Achievements
JOBS ‘BEEFED UP’
VOTE 1
Successes I’ve driven include the:
ENJOYING cricket and the sun: Flyn Holmes, 6, Angus Knight and Zander Ewing, both 5, having fun amongst a strong crowd at Melville Oval for the Hamilton and District Cricket Association
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A grade grand final on Saturday. Photo: BILLY EASSON
REX MARTINICH
A MEAT processing facility
proposed for the Henty Hwy
south of Hamilton would
employ 135 people and
slaughter 480 cattle per day
if it was granted planning
permission and was completed
successfully.
The Spectator can now reveal more details about
the proposed facility after reporting on Saturday
that a planning permit application had been filed
with Southern Grampians Shire.
According to planning application documents
seen by The Spectator, the abattoir is intended
Driven to
WEATHER FORECAST
to be housed in an 8000 square metre building
with a maximum roof height of 16 metres off the
ground.
The facility would also include a car park for
251 vehicles and a 980 square metre holding pen
or ‘lairage’ for livestock.
The Spectator understands that the facility is
intended mainly for beef production and the
planning documents state that all cattle would be
slaughtered on the day they arrived at the abattoir.
It is proposed that 100,000 head of cattle would
be processed per year at the abattoir, representing
10s of millions of dollars in economic value just
from the wholesale livestock.
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THE site of a proposed meat processing facility near the corner of South Boundary Rd and
Henty Hwy, south of Hamilton, as viewed from South Boundary Rd. Photo: BILLY EASSON.
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I’ve supported the:
•Dunkeld Community
Centre
•Grampians Peaks Trail
•Adventure Playground
•Hamilton & Penshurst
Botanic Gardens
•Points Arboretum
•The Felix Museum
Project, Public Art
•Getting Freight onto Rail
•Saving Hughan Park
Olympic Pool
•HILAC development
38 years a country vet, actively farming with
husband auto electrician Brian Ball,
we have three engineer sons
and daughter at University.
•CBD investment
Coles/Hub/
Cox Street
redevelopments
•GRHA’s
synthetic field
•Tennis synthetic
courts
“15 years a councillor, I have the experience
and energy to get things done for Southern
Grampians and make Hamilton Greater.”
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Dr Katrina Rainsford
97 Kennedy St Hamilton
0429 741 256
[email protected]
www.KatrinaRainsford.com
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Katrina
Rainsford
My vision is a proactive hardworking
council team, respecting each other and
our staff, transparent, responding promptly
to community enquiries and planning for
growth of the whole Shire.
• Fixing those VICROADS.
• Develop rural living and population
growth plans for all our townships,
incorporating events, fishing, camping,
bike and hiking Trails.
BALMORAL
• Felix Museum project
• Grampians Way Ring Road
• Inculding fixing the Cavendish Dunkeld Road.
• Develop rural living and
population growth plans for all
our townships, incorporating
events, fishing, camping, bike
and hiking Trails.
• Developing business potential off the back of
the Grampians Peaks Trail
CAVENDISH
coleraine
DUNKELD
• Lonsdale Street family/youth/ leisure/games/
art/music complex
• Multipurpose Council/Community Football/
Netball/Cricket Pavilion
• Netball Show Court
• Hockey/Soccer Clubrooms at Pedrina Park.
HAMILTON
BRANXHOLME
TARRINGTON
PENSHURST
• Passenger Rail planning
• Great Grampians Rail Ride
BYADUK
ON • Develop rural living
GLENTHOMPS
and population
growth plans for
all our townships,
incorporating events,
fishing, camping, bike
and hiking Trails.
• A Napier Waller Tourist Visitor
Information Centre for Penshurst
could attract tourists and divert
travellers through Hamilton then
to the Grampians.