Skit
Does anyone have any names or information about this?
Perhaps fun and games at the Golf or Bowling Club?
YWCA - Young Women's Christian Association
Mavis Howell, ? , ? , ?
Group of Yallourn Women
If anyone can name these women, please add to Comment below.
1954 August-September - SEC Journal
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1952 Christmas - SEC Magazine
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21 Reservoir Road - Norden Family
John Norden turns 21
Brigadier John Field - Gippsland Newspapers Special Edition - mid 1970s
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Yallourn Fountain and Scouts by Malcolm Gibson 2003
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Scouts Reuniting 2003
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2003
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Mt Erica Hut - August 2003
Brian Martin, Steve Morgan, Ian Castell, Ewen McPherson,
Drew Mounter, Mal Gibson, Graeme Cook and Chris Goddard
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Malcolm Gibson YHS 1962 wrote - “the photograph of one of the Yallourn fountains certainly brings back memories. I don't recall specific dates, circumstances etc but I recall two occasions when detergent was used in the fountain, one of these occasions also involved a quantity of potassium permanganate (Condies crystals) which turned the frothy water purple. As to who the perpetrators were is anyone's guess, but I would say that the list of suspects would be fairly large and would probably not hold any surprises to those of us from that era. Good harmless fun eh?
Ted Ebsworth - article written in 2002 about Yallourn Technical College / Yallourn Technical School YTC/YTS 1942
Ted Ebsworth YTS 1942 read the death notice of Charles Beanland in July 2001 and it brought back a lot of memories, as Charles was the Principal of Yallourn Tech School and his son, Graham, was in Ted's class. In 1939, Ted and family moved from the settlement called the South Camp to Newborough (Moe East). Riding our bikes to school was more fun than hard yakka. There were always chases through the bush tracks and animals to chase, especially the wild sheep. One hot summer morning, someone suggested we go for a skinny dip down the Latrobe River, which we often did.
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FROM THE NEWSPAPERS - 1927 - LANDSLIDE AT YALLOURN
LANDSLIDE AT YALLOURN
This article was published in Benalla’s ‘The North Eastern Ensign’ more than eighty years ago. The extract reported on the death of a worker at the Yallourn mine in 1927.
The tragedy received coverage in numerous newspapers of that time; and the man’s death again underlines the ever-present dangers faced by all workers in the mining industry. An unusual aspect of the sad tale at Yallourn was the role played by the local school children in assisting the recovery workers at the scene of the disaster.
Note: Australia’s worst mining accident occurred at a coal mine twenty five years before the following incident at Yallourn. In 1902, a gas explosion in a mine at Port Kembla (NSW) killed 96 people.
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July 8th 1927 The North Eastern Ensign ( Benalla) Page: 2
MINER KILLED
A trucker at the open cut, Yallourn, was trapped in a tunnel by a fall of earth early on Wednesday morning and killed. In the hope of reaching him alive, 200 of his mates dug feverishly for four hours. They removed hundreds of tons of earth and timber before the body was recovered.
While the men worked the women made coffee for them. School children, released by their schoolmaster, were taken to the scene and carried refreshments to the men.
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1. Further research into this industrial death suggested that the miner, who died in the landslide, may have been a 43 year-old worker named W. Grace.
2. The other workers mentioned in the subsequent reports of the accident were the McLelland brothers. It is believed that they noticed the first signs of slippage and shouted warnings of the impending danger to nearby workers.
3. Another source stated that it was the first accident of that kind in the Electricity Commission’s mine at Yallourn.
4. It should be remembered that in those days the 200 men, involved in trying to save their fellow worker, would have used hand tools for removing the many tons of fallen rock and earth.
5. The ‘The North Eastern Ensign’ was the only newspaper to report that the children, from the nearby school, assisted the rescuers at the mine site.
The above article from ‘The North Eastern Ensign’ has been faithfully reproduced. The only changes to the original copy are the font style, font size and spacing so as to enhance the article for purposes of posting on the Virtual Yallourn website.