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Rick Alabaster’s Australia Fair Grand Concert Organ will be on display at the Parklea Pakenham Show Society’s Annual Agricultural Show.
Rick Alabaster’s Australia Fair Grand Concert Organ is set to be paired up with Arthur Goddens’ beautifully restored 1912 Ruston Proctor Steam Showman’s Engine, at the Parklea Pakenham Show Society’s Annual Agricultural Show on Saturday 19 March. This combination was common in England and Europe up until the 1950s, as the showman’s engine would pull an operators’ road train of attractons from village to village. Once uncoupled and set up, a belt would be attached from the engine’s flywheel to the generator, to run the amusements and provide lighting at night. It plays traditional English and European fairground music that provide a unique carnival atmosphere to outdoor events. The Parklea Pakenham Annual Agricultural Show will be held at PB Ronald Reserve, Pakenham on Saturday 19 March from 9am. Read more on page 5
Roberts’ retrial By Karen Sweeney, AAP Staking out a possible armed robbery target in August 1998, Sergeant Gary Silk and Senior Constable Rodney Miller spotted a suspicious car. They left their spot near the Silky Emperor, a Chinese restaurant in Warrigal Road, Moorabbin and followed the blue Hyundai around the corner into Cochranes Road.
The goal was to capture two men behind 10 armed robberies since March that year. Moments later Sgt Silk lay dead on the grassy verge and Sen Const Miller was dying in the driveway of the Silky Emperor. Jason Joseph Roberts,now facing a retrial, has pleaded not guilty to their murders. He admitted involvement in 10 armed robberies, the first committed when he was 17. He is now 41.
Prosecutor Ben Ihle QC said on Tuesday that robbery victims described Roberts, from Cranbourne, as the more subservient of the robbers, while the other man, Bandali Debs of Narre Warren was older and more in charge. Roberts’ barrister David Hallowes SC is expected to argue that his client did not commit the murders because he was not there in the early hours of August 16, 1998 when the officers were killed.
Mr Ihle said the Silky Emperor was a probable target and the men had a tendency to carry out robberies requiring at least two armed people, so it was “highly improbable“ Debs would go alone. He said the evidence suggests they had a powerful motive to avoid detection when stopped on Cochranes Road soon after midnight on 16 August , 1988. Continued page 8
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