DISTRIBUTION ≈ 500 ISSUE #801 - August 26, 2016 Locky News Lockington’s Priceless Paper CWA goes Clucky!!! - See page 3 for report $ FREE REMINDER… The Locky News is available to view on line at www.lockingtonvic.com.au CHANNEL 10 POOL WILL REMAIN OPEN! COMES TO LOCKY!!! Please bookmark this page in your The Shire of Campaspe have de- HIGH PROFILE LOCALS web browser. cided to keep the pool open for up to The more people who view the pa- HELP OUR CAUSE three more years. A per on line, the less we hard copies new “Community Place Based Plan” we have to get printed, hence costs Tuesday 9th August saw our very will be formed, to look at shire assets are kept to a minimum. own Brad McEwan (Channel 10 and try to find savings We can email you every fortnight news) comes to Locky to do a story to keep the pools for the longer term. when the paper is available on line, on “Saving Locky Pool”. Sharelle If a community can't produce a viable just send us an email to request this McMahon was also present, lending plan in the three year subscription service. her support for us. Travis Fimmel period, the pool will be closed per- [email protected] was also kind enough to do a video manently. Cr Wilson has indicated Thank you, link whilst he was in Australia. that the savings may come The Editor from across the shire, not necessar- ily from the community where the pool is located. A scope is will INSIDE THIS ISSUE/.. be prepared before September 2017, so we will see how what the details 2 Heritage are by then. 3 Notices It is terrific that the work done so far, 4 School News the communities submissions and 5 Lions Public Speaking not forgetting Brad 6 & 7 Annual Adverts McEwan, Travis Fimmel and 8 & 9 Casual Adverts Sharelle McMahon's contribution, 10 & 11 Annual Adverts have made an impact. But there is 12 Shire News, a long road to travel before it is safe. Peter Walsh Media Release It was great to see school kids and So in the up & coming summer sea- 13 Bowls, Bamawm Golf adults alike come to down as a show son, lets show the council how much 14 Locky Golf, Netball of strength, in our ongoing struggle the community 15 LBUFNC to maintain our pool’s survival. values the pool , and come in for a 16 Calendar swim!We are hoping that we have a Council are meeting on the 16th Au- BBQ and an exciting Next Typing Date gust, and we believe at this meeting, season, with a few events in the Monday September 5 we will be told about the future of pipeworks! Entries by Midday Locky Pool. FRIDAY, September 2 See you at the pool! if possible please Kris Munro Kylie Floyd See page 12 for details See Page 12 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 #801 - August 26, 2016 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 again, Everyone, Island. One of those was from Private James Cochrane, The last time I wrote in the Locky News, I included part of who wrote to his brother Mr E H Cochrane of Diggora a letter received from Gallipoli, published in the Rochester West, that he was enjoying a “bit of a rest on Lemnos Is- newspaper, The Express, in November, 1915. To con- land” after nearly three months of “dodging metal, steel tinue, after describing the severity of the fighting, the sol- and lead” at Gallipoli. Life there, he said was “no kid’s dier went on to write about the daily routine: - game”, the Turkish snipers being such “clinking good “Forty-eight hours in the firing line, and the same in the shots” that popping one’s head above the trenches in reserve in a secret gully near the beach where we live in daylight could be fatal. Another letter from Lemnos Is- our little dug-outs like our forefathers of old. Most of the land, and published early in December, 1915, made men- trenches can be made fairly comfortable, but the stench tion of the battle that took place on 9 August, which we of the dead, and the lice, and the fleas— In the trenches, would now know as the Battle of Lone Pine. The writer the strictest vigilance is necessary, and the ears are as told of the sheer horror of the experience; of his amaze- important as the eyes. Most of the actual fighting takes ment at having survived, despite having been wounded; place at night, and you have to be very much awake. of his pride in the bravery of his fellow Australians, who During our rest period (in reserve time) we do more actual took part in the fighting with him ”under murderous fire”; work than in the trenches, and sometimes it is more dan- and of his admiration for the Ghurka troops who fought gerous in camp than in the firing line. alongside them. The break from active fighting that the One gun, "Beachy Bill," taken from the Bulgarians in their troops were taking on Lemnos Island was indeed well- war with Turkey, has accounted for many fatalities. Its earned. position is a good distance away, and though it is known By this time, many of those enlisting for war service were that it has been silenced several times, it has been so being sent to the Western Front rather than to the Middle cunningly protected that it has not yet been put com- East. Earlier, Rochester’s newspaper, The Express pub- pletely out of action. Aeroplane bombs are too prevalent lished part of a letter received by the mother of a local to be pleasant, and they make a deuce of a row and a lad, who had arrived in England, and wrote home of his hole, while shrapnel whistles too often overhead to be impressions. He said of their camp that there were al- winked at, and you have to fit pretty tight in your dugout. ways some risks, as air raids took place near to their po- On the whole tucker is good, but the variety is rotten. sition. They were the only Australians there, and the Bully biscuits are the staple components of our rations, English people treated them very well. They were about and you need a cast iron stomach and good teeth to man- 60 miles from London, which they sometimes visited age them. When it rains here, which is fairly often, the when on leave, but “one wants money for the purpose, as ground is a long way worse than at Broadmeadows, and things are a lot dearer than in Australia.” While in Lon- its tenacity is very pronounced. We have practically no don, he had met some Australians on the disabled list. overhead cover, so pity us when the wet season sets in. England, he wrote, was a beautiful country and there was My ears ring with the noise, which is sometimes terrific, plenty to see in it, but though it was still summer there, it but I am getting seasoned now. Some of the sights are was very coldJ The crops were beautiful, and he thought terrible and the escapes miraculous. While drinking the that 10 acres there were equal to 100 acres at home, “but other evening, the mess tin was blown out of my hand by of course they get plenty of rain.” a piece of shrapnel, and a live shell landed within three The high costs in England, may have been due to the fact yards of me but did not go off. There is a great deal of that almost all of Britain’s industrial centres were by then "brummy" ammunition here, supplied to the Turks by Ger- wholly devoted to the production of munitions. In Austra- many in the Balkan warJ I must say that the Turks fight lia too, costs had increased. This mostly effected im- fair and play the game—but their German officers—I ported goods, and reflected high freight charges. These would like to have a few minutes with them. Look forward in turn were due to the lack of availability of vessels to to good news—Constantinople is near.” This letter had transport the goods, yet another effect of the war. On the been written in September, 1915, and whatever may have brighter side, there was a growing appreciation of Austra- been thought at Army Headquarters, or by the newspa- lian produce, both here and overseas. In particular, the per-reading public at home, it seems that the men at the prospects of the orchardists at Bamawm were looking up, front still hoped for the success of the Gallipoli campaign. as record amounts of Australian jam were being shipped By mid-November, 1915, many of the letters being re- to fill an order from the British War Office. ceived ‘from the front’, and being shared through Roches- More next time. ‘Bye until then, ter’s newspaper, The Express, were coming from Lemnos Marg O’Brien. The opening day of the new Lockington Library Depot.