A PUBLIC rally was staged along Geelong's Moorabool Street amid the Pyramid debacle with a petition organised in Warrnambool by investor Doreen Jones.

FOLLOWING tense Pyramid negotiations, the Farrow Corporation was set to be sold in whole or part following consultation with Premier John Cain.

FEDERAL Communications Minister Kim Beazley accepted an invitation to open new community radio station 3WAY FM later in 1990.

RESIDENTS in west Warrnambool vented their frustration after houses around the Morriss Road and Helpmann Court neighbourhoods were flooded.

A MOVE to set up an Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) radio station in Warrnambool servicing south-west Victoria was likely to be delayed due budgetary constraints.

A DOOR-KNOCK collection for cancer research raised £1750 ($44,500 in 2015 dollars, adjusted for inflation) from the Warrnambool community in only one weekend. It was the fifth major appeal for the Cancer Foundation for the 1965 calendar year.

THE first consignment of bulk tallow left Warrnambool’s municipal abattoirs and sent to Melbourne via rail instead of being shipped in 44-gallon drums.

COBDEN Football Club withdrew from the Hampden League a fortnight before the finals were scheduled to begin. The club committee decided that since the team had no chance of getting into the top four, it was save the league expense.

STUDENTS at Warrnambool High School planted more than 300 pine trees at the school’s Wangoom plantation.

WINTER rainfall was of a satisfactory quantity for Western District farmers with landholders around the Koroit, Hawkesdale and Port Fairy districts reporting good tallies.

A CHARITY football match was staged in Warrnambool in aid of Western District soldiers fighting in the Great War.