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21.01.2022 We are all set up and very excited to start welcoming back students to the Centre in Term 3. Things will work a little differently, so we prepared a quick video... to show you the simple new procedures to help us all stay COVID safe. #rememberyourthermos #COVID #COVIDupdate #Community #CommunityCentre If you have any questions, please get in touch.

20.01.2022 Victoria’s parks, forests and reserves are expected to be a popular destination this long weekend, following further easing of restrictions. Gatherings of up to... 20 people are now permitted in outdoor spaces, with 1.5m physical distancing. A big thank you to everyone who has been following the rules Conservation Regulator, Parks Victoria and Forest Fire Management Victoria officers will be conducting patrols to ensure people are being safe and looking after the environment. For more information about the restrictions, visit: https://www.dhhs.vic.gov.au/coronavirus. Patrols will also be educating people about campfire safety, and the importance of not leaving campfires unattended. Parks Victoria

20.01.2022 ALPINE NATIONAL PARK CLOSURE We have been advised by Parks Victoria that the entire Alpine National Park will be closed from 11.59pm Wednesday 5 August, 2020, a...s part of the Stage 3 COVID-19 restrictions. Entry to the Alpine National Park is not permitted until further advised. This is to reduce the number of people moving around in the community and reduce the risk of transmission. This includes all huts, camping areas,tracks and trails within the Park. Other National Parks, State Parks and reserves in Victoria are also under restricted access or closed. Refer to this link for details https://www.parks.vic.gov.au//safety-in-n/covid-19-update Any enquiries please contact Parks Victoria on 13 1963 Note : inappropriate or unhelpful comments will be deleted. #parksvictoria #vichighcountry #vichuts See more

17.01.2022 That’s all folks for now! The Vic Gov has advised all Victorian alpine resorts are to close to visitors as part of stage 3 restrictions. Visitors are not permitted to enter the Mt Buller & Mt Stirling Resorts from 5pm on Thursday 6 August 2020.

13.01.2022 Yay!! We are so excited to be Open to the Public tomorrow! Hally and I are so very proud of our Team for their amazing effort and help with all the scrubbing an...d cleaning everyone has done over the past two months. 22 Years of Dust and Muck Gone! The Pub Looks Amazing Thankyou Team! We are able to seat 60 guests at any one time. 20 in the bar, 20 in the Lounge and 20 outside. You can only order a beer if you are having a Main Meal! Bookings via phone 51401231 or Facebook have priority until further restrictions are lifted. Tonight in readiness Hally poured yet another....after 2 months of none..Fresh Clean Beer to have on the Wood with Dinner of course and yes Curried Snags with Mash were on the Menu! We also Thank Carlton Draught for the Love you Local promotion to help Pubs get back up and going after this forced pandemic shut down. We have also been busy cooking and getting ready for our customers, nothing like a big Pot of Dargo Hotel Curried Snags to warm you up Guarantee everyone will Love our New Fresh Look! Reminder the camping area is NOT open; sorry. See more

05.01.2022 In the early 1980s a Dargo timber mill purchased early historic rolling stock, from a railway train that once ran on the Dimboola line, as cheap forest worker a...ccommodation. The circa 1890 vans or carriages were trucked to Dargo where they were unloaded by fork lift and stored next to the mill timber yard. The carriages were taken on the back of a truck to the logging areas or stored at the mill as required. This particular carriage was taken up taken to Basalt Knob in 1982, a year after the logging road was constructed. The carriage remained there after the coup was cut out because of the great difficulty experienced in getting it there. John Hurley was among those who built the logging road and later camped in the carriage while logging in the area. . Other parts of the train are situated at the Wonnangatta Caravan Park, at Dargo, and on Taylor’s property. Post WW2 forest accommodation for logging varied from portable paling clad huts built by the mills, to motor buses and caravans, used by logging contractors, but seldom railway rolling stock. THE T101 ICE WAGON Railway Carriage Hut was a short wheel-base freezer van or T 101 ice-wagon, built in 1894 by C.W. Kelly & Pinder at the Newport workshops for the Victorian Railways. It was put in service on 22 December 1894, could take a load of 12.5 tons, had 8 axles of 4.5" diam, and four wheels of 3' 2" diam. The van was deregistered and broken up in May 1978. These early ice wagons were hauled by steam diesel powered trains. There were 191 of the T Class built from 1894 to 1904 and they were generally in service until the late 1970s. T Class vans could carry a maximum of 12 cwt hung from the roof. The Victorian Railways operated their own ice works between 1894 and the early 1980s in their Melbourne yard to supply ice for cooling the insulated van fleet. By the 1920s, ice was also used to chill drinking water in country carriages, Railway Refreshment Rooms and dining car iceboxes. DAMIEN SCOTT MEMORIES Recollections per communications from Damien Scott : unsure of the year but it was probably around 1982 when this carriage was was bought from David Coates in Dargo by Ken Scott who carted logs in the area from around 1980-1987. Unsure if the carriage was once owned by the Dargo mill but it was sitting at the mill when Ken bought it. Ken then sold it to David Eddy from Deeandal and Sons logging company who harvested logs also in the area from 1981-1987. During this time Ken carted logs for David and it was Ken who transported the carriage from Dargo to it's current location using Davids low loader. This was where they had their logging camp. At the time there were two other huts that belonged to the mill at the camp which along with this one was used as a windbreak for their caravans. Unsure of when the other huts were removed by the mill but Davids carriage stayed there when the camp shifted as he was still logging in the area . He was using it as a storage hut but it was broken into and items were stolen. Upon leaving the Dargo area he always intended to remove the carriage but never got around to it. UPDATE : This was destroyed in the 2020 fires. Research by Sharyn Chambers. Sources : Victorian Alpine Huts Heritage Survey 2005 ( Graeme Butler and Associates ) Victorian Railways and ref com from Damian Scott