100 years ago ICE CREAM: Record sales of ice and ice-cream blocks for the months of December and January are reported at the Mildura Ice Works in Madden Avenue. By the production of ice and ice-cream of exceptional quality, the proprietor, Mr G Virgona, has built up an extensive trade, not only throughout these districts, but over a large area of northern Victoria. Large quantities of ice and i...

The Coomealla irrigation area, pictured during its development in 1924, was "thriving" in 1975. Picture: State Library of New South Wales