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Tuesday 29 July 2014
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Chinese history makes its mark THE first Chinese burial in the Sorrento Cemetery was recognised by The Sorrento Cemetery Trust with a commemorative sign placed beside the grave of (Charles) Ah Foo this month. In June 1887, Ah Foo’s name was the third registered burial in the then newly created Sorrento Cemetery at the end of Normanby Rd, Sorrento. Peninsula history enthusiast Peter Munro had the idea to create a graveside sign board after visiting the isolated grave site while conducting walking tours of the Sorrento Cemetery. “The gravesite is unique in that it was sited several hundred metres away from the original denominational sections of the cemetery,” Mr Munro said. For several months, Peter Munro with the help of trust secretary Joan Hoskins, and Melbourne Chinese Museum’s curator Dr Sophie Couchman, painstakingly constructed a text for the sign board about the history of Chinese in early Victoria and on the peninsula. “Details of Ah Foo’s life remain sketchy but delving into a magisterial inquiry into his death certainly unravelled some of the mystery,” Peter said. Ah Foo’s death certificate which is highlighted on the board, lists him as a quarryman, indicating that he probably worked on any one of a number of lime kilns in the area at the time of his death. Contact the Sorrento Visitor Service on 5984 1478 for further information about the Sorrento Cemetery. Chinese sign: Sorrento Cemetery Trust member Dr Jennifer Took, history buff Peter Munro and trust president Joan Hoskins at Sorrento Cemetery. Picture: Yanni
Record field for Red Hill poll David Harrison david@mpnews.com.au RED Hill ward voters will have a shire record 17 candidates to choose from when they cast their ballots for a new councillor on 23 August. The long list of names on the ballot paper is seen as a major win for the democratic process which in 2008 saw candidates in six of the then 11 single-councillor shire wards returned uncontested.
Former Red Hill councillor Frank Martin entered council unopposed that year. He faced two opponents in 2012, one of whom is standing again this time. He resigned recently because of ill health. This election’s huge field is a disparate group, including two former councillors, a retired County Court judge, an accountant and a microbiologist. The poll result could have several profound consequences for Morning-
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ton Peninsula Shire. With Red Hill ward vacant, councillors are stalemated at five-all on crucial issues, including the site for Rosebud’s proposed Southern Peninsula Aquatic Centre (SPA). The new Red Hill ward councillor opposing building SPA on the foreshore, or opposing building it at all, could kill the project. More generally, the long 6-5 dominance of the councillor group led by David Gibb and Anne Shaw could
end, opening up a more collegiate voting era in what has, on major issues, such as development, been a bitter division of views. Cr Martin was on most issues a Gibb-Shaw ally. Several candidates have already expressed concern about the shire’s financial strategy, especially the growing debt burden, which is being exacerbated by the spiralling cost of the SPA. The recently approved 2014-15 shire budget scraped in by five votes to four over concerns about borrowings.
At the 2012 election less than 70 per cent of eligible voters – 8516 of the 12,349 (now 12,509) – cast a vote, 198 of them donkey votes. As was the case then, some 4000 eligible voters live elsewhere, most of them in Melbourne’s leafy eastern and southern suburbs. Canny candidates are writing to these voters, who comprise nearly one-third of the Red Hill electoral roll, to maximise their election prospects. Continued Page 6
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