“How’s the wicket, Bert?” During the 4-Day Victoria v South Australia Sheffield Shield match, held 13-17 November 1936 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the play was often interrupted by rain squalls, causing the groundsmen to cover their carefully prepared wicket with tarpaulins to protect it. “How’s the wicket, Bert?” is the question on everyone’s lips – Will it be a batsman’s nightmare? A bowler’s dream? Will the spectators see a full day’s play or will rain spoil it? With a twinkle in his eye, Bert “Maker of Pitches” Luttrell, the MCG curator’s response is: “It’s not the wicket when batsmen get out early, it’s good bowling!” FRC Published: The Age 17 November 1936 Featured in "Newsworthy: Melbourne in photographs 1933-1936" exhibition at East Melbourne Library, October to December 2023. Exhibition caption by project volunteer, Fiona Collyer.  Photographer notations on slide: "Covering wicket during Vict v Sth Aust Cricket at M.C.G. Nov 1936 B117" Published: Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tuesday 17 November 1936, page 13 Published title: SHEFFIELD SHIELD CRICKET. Published caption: Placing the tarpaulin over the wicket during one of the showers. This was done four times during the day. Trove article identifier: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205952141 Description: Nine men wearing black macintoshes and hats drag a tarpaulin over a cricket pitch. There is a bucket containing pegs in the foreground. Research by project volunteer, Fiona Collyer: During the four day Victoria v South Australia Sheffield Shield match, held 13-17 November 1936 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the play was often interrupted by rain squalls, causing the groundsmen to cover their carefully prepared wicket with tarpaulins to protect it. “How’s the wicket, Bert?” is the question on everybody’s lips - will it be a batsman’s nightmare? A bowler’s dream? Will the spectators see a full day’s play or will rain spoil it? With a twinkle in his eye, Bert “Maker of Pitches” Luttrell, the MCG curator’s response is: “It’s not the wicket when batsmen get out early, it’s good bowling!” Albert (Bert) John Wesley Luttrell 1875-1951, was born in Geelong and worked as a painter and decorator. He played cricket for Clarendon Cricket Club while helping to prepare the wicket at Kardinia Park. In 1890, Mr Phillip Russell, a wealthy merino sheep breeder of Osborne House, North Geelong, offered Bert the job of curator and cricket player for his team “The Nondescripts”, a social team who played at his private oval at Osborne House. After five years at Osborne House, Bert took up a position at Geelong Grammar School and then in 1900 he was appointed curator of Warehousemen’s Ground, Albert Park (later called Albert Ground). There he prepared the tennis courts for the 1908 Davis Cup - Australia v USA featuring the eventual winner of the tournament, Wimbledon champion Sir Norman Brookes. Following the retirement of the MCG curator, Bert was offered the position there for the 1919/20 season. Sport was resuming at the MCG after the suspension caused by the Great War and the Spanish Influenza pandemic. Cricket grounds and matches are always at the mercy of the weather. Sudden heavy downpours can make the ground unfit for play. In 1933, Bert invented and patented an absorbent roller for soaked pitches. Similar to a lawn mower in appearance, it was fitted with a rubber sponge which sucked up the water and then squeezed it into a tank. The sponge was said to mop up a gallon (3.78 litres) of water in 32 seconds and remove 100 to 120 gallons (378 - 454 litres) of water from any wet sports ground in an hour. Bert worked as a curator of the MCG for nearly 30 years, invariably creating his famous “shirt front” wicket. He retired in 1947 due to ill health. He was married to Emma and they had six children- Albert, Harry, Nell, Lily, Frank and Jack. Bert died at home in South Yarra in 1951 at 76 years of age. References: SHEFFIELD SHIELD CRICKET. ENGLISH FLYING BOAT. VICTORIA DOCK. (1936, November 17). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 13. Retrieved May 19, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205952141 To Dry Grounds (1933, May 13). Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954), p. 3 (Edition2). Retrieved May 20, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article183038194 No title (1937, February 25). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 10. Retrieved May 19, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206185862 GOSSIP of THE GAME (1937, November 12). The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), p. 21. Retrieved May 20, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article244541623Photographer notations on slide: "Covering wicket during Vict v Sth Aust Cricket at M.C.G. Nov 1936 B117".cricket, 1930-1939

Report of the Works Committee Meeting Because of Wet Weather on concrete work was untaken on 15th August 1980 Kerb & Channel Fisher Street Maidstone North side completed, South side 40% complete Kerb & Channel Duke Street Sunshine bus bays completed and kerb & channel complete to Carlton Street Footpath Cordite Avenue completed Footpath Ballarat Road (Omar Street) commenced Footpath Braybrook Area gang moving to area south of Ballarat Road and West of Ashley Street Footpath Billingham Road Deer Park access to Ballarat Road commenced Footpath Hampshire Road work has been delayed as Telecom requires to lay conduits Drainage Sunshine Road Tottenham rock slowing progress Road Work Duke Street Sunshine West side, Hertford Road to Staughton Street in progress Road Work Forrest Street Albion to Kororoit Creek 50% complete Downing Street Sunshine North small drain constructed to relieve flooding 45 Warmington Road Sunshine West slab poured Sassella Park inspection has indicated that water is a result of the closeness of rock to the surface Munro Street / Ralston Avenue Sunshine North Drain completed Ralph Street Reserve ready for top dressing, soil on site Kinder Smith Reserve to be top dressed, soil on site Ainsworth Reserve to be top dressed Dempster Park synthetic surface for practice wickets has been ordered I.C.I. Ground Deer Park Cricket Club is prepared to use another site while the area is being reconstructed Tree Planting work progressing in Central Sunshine, E. Shepherd Gardens & Highpoint West Child Care Centre Tree Pruning 75% complete, excluding jobs which require a travel tower and the list from the S.E.C.V. Railway Estate Tottenham a further 280 trees required to replant this area Albion Tennis Pavilion constructed estimated to be complete this week Aycliffe Avenue Infant Welfare & Pre-School Centre construction estimated to be completed this week Depot Workshop work stopped due to weather conditions Municipal Offices sub grade laid. Plan to be modified to include a shower Scovell Reserve Building $3,000 worth of work to be completed Castley Hall renovations are in progress Sunshine Croquet Club extension to the W.C. facilities is in progress Sunshine Bowling Club replacement floor has commenced Report of the Finance Committee Meeting Report of the Town Clerk Sanitary & Interest Adjustments / Abandonments National Wage Decision Variations to M.E.U. Award Payment of Increase Rates, Sanitary & Interest Statements as at 28th July 1980 Swimming Disable Report of the City Engineer & Planner 1980/81 Estimates Priorities for Staff Expenditures Harrison Street / Miles Street Deer Park Private Street Scheme Proposed Purchase of Land Traffic Route Lighting (Various Locations) Albion Tennis Club Pavilion Dempster Park Canteen Sunshine Football Club Loan The Hunt Club Hotel Buildings 1980/81 Building Repair Budgetfisher street, maidstone, duke street, carlton street, sunshine, cordite avenue, maribyrnong, ballarat road, omar street, billingham road, deer park, hampshire road, sunshine road, tottenham, hertford road, staughton street, forrest street, kororoit creek, albion, downing street, sunshine north, warmington road, sunshine west, sassella park, station road, munro street, ralston avenue, ralph street reserve, ralph street, kinder smith reserve, lily street, braybrook, ainsworth reserve, vernon crescent, dempster park, phoenix street, i.c.i. ground, deer park cricket club, shepherd gardens, yardley street, highpoint west child care centre, rosamond road, selwyn park, selwyn street, aycliffe avenue, aycliffe avenue infant welfare & pre-school centre, scovell reserve, scovell crescent, castley hall, simmie street, sunshine croquet club, sunshine bowling club, anderson road, stanford street, harrison street, miles street, albion tennis club, sunshine football club, the hunt club hotel

St LUKES ANGLICAN CHURCH BENDIGO In 1852, a party of Cornish miners, refusing to give up and having dug, by hand, down nearly 70 feet ‘got their reward. Suddenly, their picks sank into soft pipe-clay, white, satin-smooth and seemingly depthless. The men began tunnelling. Presently, the roof forming above them showered gold at their feet – the secret of Bendigo’s famous White Hills lay revealed.’ In the ‘wild rush’ that followed, when ‘the White Hills yielded enormously and some pretty piles were made’, a young Anglican priest, John Herbert Gregory, held the first Anglican church service at White Hills in 1853. The Hamlet of White Hills was surveyed and mapped in 1854 and, by 1863, St Luke’s Church in White Hills was opened on ‘an elevated site’ in a generously sized ‘church reserve’. St AUGUSTINE'S CHURCH MYERS FLAT Early diggers to this area were men named Myers and Nicholls, hence the name - Myers Flat and Myers Creek. 1857 saw the discovery of gold in the area and in less than one month 1000 ounces of gold per week resulted. The number of diggers in the Myers Creek or Burnt Gully totalled 4000 to 5000. Myers Creek consisted of several shops and buildings, two hotels, a race course and a lock-up built of logs. On November 6th, 1864, the opening of the new church of St Augustine' took place. The first mass was celebrated by the Reverand Dean Hayes, of St Killian's Sandhurst. The church of gothic design was built by a local contractor, and with bricks made from local clay. The church also has a fire place and is widely known as "The church with the Chimney. For many years it was also a Catholic school. St AUGUSTINE'S CHURCH INGLEWOOD The church features an Early English design from 1864 and Decorated Gothic extensions from 1884.Notable elements include the sanctuary with the Catto Memorial window and interior cusped arcading of the wainscot. Architectural attribution is given to Vahland and Getzschmann for one or both sections. St JOHNS CHURCH (PRESBYTERIAN) BENDIGO The church's architect was W C Vahland VIA, and the builder was N Langstaff. It was built in April 1890, and opened in Feb 1891. The tender price was 2,481 pounds. The church style was gothic, built by the Congregational Church to replace an earlier building built in 1858. St Johns bought the church in 1949 and made additions in 1951. THE SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL BENDIGO Originally designed in 1895 by Reed, Smart and Tappin of Melbourne, the first stage opened in September 1901; the second stage began in January 1954 and was expected to finish in late 1976. Skilled stonemasons were brought from overseas for the completion. The Exterior built from Geelong sandstone and Harcourt granite, matching the original materials for color consistency. The cathedral is designed in the early English Gothic style. It Features a tower and spire weighing several thousand tons, with the spire rising 282 ft. from the floor and topped by a 10 ft. cross.Interior. The original stained glass window, made in Birmingham, England, is above the main entrance on the west side. Marble for the floor was imported from Vincenzo and Via Reggio, Italy; Sicilian Pearl marble is used in the four chapels. Ceilings in the chapels feature Western red cedar and yellow pine timbers.The transept includes Australian blackwood paneling and 12 carved shields representing the apostles. The internal height from floor to ceiling is 80 ft.Artistic Elements. Two large tapestries, specially designed and crafted by Mrs. Carrington, hang in the sanctuary as a symbolic link to Bendigo. ST PAULS BENDIGO The nave was built in 1868 and the tower in 1873. The nave is notable for unusual ceiling with metal and timber overlay members. The tower notable for early brick and bold Gothic influenced design. The church was opened on 12th Nov 1868 and a new chancel sanctuary and Transepts were added on 22 Oct 1927. The architect was Robert A Love. CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES IN BENDIGO Three main Congregational church buildings existed in Bendigo: at the corner of Forest and Mackenzie Streets (the original site), on Quarry Hill (corner of Russell and Gladstone Streets), and on Calvin Street (later the Lutheran Church). The Calvin Street church was named in honor of John Calvin, a notable figure who lived in the area. In June 1858, 1.5 acres of land were purchased at the Forest and Mackenzie Streets corner for £1200.The first church was built on this site in November 1858 and later enlarged in May 1867 to seat 500 people. A prefabricated parsonage stood nearby until about 1920, serving as a caretaker's cottage for several years. In 1890, foundation stones for a new church designed by W.C. Vahland were laid, featuring a tall tower and two gable crossings (reduced from three to save costs). The new church opened on February 26, 1890, costing £2483. The contractor was N. Longstaff. Some architectural elements, such as the chancel, were added later when St. John's Presbyterian took over the building. Congregational attendance declined, leading to the purchase and alteration of a brick school complex in Olinda Street to serve as their headquarters.The timber church on Russell Street and the Calvin Street property were sold.The valuable Forest Street property was eventually sold to a London sect and later became an investment for the Methodist Church.Historical information on seven denominational churches in Bendigo and Inglewood. This item contains the following items: 3084.36a Black and white photo of St Lukes Bendigo Church of England, Napier Street, White Hills. 3084.36b St Augustine's Church Myers Flat 100 years newsletter 1965. The newsletter's purpose is for a Commemorative afternoon mass in memory of the pioneers of Myers Flat and district.Celebration of the 101st anniversary of the first mass at St. Augustine's Church; on Sunday, November 7th, 1965, at 2:00 PM.Location: St. Augustine's Church, Myers Flat. The invitation is extended to the recipient and their friends. This invitation serves both as a memorial and a community gathering to honour local history. Also included is some hand-written history notes of the church - See the notes in the Historical Section above. 3084.36c This document is a formal letter dated 9th November 1970 from the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) to Bishop Bernard Stewart. St. Augustine's Church in Bendigo has been awarded a "D" classification by the National Trust's expert committee. The church is now officially "recorded" by the National Trust. The letter is addressed to Bishop Bernard Stewart, with copies sent to Father Louis McDonnell (Eaglehawk), A. J. Watts (Town Clerk, Bendigo), and Mrs. R. R. Adams (Secretary, Central Victorian Branch). 3084.36d This document is a formal letter from the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) to Miss L. Doble, Registrar of the Bendigo Church of England Diocese, dated March 20, 1973. St. Augustine's Church of England in Inglewood has been officially placed on the National Trust's Classified List. This classification recognizes the church as essential to Australia's heritage and emphasizes its preservation. The church features an Early English design from 1864 and Decorated Gothic extensions from 1884.Notable elements include the sanctuary with the Catto Memorial window and interior cusped arcading of the wainscot. Architectural attribution is given to Vahland and Getzschmann for one or both sections. The church is about to celebrate the centenary of its consecration on May 13, with the Archbishop expected to attend. 3084.36e This document is a survey form used by the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) to collect detailed information about St Augustine's Church at Myers Flat. It records the original purpose, present use, and current name of the building.Requires a precise address or location description for site visits.It captures special features or points of interest not visible in photographs. It documents the present owner and occupant, including their addresses, the date of initial construction and supporting evidence for that date. 3084.36f Handwritten letter re history of St Johns Presbyterian Church Bendigo, 13th October 1980 - author unknown 3084.36g Typed notes - "Interesting information on the Sacred Heart Cathedral Bendigo", and hand-written notes on St Pauls Cathedral. 3084.36h Two pages of typed notes. Three main Congregational church buildings existed in Bendigo: at the corner of Forest and Mackenzie Streets (the original site), on Quarry Hill (corner of Russell and Gladstone Streets), and on Calvin Street (later the Lutheran Church). 3084.36i Hand-written notes on St Pauls Cathedral.history, church, national trust bendigo collection, sacred heart cathedral bendigo, st augustine's church myers flat, st pauls church bendigo, st johns presbyterian church bendigo, congregational church bendigo

Produced as a supplement to the Diamond Valley News in celebration of the centenary of the Shire of Eltham in 1971. Contains stories of historical note about people and places of the shire as well as numerous advertisng by local businsesses. Also on page 1 lists the program of events commencing Friday, April 2 commencing with a dinner and previewing of paintings by Justus Jorgensen at Montsalvat attended by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. W. H. McMahon running through to the publication of Pioneers & Painters edited by Alan Marshall. Contents: Page 1 Program of Events Page 2 Wingrove . . man of Eltham Page 3 Council people of 100 years Page 5 Capt. Sweeney, Eltham’s first Irish settler Page 6 Station a tribute to ex-concillor Page 7 Eltham 25 Years Ago just a street Page 9 Kangaroo Ground – once the hub of the shire Page 10 Festival of Arts and Crafts at Montsalvat Page 11 Obelisk honours their memory Page 11 Henry Dendy – an Eltham venture Page 12 Free by rail – if they worked Page 12 The long shadow of Ween Cameron Page 13 McMahon’s – a momentous era Page 14 50 Years Ago . . . Lyon Bros Ford Page 15 Beer at 3d. a pint Page 17 Oldest Home Built in 1850 Page 19 History in black and white . . . . Page 20 Historical Pigeon Bank Page 22 Bridge over log crossing Page 22 Pioneer shot by outlaw Page 23 Milestone for Smith Family Page 24 The Eltham Chamber of Commerce Mardi Gras Advertisers: F.J. & R. Favier (Butcher & Delicatessen Lower Plenty) Eltham Hotel Country Art Store (Eltham) A.R. Warren (Eltham) Heidelberg Travel Service Williams Butcher (Lower Plenty) Greensborough Bulk Store Mac’s Meats (Eltham) Buxton Garden Ornaments (Eltham) Hugh Fisher Photographer (Eltham) Para (Mach. Trading Co. (Greensborough) Westfield Shoppingtown (Doncaster) Clinton’s (Eltham) Gillespie & Lewis P/L (Soft Furnishings Greensborough) T. Hutchinson’s Engineers (Greensborough) Knox & Hellemons Pty Ltd (Builders) Angliss Butchers (Eltham) Rainbow Real Estate (Research) Research Licensed Supermarket Gibsons Research Meat Supply Owen Holmes Motors (Greensborough) Research Pharmacy R. & P. Humphries Delicatessen (Eltham) Montsalvat Eltham Apex Mowerama (Eltham) R.H. Dean & Son Real Estate (Greensborough) L.J. & J.D. Avery Butchers (Eltham) Deylen & Torikov (Motor Engineers Eltham) George Lovitt & Co. Pty Ltd Precision Engineers and Toolmakers Montmorency) Fred’s Mower Repairs (Lower Plenty) Gray’s Milk Bar (Montmorency) Maranne Beauty Salon (Montmorency) Evans Bros. & Newell Pty Ltd (Printing Greensborough) La Ronde Restaurant (Eltham) Terry & Margaret’s Garage (Caltex Lower Plenty) Kevin Dawson Building & Joinery Contractors (Eltham) Montmorency Authorised Newsagency Eltham Produce Store (W.J. Cameron) Consolidated Aluminium (Aust.) Pty Ltd (Eltham) Briar Hill Timber & Trading Co. Pty Ltd Diamond Valley Coaches (Eltham) Lyon Bros Ford (Eltham) The Natural Development Association (Eltham Shire) Alan Whitmore R.E.S.I. (Eltham) Keith Wilkie’s Mensland (Montmorency) Eltham Home Supplies (Eltham) Safeway (Greensborough) Lower Plenty Fish Supply Blue Gum Milk Bar (Eltham) W. Hutchinson Sand Soil & Gravel Suppliers (Greensborough) Keyzers Milk Bar (Greensborough) P.J. Timber & Trading Pty Ltd (Eltham) Diamond Valley Motocycles (Honda Macleod) Neville F. 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Penna Chemist (Eltham) PPH Produce Paint Hardware (Eltham) Eltham Cake Kitchen (Eltham) Fred Ramak Continental Hairdresser (Eltham) Clinton’s (Eltham) Thompson’s Pharmacy (Eltham) Tillings Timber Supermarket (Eltham) Lyon Bros Ford (Eltham) Bob Clarke’s Men’s Wear (Eltham) Eltham Glen Service Station (Eltham) Miss V. Rampton Naturopath (Eltham) Eltham South Milk Bar (Eltham) Eltham Jewellers (Eltham) Baines Supa-Valu Supermarket (Eltham) Sibbel Builders P/L (Eltham) G. & E. Reivers Fly and Shower Screens (Eltham) Kenton Shoeland (Eltham) Eltham Newsagency (Eltham)One copy marked '1971' on fronta. & l. mallios (grocer hurstbridge), a.r. warren (eltham), a.r. warren fuel merchant (eltham), airlook service station (montmorency), alan whitmore r.e.s.i. (eltham), angliss butchers (eltham), anz (eltham), ashley’s milk bar (montmorency), b.p. evergreen service station (eltham), baines supa-valu supermarket (eltham), blue gum milk bar (eltham), bob clarke’s men’s wear (eltham), briar hill timber & trading co. pty ltd, browne bros. safeway (eltham), buxton garden ornaments (eltham), c.a. & j.m. kohlman (panton hill general store), c.a. & j.m. kohlman (smiths gully general store), clinton’s (eltham), consolidated aluminium (aust.) pty ltd (eltham), country art store (eltham), deylen & torikov (motor engineers eltham), diamond valley coaches (eltham), diamond valley demolition (eltham), diamond valley motocycles (honda macleod), edon engineering (eltham), eltham apex, eltham cake kitchen (eltham), eltham chamber of commerce, eltham glen service station (eltham), eltham home supplies (eltham), eltham hotel, eltham jewellers (eltham), eltham newsagency (eltham), eltham produce store (w.j. cameron), eltham real estate pty ltd, eltham south milk bar (eltham), evans bros. & newell pty ltd (printing greensborough), f.j. & r. favier (butcher & delicatessen lower plenty), fred ramak continental hairdresser (eltham), fred’s mower repairs (lower plenty), g. & e. reivers fly and shower screens (eltham), george lovitt & co. pty ltd precision engineers and toolmakers montmorency), gibsons research meat supply, gillespie & lewis p/l (soft furnishings greensborough), gray’s milk bar (montmorency), greensborough bulk store, heidelberg travel service, hugh fisher photographer (eltham), hurstbridge bus & taxi service pty ltd, j. turnbull (general blacksmith greensborough), keith wilkie’s mensland (montmorency), kenton shoeland (eltham), kevin dawson building & joinery contractors (eltham), keyzers milk bar (greensborough), knox & hellemons pty ltd (builders), l.j. & j.d. avery butchers (eltham), la ronde restaurant (eltham), lower plenty fish supply, lyon bros ford (eltham), mac’s meats (eltham), maranne beauty salon (montmorency), miss v. rampton naturopath (eltham), mobil service centre (eltham), montmorency authorised newsagency, montsalvat, mowerama (eltham), n.f. thorpe pty ltd precision engineers (briar hill), neville f. emerson real estate (lower plenty), owen holmes motors (greensborough), p.j. timber & trading pty ltd (eltham), para (mach. trading co. 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Albion is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 km (8.7 mi) west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Brimbank local government area. Albion recorded a population of 4,334 at the 2021 census. Albion is bordered on the north by Ballarat Road, the south by Forrest Street, the west by Kororoit Creek and the east by Anderson Road. The suburb is completely surrounded by other parts of Sunshine except for Ardeer, which lies to Albion's due west across Kororoit Creek.History - The area was originally called Darlington, from at least 1860 to about 1890. The area originally known as Albion was directly west of Duke Street, as can be noted by the many streets there named after English counties and placenames – Albion being an ancient name for the island of Great Britain. Albion station opened on 5 January 1860 as Albion and Darlington but closed a year later. It was not until 1919 that a new station was opened on the same site with the name Albion station. In March 1885 the Albion Quarrying Company began its operations in the area. The disused Albion quarry, accessed from Hulett Street in Albion, was the location for AC/DC's Jailbreak music video. It was H. V. McKay of Sunshine Harvester Works fame who bought land to develop a residential community for his workers in first decades on the 20th century. His concept for Sunshine was the Sunshine Estate: a community designed with superficial similarities to garden cities of the early 20th century. This area was mainly in what is now called Albion. McKay's own residence, The Gables, was in Talmage Street (where the cul-de-sac The Gables now is) until it was consumed by fire and subsequently demolished. Today - Albion has many period homes such as California bungalows and 1940s weatherboard houses. In the eastern parts of Albion, many of the oldest homes were built by H. V. McKay as part of his Sunshine Estate, a housing community built according to the influential early 20th Century Garden city movement. Kororoit Creek provides the western border for Albion. Along it runs the Kororoit Creek Trail which runs all the way southwards to meet the Federation Trail in Brooklyn. Stony Creek lies on the eastern edge of Albion, close to Anderson Road. As of 2013, the creek's environmental state west of Anderson Road is very poor as it has long been converted to nothing more than a concrete stormwater drain for this particular section of its course. A notable landmark of Albion is the red brick John Darling and Son Flour Mill built in 1922. It is just to the south of Ballarat Road, next to Albion train station.7010.01 - 84 King Edward Avenue Albion Vic 3020 has a land size of 630m2. It is house with 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, and no parking space. It was sold in 2018 for $775,000 and leased for $330 per week by Jas Stephens Real Estate. In 2017 the house was leased for $320 per week. In 2011 it was sold for $353,000 by Redina Real Estate. In 2007 the house was sold for $327,000. Median Property prices in Albion over the last year range from $797,500 for houses. 7010.30 - 82 King Edward Avenue Albion Vic 3020 has a land size of 629m2. It is a house. Median property prices in Albion over the last year range from $797,500 for houses. 7010.40 - 34 King Edward Avenue Albion Vic 3020 has a land size of 259 m2 It is a house that was built in 1950 with 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, and no parking space. It was sold in 2012 for $285,000 by Douglas Kay Real Estate Sunshine. Median Property prices in Albion over the last year range from $797.500 for houses for $311,000 for units. Recent sale on 30th April 2012 for $285,000; Sold in on 4th April 2011 for $235,000; Sold 15th April 1996 $60,000; Sold 29th January 1994 $68,000; Sold on 27th August 1982 $20,700. Built in 1950. 7010.50 - 30 Perth Avenue, Albion has a land size of 698 m2. It is a house with 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and 1 parking space. It was sold in 2023 for $765,000 by Barry Plant – Sunshine. Median property prices in Albion over the last year range from $797,000 for houses. 7010.80 – 14B Perth Avenue Albion. The passion for excellence that is the signature attribute of any address built by NERO LIVING defines this freshly completed Hamptons influenced four bedroom, two bathroom home. Classically crisp external lines introduce faultlessly finished spaces including an airy, inviting lounge that can be flexibly formal or informal according to the occasion. To the rear, a refined yet relaxed living/dining area is kept beautifully bright by a series of superb Velux sky-lights while access to eco alfresco decking creates a seamlessly successful relationship between indoors and out. The kitchen is a showstopper: a perfect zone for exercising your culinary creativity complemented by the elegance efficiency of Hamptons inspired styling beneath beautiful racked ceilings, where a walk-in pantry and Smeg appliances including an induction cooktop, oven and integrated dishwasher make meeting modern day needs a breeze. Alluring accommodation is led by a luxurious main bedroom with a twin-vanity ensuite and shower with floor-to-ceiling tiles. Three additional robed bedrooms, a chic bathroom, and a powder room complete the ensemble. With double glazing, efficient laundry area, Daikin climate control heating/cooling, Bosch alarm, rainwater tank, and remote garage, with additional OSP this brilliant brand new residence is desirably positioned walking distance from Selwyn Park, the Perth Avenue café and shopping hub and Albion Primary School. A perfect property for enjoying Albion today's way. 27/7/2026 House price low range $680,000 and high range $810,000. The estimated rental income of 14 Perth Avenue is $425 based on our available property data. 14 Perth Avenue Albion Vic 3020 has a land size of 697 m2. It is a house with 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and 2 Parking spaces. I was sold in 2024 for $705,000 by One Agency Carlo Puglia Property. Median property prices in Albion over the last year range from $797,500 for houses to $300,000 for units. The house was sold before that on 5th September 1998 for $87,000.  albion houses - old and new, albion houses - 82 king edward avenue, albion houses - 84 king edward avenue, 34 king edward avenue, 14 perth avenue, 30 perth avenue

Notice of Ordinary Meeting of the Council 27th October 2026 Report of the Town Clerk's Department Report of the Town Clerk Group Apprenticeship Scheme Western region Commission Proposal Financial Support Private Street Construction Scheme Right of Way Rear of Sydney Street North Sunshine United Soccer Club Application for Flood Lighting Larisa Reserve Transfer of Land from Urban Land Authority Area Stretching from Kororoit Creek Nearly to Neale Road Transfer of Public Open Space from R.D.C. Projects (Vic) Pty Ltd Entally Drive, Elinga Court & Delamare Drive Albanvale Sunshine Cricket Club request for Bingo Transfer of Discontinued Road Showers Street and Rochester Street Braybrook Report of the Co-Ordinator of Welfare Services Facilities for Elderly Citizens in Sunshine North Highpoint West Child Care Centre Fun Day to Celebrate Children's Week Handyman Submissions for Funding Emergency Housing Catholic Family Welfare Bureau Co-Operative Development Programme Maintenance of Funding for Children's Services Development Officer Western Region Right to Work Committee Report of the Chief Health Surveyor Municipal Saleyards' Association (Vic) 1981 Annual General Meeting Application for Installation of Gas Fired Dry Septic Tank Units Installation of a Septic Tank Sand Filter System Installation of Dissolved Air Flotator Health Act Registrations Application for Transfer of Premises Under the Health Act Report of the Superintendent Traffic & By-Laws Disposal of Derelict Vehicles Disposal of Derelict Vehicles Vandalism Report of the City Librarian Christmas / New Year 1981/82 Library Opening Hours Report of the City Engineer & Planner Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme Amendment No 178 Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme Amendment No 158 Special Use Zone No 1A (Private Hospital) Rezoning Application S.E.C.V. South West Corner 26 - 28 Hertford Road and 13 Neil Street Sunshine Planning Permit Application Extensions and Alterations to Existing Complex Lot 1 Fairbairn Road Sunshine West Planning Permit Application Clothing Manufacturer 171 Main Road West St. Albans Planning Permit Application Extensions to Existing St. Theresa's Primary School Drummartin Street Albion Planning Permit Application Illuminated Sign 811 & 811A Ballarat Road Deer Park Delegated Matters Planning Permit Application Office & Factory Ormond Avenue Sunshine Consolidation of Title Carlyle Street and Suffolk Street Maidstone Traffic Engineering (Various) Ardeer South Primary School Nina Street Sunshine West Traffic Problems Mitchell Street Maidstone No standing Anytime Signs Devonshire Road School Crossing Outside Sunshine Free Kindergarten St. Theresa's Primary School Drummartin Street Albion No Standing Anytime Signs Willis Street St. Albans No Standing Anytime Signs Maribyrnong River Essendon Ladies Rowing Club Annual Regatta Henley Raft Race Report of the Building Surveyor Statistical Information of Numbers of Building Permits Building Over Easement 29 Chedgey Drive St. Albans Building Over Easement Lot 336 Maxweld Street Ardeer Building Over Easement Lot 26 Furlong Road Sunshine North Location of Building Lot 6 McIntyre Road Sunshine North Building on Land Liable to Flooding 5 Middle Road Maribyrnong Schedule for Authorising of Affixing the Common Seal of the Municipality to Documents Orders of the Day Delegation of Authority Highpoint West Child Care Centresydney street, albion, sunshine cricket club, dempster park, phoenix street, sunshine north, north sunshine united soccer club, st. albans, showers street, rochester street, braybrook, kororoit creek, neale road, deer park, larisa road, larisa reserve, entally drive, elinga court, delamare drive, albanvale, highpoint west child care centre, rosamond road, maribyrnong, hertford road, neil street, sunshine, fairbairn road, sunshine west, main road west, st. theresa's primary school, drummartin street, ballarat road, ormond avenue, carlyle street, suffolk street, maidstone, ardeer south primary school, nina street, murray street, mitchell street, sunshine free kindergarten, devonshire road, willis street, maribyrnong river, essendon ladies rowing club, chedgey drive, maxweld street, ardeer, furlong road, mcintyre road, middle road

Photographer notations on slide: Footscray State School Boys Band 1933 B5 Published: JUNIOR BAND CHAMPIONS--BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS--BELGIAN CARNIVAL--A ROYAL YACHTSMAN. (1933, September 1). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 3. Published caption: “Proud Champions.- The drum-major of the band of the Hyde-street State School, Footscray, leads his players in a march past for visitors during Music Week. Under Mr. Frank Johnston’s conductorship this band has held the championship for two years.” Trove article identifier: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205116143 Scope and Content: Footscray’s Hyde Street State School Band, led by their drum major, prepare to march past a group of mothers while playing their instruments. The band held the record for winning the most Victorian State Schools Association Championships between 1931 and 1966. Research by project volunteer, Fiona Collyer: Description: A large group of boys, most of whom are dressed in long trousers and peaked band hats, led by their drum major, prepare to march past a group of women dressed in overcoats and hats and an infant in a pram. In the background is a school shelter shed, a railway line, houses and a netball ring on a wooden stand. The Hyde Street State School Band was formed in 1928 as the school band for Hyde Street State School No. 1912 at 10 Hyde Street Footscray (now Footscray City Primary School). Their bandmaster, Francis Charles Johnston,(1880-1953) nicknamed “Massa” as a boy for his love and admiration of southern American jazz music, also conducted the Victorian Police Band, Collingwood Citizens Band, and the Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigade Band, amongst others, leading to scores of wins in brass band competitions. Even into his sixties, “Massa” ran three laps around the South Melbourne Oval every morning in order to maintain fitness for his busy conducting schedule. He was a cornetist and horn player, and performed in and lead brass bands for more than fifty years including bands that farewelled Australian troops from the Boer War to the Second World War. The Argus 13 December 1947, described “Massa” - “Bandsmen say he is a genius in brass band music, and the best conductor in the Southern Hemisphere. He still retains the romance and Bohemianism of the old German bandsmen he played with in the streets of Melbourne 50 years ago.” In 1925, a bequest of £10,000 from the estate of the late writer, William Gillies was made to the Education Department of Victoria. It was devoted to three purposes - “1) The encouragement of instrumental music (school bands or orchestras) in the State schools of Victoria, leading, it is hoped, to an increase in the number of village bands and orchestras, and, most important of all, family orchestras; (2) The encouragement of the art of reading aloud, leading, it is hoped, to an increase of the admirable pastime of reading aloud in the family circle; and (3) The encouragement of any branch of nature study, the aim of all three being to make home life, especially in the country, more attractive.” The Director of Education, Mr. M.P. Hansen wrote in his book “Thoughts That Breathe” published in 1932, that, as a result of the Gillies Bequest- “£3,030 has already been made available for the purchase of band instruments, and thanks largely to the encouragement given by this fine bequest, there are now in State schools in Victoria, each under expert tuition, 31 brass bands, 9 orchestras, 13 fife bands and 23 violin classes. That the effect of such work has a significant bearing on the right use of leisure, is undeniable.” By 1937, at least 50 State school bands had been set up in Victoria and the Victorian State Schools Association Championships were hotly contested. Frank quickly and skilfully brought the inexperienced boys of the Hyde Street Brass Band to A grade level, winning their first Victorian State Schools Association Championships in 1931. The band went on to win multiple times, holding the record for winning the most Victorian State Schools Association Championships between 1931 and 1966. The band soon became an integral part of community events. Whenever the Footscray Football Team played a home game at the perpetually blustery Western Oval, (Whitten Oval since 1995) the band performed at half time, marching around the boundary line, belting out the Footscray Football Team theme song- “Sons of the ’Scray” played to the tune of “Sons of the Sea” by British music hall songwriter Felix McGlennon. Volunteers walked behind the band carrying a large tarpaulin to catch the shower of coins thrown by fans from both teams, which helped pay for new instruments, repairs and uniforms. The old footy joke goes- Q. Who played on the wing at the Western Oval for 20 years, but never kicked a goal? A. The Hyde Street Band. Now called the Hyde Street Youth Band Inc, it is a not-for-profit organisation, supported by the City of Maribyrnong. Their aim is to make brass music accessible to young people aged from 5-25 years, by supplying the instruments and lessons for a modest annual membership fee. The traditional British brass band comprises of three musical ensembles according to ability. The Hyde Street Youth Band Inc. play at community events including the AFL Grand Final Parade, ANZAC Day March at the Shrine of Remembrance, Moomba Parade and Yarraville Carols by Candlelight. Their repertoire includes classical, marches, hymns, contemporary music and movie themes. https://bandblastsfromthepast.blog/2018/04/08/victorian-state-school-brass-bands-their-legacy-lives-on/ Massa" and His Musical Firemen (1947, December 13). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 2 (The Argus Week-end Magazine). Retrieved May 5, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22532344 http://www.hydestreethistory.8m.net/photo2.html MUSIC AND MUSICIANS (1932, March 9). The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), p. 2. Retrieved May 8, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article29946674 https://hsyb.org.au/about/history-2/ https://hsyb.org.au/about/ MUSIC AND READING ALOUD. (1925, June 1). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 10. Retrieved May 5, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2122525 Shake! Narrow Escape From Shark The Birdcage Walk Champion Schoolboy's Band (1931, December 24). The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954; 1956), p. 14-15. Retrieved April 8, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article276259073 AROUND THE SCHOOLS: THE ARGUS JUNIOR (1947, September 23). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 6 (The Argus Super Comic). Retrieved April 20, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22509356 https://bandblastsfromthepast.blog/tag/hyde-street-youth-band/ THE GILLIES BEQUEST (1933, September 2). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 22. Retrieved May 5, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11688410 https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/johnston-francis-charles-massa-13009 Hyde Street, Footscray, State School Children (1930, March 8). Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954), p. 40. Retrieved May 8, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223899955Photographer notations on slide: Footscray State School Boys Band 1933 B5bands, 1930-1939, musical instruments, schools, state schools, uniforms, footscray

Ordinary meeting notice including reports from Council's officers Report of the Town Clerk's Department Report of the Town Clerk Membership of Executive Committee Municipal Association of Victoria Award Matters House of Work Loan Funds Holiday Programme May 1982 Primary Centres, Teenage Centres, Library Programme Family Aide Co-Ordinator Date for Statutory and Ordinary Meetings of the Council Occupancy of Shop 95A Deer Park Shopping Centre Report of Statistical Data Paravics Sports Club Medway Homing Club Transfer of Splay of Discontinued Road Formerly Dudley Street Ardeer Transfer of Discontinued Right of Way Hamilton Street, Burnside Street, Poole Street and Tulloch Street Deer Park Report of the Acting Co-Ordinator of Welfare Services Furlong Road Child Care Centre Update of Sunshine Resource Directory Home Handyman Statistics Fogarty Place Showers Street Housing Commission Units C.Y.S.S. Replacement Report of the Chief Health Surveyor Registration of Premises Health Act Transfer of Premises Health Act Prosecution Proceedings Sunshine Magistrates Court Alteration to an Existing Septic Tank 87 Chifley Drive Proposed Cattle Sale Yards Regulations 1982 Report of the Superintendent Traffic and By-Laws Traffic and Parking Infringements Court Proceedings Shopping Trolleys Report of The Chief Librarian Libaray Council of Victoria Special Projects Grant Report of the Rainbow Workshop Report of the City Engineer / Planner Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme Amendment No 183 Planning Permit Application Illuminated Sigh Ballarat Road Deer Park Planning Permit Application Office Lot 5 Station Road Deer Park Planning Permit Application Portable Classrooms Lot 2 Oleander Drive St. Albans Planning Permit Application Detached House within 60m of Maribyrnong River Lot 88 Chifley Drive Maribyrnong Planning Permit Application Reconstruction of Wall Lots 11 & 12 Western Avenue Sunshine Planning Permit Application Alterations to Existing Petrol Filling Station 439 Ballarat Road Planning Permit Application Transport Depot, Storage and Associated Office Hampstead Road Maidstone Delegated Matters Planning Permit Application Service Premises McIntyre Road Sunshine North Plan of Proposed Consolidation Corner Devonshire Road and Dawson Street Sunshine Proposed Subdivision Lots 1 & 2 Corner Paw Paw Road and Burgess Road Brooklyn Guiding Star Engineering Pty Ltd Sewerage Area 416A St. Albans Hawthorn Avenue Private Street Scheme Central Avenue Fourth Avenue to Wright Street Prohibited and Restricted Parking Ashley Street Dempster Street / Sunshine Road Intersection Transport Regulation Board Allocation From Transport Fund Safety Proposals at St. Albans Road Bridge Low Embankment on Railway Land in St. Albans Road opposite M.M.B.W. Main Building Garden State Committee Trees and Shrubs for New Homeowners Voucher Scheme AIBS / Building Industry Working Group Proposed Footings / Foundation Research Project Availability of Sewers Traffic Control Items Intersection Westmoreland Road / Suffolk Road Prohibitive and Restrictive Parking Tender Power Grader Active Recreation Reserve Mid Winter Report Report of the Building Surveyor Building Over Easement 9 Dalworth Street Albion Building Over Easement Lot 17 Phoenix Street Sunshine North Building Over Easement 4 Ballina Court Deer Park Building Over Easement 8 Glenmaggie Drive St. Albans Land Liable to Flooding Lot 35 Burton Crescent Maribyrnong Land Liable to Flooding 87 Chifley Drive Maribyrnong Land Liable to Flooding Sunshine Shopping Complex Hertford Road and Hampshire Road Sunshine Land Liable to Flooding Lot 5 Plantation Street Maribyrnong Fire Separation in Buildings Corner Somerville Road and Paramount Road Brooklyn Underground Tank Lot 2 Hampstead Road Maidstone Underground Tank Crown Portion 16 Ballarat Road Maidstone city of sunshine, alexander "alex" george gillon, deer park shopping centre, paravics sports club, medway homing club, dudley street, ardeer, hamilton street, burnside street, poole street, ulloch street, deer park, furlong road child care centre, furlong road, sunshine west, showers street, braybrook, chifley drive, maribyrnong, ballarat road, station road, oleander drive, st. albans, maribyrnong river, western avenue, sunshine, hampstead road, maidstone, mcintyre road, sunshine north, devonshire road, dawson street, paw paw road, burgess road, brooklyn, hawthorn avenue, central avenue, fourth avenue, wright street, ashley street, dempster street, sunshine road, tottenham, st. albans road bridge, st. albans road, westmoreland road, suffolk road, dalworth street, albion, phoenix street, ballina court, glenmaggie drive, burton crescent, hertford road, plantation street, somerville road, paramount road

Notice of Ordinary Meeting of the Council 26th May 1981 Report of the Town Clerk's Department Report of the Town Clerk Italo-Australian Social Club Proposal to Sub-Lease Elderly Persons Units South Road Housing Estate (Former Quarry Showers Street) Council Auditor Vicswim Programme 1982 Report of the Co-Ordinator of Welfare Services Migrants and the Review of Mental Health Legislation Victorian Welcoming Committee Albion Community House Delegation of Authority Request for Financial Assistance Wesley Central "Do-Care" Services Emergency Relief Emergency Costs for Low Income Earners SEC and Gas & Fuel Report of the Chief Health Surveyor Rubbish Dumber Report in The Advocate 13th May 1981 Page 3 Albion Reid Land Private Industrial Tip Reid Street Albion Health Act Registrations Health Act 1958 section 44(1) Nuisance 7 Hillside Crescent Maribyrnong Abatement Notice Pursuant to Section 44 Health Act 1958 7 Hillside Crescent Maribyrnong Application for Transfer of Proprietorship to Another Registration of Premises Under the Health Act Report of the Medical Officer of Health Report of the City Librarian Reciprocal Library Membership Association of Neighbourhood Learning Centres Report of the City Engineer & Planner Planning Permit Application Extension to Olex Cables Factory in Excess of 7.0 metres in Height Corner of 207 Sunshine Road South West Corner Olympia Street Tottenham Planning Permit Application Display Home Centre Lots 16 to 19 Furlong Road St. Albans Planning Permit Application John Kontek and Son (Aust) Ltd Offices 237 - 241 Hampshire Road South West Corner Devonshire Road Sunshine Delegated Matters Mezzanine Level Storage Area W.L. Allen Foundry 3 Hulett Street Albion Planning Permit Application Subdivision (Industrial Lots) Reid Street Ardeer Planning Permit Application Factory / Office A.T. Stead Frederick Street Tottenham Planning Permit Application Factory Lots 14, 15 & 16 McIntyre Road Sunshine North Planning Permit Application Re-Positioning of Non-Illuminated Sign (Business Sign) St. Albans Community & Resource Centre Andrea Street St. Albans Planning Permit Application Residential Subdivision and Industrial Use St. Albans Road and Furlong Road St. Albans Planning Permit Application Re-Roofing of Factory 45 - 47 Market Road Sunshine Planning Permit Application I.C.I. Australia Operations Pty Ltd Polypropylene Film Plant Lot 1 Station Road Deer Park Planning Permit Application Warehouse Lots 313 & 314 Rothray Avenue Sunshine North Planning Permit Application Panel Sign 495 Ballarat Road Sunshine Planning Permit Application Cafe Ground floor Office First Floor 99 Glengala Road Sunshine West Planning Permit Application Medical Consulting Room and Town House Lot 2 Monash Street Sunshine Planning Permit Application Medical Consulting Room 16 Jackson Street Maidstone Planning Permit Application Illuminated Non Flashing Sign Tottenham Hotel Sunshine Road Tottenham Plan of Subdivision I.C.I. Middle Road, Fitzgerald Road and Station Road Deer Park Strata Subdivision 2 Oleander Drive St. Albans Plan of Subdivision Ballart Road Sunshine Plan of Transfer Discontinued Part of Former Eva Street South of Hall Street Sunshine West Installation of Intersection Signals Kings Road / Main Road West / Station Road St. Albans Availability of Sewers Albanvale Fairbairn Road Branch Sewer Section 4 and Sewerage Reticulation Area No 404 Report of the Building Surveyor Building on Land Liable to Flooding 35 The Esplanade Maribyrnong Building Department Telephone Service Location of Building 1 Adair Place Sunshine West Location of Building Lot 865 Warrington Crescent Deer Park Council Policy for Outbuildings Report of the Superintendent of Parks & Recreation Tenders for Fencing Various Reserves Schedule for Authorising of Affixing the Common Seal of the Municipality to Documents Orders of the Day Accounts Submitted for Payment as at 15th May 1981 Delegation of Authority Albion Community Houseitalo-australian social club, furlong road, st. albans, south road, showers street, braybrook, albion community house, selwyn park, selwyn street, albion, albion reid, reid street, alion reid tip, hillside crescent, maribyrnong, olex cables, sunshine road, olympia street, tottenham, hampshire road, devonshire road, sunshine, w.l. allen foundry, hulett street, a.t. stead, frederick street, mcintyre road, sunshine north, st. albans community & resource centre, andrea street, st. albans road, market road, i.c.i., station road, deer park, rothray avenue, ballarat road, glengala road, sunshine west, monash street, jackson street, maidstone, tottenham hotel, middle road, fitzgerald road, derrimut, oleander drive, eva street, hall street, kings road, main road west, the esplanade, adair place, warrington crescent

ID 5225 note: Further information relating to allotments marked on the hand-drawn plan are included in ID 5224 - Ringwood Station Estate.Typewritten letter from A.V. Greenwood with hand drawn plan of Ringwood Shop and Dwelling Estate, detailed description of property for sale, and top and side elevation views of house. (7 pages)(Transcript of first page - to unknown recipient) Phone 988 Central, 331 Canty Greenwood Pty. Ltd. 5 Flinders Street Melbourne. Dear Sir, 1. Attached please find drawings of my house at Ringwood. 2. It is for sale at £4,865 or to let at £5 per week to an approved tenant. 3. I sold it to Mr. De Garis and vacated it, but it is now back on my hands. 4. I leased another place instead of living in my own. I may be able to cancel same; in the meantime, however, I propose to sell or let my own. The painters are now going through the place; re-varnishing, re-oiling and re-polishing so that in about five days it will look "spick and span". 5. The house was specially built under my own supervision. 6. It is very suitable for a high class Guest House, Doctor's residence, Hospital or Convalescent Home. If you know of anyone whom it might suit, please communicate with them. DESCRIPTION 7. It stands on 305 feet of land facing Greenwood Avenue. It is cement, roughcast and hardwood, well oiled, and is now being redone so that the house is as good as new; red tile roof; verandahs three sides; two sleep-outs; five bedrooms; large dining room; very large music room with nooks, upstairs lounge, study; sewing room; built-in wardrobes and cupboards throughout; handsome kitchen with handsome pantry cupboard with drawers and glass front; one bath room; one shower room; wash house with patent copper and laundry. Every modern convenience, hot water system (through copper pipes with large copper cylinder) electric lights everywhere, outside and in, Yan Yean water laid on everwhere throughout house and gardens. Floors throughout are the very best, close set, stained and polished; dainty lead light windows etc. 8. There is a big garage, with tiled roof and two rooms with all conveniences for a married couple. Property is well drained with a system of its own. The house stands upon the top of a hill close to Railway Station, say 500 feet from the Footbridge. 9. The garden has expansive shrubs; sheds; fernery; tennis court. 10. A handsome piece of furniture goes with the house; a combination pantry and storeroom for groceries, milk, bread etc., consisting of drawers, glass and wire doors, as mentioned above. 11. It is within easy distance of Melbourne as it is only two minutes from Ringwood Station, which is a frequent electric train service bringing it within 39 minutes of the City. It is thought better by some to go further out into the country atmosphere and walk a short distance at the end than to go by train 20 minutes then walk 15 to 20 minutes. 12. The price quoted of £4,865 is made up as follows - 305 feet of land @ £5 ... £1,515 Garage and dwelling ... £300 House hot water system, American cupboard ... £2,600 Water, fencing, sheds & drain ... £250 For the lot ... £4,865 Should you require copies of the enclosed drawings I shall be pleased to supply same. 13. Mr. J.B. McAlpin is the local agent, Phone Ring. 7 (after hours Ring. 44) or you may phone me Central 988. 14. The house is south of the line, facing Greenwood Avenue and immediately at the back of Ringwood House, which is also my property. Yours sincerely, A.V. Greenwood (illegible) ..... (Transcript of second page) RINGWOOD SHOP AND DWELLING ESTATE See these letters on plan attached (H.) Ringwood House and Shops on 100 by 150 feet of land fronting Bedford Road 100 feet @ £10 per foot - £1,000 House and shops - £2,400 ... £3,400 Ringwood House consists of Boarding House, (Phone 101) and two shops, mainly brick; 9 inch walls. Will carry another story. Has music room, dining room, entrance halls, 10 bedrooms, large verandahs, all conveniences, hot and cold water, and stands on what will become a most valuable business corner. (F.)(G.) Mr. Greenwood's house, garage and sheds, stands on 307 feet of land fronting Greenwood Avenue. See detailed description attached ... £4,865 (J.) Cottage on Block 81 in William Street ... £750 (K.) Cottage in Pitt Street ... £650 (Total) £9,665 ..... (Description of third page - Subdivision Plan) Drawn by Edyth Greenwood, phone 988 Central. Subdivision includes Station Street, Pitt Street, Bedford Road, Wantirna Road, James Street, William Street (later Kendall Street), Greenwood Avenue, Ellison Street, and Haig Street. Circles denote blocks for sale. Squares denote house properties for sale. Other features marked include location of businesses along Main Street (Maroondah Highway), cool store, railway station, shop and police station on Bedford Road, church on Station Street, site of schoolmaster's residence and State School, and location of proposed public baths

Notice of Ordinary Meeting 18th August 1987 Part 1 Report of the Town Clerk's Department Report of the Acting Town Clerk Accounts Payable as at 31st July 1987 Redemption of Inscribed Stock Use of Council Vehicles Local Government Bill 1987 Fire Brigades Board Purchase of Myers Land Selwyn Park Illegal Use of Buildings Albion Rovers Soccer & Athletic Club Road Closure Part of Navigator Street Maribyrnong Road Closure Part of Right of Way Between Clyde Street, Navigator Street, The Esplanade & Chifley Drive Maribyrnong Road Closure The Right of Way Between Ensign Street & Chifley Drive Maribyrnong Estimates 1987/88 Community Notice Boards Striking of Special Rate Small Business Ratability Australia Post & Telecom Donations & Grants Western Vocational Association Nursing Home Appeal Sister Cities Sunshine - Nadur Malta (Australia - Nadur Association) Computers Supplementary Valuations Council of Adult Education Centres Notice of Motion Occupational Health & Safety Domestic Garbage Collection Heart Health Awareness Program for Employees National Heart Foundation of Australia Occupational Health & Safety Estimates 1987/88 Municipal Boundaries Errington Reserve Malta - United Philharmonic Band Request for Use of Pavilion Council Stationary Notice of Motion Estimates 1987/88 City of Mordialloc Police Manpower Lease Finance Computers Lease Finance Plant Pensioner Rate Assistance Scheme 1987/88 General Rate, Sanitary & Interest Adjustments / Abandonments for the Month of July 1987 Medway Golf Club & Sunshine Golf Club Payments in Lieu of Rates Formal Allotment of Street Numbers Suffolk Road & Eastcote Street Sunshine North Fire Hazards Adjustments / Abandonments for the Month of July 1987 The Sunshine Leisure Centre Debtor Accounts for Abandonment Rate, Sanitary & Interest Statements for the Period Ended 6th July 1987 Report of the Chief Health Surveyor Registration of Premises Health Act & Food Act Removal of Dwelling Outside the Municipality 17 Ainsworth Street Sunshine West to 63 Dunsford Street Lancefield Sanitary Contract Food Irradiation Notice of Motion Health Promotion Highpoint West Tourism Fair Report of the Superintendent Traffic & By-laws Dog Act Traffic & Parking Infringements Court Proceedings Dog Act Proposed Procession Croation Catholic Centre St. Albans to Ardeer Sunday 16th August 1987 Report of the Acting Chief Librarian Libraries Review The First Report Libraries Review The Second Report (Geddes Report) Workshop on Costings and Programme Budgeting for Public Libraries 1st - 2nd July 1987 Report Workshop on Output Measures for Public Libraries Municipal Officers' Association Meeting Regarding the Public Library Funding Issues July School Holiday Programme Municipal Library Funding Questionnaire Family Photographs and Family Life The Hunt Club Bicentennial Multicultural Arts Projects Music Performance at The Hunt Club Report of the Acting Manager of Community Services National Association of Based Children's Services Exersite Equipment Fogarty Place Social Club 29 Showers Street Braybrook Lions Club of Sunshine Senior Citizens' Centre Purchase of Curtains for Building Extensions The Family Aide Programme Maribyrnong Youth Club Facility Advisory Committee Nomination by the Polonia Soccer Club Holiday Programme Fees Marie Mill Community Centre West Sunshine Community Centre Landscaping Sunshine Community Nursing Home Primary Winter Holiday Program 1987 Sunshine Children's Week Committee Meals on Wheels Accounts Report of the Acting City Engineer Formation of New Neighbourhood Watch Areas M44, M45, M46, M47 & M48 Station Road Widening Refencing Albion Explosives Factory Gladstone Street to Furlong Road Contract Suffolk Road (North Side) Parking Restrictions Olympia Street (West Side) Disable Parking Bays Sunshine District Centre Associated Road Works Deer Park Railway Station Building (Old Weatherboard Office & Passenger Shelter to be removed due to vandalism) Tenders for 10kG/CM S/L/Load Tandem Drum Roller Tenders for the Supply of Two Way Radio Equipment Tenders for 1500 - 2000kG OP/CAP Tyred Loader Billingham Road Footbridge and Approaches MMBW Licence Public Lighting Boundary Road / Fitzgerald Road Roundabout Holmwood Road (West Side) Parking Prohibition Metropolitan Public Transport Industry Plan (Metplan) Traffic Control Items Progress Report on Various Works up to 31st July 1987 Tenders for 18 - 20 Tonne OP/WT Excavator and Hammer Safety of Older Pedestrians New Lease of Life for an Old Quarry at Bacchus March Proposed Carpark at Dempster Park Tenders Fairbairn Road Private Street Scheme Flooding Maribyrnong River 30th July 1987 Footbridges Across Kororoit Creek (Esmond Street & Miles Street) Railings Damaged by Floodmyers, footscray, albion rovers soccer & athletic club, selwyn park, selwyn street, albion, navigator street, clyde street, the esplanade, chifley drive, ensign street, maribyrnong, australia - nadur association, malta - united philharmonic band, errington reserve, main road east, st. albans, medway golf club, omar street, maidstone, sunshine golf club, ralph street, sunshine west, suffolk road, eastcote street, sunshine north, sunshine leisure centre, ainsworth street, the hunt club, ballarat road, deer park, fogarty place social club, showers street, lions club of sunshine, sunshine lions club, maribyrnong youth club, polonia soccer club, marie mill community centre, randall street, west sunshine community centre, kermeen street, sunshine community nursing home, albion explosives factory, station road, gladstone street, furlong road, olympia street, tottenham, deer park railway station, billingham road, billingham road bridge, kororoit creek, boundary road, fitzgerald road, brooklyn, holmwood road, dempster park, phoenix street, maribyrnong river, esmond street bridge, miles street bridge, ardeer

Notice of Ordinary Meeting of the Council 24th June 1980 Report of the Town Clerk's Department Report of the Town Clerk House Numbering Supplementary Valuations Revision of Voters' List Report of the Co-Ordinator of Welfare Services Braybrook Youth Project Youth Camping Programme Ridgeway Parade & Epalock Crescent Pre-School Centres Rent CYSS Centre 150 Durham Road Sunshine Volunteer Youth Resource Group Highpoint West Community Building Orama Street Child Care Centre Deer Park Report of the Chief Health Surveyor Extension of Contract Between the City of Sunshine and its Sanitary Contractor Removal of Dwelling Outside the Municipality 7 Stewart Street Braybrook to Lot 2 Maryborough Highway, Shelbourne East, Shire of Marong Removal of Dwelling Outside the Municipality 25 Warrs Road Maribyrnong to Lot 1 Dooley's Road, Simson, Maryborough Removal of Dwelling Outside the Municipality 14 Beachley Street Braybrook to Lot 2 Kialla, Goulburn Valley Highway, Shepparton Removal of Dwelling Outside the Municipality 59 South Road Braybrook to Lot 1 High Street, Greendale, Shire of Ballan Removal of Dwelling Outside the Municipality 14 Hotham Street Braybrook to Murrabit West, County of Gunbower Removal of Dwelling Outside the Municipality 3 Showers Street Braybrook to Murrabit West, County of Gunbower Removal of Dwelling Outside the Municipality 10 Stewart Street Braybrook to Lot 9A Parish of Pyalong, Toobora - Seymour Road, Tooborac Removal of Dwelling Outside the Municipality 20 Pritchard Avenue Braybrook to Lot 56 Parish of Undera, County of Rodney, Shepparton Maternal & Infant Welfare in Service Training Course 1st September 1980 to 31st October 1980 Authorisation of Officer Under the Summary Offence Act 1966 Builders' Sanitary Service Application for Transfer of Proprietorship of Premises Under the Health Act Health Act Registration for 1980 Removal of Dwelling Outside the Municipality 15 Kent Street Braybrook to Lot 2 Corrigans Road, Darraweit Guim, Shire of Romsey Removal of Dwelling Outside the Municipality 9 Hotham Street Braybrook to Lot 38 Fraser Spur Road, Neerin South Removal of Dwelling Outside the Municipality 21 Pritchard Avenue to Lot 7 Calder Highway, Harcourt, Shire of Metcalfe Aycliffe Drive Infant Welfare Centre Completion Within 6 Weeks Report of the Superintendent Traffic & By-Laws Dog Act Report of City Librarian Library Staff Report of the Municipal Recreation Officer Disadvantaged Schools (Supplementary Grants) Programme 1980 Olympic Games Australian Olympic Team Funding Request Leisure service Delivery for the Older People of Sunshine Report of the City Engineer & Planner Urban Land Authority Regional Shopping Centre Taylors Road St. Albans Planning Permit Application Flats Lot 472 Hendry Street Sunshine West Proposed Rezoning of Land Portion of M.M.B.W. Land Adjacent to Kororoit Creek with Frontage to Derby Road and Anderson Road Planning Permit Application Factory and First Floor Caretaker's Residence 10 Butler Street Braybrook Planning Permit Application Access to Geelong Road Lot 16 Geelong Road Brooklyn Proposed Amendment No 138 to the Western Metropolitan Planning Scheme Planning Permit Squash Court Centre Lots 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 & Part 12 Highpoint West Shopping Centre Rosamond Road Maribyrnong Planning Permit Child Services Centre Andrea Street St. Albans Planning Permit Application Floodlights Addition to Existing Sports Ground I.C.I. Oval Ballarat Road Deer Park by Deer Park Football Club Planning Permit Application Extensions to the Existing Our Ladys of the Immaculate Conception Primary School Lots 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 & 35 Monash Street Sunshine Planning Permit Application Factory Lot 13 McIntyre Road Sunshine North Planning Permit Application Underground Tank for Flammable Fuel Station Road Deer Park Planning Permit Application Illuminated Pole Sign 106 Mitchell Street Maidstone Planning Permit Application Five Flats 46 Monash Street Corner Cornwall Road Sunshine Planning Permit Application Nursing Home Lot 4 Devonshire Road Sunshine Planning Permit Application Restaurant and Associated Signs Red Rooster 204 - 206 & 210 Ballarat Road Maidstone Planning Permit Application Garden and Building Supplies Lots 13 & 14 Francis Street Brooklyn Planning Permit Application Garden and Building Supplies Lot 16 Geelong Road Brooklyn Contracts Hire of Trucks and Water Cart Tenders Contracts Hire of Plant Tenders Contract Construction of Part of Neale Road Deer Park Strata Subdivision lot 472 Hendry Street Sunshine West Consolidation of Title Three Lots B.P. Australia Ballarat Road Maidstone Construction of Justin Road Dempster Street Tottenham Proposal to Develop the Ashley Street / Paramount Road Route as a Major North South Arterial Road Neighbourhood Employment development Program Bluestone Street Works Highpoint West Welfare Complex Deer Park Children's Community Centre 3 Hume Street Deer Park Castley Hall Maintenance Issues Depot Workshop Report of the Building Surveyor Building Over Easement 22 Wendy Way Sunshine West Building Over Easement 7 Charlotte Street Sunshine West Building Over Easement 13 Salvia Street St. Albans Building Over Easement Lot 28 Gillon Court St. Albans Building Closer to Boundary Lot 37 Meadowbank Drive Sunshine North Underground Fuel Tank Station Road Deer Park Schedule for Authorising of Affixing the Common seal of the Municipality to Documents Orders of the Day Accounts Submitted for Payment as at 15th June 1980ridgeway parade pre-school centre, ridgeway parade, sunshine west, epalock crescent pre-school centre, epalock crescent, st. albans, durham road, sunshine, orama street child care centre, orama street, deer park, stewart street, braybrook, warrs road, maribyrnong, beachley street, south road, hotham street, showers street, pritchard avenue, kent street, aycliffe drive infant welfare centre, aycliffe drive, taylors road, hendry street, kororoit creek, derby road, anderson road, butler street, geelong road, brooklyn, highpoint west shopping centre, rosamond road, andrea street, i.c.i. oval, ballarat road, deer park football club, our ladys of the immaculate conception primary school, monash street, mcintyre road, sunshine north, station road, mitchell street, maidstone, cornwall road, devonshire road, red rooster, francis street, neale road, justin road, tottenham, dempster street, ashley street, paramount road, highpoint west welfare complex, deer park children's community centre, hume street, castley hall, simmie street, wendy way, charlotte street, salvia street, gillon court, meadowbank drive

Minutes of the Ordinary Meeting of Council held on 16th September 1980 Report of the Town Clerk's Department Report of the Town Clerk Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works Representation Training of Swimming Pool Attendants The Hunt Club Hotel Offer From Owners to Sell it to the Council for $10,000 Barclay Reserve Extensions by Sunshine Baseball Club Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works Open Space Agreement Land Bounded by Duffy Street, Van Ness Avenue and Burton Crescent Maribyrnong Child Care Project Cherry Crescent Loan from Housing Commission Walkway Adjacent to Southwold Street Pre-School Centre Extending to Orford Street St. Albans Proposed Discontinuance of Right of Way Orana Court Sunshine West Proposed Discontinuance of Right of Way Adjacent to 16 Centre Street Sunshine Formal Allotment of Street Number Municipality Grid Map Ref K04 Formal Allotment of Street Number Municipality Grid Map Ref K05 Formal Allotment of Street Number Municipality Grid Map Ref K05 Funding From Volunteer Learning Groups The Community Arts Conference 19th - 22nd July 1980 Victoria Hotel Melbourne Report of the Co-Ordinator of Welfare Services Western Region Committee of the Ageing Regularisation of Status Programme (ROSP) Community Youth Support Scheme Albion Community House Selwyn Park Albion Tennis Club to move to new Pavilion Report of the Chief Health Surveyor Australia Institute of Health Surveyors 7th National Conference Brisbane 13th - 17th October 1980 Infant Welfare Service Maternal & Infant Welfare in Service Training Course 1st September 1980 to 31st October 1980 Health Act Registrations Application for Transfer of Proprietorship of Premises Under the Health Act Prosecution Proceedings Sunshine Magistrates Couty Offensive Trade Area Werribee Report of the Medical Officer of Health Report of the Superintendent of Traffic & By-Laws Joint Advisory Committee on Pets in Society (Jacopis) Seminar Essendon Civic Centre 3rd September 1980 Report Report of the City Librarian Technilib Board of Directors Library Association of Australia & New Zealand Library Association Combined Conference 1981 Change of Hours at Corio Street Library Report of the Municipal Recreation Offices Allocation of Reserves for 1980/81 Summer Season Report of the City Engineer & Planner Planning Permit Application Basketball Stadium Robert Barrett Reserve Planning Permit Application Factory Douglas Street Sunshine North Planning Permit Two Factories and Caretaker's Residence Lots 40 & 41 Butler Street Braybrook Planning Permit Application Warehouse and Industrial Sales (Tiles) Lots 20, 29 & 30 McIntyre Road Sunshine North Planning Permit Application Office Extension 169 Rosamond Road Maribyrnong Planning Permit Application Retail Plant Nursery South West Corner of Raleigh Road and Burton Crescent Maribyrnong Planning Permit Application Take Away Food Premises and Restaurant Shop 103B Deer Park Shopping Centre Neale Road Deer Park Planning Permit Application Pole Sign Lot 19 Geelong Road North East Corner Francis Street Brooklyn Planning Permit Application Additon of Equipment Shed and Players Bench Sunshine Baseball Club Barclay Reserve Albion Planning Permit Alterations to Deer Park Shopping Centre Neale Road Deer Park Planning Permit Used Car Sales Yard, Motor Repair Station and Junk Yard (Car Wrecking) 594 Ballarat Road Ardeer Planning Permit Application Hot Bread Kitchen Light Industry 119 South Road and Lawton Street Braybrook Planning Permit Application Car Sales Yard Ballarat Road Braybrook Planning Permit Dental and Medical Consulting Room (Both Sole Practices Only) Lots 192 & 1973 Fairbairn Road Sunshine West Planning Permit Three Flats Lots 23 & 25 Madden Street Maidstone Planning Permit Application Extension to Existing Educational Establishment St. Johns College Land Bounded by Churchill Avenue, Dobson Crescent and Darnley Street Braybrook Planning Permit Application New 7 Used Car Sales and Service Dealership 209 Ballarat Road Maidstone Proposed Rezoning of Land Situated in Metherall Street Sunshine North Planning Permit Flats Lots 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8 Metherall Street Sunshine North Planning Permit Application Access to Ballarat Road Sunshine Planning Permit Application Warehouse and Workshop Lot 279 Arvona Avenue Sunshine North Planning Permit Transport Depot 1 Duke Street Braybrook Planning Permit Application Factory Lots 14, 15 & 16 McIntyre Road Sunshine North Planning Permit Application Additon of Milk Carton Mixer Plant to Existing S.C.I. Meat & Paper Pty Ltd Industrial Complex Somerville Road Tottenham Planning Permit Application Car Sales Yard 205 - 207 Ballarat Road Maidstone Central and Western Area Commission Technical Advisory Groups Plan of Transfer and Consolidation Wright Street Sunshine City Council and M.Y.M. Building Supplies Consolidation of Title Thorpe Street Sunshine Plan of Subdivision Hook Street and Vule Street St. Albans Consolidation of Title ETA Ballarat Road and Lacy Street Braybrook Plan of Subdivison Ballarat Road Sunshine Plan of Transfer Lot 2 Anderson Road Sunshine Stony Creek Tenders for Annual Supplies Lawrence Street Bridge Ardeer Half Cost Fencing Policy Proposed Pavilion Pennell Reserve Braybrook Report of the Building Surveyor Building Over Easement 18 Lovell Drive St. Albans Building Over Easement 191 Hall Street Ardeer Building Over Easement 2 Concord Circuit Albanvale Schedule for Authorising of Affixing the Common Seal of the Municipality to Documents Orders of the Day Accounts Submitted for Payment as at 15th September 1980 Proposal to Close Part of Showers Street and Rochester Street Braybrook Under the Provisions of Section 528 of the Local Government Act 1958sunshine baseball club, barclay reserve, king edward avenue, albion, duffy street, burton crescent, maribyrnong, cherry crescent, braybrook, southwold street, st. albans, orana court, sunshine west, centre street, sunshine, the hunt club hotel, ballarat road, deer park, van ness avenue, cherry crescent child care centre, southwold street pre-school centre, robert barrett reserve, rosamond road, douglas street, sunshine north, butler street, mcintyre road, raleigh road, deer park shopping centre, neale road, geelong road, francis street, brooklyn, ardeer, south road, lawton street, fairbairn road, madden street, maidstone, st. johns college, churchill avenue, dobson crescent, darnley street, metherall street, arvona avenue, duke street, s.c.i. meat & paper pty ltd, somerville road, tottenham, wright street, thorpe street, hook street, vule street, eta, anderson road, stony creek, lawrence street bridge, lawrence street, lovell drive, hall street, concord circuit, albanvale, rochester street, showers street

Notice of Ordinary Meeting of the Council 16th September 1980 Report of the Town Clerk's Department Report of the Town Clerk Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works Representation Training of Swimming Pool Attendants The Hunt Club Hotel Offer From Owners to Sell it to the Council for $10,000 Barclay Reserve Extensions by Sunshine Baseball Club Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works Open Space Agreement Land Bounded by Duffy Street, Van Ness Avenue and Burton Crescent Maribyrnong Child Care Project Cherry Crescent Loan from Housing Commission Walkway Adjacent to Southwold Street Pre-School Centre Extending to Orford Street St. Albans Proposed Discontinuance of Right of Way Orana Court Sunshine West Proposed Discontinuance of Right of Way Adjacent to 16 Centre Street Sunshine Formal Allotment of Street Number Municipality Grid Map Ref K04 Formal Allotment of Street Number Municipality Grid Map Ref K05 Formal Allotment of Street Number Municipality Grid Map Ref K05 Funding From Volunteer Learning Groups The Community Arts Conference 19th - 22nd July 1980 Victoria Hotel Melbourne Report of the Co-Ordinator of Welfare Services Western Region Committee of the Ageing Regularisation of Status Programme (ROSP) Community Youth Support Scheme Albion Community House Selwyn Park Albion Tennis Club to move to new Pavilion Report of the Chief Health Surveyor Australia Institute of Health Surveyors 7th National Conference Brisbane 13th - 17th October 1980 Infant Welfare Service Maternal & Infant Welfare in Service Training Course 1st September 1980 to 31st October 1980 Health Act Registrations Application for Transfer of Proprietorship of Premises Under the Health Act Prosecution Proceedings Sunshine Magistrates Couty Offensive Trade Area Werribee Report of the Medical Officer of Health Report of the Superintendent of Traffic & By-Laws Joint Advisory Committee on Pets in Society (Jacopis) Seminar Essendon Civic Centre 3rd September 1980 Report Report of the City Librarian Technilib Board of Directors Library Association of Australia & New Zealand Library Association Combined Conference 1981 Change of Hours at Corio Street Library Report of the Municipal Recreation Offices Allocation of Reserves for 1980/81 Summer Season Report of the City Engineer & Planner Planning Permit Application Basketball Stadium Robert Barrett Reserve Planning Permit Application Factory Douglas Street Sunshine North Planning Permit Two Factories and Caretaker's Residence Lots 40 & 41 Butler Street Braybrook Planning Permit Application Warehouse and Industrial Sales (Tiles) Lots 20, 29 & 30 McIntyre Road Sunshine North Planning Permit Application Office Extension 169 Rosamond Road Maribyrnong Planning Permit Application Retail Plant Nursery South West Corner of Raleigh Road and Burton Crescent Maribyrnong Planning Permit Application Take Away Food Premises and Restaurant Shop 103B Deer Park Shopping Centre Neale Road Deer Park Planning Permit Application Pole Sign Lot 19 Geelong Road North East Corner Francis Street Brooklyn Planning Permit Application Additon of Equipment Shed and Players Bench Sunshine Baseball Club Barclay Reserve Albion Planning Permit Alterations to Deer Park Shopping Centre Neale Road Deer Park Planning Permit Used Car Sales Yard, Motor Repair Station and Junk Yard (Car Wrecking) 594 Ballarat Road Ardeer Planning Permit Application Hot Bread Kitchen Light Industry 119 South Road and Lawton Street Braybrook Planning Permit Application Car Sales Yard Ballarat Road Braybrook Planning Permit Dental and Medical Consulting Room (Both Sole Practices Only) Lots 192 & 1973 Fairbairn Road Sunshine West Planning Permit Three Flats Lots 23 & 25 Madden Street Maidstone Planning Permit Application Extension to Existing Educational Establishment St. Johns College Land Bounded by Churchill Avenue, Dobson Crescent and Darnley Street Braybrook Planning Permit Application New 7 Used Car Sales and Service Dealership 209 Ballarat Road Maidstone Proposed Rezoning of Land Situated in Metherall Street Sunshine North Planning Permit Flats Lots 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8 Metherall Street Sunshine North Planning Permit Application Access to Ballarat Road Sunshine Planning Permit Application Warehouse and Workshop Lot 279 Arvona Avenue Sunshine North Planning Permit Transport Depot 1 Duke Street Braybrook Planning Permit Application Factory Lots 14, 15 & 16 McIntyre Road Sunshine North Planning Permit Application Additon of Milk Carton Mixer Plant to Existing S.C.I. Meat & Paper Pty Ltd Industrial Complex Somerville Road Tottenham Planning Permit Application Car Sales Yard 205 - 207 Ballarat Road Maidstone Central and Western Area Commission Technical Advisory Groups Plan of Transfer and Consolidation Wright Street Sunshine City Council and M.Y.M. Building Supplies Consolidation of Title Thorpe Street Sunshine Plan of Subdivision Hook Street and Vule Street St. Albans Consolidation of Title ETA Ballarat Road and Lacy Street Braybrook Plan of Subdivison Ballarat Road Sunshine Plan of Transfer Lot 2 Anderson Road Sunshine Stony Creek Tenders for Annual Supplies Lawrence Street Bridge Ardeer Half Cost Fencing Policy Proposed Pavilion Pennell Reserve Braybrook Report of the Building Surveyor Building Over Easement 18 Lovell Drive St. Albans Building Over Easement 191 Hall Street Ardeer Building Over Easement 2 Concord Circuit Albanvale Schedule for Authorising of Affixing the Common Seal of the Municipality to Documents Orders of the Day Accounts Submitted for Payment as at 15th September 1980 Proposal to Close Part of Showers Street and Rochester Street Braybrook Under the Provisions of Section 528 of the Local Government Act 1958sunshine baseball club, barclay reserve, king edward avenue, albion, duffy street, burton crescent, maribyrnong, cherry crescent, braybrook, southwold street, st. albans, orana court, sunshine west, centre street, sunshine, the hunt club hotel, ballarat road, deer park, van ness avenue, cherry crescent child care centre, southwold street pre-school centre, robert barrett reserve, rosamond road, douglas street, sunshine north, butler street, mcintyre road, raleigh road, deer park shopping centre, neale road, geelong road, francis street, brooklyn, ardeer, south road, lawton street, fairbairn road, madden street, maidstone, st. johns college, churchill avenue, dobson crescent, darnley street, metherall street, arvona avenue, duke street, s.c.i. meat & paper pty ltd, somerville road, tottenham, wright street, thorpe street, hook street, vule street, eta, anderson road, stony creek, lawrence street bridge, lawrence street, lovell drive, hall street, concord circuit, albanvale, rochester street, showers street

Thursday, December 15, 1949, the quiet little bank was embroiled in an infamous wild shoot-out between a daring thief and two bank officers. Today, the building still carries the scars ; a bullet hole remains visible in a cedar bench testifying to the events that played out that day. 3.30 a.m., Friday, December 9. The manager of the Commercial Bank branch at Greensborough, Mr Harry Wallace and his wife are asleep in their bedroom of the little house behind the branch. Harry is awakened by a noise and sees an intruder in a corner of the bedroom. He calls out but the intruder who has switched off the power in anticipation flees through a side door and scarpers down Main Street. Harry summons the police but a search by First Constable Thomas of the Greensborough Police assisted by a wireless patrol car is unsuccessful. A report is filed noting the theft of a .25 calibre pistol from the wardrobe. Thursday, December 15th. It is 1pm and the Commercial Bank has just opened. The branch is only open Mondays and Thursdays from 1-3pm. The morning started off a little cool with some scattered showers but it has fined up and the temperature is now around 61 degrees (16 C). A new grey Singer sports car with soft-top pulls up on the opposite side of the road and a young man, neatly dressed in a dark blue suit, wearing a grey hat and carrying a brief case exits the vehicle. He looks around then crosses the road and walks up the steps and through the door into the bank. There are three people inside; Mr. Jack Burgoyne whose grocery store is situated just 50 yards up the road, Mr. Lindsay A. Spears, the Eltham Agency Receiving Officer and by chance, Mr Harry Wallace, manager of the Greensborough branch. Jack Burgoyne takes note of the young stranger; thinking to himself he appears nervous. The man approaches the counter and introduces himself as John Henderson of Greensborough and explains that he wishes to open a new account. He places his hat and £3 on the counter. Mr Spears attends to the paperwork. He asks the young man to sign two forms, which he does but then he withdraws from the counter and starts walking towards the door. Suddenly he spins around pulling an automatic pistol from his right-hand pocket. He exclaims forcefully; “The game’s on! I’ll take the lot!” Spears appears to comply by pretending to open a drawer. The man shouts loudly, “Keep your hand away from that drawer.” Spears instead reaches for a pistol in his pocket and challenges the man, “Here it is. Come and get it!” At the same time, Harry Wallace pulls a pistol from his pocket as well. The bandit fires a shot but misses, the bullet striking the counter. Both Spears and Wallace open fire and Jack Burgoyne ducks for cover. As the bandit turns and runs for the door leaving his £3 behind, he fires another shot, which strikes the ceiling. Spears fires back, and thinks he may have hit him in the foot. The bandit flees the bank and heads for the grey Singer car, registration NO-106, parked opposite. Wallace and Spears pursue him to the door and open fire again, striking the car three times around the driver’s door. Spears lets off eight shots and Wallace, seven before his gun jams. The getaway car initially heads slowly down Main Road towards Bridge Street. About 100 yards down the road, Dave Adams, a PMG employee, who has heard the shots, throws a steel manhole step at the driver. It hits the roof of the car nine inches above the driver’s head and tears the hood. Another witness claims to have seen the door blow open and the driver raise his hand. The car gathers speed and swings left into Bridge Street racing along at about 60 miles an hour careering recklessly past council employee, Mr. Percy Williams, who is driving a dray along Smarts Road [believed to be Bridge Street]. At the end of the road the Singer fails to get round the sharp turn and crashes into an embankment skidding to a stop outside the home of Mr John Clifford. One side of the car is wrecked. Mr Clifford, an aircraft engineer hears the fast travelling car bump heavily into the road bank at about 1.25 p.m. Hearing the whine of an engine he goes outside to find the grey Singer parked at the side of the road. Jack George also lives at the corner and hears the car crash. “The bandit opened the car door, ran 50 yards, and suddenly turned back,” exclaims Jack. “He took something from the car. It might have been a gun.” In his haste, the bandit drops his grey felt hat, size 6 7/8, on the road and dashes up Sherbourne Road for about 200 yards then disappears into the scrub carrying a brief case and a bundle in which a sailor’s cap can be seen. About 3 p.m., Mr H.D. Pettie of Mountain View Road, Montmorency is looking through his field glasses and notices a young man walking through thick scrub on private property some distance from his house. The man is wearing a sailor’s cap and disappears along the railway track toward Montmorency. As the day progresses, ten police cars, one motor cycle, and about 40 police led by Det. Sgt. McMennemin of Malvern CIB are searching for him. They believe he is hiding in thick scrub along the bank of the creek about half-a-mile outside Eltham township. Wireless patrol cars, four mobile traffic cars and the CIB area cars from Malvern and Kew are taking part. Police check the thief’s car and discover it was stolen from Helen Baxter, of Doncaster Road, North Balwyn from outside Victoria Barracks. Harry Wallace informs the police that he believes he recognised the bandit as the man who took his pistol from his bedroom the previous Friday morning. As night falls, armed police are posted at strategic points in the Eltham-Greensborough district. Police in cars are watching the roads. Others are searching the bush and checking passengers on trains. Little do they realise the young man has already slipped out of the net. SEQUEL YOUTH OF 19 CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED ARMED ROBBERY OF BANK AT ELTHAM Weekly Times, Wednesday 15 February 1950, page 6 Detectives who raided a house in Bell St., Coburg, Melbourne, charged a 19-year-old youth, of South Yarra, with attempted armed robbery at the Commercial Bank’s Eltham (Vic.) receiving depot on Dec. 15. Police say they recovered a loaded automatic pistol, diamond and signet rings worth more than £200, a complete set of house-breaking instruments, a sailor’s uniform, and chloroform gauze in the raid. The youth was charged that while armed with an offensive weapon, he attempted to rob Lindsay George Spears of a sum of money. He was further charged on six counts of breaking, entering and stealing. Police allege that the person who tried to hold up Mr Spears in the Commercial Bank receiving depot at Eltham on December 15. escaped in a stolen car, after Mr Spears and Mr Henry Wallace, manager of the bank’s Greensborough branch, had fired at him. After the car crashed, he escaped into thick scrub and is alleged to have changed into a sailor’s uniform. On December 9 an automatic pistol was stolen from Mr Wallace’s bedroom at the Greensborough bank. The chloroform pad recovered is alleged to have been stolen from the Dental Supply Company, Plenty Road, Preston. The rings are alleged to have been taken in a £513 burglary from the shop of James Paton. Sydney Road, Coburg. Det. Sgt. H. McMennemin conducted the investigations with Senior Dets. R. Newton and M Downie, Detectives l. Dent, R. Rayner, P. Pedersen and M. Handley and First Constable A. Thomas. The youth will appear at Eltham Court on February 22. Manager’s Gun Used in Holdup at Bank The Age, Thursday 23 February 1950, page 4 It was stated in Eltham court yesterday that a youth who robbed a bank manager of his pistol, later used it in an attempt to hold-up the bank. Kay Arthur Morgan, 19, draftsman, of Castle-street, South Yarra, was committed for trial on charges of breaking and entering, and stealing a pistol and attempted robbery while armed with an offensive weapon. He pleaded guilty. The manager of Eltham branch of the Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd., Henry Clifton Cabot Wallace, said he disturbed someone in the bedroom, in which he and his wife were sleeping, at 3 a.m. on December. 9, 1949. Later he found that his automatic- pistol was missing. On December 15 a youth, who said his name was John Henderson, entered the bank and opened a new account. As the youth was leaving the bank he turned round with a pistol in his hand and said: — “I want the lot.” Spear indicated a drawer under the counter; and said.— “Here it is. Come and get it.” The youth said:— “Keep your hand away from that drawer.” Witness said Spear then drew his pistol from his hip pocket. The youth fired at them, and Spear returned the fire. “I pulled my pistol and fired, too” said witness. The youth fired again, ran out to a car and drove off. Witness and Spear fired several shots at the car. The youth was the accused Morgan, sitting in court, witness said. Evidence was given that one bullet was found in the celling and the other in the bank. Morgan was allowed £100 bail on each charge. Morgan ended up serving three years for the failed armed robbery and became a notorious criminal. He had twin sons, Peter and Doug and even though only ten years old, Morgan would get his sons to act as lookouts whilst he committed burglaries. The lads became building contractors but when the industry suffered a downturn in 1977 and they were short on cash, they returned to the family business. Over the following 23 months they undertook 24 raids on country and outer-suburban TABs and banks. Whilst robbing one country bank for the third time, just like their father, it all went wrong ending up with a police officer shot. They were nick-named the “After-dark” bandits and are considered to be Australia’s last bushrangers. They were convicted and served 17 years in prison.5 x A4 photocopied pagesbank hold-up, cba bank, det sgt mcmennemin, eltham, h.d. pettie, harry wallace, jack burgoyne, kay arthur morgan, lindsay a. spears, main road

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Published: The Age, Sat 14 October 1933 Published title: A Royal Portrait Published caption: "Seen at his studio, Alphington, Mr. W. B. Mclnnes's portrait of the Duke of York, which he painted recently on commission from the trustees of the Castlemaine Gallery, at St. John’s Wood, London, impresses as a vital record of one whose natural habitat is a palace, and whose place in life is one of near relationship to the throne of England. The Duke is painted in the uniform of the admiral of the fleet, a highly ornate vesture entailing much elaboration of gold and numerous medals, in dealing with which the artist has not failed to centre his attention on the head, and has succeeded in producing what is undoubtedly a soundly painted portrait and a good likeness. During the five fittings Mr. Mclnnes, apart from the ordinary social amenities, found his Royal sitter little inclined to talk, though he spoke feelingly of his trip to Australia and the pleasure it had given him: but with the Duchess the tendency to be sociable was much more clearly pronounced. She took, and expressed, a keen interest in the social and political matters of the day with a special concern for the supremacy of England and Australia in all questions relating to sport, such as cricket, tennis and golf. She spoke well of her portrait painted by Quinn, and regretted that she would not see the two hung side by side at the Castlemaine Gallery." Description: An unframed painting of a standing, middle-aged man dressed in the uniform of a Royal Navy admiral of the Fleet with medals, sash, ornate belt, cuffs and epaulettes. His left hand rests on the handle of a sword in its scabbard and his bicorn hat and white gloves are on a table beside him. To his right is a globe of the world showing Australia. Research by project volunteer, Fiona Collyer: In 1933, Castlemaine Art Gallery trustees commissioned artist W.B. McInnes (1889-1939) to paint a portrait of Prince Albert, Duke of York as a companion piece to the portrait of his wife, the Duchess of York, that the gallery had commissioned Australian official war artist James Quinn (1869-1951) to paint in 1930. During the First World War, the Duchess’s childhood home, Glamis Castle in Scotland was used as a makeshift military hospital and convalescence home for wounded soldiers. Many servicemen from the Castlemaine area recuperated there and had fond memories of the kindness of the teenage Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1900-2002, later Duchess of York) who spent the war years running errands and aiding in the welfare and morale of the patients. In 1927, the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth) came to Australia to formally open the newly built Parliament House in Canberra and to tour the country. While visiting Victoria in April, they embarked on a whistle-stop train journey to Bendigo, stopping at Kyneton for ten minutes and Castlemaine for 15 minutes. At Kyneton, an excited crowd of 10,000 people welcomed the couple with “three cheers and three cheers for Baby Betty” before the Duchess was presented with a bouquet of locally grown roses and the Duke a bound album of photographs of noted beauty spots of the district. Next the Royal Couple stopped at Castlemaine to the cheers of 15,000 people. There the couple were presented with a basket of prime quality Harcourt apples and a pair of cot blankets, manufactured at Castlemaine Woollen Mills, a birthday gift for baby Princess Betty. The Duchess recognised Colonel W.E. James, of the Seventh Battalion, who had convalesced at Glamis Castle in 1917, and they chatted before the train departed, while the Duke shook hands with returned soldiers. Last stop was the town of Bendigo which was colourfully decorated with bunting and flags, arches and flowers. 3000 pigeons were released on their arrival and the liberated birds circled overhead for several minutes as if to welcome the Royal Couple. A crowd of 50,000 cheering people lined the streets in bright sunshine as the couple drove by. From an arch over Hargreaves Street, pretty girls showered the pair with rose petals. The Duke was presented with a gold nugget and an album, handsomely bound in morocco, of a history of the Bendigo mining industry, while the Duchess received a bouquet of prize winning white chrysanthemums. After 75 minutes in Bendigo they journeyed back to Melbourne for a State reception. While the couple were in Melbourne, the Duke often played lawn tennis at the Government House courts with three times Grand Slam champion Norman Brookes, who declared that while he considered the Duke a second class player whose serve lacked sting, he had a fine backhand and with time and practice he could become a first class player. The federal Parliament had previously been situated in Melbourne, but Canberra was chosen as the location for Australia’s capital as a compromise between fierce rival states, Victoria and NSW. It is written in the Constitution that the federal capital would be in “the State of NSW... distant not less than one hundred miles from Sydney.” The word Canberra is thought to derive from the local Ngunnawal word “Kanbarra” meaning “meeting place”. The Provisional Parliament House was a large, white, three storey building facetiously dubbed “The Wedding Cake”, plonked down in a bare, former sheep paddock. It was decorated for the event with Union Jacks and Australian red ensign flags. On 9 May, the day of the opening, the expectant crowd assembled in front of the building. Only two of the spectators were Aboriginal. One was Jimmy Clements (1847-1927, aka Nangar or Yangar, but popularly known as “King Billy”), accompanied by his three dogs. (The title “King” or “Queen” was often given by white settlers to Aborigines who were seen as allies and could maintain good relations between First Nations groups and the colonists. Some were given inscribed brass breastplates or gorgets to wear.) Jimmy was an excellent horse breaker and expert tracker for the police. He was also the nephew of “Queen” Nellie Hamilton (1842-1897) of the Canberra-Queanbeyan region, home of the Ngambri and Ngunnawal people. Nellie was the oldest surviving full-blooded Aboriginal woman in the district. The other was George John Noble (1840s-1928, aka Ooloogan, also “Marvellous” due to his regular use of the word). Both were initiated Wiradjuri walamira elders: “clever men” believed to have the ability to heal physical and spiritual ailments. They were also travelling showmen, skilled at boomerang and spear throwing and often performed at country agricultural shows and football matches. They had walked barefoot for three days from the Brungle Mission, near Gundagai. 11 May 1927, The Argus reported that “King Billy... claims sovereign rights to the Federal Territory” which the National Archives of Australia describes as “possibly the first recorded instance of Aboriginal protest at Parliament House in Canberra.” 10 May 1927, The Argus reported on Jimmy Clements: “During the wait great interest was taken in the appearance near the east stand of an aborigine, a member of the Gundagai tribe, and a well known character in the district. He was very old and grey and ruggedly picturesque. He was determined to go his own way in spite of the arguments of two inspectors and one sergeant of police. Immediately and instinctively the crowd in the stands rallied to his side. There were choruses of advice and encouragement for him to do as he pleased. A well-known clergyman stood up and called out that the aborigine had a better right than any man present to a place on the steps of the House of Parliament and in the Senate during the ceremony. The old man’s persistence and the sympathy of the crowd won him an excellent position and also a shower of small change that must have amounted to 30/ or 40/ [shillings].” At 10.30 am, Australia’s eighth Prime Minister, Mr Stanley Bruce (1923-1929) welcomed the Royal couple onto the crimson carpeted portico. Unfortunately, Dame Nellie Melba’s rendition of “God Save the King” and the greater part of the Duke’s reply was drowned out by the roar of squadrons of aeroplanes circling overhead. A brief religious service followed, conducted by leaders of the Methodist, Presbyterian and Anglican churches. Interestingly, there was no Roman Catholic representation at the ceremony even though around one quarter of Australians were Catholic at the time. The Duke unlocked the front doors with a golden key, then unveiled a statue of his father King George V by sculptor Sir Bertram Mackennal in the King’s Hall. Then the official party, Senators, members of the House of Representatives and invited guests entered the Senate chamber where the Duke read a message from the King, establishing Canberra as the seat of the Federal Government, watched on by Australia’s elite. The conclusion of the ceremony was announced by a gay fanfare of trumpets from the entrance of Parliament House and a 21 gun salute and answered by cheers from the crowd. The dignitaries then feasted on a luncheon of turtle soup, poached schnapper, fillets of beef, roast chicken and ham, straw potatoes, green peas, Canberra Pudding (a pudding made with dripping, dried fruit and jam), fruit, ices, coffee and cheese. They toasted the King with non-alcoholic fruit punch as the Federal Capital Territory (later ACT) was a “dry” area and no speeches were made. The diary entry that day of Ethel Baird, Lady Stonehaven, the wife of the Governor-General, is brief and to the point: “To P.H. & waited for Yorks. Ceremony went off without a hitch. Ghastly Banquet Lunch.” Later that day, the Duke mounted a coal black mare, police horse Number 303 which had been hastily re-named “Black Bess” for the occasion, to receive the final salute from the assembled troops and returned soldiers dressed in mufti. The RAAF squadron were flying overhead in “V” formations when suddenly, one of the planes, piloted by Flying Officer Francis Charles Ewen, left the formation, nose-diving 900 metres from Parliament House and landing behind the Y.W.C.A. refreshment marquee. Francis, aged only 28, tragically died of his wounds later that day. The Federal Capital Commission contracted Sargent’s Pies of Sydney to supply 5000 meals for the event. They supplied pies, sausage rolls, scones and sandwiches with the agreed price of 3 shillings a head. Only 1200 meals were served and the uneaten remainder dumped, with the Commission bearing the cost of the unsold food. An estimated crowd of 20,000 attended the opening, far fewer than the expected 100,000. Many visitors travelled long distances, bringing their own hampers of food and camping in tents as there was very limited accommodation available. Thousands of people around Australia listened to the ceremony broadcast on the wireless, with receiving sets installed in schools, public halls and workplaces and it was also filmed for posterity. The next morning, the Royal couple, along with Prime Minister Bruce and Mrs Bruce held an informal public reception on the steps of Parliament House where early settlers, residents and visitors to Canberra filed past them. The Press widely reported Jimmy Clements’ encounter with the Duke and Duchess. The Sun-Pictorial reported 11 May 1927: "MET THE DUKE. ABORIGINE KING HE APPROVED Sugarbag: Sports Suit. John Clements, otherwise King Billy, a full blooded aborigine king, aged 86, was among the 2000 who filed past the Duke and the Duchess at the public reception at Canberra to day. “How you likem Duke and Duchess Billy?” he was asked afterwards. “I think they are both very nice.” he replied in good English. King Billy was a very bedraggled figure, with tangled locks and a beard which almost hid his wrinkled and black face. He wore an old sports suit and carried a sugarbag. Passing the Duke and Duchess he turned full towards them. The crowd cheered, and the Duke and Duchess smiled. The Duke was particularly amused.” The Canberra Times reported 13 May 1927: "A REAL AUSTRALIAN. A quaint but pathetic figure stood in broad relief in the queue of ranks at the reception. Where his dusky forbears have gathered in native ceremonial for centuries past, a lone representative of a fast vanishing race saluted visiting Royalty. Despite the grotesque garb and untamed mane the aborigine comported himself not without dignity. With his three faithful dogs, he made an immediate target for a battery of cameras.” "The Argus reported 11 May 1927: "...an ancient aborigine who calls himself King Billy and who claims sovereign rights to the federal Territory walked slowly forward alone and saluted the Duke and Duchess. They cheerily acknowledged his greeting. The old aborigine, with his long, matted beard and nondescript clothing, is a popular identity of Canberra, and must be one of the most extraordinary figures who has received a Royal salute.” The Sun (Sydney) reported 10 May 1927: “Suddenly, in the midst of the forest of green and white colored hats of women, appeared a head with a shaggy leonine mane and a patriarchal beard. Jacky, the aboriginal, an identity of the district, who is also known as the King of Canberra, had arrived to testify to his loyalty. He saluted the Duke with an excellent dash, and shambled past with his faithful sheep dog aide-de-camp at his heels. The Duke and Duchess were highly amused at this quaint figure moving along with a sort of bodyguard of shrieking young boys and girls.” The Sydney Morning Herald 11 May 1927 mistook Jimmy for his friend “Marvellous”: “...the appearance of an aged aboriginal widely known in the district as “Marvellous, the uncrowned king of Queanbeyan." His beaming black countenance was almost hidden beneath a shock of hair and beard. Bare-footed and carrying a sugar bag in one hand and a tiny Australian flag in the other, he at first mistook a policeman at the foot of the steps for the Duke. To his great embarrassment and to the vast amusement of the onlookers, the policeman became the object of a hearty salutation. However, "Marvellous" was quickly shepherded back to a position in the procession and as he passed along brought his hand up to an approved military salute for the benefit of their Royal Highnesses. The Duke returned it with a special wave.” The Labor Daily 11 May 1927 irreverently reported on the scene: "People March Past. Some 400 people, old identities of Canberra marched past. They were mostly aged ladies with memories faithfully preserving the traditions of other days and curtsied reverently. The younger generations, who speedily joined the procession, behaved differently however. Surely it was the most motley collection that ever passed before Royalty. Men without collars jostled others well dressed. Fat women, young women, children of all heights and ages were there. The oldest inhabitants, in the persons of the abo, "Marbly", and his companion were present. The poor old fellows evidently were keen to get closer to the Duke than the procession dared go, but they were overawed by the stern glances of military men.” The Canberra Times reported 13 May 1927: "...and towards the end of the procession, a full-blooded aboriginal, bareheaded and barefooted, and carrying an old swag on his back, made a picturesque figure as he several times saluted the Royal couple, his old eyes beaming inexpressible delight.” The Register reported 11 May 1927: "PUBLIC MARCH PAST. Old “Jacky”, an aboriginal identity of the district, who has been following the proceedings of the various ceremonies with apparently great interest, appeared in the march past. He halted in front of the steps and raised his hand to his shaggy grey locks in an attempt at a salute. Smiling, the Duke returned the salute, and the Duchess bestowed a charming smile on the figure of mingled pathos and comedy.” Tweed Daily reported 12 May 1927: “King Billy” WAS THERE. Appropriately enough, the inevitable “King Billy” with his refreshing impression of possum and gum-leaves, was present at the dedication of the Federal capital at Canberra. Bare-footed, in a dingy old suit and battered felt hat, he wandered on to the empty stand after the illustrious assemblage had passed into Parliament House. A desolate figure in all that he stood for, he proved, an amiable representative of the dispossessed race. He cheerfully waved a Union Jack for the camera man, and grinned into the very eye of a movie man’s camera without flinching.” Footage of Jimmy filmed that day features in the film “The Birth Of White Australia” produced in 1928 and shows him enthusiastically waving a small Union Jack flag in front of Parliament House with his three dogs at his feet. The caption reads " "King Billy" calls for cheers for the son of the great white King across the seas. “Mine tinkit that pfellers father budgeree King liket me” supposedly says Jimmy." Jimmy told the Daily Telegraph, 13 May 1927 “I have opened your Parliament House on my own ground, now you can go and look at it." Jimmy died on 28 August 1927, aged 80. The Herald newspaper on 30 August 1927, published an illustration depicting Jimmy’s dog standing on his grave, his customary chimney pot hat leaning on his headstone. The caption reads: “The Dead King — His Only Mourner. Drawn by Will Dyson (King Billy, last of the Canberra aborigines, lived just long enough to see the Duke of York open Australia’s capital on the site where his tribe once roamed. He died in the Queanbeyan Hospital yesterday morning.)” A letter published in the Sydney Morning Herald, 19 September 1927 reported: "Old King Billy... Sir, ...I would like to mention... the passing away of one, if not the last remaining aboriginal chieftains. He may be called “Old King Billy,” and his death occurred here in Queanbeyan a few weeks ago. The removal of this well-known black has left another big gap in all that remains distinctively Australian in character. He was one of the last remaining tribe of the Monaro district, and one of the most predominant personalities throughout the Commonwealth. ...he had lived through 80 years all told. He was on many occasions sought by artists for his splendid physique and personality as a model, and many a journey he has had to make to Sydney on that account. A more striking and pronounced type could not be found. ...A very fine cast in lifelike form is to be seen in the Australian Museum, Sydney ...his last important appearance in public was at the Commonwealth celebrations at Canberra, to which territory he partly belonged. ...we have no aborigine statue chiselled to the memory of their race, a more fitting and lasting memorial could not be undertaken than to have one modelled from this fine figure and erected to the memory of his race at Canberra... It would be a fitting adornment if planted with the Australian gumtrees for any avenue or garden. [King Billy] ...a very intelligent fellow, responding readily to kindness and common sense. Hoping yet to see a befitting testimonial and a lasting memorial to a race that is rapidly and I may say, unfortunately, disappearing, I am etc., SYDNEY R.OAKLEY, Queanbeyan." The “lifelike form” referred to by the correspondent was a sculpture that Jimmy Clements had posed for: “The Wunderlich Aboriginal Group” for The Australian Museum in Sydney. In 1925, Mr Ernest Wunderlich, director of Wunderlich Limited, manufacturer of building materials and President of the Board of Trustees at The Australian Museum, commissioned renowned sculptor George Rayner Hoff (sculptor of the Anzac Memorial in Hyde Park, Sydney, National War Memorial in Adelaide, and “Lion” the original Holden Motor Company car emblem) to sculpt a life sized Aboriginal family group diorama as a gift to the Museum. There was much concern at this time that the Aboriginal population and especially the “full blooded” were fading into oblivion so fast that they may soon become extinct. Three “full blooded” Aborigines were chosen for models. An article in The Australian Museum magazine, July/September 1926 about The Wunderlich Aboriginal Group explained “...it will not be many years before the aborigine, in New South Wales and Victoria at least, will be an entity of the past. Every year sees a shrinkage in their number, and the coastal tribes that once roamed the Sydney district are, unfortunately, no longer with us. ...the man, who is hurling a boomerang, is Yangar, or “Jimmy Clements,” son of Gayan-Bleuet-Galoom, the late “King of Orange,” western New South Wales. “Jimmy” is an old man, but well preserved. He has a very retentive memory and recollects the various tribal customs and initiation ceremonies, but regarding these he is extremely reticent and will not communicate his “honoured secrets.” The female figure is “Nellie Walker,” a daughter of Geri-Bungel, and a native of Bombala, Monaro district, southern New South Wales. The boy is Harold Marsh, aged nine years, who was born at Kinchela, Macleay River, northern New South Wales. He is now living at the Brewarrina settlement... In the selection of aborigines great care had to be taken to ensure that the individuals were pure bloods, and to the Aborigines’ Protection Board and the Police Department of this State thanks are due for the valuable assistance rendered by them.” Ngarigo woman, Nellie Bungil Walker (1867-1932) had five children, two died as babies and her remaining children were taken from her. She worked as a domestic and was living at La Perouse Aboriginal Community, Sydney at the time of her sculpture’s creation. In the years after the sculpture was made, Nellie and Rayner remained friends. Yaegl boy Harold “Harry” Marsh was from the Kinchela Aboriginal Training Home for boys near Kempsey, (1924-1970), an agricultural training institution under the jurisdiction of the Aboriginal Protection Board to house Aboriginal boys forcibly removed from their families “in the interest of the moral or physical welfare” of the boys. The boys at Kinchela were aged 5-15 years old and referred to as numbers, not names and any connection to Aboriginal culture or language was forbidden. Brutal and cruel physical punishment and sexual assaults were rampant. Survivors recall being flogged and chained naked to a huge Morton Bay fig tree overnight or “sent down the line” where every boy was ordered to punch the “wrong doer” as hard as possible for fear that they would be next. The Kinchela children are acknowledged as part of the Stolen Generation. In 1925, Rayner Hoff created a terracotta bust “Harry Marsh” which is in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The figures of the trio were modelled in clay before being cast in plaster and hand-coloured by Museum artist Miss Ethel A. King. The finished figures were completed with wigs and fur pelts and with Jimmy hurling a boomerang and Nellie holding a dilly-bag. They were placed in a glass cabinet in the Australian Ethnology Gallery. The subjects were not named. The Sydney Morning Herald 1 July 1926 critiqued the sculptures. "A GROUP OF STATUARY. MUSEUM’S ACQUISITION. Artistically the group is very fine, for the sculptor has caught his subjects in attitudes that reveal all the stalwart athletic lines of their bodies... The man, who is depicted as about 60 years of age, is bearded, immense, and savagely primitive-is throwing a boomerang, and beside him a boy, aged about 11 years is following beneath a shading hand, the flight of birds at which the hunter aims. Behind them, patient, obedient, stand(s) the woman waiting with her dilly bag to gather the spoils.” In 1996, Nellie’s daughter, Victoria Kempsey née Walker, happened to visit The Australian Museum and saw the sculpture of her mother, displayed semi-naked in a glass cabinet, alongside glass cabinets of taxidermied animals. She had last seen her mother 62 years previously when Nellie was dying from tuberculosis. Greatly distressed, Victoria wrote to the Museum requesting that they remove the sculpture, which they did. In 2023, a documentary was produced called “Her Name Is Nanny Nellie” which follows the journey of Nellie Walker’s great-granddaughter Auntie Irene Ridgeway discovering Nellie’s story, honouring her life and restoring her sculpture. Irene told Refinery29 Australia that “It was about reclaiming her life, reclaiming her history and who she really was as a real person. She was not a naked and unnamed lady standing in a museum. It's giving them back their families, they weren't just there to be looked at as flora and fauna or as 'natives'." The documentary was written and directed by Irene’s son Daniel King and premiered at the 2023 Adelaide Film Festival and broadcast on NITV. The restored sculpture of Nellie, dressed in 1920s style clothing was displayed at The Australian Museum, Sydney in The Bayala Nura Gallery in 2023. Irene wanted Nellie to be depicted in the way she actually was when she posed for the sculpture in 1925. The other two sculptures were not displayed due to ongoing conversations with family members and the fragility of the sculptures. It is anticipated that they may be displayed in the future. Melbourne born William Beckwith (Bill) McInnes (1889-1939) studied drawing at National Gallery School in Melbourne from the age of 14 under the tuition of artist Frederick McCubbin before succeeding his former teacher as Master of Drawing at the School from 1916-1934. He was acting Director of the NGV and Head of the National Gallery School from 1934. In 1927, Bill and official war artist H. Septimus Power were commissioned to paint the opening of the new federal Parliament House in Canberra. Septimus painted the general scene of the arrival of the Royal entourage in front of Parliament House, while Bill depicted the ceremony inside the Senate chamber. Bill was widely acclaimed for his landscapes and lauded as the heir to great Australian landscape artist Arthur Streeton. He won the Archibald Prize seven times (including the inaugural, a portrait of architect Desbrowe Annear) which made him a highly sought after portrait painter and he earned kudos for his commission to paint the Duke of York. During the breaks in painting the portrait, the pair chatted and Bill was surprised by the Duke’s wide knowledge of Australian affairs. The Duke was particularly interested to hear how the rabbit crisis was being handled. Bill’s work is held in major Australian galleries including the NGV, which has 12 of his paintings in their collection. Bill was married to fellow artist Violet McInnes and they lived at “The Poplars” in Alphington with their six children. Violet painted still life of flowers and portraits. In 1941, she entered her portrait of fellow artist Sybil Craig into the Archibald Prize and in 1945 Violet was appointed an official war artist. Defending his traditional style Bill said “...we in Australia have not been bitten by Cubism or Futurism or other of the “isms”...and I am glad of it”. References: THE DUCHESS OF YORK. (1931, December 7). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 8. Retrieved April 3, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4427568 WAR NURSE (1930, March 11). The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), p. 1. Retrieved April 3, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223714728 The Royal Visit. (1927, April 29). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 9. Retrieved April 4, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205813465 Canberra. (1927, April 30). Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), p. 5. Retrieved January 10, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article68233606 Australian Dictionary of Biography, Nangar, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/nangar-33736 Australian Dictionary of Biography, Jimmy Clements, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Clements Wikipedia, George John Noble, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_John_Noble PARLIAMENT AT CANBERRA. (1927, May 14). The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946), p. 37 (METROPOLITAN EDITION). Retrieved December 25, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140733921 CANBERRA CEREMONY (1927, May 10). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 19. Retrieved November 3, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3853643 CANBERRA. (1927, May 11). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 20. Retrieved November 24, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3853897 THE FINAL SCENES (1927, May 11). The Labor Daily (Sydney, NSW : 1924 - 1938), p. 5. Retrieved January 10, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article236614453 TWIN SONS (1927, May 10). The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), p. 11. Retrieved April 4, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223616143 National Archives of Australia, Aboriginal [Jimmy Clements, a Wiradjuri elder] on steps of Parliament House (King Billy), https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=3050026 Sydney Morning Herald, The chant of Jimmy Clements: I’ll do the honours on my ground, thanks, https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-chant-of-jimmy-clements-i-ll-do-the-honours-on-my-ground-thanks-20241023-p5kkt5.html MET THE DUKE (1927, May 11). The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954; 1956), p. 14. Retrieved November 3, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article275177101 PUBLIC MARCH PAST. (1927, May 11). The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), p. 11. Retrieved April 2, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article54271512 A REAL AUSTRALIAN (1927, May 13). The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), p. 12. Retrieved December 18, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1213124 THE PEOPLE'S DAY (1927, May 13). The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), p. 3. Retrieved April 3, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1213105 KING BILLY" WAS THERE. (1927, May 12). Tweed Daily (Murwillumbah, NSW : 1914 - 1949), p. 2. Retrieved November 27, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article190193273 A BUSY DAY. (1927, May 11). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 15. Retrieved November 3, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16374845 Nothing Wrong With Canberra Opening, Says "King Billy" (1927, May 13). The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), p. 2. Retrieved November 3, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article245750627 THIS IS MARVELLOUS! (1927, May 11). The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954; 1956), p. 16. Retrieved December 9, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article275177155 Mildenhall's Canberra, Royal Visit, May 1927. Canberra citizens passing the Royal Party on the front steps of Parliament House at the Civic Reception 1927 [photograph], https://mildenhall.moadoph.gov.au/rephoto/62 Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1927 - Jimmy Clements, John Noble, and the Opening of Parliament House, https://adb.anu.edu.au/the-quest-for-indigenous-recognition/jimmy-clements YouTube, The Birth of White Australia (1928), amateurish racism on the big screen [Jimmy Clements at 11.12 minutes in], https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OByX4iPsTgo YouTube, We Were Just Little Boys, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Hw9d91k2E WASTE AT CANBERRA. (1927, May 20). The South Eastern Times (Millicent, SA : 1906 - 1954), p. 1. Retrieved April 4, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article200058308 YouTube, Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House, Whispers in the Corridors-An Aboriginal Presence, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwifXP61M5Y History Snoop, Air Fatality in Canberra Scars an Historic Day in Australia, https://www.historysnoop.com/air-fatality-in-canberra/ YouTube, NFSA Films, The Opening Of Canberra, Australia's Capital City, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOA8llA0iE0 Pauline Conolly, Pudding & Pies at Parliament House, https://paulineconolly.com/2022/pudding-and-pies-at-parliament-house/ THE MENU (1927, May 5). The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), p. 13 (FINAL EXTRA). Retrieved April 2, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223623278 PROMISING (1927, May 7). The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), p. 2. Retrieved December 15, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223616208 The Dead King -- His Only Mourner (1927, August 30). The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), p. 6. Retrieved November 3, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article244196114 The VOICE of the CITY (1927, August 31). The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), p. 4. Retrieved December 26, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article246406061 THE LAST OF HIS TRIBE. (1927, September 2). Bairnsdale Advertiser and Tambo and Omeo Chronicle (Vic. : 1882 - 1946), p. 6. Retrieved December 24, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article269318935 GONE WEST. (1927, September 17). The Irwin Index (Mingenew, WA : 1926 - 1956), p. 1. Retrieved December 23, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article251554113 King Billy Dead. (1927, September 10). The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate (NSW : 1882 - 1950), p. 5. Retrieved December 1, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article112534982 DEATH OF KING BILLY OF CANBERRA. (1927, September 16). Huon Times (Franklin, Tas. : 1910 - 1933), p. 5. Retrieved December 23, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136428435 OLD KING BILLY. (1927, September 19). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 5. Retrieved November 19, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16404722 "Marvellous" is Dead. (1928, March 30). The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser (NSW : 1868 - 1931), p. 2. Retrieved December 8, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122748136 LAST OF LACHLAN RIVER TRIBE (1926, May 3). Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), p. 7. Retrieved December 18, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article117289515 Coal Strike Effects (1926, June 11). The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), p. 14. 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(1926, July 1). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 14. Retrieved November 29, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16302447 Wikipedia, Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Training Home, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinchela_Aboriginal_Boys%27_Training_Home Art Gallery NSW, Harry Marsh by Rayner Hoff, https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/59.2000/ Art Gallery of South Australia, Lion (produced for the Holden Motor Company) by Rayner Hoff, https://www.agsa.sa.gov.au/collection-publications/collection/works/lion-produced-for-the-holden-motor-company/27253/ Wikipedia, William Beckwith McInnes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Beckwith_McInnes DUKE OF YORK PORTRAIT UNIVEILED IN CASTLEMAINE GALLERY (1933, December 4). The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954; 1956), p. 18. Retrieved April 4, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article276125581 Castlemaine Art Museum, Portrait of His Royal Majesty the Duke of York, https://collection.castlemaineartmuseum.org.au/objects/181/portrait-of-his-royal-majesty-the-duke-of-yorkPhotographer notations on slide: "Portrait of Duke of York by W.B. McInnes 1933 B4".1930-1939, aboriginal culture, royal visits, openings (events), sculpture, land rights, museums, museum displays

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