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Forests Commission Retired Personnel Association (FCRPA)
Dugout sign, Post 1966
Considered in terms of both loss of property and loss of life, the Black Friday bushfires on 13 January 1939 were one of the worst disasters to have occurred in Australia and certainly the worst bushfire up to that time. The fires burnt 2 million hectares, 69 sawmills were destroyed, 71 people died, and several towns and sawmills were entirely obliterated. Among those killed were four men from the Commission The subsequent Royal Commission conducted by Judge Leonard Stretton has been described as one of the most significant inquiries in the history of Victorian public administration. Its recommendations led to sweeping changes. In addition to building dams and water points, the Stretton Royal Commission recommended expanding and controlling the use of bushfire dugouts at forest sawmills. Well-constructed dugouts had saved the lives of many sawmill workers and their families during the 1939 bushfires. But in some locations, they had proved fatal. Dugouts became mandatory for those few sawmills that remained in the forest after the 1939 fires. Many remote logging coupes and FCV roading camps also had dugouts. The local District Forester was required to make annual pre-season inspections of all dugouts on State forests and those within the Fire Protected Area (FPA). Some were built privately on private land. Most were primitive construction with a log or corrugated iron roof covered with earth. A hessian bag often hung at the entrance to keep the heat and smoke out. But they were dark and damp with snakes and other creepy crawlies often lurking inside. By 1940-41 there were 19 new dugouts constructed by the Commission and a further 128 by forest licensees. Ten years later there were 8 new Commission dugouts and 21 new ones built by other interests. By 1960-61 the rate of new builds was declining but the Commission still managed 103 dugouts while 127 were looked after by others. However, as the forest road network improved and gave all-weather access to modern two-wheel-drive vehicles the reliance on dugouts receded.Large metal sign that was positioned near forest dugoutsbushfire -
Forests Commission Retired Personnel Association (FCRPA)
Wooden Model Fire Tower, Tom Coish, Model of Reef Hills fire tower, (5 km south of Benalla), 1957
Victoria once had well over one hundred fire lookouts and firetowers. Fire lookouts, or observation posts, were often just a clearing on a hill or a vantage point, whereas firetowers were definite structures. There are at least three categories of firetowers… (1) tree perches, (2) four-legged towers made of either wood or steel, as well as (3) hilltop cabins and observatories. Many were established by the Forests Commission Victoria (FCV) in the 1920s, but the network was expanded rapidly in response to recommendations of the Stretton Royal Commission after the 1939 Black Friday bushfires. The wooden towers were often built by bush craftsmen like legendary FCV overseer Clem Heather from Orbost. But advances in aerial reconnaissance and radio technology led to the gradual reduction in the number of fixed towers. FFMV now operates 72 firetowers. The CFA, Melbourne Water, Hancock Victorian Plantations (HVP) also operate some, the Army has one at Puckapunyal overlooking the live-firing range. Only two remaining fire towers of this design remain in Victoria (Mt Little Dick and Big Tower in the Mullungdung State Forest). Mt Nowa Nowa and Stringers Knob burnt down in the 2019/20 bushfiresLarge model of an Reef Hills fire tower. Presumably used for instructional purposes. Traditional FCV four legged design with three landings and closed cabin.bushfire -
Forests Commission Retired Personnel Association (FCRPA)
Fire hose nozzle(s) with Y joint and brass attachments
Hose nozzle size can affect the stream of water. A smaller hole puts out a longer stream but with less volume. A longer water stream is useful when trying to extinguish fire or sparks high in the tree tops. They were often used with high pressure pumps like the Pacific Marine.Aluminum fire hose nozzle(s) with Y joint and interchangeable brass attachments For 1.5 inch hose with screw attachments rather than modern twist-camm locks. The main nozzle is aluminum alloy and the interchangeable nozzles are made of brass.bushfire -
Forests Commission Retired Personnel Association (FCRPA)
Y Valve
Y valves were used to split water supplies so it could be directed to a number of locations on a fire. In this case four outlets with two controlling valves. Canvas 1.5 inch hose was normally attached Screw connections rather than twist-camm locksY ValveYarrawonga Forests Commissionbushfire -
Creswick Campus Historical Collection - University of Melbourne
Equipment, Forests Commission of NSW, A Card Key to Pinus Based on Needle Anatomy, 1966
Card sorting key for Pinus. Seried of punched cards. Cell structure diagrams on rear. Plant characteristics on face. Complete set with instruction booklet boxed in a red case. Produced by FC NSW, Joyce W. LanyonEquipmentJohn Mcdonald -
Creswick Campus Historical Collection - University of Melbourne
Document, Forests Commission Victoria, A list of rare, very localised and endangered indigenous plants of Victoria, c.1982
1 Booklet and 29 maps in boxed set.Maps and Booklet -
Creswick Campus Historical Collection - University of Melbourne
Document, Diploma of the School of Forestry, pre 1978
Multiple copies of blank Diploma and Associate Diploma of the School of Forestry Creswick rolled into cardboard cylinder. Sample copy of agreement between trainee and the Forests Commission.Certificate -
Creswick Campus Historical Collection - University of Melbourne
Moving Image, Forests Commission Victoria, Plane Forestry, unknown
This is a film that was used showing how to undertake aerial photography.Film reel -
Creswick Campus Historical Collection - University of Melbourne
Book, Forests Commission of Victoria, Western Division. Outlines of management for all reserved forests in the Stawell Forest District, 1938
This is a typed document of a Stawell Working Plan for management of reserved forests 1938Document -
Creswick Campus Historical Collection - University of Melbourne
Book, Forests Commission of Victoria, Woohlpooer Management Plan, 1936
This is a typed document of a Woohlpooer Working Plan for management of reserved forests 1936Document -
Creswick Campus Historical Collection - University of Melbourne
Still Image, 1964
Subject: Lower Glenelg Plantation . 7 brown envelopes marked Run 1. No. 12 - 17of 9 prints each. Stored in a brown cardboard file box marked Lower Glenelg Plantation Run No.1. 11 - 17(x9). Photos commissioned by Forests Commission Victoria 1964.Aerial Photographs -
Creswick Campus Historical Collection - University of Melbourne
Still Image, 1962
Subject: Kuark- McKenzie Crk Project . 5 brown envelopes marked Run 1A - Run 5 of 10 prints each. Stored in a brown cardboard file box marked Kuark- McKenzie Crk Project. Photos commissioned by Forests Commission Victoria 1962.Aerial Photographs -
Creswick Campus Historical Collection - University of Melbourne
Still Image, 1966
Subject: Creswick . 9 brown envelopes marked Run 6. containing c 80 marked up photos. Numbers 30 to 50, 88 - 91 in sequence. Stored in a brown cardboard file box . Photos marked on rear as on loan from the Photographic Library of theForests Commission Victoria . pencilled in date "1946?" on one envelope.Aerial Photographs -
Creswick Campus Historical Collection - University of Melbourne
Still Image, 1952
Subject: King Lake . 6 brown envelopes marked Run 3, 4, 7, 7a, 8, 9 containing c. 80 prints. 1 section of a topographical map marked State Aerial Survey. Stored in a brown cardboard file box marked King Lake Run No.3 - 9. (x9). Photos commissioned by Forests Commission Victoria.Aerial Photographs -
Creswick Campus Historical Collection - University of Melbourne
Still Image, 1962
Subject: Ballarat-Creswick Plantations Block A . 4 brown envelopes marked Run 4 No. 135 - 138 of c.30 prints total. Marked up with red pen. Stored in a brown cardboard file box marked Errinundra Project..Combien Project...Ballarat Plantation. commissioned by Forests Commission Victoria 1962.Aerial Photographs -
Creswick Campus Historical Collection - University of Melbourne
Document, 1938
Appointment of Examiners under the Forests Act 1928. Forests Commission of Victoria, Minister of Forests, LindDocument -
Creswick Campus Historical Collection - University of Melbourne
Document, Board of Forestry Education et al
Board of examiners, FCV. Correspondence. UnsortedCorrespondence -
Creswick Campus Historical Collection - University of Melbourne
Document
Various Forests Commission of Victoria Publications and History of Forestry ActsDocuments -
Creswick Campus Historical Collection - University of Melbourne
Administrative record - VSF Student examination records, Board of Forestry Education et al
Examination results - unsortedDocuments -
Creswick Campus Historical Collection - University of Melbourne
Administrative record - Board of Forestry Education - examinations, results and reports, Board of Forestry Education et al
School Change documents including agreement between FCV and Uni Melb. UnsortedDocuments -
Creswick Campus Historical Collection - University of Melbourne
Still Image
A set of 11 display panels used by the Forest Commission of Victoria for publicityGlass display panels -
Creswick Campus Historical Collection - University of Melbourne
Slide - Victorian School of Forestry - Glass Slide collection, Forestry glass slide collection : used for teaching and research by the Forests Commission of Victoria and at the Victorian School of Forestry, 1904-1950
A set of 952 slides in wooden drawers used by the Forest Comission of Victoria an at the VSF from thealry 1900s through to the 1950s.Glass lantern slide collection -
Creswick Campus Historical Collection - University of Melbourne
Slide - Australian Forestry School - glass plate slides previously held by the ANU (Australian National University), Australian Forestry School, Australian Forestry School - glass plate slides, 1965
Australian Forestry School. Handed onto the ANU in 1965. Covering: rainforests; botany; erosion; Murray River; USA Forestry services; Pine plantations; Forests Commission Victoria;Tasmania forest scenes. 500 slides in 10 wooden boxes and 16 small cardboard packets.Glass lantern slide collection - approx 600 slidesMultiple boxes of glass slides. Many are in 'Hammer Lantern Plates' slide boxes. -
Creswick Campus Historical Collection - University of Melbourne
Photograph - Forests Commission of Victoria - Creswick Plantation, 3 booklets of Photographs presented to the delegates to the 1928 Empire Forestry Conference, 1928
This is a folio of photographs of the Creswick Plantations presented to the 1928 Empire Forestry Conference. related to item 1434. 2 additional folios -State Nursery Macedon. Ballarat Botanic Gardens. Photographs of mature specimens of timber trees from the State plantation Creswick, the State Nursery Macedon and the Ballarat Botanic Gardens. Photographs loosely bound into 3 sets. 2 x dark brown loose covers, 1 x dark green loose cover, bound with coloured embroidery thread.PhotographsPresented to the delegates to the 1928 Empire Forestry conference by the Forests Commission of Victoria -
Creswick Campus Historical Collection - University of Melbourne
Ephemera
Visitors book - Division of Education & Research, Forests Commission Victoria, 1972-1976 -
Creswick Campus Historical Collection - University of Melbourne
Sample
59 items from mixed sources including Museum of Economic Forestry, Forests Commission VictoriaWood Specimens -
Geelong Naval and Maritime Museum
Painting, Excelsior Courier, Unsure
The SS ‘Excelsior’ was an iron screw steamer, built in Southampton, England, in 1882 and first registered in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1882. Her journey from Southampton, England to Melbourne, Victoria is reported to have taken just 66 days. She would prove to be a very popular vessel on Port Phillip Bay, though her reign may have been relatively short as she was sunk in 1890. She was refloated sometime between 1890 to 1900 as some records state 1890, others at 1900. Gross Tonnage: 350, Net Tonnage: 172, Length: 186 ft 6 in (56.85 m), Beam: 21 ft 1 in (6.43 m), Depth: 10 ft 7 in (3.23 m), First Owner: Huddart Parker & Co. A Timeline of SS Excelsior’s life: 15 Jan 1883 → the SS ‘Excelsior’ commenced the Melbourne to Geelong run. 27 Jan 1940 21 Jan 1890 →the SS ‘Flora’ ran aground whilst heading out to Hobart, Tasmania, on a tight bend in the Yarra River at Spotswood. Whilst stuck fast in the mud, the SS ‘Excelsior’ ran into her stern – thankfully the damage to both vessels was only minor. 9 Jan 1897 → The SS ‘Excelsior’ sank the Ketch ‘Lu Lu’ on the south bank of the Hopetoun Channel near Geelong, Victoria. Blame is shared between Captains of both vessels: At the meeting of the Marine Board the report of the nautical expert committee, relative to the collision between the steamer Excelsior and ketch Lulu, was considered. The committee recommended that the matter should be remitted to the Marine Court, and a charge of misconduct preferred against Gilbert Moore, master of the Excelsior. Mr Wilson, one of the committee, dissented. He thought in view of the nature of the evidence charges should be preferred against both masters. Mr Dickens moved an amendment to the latter effect, but it was rejected, and the report adopted. 11 Jul 1899 → The SS ‘Edina’ sinks the SS ‘Excelsior’ during thick fog: Shortly after, half-past 11 o’clock this, morning a serious collision took place in Port Phillip Bay between the steamers Edina and the Excelsior. The Edina was on her way to Geelong, to which place she makes a trip every forenoon in the course of her trade with that port, and the Excelsior was coming up the bay to Melbourne. The weather was calm but thick, and a fog hung over the water. The Edina struck the Excelsior on the port side amidships, and she sank within a quarter of an hour. Both vessels carried a large number of passengers, and large cargoes, but there was very little excitement. The whole thing happened so suddenly that until the crash came those on board the steamers were not aware that any other boat was near at all. When both vessels began to draw away after the collision it was at once seen that the Excelsior was the most seriously injured of the two, and she at once began to settle down rapidly. Some of the Excelsior’s passengers were dragged on board the Edina at once, while the remainder, including the crew, were rescued by boats. As far as can be ascertained no one was drowned, but some 20 or 25 were injured. Dr. Wilson, headmaster of the Brighton Presbyterian Ladies’ College, was perhaps the most seriously injured of the Excelsior’s passengers. He was looking down the companion ladder ‘when the collision took place, and he was thrown violently below, sustaining a compound fracture of the right fore-arm. When attended to it was found, that he suffered severely from the shook of his fall and was rather in a bad way. A lady passenger by the Excelsior had her side lacerated, while another had her ankle sprained. The remainder of the others injured had either small cuts or were suffering from shock. The Excelsior went down stern first, and now lies in about five fathoms of water, with her bow above the surface. The Edina is almost uninjured, but she will be immediately placed in dock, as she is making water slightly. c 1900 → The SS ‘Excelsior’ was raised from her watery grave where a large cut can be seen on the SS Excelsior in dock and reveals the breach made and damage done by the Edina. c 1939 → Records regarding the SS ‘Excelsior’ are elusive until c 1939, when she was commissioned to relocate to Brisbane, Queensland, during the Second World War: The Excelsior came to Brisbane on a voyage north during the 1939-45 War. Being unseaworthy she could not be taken further and was used here as a workshop. After the war, she was discarded on Bishop Island. c 1946 → Sometime after WWII was over, the SS ‘Excelsior’ joined many a ship in the graveyard at Bishop Island in Queensland. The island has been the site for the disposal of many ships. Ships recorded as being discarded here include the Groper, Adonis, Roderick Dhu, Excelsior, Yosemite, Maida, Civility, Captain Cook, Bingera, St. Kilda, Lucinda, Moreton, Miner, Schnapper, Lochiel, Queensland, Victoria, and BadgerThe SS Excelsior is a well known ship from the history of Geelong. Its collision with the equally well known SS Edina is of particular interest to Geelong. She was a famous ship in the reckon of Port Phillip despite her short life stand, especially when compared to the SS Edina. Colour painting of ship departingship collision, ship wreck, ss excelsior, ss edina, bishop island -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - Letter/s, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), 23/09/1965 12:00:00 AM
Yields information about the nature of correspondence between the SEC and the City re Council issues.Copy of a letter on Electricity Supply Department letterhead, quarto paper typed, from Engineer and Manager (Melbourne) to City of Ballarat, dated 23-9-1965, with a copy to the "Works Superintendent", about the condition of the drainage in Gregory St, storm water not getting away - stagnant. Signed F, K White as Manager,trams, tramways, city of ballarat, drainage, depot -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Functional object - Destination Roll, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), "Ballarat" (white background), late 1967
Yields information and demonstrates aspects about Ballarat's destination rolls used in trams after 1967 when these rolls replaced those with the opposite colour arrangementDestination roll black lettering on white fabric background used in Ballarat from late 1967 until closure, replaced white letters on black background. Layout of individual destinations follows that shown in K.S.Kings, "Ballarat Tramways" - see image file for copy. Main letters are 150 high. On rear of roll, has abbreviated destinations painted in black paint to enable drivers to locate easier the individual destinations. See Reg. item 844 for a white on black roll, same destinations and order and details of use. Images btm1744i1 to i4 - sections of the destination roll, when rolled out, i3 shows an example of an abbreviated destination - note it has been rolled in an flat oval shape. i5 and i6 - nature of water damage at top left hand edge of roll. i7 - list of destinations on roll (obtained by inverting the image in btm844i) See K.S.Kings "Ballarat Tramways" Not to be used in a tramcar destination box - original to be kept in archives. tram, trams, ballarat, destination roll -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Pamphlet, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), advertising free briquettes to SEC employees, late 1960's
Yields information about the method of promotion of the sales of briquettes amongst SEC employees and the sale of gas heaters.Printed - two colours - pamphlet, with black border top and bottom of the sheets, advertising free briquettes to SEC employees and relatives on the installation of a hot water heater or space heater. Late 1960's - has a 7 digit telephone contact number. In top left hand corner has the name "Everett" On rear has various calculations in pencil. Was loose with the group of track diaries - eg around Reg Item 3703.trams, tramways, sec, briquettes, personnel