Bay Harbour: March 16, 2016

Wednesday March 16 2016
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Rare car to go on display
Hispano Suiza
from TV series
will be at fete
BRIDGET RUTHERFORD
Governors Bay residents
heading along to the fete this
weekend will be able to catch
a glimpse of an Australian
television star.
The 1923 Hispano Suiza
vehicle, which featured in
Australian television series
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
will be on display at Allandale
Domain all day on Sunday.
The series, which first aired
in 2012, revolves around Essie
Davis’ character Phryne Fisher,
who is a glamorous private
detective.
She drove around in a red
Hispano Suiza – the very
car that is now owned by a
Governors Bay local.
The owner, who wanted to
remain anonymous, said he
bought the vehicle from a friend
in Melbourne about three years
ago, after it had become the star
of the show.
But it only arrived in Governors
Bay about a year ago
because it was still being used
for filming.
The car enthusiast had owned
the same model about 35 years
ago but sold it, and was always
keen to buy his friend’s one.
He said there were only
about three Hispano Suiza’s in
Australia, and that one happened
to be red, the colour of the
vehicle in the book the series
was based on.
The vehicle is not the only
link the bay has to the television
series.
When Governors Bay resident
Rosie Belton was living in
Tasmania, she was Ms Davis’
theatre teacher.
Ms Belton said through the
theatre classes, her daughter
Amy and Essie became good
friends.
VINTAGE: Essie
Davis’ character
Phryne Fisher in
the 1923 Hispano
Suiza vehicle that
will be on display at
the Governors Bay
Fete this weekend.
Below: Governors
Bay resident Rosie
Belton with actress
Essie Davis when
she visited the bay
in 1987.
“I thought both her and Amy
were very talented, they were
both a bit naughty but they were
both really talented kids,” she
said.
“Essie had the right face
shape, she’s got that look.”
Ms Davis will star in season
six of the hit-series Game of
Thrones which comes out next
month.
The annual fete raises money
for the community, with last
year’s funds going towards a
defibrillator.
About 3500 people turned out
last year.
ROAD NAMES
The Hagley-Ferrymead
Community Board will decide
today on new road names for
Greenwood Farm Subdivision,
on Richmond Hill. The city
council is proposing the new
roads be called Oxenhope Rd,
Sowerby Place and Ridgeway
Place. Stages two and three of
the subdivision are currently in
development, and it will create
30 residential allotments. The
board will decide at its meeting
this afternoon.
TRAFFIC SIGNALS
Governors Bay Rd, Rapaki,
has temporary traffic signals
operating while the retaining
wall is being repaired outside
number 191. The westbound
lane closed on Monday and the
work is expected to take about
three months.
COMMUNITY WORKSHOP
A workshop will be held on
March 30 to discuss what
is needed in the interior of
the new Heathcote Valley
community facility. Community
Governance Team staff have
been meeting with members
of the Heathcote Volunteer
Library and Heathcote Valley
Community Association to
discuss the finishing, furniture
and fittings for the facility
to address the needs of the
community.
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