1944 BUSHFIRES.1 ARTICLE THE SUN, 9/01/1944. BUSHFIRES BURNT 15 HOMES, HOSPITAL AT CLUNES .2 ARTICLE THE SUN, 10/01/1944. BUSHFIRES AT CLUNES .3 NEWSPAPER ARTICLE, PHOTOGRAPH OF CLUNES FIRE AFTERMATHbushfires, 1944

Standard issue United States M1 pattern steel helmet, olive drab in colou, stretch cotton cargo type net, with fibreglass liner. On the inside of a strap in the liner '8415-153-6671' is printed in black ink. This number would appear to be the "Federal Stock Number (FSN)" which was used 1949 to 1975 when ti was replaced by "National Stock Number (NSN)' by additional of 00 after the first 4 numbers. this would indicate that it was made in USA. The chin strap and liner are both complete and fully operable. These helmets were first issued in 1941 to the United States Armed Forces. They were adopted after the Korean War by the Australian Defence Force. In the 1990s they were replaced by the Kevlar based Personnel Armour System-Ground Troop (PASGT) type helmet. However, as evidenced by this helmet, some M1 Steel helmets were not replaced in-service by the PASGT helmet and survived into the early 21st Century. Used by Royal Australian Army in Vietnam in areas where mines were significnat, such as Long Hai's mountains (together with US flak jackets), and also by Royal Australain Navy.An example of an Australian Army issue M1 steel battle helmet complete with fibreglass liner. This helmet type was issued to Australian defence personnel during the Vietnam conflict. The inner line has a transfer on the front " Australian Military Forces" with rising sun badge. The steel outer has an olive green elastic cover (similiar to cargo net) to hold camouflage material. The M1 is two "one-size-fits-all" helmets: an outer shell made of metal and a hard hat-type liner that is nestled inside the shell and contains the suspension system that would be adjusted to fit the wearer's head. Helmet covers and netting would be applied by covering the steel shell with the extra material tucked inside the shell and secured by inserting the liner. The helmet is 7 inches in height, width is 9.5 inches and length is 11 inches. The weight of a World War II era M1 is approximately 2.85 pounds including the liner and chinstrap. (From Wikipepedia) the inner line has a transfer on the front " Australian Military Forces" with rising sun badge.steel helmet

NEWSPAPER CUTTING DONATED BY MR. & MRS. J. SPARK MR JACK SPARK A FORMER RESIDENT OF CLUNES.ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER CUTTING REPORTING BUSH FIRE AT CLUNES JANUARY 10TH, 1944 - THE SUNlocal history, document, newspaper cutting, bushfire 1944

Paperback booklet with trees printed on front cover and advertisement for Rimington's Nurseries on the backcover. 44 pages. The book included a foreword from A.V. Galbraith, Chairman of the Forests Commission of Victoria.trees, botany, plants, grey box, gum nuts, elms, conifers, currajong, atlantic cedar, western yello pince, stone pine, deodar, bunya bunya pine, sequoia, wattle, black wattle, blackwood, cumberlad valley, banyan, jungle fig, lombardy polar, honysuckles

Two hand written letters relating to orders from the Ballarat School of Mines .1) 31 March 1898 Dear Sir, In reply to your favor of 23 February we have nearly all the apparatus now ready you were good enough to order. I've [illegible] here 12 cases [illegible] fomr Robinson's goods we likely had to wait about 5 months for supply from works, the demand having been quite extraordinary this year. Ou people [illegible] are so busy with Rontgen ray tubes that we cannot get crokes ad Uranium tubes as quickly as we should like. Yours are not yet to hand, have however a promise of delivery very shortly when all goods will be ready for dispatch. Now we have [illegible] in our very large new warehouses in Sun Street, we are importing [illegible] and other glass goods in four or five times the quantity, we could store in our old place, so that we shall hold presently the August stock of glass apparatus in London, enabling us to fill orders of every size in much shorter issue. We shall not loose a day or a book so soon as we are ready with the order early in April. We beg to call your attention to fene glass listed by the [illegible] book post. Your esteemed further orders will oblige. Yours truly [Illegible] .2) 09 September 1898 Dear Sir We thank you for the favor of your order of August just received and give [illegible] attention. arriving to our ... For Reagent bottle 1757 you state no size, we will give you 250cm as the size usually order here. ... We beg to confirm our letter of 2nd inst and enclose two circulars of interest. Yours Faithfully [illegible]a. gallenkamp and co., letterhead, ballarat school of mines, frederick martell, x-ray, xray, rontgen tubes, crooks tubes, uranium tubes

ARTICLE IN HERALD SUN 'WEEKEND', 'COUNTRY LEGENDS', CLUNES COBBLER DUNCAN MCHARG. HANDMADE SHOEScountry legends, cobbler, duncan mcharg, handmade shoes

Photograph from the Sun News-Pictorial June 5th, 1936 p.24. (M. Younger.)Melon Masacre at Burnley. Getting the pip is a common occurrence these days at Burnley Horticulture College while melons are being cut for jam. These students who have just begun the new term, are (from left): Misses A. Armstrong, J. Wakeford, M. Atkins, J. Bacon and M. Younger.sun news-pictorial, burnley horticulture college, a. armstrong, j. wakeford, m. atkins, j. bacon, mabs younger, female students