YNN-49 December 2015

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About the Community and for the Community
December 2015
YNAG would like to thank all our loyal deliverers:
Robyn, David R, David H, Linda, Judy L, Colleen, Fiona, Arden,
Lizzy, Armenell, George, Judy W, Lyn, Bill, and Arthur.
Also a huge thankyou to Meredith, Jacinta and EnergyAustraila
for all the printing and support they give us.
We would also like to thank you the readers
and hope you have enjoyed reading the Community News
throughout the year.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Our Christmas Festival starts with
Christmas Carols 7.00pm December 1th at Monash Hall,
CFA’s Santa Lolly Run from 4pm on Xmas eve,
Yallourn North Australia Day Tuesday 26th January 2016
from 8am at Lions Park .
Please note there will be no News in January so if
you want anything in the next issue please send
it through by the 20th of that month.
Yallourn North Community News - December 2015 - Page 2
Summary of Minutes of Meeting 10th November 2015.
Police Report
Leading Senior Constable Brett Godden has resumed duties in the Latrobe Valley. He has advised that there are new reporting
rules that will affect reports coming to YNAG.
Council Liaison Report – Liam Bantock
A new mayor has been elected - Cr Michael Rossiter . Sharon Gibson has been elected deputy.
Government funding is now available for community shading infrastructure as an initiative towards addressing cancer issues. On
Nov 24 an Aboriginal Youth Night is to be held. A Bring your Bills Day which will have input from Gippsland Community Legal
Service, Centrelink and Anglicare is to be held on 17th November at the Morwell Centrelink Office. Council is working to compiling
a municipality wide plan for land use. Community input is being sought. More information is available
at www.latrobe.vic.gov.au/liveworklatrobe
LEAP
There wasn’t a quorum at the last meeting. Mark King emphasized the importance of each Yallourn North home having a safety
plan The 2016 LEAP calendars are now ready.
Christmas Festival.
Deanna and Gabby have done a power of work in coordinating a sequence of great events – see the Festival Calendar to see
the wonderful line-up. Neither YNAG nor the Christmas Festival sub- committee is auspicing a series of events component.
Insurance.
Insurance for volunteers is being further explored.
Christmas Festival Decorations
Money has been allocated for the purchase of decorations for the interior of the hall.
Correspondence
Notification was received that YNAG had been successful with its application for a grant that will go towards the purchase of an
amplifier system that is suited to outdoor and indoor use at community events.
General Business.
YNAG discussed the replacement of bollards on the Reserve Street frontage of the Lions Park. Community opinion will be sought
via the newsletter and electronic media.
Garden Competition.
Judging will take place during the week beginning November 16th.
Miscellaneous.
Mention was made regarding the flooding hazard on the fire brigade practice track at the museum The condition of the Fire
Brigade was also reported.
Next meeting 7pm December 8th at Monash Hall. New Members always welcome .
Existing
Proposed Design
An invitation is extended to all to join the community for - Breakfast in the Lions Park
Tuesday January 26th 2016 8am Start. Flag Raising 8.45am
All welcome, renew Friendships and make new ones.
YALLOURN NORTH LEAP CALENDARS FOR 2016
are now available for $5.00 a copy from the following:
Foodworks : Yallourn North Primary School. : Old
Brown Coal Mine Museum : CFA And the Christmas
Market at Primary School.
Of recent years there have been a number of families throughout the
township who go to great lengths to decorate their homes. The Yallourn
North Action Group is encouraging more families to get involved this year.
Based on the success of the Christmas Festival last year, the group is in the
midst of planning
the event for
December 1 – 12.
The group feels that
more illuminated
homesteads will be
an extra draw card
for visitors. So
whether you are a
home owner, a
renter, a local
business owner, or participate with one of the town’s many clubs, gather your
family and friends and decorate your homes in 2015. It will create a great
vibe and illustrate to the wider community that Yallourn North is the
place to be this Christmas! For more details on the
Yallourn North Christmas Festival, visit the facebook
page, or the events calendar of this website.
www.facebook.comYallournNorthChristmasFestival
http://yallournnorth.vic.au/events-list/
UNDERCOVER OPERATION BY POLICE AT YALLOURN
The following article was published in the ‘The Argus’ and reported on the detection work of two Victorian policeman in a covert
operation at Yallourn in 1923. Working undercover, the officers pretended to be workers while gathering information about the sly-grog
and illegal gaming rackets in the camps at Yallourn. Some readers may not be aware that it took about seven years for the ‘new’ town of
Yallourn to acquire a hotel (1928); and with hundreds of thirsty workers, at the end of long day of ‘hard labour’, it is little wonder that
sly-grog shops did a roaring trade, in those early years of settlement.
Such news articles must have fired the imagination of city people about life in the camps at Yallourn. The stories emanating from the
‘wild times’ in Yallourn and the role that police agents played in ‘busting’ the bootleggers and racketeers in the camps would have made
for exciting reading and set tongues wagging.
THE ARGUS MARCH 23rd 1923
GAMBLING SCHOOLS RAIDED. POLICE WORK AS LABOURERS.
ARRESTS AT YALLOURN.
Information was recently received by the police that sly grog selling and gambling were rampant among a section of the men employed at
the Electricity Commission's works at Yallourn and at the Morwell brown coal field. The men are stated to be earning high wages, some
of them squander their money in gambling schools and in sly-grog shops, which have been established in various parts of the district
and which do a brisk trade. About two weeks ago two special constables
were sent to Yallourn in disguise, and were given employment at the works
Constable L Kennedy (Policeman at Yallourn)
of the Electricity Commission as labourers. They mixed freely with the
with William Dowd (SEC Pay Clerk)
men. The constables became popular and took an active part in the
gambling schools and found no difficulty in obtaining supplies of liquor in
the various camps and sly grog shops. Last week they completed the
collection of evidence against offenders at Yallourn and suggested that the
police should visit the town in motor-cars and raid certain houses and
camps. On Monday morning Senior Detective McCann and Plain-clothes
Constable Cavanagh and two constables left Melbourne for Yallourn in a
motor-car. They were joined at Yallourn by Constable Kennedy and five
other constables. The party was separated into different sections, and
several camps and houses were raided and 10 men arrested….
Footnotes.
1. The details about the workers charged with ‘illegal betting, keeping a sly
grog establishment and a common gaming house’ were also published in
‘The Traralgon Record’ (30th March 1923).
2. The raid at Yallourn made national news as the story spread far and
wide; the ‘Western Star and Roma Advertiser’, a newspaper which
circulated in Toowoomba (Queensland), gave prominence to the police
action with …
“GAMBLING SCHOOLS RAIDED-POLICE WORK AS LABOURERS…
Information was recently received by the police that sly grog selling, and
gambling were rampant among a section of the men employed at the Electricity Commission's works at Yallourn and at the Morwell
brown coal field, Victoria. … 3. Charges of sly-grog selling were laid against three of the men. 4. Six of the arrested workers were
charged with having kept a ‘house for the purpose of betting.’
5. One man was charged with the offence of ‘having sold lottery tickets.’ 6. It is documented that the men appeared before the Police
Court (Petty Sessions) at Morwell on April 17th in 1923.
7. The full names of the arrested men were published and according to a report in ‘The Traralgon Record’ the men “…
were allowed out on bail.”
8. According to the Old Brown Coal Museum website, Constable Kennedy, mentioned in the
‘The Argus’ newspaper report, had a strong reputation for dealing with lawbreakers…
“Constable Kennedy was the second Police Officer to be stationed at the Yallourn Western
Camp. Said to be built like a ‘brick out-house’, he was fearless in dealing with any trouble
makers in the camps.” 9. In those early days of the camps, the sale of sly-grog, at one shilling a
bottle, was a lucrative enterprise for the ‘bootleggers.’
10. It is believed that the bottled beer was conveyed from Morwell and then sold illegally at various points throughout or near the camps at
Yallourn. It is known that one ‘racketeer’ had set up his
sly grog and gambling shanty in the bush quite close to
the camp huts.
11. Reports regarding police raids on sly-grog and betting
shops were common in the newspapers of that period.
One sensational story regarding another police raid at
Yallourn in 1925 reported that …
“There was a sensational occurrence at Yallourn last night
during a police raid. The raid was being conducted on
premises where sly grog selling was alleged to have been
carried on. Two men and one woman had been charged
with sly grog selling and. a man with keeping a gaming
house. An attempt was made during the raid to blow up
half of the premises. A plug of gelignite was exploded and
a large hole was blown in the ground but no other damage
Yallourn Hotel 1920’s
was done nor was anyone Injured.” ‘
Daily Advertiser’ (Wagga Wagga) on September 8th 1925.
12. ‘Two-Up’ was the most popular form of gambling in the camps and it is documented in ‘To Yallourn with Love’ that… “Many of
hundreds of pounds changed hands, particularly on pay night …” Page: 11. 13. In 1927 an article in the ‘Perth Mirror’ stated that the men of
the camps at Yallourn had raised a considerable sum of money for the local children to enjoy a seaside picnic at Mordialloc. Some £100
(pounds) had been collected by the workers by cashing in their empty beer bottles or ‘dead marines’ (as they were often called in earlier
times) … “A new use has been found for empty beer
West Camp 1922
bottles at Yallourn camps. When the next battalion of
dead marines go on parade the revenue from the sale will
go to swell the Yallourn children's picnic fund. About
£100 will be needed to give the kiddies a trip to
Mordialloc. Formerly the bottles were collected by camp
attendants. Now the maintenance officer has issued a
mandate to the attendants that bottles must be collected
as usual, but the revenue would go to the picnic fund.”
December 3rd 1927.
14. The opening of the Yallourn Hotel, in October 1928
was said to have brought about the rapid demise of sly
grog-running in Yallourn. The first licensee of the
Yallourn Hotel was George Dixon-Brown.
Mr Dixon-Brown managed the hotel for more than 30
years; and in that era, the hotel gained a fine
reputation for its standard of accommodation, service and
food… “During the reign of the Dickson-Browns the hotel registered the highest sales of beer in Victoria.
“To Yallourn with Love’ Page:50. Thanks to Julie and the Virtual Yallourn site for their article.
HAUNTED HILLS HAPPENINGS
New Smoking Bans around Schools
Yallourn Association – visit Virtual Yallourn (www.virtualyallourn.com) to see for yourself why it won a Commendation Award
from the Royal Historical Society in October. While you’re there, view the old SEC Magazines (150+ from 60s, 70s & 80s) – just click
on Magazines at the top, or scroll down through the latest additions.
LATEST: FROM THE NEWSPAPERS – 1947 Funding Announced for Yallourn’s New Kindergarten. (Use the top tab
“Search”, type “newspaper”, press ‘Enter’ and it will bring up everything with that name in its title.)
We wish everyone at Yallourn North and surrounding districts a very happy and safe Christmas and New Year.
We would love to see you all at our YALLOURN REUNION on Saturday, 5 March 2016 – for more information on this
and/or to join Yallourn Association, please contact Julie by email - julie@yallourn.org, by post - P O Box 1413, Frankston
Vic 3199 or visit www.yallourn.org.
WANTED:
a community minded person, to support Malcolm Paulet should our flag need to
be lowered to honour the passing of a resident of Yallourn North.
Contact Malcolm on 51 671 591.
Don’t forget that the CFA’s Santa Lolly Run
will be going around town on Christmas Eve,
It will again be held from 4pm.
Monash Hall is back in VOGUE with massive amounts of bookings to see the out the year!
And plenty getting locked in for 2016. So book your function now so you don't miss out!!
Contact: BILL: 0409 256 006 or ALICA: 0409 426 347
www.facebook.com/monashhall
The Yallourn North Hall and Recreation Reserve committee are looking to give names to the town’s sporting assets to
make them easier to identify. And recommendation has been towards naming them after prominent Yallourn North
current or former residents who have a close relationship with the area. One area in
discussion is the Reserve Street Oval, and the other is the Tennis Court Reserve Corner.
Some suggestions have been put forward already, but we’d love to hear from you.
Who would you like them named after, and why? Are there other
areas you feel deserving of an official name also? Let us know below and send it in:
Let’s Name the Reserves:
(Date Extended - Due 31st December 2015)
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Send to yallournnorthvic@gmail.com, or drop it off at the drop boxes at the op-shop, or 23rd Third Street.
What's a Rover?
Scouts Australia website says: Rover, n. a male or female Homo
sapiens aged between 18 and 25 years old, dedicated to fun and adventure, whilst serving the community in the
Scouting way.
Rovers a Youth Section in the Scouting Movement for young adults. By taking part in the many opportunities available
to you as a Rover you will experience fun, fellowship and personal growth.
Rovers meet as a Crew, with our crew known as Capstaff and participate in a variety of activities. These activities offer
you the opportunity to mix socially, push yourself physically, challenge yourself mentally and develop spiritually. Each
Crew is different and chooses the activities that suit its members the most.
Joining a Rover Crew can open doors to new friendships, fun, adventure and some unforgettable experiences while at
the same time developing your leadership and organisational skills.
The Rover motto is a simple one - "Service". Rovering helps develop leadership abilities and an appreciation of the
value of helping other people, through service activities, both within Scouting and in the wider community.
No other leisure-time activity offers as much.... take the plunge, and try Rovers!
So what next? Well if you have decided that the above sounds interesting, get in touch with us, The Capstaff Rover
Crew, our base is at the 1st Newborough Scout Group in Torres St where we meet when not out and about. We have
members who travel from all the communities between Willow Grove & Trafalgar to the West and Traralgon to the
East. To find out what we are up to you can call David on 0409015662 or visit our Facebook public group that can be
found by searching Capstaff Rover Crew.
I have for sale a 4 handset cordless
phone with digital answering machine
and 50 number memory. It has user
manual and is just over 12 months old.
I am upgrading to a different phone. It
had 600mah batteries in it but I upgraded
these to 1350mah for longer talk time.
Nothing wrong with it, I just want a different phone.
$50.00 firm. Ring Gary 5167 1488 and if not home leave
a message.
Body Beautiful beauty and
massage specialist. Focusing on spray tan,
waxing, and remedial massage, the salon
is more than capable to assist with your
beauty needs. Dedicated beautician
Kylee is also able to assist with makeup
for weddings, formals, or just for kids
parties and Halloween. If you are after a
pamper, a wax, or just after a relaxing
massage, Body Beautiful is more than up
to the task. Give them a call today!
Phone: 0402 900 145
28 Rossmore Avenue Yallourn North
Ensure your solar panels are
operating at their peak performance
by getting them regularly cleaned.
Bails Solar Panel Cleaning will get
them spotless and operating at their
best output for you. They can do
residential properties, farm houses,
and commercial buildings with no
problems at all. No chemicals. No
detergents. Just ultra clean water to
ensure your panels are generating at
their maximum to keep your
electricity bills low! Covering all of
Gippsland, get in touch today.
Certified Test and Tagger Rob Dawson
is ready and able to test any portable
plugin electrical device you have.
From IEC leads, RCD safety switches,
tools, and other plugin appliances, they
will be tested and tagged in accordance
with Australian Standards AS/NZ 37602010. So don’t risk your safety. Get your
electrical gear tested today!
Phone: 0459 150 812
24 Anderson Avenue Yallourn North
With 20 years experience Nuggies are experts in all areas of metal roof installation, and
are more than capable to handle your new build, refit, or restoration. They are also
experts in, Laserlite, Spouting, Guttering, Fascias, Skylights, or any other roof plumbing
upgrade that you might need to undertake. You may be just installing a veranda or
pergola, or needing to re-roof your entire home. Either way, Nuggies Roofing and
Plumbing are the plumbers for you. Give them a call today!
Phone: 0418 313 302
Tanjil East Tree Services
is more than capable of handling all your tree lopping needs. Whether you
want a large tree removed or felled, stumps ground out, storm damage
Cleanup, just a few branches lopped off your favorite tree, or even a load of
mulch for your garden, Tanjil East Tree Services is up to the task. They are
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Give Mark a call today! Phone: 0412 738 957
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YALLOURN NORTH
ACTION GROUP
7.00pm on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at Monash Hall.
Contact Margaret on Ph; 5167 1643
SPINNERS GROUP
Tuesday’s at the Fire Station. Contact Judy on Ph; 5167 1834.
CARPET BOWLS
7.15pm on Friday’s at the Bowling Club, cost $3.00 Contact Frank on 5167 1565.
PLAYGROUP
Contact Lauren (President) on 0408 129 075.
SENIOR CITIZENS
10.00am on Wednesday’s at the Bowling Club Contact Jan on 5127 6825
KNOW YOUR BIBLE
10.00am on Thursday’s during school term at various homes.
Contact Heather on Ph; 5167 1120.
HISTORICAL SOCETY 1.00pm on the 3rd Monday of each month at the Old Brown Coal Mine
Museum. Contact Anne on 5127 3283.
ANGLING CLUB
Meeting dates are the third Wednesday of every second month at 7.00pm with the
AGM third Wednesday of July at 7.00pm at Rossmore Hotel Lounge.
Contact Craig on 0447 153 731
FIRE BRIGADE
7:00pm on the 3rd Monday of each month at the Yallourn North Fire Brigade.
LOCAL EMERGENCY
ACTION PLAN
4th Tuesday of the Month, 7.00-8.30pm at the Fire Brigade. All residents are
welcome to attend and participate in preparing our LEAP. Contact Kylie Suich on
0417 058 014
CRICKET CLUB
Please contact Gil for more details on 5167 1338 / 0423 201 243
SCHOOL COUNCIL
7 Meetings per year. Contact Margaret on 5167 1233
FOOTBALL/NETBALL
2nd Tuesday of the month at 7:30pm. Contact Kyme on 0419 671 776
JUNIOR FOOTY
Contact Kat on 0455 446 089
ST JAMES ANGLICAN 1st Saturday in the month at 6.00pm. / ST BRIGID’S CATHOLIC Each
Saturday evening at 5.00pm. / UNITING CHURCH Each Sunday at 9.00am.
The Community News is presented by Yallourn North Action Group and kindly printed by EnergyAustraila
and sponsored by Latrobe City. Comments contained in this newsletter are not necessarily those of the editor.
YALLOURN NORTH ACTION GROUP (YNAG)
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