FEDERAL Resources Minister Alan Griffiths has vowed that environmental activists won’t stop oil drilling off the south-west coast in what might be Australia’s largest oil field. Mr Griffiths will allow more exploration drilling in the Otway Basin, near Warrnambool. He said the decision was made in the national interest with jobs in mind.

WORK has started at Terang on a new 66,000-volt power line to Warrnambool. Construction would take three months to complete. 

REPRESENTATIVES of Warrnambool churches moved to stop the distribution of literature considered to be pornographic. The committee said it would deal with matters they felt were likely to affect morals. 

KOROIT Borough Council will persist with efforts to have the railway crossing at Boundary Road East widened to obviate a traffic hazard. Cr R. Waterson said it was the most dangerous crossing in the district, and many near-accidents had occurred there.

ELIGIBLE fighting men who have not yet seen fit to “do their bit” will do well to recall there are men in the trenches in France who have been serving continuously without leave for upwards of two years. What about giving these men a spell? 

THE daylight savings scheme does not meet with the approval of farmers and particularly those engaged in the dairying industry, who are accustomed to follow their  occupation according to the sun. Dairymen say they are obliged to bring the cows in at a time when the animals should be resting; consequently the milk yield is detrimentally affected.