25 YEARS AGO:
MAINTENANCE at the Warrnambool Aerodrome is likely to be downgraded because of funding cutbacks. The aerodrome authority will raise concerns at its March Western Municipalities District Assembly meeting about the withdrawal of federal government funding for the aerodrome. It will also call a meeting of district councils to discuss a possible increase in support for the aerodrome.
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PORT Campbell residents are expected to deliver the final rites to their 98-year-old football club. Although the club has been terminally ill for six months, supporters and officials have prolonged its life with a series of public meetings and pleas for help. But Swans secretary Paul Younis has now conceded defeat, saying the only remaining options were to fold or call a recess.
THE biggest challenge facing Country Fire Authority deputy chairman Terri Whiting is to maintain numbers in the “biggest volunteer firefighting force in the western world”. Unemployment and the general drift of populations away from rural areas could place a strain on rural brigades in the future, she said.
50 YEARS AGO:
LAST year’s northern drought caused a 95,000-tonne drop in exports from the Port of Portland. Other lesser factors involved were a light grain harvest and a fall in the quantity of meat from Thomas Berthwick and Sons Portland meat works caused by a disastrous fire.
AFTER completion of the new Terang to Warrnambool line, the SEC intends to close down the local power station in Warrnambool. “The station will then have no real value to the district’s electricity supply and its continued operation would be uneconomic,” the SEC said. "The station’s place in the state generating system is now so relatively small that its 5000 kilowatt maximum output can meet only about one-quarter of the district’s peak load.
THE alternatives of traffic control in Liebig Street by lights or pedestrian refuges could be a matter that will exercise the minds of Warrnambool City councillors before long. A report on the street’s traffic problems was due before council.
100 YEARS AGO:
A NUMBER of returned soldiers from the Port Fairy district were guests at a social in the Port Fairy Oddfellows Hall.
THE Minister of Agriculture called on Victorian farmers to cultivate as big an area as possible during the war years. One method suggested was to increase the number of share farmers.