Recording of PMHPS Meeting on 24.04.2006. Recording done at Port Melbourne Bowling Club. Speaker was Daryl MacMahon giving a presentation on Port Melbourne and Richmond. Recording duration 44:21built environment, daryl macmahon

Produced in preparation for the presentation of "The Gypsy Baron"documents, programmes

Syd Cuffe was the Portland Town Crier from 1983 to 2013. The role of Town Crier was created for Syd Cuffe in 1983 in the lead up to Portland’s 150th anniversary celebrations held in 1984-85. 200 items from Mr. Cuffe’s estate were donated to the Glenelg Shire Cultural Collection. The items relate to his town crying activities and community work across the Shire and further afield.Identification numbers 9014 a,b a) Certificate - expression of appreciation to Syd Cuffe, 23 July, signed by Mayor & Clerk, Corporation of town of Amherstburg Ontario, Canada b) Presentation folder, black

Invitation folded, from Mayor and Councillors, Town of Portland to presentation dinner for Town Clerk, Mr. Noel Henry, Saturday 30th May, 1959. cream embossed card, gold print.Front: Inside: Left hand page: 'Mr. H.L. and Miss Betty Vivian, 22 Otway St. Portland' - handwritten, blue biro Right hand page: '15 Otway St. PORTLAND' - handwritten, blue biro

Contains a copy of the Award Proposal for the presentation of the Gallantry Cross with Gold Star (Corps. level) to be award to George Logan, the award & also some other documents and paper copies of some photos.7 rar, vietnam war, 1961-1975 - veterans - australia

Faded original photograph removed from framed presentation made in 1904 by Farrell Street Primitive Methodist Sunday School (item 1213): L.J. Holland, Hon. Secretary of Sunday SchoolName pencilled on backreligion - primitive methodist church, education - sunday schools, l j holland

Nunawading Post article on Mitcham's Antonio Park Primary School's presentation of a City of Nunawading flag and a Victorian flag as part of program teaching pupils about the three levels of Government in Australia.Nunawading Post article on Mitcham's Antonio Park Primary School's presentation of a City of Nunawading flag and a Victorian flagantonio park primary school, city of nunawading, primary schools

Amy Huxtable was born at Cheltenham in 1918, to Robert Henry Huxtable and Violet a Dagg. Her father was an installer for an oil company and travelled the State. taking his family with him. She completed her education at the Bendigo High School and later attended the Bendigo Business College, becoming an expert shorthand writer. Her first position was as a copy writer with Radio 3BO, in the mid 1930s. She worked with an advertising agency in Melbourne and then with the Age,newspaper. In 1953, Miss Huxtable was appointed temporarily to succeed Miss E B Millane as social editress of the Bendigo Advertiser, during the latter's absence abroad. In 1956, Amy travelled abroad and on her return in 1957 was appointed permanently as Women's editor, a position she held for twenty-three ears. During her early years with The Advertiser she wrote under the name Toora, but in later years her own name became widely known. Miss Huxtable was well known both in her professional capacity and through a interest and involvement in community activites. She was life governor of the Bendigo Hospital, the Bendigo Home for the Aged, and Mirridong Home for the Blind, she was a member of Soroptimist International and the Business and Professional Women's Club. Amy was also a tireless worker for the spastic society and a strong supporter of the YWCA. When Amy Huxtable died at Mt AJvernia Hospital on 16 January 1980 Mayor Campbell ordered the city flag to be flown at half-mast. "Lowering the flag is the least we can do for such a lady" Cr Campbell said. Douglas Lockwood, editor of the Bendigo Advertiser said, "She was a devot d colleague who gave her craft and her newspaper the kind of service which identified a rare and generous spirit." She was a true professional who decided to make Bendigo her home. More than 300 people packed St Paul's Church for her funeral ervice the bell tolled as the casket was carried from the church. At a ceremony in the Conservatory Gardens on No ember 22 1981 The Amy Huxtable Memorial Committee presented to the City of Bendigo, a garden seat in memory of the late Miss Huxtable. This Bendigo manufactured seat was a fitting tribute to one ofBendigo's most loved and esteemed citizens. All Miss Huxtable's Advertiser articles were microfilmed and presented to the Library by the above committee. Invitations to the Amy Huxtable Memorial Lunches and presentation of the Memorial History Awards - three invitations from the Bendigo Historical Society to attend the luncheons at Dudley House, 60 View Street Bendigo.history, amy huxtable, bendigo, amy huxtable memorial history awards

Michele Maslunka-Matthews B.A. (Hons). Dip.Ed. Local Bendigo Historian and teacher. Member of the Bendigo City Council's Sir John Quick Committee.a. Three page typewritten list of the seventy two delegates to the 1893 Corowa Federation Conference. The Bendigo delegates were A J Hampson (ANA), John Quick (ANA), J B Young (ANA). b. Two newspaper articles from the Bendigo Advertiser (3.8.1993) recording the presentation of a framed portrait of Sir John Quick to the people of Corowa. The presentation was made by Cr. John Balsillie on behalf of the bendigo City Council's Sir John Quick Committee. federation, corowa conference, paul keating, sir john quick, portrait