Dodge Passenger Mail Motor RM74Victorian Railway 1936 livery of Black and Chrome Yellow stripesvictorian railways, dodge, mail motor

14.5cm X 9.2cm Postcard of Retriever dog holding paper with 9 fold-out Bendigo Views. Printed 1984 City Hall, Civic Buildings, Central Deborah Mine, Alexandra Fountain, Look-out Tower, Conservatory Gardens, Soldiers Memorial Hall, Post-Office. Pall Mall, The Lake Upper Reserve.Valentine's Mail Postcard.bendigo, buildings, heritage buildings

Original Cat No: 238Front Page Coloured like a picture frame. Newspaper Supplement 40 PagesThe Wimmera Mail Times

Air Mail Letter Card Cream Paper 14cm x 9cm.Opens up to 20cm square for letter writing, as used in the 1940s BY AIR MAILdocuments, envelopes

Newspaper clipping from The Mail, 8th DecemberTitle - Christmas Cheer". Features Jenny Oxley. Photo by Chris Rostron

Copy of newspaper cutting, The Mail, November 1942.Ringwood State School- Comments on state of Library 18 months after establishment. Icludes comments by District Inspector in his report to the Education Department.

Copy of newspaper cuttings, The Mail, 1932 and 1938.Ringwood State School. 1932- Prize Essays 1938 Christmas Carnival Essays.

Newspaper clipping The Mail, March 29, 1994SOUTHWOOD Primary School student, Kiron Barnded

Newspaper clipping The Mail December 8, 1992SOUTHWOOD Primary School student Jenny Oxley

Newspaper clipping The Mail February 6, 1996SOUTHWOOD Primary School students

Bill Cahill in conversation at Victoria Hall Melton South July 1974 Chaff Mills Melton’s hey day, as I call it in the days when more hay was grown in Melton and Rockbank than, I’d say in any where in Victoria. We had two chaff mills. If I can remember rightly I’m sure of this, that in one month the amount of hay and chaff that went from Melton to Melbourne was about 1800 tons, that’s hay and chaff. There was a lot of hay went from the Melton Railway Station. I have often seen whole train load going down the Schutt and Barrie, that’s Bonnie’s father’s mill at West Footscray. The mills in those days employed up to from 18- 20 men in each, that was before electricity when the mills were run on steam then, there was no power. At times those chaff mills they got a lot of shipping orders, to the Philipines and other Asian countries. They’d work shifts at night on the second shift at night time they would have an old hurricane lamp hanging above from the ceiling just over the chaff cutter, you could hardly see yourself, or see the anything. Well they worked through the whole night they might have an order come in for perhaps 100tons up 500 tons of chaff to go a boat would be in and be waiting to be loaded in Melbourne and they’d have to go and work two shifts. Then they brought in casual labour to help them through and get the order cut and get it down by rail to ship board to send it away. Talking about the hay I’ve seen wagons of hay in the farmers carting to both mills and also hay going down to West Footscray. There would be a quarter of a mile without exaggeration wagons and teams would be waiting to get into the mill, they would come down at the weighbridge at about 3-4- o’clock, 2 o’clock waiting for the bridge to open to weigh their loads, the ones that would be running late would be there at the weighbridge about half past 7 - 8 o’clock. They would be lucky to get away by night before getting their load off. A funny episode I remember well was a farmer from up, Alan Hurley you would remember him, Sam McCorkell he would put on his load in the afternoon or evening leave it up the yard, and would leave Toolern Vale about 12 or 1 o’clock in the morning and he would get down to the weighbridge and when it was breaking day he would bring half of his fowl yard down with him. The fowls would hop up on top of the load and have a ride down and when it came daylight they’d hop off and away they’d go, and I suppose everybody had some of McCorkells poultry. [laughter from the audience] That always tickled my fancy and everybody would be laughing about the fowls getting off his load of hay. I reckon that was about one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard of. The Victoria Hall, where we are tonight was originally known as the Exford Hall. I believe Bonnie’s father was the original builder and owner of the chaff mills here round the corner which is known as Wards today. Later on I understand that his father had a chaff mill here were this hall is, then Dixon Bros were just a bit on the other side. I believe Bonnie’s father sold it to Dixon Bros, and they shifted this part of the mill here and took it over and joined it up. That’s the history of the early chaff mills. Is that right Bonnie? You might like to correct, I’m about right am I? Bonnie answers yes. The original audio tape was recorded on the reel to reel tape recorder by Bon Barrie using his own tape recorder. Transferred to CD by Tom Wood using computer technology capable of adjusting the recording to a legible speed for reproduction to compact disk. Bill Cahill article featured in the The Mail Expresslocal identities

Obituary - Ringwood Mail 29/9/1938The late John Wilson was one of the few remaining old pioneers of Ringwood ... passed away at his residence, "The Mines", Ringwood East (Wilson Street) at the age of 80 years. He was, in the early years, associated with the antimony mine ... highly respected and esteemed throughout the district.

Basil Watson departed Melbourne on 24th January 1917, on the initial leg of Australia's first 'barnstorming' aviation tour, promoted by the entrepreneurs Albert Sculthorpe and R. Sissons. During the trip, which lasted over a month, Watson visited Warrnambool, Hamilton and Mount Gambier, before returning via stopovers at Casterton, Hamilton, Warrnambool and Camperdown. At each town he presented a public flying demonstration for crowds of spectators, featuring his usual aerobatic displays with feats such 'looping the loop', upside down flying, somersaulting and 'perpendicular nose dives', generating much amazement and admiration. The promoters had received approval from the Postmaster General's Department to carry an experimental airmail consignment on the return journey from Mount Gambier, and Watson landed in Albert Park on his arrival back in Melbourne on 27th February, carrying over 1,000 pieces of airmail collected from each of the towns on route. Much of the mail was in the form of official souvenir postcards commemorating the event, which were reposted on arrival to local addresses in Melbourne. Churchward, M. (2017) Basil George Watson, Pioneering Aviator (1894-1917) in Museums Victoria Collections https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/articles/15473 Accessed 18 December 2018.Book. ' Basil G. Watson, Pioneer Airman, the Mount Gambier to Melbourne 1917 experimental air mail'. Grey cover, 39 pages with photographs and illustrations.H.N. Eustisbiography, aviation, basil g. watson, aviation, airmail, bendigo, basil g. watson.eric j. ames pty ltd printers, 14 chesser street adelaide

Newspaper clipping from The Mail, 17th August, 1988Lollipop Lady, Mrs Pat Mason, is retiring

Local newspaper article, The Mail, 20 November, 1991 Year 10 students Shana, Shannon, Tina, Katrina and Sheree prepare for the catwalk.

A track to the top of Mt William existed many years before, an all weather road was constructed in the early 1960s Not only did engineers and construction workers enjoy some spectacular scenery during "smokos" but so have thousands of tourists Some even experiencing the freezing gale force winds which greeting Major Thomas Mitchell and his party in July 1836sPhoto shows 3 men looking over to Wonderland Range from Mt William. Two men are wearing hard hats The third man a felt hat - he is pointing to a point in the distanceWMT (Wimmera Mail Times}access routes, walking track, roads, mount william

Photo and caption of the 1st of 30 trolley buses for Launceston built in Adelaide being driven to wharf for loading under the wires."Mail 4-3-50"trams, tramways, launceston, trolley buses, adelaide

Copies of four emails concerning an ESCO employee, Albert Willmott 1. E-mail from Alan Bradley re BTM and reference to e-mail from Lee Willmott , dated 8/5/2002. 2. E-mail from Warren Doubleday to Lee Willmott dated 17/5/2002. 3. E-mail from Lee Willmott dated 7/6/2002. 4. E-mail from Warren Doubleday dated 15/6/2002. See related documents for correspondence Oct. 2018 with Geoffrey Harvey.trams, tramways, willmott, esco