Work was underway to clean an oil spill along the south-west coast. It was believed a passing ship had leaked the pollutant. 

Warrnambool won the Victorian country basketball championship for the first time. 

At least 12 students avoided criminal charges following a vandalism rampage at the Heywood and District Secondary College. 

South-west churches lead an attack on Sunday trading, claiming it would threaten residents’ quality of life. 

A slaughtered south-west steer was infected with the highly contagious tuberculosis. 

Strong protests were voiced in Warrnambool to discuss the state government’s proposed Stamps Act. 

A recommendation that Hampden Football League admission charges be increased from 40 to 45 cents was defeated at a meeting in Terang. 

A Glenfyne man who had a blood alcohol reading of .22 was fined $40 in Koroit court. 

Thirty sheep were killed when a semi-trailer overturned at Byaduk. 

A letter from ratepayers association to the Warrnambool council complained that money used for patching roads was not being used properly. 

Several Warrnambool men were fined five pounds for brawling in the street. 

A Hordern Vale man found a message in a bottle while walking on a beach, one mile from Cape Otway.

The message that read, “All well,” was thrown from a troop ship and signed by Privates W. E. Murnane and J. E. Bant, Panmure, J. Jenkins and G. Milne, Allansford and G. Butler, Warrnambool. 

A carnival was run at Woodford to raise money for prisoners of war. 

Potato crops in Warrnambool and Koroit were looking good. 

An old man was arrested in Warrnambool for vagrancy and gave police a great deal of trouble.