WATCHFUL EYE: Port Fairy co-captain Aaron Williams watches a ball against Brierly-Christ Church. He contributed 48 runs on Saturday.
Category: Port Fairy, Australia
Trafficking triumph for police
A FISHING boat that became logged on a reef at Shipwreck Coast in Port Fairy on December 6 has been linked to one of the biggest drug busts in Victoria’s history. A Melbourne organised crime syndicate had planned for a former Japanese whaling boat, Kaiyo Maru, to sail to a rendezvous point hundreds of kilometres from Port Fairy’s coast and exchange 180 kilograms of South American Cocaine.
Throwback Thursday – January 12, 2006 | photos
South Australian buyers Peter and Janice Ceete, left, with Elders Penola agent Steve Hill, paid $1180 for 16 joined Angus-Friesian heifers at the Warrnambool F1 sale last Friday. Julie Suter, from Port Fairy Rotary Club, and Mary Bishop, from the Port Fairy Quilters Group, look at a quilt made for Rhonda Coxall by her friends ahead of the annual Port Fairy quilt exhibition.
Rail trail donation box stolen
Port Fairy police are appealing for witnesses after the box, estimated to have contained up to $500 in cash, was cut away from a metal pole sometime between Tuesday, January 3 and Saturday, January 7. Leading senior constable Glenn McDuff said the metal pole attached to the donation box had been cut with a tool such as a hacksaw or battery-operated metal grinder.