Author Archives: Cameron McCullough

Social and presentation to Mr and Mrs Wilcox

June 29, 2020 no comments

LAST Monday night the Frankston Mechanics’ Hall was crowded with friends and well-wishers who assembled to say farewell to Mr and Mrs A. G. Wilcox. The popularity of the guests was testified to by th...

Push for improvement of Kananook Creek

June 22, 2020 no comments

AT Frankston last Monday night the initial meeting took place of the sub-committee appointed to give effect to the resolutions passed at the public meeting held at Seaford last month to secure the im...

Hastings residents shot by rabbiter

June 15, 2020 no comments

WHILE driving along the Tyabb road with their father in a buggy on November 15, 1919, Frederick Lewis Davis and Benjamin Shersby Davis, orchardists, of Hastings, heard the report of a shot gun from t...

Adderly’s mourn death of 12-year-old daughter

June 9, 2020 no comments

MR and Mrs Adderly of Langwarrin suffered a sad bereavement in the loss of their daughter, Erica, aged 12 years, whose death took place on the 21st May in Melbourne, where she had been taking the day...

Somerville school concert lauded

June 1, 2020 no comments

A CONCERT in aid of School Funds was given by the pupils of the Somerville State School on Monday night, May 24th. The programme was a lengthy one and reflects great credit on the teachers and schola...

“Stop ! Seaford” – Sign boards requested

May 25, 2020 no comments

COUNCILLORS like to have their little jokes, and when at last council meeting the Seaford Progress Association wrote again, for the third time, urging that sign boards be erected at the boundaries of...

Marathon race starts from Frankston

May 18, 2020 no comments

THE Marathon Race over the classic distance of 26 miles 385 yards, conducted by the Malvern Harriers, was held on Saturday last, the course being 8 laps on the Frankston Park Oval, thence direct by P...

Pea rifle nuisance – valuable dog shot

May 11, 2020 1 comment

BERT McSweeney appeared to answer a charge of unlawfully discharging a missile at Frankston on 27th March, last. He pleaded guilty. Constable Keogh, deposed that on the date in question he was on tem...

Presentation of Military Stars at Frankston

May 5, 2020 no comments

ON Monday (Anzac Night) the Frankston Mechanics’ Hall held a large and enthusiastic audience. The occasion was the presentation of 1914-15 Military Stars to returned soldiers. The management of affai...

Walter Leach sent to reformatory prison

April 27, 2020 no comments

AT the Court of General Sessions on Monday, before Judge Dethridge, a young man named Walter Edward Leach, 18 years of age, pleaded guilty to charges of indecent assault upon girls. There were four c...