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

The PMG produced an Interim Telephone Directory in 1973 with all the new numbers and these are the entries for  Pakenham South, Cardinia and Clyde, Tooradin and Warneet.

See the entries from the 1973 Interim Telephone Directory for -

Koo Wee Rup, Bayles and Catani,  here.

Lang Lang, Yannathan Lower and Yannathan South, here.

Pakenham South - 1973 Interim Telephone Directory

Pakenham South - 1973 Interim Telephone Directory

Cardinia - 1973 Interim Telephone Directory

Cardinia - 1973 Interim Telephone Directory

Clyde - 1973 Interim Telephone Directory

Tooradin - 1973 Interim Telephone Directory

Warneet  - 1973 Interim Telephone Directory

See the entries from the 1973 Interim Telephone Directory for -

Koo Wee Rup, Bayles and Catani,  here.

Lang Lang, Yannathan Lower and Yannathan South, here.

100 years ago this week - strychnine poisoning

This tragic report was in the South Bourke and Mornington Journal on December 24, 1914.  Sadly for this little girl, strychnine used to be readily available and was  used in many households, I presume, for rodent control. The little girl was called Olive and she was the daughter of Emanuel and Elizabeth (nee Black) Metzenthen. 

South Bourke and Mornington Journal on December 24, 1914.

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