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ISSUE #865 - May 3, 2019 Locky News Lockington’s Priceless Paper DISTRIBUTION ≈ 450 _ $ FREE Inside This Issue….. Thank you to everyone who supported the recent Vintage 2 Heritage Rally, Scarecrow Competition and Town Garage Sale, this is a 3 Notices very important time for us to showcase our community to the 4……….Muriel’s Wedding, Driver Reviver, many visitors. I’m sure they were suitably impressed. Easter service in the Park. Read follow up reports on our ANZAC day ceremony and 5 Kotta Bush Dance, Ag Vic. Lockington’s Vintage Rally, in our next edition. 6 Scarecrow Winners 7 Neighbourhood House Pictured below, and with thanks to CIH, 8 & 9 Annual Adverts the oldest International Farmall tractor at the rally. 10 & 11 Casual Adverts 12 & 13 Annual Adverts 14 Lockington Country Music Festival 15 Shire News 16 Coliban Water 17 Locky Bowls 18 Locky Golf 19 LBUFNC 20 Calendar Next Typing Date MONDAY, May 13 Entries by 10am (Earlier if possible please) See page 2 for details This week’s Locky News was prepared by… Alison, Marilyn and Rhain See Page 2 for contact and publishing details. Registered No A0024058N ABN 68 147 443 610 Email: [email protected] Disclaimer: The views expressed are those of the contributors and not necessarily those of the Publisher, Lockington Community News Inc. This paper is prepared for you by volunteers to help our community stay alive. Subscriptions Available. Page 2 ISSUE #865 - May 3, 2019 Lockington & District Living Heritage Complex Complex: 5486 2515 - Open Sunday’s 1pm to 4pm or by appointment President: Joe Chappel 5486 2226 - Secretary: Beryl Marshall 5486 2353 Website: http//www.lockingtonvic.com.au Hello Everyone, carried out by the shire president, the company rising and singing "God Bless One hundred years ago people in this district, and right across Our Splendid Men." The honour roll was hung in the vestibule of the Shire Hall. Australia really, were coming to terms with the absence of war. Family Most of my research concerning World War I and its aftermath has members who had been serving overseas were returning to Australia been achieved through Trove, the National Library’s collection of and everyone hoped to resume life as it had been five years earlier. digitised newspapers, which is accessible online. Unfortunately, only This was complicated by the fact that many of the service personnel a few of the smaller local papers have been digitised beyond 1919, so who were returning were suffering physically and/or psychologically as I have been unable to access a newspaper report of the unveiling of a result of the trauma to which they had been exposed. In addition, the Honour Board at Pine Grove. Luckily, the late Miss Daisy the viral illness that had become known as the Spanish ‘Flu was McBeath of Pine Grove, saved a clipping of an undated report in her occurring in epidemic proportions throughout the country. In late scrapbook. It reads as follows: - MITIAMO: A very fine oak honour 1918, the Bendigo Independent had reported the situation in board, bearing the names of the soldiers of the Pine Grove district, Rochester as follows: - “Influenza, with its developments, has was unveiled at the Pine Grove State School by Mrs McGregor, senr., prevailed in Rochester for a considerable time, and the three local on Friday afternoon in the presence of a large gathering of residents. private hospitals could hardly accommodate the patients, while our During the afternoon Mr Potts (Methodist Church) presided over an local doctor has had a strenuous time of it. It is, however, expected appropriate programme of musical and vocal items, and his opening that Dr. Campbell will have returned from the Palestine front by remarks on the solemn but joyous occasion were very fine. The February next. The worst cases are those in which pneumonia, has supervened, children led the singing of the National Anthem and the Recessional and many district residents have been attacked by it, including some advanced Hymn, under the guidance of Miss Webster, head teacher. Mrs Potts’ in years. In Miss Pain's hospital there were at one time three patients whose beautiful rendering of “Bugles Of England” and “Somewhere in combined ages amounted to 243 years.” France” were greatly enjoyed by the audience. Rev H Nichols (Church In the meantime, thought was being given to means of memorialising of England) delivered a stirring address, followed by a feeling speech those who had fought and particularly those who had died for Australia by Mr J W Cant. Mr C Sims moved a comprehensive vote of thanks to and for the Empire. One of the earliest memorials proposed was a all who assisted in the unveiling gathering, and was supported by Mr statue, being erected at Ismalia, on the bank of the Canal, the Suez Andrew McKay. The ladies provided afternoon tea.” Twenty-four Canal Company having granted a site. It was a marble equestrian names were listed on the Board. statue for which the officers and men of the Australian Light Horse in The rest of the story of the Pine Grove Wanurp Honour Board is Egypt, under Colonel Sir H. G. Chauvel, had subscribed £500 in order anecdotal, and a sad one. If any reader has a verifiable version, to commemorate their fallen comrades in Egypt and on Gallipoli. especially if it has a better outcome, I would be most grateful to hear of There would be many more memorial statues erected at home in it, please. The Honour Board hung on the Pine Grove School wall for Australia, but initially local communities were concentrating their many years, and continued to hang there for a time after the efforts on Honour Rolls. The Rochester Shire Honour Roll had been Lockington Consolidated School came into being and the Pine Grove unveiled on 26 March, 1918 as was reported in the Bendigonian on 28 School closed. I have been told that the Honour Board was still on the March: - The “honour roll, containing close on 500 names of soldiers wall when the school building was relocated to become part of the who volunteered for service at the front, was publicly unveiled in the Lockington Scout Hall. Some time after that, the Board fell or was presence of a large gathering at the Shire Hall on Tuesday afternoon. dropped and was broken. Its significance must have been Crs. J. Rankin (president), R. M'Curry, T. M'Master, P. Keogh and Lieut. H. T. unrecognised by those who were present at the time, and the incident Downe (shire secretary, and president of the Patriotic League and Anzac was not reported to anyone who would have appreciated its Soldiers' Protection Association) occupied seats on the platform. Proceedings importance. The broken remains were cleared away and it was not opened with the singing of the National Anthem. Miss Doris Armstrong until the late Mrs Myra Sims, a Pine Grove resident, questioned the presided at the piano. Cr. Rankin eulogised the men who had gone Board’s whereabouts in the late 1990s that the story came to light. It forth at the Empire's call and paid tribute to those who had fallen in the seems a pity. These Boards were erected “lest we forget” and, in this fray. They were worthy of all honour. The fact that about 500 soldiers case it seems, we may have. had gone from the shire was a distinctly meritorious achievement. 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ISSUE #865 - May 3, 2019 Page 3 GIBBON, Glenys Ann Anglican Parish of 22/6/1943 - 10/4/2019 Rochester & Lockington Passed away peacefully at the Albury Base Hospital. Devoted Wife of Peter Francis St.Mary’s Holy Trinity Lockington Rochester Gibbon (dec).