25 YEARS AGO
TRADERS were asked to pay a voluntary levy for expanding business support and promotion in Warrnambool city.
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TOURIST numbers were found to have slumped dramatically in Portland with a 20 per cent decline reported.
JOB losses in Warrnambool and Camperdown reflected an Australia-wide decline in the textile industry.
SEXUAL assault cases were on the rise in Warrnambool with more than 160 cases investigated in nine months.
MOTORISTS were confused by new traffic lights at the Kelper Street and Raglan Parade intersection in Warrnambool when they were turned on for the first time. A minor accident and several near-misses indicated that drivers were not prepared for the change.
50 YEARS AGO
THE financial statement of Warrnambool Racing Club showed the club incurred a $6226 loss.
ROVER Kevin Leske won the Port Fairy Football Club best-and-fairest award for the 1966 season.
TECHNICAL education in Warrnambool offered a great basis for the future of university education in Western Victoria.
75 YEARS AGO
ROOFS, fences and clothes lines were blown away in gale-force winds that lashed Mortlake for 45 minutes, followed by heavy rain.
AN air-raid test was carried out in Warrnambool.
THE Camperdown Cheese and Butter Factory celebrated its 50th Birthday.
100 YEARS AGO
A RECRUITING rally was held in the Warrnambool Town Hall, calling for more soldiers to sign up for war.
MORE than 8000 people rallied in Melbourne to hold an anti-conscription meeting. Resolutions condemning conscription were passed.
A PICTURE night was held in the Warrnambool Town Hall to raise enough money to provide milk to Australian soldiers in the trenches.
125 YEARS AGO
A SPECIAL train was running to Warrnambool from Hamilton, Port Fairy and Portland for the Villiers Heytesbury Agricultural Association show.