Yan Yean Reservoir: Celebrating its birth 150 Years on by Lindsay Mann ‘Of the first importance to a community is the plentiful supply of good water. In the formation of towns all other desiderata are subordinated to this …’. So wrote George Slater, in The News Letter of Australasia (March 1857, p. 3), in commenting […]
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The History of the Formation of the Shire of Whittlesea, S.T. Grey
S.T. Grey worked for the Leader Publishing Company of Northcote, publishers of “The Whittlesea Post”. Grey moved from Preston to Gladstone Road, Briar Hill 1935. He was also secretary of the Whittlesea Agricultural Society and a tentative candidate in the 1935 Eltham Shire elections. In 1961, at the direction of the Shire of Whittlesea, Grey […]