WARRANDYTE f the cmunity by the cmunity No 529, MAY 2019 1 Mahoneys Crt Warrandyte Open 7am-5pm Mon-Fri GOLDFIELDS Since 1970 | Priceless Saturday 8-3pm PLAZA Editorial & Advertising: 9844 0555 | Email: [email protected] 9844 3329 Over and out INSIDE Your Federal Election guide — Pages 4–6 Health and safety — Pages 12–13 Anzacs remembered After an amazing 43 years as scorer for Warrandyte Cricket Club’s 1st XI, club stalwart Ann Pascoe is laying down her coloured — Pages 14–16 pens and stepping away from the scorer’s chair. Ann’s meticulous — and colourful — scorekeeping has won her praise from Reconciliation Week across the cricketing world. She will be sorely missed by the generations of Bloods whose achievements she recorded. — Page 22 Read the full story about Ann’s incredible innings on Page 26. PHOTO: STEPHEN GODDARD 24/7 Emergency Peter Gardiner Assistance BARRISTER & SOLICITOR every day of Local legal practitioner since 1989 We specialise in the year helping businesses • • • Office 1, 2 Colin Avenue Warrandyte T 9844 1111 | F 9844 1792 E [email protected] 9844 1444 “Action is the antidote to despair” – Joan Baez 2 Warrandyte Diary MAY 2019 OVER THE HILLS By JOCK MACNEISH TheOVER more THE things HILLS change... By JOCK MACNEISH MAY The Diary’s researchers have mass desertion to New South Wales, the with a vein of quartz running through it. been trawling the internet and Mayor, Ald. William Nicholson, acted fast. In great excitement they began digging and Hats,Mittens He formed a Gold Discovery Committee soon bottomed. have come across a bit of a find. of leading citizens, offering £200 reward Scraping earth into a dish they panned off andSocks Tucked away on the Warrandyte for gold discovered within 100 miles of — one can imagine with what frantic care the capital. — and revealed specks of gold. 232 Yarra St Cricket Club’s website is the copy Warrandyte of a book tracing the history of Almost immediately after the Committee’s The first gold discovered in Victoria! announcement, two parties set out to How he “struck it rich”, is best told in Louis 0411 528 142 the Warrandyte Cricket Club and search the area around the Upper Yarra and Michel’s own words: therefore the township. Plenty Ranges. “In company with Mr Habberlin, I left One party, led by Henry Frencham, a my hotel about 4am, in order to elude HOURS The Warrandyte Story reporter from the Melbourne Times, caused any prospectors who had inclination to Fri, Sat, Sun: 11am-5.30pm 1855–1955 excitement when the Argus, on June 13, follow. Compiled by LOUIS CRANFIELD, 1851, with more enthusiasm than fact, We made direct to the Ranges by way of Written & Illustrated announced gold in the Plenty Ranges. Barkers Road (now Whitehorse Road or by HARRY HUDSON Unfortunately, the assays were negative. Maroondah Highway). In fairness to Frencham, however, the After trying the creeks and gullies for The Warrandyte Story begins on May 26, well-known historian, Isaac Selby, in his several days, our stock of supplies was 1851, with an almost obscure paragraph in “Pioneers Memorial History of Melbourne”, running low. 42K Media the Melbourne Daily News. makes the point that his “find” was made There being no chance of replenishing Gold had been discovered at Bathurst, New on the exact spot later occupied by the them, we were forced to face about for Community Media Solutions South Wales. Caledonian Mine at Warrandyte. town. Within a week, Melbourne’s whole future The second party, led by Louis Michel, Not knowing exactly our position, we Contact James & Sandi was threatened as people left their jobs and proprietor of the Rainbow Hotel, Swanston determined to follow some creek down to deserted the city in a mass. Street, Melbourne, was more fortunate. the Yarra, and in doing so, a particular 0458 218 380 or 0429 121 969 The gold rush was on. With a companion, William Habberlin, bend, under a steep bank, led me to think Edward Hargreaves, later recognised as Michel made camp at a spot where the that the creek had not always run on its No project too big or too small. Great rates for Warrandytians. the first discoverer of gold in Australia, main road now crosses Anderson’s Creek, present course. had unearthed a few specks at Bathurst on on June 29, 1851. If gold were to be found it seemed a likely February 12 of that year. Next morning, working their way a short place. [email protected] With Melbourne almost paralysed by the distance up creek, they saw rock formation To be continued... EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES: Sandi Miller & James Poyner, 9844 0555 WARRANDYTE ADVERTISING RATES [email protected] $8.40 a column centimetre. One col Front page “ears” $105 PUBLISHER: Warrandyte Diary Pty Ltd width: 40mm. 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Its monthly circulation is 3500 copies and Warrandyte now stands, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, and pays NEXT ISSUE it is available in Warrandyte, North Warrandyte, South Warrandyte, Park respect to their Elders — past, present and emerging — and acknowledges Orchards, Wonga Park, Warranwood, North Ringwood, Kangaroo Ground the important role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people continue to Next issue of the Diary will be published on Tuesday, June 11, 2019. and Research. play within our community. Advertising and editorial copy closes Friday, May 31, 2019. MAY 2019 Warrandyte Diary 3 Lions Park development project ready to roll By DAVID HOGG deliver places and spaces for the whole Artist’s impression courtesy Manningham Council WITH THE BRIDGE Upgrade now community to enjoy. almost complete, attention turns to the “Lions Park works will be undertaken Lions Park, previously the Lions Tennis in a staged implementation over Courts and more recently the work site 2019/20 and 2020/21 and the for the bridgeworks. immediate focus will be on updates The masterplan for the Lions Park to the areas surrounding the bridge, project was approved by Manningham access and carpark improvements. Council in September last year, and “Further community consultation covered in our October issue. will be undertaken around the design Key features include additional of the Lions Park play space and area picnic facilities, seating, barbeques, and nearby picnic facilities.” outdoor fitness equipment, drinking Council has allocated a total of fountains, signage, public art displays $450,000 to the project in this and the and landscaping work, which includes next financial year. an improved path layout and river access. There is an excellent animated Angelo Kourambas, Director video of the planned works at: City Planning and Community at youtu.be/65qxVvyyAmk Manningham Council, told the Diary: For more information, see “The site of the Lions Tennis Court will manningham.vic.gov.au/ be updated as a part of the broader manningham-approves-lions-park- Lions Park Masterplan, which will masterplan Letters to the Diary including emails must include the writer’s full name, address Warrandyte Bridge: your say and phone number, even if not intended for publication. Content may be edited for reasons of style, length or legality. [email protected] Remembering our veterans Is it “finished”? Dear Diary, the end of which sprung dangerously elderly and the disabled are all faced Two veterans from the Second World War into space.