I THE BEGINNING OF THE

: I i KEILOR STORY

I The page edges are yellowed with age. The copperplate writing, with its bold flourishes, is the style of yester- ''") year, but you can still read without I difficulty the strong hand of R. G. Ely I who recorded the minules of the meeting that ushered in the birth of Keilor.

These minutes are at the Municipal Offices in Keilor.

Reproduced herewith is the first page concerning this his- toric meeting held in the Waggoners Arms Hotel on November 19, 1862, for the purpose of memorialising His Excellency, the Gov- ernor, to proclaim Keilor a Road District.

There is no doubt that the men I who got together in the hotel that day, were men of foresight.

Looking from the window they however, the way Keilor would look see the hills and rolling grass- I could years later; that part of the city land. would be a gateway to the world.

Granted they wanted to see the The minutes of that meeting area further developed and commun- then, are the Genesis of lhe Keilor ication with the city and seaport of storY. Melbourne made easier- They record for all time the They could hardly have forseen, beginning oJ a city. WILLIAM TAYLOR CIVIC LEADER 23 TIMES WILLIAM TAYLOR is reverentlY known as the "Father of Keilor" for good reason. \ Exoctly 100 yeors oso/ he wos elected first Choir mon of the Keilor District RoodsBoord-oposition equivolent to Moyorolty to' dov. The civic record of william Taylor must surely be almost He was civic leader on no fewer than 23 occasions in his 40-year association with municipal government in IAustralia, saw xo naLives ti11 we we.e on the station arriving at PoIt Phillip on August ?, 1840. Soon after he arrived he purchased a ''Aitelwards thev came tn rerv quickiv till numbered 100 men, sheep statlon on the Mooubool River,20 they about - miles tum Geelong, in partneNhip with women and children. At this time they Dugald McPherson. Cantinued, on PAGE 4 ct+ Editorial KEILOR beccl se o! a ri.oer md a roa.il -hds ,ldled an importdltt Besinninq Poge 1 pdft in -the histotu ol this country. The The Mdrlb!/rnong, 1Di:nrling its udy Our first civic leader 2 thtough the counttl/s1de, brousht Moyor's Cenrenory Messoge 5 Grrnes here hr 1803 on an e@lon- Keilor Skull 6 tor! trip. Before White Men come 1 lt Dds lrcm the bonks ol this rl,.]er, too, thclt John Bdtman, stdring across They roced ot Keilor 8 the "Dxttti Gdld" pldins, sob smoke Smoke brought Botmon here 9 .lasaiasd brathers. ffres ol the uith Story of o pointing . . 0 sisned iturolring uhan he a teatu l h nd,teds ol thousands of acres. The Postorol Ero.. Ald the rodd.? lt bas atono the Mt Gold ! 3 Alerand.er Road, no1, the Cald.er Ersh- Peoceful Villoge 5 uaa. Therc flouet1 the minets anaL A bubble bursts. 1 1850's, bringlng their lollabefi in the 2a such a fush of tratlic as the litUe oit- Honor Boord lage ha!1 nerer knoun, uith gold the History of bridges 21 Keilor Todoy 23 Escorts, bushrungers, stdge coaches "Aviotion City" 24 these uere calorful d,aus- - Your Councillors 29 With the neu jetport planned, to spredd dcross TLtldnarine, the cnu is Roilwoy Stotions 3l still playing its patt ir| the derelop- MURDER ! 32 ment o1 this country, lot uhen the The rLrles they 34 is completed, be one ol dirport it uill people's 35 the most madern in the Darld. tts ttou Other uill read elsebhere ln this storA ol My Villoge lndustriol growth 39 In a publicdtion of this type, erlitors Thinss you should know 42 ui.th one great d,iffLcltltE, are ld.ced, lnformotion Guide 44 the setection al materidt. 1B We are conscious thete dre otuis- Centenary Progromme slons. bltt oltr endedlJor has been to bring out the hish\shts ol the Keilor

Many authotittes hdDe been consul- ted and. a great iledl of research cdt- Norrotive by JIM MACFADYEN, bos- tied, out. Where there erc omissions. ed on reseorch bv GARNET E. PRICE. it is becallse inlornation uds not C,E, &railable, of such inlormation q.s uds a&ilable, collld. nat be quthentlcated. Desisned ond Ed,ted bv R. FOLETTA Presentins this stor! ol Keilor, of, ond R. GRANT its Centenar! ol Municlpal GoDen- ment, the ed.itors thlnk the reaiLer ull Publishing in it much ot interest, it eon- Published by Broodqlen lind, lor Ltd., Blenheim Street. tains the elements uhich md.ke lot Compony Pty. l4 good fead,ing couiage, balnd, ad- Glenroy. for the CITY OF KEILOR, ond wnture .tnd hunot.- P.inted by Hoddon Press Pty. Ltd., GIen- were iE th€ hablt ol steallne a sheep J. Stewart, a grand-daughter of Wiuiam occasionally at night." :raylor, but th€ scenes oI splendor a Goyemor Victoria, and the Marqnis- oI year, of In Septemtrer of tbe same tht Nomanby lived their wh e Mr. Taylor wss goes letter on, about 40 natives attacked abroad are ltot or€r. one of the Shepherds aDd took h13 nock - from him within a mile of the homestead, Another grand-daughter is M.s. J. S. C. but the oveEeer mustered the men s.nd the Bloomfi€ld, wife of the Minister for sheep were regahed withln an hour, EducaUon, The loss$ of some of the settlers vere MIs. Etewart and Mrs. Bloomfleld arc daughters of William Itemy Taylor, eldest son oI Wilitam Taylor. One partnership, Taylor Mc- not or 'W. I1. Taylor touowed his Isther as a Pherson, lost 1000 sheep besides lambs Urat member of Keilor Council, serving lor nine winter aEd were considerably harassed, consecutive yesrc, Presialent beins near the scrub v,/here the natlves being Shire had plenty of cover. \' "Olernewton" adth no vast number o! After the frrst yeafs occupaiion, tho acres atta,chen to is now the scene ol genera[y ii demeanor ot the natives was weddins receptions Darties, conferences, etc. ftiendly to tb€ settleN- On many oI the statioG their services wele of geat value in looking Jo! strayed horses and especlally "By appointment" sign

Several ol the natives shepherded lor A Moonee Ponds bakery supplied elAht or ten months at, a time and were "Overnelcton" with bread down the y€als the best shepheds in the district. Not and the "By Appointment" sign iE stiu to being afraid oI loslng their flock, they be seen on the side of its van!, dating from auowed them to spread over a larse tract the Governo c+eneml's stay. of counlry, They wer. slso useful ln pointing out the permanent v,/ater holes. Right up ttll 1959, the same firm delivereal brcad to the hansion. It was 1849 when Willlam Taylo! pur- chas€d the pmperty thEt became knowh ag "overnewton" had always a reputation "OvemewLon.' He also owD€d ol,her lor hospitaliw, and even a6 recently as propertles in Victoria, N.S.w' and Queens- 1956, ther€ were gay scenes at the Eransion land, one in New South Wales alone when Ueut.-Col. and MIs. Stewarl mn a covedng more than a million acres, barbecue in ald of F.ed Cross. wlth the purchase ol "Ovelrewton', his There were 500 guests and morc than wanderings aad explorations were over, He thirty nationalities r,ere rcpresented. settled at Keilor to wield a great influence o over the distxict for many years. It was the year ol the Olympic Games I He s,as appointed to the old Leglslatlve Council in 1854 as a representative of the 'When willialn Taylor died in 1904, it WimmeB until the inauguration ol the was fl tten of him : "Il he saw that he new constitution ln 1856. might convert an arid waste into uselul Iand ntted lor the habitation of civilised He $ras oE Legislauve the Councit as man, drougbts, disappointment and loss hember of the Southern Prcvlnce. merely spu.red him on to new efforts." He was flrs| ctlairnlan oI the Kellor District Roads Board and sened the W. H. Taylor told his family many times munlcipality lor lea.rly torty years. that he well remembercd the opening oI Kelldr Bddge in 1868. Ile was only ten, The manalon "Overnelrtort'' leEralned but he vl\'ially rcmembered the opening in the hanft of the Thylor femily untll ar cercmony and the luncheon at "Oyernew- rccently as 1959, whe4 it Was lqld by Irt6, ton,, artern arals. Centenary Message

from the Mayor {9

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TO-DAY, we cblebrate the Centenary of Local Government in this Municipality and it is my very great pleasure, not only as Mayor of the City of Keilor, brJl also 6s a great-grandson of one o! rhe original 'nembers of the Keilor Disrr'ct Roads Boa"d, to say how fortunate we were to have been guided by such an able band of public spirited men of courage, wisdom and foresight over the last one hundred years. This is perceived when one looks at what has been accomplished, which is of course, only the forerunner of future development. It is, therefore, to these men that we owe a deep sense of gratitude. On March 3, 1863, Keilor, then a rural community, was created a Roods Board and, eight years later, proclaimed a Shire, It remained essentially a rural community until the last decade when, because of its favorable position, vast housing settlements came into being, thriving industries began to expand, and new industries came to the area, thus enabling the Shire to be raised to the status of a City on April 29, I961. My Council is fully conscious of the need to move with this ever increasing development and it is its earnest endeavor to serve you, the Ratepayers, in the best interests of all, without fear or favor, thus ensuring the continued expansion and progress which this Municipality so richly deserves.

L U A/rl 0 ,zru

Mayor

Floe yeors old, possibly older, ond vorious popers have been written on it. l(eilor skull Just onother smoll clue in the Anthro- pologists'seorch to solve the mystery o{ world-fatnous

The findins of the Keilor Skull in I940, proved the oreo wos occupied ot leost I5,000 yeors ogo. This is the cloim mode by some outh- orities, but it is not conced€d by others. The skull wos found by Mr Jomes White, who wos digging o pit for mould- ins sond, neor the juhction of Dry Creek ond the Moribyrnong River, obout o mile Keilor. north of Keilot Craniun. b! G Unfortunotely, his pick went through g, o.nd. reprod,uced. bA couttesu ol the skull ond broke it in three pieces. ationdt Museum ol victorid.. Loter it wos ioined by experts ond droused world wide interest EARLY KEILOR A drauins b! an unknou n a.rtist.- neptod.uction bu Subjected to scientific tests, it wos callrtes?/ ol the Ncttlonsl Att Gattetu cloimed the skull wos ot leost 15,000

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Sir fi Ninggolloltin roamed Keilor plains , . . BEFORE TWE WHITE The black man stood at the top of the hill. His dark eyes beneath the MAN CAilE heavy, beetling brows, gazed across the undu ating grass and bush, across the and of Dutti \vlrile his woman prepared lhe food, he chewed his pituri and drowsed peac€- Galla, as the district was known. fully in the shade ol a brlsh. He did not ask muct! from life. He was a rnember of the Woerurong lribe. His name was Ninggollobin. There wes an occasional hitiation celemony, the crazy celebratlons to mark Hc llved wiih his woman and two the end ol a mouhlng period, or if rela- childte:1 in s pleasant gmve half Fay tions were good at the time, perhaps a between a small lake and ttre river. down meeung betveen the chiefs of some other in the vauey that 1s now Keilor Village. That day he had been huntins. The Woewurongs were nomadic, but Although game w:s plentifut, like the otber tribes, with he was Dot a particularly timitations- They might skilful hnnier. Wombats, Branches on move iDlrequently to bahdiccots anrl o rer small the coast- or lurther inland. aninials were about. the best They alid not cover Yasi dis- he could do\ rith his crude a boulder lances, 6uch aE are generally spear, with perhaps an oc crcdited to the aborigines casional waUaby or kangarco tthome" when thel went walkabout. snd a lew Osb tuom the river was where he had dammed it. It was a lairly sirllple life, NinggoUibln, his v,/oman, family and the IIis home, like others of tbe tribe, rest ol the iribe lired. kas a fe$ bEnchcs laced sith glss, D.opp€d .gainst a Dould€. His wry of livlng had changed little irom that oI his forbears . . . . going back But rometimes, when ii was wet, he thousands and thousands years. built a more substantial shelter. of He was not an imEiessiYe ngurc. Eis IIe sas nol to know that soon tlte nose was squat and hls teeth wom dowD shite man would come, brinxinr ABt the p.stor.l settlement ol the distrlct, then He wa. slark naked. thc nlad gold rush, follow€d by the asricultural period, cioser settl€mcni, ud \i'ben the members or his hibe did weal then thc oI r t@ior Melboulne anrthing to cover thelr natedness, it was sro*tt nol fo! modesty's sake, but for decomtion. The sun blazed down as Ningsollobin All th16 in little more than a hmdred made hls way homewards, stopping only years. A lcng time ? Not really, compared to cool ofl in the river and to pick some io the the the aborigine had reigned in Ieaves, whlch could b€ made into ptturi, a the 38 square miles we now trnow as the city of Kellor. THEY RACED AT KEILOR orlce the llttt in Ke,lor viltase te- sounaleiL toath the slDllt fiooing hDo&s t ol thorouahbreal hotset. Keilor had its own lace track and cIub. Now it is no more. ReDroduced herewlth ls an old Pro- srammi for a meetlnE held at the race tracL early thiE century. Today. the ciiy has Calde! Motor Racewev end ther. is a stronc Dossrbilltv that a permaDeDt bottlng tlack will be established by the tottlns Cont ol Board Ihe Board has 130 acres of laBd front- lng the Calder Hishl9ay, a ,ew miles north oi Keilor Township.

I Ads. soughl potronuge

ln the Gold Rush there must have been some jealousy over the diggers' patronage as they made their way to the diggings, for in the "Argus" of Friday, March 5, 1852, the following advertisement appears:-

hls ovn iDr:, together wittr ttre choice as- MAIL ROAD sortment of {rines, spldts. etc- on haDd. lmportont to Gold Diggers, more €mbolden him to bope newcomeN and o]d porticulorly recent orrivols in the Col- lriends will give hlm a caU. ONY, BRIDGE INN, DEEP CREEK. N.B, The same prlc€s. vrithout increase. charged at the Brldge Inn. Phiuip Donobue respectfully invites the attention of sold diggers to the supedo ty Note : Tulip Wrlght, the first Chief Macedon Road over any other of the Mount Constable of Melbourne, htflt an hotel to the digsings, both for wood aDd vat€r for dray campiBs and lnns lor 4ftesh- iD BuUa iD 1644. ments at short stag€s. Later he leased this hotel, then op€ned Ihis road branches ofl to the rtght the Llncolnshire hn on (where thele haal rbout ffve miles from Meltourne at the been a wool store) lts present site. Having thus €stablished the name ol It is flve miles nearer, no ten rniles can the county he halled from in Englancl, be passed witlout Sood water being vlthiD TuUp Wright, evicl€ntly quite a ruthl€ss a few hundred yar& ot the road, and the charact€I, went back to Bulla aDd opened aitention and accommodation prol4d€d at anotJxer hotel in oppostuon to hls telrant !

Eight A visp of smoke in the Eost . . . the decision ot Solomon's Ford. These brought John Botmon to Keilor in I835. On June 3 that year, the schooner "Rebecca" mooreci in SMOKE Port Phillip Bay. Aboard her was John Batman. He decided to ex- plore the Salt Water ( Maribyr- BROUGHT nong ) River. Batman had made a quick voyage lrom Tasmania. Lower dowD the Bay, he had mad€ seveml exploEtory trips. BATMA N He already knew about thc salt waler Rrvcr, Ior Grimes, in 1803, had ha.kcd ir on a map and Flinders had translerrcd ll. to his chart ot PorL Phillip Bay. TO KEILOR For the nrst Iew miles, Baiman and his party loliowed the rive! in a sma.U boat. Then they went along the bank on toot. They were fully armed and carried goods tor the purpose ol purchasing land from the

On June 4, the pafiy tEd reached the neighborhood of what is now Kei1or. rt ts be- lieved the party stopped at what became known es Solomon,s Ford (Avondate Heishts). Crimes pleviously had rcached the same spot. Batm.n tum€d to th€ east h€re, where shoke was visibte. A few days later he was negotiating \r'lth the Jagalaga Brothers at th€ Merri creek. This then marks the historical begin- ning of Keilor, though it did not b€come known by lhat name until 1840, and th€ vnlase or Kerlor was not so desisnated unt11 gazetted on January 16, 1850. Thg deCiSiOn at A yea! aft€r Batman's *ploratory fol- lowins of lhe salt Water River, a man Solomon's Ford caUed Solomon from Tasmania ws-s srazing thousands oI sheep in ihe Keilor area. An early traveller, George Russell, who settled on vast, pastures lear c€elong, writing in 1836, says | "Ou! fi.st day's joumey flom Melboume was to the Weuibee Rive!, by way of lhe Moonee Po.ds crosslng where Flemtngton now is, then to Solomon,s !'ord across the Saltvrater River near to where Keilor ls now. "ahis lold was named atter a Mr. Solomon who had a sheep station there. He was one of ttre first settlers in Victoria- A Mr. Eergusson, a rdatlon of h1s, was livins there

,'Solomon's Ford was the loBest erossing on the Sathvrter River. and was for hErv y€6 the only l{ay lrom Melbourne to cc.long and the W€stw.ld.,, Other early settle$ were the Foster brcthe$, WarsoD and Hunter, McRae, Johnstone, Anderson, Boyd and the Brown tamiiy. The direct descendants of the latt€r tamiLy, WiUiBm Brown a,nd Malth Joseph Brown still live in Brown's Road. cit It is Watson who is said to have given lN the name Keilor to the area. He hailed A 1{Alrlt from Forfarshire, Scotland, where his tather *OtD pmpefiy place IHE DAYS" {armed an e{ensive at a

To get a tNe pictule ol ihe years louowins Batman, when land was disposed of in large parcels, the years whlch mlght be desc bed as the pastoEl years of Keilo!, the story o, ttle McNabs is of interesi.

Anaus McNab, from Lillin, Pefihshile, sa ed Imm Scotland on the lr.yid Clarte, in 1839.

At this time the total population oI Victoria was less thar 4,000.

Wher the McNabs reached Port Phlllip Colony, Ansus farmed in vadous parts. It was his sons, John and Duncan McNab, who took up land at Tullamarlne.

The titie \i'as sraDted to them by the Govemor of Nev, South Wale6 in 1848 * three years beiore Victoria became s state.

Tbe broihers built a crude hut \r'ith iimber carted from Mt. Macedon. in \rhictr they lived for a year or so untu they con- structed a solid blu€ stone building, whlch stiU exists to-day, and is used as a kitchen.

John McNob, one of the first When Duncan McNab dled, JohD Mc- members of Keilor District Rood Nab's four sons bought his 160 acres. Boord, ond sreot srcndfother of the present Moyor. Angus McNab, Isther of the present owner, Mr. J. A. G. McNab, was the only The illustration above is a photo- one of the sons to have children. so that graph of an oil paintins which bangs in a place or honor in the omces at the property "Oakbank" was gadually built the &oyal Agdcultural Society of Vic- up to nearl, 900 acEs. toria's omces at the sbowground. In 1961, the Govemment took oler {83 Even in those earlx days, the McNab acres of this to mak€ way for the nev, Jet name was widely known throughout port and paid cchpensation in the region Australia for its prize stock of Ayr- of €159,000.

Entries irom "Oakbank" stil1 ieature With an unbroken connection bact to at the Royal Shows and ar€ closely the early days, it is particularly fitting that studied by breeders frcm all orer the the Cent€nary Mayor should b€ Cr. L A. McNab son of M.. J A- G. McNab. TREATY USHERED IN PASIORAL ERA When Botmon turned Eost ot Solomon's Ford, in 1835, he wos to hove o momentous meeting with the oborigine chiefs. lt olso morked the beginning of the postorol ero. The treaty he made with. the Jagaiaga Brothers is still in the archives. The chiefs put their mark to it on June 6.

On Septernber 2, Sir Richord Bourke, ircm them a tract of thei! country . . . . . Coptoin Generol ond Governor in Chief, The Chlefs appeared most lully to compre- refused to opprove of this treoty or ony hend my goposals and much delighted similor treotles, ond issued o proclom with th€ prosp€ct oI having me to live otion to thot effect. ln the Dastor.I eE, Orc popul,.tior oI Whd the wording of the treaty is yictorla increascd quickly. Durins 183?-8 siudied, thh is nol, surprlsing. Here It is in immigr.trts crowded in from Britain, part :- "Knoq, sll per5ons, that we three brotheE, Jagalaga, Jagajaga, Jagajaga, belng the princlpal chiels and also Cooloo- lock, Bungarle, Yanyan, Moowhlp, Mom- f2 A WEEK marmalar, belns the chieis of a certain natlve tribe called DutigaUar, situate at RENT and nea. Port Philip." TO The treaty soes on to say that in con- A SLAB HUT sideraiion of 20 pair blankek, 30 knlves, 12 tomahawks, 10 looking slasses, 12 patus scissoB, 50 hankerchiefs, 12 red shirts, four A 4 lb loal cost 3/6. Mlserable slab flannel jackets, four sults of clothes and cost as much 92 a week in rent 50 lbs. oI flour, d€livered to them by John huts at Batman of Van Diemen's Land, th€y wo ld glve IL ts doubtlul if this woDtd affe.t to him aU that tract. of country in the extent those who gEzed their bay Port Phiuip and containing atnut any Sreat of she€p and e the Kellor They 100,000 acres. cat tn area- cultivated only for their own use Ior the B4tman al6o asreed to pay the abo- most palt. They were largely seU support- rigines yearly pairs ot ing as lar as provisions were concerned, a rent of 50 purchase blankets, 50 knives, 50 tomahawks, 50 pair having to only that which could scissom, 50 lookins slasres. 20 suits ol sloDs not be obtained any other way. or clothinB and two tous of flour. According to one authority, in 1837, By a simllar treaty signed on the same wool valued at €11,639 was exported, but day, Batman also "acquired" from the impor.ls lD ttre same year are siven as nstives about 500.000 acres of land in the €115,000. No indicatlon ls given ol what Melbotrrhe district In rather a naive letter to the Lieut- No doubt at this time. the oastoralists ensnt Governor ol van Dieman's Land on bad to loumey inio Melbouhe to do bus- iness. There June 25, 1835, Batman wrote : wer€ no real roads in the flrst few years - only waggon tracks. One of "I Ixlly explained to them (the chiefs) the worst i€atures was the want of a that the object of my vislt was to purchase suffcient Dlmber of bridges.

Elebeit Ttie annual tlanaport ol wool to the market, or the dliviDg of cattle into the clry of MelbourDe could be and often was a hazardous afiair, ACI(1'lOIIITEDGME1'lTS some years were to pass before thls IT slLuation was remedted, mainly by the I The ediiors grotefully ocknowledqe setting up of Dlshict Road Boads, but I the co-op€rotion of the following: roads desierated main roads were ttre re- I I sponsibility of i,he Governmert. a The Notionol Museum of Victorio. T Although only ten miles lrom Mel- I The Notionol Art Gollery of Vic- bourn€, Keilor area was in a sense insular. I People did not travel unnecessaily that T is, the residents didn't. - T Reseorch Deportment, Melbourne I Public Librory. would mucb of their news I They eet I from the weekly newspaper "The Melbourne I The Country Roods Boord. Advertiser," whicb was nrst published ln I I Deportment of Civil Aviotion. I Roilwoys Deportment. One copy 1,odd Pass though Eany I pages, I han&, fo! this sheet of lour foolscap I The Educotion Deportment. for the nIst nine issues was in manuscript. I I Public Works Deportment. It was not until 1846 the "Argus" com- I menced publication. I Londs ond Survey Deportment. T In 1E30 r census for Victoria was I Photogroph of oborigine on poge 33 ir[en, and it ea erumated ther€ \rer€ I by courtesy of Jock Coto. 3,5U *ttlers, whlch onl, 431 wcr. I of I Photogroph of W Toylor, courtesy I formerly I of Mrs J. Stewort, Toorok, The pastoral era mlght have extended I of "Overnewton." into the 19th century had lt much further I John McNob, not been for an event whtch rnade news I Photogroph of court' ety round the world the alisoovery of I esy of Royol Agriculturol soc - aoid I .f V.tord (bv Eleen O'Connor at Batlarat and Bendlgo. I I Studios) As Keilor was on the rout€ to the gold- I flelds, the discov€ry brought many chaEges I Photoqrophs of Councillors ond I Moyor by Eileen O'Connor Studios. I I Photographs of Municipol Offices, ) t St. Albons Holl, Welfore Centres I I ond Kindergortens, olso Niddrie RIVER OF t shoppins centre by A. Cockburr, of I the City Ensineer's Deportment. I MANY NAMES I Photoqroph of Melbourne Airport I I by Aviotion Services ond Photog- 'fhe Madbyrnong River, which a ropheE Pty. Ltd. lvinds and wends its waY through I Keilor', has four names, not three I Covers show Keilor Villoge ond es is generally supposed. I immediote surroundinqs token dur" a ing on oeriol mopp,ng survey. the Mari- I They are, in additlon to I bymong, The SaIt Water River, I'he I The editors ore olso indebted to Deep Creek River and on€ €arly plan I mony privot€ sources lor occess to showa that iL was also known as the I documents ond to mony Keilor I citizens {or informotion Itlrllrtrrtltltlrllrlttt G o M t Just what gold meant to the colony can KEILOR TO L L be judg€d from the populauon increase HOUSE wos on the tuom 9?,000 in 1851 to 364,000 in 1855. Melbourne side of one of Lieutenant Governor La Trobe's Keilor Bridse. D early reports to the S€cretary oI State lt was a bedther- for the colonies stated that one party bodril bltlldtno o'l tuo pounds gold an foons arlaL here uas s/as known to have raised sixteen of at coltrecteaL manu thou- early hour ol the dayl sonds ol pounds. sometimes bll offc'lal SmaI wonder there was a rush to victoria, that no- collectots lor the body want€d to work at anything else except the digglngs Boafll ot sonetimes -that ther€ was a constart sream of tranc abng the A satuple ol the Mount Alexand:r Road, now known as Calder Etghway. ch.tlates h lorce is that a sheep. lanb, Thousands made their way to the diggings daily, so pig or oodt, cost one irxtolerable farthill,o. cattle one that the rough and ready roads caried an pentult.addhofse, or ass. threepence, ts not suDrisins then that we leam ol the actlng Passenger It ,ates &ere charged"ehicle Colonial Englneer, Samuel Brees, making suggestions end accor,lltus to the puttirxg forvrard a design fol a brldge at Kellor and also nvnber ol allinals *questing !5000 imp.€st fol work on Mt Alexander Rd. (eithd horses or ot- beyond Flemington and also between Melbourne and Kellor. en) Fulllns the te- (Only mollths ago, Keilo! Courlcil agre€d caII OlLe anincLl, sti- a tew to pence. a new road the city. Road" after this colonbl tuo 1/-; ttuee ln "Brees 1/6: dnd s@ence lot Engineer.) each aalalltional ani- The men on the mad worked lrom 6 a.m. to 0 p.m. wlth Gooals Dehicles uere two hours ofl ior meals. Tbey were paid 8/- a day to start, then 10/- on Droof they were "sood workmen." Il it uas puueal b.1t oie aflimat 1/3: tlao At one time Mr Brees asked the authorlties {or a pollce 1/10t: tisins to 4/4t escort and guerd for the wages lequired to pay these men lf sl,i, horses bere -more than 650 of them. The bnd.d.er the Mr Brees estimated cost goposed brldge at Dheel tures of the the of the earts. the cheaper Keilor as !7,816 for a double roadway. thc tol. probabhl on the .tssumption that Actuauy, when the bridge was flnauy built and opened less .Ialnase to the the total cost smounted to ove! !20,000 lor the brlds€ and roclak Das done b?t

! The 1ownlhlp oI i<.rlor Work on the bridge-the flIst real Keilor Bridge (Ior lookhs Sourh by s T. previous brldge! had been very rcugh afalrs and were waJhed away oD several occasions) was commenced and completed in 1854. -

Thirteelt when Edward Richaldson read a paper The Pa sh of Keilor was founded in on the bridse to the victo an lnstitute 1854 and the buildins of the Church was for the advancement or science. in 1855, commenced in 1857. The .hur.h bell q3. donaled b) railw"y qas was undertaking of no smau connrruc'ion troIkF_.. Ir made in 'This an g'ven mechonical skiu, and is worthy of the man Dublin rnd wEs :n sppre.ialion or who projected the plan." Fslher Jahes Moore's interest m the men employed on the conshuction work. lensth bridge was 160 feet, Tbe ol the The men went to Suday servlce in a 135 There were two abutt- its span ieet- sh.ll house or shed erccted and re-erected masonry, 38 teet high and ments of solid along the line as the construction advsn- it is interesting to note that it is belie{ed ihat in the constructioD of the preseni bridse. the ioundations of these original Eather Moore became ttre Bishop of rbuttments were used. rhe paper went on to praise the mecb- The Orst Parish Priest, however, was anical genius used in placing the bridse Father Matthew Dowting, who had been with the limited equipment at the dlsposal at the Eureka stockade in 1854.

This was the bridse then that was to carry so much tlamc to and irom the gold lields. Dissers, mer.hants, lraDs 'polic"' 60r- KEILOR diFr., "ahp tollowcrs. chinesp. pvFn bush- rangers for the coaches were sometimes held uF. on this busy road. IN EARIY The route to the diggings must have ? meant some prosperlty to Keilor. There is CONTEST not a great deal recorded at this time, but Tne ,ear rhe -\l(Ndb" ,2ni- k rullamarihF 'herp w"rp lhrpF blacksmiths, rhrep hoiel", is slo-.re \Par .P flve stores, saddlers', bakers', butchers' and Ro\al Ae.rcultural 'l'a.sr$Socret! of vrctoiia, lor on F.rda\. JulI 2?. 1818 the Lesl! fo.m€d Moonee on some old plans, a rest home is shown Ponda Farine.s Socrcrv held rr n.st a.nual 'or ihF u.p oII o." I.arelllnc the roau. gold Thprc .,r be litile dorbt th. farmers from Prices were high. Elour on the Keilor area took tFlds sa" sold tor ss mu.h as t48 a lon Part. pdces must have had The "Argus" reporLed that iL bmle fine lor Such an effect or the the hisioric .ccasioh. :rhrough all ihe rcads places between Melbourne and the f,elds. that 1ed to the 6eld of actjon, larmers 'gshed I'urther emplovment was Drovided in B, eleren o'clo.k, ten (omoeiitors \ith a Lhe area when the construction of the pcir of hors.s emh md nin€ ,ith bullo.ks aere Melbourne and Murray River railway from hrd ur rcady io break the sod. 3'ootscray Junction, was commenced in There vere many spectatoN, 1858 Frrs- .Fcrjon oi the line to be buil, Alterwads competitoN and spectators rere was rn tha a_F3 bFyond Eootscray thal provided {ith d excellent dinner, sleeches were was known as Kei1or ?lains mlde and ihere vas dancing. Keilor Road Station, nov,r known as The Argus rcpo.ted Lhar everybody joyed themselves : "For hornpipes, jigs and sydenham, was opened oD March 1. 1859. put lile rd mettle in thei! heels.'' 188?. It was not renamed until Later rhe Moonee Ponds Farmers' Aociety There is a connection between the build- bec@e the lloone Ponds Acricultural Asso. ing oI the railway and St Augustine's Latron and uas undorbtedLv ah. lore rnnp' rn Churctr, whlch sta.Dds hill the lormatron of thp P.;. Phllro F,m.El still on the SocEtv \hich i. iime cahe to be Th€ Roval overlooking Keilor. ACd.ulruEl Sucrerv of VicLoria. A PEACEFUL VILLAGE THEN, AND NOW . Scot's Chur.h le\ lnta such o. state recently es 1945 the population was only a ol disrepair, ds shoun lrl this old tenth of what ii is to-da} and the 6ame photograph, that in 1903 the con- applies to the number of dwellines. qregation sousht the Councal s pet- Indicative of Lhe frtrre lit ls estimated nbsion to rneet in the old, shire l{o,lt. that in the next ten years the population may be doubled) is the fact that in 1961-62 permits for the er€ction of buildiflgs within years tbe clty were issued lor structures to cost Though 100 may not t'e a long estimated time in the hlstory ol the City, th€ years an €2,563,347. ha.v€ been not uneventful. In November 1862, following a hEtins The Fopulation ls now 33.249. There at the Wasgoners Arms Hotel reilor, sir are ?,898 homes.218 shors and 144 factories- Eenry B.rkly. CaDtrin General and Gov- ernor in Chicf of Yictoria, was Quite a change from the descdption by lpEoacbed journelist and naturalist Donald Mac- by the members for West Bourke, CaDtain Donald, of Keilor in "Gumboughs and McMahon, Mr, Rialdl€ and Mr. J- T. Smlth, Wattle Blossom" *ritten i. 1887. with six ordinary landhold.E from the "My viUage is set deep down in a houow .rea, includins M!. W. Taylor, askins ot plain, so that you almost stumble lnto that Keilor De declared a Road Distrlct. it over the hul tops capped with gey After further meetings had been held, the Keilor Road Distdct was duly pro- "These huls seeDl like a barrier shutting claimed in the covemment Gazette on lt ofl ftom the rest ol the world. Itom the Tuesday, March 3, 1863. table land above you can see the black clouds of smoke dslng abore the city and At a meeting on March 23, 1863, the masts ol shtpplng ln port, each oEering it was decided to elect three representatives its suggEstion of busy commerce. from each ot the three parishes to ,orm "You may ,ancy you hear the dtn of the Babylodan chorus but ctosn ln the Those elected at the meeting were vslley beneath there ls- Do re-echo ,rcm McPhail, Dodd, Phelan, McNab, Ritchie, the clty. It ls a peaceful place.', Grant, Taylor, Robertson and Easling. The flrst rates were stuck and they Neilor ViUage, even though 1s situ- lt wer€ :- lo. lands unalienat€d held on at€d on the busy Calder HiAhvray, is stlll a licenc€ or lease, one larthins an acre. peacerul place. But wlth regsrd to the city itsell the tempo is ever qulckening. As For cultivated lands one shilline per and the sum ol one shilling in the a acre, I pound, sterling, or flve per cent ol annual I For ukom the rental or alnual valued rental for buildings I rnd dwelling houses. I I At a meeting on A! l 22, 1963, william roads toll ? Taylor was elected charrman of the Keilor The {inonces of the vorioLrs rood to ls, incluCins Keilor, ore difficult to Mr. Georse Ely was appoint€d secretary. follow from the documentotion now A few meetings later the Board decided that any member who absented himself scmetimes the iolls were leased. ob irom any special meeting of the board, if .fh.'r occasions. men were smploved to he could not give a satisfaciory explanation at the next meeting, should he nned 10/-. ltrhaterer system was used, the toU gates Either ltr. Ety, the secretary, was the weie very unpopular with travelle$, and soul of brevity, o! little rvas accomplished son€ of the cha.ges were inlquitous. ai the next half dozen meetinss. for the total minutes for each meeting occupied A Gippsland trip in 1872 of over 150 o.ly a third oI a page of foolscap e.ch. miles rras found to be to11 free. But a trip in another direction encountered Later ln the year some meetings lapsed no lewer than eight lrayments, most oi altogether, due to the non-attendance oJ them cbarging as much as 6/6. members of the Board, so the nne didn't seem to have worried them- Wherever possible people avoided and Gmdual1y. however, the Kellor Roads Distdct began to work smoothly from a Thls was compartively easY at, say, mom in Mr. Ely's home (which he rent€d Eleminston Road and Macaulev Road ToU to the Board Ior €?/10/- a year.) cates. The lanikins oi those days did 1t by means of teadng down the fences. This, ol course, was in addition to his ralary as clerk, trea,surer and collector, 'Ihe Keilar Brid.ge TaU bos dnather whi.h had been fixed at t110 per annum. dtter. ]t could hdtdtu be atoi.led. whe. the Keilor tolls were rented out tn the 'fifties, the rent would appear to have areraged about 1500 a month, which THE ABOMINABLE is an indication of the income taket by the tous- ? BOATMEN It was dimcult to abolish tolls, because shires were sometimes dependent upon a According to the "Argus" of Jxly 31, revenue abolition would have 1852, ihe Keilor punL vas leing grossly tou and loaded local land owne$, particularly in Keilor, with heavy maintenance charges "We hare heald,' the paper staied, 'some verv serious comDldnis about rhe for trunk roads used by thmush traffic. way in which the lht is mdaged. It seems that a hoaL h6 ben provided by the From these considerations arose recos- goverDment and that !o charge {a corl lntroduc- temllated for the trdrsDori of ,sssebaers, nitio. in thp 'seventies for the bul the me' wlro lcve .huse ol the Eunt tion of sohe other system. reeulailt erlraci I/- trcm ever\ man sho uses it to ooss the d'e!. By this time, of course, the tlamc using ''Ir1 addition to this we hear thev hrlp Lhe Mt Alexander Road had dropped heav- cut a\yay a temporarv lDoloey ior a bridse. ily. Indeed, as early as 18?1, the Keilor ove! which lassenee.s were vont to Dtss ToU revenue €480 errijs, in o'der Lo ebsure the rllegal shjljnp Bddse had a of only ih eterj instan.e It this rs reallJ tl]e case and the Plains Totl oi only !33. some rnqui'y oueht to be immediately in- stitut€d and the spe(ulltion lut a stoD io." Toll couections flnatly ended in Decem- ber, 1877. Wnrr.r tn" "cota nr"n- for the acquisition of pri- s1ow1y came to a halt, with vate land by the Govem- the number ol IlceDces m€nt lor closer settlement taken out, d.opping sharply, Burst Keilor was not unaff€ct€d. The op€rauoDs of this Mount Road quietened act continued until 19(x. dowr! and there was rm and du ng that time six longer "essy" money ior estates wele purchased. the provision shops, black- of the smiths, and hotels. Four of these, situated in the country, contained Thus Keilor entercd lts gold perlod 33 5?1 acres, Purchas€d at Post lllsh of a cost of S98,b00. egricultural esiablhhment which lasted up untll t]le go ld The Arst closer settJe- ment Act was pasaed in This was period in 1904, and tbis created the a Land Purchase aDd MaD- whi.h there {,ere lew (realk hajor chanses. The maj- agement Board the fl rs Closer Settlemeni ority of the propertles werc bubble t still very iarse. Board), Taylcr, Robertson (James The Act gave power to Jnr.) Anderson, Foster, purchas€ private land, sub- Mllburn arc a few of the divide it and issue leases names conn€cted wlth the and Ior the allotments to cer- distd.t. tain approved applicants. David M burn. who play- Ttrere have been ottrer ed e big part In the work qoser Settlement Acfs ud of the Church of England Keilor a Board was appolnt€d in at Keilor in the early days, 1915, and ln 1su the Dls- came from Yorkshhe, Eng- charged Soldlers Settle- land. in 1853. ment Act was passed, At flrst he tried hls hand All these Acts were con- at gold mining, but gave marks solldated " hto the closer this up to work at "Over- settlement Act of 1928, and thls was amended Iater he bought his first Irom tlme to time util land Keilor 15 replaced by the apPolnt. at acres oI e.nd began market- gar- ment of o Commlssion time 1932, -dening. flve members 1n whlch caEied on nntil 1938 h 1860 he had 165 acres. when the cloler settlement and became Shire Presi- CommlsElon was dissolved, He is said to ba the d e n t. Frank Milbum's aDd th€ Board of Lands firct man to hae€ est- nephew, Mr. N. Milburn, and Works took its place. ablished an irrigation also sefled on the Council when Keilot was pro- tu f&r as Keilor is claimed a Shlre in 18?1, it concerned, howeee., tt He was a (ellor Coun- made no greai difierence was ih. 1904 Act that $as cilor for 3i years, a Shire to the status or the area. lo b.gin th. maBins of o President, and many other honors fell h1s wal,. clGer settlemert as such really commenced under William Taylor's "Over- His soD. Erank Milbum, the Land Act of 1898, newton" pmperty was one also served on the council which contaln€d provision of the flrst to be affected, to be cut up, o ginally into smaU holdings. Lat€r, ol course, as in other cases, the land was to be iurther subdivided to become the strburb of st. Albans. Parliamentary

Despite closer settlem€nt, there was representatioes little develoDment in Keilor. The popula- tlon grev Yery slowly. It was 6UI a community domin.t€d by the aerrculturists. The City of Keilor is either wholly or partly within the It is likely the flrst Wolld War held up boundaries of many electorates development and this, followed by the quiet years of the twenties and the d€pression and provinces of State and Fed- of the 1930's, provlded lttfle in the way of eral Parliament.

present When Mr, Norm A, woods. the Representotives ore Town Clerk, joined the Council 32 years ago f ss Shire secrctary, rate collector and valuer. the rest of the staff consisted of an a Yidorion Legislctive Council. assistant secretary and a typistl Hon. G. L. Chondler, M.L.C. (South- The services of an outside consultant engiDeer were used. Hon. W. R. Gorrett, M.L.C. (South- It was after Wodd War U that Keilor began to move, but the move did not gather Hon. S. Merrifield, M.L.C. (Doutto just yeaB momentum until about fourteen Gollo Province) ago, when the population lumped npidly ond new lndustrles came to the city to Hon. J. M. Tr;povich, M.L.C. provide employment. (Doutto Gollo Province)

It was the end of an e!a, th€ change lrom agrlcultuml to suburbia and in- a Vi.torion Lesislotive Ass€mbly. dustrial ...... , tEl Mr. K. H. wheeler, M.L.A. (Essen- doh) Mr. J. T. Wllton, M.L.A. (Brood- ) 1852 Mr. G. R. Crick, M.L.A. (Gront)

a House oI Representotives. (Fed.) Meeting Hon. R. T. Pollord, M.H.R. (Lolor) (Mori- "A me€ting ot subscribeE and f ends Mr P. W. Stokes, M.H.R. oI the proposed new Scotch Churcb ln the byrnong) Padsh of Doutta GaUa reill be held irl the Armshone. (CoalviUe) house ot Mr on the Senote {Federol) -'vening of Tbursday the oth cuuent at a slx o'clock for the purpose of caling ln the Senotor lvy Wedgwood subsc ptions, electlng trust€es and making other nec€ssary armngements," Senotor C. W Sondford Frcm "The Argus", July 31, 1852. Tod.y ihere .n l2 OticiDal menhec J. Roberlson eit J. councll reDr6ent.- or ihe CouDcil - Easrint, sith IV. iivB lor the Cliy ol then kro$n as o Dis- Taylor aE Chalmrn. I KeUor D ircrcso irict Roads Boa.d u.ny of these ol ih@- since the WEIE: MBE. D. nam€s are Derp.tu- I munlclp.Iiy tirsi Phail, G. Dodd, P. ,t€d in lhe cioy *here .ao. i.to distqe Phelu, J. McNab, stErs have b@ I M. Ritchie, G. G8t'

The stogecooches ( their woy to the gold diggings mode their first stop ot Keilor, where, jf the t rveller wos lucky in the scromble, he got breokfost. One writer in 1857, who mode the iourney, soid the food never got o chonce to r€och the toble. Steoks-----enormous size steoks-'4ere grobbed from the plotter while in tronsit from the kitchen to the dining room. The cooch trip wos onything bot o sedote ond leisurely journey. Here is one description of o cooch roce ln lB57: "l mode my hext up-country stort in one of Cobb's cooches (the Yonkee line) which hod lorniidoble opposition in o coloniol estoblishment owned ond conducted by Mr Foster, who wos the successful competitor for the moil controct. "Both cooches were €hoke full when we left Melbourne ond storted FIRST IN FIRST os if the journey wos o choriot roce on which o greot stoke depended. "Round corners, up SERVED FOR hill ond down hill, there wos no obot€ment of poce, nor wos there ony exercise of whipcord, THOSE BIG for the horses seemed to comprehend ond enter into the spirit of the I r --r SIZZL I N G "At times when there wos o struggle to see who could enter ! first, on o beoten trock, STEAKS on o bed of mocodomised boulders, it wos quite os exciting os o poir of opponents in o steeplechose rocing for o tender ploce ln o fo.midoble lence- "lf the trock hoppened to be token, th. r_eaten po'tv fell into lrne with ihe fooming mouths anC snorting nostrils of his l:oders in the lops ol tre possengers occupying the hindmost seots o{ the leod nl coa.h. "'But when it chonced, os it frequently did, to o deod_heot, then one s€t of wheels of eoch vehicle were running on v:lver, while the others w€re jolting modly over rocks ond stones, "We hod one effective specimen of rood rocing beyond Essendon, during which the tops of the cooches often come into collision o;d o toll gentlemon in the moil hod his heod driven cteon through the closed leother roof by o violent bumP." HONOR r 863 BOARD 1963 ROAD DISTRICT McNAB 1912-1913 J, WEITE 1913 1914 Ga.etted, ird, March. 1863 J, H, PARR, J,P 1914-1915 CHAIRMEN H, COLEMAN 1915-1916 W TAYLOR, JP, 1863-1864 J, WIIITE 1916 1917 TAYLOR, J.P- 1864,1865 14 rox l9t?-i918 W- J, M0TARLANE w' TAYLOR. J.P. 1865-1866 D. 1918-1919 W. TAYI,OIi, J,P. 1866-186? F. :dI1-BURN 1919-1920 J, w' TAYI,OR, J,P. 186?-1868 H- PABR. J,P, 1920-1921 J. R,OBER,?SON 1868-1869 J, FO,< t92t-t922 J, ROEERTAOII 1869 18?0 F, C. STENSON. J-P, 1922-1923 J. R,OBER,TSON 18?0-1871 F, C, STENBON. J,P, 1923-1924 J, R,OBER,TSON 18?1-18?2 ,I. WIIITE 1924-1925 ) G, G, BURKITT 1925-1926 J- D, MCFARLANE 1926 192? SH IRE s. J. EVANS 1921-7928 Ga2etteit 2?th December 1E71 L. J BTTTIERLEY 1928-1929 PRESIDENTS E, NASH. J,P. 1929-1930 J. J,P. 1930-1931 R,OBERTSON H, STEVENS, J. t872 tA13 R,. PAR,SONS- J.P- l93l-1932 J, E,OBER,TSON 18?3-18?4 J. PARR, J,P, 1932-1933 W, TAl'LO&, J,P, l8?4-18',75 TAYLOR. E, C, STENSON, J,P, 1933-1934 W. J.P- 18?5-18?6 J. DAV]S, J-P, 1934-1935 W, TAYLOR. J.P. 18?6-1877 :CAYLOR. J, PAIiR. J,P, 1935-1936 Y/" J,P. 18?7 18?8 R- PAASONS, J-P 1936-193? W. TAYLO& J.P- 18?8-18?9 J. PAXR,. J,P, 193?-1938 w. TAI'LO!|_ J.P. 18?9-1880 ?AY],OR,. .,.P R, PAEISONS J.P 1938 1939 w' 1880-1881 H, H. HILBERT 1939-1940 ?AYLOR. 1882 W' J,P. 1881 r. E, JOLIY 1940-1941 .W,M RITCIIIE DELAHAY' 1883-1884 I', E, JOLLY 1941-1942 W. TAYLOR,, J,P, 1884-1885 I', E, JOLLY 1942-1943 R. PARSONS. J.P 1943-1944 w, TAYLOII, J,P, 1885-1886 J,P J, PARR,. J,P. 1944-t945 W TAYT,OR 1886-188? JOI,LY. J-P. 1945-1946 W- TAYLOR. J.P- 188? 1888 r. E, J.P. J. DAVIs. J-P, 1946-194? W. TAYLOR, 1888-1889 GOOCII J,P, 1947 1948 W. TA}'LOR,. J.P. 1889-1890 N TAYLOR,, J,P, ,. DAVIS. J.P- 1948-1949 v/, 1890-1891 J, DAVIS. J.P, 1949-1950 ,W,W, ?AYLOIi, J,P, 1891-1892 E- EASTON 1950-1951 TAYLOR, 1892-1893 E, J.P, H, E, EASTON 1951-1952 W, TAYLOR,, J,P, 1893-1894 T, N, MIIBU&N 1952-1953 D, MILBUR,N 1894-1895 MCNAB w. sKEwEs 1953-1954 W- 1895-1896 J- EDDIE 1954-1955 W, I\{. GOI'DIE 1896-189? I, MCNAB 1955-r956 J. II. PAA&, J.P. 189?-1898 A W. II, J. LAKB. J,P. 1956-195? S. WELIAMS 1898-1899 c. H, MOFI'AT, J.P, 1957-1958 W, S, WILIAMS 1899-1900 I, A. MCNAB 1958-1959 J, II, PARR,, J,P, 1900-1901 r959-1960 J,P. J. A, MOUSHATL J, H, PARR. 1901-1902 N. IIEINZE, J,P 1960-1961 D, MILBURN, J.P. 1902-1903 w. McNAll 1903-1904 W. II- TAYLOR,. J-P, 1904-1905 CITY W, I1. TAYT,OR. J.P. 1905-1906 W, I1. TAYI,oR. J.P. 1906-190? Gazetteil 29th Aprd. 1961 J. E, PARR J,P 1907-1908 MAYORS W. MCNAB 1908-1909 !,, BUTLER, 1909-1910 N, HEINZE, J,P, 1961 F. C. STENSON. J.P. 1910-1911 A. KIELLERUP, J,P, 1961-1962 W MCNAB 1911-1912 L A. MCNAB 1962-1963 The honot boaril occ oies a proniflent positioll dt the M niciaal O|flces. I{eilor The temes abooe appeat on lt. There's a place in history for our bridges .Atr...1'Dhot.lrtDhor.n.exEting€rld.r

The present bridge at Keilor over the Maribyrnong was opened November 21, 1868. lt was a much b3tter proposition than the bridge it had cost around e20,000. replaced - which Totol cost for the new bridge come to relieve the extreme baldness and mono- to !6000, o{ which the Government Nony ot the surrounding scenery." poid one-third- That is wha! the reporter v,/rote in The ofrclal opening by the chie, 1868. A more than Iulsome descripfon. Secretary ol the day - was quite an - The engineers tor the work were Me6s:s Browne aDd Son, cambexweU, and the The "Argus' d€voted several columns to a report on it and gave a full description and details ol the hridge. . Thk photoshnh Bas ta*.n at the oDenhr "It is a handsome and very substantial Bdd3c. an .xrct ttatD lr roi structue, and, viewed from the brow ol knonh, tlt it L !!n ran, o irourd Th. s. r to thtr d.r. the when apprcach€d from Melboune, 1904. bri'lce d,st! hill Job. h.ve b..n is exceedingly picturesque, se ing greatly

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6 Keilor's pincipal shapping centtes are in Nlddrie snd. St- Albans. Thls atelb is oI Keilor

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The iron lor the eonstuction $as 1'l bmusht out lrom England. t|A DA I.IS lvl

Alter the openins ceremony the suests There hove been mony com, drove to "overnewton" where they rvere ploints obout vondolism in ent€rtained to luncheon by Mr W. Taylor, school premises in the City of ;he nrsL chairman oi Keilor District Road Keilor, in these modern times. Boad, and stil1 a meaber of the Board at ) The problem is not o new one. In 18?6, Mr. lYill Aavage, school There no truth in statements which is teacher at Keilor School 1578, wrote have been made from time to time that to the Board of Education complaln- as complete the bridge was brought over a ing bitterly that the closets had been bumed down, and the pump wrench- The bridge was specially designed and ed from the tank on the ntght ot built for the job. Ap l 29. An early projeci of the Country Roads In 1878, he reported further Board is to rerlace the bridge which damage to both his school and the Catholic School. whlch was still ih nearly a hundred years old - ls no Ionger capable of coping emciently with Calde! operation at that tlme. Highway tramc. BUSILING GO.AIITAD KEII.OR TODAY

Bustling, go-ahead that is the modern City of Keilor, with its direct radio communication to- all its engineering proiects in progress over 38 square miles and its thriving. industries, mainly in the AirPort West area. With its populotion o+ 33,249 ond The valuation of rateable pruperty within 7,898 dwellings, it might be thought lhe Municipality as at September 30, 1962, the city wos closing up fost, thot it so for os wos the beginnlng of the end, N.A.V. r1,246,49? C.1.V. t24,926,882 development wos concerned, u.c.v. !6,823-235. - -

Not so. The valuatton ngures for the year 1962- 83 will be. It is only the end of the beginning, for there ore still neorly 10,000 vocont N.A.V. !1,820,?96 - C.I.V. t36,382,613 - blo.ks in the municipolity. u.c.v !17,215,389.

Like most fost growing cities, it hos its teething troubles. eilor One of the biglest problems is un- mode roods, but privote street schemes estimoted to cost €372 nnillion, hove Yeor Populorion Dvellings

A feoture of Keilor is thot ihe public l88l 689 123 gollery ot Council meetinss which - ore held on the lst ond 3rd Tuesdoys r 891 596 128 of eoch rnonth is never empty. - I 901 6l3 145 rlhere is always a number of citlzens interested in the workinss of local gov- t9t I 922 210

Eor the information oI all citizens, here 1921 I,r9l 258 is the latest data concernine Kellor:

r 444 A new valuation oi aU rateable proper- I933 ,908 ty vas carried out and is effective for the 1962/63 flnancial year. 1941 3,243 111

The rate struck on December 5, 1962, is 1954 r 0,681 2,191 3.746d. in rhe t1 on Lhe Unlmproled Cap- ihl Value (Equlvalent Net Annual Value ol 2 11.265 ln lhe tl' comparFd with ?.5d. 1962 33,249 1 ,898 in the tl iD 1961/62. . THIS aerial photogtdph ol lhe otesent Mel- bourrp Aitporl LDos loken bu ADiallon Ser,icei dnd Photosroph?t\ Pltr. Ltd-. ot Bourke St.. Mclbounp. The Cessna 180 aircrutt bas fryins at 10,000 lt. The Bulla Rd- teeDa! is shot'n cteotlu. It starls neor the batton lett hand cornet- and lhcn D"cts tiqht, oooss the phalo- graph Kelor Rcl. \haDs can bp in th? tap telt area. A Wtld ECg aettal "cetLca.mera. uas usecl lor the eicture- ..AI|IATION

C ITY" I(EY TO IUTURT The first years of Keilor's second century wiu se€ the construclion of Australia's most modern jet age airpo* within the city's

Late this year work wiu begin on Melboume's new 310 milllon alDort on the Tullamarlne slte and the airport's 5,000 acres adjoln Keilor and Broaclmeadows and the Shire ot Bulla. The new atport vill grow into an "aviatlon city" with thousands of employees and visitors, and lt will iniuenc€ the dev€lopm€nt of I

The "gromd level" noise of blg jets opelat- ing lrom the new airport wlll be far below the noise levels crcat€d by ailcmrt operating ftom ure present atrport at Esserdon. In a recent ''Meet the Press,, tel€vlsio:r int€rvlew, the Director-General oI Civil Aviation, M! D. G. Andercon, told a panel of Melbourne K

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:t journalists that a jet airlind taktng ofi to of ell the clty blocks bounded by Spencer, the south from the rlew airport would spdng, Flindels, and Bourke stEets. begin its take off role 5 miles ftom the home areas of Keilor. In fact. if all the buildtne rnaterials pavemerts The n€q, airport wiu be a malor necessary for these sere used sngJneering undeltalring. Ior load construetion, they ould be sumcient to build a hvo-lane hishway In will have two runways, 8,000 ft. from Melboume into New South Wales. and 7,000 ft. long the mn\qays at Essen- are 6,100- and 5,200 ft. long don Alrpot ft. Many the features oI the new air- and will have the most modem featur€s of port not be appareni to casuai of- afport design in u.se throughout the will a world. Modern jet airlineE are fuel-thirsty and. have high speed tunouts from It irill require lpecial high pressure undersrouDd runways to increase hamc capacity, and Its taxiways, aprons, and its teminal refueuins iacilities. j€t buildlnE will be tailored to the ase. A fully loaded Boeing ?0? car es suffcient fuel to last th€ average molorist prolect wiu include the usual The for 40 years the facilities must engheering and other services and the and fuelling wiII have modern a1r navigational be so designed that the aircraft, while on airport the ground, be reiueUed the mte ot lacilitles, including high intenstty lighting can at about ioul years motodns supply a minute. and Instrument Lanaung System. However, ev€ry visitor to the new runways anal aprons will De The alrport wiU be impressed by its terminal dcslcneal to handle the beavicst aiF buildine. craft tyDes contempiateit by civil air- The terminal buildins at Tullamarine Itne operators thousuout the world, jet and the ailport's runwaYs can be €x- wili be desiened for the ase and will lnclude every important design development traffie tendeal if recessary to m€et luture us€d at ovemeas airyorts that would be ipplicable to Austrslian requircments. The oyerall airport pmject is desiSined No nrm plans have yet been drawn for to se e Melbourn€ and Australla lor many the new terminal. but if it foUows a type used satistactorily ore$eas it coud be two-storcy shucture The huge area acquired by the com- i with the floor oI the upper storey abouL heisht the monwealth is very significant. The 5,000 the ol acre slte dwarfs the 800 acres of the door of an aircralt. present Esserdon Airport and wul enable Aircmft would taxi under their own the a port to be extended and developed power, nose in, close to the to meet the rapid technical advances that a "nnger" of have chamcte sed the history oI air terminal. the past. transport ilr the nose of the aircraft would be seveEl passen- T'he modern intemational jet airliner teeb trcm the building and geIa would board frcm a lounge ar€a weighs rnore than 100 tons and the Jet age into airport poses many engheering prcblems. dtrectly the lront door of the ailcraft by means oI a short 'raembddge,. About 160 acres on the abport site Passenaers woulil be able to board v,/111 be cov€red with pavem€nt for run- ways, taxiways. aDd aprons. the aircr.ft itr IuIt Drotection lrom thc seatLer and, as ore Civil Aei.tlor plan- Thls ya.6t area, Btre[gthened to a depth ner said It's long been aviatlon of about 4 feet and topped by up to a : an foot of concret€ is equlvalent to the area Continued. on PAGE 28 fuentu Sii HEADQUARTERS OF LOCAL GOYERNMENT

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(eilot's laoilcrr Muni- ciDd Omces were oDen- ed by the then Minisl.r (OU1{(It DEPARIMTNTS for Publio Wotks. Sir Thomas Mrltbv. E.D.. The MuhlciDal Otr.h aod all deDrrtments 6re oper lor MLA. on November 9, l,usin6 on weeh dars brlsern 8,i15 &m. and 12.30 D.m. and 195?, $hen he unv.lled between 1.15 D.m. and 5.06 D.m. & Dlaque to eommemo- rlte the occasion. PHONE: 336 7211. The O6ces are siluated alongside the Card€r Irighway ln tho The Ofrces and furn- deart township. ishins cost 433,500. of Kellor TOII'N CLEEK'S DEPAET- CITY ENGINDEtrIS Althoush Drovision MENT : DEPI\BTMEITI : wls m.de for a crostb in stafr atrd services ai M. N. A. Wooits, J.P. Mr. c. E. Price, O.E., CitY that time, it has been T6wn Clerk found necessara to oon- Rate Collectorr Mr. W. J. Oddy considerable ex- Vrluer: Mr, W, T. Baulch. lider Chier E€lih Inspetor : tensions beeause the Mr, W. II, Ande*on. Mr, A, K, Cockburn. various departments are Weights and M6ur.s dd Mr. B. Butler, alr€ady ovelcrowded. Tra6c Odc.r: Mr. L. G, Tay- BuUaUrc IsD&loE : architect's ialeal to achieve a boarding purchas€ ended a controversy on whether method by which a lady tr a white dress :he site lor the airyort should be at Essen- ri,oulit still De a lady in a rvhite dress don or at Fisherman's Bend. wh.n slre Doards the llrcaIt. Th. ialea An old nle shows that in 1922 the sum ls to elininate the walk across a hot of €6 was tormally requisltioned for anal dusty apron." "destruction of a very considerable growth Bageage would be handled on the of thistles on the aerctuome" and in 1926, ground floor ol ihe tehlnal building and when ihe suface ol the aelodrome was the ameniti€s wiU be ol world class and reported to be "too uneven ior the ope- include eve]ything that experienced in- ratioD of Moth machines", a four-hoBe ternational travellers regsrd as impo$art. team and diver were hired at S2./10/- an eiAht-hour day to iEprove the airport. International air travcllers a!€ a glow- ing group. Last year 130 million passensers The airport bas grown over the years new on airlines tlu-oughout the world. ln but has now rcach€d the iimit oi lts fact, as you lead lhis, morc than 15,000 derelopment- Comei airlineN are the p€ople ale airbome in jet powered air- only jets able to use the airport and they operat€ on a restricted load basis that limits the range ol the aircralt. Today on an averase of over 45 secon.ls r Jet airliner lsnds or iokes-ofi somewherc Thc airyort sill be used by the ney thmughout the worid. aviation planners Boeing ?P? jets $hen they ate iniroduced, ere contdent that air travel wiU €xpand but th6 ne$ .irport at Tullamrdne will rema.kably ln the Dext 10 years and big aircmft in tbe liveries of some of the ensure that these eapensive aircraft can world's most famous airlines wiu become be used economi€ally under all operatins o familiar sight in the ski€s above Keilor.

The new airtrort will bs ideal for the Melboume has long been a vital centre opemtion of the Boeing ?2? jet airliners )n Australia's 8-000 mile network o, air to be purchased by both Anseti-A.N.A. and routes. Last Jear about ll million air Trans Austmlla Airlines, and after the tmvellers used Metboume Airpo$ and this new airpo( comes into service in 196? iotal included I€ss thaD 40.000 int€rmtional thcre $ l be a grudual tra$fer oI aviation aciivity from the present Essendon Air- port to Tu]lanlarine. ) Tuuamarine wlth its racillties ior heavy jets wiU substantially incr€ase Esserdon. the home bese for both the ilte.national major airlines, will aontinue in use for the numb$ cf inteirnational travellers some years, and th€ n€w aiDort wiU b€ who includ€ Melbourne in theh itinelary. bullt so that TuUamarine and Essendon can easily ba cantrotled by the same Air The next years wtu be impo$ant to Trainc control uit. air transport, and the construction of Tullamarine wili siand out ss one ol the The lwo-airpor! ccmplel lrlU virtdally most jmpofiant developmenh ln Australian provide a p..rauel runrvry systEm.

EssendoD Airport has a history longe. Keilor, s,ith Australia's newest jet age than that cf regular air transport. In airport as its neighbor, may become one 1921 the Ccmmonwealth purchased 91 acres oI land at North Essendon which rf th6 most ai! minded €ommunities h e was theD knawn as SL Jobr6, and this very air minded country.

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DOUTTA GALLA WARD: NIDDRIE WARD: Cr. N- llei@, J.P. 24 Rutland Street, NIDDnIE Phone 39-2?69 NIDDItIE Phone 33-0??6 Cr A. W. Sk.*es. J.P- 34(a) Kerferd Skeet, 24 Riv.6ide Avenue. NOhEII ESSENDoN Phone FX 2646 lvoNoAI-E TIEIGHTS Phone 3l?-8805 Or. R. G. Batclifl, Cr. J. A. Moushall, AIBPORT llEsT Phone 39-4250 NIDDEIE

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Ho*eshoe Bend Eoad, KEILOtI, 24 A$hr1r StreFt Cr, J. E. sT. ALBANS Phoft c2-0311 (sk for SDots- \r@d NorkshoD and thpn BlackMr[h's ihop EAS'I' CT. I- A, ]VICNAb. J.P, (MAYOR) sT. ALBANS Phobe 65-9051 TULLAMARTNE Phone 30-l?11 fOwN CLERK. Mr. N. A. wooDs. J-P. - ctTv ENGINEE&I Mr. G. E. PRTCE. c.E 5T. ALBANS TOWN OF

A port of the city which hos grown fost, so for os populotion ond residences PROGRESS ore concerned, is 5t. Albons. The homes built were slmple and H€.e, people the of many lahds have hany of th€m crere conshucted oa small setUed and b€come Australians, building holdiugs of only tvo or three rcles. a complet€ly new life for themselves and at the same time, bringlnA to the city, After the flIst world war, the total tmditioDs and cultures of thelr ol,lal coun- population ol Kellor was only 1191, and in 1947 it was a mere 3243, and St. Albans dld not amount to any great flgure. When the big propertles and estates c7ere cut up at the beginning ol the cent- Then when sub-dlrd,sioDs became more ury, the gt. AlbaDs area beca.rne flrmly frequent, St. AlbaDs bega[ to push ahead, established as a dist ct ol ferrnlng famil- wlth houres golng up with astor{shtrg mpidity. (continue(t on pd,ge 34)

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Thtty Three THE RUI.ES THTY MADE The Rules and Regulations of the first Keilor District Road Board do not differ to any great extent from the rules of localgovernment generally today.

Orrgino ly, however, the Boord mer FINAL RULING every olternote Wednesday or 3 o'.lock in the ofternoon. The ruling oi the Chairman vras ffnal on a1l points o{ order and practice- Three members formed a quo m, but if a quorum was not present at the explra- No election to any offlce at the disposal tion ot half an tlour after th€ time ap- of the Board was to be made unti] eight pointed lor the meetins, this was to b€ rc- clear days notice had been given by ad- corded along with the names ol the mem- bers who were present and the meetlng ) Conttacts ht1d. to be signed on behall ot the Basrd. by tDo nembers, one ol whon Special meeiings could be caued at any hqtl. ta be the Chairmdn ol the neetins dt time by order of the Chairman or ol ttrre€ lrhich the tenlter had be€.L tlccepted. members of the Board. AU payments had to be made by cheque, Three clear days notice had to be slven sisned by the Chairman, SecEtary and in writing to the secretary, and the natwe of the business to be discussed had to be The collector was not auowed to insti- tute proceedinss ior non-payment of as- Other rules insisted that members must sessments without instructions from the stand while speakins and address the Board.

No member must be intermpted except THE NAME'S THE SAME by a cau to oder- The Collector had to pay to the Treasur- None must speats more than twice on er, weekly amounts collected and at the any motion or amendment except in rcply same time furnish an a€count oi aU stch or personal €xplanation. montes- Continued on PAAE 40 ST. ALBANS Tourn of progress FROM PAGE 30 It ?,as a sudd.en change lrotu the quiet voices speaking in many Iansuases as well as their new found English. r11sti.c scen.s ol pre-tu.1r - remember, the uater uas anlu tumed, on offclally in St. A thriving shopping centre came into being.

Gone forever were the majority of the And St. Albans continues to grow with sheep graziers across the land. an increasLng number of buildinq permtts issued every month, totaUing many, many hstead, there was the gay chatter of bhousands of pounds.

ThirtU Four Other people's nx,oneSf tn tB53

This is o list of solories oJ those ensoged in roodmoking ond other ehgin eering projecis in Victorio in lB53

Colodal Engineer, Lieut. C. Pasley. Assistant EnPjneer, J. Barrow. t500 t1,200 Assistant Engineer, T, H. Dunca., 1500 Acting Colonial Engineer, A. Earrison. Dmilsman, J. H. Lister- t300 €1,200 Draftsman, J. woods. {300 Acting Coloniat Engineer, Lieut. A. E. Chief Clerk, T. c. t400 clark !1.200 Balnain. Accountant. F. campbell. l3oo Supedntendent of Bridces, D. Iennox. !600 Second clerk, G. sims. t250 Messenger, R. [100 Assistant Engineer, T. E. P. Rossen. Batchelder. !500 Housekeeper, M. A. Batchelder. !30 OVERNEWTON

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T h e groclous home of the Toy- lors, for o hun dred years, stohds on o rise west o{ the township. It is now the scene of public ond privote func- tions. Thlrtg ?be ,.We went up the ver tiU we came to rocks (Solomon's Ford); could not get the boat oyer, crossed it at a place the natives JOU RNAL had made fcr catchins flsh. "It was still sali thoush a greai fall; went atlout two miles on th€ hills whlch t.e level at top and fuU of stones, the TELLS OF land very bad, and very few trees . - ."

Not€ ahe referene€ sev€ral tim€s to EXPEDITION the scarcity of tr€es. The name Dutti Gala, as the dlstrlct The first mention of $'hat is no\r' was called by the aborigines, means tree- known as K€ilor, appears to be in a joumal of the explorations of Charles Grimes, Acting Survevor General ot Solomon's Ford is generally under- New South Wales. wdtten by James stood to have been at what is now the end ot cannins sheet lAvondale llelghts), Fleming. that is. its orlsinal placing. 18c3, and Elem- On E€bruary 3, G.imes Later. however, it would appear tha.t lng, accompanled by nve seamen and their the name SolomoE s Fod vras siven to a Captaln, went up lhe 'Great River". dosslng hisher up tbe nver at about the end ol I{orth St. Fl.mine v,rote that between two aDd tbree miles 1i auviced into two. "we took the lelt hand stream (the Saltwater xiver). at half past eight o'clock. FORTUNE IN "The land became high, where we landed and weni on a htU. GOLD ! soil was a rcddish loam frcm ten ''Ihe Bauamt Escort had not ar[ved to nfteen inches deep. "The ln town at a late houl last evening. "Saw a large lagoon at a distance. "we \{erc informed at the Treasury "I[ent over the hill to a large swamp that it would not be in until today. rMoonce Ponds,. Soil black. eishteeD inch€s wilh blue clay a: lhe bol.l,!m. No Lrees lor "'Ihe Mout Alexander Pack Horse Escort may .be expected in tbis day and It will be the precursol of anotber monster "Came to tlre boat and Fro:eeded oni escor! coDyeying some eiehty or ninety passed iwo dingles (a deep dell usuauv thousand ouD:es of gold." shaded wilh trees), no wateri came to a third where we round so-ne wa.e_. wl.ere we dlned and proceeded on. NOTE: T'his amounl of gotd would today be worth nearly fourteen mulion "Opposite this th€ land is stony soi1, pounds l stlff blue clay, and no hees, only some stras€tl1ne oaks by the side of ihe rlver. I'rom "The Argus", July 30, 1852. Thiltlt Sir Essendon. with the boundary lire cutthe lhroush several blocks of land and houses.

BOIJNDARY Roughly. ttle llne is a contiDuation of Woodland Street, to where it would inter- sect Kellor Road.

There have been several attempts to ANO[t,lAIY have this boundary line changed, but so far agreement has not been reached.

A further approach has been made re- COUID ]lAt|E cently to the Commisslon oi Inquiry in- to L.cai Oovernment, aild, in view of the lact that ParllameDtary Electoml bound- ari3s may be changed in the near future, AI|OIDED it is posslble that tbe proposal made in BEEN ihe lounge mom or the waggoners Arms at Keilor ovel a hundred years aso. \rill lf the Government of the day at last be adopted. had accepted Ihe s,Jggeslion for Keilor boundaries proposed by that first meeting of local landowners in 1862, the boundary between Keilor STAGE COACH and Essendon would have been much It was in January 1854, that more sensible than that which now fotrr young Americans began the "American Telegraph" line of exists. coaches to Forrest Creek and Bendigo. An extroct from the minutes of the One of these young men wos Cobb. "Proposed by Mr McPhoil ond sec- onded by Mr Wilson, thot the following They used rieht Conrod coaches huns leather prop" on straps frcm iron l8,cks boundories sholl be those of the and were much mor€ comlortable to Keilor Rood District, nomely osed - tralel than the vehicles preyiously "Commencing ot the iunction of Mt. Alexonder Deep Creek {Bullo) By 1855, Thomas Dewey, also an ond American, was running the .'Peopl€'s" Roods ot Essendon, thence west by the llne ol coaches to Ballarat and wher centre of the soid Mt. Alexonder Rood Cobb returned to ihe Unit€d States, (now Keilor Rood) ..." Davis took over Cobb and Co.

1857 But instead of using Keilor Road as a In a night mau was in- boundary line, wtren the boundaries were made an awkward triangle *as lert rn This British composite is leavened by units of other lands, who have almost for- My oillage gotten their nationality. There are strange colonlal expedences here- some of the vi[agels were the gold digsErs of ihirty years ago - men crho burrowed for wealth beneath the white Dono d McDonold, who wos born hills oI old Bendigo, when the city was o{ in 1859 in Fitzroy; ond died in 1932, canvas, with no b ght green elms lining quartz ochieved consideroble success os o iis madways - men who teU ta,Ies journolist. He ottended the Keilor School oi these old deserted clalms along the ond olwoys reterred lo Keilor os "My scrub mouds, as dramatic and inexact as villoge." Joaquin Miller's stories of the rugged Califomian' golal seekels oi '49. For most of his liie he was on the stsff of the "Argus". He was a war correspon- Donald MacDonald goes on to give a de- .l€nt in south Africa during the Boer War iailed description ol the centrc ot the vil- and was in Ladysmith durtng the seige, lage, but a sllghtly mayrish touch creeps which was relieved by GeneEI Air Redvers in when he mentions the ylllage cemetery- Buller on February 28, 1900. "h that litUe circular cemetery, down be- neath the long bmwn gra$ that waves McDonald was a popular sports writer ln the summer v,/lnd, thele are memories on cricket and footbaU. but the writins as dear as lile blood ...... No Lethean wltrch attained him the geatest Dmber draught to drown such sweet company, yrhich rather the frult of ttte enchanted lotus of reade$ was that in he detailed stem that we may his love of natural b€auty. Muse and brood and live again in Thus, in an essay on Kellor, published in 188? in ''Oumboughs and Wattle BIos- With those o1d faces of our infancy, som" he occupies ten pages in patieDtly Eeaped over with a mound ol gra.is, describing the scene and the p€ople. Two handruls of white dust shut in In every comer of the vsJley, he writes, trees have lone slDce been planted here stranse writins lor a young man of 28- an English oak, there a cedar Lebanon, next and further black a Scotch tu on a Perhaps lt was typical of the times, {or Austriar pine a vegetable commDity piece - peopl€ he brings in another cheery desc - as cosmopolitan as the or the viF bing death in the village! Iage, who are made up or many nations Enslishmen wlth an abiding be11ei in their- own land, and a faculty lor copying its "Some morning there is a hush in the traditions and institutionsi Irlshmen with $ide crassy streets, and the children no ihat keen love or that has wrought longer clatter and iaugh along the gmvet- coutry pathways. so many misunderstandings abroad aDd led Death has come ln the nisht heart burDings at bome; Acotchmen. tluif- and although sympatbetic sentinels ale ty and rugged, like the Shelties and black on suard, it has taken one spirit away. catUe of thelr Hishland hills, sloomily prcphesying a luture ol sorrow and disas- "The seal of steep eternal is on a white ier for this new land because Ule viuase lace that ll,iU never brown again in the boys play crlcket on sabbath aftemoons healthful sunshine. The darkened rcom - in one of th€ bends by the riverside. Contbtue!1 on PAGE 40 Thittll EiAht Airport West the hub of industrial detselopment An aerial photogmph ol the Airport West area taken in 1940 shows little develop- ment. The photograph would have made an interesting comparison with the one ol the aerodrome in our centte pages, but unfortunately, the prlnt was blurred and un- ! suitable for reproduction.

As the atport has growa, so have the lndustri$ iD the vicinity. Many of them a.e t comected with aircraft. but iE addition, a vast Dber of ,actories have sprung up since fie war. providing employment for many crtizer,s.

Many oi these can be aeen in th€ centre pase photograph

These factories prcduce a wide range of products

A comparauve newcomer is Cat€rplllar of austlalla Pty. Ltd. Its immense plant - the largest in the city - and ofices are shom f.om the alr (picture below).

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ri*i llt IHE RULES THIY I',IADE 2 from page 34 Friendly The mystery 01 the vmishing aborigine, As Mr R. G. Ely occupied both oi these mentioned oD another page with the siatistics positions he must have iound himself in ol r,he dimjnishhs lopulatioD, is not lesseued position double talk by ihe faci thrt iD the mai1]- the settlers were the of doing a little kird io the naiives. h a rcecnt article in The Age" Jack Oato pcirted oui that il this vere noL so, there would Similarly, the Collector and the Treas- htudll be a crose-up photosraph of the eely urer had to present their accounts at every aboigines i! exisielce. fo. Mr. Calo iays thal regular meeting of the Board. for this lribd ot cmera reporiaBe there had tb be frjendly leelings on both sides. The rinance Committee was to consist Stillj opiuions difeled on this maLter s far oi threB members of the Board dulx elec- t0d. Their duties were to examine resular- Writnre iheb. a local schooloNter. Mr. John ly the accounts of the Board in the nrst F. Ilinl

Donald MacDonald, in his essay, covers a murder and how the murderer was de- tected by the viuage policeman, who e1i- POLICE dently had a Ieaning towards psychology. He describes a battie on Keilo! Common STATION between the local herdsmen and catfle dealers froh the market who were illesally grazins thet cattle on the Common Following the discovery of gold ond the subsequent increose in the flow of Y€t it is when he comes to write about troffic through the villoge of Keilor, o nature that he is at his best and for rhis police stotion wos opened in 1853. L€ason his work is often included iD anth-

It wos closed down on June 28, 1873. ''viUaSe and Earm" as he calted his es- say on Keilor, has been widely rcad. The nome of o Keilor mon - John Fitzgerold Leslie Foster - feotures in the events which eventuolly brought obout the seporotion of Victorio {rom New South Woles.

Ihere had been great dissatisfaction in the port phjllip Colony at the revenue taken from the Colony and used for works in the elder state. The representot'on of the Cotonv in Others thought this would New be o com- South Woles six seots plete negotion of rheir efforrs to secure olso o couse Ior much- dissotisfdction-'wos independence for V161q.;. ond rhor onv representotion wos better thon none. ' Representotives who hod been elected could get little sotisfoction in New The result wos thot those who were South Woles ond soon resiSned. in fovor of o bono-fide election out Mr Foster oqorn ;n nomihotion whlch 6b- ln five yeors, the six seots hod been liged those who were in fovor of non, occupied by no fewer election to nominote o thon seventeen members. condidote who could not possibly toke his seot. Elections come ot lost THE DAYS OF to be ottended by not They nominoted Eorl more thon twentv oersons few or whom wer:e etec- THE PORT f;;'1.#".1 #:5"1: The Cotoniesl

The elections come to PHILLIP FARCE He wos elected by o be known os the Port mojority of 193; but, of Phillip Force. course, never took his seot, ond his election brought home to Some held thot r1o condidote should those in outhority in Britoin, the non- be nominoted, so thot the.e would be no sensicol situotion thot existed between election ot oll ond their comploints New South Woles ond its Port Phillip brought ro the notice of the Government. Colony.

T]lE BUI.LA RO. S]lAl(T-OOtll}l! A woman who had great influence in Keilor's early days was Mrs. Caroline Chisholm. Giving evidence to a select Committee on Colonisa- tion {rom lreland in 1847, she said that, up to that time, she had been responsible for settling 11,000 people. Her work in Sydney had moslly been concemed wtth female migral1ts. Later she came to Victoria at th€ time ot the ',cold Rush", and passed through Keilor on her way Lo lnspect r"he digglnSs. It was she who advocated the erectton of ten shelters on mai]l roads. It is not Xnorirn whether she was r€sponslble for the erection of the one at Keilor, but she certalnly wss lor the one at the foot of BuIa Road. It was known as "Mrs Chisholm's Sheke Down". Dogr: All dogs must be registered b€tween the lst and 15th day of Ap l in each year. The Dog T}lIl'lGS YOlJ Act 1S61 lvhich was recently proclaimed provides for substan- tial increased penalties for non- compliance. Evely owner is r'e- cluired to have his name and SHOUTD K],lOllI address inscdbed on the r€gis- tration collar or an attached badge. The owner of any dog own interest Ratepayers in their which is found between sunset should acquaint themselves with the and sun se not effectively se- cured by means of a chain or following Regulations :- enclosure or not under the effec- tive control of some peNon by Buildings Before commencing the : means of a chain or leaBh shall alteration to any erection or for the first ofience be liable to is recessary to sub- building it a penalty of not more than 310, plans &nd specifications to mit and for a Becond or subsequent Sulveyor aP- the Building for offence penalty more pay prescribed fee a of not proval, the re- 'w to than J20. The owner will and obtain e tten Permit ceive when registr$tion proceed the s badge with work. fee is paid. Septic Tank! : These mllst be built to When in doubt resarding Municipal a design approl'ed by the Council Resulatioos enquire at the Muni- and a written petmit must be cipal Offices -for furth* details (336- obtained and prescribed fee paid 72t1\. prior to installing an)' septic tank or s€ptic closet.

Footpath Crossing!: Unless by means VAN ISH ING of a properly constructed cross- ing laid dol{n to Council speci- ABORIGINES fications, is an offence for a it ln 1846, Mr G. H. Robertson, the vehicle to cross the footpath or Chief Protector of oborigines in Port kerl, and channel unless per- Phillip, estimoted the number of obor- mi$ion has been obteined irom igine inhobitonts os 5.000 {in the whole the Building Surveyor. For stote of Victorio). tempolary crossings a cash This Das, roushly, one abotigine to each deposit ageinst possible damage must be lodged. In a repcrt dated 1863, the Boad lor the Pro:ectlon ol Aborigines stated there Hedgea: On no account should were only 22 men, women and children of hedges, trees or shrubs be allow- ihe Woewurons trlbe (th€ t be which lived ed to overhang or protrude on to in the 'Duttl cala" area). the road or footway. Th€ total for Victoda was giver as 1,908- Where the money goes The expenditure of funds during the 1961/62 finonciol yeor, is illustroted in the followinq diogrom, whLch shows oll money spent (other thon Trust Funds, Loon, Pnvote Street Constructioh ond Country Roods Boord Accounts) irrespective of the source of Revenue, ond in respect of eoch group of items the percentoqe it beors to the totol ond o breok-down on the bosis of eoch €l exPended.

Exp€nditure ofrPort Itern l10t ,921 35.4 7/td fl fi IIII IIIfl T lHtttfr#?8;S

21 aDMrNrsrE.ArroN 63.O51 .9 4/5d I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I

PUBLTC HEALTE 56,'t48 19.1 3/ 11d I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I

43,101 t 5.2 3/ 1d lI||llllll lll DEBr sERvrcES

r0d r r 12,243 4.3 r r r r fl r r }ri?gRBlr+Iggus

1 ,611 2.6 6.1 llllll ]RANTS & coNTRrBUTroNs

2,652 0.9 ll couNCtL PROPERTTES ^ L281,933 100 E1/0/0d fhe stor y of Iocol claun€d attcntion ol lh€ nrsL Legislaiive Council of thp independenL colony in 1851 was the lormatton of "Road Boads." Governmemt By the end ol 1862. seventy frve DIst- All locol government is bosed on ncu Road Boards $/ere in operauoD and as principles brought to this country from you read elsewhere, Keilor was making Britoin ond these principles were found- move8 to join thls numbe!. yeors ed mony hundreds of ogo. The local Government Acr of 18?4. development o, New South In the early comblned dre Act ol 1863 and the Boroughs Wales, which included Victoria then, Gov- Acl into oDe statute and Road Distrlcts ernor PhiIUp received lnstructions in 1?89 to tay out "Townships" or convenlent size So, b! Dorlolts .frp,, rhe lrun ion ol Acts to tncorpotate the Touns ol SUd- Keilol lrom District Eoad.s Board to Shtte, ne! arit, Melboume uele passeil 1fl 1E12. then to Cita, bas blousht aboLt. Geelong uas nacle the third lncoryot- And down the years it has been gov- ate tobn ol Neu south wates ht 1849. erned on the p nclples formed long before One ol the earllest matters which Austlalla was discovered. INFORMATION GUIDE Schools (opproximotely 10,O00 pupils) Nid,iLtle TeclLt ical School St- Albans East Stdte School No. 4741 Sapphire Street, MDDRIE Phone 33-0752 ST. AIBANS Phone 65-9071

E$eialon Crammar School St- John Bosco's School K€ilor Eoad, Mudel Strcet, KEILOR EAST Phone 39-6082 NIDDRIE Do phone (rtng Father McQuillan)

St- Albans Technical School SycLenhan State ScDoo, Ivo. 3559 Jemes Street, Melton Road, ST. AIiBANS Phone 65-9155 SYDENHAM no Dbode. st. Albans w$t state school No- 2969 Parkld.ndA State Schoot No. 473A West Esplanade, Parer Road, sT. ALBANS Phone 65-9108 NIDDRIE Phonc FX 5566 Sacreat lleart school. Wlnlfred 6tieet, TuLamar,ne State Schoot ST. AI;BANS no phone ( ng Father Reb) Broadmeadows Road, T(TLLAMABINE phore. Nid.lne state School iYo. 4849 no \fatt Str€et, Doutta Gslla State No. 470A NIDDRIE Phone 39-6587 School Grieve Street. Arond.al.e Heishts Stclte School No- 4812 NIDDIiIE PhONE 33-91?5

AVONDALE HEIGHTS Phone 317-8384 Keilot State Sctool IVo. l5?8 fnfant Welfare Milbun Road, KEILOR Phone 336-?098 Sensice Centres I Essetud,on North state School No. 4075 g Kellor Road, Matthews Avenue, NIDDRIE - 39-4794 NORTII ESSENDON Phone 39-39?9 12 East Esplanade, ST. ALBANA 65-9148 Nidntle High School - Peters Stleet, Keilor ltall, KEIIOR 336-?211 NIDDR.IE Phone 39-5?68 - st. albans High school Main Road East, AT, ALBANS Phon€ 05-9091 qtI ,,]& St. Albdns Notth state School No. 4811 GeorSe sheet, ST. ALBANS Phone 65-9029 carol Grove, TuU,AMARINE 30-?885

Clarcndon Sbeet, AVONDALE EEIGITTS - 317-8885. "church of christ" Buildlng. Milleara Rd., XEILOR EAST, I "Church ol Christ" Bulldlng, IlofmaDs Rd., I .WEST ESSENDON I 70 George Stleet, ST. ALBANS \ l Kind.ergartens Honae Help Seroice comer of Mcoulloch and Kerferd Streets. NORTII ESSENDON _ 3?9-6802, The Home H€lp Supervisor is MIs. F. Smlth I 336-?211 du ng ofrce houls. or 3?-7843 Clarendon Street, AVONDALE EEICIHIII I - 317-8885. Matthews AYenue, NIDDRIE

\ ( Churches

5t. Albons Presbyterion Church Rev. A. Telgenhoi Circus Eost, Circus Eost, ST. ALBANS ST, ALBANS

St. Jomes' Presbyterion Church Mr- E. R. Peorsons, 45-47 Mocey Avenue, 9 Dumos Avenue, I AVONDALE HEIGHTS AVONDALE HEIGHTS - 3] 7-8405 Sydenhom Presbyterion Church Rev. T. GUEST, Bullo Rood, SYDENHAM BULLA - 30 7644 St. Albons Church of Englond Coptoin E. Peorce, Cnr. ATexino St., ond Eost Esplonode, 'The Vicoroge", ST, ALBANS Ale

The Open Brethren Trust CHURCH MET IN HALL 57 Kins Street, The flrst Scot's church in Keilor AIRPORT WEST fell into chsrepalr towar& the €nd of the last century possibly be- cause the various Presbyterian Serbion Eost Orthodox Church Churches in Vlctorla were very loosely Kote Street, orsanised at that tlm€. ST, ALBANS In 1903, the buuding was practi- caUy in ruins and the congregation Associotion of Ukronions in Victorio approached Keilor Council. \Fho Erant- permission Cnr. Alexino Street ond Arthur Street, ed ior lt to use the old Shire EaU as a tempor&ry measur€. ST, ALBANS

Fort! Siz i ! I filh of Keiloros "un cle" I 3AR WAS goes ,BORN'HERE Io Mr. Ely ( lf Mr. W. Taylor was "father" of Keilor, then Mr. R. G. Elv coLJld perhaps be described On January 26, 1924, as "uncle." Associated Radio open- ringer ed a commercial radio He hoo o rn mony eory Keilor pies. tr'ansnlitter in Victory Mr Elu had, been attracteal to the gold digsings, \ .tt Rd., Ailpoft West. btt eDiclentl! did. not strlke rich arul t@ retumeat to Keilot, iahere uas one teachers i he ol the flrst at the Chul ch ol Enslan School 185j uhen opene(i. The tlansmitter used t ift it the call sign gAR. He was stiu the teach€r in August 1862 when the t Denominational School Board was abolistred and re- A {eatherboard placed by the Board ot Education. t hotlse ivas erected on However, it was noi long after this that he was the same site for the appointed secretary, clerk, treasurer a,nd mte couector to the Keilor District Eoads Boarcl. technician in charge. As stated €lsewhere, he also rented a room in his A 180-ft. steel tor€r home to the Board as an omce. embedded in massive ID 1865, Mr Elyh house caught aught. corcrete foundations Records do not say how much damage was done, was erected and but at a meeting on May 6 of that year, Mr Robertson, thcugh the tower itself one or th€ membe$ of the Distrlct Roads Board. moved psid has been stripped that !5 b€ to Mr Matthew Goudie and Mr John Eoss, lor their exertions 1n savlng the Boald Room down the foundations lumtture. can still be seen. I ?he Baata| bas not in a. genetous mood, houel2el, I anal, the Doluitar! got nothlng. This towet is under- f.retuen l! stood to have been part In 1869, relations between Mr EIy and the Board of a very powerful became a bit strained. traDsmitter taken from He was sacked and Mr Bonfleld appoint€d in his t the Germans in Papua. I If the Board thousht it had heald the last ot Mr Associated Radio R. G. EIy, 1t was very much mlstaken. was absorbed into the In the Bupreme Court he Bued the Board for salary national broadcesting from January 1 to October 29. clalmlng that he had network by the ABC been iuegally discharyed. on August 8, 1929, but The Supreme Court agr€ed, stating that even the Victory Rd. trans- though h. had not caried out hls dutles ot the rroBltlon mitter was operated as secretary and tleasuer, h13 di8missal had been ir- until the construction effective because his posrtlon was such that he must be meeting. of nelv equipment at dlsmiss€d at a speclal Sydenham, ten years Even thert the Board dld not pay up the amount requeSt€d by Mr Ely (s91/4/9), and later Mr Ely accepted later. t24/14/- ln t.ull and flnal payment.

t C ITY OF KEILOR Centenary of Municipal Goaernment in the Keilor ly'funicipality r 863 - 1963 PROGRAMME

I963, MARCH

Sundoy 3rd (o) MORNING Vorious Church Services within the City. (b) AFTERNOON- "Civic Service of Thonksgiving", 1o be held ot the Keilor Rec.eotion- Reserve ot 3 p-m. Address by Hon. J. S. Bloomtield, M.L-A., Minister of Educotion. fuesdoy 5th (o) Secondory Schools (Semi-finols ond finols) Athletic Events ot the Keilor Recreotion Reserve, commencing ot l0 o.m. ond finishing ot 3 p.m. (b) Speciol Centenory Council Meeting ot the Municipol O+fices, Keilor, ot 6 p.m. (in the presence of the Hon. M. V. Porter, M.L.A., Minister {or Locol Governmenl. (c) Centenory Ploque to be unveiled by the Minister for Locol Gov- ernment ot 6-45 p.m. ot the Municipol Offices, Keilor. {d) Cehtenory Dinner ot the Hotel tnternotionol, corner oI Dromono Avenue ond Loncefield Rood, Airport West, ot 7.30 p.m. Wednesdoy, 6th Primory Schools (semi-finols ond linols) Athletic Events ot the Keilor Recreotion Reserve, commencing ot 12.30 p.m. ond finish- ing ot 3 p.m. Thursdoy, 7th Centenory Boll, Town Holl, Moonee Ponds ot 8-i5 p.m. Fridoy, 8th Reception for Elderly Citizens ot the Keilor Holl, Keilor, commen- cing ot 2 p.m. I Sundoy, loth Noturolizotion Ceremony ot the Keilor Holl, commencing ot 2 p.m. Tuesdoy, I2th His WorshiD the Moyor (Cr. l. A. McNob, J.P.) to visit schools I within the City, to oddress students on lhe sioniliconce oI the occosion ond to present the Council's Centenory Medols to stud- ents. Wednesdoy, l3th His Worship the Moyor, continues his visits to schools. Thursdoy, l4th lnspection of Melbourne Airport. Soturdoy, l6th Procession Decoroted Floots, Bonds, Morching Girls, ,Scouts, Guides ond- Youth Clubs Gymnostic Disploy ot Keilor Recreotion Reserve, commencing ot 2 p.m. tinale

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