From the Kearney Files
Geelong Advertiser 5th July 1930.
After more than forty years absence from the place of his birth, the last twenty of which have been spent in the perfection of the Kearney single rail high speed tube railway. Mr. Elfric Chalmers Kearney returned to Geelong yesterday to spend a few hours renewing boyhood associations. It was a matter of regret to Mr. Kearney that his visit was necessarily short as he had to leave in the evening for Melbourne, en route to Sydney where he is to advise certain interests on transport problems. " But I could not miss the opportunity of seeing Geelong again" he said. "I have always had a very considerable affection for my home country and my home time, even though I have lived for so long in England".
The son of the Reverend Alan Wells Kearney M. A., Mr. Kearney was born at "Tooronga" La Trobe Terrace - the house is still standing - 1881 and lived there until he was nine years of age.
"Tooronga" 258 La Trobe Terrace Geelong.
In 1890 Mr. Kearney and, returned to England taking his wife and small son with him, and has lived there ever since. On first coming to Geelong the Reverend Kearney occupied the position of Mathematics Master at Geelong Grammar School, but he later set out on his own behalf and established what was known as the "University School" for boys in Skene Street.
His wife before marriage in 1879 was Miss Bertha Mount and was a daughter of Captain Mount who for many years washed of the treasury Department at Geelong. On his mother's side the inventor is a great - nephew of the late C. J. Denny founder of the firm Denny's Lascelles Ltd, and after 40 yearis he renewed acquaintance with the late Mrs. Kearney's cousin Mrs. Wettenhall who was formerly Mrs. Dennys.
"Geelong has not changed as much as I expected"said Mr. Kearney yesterday. "Although they were many new buildings and there has evidently been great expansion, the actual city is still fundamentally the same. Mr. Kearney added that before he left he intended to visit Queen's Park and Prospect Road Newtown again in the neighbourhood of"Claremont". It was near that old property that his Grandfather's home "Westbourne" was situated and he had spent many happy days there.
Geelong Advertiser 5th July 1930.
After more than forty years absence from the place of his birth, the last twenty of which have been spent in the perfection of the Kearney single rail high speed tube railway. Mr. Elfric Chalmers Kearney returned to Geelong yesterday to spend a few hours renewing boyhood associations. It was a matter of regret to Mr. Kearney that his visit was necessarily short as he had to leave in the evening for Melbourne, en route to Sydney where he is to advise certain interests on transport problems. " But I could not miss the opportunity of seeing Geelong again" he said. "I have always had a very considerable affection for my home country and my home time, even though I have lived for so long in England".
The son of the Reverend Alan Wells Kearney M. A., Mr. Kearney was born at "Tooronga" La Trobe Terrace - the house is still standing - 1881 and lived there until he was nine years of age.
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In 1890 Mr. Kearney and, returned to England taking his wife and small son with him, and has lived there ever since. On first coming to Geelong the Reverend Kearney occupied the position of Mathematics Master at Geelong Grammar School, but he later set out on his own behalf and established what was known as the "University School" for boys in Skene Street.
His wife before marriage in 1879 was Miss Bertha Mount and was a daughter of Captain Mount who for many years washed of the treasury Department at Geelong. On his mother's side the inventor is a great - nephew of the late C. J. Denny founder of the firm Denny's Lascelles Ltd, and after 40 yearis he renewed acquaintance with the late Mrs. Kearney's cousin Mrs. Wettenhall who was formerly Mrs. Dennys.
"Geelong has not changed as much as I expected"said Mr. Kearney yesterday. "Although they were many new buildings and there has evidently been great expansion, the actual city is still fundamentally the same. Mr. Kearney added that before he left he intended to visit Queen's Park and Prospect Road Newtown again in the neighbourhood of"Claremont". It was near that old property that his Grandfather's home "Westbourne" was situated and he had spent many happy days there.
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