Star Weekly looks back through the pages of our predecessors
Footscray Advertiser
April 28, 1965
These Footscray men, who served Australia with distinction during two world wars, stand in the sunshine with two girls and a boy before them, representatives of a generation which enjoys the freedom such men kept for them. They are pictured after an Anzac service at St John’s Church of England, Footscray on Sunday, which was the 50th anniversary of the famous Anzac landing at Gallipoli.
Williamstown Advertiser
April 30, 1975
A magistrate last week sent to a training centre for two months a youth, 17, who was a passenger in a stolen car that sped up to 120 kilometres an hour in a chase by police and crashed into a fence in Blackshaws Road. Patrick James Mills, of Blackshaws Road, pleaded guilty in the Williamstown court to the theft of a $4000 Mazda sedan. The youth who drove the car is 16.
Altona Star
April 30, 1975
Altona’s growth could be accelerated by a state government plan to open up 70,000 cheap home sites around Melbourne in the next three years.
The government has earmarked about 500 acres of vacant land in Altona for residential development under the scheme. It is one of 42 preferred growth areas on a plan drawn up by the Board of Works and State Rivers and Water Supply Commission and approved by State Cabinet last week.
Footscray Mail
April 30, 1975
Footscray battlers Bill and Joyce Dick are hanging on grimly in a real-life game of Monopoly with Footscray council.
The game started in June, 1972, when the council offered Mr and Mrs Dick $9000 for their five-room weatherboard house in Errol Street, Footscray. Council wants to demolish the property, which is holding up progress on completion of the Geelong Road underpass.
