Compiled by Cameron McCullough
At the last meeting of the Mornington Progress Association a reply was received from the Railway Commissioners regarding the electrification of the railway from Frankston to Mornington.
The Commissioners stated they were not in a position to indicate when the electrification of the line to Mornington was likely to take place, and they would prefer to defer any additional recommendations until after the electrification of the lines from Ringwood to Upper Ferntree Gully and from Ringwood to Lilydale had been commenced.
This work was now in hand, and an investigation will shortly be made with a view to determining which sections would be next dealt with.
The question whether the extension of the electrification to Mornington was justified will require to be looked into in conjunction with other sections of line, such as those from Eltham, Hurst Bridge, Reservoir, Whittlesea, Lilydale and Healesville, etc.
Car Crashes Into A Fence – Four Occupants Injured
A motor car traveling from Mornington to Melbourne last Saturday crashed into a fence on the side of Point Nepean road Frankston, whilst endeavoring to avoid collision with a horse and lorry.
The occupants of the car were Mrs Rickets, Miss Edith Clifton, Frederick W. Ricketson and James S. Adams, while the man in charge of the horse and lorry was Charles Werner.
According to the information gathered by the local police, the horse in the shafts of the lorry shied when the car approached, and dashed across the road.
The driver of the car, in an effort to escape a collision, swerved, and before the machine could be righted it had hit the fence heavily.
The occupants of the car were taken by Senior Constable Elliott and Constable Addison to a local private hospital.
Miss Clifton sustained the most serious injuries, and is suffering from concussion, lacerations and shock. Mrs. Rickets sustained lacerations and shock. Ricketson and Adams on receiving treatment were able to leave the hospital.
A New Motor Menace
A new terror has appeared on the Frankston roads in the motor car line, as if we had not enough already with the drunken parties that make Frankston their happy hunting ground and bring the district into more or less disrepute and keep decent people away.
The latest is a game of “Follow my leader,” and is played by motor parties of young people. It is on the old lines, only with motor cars.
On March 3 last, Mounted-Constable W. Addison was on duty in Bay street when he saw a single-seater yellow car driving on the wrong side of the road; also it drove along the footpath of the Avenue of Honour.
Addison took the number of the car and found that it was unregistered, but the property of a Mr. Sergeant.
In the car at the time was a young fellow – Lindsay Sergeant, and a young girl, Patricia Hay, Canterbury road, Box Hill.
Addison’s investigations also discovered that the driver was unlicensed. This, however, did not affect the law, for the young girl, who was next to him was a licensed driver.
Lindsay Sergeant is in Tempy, N.S.W., and did not appear in the Frankston Court on Tuesday to answer charges of driving an unregistered car, and driving on the wrong side of the road.
After Addison had given his evidence, Patricia Hay entered the box.
She is a fashionably-dressed young girl, looking far less than the eighteen years she must be to be the holder of a license to drive a car.
She told the Bench that they left the house of Sergeant, senr., at Seaford, at 4 o’clock on the day in question, following another car of the party in a game of “Follow my leader.” They went down Honour Avenue.
Senior-Constable Elliott remarked that the car was driving along the footpath of the Avenue of Honour, which had been laid out as a memorial to soldiers who had fallen in the war.
A fine of 20/- for driving an unregistered car, and 40/- for driving on the footpath and the wrong side of the road was inflicted.
After Eighty Years – Connelly’s First Offence
Patrick Connelly, a man over whose bent grey head more than eighty years of strenuous life had passed, leaving his mental faculties unimpaired, raised himself on his stick in the Chelsea Court on Monday and explained to the Bench why he was drunk and incapable when in charge of a horse and cart in Point Nepean road, Aspendale, on the afternoon of June 6 last.
Constable Quinn, Aspendale, said he noticed Connelly fall off his cart on to the road, He was so drunk that he was incapable of climbing back on to the cart, and more for his own protection than anything else, he locked him up.
There was no record of previous convictions against Connelly, or that he had ever been in trouble before.
Connelly: I had no dinner, sir. I have been thirty-five years in the district, and have been drunk before.
I am over eighty years of age.
Mr. Cohen: As you are on old man, we will let you go. You are discharged. But don’t let it occur again.
“Never while I live,” was the fervent reply, as Connelly hobbled as quickly as possibly from the court.
Sanitary Contractor Fined
For having, on May 18, deposited night soil on land not authorised for that purpose, J. A. Williams, contractor for the Shire of Frankston and Hastings, was fined £5 with 2/2/- costs at the Frankston Court on Tuesday.
Williams was represented by Mr. S. Cooke, and the prosecution was conducted by Senior-Constable Elliott, in his capacity of Health Inspector.
The charge arose over deposits on some land at Baxter which had recently been purchased by Williams to deposit the soil on, owing to the sanitary depot being rather overcrowded, in the contractor’s opinion.
Obituary
Mr. and Mrs. A. Farley, of Frankston met with a sad bereavement this week in the death of their only child.
The little one had been ill for some time, and was being treated at the Alfred Hospital.
Very genuine sympathy is extended to the sorrowing parents.
Personal
Mr. C. Paxman, line foreman, P.O., Frankston, we regret to state, is confined to his bed with an attack of pneumonia. We wish him a speedy recovery.
After several weeks illness, Mrs. Annie (Nancy) Sumner Howatson, wife of Mr. A. Howatson, of “Repton,” Toorak road, Toorak, died in private hospital on Wednesday afternoon.
The deceased lady, who was 40 years of age, was formerly well known in the hunting field. She was the only daughter of Mr. James Grice, of “Moondah,” Frankston.
Mr. Robert Carstairs Bell, of the Western district, has purchased the country home of Mrs. Cecilia Fogarty, “Two Bays,” Somerville.
We regret to learn that Mrs. John Jolly, of “Warren Hill,” Frankston, is far from well, and is under the care of Dr. Maxwell. We join with her numerous friends in wishing Mrs. Jolly a speedy recovery.
The many friends of Miss Winnie Hallinan will regret to learn that she is suffering from a nervous breakdown, and is at present an inmate of Dr. Maxwell’s private hospital.
From the pages of the Frankston and Somerville Standard, 26 Jun 1925