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— Your 100 Years —

of Sunraysia Daily

End of an era
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Shilladays Fire

Originally published January 6, 1944
DAMAGE estimated at 50,000 pounds was caused when first gutted the premises of Shilliday Bros’ general store, at the corner of Langtree Avenue and Eighth Street in 1944. While thousands of residents looked on, every available...

15 Dec 2020
End of an era

The Vinelander axed leaving no train service between Mildura and Melbourne

THE Sunraysia community was stunned to learn that its regular passenger train service between Mildura and Melbourne -- The Vinelander -- had been axed. When the train left the Mildura platform for the last time, not even...

07 Dec 2020
End of an era

State claims $5 million saving as coaches replace The Vinelander

Luxury road coaches have replaced The Vinelander train between Melbourne and Mildura in a new package of services which the State Government claims will save Victorian taxpayers $5 million a year. The Public...

07 Dec 2020
End of an era

Early axing of Vinelander shocks those fighting to save it.

Rail group stunned. Organisers of the campaign to save The Vinelander were stunned by Sunday’s sudden death of the only passenger rail service to the district. The precipitous action of the Public Transport...

07 Dec 2020
End of an era

Funeral service for train

Sunraysia residents will receive a pamphlet within the next two days urging them to join the fight to keep a passenger train service to the district. Next Friday’s symbolic funeral ceremony for the dead...

07 Dec 2020
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Traveller alleges rail smoke screen

A Mildura bound Melbourne woman claims she was forced to travel by coach on Sunday night because of an alleged mud slide in Ballarat. Miss Barbara Rouch, 35 or Bundoora, said she had purchased a train ticket...

07 Dec 2020
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Mildura TV news service axed

MILDURA is now the largest regional centre in Victoria without a local TV news service after WIN Television aired its final Mildura-based bulletin last night. Network management this week made the shock...

23 Nov 2020
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FMIT merged with Lower Murray Water

THE First Mildura Irrigation Trust bitterly accepted its fate, backing down from an unwinnable legal battle with the Victorian Government. Victoria’s oldest and last grower-elected irrigation authority was formally...

30 Oct 2020
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Tourist attraction Humpty’s World to close

ONE of Sunraysia’s longest operating tourist attractions, Humpty’s World will close this Friday. Operators Lloyd and Glenna Beasy said they were “retiring” the attraction which grew from the Glenoyd Poultry Farm to Humpty’s...

13 Oct 2020
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Grand Old Man (WB Chaffey) dies suddenly aged 69

MILDURA lost its “Grand Old Man” with the passing of founder William Benjamin Chaffey on June 4, 1926, aged 69. Mr Chaffey had been visiting the Merbein distillery on business when he suddenly collapsed and died from...

08 Oct 2020
Your 100 Years

“The Possum” dies in 1982

DAVID James Jones -- alias “The Possum” -- is dead. He was found lying at one of his camp sites on Ned’s Corner Station, 70 kilometres west of Mildura. The Possum’s body was found by woodcutters Bill Aston and his son Bill...

09 Sep 2020