from the Newspaper Files
100 YEARS AGO From The Gazette. January 25 1921 Warragul High School
The Education Department annual scholarship results were announced last week, and it is very gratifying to note that Warragul High School is well to the fore again. Four scholarships have been gained. The successful pupils are Tom Colquhoun (Trafalgar); Keith Shillinglaw (Drouin); Betty Roberts (Warragul) and Thelma Davis (Warragul). The previous year two scholarships were gained and the year preceding that four scholarships were won. The record of ten scholarships in three years is distinctly good. Those scholarships entitle the holders to free tuition for three years and also an allowance of £4 per annum for school expenses, books etc. In other words, it has an equivalent value of £30 to each successful pupil. It is hoped that the results of the University examination showing the successful students from the Warragul High School will be published shortly.
Hospital Carnival
The weekly meeting of the committee was held at the Club Hotel on Wednesday last, Mr T.A. Petit presiding. The reports from the various subcommittees were very favourable indeed. Splendid entries have been received for both the pedestrian and pony events. The committee look forward to having a very successful carnival, and with good weather, there is every prospect of their anticipations being realised.
POLICE WOMEN
In the opinion of the Commissioner of Police, more policewomen are required in Melbourne. Sir John Gellibrand has recommended the addition of six lady members of the force, but the appointments will be dependant on the government supplying the necessary funds.
CRICKET
The Warragul cricketers paid a visit to Garfield last Saturday afternoon. Although the weather was rather on the warm side, a most enjoyable and closely contested game resulted. Warragul just managed to secure victory by the bare margin of two runs – 40 to 38. The Garfield ladies provided afternoon tea for the teams.
The third test match between Australia and England was brough to a conclusion last week on the Adelaide oval, the “Aussies” winning by 119 runs. Australia in the first innings made 354, and 583 in the second – a total of 936. England’s first innings was worth 447. With a deficit of 489 they set to work, but were unequal to the task, being disposed for 370.
50 YEARS AGO
From The Gazette, 26 January 1971
CARELESS ACTS A COMMON CAUSE OF FIRES
Carelessness was believed to be the direct cause of two of four fires in three days in Warragul District last week.
A discarded cigarette butt is believed to have caused a roadside fire on Modella Rd, near Iona, last Thursday.
The fire destroyed about 30 fence posts in a stack near the side of the road before being extinguished by Bunyip Rural and Urban Fire brigade.
The fire was noticed about 12.10 pm/
It was the second ‘cigarette butt fire’ in the Warragul district in six days.
Quick action by firemen stopped a similar fire in the grass near Darnum the previous week.
A fire at the Trafalgar tip las Wednesday was believed to be caused by a person dumping hot briquette ash.
The fire caused a major to Narracan Shire Council employees when it began to burn back under the overburden. The fired was detected at about 1 pm/
A fire – the cause for which is unknown – burnt out several square yards of grass on property owned by South Rd Disposals and Sure Mix Pty Ltd., in Bourke Street, Warragul, late Wednesday.
The fire began at about 2.30 pm and was quicky extinguished by the Warragul Fire Brigade.
Fire destroyed part of a woodshed at the rear of a Neerim South Shop last Tuesday.
The fire is believed to have begun at about 3.50 pm from an incinerator spark.
Youths injured
Two Warragul youths were injured when a car in which they were travelling, crashed into an embankment in a Warragul Street last Wednesday.
The accident occurred at the intersection of Wills and King Streets at about 11pm.
Injured were Brian Stuart Hutchison, 18, of Scenic Rd, Warragul (lacerated head) and Anthony Palchalski, 18 of Henriette St, Warragul (lacerated face).
A third person in the car, Jeffrey Leonard Isles of Pioneer St, Warragul, was not injured.
NOT “ENEMY TANK”
The vehicle seen on the roads in the Northern Part of Buln Buln Shire recently was a personnel carrier, and not a tank, military authorities advised Buln Buln Shire Council at its meeting at Drouin last week.
The authorities were replying to a letter from the Shire engineer, Mr G. Roberts, about the use of a tracked vehicle on the roads.
The reply said that because the vehicles low ground pressure, which was less than that of walking man, permission was not needed to move this type of vehicle over public roads.
The council had taken the matter up with the AMF after Cr. J. Delzoppo, who was not at the meeting last week had reported that an Army tank had been seen in the district.
“It appeared to be a tank, but there it is,” the Shire President Cr H.F. McCay commented.