100 years ago

PLANE: Captain F Roberts, Superintendent of Airways of the Australian Aerial Service Limited visited the Town Clerk, Mr N Wellington on the questions of telephone installation at the hangar to allow a de Haviland plane to be housed permanently at Mildura. The telephone line would run via Riverside Avenue to a point about 200 yards from the hangar by ordinary aerial cable. From that point in the intersection of Flora Avenue the aerial line would be brought to a maximum height of 15 feet above ground level to avoid danger to descending planes. The line then would be laid underground into the hangar.

SCHOOL: The Mildura Convent High School resumed last week after the holidays. Last year the primary school was situated in Walnut Avenue but will be moved to the church grounds in Ele