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Tuesday 14 April 2015
5973 6424 or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au Huge sacrifice: Constable Steven Newland remembers police relative lost at Anzac. Picture: Craig Sillitoe, Courtesy Police Life
A family remembers JUST as he is every Anzac Day, Constable Steven Newland will be at the Frankston Dawn Service with his dad, brother and three uncles. They go to pay their respects to those who died in World War One - but this year the service has extra meaning for them. In October, Constable Newland was told by Victoria Police’s Historical Services that his great grandmother’s uncle, Sergeant Herbert Leslie Newland, was one of 138 Victoria Police officers who served in the war. Sergeant Newland, who joined in 1912, was among the troops who left Melbourne in the first convoy in late 1914. He served as a bombardier with the 1st Division Artillery and returned home in October, 1918. He was reappointed into Victoria Police on April 1 1919. Constable Newland said it was a “shock and nice surprise� to find out someone in his family had served with Victoria Police. “I knew there were four brothers in the family who served in World War I but didn’t know much about them and nothing about Herbert being a police officer before and after he went to war.� Constable Newland, who works at Rosebud Police Station, had contemplated a career with the Australian Armed Forces before joining Victoria Police in January last year. “I had gone through the recruitment process and was only a signature away from joining the army but decided I wanted a job where I could go home to my family each night,� he said. “I always wanted to serve the community and decided policing was a better option for me. Herbert, like many others, made a huge sacrifice leaving his wife and two children at home to fight for his country.� To celebrate the Anzac Centenary, the Victoria Police Museum will launch an exhibition in June on Victoria Police officers who went to war. Police Life Magazine
Reject resort plan: residents Mike Hast mike@mpnews.com.au CAPE Schanck residents opposed to the proposed RACV resort expansion have called on shire councillors to reject the $135 million, five-storey, almost 30-metre high complex off Boneo Rd. Opponents of the planned building have dubbed it “Ayers Rock� and “the mothership�. They have formed an alliance to lobby councillors as well as
push the RACV to alter its plans for a building they say does not conform to the planning scheme for the precinct, which includes more than 200 homes and two golf courses. They are concerned about increased traffic, noise from the resort and the bulk of the building. About 30-40 houses would overlook the resort. It would be visible from Boneo Rd, several holes on the National Golf Course, Gunnamatta Beach and Bass Strait. The alliance includes resort
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neighbours, Friends of Cape Schanck, Moonah Estate Owners Corporation, and National Drive Residents Group. RACV wants to demolish the existing clubhouse and construct a building to accommodate 650 conference delegates, up from the existing 250 limit. The auto club says it wants to build five storeys to reduce the footprint and environmental impact. But opponents claim the plan to build 120 rooms to cater for 650 delegates, a restaurant for 140 people and a cafe
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for 44 people “clearly fails to meet the requirements of the Incorporated Document and the Mornington Peninsula Planning Scheme�. (The Incorporated Document is the precinct’s own planning scheme, created 30 years ago when Cape Country Club was approved by the Shire of Flinders. RACV bought the resort in December 2005.) The alliance says the shire’s planning scheme’s objectives include “encouraging tourism and recreation
uses that minimise the adverse impacts on the amenity of local residents�. “All buildings and works must be designed to contribute to the existing landscape character and should not seek to dominate, limit or reduce views available from public areas, including roadsides. “The combination of the siting of the building, its scale and visual prominence does not ‘minimise adverse amenity impacts on existing dwellings’. Continued Page 12
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