CONTENTS:
Aborigines p1. Early white settlement p8. The empire of R.A. (Robert Affleck) Robertson p16. The forest p53. Internment camps p55. Water in the Mount Disappointment State Forest p58. Wildlife p58. Birds p59. Recreation p59. The north-east railway line p63. Wandong Station p71. Heathcote Junction p81. Lightwood Flat p83. Agriculture p88. Schools p97. Comet Mill School no. 2799 p97. Clonbinane State School no. 1653 p98. Wandong State School no. 1277 p101. Businesses p115. The Wandong General Store p115. Entertainment p127. The Wandong Hall [Mechanics’ Institute] p129. Sport / sports p138. Wandong Athletic Club p138. Wandong Cricket Club p144. Wandong Tennis Club p151. Netball p156. Wandong Football Club p157. Heathcote Junction p163. Clonbinane p173. Wandong’s Country and Western Festival p183. Churches p188. St John’s Anglican Church p188. St Michael’s Catholic Church p191. Parish priests at St Patrick’s, Kilmore p192. The war years p194. Water supply p205. Highways and Freeways [roads] p216. Bushfires [fires] p221. Black Saturday 7th February 2009 p226. Wandong Fire Brigade p240. Clonbinane Fire Brigade p242. Personalities and characters p246. Edna and Lawrie Davern p246. The L.B. Davern Reserve p250. Jean and Allan Ryan p251. Frederick George Arkell p253. Herlihy family p254. Bill Collins p255. Angus McDonald J.P. p256. Maurice Scanlon p256. Patton family p259. William Patton (Snr) p259. William Patton (Jnr) p260. Lottie Campbell p261. Ern and Jack Thomas p262. Smedley family, Clonbinane pioneers p264. Sue Marstaeller J.P. p266. Bob Hall p267. Keath family, Clonbinane p268. Jayne Henderson p269. Dianne Vidal p270. Jim Ryan p272. Dorothy and Fred Corneille p272. Wandong’s townspeople of the 1940s p274. Stories of the district p277. Ann (Nancy) Pickett p277. Shirley, Olga, Heather and Helen McDonald (in the 1940s) p279. Olive Edwards (Young) (1930s) p279. Lawrie Pickett p280. Des Ryan p280. Karen Christensen p288. Wandong dances / Maurice Scanlon p289. Ruth Davern, Broadford: migrating from the heat of India p290. Joe Coliero and his cross p293. The dangers of bathing: Maurice Scanlon / Ron Pickett p295. Peter Austin p295. Modern times p297. Sub-divisions p298. Wandong Plaza p299. Magpie and Stump Hotel p299. Community Centre p299. Kindergarten p300. Clubs and community groups p300. The Wandong / Heathcote Junction Community Group Inc. p300. ‘What’s news’ newsletter p301. Natural gas p301. Wandong Overpass p301. Retirement Village p302. Wandong Black Saturday Memorial Stadium p302. Bushfire Memorial Park p302. Wandong Primary School p302. My hometown (poem) / Cheryl McIntosh p306.