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Ballarat Tramway Museum
Book, Weston Bate, "Life after Gold - Twenthieth-Century Ballarat", 1993
Details the history of Ballarat following the 19th century gold discoveries and how Ballarat changed its industry and social life in particular after the 1st and 2nd world wars and the change of Government policies in respect of trade and social welfare.Book - 240 pages + end papers + hard covers + dust jacket titled "Life after Gold - Twenthieth-Century Ballarat" Dust jacket printed in colour, sewn sections, end papers glued to cover. Has table contents, list of illustrations, list of maps, acknowledgements, table of conversions, an index, appendices, abbreviations, notes, bibliography. non-fictionDetails the history of Ballarat following the 19th century gold discoveries and how Ballarat changed its industry and social life in particular after the 1st and 2nd world wars and the change of Government policies in respect of trade and social welfare.ballarat, local history, 20th century social history, social history -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Document - Ledger: Warrnambool Shire Letter book 1861-1865, Circa 1860
Contains correspondence pertaining to matters of infrastructure in the period of the 1860’s. The period contained within this ledger is very early in the establishment of the district. It shows the co-operation and initiative between councils, government departments and individuals in matters relating drainage, bridges , roads all vital to the development of the region.Fawn cloth on card cover with tan corner and spine binding. Contains alphabetical index at the front. Letters are written on very fine paper.: On the spine is a paper label, “January1861-April 1865.Label inside front cover “Sands &Kenny. Account Book Manufacturers, Stationers &Printers, Collins St Melbourne. The index contains the following names :W G Allan, Bostock, Biggs, Bench of Magistrates Caramut, Niel Black, Commissioner of the Crown Lands Warrnambool, Commissioner of Roads and Bridges, Cross, Carr, Duffy, Davies, Duffus, Fitzmaurice, Horace Flower warrnambool, warrnambool shire, tenders, district roads board, a davies, 1861-1865 -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Uniform - Scout Leader Uniform, Kew District, Scout Association of Victoria, c.1993
The khaki shirt has District and Scout Membership badges and length-of-service badges, the Australian Scout Badge and a Red Cross First Aid badge. The leather belt has a collection of Jamboree souvenir metal badges attached. A ‘lemon squeezer’ felt hat completes the outfit. The hat badge and plume was coloured to indicate to which Section the wearer belonged, purple indicating the Commissioner Section. To keep the brim flat, the hat was sometimes kept in a timber frame when not being worn. This uniform was worn by Desley Reid as Assistant District Commissioner of Kew District between 1993 and 1995.The scouting movement has a rich history on Kew. The Kew Historical Society has attempted to build this section of the collection in recognition of its importance. The uniform was donated by an office bearer of the Society who, as a women, held a key role in the district.Short-sleeved, collarless fabric shirt of khaki color, with embroidered badges. Also fabric neck scarf, with braid and vinyl holdfast (woggle) and a leather belt with metal clasp with Scout impression. Various Scout badgesunforms, scouts -- kew, scouts - kew district, badges of office -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - GOLD LICENSE, 1854
Document. Gold License. Three month gold license dated 19th Dec 1854 in the name of Frederick George Faul. License number 164. Light blue in colour with black printing. Cost was 2 pounds. 3 month license. Printed by John Ferres at the Government printing Office. Unreadable, probably Commissioners signature N Standishcottage, miners, gold license, frederick george faul, john ferres at the government printing office. -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - Article, Queen Hawke telegrams for Ballantynes, 1988
Extract from scrapbook of Mrs Jesse Williams. Celebration of the diamond wedding of Fred and Gene Ballantyne. Fred, an architect, was indentured to Walter Burley Griffin. Later buildings included Tintern CEGGS and St Luke's original vicarage. Gene taught mainly at Melbourne CEGGS and Tintern CEGGS and was also District Commissioner for Girl Guides in Boronia.williams, jessie, ballantyne, fred, gene, griffin, walter burley, 'plumstead' terrara road, vermont, st lukes anglican church -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Newspaper, The Courier Ballarat, "Ballarat tram bids for City", 6/12/1995 12:00:00 AM
Article from page 9 of The News, Ballarat, Wednesday December 6, 1995 featuring the launch of the BTM's W4 671 in the City of Ballarat's colours. Features a black and white photo of 671 on the depot fan Notes comments by Peter Hiscock for the reinstatement of trams in Ballarat and comments by the Chief Commissioner, Vern Robson and the launch of the tram itself.trams, tramways, city of ballarat, 671, ballarat city tramway, ceremonies -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. THE GOLD LICENCE, c1850s
Diggers & Mining. The gold licence. The Government Camp. The goldfields police were stimulated to this sort of activity by an absurd regulation which allotted them half of the fines paid by prisoners they arrested. Many Commissioners, too, antagonized their diggers by their overbearing conduct. (See Unit 8) Markings: 36 994.LIF. 4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Administrative record - Axedale Waterworks Trust
BHS Collection. See Item 10531.21One page letter from the Axedale Waterworks Trust dated 25th November 1969. The letter is addressed to Mr. J. Ellison of 15 Archer Street, Kangaroo Flat. in the letter the Trust accept the resignation and express the appreciation for the work done as commissioner and chairman of the organization. Signed by T.H. Bowles (secretary). Aileen and John Ellison Collection.axedale, axedale waterworks trust -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - Invitation to opening of Sandridge Gallery, Nov 1985
Gina Kowalski launched her Sandridge Gallery at 3 Bay Street on 15 November 1995. It was opened by the Commissioner of the new City of Port Phillip, Des Clarke, and attended by many, including members of the PMH&P SocietySix pages DL size (folded) inviation to the opening of Sandridge Gallery. Horizontal cover features gallery lgo incorporating old borough emblem and motto and full colour reproduction of Liardet\'s painting from 1875 'Shore of Sandridge' (cover folds short to reveal that title, which is on page 5.arts and entertainment - visual arts, business and traders, gina kowalski, sandridge gallery -
Fair Work Commission- Sir Richard Kirby Archives
Booklet, Annual Wage Review 2011-12, 01/06/2012
Annual Wage Review decision. Front cover signed by the Members of the panel. Justice Ross, Senior Deputy President Watson, Senior Deputy President Harrison, Commissioner Hampton, Mr. Vines, Professor Richardson, Mr. Dwyer.Spiral bound, 87 page, A4 size printed document.Signed front cover by all Members of the panel. wages, australia, decision, -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Newspaper - Clipping, News (Canberra), Boyd and Canberra, 18.10.1971
This article contains an announcement of Robin Boyd's death on Friday 16th October and gives a short summary his career, with emphasis on Canberra buildings and quote from Sir John Overall, Commissioner of the National Capital Development Commission.Grounds and Boyd written on top left in pencil. Their names underlines in text and caption.walsh st library -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Black and White Print, Lewis Tulk, Yarra Batman Area Scout Stage III training at Meruka Park, Eltham, c.1980
Scout training course held at Meruka Park Lewis Tulk was Training Commisioner for YBA training leaders Pictured is Vern Brookes Area Commissioner for Scouts Donated by Lewis Tulk, former Scout Area Training Commisioner for Leaders.scouts victoria, scout leader training, lewis tulk collection, eltham, yarra batman area, meruka park, vern brookes -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Mug - China
Commemorative mug presented to the Museum by the Right Honourable Helen Lidell, British High Commissioner, on the occasion of a visit of 22 members of the European Union Heads of Mission, 14 November 2005.The United Kingdom held the Presidency of the EU in 2005.White chine drinking mug with 12 blue geese of various sizes. Yellow printing.UK Presidency of the EU 2005 (12 small flying geese)european union heads of mission, helen lidell, british hish commissioner, commemorative mug -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Early Shipping Railway / Ocean Pier, n.d
Port of Portland Authority ArchivesFront: 'SHAW SAVILL LINE LANCHES 1928' Blue biro beneath photo. 'SS SEALANDIC AT PORTLAND' -white printing on photo Back: PURPLE STAMP - ' PORTLAND HARBOR TRUST COMMISSIONERS'port of portland archives -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Newspaper, Scrapbook Clipping, Library Collection, Ringwood, Victoria, `
``Newspaper clipping from "The Post", 23-8-95, P 2. Indigenous flora recognised Maroondah Council's new chief Commissioner Moreton Brown took in some of the municipality's natural beauty this week when he visited the northern end of Glenvale Rd., Ringwood North. As the area contains an array of indigenous flora, the area has recently been listed a "Significent Roadside Area". The listing was the result of a vegetation suvey by council. Pictured are: Jan Bateman, John Nathan and new Maroondah Chief Commissioner, Moreton Browne.` -
Clunes Museum
Administrative record - LEDGER, ACCOUNT OF THE NUMBER OF FORMS OF LICENSE RECEIVED FROM 1883 TO 1885
LEDGER CONTAINING DETAILS MINER'S RIGHTS, BUSINESS LICENCES, HAWKER - (ON FOOT, WITH ANIMALS), SLAUGHTER YARD, CARRIER, FOREWARDING AGENT, STAGE CARRIAGE, PAWNBROKER, PERMITS TO FISH IN RESERVOIRS, TOBACCO LICENCES RECEIVED BY CLERK OF COURTS TO THE COMMISSIONER OF AUDIT, MELBOURNE.BLUE SOFT CARDBOARD COVERED LEDGER CONTAINING ACCOUNT OF THE NUMBER OF FORMS OF LICENCE RECEIVED BY CHARLES A.C. CRESWELL, CLERK OF COURTS AND RECEIVER OF REVENUE, CLUNES 1883 - 1885 AND LATER BY GEORGE FREDERICK BATEMAN 1885.. LICENSES COVERED ARE: MINTERS RIGHTS; BUSINESS; HAWKER; SLAUGHTERYARD; CARRIER; FORWARDING AGENT; STAGE CARRIAGE; PAWNBROKER; PERMITS TO FISH IN RESERVOIRS; TOBACCO.local history, document, book receipt, council audit ledger -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - G. ALICE JONES COLLECTION: LETTER ESTATE ANNIE ELIZABETH JONES
Letter dated 24th February 45 to the Commissioner of Taxes, Probate Duties Branch, 436 Londsdale St. Melbourne. Estate Annie Elizabeth Jones dec'd Estate No. 167774 - VF 42946 reporting that the amount of 243 pounds has been paid into the estate by a Mrs S. E. McMahon has been paid into the estate. The letter is signed GAJperson, individual, g.alice jones -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - MCCOLL, RANKIN AND STANISTREET COLLECTION: BADAK JUNGLE - ORIGINAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT - FOR SCRIP, 1927
Supreme Court writ between Alfred Clarke & the Commissioner of Taxation(concerning the Badak Jungle Tin Mine) Rules of Badak Jungle Tin Mining Co. Correspondence from share hlders. Commercial Union Envelope. 'Badak Jungle'. Original acknowledgement for scrip Mr Clark's pack handed to Mr Fletcher, Income Tax Dept. 2/4/1927.MCCOLL RANKIN & STANISTREETorganization, business, gold mining tax, mccoll rankin & stanistreet -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - GLENYS MCKITTERICK COLLECTION: WILLIAM BEEBE DOCUMENTS, 1st June 1915
Notice of Additional Land Tax due on land owned at 30/6/1914, Mr William Beebe Mitchell St Bendigo. A/10062. Notification 1/6/15. Previous Assessment Inclusion of U.V. of interest as share - holder in Companies as per Form 107.Due date 10th October 1917, signed by Deputy Commissioners Ewing and Eastford.person, bendigo, william beebe, beebe, land tax -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - BUILDING - CONNELLY & TATCHELL SOLICITORS, Late 1800's
Photograph - sepia - A group of men and a 2 man band, one with a violin and the other with a harp outside Connelly & Tatchell Solicitors building. Men wearing top hats and suits.Written in front window - Solicitors, Proctors and Conveyances. T.J.Connelly, A Commissioner for taking Afidavits, Victoria, New South Wales and New Zealand. Numbers written on back 2000-227-01.buildings, commercial, connelly & tatchell, connelly & tatchell solicitors. -
South Gippsland Shire Council
Letter, Lismore City Council, 30/08/1996
Letter from the Lismore City Council NSW to Bruce Warr, Chief Commissioner, Gippsland Shire Council dated 30 August 1996. Extended warm greeting to "Karmai the Giant Earthworm" to help celebrate the Council's 50 year Celebration as a City. Signed by Jeff Champion the Mayor of Lismore. Lismore City Council logo upper left corner. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. STORES AT THE DIGGINGS, c1852
Diggers & Mining. Stores at the diggings. Storekeepers who sold illicit liquor received short shrift from the Commissioners. Their stores were burnt to the ground. Lord Robert Cecil records, in his diary of his visit to the diggings in 1852,the destruction of a sly grog shanty at Mount Alexander. Markings: 32 994.LIF. 5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph
Colonel Windridge was in charge of the Native Police in Melbourne in 1840. He was sent by Gov. Latrobe to make a road b/w Melbourne and Port Albert . On 8.3.1946 he named Lake Tyers after CJ Tyers Crown Land Commissioner for GippslandColour photocopy of original painting of Colonel Windridgetransport, tourism -
Victoria Police Museum
Photograph (Katherine Mackay)
Born in India on 10 December 1902, Kath Mackay is described on her Record of Conduct and Service as being 5' 7" tall, weighed 9 stone 4 lb and had hazel eyes, light brown hair and a fair complexion. Before joining Victoria Police in April 1930 she worked in the Chief Commissioner's Office. She worked for many years at Russell Street and in 1943 attained the rank of Senior Constable, the first police woman to attain that rank. In 1956 she was the first woman promoted to Sergeant but only after a separate seniority list for women was created. Kath retired on 10 December 1961 and was later awarded a Chief Commissioner's Certificate.Kath Mackay, dressed in a dark jacket and beret, taken in a parkland setting, circa 1950spolice women, mackay, katherine 8600, police woman, policewomen, policewoman -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Certificate, Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia, 1866-1867
Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia, held at Melbourne, 1866 & 7, certifying that the jury of Section X have awarded Honourable Mention to J. Scott of Hawthorn for Coniferous Foliage, Plants & for Bouquets & Flowers. Signed, John B. Bleasedale D.D., Special Commissioner for Juries.Coloured, framed and glazed award. Inscribed on back, 'Donated by Mrs J.C. Corbett, 28 Stawell St, Kew (her Aunt married a son of James Scott),' in T. Kneen's handwriting. -
Federation University Historical Collection
Document, Ballarat's Irish Lawyers
This is the esaerch of Fianne Campbell, who was a doctoral canditate at Federation University (unfulfilled)Folder of research notes on early Ballarat Lawyers, including Dickens and his Lawyers, Provision of Lawyer Services, The Common Law Commissioners on the Inns of Court, The Four Courts, Ballarat Circuit Court Library, Ballaraat and District Freemasonry, Australia Felix, History of the Count Court of Victoria, Anglo-Irish Lawyers in Early Ballarat, Joseph H. Dunne, Ballarat East Petty Sessionsanglo-irish lawyers in early ballarat, ballarat east petty sessions, dianne campbell goldfields lawyers collection, irish, ireland, law, lawyers -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - JENNY FOLEY COLLECTION: ROSALIND PARK
Bendigo Advertiser ''The way we were'' from 2000. Rosalind Park: consisting of 60 acres, the land was set aside from a grant in 1857. Many English and Australian trees were planted with promenades and roads. Some of the earliest buildings erected within this park were the police commissioner's residence, the old court house 1858 and the police barracks.. The clip is in a folder.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - MEMORIAL OF THE INTERCOLONIAL EXHIBITION, 1866-7
Document presented to the Borough Council of Sandhurst. In recognition of highly valuable services -- handwritten. List of names of 26 commissioners. Secretary- J.G.Knight.F.R.I.B.A Exhibition opened by His Excellency. Sir J.H.T.Manners-Sutton. K.C.B on the 24th of October 1866 and closed on the 23rd of February 1867. Having been opened to the public for 105 days. Original civic momento. Coloured in Red & Green. DR 269civic mementoes, presentations, memorial exhibition -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - BILL ASHMAN COLLECTION: CORRESPONDENCE
Letter, dated 17 August, 1938 from E. C. Eyers to Mr. H. A. Abbott. He refers to a previous letter, addressed to the Chief Mechanical Engineer, that the Commissioners had approved of a settlement of £270 for 52 scalebuoys supplied for engine No. 875 and that a cheque would be sent in the next few days. Letter has printed letter head with Victorian Railways logo at the top.sciences, instruments - general, scalebuoy, bill ashman collection - correspondence, victorian railways, h a abbott, bendigo electronic company of australia pty ltd, e c eyers -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Archive - Alan Mathews and family, 23 Jun 1938
The Mathews family have been in continuous ownership of 395 Howe Parade (was 8 Howe Parade until 1964 when addresses re-assigned), Port Melbourne from 1938 to the present (Sept 2019)Six folders of assorted documents relating to the life of Alan Mathews and his family. Documents relating to the purchase of residence on Howe Parade. The Commissioners of the State Savings Bank of Victoria with Mr J E Mathews Factory Foreman, 2 Eveline Street East Brunswick. Contract of sale of a dwelling House and land 8 Howe Parade Garden City. Contract signed 7.11.1938built environment - domestic, banking, alan mathews