Volume 25 No. 1 – Volume 29 No. 2

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1997 Vol. 25 No. 1 September

Editorial
Repeat editorial
A Billy of Tea at Playtime A short history of History of Newborough State Primary School 4650 1949-1956 – by Grant Nicholas
History of Yallourn and District Band 1922-1981, became Moe-Yallourn Band 1976 (continued)
Childhood Memories – by Kath Ringin
Miners Rights Certificates – Majorca Goldfields 1869
The Bridge by Cecil Metcalf (continued)
A tribute to late members – Mr John (Jack) Allen Whitburn and Miss Constance Tisdall O.B.E.
President’s Annual Report 1997
Summary of Activities 1996-1997
Obituaries – Mr B.D. ‘Mac” McGregor, Mr James Henry Catterick Hall

1997 Vol. 25 No. 2 December

Editorial
A brief history of Moe High School 1953-1997
The Bushfires of 1898
The Bridge by Cecil Metcalf (continued)
History of Yallourn and District Band 1922-1981, became Moe-Yallourn Band 1976 (continued)
Index of Coach News No. 1-23
Obituary – Mr Joseph Norais Manley

1998 Vol. 25 No. 4 June

Editorial
The Moe Dramatic Club 1936-1947
Odds and Ends from The Advocate
The Death of Yallourn Power Stations – Tom Adams
The Memoirs of Lindsay McAlpin Gunn 1893-1985
History of Yallourn and District Band (continued)
Obituaries – Mr Cecil J. Moore, Mr James Arthur Wall, Mr Lawrence (Laurie) Dalgliesh

1998 Vol. 26 No. 1 September

Memories of bygone days – by Muriel Bindokas
Memories of Tanjil South – by Arthur Hasthorpe
Mr W. H. Burrage J.P.
First Production of Power at Yallourn – S.E.C. Magazine 1940
More on Tim Dolan – Kath Ringin
The memoirs of Lindsay McAlpine Gunn (continued)
President’s Annual Report 1998
Obituaries: Mr Francis Phillip Victor (Vic Junior) Savige; Mr Colin Thornton Manley; Mr Maxwell Thomas (Tim) Goode, B.E.M.

1998 Vol. 26 No. 2 December

Editorial
Moe Day 13 September 1998
Memories of Tanjil South – by Arthur Hasthorpe (conclusion)
More Memories of Tanjil South – by Mrs Jessie Caughey
Mail Bag
The Narracan Rechabite Lodge Tent No. 406 – by Mrs Lorna Hall
The Toch H in Moe – by Mr Ted Hewitt
The Memoirs of Lindsay McAlpin Gunn 1893-1985 (continued)
History of the Yallourn and District Band (continued)
Obituaries – Mr Roland (Roley) Oliver Barrett, Mr Charles Henry Strong

1999 Vol. 26 No. 3 March

Editorial
Memories of Narracan, Ramblings of our Heydays – Lorna Hall
Postscript to Lorna Hall’s article – Kath Ringin
Bill Collins, a Moe personality
Mail bag – correction to Lindsay Gunn memories, The Broomfield Gorman Mill
The Memoirs of Lindsay McAlpin Gunn 1893-1985
The Toc H in Moe (conclusion)
History of the Yallourn and District Band (continued)
Obituaries – Mrs Esther Isabel Tacon-Moysey, Mr David John Handley

1999 Vol. 26 No. 4 June

Editorial
The Memory Trail – by Sandra Tomlinson
Mud slide at Coalville
The Memoirs of Lindsay McAlpin Gunn 1893-1985 (continued)
Moe in 1962 – The Time Capsule
Toc H in Yallourn and Moe 1931-1938
Big-hearted George is Senior of the year – Mr George Seear
Moe Farewells a World War II Hero – Private W.O. Wally Johnson
Obituary – Mrs Annelies Faubel

1999 Vol. 27 No. 1 September

Editorial
Presidents Report 1999
Moe Advocate Excerpts
What We Once Had – The Latrobe Valley Community Hospital – Moe – Project Architect, E. Jefferson Jones F.R.A.I.A.
Medical Planning for Progressive Care – Dr W.G. Birks F.R.C.S.
Red Cross – History of the Societies Moe Branch – Mrs Dorothy Goldsmith
The Memoirs of Lindsay McAlpin Gunn 1893-1985 (continued)
Yallourn December 1920 to June 1921
Mailbag

1999 Vol. 27 No. 2 November

Editorial
Condolence to Mrs Beatrice Roberts
Moe’s New Milk Factory 1959
The Municipal Directory Narracan Shire 1955
Narracan Public Hall 1904-1999
Coppermine Hotel at Cooper’s Creek Fire 1999
Centenary of the Boer War 1899-1902
Removal of Moe’s B24 Liberator fuselage to Werribee
Local Doctors – Doctor Frederick Lloyd, Dr George Moore
Letter from Bill Baraganath to Harry Hartrick verifying Walhalla facts
Mailbag – Save Moe Hospital Group Records, C.A. Kilpatrick seeking donations for school 1935
History of the Yallourn and District Band (continued)

2000 Vol. 27 No.3 March

Editorial
The Moe Cheese Factory – History of Camembert Industries
Mailbag – Fred Halden, builder and undertaker
Moe Butter Factory, Moe Co-operative Dairying Company Ltd. (continued)
The Yallourn Band Ladies Auxilliary
Position of the State Electricity Commissioners 1921
Memories of the Brown Coal Mine – Mr W.G. Vizzard 1919
Obituaries – Mrs Edith mavis Awty, Mrs Maureen Yvonne Silverwood, Mr William Henry Conrow
Sergeant Joseph Ladd Mayes Victoria Police 1858-1896 – by Steve Mayes

2000 Vol. 27 No. 4 June

Editorial
So Tall the Trees, Chapter 7 – by John Adams
Yallourn “A” Power Station retired
Claude Staff reaches 100 – by Nicole Patten
From the Narracan Shire Advocate 1893
The Tanjil South Tennis Club 1914
Mateship – Shepparton Sculpture a tribute to Bravery
Centenary of Narracan Wesleyan Church 1900
Walhalla – The Moondarra Farms Part 1
Fire in the Old Brown Coal Mine 1929
Mailbag
Shire of Narracan Certificate of Registration of Dairymen
Narracan Shire Advocate advertisements – Dr W. Fisher, Dr W.H. Johnstone
Obituaries – Mrs Irene Winifred Gorman, Mrs Ellen Agnes Lyndon O.A.M., Mrs Dorothy Jean Goldsmith O.A.M.

2001 Vol. 29 No. 1 September

Editorial
38th Annual Meeting 2001
The Walsh Family Reunion
Mr Albert (Bert) E. Walsh and the Westbury Creamery
The Westbury Creamery (Latrobe Creamery)
Henry Roy Walsh 1900-1981
Thelma Elizabeth Walsh 1907-1995
Early Days at Westbury
Obituary – Mrs Margaret Lillian Staff
The (missing) Link in Latrobe City Link
Gippsland Gold History to be Celebrated
The Baw Baw Gold Diggings
Tanjil Goldfield Map

2001 Vol. 29 No. 2 December

Editorial
Continuation of “The Missing Link” – the Final Part of the Tanjil Story – Delilah Wright
The Moondarra Farms No. IV
Latrobe Valley Village Hostel Auzilliary – Kath Ringin
Wartime Memories – donations from Mrs Reg Biggs family
Talk by Claude Staff around the earlier Settlers of Moe
The Cattle Nuisance 1913
Tribute to a Champion Rifleman, Alan Keith Schroeder – by Jack McDonald
Obituary – Mr Norman Aiden Beck
Mailbag – Tanjil South items
The Simple Joys – Christmas, by Bernard Green
How to be Happy – A Simple Poem About a Simple Christmas