The prospect of year-round trading in Warrnambool was revived. 

Members of the Corangamite Soaring Club made history by completing the first Trans-Australian Glider flight.

The National Farmers Federation were appealing to the government to declare severe drought as a natural disaster.  

Three Warrnambool hotels were considering a strike as they challenged the Liquor Licensing Commission’s decision to prevent extending their trading hours.

District police were still searching for a prisoner who escaped Cooriemungle Prison Farm. 

Councillors were divided about the potential for a joint library service between the town and the shire. 

A giant oil rig arrived in Portland after travelling more than three months.

Camperdown’s 120ft clock was opened to the public, as was Macarthur’s swimming pool. 

Illegal duck shooting was becoming common in the south-west and a warning was issued that action would be taken if caught. 

Penshurst annual show profits were donated to patriotic funds. 

The number of policemen in Warrnambool was reduced to two after it was announced the South Warrnambool Police Station was to be closed. 

A ten-year-old boy drowned after swimming between the viaduct and islands at the mouth of the Merri River. 

The Lands Minister said he would make a special effort to cut the number of fire outbreaks during summer. 

A diving team brought a whaling boat from Melbourne to salvage cargo from the wreck of the ship Fiji. 

Son of the famous author Charles Dickens, Mr A. Tennyson Dickens was to lecture at Warrnambool. 

A Scottish butter merchant visiting the south-west said Victorian butter had a future overseas.