THE TRARALGON & DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC |
EXTRACTS FROM THE TRARALGON
"JOURNAL" 1963
Taken by John W. Davidson
February 1963 |
| The Presbyterian Manse, at the south-west corner of church and Hotham streets, was removed to Willung South. |
March 1963 |
| Mr. Arthur Roberts replaced Mr. PhiI
Rhodes as local Wildlife Officer (Fish & Games) at their Kay Street residence/office. New offices of Gippsland branch of United Insurance company were
officially opened in Hotham Street, replacing the previously pulled down building of Mr.
Coulson, plumber. The company was first formed here on lst January, 1952, and managed by
Bill Bethune in 1963. The two-storey building on the north-west corner of Franklin & Princes streets, owned by Cobbledicks, was demolished. Steels opened their furniture shoe in the Layton Bros./Purvis stores building in Franklin Street. Two stained glass windows were consecrated at the Presbyterian Church in memory of Mrs. Elsie K. Burton and Mr. J.W.Gilmour, by the Rev. Donald Howard. |
| June 1963. |
| Mr. Bob Cole, aged. 78, and his wife
Mabel (Wright), aged 75, celebrated their golden wedding. He still lived in the same house
that he was born in, in Dunbar Road. Mrs. Elizabeth Ronalds, aged 88, who died in Gormandale, was one of a family of 10 who migrated to Australia from England in 1886 for £68. |
| July 1963 |
| Staff members of the Traralgon shire
moved into their new offices in Grey street, which cost £12,000. Traralgon R.S.L. took over the Grey street Memorial Hall and liabilities of approximately £1,000. A public meeting, chaired by the Mayor, Mr. Harold Preston, formed a Gippsland-wide Baseball Association. Miss Ethel C. McLean, aged 81, died at the Sale Hospital, she was the daughter of a Scottish migrant who owned the property between Kay and Grey streets now occupied by the R.S.L. as well as land built on for A.P.M. staff houses. |
| August 1963 |
| The Governor, Sir Rohan Delacombe opened the new shire offices, on 28th, and he also officially opened the £100,000 factory of South Eastern Milk Products. |
September 1963 |
| ABLV4 - TV., 2,458 ft, above sea level, on Mt. Tassie, after a cost of £350,000, began testing. |
| October 1963 |
| Fredk. Joseph Humphrey, well-known
ex-horse and lorry carrier, of Traralgon, and father of Chris, died at Rosebud, aged 85. Kevin Lythgo opened a new shoe shop in the late Alf Brown's bootery after first buying it in1956. When owned by Mr. P.R.Kinna, it was burnt down in 1896, and after rebuilding sold to Mr. Oats, then re- purchased by Mr. Kinna in 1911. Mr Alf. Brown bought it in 1920, and was there for 36 years. |
| November 1963 |
| Bert Coates' Newsagency was sold after
43 years, to Jury & Bambit. Fully staffed., Hobson Park received its first 4 patients on opening day. 4th Scouts Group formed and invested in St. Michael's HalI, with John Wilders as Scoutmaster. |
| December 1963. |
| First ordinary service held. at
"Blundell" Memorial Hall in Grey street, with St. James' Choir present. Official Opening of Hobsons Park, by Minister for Health, Mr. Mack, and Chairman of Mental Health, Dr. E. Cunningham Dax. Mr. E.J. Allison, Headmaster of Grey Street State School, transferred after 3 years, to Bendigo. Mr A.H. Ruxton, Head Teacher at Stockdale Road School, was also farewelled, to Tobruk Street State School, Morwell. New Presbyterian Manse on the corner of Kay Street and Loch Park Road, built by A. Gathercole, for £6,800; remaining buildings, owned by late Miss Lena Campbell, to be sold at a later date. |