50 YEARS AGO
Warragul Gazette – Tuesday, July 7, 1970.
No farm quotas by factory yet
Petersville Milk Products Pty Ltd has no immediate intention of enforcing individual quotas on farmers during the 1970-71 season.
However, the company’s policy will be to discourage suppliers who intend to deliver more milk and a reluctance to accept new suppliers.
The company’s Gippsland field officer Mr S. Farmer told Warragul branch members of the Victorian Farmers’ Union this at their meeting.
Mr Farmer said that although the situation in regard to 1970-71 production had changed rapidly in the past month, his company would not enforce individual farm quotas unless directed.
He said the company was able to dispose of all dairy products it could produce in the next year but, because the problem faced the industry as a whole, it would support the current proposals to curb production.
COUNCIL WILL PRESS FOR EARLY START ON BYPASS
Queen Street businessmen who met Warragul Council at a special meeting gained an undertaking that the council would press for early construction of a bypass highway.
West Riding representative Cr H. R. Strugnell gave notice of motion to rescind a Council resolution approving Country Roads Board plans for reconstruction of the section of Queen St from Toorak Ave. to Smith St.
After hearing representatives of the businessmen, who petitioned Council to reverse its stand on the Queen St project, the shire council agreed to seek a deputation to the Board.
Buln Buln Council and the petitioners will be asked to help form the deputation, which will seek “to expedite the bypass”.
The Queen St project, for which no official cost estimate has been given, is expected to cost between $133,000 and $200,000.
The Board proposes to reconstruct the entire Toorak Ave–Smith St section, separating traffic by a median strip which will be 15 feet wide at its widest point.
A section of the highway will be split level, with the northern side higher than the southern lanes.
Speaking for the petitioners, Mr R. J. Long said that heavy through traffic on the highway was depressing business and lane values in Queen St.
The CRB estimated that the bypass would eliminate 40 per cent of traffic currently passing through Warragul.
Spectators in incident
Several spectators were involved in a fracas after the Ellinbank and Hallora-Strzelecki football match.
Several players were involved in a melee in the centre of the ground after the final siren.
As the teams left the ground, a fracas descended near the dressing rooms.
Several spectators, including women, were involved.
Hallora-Strzelecki, second on the EDFL ladder, won the match by 14 points from Ellinbank, sixth.