Many aspects of Hay, including schools, council, shops, historical society, transport, families, WW2, services clubs.Written to record life in Hay. NSW. Red cover showing swing bridge 1906.hay, hay goal, hay pow camp, hay residents

Handwritten carbon copy of a letter to be published in the paper, dated 16/4 1971. Letter is from A. Richardson thanking the Bendigo Trust, various Service Clubs, The Bendigo Branch of the Royal Historical Society, the City Council and its employees and the Lady members of the Historical Society for their great team effort in completing the first stage of the restoration of the Central Deborah Gold Mine in time for visitors during the Easter Holidays.document, victoria hill, the central deborah and the victoria hill, bendigo trust, the bendigo branch of the royal historical society, bendigo city council, central deborah gold mine, the rotary club of bendigo south, bendigo and district tourist association, bendigo diggings project, john brown knitwear factory, gold mines hotel, big 180 mine, victoria quartz, city of sandhurst, bendigo advertiser, a richardson, mr cyril nichelson

Newspaper cutting with a photo of a working bee at the Victoria Hill site dated Tuesday, April 6, 1971. Members of Rotary, assisted by other service clubs, have cleaned up the whole area and are placing signs which explain the various mining sites on the hill. The photo shows a bulldozer pushing dirt, a group of men and the children holding signs. Article also gives a very brief history of the Hill.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, victoria hill, victoria hill, victoria hill working bee, south bendigo rotary club, victoria quartz mine, theodore ballerstedt

The Athletics Club (began April 1951) under the guidance of a committee of workers which included Mr Stan Hemmings and Mr Alex McCullough,sponsored a Junior Athletics Club which became the Gra-Y Club (in August 1951) for young boys and Hy-Y for older lads. Mr A. E. Clark (YMCA) had the idea of adopting the American Gra-Y system which was to instil in boys good principals and values similar to those of the service clubs ie. YMCA, the Masons and Buffalo Lodge. Story has it that the town was virtually crime free for many years. The Athletics Club became a very powerful force in Mt Beauty and assisted other fledging groups to get started. The committee had the bright idea that they could raise money and entertain the men who lived in the out-lying camps by running sporting exhibitions by their members and the Gra-y boys for entertainment.Mt Beauty was a SECV construction town at the end of the Kiewa valley. Its remoteness encouraged the community to create clubs for recreation for all age groups so that those involved would be purposefully engaged. The Gra-Y club achieved this for 4.5 year olds to 12 year olds and included a junior group and a senior group.Manila folder, foolscap size, with seven pages held by four staples at the spine. The pages are lined horizontally and vertically with boys names listed vertically on the left and dates, across the top, recording the boys attendance. See also KVHS 0773, KVHS 1291Pages recorded in either pencil or inkgra-y club, mt beauty gra-y club, alex mccullough, athletics, boxing, wrestling