SA Parliament Hansard – Boating facilities levy 19th October 2017 Mr TRELOAR (Flinders) (12:55): I rise today to support the very excellent motion brought to us by the member for Chaffey: That this house— (a) acknowledges the importance of having safe and adequate boating facilities across South Australia for boat owners and fishers; (b) condemns …
Port Lincoln Times: Society taking tuna to market 20th March 2017 The Tacoma Preservation Society is hoping to branch out with its tourism trips by offering Adelaide shoppers a taste of South Australian tuna. For the first time the society supplied an Adelaide supermarket with tuna caught during its February/March tuna poling trips. A three-day …
Rowan Ramsay MP supports Tacoma Marina berth Port Lincoln Times, 22nd February 2017 A Fisherman’s Memorial Promenade and Passenger Terminal is being planned as part of a community marina facility for Lincoln Cove at Port Lincoln. The Tacoma Preservation Society (TPS) is making application to the Building Better Regions Fund under the Infrastructure Projects Stream …
Pontoon space should be for all Port Lincoln Times, 17th January 2017 THE Port Lincoln City Council will ask the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure for a three month extension to the closing date of proposal requests, due on January 31, for the waterway next to the Marina Hotel. In December last year the department issued a request …
Annual Taylor’s Island wool clip run by MVF Tacoma Taylor’s & Tacoma, 21st November 2016 MFV Tacoma: 84ft, launched 1951 at Pt Fairy, Victoria. A gracious wooden boat on it’s annual wool clip run. VIEW FULL GALLERY
MFV Tacoma Plan Approved November 15th 2016 At last nights Port Lincoln Council DAP meeting, the Tacoma Preservation Society’s (TPS) application to build a pontoon structure within the Lincoln Cove Marina was approved. “It’s taken a lot of effort and input from a number of people, organisations and government departments and we are delighted that …
Preserving Tacoma, a new life for a historic tuna boat Signals Quarterly, Sept/Oct/Nov 2016 Thousands of wooden fishing boats are slowly rotting in a quiet grave – a backyard, a muddy mangrove swamp or a lonely boatyard. One vessel saved from this fate by a group of volunteers is the MFV Tacoma, a South Australian …
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Tacoma program raises $15,000 Port Lincoln Times, 21st July 2016 MORE than $15,000 has been raised for local charities over the past three years through the Tacoma Preservation Society’s charity program. Secretary Leonie Sawyer said groups that had benefited from the program included Meals on Wheels, the National Servicemen’s Association, the Royal Flying Doctor Service, …
Tacoma history shared across state Port Lincoln Times, 14th June 2016 The story of Port Lincoln’s historic tuna boat, the MFV Tacoma, will be featured this weekend on SALIFE television. Presenter Briony Hume said she loved visiting Eyre Peninsula and was fascinated to learn about the Tacoma and its “surprisingly difficult and sad history” on …
MVF Tacoma’s JANGAARD DOCK June 3rd 2016 The Tacoma Preservation Society’s (TPS) development application for its proposed marina berth has achieved another milestone in its endeavours to gain access to the Fisherman’s Memorial site in the Marina. Following a very productive face-to-face meeting with a number of personnel from the Department of Planning, Transport and …
