Article in Nunawading Gazette. Mitcham Post Office won an award for excellence, judged on team work, health & safety provisions, community involvement and innovation. The award was devised by Australia Post to encourage better service to customers.postal services, mitcham post office, striving for excellence award, toliday, ross, sherwood, melanie, mansell, dean, kendall, robyn, brown, cliff

Article in the Nunawading Gazette 14 - 3 - 1994 about the support of Rob Knowles, Aged Care and Housing Minister for the proposal to develop up to 25 units on the old Vermont Primary School site for the Vermont Elderly Peoples Homes.Knowles favours unit proposalhome units, knowles, bob, vermont primary school, no. 1022, mitcham road, vermont, canterbury road

Article in Nunawading Gazette. After years of campaigning at North Blackburn Shopping Centre, Sandra Muzur has been granted a licence and will open her agency. Australia Post was petitioned with 11,500 signatures and 600 customers wrote letters.post offices, blackburn north, muzur, sandra

Article in Nunawading Gazette. Plans by Australia Post to rezone land in Rooks Road to light industrial development concern residents about traffic problems. Council voted to prepare and exhibit planning scheme amendment to rezone land at 76 - 104 Rooks Road.post offices, australia post, rooks road, mitcham, no 76 - 104, jewell, peter

From an item in the Nunawading Gazette on Weds ,15th Nov 1972 , this item was a gift of Mrs. Jennie Wagg and that it was given to her mother, Mrs. L.L.Bruce, when she was married 93 years ago(ie.1879). It is understood that it was purchased in 1855.Solid iron frame with three wooden rollers. Pressure is on the rollers obtained from an adjustable worm drive to a five leaf spring set(similar to a car leaf spring). Large reduction gearing from handle. Used for pressing sheets, towels, table clothes, etc.GH+G NICHOLL BANK STREET 1820domestic items, laundering

Article with brief outline of August Schwerkolt's life and of the restoration of his cottage by Nunawading City Council. Cutting from Nunawading Regional Mail, 27th August, 1974. 2 pages. Photographs of people in costume and various artefacts. Also called Nunawading Gazette, 1974.schwerkolt, johann august, schwerkolt cottage

Newspaper cutting to celebrate the 94th birthday of Mrs. Beatrice Pooley who established a floral art correspondence school in the 1950s. She has written two books 'Millefleurs (a thousand flowers) and 'Mardie'. Photograph. Cutting from Nunawading Gazette, 10 May, 1989.pooley, beatrice;, floral art

Article from Nunawading Gazette, 1993, concerning the selling of so many schools in Nunawading and the impact of the increase of population from the extra houses being built. The concern is whether sufficient public facilities will be available. Council would oppose any moves to close more schools.Article from Nunawading Gazette, 1993, concerning the selling of so many schools in Nunawading and the impact of the increase of population from the extra houses being built. land subdivision, school buildings, glickman, ray, abbott, kevin, dollis, dimitri, maclellan, robert, middlefield primary school, blackburn technical school, city of nunawading, blackburn south primary school, no. 4035, narmara primary school, burwood east, blackburn east primary school, no. 4800, forest hill secondary college, nunawading campus, heatherdale primary school, warrawong primary school

Article in Nunawading Gazette. Blackburn South Post Office to be sold and relocated to a nearby newsagency. Vermont Post Office will also be closed soon but its relocation is yet to be decided. The two post offices were losing $95,000 a year. No staff would be forced out of their jobs.post offices, blackburn south post office, caldwell, peter, quibell, keith, walters, terry, vermont post office

Article in Nunawading Gazette. Nunawading's new $5.6 million Eastern Mail Service due to be completed ahead of schedule in October 1992 and below budget. It will have a post office, 1,000 post boxes for rental. Project manager, Bob Beer said it will be equipped with the latest mail sorting equipment to handle 1 million articles a day. Australia Post purchased the land (former Eastbridge Migrant Hostel for $2.8 Million.post offices, rooks road, nunawading, eastern mail centre, beer, bob, eastbridge migrant hostel