Certificate dated 4 June 1913 dated and signed by W E Entwistle, F J Eberhard and John Henry Lean (Secretary. Recognising Bro. O Wiliams for his contribution to Clunes Lodge as Noble Grand an elected position who sits as Chair for Meetings, and is Official Representative of lodge to outside persons and organizations and see that the lodge program is planned in advance. He was also elected to the position of Vice Grand who exercises power to assist Noble Grand in Presiding Meetings. Assume the duties and responsibilities of the NG in times of absence.Framed (decorative wooden) coloured printed certificate issued to Bro. O Williams of the Clunes Lodge number 4576. Issed by Independent Order of Oddfellows/Manchester Unity Friendly Society.Red Seal "Loyal Clunes Lodge"manchester unity, oddfellows, williams, clunes lodge

THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS PUT THE CONTRACT OUT TO TENDER, LEWIS AND ROBERTS OF BALLARAT, CONTRACTORS, WON THE TENDER AT A PRICE OF 4099 POUNDS. THE FOUNDATION STONE WAS LAID BY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ON FRIDAY 25TH OCTOBER 1878.1 PHOTOCOPY OF DRAWING NO.1 INCLUDES SIDE AND FRONT ELEVATIONS, GROUND, FIRST FLOOR AND ROOF DRAWINGS .2 PHOTOCOPY OF THE DRAWING NO. 2 INCLUDES SIDE AND FRONT ELEVATIONS, GROUND, FIRST FLOOR AND ROOF DRAWING SCALE IS 8 FEET TO ONE INCHON REVERSE: WRITTEN IN BLACK BIRO "C.- TAMMY VAN DRUIN, 17 TAIL ST SEBASTOPOL 3336" .1 & 2 INITIALLED BY GWW (GEORGE WILLIAM WATSON) AND STAMPED WITH GOVERNMENT SEAL "DEPARTMENT OF WORKS MELBOURNE VICTORIA" post office, telegraph office, george william watson, department of public works, lewis & roberts ballarat

This unopened small bottle filled with port was produced to acknowledge the Sunbury Sub Branch of the Returned Services League of Australia's 70th Anniversary in 1993. The bottle has a short story of the Sunbury sub branch having been given official recognition on the 10th December 1923 by the RSL. Major William Alexander Morton D.S.O was the patron and also the first president of the Sunbury Sub Branch.Small cream with brown spots ceramic half size bottle with a black seal covering top of bottle the seal has a very small chip out of seal. The contents are still in the bottle.front: SUNBURY SUB BRANCH/70th ANNIVERSARY/1923-1993 back: The....; LEST WE FORGETreturned services league, sunbury r.s.l, anniversaries, celebrations, william alexander morton, 1920s, 1990s, george evans collection

Captain John Mason came from Stirling in Scotland, arriving at Port Fairy in 1844. One year after James Atkinson obtained his Special Survey of the area. Thus his life covers all the history of Port Fairy when it was known as Belfast. He married Jane Murray in Portland in 1846 and they had 5 children, Jane died in 1855 and ten years later he married Ann Brown widow of Abijah Brown. They had no children and she died in 1887. In due course he became known as Captain Mason, he was not a sea captain, but captain of the Belfast Volunteers, a Rifle Corps formed in 1859 as a consequence of the Crimean War, and later reconstituted as the Belfast Volunteer Corps. For 40 years he displayed a remarkable versatility in his various occupations. Starting as an Innkeeper - he took over the Stag Inn from Captain Saunders in 1852, for 3 years. He then became a carpenter, stonemason, architect, estate agent honorary technical advisor to the Borough and treasurer to the Shire, and Savings Bank Secretary. They thought so well of John mason in Belfast that they elected him to the first Roads Board in 1853 and to the first Municipal Council in 1856. He was Chairman four times and with Councillors David Talbot and Joseph Whitehead designed the Council's Common Seal and the Motto "Commune Bonum".He was the first Mayor of the Borough in 1863 for a period of 7 weeks. He was responsible for the design, supervision or construction of many of the buildings in the town; most still standing today. He built the Rosebrook Bridge in 1855 and the first official Post Office ( a timber structure in Bank Street) in 1857, replacing it with a stone office in 1865. he built the Court house in 1859 and completed the breakwater between Rabbit Island and Griffith Island started by James Atkinson and John Griffith in 1849, also the first bridge over the Moyne river which connected with Battery Lane and the Bay. Among the many buildings associated with John Mason are Gobles Mill, Tynemouth Villa, 10-12 Princes Street, the Mechanics Institute, the Commercial Hotel, Yambuk and Mickey Bourke's Pub in Koroit. However, he did not build "Riverdale" in Gipps Street as is thought. He had a store and workshop on this site but sold the property in 1872 before the house was built. After an almost uninterrupted term as Councillor starting with the Municipality in 1856, John resigned from the Council in 1873. He well deserved the illuminated address they gave to him and the toast that they drank in the Bank Hotel champagne. Within the year he was working for the Borough as its engineer., surveyor, general supervisor and advisor of public works, simply as the man to whom all difficult problems were referred and at very little expense. John Mason was a great worker for his town and devoted himself unsparingly to the community. That his work was appreciated was shown by the way in which people rallied to his aid when, in the end, he found himself in financial difficulties and his reputation was challenge; arrested for embezzling from the Savings Bank of which he was the actuary in 1882. The money was repaid and the charges found not proven at his trial. He was an early member of the Loyal Prince Albert Lodge, and a founding member of the smaller Loyal Belfast Lodge in 1863. He was also a member of the Horticultural Society. Captain John Mason Died on the 14th of October 1891 (see also 62-04-046 photo)Sepia photograph on heavy cardStevenson & McNicoll photo. 108 Elizabeth Street Melbourne copies can be obtained at anytimedefence, captain, mason, carpenter, councillor, mayor