Volume 44 No. 3 – Volume 47 No. 2

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2017 Vol. 44 No. 3 March

Cover photo: Bechaz Family
History of Older Moe & District Residents – Bechaz Family – by Len and Nancy Bechaz
Driver Badly Injured – Railway Accident, Mr Alex Reynolds
Three Finger George – George Sexton
Growing Up in Moe and Newborough – by Rod Donnelly

2017 Vol. 44 No. 4 June

Cover photo: Doderico Family
Moe & District Family Histories – The Doderico Family – by Frank and Lyn Doderico
The Life of a Teacher – Ted Bowley
Bushfires – 100 Fire Fighters Out 1932
Obituary – Mrs Annie Crowe 1932
Moe Rifle Club – History
Moe West State School 1932 Concert
Letter to the Editor re Coalville Station 1934
Moe East Traders in Early Days – by Arthur Pearce
Milk Bars of Moe
Obituary – Shiela Valesca Mangan

2017 Vol. 45 No. 1 September

Cover photo: Des Phefley in the Purvis Hardware Store, 1980s
Moe & District Family Histories – Phefley Family – by Merle and Des Phefley
The Sham Fight at Moe 1890s
The Astor Radio Aeroplane 1928
Obituary: Thomas S. Savige 1931
Willow Grove State School – Removal to New site
Wedding – Bacon and Hasthorpe – Marie Esther May Hasthorpe and Reginald Edward Bacon 1932
Westbury Anglers 1932
Moe Railway Club 1932
Erica Shooting Tragedy – David Wilson 1929
Woman Charged with Murder – Anne Elizabeth Hillard 1929
Water Supply and Swimming Baths 1926
President Report 2017
Lone Graves of Gippsland – JG Rogers
Mailbag: Eric Saxton and Alec Heywood – Noel Erbs
Moe Cafes and Corner Stores
Website upgrade

2017 Vol. 45 No. 2 December

Cover photo: Eileen Mitchell in Moe Basketball team
The Kerr Family – a New Life in Australia – by Eileen Mitchell
“IF” – Rudyard Kipling
‘SS Marathon’ –  by  Reuben Goossens
Recollections of Sheila Mangan
Obituary – Mr Thomas Symonds Treloar 1932
Disastrous Fire at Moe – Treloar & Co Store 1924
Farewell to Mrs Treloar 1933
Moe Bakery destroyed by Fire 1932
First ANZAC service at Erica 1933
Moe Cafes and Corner Stores – a compiled list

2018 Vol. 45 No. 3 March

Cover photo: Albert Edward Walsh
Walsh Family History – May Griffin, Nancy Bechaz and Phyllis Dyt
The Story Behind the Name – John Field Drive
Camp Creek Gold Mining Coy Hill End
Moe Scouts – How the Log Cabin Came into Being – Russ Savige
Moe Scouts – Why I Started the First Moe Troop – Rev. T. H. Watts
Moe Cafes and Corner Stores – by Jenifer Williams (nee Allison)
Obituary – Keith Hamilton Dinwoodie 1933

2018 Vol. 45 No. 4 June

Cover photo: “Stanleigh“, home of the Staff family in Moore Street Moe
Early Moe Family Histories – The Staff Family
The Moe Club – 1963
Moe Town Water Supply – newspaper articles 1933
Fatal Accident Tanjil – Peter Warbridge 1862
Farewell Social for Mrs Moore 1934

2018 Vol. 46 No. 1 September

Cover photo: Max Donelly with football memorabilia collection
Boots ‘N’ All – Football Careers of Rex and Max Donnelly
Prospecting for Gold – Ebenezer Townsend 1866-1933
Guiding the Youth of Moe – Variety Of Youth Agencies
Local Newspapers –  ‘Your newspapers have colourful ‘lives’
Working at the Advocate
President’s Report 2018
Change of Membership fee
John Adams Bequest

2018 Vol. 46 No. 2 December

Cover photo: Narracan East War Memorial unveiling, 1920
War Memorials – The Dilemmas of Choice
Needham Family History
Obituary: Isabella Mary Bohnholtzer 1940

2019 Vol. 46 No. 3 March

Cover photo: Mining Alluvial Gold on the Tanjil River
Brownbill’s Bakery
Needham Family History
Mechanisation of Gold Winning on the Tanjil River
The Moe Club
New Masonic Temples Moe & Drouin 1926
The Washing Board
Murder at Shady Creek
History Snippets

2019 Vol. 46 No. 4 June

Cover photo: Mountain Glen Pastoral Run Railway Underpass
The Mountain Glenn Squatting run
Momentum Printing & Publishing company – a history
Obituary – Robert Pugsley
Proposed Line to Fumina – Argus 1910
Bush Fires – 1933

2019 Vol. 47 No. 1 September

Cover photo: John Nation, CEO Latrobe Regional Commission and Barry Cunningham MHR, with Bernie Ipsen of Latrobe Cakes
Bernie Ipsen – an Immigrant Success Story
Ronald H Cook – a life story 1907-1943
History of the Advocate Newspaper
Memories of a Pioneering Woman – Eva Espie
Hill End State School break up 1908
When History connects people – a Russian friend of Col Hampton
President’s report 2019

2019 Vol. 47 No. 2 December

Cover photo: Opening of the Moe Market in Albert Street and the Comfort Station, 1954
McBean Family History Westbury
First Female Moe City Councilor Mrs Maude
Down They Come – cypress Tree at Racecourse
Obituary A J Hasthorpe 1933
Obituary Richard Johnson 1933
Farewell to Bouchiers, Hill End
Presentation to Irene Moore
Moe Business Advertising (Berwick Cohen, Strong, McDonald)
Haunted Hills Tragedy, William Kelso
Official Opening Moe Market & Comfort Station
Drier Millar’s Death
Hotel News 1862 & 1864
Moe Cadets