Historical information

The Ballarat School of Mines was the first school of mines in Australia.

Physical description

Exercise books of newspaper clippings relating to the Ballarat School of Mines.

Clippings include:

12 Feb 1936 - State Scholarships

12 March 1936 - Dr J.R. Pound

19 March 1936 - MacRobertson Scholarship

23 March 1936 - gift to the museum - Wardle and Jermyn donate timber specimens

11 May 1935 - A.W. Steane

13 June 1936 - Frederick Longhurst appointed art instructor

27 July 1936 - Ballarat Junior Technical School Reunion

11 Sept 1936 - Wiltshire Poster Competition

30 Oct 1936 - Dressmaking classes

20 NOv 1936 - Nornie Gude

NOvember 1936 - Ballarat School of Mines Reunion

16 March 1937 - Oval for Ballarat Junior Technical School - White Flat

11 Nov 1937 - Poster competition - Betty Brown and Albino Paganetti

08 Feb 1938 - Frederick J. Martell obituary

07 July 1938 - Henry Kum-Yuen

14 July 1938 - Red Cross Competition for Women

06 Aug 1938 - School Pine Plantation at Vale Park

19 Aug 1938 - Memorial trees planted at Ballarat Junior Technical School to the memory of Cliff Ellis and Ken Butler

06 March 1939 - Ballarat School of Mines Reunion

16 May 1939 - Ballarat School of Mines Battery
19 April 1940 - Progress of Technical Education - New Engineering workshop opended by Sir John Harris

03 June 1940 - W.H. Middleton obituary

16 July 1940 - Training munition workers

30 May 1941 - Lady Tracers

19 Oct 1942 - War Poster competition

24 February 1944 - Ballarat School of MInes Record Enrolments

Feb 1944 - D.F.C. for Ballarat Airman H.J. Trevenen

11 Feb 1945 - Harold Herbert Obituary

14 Oct 1945 - Technical Schools in Wartime

23 Feb 1946 - Molasses and Chaff for SMB Initiates

06 June 1946 - Plans for Victory Ball

13 Sept 1946 - Ken Walker sculpts Prime Minister Chifey's bust

23 Aug 1946 - Edgar McConnon obituary

24 Oct 1946 0 Retirement of A.F. Heseltine

25 Nov 1946 - Army huts for classrooms

12 Dec 1946 - Proposed New Theatre for Ballarat by Geoff Richards

16 Dec 1946 - Ballarat Junior Technical School Old Boys who served in armed forces during World War Two

28 July 1947 - Pottery section at Ballarat School of Mines

31 July 1947 - Red Cross Hut removed to the Ballarat School of Mines

10 March 1948 - Guncotton Factory buildings to become nurses quarters

18 March 1948 - Samuel Mayo Obituary

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