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Healesville Sanctuary Heritage Centre
visitors' book 1, Visitors' Book, January 1934
... Committee-of-Management... 1959. visitors Committee-of-Management Healesville-Shire ...This book was used as a visitors' book prior to the official opening of the Healesville Sanctuary. This first entry was 6 March 1934 and the last 18 March 1959.A very early Visitors' Book for Sir Colin MacKenzie Sanctuary. Black hardcovers with gold leaf printed label. Cloth bound. End papers in marble effect.Names of the Sir Colin MacKenzie Sanctuary Committee on title page. Includes signatures of Sir Colin MacKenzie and Lady Winifred MacKenzie, Julian Huxley, Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch, 1956 Olympic teams etc. visitors, committee-of-management, healesville-shire-council, colin-mackenzie-sanctuary-committee -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Document - CAC Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, Management Committee Meeting
... Management Committee Meeting... Moorabbin melbourne Management Committee Meeting Document CAC ... -
St Kilda Historical Society
Ephemera - Catalogue, Auction Sale of Furnishings, Beds, Blankets etc of the Albert Park Emergency Hospital, 1920
Catalogue for the auction of items of the Albert Park Emergency Hospital at the Drill Hall, 178 Bridport Street, Albert Park, under instruction of a combined committee of the South Melbourne, Port Melbourne and St Kilda Councils. The full date is not given. During the Spanish Flu epidemic in 1919, 34 emergency hospitals were created in Victoria because the existing hospitals were unable to cope with the demand for care. An Epidemic Hospital was set up in the Drill Room at Albert Park, the expenses shared between the South Melbourne, Port Melbourne and St. Kilda Councils, to serve influenza patients from those local government areas. Each Council had three representatives on the Board of Management. Like the other emergency hospitals, the Albert Park hospital operated only for a short time while the epidemic was at its height. As noted in the catalogue, 'the majority of the blankets, etc. were never used.' It is possible that items advertised in this catalogue were auctioned on Thursday 19 August and Friday 20 August 1920. The items for sale include hospital equipment, furniture, sheets, pillows, towels, building materials, blankets, crockery, cutlery, clothing, furnishings.Document of 3 sheets of white paper (discoloured with age), folded and stapled and printed in blackalbert park emergency hospital, spanish flu, spanish influenza -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Leaflet, Office of the Registrar of Aboriginal Corporations, 2004
1. Setting up an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander corporation 2. The rules of the corporation 3. Changing the rules 4. Register of members and membership records 5. The rights and obligations of members 6. The role of the governing committee 7. The role of the chairperson 8. The role of the treasurer 9. The role of the secretary 10. The role of the public officer 11. Running a governing committee meeting 12. Conflicts of interest 13. Running an annual general meeting 14. Running a special general meeting 15. How to keep proper minutes and why 16. Preparing and using budgets for management 17. Looking after the corporation's finances 18. It's the end of the year: what do we do? 19. Exemption from preparing and lodging audited financial statements 20. Does your corporation need assistance 21. When, how and why does the registrar intervene.aboriginal corporations, corporate governance -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Periodical, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Australian Aboriginal studies : journal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 2010
'Whose Ethics?':Codifying and enacting ethics in research settings Bringing ethics up to date? A review of the AIATSIS ethical guidelines Michael Davis (Independent Academic) A revision of the AIATSIS Guidelines for Ethical Research in Indigenous Studies was carried out during 2009-10. The purpose of the revision was to bring the Guidelines up to date in light of a range of critical developments that have occurred in Indigenous rights, research and knowledge management since the previous version of the Guidelines was released in 2000. In this paper I present an outline of these developments, and briefly discuss the review process. I argue that the review, and the developments that it responded to, have highlighted that ethical research needs to be thought about more as a type of behaviour and practice between engaged participants, and less as an institutionalised, document-focused and prescriptive approach. The arrogance of ethnography: Managing anthropological research knowledge Sarah Holcombe (ANU) The ethnographic method is a core feature of anthropological practice. This locally intensive research enables insight into local praxis and culturally relative practices that would otherwise not be possible. Indeed, empathetic engagement is only possible in this close and intimate encounter. However, this paper argues that this method can also provide the practitioner with a false sense of his or her own knowing and expertise and, indeed, with arrogance. And the boundaries between the anthropologist as knowledge sink - cultural translator and interpreter - and the knowledge of the local knowledge owners can become opaque. Globalisation and the knowledge ?commons?, exemplified by Google, also highlight the increasing complexities in this area of the governance and ownership of knowledge. Our stronghold of working in remote areas and/or with marginalised groups places us at the forefront of negotiating the multiple new technological knowledge spaces that are opening up in the form of Indigenous websites and knowledge centres in these areas. Anthropology is not immune from the increasing awareness of the limitations and risks of the intellectual property regime for protecting or managing Indigenous knowledge. The relevance of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in opening up a ?rights-based? discourse, especially in the area of knowledge ownership, brings these issues to the fore. For anthropology to remain relevant, we have to engage locally with these global discourses. This paper begins to traverse some of this ground. Protocols: Devices for translating moralities, controlling knowledge and defining actors in Indigenous research, and critical ethical reflection Margaret Raven (Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy (ISTP), Murdoch University) Protocols are devices that act to assist with ethical research behaviour in Indigenous research contexts. Protocols also attempt to play a mediating role in the power and control inherent in research. While the development of bureaucratically derived protocols is on the increase, critiques and review of protocols have been undertaken in an ad hoc manner and in the absence of an overarching ethical framework or standard. Additionally, actors implicated in research networks are seldom theorised. This paper sketches out a typology of research characters and the different moral positioning that each of them plays in the research game. It argues that by understanding the ways actors enact research protocols we are better able to understand what protocols are, and how they seek to build ethical research practices. Ethics and research: Dilemmas raised in managing research collections of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander materials Grace Koch (AIATSIS) This paper examines some of the ethical dilemmas for the proper management of research collections of Indigenous cultural materials, concentrating upon the use of such material for Native Title purposes. It refers directly to a number of points in the draft of the revised AIATSIS Guidelines for Ethical Research in Indigenous Studies and draws upon both actual and hypothetical examples of issues that may arise when requests are made for Indigenous material. Specific concerns about ethical practices in collecting data and the subsequent control of access to both the data itself and to published works based upon it are raised within the context of several types of collections, including those held by AIATSIS and by Native Title Representative Bodies. Ethics or social justice? Heritage and the politics of recognition Laurajane Smith (ANU) Nancy Fraser?s model of the politics of recognition is used to examine how ethical practices are interconnected with wider struggles for recognition and social justice. This paper focuses on the concept of 'heritage' and the way it is often uncritically linked to 'identity' to illustrate how expert knowledge can become implicated in struggles for recognition. The consequences of this for ethical practice and for rethinking the role of expertise, professional discourses and disciplinary identity are discussed. The ethics of teaching from country Michael Christie (CDU), with the assistance of Yi?iya Guyula, Kathy Gotha and Dh�?gal Gurruwiwi The 'Teaching from Country' program provided the opportunity and the funding for Yol?u (north-east Arnhem Land Aboriginal) knowledge authorities to participate actively in the academic teaching of their languages and cultures from their remote homeland centres using new digital technologies. As two knowledge systems and their practices came to work together, so too did two divergent epistemologies and metaphysics, and challenges to our understandings of our ethical behaviour. This paper uses an examination of the philosophical and pedagogical work of the Yol?u Elders and their students to reflect upon ethical teaching and research in postcolonial knowledge practices. Closing the gaps in and through Indigenous health research: Guidelines, processes and practices Pat Dudgeon (UWA), Kerrie Kelly (Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association) and Roz Walker (UWA) Research in Aboriginal contexts remains a vexed issue given the ongoing inequities and injustices in Indigenous health. It is widely accepted that good research providing a sound evidence base is critical to closing the gap in Aboriginal health and wellbeing outcomes. However, key contemporary research issues still remain regarding how that research is prioritised, carried out, disseminated and translated so that Aboriginal people are the main beneficiaries of the research in every sense. It is widely acknowledged that, historically, research on Indigenous groups by non-Indigenous researchers has benefited the careers and reputations of researchers, often with little benefit and considerably more harm for Indigenous peoples in Australia and internationally. This paper argues that genuine collaborative and equal partnerships in Indigenous health research are critical to enable Aboriginal and Torres Islander people to determine the solutions to close the gap on many contemporary health issues. It suggests that greater recognition of research methodologies, such as community participatory action research, is necessary to ensure that Aboriginal people have control of, or significant input into, determining the Indigenous health research agenda at all levels. This can occur at a national level, such as through the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Road Map on Indigenous research priorities (RAWG 2002), and at a local level through the development of structural mechanisms and processes, including research ethics committees? research protocols to hold researchers accountable to the NHMRC ethical guidelines and values which recognise Indigenous culture in all aspects of research. Researching on Ngarrindjeri Ruwe/Ruwar: Methodologies for positive transformation Steve Hemming (Flinders University) , Daryle Rigney (Flinders University) and Shaun Berg (Berg Lawyers) Ngarrindjeri engagement with cultural and natural resource management over the past decade provides a useful case study for examining the relationship between research, colonialism and improved Indigenous wellbeing. The Ngarrindjeri nation is located in south-eastern Australia, a ?white? space framed by Aboriginalist myths of cultural extinction recycled through burgeoning heritage, Native Title, natural resource management ?industries?. Research is a central element of this network of intrusive interests and colonising practices. Government management regimes such as natural resource management draw upon the research and business sectors to form complex alliances to access funds to support their research, monitoring, policy development, management and on-ground works programs. We argue that understanding the political and ethical location of research in this contemporary management landscape is crucial to any assessment of the potential positive contribution of research to 'Bridging the Gap' or improving Indigenous wellbeing. Recognition that research conducted on Ngarrindjeri Ruwe/Ruwar (country/body/spirit) has impacts on Ngarrindjeri and that Ngarrindjeri have a right and responsibility to care for their lands and waters are important platforms for any just or ethical research. Ngarrindjeri have linked these rights and responsibilities to long-term community development focused on Ngarrindjeri capacity building and shifts in Ngarrindjeri power in programs designed to research and manage Ngarrindjeri Ruwe/Ruwar. Research agreements that protect Ngarrindjeri interests, including cultural knowledge and intellectual property, are crucial elements in these shifts in power. A preliminary review of ethics resources, with particular focus on those available online from Indigenous organisations in WA, NT and Qld Sarah Holcombe (ANU) and Natalia Gould (La Trobe University) In light of a growing interest in Indigenous knowledge, this preliminary review maps the forms and contents of some existing resources and processes currently available and under development in the Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia, along with those enacted through several cross-jurisdictional initiatives. A significant majority of ethics resources have been developed in response to a growing interest in the application of Indigenous knowledge in land and natural resource management. The aim of these resources is to ?manage? (i.e. protect and maintain) Indigenous knowledge by ensuring ethical engagement with the knowledge holders. Case studies are drawn on from each jurisdiction to illustrate both the diversity and commonality in the approach to managing this intercultural engagement. Such resources include protocols, guidelines, memorandums of understanding, research agreements and strategic plans. In conducting this review we encourage greater awareness of the range of approaches in practice and under development today, while emphasising that systematic, localised processes for establishing these mechanisms is of fundamental importance to ensuring equitable collaboration. Likewise, making available a range of ethics tools and resources also enables the sharing of the local and regional initiatives in this very dynamic area of Indigenous knowledge rights.b&w photographs, colour photographsngarrindjeri, ethics, ethnography, indigenous research, social justice, indigenous health -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Conference proceedings, Barbara Burnaby, Indigenous languages across the community, 2002
Language - Preservation and use. Language - Social function. [Maori: New Zealand Latin]. Language planning. [Language planning in a trans-national speech community]. [The way of the drum - when earth becomes heart] [The need for an ecological cultural community] Community language management. [Methods of madness: The Tuscarora Language Committee] [Daghida: Cold Lake First Nation works towards Dene language revitalization] [The Jicarilla Apache language summer day camp] [Report on the workshop "World of Inukitut"]. Arizona. New Mexico. Oklahoma. Adult education. Women's literacy. [Teaching reading with puppets] [Assessing Lakota language teaching issues on the Cheyenne River Reservation] [Incorporating traditional Nehiyaw/Plains Cree education in the university] [Collecting texts in Crao and Portuguese for teaching] [Early vocabularies and dictionary development: A cautionary note] [The process of spelling standardization of Innu-Aimun (Montagnais)] Pidgin. Creole. [Ojibway hockey CD-ROM in the making] [The use of multimedia and the arts in language revitalization, maintenance and development: The case of the Balsas Nahuas of Guerreo, Mexico] [The languages of Indigenous Peoples in Chukotka and the media] [Meeting of the Inukitut and Yupik family of languages on May 12, 2000]B&w photographs, diagrams,international language forum, community based practice, language research, conference papers, language policy, language and whole community development, literacy development, media, educational advances, canada, united states, new zealand, zimbabwe, mexico, russia, caribbean, inui, yupik -
Uniting Church Archives - Synod of Victoria
Photograph, Ian Baker (Chairman of Norval Conference Centre Committee of Management), Undated
... Ian Baker (Chairman of Norval Conference Centre Committee... Conference Centre Committee of Management) Photograph ...Norval Conference Centre was located in Halls Gap, and belonged to the Methodist Church before union.Baker is seated, dressed casually with rolled up sleeves.As per title.baker, ian, norval -
Uniting Church Archives - Synod of Victoria
Photograph, Undated c.1960s
Mr John P. Adam was a member of the Kew Presbyterian Church. He was born in Scotland and came to Australia at the age of 13 when his father was appointed Professor of Divinity at Ormond College. John Adam studied law and commenced practice in 1924. He served on the Council of the Law Institute of Victoria and was President in 1949. He gave a lifetime of service to the Presbyterian Church of Victoria and Australia. He was law agent of the Victorian Church for 20 years and was foundation Convenor of the Donald Cameron Homes Committee for elderly people. He was a member of the Council of Presbyterian Ladies' College for 20 years and Chairman from 1958 to 1965. He was also a member of the Ormond College Council. He was an active member of the Kew Presbyterian Church , serving on the Board of Management and Session for 47 years. John Adam was also Superintendent of the Sunday School for 19 years and a leader of the Young Men's Bible Class. He died aged 78 on 11 March 1973.B & W head and shoulders photograph of Mr John P. Adam wearing a dark suit and buttonhole in his lapel.john p. adam, scotland, ormond college, law, law institute of victoria, presbyterian church, kew, donald cameron homes committee -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Joint Commonwalth Forests Steering Committee, Forest Management Plan East Gippsland Forest Management, 2000
... steering committee Barton ACT Forest Management Plan East Gippsland ...Prepared by the joint Commonweath and Victoria regional forest agreement steering committee Barton ACTenvironment, forest, wool industry -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Department of Conservation Forests and Land with Save the Gippsland Lakes Committee, Eden Woodchips, 1988
Collected submissions and discussion papers from the Gippsland Lakes Algal Bloom Seminar held in Bairnsdalemanagement, waterways -
Ballarat Base Hospital Trained Nurses League
Mr Cochran - President Board of Management, Mr Bartrop - Appeal Committee, Mr Norman Botchers
... Mr Cochran - President Board of Management, Mr Bartrop...Mr Cochran, President, Board of Management, Mr Bartrop... of Management, Mr Bartrop, Appeal Committee, Botchers Photo Mr Cochran ...Photomr cochran, president, board of management, mr bartrop, appeal committee, botchers -
Clunes Museum
Pamphlet - BROCHURE, R. FLETCHER & SONS. BALLARAT, The Clunes District Hospital )Incorporated) Information Brochure, June 1988
... HOSPITAL COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT... INFORMATION BROCHURE COMPILED AN DISED BY THE COMMITEE OF MANAGEMENT ...INFORMATION BROCHURE COMPILED AN DISED BY THE COMMITEE OF MANAGEMENT OF THE CLUNES DISTRICT HOSPITAL (INCORPORATED) DATED JUNE 1988 - INCLUDES NAMES OF OFFICE BEARERS AND OUTLINES HEALTH AND ANCILLARY SERVICES AVAILABLE AND PLANS FOR MINOR WORKS AND EQUIPMENT PROGRAM AND CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT1 X TRIFOLD INFORMATION BROCHURE BLUE PRINTING ON WHITE BACKGROUND FOR THE CLUNES DISTRICT HOSPITAL (INCORPORATED) JUNE 1988clunes district hospital, hospital committee of management -
Koorie Heritage Trust
Document - Report, Bambrook, Anne, Report on the status of Victorian Aboriginal communities in enterprise and economic development, 1993
... management; tourism; business development. The Committee commissioned ...The Committee commissioned the research and reportas part of a process leading to a statewide economic development conference and the development of a draft strategy plan for action.p.127; glossary; appendices; figs.; 30 cm.The Committee commissioned the research and reportas part of a process leading to a statewide economic development conference and the development of a draft strategy plan for action.aboriginal communites - retail management; tourism; business development. -
National Wool Museum
Book, Automated mechanical shearing: predevelopment feasibility analysis
"Automated mechanical shearing: predevelopment feasibility analysis"- Wool Harvesting Unit, Australian Wool Corporation, 1983shearing sheep stations - management agriculture - industrial relations animal welfare woolclassing wool marketing, australian wool board - wool harvesting research committee, wool clip contamination, shearing, sheep stations - management, agriculture - industrial relations, animal welfare, woolclassing, wool marketing -
National Wool Museum
Report, Single file races for sheep
"Single file races for sheep" - H M Hamilton, October 1988. A report prepared for the Wool Harvesting Research Committee of the Australian Wool Board. The University of Melbourne Department of Civil and Agricultural Engineering, Wool harvesting technology transfer project.UM06H TERM DATE 06/88sheep stations - management wool - research sheep dogs stockmen, australian wool board - wool harvesting research committee university of melbourne, sheep stations - management, wool - research, sheep dogs, stockmen -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Nunawading Tree policy, 1993
Council advertisements re a draft policy relating to tree management and retention, also for expressions of interest from community representatives for a new Nunawading Heritage Study Committee.Council advertisements re a draft policy relating to tree management and retention, also for expressions of interest from community representatives for a new Nunawading Heritage Study Committee.Council advertisements re a draft policy relating to tree management and retention, also for expressions of interest from community representatives for a new Nunawading Heritage Study Committee.city of nunawading, town planning, nunawading heritage steering committee, trees -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Sue Lockwood, 2009
... Blackburn Lake Committee of Management... Mitcham melbourne Blackburn Lake Committee of Management Blackburn ...Notes of an interview with Sue Lockwood by Lesley Alves on 17 July 2009 on her involvement with Blackburn Lake and the Blackburn Lake Advisory Committee.Notes of an interview with Sue Lockwood by Lesley Alves on 17 July 2009 on her involvement with Blackburn Lake and the Blackburn Lake Advisory Committee.Notes of an interview with Sue Lockwood by Lesley Alves on 17 July 2009 on her involvement with Blackburn Lake and the Blackburn Lake Advisory Committee.blackburn lake committee of management, blackburn lake sanctuary, lake road, blackburn, seventh day adventist church nunawading -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Close look, 23/02/1993 12:00:00 AM
... blackburn lake committee of management... authority victoria blackburn lake committee of management ...Environment Protection Authority carries out study of Blackburn LakeEnvironment Protection Authority carries out study of Blackburn LakeEnvironment Protection Authority carries out study of Blackburn Lakerobinson, brian dr, environment protection authority, victoria, blackburn lake committee of management, environment -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Island haven for native wildlife, 16/11/1994 12:00:00 AM
... blackburn lake committee of management... committee blackburn lake committee of management payne ann birds ...Council approval has been given to the Blackburn Lake Sanctuary Advisory Committee to construct an anchored 1.98m x 3.4m floating island in the lake to provide a safe haven for birds.An article advising Council approval has been given to the Blackburn Lake Sanctuary Advisory Committee to construct an anchored 1.98m x 3.4m floating island in the lake to provide a safe haven for birds. The committee would provide $500 towards the cost with support from students at Forest Hill Secondary College.Council approval has been given to the Blackburn Lake Sanctuary Advisory Committee to construct an anchored 1.98m x 3.4m floating island in the lake to provide a safe haven for birds. blackburn lake sanctuary, blackburn lake advisory committee, blackburn lake committee of management, payne, ann, birds, spurr, noel, forest hill secondary college -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - Article, A Suburban oasis, 27/08/1974
... blackburn lake committee of management... committee of management oakley gavan city of nunawading victorian ...Double page spread article from 'The Sun', 27 August 1974 on Blackburn Lake.lakes, blackburn lake sanctuary, blackburn lake committee of management, oakley, gavan, city of nunawading, victorian government, australian government, da costa, robin, wilson, michael, murby, lurin -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Details supporting nomination of Dorothy Maxwell, 2004
... Bill Sewart Athletic Track Committee of Management... Athletic Track Committee of Management Nomination details ...Nomination details of Dorothy Maxwell for 2004 Volunteer Involvement Award.Nomination details of Dorothy Maxwell for 2004 Volunteer Involvement Award.Nomination details of Dorothy Maxwell for 2004 Volunteer Involvement Award.maxwell, dorothy, voluntary workers, bill sewart athletic track committee of management -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Service award to Valda Arrowsmith, 3/04/1991 12:00:00 AM
... Arts Centre Committee of Management... Committee of Management Article in Nunawading Gazette about Rotary ...Article in Nunawading Gazette about Rotary Club of Nunawading's award for community service to Valda Arrowsmith.Article in Nunawading Gazette about Rotary Club of Nunawading's award for community service to Valda Arrowsmith. Valda was a councillor for 11 years serving one term as mayor.Article in Nunawading Gazette about Rotary Club of Nunawading's award for community service to Valda Arrowsmith. arrowsmith, valda, rotary club of nunawading, robson, jim, community aid abroad, city of nunawading, arts centre committee of management -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, M.P. retires, 13/07/1996 12:00:00 AM
... Schwerkolt Cottage Committee of Management... Cottage Committee of Management Article in Whitehorse Gazette re ...Article in Whitehorse Gazette re retirement of the Member for Nunawading, George Cox.Article in Whitehorse Gazette re retirement of the Member for Nunawading, George Cox. Nunawading Province was abolished 1990-91 with redistribution of electoral boundaries, instead of standing for re-election he decided to retire.Article in Whitehorse Gazette re retirement of the Member for Nunawading, George Cox. cox, george, blackburn and district tree preservation society, victoria. parliament. nunawading province, blackburn film society, city of nunawading, schwerkolt cottage committee of management -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Mitcham Station Post Box, 1981
... schwerkolt cottage committee of management... cottage committee of management mitcham railway station city ...It would appear that a mail box had been donated to WHS Museum in 1981 and being unwanted, Nunawading Council was approached to find a use for it and it was placed at the Mitcham Station.It would appear that a mail box had been donated to WHS Museum in 1981 and being unwanted, Nunawading Council was approached to find a use for it and it was placed at the Mitcham Station.It would appear that a mail box had been donated to WHS Museum in 1981 and being unwanted, Nunawading Council was approached to find a use for it and it was placed at the Mitcham Station.letter boxes, australian post, schwerkolt cottage committee of management, mitcham railway station, city of nunawading -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Digital photograph, Dorothy Wickham, Winter's Swamp, Ballarat, January to April 2014
... as the Committee of Management for both Winter Swamp and the Ballarat West ...Study of Winter's Swamp commissioned by BEN and completed by BHS. The swamp was named after one of the first European settlers in the district. Winter Swamp LAT -37 32 LONG 143 47, Parish of Dowling Forest, County of Grenville Winter Swamp, on the southwest corner of Ballarat West Town Common, was not included in the original proclamation of the Common in 1861. However, being marshland, it was not considered suitable for grazing, so was added to the Common soon after 1861. Winter Swamp is a large wetland with native and exotic pasture significant for wildlife. John Winter (Jock) was born in Berwickshire, Scotland. He married Janet Margaret Irving the daughter of Robert Irving, advocate, Bonshaw, Dumfries, Scotland. Winter died in Ballarat in 1875 and was buried at the Ballaarat Old Cemetery. He took up the run Bonshaw from 1841; Leigh River Buninyong 1842-46; Junction, Delatite, March 1851 to September 1862; with sons: Carag Carag and Corop, April 1857 to September 1872; Colbinabbin and Stewart’s Plains, April 1857 to December 1872; St Germains February 1867 to March 1871. (The name became Winter-Irving in 1890). Mr John Winter, who died on August 22 at the age of 72, was a man of some note it the mining community of Ballarat. He was a self-made man, and one of our oldest colonists, it being over a quarter of a century age since he took up county about Ballarat and settled at Bonshaw. He died very rich. It is calculated that if he had retained an interest in all his runs, his income must have been not less than £10,000 or £50,000 a year. Some eight or ten years ago he sold his Bonshaw pre-emption to the Bonshaw Gold mining Company for £20,000, and a few years later the ground belonging now to Winter's Freehold Company brought him £50,000 more, the payment being made at the requisition of the deceased in sovereigns. In these relations Mr. Winter has been closely identified with the mining industry at Ballarat. The deceased was a native of Lauder, in Berwickshire, and landed in Victoria several years before the gold discovery.The principle task of this project was the delivery of a report outlining the history of European settlement in the Skipton and Cardigan/Ballarat districts as pertinent to the use of and impact on the natural environment of the two reserves Skipton Common and Winter Swamp. The report was delivered in digital form only. The report, upon completion, was presented to the Network’s Committee in order to discuss the project. The report identified and described the uses of Skipton Common and Winter Swamp, and their impacts. In particular, this report examined farming/grazing (official and informal), mining, vegetation removal (including the removal of woodlands for timber, grasslands for pasture improvement) & use of riparian areas for access to water and timber removal. Recording the more benign and environmentally friendly uses such as picnicking, community activities, nature walks and the roles of organisations such as Field Naturalists’ and Bird Observers’ clubs, school and scout/guide groups will be relevant in helping to depict overall community attitudes towards the reserves; e.g.: has the Common generally been viewed as little more than a grazing paddock and fire hazard; has Winter Swamp always been the unknown natural asset that seems to have been its lot for at least the past 40 years? In this regard, the more contemporary history of actions surrounding the use and management of the reserves is of particular interest, in view of the extant evidence at both reserves; e.g. the actions of the Shire of Ballarat in the 1980s in establishing Winter Swamp as something of a competitor to Lake Wendouree but with a more environmental bent (although almost none of the plants used are indigenous species, but that is part of the story); the trotting track constructed on Skipton Common in the 1960s following representations to Premier Henry Bolte and the cropping of the western section of the Common to raise funds for the town’s new swimming pool, the fertilizing of the land putting an end to the native grassland vegetation. There are obviously multiple sources of information to source in preparing the report, however sources that the contractor is specifically requested to consult are the Skipton Historical Society, the former Skipton Common managers (specifically Graeme Pett), the Cardigan Windermere Landcare Group and the Learmonth Historical Society (believed to hold many of the former Shire of Ballarat’s records pertaining to the Council’s role as the Committee of Management for both Winter Swamp and the Ballarat West Town Common – Winter Swamp was split between 2 separate Crown Land tenures). The contractor is also encouraged but not required to utilise community newsletters, such as the Skipton Community Newsletter, to publicise and seek information about the project. Skipton Historical Society (Mary Bradshaw) contacted on Thursday 12 June 2.30pm. Mary lived on a farm out of Skipton but is currently living in the township. She remembers walking along the creek of the Common especially in spring and autumn in bare feet and that it was a very pretty place. There were a few snakes around the waterway in summer. People put cows and a couple of horses on the commonage to graze. Graeme Pett has always lived close to the Common and would know a lot about it. Other possible contacts would be Nicole Petress, Secretary of the Progress Association, and the Corangamite Council, Camperdown. Digital images of Winter's Swampwinter's swamp, ballarat, john winter, ballarat environmental network, mullawullah -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Digital photograph, Winter's Swamp surrounds, April 2014
... pertaining to the Council’s role as the Committee of Management ...The swamp was named after John (Jock) Winter. John Winter (Jock) was born in Berwickshire, Scotland. He married Janet Margaret Irving the daughter of Robert Irving, advocate, Bonshaw, Dumfries, Scotland. Winter died in Ballarat in 1875 and was buried at the Ballaarat Old Cemetery. He took up the run Bonshaw from 1841; Leigh River Buninyong 1842-46; Junction, Delatite, March 1851 to September 1862; with sons: Carag Carag and Corop, April 1857 to September 1872; Colbinabbin and Stewart’s Plains, April 1857 to December 1872; St Germains February 1867 to March 1871. (The name became Winter-Irving in 1890). Mr John Winter, who died on August 22 at the age of 72, was a man of some note it the mining community of Ballarat. He was a self-made man, and one of our oldest colonists, it being over a quarter of a century age since he took up county about Ballarat and settled at Bonshaw. He died very rich. It is calculated that if he had retained an interest in all his runs, his income must have been not less than £10,000 or £50,000 a year. Some eight or ten years ago he sold his Bonshaw pre-emption to the Bonshaw Gold mining Company for £20,000, and a few years later the ground belonging now to Winter's Freehold Company brought him £50,000 more, the payment being made at the requisition of the deceased in sovereigns. In these relations Mr. Winter has been closely identified with the mining industry at Ballarat. The deceased was a native of Lauder, in Berwickshire, and landed in Victoria several years before the gold discovery. BHS were commissioned by Ballarat Environment Network for a project on Winter's Swamp and Skipton Common. Winter's Swamp was part of Ballarat West Common. The principle task of this project was the delivery of a report outlining the history of European settlement in the Skipton and Cardigan/Ballarat districts as pertinent to the use of and impact on the natural environment of the two reserves Skipton Common and Winter Swamp. The report was delivered in digital form only. The report, upon completion, was presented to the Network’s Committee in order to discuss the project. The report identified and described the uses of Skipton Common and Winter Swamp, and their impacts. In particular, this report examined farming/grazing (official and informal), mining, vegetation removal (including the removal of woodlands for timber, grasslands for pasture improvement) & use of riparian areas for access to water and timber removal. Recording the more benign and environmentally friendly uses such as picnicking, community activities, nature walks and the roles of organisations such as Field Naturalists’ and Bird Observers’ clubs, school and scout/guide groups will be relevant in helping to depict overall community attitudes towards the reserves; e.g.: has the Common generally been viewed as little more than a grazing paddock and fire hazard; has Winter Swamp always been the unknown natural asset that seems to have been its lot for at least the past 40 years? In this regard, the more contemporary history of actions surrounding the use and management of the reserves is of particular interest, in view of the extant evidence at both reserves; e.g. the actions of the Shire of Ballarat in the 1980s in establishing Winter Swamp as something of a competitor to Lake Wendouree but with a more environmental bent (although almost none of the plants used are indigenous species, but that is part of the story); the trotting track constructed on Skipton Common in the 1960s following representations to Premier Henry Bolte and the cropping of the western section of the Common to raise funds for the town’s new swimming pool, the fertilizing of the land putting an end to the native grassland vegetation. There are obviously multiple sources of information to source in preparing the report, however sources that the contractor is specifically requested to consult are the Skipton Historical Society, the former Skipton Common managers (specifically Graeme Pett), the Cardigan Windermere Landcare Group and the Learmonth Historical Society (believed to hold many of the former Shire of Ballarat’s records pertaining to the Council’s role as the Committee of Management for both Winter Swamp and the Ballarat West Town Common – Winter Swamp was split between 2 separate Crown Land tenures). The contractor is also encouraged but not required to utilise community newsletters, such as the Skipton Community Newsletter, to publicise and seek information about the project. Skipton Historical Society (Mary Bradshaw) contacted on Thursday 12 June 2.30pm. Mary lived on a farm out of Skipton but is currently living in the township. She remembers walking along the creek of the Common especially in spring and autumn in bare feet and that it was a very pretty place. There were a few snakes around the waterway in summer. People put cows and a couple of horses on the commonage to graze. Graeme Pett has always lived close to the Common and would know a lot about it. Other possible contacts would be Nicole Petress, Secretary of the Progress Association, and the Corangamite Council, Camperdown. Mary can’t remember any photos in the Skipton Historical Society that pertain to the Common. Digital photos of Winter's swamp surrounds, later known as Mullawullah.winter, winter's swamp surrounds, winter's swap, john winter, ballarat environmental network, ballarat, mullawullah -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Photograph - Colour, Ballarat Observatory Stained Glass Windows, Ballarat Observatory window presented by the Sebastopol Cambrian Society and Welsh Residents of Ballaarat, 05/-7/2007
In 1885, at the instigation of James Oddie, the Government reserved three acres (about 1.2 hectares) for an observatory in Cobden Street, Mount Pleasant, originally known as the Ballarat School of Mines Observatory. In March 1886 a committee was appointed for the care, protection and management of the reserve. Captain Baker, a retired sea captain, was invited to become the first Superintendent of the Ballarat Observatory. Six colour photographs of the stained glass windows in the Ballarat Observatory. The first stained glass window was installed from around 1915-16, and were probably associated with John Brittain. By 1929 sixteen stained glass windows had been installed. most the work of Ballarat craftsman W.J. Robson.stained glass windows, sebastopol cambrian society, welsh, ballarat city council, ballarat teachers' college, ballarat local preachers methodist centenary, independent order of ordfellows ballarat, ballarat freemasons, freemasons, masonic, architecture, mount pleasant, john brittain -
Ambulance Victoria Museum
Minute book, South Western Victoria Ambulance Service, 1962 - 1976
Committee records for the South Western Victoria Ambulance Service board of managementblack binder filled with minutes, constitution and other documentsMINUTE BOOK -
Melbourne Legacy
Postcard, Penny Royal Gunpowder Mills Postcard
The place shown on the photo still has an important relevance for the local history in Launcestown Tasmania. This place represents one of the most relevant touristic places of Tasmania and brings to the local government a very good amount of income for local developments and self management of the place. The date of this postcard is unknown but probably around 1980 as this place apparently was opened by 1979. The connection to Legacy is unknown but other postcards were sent to the Comradeship Committee when Legatees travelled.Comradeship Committee often received postcards from Legatees when they were away on holidays.Glossy postcard, with serrated edges, showing a photo of the Penny Royal Gunpowder Mills.Handwritten text: 'They have the small cannons on the boat - noisy and scared Alison but quite effective really. The whole complex is build in an old quarry', in black pen. Back side: Printed in paper, PENNY ROYAL GUNPOWDER MILLS / The 10 Gun Sloop-of-War 'Sandpiper' sails to prove its gun and powder in battle against those on Fort Island. / Douglas Souvenir Distributors [Logo] / DS 118, Colour Photography and Copyright by Robert Schorn. Printed in Australia. / I LIKE TO BE SEEN - PLEASE don't send me in an ENVELOPE. / Published by Douglas Souvenir Distributors - Tasmania (004) 312806tasmania, souvenir -
Melbourne Legacy
Document - Report, Ownership and lease of permanent camp at Balnarring, 1932
Documents concerning Legacy having a legal hold over land owned by Sir Stanley Savige in Balnarring in order to erect permanent camp buildings. 00253.1 and .2 Report of Meeting of sub committee considering the questions of title re permanent camp building at Balnarring. Meeting held at Hotel Austalia 2nd October 1929. Legatees Armstrong, Carleton, Tregent, Hall and Massey in attendence. 00253.3 Signed letter from Charles H. Peters to Brian Armstrong, Messers Plante and Henty Solicitors. 00253.4, .5, .6, .7, .8 Report on Balnarring Camp Property. Same as collection item 00250 but with different corrections and additional notes. 00253.9 Cover letter to L Armstrong signed from Dudley Tregent. 00253.10 Letter to Blatchford, Deputy Chairman Junior Legacy Club from unknown author. 00253.11, .12 Minutes of Meeting of Board of Management. Camp Premises Agreement and negotiations mentioned on page 3. Melbourne Legacy provides camps for junior legatees. The camps gave the children an opportunity of a summer beach holiday with other Legacy children. It started with camps on the property of Legacy founder, Legatee Stan Savige, who had a place in Balnarring, close to the beach. Permanent camp buildings were built in 1930. These documents relate to those buildings. Legacy Somers Camps continued intermittently at Stan's property until it was decided in 1951 to make other arrangements for holidays. Including two other camps in the Somers area: Lord Somers Camp and the Somers School Camp (owned by the Education Department). Camps provided for junior Legatees have been very important from early in Legacy's history. In the 1920s Legacy started camps at Stan Savige's property at Balnarring. By the 1930s a permanent camp kitchen and building had been built at Somers Camp. These documents relate to the official status of the property.White paper with black type x 12 pages relating to land ownership and lease questions around the Balnarring Camp. Six sets of documents kept together. Total of twelve pages, some double sided.land transfer, deed of trust, option to purchase, properties, savige property, legacy somers camp