Forty years ago
November 6, 1974
Keilor Council will have to find almost $5 million this financial year in order to meet the increasing demand for its vital services to residents and ratepayers, the mayor, Councillor D.A. Cavallo, JP, said yesterday.
Despite the Council raising almost
$2 million from sources other than rate revenue, an amount of about $3 million will have to be met by the ratepayers of the city.
Thirty years ago
November 7, 1984
Students at Sunshine North Technical School are being kept home by their parents, due to extreme staffing problems at the school.
The action goes against a ruling by the director general of the Education Department that students remain at school despite a lack of teachers.
He said the situation at Sunshine North had become hopeless.
Twenty years ago
November 9, 1994
Plans to block off part of Hampshire Road and build a new town hall on the Sunshine Harvester site have been scrapped during extensive negotiations with a major tenant for the site.
Moreover, the proposed city square on the site will be smaller.
Original plans for the 24-hectare site, which appeared in
The Advocate in July last year, showed a town hall, new shopping centre, town square and offices.
Ten years ago
November 9, 2004
Derrimut state Labor MP Talmo Languiller on Thursday won a court order banning his uncle, Nelson Tornesi, from approaching or harassing him by any means.
Sunshine magistrate Belinda Wallington extended an existing order for 12 months until November 3 next year on Mr Languiller’s application.
