Copy of a letter, dated 12/12/41, to Mr. Bacon of the Mines Department, Treasury Gardens, Melbourne from G. Whalley. Letter mentions a boiler at Cohuna which had a scale problem. After the installation of Scalebuoys the scale fell off the interior of the boiler in a short time.sciences, instruments - general, scalebuoy, bill ashman collection - correspondence, bendigo electronic company of australia pty ltd, amalgamated freezing coy, mr bacon, mines department melbourne, gunbower butter factory, cherrokee, mr f stevenson, g whalley

Four issues of the ''What's on in Nth. Central Victoria'' advertising booklets. The booklets cover the area of Bendigo, Lake Eppalock, Weddeburn, Charlton, St. Arnaud, Boort, Pyramid Hill, Cohuna, Kerang, East Loddon, Inglewood, Bridgewater, Elmore and Dunolly. Published from December 1971 to May 1972

Black and white photo of a man standing beside a large Scalebuoy unit. The unit has a large end which is held on by eight large bolts with wheel fasteners and two inspection plates each with six bolts. The unit is in a building and there is another man in the background. Cohuna Butter Factory written on the back.sciences, instruments - general, scalebuoy, bill ashman collection - correspondence, scalebuoy, cohuna butter factory

The four Soldiers from left to right are, Hedley Sampson VX71343, Alan Ball VX85724, Richmond Ball VX71333, Dave King VX71340, all from Cohuna. Refer Cat No 5588 re Richmond Ball, on that item Hedley Sampson's name is also on re 5th Docks Operating Company. Refer Cat No 5589P for Alan Ball. Dave King married Betty Ball.Photograph, sepia tone showing four Soldiers standing side on in a row.photographs, 5th docks, ww2

Frank A. Stevenson Engineer Motor Service Station 244 Hargreaves St., Bendigo (Next Crown Hotel) printed on left side of envelope. Contained the negatives and one small photo of an object, possible Scalebuoy arrangement. Contained in 2 pocket pages. One small photo has printing on the back -Cohuna Factory Scalebuoy Machine 24 Buoyssciences, instruments - general, scalebuoy, bill ashman collection - correspondence, negatives, frank a stevenson, motor service station, crown hotel

Ordained 1929. Appointed to Inland mission at Wyndham then Meekatharra in 1930, Cohuna in 1932, Lorquon in 1935. In 1937 went to Pascoe Vale & Merlynston, appointed to South Preston 1941. Chaplain in the AIF IN 1943. In 1946 appointed as Minister to Collingwood Mission, in 1949 appointed to Brunswick West. Resting in 1953, to Donald in 1954, Northcote (Prince of Wales Park) in 1958, Superintendent to Portarlington in 1962. Died 29 April 1983 aged 93.B & W head and shoulders studio portrait of the Rev. William John Ormandy.william john ormandy, methodist, mission, collingwood mission, inland mission.

Black and white photograph showing a man standing beside a bench piled with scale. The bench is held up by a couple of boxes. He is holding some pieces of scale. Written on the back is : Scale Removal from Cohuna Butter Factory Boiler 1942. 24 buoy Machine. Most of this scale was from the tubes. Much more had been taken out at previous openings.sciences, bill ashman collection - correspondence, photograph, cohuna butter factory boiler

A manual telephone exchange, manufactured by British Ericson, History Originally in use at Cohuna. When Cohuna was converted to automatic dialing this exchange was relocated to Harcourt, to become the third and last in a bank of three exchanges. At this time Harcourt exchange was expanded to 260 lines. It was connected to the district central exchange at Castlemaine. Operated by mains power with battery back-up. Harcourt exchange was operated by Betty McLean, Miss Mitchell, Josie Hogarth, Mr. & Mrs. Heighway, Bill & Valerie Milford, Irene Bolitho and others. Decommissioned approx. 1970. Incoming calls prompted the fall of a shutter. The operator made the connection by plugging the line into the number requested. While responding to calls the operator needed her hands free to jot down the billing particulars or to write out each telegram. Nearby stood pigeonholes with various items of stationary. Many telegrams were received each day, particularly advising fruit growers on interstate markets. Most telegrams were phoned through by the operator. This exchange was restored in 2004 - 2005 by Trevor Grant.. Many people relate to this exchange. It is a survivor of the pre-electronic era when ‘telephonist’ was a common occupation. A vital element in the communications between households and between district orchardists and their suppliers and clients.A manual telephone exchange, manufactured by British Ericson complete with operator hands-free headset/earphones and speaker mouthpiece. Wooden case with one hundred shutters and sockets. Accommodates twelve lines with extension leads with associated switches. Operated by mains power with battery back-up. Decommissioned approx. 1970. Incoming calls prompted the fall of a shutter. The operator made the connection by plugging the line into the number requested. This exchange was restored in 2004 - 2005 by Trevor Grant.

Document. Cohn Bros. Collection. 1 - Hand written, two pages taped together with Liabilities & Assets dated Apr 30, 1926. 2 - Three pages pinned together. Handwritten Total of deliveries and totals after deducting Cohuna Trade. 2nd page - Branch 'Returns' to Head Office. 3rd page - Only Plant written on it. 3 - Statement of Assets & Liabilities dated Oct 31, 1911. 4 - Lt brown envelope with notes 10/1/1927.organization, business, cohn bros, cohn bros. collection, brewers, cordial & aerated water manufacturers, financial statements

Bendigo Advertiser "The way we were" from 1999. Production: Butter Factory, Mundy Street, circa 1900. In the late 1870s J.T.H. Cocks purchased the old Cobb & Co. stables at the corner of Mundy and Mollison Streets, Sandhurst, to establish a dairy. From 1902, the factory became known as the Bendigo Butter Factory and Cool Store Chambers. Then in the 1940s it was formed as a company and the title shortened to Bendigo Butter Factory & Co. At this time, it was transporting cream from Kerang, Cohuna and Gunbower. The factory closed in the mid 1970s. The site is now occupied by Jack Charlton and Co. Pty Ltd, Refrigeration Mechanics.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were

Documents. Connelly, Tatchell & Dunlop - Legal Papers. 1 - 1886 - Letter from Cohuna Irrigation Trust, Secretary's Office, Wee-Wee-Rup. 2 - 1886 - Letter from Motteram & Hyett, Solicitors, McCrae Street, Sandhurst to Denovan W D C Esq. (William Dixon Campbell Denovan), Town Clerk re Manley Edith. 3 - 1886 - Letter form Bennett & Co, Melbourne re Purves, deceased. 4 - 1886 - Letter from Merrifield G, Solicitor, Castlemaine re Queen? V Telampo. 5 - 1886 - Post card from De Garis E C, Castlemaine. 6 - 1886 - Post card torn in half.cottage, miners, connelly, tatchell & dunlop, cohuna irrigation trust, motteram & hyett, denovan w d c, manley edith, bennett & co, purves, merrifield g, queen?, telampo, de garis e c

Brown paper folder containing cuttings from 'The Weekly Times' showing teams playing in Country Football Competition and Public Schools' Football Finals, plus other sporting cuttings. Football teams include Kyabram, Murchison, Leitchville, Cohuna, Wangaratta, East Albury, Benalla, Yarrawonga, Yallourn, Warragul, Castlemaine, Eaglehawk, Sandhurst, Rochester, Traralgon, Sale, Stawell, Dimboola, Weir United, West Albury, Horsham, Warrnambool, Hamilton, Ballarat, Ballarat Imperial, Scotch College, Melbourne Grammar School, Mornington and Hastings. Other cuttings include, 'The Australian Cricketers in England 1930' (Weekly Times 16 Aug 1930); Alec Rose - round the world voyage on 'Lively Lady' (Sun 3 Jul 1968); William Maldon Woodfull - Captain of the Australian team in England (Weekly Times 9 Aug 1930); and varying articles on Amy Johnson (Weekly Times 21 Jun 1930 & 7 Jun 1930, 2 newspaper articles dated 3 May 1968 & undated).newspaper, football

Documents. Connelly, Tatchell & Dunlop - Legal Papers. 1 - 1886 - Letter from Arnoldt D W, Wedderburn. 2 - 1886 - Letter from Cuthbert & Co, Law & General Stationers, Lithographers & Printers, 55 Chancery Lane. 3 - 1886 - Letter from Pickles Thos P, Railway Workshops, Newport. Letter has letterhead - G F Pickles & Sons, Carriage Manufacturing Company Limited. Manufacturers of Carriages, Buggies, Pleasure & Business Wagons. Importers of American and English Carriage Materials. Sandhurst. Repository & Show Rooms, Latrobe Street West, Melbourne. 4 - 1886 - Letter to Spence James, Gannawarra, Cohuna from Bennett, Attenborough, Wilks & Connelly, Solicitors, Albion Chambers, Sandhurst. Also contains returned reply from Spence James. Mentions Geugnagel Charles, Baker, Sandhurst. 5 - 1886 - Post Office Telegraph from Kilbride Peter, Rochester to Wilkinson, Albion Chambers re Brown & Ellison case. 6 - 1886 - Post Office Telegraph from Bennett & Co, Market St re Sterry & Trestrail.cottage, miners, connelly, tatchell & dunlop, arnoldt d w, cuthbert & co, pickles thos p, g f pickles & sons, spence james, bennett attenborough wilks & connelly, geugnagel charles, kilbride peter, wilkinson, brown, ellison, bennett & co, sterry, trestrail

Each photograph is captioned: .1) LHS: LT E P SEYMOUR (later LT COL) & CAPTAIN E E STEVENS, 1930's. RHS: Visit of the Duke of Gloucester to Bendigo 12.11.1934. The Duke centre with the Major speaks to LT PALMER, 17th Light Horse. .2) Top: Troopers of 17th Light Horse in Pall Mall in front of the Memorial Hall Bendigo. Officer is LT A V PALMER (later LT COL) on Snow; Bottom: Officers of 17th Light Horse at Bendigo Racecourse 1937. Centre front: MAJOR GENERAL G T RANKINM DSO, VD. .3) Top: SGTS of 17th Light Horse winning Assault Course Broadmeadows Army Camp 1927; Bottom: Officers 17/19th Light Horse at Bendigo Racecourse Camp 1932. .4) Top: Horse Llines 17/19th Light Horse 1931; Bottom: Sgts Mess 17th Light Horse Broadmeadows Camp 1927. .5) Top: 17th Light Horsemen trucking horses Bendigo Railway Station 1931; Bottom: Cohuna Troop of 17th Light Horse at Bendigo Racecourse Camp 1932. CAPT A V PALMER, CO centre rear. .6) Visit of Duke of Gloucester to Bendigo 1934, Escort official from 17th Light Horse Regiment in Mitchell Street. Duke & Major seated in rear of car; Bottom: 17th Light Horse Machine Gun Regiment with Vickers MG 1937. .7) 17th Light Horse as M G Regt Bendigo Camp 1937. LT A V PALMER, R SCHIER, A LEEDS with range finder; Bottom: 1939 Officers 17th Light Horse MG Regt at Bendigo. See also 2619P for larger named copy of this photograph..1) - .7) Collection of black & white photographs consisting of 2 photographs per card. Photographs are printed on red card. Copies of originals. .1) LHS: 2 Officers standing. RHS: Officer on horse speaking to 2 men on foot. .2) Top: Mounted troops; Bottom: Group of Officers standing. .3) Top: Mounted troops charging with swords drawn; Bottom: Group of Officers. .4) Top: Line of horses with 2 Troopers attending; Bottom: Group of Sergeants. .5) Top: Troopers loading horses into a railway truck; Bottom: Group of Troopers. .6) Top: Officer riding a white horse through a crowd; Bottom: Machine Gunners training. .7) Top: 3 Light Horsemen using a range finder; Bottom: Group of Officers.photography-photographs, military history - army, passchendaele barracks trust

The Merle Bush Trefoil Guild was registered in Bendigo on 18/06/1981.The decision to disband the Merle Bush Trefoil Guild was made at a General Meeting on 17/02/2016. The group agreed to continue as the Merle Bush Friendship Group. The Australian Trefoil Guilds connect women who are either actively involved in Girl Guiding or have a history with Girl Guiding. The purpose of a Trefoil Guild is to keep alive the spirit of the Promise and Law, carry this spirit into the community and to give support Guiding.Blue vinyl covered four ring binder containing photographs of activities of the Merle Bush Trefoil Guild. The photographs are mounted (glued) on to buff coloured card from manilla folders cut in half. 61 pp with hand written numbers in top RH corner. Pages 25 and 26 Missing. The first page has an "Appreciation Certificate Awarded to the Merle Bush Trefoil Guild for Participation in Project Branchout. Presented by The Girl Guides association of Victoria. Date 25-7-87. The pages have handwritten annotations of names of people in the photographs. Includes Region Conference East Loddon 25/08/89, 7th National Gathering Stawell Tops 1985, 8th National gathering Monash university 1988 Tour of Government House Day 16th December 1989 Brittania Park labour Day Weekend 1990 A.G.M. 5th May 1990 Region Reunion Day Cohuna 19th August 1990 RR Day North Central Region 10th A.G.M. 4th May 1991 Reaffirmation of Promise 2/7/91 Gwen Derby and Fay Osborn The Chalet, Brittania Park, March Long weekend 1992 24 Hour Gathering Bendigo 15/16 October 1997 Benalla Rose Gardens 16 May 2001 Social BBQ Christmas 2001 Melbourne Cup day 1999 24 Hour Gathering Oct 1999 24 Hour Gathering Stawell 2001 24 Hour Gathering Phillip Island 2003 25th Anniversary 2006 Long Service Awards 15 Oct 2006 100 years of Guiding Christmas 2011girl guides, guiding, merle bush, trefoil guild

Handwritten note from Tim Gibson, a descendant of the original Cawardine family, has donated the items in the Carwardine Collection (Cat No. 3401). CARWARDINE, Walter Henry Walter Henry Carwardine Groom: Walter Henry CARWARDINE. Bride: Elizabeth Arnold THORPE. Year married: 1863. Place: Victoria, Australia. Walter died 1923 in Caulfield, Victoria. Age: 89 years. Parents named as John CARWARDINE and Charlotte WILCOX. Buried: Bendigo Cemetery, Victoria. Area: Mon G1. Grave number: 21110. Service date: 03 June 1923. Elizabeth Arnold Carwardine (Thorpe) Died 1911 in Bendigo, Victoria. Age: 70 years. Parents named as Joseph THORPE and Jane ARNOLD. Buried: Bendigo Cemetery, Victoria. Area: Mon G1. Grave number: 21110. Service date: 19 May 1911. Eleven children located Victorian records for Walter and Elizabeth. 1. Henry Thorpe CARWARDINE. Born: 1864 Dunolly, Victoria. Birth recorded under CAWARDINE. Died: 1916 Bendigo, Victoria. Age: 52 years. Married: Jessie Mary Jean BURNS. Year: 1891. Place: Victoria. See Post: CARWARDINE Henry married Jessie BURNS 1891 2. Hugh Wilcox CARWARDINE. Born: 1866 Dunolly, Victoria. Died: 1952 Bendigo, Victoria. Age: 86 years. Buried: Bendigo Cemetery, Victoria. Area: Mon G1. Grave number: 21110. Service date: 22 May 1952. 3 Guy CARWARDINE. Born: 1867 Sandhurst, Victoria. Died: 1942 Cohuna, Victoria. Age: 74 years. Married: Minnie LANSELL. Year: 1892. Place: Victoria. Minnie was born 1863 in Sandhurst, Victoria. Parents named as William LANSELL and Jane Crouch ANDERSON. Minnie died 1954 in Cohuna, Victoria. Age: 91 years. Parents named as William LANSELL and Jane Crutch ANDERSON. 4. Mary Charlotte Arnold CARWARDINE. Born: 1869 Sandhurst, Victoria. Died: 1942 Bendigo, Victoria. Age: 72 years. Married: Luther Edwin Goldsmith BRIGHT. Year: 1891. Place: Victoria. Luther was born 1865 in Ballarat, Victoria. Parents named as Alfred Goldsmith BRIGHT and Sophia JACOBSON. Luther died 1892 in Prahran, Victoria. Age: 26 years. Parents named as Alfred Goldsmith BRIGHT and Siphia Goldsmith JACOBSON. 5. John CARWARDINE. Born: 1871 Sandhurst, Victoria. Died: 1871 Sandhurst, Victoria. Age: 02 days. Buried: Bendigo Cemetery, Victoria. Area: Mon C4. Grave number: 3881. Service date: 17 April 1871. 6. Thomas Brunsdon CARWARDINE. Born: 1872 Sandhurst, Victoria. Died: 1876 Sandhurst, Victoria. Age: 03 years. Buried: Bendigo Cemetery, Victoria. Area: Mon C4. Grave number: 3881. Service date: 07 April 1876. 7. Rose Elizabeth CARWARDINE. Born: 1874 Sandhurst, Victoria. Died: 09 October 1963, Ravensthorpe, Western Australia. Age: 89 years. Buried: Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia. Area: Anglican. Section: ZU. Gravesite: 0356. Grantee: Muriel Carwardine ARCHER. Married: Arthur Sydney CHAMBERS. Year: 1905. Place: Ravensthorpe, Western Australia. Arthur died 1950, Williams district, Western Australia. 8. Walter Henry CARWARDINE. Born: 1876 Sandhurst, Victoria. Died: 1937 Bendigo, Victoria. Age: 60 years. Buried: Bendigo Cemetery, Victoria. Area: Mon H6. Grave number: 30803. Service date: 11 February 1937. Married: Flora Constance HILL. Year: 1906. Place: Victoria. Flora was born 1876 in Bendigo, Victoria. Parents named as Frederick HILL and Mary Ann KERSHAW. Flora died 1959 in Bendigo, Victoria. Age: 84 years. Parents named as Frederick HILL and Mary Ann KERSHAW. Buried: Bendigo Cemetery, Victoria. Area: Mon H6. Grave number: 30803. Service date: 13 October 1959. 9. James Arnold CARWARDINE. Born: 1878 Sandhurst, Victoria. Died: 1947 Heidelberg, Victoria. Age: 69 years. Cremated: Fawkner Memorial Park, Victoria. Service date: 06 September 1947. Cremated remains location: Not recorded. First World War Embarkation Roll. Name: James Arnold CARWARDINE. Service number: 4158. Rank: Private. Roll title: 6 Infantry Battalion - 13 to 18 Reineforcements. (Dec 1915 - July 1916) Conflict: First World War, 1914-1918. Date of embarkation: 29 December 1915. Place of embarkation: Melbourne. Ship embarked on: HMAT Demosthenes. Ship number: A64. Married: Frances Georgina TURNER. Year: 1919. Place: Victoria. Frances was born 1875 in Eaglehawk, Victoria. Parents named as James Perriman TURNEER and Caroline GORDEN. Frances died 1956 in Brighton, Victoria. Age: 76 years. Father named as James TURNER. Mother unknown. Cremated: Fawkner Memorial Park, Victoria. Service date: 29 November 1956. Cremated remains location: Rose Garden 02. 10. Albert Augustus Arnold CARWARDINE. Born: 1880 Sandhurst, Victoria. Died: 1885 Sandhurst, Victoria. Age: 05 years. Buried: Bendigo Cemetery, Victoria. Area: Mon C4. Grave number: 3881. Service date: 18 July 1885. 11. George Frederick Brunsdon CARWARDINE. Born: 1888 Sandhurst, Victoria. Died: 02 August 1916, France. First World War Embarkation Roll. Name: George Frederick CARWARDINE. Service number: 3794. Rank: Acting Sergeant. Roll title: 24 Infantry Battalion - 9 to 12 Reinforcements. (Feb-April 1916) Conflict: First World War, 1914-1918. Date of embarkation: 08 February 1916. Place of embarkation: Melbourne. Ship embarked on: HMAT Warilda. Ship number: A69. First World War Roll of Honour. Name: George Frederick Brunston CARWARDINE. Service number: 3794. Rank: Private. Unit: 24th Battalion. (Infantry) Service: Australian Army. Conflict: 1914-1918. Date of death: 02 August 1916. Place of death: France. Cause of death: Killed in action. Cemetery or memorial details: Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France. Sources: Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria. Registry of Deaths and Marriages, Western Australia. Bendigo Cemetery Records, Victoria. Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery Records, Victoria. Karrakatta Cemetery Records, Western Australia. First World War Embarkation Rolls. AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army.bendigo, business, carwardine soap and candle

Charles Gordon Watts-Phillips was born in 1849 at Forest Hill, Surrey, England, the son of Dramatic Author, Watts Phillips, and Lily Mariner. He departed England for Australia around 1874. His sister Roland was a favourite Australian actress of the early 1900s. Gordon as he was known, whilst residing in Goolwa, South Australia and working as a clerk met and married a widow, Jane Luxon (nee Miller) on the 7th August, 1876 at the Wesleyan Church in Strathalbyn, South Australia. Jane, Gordon’s elder by some 11 years was born in Ireland in 1838, the daughter of Robert Joseph Miller, a carpenter and Jane Miller. She had previously married Captain William Luxon in 1861 at Encounter Bay, South Australia at age 22 and they had four children: William (1864), George Robert (1865), Miriam Louisa (1867) and Harriet Jane (1869), all born at Encounter Bay. Gordon and Jane had two further children together: Caroline Roland Watts-Phillips (1877 Islington S.A.) and Charles Gordon Watts-Phillips (1879 Yatala, S.A.). At some stage, Jane then deserted her husband. Gordon obtained a master's certificate and was a part owner of a small trader. He had also been captain of one of the passenger boats on the Darling River. He was reputedly a popular coastal skipper. By 1891 Gordon was the Captain of the S.S Omeo operating around Sale, Victoria. In August of that year some of the heaviest flooding of the Thomson River ever experienced in twenty years occurred over the 3rd and 4th of August. Gordon, and others, rescued the lives of many families over that period for which he was awarded a Bronze Medal by the Royal Humane Society. By 1892 the S.S. Omeo had passed to another Captain and Gordon subsequently retired from the sea and moved to Melbourne. Whilst residing in Coburg, Victoria, Gordon met Mary Hilda Harvey Huxley who was living in Brunswick. Mary was born in Horsham, the daughter of George Harry Huxley, a miner, and Emma Deane. Having not heard from Jane for some years and believing her dead, Gordon and Mary marry at Carlton on Christmas Eve, 1900. Interestingly, an announcement of the marriage was not placed in The Age newspaper until September 1903, nearly three years after the event by which time Gordon and Mary had a son, Victor Gordon Watts-Phillips, born 8 February 1903 in Carlton. Within months of the placement of this marriage announcement, his former wife, Jane, makes a reappearance but apparently does not interfere and Mary and Gordon continue to live together as husband and wife. Around the same time in late 1903, Gordon’s brother, Basil Watts Phillip wrote from London to the Victoria Police seeking assistance to locate his brother. He had last heard from him in a letter dated Cunninghame, Gippsland, 1891. He indicated that about 1893 Gordon and Jane and their two children were living at Beaconsfield Parade, Albert Park but the whereabouts of all was now unknown. He mentioned Gordon had also been awarded 21 guineas by Judge Boucaut on the 26th February 1884, also a silver medal, for arresting two ruffians who had brutally assaulted a jockey (in South Australia) and that he had been awarded the Royal Humane Society's medal, London, and in 1891, was presented with the Royal Humane Society's certificate of merit (Victoria). Basil also stated his brother had lost the sight of one eye through a stab he received in New York and had a scar on his temple, one on the wrist, two under the shoulder blade, and one on the thigh, and two bullet wounds in the leg. Basil’s quest was published in the Melbourne Herald and assistance was soon forthcoming to the Police. In June 1906 Gordon made his Will, leaving all his estate to his youngest son Victor. Mary was appointed Executrix and it was witnessed by Olive Huxley, married woman, and James Huxley, a pottery maker. James was subsequently killed in France in May 1918. Gordon and Mary have a second son, Basil Douglas born in Carlton in 1911 but he dies as toddler in 1913. At some point Gordon and Mary made their home at Eltham though official electoral roll records record them at Little Flinders Street Melbourne, employed as a caretaker and from 1906 in Brunswick as a decorator then painter. Eltham may have been a ‘holiday’ home but it seems Mary was actively engaged in the community as a newspaper report in the Advertiser in 1922 not long after Gordon’s death indicates Mary was one of the best known and best liked ladies of the Eltham district. She was actively engaged in all matters, tending towards the welfare of the district. At the time of Gordon’s death Mary was president of the Ladies' Public Hall Committee, responsible for the conduct of numerous, and successful entertainments. Gordon’s first and only legal wife, Jane Luxon Watts-Phillips nee Miller, died 6 November 1921 and was buried 8 November 1921 at Springvale Cemetery. Jane had lived 34 years in South Australia and 30 years in Victoria. With Jane now dead, Gordon was now officially a widower and just three weeks later, the retired master mariner of Eltham at age 55 remarried Mary, 42, of 174 Hickford Street, East Brunswick on the 29th November 1921 in the Parish of St Cuthbert, East Brunswick. Gordon died at their home, ‘The Rest’, at 174 Hickford Street, East Brunswick on February 9, 1922 and was buried at Eltham Cemetery on February 11. An interesting link is established with the heavy floods of August 1891 by the erection of a tombstone in the Eltham cemetery. The stone bears the inscription: - “In loving memory of (Captain) Gordon, dearly beloved husband of Mary Watts Phillips. Died 9th February 1922, aged 62 years." Beside the stone is a replica, carved in a marble scroll, of the Royal Humane Society of Australia's Certificate of merit. Part of the wording of this certificate is as follows:- “At a general court of directors holder at the offices of the society at Melbourne on the 6th day of September 1891, it was resolved that the courage and humanity displayed by Gordon Watts Phillips aged 30-years captain of S.S. Omeo, Sale, in rescuing many families from drowning during the heavy floods on Thomson River on 3rd and 4th of August 1891 call for the admiration of the court, and justly entitles him to the certificate of merit of this society, which is hereby awarded." Unbeknownst to Gordon, his second and subsequent legal marriage to Mary initiated a revocation of his Will of 1906, which had solely benefited his son Victor. Consequently, Mary had to apply for Letters of Administration and the only legal beneficiaries would be Mary and his two children by Jane. On June 18, 1940, at age 61, Mary married 70-year-old Arthur Ernest Fenn in Melbourne. Unfortunately for her, Arthur died a year later in July 1941 and was buried in the Cohuna Cemetery near Echuca. Mary lived a further 8 years, passing away suddenly July 4, 1948 in Carlton, and was buried July 7 with her beloved husband Gordon, at Eltham Cemetery. In Loving Memory of (Captain) Gordon Dearly beloved husbandof Mary Watts-Phillips Died 9th Feb. 1922, aged 62 years Also Mary Hilda Loved wife of above Died 4th July 1948 "At rest"Born Digitaleltham cemetery, gravestones, (captain) gordon watts-phillips, mary hilda harvey watts-phillips (nee huxley)

Looks at the Aboriginal community from the time of white contact, across many parts of Victoria. Chap.1; Melbourne - early missions, camp of Native Police, corroboree trees, canoe trees, grave &? headstone of Derrimut; quarries at Keilor, excavation sites at Green Gully &? Keilor; quarry at Mt. William, notes on inheritance of quarries Coranderrk settlement - Barraks grave, notes on his life; Chap.2; Geelong - Yawangi group of the Wothowurong tribe, camping grounds in area quarries; Notes on William Buckley, Gellibrand (a notable Aboriginal), graves in the Western Cemetery; Chap.3; Colac - war between Colac &? Geelong tribes; Mission at Birregurra, reason for failure of Buntingdale Mission; brass plate to Coc-coc-coine; reserve at Elliminyt, native ovens, camp sites, initiation site &? ritual; quarry sites, axegrinding factory, rock pecking &? engraving; dried hand &? 3 Aboriginal skulls found; Chap.4; The south-west coast - middens, camp sites notes on Framlingham Stn., fish traps at Tyrendarra; Chap.5; The far west - massacres of Aborigines near Casterton; camp sites, oven mounds; the first cricket team formed; Aboriginal cemetery; Chap.6; Hamilton - camps; Mount Rouse Station, axegrinding grooves at Nareeb Nareeb, shelters described, fish traps, massacre at Lake Condah; mission; canoes; Chap.7; Camperdown - legend about Lake Bullen Merri; obelisk erected in memory of Aborigines of district especially chief Wombeetch Puyuun; Jarcoort tribe; fish weirs, camps, intertribal fights between Booluc-burrers, Jarcoorts &? Ellengermote groups; bartering place at Mount Noorat; articles traded, legend of Flat-Top Hill; Chap.8; Ballarat - camp at Lake Wendouree; White Stone Lagoon; legends concerning Mt. Buninyong &? waterfalls at Lal-lal; camp sites; pygmy-type implements near Meredith, quarry at Glue Pot Rocks near Durdidwarrah; brass plate of King Billy; Chap.9; Ararat - Tjapwurong territory; camp sites, quarries, shield &? canoe trees; Bunyip belief at Lake Buninjon of Muk-jarawaint &? Pirtkopen-noot tribes, gives legend; stone implements; mill stones; fish weirs; stone arrangement near Lake Wongan; ground drawing of a bunyip, paintings in rock shelter near Mt. Langi Ghiran; Chap.10; Maryborough - camps, oven mounds, rock wells, stone arrangement at Carisbrook; camp sites at Mt. Franklin; Chap.11; Charlton - belief in Mindye (snake); canoe trees, ovens, camp sites, water holes, rock wells, stone implements; method of rainmaking; Chap.12; Horsham-Stawell, The Wimmera - Wotjobaluk land; camps, fish traps at Toolondo; Black Range cave paintings, Flat Rock shelters (detailed account of these paintings); Bunjils Cave; Chap.13; Horsham-Stawell, The Mallee - camp sites, implements; Ebenezer Mission, Willie Wimmera taken to England by Rev. Chase to become a missionary, died in England; Chap.14; The Murray River, Mildura Swan Hill - Battle of the Rufus; ceremonial ground, Lake Gol Gol, canoe &? shield trees; stone implements; camp sites, fire place arrangements; fish traps; oven mounds; Chap.15; The Murray River, Swan Hill-Echuca - legend about Lake Boga; camps, oven mounds, the Cohuna skull, Kow Swamp, method of burial; Chap.16; Shepparton ovens; brass plates of King Paddy of Kotupna &? King Tattambo of Mulka Stn., native well, camps; Chap.17; Wangaratta -camps, quarry, rock holes, the Faithful massacre; grinding rocks at Earlston; Chap.18; The High Plains - Ya-itma-thang; camps, Bogong moth feasts, native paths for trade &? intertribal fights, articles traded; painted shelters; Koetong Ck. Valley, near Mt. Pilot &? near Barwidgee Ck.; Chap.19; Dandenong - water holes, list of 8 holes in Beaumaris - Black Rock area; camps, middens, stone implements (microliths), legend of Angels Cave, stone axes, Native Police Force, Narre Narre Warren Station, legend about rocks on Bald Hill, kangaroo totemic site; Chap.20; Wonthaggi- Yarram - natives visit Phillip Is., murder of William Cook and Yankee by five Tasmanians (listed as Bon Small Boy, Jack Napoleon Timninaparewa, Fanny Waterpoordeyer, Matilda Nattopolenimma and Truganini) near Cape Patterson, men; camp sites, middens, legend of White Rock; Chap.21; Sale - Bairnsdale, The Lakes Country middens, camps; legend at Wulrunjeri; story of a white woman supposedly living with with the Tutangolung tribe, efforts made to prove story; canoe trees; Chap.22; Sale-Bairnsdale, The Inland Braiakolung tribe, camps, implements, canoe &? shield trees; Ramahyuck Mission, grinding rocks, fights with Omeo tribe; native tracks, death through enemy magic - procedure, belief in ghosts; Chap.23; Lakes Entrance and the Country to the east - Kroatungolung people, legend of Kalimna Valley; camps, stones of Nargun, bunyip, devils at Lake Tyers, excavation at Buchan, carbon dates; middens, ochre at Cape Conrad, stone fish-hook file at Thurra River; note on Bidwel tribe; Each chapter gives historical details, early contacts, relationships with settlers; Aboriginal place names and detailed description of sites and geographical features.b&w photographs, b&w illustrations, colour illustrationsgeelong, colac, hamilton, camperdown, ballarat, ararat, maryborough, charlton, horsham, stawell, murray river, shepparton, wangaratta, dandenong, wonthaggi, yarram, sale, bairnsdale, lakes entrance

In 1905 Richard Squire was manager of the West Berry Consols at Allendale, and developed an improved system of mine ventilation, which was supported in "The Age."[4] He was successful in combating and remedying the gas and ventilation troubles of the Deep Mines of Creswick and Allendale Districts after all had failed.[5] MINE MANAGERS’ ASSOCIATION. Ballarat Branch. ... Mr R. B. Squire, manager of the West Berry Consols, at Allendale, submitted a paper detailing what he had done tor the betterment of ventilation in the alluvial mines of Smeaton and Mary borough districts- Members gave Mr Squire every credit for the results that he claimed to have effected; the adoption of his ideas had testified to their value to mine-owners. It was painted out, however, that for want of a thorough debate of the subject with experienced men the author had unwittingly included some general statements that required modifying in some points and extending in others, in justice to other workers among the earlier and the present day managers of mines. It was decided to invite the author to meet a sub-committee on this subject![6]Handwritten letters from Richard Squire to his son Tom and Family reporting happening at the mine richard squire, tom squire, engine trouble, basil, f.l. smythe broker, trembath, w. ryall, mt mercer, flu, plant, skids, pump, c. hayes, illness, poppet, carburetor, mum, ned, shaft, balance weight, hazel squire, pearson, pulleys, syndicate, goon, len hopkins, suction, dunstown, lease, jim squire, bannockburn, nina, albert, mrs trenery, connie, jay, judy squire, cohuna, bladder attack, reports, estimates, dunstan & coy, jelbarts, barrett, flat fields, brown, gold estates, berry leads, parsley roots, share book, meredith, reef, pay sheet, colin, mr gibbs, l.r.g plan, banagwanth, mcnaughton bores, glenfine, allan, william thomas, john lynch, crawford, shelford, liz the car, trucks, chandlers, ballarat trustees, cameron, elaine, mrs read, clark, j. hayes, dunlop, dr lawrence, eye specialist, reid, mullock bank, jack squire, herman, peter's legal inc. ballarat, freddie reid, j.r. whipp, a.b. reid, grenville, leigh river plan, johnstone's, premier petrol coy, chandler's, ballarat deep leads extension, harwood & pincott, a. rice, lillas, l. e. walker, secretary for mines, pipeclay, sandstone, mr saville, weymouth & carroll, suction pipe, valves, financiers, gold mines of australia, mr hanley hunter, sadowa coy, kerang shareholder, buninyong, stanley hunter, len, fran, max, dr jones, honeycomb rock, booth, sandy mcnab, emily shaw, john cock, ross creek, mitchell, rowe, neil cameron, walker, kidney disease, holst, nellie, ronaldson's, ronaldson & tippett, brokers, investors, lockett, miller & co, wellesly, john sharpe, elizabeht ellen, old lawaluk, mining

Object. A printed list of guest facilities for the Shamrock Hotel on a tin backing with support and front plastic protection. Information includes - Meal hours, Banquet rooms, Service directory and a brief history of the hotel. Designed and published by Testro Bros., 266 Flinders Lane, Melbourne Date 1960s ?place, building, shamrock hotel, shamrock hotel bendigo, gerald g smith proprietor, miss d murphy fashions, jl lyons chemist, miss parry chinaware, throughway service station, provincial motors, wf plim painter, paragon café cohuna, vg allen plumber, claude c cooper jeweller.

Dull orange folder containing copies of letters, brochures, information sheets and some newspaper cuttings. Name on the front is Frank A. Stevenson 244 Hargreaves St Bendigo. Letters date from 1937 to 1942. Newspaper titles include: Prevention of Rust- Principle of the Scalebuoy, Scalebuoys in Cars, Tragic Death of Captain Hartley Abbott and the Obituary of Captain R.H.S.Abbott.sciences, instruments - general, scalebuoy, bill ashman collection - correspondence, frank a stevenson, mr bacon, amalgamated freezing co bendigo, g whalley, gunbower co-operative butter factory & trading coy ltd, mr wallace, j charlesworth, d v evershed, bendigo electronic co, walshes crown hotel, hunter bros, wybgones unit, 180 gold mining co, o'hallorans cyanide unit, crystal ice works, stevenson unit, bendigo council, central nell gwynne, nth deborugh g m co, deborugh g m c, deborugh consolidated, cohuna butter factory, geo ross, victorian producers' co-operative coy ltd, h abbott, ernest f o liddell, rothacker bros, motor spares ltd, leggo's buildings, t j jorgensen, mr robinson, stevenson bros, r h s abbott, d c house, the electrical factor in metabolism, w n abbott, the great boulder proprietary gold mines ltd, w o galletly, mr stronell, newport workshops, victorian railways, mr brownbill, mr james, the university of melbourne, j l osborne, n clarkson, sister mary gonzaga, st joseph's hospital, mater misericordiae hospital, mr herzog, sister m monica?, vacuum oil, j johns, h j grigg, w a walsh, market square, crown hotel, g e cole, transport & engineering in australia 16/12/1937, mr menderson, mr ross, sanitary age 8/2/1935, northern kiwanis clubs, harry a baxter, w h cunningham & hill ltd, link-belt co ltd, sir william crooks, royal zoological society, ginna works germany, close brothers, w h taylor, geo taylor hardware co ltd, details of hydraulic spinner unit (scalebuoy), a davidson, john g kelly inc, hannon, myers wishart, kennedy, mr critten, pennsylvania rubber coy, paul a douden & co, w e humphrey, kansas city public service co, smith, tangney hotels, wahkonsa hotel, muscatine hotel, arlington hotel, burke hotel, helen tangney-springer, f w woolworth co, w w edan, ymca, n f alcock, b j ingram, scalebuoys, bendigo electronic company of australia proprietary limited, a s bloomfield, harry ponsonby mackenzie, arthur robinson & co, the commercial banking company of sydney ltd, a t madden, victorian railways, e c eyers, city of bendigo, frank h day, lane's motors pty ltd, h c holland, union oil soap & candle co ltd, knox home, n a duthie, w h mccorkindale, maungatapere co-op dairy co ltd, the whangarei co-op dairy co ltd, w h millingford, kettering cartons limited, j g arlidge, w e humphrey, kansas city public service company, h w smith, prospectus of scale buoy distributors limited, edwin gripper banks, richard hartley smith abbott, frank shaw fitchett, hayden smith & fitchett, the commercial bank of australia limited, william john stanley horsfall, frank cooper, scott's hotel, a j phillips, stringer & phillips proprietary ltd, e g banks, edwin gripper banks, reginald william stringer, frank cooper, claude gordon robinson, s reid

ill, maps, p.56.non-fictionA photographic profile by Neville Gee of the Victorian country branch lines to Toolamba-Echuca cross-country line, Deniliquin (NSW), Balranald (NSW) & Cohuna.photography - neville gee, railroads -- australia -- trains -- pictorial works