General News
17 February, 2025
Readers on World Heritage and Good Samaritans
Inglewood has a world of heritage Sir, Inglewood cannot be left out of any World Heritage Gold Rush (World Heritage bid tentative Australian site list, Loddon Herald Feburary 6). Inglewood was the last of the great gold rushes during the 1850s. The...
Inglewood has aworld of heritage
Sir, Inglewood cannot be left out of any World Heritage Gold Rush (World Heritage bid tentative Australian site list, Loddon Herald Feburary 6).
Inglewood was the last of the great gold rushes during the 1850s. The gold warden estimated nearly 44,000 people, newspaper reports said nearly 50,000 people from around the world flocked to Inglewood - Chinese, Greeks, Americans, joining many Australian-born and British gold miners.
Inglewood township was set up in the 1860s and is still the same now as it was then. Inglewood has never had a public building in the main street but they are scattered throughout the town as Inglewood was destined to be a regional centre.
With nearly 5000 miners working underground and surrounded by 50,000 acres of goldfield common land which is still there today.
Inglewood has a hotel, many cafes, fuel stop, motel, bank, large police station, post office, hospital, ambulance station, doctor’s surgery, two churches, two schools and large IGA shopping centre with a chemist that can already accommodate tourists.
It also has the 1860s Maxwell Mine, well fenced and near intact to attract visitors at the edge of town. Inglewood is a vibrant, still growing town, full of magnificent gold field housing and public buildings.
Inglewood must be included in the mapping along with Tarnagulla, Dunolly and Moliagul.
Howard Rochester
Inglewood
City, country notmuch different
Sir, I read with a mild degree of bemusement Chris Earl’s opinion piece (Loddon Herald, January 30) on the vandalism of statues and other heritage infrastructure around Melbourne.
It appears that he believes a year in a rural setting will cure all problems related to vandalism. That this is a simplistic view and has nothing to do with where one lives, another narrow perspective that promotes social division.
Using phrases such as “Looney Leftists” is nothing more than a smear on people who have a different point of view to the author, and there is no proof that the individuals who carried out the damage have left-of-centre political views.
As a city-educated individual now living in the country, I don’t find people to be much different. They have the same aspirations, desires, and willingness to be happy. Trying to foster an “us vs. them” mentality will not work.
People who vandalise are nothing more than criminals, and they can be found in any part of the country and across the political divide.
I have seen many instances of vandalism in both rural and urban areas, carried out by people from both settings.
It’s time we stopped aspiring to divisive policies and came together as a community, rather than dividing ourselves.
Peter Goegan
Wedderburn
Good Samaritans madestreet stroll possible
Sir, Most days Ruth and I take our outing to the Wedderburn main street.
Today was another of those days, however unloading at the senior citizens’ centre I got a flat tyre. What do we do? Along come two Good Samaritans from the shire office, without hesitation they took the wheel off her gopher, took it to be repaired, returned and gave Ruth back her repaired gopher.
Out sincere thanks to those staff members. There are still some caring people around.
Peter and Ruth Norman
Wedderburn