50 years ago
HAMILTON City Council has sold its abattoir and dry rendering plant to Hameat Pty. Ltd. For $140,000. Hameat Pty. Ltd. Plans to bring the abattoir up to export standard and to extend the dry rendering plant to include pet food manufacturing and canning. The council received three tenders for the works, but details of the unsuccessful tenders, submitted by Heard’s and Preston’s, both of Geelong, have not been released. Hameat’s tender of $140,000 was for purchase of the slaughtering and dry rendering works, in accordance with the specifications. The company will pay a 20 per cent deposit on the signing of the contract on March 11. The balance of $128,000 will be repaid in monthly instalments over 10 years, or the debt can be discharged at any time.
HAMILTON has gained an outstanding sporting personality with the transfer of Rod Davis, 23, to the High School by the Education Department. Davis is the opening bowler with South Melbourne Cricket Club’s top team – played association football with Port Melbourne – and has signed with top Hamilton basketball club Athletics. Hamilton cricket official, Mr. Col Russell, yesterday described Davis as being the best bowler this district would have seen for many years. Davis is returning to Melbourne each weekend to play District Cricket, and has told local football officials to hold off until after the cricket season. “I’m more interested in trying to get South Melbourne into the finals than worrying about signing up to play football. At the moment we are one game outside of the four and if South can win this Saturday, then we have a great chance of making it,” he said yesterday.
25 years ago
THE sacking of Glenelg Region Water Board senior officer, Pat Kempton, is “appalling but not unusual”. That’s the view of a former chairman of the Westernport Region Water Authority. Noel Nicol believes Mr Kempton was sacked for “telling the truth about proposed privatisation of the Victorian country water authorities”. Mr Nicole, who says he was expelled from the Liberal Party after 27 years of service for speaking out on this issue, claims Mr Kempton’s sacking is the “standard response of the Victorian National-Liberal Coalition Government to anyone who tries to instigate informed reasoned debate on this controversial issue to discredit them, sack the or expel them”. In a letter to The Spectator, Mr Nicol, who was chairman of Westernport Region Authority in the early 80s, claims the present Victorian Government instituted some extreme changes soon after taking office.
THE proposed merger between Wickliffe-Lake Bolac and Willaura Football Clubs will not go ahead after Wickliffe-Lake Bolac members voted against the merger at a special meeting on Wednesday night. The clubs held separate meetings and Willaura members voted in favour of amalgamating with the Magpies for the 1999 Mininera and District Football League season. But Wickliffe-Lake Bolac secretary, Mal Curnow, said despite the club’s committee being in favor of a merger, a large majority of the club’s members voted against it. “The club has a lot of junior players and most of the parents were concerned about their kids missing out on games of footy and netball if the merger went ahead while some members also expressed concerns about sharing grounds for training an matches,” Mr Curnow said on Thursday.
