SUPPORTERS of the High School movement received an unpleasant shock at the Council meeting last Friday when Cr. Oates announced that he with Crs. Mason and Wells, acting as a sub-committee, had offered the Frankston Tennis Club the choice of two sites for new courts – one being in the park and the other on the site suggested for a High School in the old cricket reserve. Cr. McCulloch: You are quite satisfied that the High School has been lost? Cr. Gray contended that the top end of the park was an ideal spot for tennis, croquet and bowling green.…
Author: Cameron McCullough
The run to Christmas is a frantic time, but one organisation is surprising people with a gift to bring a smile. “The Business of Smiles” have raised tens of thousands of dollars and embarked on a pre-Christmas blitz of Frankston with bright yellow socks with smiley faces on them. Scott Carson, the co-founder of “The Business of Smiles” explains “We have spoken to thousands of people over the last couple of weeks”. “The socks are really a tool. A tool to connect with people’s hearts. “It’s a way to thank people for doing their best in life”. The socks are…
FRANKSTON, in common with other towns throughout Australia, refused to get excited on Saturday last over the Federal elections. The return of the Commonwealth Treasurer, Capt. S. M. Bruce, for the Flinders electorate, was regarded by his friends as a certainty, and as there was no visible sign of activity on the part of the opposition the conclusion arrived at was that almost everybody was voting for the retiring member. Very many electors, not only in Frankston, but, throughout the electorate, did not record their votes. Many voters argued: “Oh, Bruce is safe enough; he can do without my vote,”…
AT the Frankston Police Court on Monday, before the Police Magistrate and Messrs. Williams, Grant and Armstrong, J.sP., five young men who described themselves as campers, were charged by Constable Nolan with using indecent language. The defendants gave the names of Ballantyne, May, Tyrrell, Williams, Ryan and Hyde. Constable Nolan related the circumstances. The defendants, he said, were more or less drunk and were creating a disturbance on the main road near the Carrum station, at about 1 o’clock a.m. on 19th November. The PM.: How do you know they all used the language ? Constable Nolan said he had…
SOMETHING of a sensation was caused at a cricket match, played between Langwarrin and Frankston teams on Saturday afternoon, on the military reserve at Langwarrin. When the Frankston men were fielding a bull visited the ground. After surveying the game from the edge of the reserve for a minute or so and making suspicious eyes at one of the fieldsmen, H. Legge, the animal rushed out to the wicket. The players scattered in all directions, and took refuge behind and up trees. The bull sniffed at the stumps at one end of the wicket, and then knocked off the bails.…