100 YEARS AGO AVENUE: In submitting a suggestion that an avenue of trees should be planted from the Pumps Hill into the township of Merbein as manorial to the late Mr E. J. Kenny, Mr I. Hetherington, speaking at the annual meeting of the Merbein Progress League said that the Melbourne Argus had characterised Deakin Avenue as one of the finest avenues in the Commonwealth. If the suggestion he ha...

100 years ago the local community was discussing the best ways to honour E J Kenny at Merbein. Picture: File