Volume 35 No. 3 – Volume 38 No. 2

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2008 Vol. 35 No. 3 March

The Narracan Mechanics Institute – Walter Savige
Some Brief Notes on Early Coalville – Andy Ringin
Bushfires – District Ablaze 1898
Crossing the Line in Moe
The Newborough Overpass
Moe will get Subway
Willow Grove Sports – 1917
We’ve Always Done it This Way – the standard railway gauge
Society Annual Picnic 2008
Obituary – Arthur William Harvey Hasthorpe, Peter Yates
Condolence – to Mrs Beatrice Roberts, on the sad loss of her daughter, Mrs Leanne Joy Crawford
Thanks – for photo of a water tanker on the narrow gauge line

2008 Vol. 35 No. 4 June

Buildings with History – Moe Hospital
Memories of Jericho – Ann Christie
Obituaries: Mrs Phyllis Myrtle Lester; Mr Horace Rees Vickers; Mrs Dorothy Evelyn Furnell; Mr Cedric James Hall

2008 Vol. 36 No. 1 September

Cricketing Days – Westbury & Willow Grove
Cherished Memories of my Boyhood Days  by John Pocket
Newborough Hotel 50th Anniversary
Victorian Municipal Directory – 1939, 1956, 1974, 1984
The Forgotten School of Narracan , The early years at Moe South School 2213 – Max Garner
The End of an Era – Moe Uniting Church
To Little Country Churches – a poem by Kath Ringin
Presidents Report 2008
Mailbag – Moe Hospital
Obituary – Raymond John Hoey

2008 Vol. 36 No. 2 December

The Purvis Company – Reminiscing With Bill Purvis
Mr Geoffrey Manley – by Bill Adams
Gould Poem by Phyllis Lester
Mum’s Apron by Kath Ringin
Notes on Sawmills in the Erica, Moondarra, Gould districts – by Tom Brown
Moe Lad Killed in Action, Korean War – Private Douglas Albert Jonas
Obituary – Mrs Mary Jane Buckland 1903
Moe Newborough Swimming Holes – Edward Hunter Reserve – the Railway Reserve, Narracan Creek, Latrobe River, Storage Dam, Yallourn Pool, Bottom of Coach Road – Sandy Creek, Olympic Pool Moe, Moe Indoor Recreation Centre
Moe Church Fire – Presbyterian Church, Kirk Street
Mailbag – Newborough Hotel, photo of patrons

2009 Vol. 36 No. 3 March

Cover photo: Narracan General Store
Society News
Chatting with Charlie White
Bushfires by Charlie White
Reminiscing with Bill Purvis Part 2 – Growing up in Moe
The Narracan Store by Robert Auchterlonie
History Of Newborough Ladies Auxiliary To Yallourn Hospital – G. Devers
Obituary – Mrs Phoebe Ashton
Mailbag – Coalville Memories

2009 Vol. 36 No. 4 June

Cover photo: Club Hotel building and patrons
Society News
Buildings with History – The Club Hotel, Moe’s ‘Blood House’
Brief History of the Moe Seventh Day Adventist Church – Mrs Lapham
The Story of Brunton’s Bridge
Memoirs of Isabel Carter
Living in High Street in the 1950s – Leonie and Jennifer Allison
Obituary: Mrs Phoebe Ashton
End of the Hill End Post Office
Mailbag – George McDonald, Bushfires, Log Cabin, Narracan StoreCover photo:

2009 Vol 37 No. 1 September

Cover photo: Borough of Moe logo competition entry
President’s Annual Report 2009
Society News
Challis Edward Easton’s time in Moe & Coalville
Further Notes on Coalville & Coal Mining – John Adams
The Township of Westbury – Mr W R Reid
Train Travel to & From Moe in the 30s & 40s – Charlie White
Borough of Moe Logos competition
Obituaries – George J. Bennett, Kenneth John Earl
Mailbag – Sawmills, Allison family

2009 Vol. 37 No. 2 December

Cover photo: Moe Credit Union building, corner of Moore and Bell Streets
Memories of Moe – Bob & Betty Moore
Christmas Memories – Charlie White
Moe District Credit Union – by Leonie Penketh
Memories from Arthur Cartwright, Ex-Moe-ite, 1943 – 1950
Moe Businesses 1950 – 1984 – by John Ellis

2010 Vol. 37 No. 3 March

Cover photo: Walhalla Train crossing George Street
Centenary Opening of Moe Walhalla Railway 2010
Walhalla Railway – A Brief History
Walhalla railway Timeline
Origin of Place Names along Walhalla Railway Line
The Moe Walhalla Narrow Gauge Railway Line
The Moe Walhalla Railway Official Opening
Walhalla’s Red Letter Day – A Wonderful Trip
Mailbag – Immigrant workers
Obituaries – Mrs Eleanor (Naomi) Hillbrick, Kathleen Isobel Ringin

2010 Vol. 37 No. 4 June

Cover photo: Jacob Green
Jacob Green – by Helen Zaslona (nee Green)
The 1944 Fires – by Joan Fitzgerald (nee Leahy)
A Lunchtime Dream became Leading Joinery -Walker & Bennie
More on the Moe Credit Union – by Leonie Penketh
Moe War Memorial
More from Dagwood – by Arthur Cartwright
Notes by the Way – In and Around Coalville – by “Rambler”
Memories-The Site on the Hill – by Joan Fitzgerald (nee Leahy)
Moe Memories – by Majorie Kavanagh (Watts)
New Church Dedicated – the Seventh Day Adventist Church
Schmidt Family & Moe Brickworks
New Moe Railway Station
Golden Anniversary Edition Supplement of the Moe Co-operative Dairying Company
Mailbag – memories of World War II, Peter Leahy

2010 Vol. 38 No. 1 September

Cover photo: Moe Post Office, Lloyd Street Moe, second location
Long Journey to Moe – by Jo Rosato
Peter Leahy Moe Post Master, 1938-1948
Recollections of the Moe Post Office – Sheila Mangan
Origins of the Name of Moe
Memories of Days Gone By – by Joan Fitzgerald
Honour Roll World War II
Burglaries in Moe 1893
Gippslanders in Lark Force – The 2/22nd Battalion, Heavy Battery and the 1st Independent
Moe’s Public Hall And Theatre, Modern Spacious Buildings Proposed
The 1951 Centenary and Jubilee Train
Mail Bag – Moe Mechanics Hall, Mrs Phoebe Ashton

2010 Vol. 38 No. 2 December

Cover photo: Moe Housing Development Post WWII
Post World War Two – Housing in Moe and Newborough
James Finney – Sad Fatality at Coalville
Peter Leahey – Trains, Mail, Ration Cards & Telegrams
St Kieran’s Moe Credit Union – by Gerard O’Keefe
Old Gippstown
The Debutante Ball 15 August 1945 – by Joan Fitzgerald (nee Leahy)
The Surveyors – by Hans Faubel
President’s Annual Report 2009-2010
Photos of Moe and District
Advertisements
Obituaries: Shirley Savige, Rona Margaret Beck, Jean Constance Brown
Mailbag – WWII Enlistments