Sunday, March 31, 2019

Koo Wee Rup Swamp - where birds and beast gather to elect a King

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This interesting, but sort of weird, story was published in the Weekly Times of January 12, 1895. It is called False Friends and True and ...
Friday, March 8, 2019

Lyre birds and Koalas on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp

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This interesting article about fauna on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp in 1894 - 1895 - when there were still koalas and lyre birds. It comes from a ...
Thursday, February 28, 2019

Life on the Swamp in the early days - from newspaper reports

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In 1893, the Koo Wee Rup Swamp was opened for settlement and this created some interest in the newspapers. In fact, a report in the Warragul...
Thursday, February 21, 2019

The Minister of Lands visits the Koo Wee Rup Swamp January 19, 1894.

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On Friday, January 19, 1894 the Minister of Lands, Mr M'Intyre, the Chief Surveyor, Mr Callinan and the Chief Engineer of the Public Wor...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Train Mystery - Alexander Eastman never made it to Koo Wee Rup

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In June 1919, Alexander Gordon Eastman and his aunt, Miss Annie Maria Smith, boarded the 6.30pm Gippsland train at Hawksburn, bound for Koo ...

What happened in Koo Wee Rup in 1919

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This is an eclectic look back 100 years at what happened in Koo Wee Rup and surrounds in 1919. 1919 is, of course, the year after the Great ...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Local Railway returns 1918/1919

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I came across this report in the South Bourke and Mornington Journal  (SBMJ) of November 20, 1919 about Railway returns in the SBMJ circuat...