Did you know that 28 February marked the 50th anniversary of the official ceremony to turn on the electricity supply to the Island?
Until 1964 Islanders made do without - cooking on wood stoves or Primus cookers, and relying on kerosene lanterns at night. In those days there were no solar or wind power generators. Last year ageing copper cable, some of it the original cable installed in 1964, was replaced with an alloy cable.
original reported: Bairnsdale Advertiser/Paynesville Post, 10 March 2014.
