Koo Wee Rup Swamp History

This blog is about the history of the Koo Wee Rup Swamp and surrounding areas, including Garfield, and Western Port as well as some of my family history. It's my own original research and writing and if you live in the area you may have read some of the stories before in the Koo Wee Rup Swamp Historical Society newsletter or the Koo Wee Rup township newsletter, The Blackfish, or the Garfield township newsletter, The Spectator. Heather Arnold.

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Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Pub crawl in 1918 leads to licensing prosecutions at the Bunyip Police Court

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The Bunyip and Garfield Express of October 4, 1918 had this following interesting account of a pub crawl by four lads - Frederick Sippo, H...

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Bunyip Magistrates Court

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The establishment of the Court of Petty Sessions at Bunyip was ‘gazetted’ in the State Government Gazette in an announcement dated February ...

Thursday, January 2, 2014

100 years ago this week - Bunyip Court

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One hundred years ago, this week in January 1914, the Bunyip Court had to deal with this case of bicycle theft. A seventeen year old, Wil...

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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

100 years ago this week - Bunyip Court case

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The following appeared in The Argus of September 16, 1913 (see here ) - 100 years ago. Two farmers of Iona, named Victor Little and Thomas...

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Heather: I am a local history enthusiast, the President of the Koo Wee Rup Swamp Historical Society and the Secretary of the South Eastern Historical Association. I was the Local History Librarian at Casey Cardinia Libraries from 2005 until 2021.

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