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Contributed by Ellena Biggs

Warburton Mail, 21 May, 1965
Old Shire Offices to Go
At a special meeting on 17 May Upper Yarra Council gave consideration to three sets of plans for new shire offices and chambers at Yarra Junction. Two of the plans allowed for completely new buildings but the third incorporated the existing structure. A decision was reached in favour of the second new building.

Mr C. Milner re-elected as president of the Warburton Advancement League
Mr Col Milner will carry on as president of the Warburton Advancement League. When office-bearers were elected at a committee meeting on Tuesday night Mr Milner was the only nomination for the post.
It will be his ninth successive year as president of the league.

Weddings
At 4pm on Sunday 18 April the marriage of David Ian West of Moonah Tasmania and Marea Delray Attwood of Donna Buang Road Warburton, was solemnised in the Adventist Church, Warburton. Some 87 guests were present coming from all states, but Western Australia.
A full-length, Chantilly lace frock, a pear coronet and an elbow-length veil were worn by Elsbeth Hoxha for her marriage to Graeme Toy, which was celebrated at St Mary’s Warburton, last Saturday.
Three railway houses in the main street Warburton have been let and tenants have already started moving in.