WARRANDYTE f the cmunity by the cmunity No 532, AUGUST 2019 GOLDFIELDS Since 1970 | Priceless PLAZA Editorial & Advertising: 9844 0555 | Email: [email protected] Tree-mendous Tree Day INSIDE Nillumbik’s recycling crisis — Page 3 NBN arrives — Page 9 PHOTO: BILL MCAULEY Your dental health — Pages 18–19 Warrandyte Primary School students celebrated National Tree Day by planting a veritable forest in the grounds of the school. Olive (pictured above), her classmates, teachers and parents put in 200 indigenous seedlings in the Footy finals on the horizon— Page 31 ground — and learnt valuable lessons about caring for their environment. Full report on Page 25. Peter Gardiner BARRISTER & SOLICITOR Local legal practitioner since 1989 We specialise in helping businesses • • • Office 1, 2 Colin Avenue Warrandyte T 9844 1111 | F 9844 1792 E [email protected] “If opportunity doesn’t knock... build a door.” — Milton Berle 2 Warrandyte Diary AUGUST 2019 OVER THE HILLS By JOCK MACNEISH TheOVER more THE things HILLS change... By JOCK MACNEISH AUGUST The Diary’s researchers have the banks of the Salt Water River through and unwittingly became the founder of Ballan to Sugarloaf Mountain, the party Warrandyte. Silver been trawling the internet and came upon a fast-flowing stream 10 miles A widower without family, Anderson was have come across a bit of a find. to the south east, which they named Plenty one of the few Port Phillip settlers to drove Jewellery Tucked away on the Warrandyte River. stock overland from Sydney. Continuing in an easterly direction across His station homestead, surrounded by 232 Yarra St Cricket Club’s website is a copy the Plenty they hoped to find the upper gum trees and wattles, consisted of slab Warrandyte of a book tracing the history of reaches of the Yarra Yarra River. huts with earthen floors, in one of which 0411 528 142 the Warrandyte Cricket Club and After following a high ridge — more than he slept. likely what is now the Resea rch Road from He always took meals with his hired men, therefore the township. Eltham to Warrandyte—they crossed what however. HOURS must now be Stony Creek, although it was Of more than passing interest to Australians Fri, Sat, Sun: 11am-5.30pm The Warrandyte Story pretty boggy just then, to make camp on is the fact that Anderson engaged Samuel 1855–1955 the hills now known as Huntingford’s Hill. Furphy and his wife on their arrival from Compiled by LOUIS CRANFIELD, The party then returned to Batman’s Scotland, March 31, 1841. Written & Illustrated Settlement at Port Phillip, a distance of Mrs. Furphy, only 21 years of age, was the by HARRY HUDSON about 17 miles. first white woman to live and work among When James Anderson, in 1839, took up ticket-of-leave men, in a locality around Chapter 2: Beginnings a selection to the east of the Yarra Yarra, the upper Yarra, where uncivilised blacks on the banks of the creek which has since were numerous. 42K Media It was back in February 1836, that the first borne his name, it seems fairly certain there Warrandyte can take some small credit Community Media Solutions exploration party, led by J. T. Gellibrand, were no other white settlers in the area. from the fact that the Furphys were the came to the area now known as Warrandyte. His nearest neighbour was John Bell, parents of Joseph Furphy — the celebrated Contact James & Sandi Among the party was [William] Buckley — dairying at Research about six miles distant. “Tom Collins” who wrote Such is Life. the “wild white man” — who had lived for Anderson, who sprang from a well-known Although Joseph was not born until 1843 at 0458 218 380 or 0429 121 969 years with the blacks around Port Phillip Tasmanian family — his father was one Yering, we like to think of the courageous Bay. of the original free settlers at Norfolk Scots woman at Anderson’s Creek going No project too big or too small. Great rates for Warrandytians. Having re-learned his native tongue, he was Island until it was requisitioned as a penal about her tasks with the smell of wood- invaluable as interpreter and “go-between” settlement in 1809—came to Melbourne smoke and wattle in her nostrils, and the on Gellibrand’s goodwill tour among the in 1838. blue sky casting purple shadows along 42kmedia.com.au aboriginal tribes at Geelong and Bellarine For a time, he worked as messenger at the creek. Peninsula. the Bank of Australasia until he decided A courageous and worthy mother for a great [email protected] Returning to the west of Port Phillip, along to spend £10 on a squatting licence, Australian writer. 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AUGUST 2019 Warrandyte Diary 3 Infrastructure blitz hits Warrandyte By DAVID HOGG identified in response to community THROUGHOUT June and July, concerns about safety for pedestrians Warrandyte residents will have seen crossing Yarra Street, including much work taking place in the area students crossing the road near the in various construction efforts to bus stop. change roads and update power, “The works aim to improve safety water, sewerage, transport and for pedestrians, particularly during communications. peak times.” However, the new pedestrian island Community Centre does not seem to have met with the Pedestrian Island approval of some locals who vented As many noticed roadworks their concerns on social media on commencing outside the Community July 24 when a bus broke down at Centre at the Webb Street bus stop, the location and traffic had difficulty more than a few of us thought; “ah, getting through. great, at last they’re removing that Jim Geary posted “I cannot see other protruding bus stop that prevents the buses or trucks getting past; cars will bus from pulling in and holds up the squeeze through; cannot believe the traffic”, and our minds turned to the Einstein who thought this would be Follies sketch “You put your bus bay the place to install a traffic island”. in, you put your bus bay out!” Matthew Magilton replied: “the Not so; the controversial works same Einstein who removed the bus involved extending the bus stop stop indents?” protruding pavement on the north Keen Avenue development side of Yarra Street to make it longer, Work on providing services, and installing a pedestrian refuge in Photo: SANDI MILLER driveways and access to Yarra Street the middle of the road. is proceeding apace for the nine This project does not seem to have residential lots in Keen Avenue. drainage works, we will be reviewing This project will provide these been the subject of any consultation Of the nine lots, one was retained the existing 30 tonne load limit on customers the ability to connect to with the community, however a by the developer and six were sold at Research-Warrandyte Road.” the North Warrandyte sewer network Notification of Works letter from Courtesy AusNet Services auction in September last year.