Somers, July 1968. Hastings Lions Club Members planting Marrum Grass to stop erosion on Somers foreshore.

OBJECT TITLE / NAME

Somers, July 1968. Hastings Lions Club Members planting Marrum Grass to stop erosion on Somers foreshore.

DATE1968

MEDIAImage

PHOTOGRAPHERRod Nuske, photographer for Westernport News in the 1960s and 1970s.

COLLECTIONBalnarring and District Historical Society

REG NO.P1771`

HISTORY

Somers, July 1968
Hastings Lions Club Members planting Marrum Grass to stop erosion on Somers foreshore. L to R: Back row John Masrshal, Jim Paton, Geoff Rows, Alan ?Gray, Ralph Mulen, ?.

DESCRIPTION

Seven men with spades sheltering under a large umbrella on the side of a grassy sand dune. They have spades and grass plants.

SUBJECTS

Erosion, working bees

KEYWORDS

Erosion, Lions Club, Marrum grass, Marshall John, Paton JIm, Somers, working bees Nuske, Rod