THERE are many members of the Pollard family still living who are deeply offended by Wodonga Council’s plans to remove the archway which commemorates Charles Pollard, MBE, foundation member of the Wodonga Show Society and long-term serving shire councillor and president.
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My husband, Ray Pollard, was the son of Charles and was present with me, our daughter Heather, and Charles’ sister at the official opening of the Pollard Archway by Princess Alexandra, when it was first placed across the the Lincoln Causeway.
When the Lincoln Causeway was duplicated the archway was re-erected at the entrance to the Wodonga Showgrounds by the Wodonga Belvoir Rotary Club who invited my husband, then a Wodonga councillor, to symbolically bolt together the two boomerangs which form the archway’s structure.
I understand a new roadway into the showgrounds is to be constructed and the present archway is on a public reserve.
I see no reason why it can not be moved several metres onto Show Society owned land from its present site to straddle the new roadway if it has to be moved at all.
I’m sure I speak for all the Pollards in objecting most strongly to the council’s insensitivity and lack of understanding of its history and the contribution Charles, Ray and other members of the Pollard families have contributed to the development of Wodonga.
— NOLA POLLARD,
Wodonga
