50 years ago
A PUBLIC meeting in Hamilton on Monday night has paved the way for the establishment of a temporary emergency care centre for children in the city. The meeting, convened by the Mayor, Cr. Ron Peck, was requested by an ad hoc Hamilton committee of the Children’s Protection Society of Victoria. About 70 Hamilton and district people attended the meeting in the Town Hall supper room, held with the aim of setting up a regional committee of the society. Preliminary investigations on the necessity of an emergency care centre for the district came out of a meeting last year attended by the president of the society, Mrs. Anne Clemens. Mrs. Clemens also attended Monday night’s meeting, along with a Gippsland and Regional Committee representative, Mrs. Anne Clemens.
IMPERIALS are also not expected to be eligible to receive any $500 transfer fee should Anstey make the grade with South this season. He is not a product of this district. Had he come up through the ranks with Imps, he would have been tied to Collingwood. Anstey, 22, came to Imperials from Melbourne where he once trained with Hawthorn and played in the VFA with Williamstown and Sandringham. He is now a teacher at a school in the Frankston district. Earlier this year he trained with Collingwood and South Melbourne, and was included on South’s final list to be considered when available under the name of “A Anstey.” There is no point Imperials trying to swap Anstey for new coach Shane McKew.
25 years ago
AN ATTEMPT to introduce a uniform rate across Southern Grampians Shire this year has been narrowly defeated. A suggested uniform rate of .5202 cents in the dollar would have seen Hamilton ratepayers given a 21.8 per cent cut – but the rest of the shire would had their rates increased by 15.7 per cent. The argument again came down to who should pay for the former Hamilton City Council’s debt – the main reason for the current differential rate. Wednesday’s council meeting split 3-3 on the issue, with the votes following a Hamilton-rural divide. (Cr Des Brown was absent from the meeting). Mayor, Cr Howard Templeton and Crs Marcus Rentsch and Mick Leeming voted against a uniform rate, while Crs Charles Williams, Tony Taylor and Cathy Jansen favoured it. The move was lost on Cr Templeton’s casting vote.
SINCE 1859, when there was one small newspaper, one proprietor and few staff, The Hamilton Spectator Partnership has grown into a thriving enterprise. Today, the partnership publishes six newspapers, printing these and outside commercial jobs at its Hamilton plant. The partnership has an average of 93 full-time or part-time staff, drawing and spending about $2.1 million in wages in the district economy. $200,000 is paid to newsagents each year as commission for selling papers, and a further $100,000 goes to various carriers who distribute the publications around the district. Add our payments to local tradespeople etc, that’s close to $3 million going back into the local community… year after year. As one of the last remaining locally-owned and independent publishing houses The Spectator Partnership spends its money at home – right here in Hamilton and district, where we all benefit.
