Koo Wee Rup, Bayles and Catani - 1973 Interim Telephone Directory

Subscriber Trunk Dialling (S.T.D.) came to Koo Wee Rup on Sunday June 24, 1973, so you no longer had to ring an operator to have  a call put through to another exchange or interstate. On the same day  telephone subscribers from Bayles, Beaconsfield Upper, Lang Lang, Nar Nar Goon, Nar Nar Goon North, Officer, Pakenham, Pakenham South, Pakenham Upper, The Gurdies and Yannathan South could also access S.T.D. calls.  People also received a new 6-digit telephone number (with an 059 area code) and thus the Koo Wee Rup Sun telephone number changed from Koo Wee Rup 16 to 971-416 and the Bayles Milk Factory changed from Bayles 201 to 977-201 (5)

The PMG produced an Interim Telephone Directory in 1973 with all the new numbers and these are the entries for Koo Wee Rup and Bayles. 

See the entries from the 1973 Interim Telephone Directory for -

Lang Lang, Yannathan Lower and Yannathan South, here.

Pakenham South, Cardinia, Clyde, Tooradin and Warneet, here.

I have written about the history of the telephone service in Koo Wee Rup, here.

Koo Wee Rup - 1973 Interim Telephone Directory

Koo Wee Rup - 1973 Interim Telephone Directory

Koo Wee Rup - 1973 Interim Telephone Directory

Bayles - 1973 Interim Telephone Directory

Bayles - 1973 Interim Telephone Directory

Catani - 1973 Interim Telephone Directory

Catani - 1973 Interim Telephone Directory

See the entries from the 1973 Interim Telephone Directory for -

Lang Lang, Yannathan Lower and Yannathan South, here.

Pakenham South, Cardinia, Clyde, Tooradin and Warneet, here.

Change of road names in Catani and Yannathan

The Koo Wee Rup Sun of January 16, 1979 published this notification of the re-naming of roads -

South Yannathan Road between O'Sheas Road and Westernport Road renamed Thwaites Road.

O'Sheas Road, Priestleys Road and the section of the South Yannathan Road between O'Sheas Road and Priestleys Road renamed Heads Road.

No. 3 Drain Road running between Koo-wee-rup Longwarry Road and South Yannathan Road renamed McCraws Road

Edies Road between South Yannathan Road and Pioneer Road renamed Cameron Road.

Wates Road running between South Yannathan Road and North Yannathan Road renamed Purvis Road

New name              Old name
McCraws Road -    No. 3 Drain Road
Heads Road -         O'Sheas Road
Heads Road -         Priestleys Road
Cameron Road -    Edies Road
Thwaites Road -    South Yannathan Road
Purvis Road -        Wates Road