The Koroit Hospital Auxiliary appeal received a boost when $500 was raised through the staging of a ball at the Koroit Theatre.

Miss Koroit Hospital, Janelle Keane, also held a coffee night and make-up demonstration to raise money for the appeal. 

The Koroit Cubs and Scouts were busy doing some fundraising of their own. The fundraising activity they chose was collecting empty bottles.

BABY BOOM

There was a baby boom in Koroit with 12 women from the town giving birth over the previous year.

The Koroit Borough’s infant welfare sister, Sr Alice Coor, said she was attending to 32 mothers and babies, a rise from her normal number of 20.

ART SHOW

About 150 exhibits were on display at the Koroit Lions Club Art Show. The art works included screen prints, paintings and hand painted jewelry.  

FOOTBALL HISTORY

A football match between Koroit and South Warrnambool at Victoria Park doubled as a club reunion, which featured a display of memorabilia from Koroit’s past.

SLOW DOWN

The Koroit Borough Council applied to the Road Construction Authority to have a lower speed restriction placed on Lake Road.

It was hoped to drop the speed limit from 100km/h to 80.

CROQUET STARS

Mary Brookes was named champion of champions for the Koroit Croquet Club at the annual general meeting. A life membership badge was given to Margaret Keane and club president Joan Haberfield said the highlight of the past year was the division one and three teams winning the pennant.

Mrs Haberfield was re-appointed as president and she was joined on the club executive by D. Henning (senior vice-president), M.Rhook (junior vice-president), Gwen Sicely (secretary), Helen Soulsby (treasurer), M. Brookes (assistant secretary) and A. Nicolson (assistant treasurer).  

EXHIBTION

Koroit hosted a Spring Equinox Exhibition to raise money for youth in the town and surrounding district.

The event included exhibitions of woolcrafts, upholstering, quilts, guns, old bottles, bikes and Irish pipes. Exhibitors came from across Victoria and South Australia for the event.  

DAMAGE DONE

The historic Mickey Bourke’s Koroit Hotel was targeted by an intruder.

A damage bill of $7000 was reported from the attack on the hotel, which included the smashing of lead-light windows, doors and furnishings.

Stools were thrown through the hotel windows and onto the footpath.

One of the hotel’s major artefacts, champion boxer Lionel Rose’s world title trophies, were also damaged when thrown through a window. The intruder forced entry to the hotel through the back door early in the morning. Hotel owner Mickey Bourke was in another part of the hotel eating breakfast when the damage was being done. Mr Bourke discovered the intruder upstairs.

He fled onto High Street and was later caught by police and charged. The intruder was barefooted when arrested and a pair of shoes were later found upstairs in the hotel.