Footscray Advertiser
November 25, 1964
The manager of Footscray municipal baths, Mr Wal Brierley, is all in favour of bikinis … provided they have a strap around the neck. He said this week that at least four girls a year had to be barred from the baths because they failed to have straps around their necks.
He said he generally had little trouble with bikinis but men’s swimming trunks often came under his notice. “Many of the latest men’s fashions are too brief and I’ve barred quite a few youths,” he said.
Williamstown Advertiser
November 27, 1974
Williamstown’s rates for the next year will rise by 44 per cent.
The council has decided to increase the rate to 26 cents in the dollar from 18 cents – a rise of eight cents.
“An increase of this size pleases neither councillors nor ratepayers,” the Mayor, Cr Leo Hoffman, told the Advertiser.
The Mail
November 28, 1984
Any stigma associated with living in the West is fast disappearing, if a survey released by the Statewide Building Society last week is any indication.
The survey showed the average price of real estate in Melbourne jumped 21.1 per cent in the first six months of this year and the West was very much part of this boom.
Footscray, Williamstown, Newport and the outer western suburbs of Werribee and Melton have all joined the Melbourne increase, which has seen the median price of a house rise to $72,212.
Williamstown Advertiser
December 1, 2004
Hobsons Bay council welcomed one new face to the chamber after more than 47,800 people cast their postal votes in the municipal election.
Mary Ann Lindsay is the only newcomer on the seven-member council sworn in last night. Cr Lindsay, an ALP member and partner of re-elected Labor councillor Carl Marsich, won the Altona North Ward as an independent – nine weeks after the birth of their son.
