AFTE7R FIVE INCHES OF RAIN had pelted down in a cloudhurst at Dandenong yesterday, Hood scenes unparalleled in the town's history were witnessed. Dandenong’s big flood in 1934 came from the creek, but this one came from the other end of the town, when the ...
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Advertising : 8 wordsDandenong “A” cricketer and popular proprietor of the Dandenong Sports Depot, in Foster St. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 15 wordsROY SUTER (Broadford), “baby” of the woodchop field, jumps from his block with axe triumphantly aloft to catch the judges’ eye as he wins the Underhand Chop at last Saturday’s record-breaking Dandenong St. Patrick’s Sports. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 46 wordsOVER 500 RATEPAYERS flocked to the Dandenong Town Hall last Wednesday night to hear councillors explain why rates, and ...
Article : 120 wordsAT ITS SPECIAL MEETING on Monday the Berwick Council decided unanimously to go ahead and build up and equip its own special road construction gang to do some of the shire’s urgent works by direct labor. This action has been taken because of the shire’s failure to get ...
Article : 165 wordsWorst sufferers were Mr. and Mrs. Spinks and another householder who had up to 3 feet of water in their homes and had to take shelter elsewhere for the night. This morning these homes were littered with mud and slush and the householders were hopelessly ...
Article : 59 wordsSo suddenly did the water rise at the Brighton Rd. subway that a truck, which was trying to tow a stalled car out, had to give up the attempt and make its getaway. The car was soon out of sight, the water rising to within two feet of the top of the railway bridge! ...
Article : 318 wordsREV. C. G. AND MRS. HARRIS snapped with some of their presents at their farewell last Thursday night. The reading lamp was from the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 114 wordsPETER MCDONALD, about 40, of Pakenham, was killed instantly when his truck collided with another truck at the corner of May and Wellington ...
Article : 27 wordsIn the midst of the flood the Dandenong Fire Brigade was called out to a fire in a house in Kidds Rd. where an electric installation ...
Article : 249 wordsMr. Frank Field's office, on the edge of the barrel drain, was flooded in no time and the staff, after hastily rescuing legal documents and putting them ...
Article : 525 wordsON THE night of March 30th thieves smashed a plate-glass window valued at £18 at Enticott’s Radio and Electrical shop in Clow St. and stole an ...
Article : 34 wordsTHIEVES broke into the premises of McEwan’s Ltd., Park Motors Service Station and K. & C. Motors this week but the only loss reported was that ...
Article : 44 wordsLAST THURSDAY night while training at the Pultney St. oval, young Jack Temple, Dandenong “C” Grade footballer, had the misfortune to fall ...
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The Dandenong Journal (Vic. : 1927 - 1954), Wed 5 Apr 1950, Page 1
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