From the Newspaper Files 100 YEARS AGO Women’s vote on Prohibition

West Gippsland October 19,, 1920.

Gazette –

A full meeting of the Anti-Liquor League was held on Wednesday last.

Rev. W. J. Williams presided. The secretary reported a good organisation at Buln Buln, which was doing fine work. The decision of the soldiers in abolishing the bar from Anzac House was a matter of congratulations and encouragement.

As the poll is to be taken on Thursday next it was decided that a committee of ladies be in attendance at the vestry of the Church of Christ (kindly at the League’s disposal) where young children may be left in competent hands in order to give mothers more freedom to record their vote and any information will be gladly given.

Flower Show

Tuesday,

The Warragul Horticultural Society will hold its annual show early next month when it is anticipated there will be a record show of flowers, and especially roses.

Several alterations have been made in the schedule of prizes, and a new vegetable section has been introduced.

The recent warm weather has had the effect of forcing on blooms, especially roses, and, as on other occasions, some lovers of the garden are already bewailing the fact that the show is still a fortnight off.

The profits of the exhibition this year will be divided with the Warragul District Hospital.

SPORTS MEET

The inaugural meeting of the Gippsland High Schools’ Sports Association was held in Warragul on Wednesday last, and was a great success.

The movement was initiated by the Principal (Mr. Thos. F. Scott, M. A.) and staff at the Warragul High School for the purpose of creating among the scholars of the High Schools of Gippsland that esprit de corps and pride in the school records, which is such a distinguishing and valuable feature in the life and work of our great public schools in the metropolis.

The various examinations afforded a reliable test of the mental and intellectual calibre of the scholars of the different schools, and it was thought desirable to supplement this with a similar incentive to excel in the realm of sport.

Warragul saw a large influx of scholars and their parents from Bairnsdale, Sale, Traralgon, Berwick and Dandenong.

The east and west special trains from Bairnsdale and Dandenong were loaded with their juvenile freight, and on emerging from the station the streams of hundreds of young people with their gaily flying colours, made quite an impression in the ordinary life of the town.

50 YEARS AGO

Warragul Gazette – Tuesday, October 20, 1970.

GALA WEEKEND AHEAD

The finish of the 1970 Sun Tour cycle race next Sunday afternoon will climax a thrilling and important week for Warragul.

The nine-day tour for professional cyclists will end at Warragul Showground where one of Gippsland’s biggest-ever sports carnivals will be staged.

The spotlight has been focussed on Warragul since the announcement last month of the Premier Town Award.

Events this week have already given, and will give, Warragul wide publicity and promotion.

The Central Gippsland Jersey Cattle Club’s Jersey Fair last Friday was rated one of the bestever staged in country Victoria.

Warragul District Greyhound Racing Club’s entrant in the 1971 Miss Victoria Quest – Miss Corinne Collins – was last night named “Miss Victoria Charity Queen 1971”.

Next Saturday, hundreds of district residents will participate in a 15-mile “bush walkathon” at Labertouche to raise thousands of dollars for the Save the Children Fund and Community Aid Abroad.