100 YEARS AGO: 1924

ALL CLASS: The Irymple South school additions, costing about £2000, are nearing completion, and a very fine school building is the result. Two fine new brick rooms, with a teachers’ room and wide, airy corridors, are added to the two rooms already in use. The old idea that a school was a building for holding children seems to be dead, as the appearance of the present school with its ornate entrance and interior finish is very pleasing and should have a decided effect on the scholars’ physical and mental health. The parents and teachers have decided to have an official opening, and a strong local committee has been formed to make the function a success.

CRACKED: While ploughing up Langtree Avenue, Mildura between Ninth and Tenth Streets, yesterday afternoon, with the Jelbart road roller, the watermain was burst and a fountain ma