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Administrative record - National Trust Collection: Bendigo Joss House, 1965
... s, it was worshipped in by the Chinese Masonic Society. The sheet describes the building as The Main Temple is in the centre with a portico entry and is flanked by the Ancestral Temple on the right and a caretaker's residence.
3218 G - Bendigo Advertiser 19 May 1856 - three page document entitled Opening of a Chinese Temple, A Chinese god and The Chinese.
3218 H - Sunday 2 April 1972 at 5:15 PM, an official invitation (to Mr. ...s, it was worshipped in by the Chinese Masonic Society. The sheet describes the building as The Main Temple is in the centre with a portico entry and is flanked by the Ancestral Temple on the right and a caretaker's residence.
3218 G - Bendigo Advertiser 19 May 1856 - three page document entitled Opening of a Chinese Temple, A Chinese god and The Chinese.
3218 H - Sunday 2 April 1972 at 5:15 PM, an official invitation (to Mr. ...
Chinese society on Bendigo Goldfields
Bendigo Joss HouseNational Trust Collection: Bendigo Joss House
3218 A - 01 June 1965 letter to Consul of the Republic of China concerning the 19th Century Joss House, seeking assistance to restore of the building
3218 B - 30/06/1968 notes from the NT Victoria to Central Victorian Branch regarding various aspects of the Bendigo Joss House
3218 C - 06/01/1965 five dot points from the NT Central Victorian Branch Exec mtg confirming the Branch does not consider it viable to move the Joss House to a new site involving new fencing and funding of this proposal.
3218 CA - 22/06/1965 letter between NT Victoria from NT Central Victorian Branch, supporting the preservation and restoration of the Bendigo Joss House
3218 D - undated NT Central Victorian Branch Teacher's guide to using the Bendigo Joss House Education Kit
3218 E -- undated, three page extract from Hemisphere - Asian Australian Monthly, August 1970 - The Birth of Sun Loong, by Keith Dunstan
3218 FA - Annals of Bendigo 1859 impost of a £10 tax for every Chinaman coming to the colony, in addition to a residency tax of £4 per annum. The residency tax was later abolished.
3218 FB - undated four page typed document entitled The Chinese on the Goldfields.
3218 FC - undated Building Citation for the Chinese Masonic Hall erected in 1960's, it was worshipped in by the Chinese Masonic Society. The sheet describes the building as The Main Temple is in the centre with a portico entry and is flanked by the Ancestral Temple on the right and a caretaker's residence.
3218 G - Bendigo Advertiser 19 May 1856 - three page document entitled Opening of a Chinese Temple, A Chinese god and The Chinese.
3218 H - Sunday 2 April 1972 at 5:15 PM, an official invitation (to Mr. F J Randell) from the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) and the City of Bendigo to the Opening of the Bendigo Joss House, to be opened the Hon. R. J. Hamer Deputy Premier and Chief Secretary of Victoria.
3218 IA - NT of Victoria cites an extract from the "Macau Gazette" 15 June 1972: of the dozen or so alters, one will be dedicated to A MA, the founder in a spiritual sense of Macau. Known popularly to the boat people as TIEN HOU, this Taoist deity ... and her temple was one of the last sights seen by hundreds of Cantonese who sailed to the new world from the old.
3218 IB - one page incomplete letter dated 4 June 1973, writer unknown; supplies for the Joss House
3218 IC - two page undated list of panels and hangings for the interiors of the Joss House and ten dot points on doing good painted in gold on a pair of large vertical panels.
3218 J - 15/03/1970 a single hand-written foolscap page, written by Albert Richardson; on the Chinese Joss House a description of the furnishing of the Joss House
3218K - a single page typed Building over two paragraphs for the Bendigo Joss House erected in the 1860s.
3218 L - 2/08/1985 four page notes for a talk on the Bendigo Joss House by Dr. Constant Wong
3218 M - four page from the NT of Australia (Victoria) research into the Bendigo Joss House, from the Crown Lands Department records, aerial photographs, local history and oral accounts. Presented by C. Kellaway 1/08/1954.
3218 N - undated three foolscap page typed notes (with comments in blue) from the NT of Australia (Victoria) covering the history of Chinese Religion, Hunan Gung( the god worshipped at the Bendigo Joss House) the Chinese on the Bendigo Gold fields and projected cost of restoration of $3,430.00.
3218 O - undated three page typed notes (with comments in ink) from NT (Victoria) on Chung Jung Cultural Society
bendigo joss house, chinese on the bendigo gold fields