tour de France winner’s jersey, happy faces, post-it notes and signs that alert us to danger of caution.

“It is the colour of happiness and optimism, of enlightenment and creativity, sunshine and spring.”

Luke’s family requested mourners provide donations to the charity Children Affected by Violence instead of buying flowers.

An online charity fund in honour of Luke has also been set up by friends of Ms Batty, as she battles to try to bring some good comes from the tragedy. ‘‘For Rosie, her strongest belief is that something good can come out of this,’’ said close friend Jane McGrath, who has set up the Luke Batty Fund at gofundme.com Ms Batty’s compassion and dignity in the face of the tragic loss of both her son and former partner have been a source of admiration across the community.

She has highlighted the issue of domestic violence while being careful to explain that her estranged husband had suffered a long-term, undiagnosed mental illness.

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Western Port News 25 February 2014

T-rex toppled in vandal attack

By Chris Brennan VANDALS have again hit Somerville’s Dinosaur World tourist park, knocking down a life-size Tyrannosaurus rex model and causing thousands of dollars’ damage in the process.

The 4.5-metre tall replica T-rex, which had stood at the entrance to the recently opened tourist park on Frankston-Flinders Rd, was attacked some time between late Sunday night and early Monday morning.

It is the second time the park’s showpiece has been targeted in as many weeks, after it was knocked over and damaged on 7 February, causing more than $3000 damage.

The damage this time is far worse, with park owner George Landolfo estimating the latest repair bill to fix the

steel and fibreglass model at as much as $10,000.

“It’s completely stuffed this time,” he said. “They’ve really made a mess of it. The steel frame inside is broken and buckled so it will have to be cut open in order to fix it, and that’s going to be very costly.

“We’ve devastated people would do this. It’s a real mongrel act, and it affects the whole community because this was a much-loved attraction that kids love to see as they pass.”

Mr Landolfo said it would have taken considerable time and effort to knock down the replica dinosaur as it weighed more than a tonne and was welded to a heavy steel base.

“It can’t be tipped over; they would have had to rock it back and forth

again and again until the steel frame broke through,” he said.

“There’s no way one person could have done this; it’s far too heavy.

There would have had to been two or three or more of them. We’re going to need a crane to lift it up again.”

The replica T-rex is one of more than a dozen dinosaur models on display at the park, which cost more than $17,000. The park has nine moving animatronic dinosaur models.

Mr Landolfo, who also owns an adjoining Christmas tree farm, said he had invested about $250,000 to open the theme park.

Police have called on anyone who might have any information to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

Ferry talk: About 80 French Islanders turned up on Sunday to listen to Public Transport Victoria director Norma Gray, right with French Island Community Association president Michele Neesham, outlined proposals to fix the sometimes unpredictable ferry service to Stony Point.

Ferry plan brings hope to island

By Keith Platt THE isolation of French Island may be coming to an end.

A new all-weather ferry service being investigated by Public Transport Victoria could reverse the uncertainty of the island’s children being on time at Mornington Peninsula schools as well as open up the island to tourists.

A belief that the state government is about to commit up to $3 million to upgrade the ferry service is also seen as bringing a new prosperity to the island.

Solutions to the existing unpredictable ferry service between the island and Stony Point outlined at a meeting on Sunday by PTV director Norman Gray “exceeded all my expectations”, resident and farmer Graeme Little said.

“I’m nervous of there being a big accident,” he said.

“The islanders are resilient and everybody helps out if someone is left

stranded by a late cancellation of the ferry. But inadequate boats are often used to bring back stranded people.

“One man fell out of a boat and was rescued after spending 40 minutes in the water.

“We have the wrong boats doing these emergency taxi runs.”

Mr Little is so sure the island’s ferry problems will be solved by the start of winter that he has revived a business plan to develop a health retreat on his grazing property near Mt Wellington.

The findings of a survey of islanders’ needs being made by the French Island Community Association would be sent to PTV by Friday week, “providing the final piece in the puzzle” for a new ferry service.

The French Island Tourism and Small Business Alliance has been established in anticipation of the ferry bringing more tourists.

It wants to align itself with Tourism

Victoria and the Mornington Peninsula Tourism Board and revive the fruitful association previously enjoyed by the French Island Tourist Association, which was disbanded in 2002.

More than 80 islanders were at Sunday’s meeting to hear Mr Gray outline proposals to improve the service.

Options now being explored include installing a floating wavebreak at Tankerton to provide more sheltered berthing; a fixed gangplank or a floating walkway to ensure safe loading and unloading of passengers at all tides; and several different ferry options, including stern-loading and rigid inflatable (RIB) vessels.

Mr Little said the vessels under review could possibly be used to make beach landings, taking tourists to parts of the island that were difficult to reach by road.

“This has exceeded all my expectations. Obviously Norman Gray has

taken a personal interest in solving the problem,” he said. “He came with exciting potential solutions and an array of possibilities.”

Mr Gray had previously listened to islanders’ frustrations during a rowdy meeting last September.

Mr Little said the unpredictability of the ferry put islanders at a disadvantage.

He said Mr Gray had consulted an expert familiar with the strong winds experienced at Fremantle in Western Australia “and come up with four or five vessel options”.

“Conceivably we might have more than two vessels, depending on the assessment of needs by the islanders and likely patronage over the next 10 years.”

Mr Little said French Island was “in the middle” of Victoria’s largest infrastructure project – expansion of the Port of Hastings.

He said the recently formed tourism and small business alliance was aimed at working out how projects on the island could interact with the changes “and protect the [islanders’] unique heritage” and lifestyle.

Mr Little said having a reliable ferry service would avoid the dangers of islanders using unsuitable boats to help stranded passengers.

“It’s an enormous sense of relief to know that someone is now listening to us,” he said.

“We can awake these sleeping minnow projects.”

“We’ll create reasons for people to come to Western Port if there is more to do and see on French Island.

“We want to encourage small-scale business enterprises operating in an unobtrusive, environmentally sustainable manner.”

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State schools offered path to independence

By Chris Brennan MORNINGTON Peninsula public schools are being encouraged to take up a federal government offer to become independent.

Flinders federal MP Greg Hunt said government-run schools on the peninsula could enjoy greater autonomy for decisions such as subjects taught and the hiring and firing of staff by signing on to a federal government plan to create an “independent public school” sector.

Under the federal government’s $70 million plan, which aims to turn 1500 Australian public schools into independent public schools by 2017, parents and principals would have more say about school curriculums, staff, budgets and management.

Mr Hunt said peninsula schools signing on to the plan would be encouraged to build greater community and parental engagement to help guide their children’s education.

“I hope schools across [the peninsula] will seriously consider this venture,” he said. “There are some terrific local schools here and this will give them more autonomy in their decisionmaking and greater flexibility to tailor school operations to meet the needs of students and local communities.

“Principals, parents and school com-

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munities are best placed to make the decisions that affect their schools. I am sure many schools will find the decision to become independent public schools an exciting and attractive option.”

Mr Hunt said the government aimed to have 25 per cent of all public schools take up the independent model by 2017.

Any peninsula school could nominate but the state Education Department would have the final say on which schools are given independent status.

Federal funds will then be allocated to train school principals and leadership boards to enable them to be “independent ready” by 2017.

The schools selected would be funded by – and remain under the ultimate control of – the state government, but the way in which they were run would more closely resemble that of a nongovernment independent school.

The plan embodies the Coalition’s stated belief that “the more autonomous a school, the better the outcomes for students … because the more a principal and their leadership team have control over the destiny of their own school, the more that seems to lift the school performance”.

However, the Opposition and teacher unions have opposed the plan, slamming it as cynical attack on unions and

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More pain for families says MP

Do something good GREG Hunt last week visited Abacus Learning Centre in Hastings to help promote a new community volunteering initiative. DoSomething connects willing volunteers with community groups in their area, which in the case of the peninsula includes organisations such as Sorrento SES, Mornington Peninsula Library Service, Holy Trinity Op Shop, Meals on Wheels, Rotary clubs and sporting groups. “Volunteers are the lifeblood of these community organisations and many groups are desperately seeking additional volunteers to allow them to continue their good work,” Mr Hunt said.

Potential volunteers can type their postcode or suburb into www.dosomethingnearyou. com.au/Greg-Hunt to find a suitable. Abacus, a not-for-profit organisation that provides intensive early intervention for children with autism, is seeking assistance with gardening, painting, maintenance, cleaning and repairing toys.

an attempt to cover up the federal government’s cost-cutting agenda.

Victorian Education Minister and Nepean MP Martin Dixon said he supported the federal plan, but pointed out Victoria was already well down the “independent public school” path with “the most autonomous education system in the country”.

“Victoria has the most autonomous education system in the country, and we are glad the commonwealth under-

stands the great impact this can have on student outcomes, school leadership and professional development, and engagement with local communities,” he said.

“We are looking forward to engaging with the federal government on this initiative and submitting our own proposal consistent with our reform agenda for further autonomy in Victorian schools, and show how they may benefit from this additional funding.”

FLINDERS federal MP Greg Hunt has defended the government’s push to scrap hundreds of dollars’ worth of payments designed to assist parents cover school expenses.

The Coalition has vowed to axe the Schoolkids Bonus, which provided eligible families with up to $820 for each child in school, arguing it had been funded through Labor’s Mineral Resource Rent Tax, which it is seeking to repeal along with the former government’s carbon price.

Government legislation designed to kill the carbon and mining taxes and associated spending measures is yet to be passed after being blocked in the senate by Labor and the Greens but remains at the top of the Coalition’s parliamentary agenda.

Delays in passing the legislation meant the first of two annual instalments of the Schoolkids Bonus went out to 1.2 million families last month.

But the payment is expected to be the last, with the government hoping to pass legislation ending the bonus after the composition of the senate changes in July, when newly elected senators take up their posts.

“I know cost of living pressures are placing a huge burden on local families, which is why we are determined to repeal the carbon tax as soon as possible,” Mr Hunt said.

“The best way we can help families with cost of living pressures is by scrapping the carbon tax, which will save families an average of $550 a year. Since the carbon tax was introduced, electricity bills have risen by 10 per cent on average, putting enormous pressure on local families.”

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Stop Link servos: shire ‘Commando’, swim star to give advice at pool CHATTING with a boot camp “commando”, getting swimming tips from Olympian Nicole Livingstone, eating sausages and watching a movie are part of a campaign to attract more customers to Pelican Park Recreation Centre in Hastings.

Mornington Peninsula Shire is promoting the centre through a “Come and try” day on Sunday 9 March.

The event is part of the celebrations marking the centre’s 10th year of operation.

“Commando Steve” (pictured) will host a meet and greet 11.15am-1pm, while Nicole Livingstone will give a motivational talk at 2.45pm and be available for a meet and greet 3.15-4pm.

Entry forms are available at the centre for a chance to participate in the boot camp run by Commando Steve or a children’s swimming lesson with Nicole Livingstone. Entries close 28 February. The “dive in” screening of Finding Nemo runs 8.30-10.30pm.

Activities include:  9.30-11.30am: Swim assessment.  9.30-11.30am: Baby swimming lessons.  10am-4pm: Jumping castle.  11am-1.30am: Sausage sizzle.  11am-midday: Aqua class.  11.30am-1.30am: TRX suspension training.  1.15-2pm: Treadmill challenge.

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By Mike Hast MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire attempts to keep service stations out of its green wedge appear to have failed.

State Planning Minister Matthew Guy has ignored the council’s policy by approving twin freeway service centres on Peninsula Link at Baxter.

This is despite council’s refusal of the plan in 2011 and the state planning tribunal VCAT confirming the knock-back in mid-2013.

But the shire is not rolling over without a sound and will ask Mr Guy to reconsider his decision.

Mr Guy has disappointed councillors and the shire’s executive team by approving an amendment to the shire’s planning scheme to enable the freeway service centres (FSCs) to go ahead – all without input from the council.

This is despite new plans substantially reducing the size of the twin complexes on either side of the freeway (“Smaller servos in Baxter wedge”, The News, 18/2/14).

Cr David Gibb told The News that Mr Guy had sought council’s views on the matter but then gone ahead and approved the change before the council could comment.

Cr Gibb was among councillors strongly opposed to the FSCs in 2011 when the council knocked back the proposal.

Melbourne developer AA Holdings, which builds FSCs with the BP brand, appealed the council decision in the VCAT, which in mid-2013 confirmed the shire’s refusal.

It has twin FSCs on Calder Freeway in Keilor, Hume Freeway at Wallan, Princes Freeway at Officer, EastLink tollway between Ferntree Gully Rd and Wellington Rd, and Geelong Bypass at Lovely Banks.

A report to councillors presented on Monday night stated “the Minister for Roads [Terry Mulder] requested the Minister for Planning [Matthew Guy] to approve an amendment to the planning scheme”.

“The circumstances of this report are unusual [as they require] council to make a decision and advocate for a matter that would appear to have already been decided,” the report stated.

“However it is considered that the matters at stake are so important for both the local community and the wider community from a road safety perspective that it is incumbent upon council to undertake further advocacy.”

On Monday night, councillors were expected to approve a letter being sent to Mr Guy expressing disappointed about the process and calling for him to “prepare, adopt and approve a different amendment” that considers the council’s views.

The council also will call for investigation into the exit to the freeway from the southbound FSC, which objectors and shire officers say is not long enough for trucks and towing vehicles to attain a safe speed to rejoin the freeway.

It wants a path so pedestrians walking to McDonalds, KFC, a convenience shop and coffee kiosk are not tempted to cross the freeway.

It wants “adequate noise protection, control of litter, and security for the directly adjoining landowners”.

In 2011, the council said the twin servos would impinge on the green wedge zone, was a “commercial development of excessive scale within the green wedge”, the design and location of the development failed to adequately protect the landscape and en-

vironmental values of the Moorooduc flood plain, and it would “have an adverse impact on the amenity of the area with regard to noise, light and visual bulk”.

“The proposal will result in the loss of agriculture land in the green wedge zone, which cumulatively jeopardises the economic viability of the Mornington Peninsula in terms of agricultural productivity.”

Cr Gibb said the council’s stance had not changed since 2011.

“I don’t believe there is a need for the northbound service centre; it’s just 20 minutes from Rosebud,” he said.

The case for a southbound centre also was weak considering service centres on freeways leading to Peninsula Link, he said.

“Shire councils over many decades have sought to protect the values of green wedge including landscape values, and habitat and biodiversity values. I’m disappointed with another assault on our green wedge.”

He said the centres were against both state and local government policy.

The new proposal has generated several strong objections from residents appalled that their input will not be considered by Mr Guy. The council has received just one submission in favour of the servos, from Peter Baulch of Baxter Residents and Traders Progress Action Committee, which has supported the FSCs from the beginning.

Supporting the project behind the scenes is Linking Melbourne Authority, the state government body formed to oversee the building of EastLink tollway and Peninsula Link.

LMA awarded the tender for the Baxter twin servos to AA Holdings in late 2010.

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POLICE last week arrested and charged a 28-year-old man over the theft of more than $8000 worth of tools from Hastings Men’s Shed.

In good news for the community group, most of the tools have been recovered.

The alleged culprit was arrested and charged last Thursday with multiple counts of burglary and theft after police executed a search warrant on his Hastings home.

Hastings Men’s Shed was broken into a week earlier, with a large number of woodworking tools and equipment stolen.

A TIG welder, desktop computer, mobile phone and toolboxes belonging to members were also stolen during the overnight break-in.

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“about 90 per cent” of the items allegedly stolen from the shed at the man’s home.

Police also found a number of other items at the address allegedly connected to a spate of thefts in the Western Port area.

The alleged offender faces a total of 11 charges, including burglary, theft of motor vehicle, theft from motor vehicle and gun offences.

He was remanded in custody to appear before Frankston Magistrates’ Court on 20 March.

A second man was also arrested and charged in relation to the alleged crime spree. The 33-yearold Somerville man was arrested on 10 February and charged with the theft of motor vehicles, assault and gun offences. He was bailed to appear at Frankston on 14 April.

Intervention doco from John Pilger A FREE public screening of Utopia, John Pilger’s latest documentary, will be held at Woodleigh School’s senior campus, 485 Golf Links Rd Langwarrin South, at 6.30pm on Friday 28 February.

Pilger is known for controversial films that highlight injustice and campaign for human rights. Utopia is about the Northern Territory intervention, now renamed “Stronger Futures”, as well as exploring how Aboriginal land rights have been eroded by governmental legislation.

It is a confronting and provocative look at the

realities currently faced by Aboriginal people living on traditional lands.

The event is a combined effort of the school, “Concerned Australians” (a group of prominent Australians campaigning against the NT intervention and the erosion of Aboriginal land rights), Mornington Peninsula Shire’s social planning unit, and Willum Warrain Aboriginal Association in Hastings.

Book on 5950 1685 or online at:www. eventbrite.com.au/e/utopia-film-screeningtickets-10611801183

Peninsula artists to open their doors Further information available from:pwguild.org.au pwgshowdir@gmail.com

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ARTISTS throughout the Mornington Peninsula will this weekend open their studios to the public as part of the annual Peninsula Studio Trail.

The weekend is an opportunity to have a look inside what for most of the year are the artists’ “secret domains”.

Visitors can also buy works direct from artists.

Artists began the Peninsula Studio Trail in 2009 and it now involves 26 artists who specialise in a range of mediums, including

ceramics, painting and printmaking, photography, gold and silversmithing and glass art.

Many of them will demonstrate their techniques.

Studios will open 10am-5pm on Saturday and Sunday.

Visit www.peninsulastudiotrail.org to find out which studios are open or pick up a map and brochure from shire libraries or information centres.

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Rosebud Kite Festival

NEWS DESK

Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th March, 2014.

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Dine out: At the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association Australia Day dinner were, from left, Holt MP Anthony Byrne, South East Metropolitan Region MP Inga Peulich, Frankston mayor Cr Darrel Taylor and Muslim association president Javed Safder Chaoudhary.

Picture story WITHOUT getting into any political, cultural or racial conflict with anyone, may I suggest that it was a disastrous choice to use the photo illustrating the article on the Australia Day celebration held by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association at the association’s Bait-ul-Salem mosque (“Cultural get-together on national day�, The News, 18/2/14).

I have seldom seen a more negative totally

Please explain I HAVE been under the miscomprehension that local government is about the people you serve.

Elections are held and we, the ratepayers, are given limited choices.

In my electorate of Cererbrus an election was held and won by David Garnock. My concern is this: ratepayers have signed petitions, written letters and held a public rally in the street opposing units being built on a “normal� block of land in Hendersons Rd, Bittern. Not only were our voices ignored but 15 units are to be built on this block as the advertisement says “with rural blocks in every direction�.

I love beautiful Bittern for its rural culture. I use Hendersons Rd most days.

Fifteen units could mean as many as 30 more unwanted cars in this street, used by walkers, some with pets, mothers with prams, horse riders and school children who have no foot path to use.

Can Cr Garnock justify this decision to me and other ratepayers who don’t want it? What exactly is his input to this decision and what is he going to do about the wishes of the people he represents?

Maureen Sharpe, Bittern

Financial strain AT the recent community meeting about Mornington Peninsula Shire’s budget for 2014-15, 99 per cent of submitters were community volunteer groups from all over the shire requesting urgent funds.

Do they understand the shire is committed to more than doubling its debt on only one project – the proposed Southern Peninsula Aquatic Centre in Rosebud? What impact will this have on our services and rates?

At the meeting we were informed by the shire’s top finance executive, Marilyn Kearney, that state and federal government subsidies had been dramatically reduced. The shire is now obligated to make up that difference to continue providing services to ratepayers and residents.

The shire also has to increase staff superannuation payments to 12 per cent. This and much more is putting greater financial strain on the shire. Assets are being sold and rates increased to combat this.

Shire rate revaluations are being done on our homes this year (this now occurs every two years).

House prices in Victoria have risen 10 per cent over the past 12 months to January 2014.

My rates for a small, two-bedroom, 1970s-style home on a small block in Rosebud has increased by $166 over two years. My rates are now almost $1000. The shire has a high demographic of single pensioners. How long

disinterested grouping. I suggest a more appropriate heading would have been “It wasn’t me�.

David Ball, Mt Martha.

Editor: The picture, above, was supplied by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association.

Send letters to the editor to The News, PO Box 588, Hastings 3915 or email: team@mpnews.com.au can they afford to continue to pay these massive increases?

Why is the shire prepared to more than double its debt on one project in Rosebud?

We employ shire staff through our rates to provide community services, roads and other infrastructure. We need leeway in the near future to borrow to provide these services and not max out the “credit card� now – especially if we are to believe the Federal Treasurer – and plummet into financial hardship. Communities will suffer in these tight financial times.

Doris Campbell, Rosebud

Sink the dollar IF the government wants to save the Car industry in this country it must do something about the over inflated value of the Australian dollar and removing it from the floating exchange.

A major correction of the value of the dollar just might save the car industry in the future and leave the factories open as it is the largest single cause of being uncompetitive in the car manufacturing sector in this country, apart from energy costs.

The previous federal government did nothing about our currency for the past three or four years when it was clearly overvalued, so it’s time for the current federal government to show some common sense and business sense and make the changes.

Employment costs are trivial compared to the inflated Australian dollar and high energy costs which are hurting all industries in this country.

It will probably take a recession for governments to make the necessary changes.

Patrick Geeves, Somerville

Port ‘value’ explored

WORLD renowned ecological economist Professor Robert Costanza is the key speaker at the “Valuing a Natural Western Port� seminar at Somers Yacht Club on Tuesday 4 March.

The sold out event has been organised by Victorian National Parks Association and Westernport and Peninsula Protection Council.

A VNPA spokesman said the proposed container port at Hastings was being promoted as good for the economy, “but that’s not the full story�. “The port is a threat to the environment and recreation – oil spills, dredging, land clearing and thousands of ships a year will take a heavy toll on Western Port. “The seminar will explore the ‘natural’ value of Western Port and why it is worth more to the community than just as a shipping channel and port.�

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NEWS DESK

Snipe set to soar after nine years

By Keith Platt NICK Caudwell has high expectations for a project that’s taken nearly a decade to complete.

In the next few months he plans to fly a Sopwith Snipe biplane that he has completely built from the ground up using original blueprints.

He has handcrafted the timber frame, and meticulously and laboriously shrunk and coated linen with about 10 layers of dope (plasticised lacquer) for the plane’s outer skin, which is stitched to the frame.

The one original specification not followed is the engine.

“I couldn’t get an original Bentley AR 1 rotary engine and have instead used a Second World War radial engine that was built in the United States,” Mr Caudwell said.

The seven-cylinder Continental W670 engine was used in the PTStearman training aircraft as well as Stuart tanks and military landing craft.

Other original equipment sourced from collectors around the world included gun sights from eBay. Mr Caudwell’s plane took shape over the past nine and a half years in the garage of his Mt Eliza house with the wings and fuselage being taken separately to Tyabb airfield to be assembled.

Another Snipe built in New Zealand by film director Peter Jackson (King Kong, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit) has already taken to the air.

“They started after me, when I was about halfway through, but they

Hanging out: Nick Caudwell and his replica Sopwith Snipe biplane.

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also had a team working on it,” Mr Caudwell said.

His decision to build the plane followed retirement from Cathay Pacific where he was captain of a Boeing 747, or jumbo jet.

He chose the Sopwith Snipe (successor to the more famous Sopwith Camel) because of its use over France in the First World War by the Australian Flying Corps, the forerunner of the RAAF. The plane was never based in Australia.

“The Snipe replaced the Sopwith Camel in the last few years of the war and was used by the RAF until 1926 in Iraq and Turkey,” Mr Caudwell said.

“Australian Elwyn Roy ‘Bo’ King was the top-scoring Snipe pilot, with seven kills. His actual tally was 26, but they were not all from the Snipe.”

King, whose kill count made him the fourth “highest scoring” Australian pilot of the war, survived the conflict and died in 1941 aged 47.

Mr Caudwell said that after retiring, he wanted to learn new skills – metalwork, turning and fitting and working with wood – and handbuilding a plane seemed a fitting project.

These skills and more were needed to follow blueprints sourced from Hedon Museum in England and magazines published in the United States.

While Mr Caudwell’s Snipe will be on display at Tyabb Air Show on

Sunday 9 March, its inaugural flight is some months away.

Once it has been issued a certificate of airworthiness, Mr Caudwell plans to head off into the wild blue yonder squeezed between two Vickers machineguns while sitting on a basket chair supported by the top of the fuel tank.

“It’ll be all right,” he confidently said on Friday while sitting in the cockpit safely on the ground at Tyabb.

Coast carers are foreshore friends NEPEAN MP Martin Dixon has congratulated the Friends of Flinders Coastline, which will share in $4 million from the latest round of the state government’s Communities for Nature environmental grants program.

“It is great news to see so many of our local environmental groups and community organisations receiving grants to fund their ongoing projects close to home,” he said.

“Last year I inspected the revegetation and regeneration works already completed by the Friends of Flinders Coastline and the scale and quality of the results they are producing is very impressive.

“I am sure they will put this latest grant of $19,284, funded over two years, to equally good use for the benefit of our community and visitors.”

The Communities for Nature grants program supports community groups by providing grants to complete works to conserve and enhance the natural environment.

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Financially regenerated: Martin Dixon and Friends of Flinders Coastline members Gladys Aarons and Glenys Greenwood show off a previous restoration area that was completed with an earlier grant.

Environment Minister Ryan Smith said the grants “deliver practical and meaningful partnerships between government, community and environmental groups”.

“The environment will benefit to the tune of $20 million through the Communities for Nature program,” Mr Dixon said.

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Pink is cricket to a tea CRIB Point Cricket Club turned pink for a day last Saturday as more than 80 women attended a traditional “high tea” to raise funds for the McGrath Foundation.

Pink Stumps Day is a nationwide initiative introduced by the McGrath Foundation in 2011, with more than 2500 clubs, schools, organisations and businesses across Australia participating.

The day aims to help the McGrath Foundation achieve its goal of ensuring every family experiencing breast cancer in Australia has access to a specialist nurse, no matter where they live or their financial situation.

Club president Ricky Thompson said he was delighted to see so many women attend the day,

which will now become an annual event at the club.

“Going into this, we really weren’t quite sure how it would turn out, but we knew that if we were going be involved, we wanted to make it a huge success,” Thompson said “Apart from the fact we had a fantastic turnout, the most positive aspect of putting on this event was the support and generosity we received from local businesses and organisations.

“We are still working out the figures, but through auctions, raffles and silent auctions, it’s looking like we will be donating more than $2500 to the McGrath Foundation this year, which the club is extremely proud of.”

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Western Port Secondary College is located in the seaside town of Hastings and situated in a beautiful rural setting which the students take much pride in. The school is equipped with excellent facilities. Our mission is to provide a supportive and dynamic learning environment that challenges all members of the college community to perform to their personal best.

We endeavour to promote an atmosphere of mutual respect, tolerance, understanding and co-operation which is underpinned by our four core values of Respect, Challenge, Opportunity, Honesty & Integrity. This will enable our students to thrive in a diverse and changing world.

We strive to achieve the best outcomes for all students at every year level within the College. We value all educational programs that will produce the best outcomes and that will put each and every student in a good position for their future careers, employment and prosperity. High and realistic expectations are part of the challenge for each of our students. The College runs a Youth Excellence Stream (YES) program which offers an academic extension pathway at each year level. We also run a vibrant VCAL program, offer a broad range of VCE subjects and offer many VET programs both on site and locally. We are excited to expand our VET offerings with a recently announced Trade Skills Facility to be built on our site this year.

I encourage you to come to our Open Night on Wednesday 30th April 4.00pm – 6.30pm and see for yourself. Alternatively I would be a happy to take you on a personal tour of our school. Please contact the College to make an appointment.

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I am very honoured to be the Principal of Bittern Primary School, a small government school nestled in the heart of the Peninsula. We believe the partnership between school and home is a relationship that is imperative to support the valued education of our students. Our student leadership structure gives students a variety of experiences that EXLOG FRQĂ€GHQFH VHOI HVWHHP DQG SURPRWHV D VHQVH RI UHVSRQVLELOLW\ 2XU ,&7 SURJUDP FRQVLVWV RI D VWDQG DORQH FRPSXWHU ODE ZLWK WKH ODWHVW VWDWH RI WKH art equipment. Technology is imbedded throughout the curriculum with many mobile devices available for students.

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It is fantastic being Principal of a small dynamic school with a supportive and engaging community as it undergoes change. In 2014 the school became known as Wallaroo Primary School. The students are transitioning into a bright new uniform which they are very excited about.

We are known as a Walker Learning School and are in the process of becoming the only accredited public school on the Mornington Peninsula that delivers the Walker Learning Approach. There are many schools across Australia that have adopted this pedagogy and families now have the option to send their children to a local Walker Learning School without the fees associated with a private school.

The Walker Learning Approach is a revolutionary and evidence based teaching pedagogy. It provides an authentic personalised learning model of teaching and learning that is effective across all cultural, economical, geographical and social spectrums. The pedagogy uses developmentally appropriate ways of helping to engage children in meaningful and relevant strategies that enhance academic skills alongside social and emotional development.

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Student learning at Bittern PS is personalised to meet the needs of all students, taking into account the diverse learning styles of all learners. Bittern Primary School is committed to preparing students for the ever changing world, developing educated well informed global citizens.

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Groups in tune to stop shark cull

By Keith Platt REACTION to the government-ordered shark cull in Western Australia has been quick and pointed from diverse sources on the Mornington Peninsula.

Flinders federal MP Greg Hunt is in the front line, giving the WA government approval to kill three-metre plus sharks posing an “imminent threat” within one kilometre of the shore.

In designating two shark management zones, Mr Hunt fell short of allowing an open slather cull.

He defended criticism of his actions by citing ongoing shark kills by other states.

Opposing the cull altogether is the peninsula-based Tag for Life organisation, which accused the WA government of killing sharks to increase its public approval rating.

Musicians are donating their time and talents to raise money to fight the shark cull with a concert at Baha Music Bar in Rye on Sunday 2 March.

Tag for Life founder Kent Stannard, of Blairgowrie, said the WA government’s decision to cull sharks was a knee-jerk reaction to a series of fatal shark attacks.

“We have a duty of care to protect all our native flora and fauna but the decision is not based on scientific advice and support,” Mr Stannard said.

“Basically, the Western Australian government consulted with CSIRO [which conducts research with Tag for Life] and its chief shark scientist Rory MacAuley to determine a statistical number of white sharks that could safely be removed from the population without causing undue pressure and collapse of the species.

“Bearing in mind no funding had been dedicated to either a short- or

Shark protection: A white shark is caught and tagged for tracking by the Tag for Life organisation, which is mounting a protest against the Western Australian government’s sanctioning of a shark cull. Mornington Peninsula musicians are helping raise money for the protest with a concert on Sunday at Baha Music Bar in Rye.

long-term research program on population size and spatial distribution of white sharks, this demand was ridiculous and placed unreasonable expectations on scientists.

“The long and short of it is that the government was seeking an immediate fix to an issue that requires years of dedicated work.”

Mr Stannard said Australia’s leading scientists were “completely ignored and [Premier] Colin Barnett headed down a track he was always heading down – buying popular votes and showing the public his government was actively doing something about the problem.”

“The law is sugar-coated and amounts to a cull, and has caused

uproar among environmental and conservation groups,” he said.

“Removing animals from the population will not necessarily reduce the incidence of shark attack.”

Mr Stannard said small sharks – possibly protected species – struggling on lines could act as live bait, attracting larger sharks.

“What we are seeing in WA is almost identical to what happened after a sequence of fatalities in South Australian waters in the early 2000s.

“Neither situation suggests an explosion of the white shark population.

“These animals are highly mobile and migratory, moving in response to environmental cues such as distribution of prey, variations in climate, and

changes in water temperatures.”

Unproven theories about the increase in shark numbers included the rise in whale populations; exploitation of krill stock in Antarctic waters impacting on the health of whale calves and leaving them targets for sharks; increasing seal populations; fish moving closer to the shore in the Leeuwin current; buyback of commercial shark fisheries resulting in more prey for white sharks; and crayfishing moving closer to the coast.

“Older surfers, abalone divers and commercial fishermen along the southwest coast near Margaret River are saying they had rarely seen a white shark until the past five or so years and there certainly had never

been any fatalities.

“Something has changed in the local environment for these animals to be residing off that southwest coast for longer than they normally would.

“It doesn’t mean their numbers are increasing or exploding. They are there for a reason, responding to an environmental cue.”

Mr Stannard said scientific research was the only way to find answers.

Short-term satellite tags and longterm acoustic tags could track migrating sharks.

“Research is best served by tagging and tracking as many of the juvenile stock as possible, which will involve locating the species’ western nursery area.

“Tagging adults only is not ideal as they are harder to find: there are fewer of them in the population, they are expensive to find and they don’t give an overall picture.

“WA has a big coast and trying to locate a white shark would be like standing on the Sturt Highway to Darwin hoping to flag down a Ferrari.”

Tag for Life has already fitted several juvenile sharks with long-term acoustic tags that will allow scientists to monitor habitat, age, survival rates, sibling relations, parental relations, how often females pup, how many parents remain in the population, and what parents are still alive.

“The work we have been doing with CSIRO off the eastern seaboard including Bass Strait is a perfect template for WA,” Mr Stannard said.  The Shark Day fundraiser for Tag for Life is at Baha Music Bar, 2209 Point Nepean Rd, Rye, 3-6pm, Sunday 2 March featuring The Naked Chief and The Davidsons. Entry is $10.

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‘Surf ’ barbecue PENINSULA Surf Centre is celebrating 40 years of business with a barbecue for customers, suppliers and staff.

Along with the barbecue at the Rye store on Saturday 8 March will be a display of surfing memorabilia, including a replica of Duke Kahanamoku’s Australian board, which he first rode at Freshwater in NSW a century ago.

The display includes hollow boards as well as boards and surfing items from most eras.

PSC owners George Paterson, Mark Grayson, Dan and Ted Bainbridge and Peninsula board maker Clyde Laird will be on hand to answer question. Laird ran his Crystal Blue surf shop on the site now occupied by the store.

Surf barbecue, midday-2pm, Peninsula Surf Centre, 2137 Point Nepean Rd, Rye (opposite Rye Yacht Club).

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Friendship mission: Members of the Mornington Peninsula Friends of Lospalos tour group join their Timorese Friendship Commission counterparts along with cultural dancers outside the local government office in Lospalos during the recent visit to East Timor or Timor Leste.

More of Leste as shire strengthens Timor ties MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire plans to build a closer working relationship with the people and institutions of East Timor following a friendship tour of the fledgling nation late last year.

A report of the tour tabled at this month’s council meeting calls for the strengthening of the partnership between the shire and East Timorese government and community groups, with a strategic plan outlining efforts to expand the relationship to be tabled before council later this year.

“This visit was the first council-supported, community-initiated cultural and friendship

tour to Lospalos in Timor Leste that involved self-funded community members and supporters as the main participants,” the report tabled to council states.

“It was also the first tour planned and developed by the Friends of Lospalos Committee.

“It provided supporters, committee members and some officers and councillors with a unique opportunity to consult with the Lospalos leadership about the future of the friendship relationship and to learn about and experience the social, economic and environmental realities

facing our friends in the Lospalos region.” The shire has a well-established “friendship city” relationship with the sub-district of Lospalos in Lautem district, headed by the Friends of Lospalos Committee.

Among the 14 councillors, shire officials and committee members joining last year’s tour were Crs Tim Rogers and Graham Pittock, community liaison officer Linda Wimetal, libraries arts and culture manager Geoff Carson and social planning and community development coordinator Jenny Macaffer.

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A NEW shop at Rye is raising awareness of environmental issues and organisations as well as donating profits from some sales to the Save Tootgarook Wetlands project.

The Patagonia store “provides a gateway” to various causes by urging customers to sign up for newsletters and email lists of such organisations as White Tag, Light Up Autism Foundation, Save Rosebud Foreshore, Sea Shepherd, and Baluk Arts.

“There are many issues that require exposure and we are doing our bit at the local level to raise awareness,” manager Heidi Duell said.

She described Patagonia as an “ethical and environmentally conscious company”. Clothing, bags and wetsuits were made with “a strong emphasis on using ecologically sustainable raw materials” such as organic cotton, recycled polyester, hemp, chlorine-free wool and recycled nylon.

“None of Patagonia’s products are produced in overseas sweatshops,” Ms Duell said.

Surfboards by Phil Grace are being sold alongside artwork by Kim Lampton, Ian Bowers and Gidja Walker.

Patagonia shop, 2411 Point Nepean Rd, Rye. Western Port News 25 February 2014

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NEWS DESK

Bush boy hits 80 not out

By Peter McCullough SIXTEEN years ago Brian Murray and his wife, Margaret, moved from Mornington to Hastings, essentially to be closer to a branch of their family. Over the years Brian has become a familiar face around the town, usually accompanied by his little dog Fergie. On a recent Saturday evening the extended family gathered at Lazars in Balnarring to mark the occasion of Brian’s 80th birthday. *** BRIAN James Murray was born in Murchison on 15 February, 1934. He was the only son of Thomas and Irene (nee Howard). Brian’s grandfather, James Murray, selected 160 acres in River Road, Murchison in the 1880s and ran dairy cattle, supplementing his income by working as a contractor on the Hume Weir.

Thomas followed in his father’s footsteps by working on the Hume Weir and later with the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission during a period of channel construction in the Murchison area.

Brian had a sister (Kit) who was two years older and together they caught the bus daily to Tatura where they attended the convent. During these years he helped with the milking of up to 20 cows before and after school, and delivered milk around Murchison before school. In 1950 and 1951 Brian attended St Patrick’s College in Ballarat, leaving after Year 11. School holidays in those years were spent droving in the district with his pony and dog.

On leaving school Brian worked at Rogers’ Grocery Store in Murchison and played for the senior football team in 1952 and 1953, holding down the centre half-forward position. After completing his National Service training, Brian moved to Kyabram where he started with the Lands Department as a labourer in October 1953.

The following year he was centre halfforward for Kyabram and played for the Goulburn Valley in several inter-league matches. His form was sufficient to attract the attention of Geelong, Richmond and Carlton, and early next year he played in practice matches at Carlton.

Meanwhile, in 1953, Brian met Colbinabbin girl Margaret Bridgeman while attending a ball at Rushworth; they were married at Kyabram in 1955.

After a move to Warracknabeal where they stayed for 12 months, Brian and Margaret spent three years in Wangaratta.

A knee injury limited Brian’s football with Wangaratta, but in 1958 and 1959 he played with Tarrawingee in the Ovens and King League for “two pounds a week and a winter’s wood”.

In July 1959 Brian was transferred to Goroke in the West Wimmera as supervisor with the Lands Department. He played for Goroke for three years, coached Peronne

for a year and played for them for a further year, finally retiring at the age of 30 when a further injury caught up with him. Although Brian was a better than average country footballer, his first love was cricket, which he played from his Murchison days until he retired from Mornington Diggers at the age of 48.

Between 1968 and 1981 Brian was in charge of the Mornington office of the Lands Department and then spent two years at Shepparton. From 1983 to 1985 he was acting superintendent in the Melbourne office in Spring St; those were the days when a labourer could rise to a senior position.

After a year in Cranbourne, Brian spent six years at Dromana, retiring in 1992.

During the journey Brian and Margaret had three children: Sharon (who lives in Daylesford), Tom (Melbourne) has a daughter who is an osteopath, and Kaylene (Crib Point). Kaylene is married to Paddy Cook and they have provided the bulk of the grandchildren: four sons (all of whom play for Crib Point) and a daughter.

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CONTACT: Nigel Evans 0432 260 556

CONTACT: Wendy Tallon 0419 135 836

CONTACT: Wendy Tallon 0419 135 836

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DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY

Holiday all year round with panoramic water views across Western Port Bay. On the ground level of this home is a contemporary kitchen with s/steel appliances, separate study, two separate living areas & large central dining room opening out to an alfresco area and the landscaped rear gardens.

Three bedrooms all have robes, and the upstairs main bedroom has WIR, ensuite & parents retreat.

A rare opportunity is this approx 739sqm allotment located in the heart of Orchard Leigh Estate in Hastings.

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Waterside opportunity for the developer, only metres from the foreshore, Pelican Park, Marina, and shopping centre. This 1226sqm property is ideal for a 4 unit/townhouse development (STCA). The existing weatherboard dwelling consists of 3BRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 2 living areas, 1 bathroom, r/cycle air conditioning and a single car carport and is neighboured on both sides by established units.

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CONTACT: Wendy Tallon 0419 135 836

CONTACT: Wendy Tallon 0419 135 836

CONTACT: Wendy Tallon 0419 135 836

CONTACT: Nigel Evans 0432 260 556

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LOVE THIS HOME

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Elite living RAISING the bar for style, quality and space, this stellar home is sure to impress all who inspect. There are multiple living zones both inside and out that make this home suitable for families in all stages of life. The main, open-plan area is flooded with natural light and incorporates an excellent kitchen, with adjoining family and dining space. From here, a set of bifold doors open to reveal the undercover entertainment area with alfresco barbecue and spa. The bedroom wing also features a handy living area in between bedrooms three and four. Perfect for console games or a playroom, there is an adjacent bathroom. The main bedroom is positioned toward the front of the home and features a walk-in robe and ensuite. The low-maintenance, 766-square metre block has been well landscaped with external improvements including a charming pergola in one corner as well as a garden shed. A double garage under the roofline has access via the laundry, and there is parking space for two more vehicles on the side.

Address: 39 Spruce Drive, HASTINGS Price: Contact agent Agency: Harcourts, 10/14 High Street, Hastings, 5970 7333 Agent: Jason Stirling, 0411 520 173

CENTURY 21 AGENTS SMARTER. BOLDER. FASTER CENTURY21.COM.AU/PAKENHAM

ON MAIN PAKENHAM

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DROUIN 325 Main South Road

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10 Acres WIth A Massive New Shed This near-new home is available now to move in! Quality is on display throughout the home, that measures 34 square under roof line. Open plan lounge & family room with a kitchen and meals area featuring beautiful polished stringy bark timber floors that adds character to the home. An inviting cosy gas fire is a centre piece. The superb kitchen offers Ceasarstone bench tops, a solid blackwood kitchen including modern glass splashbacks, stainless steel oven and range hood with electric hotplates and walk in pantry. The kitchen meals area opens out to the hexagon shaped alfresco area that overlooks the serene countryside. The kids bedrooms have built in robes and are at one end of the home, one with dualentry bathroom. The parents can retreat to the other end in the generous master bedroom, complete with his & hers built in robes, independent heating and cooling and a luxurious ensuite with a deep spa. Outside is a 3.2m double remote control garage with internal access suitable for trucks, vans or boats. A new Colorbond steel workshop with a 5 inch slab and power could be altered to accommodate stables for horses, floats and feed, or a home business for the tradesman (STCA). 10 acres of prime grazing land are fully fenced and on mains gas. There are two entrances to this property, one is on a sealed road frontage and a secondary entrance from Dyall Road. Schools, shops and transport are close by.

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FOR SALE NEG. OVER $775,000 VIEW:

By Appointment AGENT: Karen McCormick 0488 580 485 OFFICE: 103 Main Street, Pakenham 5940 9922

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NEW LISTING

SOMERVILLE 10 Mitch Court

NEW LISTING

EXQUISITE LIVING

HUGE SHEDDING

Immaculately presented 4 bedroom plus study home set in a quiet court is located only a short stroll to Somerville Centro.

The street appeal continues throughout the home; upon entering be captivated by the spacious 28 squares spread throughout 3 living zones. Central kitchen with large island bench, plus two separate outdoor entertaining areas. This home is as new and is still under builders warranty.

Step inside this home and you will notice the clever floor plan offering dual living on 1/4 acre allotment. With 2 bedrooms at the front of the home, featuring their own living & bathroom, then you have a separate zoned bedroom, bathroom & living/sitting area which would be ideal for a teenager or someone caring for a family member. The garage is truly massive, it also has a workshop & storage.

Contact Exclusive Agent.

Contact Exclusive Agent.

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PRICE REDUCED

CRIB POINT 26 Pearce Street

PRICE $480,000 Offers Over VIEW Saturday 12:00-12:30pm AGENT Wilma Green 0407 833 996

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HASTINGS 4 Sunset Rise

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NEW LISTING

PRICE: $369,900 Negotiable VIEW: Saturday 2:30-3:00pm AGENT: Wilma Green 0407 833 996

HASTINGS 3/116 Marine Parade

INVEST OR NEST

BESIDE THE SEASIDE

Spacious family home set on approx 605m2 allotment, with two street frontages and access to the backyard. This brick-veneer home is located in the most desirable Solar Estate, featuring four bedrooms, two bathrooms, two living areas and ducted heating.

Contemporary designed townhouse, styled over two levels. Features include two large bedrooms, two bathrooms, large balcony, kitchen with stainless-steel appliances, sunny courtyard, lock up garage & located adjacent to the foreshore. Stroll to High Street shops, sporting clubs, great fishing spots, transport and the foreshore reserve & walking tracks.

Currently returning $1560pcm on a month to month tenancy.

Contact Exclusive Agent.

Contact Exclusive Agent.

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INVEST NOW

PRICE: $370,000 Offers Over VIEW: Saturday 11:00-11:30am AGENT: Wilma Green 0407 833 996

HASTINGS 123 Victoria Street

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ONLY THREE LEFT

1/4 ACRE ALLOTMENT

Three bedroom residence that will appeal to those who are upsizing, downsizing, first home buyers or investors.

Features include Caesar stone bench top, s/steel appliances, floating floors,

allotment has front & rear alfresco areas with leafy gardens and towering palms.

Front lounge with wet bar, sunny family meals area and open plan timber kitchen with stainless-steel appliances. Plus ducted heating & 9x9m workshop.

Contact Exclusive Agent.

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100M TO TOWN

heating & cooling, plus huge double remote controlled garage, visitors carpark and well fenced low maintenance back yard. Minimum 5% return for investors.

Two bedroom residence also available in complex. Contact Exclusive Agent.

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HASTINGS 7/46 Victoria Street

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NEW LISTING

LOCATION, LOCATION!

well-placed bedrooms, separate rumpus room or kids retreat as well as an additional lounge area, plus streamlined kitchen with s/steel appliances. Extra features include refurbished bungalow and private deck off master bedroom. Still under builders warranty. Contact Exclusive Agent.

to the rear yard with manicured gardens.

Contact Exclusive Agent.

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CRIB POINT 3 Whittle Street Beautifully presented four bedroom home offers the right mix for a modern lifestyle in a leafy 1/4 acre setting. Featuring 3

the meals area with a sliding door leads

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PRICE: $309,950 VIEW: Saturday 2:30-3:00pm AGENT: Ken Brown 0402 868 368

1/4 ACRE ALLOTMENT

When location is important to you don’t let this perfectly located front unit pass you by. This unit has just recently been freshly painted throughout, new carpets have been laid, ready for the new owner to occupy. Spacious both inside and out the home boasts a generous size lounge room with bay window and new gas wall furnace,

PRICE $259,000 VIEW Saturday 11:30-12:00pm AGENT Wilma Green 0407 833 996

CRIB POINT 3/288 Stony Point Road FIRST HOME BUYERS

5 minute walk to Hastings Foreshore & 10 minutes to High Street, hidden behind a high fence in a great location. This quality 4 bedroom BV home on 988m2 (approx)

PRICE $395,000 Negotiable VIEW Saturday 1:30-2:00pm AGENT Ken Brown 0402 868 368

PRICE: $335,000 Negotiable VIEW: Saturday 10:30-11:00am AGENT: Ken Brown 0402 868 368

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By Appointment AGENT Wilma Green 0407 833 996

FORTHCOMING AUCTION

YOUR NEXT PROJECT ON 1/2 ACRE

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NOTE: Council requirements prohibit the sub-division of this property or the construction of multiple dwellings, however a granny flat is allowable (STCA).

This is a genuine opportunity for a family to purchase without competition from speculators or developers. Must be sold on the day.

EXECUTORS AUCTION

AUCTION

Saturday, March 22nd at 2.00pm Terms 10% Deposit, Balance 30 Days.

Vacant Possession.

VIEW:

Saturday 1:30-2:00pm

AGENT:

Wilma Green 0407 833 996

CRIB POINT 66 Disney Street

NEW LISTING

1/4 ACRE ALLOTMENT Perfectly presented home boasts 3 bedrooms & formal lounge with feature gas log fire. The large country timber kitchen has island bench, modern appliances and will be a delight to cook up a treat with a servery that opens out to the decked outdoor area. Another advantage is the large 1029m2 allotment that is a potential development site (STCA) or enjoy the large backyard for the children.

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HASTINGS 186 Hodgins Road

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By Appointment AGENT Wilma Green 0407 833 996

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CRIB POINT 522 Stony Point Road

NEW LISTING

2

MOST AFFORDABLE HOME IN HASTINGS! Smaller two bedroom cottage with carport under roof line, large sheds and short walk to bus stop. Open plan home with triple built-in robes and ceiling fan to master, sunny north facing study off second bedroom with adjacent north facing verandah. Bathroom / laundry combined with separate shower and toilet.

Galley kitchen with pantry and large lounge with ceiling fan opening onto full length verandah to front of home. All surrounded by established garden. Land size 587m2.

WHEN AFFORDABILITY COUNTS! Newly rendered 3 bedroom home on 1047m2 allotment boasting multiple living zones with new carpet and floating floorboards leading to the spacious kitchen. Further features include air-conditioning, ceiling fans, utilities room and ample storage in hallway. Outside boasts a terrific outdoor area with a pizza cooker and rustic fireplace for all to enjoy.

Contact Exclusive Agent.

AUCTION:

Saturday, March 29th at 1.00pm Terms 10% Deposit, Balance 30-60 Days.

Vacant Possession.

VIEW: Saturday 12:30-1:00pm AGENT: Ken Brown 0402 868 368

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PRICE $380,000 Offers Over VIEW

By Appointment AGENT Wilma Green 0407 833 996

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1/97 High Street 14 Balnarring Village

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Executors Auction Sat 08 March 1:00PM

Character and space

3082 Frankston Flinders Road - Inspect Sat 1:00 - 1:30pm

PRETTY AS A PICTURE

WELL-located to the centre of town, this striking double-storey weatherboard home has plenty of character and size. Designed to capture the view, the living areas are on the second floor with the kitchen, dining and lounge taking pride of place to enjoy the outlook to Western Port. Also upstairs is the main bedroom with a walk-through, built-in robe to a large ensuite with corner spa. Three bedrooms on the ground floor share a second bathroom. There is a second living area downstairs that will be great for entertaining, and a small kitchen that can cater for parties enjoying the alfresco patio and enclosed sunroom. The home certainly makes the most of the 581-square metre corner block, leaving little to do with garden maintenance. While the property fronts Penshurst Avenue, there is access to a triple garage from Pinewood Drive.

Address: Price: Agency: Agent:

29 Pinewood Drive, HASTINGS $450,000 plus Baywest Real Estate, 2104 Frankston-Flinders Road, Hastings, 5979 4412 Sean Crimmins, 0411 734 814

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Located in the Balnarring Village shopping area, this delightful 2 storey home has loads of character and charm.

Drive up the drive and you immediately fall in love.This English style home is within a 2 minuteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s walk to the local shops, public transport, schools and doctors/medical facilities. On offer in this quaint but roomy home, is 3 bedrooms - 2 downstairs and the master upstairs with a walk in robe and ensuite plus corner spa. Upstairs also includes a large parents retreat, whilst downstairs is the main living area with kitchen dining, main bathroom and laundry. Heating is gas and there is also air conditioning and a ducted vacuum system.

If Balnarring is where your heart is and being close to everything is what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for, then look no further, this is the one for you and wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t disappoint.

Lisa Roberts 0488 910 368 - Hastings OfĂ&#x20AC;ce 5979 1888

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1/97 High Street 14 Village ThisBalnarring is a non-sexual business

Craig Mann

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This well-maintained family home has a Charles Dickens inspired arched double door entry into the formal living room with 4 bedrooms, a study, ensuite with access to the pool spa, full family bathroom, formal & informal dining areas, and 3 separate living zones also on offer. A sublime kitchen is complete with granite benchtops, a walk-in pantry, and the best appliances PRQH\ FDQ EX\ IRU WKRVH ZKR HQMR\ FRRNLQJ XS D VWRUP $ VHW RI EL IROG GRRUV RSHQ IURP WKH UXPSXV URRP WR WKH SRRO DQG DOIUHVFR DUHDV HOHFWURQLF VKXWWHUV KDYH EHHQ Ă&#x20AC;WWHG WR WKH ZLQGRZV DQG D VHFRQG VSDFLRXV KRPH RIĂ&#x20AC;FH ZLWK NLWFKHQHWWH SRZGHU URRP FRXOG EH XVHG IRU H[WHQGHG IDPLO\ 7KHUH LV SDUNLQJ IRU FDUV DQG WKH JDUDJH KDV DWWLF VWRUDJH 7R WKH UHDU of the property is a high-span Colorbond shed with roller door, power and concrete slab. A fully automated garden watering system is controlled from a single panel within the home and connected to a bore for volume water. Desirable, functional and practical with endless possibilities, you will be the envy of all your friends!

AUCTION ADDRESS: INSPECT: TERMS: CONTACT:

SATURDAY 29TH MARCH AT 1PM 10 Compass Court, Somerville Saturday 1.00-1.30pm or by private appointment 10% Deposit, cash balance 60-90 days Brian Rotherham 0417 056 938 - brianr@craigmann.com.au

4/1085 Frankston-Flinders Rd, Somerville

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Offers Invited Over $440,000

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33 Sages Road Near New house With A Huge Garage

14 Bruce Drive There Are No Excuses!

This well designed family home comprises 3 over sized bedrooms (master with parents retreat & ensuite), open plan kitchen/meals/family area, double garage with rear access & a massive 3 bay barn style garage/workshop/man cave with mezzanine storage level at the rear of the property.

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Offering 3 bedrooms + study/4th bedroom (small ensuite to master), neat kitchen/meals area, cosy front lounge & separate 2nd living area. Other features include covered entertaining area, s/s aircon, gas heating & steel garage/workshop to the rear.

Sam Bucca 0412 755 544

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Offers Invited Over $350,000

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Your home could be worth more than you think!

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Selling real estate without the headache.

Sam Bucca Senior Sales Consultant / Licensed Estate Agent

0412 755 544

sam.bucca@eview.com.au

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Tallon BITTERN - 244 Davies Road

Entry Level Acreage - 2.5 acres approx.

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This 2.5 acre (approx) property is ideally located literally across the road from Somers and Balnarring and only minutes drive to some of the Mornington Peninsulas most stunning beaches and Peninsula Link; making the commute to Melbourne an easy 1 hour drive.

The home itself features 4 bedrooms, master with walk in robe and full ensuite and large living areas with exposed brick and timber paneling to create a warm and relaxed environment. A full length front verandah adds to the rural charm and a huge rear deck is perfect for entertaining. A high clearance 3 car carport and a large shed with concrete, power and two roller doors accommodate your vehicle storage needs.

Make the most of this rare opportunity to secure your piece of Mornington Peninsula acreage at such an affordable price.

Inspect: For Sale:

BALNARRING BEAUTY Modern & Large, Look No Further!

HASTINGS â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;KOORAWATHAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Large Lifestyle Living â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 6.5 acres

This beautiful modern home on a large 1400m2 block is perfect for a growing family.. Close to Balnarring Village shops and across the road from the Balnarring Recreation Reserve, this home has glistening white ceramic tiles and a homey feel that will take away the stress of a long day at work. Featuring 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, double garage with drive through access, additional SDUNLQJ DQG D PDJQLĂ&#x20AC;FHQW RXWGRRU GHFN ZLWK DOIUHVFR GLQLQJ The kitchen boasts Blanco stainless steel appliances and a walk in butlers pantry for even more storage.With an open plan layout you can watch over the kids playing in the family area with a separate rumpus room or out in the huge back yard.With approx 800m2 of hybrid turf you can be sure to have a hardy lawn all year around to enjoy.

Adding even more value are the solar panels that will cover your entire electricity bill + more! Further features include ducted heating and cooling, alarm system, formal lounge/living area and internal garage access.

Inspect: For Sale:

Your new lifestyle awaits in this beautiful 6.5 acre property.

Surrounded by trees, this hidden gem provides you with a relaxing and quiet lifestyle., drive past 7 large horse yards to the huge 50-square home featuring 4 bedrooms (air-con in each), two bathrooms and a study. The home also has a huge lounge with plenty of space for the family. An equally large rumpus room has a solid timber bar and opens out to an undercover outdoor entertaining area with a pot belly stove.The timber kitchen with walk in pantry also features a dual fuel stove/oven and overlooks the meals area, that opens to a full length deck.

A self-contained bungalow outside has bed, lounge and bathroom and will be great for the in-laws or a teenagers retreat.A 225m2 workshop has 3-phase power, and there are plenty of other sheds & storage ont he property. Further inclusions are two bore points, multiple water storage tanks, a gym, motorbike/4wd track, orchard and a pony club sized grass arena.

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By Appointment Offers over $740,000

For Sale:

Offers over $765,000

CRIB POINT Your 3035M2 Piece Of Australia This family residence offers the feel and lifestyle of small acreage on a manageable 3035m2 (approx) parcel of land. The home features 4 bedrooms, master with FES & WIR, the kitchen includes electric cooking, dishwasher and butlers pantry, and adjoins a generous dining area and spacious family room with a Coonara woodheater.

A large separate living area is located towards the front of the home and would make an ideal theatre room or could easily be divided to create a 5th and 6th bedroom if required.

An added bonus is plenty of storage space, a concreted outdoor entertainment area with awning, double lock up garage under the roof line plus a separate 5 x 7m (approx) workshop with roller door and a 18,000L (approx) water tank.

All set in a leafy and tightly held pocket of Bittern this opportunity is sure to be snapped up quickly.

For Sale:

Forward Thinking Investors Take Note

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Saturday 11.00-11.30am Offers over $600,000

With interest rates so low and the Port of Hastings on its way, now is the perfect time to invest in Western Port and what better way to do it than with this great value opportunity.

148 Disney Street, Crib Point is available for purchase with plans and permits for a 3 lot subdivision.

Lot 1- Three bedroom home, securely leased and returning $245 per week Lot 2- Three bedroom home, securely leased and returning $245 per week Lot 3- Vacant unit site with plans for a new 2 bedroom unit It wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be long until affordable investment/development opportunities like this are a thing of the past.

Act now or wish you had.

Offers Over $525,000

For Sale:

Offers over $540,000

HASTINGS

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BITTERN

Investors - Look No Further!

Your Dream Family Home

One Of The Last Vacant Blocks

Family Sized Value

This 4BR, 2 bathroom property is the perfect investment.

Two living areas, WIR & FES to main bedroom and modern kitchen with s/steel appliances. Outside is a covered entertainment area. Currently with a Defence Housing Australia lease, rented at $400 per week. Never worry about a late rent payment again! A DHA lease includes all repairs and maintenance and upon expiry of lease, DHA will recarpet all rooms and repaint the entire house.

4 bedroom home on a 996m2 (approx) block practical and tasteful open plan design.A spacious lounge and adjoining family room with billiards table included! A modern kitchen with dishwasher, walk in pantry and adjoining dining area. Three bedrooms have BIRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and main bedroom has his â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hers walk in robes and ensuite. Additional features include plenty of storage, gas ducted heating and evaporative cooling. Driveway runs the full length of the block to a huge garage & workshop.

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Walking distance to the Bittern Fields shopping centre, transport and schools, the block is in a quiet one way street, and is one of just a handful left in this area.

15.3m frontage x 46.4m depth.

For Sale:

For Sale:

For Sale:

This four bedroom family home on a 715m2 (approx) block is undeniably amazing value. Featuring a modern kitchen with stainless steel appliances that overlooks the family dining area with a step down to the huge open living area with gas heating, air conditioning and access to the yard via sliding doors. All four bedrooms boast WLPEHU Ă RRUV DQG DUH VHUYLFHG E\ D IDPLO\ EDWKURRP ZLWK separate toilet.

For Sale: Offers over $275,000 Inspect: Saturday 12.00-12.30pm

Offers over $410,000

CYNTHIA DOBBIN Phone: 0438 773 627

Offers over $429,000

DOMINIC TALLON Phone: 0408 528 857

HASTINGS - 23 Madang Court

Offers over $250,000

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Environmentally-sensitive living close to schools, public transport, the marina and foreshore precinct, in the Peninsula’s fastest growing area.

• Four hectare nature reserve • Architectural design guidelines

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• Titled land - start building straight away - from $167,100.

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Constantine Way

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• Superfast broadband with NBN

Call 1800 KINGS CREEEK (1800 546 472) or drop by and talk to the team at Ray White, 69 High Street, Hastings. www.kingscreek.com.au

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Designer home will wow PROFESSIONALLY decorated and fully renovated, this beautiful four-bedroom property is one of a kind. Slate floors underneath vaulted ceilings set the scene, and delightful French doors open to wide verandahs overlooking rose gardens. Living space is well executed with three distinct zones including a massive rumpus room with bar area and a powder room with shower. A country-style kitchen has a 900mm stainless-steel oven, dishwasher, and walk-in pantry. Adding extra appeal is the adjoining meals area with open fireplace.

The outdoor entertaining areas will not disappoint either with about 4048 square metres of landscaped gardens and paths. There is extensive decking with a built-in heated spa, and ample space for children and pets to play. Other external improvements include a Quakers-style barn suitable for a workshop or storage with a large turning bay out front.

Address: Price: Agency: Agent:

12 Blackburn Street, BITTERN Negotiable over $650,000 Century 21 On Main Pakenham, 103 Main Street, Pakenham, 5940 9922 Karen McCormick, 0488 580 485

HAVE OUR LOCAL EXPERIENCE WORK FOR YOU!

Somerville Lot 12 Yaringa Way Five Acres of Land in Quiet Setting Hidden away, this rare 5-acre parcel of land is the perfect opportunity to buy in a private, country area. The land will offer the discerning buyer the perfect opportunity to build that dream home (STCA), close to Yaringa Boat Harbour and restaurant, for the perfect weekend escape.

Price $575,000 View

By Appointment

Elizabeth Wall 0417 528 042 elizabeth.wall@raywhite.com

When it comes to managing your property portfolio, nothing is more powerful than local experience and with Cheryl having lived and worked in the area of Hastings and Somerville for over 30 years, she certainly has that knowledge. Cheryl is keen to keep a watchful eye on her rental portfolio and what is happening locally. For this type of assurance and peace of mind, Cheryl Wilkins is the property manager you would be happy to manage your valued asset.

Cheryl Wilkins 0434 743 236 5979 4177 rentals.hastings@raywhite.com Ray White Hastings, 69 High Street

69 High Street, HASTINGS, 5979 4177 hastings.vic@raywhite.com raywhitehastings.com.au

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Bay West Real Estate (VIC) Pty. Ltd. 2104 Frankston-Flinders Road, Hastings, VIC 3915 Ph: 03 5979 4412 Fax: 03 5979 3097 Email: enquiries@baywestrealestate.com.au Web: www.baywestrealestate.com.au

HASTINGS

$450,000 plus

COVERING THE WESTERN PORT REGION

Hastings, Somerville, Tyabb, Crib Point, Bittern & Balnarring

HASTINGS - 5 Carinya Court

$340,000 - $375,000

CHARACTER, SPACE AND BAYVIEWS... A CENTRAL MASTERPIECE!

BLUE CHIP LOCATION - INVESTORS AND OCCUPIERS TAKE NOTE.

• Upstairs kitchen, living & dining area with bay-views • Master bedroom with walk-through robe & ensuite with spa • Second living areas downstairs with kitchenette that serves outdoor undercover area • Ducted vacuum system • Triple garage • Metres to foreshore and close to schools, shops and transport

• 3 bedrooms with BIR’s, master with ensuite • Spacious living and dining areas • Updated kitchen • Central bathroom • Outdoor undercover area plus plenty of open paved spaces • Double lock up garage, all situated on 771sqm approx block

HASTINGS

CRIB POINT

$238,000 plus

VENDOR SAYS SELL! MUST BE SOLD! ESTABLISHED GARDENS - MAKE YOUR MAN CAVE!

OPEN SAT 10.30-11.00am

$285,000 plus

SPACIOUS UNIT - CLOSE BUT QUIET LOCATION!

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PROPERTIES FOR LEASE

RESIDENTIAL HASTINGS - 1/81 Marine Parade HASTINGS - 3/19 Queen Street HASTINGS - 2 King Street HASTINGS - 9 Quadrant Court

LANGWARRIN - 35 Granite Drive HASTINGS - 4 Greythorn Road HASTINGS - 5/1 Mullet Street

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$130,000

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Harcourts SINCE 1888

Hastings 10/14 High Street 03 5970 7333 www.hastings.harcourts.com.au

AUCTION

Hastings 22 Isis Place

4

2

2

Want More Space?... You Got It This spacious home offering great privacy, open plan living, great entertaining, with three separate living zones, would be well suited to families, first home owner, astute investor or anyone wanting that perfect home in an ideal location. Comprising of 4 bedrooms, three have built-in robes and main bedroom has walk-in robe and ensuite with spa. There is also a separate study. Also including a separate laundry & bathroom, formal lounge, rumpus room, open plan kitchen and undercover outdoor entertaining. Plus a good size backyard for the whole family. Other features include double lock-up garage with through access to the backyard, 2 car garage & workshop, and solar hot water. Located in a well-sought after area of Hastings, this home is within easy distance to schools, shops, public transport & Freeway access is only minutesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; away and a short drive to the Peninsulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading beaches and wineries.

AUCTION Saturday 22nd March at 11am View www.harcourts.com.au/4887 Open Saturday 11.45am-12.15pm Jason Stirling 0411 520 173

E jason.stirling@harcourts.com.au

David Nelli

E david.nelli@harcourts.com.au

0403 111 234

www.hastings.harcourts.com.au

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Harcourts SINCE 1888

FOR SALE

Balnarring Beach 53 Bayview Road

5

5

3

Architectural Masterpiece - Stunning Panoramic Views The home features multiple large deckings with panoramic views over the stunning natural surrounds that have made Balnarring Beach world famous as a premiere lifestyle and or holiday destination. Situated in one of the most sought-after streets in Balnarring Beach, this 4 story custom built home is walking distance from everything that is magical about this popular seaside town. A large designer kitchen includes caesar stone bench tops, quality appliances and ample bench space. The property features a total of 4 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, a powder room and office including the option of B&B accommodation on two levels with kitchenettes. A cellar is positioned on the ground floor and a central lift allows easy access to all four floors. A combination of steel, timber, concrete & glass balance form and function to create a truly magnificent and unique home.

Calm turquoise waters for miles are a staple on most days, with dolphins and Phillip Island as a backdrop. Balnarringâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vibrant town centre is a five minute drive or a five minute walk to the local Balnarring Beach general store. Other features include hydronic underfloor heating and, zoned cooling, three car garage and two street frontages (one within 150 steps to the beach). Located on a generous 816msq block approx. this property leaves little to be desired.

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Price View Open

On Application www.luxurypropertyselectioncom.au/VHS4877 Saturday 12.00-12.30pm

Jason Dowler 0403 598 754 E jason.dowler@harcourts.com.au Harcourts Hastings

Harcourts SINCE 1888

FOR SALE

Balnarring 82 Bittern-Dromana Road

5

2

8

Lakelands - 62 acres of potential income and lifestyle Price View Open

Welcome to Lakelands Thoroughbred Farm, a first class agistment facility located on the picturesque Mornington Peninsula. A great opportunity to secure a decent holding within short distance to the Balnarring village. An impressive, private entrance with secure automatic gates, extensive post and rail fencing, a quality federation home, ample water and shedding. Move in and simply enjoy the lifestyle of your dreams.

Located less than an hour from Melbourne CBD, with sweeping rural vistas and great business potential, there are 32 large paddocks with year round pasture of the highest quality. Having the luxury of onsite natural springs ensuring the paddocks maintain a good cover of grass all year round. A newly built Harkaway Home from the ‘Gabled Homestead Series’ is well positioned to the rear of the property with a great rural outlook. Described as ‘Australia’s finest character’ builder the home includes open living zones, 5 bedrooms, study, 3 bathrooms, deluxe kitchen and quality fixtures and fittings. High ceilings, complemented by rooms that enjoy full natural ligh, there are also verandahs around all four sides of the home. A large barn has power, overnight boxes and a concrete floor. Simply buy a fantastic, very well equipped lifestyle property or continue establishing this respected business. Don’t settle for second best.

On Application www.luxurypropertyselectioncom.au/VHS4922 Bt Appointment

Jason Dowler 0403 598 754 E jason.dowler@harcourts.com.au Harcourts Hastings

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Harcourts SINCE 1888

Hastings 10/14 High Street 03 5970 7333 www.hastings.harcourts.com.au

FOR SALE

Hastings 40 Carpenters Lane South

3

2

3

5 Acres Of Peace, Privacy And Pure Happiness. Dual Living!

Down a quiet country lane, where the kookaburras fly and wildlife frolic, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a place so peaceful and majestic that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll just fall in love. A perfect rural retreat or hobby farm, this appealing dual living property enjoys a relaxed atmosphere making it easy to unwind and entertain with ease. The home features separate and spacious living areas with an easy light & bright design complemented by a gourmet kitchen complete with quality appliances and dishwasher. The dining area flows beautifully onto the veranda that encapsulates country living at its best - watch the sunset after a day working and enjoy the summer breeze.

The property features three spacious bedrooms, including an oversized master bedroom with walk in robe and ensuite, as well as a renovated family bathroom with large bath and floating vanity. Other benefits include three split system air conditioners. Adding to the desirability of this property are the four fully-fenced paddocks, suitable for hobby farming or horses, dry boxes, large three car garage and ample water storage.

Manageable rural acreage of this calibre are exceptionally rare and one being offered for sale in this location and price range with such motivated owners represents an extraordinary opportunity not to be missed.

Price View Open

Negotiable over $790,000 www.harcourts.com.au/4879 Saturday 1.00-1.30pm

Jason Dowler 0403 598 754

E jason.dowler@harcourts.com.au

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Harcourts SINCE 1888

Hastings 10/14 High Street 03 5970 7333 www.hastings.harcourts.com.au

FOR FOR SALE SALE

Hastings 40 Elisa Place

2

2

4

Display Home Quality, Get In Quick Situated in one of the Hastings most sought after areas; this high quality home will appease even the most discerning buyer. Features include four bedrooms, master with walk-in-robe and en-suite, double remote garage with rear roller door, open plan kitchen/dining/family area plus separate lounge, stone bench tops and stainless steel appliances to kitchen, ducted heating and evaporative cooling.

This magnificent home is perfect for those who love to entertain with a large alfresco area and quality landscaping complete this magnificent home. Located close to all amenities including reserves, schools, public transport and more.

Price View Open

Negotiable over $380,000 www.harcourts.com.au/VHS3983 Saturday 1.00-1.30pm

Jason Dowler 0403 598 754

E jason.dowler@harcourts.com.au

FOR SALE

Balnarring 5 Westport Road

4

2

2

Water Glimpses, Walking Distance to the Village & Room for the Whole Family!

Charming & spacious this two storey, 4 bedroom home, perched high in picturesque Balnarring taking in water views, is the idea family abode. Upon entry you are welcomed into a living area of grand proportions to suit the biggest of seasonal gatherings, with polished hardwood flooring, as well as near-new carpets throughout. A huge master bedroom with king sized walk-in-robe, full ensuite & 4th bedroom completes the ground floor accommodation. There is also a large laundry with loads of storages & downstairs powder room. Enjoy zoned living with 2 further upstairs bedrooms with built in robes, ceiling fans & air-conditioners, all serviced by a central bathroom including spa. The second storey also features a teenage retreat with water views & the option to expand into the existing roof space. Entertaining is made easy with an adorable country kitchen with a modern twist, quality appliances & large island bench. An adjoining dining area & generous family room with s/system air-con overlooks the established rear gardens. Whilst outside relax the afternoon away underneath the Balinese style gazebo with 6 seater outdoor spa & private garden setting. Special features include double garage, gas ducted heating throughout, ducted vacuum system, more storage than you could imagine & new infinity gas hot water unit. All set on a 870m2 (approx.) allotment & within walking distance to Balnarring Village & Primary School. Inspection will not disappoint.

Price View Open

Negotiable over $600,000 www.harcourts.com.au/VHS4537 Saturday 12.30-1.00pm

Tim Hughes

0410 470 515 E tim.hughes@harcourts.com.au

www.hastings.harcourts.com.au

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197 Main Street Mornington VIC 3931 T. 03 5975 6888

Auction

McCrae Auction this Saturday

Lot 6, Grange Close, McCrae McCrae`s Best Buy â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Must be sold! This prime vacant allotment is situated in a prestigious seaside setting close to the iconic McCrae lighthouse. One of the last opportunities of its kind in the area, this is an exciting chance to build your luxury beachside home from the ground up with the opportunity for sought-after bay views. The allotment is an impressive 417m2 and has all services at the ready from a sealed bitumen road to underground power, water, sewerage, telephone and natural gas. Enjoy the exclusivity of this fantastic location close to buzzing McCrae Village, coffee shops, restaurants, Coles Supermarket and of course McCraeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beautiful white sandy beach. Dream big, enjoy the rewards!

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Auction Price Inspect Contact

This Saturday at 11.00am Suit $260,000 plus buyers From 10.30am Chris Wilson 0417 147 307 Luke McCoy 0467 321 322 bowmanandcompany.com.au

MARKET PLACE

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197 Main Street Mornington VIC 3931 T. 03 5975 6888

Dromana

Auction

A showcase of luxury DESIGNED to accommodate the needs of a growing family, this splendid home has cleverly zoned living areas to ensure everyone has their own space. No expense has been spared in the finish of this home, from the main entrance that creates a superb first impression, through to the professionally landscaped gardens at the rear of the property.

There is a formal living room at the front that would also make a great home theatre room, but the real action is towards the back, where a spacious family zone overlooks the gardens and has access out to a covered patio. The kitchen includes a walk-in pantry and island bench with stone counter tops. In the adjacent dining room is reverse cycle heating and cooling. There are four big bedrooms, each of which would easily accommodate a king or queen-sized bed, while the main bedroom features a walk-in wardrobe and ensuite. There would also be space for a study desk in the remaining three bedrooms.

Address: Price: Agency: Agent:

234 Boundary Road, Dromana Acquire this prime retail investment with massive potential to further develop into a mix of retail and residential. Create dual income or a convenient lifestyle by incorporating a 1st floor 2 - 3 BR residence and even a 2nd floor alfresco deck that will capture magnificent bay view’s (STCA). This retail shop is on 193m2 approx. with a floor space of 130m2 approx. Other features include separate kitchen with staff amenities, double carport with lock up storage area.

88 Summerfield Drive, MORNINGTON Negotiable over $795,000 Harcourts, Suite 2/1a Main Street, Mornington, 5970 8000 Janet McNeill, 0419 503 327

Auction Friday 21st March at 1.00pm Inspect Friday 12.30–1.00pm Contact Chris Wilson 0417 147 307 Luke McCoy 0467 321 322 bowmanandcompany.com.au

197 Main Street Mornington VIC 3931 T. 03 5975 6888

Mount Martha

4 Bannie Lane, Mount Martha Set on a magnificent 1.7 acres, approx, in a secluded court, this unique residence with a self-contained cottage is an oasis from start to finish. Incredible botanic gardens cushion the home from a return driveway with a large ornamental pond to soaring palm trees. Open the doors to family prestige with this exceptional two-storey threebedroom, two bathroom plus a study residence with three living areas, a granite and Ilve kitchen, a wet bar and a focus on entertaining. Comprehensive appointments include a four car garage plus a two car carport, a barn, a spa ensuite and more. This idyllic property is truly one of a kind.

For Sale

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Price $1,100,000–$1,200,000 Inspect Saturday 1.00–1.30pm Contact Deborah Quinn 0428 205 555 Robert Bowman 0417 173 103 bowmanandcompany.com.au

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JETMASTERâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Heat N Glo dealership sells fireplaces to builders and private customers. The well-known business has a great location with plenty of parking. They deal in traditional and modern designs, mantlepieces, marble and granite hearths, cast-iron fascias, grates and accessories.

Operated by one person who sub-contracts the installations, the business will suit a suitably skilled tradesperson who ideally can also do the installations to maximise potential.

THIS attractive and well-appointed cafe has a large shop frontage and is positioned on the outside of a large shopping centre for maximum pedestrian traffic. There is seating for 30 customers inside and 35 outside.

The business caters to the breakfast and lunch trade with a variety of lines including lasagne, pastries, focaccias and cakes. All equipment is in near-new condition. The weekly average turnover is in excess of $6000.

Jetmasterâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Heat N Glo dealership, SEAFORD Price: $299,000 plus SAV Agency: Latessa Business Sales 50 Playne St, Frankston, 9781 1588 Agent: Tony Latessa, 0412 525 151

Cafe, ROSEBUD Price: $95,000 Agency: Latessa Business Sales 50 Playne St, Frankston, 9781 1588 Agent: Tony Latessa, 0412 525 151

Business Sales Specialists www.latessabusiness.com.au

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By Peter Kyriazis of Coolart Nursery, Bachelor of Applied Science (Horticulture) THE hot months are a tough time of year for gardens due to the searing heat and the lack of rainfall putting plants under stress to thrive or survive.

Water and mulch can be a lifesaver for garden plant life. It is best to water in the cooler parts of the day to minimise evaporation.

Water deeply rather than just spraying the surface. New plants need daily watering during hot weather, while deeply rooted, established plants should be fine with a deep weekly watering.

A proper mulching program should also be conducted to suppress weed, improve soil, keep surface roots cool, and help retain moisture over the warmer months.

The best types of mulches are soft, finely chopped mulches like sugar cane or lucerne.

Try to avoid woody bark types as these draw nitrogen out of the soil and take a long time to break down.

The biggest mistake people make when mulching is piling it on too high and against plant stems. This can prevent water reaching the roots and can rot the stems of plants.

It is best to leave the base of plants free of mulch or just use a minimal amount. About 30mm of mulch should be more than enough for medium-sized plants.

Wetting agents can be useful during warm weather to help water penetrate parched soil, as can a regular application of Seasol, which will give all plants strength and vigour to cope with the harsh sun.

Many plants enjoy the heat so make the most of this by planting basil, mint and chillis, which thrive at this time of year. Flowing shrubs such as salvias, lavenders, gardenias and roses also flourish in warmer months.

If any plants become burnt during a heatwave, leave the leaves until the heat passes and trim plants back in autumn.

So enjoy the sunshine, and water and mulch your garden to enjoy the results.

Happy gardening.

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100 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK...

Ti-tree blamed for coast fires; ladies meet to raise funds Compiled by Matt Vowell From the pages of the Mornington Standard, 28 February 1914 THE recent destructive ti-tree fire at Chelsea has had the effect of leading to some interesting investigations by Mr T. S. Hart, head of the Creswick Forestry School, with the object of ascertaining how danger from such out-breaks may be averted in the future. Mr Hart made the results of his observations public at a meeting of the Field Naturalists’ Club of Victoria, in a paper entitled Some Coastal Plants: Their Shelter and Fire Danger.

Ti-tree, he said, had many times demonstrated its danger as a highly inflammable plant, but to eradicate it from the seashore would lead only to sand becoming a great nuisance.

Vegetation was necessary to keep the sand in place, and to protect habitations from its being piled against them. There were native plants of a fire resisting character which could affect this, notably the coast wattle, the sea berry, and Boobialla. At one place at Chelsea, where the coast wattle was growing, he noticed the fire had considerably lessened, and he had come to the conclusion that the danger of fire in such areas could be considerably decreased by encouraging the natural growth of such plants.

There was no reason why they could not be planted in strips among the ti-tree to a sufficient width to check a fire. Thus a diversified scrub, much more pleasing to the eye than pure ti-tree, would be produced, and the requirements of shelter and sand binding be at the same time secured.

Boobialla would take first place, as

it was easily grown and would carry foliage to the ground. There was no reason why paths through the scrub or fire breaks should not be bordered with these fire-resisting trees. *** ABOUT a dozen Frankston ladies met at the Bar View Hotel on Wednesday evening for the purpose of arranging a sale of gifts to raise funds for the maintenance of the Frankston cot in the Convalescent Home. A strong committee of ladies and gentlemen was formed, with Mrs A. H. Gregory president, Mrs Wilcox treasurer, and Mrs Deane secretary. It was decided that the sale of gifts be held on Easter Monday afternoon and night. It was so agreed that a portion of the funds be set aside to help pay the hospital expenses incurred during the illness of a Frankston child. *** THE teachers, parents and friends of the Pearcedale Sunday School met together in the Pearcedale Hall on the 17th inst., and presented Mr Bert Jarvis with a silver breakfast cruet and silver pickle jar, on the occasion of his marriage with Miss E. Marshall, of Ellinbank. Mr Craig, in a few well-chosen words, spoke of how well Mr Jarvis had worked in the Sunday School as superintendent, and his leaving will be greatly felt by the teachers and parents. A very pleasant evening was spent, games taking up most part of the evening. Supper was served by the ladies, after which the Doxology was sung. *** MESSRS Alex Scott and Co. will hold their monthly auction sale of cattle, etc., at Tanti on Monday next.

*** A valuable horse, belonging to Mr Blacker, of Mornington, broke its leg in the paddock on Saturday last, and had to be destroyed. The horse was valued at £45. ***

Ti-tree, he said, had many times demonstrated its danger as a highly inflammable plant, but to eradicate it from the seashore would lead only to sand becoming a great nuisance.

ON Sunday afternoon, Mr A. Connell, of Osborne, was surprised to find one of his horses, valued at £10, on the roadside with its shoulder broken. *** THE annual sports meeting at Moorooduc has been arranged to be held at the usual place on Wednesday, 25th March. An attractive

programme is being arranged, and an enjoyable day is anticipated. Full particulars will be advertised later. *** MESSRS Appleyard, Beecher, Macfarlan and Stringer, storekeepers, were prosecuted at the Sorrento Court on Wednesday, for having sold patent medicines containing poison without holding licences. In each case a fine of 1s with £2 2s costs was imposed. *** AT the last meeting of the Frankston branch of the M.U.I.O.O.F., Mrs C. Dalman, of Frankston, was made the recipient of a set of silver afternoon tea spoons, in an oak case, and serviette ring, as a slight recognition of the services she has rendered to that lodge for the last few years. Bro. V. Crosekell made the presentation, through Bro. Dalman, and spoke in eulogistic terms of the many kindnesses Mrs Dalman had bestowed upon the lodge. Bro. Dalman, on behalf of his wife, suitably returned thanks, and said whatever his wife had done it was always for the good and welfare of the lodge. *** THE Sydney “Bulletin” says: Rosa Alba is a gentle alias of a little lady who, in the intervals of helping a parson husband in Melbourne occasionally, raises a nice soprano in charity’s aid. Some mission movement lately induced her to show the dimensions of her gift on a recent evening, and before the entertainment had expired, she had to take shelter from the bouquets. In fact, she was such a success that people are now advising her to take her

warble to a bigger market. Miss Alba, who is beset with good looks, bears an embarrassing resemblance to Miss Gaby Deslys, the hussy who flirted with ex-King Manuel when that juvenile’s kingdom was bursting. *** ENTRIES for the Dromana District sports close with the secretary at 8pm on Saturday next, 7th March.

Pedestrians are reminded that nominations for the Naval Base sports must be in the hands of the secretary by 6pm on Monday next. Acceptances due at 5 p.m. on 12th March. *** THE annual allocation of the Parliamentary grant to assist municipalities in the construction, repair and maintenance of roads and bridges was announced on Wednesday by Mr Hagelthorn, Minister of Public Works. This is probably the last of such allocations to be made by the Public Works department for as soon as the operations of the Country Roads Board are in full swing the scope which the annual vote has covered will come within the purview of the board. That has, to some extent been done already, and as a result the present vote is in the aggregate substantially smaller than it has hitherto. Last year’s grant amounted to about £46,000. This year it is only £24,050. The details of the allocation in the Peninsula are as follows: Flinders and Kangerong Shire, towards road to Tulum Beach, £50, Council to expend £50 additional. Frankston and Hastings Shire, towards Eramosa road, east of railway line, £100, Council to spend £100 additional.

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HISTORY

The Stocktons, pioneers of Tyabb

By Peter McCullough GEOFF Stockton, 77, has lived in the area all his life. He has recorded memories of growing up in Tyabb and they will be published in The News in the near future. First, however, it is appropriate to provide a brief history of the Stockton family or at least the Tyabb branch. *** Part 2 The Stocktons at Tyabb Alfred Manks Stockton Alfred and his wife, Elizabeth Annie, must have lost no time in moving to Tyabb after his sister Alice’s purchase of the land (later to be named Astley after the original home of the Stockton family) as on 18 March 1892 he was appointed lay reader in the Parish of Hastings, Balnarring and Phillip Island. He served in many positions at Holy Trinity including church secretary, guardian and Sunday School superintendent prior to his early death at age 47 in 1898.

His death is recorded on a special plaque and the church history of Holy Trinity noted the loss and stated: “The pall-bearers were the church officers, and on the occasion of the well-attended Memorial Service, the church was draped in black.”

At the time of the purchase in Graydens Rd, a small, brick, wattleand-daub house existed, but this was replaced with a typical wooden cottage with a bullnose verandah.

Alfred and two of his sons, Fred and Bert, set to planting an orchard of a number of varieties of apples Above: Alfred Manks Stockton (1851-98) and Elizabeth Annie Stockton (1851-1926) Left: Appointment of Alfred Stockton as an honoury reader at Holy Trinity Hastings in 1895.

Below: Entry in the Stockton family bible.

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Above: Plaque at Holy Trinity recording Alfred Stockton’s contribution to the church.

Right: Elizabeth Annie Stockton with her three eldest sons Herbert, Frederick and Alfred Junior. The picture was taken in 1894 just prior to the death of Alfred at age 19.

Left: Sergeant Major Fred Stockton, 1878-1957.

Below: The marriage in 1909 of Fred Stockton and Clara Benton (1882-1973).

Right: The description in the local paper of the marriage of Fred and Clara. Note the custom of recording the gifts at the end of the article.

(Jonathan, Democrat, Five Crowns, Roman Beauties, Statesman and King Cole) and one row of plums (Jefferson, President and Grand Duke) On 17 August 1904, a further 16 acres come into the family when the adjoining property was acquired by Elizabeth Annie Stockton, the widow of Alfred Manks Stockton, making a total of 48 acres.

Fred and Bert Stockton The next significant change at Astley took place on 11 June 1915 when Alice Leck sold the block she owned to her nephews, Fred and Bert, for the sum of 300 pounds. The following day Elizabeth sold her holding of 16 acres to her sons for 146 pounds, 18 shillings and 6 pence.

Fred had married Clara Benton in 1909 and a new house of weatherboard and mud-insulated walls was built. Some time after 1920, two more rooms of brick were

added. Bert married Nina Thomas in 1918 and they lived in the old home.

Fred, born in 1878, had been a Sergeant Major in the Hastings Battery, which was formed following a meeting of the Fishermen’s Union at Hastings on 15 December 1889.

Established because of a fear of invasion by the Russians or French, it was led by Captain Ham and its 40-pound guns were moved by bullocks, hence the nickname “Ham and Beef Battery”. In 1904 the Hastings Battery transferred from the Victorian Rangers and became known as the 6th Battery of the Australian Field Artillery.

From his youth Fred was also a member of Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Hastings and was secretary/treasurer as well as a lay reader for 25 years. He was a Sunday School superintendent for 50 years, having up to three generations pass through his classes.

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Horse power: Fred Stockton carting apples at Tyabb.

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Above: Fred and Clara Stocktonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s children, Alf, 13, and Hazel, 3, taken in 1923.

Right: Hazel with her parents Fred and Clara, taken in 1941.

Continued from previous page Fred was a prime mover in the establishment of the Tyabb Cool Stores and one of its founding directors. He was made a Life Governor of the Hastings and District Hospital in October 1930; many years later, in January 1955, Clara also was elected a Life Governor.

Fred was the district agent for the distribution of money to people in need from the Charles Wright bequest.

On 30 January 1930 the boundaries were re-aligned and the two brothers operated as separate entities. Fred obtained 25 acres, which was by and large the land that his aunt Alice Leck had bought back in 1892. Now on his own, Fred planted more orchard; 12 acres in total. He used the remainder for cattle, fowls and working horses.

The eggs would be transported to Hawksburn for sale; the egg board had not been created so there was an absence of regulation.

Fred and Clara had two children: Alfred Earnest, born in 1910, and Hazel Jean, born in 1920. All members of the family would be

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involved in the tedious task of packing apples. About 30 cases at a time were packed and loaded onto a horse-drawn lorry and taken to Tyabb railway station for despatch to Melbourne. Again, regulations were minimal as the Apple and Pear Board had yet to make an appearance.

A milking shed stood to the north of the house and two Jersey cows provided Fred and Clara with milk, cream and butter. Two horses brought firewood up from the back paddock on a sled made out of a forked tree.

Bert Stockton was listed as a shareholder of Tyabb Cool Stores in 1944. Not long after he sold the property as his small orchard was not big enough to maintain himself, his three sons and their families. Thus ended this part of the Stockton era.

Fred continued to work his land and eventually his son, Alf, took over the running of what was now known as the Astley orchard. In the meantime, Alf had purchase a 16-acre block in 1928 when he was only 18; this was just west of, but not contiguous with, the 25 acres that Fred had obtained following the realignment.

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Below left: Young Burt Stockton when he was a member of the Hastings Battery.

Below: Burt Stockton, centre, with two of his brothers, Thomas and Walter.

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Getting kids back to nature A FESTIVAL for children aims to tackle “nature deficit disorder”, which some experts argue links children’s declining engagement with the outdoors to myriad issues from depression to obesity.

The inaugural Kids’ Adventure Festival will provide children and parents with the opportunity to experience adventure activities specifically designed for the younger generation, with walks, runs, climbs, rides and plenty more

“wild” play planned for the weekend event.

Taking place at Mt Baw Baw Alpine Resort on 5-6 April, the festival will feature all manner of activities aimed at re-engaging children with nature while introducing them to the huge variety of adventure pursuits that make the most of nature’s playground.

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FOOD & ENTERTAINMENT

Thomas Dolby blinded me with genius

By Stuart McCullough IT’S always been this way. Each generation declares their music to be better than the one that succeeds them.

Growing up in the eighties, those of my parents’ era had a pretty powerful case to make – they had The Beatles, The Beach Boys and The Rolling Stones, whilst my teenage cohorts and I had to make do with Haircut 100 and The Thompson Twins.

Granted, we had The Stones too, but it was during their far less successful pastel-suit wearing human-Muppet phase rather than, say, their living in the south of France and jamming with Gram Parsons stage. It hardly seemed fair.

But even when the radio is cluttered with absolute rubbish, there’s always the occasional victory for good taste.

In spite of everything, someone will – against the odds – manage to slip through the pack and deliver something of true and lasting quality.

These are the mavericks and, over time, it’s their work that I’ve most come to appreciate. These are the folks who, on paper, are more likely to end up delivering your mail than they are to make the world want to whistle.

Of all the eccentric talents to emerge in the eighties, none seemed more unlikely than Thomas Dolby. To begin, anyone described as a ‘boffin’ is unlikely to produce any song of note. But Thomas, without doubt, was a boffin of serious dimensions.

As a child, he was fascinated with the synthesiser, even building his own.

He’s best remembered for that most unlikely of hits, She Blinded Me With

Science. Lyrically improbable and undeniably strange, it managed to emerge from the muck in 1982. But it’s not my Dolby tune. That honour belongs to the tune, Hyperactive!.

Far too few songs include punctuation. Granted, there are some which rely on a question mark (Do You Know the Way to San Jose? by Dionne Warwick and How Much is that

Doggie In the Window? by Metallica spring to mind), but rare indeed is the tune that can deploy an exclamation point and live to tell the tale. Suffice to say, Wind Beneath My Wings! would have been a very different song indeed.

Hyperactive! was originally intended for Michael Jackson but, presumably, was deemed not to meet

the necessary standard. So it fell to the author to record it himself. Aside from the exclamation mark of the song’s title, the next remarkable thing about it is its brazen use of trombone. As fine an instrument as the trombone is, it’s rare that it should be used anywhere outside of jazz. Granted, Lady Gaga’s original version of Poker Face was performed solely on trombone and an empty jar of peanut butter but was so heavily remixed as to be wholly unrecognisable. It’s not a mistake that Thomas Dolby would make.

Trombone aside, the song begins with a man inviting the singer to tell him about his childhood. This cunning therapeutic overlay then provides the environment for a couch-side confession. Thomas claims that at the ‘tender age of three’ he was hooked to a machine. What kind of machine is left to the imagination. Washing machine? Betamax video recorder? Kettle? According to the lyrics, toddler Thomas is strapped to an unidentified appliance to prevent him from ‘spouting junk’.

To be fair, at three years old his vocabulary would have been limited.

What follows next, however, stretches credulity to breaking point.

Dolby claims that they took him for a ‘fool’, but it gets worse. He then claims to have been expelled because ‘…the teacher knew I had the funk’.

Having been tied to some kind of household equipment, young Thomas has his education cruelly curtailed on the basis of a fondness for polyrhythm. If there’s the slightest skerrick of truth to this, it would surely be an outrage. It’s little wonder that he

ended up with the behavioural issues that are detailed elsewhere in Hyperactive!. The singer then claims he was ‘hyperactive’ pretty much everywhere including his ‘bones’ and, somewhat preposterously, ‘your phones’. I’m not sure how anyone can seriously claim to be agitated in a communication device. It was, perhaps, a bridge too far.

The problem with mavericks is that they’re either in it for the long haul or fade from view. Thomas Dolby made some more records but they didn’t achieve nearly the same kind of notoriety. But then he did what all good eccentrics do and reinvented himself, forming a technology company responsible for – amongst other things – the Nokia ringtone – thus, finally delivering on the promise he made a decade earlier. It may well have been his most ubiquitous hit. In some ways, it was a fitting end for the most unlikely of pop stars.

For some, music is a trivial thing and songs like those of Thomas Dolby serve as ammunition. But I disagree.

Sometimes wading into matters inconsequential is just another way of keeping everything in perspective.

For better or for worse, a song that is as unimportant as Hyperactive! has stayed with me when all manner of more significant things have withered.

Oddly, I probably think it’s a better song than I used to. We are all drawn to romanticising the past, particularly our own. I don’t know for sure whether Thomas ever got to complete his education. What I do know, however, is that wherever he is, he’ll undoubtedly still have ‘the funk’. stuart@stuartmccullough.com

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Performance QUEEN has become the first act to sell six million copies of an album in the UK three decades after the record was released. The band, featuring the late Freddie Mercury on vocals, reached the milestone with the Greatest Hits album originally released in 1981.

Queen released their debut single Keep Yourself Alive in 1973 which failed to chart.

Later that year they began a UK tour as support to Mott the Hoople and in early 1974 their album release Queen II climbs into the Top 10 UK Albums chart and the single Seven Seas of Rhye makes its way up the UK chart.

Queen II then makes the US Top 100 Albums chart, peaking at number 49.

In 1975 the group signs with Elton John’s manager, John Reid. Their long-time engineer Roy Baker decides to take the band into the studio to record a new album. Baker decides to produce the album using six different studios.

First product of the album sessions is the classical rock piece Bohemian Rhapsody, a lavish production featuring Mercury’s rock operatic writing style. The record company is reluctant to release the 7-minute single, but a copy is leaked to top British DJ Kenny Everett which creates a sales demand through heavy airplay.

Bohemian Rhapsody tops the UK chart for nine weeks, the longest run at number 1 since Paul Anka’s Diana in 1957.

In 1976, Bohemian Rhapsody is released in the US and goes into the Top 10 there.

Many hit singles followed including I Want To Break Free, Somebody To Love, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, We Are the Champions, A Kind Of Magic and many more.

Freddie Mercury (real name Farookh Bulsara) was born in Zanzibar and attended school in Bombay, India.

her five-piece band at eight Australian shows when she tours in March as part of her Storm & Grace World Tour. It’s her first Australian tour in eight years.

With all the hoopla that has surrounded her, it’s easy to forget that Lisa Marie Presley is at heart a simple Southern girl whose earliest musical memories are of obsessively listening to 45s in her bedroom at Graceland and her dad catching her singing into a hairbrush in front of a mirror at the age of three.

The Memphis-born Presley reclaims those roots on her latest album Storm and Grace released in Australia in 2012. It’s an Americana-inspired showcase for her song writing talent and smoldering alto voice. Produced with elegant restraint by 12-time Grammy Award winner T Bone Burnett, Storm and Grace is a marked departure from Presley’s previous albums, 2003’s gold-certified To Whom It May Concern and 2005’s Now What, which both debuted in the Top 10 on Billboard’s Top 200 chart.

“I love the songs, but I think I was hiding behind a lot of sonic layers because it was scary to go out there,” Presley says. “It’s easier to bury yourself in the noise so you don’t stand out. This album is a lot more stripped down and naked, both musically and lyrically.”

Lisa Marie Presley will appear at the Arts Centre Melbourne, Tuesday 25 March. Bookings 1300 182 183.

Frankston Arts Centre on Saturday March 29. Bookings 9784 1060. www.lisamariepresley.com www.duetgroup.com

He was the driving force behind Queen and made the band a British institution.

Queen’s final performance was at a festival appearance at Knebworth in 1986, after which Mercury gradually retired from public life. Mercury’s final album with Queen, Innuendo was released in 1991. Mercury died at his home in West London in November 1991. Mercury’s AIDS diagnosis was kept secret until the day before he died; when it was evident he was ailing fast. *** THE Boy from Oz is BACK! This time in his own show. Todd McKenney is performing the songs of Peter Allen in a high energy, vibrant and entertaining night that showcases Todd’s incredible talents. His Victoria and NSW tour, commencing on 4 April, will perform in 12 venues across Victoria and NSW during April and May. You will be entertained by one of the nation’s best-loved performers; a multi-talented star that first slipped on his dancing shows at the tender age of three.

However, it wasn’t until he landed the role of Peter Allen in The Boy

From Oz 14 years ago that he found his true passion.

Todd became a household name after taking on the role of iconic Aussie performer Peter Allen in the original 1998 Production of The Boy From Oz. Now he’s set to reprise that role with a bit of a twist.

He’s the all-singing, all-dancing Aussie stage sensation with a wonderful acerbic wit and irreverent sense of humour. He’s as fit as he’s ever been and matches Peter’s own amazing energy throughout the show.

This show does not just feature Peter Allen’s hits. Todd also includes songs from some of his earlier musical theatre performances and you’ll hear stories and anecdotes about Allen, as well as all the goss from TV show Dancing With The Stars.

The Boy From Oz opens at The Palms at Crown, Friday 11 April. Tickets 132 849. Frankston Performing Arts Centre, Saturday 31 May bookings on 9784 1060. www.toddmckenney.com.au *** LISA Marie Presley will perform with

*** MELBOURNE’S inaugural Anzac Run will take place on Monday 21 April.

Participants will meet at Cobblers Statue, cnr St Kilda and Domain Rds opposite the Shrine of Remembrance,

ON and on they go ad infinitum: developing a quality education curriculum, literacy and mathematics, non-political amidst many contradictions.

Spare us, please.

“Parents want it, many education experts and teachers desire it.”

Nonsense, as in political balderdash.

Appoint me to this Curriculum Review. I’d make ARTS, of the performing, visual, writing variety, compulsory.

Too dangerous? We can’t risk the ankle biters becoming too creative? *** “THE best way to deal with criticism is to have an open dialogue and not be afraid to expose silly and absurd comments for what they are and respond in kind,” says human rights commissioner Tim Wilson.

True Tim, so what shall we do about Joe Hockey’s amazing “the end of the age of entitlement” declaration with no mention of negative gearing? *** “IT’S all happening” as Bill Lawry would say.

An efficiency study of the ABC and SBS, royal commissions into the Labor government’s home insulation program and union corruption.

It’s all very well to investigate corruption but can Tony be trusted to make it non-political?

And after a year and many millions, even if they find something will it reappear in another form within the following 12 months?

Bill says it’s a police matter, but what if some of the police are involved; no

witnesses, no result? *** AS far as I’m aware our government withdrew support for the United Nations resolution to stop all Israeli settlement activities in occupied territories.

Our generous foreign minister Julie Bishop added: “I would like to see where international law has declared Israeli settlement illegal”.

Too true.

God promised them that land in the first place, according to witnesses. *** THERE was some criticism of Tony’s speech at the Davos World Economic Forum with the inference of embarrassment at the mention of local political matters (Labor mismanagement).

This silly question of pride again, ignoring the real possibility of the others in attendance being equally as selfish and single minded and not necessarily any more intelligent. *** WE wait patiently for promised cheaper power and security of supply. All so expensive: Australia Post, water, gas, electricity, tollways, on and on.

Some blame the CEOs. The CEOs blame the shareholders. Companies don’t create jobs anymore, they shove them overseas for extra moola.

Low-life profiteers have us by the throat, my friends.

It’s likely the pollies are shareholders along with union bosses in superannuation schemes.

Kennett’s Curse; no escape. ***

INDOCTRINATION, brainwashing and the like (human nature) can be a form of fascination.

You have a million dollar house and you’re qualified to advise a renter and even if you hold your tongue you may experience a warm feeling of superiority.

In 40 years of theatre I experienced many directors, name actors and audience members with similar feelings.

I was lucky; I could pick them from afar. A step up on the superiority ladder via networking.

Common of course, both sexes.

I’ve spotted it from some members at my local RSL? I wonder if they know how much they’re showing it, or care? *** Pot Peter Reith: “the ABC’s bias is cultural, deeply ingrained and not about to stop”. *** SYDNEY Swans footballer Rhyce Shaw on his brother, former Collingwood champion now Greater Western Sydney vice-captain Heath Shaw: “He’s been through a fair bit. It’s pretty hard leaving a club your family’s played for, that you’ve grown up loving, that you’ve played nearly 10 years for.”

Thanks Nathan, thanks Eddie, thanks Tony Shaw. *** Aside from corruption within the superannuation industry (my opinion only based on human nature), the biggest embarrassments for me as an Australian is the gutless approach from both sides of politics on the handling

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at 7.30am and finish at Gosches Paddock, Olympic Blvd, Melbourne at 9.30am where they will be greeted by air force and military bands, live music of the bygone era, food stalls and photo galleries.

The commemorative public run acknowledges and honours the significance of the military to Australia’s defence in the lead up to the 100th anniversary of the landing of ANZAC troops at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915.

The Anzac Run has the support of the Department of Veterans Affairs, the RSL and Legacy along with The Chairman of the Victorian ANZAC Centenary Committee and former Victorian premier Ted Baillieu, former prime minister John Howard and the patron is Melbourne businessman Gerry Ryan.

Major General David McLachlan AO (Retd) state president Victorian Branch RSL said: “The RSL in Victoria is pleased to endorse the inaugural ANZAC Run on 21 April. It is a great way for us all to show our support for the members of our Defence Force and ex-service personnel and to remember those who fought so valiantly during the Great War. I urge anyone who can run or walk to participate in this historic event in the lead up to the centenary of ANZAC in 2015.”

The commemorative run is open to people from all walks of life, both current and ex-servicemen and women and their families, along with the general public.

Register at www.anzacrun.com

A Grain of Salt THE problem with politicians is not knowing the real person until it’s too late.

Julia impressed as Kevvy’s number two answering questions on television as a rare delight. Then ‘wham!’: Kevvy is gone for previously unknown reasons and a different Julia emerges?

Tony calmed us to some extent with pre-election promises not to reduce funding to our national broadcaster, a solemn promise to make no significant changes to industrial relations law in its first term and comments like “Our job is to set the best possible framework for businesses to flourish, for jobs to be secure and for workers to earn high wages”.

Again, a different person emerges from the woodwork.

We live, we rarely learn. *** DOUBT is the essence of knowledge.

No argument there. But why bring up the case of Woody Allen and Dylan Farrow from 21 years ago which first surfaced 19 years back when a New York judge decided there was insufficient evidence to proceed with charges?

One word against another can rarely be proven. Easier to work out our place in the cosmos.

More interesting is why so many people have fixed opinions on guilt or innocence without knowledge?

Schapelle Corby, Lindy Chamberlain.

Based on what? Swisse Wellness pills?

A funny old world. Maybe a simpler life can be had by removing doubt? ***

By Cliff Ellen

of those desperate people trying their luck on a boat.

Our mate Kevvy said no refugees would ever set foot on Australian soil, Julia followed suit, now Tony.

I’m more concerned about these actions in our name than either government spending “our money”. *** Things could be worse: A friend of mine’s wife insists on watching A Current Affair and My Kitchen Rules...

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One-dayers to decide season PROVINCIAL

By IT Gully THE make-up of the MPCA Provincial ladder will not be decided until the conclusion of this weekend’s final home and away clash.

While Sorrento and Mornington have locked away the top two places on the ladder, the race for third and fourth place is on.

Long Island currently sits third after thrashing Langwarrin at Ballam Park on Saturday. The Islanders are on 84 points, a game clear of fourthplaced Mt Eliza, fifth-placed Baxter and Langwarrin in sixth.

The Mounties, Baxter and Langwarrin are all on 72 points and are separated marginally by percentage (1.2525, 1.2162 and 1.2030 respectively).

Mt Eliza had a great chance to grab a finals place on Saturday but couldn’t defend its 265 against Moorooduc.

Baxter had a massive chance to get an outright win against Heatherhill but failed, while Langwarrin couldn’t hunt down the 142 runs needed for victory against the Islanders.

The whole season will come down to one day’s cricket this Saturday.

Mt Eliza and Long Island should make it.

Mt Eliza has the easiest of the matches for the final game against Mt Martha. The Reds are on the bottom of the ladder and while they’ll make one lastditch effort to avoid relegation, they’ll likely be no match for the Mounties.

Langwarrin faces Moorooduc, which ran down 268 to beat Mt Eliza in a thriller.

Long Island has to travel to Sorrento and Baxter faces Mornington at the kennel. The safe bet would be for the top two teams of the competition to win those clashes.

However, any bowling attack that has Andrew Tweddle and Scott Phillips in it must be considered a reasonable chance to win.

Langwarrin was bowled out for 66

by Long Island on Saturday, following on from its 140 the match before against Crib Point.

Coming off a full week of representing the MPCA at Country Week, Phillips and Tweddle tore through the Kangas, bowling 27 overs each and both picking up five-wicket hauls.

“Phillipsitis” was predicted for Langwarrin and that’s exactly what happened. The right-arm quick snared

Danny Weare for 4, Ben Wells for 8 and Andy Johnson for 1 to turn the match on its head. Phillips finished with 5/31.

Tweddle then took three of the final four wickets to finish with figures of 5/32.

Moorooduc was in some real trouble early in the match against Mt Eliza at 6/138, but Jarryd Bailey guided his team home with an unbeaten 77, his second big score in as many matches.

Nick Williams was also integral in the win, picking up his second half century in two matches with 55.

When Sushant Gupta was sent packing, the Mounties appeared to be in the box seat with the score 8/229.

However, Reece Cordeaux (24) hung around long enough with Bailey to get within three runs of victory. Bailey

then scored the winning runs on the fifth ball of the 83rd over.

Baxter needed just nine wickets on day two of its match to pick up an outright win against Heatherhill.

After bowling the Hills for 85 on day one of the match and smacking a quick-fire 3/133, Baxter resumed with the visitors on 1/17. However, Heatherhill resisted and finished on 6/147, Nathan Martin scoring an unbeaten 70.

Ryan O’Connor took 4/32 and Nick Davern 3/62 in Sorrento’s big win over Crib Point.

After making 4/330, Sorrento rolled the Magpies for 177.

Mt Martha and Rye went head to head to avoid relegation on Saturday.

Rye won the match on first innings, scoring 7/133 in reply to Mt Martha’s 99.

Race still on for District finals DISTRICT

By IT Gully SEAFORD Tigers, Somerville and Main Ridge will be fighting it out for the final two finals places in MPCA District this Saturday.

The one-day matches are the last of the home and away season, with the Tigers, Eagles and Ridge all needing to win to have any hope of progressing through to the final four.

Delacombe Park and Pines will definitely play finals after sealing the top two places on Saturday.

Main Ridge has the easiest of matches this weekend, facing bottom-of-the-table Ballam Park.

Somerville has to play the unpredictable Carrum while Seaford Tigers face Pines.

Seaford Tigers had a wonderful opportunity to wrap up a place in the finals but couldn’t beat neighbour Seaford. After bowling out Seaford for 172 last week, the Tigers resumed at 0/12. However, they choked and were rolled for just 107. Mathew Herbert was superb for Seaford with 4/28 and Geoff Smith claimed 4/35 from 24 overs.

Delacombe Park was in cruise control against Somerville on Saturday. After rolling the Eagles for 78 last week, the Parkers resumed at 1/69, just 10 runs from victory. They finished on 7/206, Nick Christides top-scoring with 75 and Chris Brittain making 32.

Pines picked up an outright win against Ballam Park as expected. The Piners rolled the Knights on day one of the clash for 91 before scoring 157 and declaring. Ballam Park then went for the reverse outright. It was worth a try but Ballam Park came unstuck.

The Knights made 7/174 in their second innings before sending Pines back in.

The Piners made 6/112 in

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14 overs to claim the outright.

Jake Prosser top-scored with an unbeaten 47 and Bret Remy opened with 35.

Flinders resumed at 3/29 against Boneo on Saturday and was eventually rolled for 118.

Jack Fowler claimed 4/49 and Chris Jobling 3/16 for Boneo.

Flinders’ opening batsman Tim Clarke top-scored with 31. Spencer Byatt, who scored 63 in the first innings for Boneo, hit 41 in the second dig.

Main Ridge needed something special to happen on Saturday against Hastings and it did. Things needed to fall in to place for the Ridge. The outright victory and Seaford’s upset win over the Tigers placed Main Ridge in the box seat for a finals berth.

The Ridge resumed at 1/92 in reply to Hastings’ 132. Main Ridge declared at 3/210 from 41 overs before sending Hastings back in. Nick Gage made 66 and Brad Rossborough 51 to give him more than 400 runs this season.

Mitch Floyd then scored 50 in Hastings’ second innings after his side had slumped to 6/55.

Ben Johnson also scored 27 to help the Blues to 143.

The Ridge then needed only 17 overs to pick up the 60-odd runs for an outright win. Chris Barker top-scored with an unbeaten 31.

Carrum was able to turn things around on Saturday against Baden Powell but it wasn’t enough to win the match.

Carrum was in all sorts of bother against the Braves at 4/19 overnight, chasing 222.

However, Shaun Foster, who batted at seven after starring for the MPCA at Country Week, finished unbeaten on 74 to help his side to 163. Hayden Moulton opened with 58.

Nathan Rice finished with four wickets for the Braves while Brendan Jovic helped himself to three wickets.

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On the up: Main Ridge beat Hastings comfortably in the weekend District match and saw its finals chances boosted when results elsewhere went the club’s way. Picture: Andrew Hurst

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Stonecats in finals SUB-DISTRICT

Batting on: Main Ridge’s District final hopes are still alive after seeing off Hastings. Picture: Andrew Hurst

By IT Gully FRANKSTON YCW will play finals for the first time in ages after defeating Carrum Downs on Saturday.

The Stonecats are now in second place on the MPCA Sub-district ladder on 80 points, two games behind Red Hill (104 points).

The fight for the remaining two finals spots is well and truly on.

Balnarring and Rosebud are both on 72 points while Pearcedale and Skye are a game further back on 60 points.

The Stonecats play Red Hill this week in the final game of the season, a one-day match.

Even if the Stonecats were to lose, they cannot miss finals. They could drop to fourth and lose a home final should results elsewhere go against them. Balnarring or Rosebud will possibly miss finals. They play one another this weekend.

However, they both could still make it if Carrum Downs can beat Pearcedale or Tyabb can beat Skye. It’s going to be an enthralling final round.

YCW made 8/308 in its first innings and needed to take 19 wickets on Saturday to win the match outright. The Cougars resumed at 1/42.

Seasoned campaigners Paul Bradley and Andrew Kitson took four wickets each in the first innings to roll the Cougars for 185. Adam Muirhead

then picked up 5/9 in the second innings to help dismiss the Cougars for 57 in their second dig.

Kitson took two second innings’ wickets.

Skye never recovered from being 2/18 overnight against Balnarring, chasing 270. Leigh Smith was stranded at the end unbeaten on 33 and his side was all out for 134. Balnarring went for the outright but Skye ended the day on 3/80.

Tootgarook found the chase of 256 to beat Rosebud all too hard. Jason Nagel was at his best for the Buds with 4/62 and Brian Doughty snared 3/41 to help roll the Tooters for 166.

Pearcedale and Tyabb played a one-day match, the Panthers getting across the line with an over to spare. In an emotional day for the clubs following the death of young Tyabb cricketer Luke Batty, the Yabbies batted first and made 9/163 from 40 overs. Luke Rus top-scored with 50 and Ben Van Wees opened with 42.

Pearcedale openers Brad Trotter (62) and Matt Cousland (46) then got their side away to a flier with a 79-run opening partnership.

Chris Dew added 33 to help his side to 4/164 in 39 overs.

Red Hill got the job done against Dromana.

After making 9/227 on day one, the Hillmen sent the Hoppers packing for 96.

Brent Martin picked up 3/12 from 10.3 overs for the Hillmen while Ross Corfield snared 3/18 from 13 overs.

Baden Powell powers to title COUNTRY WEEK

By IT Gully BADEN Powell is Twenty20 state champion after beating Doutta Stars at the MCG last Friday.

Doutta Stars were bowled out for 65 before the Braves got the runs with four wickets down.

Rhys Elmi top-scored with 17 while Sam Mullavey was not out at the end on 10.

With five wins in the MPCA Jack Peacock Cup last season, and five wins in the Statewide Cup this season, the Braves took a 10-game winning streak to the ’G. MPCA goes close to title The Mornington Peninsula Cricket Association went within 40 runs of claiming the title of best association in country Victoria last week.

After winning its opening four matches of the Country Week titles, the MPCA could not track down the 209 set by Geelong in the grand final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

It was another brilliant performance from the MPCA and there were many highlights throughout the carnival.

Dale Irving claimed 3/16, Scott

Phillips 2/15, Andrew Tweddle 2/17 and Lyle House 2/10 in the first match against Bairnsdale at Camberwell Sports Ground.

The MPCA rolled the opposition for 92 before scoring 7/339. Carrum’s Shaun Foster scored 105 and Phillips 100 in the big win, while Long Island teammate Justin Bridgeman hit 51 and Main Ridge’s Gareth Wyatt an unbeaten 46.

In the second match against Murray Valley, Foster was among the runs again, top-scoring with 74, while skipper Daniel Warwick scored 31. The MPCA scored 186 in reply to the opposition’s 9/145 in 50 overs.

Phillips was again among the wickets with 3/23 while Mornington’s Luke Popov and Lyle House each picked up two wickets.

The MPCA played Sale-Maffra on the third day, winning comfortably with plenty of overs to spare.

After bowling out the combine for 177 in 45.5 overs, Mornington Peninsula scored 7/213 in just 40 overs.

Long Island pace partners Andrew Tweddle and Phillips snared 3/32 and 3/21 respectively, while Delacombe Park skipper Chris Brittain picked up 2/37. In the run chase, it was Phil-

lips who starred with the bat with 90, while POB gloveman Wade Pelzer scored an unbeaten 41.

Against Bendigo on day four, the MPCA batted first and scored 8/186, Warwick scoring 50, Brittain 32 and Irving 30.

The team then bowled out Bendigo for just 123 in 30 overs, Wyatt picking up 2/1 off four balls, while Popov and Irving also snared two wickets each.

O’Malley on fire The Mornington Peninsula Cricket Association also had a team playing in Division Two of the championships.

While they didn’t share the same success as the Division One team, it provided some of the young stars of the competition with a taste of representative cricket.

In the first match against Traralgon, Carrum 18-year-old quick Lachy Dobson took 3/30 and Langwarrin teenager Matt Davie snared 3/40. Boneo’s Spencer Byatt top-scored with 58 in the first game and finished the carnival with 89 runs.

Peninsula Old Boys’ Dylan O’Malley scored 50 and Long Island opener Aaron Paxton hit 32 in

crossed from Berwick, Tyson Daniel and Shelton Rosario. Kieran Albanese, who kicked more than 70 goals in the Under-18s at Frankston YCW last year, also returns home to the Kangas.

Landing at the nest Dimkos leaves Yabbies LANGWARRIN has pulled off a massive coup, signing Tyabb favourite son Matty Dimkos.

Dimkos has been a star performer for the Yabbies over the years in many roles as a defender, forward and onballer.

Kangas coach Gavin Artico said he had always been impressed with Dimkos’ commitment, even when his side was struggling in recent seasons.

It’s a major blow to the Yabbies. Tyabb coach Ray Hallal posted a message on Facebook last week assuring the public that Tyabb Football Club was not about to fold. However, we hear numbers at training aren’t great.

Dimkos joins Dromana premiership players Liam Hogan and Luke O’Neil at the Kangas, while a couple of handy 18-year-olds have

CRIB POINT welcomed back Dean Warry to the fold while former Hastings midfielder and forward Brad Arnold has joined him at the nest.

Panthers on prowl EXPECT Devon Meadows to be the big movers this season in Nepean League.

The club has signed Beau Miller and Clint Setford, Clint and Corey Walker and Dean Rydquist, while a couple return from overseas and injury.

Steve McInnes returns from Casey Scorpions.

Expect to see former Demons’ jumping jack Russell Robertson run around for a few games.

Hangover at Tigerland WORD coming out of Dromana is that there is a bit of a premiership hangover.

the round two loss to Warrnambool.

O’Malley also took 2/41 while his club teammate Jon Forrest and Hastings’ Luke Hewitt picked up two wickets each.

The MPCA had success in the third match against Hamilton, winning by more than 100 runs. O’Malley

clubbed a massive 151 while Paxton helped himself to 62.

In the final game against Yarra Valley, the MPCA was at his best again, winning by 111 runs.

Paxton hit 50 and took 3/34 and O’Malley scored 47 to finish a wonderful carnival personally.

Champions: Baden Powell is the T-20 state champion after defeating Doutta Stars at the MCG.

While it is believed the Tigers have lost up to 10 players from its premiership side through retirement or departures, there’s talk that numbers at training are down. A recent weekend session was attended by only a handful of players.

The Tigers have picked up Hastings defender Andy Kiely and Steven Gaertner has returned.

Hillmen look the goods RED Hill has been training hard and its recruits are fitting in well, says coach Tony Blackford.

Nick Bateman (Dolphins), Michael Dillon (Port Melbourne) and Matthew Hyden (Ballarat) and are making an impression. Add the likes of YCW’s Blake McCormack, Adam Bokisch and Paul Wintle and Karingal’s Jared Eames and the Hillmen look OK.

Short passes ROSEBUD has picked up a couple of Sorrento fringe players in Jackson Wells and Luke Schuldt while Ben Dwyer returns.

Rye is hoping for big things from brothers Ryan, Luke and Jake Semmel to assist with its

forward and midfield issues while Anthony Joel has joined from Karingal and Aaron Findlay also returns.

Sean and Ben Cain are not expected to play and Sam Smith hasn’t been sighted.

Sorrento expects big things from Tasmanian pair Brodie Webb and Ryan Williams while Dave Lawson returns after a stint coaching Crib Point.

Chelsea has been on a recruiting drive, former AFL player Jayden Attard the biggest scalp.

Matty Baxter also crosses from Bonbeach.

Frankston YCW welcomes back Brendan Meagher while Langwarrin swingman Matthew Hogan crosses to the Stonecats.

Mornington is sure to improve with some very handy recruits. Dale and Danny Nolan and Adam Symes join former teammate Anthony Franchina, Luke Lewis returns home after playing for the Frankston Bombers and Ben Clements is back.

At Seaford, Luke Smith has returned while Ben Crowe has lured former Somerville teammate Adam Rose.

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Under-16s and 14s in grand finals HASTINGS CC

By Greg Bradshaw HASTINGS Under-16s defeated Sorrento in the semi-final to win a grand final berth at home next Sunday.

Hastings won the toss and chose to bat but had a nervous start, losing two wickets cheaply to be 2/22 in only the 6th over.

Aaron King came to the crease and produced a stunning innings of patience and power over 33 overs but was caught on the boundary for 97.

The other boys just batted around Aaron with Brodie Prestage making 16 at the top of the order, Mason Mail 21, Sean Hewitt 12 and Lachie Cox 14 in a 65-run stand with King as the team posted a competitive 204 off 43 overs.

When Sorrento batted, King and Archie Lobato kept it tight with only 11 runs coming during their spells and one wicket falling. A run-out saw another wicket fall at 11 before Mail claimed the other opener and it was 3/11 after 13 overs.

A 32-run partnership was broken by an excellent catch by Mail off Luke Gray’s bowling – 4/43. Gray then produced a wonderful spell of spin bowling, mesmerising the middle order and taking another four wickets to finish with 5/23 from his 6 overs, and Sorrento looked gone at 9/84.

The last pair put on 31, delaying the inevitable before Zach Bradshaw took the wicket and Sorrento was dismissed for 115. Lobato took 1/5, Andrew Jeffs 1/2, Mail 1/17 and Bradshaw 1/23.

Hastings will play the grand final against either Mt Martha or Seaford

Tigers at 10am on Sunday 2 March at Hastings.

Under-14s played Balnarring in a semi-final, the second game against the team in as many weeks.

Balnarring was sent in to bat and began well, reaching 28 before Bayde Wilson bowled an opener. The side’s best batsman then retired hurt, which exposed the middle order early.

Jackson Coles claimed a wicket, Shelby Lothian-Burdett took two and Balnarring was 4/53. The opener returned and batted well before falling to Alex Walters for 34, Balnarring 5/100.

In the final 10 overs, wickets fell, runs flowed and fielders were going everywhere as bowlers took some stick. Walters claimed two more important wickets, and Daniel Rook, in his first year of cricket, held his nerve and took 2/5 as Balnarring was dismissed for 132 in the 40th over.

Walters claimed 3/10 off 8 tidy overs, Wilson 1/12, Coles 1/22, Harrison Jansz 1/18 and Lothian-Burdett 2/10.

Hastings began its run chase but lost Jansz for a duck with the score on 0.

Cooper Dehaas and Lothian-Burdett then put together a match-winning partnership of 88 off 15 overs before Dehaas was out for 24.

Lothian-Burdett batted on and retired not out on 52. From this point onward, the team made very hard work getting the last 30 runs, losing five wickets to fall to 7/126.

The next over proved to be the last: wicket first ball, Rook edging a no ball for four, a dot, a catch off a no ball, another no ball then Rook’s wicket,

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Lothian-Burdett retuning to the crease and scoring a single, then Wilson edging another four and it was game over, 8/138 in an amazing climax.

The side will play Mt Martha in this weekend’s grand final at Hastings at 10am.

Under-12s travelled to the Peninsula School to take on undefeated Peninsula Old Boys. POB smashed 7/184 off its 35 overs during which catches went down and the fielding was sloppy to let POB off the hook.

Devlin Webb bowled well, taking 2/14 off 5 overs while Brad Miller took 1/9 and Patrick Wilson 1/21.

In the Hastings innings, POB did everything right to claim 8 wickets for 58 runs. The tail wagged, batting another 11 overs to get the score to 101. Ben Paarlberg was solid with 17no, Matt Dodd made 11, Wilson 15 and Bailey Esler stuck around at the end for 6.

The team had a great season, steadily improving each game, and reaching the finals was a great effort. Thanks to coach Vincent Booth and all parents for their support.

Under-10s played their final game of the season against POB on Friday with Hastings making 6/56 (Devlin Webb 14, Bailey Esler 15 and Jake Maxted 11). POB replied with 4/46 with Kade Seymour taking 2/2. Thanks to coach Dave Craig and all his helpers.

In senior games, the round was very disappointing for the club. The Firsts team was smashed outright by Main Ridge, the Seconds had a club record score smashed against them and the Thirds were trounced.

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6/42 to be in trouble at 6/79. Kayne Lewis dominated with the bat and smashed 51no, which included a 32run partnership with his Dad. The team finished on 7/144 off 35 overs and remains in second place with one game to play.

The only highlights from other games were Mitch Floyd’s first 50 for the club, Liam Bradshaw’s 50 in the Seconds and Scott Williams 70no in the Thirds.

The only winners were the Fourths, which played Mt Eliza in the secondlast game of the season. Mt Eliza batted first and scored 9/137 off 40 overs. All bowlers were tidy with Stephen Lewis this week outdoing his son Kayne with 4/30 while Kayne ended up with 2/42.

Andrew Finn also claimed 2/24 off 10 overs.

Hastings began its run chase well with Pat Foy (21) and Glenn Jansz (23) entertaining. The team then lost

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Air show display acts

Battle skirmish ground theatre THE feature act at this year’s air show will be a 40-minute presentation of a Vietnam War battle skirmish. Members of the Geelong Military Re-enactment Group will present a skirmish involving an attack on an Australian patrol by North Vietnamese soldiers.

During the fighting, the Australian force radios a request for aerial support. A Cessna 0-1 Birddog spotter plane swoops in to pinpoint the ground where the attackers are located. A flare is dropped, the smoke clearly indicating where the enemy is concealed. Assistance is on its way.

Shortly after, a pair of North American T-28 Trojans appear. Their task is to strafe the enemy. They round the area and swoop in with machine guns and napalm.

It is all play acting and the effects will be provided by pyrotechnicians with plenty of explosions, flame and smoke. But the dogged enemy fighters are not beaten and heavier reinforcements are called in to silence them.

Out of the mist a C-47 “Spooky” gunship flies in to extensively machine

gun the enemy area. It circles and from its open cargo door a machine gunner sprays the ground. The enemy is by now reduced to some sporadic firing. Once again, a T-28 roars in with more napalm to finally eliminate the threat.

It’s time to evacuate the Australian wounded. The distant thud of a heavy helicopter is heard. It gets ever closer, revealing itself as an Australian Iroquois helicopter. The wounded are taken aboard for evacuation to a medical station.

Cessna 0-1 Birddog with under-wing rocket launchers.

North American T-28 Trojan.

C-47 “Spooky” gunship.

Second World War presentation

Australian Army Bell Iroquois helicopter.

SHOW visitors see an ab initio pilot in training. He will be trying to come to grips with the handling of a Tiger Moth training aircraft. While it may look pretty scary, the trainee pilot is just stooging about. In real life he is normally in the cockpit of an Airbus.

The Australian-built Wirraway and a Boomerang will give demonstrations.

Later, a P-40 Kittyhawk and a Spitfire will thrill with a tail chase. From the Soviet Union comes a Yak 9 fighter and from the United States the fantastic P-51, built in Australia as the CAC CA-18 Mustang. It will perform an aerobatic display accompanied by a Kittyhawk.

Top cars, too THIS year’s air show will feature 100 vintage and classic cars, stalls, novelties and radio-controlled models such as a superb Ansett DC-3 (pictured above right). In aerobatics, the show will present Chris Sperou and his routine as well as Paul Bennet.

Also featured will be a Mercedes S Class AMG flagship car supplied

by Mercedes-Benz Mornington to race against Paul Bennet in his Pitts Special.

Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Boomerang fighter.

Radio-controlled dio-controlled model of the DC-3.

About this year’s air show In recognition of the service and sacrifices of Australia’s military service personnel, both past and present, all RSL clubs on the Mornington Peninsula have been invited to send veterans as the guests of the Peninsula Aero Club. A drive past the crowd line has been organised so that all visitors can demonstrate their appreciation of the veterans’ splendid work.

The air show is billed as a charitable event. The organisers intend to give generously to the following service organisations: Legacy, Mount Eliza Lions Club, Tyabb CFA, Water Safety Vietnam and, in supporting youth within our region, the Tyabb Football and Cricket Clubs.

Peninsula Aero Club has staged many air shows and community events over the years. It is part of the club’s ethos to remain in the service of the community from which it draws its members and its support. The Mornington Peninsula Airport is a facility that is open at all times in the service of the Police, CFA, Defence and emergency services.

Peninsula Aero Club acknowledges the support from sponsors, advertisers and friends. Without their generous support there would not be the air show of this quality.

Our thanks are especially extended to:

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