"HORTY HALL", MOUNT WAVERLEY, 1899. On the crest of this hill, over-looking the now renowned orchards of High Street Road, Secretary J. B. Brewster designed and built the Mt. Waverley and District Horticultural Hall. So began a new focus for community life: concerts, glee clubs, dances, theatricals, educational lectures, meetings, schools, speech nights, and even wrestling displays graced this beautiful timber building with its rusticated block fronted and iron cresting, its moulded panel ceiling, its Kauri seats and its handsome nickel lamps for a cost, including land of less than 200 pounds, ($400). Placed as part of the Victoria 150 celebrations in the City of Waverley by the Council, Spring, 1985.