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GRAND CENTRAL HOTEL 64 HIGH STREET, YEA. PHONE 5797 2513

Craig and Mary purchased the Grand Central Hotel in order to bring back the pub to its true country essence - quality food, friendly service and welcoming atmosphere.

They have transformed the old drive-in bottle shop to Mumma Molly’s Cafe which is all about home style cooking

MUSIC AT THE MIDDLE We are having Live Music return to the Middle Pub. We have already got these dates booked in:

Mumma Molly’s Cafe The Bistro offers great food at affordable prices, especially if you take advantage of the weekly special nights.

This Sunday Dec. 9: J.D Delves

Sunday Dec. 16: Open Mic New Years Eve: Stoked Full Band

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Gold Rewards Card launched ■ Local shareholders, local businesses and community leaders all welcomed the introduction of the new 'Community Gold' card initiative at the Annual General Meeting of the Yea and District Community Bank Inc last Thursday (Nov. 29).

The launch of the card, which aims to support the numerous local businesses, sporting clubs and community groups from Strath Creek to Eildon, is timely with Christmas fast ap-

proaching. David Roberts, the Secretary/Treasurer chaired the meeting in the absence of Chairman Gary Pollard.

Mr Roberts reported on and responded to questions on last financial years result and outlined the strategic actions the Board continues to roll out since July.

These initiatives have included an adjustment in the trading hours of the Branch, expansion into the Alexandra / Eildon communities through an agency in Alexandra, introduction of the Community Gold program and shortly a tweaking of its Community Investment program - a program that has to date returned some $200,000 to the community.

"The decisions of our competitors to close Branches and/or Agencies in Yea and Alexandra

has now left our Bendigo Bank branch as the only bank in Yea - a bank where locals, community groups and businesses can access personalised services.

“We are also working to grow the business at the Alexandra Agency."

National surveys rate Bendigo Bank, Australia's fifth big bank to be in the top 10 most trusted brands in Australia and the top bank by far", Mr Roberts said..

"Our Directors and Bendigo Bank are totally committed to supporting and serving our community's banking, financial and insurance needs, the more our communities consider and 'make the change' to support our efforts - the better off we will all be,” Mr Roberts said.

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Tribute to Brian Hender ■ Mayor, Councillors and staff of Murrindindi Shire Council have paid tribute to Brian Hender.

“Murrindindi Shire Council passes on its deepest sympathies to the family of Brian Hender.

“Mr Hender was a long-serving member of the Mount Pleasant Reserve Committee of Management and his contribution to the community and environment of Alexandra will long be remembered.”

Elaine to speak ■ Elaine White will be guest speaker at Yea library at 11am on Tuesday (Dec. 11).

On leaving school Elaine trained as a Technical Librarian in the W.R.A.A.F and spent several years enjoying the extraordinary freedom and travel that offered a young girl in that era.

Getting married saw an automatic discharge from the Armed Forces in the 1960s but after a couple of years as a housewife and mother Elaine went back to work and secured a job at the Hawker de Haviland Aircraft library at Bankstown Airport, Sydney.

The family moved to Yea in May 1970 and in October of that year the Upper Goulburn Regional Library advertised a position at Yea Library for which Elaine applied and was successful.

She has seen many changes over the past 48 years, including moving from the Upper Goulburn Regional Library service – which incorporated the Seymour, Yea, Alexandra and Mansfield libraries – to the Shires splitting up and running their own library service, to three changes of venue and the change from a card filing system to the computerised age.

Library position ■ Murrindindi Shire Council is advertising a Library Officer at Alexandra Library. It is a permanent part time position (3 hours) for a junior.

The position is for Saturday mornings (9am12noon).

The position is responsible for providing library and customer service support. The successful applicant will need to work well in a team, enjoy reading, have good communication and administrative skills and experience with using computers.

Applications should be addressed to Libby Kotschet, Co-Ordinator Library Services. For more information about the position see www.murrindindi.vic.au/jobs or by phone Libby on 5772 0355.

It is anticipated interviews will be held in the second week of December, with appointment before Christmas for a mid-late January start. msc@murrindindi.vic.gov.au Applications close at 12noon on Monday (Dec. 10).

World COPD Day ■ Alexandra District Health Primary Health Care Team celebrated World COPD Day with

a walk and a morning tea at Rotary Park. COPD stands for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, meaning a long term condition that limits airflow to the lungs. People with COPD often have a combination of emphysema, chronic bronchitis and asthma. These conditions cannot be cured or reversed but they can be treated.

Symptoms of COPD can include breathlessness, a cough and build-up of phlegm in the lungs. If you are aware of these symptoms in yourself we encourage you to discuss these with your GP. If you would like more information on any of these programs please call the Intake Officer Karen Bates on 5772 0908.

KELLOCK FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN WE CARE 2018-2020 FUND REACHES $ 167,000 Most readers of this paper will have received the Mail Out circulated to Alexandra and District through Australia Post, which started from Monday November 26.

I hope you do not mind us reminding you to not throw the envelope out. On the envelope was a printed message; KELLOCK LODGE IMPORTANT INFORMATION lease open it, read the Open Letter and the Leaflet, which explains the background to the Appeal and the conflict with the Diocese of Wangaratta.

This will give you the opportunity to read the information, look at the Table headed " WE NEED YOUR HELP TO RAISE $500,000 ".

Then look to see where you fit in that table and then make up your mind how much you should give. Note that your donation is Tax Deductible, that you can give through your Will and there may also be the ability to name a Wing at Kellock Lodge.

The leaflet will also tell you how to go about making your donation.

Your donations, as a result of the mail out, are already arriving at Kellock Lodge, please keep it up!

We have also received two organisation donations this week, the Eildon Lions welcomed Maurie Pawsey in the Lions Den at Eildon on Wednesday night to receive a cheque for $7000, which they expect will continue for two more years, a contribution of $21,000. Magnificent from the Lions.

The second was at Kellock Lodge when Callie Sinclair presented a cheque for $5000 from the Open Gardens Scheme Committee.

Thank you.

We will keep you informed of the total the Appeal has reached each week.

If you have any questions, particularly if you wish to donate over three years, please ring CEO Donna Walsh on 5770 2100 or Maurie Pawsey on 5772 2157. We can arrange for one of our approved visitors to call, if you wish.

The process of transferring the Provider Licence from the Diocese of Wangaratta to the Community will take some time yet, but is under way.

Events planned for early in 2019 include the Gala Ball now to be on May 11, 2019 and a Major Garden Party -date to be announced.

- Maurie Pawsey

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PLANS FOR KINGLAKE VILLAGE ● The Kinglake shopping centre as it currently appears. The supermarket will soon re-open, and a ‘Village’ centre is due to open by late 2020.

At A Glance

● 1 Whittlesea-Kinglake Road.

Photo: Google Streetview ■ According to Google Maps, 1 WhittleseaKinglake Rd appears to be the site for the former Hackett’s Hardware store, which was destroyed by the Black Saturday fires in February 2009.

The hardware and fuel outlet exploded in a fire ball on the afternoon of Saturday, February 7, 2009.

Positive outlook ■ The Kinglake Village project’s publicity says: “Kinglake’s future deserves to be positive. A stunning location, a strong community and the recognition that banding together makes things better than ever is the motivation behind creating a shared space where food, creativity, friendship and business opportunities can flourish.”

2020 is target

■ The developers enviasge that the Kinglake Village project will be completed in late 2020 “just in time for the summer months”.

“Good things take time and planning. With a shared vision for Kinglake to thrive and bloom, or team looks forward to an estimated completion in late 2020.”

The Kinglake Village is being treated as a destination: “A picturesque town with a bright new future. Kinglake Village is at the centre of iconic Kinglake - close enough to visit as an easy outing.”

■ A CONSORTIUM of companies has been formed to construct ‘Kinglake Village’ by late 2020.

‘Kinglake Village’ is being described by developers Roscorp as “an architecturally-designed community hub.

It is planned to include “premium local dining, artist-friendly atelier spaces, commercial space for local businesses to lease and a place where small business mingles with well-known retailers”.

The developers plan for Kinglake Village to become a destination for Melbourne visitors.

“Kinglake Village is positioned to become a weekend tourism drawcard - a welcome boost to the ongoing sustainability of an iconic part of Victoria’s flourishing regional scene, all-thewhile providing locals with the amenities they need on a daily basis,” says a promotional website, www.kinglakevillage.com.au ‘Kinglake Village’ is separate to the $750,000 improvement announced by the Labor State Government, backed by a further $750,000 by a Shorten Federal Government if elected next year.

Kinglake Village is planned to be located at 1 Kinglake-Whittlesea Rd. The developers, Roscorp, have partnered with a number of companies in the Kinglake project: ■ R/Realty, leasing agent, ■ Genton, architects, ■ SJB Planning, town planning consultant, ■ Specialised Project Management Group, engineering and project consultant, ■ Dugan & O’Sullivan, marketing and communication, ■ Peter Boyle, urban de\sign and landscape architecture, ■ Approval Systems, building surveyor, ■ C J Arms, hydraulics and fire services ■ The Space Agency, placemaking consultant, ■ Traffix Group, traffic management, ■ Foresite, bushfire management, and ■ Veris, land surveyor.

Community information sessions are being held from 2.30pm to 7.30pm tomorrow (Thurs., Dec. 6) and Friday (Dec. 7) at the Kinglake Community Centre, Extons Rd.

Info sessions this week at Community Centre Murrindindi Shire CEO Craig Lloyd issued a statement about the Kinglake Village plans: “The community will soon start to hear about another new development proposed for Kinglake called 'Kinglake Village',” Mr Lloyd said.

“Developers Roscorp have purchased a parcel of land at 1 Whittlesea-Kinglake Road in Kinglake. :They are proposing to build a new commercial and retail hub in that location.

"We understand the developers will soon be consulting with the community about this proposed new development.

“If you are interested in this development, this is your opportunity to have your say.

“Council expects to receive an application for a permit to construct the buildings following the developer's consultation with the community.

"Please note that the proposed Kinglake Village development is a separate project to Council's Streetscape works.

“But if the Village project goes ahead, the two projects will need to be considered side by side to ensure they complement one another.

"The Kinglake community has been calling for a boost to make the town more attractive and usable for locals for some time.

“We're pleased that all our efforts and the work of the community in getting this far are coming to fruition.

“These are exciting times for Kinglake. It is our hope that these works will also attract more visitors to Kinglake so we can showcase the beauty of our region and help boost the town's economy.

“We encourage you to get involved to help shape the future of Kinglake," Mr Lloyd said.

Mr Lloyd said that government funding tolwards streetscaping will beautify the town and also enable some works to improve the way the town functions.

S’market to re-open ■ Kinglake’s supermarket is to re-open “as soon as possible”, according to a local report.

“A spokesperson for the building owners said that considerable refurbishment and fitout works would be need to carried out,” said the December issue of Mountain Monthly.

“However, they were aware of the importance of the outlet to the community and were working to ensure it would be reopened at the earliest possible date,” the magazine said.

Congrats. Jac ■ Jaclyn Symes’ apparent re-election as State Upper House MLC for Northern Victoria has been recognised by Murrindindi Shire CEO Craig Lloyd.

“I would like to congratulate Jaclyn Symes who it appears has been re-elected, and the announcement of the Premier’s intent to elevate her to a ministerial position,” Mr Lloyd said.

“I would like to congratulate Cindy McLeish on what appears at this time to be her re-election as a Member of Parliament for the State Division of Eildon. The campaign by all candidates was conducted in a calm, professional and balanced manner,” Mr Lloyd said.

Push for services ■ Murrindindi Shire Council continues to push for improved mental health services, especially for bushfire survivors.

Mayor Cr Sandice McAulay and CEO Craig Lloyd last week met with former Premier John Brumby and the Bushfire 10th Anniversary Advisory Committee that he chairs, to ensure local community viewpoints are understood.

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280 Eltham-Yarra Glen Rd. ● KINGL AKE. Bakehouse. 10 WhittleseaKinglake Rd. ● KINGL AKE. Foodworks. 12 Main St. ● KINGL AKE. Library. 19 WhittleseaKinglake Rd. ● KINGL AKE. Pub. 28 WhittleseaKinglake Rd. ● KINGL AKE. United Petroleum. 2 Kinglake-Glenburn Rd. ● LAURIMAR. Newsagency. 8/95 Hazel Glen Dr. ● LILYDALE. Newsagency. 237 Main St. ● MANSFIELD. Foodworks. 119 High St. ● MERNDA VILL AGES. Post Office. 50 Mernda Village Dr. ● MARYSVILLE. Foodworks. 49 Darwin St. ● MOLESWORTH. Hungry Horse Hotel.

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Daryl, David recognised ■ Yea identitiesDaryl Callander and David McKenzie were recognised for their Saleyards work at the Murrindindi Council meeting last Wednesday (Nov. 28).

“The Yea Saleyards Committee of Management is a strong, independent committee that plays a big role in looking after Murrindindi Shire cattle producers and ensuring our beef industry is progressive and innovative,” Cr Charlie Bisset said.

“We are recognising the long-serving Yea Saleyards Committee of Management members - past Chairman, David McKenzie and past Maintenance Contractor, Daryl Callander.

“Daryl Callander was engaged by what was then the ‘Shire of Yea’ in 1992 to construct the existing selling pens and ramps at the Yea Saleyards.

“From that point onwards, Daryl has spent endless hours as a volunteer on the Committee as well been the ‘go to’ maintenance contractor.

“David McKenzie has been a volunteer Committee member for at least 20 years and been its longest serving Chairman.

“David has been a key driving force behind the expansion and development of the yards with countless hours spent at working bees, writing grant submissions, developing projects and organising meetings,” Cr Bisset said.

● David McKenzie

Dec. 14 deadline

■ Final day for submissions for Australia Day awards in Murrindindi Shire has been extended to Friday, December 14.

Nominations are being called for Senior Citizen, Citizen and Junior Citizen awards, Mayor Cr Sandice McAulay told last week’s Council meeting.

● Cr Charlie Bisset, Daryl Callander, Cr Sandice McAulay

Praise for Rougets

● Alexandra Rotarians at Koala Cherries, Yarck ■ A large group of Rotarians and modern facility under strict health, partners from Alexandra and sorting and staffing regulations.

Mansfield paid a visit to Koala Product is packed in different Cherries, Yarck, and were met by sized containers depending on the the owners Simon and Michael market, which includes Rouget.

Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, Simon told the gathering that and extends as far as China, Hong Koala Cherries was a family busi- Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and ness which has been run by four Vietnam. generations. His son is involved.

About 20% is exported and Simon and Michael are cousins much of the home market is and they take responsibility for dif- through Woolworths. Their main ferent areas of the processing, staff- competitor is Chile. ing, business management and At the height of the season they marketing of the fruit. employ 200 – 400 pickers and up to Their wives Alison and Lisa also 250 packers. have roles at Koala Cherries.

It is labour intensive and is aided Michael explained the history of by electronic sorting. Some of the the business in the Yarra Valley labour is local but most people growing plums, nectarines and ber- come in on temporary visas from ries.

Asia.

They moved to Yarck in 2000 in All workers are ethically paid search of drier summers and made and supervised, and both great care plans to switch to cherries. and speed is needed while handling Fruit is also sourced from vari- such delicate fruit. ous regions including Cobram and Weather is a huge problem for Tatura. cherries on the tree and rain in All the fruit is transported to November/December causes splitYarck for packing in their huge ting and rotting. - Contributed

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Ruffy’s Tarcombe Herefords’ pen of 18-month-old ewes topped the sale at $335/head at Benalla, reports Country News. Other better lines of 18-montholds ranged between $275 and $305/head, prices that were n line with other sales held in Bendigo and Corowa. The Ruffy stud also received the award for Best Presented Pen of First Cross Young Ewes as it sold a total of 474 head at an average price of $289.46.

● Howard and Bev Purcell Yea’s Howard and Bev Purcell were at an Ivanhoe Grammar School reunion on Thursday (Nov. 29) which celebrated the ‘Buckley’ and ‘Brown’ years. The ‘Buckley’ years, named after Headmaster Rev. Sydney Buckley, included a stint when the school was evacuated to Yea in the war years 1941-42. Howard’s father, Bill Purcell, was prime mover in Yea’s ongoing association with IGS.

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Yea also had a profound effect on other Ivanhoe boys. Colin Rouse, now in his late 80s, attended the Grammar School, then based at Beaufort House, Yea, in 1941-42. On Thursday he announced a scholarship, in memory of his wife.

Most of Australia is likely to see a hotter than normal summer period, according to the Bureau of Meteorology’s 2018-19 Summer Outlook released today. The Bureau's manager of longrange forecasting, Dr Andrew Watkins, said the outlook showed most of the country had an 80 per cent chance of exceeding normal temperatures over the next three months.

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● Matthew and Rory Beaufort Manor, Yea, last week hosted its first gay wedding. Matthew and Rory were the first couple to have a same-sex wedding reception at the Yea venue.

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Feral deer, pigs and goats are a major problem in the Murrindindi area, especially with 40% of the shire being Crown Land, said Cr Bec Bowles last week. She has urged residents to participate in an engage.vic.gov.au survey.

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

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

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Bridget McKenzie to stand for Indi?

■ Alexandra-born Senator Bridget McKenzie may stand for the seat of Indi at the Federal Election, probably due to be held in May. Senator McKenzie, 49, is considering whether to move from the Senate to the Lower House in Canberra.

National TV reports on Friday (Nov. 30) say that the Senator has her eyes on the House of Representatives seat currently held by independent Cathy McGowan, who turned 65 last Thursday (Nov. 29).

Ms McGowan is yet to announce whether she will retire on not. ““I’m not going to stay the Member of Parliament for Indi forever, and we’ve got to begin a process of handing on the baton (and) teaching people how to do the job,” Ms McGowan said.

“I’m not going to go until I can be really happy that this lovely community that I love and care for is going to be in even better hands than it is now with me.”

● Senator Bridget McKenzie Ms McGowan, a former Liberal staffer, won the seat from long-serving Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella by 439 votes in 2013, said ABC Goulburn Valley.

Senator McKenzie was born in Alexandra. She grew up in Benalla, where her mother was a primary school teacher and her father was a dairyman.

She attended Tintern Grammar, on the outskirts of

Melbourne, where she was a house captain and swimming captain.

After starting a family, Senator McKenzie began studying at Deakin University as a mature-age student, completing a double degree in applied science (specialising in human movement) and teaching (specialising in mathematics).

She served as the president of the Deakin University Student Association in 2003.

McKenzie subsequently taught physical education and mathematics for several years atYarram Secondary College, Gippsland.

She later lectured in education at Monash University.

She has been Deputy Leader of the National Party since December last year.

A move to the House of Representatives would allow her to take the Leadership position.

If successful, the move would make her a potential Deputy Prime Minister.

Surprise at health shortcomings ● Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten seemed genuinely surprised by the bureaucratic boundaries and other mental health issues faced by people in Murrindindi Shire, Depty Mayor Cr Leigh Dunscombe told Council last Wednesday.

“I am sure that he will advocate on these issues regardless of election outcomes,” Cr Dunscombe said.

“Despite verbal assurances however, you can be rest assured that Councillors and Council officers will continue to apply pressure on this issue at all levels and colours of government.”

Prior to the State Election, Murrindindi Councillors and staff applied pressure to Eildon candidates for better mental health outcomes.

Allegations raised with IBAC authority ■ The Independent Broadbased Anti-corruption Commission has been made aware of sensational allegations by a Kinglake journalism student that a developer has “thrown ... some cash for a planning permit”.

Ashley Geelan, 40, published a internet report suggesting “someone (is) clearly putting a few bucks in council’s pockets in paper bags”.

Mr Geelan failed to provide evidence of how much money was allegedly paid, by whom, to whom, when, or where.

Mr Geelan said on Facebook: “I have the evidence to back this story to university standards.”

Murrindindi Shire Council Chief Executive Officer Craig Lloyd was quick to reply to the accusations, on the same day they were published.

“I urge you to refer the allegations and any supporting evidence to the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission or the Local Government Inspectorate,” Mr Lloyd reportedly wrote.

Local Briefs Objection noted

■ Murrindindi Mayor Cr Sandice McAulay disclosed at last week’s Council meeting that she may have a conflicting personal interest in the Bonfire Station planning amendment to allow a sign. Her husband, Ray Goss, had placed an objection to the planning application. Bcr McAulay left the Council chamber when the matter was discussed.

Saleyards salute ■ As well as recognising Daryl Callander and David McKenzie, Murrindindi Council last week recognised a number of Yea Saleyards Committee of Management past members for their contributions. Cr Charlie Bisset acknowledged Barry Purvis, Duncan Newcomen and Malcolm White, who have been instrumental in the saleyards success over the years.

Jazz Festival on ■ The annual Eltham Jazz, Food & Wine Festival is set to take place on February 2324. The free festival, held across five stages within the Eltham township, features a mixture of the best established and up-and-coming jazz, blues and soul acts. The festival was recently ranked second in the world through the “American Express Essentials world top 20 jazz festivals”. The 2019 line up includes: Vince Jones, Australia’s leading jazz vocalist, interpreter, trumpet player and composer.

Minutes changed ■ Minutes of the October 24 meeting of Murrindindi Shire Council have been altered to reflect Ian Hewitt’s attendance during Community Recognition.

$7000 raised ■ More than $7000 was raised for community volunteer groups, SES , CFA and CanTeen (youth cancer) from this year’s Marysville Marathon.

Spoke to Council

■ Cheviot resident Neville Roberts spoke to Murrindindi Shire Councillors at their meeting last week about road side trading in Yea, the leasing of the kiosk at Yea Railway Station, an outstanding garbage charge issue and a planning matter.

Man arrested

■ A 46-year-old Marysville man has been bailed to appear at the Mansfield Magistrates’ Court in January to face charges in relation to theft of motor vehicle and deception offences.

Narbethong sign

● Extraordinary claims by kinglakerangesnews.com “If, on the other hand, you have no evidence that there is any truth to these allegations, which appears from the article to be more likely, the headline and the article are extraordinarily misleading and their publication is highly irresponsible.

“It is entirely inappropriate, and contrary to the public interest, to publish such blatant falsehoods with such reckless disregard or the impact that they may have on the community,” Mr Lloyd is said to have responded.

Mr Geelan was also highly critical of Cr Leigh Dunscombe, who Geelan described as “member for Kinglake Ranges”.

Cr Dunscombe and Ashley Geelan were close friends in the past, according to Geelan.

In 2016, Mr Geelan disqualified himself from reporting on Cr Dunscombe’s election campaign, because of their deep friendship from Black Saturday bushfire days.

■ Mr Geelan also had some venom for the Whittlesea Lodge of Freemasons Victoria, a charitable institution that raises $2 million annually for charity, as well as having founded the Royal Freemasons Homes and the Epworth Freemasons Hospital. “[Opinion] Freemasons. Charitable? Yeah and I’m Fat Albert,” Mr Geelan commented.

■ A petition objecting to a proposed billboard in Narbethong bwas presented to last week’s meeting of Murrindindi Shire Council. A report is due to be presented to next month’s Council meeting on Wednesday, December 19 at Alexandra.

Taggerty party

■ The Taggerty Christmas Party was held on Saturday evening (Dec. 1) by the Taggerty Community Progress Group. Venue was the Taggerty Big 4 Holiday Park. Santa paid a visit, and children also enjoyed use of the pool and jumping pillow. Proceeds from entry, car park and raffle went to charity.

Ewing Wynd plan

■ Bill Anderson’s proposal to develop Ewing Wynd, south of Yea, was scuttled at last week’s Murrindindi Shire Council meeting on a motion proposed by Cr Margaret Rae and seconded by Cr Bec Bowles. Mr Anderson’s consultant, David Barnes, spoke to the Council about an amendment to the Murrindindi Planning Scheme to reduce the minimum lot size in the schedule to the Rural Living Zone.

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People We Meet

Val first with Gold Card

■ A new Community Gold Rewards Card was launched at the Annual General Meeting of Murrindindi Community Enterprise Ltd. MCEL is the franchise holder of Bendigo Bank's Yea & District Community Bank branch, Alexandra agency and the Eildon ATM. Chairman Gary Pollard said: "Our Board is proud to introduce the Community Gold card, a rewards card that supports local businesses, our many sporting clubs, community groups by encouraging more people to shop locally.

“Through this initiative we can help our communities in Yea, Alexandra and Eildon to become more self-sufficient."

The holders of Community Gold rewards cards with values of $10 and $20 will be able to redeem them at local shops, businesses and sporting clubs participating in the scheme.

Participating businesses can be identified with a decal displayed near their entrance.

The cards can be purchased as gift vouchers for Christmas or special events, like birthdays from the Yea branch or Alexandra agency.

The cards can also be used as gift, provide discounts or as promotions.

Community Gold Cards can be used "just like cash" as full or part payment for goods and services at a wide range of local businesses who have signed up to the program.

Sporting clubs, schools and community groups will also able to apply to receive them as part of

● Yea living treasure Val Borrie is pictured receiving her $10 Gold Card No.1 from Branch Manager Lyn Southurst with Customer Service Officer, Jo Kilpatrick in the background.

Long Shots

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

Most senior newsman in the local area.

Now in his 50th year of local newspapers.

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a Community Investment grant from Yea & District Community Bank Branch, then use the cards as prizes for any number of performance achievements, raffle prizes etc.

A similar scheme was created and launched by the Buninyong Community Bank branch in 2016.

That scheme has grown to have 30 participating businesses and redeemed cards to the value of some $10,000 "In the eight years since opening our Community Bank branch in 2010 we have has expanded our access to serve the Alexandra (agency) and Eildon (ATM) communities,” Mr Pollard said.

“In addition we have been able to disperse nearly $200,000 for community led events and initiatives across those communities.

"This is all made possible through the support of our shareholders, our volunteer Directors, Branch staff, the Bendigo Bank and our steadily growing customer base.

“Community Gold - a new gold discovery in Yea, Alexandra and Eildon and another way Yea & District Community Bank Branch contributes to the growth and prosperity of our communities.”

From Eildon

■ CFA members from the Eildon Brigade who have flown out on a five-day deployment, to assist in Queensland include Len Timmins, Wayne Murphy and Richard Chomiczewski.

From Yea’s ‘Ideal Town’ era

Editor’s Diary Editor Ash Long first started newspaper work in 1969. He began writing for local newspapers in 1973. Over those 45 years he has kept extensive diaries and local photo files.

From Our Files - 30 Years Ago Wednesday, December 7, 1988

Dindi mill fire

■ Damage estimated at $50,000 was caused by fire at the Murrindindi Sawmill.

Marbut-Gunnersen manager Peter Halliday said that chips in the chipper unit had caught alight. Main belts were damaged in the fire. CFA units attended from Murrindindi, Glenburn, Yea and Yea-Limestone.

Volleyball win

■ Stars 3 defeated Nosey Parkers in the yea volleyball grand final at Yea Indoor Recreation Centre. Winning team members were Russell Sundblom, Kevin Cunningham, Bruce Elliott, Ross Shaw, Lucy Cunningham and Lynn Allen.

Yellow ribbons

■ John Adams and bride Cecily were married in the grounds of Murrindindi Station, 30 years ago. Yellow ribbons were tied to two grand oaks on the Melba Hwy property.

Rotary visitor

■ Former District Governor JackNankervis was guest speaker at the Rotary Club of Yea meeting, 30 years ago, at the Royal Mail Hotel. Mr Nankervis had been inducted as a Rotarian by Royce Kronborg, then President of the Rotary Club of Preston.

Three-minute speaker was Les Hall who spoke on trends in senior secondary education.

Local Phone Numbers FIRE BRIGADES (fire only) ............ 000 Local Brigades ............................... 000 POLICE (emergencies only) ............ 000 Alexandra ................................ 5772 1040 Kinglake ............................... 5786 1333 Seymour ............................... 5735 0200 Whittlesea ............................ 9716 2102 7 9 7 26 30 Yea ....................................... 5 57 263 AMBULANCE .................................... 000 Alexandra Hospital ............. 5772 0900 Northern Hospital, Epping .. 8405 8000 Seymour Hospital ................ 5793 6100 Yea Hospital ........................... 5 736 0400 STATE EMERGENC Y SER VICE ......... 13 25 00 EMERGENCY

● Ash Long and Bill Price ■ I like being in the company of Billy Price.

We are both the same age. Bill grew up in Preston; I grew up in Reservoir.

He went to Preston East State School (Sylvester Grove); I went to Reservoir East State School (Boldrewood Pde). We both lived in Flowerdale; Bill still does.

Bill is a Socialist; I am not. Bill was proudly a member of the now-deregistered Builders Labourers Federation, and soon is going to one of their reunions. He reckons there are not too many BLF members left. The BLF (remember Norm Gallagher of Reservoir?) was finally knocked over in 1986.

Billy has had some knocks in life. He was injured in the workplace. He recently lost his wife. But he keeps challenging people, always with a glint in his eyes.

On Saturdaty he challenged Long Shots to buy $20 of tickets in the Flowerdale Community House Open Day raffle, if he did.

He reckoned the occasion should be photographed for posterity.

Billy Price is one of the most capable stirrers that I know. The world would be a better place if there were more people like Billy Price.

- Ash Long

Basketball finals

● A postcard photo on the south side of Yea’s High St, looking east.

Our guess is that the photo was taken in the 1920s-1930s.

Photo courtesy: Alan Thorley, Yea and District Historical Pages.

■ Veterans 38 d Country Club 25 in the basketball semi-finals held at the Yea Indoor Recreation Centre. Strath Creek 55 d Footballers 21. Vets included Gary Pollard, Peter Christie, Richard Ivey and Alan Lanyon.

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Your Stars with Kerry Kulkens ARIES: (March 21-April 20) Lucky Colour: White Lucky Day: Friday Racing Numbers: 1.6.2.3.

Lotto Numbers: 1.15.26.34.40.22.

Some luck in money matters is evident during this period.Anything to do with partnership affairs should prosper and there could be some romantic vibes in the air also.

TAURUS: (April 21- May 20) Lucky Colour: Green Lucky Day: Monday Racing Numbers: 1.3.2.1.

Lotto Numbers: 1.12.15.26.34.40.

Some career plans could be a little frustrating but the results should be evident. A period in which you could win with charm and good humour and love is in the air.

GEMINI: (May 21- June 21) Lucky Colour: Orange Lucky Day: Wednesday Racing Numbers: 5.6.2.9.

Lotto Numbers: 9.5.12.24.40.33.

Business and property dealings should be successful. A time when surprise visitors or happenings could interrupt your daily routine, do not let a few sour faces trouble you.

CANCER: (June 22- July 22) Lucky Colour: White Lucky Day: Tuesday Racing Numbers: 1.6.9.5 Lotto Numbers: 1.15.26.34.40.33.

Should be a good and interesting time for you and your idea of a romantic interlude should also be available.

People you can trust will be ready to help if you need it.

LEO: (July 23-August 22) Lucky Colour: Fawn Lucky Day: Monday Racing Numbers: 5.6.2.3.

Lotto Numbers: 1.2.15.19.24.45.

A family or work problem could be simmering and your pride or ego could be making the situation difficult. There should be an improvement and thee should be commitments over finances.

VIRGO: (August 23- September 23) Lucky Colour: Green Lucky Day: Monday Racing Numbers: 4.6.5.2.

Lotto Numbers: 4.12.26.35.39.6.

Luck is on your side but the trends are mixed so be cautious around people you do not know. There could be a link between you and a secret romance and it is wiser to confide in someone.

LIBRA: (September 24- October 23) Lucky Colour: Blue Lucky Day: Wednesday Racing Numbers: 1.3.5.9.

Lotto Numbers: 1.15.26.34.40.33.

Another persons help could bring less benefits to a financial venture than expected.Asecret romance may seem a thrill but in the light of the day may decide against continuing it.

SCORPIO: (October 24- November 22) Lucky Colour: Peach Lucky Day: Thursday Racing Numbers: 4.6.5.9.

Lotto Numbers: 4.12.26.35.9.41.

Unexpected events could turn out surprisingly well, however, there could be a strain in relationships with a family member who may need some special attention.

SAGITTARIUS: (November 23- December20) Lucky Colour: Violet Lucky Day: Monday Racing Numbers: 4.6.2.5.

Lotto Numbers: 1.15.24.40.36.3.

You could be too emotional to make the right decisions during this period so it could be wiser to postpone important matters till later. Do get in contact with an old friend.

CAPRICORN: (December 21- January 19) Lucky Colour: Cream Lucky Day: Thursday Racing Numbers: 4.9.6.2.

Lotto Numbers: 4.12.28.9.31.22.

Time to start a new job with new ideas and discard you old ones. Someone close will be keeping an eye out for you and your career could be in for a big change.

AQUARIUS: (January 20- February 19) Lucky Colour: Silver Lucky Day: Sunday Racing Numbers: 2.3.2.1.

Lotto Numbers: 2.13.26.35.5.11.

Maybe its time you changed your attitude to someone close. People could be trying to talk you into something that is not your scene but could turn out to be more interesting than before.

PISCES: (February 20- March 20) Lucky Colour: Blue Lucky Day: Saturday Racing Numbers: 1.3.2.5.

Lotto Numbers: 1.15.26.35.40.45.

Try to get rid of the not so well feeling and you will find that things work put much better. Positive thoughts will influence others so push your ideas over now.

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● Yea High School Year 12 students gathered at Beaufort Manor for their end of schooling event. Some 110 people attended on November 16 to celebrate the end of 13 years of schooling. Some students are investigating career pathways in various fields such as equine veterinary, building, police force, medicine, psychology and more. Students were presented with a commemora tive glass and certificate. Hannah Cooney and Maxwell Westwood spoke, giving accounts of their time at Yea High School. Speech Day is on Tuesday, December 18.

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Local News

Code Red: prepare now ■ Murrindindi Shire Council is urging all residents to review their bushfire prevention and preparation plans.

MayorCr Sandice McAulay said to ensure it is prepared for the fire season, Council last week endorsed an updated ‘Service Provision and Fire Danger Ratings Policy’.

“The Policy specifies that on days the Bureau of Meteorology declares ‘Code Red’ fire danger for the North Central District, Council services to the community will be reduced or cancelled.

“This is because on ‘Code Red’ days fire behaviour, if one starts, is likely to be uncontrollable, unpredictable and fast moving.

“The ‘Service Provision and Fire Danger Ratings Policy’ aims to ensure our employees, Councillors and the general public are not placed in potentially risky situations on fire risk days,” Cr McAulay said.

“We want to minimise any unnecessary travel. This means limiting the public’s travel to access Council services and minimising travel by Council officers to deliver services.

“This is likely to affect the operations of the outdoor, community safety and planning and building inspection teams.

“It will also affect the mobile library service and the maternal and child health services outside of Yea and Alexandra.

“As well as ensuring Council’s operations do not unintentionally cause a fire, the Policy aims to ensure Council will have sufficient staff on the ground who can be re-deployed for emergency response and support in the event of a fire.

“In addition, this Policy will see all scheduled Council meetings (Ordinary, Special and Briefings), as well as Council’s delegated Committee or Advisory Committee meetings, automatically cancelled on ‘Code Red’ days.

Cancellations on ‘Severe’ and “‘Extreme’ days may also be required – our CEO Craig Lloyd will decide this based on local conditions and advice from emergency services, Cr McAulay said.

“It is common for public services – including schools, kin-

dergartens and pre-schools – to be cancelled on ‘Code Red’ days.

“We expect employment across the Shire will be disrupted under these conditions too, as people heed the advice of the CFA and enact their bushfire preparedness plans.

“Council offices in Alexandra, Yea and Kinglake will remain open, as far as practicable, on ‘Code Red’ days.

“As the Alexandra and Yea townships are the only areas in

the Shire not considered ‘bushfire prone’, some people may choose to come into these towns on ‘Code Red’ days.

“In this case, Council officers will do their best to keep recreational services – such as swimming pools and libraries – open,” Cr McAulay said.

■ To read Council’s ‘Service Provision and Fire Danger Ratings Policy’ or any of other policies, please see www.murrindindi.vic.gov.au/ policies

Legacy cheer

Council Briefs Pollies praised

■ Murrindindi Mayor Cr Sandice McAulay has praised the local candidates in the State Election on Saturday, November 24.

“I would like to take this opportunity to thank the respective candidates for their professional and respectful campaigns in the run up to last weekend’s State Election,:” Cr McAulay told the Council meeting.

“Congratulations to Cindy McLeish for being elected in the Eildon electorate. Thank you to UGFM and Council officers for running the State Election Information Forums in Alexandra and Kinglake.

“These forums gave community members a great opportunity to present questions and listen to the candidates’ responses via radio, Facebook and other media.

“Councillors and I will be continuing to work and advocate with the newly re-elected State members as well as our Federal counterparts,” Cr McAulay said.

Shivaun promoted ■ Shivaun Brown has been congratulated on her appointment as Murrindindi Shire Council’s new Director Community Engagement. Her appointment was mentioned by Mayor Cr Sandice McAulay at last week’s Council meeting.

Rubicon matters ■ Water and sewerage arrangements at Rubicon Village were discussed by Murrindindi Shire Councillors at a briefing that they attended on November 14.

Fineblade contract ■ Murrindindi Shire Council last week voted to accept a $193,808 tender (ecluding GST) with local firm, Fineblade, for footpath and kerb renewal works. Councillors voted to authorise the signing and sealing of the contract.

Savings of $37,052 from the pogram to will be reallocated to the extension of the Marysville bike path, and renewal of the sealing of the carpark at the Kinglake West bushfire memorial.

● Alexandra Football Netball Club caterers, from left, Lauren Steyger, Julie Steyger, Kath Hedger and Liz Kidd.

Ladies from the ■ Legacy widows from Yea and Alexandra were treated Alexandra Football Netball to a Christmas Lunch at the Club, who catered a twoAlexandra RSL last Thurs- course meal, were loudly apday (Nov. 29) by the Lega- plauded.

Popular couple, 'The tees of Alexandra, Yea, Hoffmans', made a return Mansfield Legacy Group.

Santa made a surprise visit and entertained with a visit with a Christmas gift for mix of comedy and song.

War time classics by Vera each widow.

The 2019 Legacy Calen- LynN provided a sing along dar was a popular inclusion, and Elvis Presley classics had as were the chocolates and the feet tapping.

“I'm glad I got off the ridethe lightweight scarf.

"It's lovely", said 97 year on mower and came along", old Kath McCracken of Yea, said 94-year-old Roma Lond "the material is just so soft". from Alexandra.

Gravel re-sheeting

■ Murrindindi Shire Council last week voted to accept the tender from Alpine Civil Pty Ltd for the revised lump sum price of $776,688.20 (excluding GST) for the gravel roads re-sheeting program 2018/19, including the following roads: ■ Abes Lane (South), Killingworth ■ Clarks Road, Yea ■ Coonans Road, Homewood ■ Dairy Creek Road, Homewood ■ Homewood Road, Homewood ■ Killingworth Road, Killingworth ■ Langs Road, Limestone ■ Slavin Road, Homewood ■ Wentworths Road, Kerrisdale.

Councillors also voted to approve the allocation of a contingency amount in relation to the gravel roads re-sheeting program.

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What The Papers Say Carbon neutral

■ Mansfield Foodworks has won the Foodworks National Medium Store of the Year 2018 for the second year running at the annual Foodworks Conference in Perth.

The store was nominated for state awards in Grocery, Liquor, Meat and Produce.

- Mansfield Courier

Awards for Hall

■ The Nagambie Mechanics Institute has been a community-owned hall for more than a century, providing a venue for community events, public, private and family gatherings, but it now needs more community support to keep it a multi-purpose hall that the town can utilise into the future.

Improvements have been carried out under the volunteer committee of management structure over the years, and they have worked hard to make this a modern facility.

Two award certificates were presented at the Mechanics’ Institutes of Australia National Conference, which Glenis Hageman attended on behalf of the Nagambie Mechanics Institute.

- Seymour Telegraph

Lalios return

■ City of Whittlesea councillor Mary Lalios made her return to council at the last meeting after not attending a meeting since April this year.

The return comes as prior requests to grant Cr Lalios a leave of absence have been denied and another absence would have seen her disqualified from her position as councillor.

An emergency meeting was called in a last-ditch effort to grant Cr Lalios leave before the decisive meeting but the matter was never heard after the councillors wishing to move the motion for leave failed to attend the meeting.

A previous attempt at granting Cr Lalios leave was unsuccessful in September after it was revealed she had made a WorkCover claim against council.

- Whittlesea Review

Course at H’ville

■ The SES perform many vital functions and one of those is in Road Rescue, carried out by 103 specialist units scattered across Victoria.

Over two weekends and an evening, SES volunteers from Emerald, Upper Yarra and Healesville completed training in all facets of road rescue techniques.

The course, held in Healesville, was aimed at equipping members with the knowledge and skills to work in a team at a road accident to extricate trapped persons and respond to on-scene hazards.

- Mountain Views Mail

Beastly sightings

■ There have been more sightings of the legendary but elusive black panther, this time on the outskirts of Healesville.

Mt Evelyn’s Cathy McPherson was driving along Long Gully Rd when she and a colleague stopped the car in time to see the black beast take two large, casual strides across a path before disappearing into the bush.

Ms McPherson said she would take a liedetector test to prove she saw what she believes was a black panther. “It was black as black, magnificent and definitely not a feral cat,” Ms McPherson said.

- Lilydale and Yarra Valley Leader

U3A 2019 courses

■ Murrindindi East U3A has just launched its 2019 program of courses and activities for the over 50s who are retired or semi-retired.

Next year there are close to 40 topics to choose from including walking, cycling, singing, history, art, craft, 4WDriving, golf, fly fishing, cooking, natural healing, conversational German, creative writing and computer skills. U3A runs an active social program including uncheons, bus trips and Happy Hours.

- Marysville Triangle News

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Court Lists Seymour Magistrates’ Court - Criminal Case Listings Thursday, December 13 Plaintiff / Informant / Applicant vs Defendant / Accused / Respondent. Information Division.

Victoria Police - Rogers, M (40077) v Williams, Peter Allan. Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Voisey, A (41594) v Wight, Jake. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Thomas, S (40419) v Edrupt, Shannon.

Ciu-Mitchell Victoria Police - Sowden, D (36568) v Frost, Cruze Falue.

Uni-Pyalong Victoria Police - Sowden, D (36568) v Elesits, Frank Charles. Uni-Pyalong Victoria Police - Sowden, D (36568) v Farrell, Samuel Stanley. Uni-Pyalong Victoria Police - Sowden, D (36568) v Bastin, Tayler. UniPyalong Victoria Police - Thomas, S (40419) v Fensling, Corey Michael. Ciu-Mitchell Victoria Police - Woosnam, J (31061)v Davenport, Jordan Bailey. Uni-Nagambie Victoria Police - Dixon, S (30331) v Ferguson, Tiffany.

State Hwy Patrol-North Victoria Police - Edwards, P (42776) v Baxter, Natasha Erin. Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Heather, D (42932) v Mccann, Stuart. UniCraigieburn Victoria Police - Tait, W (37033) v Turner, Shane. UniNagambie Victoria Police - Thomas, S (40419) v Brown, Jason Ernest.

Ciu-Mitchell Victoria Police - Sanderson, L (41694) v Bell, Dean. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Sanderson, L (41694) v Bell, Dean. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Barras, W (33870) v Quattrocchi, Taylah .State Hwy Patrol-North Victoria Police - Malane, J (36750) v Wolfenden, Angela Estelle. Uni-Nagambie Victoria Police - Smith, T (27151) v Mohamed, Mohamud Abdi. Highway PatrolBenalla Victoria Police - Ioannidis, C (30723) v Pyle, Gordon. State Hwy Patrol-North Victoria Police - Holcombe, S (39769) v Pemberton, Andrew. Uni-Broadford Victoria Police - Duff, D (35543) v Mcleod, Andrew Robert. Uni-Nagambie Victoria Police - Dawson, C (35574) v Sandhu, Lovepreet Singh. Highway PatrolSeymour Victoria Police - Turner, J (34532) v Butler, Jade. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Holcombe, S (39769) v Pastuszka, James .Uni-Broadford Victoria Police - Garbutt, E (35708) v Jain, Anurag. Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - Dixon, S (30331) v Quattrocchi, Taylah.

State Hwy Patrol-North Victoria Police - Guglielmi, R (32001) v Brown, John. State Hwy Patrol-North Victoria Police - Dixon, S (30331) v Sloper, Geoffrey.

State Hwy Patrol-North Victoria Police - Warren, M (41378) v Miller, Duncan Victoria Police - Webster, B (41109) v O'brien, Adam. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Larkin, J

80 Years Ago Contents of Court Lists are intended for information purposes only. The lists are extracted from Court Lists, as supplied to the public, by the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria, often one week prior to publication date; for current Court lists, please contact the Court. Further details of cases are available at www.magistratescourt.vic.gov.au The Local Paper shall in no event accept any liability for loss or damage suffered by any person or body due to information provided. The information is provided on the basis that persons accessing it undertake responsibility for assessing the relevance and accuracy of its content. No inference of a party’s guilt, innocence or liability should be made by publication of their name as a defendant. Court schedules may be changed at any time for any reason, including withdrawal of the action by the Plaintiff/Applicant. E&OE.

nest. Uni-Preston Victoria Police - Rhead, A (40227) v Penrith, Sheeneey.

Highway Patrol-Seymour Victoria Police - Duff, D (35543) v Mcleod, Andrew Robert. Uni-Nagambie Victoria Police - Konings, D (26750) v Allan, David. UniYea Victoria Police - Davidge, K (37856) v Thomas, William Henry. Ciu-Casey Victoria Police - Laurie, Z (42443) v Thorpe, Michelle.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Boxall, T (39656) v Robinson, Jamie.

Uni-Kilmore Victoria Police - Alexander, J (38787)v Al Najefee, Mahdi.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Briggs, S (39439) v Saunders, Christopher Wayne. Uni-Broad-meadows Victoria Police - Binns Saxby, M (38713) v Ward, Stephen Lloyd. Uni-Kyneton Victoria Police - Binns Saxby, M (38713) v Ward, Stephen Lloyd. Uni-Kyneton Victoria Police - Ellis, J (40810) v Royale, Jacqueline.

Uni-Kilmore Victoria Police - Dowell, C (24892) v Fitzpatrick, Dean.

Traffic Camera Office Victoria Police - Warren, M (41378) v Dodd, Clinton R. Victoria Police - Erdeljac, N (40309) v Donson, Tracey. UniMelbourne West Victoria Police - Erdeljac, N (40309) v Donson, Tracey. UniMelbourne West Victoria Police - Chief Commissioner Of Police (00008) v Vinten, Lorraine. Office Of The Chief Commissioner Community Corrections Centre - Peacock, Tv Pemberton, Andrew. Seymour Community Correction Centre Victoria Police - Chief Commissioner Of Police (00008) v Tennant, Steven. Office Of The Chief Commissioner Victoria Police - Chief Commissioner Of Police (00008) v Salakowski, Stacey. Office Of The Chief Commissioner Community Corrections Centre - Peacock, T v Pemberton, Andrew. Seymour Community Correction Centre Community Corrections Centre - Chavrimootoo, D v Nicklos, David Wayne. Community Corrections Centre Victoria Police - Chief Commissioner Of Police (18457) v Hamilton, James. Victoria Police Executive Victoria Police - Bennett, N v Smith, Troy. Seymour Friday, December 14 Victoria Police - Lyons, P (38823) v Rowe, Ashley. UniWallan Victoria Police - Goodman, R (32313) v Guelli, Fernando.

Sexual Crime Squad Victoria Police - Goodman, R (32313) v Pezzimenti, Xavier. Sexual Crime Squad Victoria Police - Mcfarlane, A(39495) v Rowe, Ashley. UniWallan Victoria Police - Taylor, Y

(36839) v Stone, Luke. SocitSeymour Victoria Police - Batten, S (38514) v Stone, Luke. UniBroadford Victoria Police - Mills, K (33260) v Stone, Luke. UniKilmore Victoria Police - HallPoulios, D (40888) v Greenaway, Brendan. Uni-Wallan Victoria Police - Konings, D (26750) v Greenaway, Brendan Thomas. Uni-Yea Victoria Police - Mcfarlane, A (39495) v Douglas, Matt.

Uni-Wallan Victoria Police - Lyons, P (38823) v Rowe, Ashley. UniWallan Victoria Police - Rourke, M (41690) v Salakowski, Stacey.

Uni-Seymour Mitchell Shire Council Ward, M v Lucas, Candice Marie. Mitchell Shire Council Traffic Camera Office Traffic Camera Office v Mc Cardel, Samuel L. Melbourne Community Corrections Centre - Lapid, C v Rowe, Ashley. Community Corrections Centre Victoria Police - Briggs, S (39439) v Bryant, Noah. UniBroadmeadows Victoria Police - Warren, M (41378) v Rowe, Ashley Community Corrections Centre - Cochrane, S v Douglas, Matthew. Seymour Community Correction Centre Community Corrections Centre - Peacock, T v Stone, Luke. Seymour Community Correction Centre Community Corrections Centre - Macdougall, Mv Greenaway, Brendan. Community Corrections Centre Community Corrections Centre - Cochrane, S v Douglas, Matthew. Seymour Community Correction Centre Mansfield Magistrates’ Court - Criminal Case Listings Wednesday, December 19 Victoria Police - Hearse, C (40368) v Penny, Peter. State Highway Patrol South East Victoria Police - Hearse, C (40368) v Baiocco, Troy. State Highway Patrol South East Victoria Police - Smith, B (29408) v Gocky, Vojtech. UniAlexandra Victoria Police - Clements, A (39613) v Hou, Wei. State Highway Patrol South East Victoria Police - Walsh, M (38049) v Martin, Lindsay Peter. Uni-Marysville Victoria Police - Mcdonald, G (40664) v Rohner, Jonathon Luke. Highway PatrolMansfield Victoria Police - Johnson, A (35726) v Lawson, Sarah. UniYea Victoria Police - Woodstock, S (39399) v Arnold, Clayton Luke. Highway PatrolMansfield Victoria Police - Mitchell, R (41290) v O'shea, Jack William. State Highway Patrol South East Victoria Police - Swan, P (39871) v Vo, Davidson. Highway Patrol-Mansfield Victoria Police - Mcdonald, G (40664) v Canavan, Christopher Joseph. Highway PatrolMansfield Victoria Police - Mcdonald, G (40664) v Xue, Gaofeng.

Highway Patrol-Mansfield Victoria Police - Scannell, M (35182) v Whittaker, Kayleen. Uni-Mansfield Turn To Page 67

From Our 1938 Files

CWA Park, Alex.

■ The reserve at the rear of the Library is to be called the C.W.A. Park.At the annual meeting of the C.W.A. on Friday last Miss D. Harland, the General Secretary, gave a very interesting address on the work of the Association, which was listened to with keen interest by a large attendance of members (about fifty.) Office-bearers for the new year were declared elected as under:-President, Mrs. R. J. Briggs (re-elected) ; vice presidents, Mesdames Fitzroy, R. E. Payne, Binns and Armstrong; hon. sec., Mrs. G. Grant ; hon, treasurer, Mrs. L. H. Thompson; committee, Mesdames Cowling and Greenwood and Officers. Posies were presented to the President and Miss Harland.

Pioneer passes

■ The death took place at Windsor on Saturday of Mrs. Eleanor McMartin, who was the oldest living native of this district, having been born at Yea. Her father, Mr. J. A. Barnewall, came out from Ireland in 1840, and after spending several years in the Yea district he went to the Big River district in 1847.

Later on the family moved down to Jerusalem Creek. Mrs. McMartin was the third eldest of the family. She married Mr. William McMartin in 1864 at Acheron, where her father was managing the Acheron station, and afterwards settled at Thornton.

Alex. Fire Brigade

■ The annual meeting of the Alexandra Fire Brigade was held on Monday last. The following officers were elected for the ensuing two years:- Captain, E. M. Stillman; Lieutenant, F. Johnson ; Foreman, I. Culhane; Secretary, L. H. Stillman. After an exhaustive ballot had been held four new tmembers were elected, viz.:-Messrs. Lyn Stillman, Russ. Stillman, C. Archer and A. Weston.

Acheron: 65lb cod

■ A cod weighing 65 lb. was caught on Sunday last at Acheron, by Messrs. Stan McLachlan. Martin Smith and Reuben Ianning. A big contingent from the city visited Acheron for the fishing season.

Alex. Bowls

■ Ideal conditions prevailed last Saturday for our second competition. Rink play was the order of the day-four rinks competing, under the guidance of Messrs. Murray, Leckle, Duncan and Docking.

Members were enthusiastic and play keenly contested. Although it was generally conceded that one particular rink was rather strong, the result, as often does happen, proved the glorious uncertainty that exists in this popular game, as the rink in question was included in gladly extending congratulations to Murray.

Former resident

■ The news that Mrs. C. A. Treseder, of Shepparton, had passed away in a private hospital in that centre on December 1st caused pro found feelings of regret in all parts of theAlexandra district. The deceased lady, who prior to her marriage, had resided in this dis trict all her life, was a member of the Sawers' family of Upper Thorn ton. The funeral to the Alexandra cemetery on Saturday last was argely attended, all parts of the district being represented. A husband and two sons are left to mourn their loss.

Elite Talkies

■ Saturday Night at Shire Hall. There's Always a Woman, and Highway Patrol, are on the programme. Also Color Cartoon - When Popeye the Sailor meets Sinbad the Sailor.

Evangelical night

■ The "happy evening" at Badger Creek.

The children who gave items showed much talent, and Mr. Neyland wishes to thank all who helped to bring about success.

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■ Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate Trent Ross, who has links to the Thornton area.

The 37-year-old was last seen at his Euroa home about 9am on Saturday (Dec. 1) Police and family members hold concerns for Trent’s welfare due to a condition that requires medication.

An image of Trent have been released in the hope someone can provide information on his whereabouts.

He is described as about 183cm tall with a average build, brown, short receeding hair, brown eyes, a panther tattoo on his right shoulder.

He was last seen wearing a singlet, black shorts, black runners with a white Nike symbol and a knee brace.

Contact Euroa Police Station on 5795 2017.

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Open House at Flowerdale ● Kelly Clift and Noela Rush at the Flowerdale Community House.

● Leonie Weston, Lionel Weston and Rebekah Grant

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● Flowerdale PS Principal Sandra Horwood with Billy Price

● Sue Sullivan with Kay Whittaker

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Stateside with Gavin Wood in West Hollywood

Going Green: WeHo leads the way ■ Hi everyone, from my suite at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites comes this week's news.

Out and About

Now, ask for a straw

■ US. consumers use an estimated 20 billion plastic straws annually. Many plastic straws used in Southern California end up in the ocean.

The straws are not biodegradable and stay in the oceans clogging up the waterways, harmful to fish and all sea creatures.

The City of West Hollywood is dedicated to sustainability and preserving the environment. A city with over 200 restaurants, bars and nightclubs West Hollywood can make a difference.

The City of West Hollywood encourages dine-in and drink-in businesses to provide plastic straws to customers upon request.

Patrons are encouraged to do their part and Go Green for the environment.

$1.73bn for tourism ■ West Hollywood Travel + Tourism Board announced 3.59 million visitors to West Hollywood spent $1.73 billion in fiscal year 2017-18, according to a study by Destination Analysts.

These record-breaking findings and more were shared at the West Hollywood Travel + Tourism Board Tourism Summit 2018 held at the hotel.

"Our job is to raise awareness and responsibly drive demand for our 1.9 square mile city," says Tom Kiely, WHTTB President and CEO. "Working collaboratively with our businesses and industry partners is the key to maximising our visitor economy and having the effective tourism industry we see today."

The $1.73 billion tourism industry in West Hollywood supports 7958 jobs and creates $49.9 million dollars in taxes generated for the city.

The city's largest single source of revenue is the Transient Occupancy Tax, with a recommended amount of $31.75 million in 2018, according to the City of West Hollywood Open Budget 2018.

West Hollywood Travel + Tourism Board is the official marketing organisation that invites visitors to West Hollywood, California, a walkable, 1.9 square mile/4.9 square kilometre city in the heart of Los Angeles.

Located at the base of the Hollywood Hills and adjacent to Beverly Hills, West Hollywood is a creative and progressive city that embodies the quintessential L.A. lifestyle.

West Hollywood is home to 17 hotels and comprised of three main districts: the world-famous Sunset Strip with unparalleled nightlife, eclectic and LGBTQ-friendly Santa Monica Boulevard, and the Design District known for its sought-after shopping and dining.

West Hollywood enjoys a year-round moderate climate and thanks to its prime location and hip atmosphere, West Hollywood serves as home and playground to many celebrities.

Black Mask talks ■ Ewan McGregor is in final negotiations to play Gotham City mob boss and Batman foe Black Mask in Warner Bros' Birds of Prey, individuals with knowledge of the project advise that McGregor will join Jurnee Smollett-Bell and Mary Elizabeth Winstead who have been cast as Black Canary and Huntress.

Also, Rosie Perez is playing Renee Montoya. The female superhero team-up film will be released on February 7, 2020 via Warner Bros.

Black Mask made his first appearance in the comics in August 1985's Batman issue #386. The Black Mask is a brutally sadistic kingpin in Gotham City's criminal underworld who has a fixation with masks.

Sinead now Shuhada ■ Sinead O'Connor has announced she has converted to Islam and changed her name to the Arabic word for "martyr”.The Nothing Compares 2 U singer, 51, tweeted a picture of herself wearing a hijab.

A Catholic sect ordained mum-of-four O'Connor a priest during the 1990s. But the Irish singer has changed faiths and her name to Shuhada Davitt.

Sinead, who has struggled with mental health issues, told fans: "This is to announce that I am proud to have become a Muslim.

This is the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian's journey."

Game of Thrones

● Pictured at the launch at Kitchen 24 at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites on Santa Monica Boulevard are Ramada M.D. Alan Johnson, international Aussie film director Rod Hardy, David Dickerson from Kitchen 24 and Ramada General Manager William Karpiak.

■ The secrecy around the final season of HBO's fantasy epic Game of Thrones would make even Marvel Studios jealous.

But we finally know at least a few details about how the climactic eighth season will start, courtesy of a massive cover story on the final season in Entertainment Weekly and it will kick off with a ton of callbacks to the show's first episode.

The season will open at Winterfell, but this time instead of King Robert's (Mark Addy) procession arriving, it's Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) and her army.

This leads to an intermingling of many of the show's main characters, with some reuniting, others meeting for the first time.

But they all have one common goal: To prepare for the invasion of the Army of the Dead led by the Night's King.

"It's about all of these disparate characters coming together to face a common enemy, dealing with their own past, and defining the person they want to be in the face of certain death," co-executive producer Bryan Cogman said.

"It's an incredibly emotional, haunting, bittersweet final season, and I think it honors very much what writer George R.R. Martin set out to do which is flipping this kind of story on its head."

Audrey’s secret past

GavinWood

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Declining trust ■ Trust in America is on the decline, and it may be preventing many people from living longer lives.

A new study finds that people who are more trusting of others tend to have longer life spans than those mired in suspicion.

Researchers from Stockholm University and Lund University turned to data from a nationally representative survey of more than 25,000 Americans between 1978 and 2010 for their work.

Participants took part in the US General Social Survey between, which measured individuals' levels of trust through questions such as, "Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted, or that you cannot be too careful in dealing with other people?"

The authors then checked to see which participants were still living by the end of the study period in 2014, and found 6424 participants had passed away.

They found that people who exhibited higher levels of trust tended to enjoy longer lives.

Show for Mike Tyson ■ Mike Tyson is shopping a new TV show, based on the boxer's life as a marijuana grower and marketer. Tyson will star in the scripted comedy, called Rolling With the Punches. The former heavyweight champ is shooting the show at his Tyson Ranch office in El Segundo, Calif., with Chuck Zito reprising his reallife role as Iron Mike's bodyguard and Russell Peters playing his "useless best friend." Tyson told me the show, like Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm, is loosely based on his life.

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■ Audrey Hepburn was heartbroken by the execution of her uncle by the Nazis worked for the Resistance in World War II, an upcoming book will report.

Hepburn was a preteen ballerina in England when the war broke out in 1939.

Her mother, a baroness, took her home to Holland hoping the Netherlands would stay neutral. But the Third Reich soon occupied the country.

In Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II (due in April from Good Knight Books), Robert Matzen presents proof that the Breakfast at Tiffany's star worked directly for Resistance leaders.

The execution of her uncle, Count Otto van Limburg Stirum, was traumatic.

Matzen discovered a 188-page diary Otto wrote during the four months he was imprisoned before his heroic death.

Energy drinks dilemma ■ Getting adequate sleep is increasingly rare among the active duty military population, as frequent deviations from the body's natural circadian rhythms due to a demanding operational tempo pit personnel in an ongoing struggle against the ever-persistent sandman.

To combat the sleep deprivation unique to this demographic, service members often turn to energy drinks, a prominent component of combat deployments that has become as paramount to mission success as any piece of protective gear or weaponry.

The prevalence of energy drink use in these settings is extraordinary. The lifeblood is virtually everywhere and tends to cost nothing resulting in an environment in which nearly half of deployed troops down at least one readily available crack can per day.

Come and visit us

■ If you are considering a move to Los Angeles or just coming over for a holiday then I have got a special deal for you.

We would love to see you at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites, 8585 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood.

I have secured a terrific holiday deal for readers of the Melbourne Observer and The Local Paper.

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

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

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Photos from the past: Toolangi

● Toolangi Hotel. Photo: Rose Stereograph Series

● The canoe near Toolangi House. Photo: Rose Stereograph Series

● View from near Toolangi House. Photo: Rose Stereograph Series

● Myrtle Gully, Toolangi. Photo: Rose Stereograph Series

● Sylvia Gully, Toolangi. Photo: Rose Stereograph Series

● Drawing Room, Toolangi House. Photo: John Henry Harvey.

● A bush road, Toolangi. Photo: Rose Stereograph Series

● Panorama from the Blue Range, Toolangi. Photo: Rose Stereograph Series

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Movies, DVDs with Jim Sherlock, Aaron Rourke What’s Hot and What’s Not in Blu-Rays and DVDs FILM: INCREDIBLES 2: Genre: Animated/Action/Adventure.

Cast: Holly Hunter, Craig t. Nelson, Catherine Keener, Samuel L. Jackson, Isabella Rossellini.

Year: 2018.

Rating: PG. Length: 118 Minutes.

Stars: **** Review: "Incredibles 2" resumes where "The Incredibles" (2004) ends, with the introduction of the villain The Underminer, and as the Parr (Incredibles) family struggles to maintain normal lives, Helen/Elastgirl continues to fight crime while Bob/Mr. Incredible, stays at home caring for the children, discovering their baby's secret powers in the process, but all is threatened, and they must battle a new villain, who goes by the name of Screenslaver.

Wildly energetic without being frenetically silly, as the first respectfully spoofed everything from 'Citizen Kane' (1941) to '2001: A Space Odyssey,' to 'Raiders of the Lost Art' (1981) and numerous 007 films, most 'You Only Live Twice' (1967), this also does so with being repetitious or repetitive, and like the first adventure, adds tremendous value to the mix.

The original voice cast are all back, along with a few new ones, and all are absolutely perfect: Holly Hunter as Helen Parr/Elastigirl, Craig T. Nelson as Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible, Samuel L. Jackson as Lucius Best/Frozone, and director Brad Bird Incredibles, a delight tribute inspired by the late, great legendary fashion designer Edith Head.

As much fun for the elders, like a blast from the past and straight out of the '60s, sprinkles or 'Easter Egg' inspirations include the original 007 series, most notably 'Thunderball' (1965), and 'Moonraker' (1979), 'Our Man Flint' (1966) and 'In Like Flint' (1967), and the original 'OSS-117' series (1957-1970, and 'OSS-117: Cairo, Nest of Spies' (2006) and 'OSS-117: Lost in Rio' (2009) with Jean Dujardin, to name a few.

A stylish visual roller-coaster ride, Oscar winning director Brad Bird (The Iron Giant/ 1999) has created a fast, sophisticated, intelligent, witty and charming thrill for everyone of all ages, another Pixar Animated Studios intoxicating achievement that retains the comfortable familiarity of the original characters and forces that retains the much loved legacy.

This is not about one gender being better or superior than the other, just a hilarious, family fun adventure about family that delivers something for everyone!

FILM: Cast:

THE BALL AD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS (Streaming): Liam Neeson, Tim Blake Nelson, Tom Waits, Tyne Daly, Brendan Gleeson, Zoe Kazan, James Franco, Clancy Browm.

Genre: Western/Comedy/Musical/Drama.

Year: 2018.

Rating: MA15+ Length: 132 Minutes.

Stars: ***½ Verdict: An anthology film from Oscar winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, each dealing with a different aspect of life in the Old West and differing dramatically in mood and content.

The Coen Bros. have compiled a selection of six short stories written over a period of 25 years, and in true Coen Bros. fashion they have delivered richly textured mosaic through creeks, canyons and valley's of biting wit, savage cynicism, striking sentimentality, haunting surrealism, laugh out loud humour and a song or two that sweeps across the American Frontier with wicked delight.

However, the main problem with anthology films is that some segments stand above others, and there are many that have succeeded in becoming classics, and in the case of "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs," it all depends on the individual frame of mind as to whether some, or as a whole, succeed, but either way, as their work has well proven, a journey with Joel and Ethan Coen is an elaborately embroidered experience, as it is here.

The cast all shine with sparkling delight, some darker than others, beginning with an ode to the old western movies and TV shows with Tim Blake Nelson as the singing cowboy in white, then moving on to other colourful characters with Brendan Gleeson, James Franco, Tyne Daly, Clancy Brown and Zoe Kazan, however, one of the great highpoints is a scene stealing Tom Waits as a lone gold prospector in the segment "All Gold Canyon," filmed with breathtaking beauty as if lifted from the vaults of Walt Disney, yet as harsh and brutal any depiction of the old west by Sam Peckinpah. ided with a rich and haunting music score by Coen Bros. regular Carter Burwell, it's time to put the boots, spurs and ten gallon hat on, get the baked beans out and saddle up for a deliriously rich, bizarre, quirky, bleak, sardonic, unique, dazzling, violent, ambiguous and exciting ride, six western adventures laced with true grit, an exceedingly stylish, intelligent and entertaining reflection of the old west, its myths, heroes and legends.

Consists of six segments: "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs", "Near Algodones", "Meal Ticket", "All Gold Canyon" (from a story by Jack London), "The Gal Who Got Rattled" and "The Mortal Remains".

FILM: THE MEG: Cast: Jason Statham, Bingbing Li, Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose.

Genre: Action/Sci-Fi/Thriller.

Year: 2018.

Rating: M. Length: 113 Minutes.

Stars: **½ Verdict: A deep-sea submersible-part of an international undersea observation program-has been attacked by a massive creature, previously thought to be extinct, and now lies disabled at the bottom of the deepest trench in the Pacific…with its crew trapped inside.

With time running out, expert deep sea rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham) is recruited to save the crew from this unstoppable threat: a pre-historic 75-footlong shark known as the Megalodon, but what no one could have imagined is that the creature will not let go, and soon local beachgoers also end up on the menu.

Mega budget B-Movie-Creature-Feature popcorn pot-boiler borrows unashamedly from B-Movie-Kings Roger Corman and William Castle, and such films as "It Came From Beneath The Sea" (1955), "The Abyss," "Moby Dick," the TV series "Voyage To The Bottom of The Sea," and of course the grand-daddy of them all, Steven Spielberg's "Jaws," among many others, and even though it gets off to a good start, it soon spirals into tedious repetition in which there is no depth in how low this will sink.

However, there is some fun to be had, as you just know that no matter how big the creature is that is going up against Jason Statham it hasn't got a chance, and there are a few moments of genuinely effective frights, but suffers from a way overstretched near two hour running time, and the straight laced, humourless heroics of an almost CGI drawn Statham will soon have you rooting for the shark and a very hasty and welcome conclusion.

With CGI effects leaping from very impressive to mediocre, if you like your actors every character a caricature, movies with too much padding and plodding, screenplays devoid of any intelligence and riddled to deepest depths of cliché, it's hard to give a hoot who ends up on who's menu here in the end, then this homage to the BMovies of the past, or not, is for you, but for me, this blandly calculated $150 million "internationalized" US/Chinese co-production is drained of any human drama, plausibility, respectability or personality, and the end here can't come quick enough.

Rourke’s Reviews Climax ■ (R). 95 minutes. Opens in selected cinemas December 6.

For those who are unaware of Gaspar Noe's previous work as a film-maker, then they should approach Climax with caution.

Those who are will be in for one hell of a ride, a sensory assault made with Noe's usual mix of technical brilliance and thematic nastiness, and one which will leave most audiences completely exhausted.

A group of 20 dancers, rehearsing at a closed-down boarding school located next to an unknown forest, begin a journey into darkness when they discover that the sangria they are drinking has been laced with LSD. Everyone reacts differently, but as their inner desires start to surface, it seems as if not everybody will survive this growingly aggressive experience.

Noe invests a number of cultural, social, and gender-based themes in his uninhibited characters, and like Irreversible, I Stand Alone, and Enter The Void, totally immerses us in the unsettling world he has created.

Visually astounding (an early one-take dance sequence is truly jaw-dropping), with a pounding 90's EDM score to match, this is inventive, confronting cinema at its best, for those who can take it.

RATING - ****½

Overlord ■ (R). 110 minutes. Opens in cinemas December 6.

What should be a fast-paced, cleverly referential splatterfest, instead becomes a needlessly protracted, clumsily written, ludicrously self-serious misfire, with the film-makers unwisely believing they are somehow examining the ethics of war, Zero Dark Thirtystyle, and how they are abused for nefarious means.

It's 1944, and a squad of soldiers are ordered to take out a heavily fortified German radio tower, so Allied forces can successfully land at Normandy.

Shot down by enemy gunfire, the soldiers who survive continue on their mission, teaming up with a French scavenger, and facing off against a young, egomaniacal Nazi officer, who knows the secret, ReAnimator-like experiments being carried out that will ensure victory over the good guys.

Though technically wellcrafted, this is hollow stuff, and the most unnerving aspect of this tiresome retro exercise is how much co-star Wyatt Russell looks and sounds like his father Kurt.

An inauspicious Hollywood debut for Aussie director Julius Avery (Son Of A Gun), but is at least better than Ben Young's US debut, following his excellent Hounds Of Love with the execrable Netflix scifi/thriller Extinction.

RATING - **

Hostiles ■ (MA). 133 minutes. Opens in selected cinemas December 6.

Given its pedigree, it's odd that

well-acted drama has taken nearly a year to reach our shores, but the wait has been well worth it.

Set in 1892, the story follows Captain Joseph Blocker (Christian Bale), who is assigned the task of escorting ailing Cheyenne chief Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi) back to his homeland in Montana, and though filled with a seething hatred for the Indians, Blocker reluctantly agrees.

During the journey, Blocker's group first pick up Rosalee Quaid (Rosamund Pike), whose family have been massacred by the Comanche, then Philip Wills (Ben Foster), a soldier who will soon be tried for murder.

As the mission continues, Blocker's outlook on his captives will slowly change.

Co-writer/director Scott Cooper (Out Of The Furnace, Crazy Heart) vividly recreates a time and place, helped considerably by magnificent cinematography and a strong music score.

The film's main flaw is the lack of depth given to the Native American characters, which somewhat unbalances Cooper's ambitious vision.

A strong cast also includes Stephen Lang, Peter Mullan, Timothee Chalamet and the late Scott Wilson.

RATING - ***½

The School ■ (M). 88 minutes. Opens in selected cinemas December 6.

Embarrassingly awful Aussie horror/thriller that is devoid of style, ingenuity and imagination.

Renowned heart surgeon Amy Wintercraig (Megan Drury) wakes up in an abandoned school, and soon finds herself under siege from a multitude of apparitions, but is helped by young Timmy (Jack Ruwald), who warns of other horrors to come.

Determined to find her missing son, Amy will take on any opponent as she works her way through the maze of creepy corridors.

Terrible performances proliferate throughout (including one from Bad Boy Bubby star Nicolas Hope), and debutant writer/director Storm Ashwood borrows from a slew of films, including Jacob's Ladder, The Others, Dark Water, Real, Stay, Silent Hill, Paperhouse, Insidious, Mad Max : Beyond Thunderdome, and Lord Of The Flies.

Its secrets and twists are poorly handled, making its destination easy to guess in the first few minutes.

Excruciatingly bad, and definitely one of the worst films to come out this year.

How it has managed to secure a cinema release is anyone's guess.

RATING - * - Aaron Rourke

Top 10 Lists

DECEMBER 2-8 THE AUSTRALIAN BOX OFFICE TOP TEN: 1. FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD. 2. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY. 3. ROBIN HOOD. 4. A STAR IS BORN. 5. WIDOWS. 6. THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS. 7. THE CHILDREN ACT. 8. THE OLD MAN & THE GUN. 9. BOY ERASED. 10. A COOL FISH. NEW RELEASES AND COMING SOON TO CINEMAS AROUND AUSTRALIA: NOVEMBER 29: CREED II, LEAN ON PETE, NORMANDY NUDE, THE GRINCH, THE KING AND I: FROM THE LONDON PALLADIUM. DECEMBER 6: ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? CLIMAX, ELLIOT THE LITTLEST REINDEER, HOSTILES, LIFE ITSELF, MORTAL ENGINES, OVERLORD, SECOND ACT, STUDIO 54: THE DOCUMENTARY. THE DVD AND BLU-RAY TOP RENTALS & SALES: 1. INCREDIBLES 2 [Animated/Action/ Adventure/Holly Hunter, Craig T. Nelson].

2. THE MEG [Action/Horror/Sci-Fi/Jason Statham, Li Bingbing].

3. MILE 22 [Action/Crime/Adventure/Mark Wahlberg, Ronda Rousey, John Malkovich].

4. ANT-MAN AND THE WASP [Action/ Fantasy/Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly].

5. MANDY [Thriller/Horror/Action/Nicolas Cage].

6. THE EQUALIZER 2 [Action/Thriller/ Denzel Washington, Bill Pullman, Melissa Leo].

7. JIMMY BARNES: Working Class Boy [Music/Biography/Documentary].

8. THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME [Action/ Comedy/Thriller/Mila Kunis, Kate McKinnon].

9. MARY SHELLEY [Biography/Drama/Elle Fanning, Stephen Dillane].

Also: HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3, SOLO: A Star Wars Story, THE BREAKER UPPERERS, SKYSCRAPER, HOTEL ARTEMIS, FUNNY COW, THE WIFE, ESCAPE PLAN 2, BEIRUT, SUMMER OF 84.

NEW HOME ENTERTAINMENT RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK: BLACKkKLANSMAN [Biography/Crime/ Drama/John Washington, Adam Driver].

KIN [Comedy/Sci-Fi/James Franco, Dennis Quaid, Gavin Fox].

LUIS AND THE ALIENS [Animated/Family/ Adventure/Ian Coppinger].

FIRST REFORMED [Drama/Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried].

BOOK CLUB [Comedy/Romance/Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen].

DARKEST MINDS [Sci-Fi/Thriller/Bradly Whitford, mandy Moore].

THE FLIP SIDE [Comedy/Eddie Izzard, Vanessa Guide].

YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE [Thriller/ Joaquin Phoenix].

DVD AND/OR BLU-RAY NEW & RE-RELEASE CLASSIC MOVIES HIGHLIGHTS: THE BOUNTY: Special Edition [Drama/ Adventure/Anthony Hopkins, Mel Gibson].

THE KILLERS [Crime/Drama/Thriller/Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson].

THE LAUREL AND HARDY Collection [Comedy/Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy].

NEW RELEASE TELEVISION, DOCUMENTARY AND MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS: WHITNEY (2018).

McQUEEN. BARRY: Season 1.

SPITFIRE. THE ORIGINALS: Season 5.

WESTWORLD: Season 2 - The Door.

SCHITT'S CREEK: Series 4.

HAILEY DEAN MYSTERIES: Collection 1.

DEMOLITION MAN: Season 1.

THE RECRUIT: Season 2.

INSTINCT: Season 1.

JAMESTOWN: Season 1.

THE RESIDENT: Season 1.

WAYNE: The Wayne Gardner Story.

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

The café and whisky bar wil be open each day from 11am between Wednesday December 26 and Sunday January 13 Today’s Menu Charcuterie Boards: Your choice of a meat platter, cheese platter, terrine platter or fish platter all accompanied with fresh home grown and made produce, for example, vegetables, gluten free pesto’s, chutneys, nuts, etc,

Fresh Gourmet Pizzas Fresh Homemade Pies Dessert: As per display cabinet Teas/Coffee: Assortment of Herbal Teas and classic Teas & Coffee, Cappuccino, Latte Mug Short/Long Black or Plunger Coffee

Don’t forget our Famous Devonshire Tea We strive for excellence, we do not rest until our best is better We guarantee our products 100%.

If unsatisfactory, please advise staff who will replace or refund immediately

Are you arranging your staff Christmas party or a get-together before the big day? The team at Killingworth Hill Café & Whisky Bar will happily host your party Why not call Chris to discuss your requirements and make a booking?

Killingworth Hill Cafe & Whisky Bar Phone: 0455 266 888 www.killingworthhill.com.au

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PROUDLY RUN BY LOCALS, FOR LOCALS

The Yenckens group are a family owned business that can cater to a broad range of your hardware needs Our stores carry a huge range of products from timber to steel, electrical to plumbing and automotive, housewares, camping, paint and garden supplies. We have everything you need, including the kitchen sink!

If we don’t stock, we will sure try to find it No job is to big or small with the helpful advice and friendly service from our staff

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STOP PRESS STOCK CLEARANCE NOW ON - DECEMBER All Steel Products 1st Grade and 2nd Grade Personal Shopping Recommended

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Deck-Doc

Local company chosen as best in the world

For many years Deck-Doc has been supplying retailers throughout Australia with their premium range of timber and decking oils.

For the past three years, Deck-Doc has been predominantly selling their products online to service the whole of Australia as well as international customers.

Deck-Doc was recently chosen over other companies to supply their oils to an international company and is in the process of sealing an agency agreement for exclusive distribution and selling rights in Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

Deck-Doc timber oil is environmentally friendly and the business has been manufacturing unique, lanolin-based timber oil in Geelong for 15 years.

The formula was developed by Robert Hylands to preserve the natural oils and tannins in the timber.

The timbers oils and tannins determine the colour of the timber.

If the tannins dry out, the timber will lose its own natural colour.

The formula is made up of many different plant oils, waxes and lanolin and designed to stay soft and pliable when absorbed into the surface layers of the timber, therefore will not solidify and form a hard membrane of the surface.

It will move with the timber during all weather conditions preventing water absorption and drying out of the tannins.

Mr Hylands first developed the timber oil when he noticed there was nothing on the market that preserved the timber and protected the timber’s natural colour.

Before his time at Deck-Doc, he gained experience when he owned a factory making hand carved, handpainted wooden decoy ducks for duck hunters.

The timber used for the ducks had to maintain its natural colour and stay on the water without absorbing moisture.

After extensive research, he found lanolin (wool grease) gave excellent water repellency as well as UV protection.

Mr Hylands developed lanolin-based timber protection oil and found the water-repellent protection and preservative way far superior and says lanolin is “Nature’s natural UV protection”.

Lanolin comes from the wool of sheep and is extracted from the fleece.

It is a substance that waterproofs, insulates, and protects sheep from the cold, wind, rain and harmful CV sun rays.

Deck-Doc uses the best merino wool to extract lanolin.

Throughout history ancient mariners such as the Vikings used lanolin to protect, waterproof and preserve the wooden boards on their ships.

Many of the ships were away from their home bases for many years and their ships were subjected to wild storms at sea.

They survived thanks to the protection of Lanolin.

Deck-Doc invites all to visit their showroom in Moolap for free advice in a number of important issues concerning timber care.

There is a large selection of timber types that have been exposed to severe weather conditions, enabling people to understand the importance of choosing a suitable timber type. for the right application.

Also know what happens to the different types of decking stains and coatings, how they weather, and the maintenance required.

The friendly staff have useful hints for anyone preparing to build a new deck.

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■ Ronalde Charles Waldron was born in Islington, England ,in 1923.

Ronalde grew up in a poor but supportive Islington home and developed a talent for singing, whistling and bird impressions.

At the age of 15 he joined Arturo Steffani's Silver Songsters and became a part of a choir of twenty one boys.

When the group disbanded, he took the stage name of Ronnie Ronalde and worked as a solo variety performer under the management of Arturo Steffani.

Ronnie Ronalde became famous throughout the world when he recorded an old Irish folk song If I Were ABlackbird in 1950.

Such was his popularity that all went quiet in a noisy London pub when the song came on the radio.

Ronnie was a whistler, singer and yodeller.

In 1949 Ronnie filled the Radio City Music Hall in New York every night for 10 weeks.

Marilyn Monroe came back stage after one of his shows and told Ronnie that his whistling made her shiver.

His version of In a Monastery Garden sold millions of copies.

Ronnie had his own BBC radio show from 1949 called The Voice of Variety.

In 1949 Ronalde filled Radio City Music Hall in New York City every night for ten weeks.

He also performed for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at the Royal Command Per-

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formance at the London Coliseum. In 2000 my family and I were the overnight guests of Ronnie and his beautiful wife Rosemarie in New Zealand.

I will never forget that candlelight dinner as we heard stories about Ronnie's career and the British stars such as Flanagan and Allen, Joseph Locke, George Formby and film stars such as Laurel and Hardy.

He showed me a little statue of a blackbird given to him by Laurel and Hardy during their season together at the Hippodrome Theatre in the UK. Ronnie and Rosemarie moved to Queensland and we visited their home. I present at one of his Sydney concerts - my friend the late Tony

● Ronnie Ronalde Osborne who was a famous English musical ers up until the day he died. I am still in touch director was with me. It was wonderful to see with his widow Rosemarie and we remain good Ronnie performing to a packed house at the friends Sydney Town Hall.

Kevin Trask For many years at Christmas time I did an Kevin can be heard on 3AW interview with Ronnie on 96.5 Inner FM. The Time Tunnel - on Nightline - ThursRonnie published his autobiography Around days at 10pm with Philip Brady and The World On A Whistle in 1998.

Simon Owens.

Sadly, my dear friend passed away at the age Mike Till Midnight - Saturday nights at of 92 in 2015. Ronnie had suffered a stroke two 9pm with Mike Brady and Chris Ryan. years earlier and was living at Brinsworth House, And on 96.5 FM the retired entertainers' home in Twickenham.

That's Entertainment - Sundays He was still entertaining his fellow entertainat 12 Noon for two hours.

Greek islanders live on and on OK. With John O’Keefe Ho Ho Ho

● Greg Champion ■ Santa’s Elves are an industrious lot. They have launched Elf Radio on the Facebook ihearradio.com.au Elf Radio is Christmas carols 24/7. Seven days a week with the elves spinning in all the latest Yuletide greetings from the likes of Justin Bieber, Michael Buble, Taylor Swift and all the rest of the gang. No listing of some of the Aussie Christmas classics by Greg Champion. Come on Elves, lift your game.

Putting a cap on Sco Mo

■ Seems everyone is trying out to earn a baggy green cap. The annual Pollies v Media Personalities cricket match failed to unearthed any prospects. Karl Stevenovic bowled a wicked one that sent ScoMo back to the clubhouse. For reason we are not sure Guy Sebastian was awarded Man of the Match. All in all it was a day of laughs, plenty of frothies to sample and the punters contributed $25,000 to help local Canberra charities. There were no standout player worthy of critics raving ‘he’s the next Warnie’. ● The people of the little Greek island of Ikaria claim to have more healthy residents living amongst them who are 90 years of age or over, than percentage-wise any other place on earth.

■ The 8500 people of the little Greek positives to lowering depression and island of Ikaria in the Aegean Sea, body weight, and ultimately also help say they have more healthy residents increase that lifespan. amongst them who are 90 years of The Ikarians also boast diets high age or over, than percentage-wise any in vegetables and beans, low in meat other place on earth. and sugar, and with extensive use of And they say they can thank being Extra Virgin Olive Oil whose antioxiinsulated from mechanised convedants, they say, lower the risk of heart niences and gadgets and the fast-food disease and cancer, while those who culture of modern society elsewhere, live to 90 or above also drank goat’s for helping them preserve age-old milk almost weekly as it was easier to customs and lifestyle habits to explain digest than cow’s milk, and was high their exceptional average longin tryptophan that reduced stress and lifespans. again lowered the risk of heart disPlus the fact that a daily 30-minute ease. afternoon nap is a cherished custom They also use goat’s milk to make of Ikarians in reducing stress and decheese, incorporate some 150 varietcreasing the chance of heart-attack, ies of wild- growing green vegetables while they say that few of them wear rich in antioxidants in their general watches, and that showing-up late is cooking, and drink teas they make both socially acceptable and a help in from herbs they grow themselves to reducing stress and wrinkles. lower blood pressure, and to in turn And family and community supfurther lower the risk of heart attack with David Ellis port and strong social connections are

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Too big for the town

■ John Farnham can still pull a crowd. His management put a proposal to Queenscliff Council to hold a concert at the ‘cliff next March. Just think of the economic benefits to their struggling town, but Council said ‘no’ on grounds of possible damage to the local environment. Not a concern to concert organisers and the estimated 6000 concert goers will relocate and enjoy John perform at Leura, a Geelong vineyard.

Legal battle over name

■ Even at this time of year when it’s meant to be happy time with Christmas and holidays on the horizon the legal profession are going hammer and tongs. Fairfax Media is in pitch battle with Ten over the likeness of the Boss logo. Fairfax reckon they were first to use Boss in the logo of their monthly insert magazine. Then along came Ten using Boss as part of their rebranding of the station. The big media boys love a legal scrap that promises to play out in 2019.

Now for the news

■ Geelong listeners to K-Rock and Bay 98.9 are in for a bigger, better expanded news service effective immediately. Their news coverage takes in world, national , Geelong, Bellarine and Surf Coast happenings as they occur 24/7.

- John O’Keefe

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Delicious 'natural' wines: quite an achievement

Country Crossroads

By Rob Foenander info@countrycrossroads com.au

Love grows

■ Frankston singer and entertainer Michael Read has released his long awaited second solo CD. Love Grows features a mix of 16 popular tracks that he performs as part of his busy Piano Magic concert schedule.

Bonus tracks include duets with his Band o' Gold singing mates. michaelread.com.auGood Friday Appeal.

Canyon & Friends

■ Melbourne group Canyon will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the formation of Crosby, Stills & Nash on Saturday, December 29, with a show at The Flying Saucer Club, Kingston City Hall, Moorabbin.

The band will be joined by Stars and Raw Britt singer/front man Mick Pealing and along with Tracey Kingman, they'll pay their musical respect to a band that were "politically fierce and musically even better," said band spokesman Peter Chapman.

More information and tickets www.flyingsaucerclub.com.au

Country sessions

■ Morwell Club will host a Country Sessions music afternoon on Sunday, March 24, commencing 1pm.

Well known Moe singer Evan Platschinda and Tamworth’s Dale Duncan will join forces for an enjoyable mix of bush ballads, country classics plus some original material also.

Tickets:$20 from Elaine, 563 54292 - Rob Foenander

■ The wheel has certainly for organic or 'natural' wines.

Just a few years ago winemakers who took on this task were labeled by the industry as crackpots dicing with failure chasing a tiny, very fickle market.

No longer. Improvements in technology and a rising awareness from consumers has really turned things around. " The rise of organic, low intervention and 'natural' wines has been a real testament to the increasing quality of these wines," said vigneron Jason O'Dea, who helps run Canowindra's Windowrie and is a key part of The Natural Wine Co, a collective of wine-community professionals who initially banded together to fill a niche for an organic, preservative-free, lowintervention, fruit-driven shiraz. " Historically, organic wines were 'fringe' wines, with the quality being questionable and distribution almost non-existent.

"With our Natural Wine Co wines, we are aiming to produce high-quality organic wines and make them accessible.

"These are low in sulphur, organic and vegan-friendly wines. We are creating value-based wines simply for people to enjoy - wines to have on a picnic, with a meal or just to enjoy with friends as the sun sets."

"We have learnt a great deal about growing grapes organically over the past 30 years. It's what we

● Jason O'Dea: do." Visit www.natural-wineco.com.

WINE REVIEWS The Natural Wine Co 2018 Sauvignon Blanc ($18): A fresh, delightful young dry white which avoids some of the commonly seen excesses of sauvignon blanc. It's made from three parcels of grapes harvested for their diversity of flavour profile, and exhibits none of the oxidized flavours traditionally associated with low-sulphur whites.

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than average in our region with mostly dry days leading into harvest.

Conditions for flowering were ideal and we experienced an excellent fruit set.

The ripening period was ideal, with some rain prior to harvest. The shiraz's varietal dark berry fruit flavours became evident at 13.5 baumé and increased in intensity until harvest at 14.5 baumé." Well made and well said.

- John Rozentals

Observations

Crossword Solution No 35 C O N S A O L U M O N O M S M A N S O R I O U C N E A R T R E M A I D G S U E A A P E M M A M R M O C K A A C O R K H N E O B E Y O E T O E D O P U W H I P E C D I S M R E J A V A N L B G R E O I V A C U E A R A B B A R L E A S L U C K R Y S O M E E I T N S L I G

The Natural Wine Co 2018 Rosé ($18): Made from the Italian red variety sangiovese, as are so many modern Australian rosés, this is a perfect tipple for the veranda on a sunny summer afternoon.

Or wash down some good pizza with this dry, refreshing pink wine.

WINE OF THE WEEK The Natural Wine Co 2018 Shiraz ($18): Let's listen to Jason O'Dea regarding this excellent fullflavoured dry red: "The 2018 vintage was warmer

D O R C R A O P A E T T M E N W T I O O N A M O O K E T C H L E O R W N A E S D H E E N L M O S N L A V F I G V A T C O U R S P L E V R I

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Mike McColl Jones

Top 5

THE T OP 5 C OMMENT S HEARD TOP COMMENT OMMENTS WHEN THE NA SA SP ACE CR AFT NAS SPA CECR CRAFT LANDED ON MARS 5. "Don't tell me we've got a parking ticket already!"

4. "Looks like an ideal place to store reality TV stars.”

3. "Please check for personal items before disembarking".

2. "Fuel's really cheap on Jupiter.

We could fill up on the way back.”

1. "Look who's already here ...

Tony Abbott."

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LIGHTING MODERN & CONTEMPORARY

FEATURE TILE PORCELAIN TILES

GARAGE SALE. 8am-2pm Saturday, Dec. 1 and 9am-1pm Sun., Dec. 2. 300 McLeish’s Rd, Yea. Tables and chairs, garden furniture, kitchenware, glasses, beds, computer desk, boxes of plumbing, camping gear, various household items, other items.

20% OFF LIGHTING FLOOR STOCK We stock a large range of wall, floor ceramic and porcelain tiles, also slate tiles .

7944 GV Hwy, Shepparton South (next to Super A-Mart) Phone: (03) 5823 1866 Fax: (03) 5823 1893 www.sheppartontileandlighting.com.au Email: sheppartontiles@bigpond.com

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Bulls & Females for Sale ***Bulls Guaranteed*** Calving Ease * Extra Weight * Excellent Temperament

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Over 40 years experience of Cattle Management Artificial Insemination Synchronisation Programs Semen Sales

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Unit 27, 49 Corporate Boulevard, Bayswater, Vic 3153

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Hoogies of Yarra Glen 9-15 Bell St, Yarra Glen 3775 Phone: (03) 9730 1611. Fax: (03) 9730 1737

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DEATHS HENDER, Brian John (née Derek David Richards) of Alexandra aged 84 years passed away peacefully on 26th November 2018.

Dearly loved husband of Mieke, much loved father and father in law of Brian & Fiona, Mark & Barbara, Anne-Marie & Frank.

Cherished grandfather of Matthew & Hashini, Christopher & Sabrina, Tim & Chloe, Kathryn, Sarah, Mia and Leon.

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Kinglake was named after author Chapter X The Monks of Palestine Whenever you come back to me from Palestine we will find some “golden wine” 24 of Lebanon, that we may celebrate with apt libations the monks of the Holy Land, and though the poor fellows be theoretically “dead to the world,” we will drink to every man of them a good long life, and a merry one! Graceless is the traveller who forgets his obligations to these saints upon earth; little love has he for merry Christendom if he has not rejoiced with great joy to find in the very midst of water-drinking infidels those lowly monasteries, in which the blessed juice of the grape is quaffed in peace.

Ay! ay! we will fill our glasses till they look like cups of amber, and drink profoundly to our gracious hosts in Palestine.

Christianity permits, and sanctions, the drinking of wine, and of all the holy brethren in Palestine there are none who hold fast to this gladsome rite so strenuously as the monks of Damascus; not that they are more zealous Christians than the rest of their fellows in the Holy Land, but that they have better wine. Whilst I was at Damascus I had my quarters at the Franciscan convent there, and very soon after my arrival I asked one of the monks to let me know something of the spots that deserved to be seen. I made my inquiry in reference to the associations with which the city had been hallowed by the sojourn and adventures of St. Paul.

“There is nothing in all Damascus,” said the good man, “half so well worth seeing as our cellars”; and forthwith he invited me to go, see, and admire the long range of liquid treasure that he and his brethren had laid up for themselves on earth. And these I soon found were not as the treasures of the miser, that lie in unprofitable disuse, for day by day, and hour by hour, the golden juice ascended from the dark recesses of the cellar to the uppermost brains of the friars. Dear old fellows! in the midst of that solemn land their Christian laughter rang loudly and merrily, their eyes kept flashing with joyous bonfires, and their heavy woollen petticoats could no more weigh down the springiness of their paces, than the filmy gauze of a danseuse can clog her bounding step.

You would be likely enough to fancy that these monastics are men who have retired to the sacred sites of Palestine from an enthusiastic longing to devote themselves to the exercise of religion in the midst of the very land on which its first seeds were cast; and this is partially, at least, the case with the monks of the Greek Church, but it is not with enthusiasts that the Catholic establishments are filled. The monks of the Latin convents are chiefly persons of the peasant class from Italy and Spain, who have been handed over to these remote asylums by order of their ecclesiastical superiors, and can no more account for their being in the Holy Land, than men of marching regiments can explain why they are in “stupid quarters.” I believe that these monks are for the most part well conducted men, punctual in their ceremonial duties, and altogether humble-minded Christians. Their humility is not at all misplaced, for you see at a glance (poor fellows!) that they belong to the LAG REMOVE of the human race. If the tak-

● Alexander William Kinglake.

Portrait by Harriet M. Haviland (1863) ing of the cowl does not imply a com- earth INVENT anything so witless!), plete renouncement of the world, it and yet I think I could satisfy the is at least (in these days) a thorough mind of a “reasonable man” that it is farewell to every kind of useful and false. Many of the older monks must entertaining knowledge, and accord- have been in Europe at the time when ingly the low bestial brow and the the Italy and the Spain from which animal caste of those almost Bour- they came were in act of taking their bon features show plainly enough French lessons, or had parted so that all the intellectual vanities of life lately with their teachers, that not to have been really and truly aban- know of “the Emperor” was imposdoned. But it is hard to quench alto- sible, and these men could scarcely, gether the spirit of inquiry that stirs therefore, have failed to bring with in the human breast, and accordingly them some tidings of Napoleon’s these monks inquire — they are AL- career. Yet I say that that which I WAYS inquiring inquiring for have written is true — the one who “news”! Poor fellows! they could believes because I have said it will scarcely have yielded themselves to be right (she always is), whilst poor the sway of any passion more diffi- Mr. “reasonable man,” who is concult of gratification, for they have no vinced by the weight of my argumeans of communicating with the ment, will be completely deceived. busy world except through European In Spanish politics, however, the travellers; and these, in consequence monks are better instructed. The revI suppose of that restlessness and ir- enues of the monasteries, which had ritability that generally haunt their been principally supplied by the wanderings, seem to have always bounty of their most Catholic majesavoided the bore of giving any infor- ties, have been withheld since mation to their hosts. As for me, I Ferdinand’s death, and the interests am more patient and good-natured, of these establishments being thus and when I found that the kind monks closely involved in the destinies of who gathered round me at Nazareth Spain, it is not wonderful that the were longing to know the real truth brethren should be a little more knowabout the General Bonaparte who ing in Spanish affairs than in other had recoiled from the siege of Acre, branches of history. Besides, a large I softened my heart down to the good proportion of the monks were natives humour of Herodotus, and calmly of the Peninsula. To these, I remembegan to “sing history,” telling my ber, Mysseri’s familiarity with the eager hearers of the French Empire Spanish language and character was and the greatness of its glory, and of a source of immense delight; they Waterloo and the fall of Napoleon! were always gathering around him, Now my story of this marvellous ig- and it seemed to me that they treanorance on the part of the poor monks sured like gold the few Castilian is one upon which (though depend- words which he deigned to spare ing on my own testimony) I look them. The monks do a world of good “with considerable suspicion.” It is in their way; and there can be no quite true (how silly it would be to doubting that previously to the arrival

of Bishop Alexander, with his numerous young family and his pretty English nursemaids, they were the chief propagandists of Christianity in Palestine.

My old friends of the Franciscan convent at Jerusalem some time since gave proof of their goodness by delivering themselves up to the peril of death for the sake of duty.

When I was their guest they were forty I believe in number, and I don’t recollect that there was one of them whom I should have looked upon as a desirable life-holder of any property to which I might be entitled in expectancy. Yet these forty were reduced in a few days to nineteen. The plague was the messenger that summoned them to a taste of real death; but the circumstances under which they perished are rather curious; and though I have no authority for the story except an Italian newspaper, I harbour no doubt of its truth, for the facts were detailed with minuteness, and strictly corresponded with all that I knew of the poor fellows to whom they related.

It was about three months after the time of my leaving Jerusalem that the plague set his spotted foot on the Holy City. The monks felt great alarm; they did not shrink from their duty, but for its performance they chose a plan most sadly well fitted for bringing down upon them the very death which they were striving to ward off. They imagined themselves almost safe so long as they remained within their walls; but then it was quite needful that the Catholic Christians of the place, who had always looked to the convent for the supply of their spiritual wants, should receive the aids of religion in the hour of death. A single monk therefore was chosen, either by lot or by some other fair appeal to destiny. Being thus singled out, he was to go forth into the plague-stricken city, and to perform with exactness his priestly duties; then he was to return, not to the interior of the convent, for fear of infecting his brethren, but to a detached building (which I remember) belonging to the establishment, but at some little distance from the inhabited rooms. He was provided with a bell, and at a certain hour in the morning he was ordered to ring it, IF HE COULD; but if no sound was heard at the appointed time, then knew his brethren that he was either delirious or dead, and another martyr was sent forth to take his place.

In this way twenty-one of the monks were carried off. One cannot well fail to admire the steadiness with which the dismal scheme was carried through; but if there be any truth in the notion that disease may be invited by a frightening imagination, it is difficult to conceive a more dangerous plan than that which was chosen by these poor fellows. The anxiety with which they must have expected each day the sound of the bell, the silence that reigned instead of it, and then the drawing of the lots (the odds against death being one point lower than yesterday), and the going forth of the newly doomed man — all this must have widened the gulf that opens to the shades below. When his victim had already suffered so much of mental torture, it was but easy work for big bullying pestilence to follow a forlorn monk from the beds of the dying, and wrench away his life from him as he lay all alone in an outhouse.

In most, I believe in all, of the Holy Land convents there are two personages so strangely raised above their brethren in all that dignifies humanity, that their bearing the same habit, their dwelling under the same roof, their worshipping the same God (consistent as all this is with the spirit of their religion), yet strikes the mind with a sense of wondrous incongruity; the men I speak of are the “Padre Superiore,” and the “Padre Missionario.” The former is the supreme and absolute governor of the establishment over which he is appointed to rule, the latter is entrusted with the more active of the spiritual duties attaching to the Pilgrim Church. He is the shepherd of the good Catholic flock, whose pasture is prepared in the midst of Mussulmans and schismatics; he keeps the light of the true faith ever vividly before their eyes, reproves their vices, supports them in their good resolves, consoles them in their afflictions, and teaches them to hate the Greek Church. Such are his labours, and you may conceive that great tact must be needed for conducting with success the spiritual interests of the church under circumstances so odd as those which surround it in Palestine.

But the position of the Padre Superiore is still more delicate; he is almost unceasingly in treaty with the powers that be, and the worldly prosperity of the establishment over which he presides is in great measure dependent upon the extent of diplomatic skill which he can employ in its favour. I know not from what class of churchmen these personages are chosen, for there is a mystery attending their origin and the circumstance of their being stationed in these convents, which Rome does not suffer to be penetrated. I have heard it said that they are men of great note, and, perhaps, of too high ambition in the Catholic Hierarchy, who having fallen under the grave censure of the Church, are banished for fixed periods to these distant monasteries. I believe that the term during which they are condemned to remain in the Holy Land is from eight to twelve years. By the natives of the country, as well as by the rest of the brethren, they are looked upon as superior beings; and rightly too, for Nature seems to have crowned them in her own true way.

The chief of the Jerusalem convent was a noble creature; his worldly and spiritual authority seemed to have surrounded him, as it were, with a kind of “court,” and the manly gracefulness of his bearing did honour to the throne which he filled. There were no lords of the bedchamber, and no gold sticks and stones in waiting, yet everybody who approached him looked as though he were being “presented”; every interview which he granted wore the air of an “audience”; the brethren as often as they came near bowed low and kissed his hand; and if he went out, the Catholics of the place that hovered about the convent would crowd around him with devout affection, and almost scramble for the blessing which his touch could give. He bore his honours all serenely, as though calmly conscious of his power to “bind and to loose.”

Chapter XI Galillee Neither old “sacred” himself, nor any of his helpers, knew the road

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History From Previous Page which I meant to take from Nazareth to the Sea of Galilee and from thence to Jerusalem, so I was forced to add another to my party by hiring a guide.

The associations of Nazareth, as well as my kind feeling towards the hospitable monks, whose guest I had been, inclined me to set at naught the advice which I had received against employing Christians. I accordingly engaged a lithe, active young Nazarene, who was recommended to me by the monks, and who affected to be familiar with the line of country through which I intended to pass. My disregard of the popular prejudices against Christians was not justified in this particular instance by the result of my choice.

This you will see by-and-by.

I passed by Cana and the house in which the water had been turned into wine; I came to the field in which our Saviour had rebuked the Scotch Sabbath-keepers of that period, by suffering His disciples to pluck corn on the Lord’s day; I rode over the ground on which the fainting multitude had been fed, and they showed me some massive fragments — the relics, they said, of that wondrous banquet, now turned into stone. The petrifaction was most complete.

I ascended the height on which our Lord was standing when He wrought the miracle. The hill was lofty enough to show me the fairness of the land on all sides, but I have an ancient love for the mere features of a lake, and so forgetting all else when I reached the summit, I looked away eagerly to the eastward. There she lay, the Sea of Galilee. Less stern than Wast Water, less fair than gentle Windermere, she had still the winning ways of an English lake; she caught from the smiling heavens unceasing light and changeful phases of beauty, and with all this brightness on her face, she yet clung so fondly to the dull he-looking mountain at her side, as though she would “Soothe him with her finer fancies, Touch him with her lighter thought.”

26 If one might judge of men’s real thoughts by their writings, it would seem that there are people who can visit an interesting locality and follow up continuously the exact train of thought that ought to be suggested by the historical associations of the place. A person of this sort can go to Athens and think of nothing later than the age of Pericles; can live with the Scipios as long as he stays in Rome; can go up in a balloon, and think how resplendently in former times the now vacant and desolate air was peopled with angels, how prettily it was crossed at intervals by the rounds of Jacob’s ladder! I don’t possess this power at all; it is only by snatches, and for few moments together, that I can really associate a place with its proper history.

“There at Tiberias, and along this western shore towards the north, and upon the bosom too of the lake, our Saviour and His disciples — “ away flew those recollections, and my mind strained eastward, because that that farthest shore was the end of the world that belongs to man the dweller, the beginning of the other and veiled world that is held by the strange race, whose life (like the pastime of Satan) is a “going to and fro upon the face of the earth.” From those grey hills right away to the gates of Bagdad stretched forth the mysterious “desert” — not a pale, void, sandy tract, but a land abounding in rich pastures, a land without cities or towns, without any “respectable” people or any “respectable” things, yet yielding its eighty thousand cavalry to the beck of a few old men.

But once more — “Tiberias — the plain of Gennesareth — the very earth on which I stood — that the deep low tones of the Saviour’s voice should have gone forth into eternity from out of the midst of these hills and these valleys!” — Ay, ay, but yet again the calm face of the lake was uplifted, and smiled upon my eyes with such familiar gaze, that the “deep low tones” were hushed, the listening multitudes all passed away, and instead there came to me a dear old memory from over the seas in England, a memory sweeter than Gospel to that poor wilful mortal, me.

I went to Tiberias, and soon got afloat upon the water. In the evening I took up my quarters in the Catholic church, and the building being large enough, the whole of my party were admitted to the benefit of the same shelter.

With portmanteaus and carpet bags, and books and maps, and fragrant tea, Mysseri soon made me a home on the southern side of the church.

One of old Shereef’s helpers was an enthusiastic Catholic, and was greatly delighted at having so sacred a lodging. He lit up the altar with a number of tapers, and when his preparations were complete, he began to perform his orisons in the strangest manner imaginable. His lips muttered the prayers of the Latin Church, but he bowed himself down and laid his forehead to the stones beneath him after the manner of a Mussulman. The universal aptness of a religious system for all stages of civilisation, and for all sorts and conditions of men, well befits its claim of divine origin.

She is of all nations, and of all times, that wonderful Church of Rome!

Tiberias is one of the four holy cities, 27 according to the Talmud, and it is from this place, or the immediate neighbourhood of it, that the Messiah is to arise.

Except at Jerusalem, never think of attempting to sleep in a “holy city.”

Old Jews from all parts of the world go to lay their bones upon the sacred soil, and as these people never return to their homes, it follows that any domestic vermin which they may bring with them are likely to become permanently resident, so that the population is continually increasing.

No recent census had been taken when I was at Tiberias, but I know that the congregation of fleas which attended at my church alone must have been something enormous. It was a carnal, self-seeking congregation, wholly inattentive to the service which was going on, and devoted to the one object of having my blood. The fleas of all nations were there. The smug, steady, importunate flea from Holywell Street; the pert, jumping puce from hungry France, the wary, watchful pulce with his poisoned stiletto; the vengeful pulga of Castile with his ugly knife; the German floh with his knife and fork, insatiate, not rising from table; whole swarms from all the Russias, and Asiatic hordes unnumbered — all these were there, and all rejoiced in one great international feast. I could no more defend myself against my enemies than if I had been pain a discretion in the hands of a French patriot, or English gold in the claws of a Pennsylvanian Quaker. After passing a night like this you are glad to pick up the wretched remains of your body long, long before morning dawns. Your skin is scorched, your temples throb, your lips feel withered and dried, your burning eyeballs are screwed inwards against the brain.

You have no hope but only in the saddle and the freshness of the morning air.

Chapter XII My First Bivouac The course of the Jordan is from the

north to the south, and in that direction, with very little of devious winding, it carries the shining waters of Galilee straight down into the solitudes of the Dead Sea. Speaking roughly, the river in that meridian is a boundary between the people living under roofs and the tented tribes that wander on the farther side. And so, as I went down in my way from Tiberias towards Jerusalem, along the western bank of the stream, my thinking all propended to the ancient world of herdsmen and warriors that lay so close over my bridle arm.

If a man, and an Englishman, be not born of his mother with a natural Chiffney-bit in his mouth, there comes to him a time for loathing the wearisome ways of society; a time for not liking tamed people; a time for not dancing quadrilles, not sitting in pews; a time for pretending that Milton and Shelley, and all sorts of mere dead people, were greater in death than the first living Lord of the Treasury; a time, in short, for scoffing and railing, for speaking lightly of the very opera, and all our most cherished institutions. It is from nineteen to two or three and twenty perhaps that this war of the man against men is like to be waged most sullenly. You are yet in this smiling England, but you find yourself wending away to the dark sides of her mountains, climbing the dizzy crags, exulting in the fellowship of mists and clouds, and watching the storms how they gather, or proving the mettle of your mare upon the broad and dreary downs, because that you feel congenially with the yet unparcelled earth.

A little while you are free and unlabelled, like the ground that you compass; but civilisation is coming and coming; you and your muchloved waste lands will be surely enclosed, and sooner or later brought down to a state of mere usefulness; the ground will be curiously sliced into acres and roods and perches, and you, for all you sit so smartly in your saddle, you will be caught, you will be taken up from travel as a colt from grass, to be trained and tried, and matched and run. All this in time, but first came Continental tours and the moody longing for Eastern travel.

The downs and the moors of England can hold you no longer; with large strides you burst away from these slips and patches of free land; you thread your path through the crowds of Europe, and at last, on the banks of Jordan, you joyfully know that you are upon the very frontier of all accustomed respectabilities. There, on the other side of the river (you can swim it with one arm), there reigns the people that will be like to put you to death for NOT being a vagrant, for NOT being a robber, for NOT being armed and houseless. There is comfort in that — health, comfort, and strength to one who is dying from very weariness of that poor, dear, middle-aged, deserving, accomplished, pedantic, and painstaking governess, Europe.

I had ridden for some hours along the right bank of Jordan when I came to the Djesr el Medjame (an old Roman bridge, I believe), which crossed the river. My Nazarene guide was riding ahead of the party, and now, to my surprise and delight, he turned leftwards, and led on over the bridge. I knew that the true road to Jerusalem must be mainly by the right bank of Jordan, but I supposed that my guide was crossing the bridge at this spot in order to avoid some bend in the river, and that he knew of a ford lower down by which we should regain the western bank. I made no question about the road, for I was but too glad to set my horse’s hoofs upon the land of the wandering tribes.

None of my party except the Nazarene knew the country. On we went through rich pastures upon the eastern side of the water. I looked for the expected bend of the river, but far as I could see it kept a straight southerly course; I still left my guide unquestioned.

The Jordan is not a perfectly accurate boundary betwixt roofs and tents, for soon after passing the bridge I came upon a cluster of huts. Some time afterwards the guide, upon being closely questioned by my servants, confessed that the village which we had left behind was the last that we should see, but he declared that he knew a spot at which we should find an encampment of friendly Bedouins, who would receive me with all hospitality. I had long determined not to leave the East without seeing something of the wandering tribes, but I had looked forward to this as a pleasure to be found in the desert between El Arish and Egypt; I had no idea that the Bedouins on the east of Jordan were accessible. My delight was so great at the near prospect of bread and salt in the tent of an Arab warrior, that I wilfully allowed my guide to go on and mislead me. I saw that he was taking me out of the straight route towards Jerusalem, and was drawing me into the midst of the Bedouins; but the idea of his betraying me seemed (I know not why) so utterly absurd, that I could not entertain it for a moment. I fancied it possible that the fellow had taken me out of my route in order to attempt some little mercantile enterprise with the tribe for which he was seeking, and I was glad of the opportunity which I might thus gain of coming in contact with the wanderers.

Not long after passing the village a horseman met us. It appeared that some of the cavalry of Ibrahim Pasha had crossed the river for the sake of the rich pastures on the eastern bank, and that this man was one of the troopers. He stopped and saluted; he was obviously surprised at meeting an unarmed, or half-armed, cavalcade, and at last fairly told us that we were on the wrong side of the river, and that if we proceeded we must lay our account with falling amongst robbers. All this while, and throughout the day, my Nazarene kept well ahead of the party, and was constantly up in his stirrups, straining forward and searching the distance for some objects which still remained unseen.

For the rest of the day we saw no human being; we pushed on eagerly in the hope of coming up with the Bedouins before nightfall. Night came, and we still went on in our way till about ten o’clock. Then the thorough darkness of the night, and the weariness of our beasts (which had already done two good days’ journey in one), forced us to determine upon coming to a standstill.

Upon the heights to the eastward we saw lights; these shone from caves on the mountain-side, inhabited, as the Nazarene told us, by rascals of a low sort —— not real Bedouins, men whom we might frighten into harmlessness, but from whom there was no willing hospitality to be expected.

We heard at a little distance the brawling of a rivulet, and on the banks of this it was determined to establish our bivouac. We soon found the stream, and following its course for a few yards, came to a spot which was thought to be fit for our purpose.

It was a sharply cold night in February, and when I dismounted I found myself standing upon some wet rank herbage that promised ill for the comfort of our resting-place. I had bad hopes of a fire, for the pitchy

darkness of the night was a great obstacle to any successful search for fuel, and besides, the boughs of trees or bushes would be so full of sap in this early spring, that they would not be easily persuaded to burn. However, we were not likely to submit to a dark and cold bivouac without an effort, and my fellows groped forward through the darkness, till after advancing a few paces they were happily stopped by a complete barrier of dead prickly bushes. Before our swords could be drawn to reap this welcome harvest it was found to our surprise that the fuel was already hewn and strewed along the ground in a thick mass. A spot for the fire was found with some difficulty, for the earth was moist and the grass high and rank.At last there was a clicking of flint and steel, and presently there stood out from darkness one of the tawny faces of my muleteers, bent down to near the ground, and suddenly lit up by the glowing of the spark which he courted with careful breath. Before long there was a particle of dry fibre or leaf that kindled to a tiny flame; then another was lit from that, and then another. Then small crisp twigs, little bigger than bodkins, were laid athwart the glowing fire. The swelling cheeks of the muleteer, laid level with the earth, blew tenderly at first and then more boldly upon the young flame, which was daintily nursed and fed, and fed more plentifully when it gained good strength. At last a whole armful of dry bushes was piled up over the fire, and presently, with a loud cheery crackling and crackling, a royal tall blaze shot up from the earth and showed me once more the shapes and faces of my men, and the dim outlines of the horses and mules that stood grazing hard by.

My servants busied themselves in unpacking the baggage as though we had arrived at an hotel — Shereef and his helpers unsaddled their cattle. We had left Tiberias without the slightest idea that we were to make our way to Jerusalem along the desolate side of the Jordan, and my servants (generally provident in those matters) had brought with them only, I think, some unleavened bread and a rocky fragment of goat’s milk cheese. These treasures were produced. Tea and the contrivances for making it were always a standing part of my baggage. My men gathered in circle round the fire. The Nazarene was in a false position from having misled us so strangely, and he would have shrunk back, poor devil, into the cold and outer darkness, but I made him draw near and share the luxuries of the night. My quilt and my pelisse were spread, and the rest of my party had all their capotes or pelisses, or robes of some sort, which furnished their couches.

The men gathered in circle, some kneeling, some sitting, some lying reclined around our common hearth.

Sometimes on one, sometimes on another, the flickering light would glare more fiercely. Sometimes it was the good Shereef that seemed the foremost, as he sat with venerable beard the image of manly piety — unknowing of all geography, unknowing where he was or whither he might go, but trusting in the goodness of God and the clinching power of fate and the good star of the Englishman. Sometimes, like marble, the classic face of the Greek Mysseri would catch the sudden light, and then again by turns the everperturbed Dthemetri, with his old Chinaman’s eye and bristling, terrierlike moustache, shone forth illustrious.

To Be Continued Next Issue

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Unintended consequences of Murray Darling Basin Plan ■ In 2011 the Murray Darling Basin Authority stated that there had been considerable investment in water storage and delivery infrastructure for more than 100 years in the Murray Darling Basin, thus creating "one of Australia's most efficient and productive food growing regions" They go on to say this "development is increasingly recognised as having had unintended consequences" as the "construction of dams, locks and weirs to control water flow has altered the natural flow regimes, changed river temperature and changed sediment and nutrient loads."

Ironically the so-called solution, the Murray Darling Basin Plan is resulting in unintended consequences of massive proportions which is seeing the collapse of irrigation districts in the southern basin, huge economic and social impacts on regional communities, increased financial debt for farmers, reduction in dairy production in particular, vast increase in water prices due to opening up of the water trade and detrimental environmental consequences that are being ignored by governments and authorities alike.

"No irrigators would be worse off" was the cry of bureaucrats and politicians when the Basin Plan and irrigation modernisation was instigated.

The Goulburn Murray Irrigation District which has always been Australia's largest irrigation district, as with all irrigation districts in the southern connected system are struggling to survive.

Over 83 per cent of water recovered for environmental purposes in the Murray Darling Basin has been taken from these districts.

Some regions have seen 20- 38 per cent of their most precious resource, water, taken through buybacks and, "water savings” gained by replacement of low cost, gravity designed Dethridge wheels with high-tech, high cost computer operated gates and on-farm efficiency measures.

The majority of irrigators were never "willing sellers" of their water, but were under extreme financial duress after 10 years of drought, followed by two successive years of major flooding, capped by high fixed fees for irrigation water that they were left with, even after they had sold or given up their water.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holdertook the water recovered, but did not have to take over all of the associated fees, hence many irrigators were left with delivery share fees of thousands of dollars each and every year despite no longer owning the water.

Many farmers could not shoulder the debt burden, sold the remainder of their water and left the industry.

In 2011 in a socio-economic analysis the MDBA stated-" At the Basin level, the costs are expected to be relatively small."

The social and economic cost of the recovery of water has had an extremely serious consequence for towns, schools, the social fabric of communities with the loss of sporting teams and the domino effect of loss of business services.

The MDBA Basin Evaluation analysis figures up to 2016, show how severely communities have been affected: ■ Pyramid-Boort community lost

● Jan Beer of ‘Cheviot Hills’, Yea, writes about the Murray Darling Basin Plan.

Photo: University of Tasmania 17.8 per centof its total surface wa- communities and irrigators alike farmers in the southern irrigation dister entitlements and saw a reduction are far more vulnerable to extended tricts to compete inpurchasing water These farmers cannot compete of its agricultural workforce of 47 dry periods such as we are now exwith the large corporate plantations, per cent. periencing.

■ Swan Hill - a reduction of 20.4 Even a two-three-year drought, which have purchased large volumes per cent available water and de- which we frequently experience in of high security water from where it crease in agricultural workforce of Australia, would cripple corporate is most readily available, the south42.6 per cent irrigators and destroy 50 per cent of ern basin irrigation districts.

The Goulburn Murray Irriga■ Wakool community- a reduction the dairying industry in northern tion District has seen a continual loss of 38 per cent of available water and Victoria.

61.5 per cent decrease in agriculThe opening up of the water trade of water from its productive pool and tural workforce. to speculators and loss of available has lost up to 5,000ML per month Many irrigation communities water for productive use has resulted from its irrigation district with 43 per have experienced a decrease in their in higher water prices and higher cent of high security shares having left the district since 2008. agricultural workforce well in ex- costs.

GMW has said it is not sustaincess of 20 per cent and in some comAn overheated water market has munities up to 50-60 per cent rapidly pushed water prices to un- able to continue to operate the chan(Deniboota and Denimein). sustainable levels, with High Reli- nel system when deliverable water The MDBA modelled decision ability Water Shares increasing to ap- falls to below 800GL. It is currently making on a broad basin scale rather proximately $5,000/ML with tempo- below 900GL. The more water that leaves the than at a community level, with dev- rary water in the vicinity of $420/ML. astating outcomes.

The intended purpose of the Ba- GMID, even with farm upgrades, the Modernisation was expected to sin Plan was to provide for the inte- more water prices rise. In short, many generate substantial growth in eco- grated management of water re- farmers already no longer own nomic output from the Goulburn- sources in a way that improves wa- enough water to run upgraded irriMurray Region. ter security for all uses of Basin wa- gation systems, no matter how effiInstead dairy farmers are now ter resources, and promotes produc- cient the system, and they can't afheavily reliant on a fickle and in- tive and resilient water-dependent ford to buy more water on the open creasingly expensive temporary wa- industries, and communities with market, particularly in dry seasons, ter market with GMID irrigators pay- confidence in their long-term future especially when they have to coming $20 million more for temporary In reality irrigators face an in- pete with corporate farmers and water now than without the Plan creasingly uncertain and vulnerable speculators for the rapidly dwindling The dairy industry is the largest future, particularly for farmers who temporary water available to the prowater user in the GMID and has are the backbone of Australia- the ductive pool.

The fixed costs fees are falling been the hardest hit, losing $200mil- family farms. lion at the farmgate with a 26 per In a drought-driven market our on the shoulders of fewer and fewer cent drop in milk and total regional dairy farmers must attempt to forsee irrigators and cannot be sustained.

The holder of all environmental production down $550 million. the future by deciding how much of With the increased reduction in their water allocation to sell in order water, did not extinguish these fees or take the costs with it when they the irrigation consumptive pool, dairy to purchase fodder and grain. farmers are now less able to withThese are high risk decisions acquired the environmental Water, stand drought, higher water prices based on a volatile market which will thereby decreasing the sustainability of irrigators. and a volatile commodity market. see their survival or demise.

"With all the savings achieved irIrrigated agriculture, to remain The GMID dairy industry, which profitable must be able to access produces a quarter of Australia's milk rigators will have greater water sesecure, reliable and affordable wa- and is home to 16 processing facto- curity."

The combination of increasing alter. ries, is especially vulnerable to any "Irrigation businesses and com- further reduction in water available location prices and a greater percentmunities will benefit from increased for production in the southern Basin. age of irrigators sourcing water certainty about the availability of In the NSW Murray Irrigation through allocations means there is a water, and the rules governing its areas despite starting the season with far greater risk for irrigated agriculavailability.

Dartmouth Dam at 90 per cent and tural operations. It is forecast that “They will be able to make plan- Hume Reservoir at 54 per cent is on horticulture plantations and cotton ning and investment decisions with zero allocation, even though only two farms in the southern Murray downmore confidence that governments years ago (2016) the system was stream of Swan Hill will demand in are managing and allocating water awash with floodwaters when dams excess of 400GL/year till at least on a sustainable basis." (Regulation exceeded capacity in much of the 2020-2021, and this water will come Impact Statement) southern connected system, saturat- out of the irrigation districts with high It is purely government policies ing the environment and causing security water shares, such as the GMID and southern Murray Irrigaunder the Murray Darling Basin enormous flood damage.

Plan that have reduced the security "The Basin Plan will ensure se- tion districts. This is the equivalent of tenure of irrigators entitlement curity and reliability of water rights. water used by in excess of 630 dairy rights by continually diminishing the Irrigation businesses and communi- or rice farms.

With less water being available, irrigators' consumptive pool. ties will benefit from increased cerConditions have changed and en- tainty about the availability of water, higher water prices and increased titlements certainly made less secure and the rules governing its availabil- competition from downstream induswith the introduction of the Com- ity. They will be able to make plan- tries such as nuts and cotton, irrigamonwealth Environmental Water ning and investment decisions with tion farmers lose the ability to cope Holder as the largest entitlement more confidence that governments with seasonal and market volatility owner. Extra volumes of CEWH are managing and allocating water and continue to make a profit. The majority of irrigators no longer have carryover water has reduced the stor- on a sustainable basis." age capacity in dams and meant an The unbundling of water in 2009 reliability and security of water availincreased likelihood of spill of so that the water trade became an ability to enable them to operate a irrigator's water. open market, followed by the rapid profitable business.

"The Basin Plan will optimise enThe shrinking consumptive irri- implementation of the basin plan, has gation pool means that ultimately seen the inability of the majority of vironmental outcomes"

With increased frequency of high environmental flows, local landowners are seeing an explosion of the carp population, increased incidence of bank collapse, for example at the Barmah Choke, where Murray channel capacity has reduced by about 1000ML/day, loss of large , mature river gums falling in as river banks collapse not only in the Murray but also the Edward and Goulburn Rivers, as they are all run at or above capacity, sedimentation build up in river channels throughout the basin and more frequent incidence of hypoxic blackwater events.

Continuing environmental flows based on outdated historical and flood flows data is setting the environment up for a disastrous crash when the next prolonged drought occurs.

The intended outcome for the Basin Plan was to achieve a healthy Murray Darling Basin incorporating communities with sufficient and reliable water supplies, "productive and resilient water-dependent industries, and communities with confidence in their long-term future" The Basin Plan will optimise environmental outcomes The reality is, with increased frequency of high environmental flows, local landowners are seeing an explosion of the carp population and increased incidence of bank collapse. For example, at the Barmah Choke, the Murray channel capacity has reduced by about 1,000ML/ day. There is an ongoing loss of large , mature river gums falling in, as river banks collapse not only in the Murray but also the Edward and Goulburn Rivers, as they are all run at, or above capacity. Landowners and scientists alike have reported sedimentation build up in river channels throughout the basin, the Lower Lakes and the Coorong and the more frequent incidence of hypoxic blackwater events.

The Basin Plan has resulted in a plethora of severe detrimental, unintended consequences due to government policies enacted by bureaucrats and politicians ignorant of the realities of river systems, agriculture and the irrigation industry.

The implications for regional basin communities and agriculture means farmers are now confronted with falling production, higher water prices, less water security and reliability which means farmers and consequently communities and their regions are now less resilient and less able to cope with volatile commodity markets and climate change.

The "unintended consequences" of six years of the Basin Plan has devastated large swathes of regional areas in the southern connected communities.

Unless there is a pause to review and revise the Basin Plan direction, State and Federal Governmentswill have spent in excess of $3.3 billion dollars of taxpayers money on modernisation of irrigation systems, only to have the foodbowl of the Murray Darling Basin destroyed by inept and inappropriate government policies.

These policies, such as opening up the water market trade, will by 2024 have destroyed the dairy and rice industry in the southern connected basin and with it many rural communities.

- Jan Beer

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SEYMOUR DISTRICT CRICKET ASSOCIATION SCOREBOARD A-GRADE

■ Results. Round 8. Saturdays, November 24 and December 1. Kilmore 9/177(cc) M Davern 76 B Hickey 2/22 J Connell 2/31 T Shell 2/33 def by Broadford 5/181 B Hickey 50 A Wood 46 MJ Collier 46* TJ Dunne 26* AR Lovick 3/38.

Eastern Hill 150 H Jones 4/32 C Hogan 2/30 def

by Avenel 5/153 K Duncan 60 W Wheeler 33* RM Brown 29. Tallarook 9/187(cc) J SmithWilliams 86 C Jones 25* M Steiner 4/49 C Armstrong 2/31 def by Yea Tigers 9/219(cc) M Steiner 56 C Armstrong 54 D Pell 44 K Winnell 4/51 W Dundon 2/23.

B-GRADE

■ Results. Round 8. Saturdays, November 24 and December 1. Alexandra v Tallarook. Yea Tigers 2/62 def Eastern Hill 51 D Jannke 5/5 L Beattie 4/15. Kilmore 96 J Sutherland 3/7 C Mulraney 2/5 T Orgill 2/11 def by Royals 7/ 234(cc) D Short 88 T Orgill 39 J Lewin 39 D Manuel 4/64 D Clemm 2/58. Avenel 8/105(cc) N Hart 58* def by Pyalong 0/107. Broadford 212 J Jones 70 J Hibbens 47 AB Brennan 32 J Hall 27 S Van Duinen 4/33 L Drummond 3/33 def by Seymour 7/226(cc) G Sharpe 107 J Brown 33 J Jones 2/23 J Meek 2/24 J Hibbens 2/26.

C-GRADE

■ Results. Round 9. Saturday, December 1.

Broadford Black v Kilmore. Puckapunyal Wander ers 3/133 M McLaughlin 55 T Tandy 34* A Ball 2/22 def Broadford Red 5/128(cc) R Guinelly 42 d chegwidden 3/19. Pyalong v Seymour. Puckapunyal Nomads 5/185 T Wildin 78* B Gibson 36 J Geldart 2/17 B Waixel 2/20 def Alexandra 6/174(cc) DL Malcolm 46 C Friswell 41 J Fishlock 27*. Royals v Eastern Hill.

UNDER 16

■ Results. Round 8. Sunday, December 2.

Yea Tigers 49 Z Wyatt 2/9 def by Eastern Hill 3/90 Z Wyatt 25. Broadford 8/41 E Clark 2/5 L Partridge 2/15 def by Kilmore 6/180(cc) S Partridge 51* CA Dennehy 47* R Nolan 2/20.

UNDER 14

■ Results. Round 7. Saturday, December 1.

Kilmore Blue 6/94(cc) S Partridge 30* C Boyd 26* S manchester 3/7 o munro 2/6 def by Eastern Hill 3/105 J Speechley 27 H Smith 27*.

Avenel 63 H Wall 25 def by Kilmore White 4/ 124(cc). Broadford 5/119 R Nolan 28* D Meek 27 def Alexandra 9/113(cc) D Meek 2/15 J Jones 2/21.

NORTHERN METRO CRICKET ASSOCIATION SCOREBOARD F-GRADE NORTH MANION SHIELD

■ Results. Round 5. Saturdays, December 1 and 8. Kinglake137 v Preston YCW District 3rd XI2/36. Rivergum 4th XI def Strathewen 3rd XI.. Lalor Warriors 2nd XI6/146(dec) v Reservoir Mayston 2nd XI63 and 0/35.

KINGLAKE V PRESTON YCW 3RD XI

Venue: Kinglake Memorial Reserve Umpires: Frank Hawke, Alan Padley Scores: Bruce Stonehouse Match In Progress Toss won by: preston YCW Dist. 3rd XI Batted first: Kinglake 1st Innings - Kinglake Extras (nb 7, w 4, b 19, lb 1) ......................... 31 Total .............................................................. 137 Overs ........................................................... 52.0 1st Innings - Preston YCW 3rd XI Extras (nb 0, w 1, b 0, lb 0) ............................. 1 Total ........................................................... 2/36 Overs ......................................................... 18.0

DIAMOND VALLEY CRICKET ASSOCIATION SCOREBOARD BARCLAY SHIELD

■ Results. Round 5. Saturdays, November 24 and December 1. Montmorency 9/167(cc) D Leahy 38 TK Groom 29 D Fernando 5/40 J Scully 2/32 def by Lower Eltham 5/231 IN Dombagaha Pathirage 80 A Hone 76 R Siede 2/ 56 N Weerakkody 2/61. Riverside 122 S Money 37 A Villani 28 JA Ramsey 4/12 L Campitelli 2/ 20 DA Campbell 2/21 M Keenan 2/22 def by Diamond Creek 6/123 DA Campbell 30* CM Salm 3/37. Epping 98 T Hughes 26 H Pal 4/10 N Sharma 3/16 A Hodge 2/32 def by Bundoora 138 N Sharma 57 A Hodge 38 R Tinsley 7/44 J Lever 2/27. Rosanna 119 S Sheehan 26 def by Macleod 201 R Wise 46 D Ahmed 28 N Pietsch 3/30 S Shelton 3/55 O Toussaint 2/22. North Eltham Wanderers 223 D Forster 98 T Beers 28 K Peters 4/80 M Johnson 2/31 C Barclay 2/47 D Cocking 2/53 def by Plenty 3/225 M Johnson 74 JA Sacchetta 66* G Zull 44.

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■ Results. Round 5. Saturdays, November 24 and December 1. Lower Plenty 6/255(dec) J Henkel 75 NJ Gardiner 49 B Wright 42 J Kulikowski 34 ZJ Davies 2/46 and 1/6 def Mernda 126 S McKay 37* G Sivapalan 27 HP Jenkins 6/39 NM Rowe 3/46 and 131 S Wright 29 S McKay 29* HP Jenkins 5/28 NM Rowe 2/ 14 J Henkel 2/25. Lalor Stars 3/190 A Manoilovski 112 def Heidelberg 189 B Nihill 57 FW Stewart 35 LJ Balcombe 30 A Hall 6/44 JW Scott 2/44. Bundoora United 104 M Ross 35 C Zealley 33 C Davies 4/38 C Cotsopoulos 3/27 D Cunningham 2/21 def by Greensborough 178 T Vilchez 47 C Davies 28 D Cunningham 28 SC Barnett 3/38 S Solar 2/13 M Ross 2/32.

Banyule 3/110(dec) JK Aleksandrov 43 NP Murray 29* T Stoneham 2/35 and 1/74 DA Campbell 48* def Mill Park 102 S Kalumpriya 52 L Castle 31 MJ Hannan 6/16 SG Clapton 3/ 24 and 78 MJ Hannan 3/16 JA Hannan 3/17 NP Murray 2/5. Old Paradians 202 H Samarasinghe 81 M Del Mastro 30 SA Barker 26 L Wilson 6/ 53 def byEltham 8/203(cc) M Minney 78 S Sceney 36 A Lamont 33 UW Hewa Wellalage 3/25.

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■ Results. Round 5. Saturdays, November 24 and December 1. Research Eltham Collegians 5/134 J Turner 45* B Davies 30 def Laurimar 133 SJ Malone 3/19 S Mitchell 3/26. Thomastown 131 N Fellows 30 def by South Morang 143 S John 3/18 D Francis 3/28 SS Kethbevilage 2/12. Panton Hill 3/142 G Motschall 80* M Stamkovski 33 K Edussooriya 2/31 def Hurstbridge 7/141(cc) JR Lovett 64 L McLellan 28 R Ford 3/32 J Barton 2/33. Whittlesea 111 A Ratten 47 S Apostola 5/9 def by Thomastown United 5/112 S Wijegunarathne 46 NA Heaney 2/16.

B-GRADE

■ Results. Round 5. Saturdays, November 24 and December 1. Macleod 168 DD Kovac 32 C Butcher 3/28 JH Andrew 3/38 M Rodger 2/14 def by Montmorency 6/227(cc) R Shaman 135* H Buffey 47 H Preiss 2/29. Mernda 169 D Mercuri 31 R Corrigan 26 BJ Ellis 3/26 MR Jackson 3/39 C Douglas 2/19 MW Jackson 2/24 def by Rosanna 9/174 BJ Ellis 37* C Douglas 25 A Mitris 3/20 L Taylor 3/22 J Marshall 2/23.

Diamond Creek 6/143 M Elzink 57 J Adams 38 def Riverside 8/139(cc) A McCormick 3/27 BJ Shallard 3/33. Bundoora 127 C Dunning 57 A Fletcher 3/29 def Epping 100 S Kearney 33 D Fisher 5/22 M Fullelove 4/32 and 0/58

C-GRADE

■ Results. Round 5. Saturdays, November 24 and December 1. Plenty 150 GI Regan 56 SR Daly 40 L Gioskos 4/25 J Abbas 3/27 def by Lalor Stars 179 J Abbas 40 C MacDonald 39 J Gammino 37 T Jones 27 C McEvoy 2/6 N Pyers 2/28 S Cullen 2/29 W Carpenter 2/57. Mill Park 114 M Kumara 46 D Yakupiti 33 R O'Donnell 3/17 CJ O'Leary 3/24 C Lyall 3/24 and 0/77 D Yakupiti 58* def by North Eltham Wanderers

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4/192(dec) L O'Donnell 100* AR Mann 48.

Heidelberg 5/256(cc) M Favrin 85 B Grindal 83 def Bundoora United 7/211(cc) H Frazer 4/47.

Eltham 4/257(dec) S Oakley 69* T McEntee 56* L Kirkright 55 S McEntee 27* MP Cocks 3/33 def Old Paradians 208 T Tilkeridis 82 JC Varvitsiotis 52 DT McGinty 26 N Turner 3/51 R White 2/31 N Gavillucci 2/36.

Lalor Stars 5/94(cc) LA Coulson 25* MP Trainor 3/14. Montmorency 6/468(cc) D Snelson 179 C Snelson 160* R Edwards 27 DA Barnett 25 M Schlenzka 2/79 A Singh 2/82 def Thomastown 80 W Norton 3/7 SV Kelly 2/19 M Siede 2/27 and 6/149 W Norton 2/7 L Plant 2/ 25.

G2-GRADE

■ Results. Round 5. Saturdays, November 24 ■ Results. Round 5. Saturdays, November 24 and December 1.South Morang 68 D Palladino and December 1. North Eltham Wanderers 135 4/8 C Head 3/7 DS Crain 2/11 and 55 def by B Corbin 42 P Bastin 25 def by Riverside 1/138 Laurimar 4/112(dec) and 2/13. Macleod 28 R CD Drake 84* G Smyth 33*. Research Eltham Young 3/4 O Willis 3/6 S Horn 2/5 J Sassella 2/ Collegians 130 E Zumbo 58* KD Pike 5/27 def 12 and 98 JT Cleary 40 J Bird 31 R Young 3/16

by Lower Plenty 6/138 NA Hardy 2/15 B Jones G McGrath 2/11 def Research Eltham Colle2/24. Lower Eltham 112 J Caldarelli 35 J gians 7/183(dec) J Sassella 100* C Bosso 2/36.

Mitchell 34 OA McGillion 3/5 TD Elmer 2/10 Diamond Creek 89 SA Hay 36 J Hayse 3/10 C JC Mahar 2/30 def by Banyule 1/115 RA Cameron 3/31 SR Jones 2/7 C Lyons 2/16 def by Malcolm 52* A Samad 37*. Greensborough 215 Lalor Stars 5/94(cc) LA Coulson 25* MP def by Hurstbridge 228 N Dixon 64 MW Taylor Trainor 3/14. Montmorency 6/468(cc) D Snelson 38 G Connell 27 S Joynson 25* T Folvig 7/67 M 179 C Snelson 160* R Edwards 27 DA Barnett 25 M Schlenzka 2/79 A Singh 2/82 def Vilchez 2/41.

Thomastown 80 W Norton 3/7 SV Kelly 2/19 E-GRADE M Siede 2/27 and 6/149 W Norton 2/7 L Plant 2/ ■ Results. Round 5. Saturdays, November 24 25. and December 1. Laurimar 118 S Woodhouse UNDER 18 3/14 RJ Cotterill 3/21 def by Montmorency 171 T Maxfield 25 J Kendall 3/13 H Foster 3/38. ■ Results. Round 5. Fridays, November 23 Thomastown United 0/2 v Banyule 195 JD and 30. Mill Park: Bye. BYE Lower Plenty 3/ Bowler 63 SM Pinner 32 DD Mills 27 P Perera 151(cc) def Epping 141 F Kafi 54 . Mont3/22 P Moore 3/69 N Singh 2/32 S Mitreski 2/38. morency 6/114(cc) B McDermott 40 R Marnell Mernda 8/188 D Stott 40 G Greenough 31 A 2/15 def Mernda 5/105(cc) C Burton 47 JH Greenough 27 S Sivagnanasundram 25 SM Andrew 2/8. Eltham/Dennis 106 PE Bourke 26 Fitzgerald 3/24 L O'Connor 2/32 def by Panton J Hansen 2/0 E Pendlebury 2/12 K Asdagi 2/18 Hill. Riverside 8/230 (cc) defThomastown 210 def by Lower Eltham 7/127(cc) B Crick 52 K Asdagi 28 M Obst 2/21.

F1-GRADE UNDER 16 BLUE ■ Results. Round 5. Saturdays, November 24 ■ Results.

Round 5. Fridays, November 23 and December 1. South Morang 61 AJ White 3/ 13 N Caracella 2/8 S Ganlath 2/10 def by and 30. Laurimar 6/102(cc) N Welsh 44 B Bundoora 6/112(cc) S Sakpal 31. Eltham 261 J Athinis 28 def by Bundoora United 4/113 J McEntee 93 JC Kammerhofer 81 SE Jones 35 Lemire 50*. Mernda 3/113(cc) JL LadigesH Woodhouse 3/20 L Seccombe 2/47 def Tucker 43 def by Montmorency 6/117 M Heidelberg 156 T Balcombe 75* W McEntee Whiteman 45 B Harrison 2/25. Diamond Creek 3/26 B Luker 3/33. Macleod 76 J Scarmozzino 2/119(cc) L Dwyer 51* J Boland 35* def Re31 NA Ireland 5/17 LK Sewell 2/12 and 5/95 M search Eltham Collegians 9/94(cc) FL James 30* def by Diamond Creek 2/199(dec) G McColgan 27 ML Vassallo 2/10 H Downes 2/ Milner 71 M MacDonald 59* I Rutt Acc 44*. 25. Epping 8/79 N Manoharon 26 N Brennan 2/ Old Paradians 1/121 def Rosanna 117 P Jones 3 B Leguier 2/5 S Sansonetti 2/13 def by Bundoora Park Bulls 1/116(cc) B Hill 31* R 35 AP Cooray 3/21 N James 2/24.

Caracella 29*.

F2-GRADE ■ Results. Round 5. Saturdays, November 24 CENTRAL and December 1.Mill Park 1/73(cc) C Taylor BOWLS DIVISION 44* def Whittlesea 71 C Nickson 28 G Tsilemanis 5/11 JD MacDonald 2/1 R Geraghty SCOREBOARD 2/29. Lalor Stars 4/241(cc) N Mittica 125* L Marshall 35 J Vasilev 29 P Grech 27* def RivMIDWEEK PENNANT erside 154 K Lawry 3/32 JA Griffin 3/46. Lower ■ Results. Round 6. Tuesday, November 27.

Plenty 5/191 B Gilbert 61 D Arrowsmith 29* Seymour 84, 14 d Eildon 60, 2. Seymour: MarMK Ryan 29 A Evans 2/33 def North Eltham garet Locke 30, 2. Donald Lawton 33, 2. Dianne Wanderers 171 S Tennekoon 37 LM Sirianni 3/ Staples 21, 0. Match Total 84, 4.Side Points 10.

22 D Arrowsmith 2/18. Lower Eltham 4/132(cc) Totals 84, 14. Eildon: Sharon Hall 19, 0. Rodney S Giammario 44 S Hone 36* J Jackson 2/17 McGowan 17, 0. Steve Matcham 24, 2. Totals def by Rosanna 6/140 D Sanderson 50* .

60, 2. Yea 69, 2 d Seymour VRI 79, 14. Yea: Ruth Crockett 20, 0. Norman McCallum 30, 2.

F3-GRADE ■ Results. Round 5. Saturdays, November 24 Richard Dahswood 19, 0. Match Total 69, 2. and December 1.Bundoora United 7/170(cc) Side Points 10. Totals 69, 2. Seymour VRI: WilAD Howell 2/18 ZJ Brown 2/19 def by Banyule liam Dawe 31, 2. Ian Cashill 25, 0. David 8/174 AA Simon 40 C Lennox 27. Diamond Noonan 23, 2. Totals: 79, 14. Wallan 94, 16 d 41, 0. Wallan: Peter Glass 31, 2. Brian Creek 7/151(cc) DT Wells 74 HW Connell 50 Alexandra 23, 2. Barry Lingham 40, 2. Match def Mernda 103 DT Wells 4/18AE Poon 2/21 R Smethurst 94, 6. Side Points 10. Totals 94, 16. AlexPearce 2/43. Thomastown United 97 J Total andra: Margaret Legge 12, 0. Robert Benghamy Keratianos 28 GT Hill 6/29 NJ Sergi 2/30 and 16, 0. Vicki Kelin 13, 0. Totals: 41, 0. Kilmore 7/71 def by Old Paradians 8/171(dec). Epping 4/ 105, 16 d Broadford 35, 0. Kilmore: Joan 126 R Fletcher 54*def Plenty 119 R Koegler 44 Grindlay 33, 2. Kevin Mayberry 25, 2. Daniel B Cameron 32 AJ Xavier 6/35 N Muir 3/37.

Brown 47, 2. Match Total 105, 6. Side points 10.

Totals 105, 16. Broadford: Denise Hogan 13, 0.

G1-GRADE ■ Results. Round 5. Saturdays, November 24 Pamela Duerkop 15, 0. Daryl Kelly 7, 0. Totals and December 1.South Morang 68 D Palladino 35,0.

SATURDAY DIVISION 1 4/8 C Head 3/7 DS Crain 2/11 and 55 def by Laurimar 4/112(dec) and 2/13. Macleod 28 R ■ Results. Round 8. Saturday, December 1.

Young 3/4 O Willis 3/6 S Horn 2/5 J Sassella 2/ Seymour 92, 16 d Alexandra 45, 0. Seymour: 12 and 98 JT Cleary 40 J Bird 31 R Young 3/16 Donald Lawton 27, 2. Stephen Ellis 32, 2. MarG McGrath 2/11 def Research Eltham Colle- garet Locke 33, 2. Match Total 92, 0. Side Points gians 7/183(dec) J Sassella 100* C Bosso 2/36. 10. Totals 92, 16. Alexandra: Team 1 18, 0.

Diamond Creek 89 SA Hay 36 J Hayse 3/10 C Team 2 17, 0. Team 3 10, 0. Totals 45, 0. Wallan Turn To Page 83 Cameron 3/31 SR Jones 2/7 C Lyons 2/16 def by

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From Page 78 70, 14 d Broadford 68, 2. Wallan: Graham Edmonds 30, 2. Paul Warren 24, 2. Brian Smethurst 16, 0. Match Total 70, 4. Side points 10. Totals 70, 14. Broadford: Denise Hogan 15, 0. Jim Hinchcliffe 20, 0. Robert Chapman 33, 2.

Totals 68, 2. Kilmore 75, 14 d Eildon 59, 2.

Kilmore: Kevin Mayberry 33, 2. Philip Skehan 25, 2. John Reimann 17, 0. Match Total: 75, 4.

Side Points 10. Totals 75, 14. Eildon: Steve Matcham 14, 0. Lenonado Di-Bella 16, 0. Steven Hall 29, 2. Totals 59, 2. Seymour VRI 75, 14 d Yea 52, 2. Seymour VRI. Daniel Noonan 23, 2.

Luke Spargo 34, 2. Greg Jones 18, 0. Match Total 75, 4. Side points 10. Totals 75, 14. Yea: Justin Branch 14, 0. Joy Marshall 16, 0. Denis Marshall 22, 2. Totals: 52, 2.

Muir), 170 (J. Smith-Williams), 179 (W. Dondon), 183 (A. Dundon).

Bowling: M. Steiner 9.0-0-4-49, A. Chisholm 8.0-1-1-31, C.A. Malcolm 5.0-0-0-17,L. Smith 3.0-0-0-20, B. Tarran 9.0-0-1-37, C. Armstrong 9.0-1-2-31.

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■ Results. Round 8. Saturday, December 1.

Kilmore: Bye. Alexandra 67, 13 d Seymour 66, 3. Alexandra: Johannes (John) Cassee 19, 0.

Terence Livy 19, 1. Ann Argent 29, 2. Match Total 67, 3. Side Points 10. Totals 67, 13.

Seymour: Jim Stephen 30, 2. Dorothy Malin 19, 1. Greg Quillinan 17, 0. Totals 66,3. Seymour VRI 128, 16 d Yea 39, 0. Seymour VRI: Moreno Puppa 53, 2. Robert Rockley 31, 2. Ian Cashill 44, 2. Match Total 128, 6. Side Points 10. Totals 128, 16. Yea: Team 1 10, 0. Team 2 17, 0. Team 3 12, 0. Totals 39, 0.Wallan 92, 16 d Broadford 41, 0. Wallan: Peggy Bell 32, 2. John Coustley 36, 2. Des Lappin 24, 2. Match Total 92, 6. Side Points 10. Totals 92, 16. Broadford: Trevor Gravell 18, 0. John Fitzgerald 9, 0. John Brien 14, 0. Totals 41, 0.

SEYMOUR DISTRICT CRICKET ASSOCIATION SCOREBOARD A-GRADE Tallarook def by Yea Tigers Venue: Tallarook Recreation Reserve Umpire: Paul Kelly Result: Tallarook Lost First Innings Toss won by: Yea Tigers Batted first: Yea Tigers 1st Innings - Yea Tigers M. Steiner, c K. Minter, b L. Marshall .......... 56 *B. Tarran, c K. Winnell, b M. Itter ............. 15 C. Armstrong, c A. Dundon, b W. Dundon .... 54 D. Pell, c D. Fisher, b K. Winnell .................. 44 N. Beattie, lbw b K. Winnell ........................... 8 A. Chisholm, c M. Itter, b K. Winnell ............. 0 +R. Akers, c C. Jones, b K. Winnell ............... 17 A. Butterworth, b A. Dundon .......................... 6 C.A. Malcolm, c C. Muir,, b W. Dundon ........ 2 L. Smith, not out .............................................. 0 M. Waghorn, not out ........................................ 0 Extras (nb 6, w 4, b 3, lb 4) ............................ 17 Total ...................................................... 9/219 (cc) Overs ........................................................... 43.0 FOW: 34 (B. Tarran), 121 (M. Steiner), 145 (C. Armstrong), 162 (N. Beattie), 162 (A. Chisholm), 198 (R. Akers), 213 (D. Pell), 219 (A. Butterworth), 219 (C.A. Malcolm).

Bowling: W. Dundon 8.0-2-2-23, L. Irving 8.11-0-33, A. Dundon 5.5-0-1-27, M. Itter 6.0-0-127, K. Winnell 9.0-1-4-51, L. Marshall 6.0-0-123 1st Innings - Tallarook L. Marshall, c R. Akers, b M. Steiner ............ 6 *L. Irving, c B. Tarran, b M. Steiner ............. 14 J. Smith-Williams, c ?, b M. Steiner .............. 86 M. Itter, c & b C. Armstrong ......................... 21 D. Fisher, st R. Akers, b B. Tarran ................... 2 K. Minter, b C. Armstrong ............................... 6 +C. Muir, run out ............................................ 14 C. Jones, not out ............................................. 25 W. Dundon, c R. Akers, b M. Steiner ............. 4 A. Dundon, c B. Tarran, b A. Chisholm .......... 1 K. Winnell, not out ........................................... 1 Extras (nb 2, w 3, b 1, lb 1) ............................ 7 Total ..................................................... 9/187 (cc) Overs ......................................................... 43.0 FOW: 19 (L. Iriving), 29 (L. Marshall), 86 (M. Itter), 105 (D. Fisher), 116 (K. Minter), 141 (C.

B-GRADE Yea Tigers def Eastern Hill Venue: Yea Recreation Reserve Result: Yea Tigers won First Innings Toss won by: Eastern Hill Batted first: Eastern Hill 1st Innings - Eastern Hill Extras (nb 1, w 10, b 2, lb 2) ........................... 15 Total .............................................................. 51 Overs ............................................................ 20.5 Bowling: A. McSpeerin 6.0-1-0-13, B. Broadway 5.0-0-1-14, L. Beattie 5.0-1-4-15, D. Jannke 4.5-3-5-5.

1st Innings - Yea Tigers *W. Dalton b ................................................... 8 A. Cook, b ....................................................... 6 J. Clavarino, not out ....................................... 11 M. Normington, not out ................................. 17 D. Jannke, dnb A. McSpeerin, dnb L. Beattie, dnb H. Jannke, dnb R. Hargreaves, dnb S. Sid, dnb B. Broadway, dnb Extras (nb 1, w 8, b 10, lb 1) ......................... 20 Total ........................................................... 2/62 Overs ............................................................ 15.0

C-GRADE Puckapunyal Nomads def Alexandra Venue: Puckapunyal Back Oval Result: Puckapunyal Nomads won First Innings Toss won by: Alexandra Batted first: Alexandra 1st Innings - Alexandra B. Waixel, run out .......................................... 27 D.L. Malcolm, c ?, b J. Obame ................... 46 C. Friswell, c J. Mott, b T. Wildin ................. 41 D. Burns, b T. Mott ......................................... 2 D. Crane, b J. Mott ........................................ 18 J. Fishlock, not out ......................................... 27 J. Fulton, b M. Albers ...................................... 7 M. Mawson, not out ........................................ 1 *+D. Waixel, dnb M.B. Church, dnb J. Sloane, dnb J. Geldart, dnb Extras (nb 2, w 5, b 1, lb 2) ........................... 10 Total .................................................. 6/174 (cc) Overs ............................................................ 40.0 FOW: 57 (B. Waixel), 84 (D.L. Malcolm), 90 (D. Burns), 126 (D. Crane), 156 (C. Friswell), 170 (J. Fulton).

Bowling: J. Marshall 8.0-6-0-5, M. Albert 8.02-1-28, T. Mott 8.0-0-1-51, J. Oborne 8.0-0-136, J. Mott 3.0-1-1-9, T. Wildin 5.0-0-1-42.

1st Innings - Puckapunyal Nomads T. Wildin, not out ............................................ 78 J. Marshall, c M.J. Church ............................. 8 B,. Gibson, run out ......................................... 36 R. Deeble, c ? ................................................. 3 L. Deeble, st ? ................................................. 8 J. Oborne, not out ............................................ 9 J. Mott, c ? ...................................................... 19 P. Baxter, dnb T. Mott, dnb M. Albers, dnb R. Chetty, dnb S. Mott, dnb Extras (nb 2, w 8, b 8, lb 6) ............................ 24 Total .......................................................... 5/185 Overs ......................................................... 40.0 FOW: 12 (J. Marshall),. 100 (B. Gibson), 114 (R. Deeble), 122 (L. Deeble), 172 (J. Mott).

Bowling: C. Friswell 8.0-3-0-27, J. Geldart 7.01-2-17, J. Fishlock 5.0-0-0-29, D. Walker 2.0-10-1, D. Crane 4.0-0-0-20, D.L. Malcom 8.0-11-40, R. Waixel 3.0-0-2-20, J. Sloane 3.0-0-017.

SEYMOUR DISTRICT CRICKET ASSOCIATION SCOREBOARD UNDER 16 Yea Tigers def by Eastern Hill Venue: Yea Recreation Reserve Result: Yea Tigers lost First Innings Toss won by: Eastern Hill Batted first: Yea Tigers 1st Innings - Yea Tigers Extras (nb 2, w 14, b 3, lb 0) .......................... 19 Total ............................................................... 49 Overs .......................................................... 22.0 Bowling: F. Rutherford 0.0-0-1-3, R. Gardner 5.0-2-1-9, Z. Wyatt 5.0-2-2-9, N. Godwin 2.0-01-8, S. Thomson 2.0-0-1-6, H. Smith 2.0-0-0-4, J. Speechley 3.0-0-0-4, H. Hager 2.0-1-1-3, O. Munro 1.0-1-0-0.

1st Innings - Eastern Hill Z. Wyatt, retired .............................................. 25 J. Speechley, retired ....................................... 14 H. Munro, lbw b D. Cianter ............................. 0 N. Quigg, b R. Hargreaves ............................. 11 R. Gardiner, not out ......................................... 1 H. Smith, dnb H. Hager, not out ............................................ 11 O. Munro, retired ............................................ 14 N. Godwin, c ?, b L. Halford Molinaro .......... 0 F. Rutherford, dnb S. Thomson, dnb Extras (nb 0, w 7, b 6, lb 1) ............................ 14 Total ............................................................. 3/90 Overs ........................................................... 16.0

UNDER 14 Broadford defAlexandra Venue: Broadford High School Result: Broadford won First Innings Toss won by: Alexandra Batted first: Alexandra 1st Innings -Alexandra Extras (nb 11, w 8, b 7, lb 0) .......................... 26 Total ...................................................... 9/113 (cc) Overs .............................................................. 25.0 Bowling: J. Nolan 4.0-0-1-31, R. Nolan 2.0-0-17,J. Jones 3.0-0-2-21, Z. Kilroy 3.0-0-0-11, D. Teohaere 3.0-0-1-8, C. Hopkins 3.0-0-1-7, E. South 3.0-0-0-5, D. Meek 3.0-0-2-15, S. Kilroy 1.0-0-0-1.

1st Innings - Broadford D. Meek, b ....................................................... 27 D. Teohaere, not out ....................................... 11 C. Hopkins, b ................................................... 1 R. Nolan, not out ............................................. 28 J. Jones, run out ................................................ 1 Z. Kilroy, c ? .................................................. 19 R. Pollock, not out ........................................... 1 J. Nolan, dnb E. South, dnb S. Kilroy, dnb Extras (nb 15, w 7, b 9, lb 0) .......................... 31 Total .......................................................... 5/119 Overs .......................................................... 20.0 FOW: 43 (D. Teohaere), 45 (D. Meek), 46 (C. Hopkins), 47 (J. Jones), 115 (Z. Kilroy).

YEA GOLF CLUB REPORT ■ Royal Yea Summer Gender Competition continued on Wednesday with the ladies continuing to excel.

Winner in the par event with +3 was Cheryl Roberts with Neil Peterson second with +2. Third with +2 on CB was Laraine Callanderwith Russell Wealands fourth on +1.

The ladies won the team average and Laraine Callander won NTP. Ivor Brayley won the Club Award. Progress score sees the Ladies heaps, Men a few behind.

Saturday saw 17 men contest the Monthly Medal with a stroke and putting competition at Royal Yea Golf Club.

Winner of the Medal was Sam Wright (21) with a nett 65. Runner Up was Kevin Coghlan (16) with nett 68 followed by Brad Clements (14) third with nett 69.

NTP on the second was Alan Pell

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and the putting was won by Peter Keast. Bruce Kindred took out the Club Award.

Fiveteen people played 6-9 holes for $5 on Friday night with a sausage sizzle afterwards.

Members and non-members are again invited to play this Friday as well. Hit Off between 4.45pm– 5.45pm for those interested.

- Alan Pell

YEA TIGERS CRICKET CLUB REPORT A-GRADE

■ Saturday saw Yea travel to Tallarook for the second week running in A-Grade.

The Tigers won the toss and had no hesitation in battling first on a terrific pitch. Openers Ben Tarran and Marc Steiner got off to a brisk start, scoring at 4 runs per over, until Tarran was dismissed for 15.

This brought Cam Armstrong to the crease, and together with Steiner they set about laying the platform for a big total. In the 87-run partnership they dealt largely in boundaries, taking advantage of the small dimensions of the Tallarook oval.

Once Steiner (56) and Armstrong (54) were dismissed it gave Darcy Pell the chance for some late power hitting, with his 44 coming at better than a run a ball.

Yea’s innings eventually finished up at 9/219.

In reply Tallarook got off to a shaky start, with Steiner striking twice early to reduce the hosts to 2/29.

Following this Tallarook put together some steady partnerships, chipping away at the total.

Things swing back into Yea’s favour when medium pacers Armstrong and Tarran came on in the middle overs, strangling the batsmen with their tight line and length.

Tallarook looked in the game at 5/141, requiring around 7 runs per over. However a disciplined display from all of Yea’s bowlers meant them finished their allotted overs 32 runs short.

Steiner finished as the pick of the bowlers with 4 wickets, followed by Armstrong with 2.

The win sees Yea jump to the top of the ladder with one game to go before the Christmas break, a two day match starting Saturday against Kilmore.

- Andrew Chisholm

EAST CENTRAL DISTRICT RIFLE ASSOCIATION REPORT

■ The East Central District Rifle Association Inc’s members had a day out on Saturday.

Most travelled to Nagambie to share that club's Christmas shoot and Marty Kelly to Rosedale to contest the Gippsland District Rifle Association’s annual prize shoot and then on Sunday at Rosedale the Lois Osborn Memorial 1000 yard shoot.

Saturday was a great early summer day with lots of sunshine and plenty of wind. North of the Divide at Nagambie an almost perfect day tending on the warm side, while South of the Divide the wind was quite an issue as it began to build on Saturday and then to be very strong and gusty for Sunday ( the day of the 1000 yard shoot) The Nagambie Christmas Shoot is always a fun day out and this year was no exception as the ECDRAjoined in this year’s shoot focused on the 500 yard range.

Graeme Kerr, assisted by David Wallace, was given the privilege of being some of the first to try out the new concrete shooting bench.

The bench is made of brick and concrete designed to withstand the elements and provide a very solid and vibration free shooting bench.

Graeme Kerr gave the bench top score as it proved to be very satisfactory and met the challenge of an all weather easily maintained solid Turn To Page 84 shooting bench.

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● Lindy Burns ■ ABC broadcaster Lindy Burns was due to present one of her final evening shows from The Duck Inn, Marysville, last night (Tues.).

Hosts for the night were local publicans Ashraf and Christine.

Guests for the evening included The Writs and Cures of Bill O’Shea, Katie Miller and Nick Carr.

Local musicians Pans on Fire and Shantalle Matcham were also due to appear on the statewide radio show.

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Cheque presentations as N’Hood Watch closes ■ Yea Neighbourhood Watch will cease operating at the end of the year.

Organisers say the closure is due to “ lack of community interest and involvement”.

Funds raised through the Yea community towards Neighbourhood Watch have been donated back into the local community.

On Monday, Neighbourhood Watch members Cheryl Roberts and Justine Baker made presentations to Yea Community House and Habitat for Humanity to support their projects.

The Facebook page ‘NHW Yea’will remain active with regular updates on crimes and local information.

Neighbourhood Watch is a community based crime prevention program which aims to improve the quality of life within a neighbourhood by minimising preventable crime and promoting closer community ties.

The program relies on the community and the Police working together in a partnership to achieve these aims. Where possible NHW is ● At the Yea Community House presenmanaged on a Local Government Area or Po- tation, from left: Carlie Underhill, Natalie lice Service Area model.

Fulford, Cheryl Roberts and Justine Baker

Paul in Qld

■ Limestone volunteer firefighter Paul Bannan is a member of the District 12 team that has flown to Queensland this week to help fight bushfires.

Eildon progress

■ Declaration of the poll is yet to occur for the state seat of Eildon. Cindy McLeish, 20,268 votes (52.44 per cent) leads Sally Brennan, 18,380 votes (47.56 per cent).

Dinner presentation after Yea carcase section

● Patrick Joyce, Manager of Kelly Angus, and Ian Marshman ■ Local producers gathered for a presentation dinner for the commercial section at the Yea Racecourse last week, after the success of the cattle section at the Yea Show.

The group of steers and heifers that had been judged on the hoof by Duncan Newcomen were transported to Hardwick’s abattoir to be assessed on the hook.

Local farmers and agents commented how valuable feedback was gained from entering this competition with actual figures for Fat, EMA (Eye Muscle Area) and IMF (Intra Muscular Fat) being judged.

Awards made on the night were Medium domestic carcase, Class 1: 1. I. and J. Marshman; 2. P. and K. Tull; 3. R. Girdwood.

Heavy domestic Carcase, Class 2: 1. Kelly Angus; 2. L. and T. Stevens; 3. L. and T. Stevens Champion Carcase, sponsored by Glendaloch Farms, was awarded to Ian and Judy Marshman Ian and Judy had also won the title of champion pen of replacement heifers which was sponsored by Kelly Angus.

- Cindy Coad

● Habitat for Humanity cheque presentation, from left: Graeme Mitchell, Cheryl Roberts, Justine Baker with students from RMIT School of Property, Construction and Project Management. Photos: Contributed. ● McEwen MHR Rob Mitchell spoke about Black Saturday in Federal Parliament this week: “Nothing can ever undo the tragedy and pain experienced in 2009, but what we can do is honour those we lost, as well as those who, through their own pain and loss, galvanised communities, healed scars seen and unseen, and who continue to do that work. They must not be left to carry that burden alone. It is our responisbility, our duty, to stand shoulder to shoulder with commuities affected by natural disaster.”

● Ian and Judy Marshman were presented with the Champion Carcase ribbon sponsored by Glendaloch Farms represented by manager, Les Hall.

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From Page 83 The Christmas shoot itself was focused on “teams” developed by members of both clubs in various classes and the fun began.

The results of the actual shooting are not to hand as this report is submitted and the messages received from the members is they had a heap of fun and everyone shared in the Christmas “loot” (a table covered with Christmas wrapped gifts).

There is always a good humoured banter between the various classes as to which is easiest especially between the optical F classes with their telescopic sights and the open or peep sighted Target Rifles.

The result on the day was that this issue remained unresolved as the telescopic sighted rifles battled the strong mirage they lost most of

the advantage of a magnified aiming mark provided by the telescopic sight.

The day ended with sharing the “loot” and a Christmas afternoon tea where the day was voted a great day out and useful as the ECDRA members tried the new shooting bench.

At Rosedale the conditions were quite different for the annual Gippsland DRA Prize Shoot as the breeze turned into a difficult gusting wind up to gale force at times, The ECDRA representative Marty Kelly made a weekend of it and contested both the Prize Shoot and the Lois Osborn Memorial 1000.

A feature of the 1000 yard shoot is that the prizes are Christmas Hams. Regrettably Marty got close to bringing home a Ham but not close enough in his class of F T/R.

In the 1000 yd shoot. Marty finished 3rd with a 99.3, 8 points behind the winner Don Langhton from Lang Lang with a score of 107.

Marty’s 53.2 was top shot for the first round and a score that Marty would normally regard as low.

The conditions with the wind were difficult especially as its strength built during the day and this is where Marty had a bad time starting with two 4s and then finishing with a 3, X and 5 for a total of 46.1 and 3rd place, well down on his average score but a score that had all the shots on the target.

Keeping the shots on the target at 1000 yards is a feat in itself under challenging weather conditions.

The Gippsland Prize Shoot on Saturday was contested under what can only be described as

difficult wind conditions and Marty’s results were: Match 1 500 yards 54.3 (3rd) Match 2 second 500yds 57.1(2nd) Match 3 600yds 54.1 (2nd) Match 4 the aggregate 165.5 (2nd).

Marty said it had been a difficult weekend and the low scores across the board reflected the testing conditions and he had a notebook full of comments about the range so that next time he can bring home a ham.

Next week shooting for the ECDRA will be at home at the Violet Town Shooting Complex and will include preparation for the ECDRA annual Christmas shoot on December 14.

New shooters are most welcome and as always, members need to check shoot details on www.ecdra.org.au and remember no shooting on days of extreme fire weather.

- Robert Chaffe

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