[HISTORY 2]

Established in 1946, Moorabbin Archery Club (originally the Victorian Archery Club) 

is the oldest existing archery club in Victoria and has been located at the present site since 1953. 

The then Mayor of Moorabbin Cr. Shipston officially opened the archery field on the 

30th of March 1957.

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HISTORY REVISITED

49 Years ago October 1959

Archery Society of Victoria's  launched a new magazine

The                           BOWMAN            MONTHLY

&

60 Years ago in 1948 Victorian Archery Club (now Moorabbin Archery Club)

began a series of weekly bulletins - these were published continually for the next 5 years.

VAC BULLETIN

 &

In 1941 an edition of  The Australasian Archer, a well published magazine

one which pre-dates Archery Australia. In it an article appeals to the archers of 

Australia and New Zealand to contribute to the purchase of a Spifire Fighter Aircraft

to aid in the war effort.

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