A complete record of the DVFL season 1959, includes financial report, description of events, membership, teams, scores from the seasons games and winners of best and fairest awards for all divisions and age groups. In 1959 the Division 1 Premiers were Heidelberg Football Club.This annual report covers many teams from within the Diamond Valley area. Includes junior and senior teams.Foolscap size book. 22 pages, printed on single sides of page . Larger buff cover with black text. Includes typed tables. Photo of premiership teams and award winners.australian rules football, greensborough football club, diamond valley football league, dvfl, northern football league, nfl, northern football netball league, nfnl, heidelberg football club

A complete record of the DVFL season 1955, includes financial report, description of events, membership, teams, scores from the seasons games and winners of best and fairest awards for all divisions and age groups. In 1955 the Division 1 Premiers were Greensborough Football Club.This annual report covers many teams from within the Diamond Valley area. Includes junior and senior teams.Foolscap size book. 19 pages, printed on single sides of page . Larger buff cover with black text. Includes typed tables. Photo of premiership teamaustralian rules football, greensborough football club, diamond valley football league, dvfl, northern football league, nfl, northern football netball league, nfnl

A complete record of the DVFL season 1958, includes financial report, description of events, membership, teams, scores from the seasons games and winners of best and fairest awards for all divisions and age groups. In 1958 the Division 1 Premiers were Greensborough Football Club.This annual report covers many teams from within the Diamond Valley area. Includes junior and senior teams.Foolscap size book. 28 pages, printed on single sides of page . Larger blue cover with black text. Includes typed tables. Photo of premiership team and award winners.australian rules football, greensborough football club, diamond valley football league, dvfl, northern football league, nfl, northern football netball league, nfnl

A complete record of the DVFL season 1960, includes financial report, description of events, membership, teams, scores from the seasons games and winners of best and fairest awards for all divisions and age groups. In 1960 the Division 1 Premiers were Greensborough Football Club.This annual report covers many teams from within the Diamond Valley area. Includes junior and senior teams.Foolscap size book. 26 pages, printed on single side of page . Larger green cover with black text. Includes typed tables. Photo of premiership teams and extra photosaustralian rules football, greensborough football club, diamond valley football league, dvfl, northern football league, nfl, northern football netball league, nfnl

A complete record of the DVFL season 1957, includes financial report, description of events, membership, teams, scores from the seasons games and winners of best and fairest awards for all divisions and age groups. In 1957 the Division 1 Premiers were Heidelberg Football Club.This annual report covers many teams from within the Diamond Valley area. Includes junior and senior teams.Foolscap size book.23 pages, printed oh single side of page . Larger orange cover with black text. Includes typed tables. Photo of premiership side.australian rules football, greensborough football club, diamond valley football league, dvfl, northern football league, nfl, northern football netball league, nfnl, heidelberg football club

A complete record of the DVFL season 1996, includes financial report, description of events, membership, teams, scores from the seasons games and winners of best and fairest awards for all divisions and age groups. including black and white photos. In 1996 the Division 1 Premiers were Bundoora Football Club.This annual report covers many teams from within the Diamond Valley area. Includes junior and senior teams.Foolscap size book. 211 pages, printed on double sides of pages. Blue and White cover with black text and includes typed tables and black and white photosaustralian rules football, greensborough football club, diamond valley football league, dvfl, northern football league, nfl, northern football netball league, nfnl, bundoora football club

A complete record of the DVFL season 1992, includes financial report, description of events, membership, teams, scores from the seasons games and winners of best and fairest awards for all divisions and age groups. including black and white photos. In 1992 the Division 1 Premiers were Lalor Football Club.This annual report covers many teams from within the Diamond Valley area. Includes junior and senior teams.Foolscap size book. 151 pages, printed on double sides of pages . Red cover with black text and includes typed tables and black and white photosaustralian rules football, greensborough football club, diamond valley football league, dvfl, northern football league, nfl, northern football netball league, nfnl, lalor football club

According to Les Youie (the editor) this is an example of one of the first newsletters produced by the Young Chinese League for its members.This newsletter is significant for its links to the Chinese Young League. The League was formally established on 4 October 1932 to to promote free social intercourse and goodwill among its members and their mutual improvement. Membership was open to all persons, with one or both parents or grandparents born in China. Wives of Chinese members were permitted as members with the same privileges. It was a significant social organisation for Chinese-Australians in Melbourne in the mid to late twentieth century.One page mimeograph copy of newsletter for members of the Young Chinese League. The newsletter covers both sides of the sheet.Handwritten in blue on the top middle is: 'SAMPLE' and in black: 'Dec 1955'.young chinese league, melbourne, newsletters, community organisations, chinese community organisations, les youie

The Irish National Land League (Irish: Conradh na Talún) was an Irish political organisation of the late 19th century which sought to help poor tenant farmers. Its primary aim was to abolish landlordism in Ireland and enable tenant farmers to own the land they worked on. The period of the Land League's agitation is known as the Land War. Within decades of the league's foundation, through the efforts of William O'Brien and George Wyndham (a descendant of Lord Edward FitzGerald), the 1902 Land Conference produced the Land (Purchase) Act 1903 which allowed Irish tenant farmers buy out their freeholds with UK government loans over 68 years through the Land Commission (an arrangement that has never been possible in Britain itself). For agricultural labourers, D.D. Sheehan and the Irish Land and Labour Association secured their demands from the Liberal government elected in 1905 to pass the Labourers (Ireland) Act 1906, and the Labourers (Ireland) Act 1911, which paid County Councils to build over 40,000 new rural cottages, each on an acre of land. By 1914, 75% of occupiers were buying out their landlords, mostly under the two Acts. In all, under the pre-UK Land Acts over 316,000 tenants purchased their holdings amounting to 15 million acres (61,000 km2) out of a total of 20 million acres (81,000 km2) in the country. Sometimes the holdings were described as "uneconomic", but the overall sense of social justice was undeniable. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_National_Land_League, accessed 21 January 2014) The Irish National Land League was founded at the Imperial Hotel in Castlebar, the County town of Mayo, on 21 October 1879. At that meeting Charles Stewart Parnell was elected president of the league. Andrew Kettle, Michael Davitt, and Thomas Brennan were appointed as honorary secretaries. This united practically all the different strands of land agitation and tenant rights movements under a single organisation. The two aims of the Land League, as stated in the resolutions adopted in the meeting, were: ...first, to bring out a reduction of rack-rents; second, to facilitate the obtaining of the ownership of the soil by the occupiers. That the object of the League can be best attained by promoting organisation among the tenant-farmers; by defending those who may be threatened with eviction for refusing to pay unjust rents; by facilitating the working of the Bright clauses of the Irish Land Act during the winter; and by obtaining such reforms in the laws relating to land as will enable every tenant to become owner of his holding by paying a fair rent for a limited number of years. Charles Stewart Parnell, John Dillon, Michael Davitt, and others including Cal Lynn then went to America to raise funds for the League with spectacular results. Branches were also set up in Scotland, where the Crofters Party imitated the League and secured a reforming Act in 1886. The government had introduced the first ineffective Land Act in 1870, then the equally inadequate Acts of 1880 and 1881 followed. These established a Land Commission that started to reduce some rents. Parnell together with all of his party lieutenants, including Father Eugene Sheehy known as "the Land League priest", went into a bitter verbal offensive and were imprisoned in October 1881 under the Irish Coercion Act in Kilmainham Jail for "sabotaging the Land Act", from where the No-Rent Manifesto was issued, calling for a national tenant farmer rent strike which was partially followed. Although the League discouraged violence, agrarian crimes increased widely. Typically a rent strike would be followed by evictions by the police, or those tenants paying rent would be subject to a local boycott by League members. Where cases went to court, witnesses would change their stories, resulting in an unworkable legal system. This in turn led on to stronger criminal laws being passed that were described by the League as "Coercion Acts". The bitterness that developed helped Parnell later in his Home Rule campaign. Davitt's views were much more extreme, seeking to nationalise all land, as seen in his famous slogan: "The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland". Parnell aimed to harness the emotive element, but he and his party preferred for tenant farmers to become freeholders on the land they rented, instead of land being vested in "the people".(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_National_Land_League, accessed 21 January 2014)Image of a number of men sitting around a table. They are members of the Land League Committee during a meeting in Dublin.ballarat irish, land league, land league committee, dublin

This is a badge of the Gould League of Bird Lovers. This organization was formed in 1909 in Victoria and was initially sponsored by the Education Department of Victoria. It was named after the English ornithologist, John Gould and his wife Elizabeth. The initial aim was to encourage school children to protect native birds and their eggs. Today the aim of the group has been widened to include education for environmental sustainability. In 1967 the name was changed to Gould League and in 2006 it became Gould Group Ltd. This badge has no known local provenance but many school children in Warrnambool in the 20th century and even today have belonged to the Gould League of Bird Lovers and the badge is retained as a memento of what was once an important organization for school children in Victoria. This is an irregular-shaped metal badge with the image of a red-capped robin, bronze-coloured tree branch and gold printing on a blue base. The back has a metal clip.Gould League of Bird Lovers Swann & Hudson Frankston gould league of bird lovers, history of warrnambool, john gould, ornithologist

Pastor Doug Nicholls, M.B.E., J.P. was field officer for the Aborigines Advancement League (Victoria).Quarto hand written letter on letterhead of the Correspondence from the Aborigines Advancement League (Victoria) to the headmaster of the Ballarat Technical School. The letter relates to a bursary for a student. aborigines, aboriginal, aborigines advancement league (victoria), doug nicholls, cope, muir

Letter from G O'Brien, Honorary Secretary of the SEC Social League letterhead congratulating Sylvia Mitchell on her success and those in Ballarat who assisted her. Enclosed was a 5 pound Cheque. Demonstrates one of many congratulatory letters and telegrams.Letter - typed on quarto paper from the SEC Social League dated 31 August 1944.most popular conductress, sylvia mitchell, tramways, red cross, secv, sec social league

The History of the Victorian Athletic League, as told through it's A.G.M. minutes.Clear plastic front cover over white paper with black print. Plastic binding, and black card rear cover..100 Years of Victorian Athletic League History 1895 - 1995. Donated to Stawell Historical Society by Stewart Bradley November 2003stawell sport, v.a.l.

"League of Soldiers' Friends", part of the "Soldiers Institute" operated an "open-air" lounge in the grounds of St Paul's Cathedral where returned soldiers could gather for refreshments and was alcohol free.Notes regarding the aquistion of, information, correspondence and photographs compiled by Harry Gilham (EDHS) regarding the donation of a large cash book of the "League of Soldiers' Friends" (1918) to EDHS which was subsequently donated to the Archives at St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne.HG Booklet 11cash book, harry gilham collection, league of soliders' friends, mollison library, st. pauls cathedral archives, trinity college

The constitution and rules of the VCFL are comprehensive. Founded in 1927 they cover the VCFL office-bearers, the district councillors, the constitution, the rules, the regulations and proceedure for appeals, the regulations for clearance and permits, the conditions of appointment of VFL Umpires to country matches, and permit rules of the Australian National Football Council together with forms to go with these rules, and fixture keys for six to fourteen team matches.Constitution and rules. Victorian Country Football League. Victorian Country Football League; Melbourne (Vic); 1956. 60 p. Soft cover.vcfl; victorian country football league; football; constitution; rules; permits;

Stawell Football Club Team Premiers Wimmera League 1909. Photograph taken when a match played at Dunolly - between Dunolly and Stawell Premiers of Wimmera League, and Dunolly Premiers of Maryborough District League. Stawell winning by 5 points in 1909.Black and white photograph of a group of sports people. Three rows of people in sporting uniforms others in civilian dress with bowler hats. Taken against a background of a wooden building which has two large pennants hanging on it.BACK ROW (L to R) Alf Clearson, Bill Wilson, (Secretary S.F. C.), Fritz Thomson, Tom Mullins, Geo. Oliver (President 1910), Mat. Newton, Harry Peck, Ned. Walton, Tom Hunter, Gus. Mahnke, Bill McCullough, Bob Claringbold (President S.F.C. 1909), Frank Derry, Jim Wyatt, Roy Nettle, Jack Allison, Eddy Thomas, Hughie Dalziel, Dr. Fox, Archie Gilchrist, C. Murrells, Bill Tiddy. SECOND ROW, George (Piggy) Arnott, Herb Chester, Hughie Sparks, Paddy Doyle, Arthur Parsons (Captain) Bill Earle, Gordon Scriviner, Bert Crouch, Edgar Heal, Bert Errington, Fred Crouch, jack Thompson. FRONT ROW Ark Williams, Jackie Jackson or George Baylie. Match played at Dunolly between Dunolly and Stawell. Stawell Premiers of Wimmera League and Dunolly Premiers of Maryborough District League. Stawell winning by 5 points 1909.stawell sport

Colour photograph of the Ballarat Reform League memorial at Agitation Hill, Chewton. chewton, ballarat reform league, goldfields reform league, goldfield agitation, eureka stockade

This photograph was taken of the football team representing the Young Chinese League in 1947.This photograph is significant for its links to the Chinese Young Chinese. The Young Chinese League was formally established on 4 October 1932 to to promote free social intercourse and goodwill among its members and their mutual improvement. Membership was open to all persons, with one or both parents or grandparents born in China. Wives of Chinese members were permitted as members with the same privileges. It was a significant social organisation for Chinese-Australians in Melbourne in the mid to late twentieth century.Black and white photograph (vintage) with cream frame under glass. Has a cream card mount which provides details of the names the people in the photograph.Front of card title top centre: 'The Young Chinese League Football Team 1947'. Front of card bottom centre: 'Back Row: A.Anguey, T.Gooey, N. Chong, G.Chong, P.Geechoun, R.Yee, H.Chin, O.Kwong, Centre Row: J. Chong, N.Quon, F.A.Chinn, D.Quon, C.Quon, D.Tyshing-F.Gooey, Front Row: L.Quon, T.Wing Young, L.Moy. C.Wing, G.Dan, A.Young, A.Kim.'young chinese league, football team, melbourne

Wooden ShieldThe Mildura & District Football Leaguesport, football, mildura district football league, shield, trophy

Advertising weekly football matches for the season 1926 Albion Hotel Stawell Darby EarleSmall folded card 1926 Wimmera District Football LeagueStawell Premiers 1925 - 1926sports, wimmera