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Honour board restored
WOOD carvers Garry Fevreau and Ross Johnstone with the restored honour board at Balnarring hall. Picture: Gary Sissons
AN historic WWI honour board restored over the past month was yesterday (Monday) rehung in pride of place in the foyer of the Balnarring hall. The work was completed by wood carvers Garry Fevreau and Ross Johnstone, who also worked on a celebrated replica of the board hanging in the Sir John Monash Centre at Villers-Bretonneux, France. They were assisted by Dean Smith, of Environmental Creators, who cast and recreated the original copper plate in silicone. The near-centenary old board is made from Victorian blackwood fiddleback and includes the names of the men from the district who fought overseas in the Great War. Balnarring Historical Society’s Ilma Hackett said the original honour board ordered by the Balnarring Progress Association in 1920 was the work of Robert Prenzel, of South Yarra. (“Honour board brings memories of home” The News 29/7/2019). “Most honour boards are horizontal and quite large but Balnarring, being a small community, didn’t have many men joining the AIF,” Ms Hackett said. Mr Prenzel inscribed the names of 26 men onto a copper panel with carved gum nuts and gum leaves. The board was thought at the time to be mountain ash. At the top is the Rising Sun Anzac emblem and across the bottom the words: “They Went at Duty’s Call”. Money to pay for the original board was raised by Welcome Home functions honouring returning soldiers, and by subscriptions. It was unveiled in the hall in November 1920 by Major Balmain, who lived at Coolart. The $1150 restoration cost was paid by the Balnarring and District Community Bank. Stephen Taylor
Powering up for summer Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au FIVE diesel-powered generators are being installed this month to help avoid summer power shortages or blackouts across the Mornington Peninsula. The temporary power sources will be installed by energy generation and distribution company GreenSync at Rye, Boneo and Dromana and removed when demand drops in April. While batteries or “renewables and demand response technologies” may eventually replace the generators, me-
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tering devices, a switchboard, concrete foundations and underground cabling will be permanent. When approving the generators at their 16 September planning services committee meeting Mornington Peninsula Shire councillors agreed to keep pressuring the federal and state governments to pay for “plug-in grid scale batteries” to eventually replace the generators. “The equipment will be made available for the emergency generation of power when the network experiences extreme demand, 24 hours, seven days a week,” senior planner Veronica Lyn-
gcoln stated in a report to councillors. “Once the main network triggers extreme demand, the generators are ‘switched on’ systematically. Ms Lyngcoln said GreenSync had an agreement to supply extra power to United Energy during peak periods of electricity demand over summer. The locations for the generators are 605 Limestone and 115-141 Browns roads, Boneo, Boneo; 340 Browns Road, Rye; and 163 and 133 (the Dromana Drive-In), Nepean Highway, Dromana. Neighbouring property owners who were notified of the GreenSync plans
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raised no objections to the generators, which are all being installed on rural lots within the green wedge zone. Melbourne Water, which manages a property opposite one of the Dromana generators, recommended a site environmental management plan be undertaken, but GreenSync had already submitted one. Ms Lyngcoln said using “relatively large rural lots” for the generators “presents a suitable planning outcome with minimal off-site amenity impacts, which could otherwise be an issue if sited in an urban residential area”. Operation of the generators has also
been cleared by the shire’s environmental health officer and complies with planning regulations. The environmental management plan prepared for GreenSync by Erias Group says identifying that each of the five generator sites “presents relatively low risk with respect to noise, air quality, soils, vegetation, flora and fauna, spills and contamination, waste, traffic, vehicle access, Aboriginal cultural heritage, flooding, utilities and land restoration”. Noise barriers will be installed alongside the generator at 340 Browns Road and both Dromana generators.
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