These cups come from Miura in Japan. Miura is the sister city of Warrnambool and is situated on the Miura Peninsula 50 kilometres south of Tokyo. It has a population of 56,000 people and is the centre of a fishing industry with some vegetable produce. The sister city ties with Warrnambool date from 1992 when the Warrnambool Miura Friendship Committee was formed and the cities share in cultural exchanges. These cups are of interest as a memento of the ties between the city of Warrnambool and the city of Miura in Japan. These white china cups come from Miura in Japan. They have the name ‘Miura’ in blue cursive script on one side and on the other side is a multi-coloured image of a boat with fish and fishermen. The cups also have Japanese writing on the bottom edge. Also with the cups is what looks like a receipt for the purchase of the cups in Japanese writing. ‘Miura’ warrnambool city council, miura, japan

Department of Fisheries New Fishes From New South Wales One of 9 booklets in a homemade brown cardboard folder that has a cotton tape ties and a typed sticker with RAS 597.09944 STE Author: David G Stead, Naturalist to the Board of fisheries of New South Wales Publisher: Government Printer Sydney Date: September 1908 Front endpaper has a sticker from Warrnambool Mechanics Institutewarrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, book, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, department of fisheries new fishes from new south wales, david g stead

Frank Wright was a renown resident of Smeaton, where he was born. He lived at Laura Villa, and attended Smeaton State School. His father William was a gold miner and his mother's name was Sarah. Their family won many singing and instrumental awards. Frank was tutored by Percy Code and was awarded a gold medal for the highest marks in the ALCM examinations in the British Colonies at the age of seventeen years. He became the Australian Open Cornet Champion by the age of eighteen. A year later, Frank conducted the City of Ballarat Band, and later the Ballarat Soldiers’ Memorial Band. He formed the Frank Wright Frisco Band and Frank Wright and his Coliseum Orchestra. These bands won many South Street awards, and Frank as conductor won many awards in the Australian Band Championship contest. In 1933 Frank Wright sailed to England to conduct the famous St Hilda’s Band and was later appointed Musical Director of the London County Council, where he organized many amazing concerts in parks, in and around the London district. He was made Professor of Brass and Military Band Scoring and conducted at the Guildhall of Music and Drama. Frank was often invited to adjudicate Brass Band Championships around Europe, in Australia, including South Street and in New Zealand. The Frank Wright Medal at the Royal South Street competition is awarded to an individual recognized as making an outstanding contribution to brass music in Australia.Black and white photograph of two men, one dressed in a dark suit and the other dressed in trousers and waistcoat, holding a large fish in his right hand. They are standing on the rail tracks of a pier. The men are Frank Wright on the right and Joe Foster on the left. The place is on the pier about 20 miles from Maryborough, Queensland (possibly Hervey Bay).Written in pencil on back - Taken on the pier about 20 miles from Maryborough (Q), Joe Foster sec Q.B.A., Frank Wright, March 1932 Printed on back - Printed by Pat McNamarafrank wright, joe foster, maryborough, pier, hervey bay

This image appeared in Lakes Post 21 May 1995Black and white photograph of Pecks fish processing factory on Bullock Island, during demolition. It shows a building clad with asbestos cement sheets, and a partly demolished brick tower, enclosed by cyclone wire fence and gates with eight warning signs attached. Health and safety issues were paramount during demolition. Lakes Entrance Victoriafishing industry, buildings

Black and white photograph of the remains of Pecks fish processing factory after removal of hazardous asbestos sheet cladding. This factory was situated on Bullock Island for over twenty years. Photo shows crane removing steel truss from building, cyclone wire fence surrounds site, three warning signs on fence. Lakes Entrance Victoria fishing industry, safety

This photograph shows 51 men standing and 25 men sitting on a bench or kneeling, wearing a variety of clothes. There are some men "lurking" in the background. Photo taken with a fish-eye lens. See also item 8647 for a similar photo using a fish-eye lens. In the background is W2 class tram No. 546, nearing completion in the background. This tram entered service late Dec. 1928. Named employees: W McGibbon, J Mills, A Todd, A Doubleday, Mr Pender, Mr Cluff, W Stuchberry, H Hood, R Rhodes, J Watkins, J Shakespear, W Allen, H Ryder, C Boxer, A Anderson, A Sharpe, F Moat, F Hook, I Porrat, S Braham, W McLennan, I Hill, W C Gilbert, H Ritson, G Hapgood, W Prout, H Perkins, D O'Shannesy.Yields some information about the Preston Workshops body shop tram car builders in 1928.Photograph mounted onto a white card with names and title hand written in.tramways, preston workshops, staff photo, body shop, tram 546

Image of a Ballarat bogie car waiting at the City stop with the Boer War Memorial in front. Taken on the last day of operation of the SEC Ballarat tramway system - 19-9-1971. In the background is the National Mutual building, Golden Star Chinese Cafe, Georges Oyster / fish shop and Ballarat TV and Electrical store which looks a bit of wreck inside.Yields information about the last day of operation of the Ballarat SEC tramways.Digital image - 120 negative tramways, tramcars, ballarat, last day, closure, sturt st, boer war memorial

The photo shows trams 40 & 17 passing on the loop in Pakington St at Clarence Sts in West Geelong. Has a "Fishorium" (fish shop), A E Bent Radio, a Grocery shop, Commercial bank, a butcher, and the State Savings Bank of Vic in the photo. Photo undated, Keith Kings late 1955 or early 1956, photo number Q(R)(8)Yields information about the West Geelong shoping centre and tramway operations.Black and white photograph with notes on rear.See rear image and context.trams, tramways, pakington st, geelong, west geelong, tram 40, tram 17

The golf club for which this dinner was held is not known.Menu card for Annual Golf Dinner printed on two coloured card. Obverse: Pink card text printed in dark blue ink. Verso: Blank green card. The Annual Golf Dinner / THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1908 / MENU / Oysters in Shell. / Oyster Soup. Julienne. / Fried Fish. / Roast Turkey. / Boiled Chicken and Sauce./ Vegetables in Season. / Apple Pies./ Trifles. Charlotte Russe. / Biscuits and Cheese. / Almonds and Raisins. / Coffee . Milburn Bros., / Caterers milburn catering bendigo, making a nation exhibition, city of greater bendigo leisure

Department of Fisheries Note on a Small Collection of Fishes From Suwarow Island One of 9 booklets in a homemade brown cardboard folder that has a cotton tape ties and a typed sticker with RAS 597.09944 STE Author: David G Stead, Naturalist to the Board of fisheries of New South Wales Publisher: Government Printer Sydney Date: September 1907 Front endpaper has a sticker from Warrnambool Mechanics Institutewarrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, book, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, department of fisheries note on a small collection of fishes from suwarow island, david g stead

A Salmon & Webster 'Champion' tennis racquet, with solid convex throat, cloth tape shoulder reinforcements, and, a fine grooved handle with fish-tail butt and a rubber handle grip. Impressed inscription on handle grip: SALMON &/WEBSTER LTD./MAKERS OF THE/PARLOUR/SUPER STRONG/BAT. Materials: Wood, Lacquer, Glue, Metal, Gut, Cloth tape, Rubbertennis

Yields information about the use of the use of the City terminus during the last days of the SEC operated system.Black and White photograph of No. 34 at the City Terminus, Sturt St, south side - tram has an SEC Roof Advert re electric cooking. In the background is the National Mutual Building, Berry Anderson stationary shop, Golden Start Chinese Cafe and the Georges Oyster bar and fish shop. Photo by Charles Craig possibly early 1970's. trams, tramways, sturt st, city, tram 34

A wooden, oval racquet with a solid convex throat, cloth tape supports, and fish-tail handle. Model trademark is a stamped on throat on obverse, featuring a horned demon's head device, with the text: THE/DEMON. Inscription, probably place of manufacture, stamped across throat on reverse: MURTON/NEWCASTLE. Materials: Wood, Gut, Metal, Glue, Lacquer, Cloth tapetennis

A concave, wooden racquet, with white-painted cloth taped shoulders, with red and green whipping, diagonal stringing, and a fish-tail handle. On throat on obverse is the Slazenger trademark of a hexagram, with an 'S' in the centre. Barely legible inscription stamped along right side of handle: SL[AZENGER] LTD. Materials: Wood, Gut, String, Cloth tape, Metal, Glue, Lacquertennis

This is the paired before paired photograph used in the 150 year Lakes Entrance 1858-2008 display.|The after paired photograph number is 01464.1|Also one 12 x 16 framed photograph used in room display.Black and white photograph of the foreshore, showing a small steamer moored at a rough timber jetty, known as 'the Landing' (later Barrier Landing). Three small rowing boats moored to jetty loading fish to steamer identified as ss Bogong. Five men on jetty. Sandy shore strewn with dead seaweed, coastal banksia on bank. Lakes Entrance Victoriajetties, waterfront, boats and boating, vegetation, room display

This edition includes a report on the Progress Association's June 1974 meeting, Handicapped Minding Scheme starts, Diamond Valley Learning Centre, The public interest v personal interests, Letter to the Editor, From the Council Chamber, The Fish Scheme, The restrictive entrance to Willis Street, School and kinder news, Meet the natives. A digital copy of this Newsletter is available from Greensborough Historical Society.Newsletter, 24 p., illus.greenhills and north greensborough progress association, greenhills

A4 page of complied print media about financial troubles and a possible closure of the QVWC. Possibly from all from Melbourne times.Marking in blue pen ink o dates and page numbers. at the bottom there is a cut out o a newspaper headline reading Yarra River fish face extinction and the inscription above reads "And now the Melb Times has the ish facing 'final days'. Seems to be the Melb Times spin on everything" correspondence, historic building, business and finance

‘The Art of the Japanese Package’ was an exhibition that toured to 10 Australian and 11 New Zealand public galleries in 1979 and 1980. The touring exhibition comprised 221 objects of traditional Japanese packaging which extended from ceramics, wood and paper to woven fibre containers. At the conclusion of the tour, The Japan Foundation and the Crafts Board of the Australia Council donated the vast majority of the exhibition to the Ararat Gallery for its permanent collection. Combining the natural qualities of bamboo, paper and straw with delicate craftsmanship, these unique objects express Japanese aesthetics as applied through fibre crafts. In Japan, the qualities and traits of natural materials are exploited rather than hidden. The texture of straw, the septa of bamboo are not concealed but lovingly incorporated into the whole. In 1979 Hideyuki Oka, curator of ‘The Art of the Japanese Package’ wrote: “In no way self-conscious or assertive, these wrappings have an artless and obedient air that greatly moves the modern viewer. They are whispered evidence of the Japanese ability to create beauty from the simplest products of nature. They also teach us that wisdom and feeling are especially important in packaging because these qualities, or the lack of them, are almost immediately apparent. What is the use of a package if it shows no feeling?” The descriptions of the featured objects were written by Hideyuki Oka, curator of ‘The Art of the Japanese Package’, 1979.Gift of the Japan-Australia Foundation and the Crafts Board of the Australia Council, 1981The model for this package is from Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, is the sedge hat formerly worn by farmers and travellers. The package contains a whole baked tai (sea bream), a fish much relished in Japan, and it is said that the feudal lords of yesteryear often included tai in wrappings like this among their gifts to the shogun when they returned to the capital from their fiefs. - Professor Hideyuki Oka, curator.japanese art, japanese packaging, tsutsumi, gift giving

Exhibited by the artist at the Wood, Wine & Roses Festival, Heywood, 2004.Aunty Betty King was a Kerrup Jmara Elder from Portland. She was the great grand-daughter of King Billy of Yigar. Aunty Betty cared deeply about Nyamat Mirring and Country. A staunch activist and long-time advisor to the Friends of the Earth, Aunty Betty King and Sandra Onus worked together to fight against the logging of native forest in the Cobboboonnee taking part in protests and meetings.Acrylic paint on canvas depicting birds and fish, water lilies and other vegetation, and stylised designs associated with early settlement of Aboriginal people in the Portland/Glenelg wetland area. Black painted border with white dot pathways, a circle of white dots in each of the four corners. Centre area in blues and greens featuring two birds, painted in black with red and ochre bandings.Front: nilgunditjmara, first nations, nyamat mirring, glenelg shire cultural collection, portland, female artist, female artists, heywood

Document. White bi-fold paper program for ''The Broken Melody'', Princess Theatre, Monday 26th June 1905. Advertisers: Suttons Music Store. W.Thomas - Hairdresser. Mabel Boswell - Illuminating Artist. Alf E.Wallis - Auctioneer. Jack Coates - Bill Posting Company. E.B.Harris - Gold Buyer. T.Sayer - Undertaker. Bainelt's - Jeweller. Harp and Shamrock Hotel. Jubilee Park Races. Roeder Bros - Tobacconist. Roberts Golden Bar Butter. W.Benson - Tobacconist. H. Lorenz - Tailor. N. Cinquegrano - Umbrellas. Banfield & Co - Goldbrokers. John Davies - Queen's Hotel. F.Matthews - Fish and Chips. A.Frigerio - Wire Works. Haltorf's Hotel. Bright's - Fish and Fruit. Leslie's - Blacksmith. R.E.Walters - Hunting Supplies. Jack Francis Cafe. J.Dunne - Market Hotel. Miss May Maher - Florist. P.Drescher - Jeweller. B.Sciallero - Wine Hall.performing arts, elocution, theatre program

This is a printed invitation to the opening of an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ballarat in June 2015. The exhibition was of the art works and calligraphy of James Meek. It was curated by Joan Luxemburg who is writing a book on James Meek’s life and work. James Meek was an important 19th century fisherman, fish curer, accountant, writer, gold explorer and calligrapher. His art works are prized for their historical content and their illustrations of the work of a calligrapher at its best. This card is important as it concerns the art works of James Meek. He was important in the history of Ballarat, Peterborough and Warrnambool in the 19th century. In the latter town he was a well-known punt operator, a gold explorer, a writer and lecturer and a fish company operator. Several of his important calligraphy works were produced in Warrnambool. This is a lightweight cardboard card printed on both sides with printed material, logos of sponsors and an image of a section of one of James Meek’s sketches. ‘The Inimitable Mr Meek’james meek, art gallery of ballarat, joan luxemburg

Grassmere is a small hamlet about 12 kilometres from Warrnambool. It is a farming area. The Grassmere Gold Mining Company, presumably established by local people in Grassmere, was created in 1898 for the purpose of acquiring from Messrs James and Mewha a lease of a Cassilis gold mine (23 acres). £5000 was to be raised in shares of five shillings and one shilling each. The Manager of the Company was Horatio Dickson of Melbourne and the brokers were McMeekin and Co. of Melbourne and Warrnambool and Dickson and Osborne of Melbourne. This reef mine was one of several in Cassilis, Gippsland, 12 kilometres north west of Swifts Creek. The gold-bearing quartz reefs were discovered in 1885 and worked to 1914. It is not known whether the Grassmere Cassilis mine was a financial success but the mining operations were impeded by the hardness of the stone in the area. William Robinson was a farmer in the Grasmere district. This receipt is of considerable interest as one of only three items the Warrnambool and District Historical Society has that is connected to the Grassmere Gold Mining Company. The gold mine establishment was one of the minor events in the district in the 1890s. This is a buff-coloured 1899 receipt for William Robinson who has paid six shillings and threepence for part payment of his shares in the Grassmere Gold Mining Company. The receipt has black printing and black-ink handwriting. There is one stamp of the Manager ‘H.S. Dickson’ and another of ‘Grassmere Gold Mining Company No Liability’. The receipt has several holes caused by silver fish damage. ‘March 11th 1899, Received from Mr Wm. Robinson the sum of six shillings and threepence being the amount of 3rd call of 1½ per share due on 50 shares nos. 12651/12700 in the above Company, H.S.Dickson, Manager’ grassmere, grassmere gold mining company, william robinson

Department of Fisheries of New South Wales on the Need for More Uniformity in the Vernacular Names of Australrian Edible Fishes One of 9 booklets in a homemade brown cardboard folder that has a cotton tape ties and a typed sticker with RAS 597.09944 STE Author: David G Stead, Naturalist to the Board of fisheries of New South Wales Publisher: Government Printer Sydney Date: May 1911Front endpaper has a sticker from Warrnambool Mechanics Instituteshipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, book, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, department of fisheries of new south wales on the need for more uniformity in the vernacular names of australrian edible fishes, edible fishes, david g stead

Single white card with red line border.Picture of a boy dressed in a white sailor suit with a blue collar and a red band on his left arm. He is wearing a cream straw hat with an up turned brim with blue edging and ribbon at the back. He is fishing from a grey stone pier. There is a tin and 2 fish behind him. Over the water is a building and some boats.person, greeting cards, malone collection, malone collection, greeting cards

Yields information about the tram services and the lower section of Sturt St.Negative and Digital image of the Wal Jack Ballarat Negative file of No. 27 with the destination Depot via Ripon St. Note the white painted windows. Photo late 1940's or early 1950's. In the background are Paterson's Furniture Providers, Taylor and Taylor Chemists, Ballarat Fish Supply and The Ballarat Ritzy Cafe and Grill Rooms. The chemist shop has a sign for Kodak Film.trams, tramways, sturt st, tram 27

A wooden, flat-top racquet with a solid convex throat, and fish-tail handle. Model trademark is a stamped on throat on obverse, featuring a horned demon's head, with the text: THE/DEMON. Manufacturer's mark stamped across throat on reverse, comprises of a hexagram with the text: BEST IS BEST/S&S/L/THRO' THE WORLD. Stamped over this: BENETFINK/LONDON. Materials: Wood, Gut, Metal, Glue, Lacquertennis

A wooden, transitional flat-top racquet with a solid convex throat, cloth tape supports, and fish-tail handle. Inscription across crown on obverse: SPECIAL DEMON. Model trademark is a stamped on throat on obverse, featuring a horned demon's head device, with the text: THE/DEMON. Manufacturers name along stem on obverse: SLAZENGER + SONS. Materials: Wood, Gut, Metal, Glue, Lacquer, Cloth tapetennis

A Talmo Model 3 tennis racquet, with cloth shoulder supports, reinforced with ribbon whipping, plastic collar around shaft, and a fine-grooved, fish-tail handle. Inscription across throat, on obverse: TALMO/REG'D/MODEL/3. Previous owner has written name on reverse of shaft. Materials: Wood, Nylon, Ink, Glue, Lacquer, Metal, Plastic, Ribbon, Paint, Clothtennis