40 years ago
April 23, 1975
Werribee will have an MP of its own in state parliament next year, according to a plan by Premier Rupert Hamer. The new seat of Werribee would likely include areas of Deer Park, Sunbury, Melton and St Albans and mean Gisborne MP Athol Guy would no longer represent the district. The change requires the approval of an electoral redistribution bill which is expected to be considered by parliament within weeks.
30 years ago
April 17, 1985
Rebel weekend trader Bob Wolstenholme is attempting to prosecute three other Werribee traders for opening their shops at the weekend claiming he had been financially disadvantaged by the businesses operating on Saturday afternoons and Sundays. Mr Wolstenholme told the Werribee Magistrates Court his shop had opened every Sunday for the past three years and said his case was partly motivated by his campaign to change shop trading laws.
20 years ago
April 26, 1995
A Werribee businessman is calling for a ban on alcohol consumption in the city centre following an armed robbery at a Station Street supermarket in which a young woman held a cashier at gunpoint before fleeing with less than $1000. The supermarket’s owner, Neil Morgan, said he believed young people drinking alcohol in Station Street was symptomatic of a wider problem of lawlessness within the community.
10 years ago
April 27, 2005
As record numbers flocked to Wyndham’s Anzac Day commemorations. Margaret Farrell, who was a signalwoman and telephonist during the Second World War, reflected on her experiences during the conflict. Mrs Farrell joined the Australian Women’s Army Service at 18 and was there on the night of the infamous Cowra breakout in 1944 when 400 Japanese prisoners of war escaped from a compound on the outskirts of the New South Wales town, killing four Australian soldiers.
