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whats was happening at the time
"By 1891 the settlement [Jeparit] had ... a population of fifty-five. By 1893 the town had two newspapers, boasted a variety of small businesses and was about to be linked by a branch railway line, through Dimboola, to Ballarat and Melbourne." -
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sir robert mezies
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the birth of mezies
Robert Gordon Menzies is born to James and Kate Menzies on 20 December 1894 in Jeparit, a small town in Victoria about 400km north-west of Melbourne. Robert was born in a room at the back of his father's general store where the family lived.