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- The Gazette, May 15, 1973 Four members of family injured

Four members of a Warragul family suffered injuries in a two-car collision at the intersection of Princes Highway and Tarwin Street, Warragul at 10.30 pm last Saturday.

They were Mrs Shirley Freeman of Hope Street, Warragul and her daughters Jenny (16), Valerian (12) and son Ian (8).

Mrs Freeman suffered leg and back injuries and Jenny suffered lacerations and shock.

Valerie and Ian suffered shock.

NEWS IN BRIEF

Warragul Youth Club fencer Janice Reeves (15) reached the semi-finals of the Victorian junior championships in Melbourne last Sunday.

Janeice, daughter of Youth Club instructor, Mr Neil Reeves, performed well in the championships, which were staged at Debney’s Paddock.

In her first match she defeated a former State 15 year old champion in a display full of merit.

Janice was the only member of the WYC fencing group to attend the championships.

Drouin Co-op Butter Factory Co Ltd and Bayles Dairy Co Ltd have increased their current butterfat prices by two cents per pound.

The NEW PRICE is 57 cents per lb butterfat in milk.

The increase is retrospective to July last year.

A Buln Buln shire ball will be held at Drouin later this year.

Organised by the Apex Club of Drouin, the ball will be in aid of the Drouin Kindergarten Association.

The Apex Club, when obtaining the Council’s permission last week for the ball to be a civil function, said the proceeds would help reduce the overdraft the Association had arranged to enable it to buy equipment.

Thieves smashed a lock to enter a building in Radford’s slaughter yards, Warragul last Thursday night, and escaped with the carcass of a pig and two lambs.

Total value of their haul was about $56.