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Ringwood and District Historical Society
Envelope, Packet: Ringwood area petitions re lighting, streets etc. 1929-1939
... Packet: Ringwood area petitions re lighting, streets etc ...Handwritten letters from residents petitioning about local , lighting etc. 1928 to 1939 -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Book, Castlemaine Petitions
... Castlemaine Petitions ...One of a series of Goldfield Heritage Books, Castlemaine Petitions was published by BHS Publishing and written by Clare Gervasoni and Dorothy Wickham. -
Richmond & Burnley Historical Society
Petition, Richmond Churches Petition regarding Sunday Icecream Vendors 1908
The scroll describes the concerns of the Churches of Richmond against the Street Icecream Vendors who are threatening the sanctity of the Holy Sunday. Each denomination organsied for each of their Sunday School Teachers to sign the petition and these where pasted together to form a Sroll. The Scroll provides an indication of the sizes of the Sunday Schools and the number of Churches in the area in 1908. The petition to the City of Richmond was intended to introduce a By-law to prevent Sunday Trading in the municipality of Richmond. A combined record demonstating the collaboration between Richmond Churches to form a residents action group to combat the threat of Sunday Vendor Trading. The scroll has a record of the names and addresses of the hundreds of School Teachers from each demonination in 1908. A petition to the Richmond City Council From local churches protesting about the Sunday Trading by Icecream Vendors and the impact on the Holy Day. The petition contains signatures of Sunday School Teachers from each particpating denomination. The petition is presented as a paper scroll fixed to a wooden rod. (July 1908)Signatures of Sunday School Teachers and Leaderschurches, scroll, petition, richmond council, sunday school, icecream vendors, congregational church, central methodist church, baptist church, north richmond church of christ, balmain church of christ, burnley methodist church, richmond congregational church, burnley congregational church, st stephens church of england richmond, richmond presbyterian church, burnley presbyterian church, local action groups -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Women's Suffrage Petition 1891
... Petitions ...Search results showing names of women who lived in the Whitehorse area and signed the Petition for Women's Suffrage in 1891.Search results showing names of women who lived in the Whitehorse area and signed the Petition for Women's Suffrage in 1891.Search results showing names of women who lived in the Whitehorse area and signed the Petition for Women's Suffrage in 1891.women's suffrage petition 1891, suffrage, petitions -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Petticoat parliament, 2008?
Petticoat parliament: collecting the signatures.Petticoat parliament: collecting the signatures. Poster about the 140 signatures to the 1891 Women's Suffrage Petition collected in the Whitehorse area.Petticoat parliament: collecting the signatures. women's suffrage petition 1891, signatures -
Orbost & District Historical Society
document, Celebration of the Orbost Signatures of the 1891 Women's Suffragette Petition, 2009
In 1891, Premier James Munro said he would introduce a bill into parliament for women's suffrage if it were demonstrated that ordinary women wanted this right. The Victorian Woman's Temperance Union and the Victorian Women's Suffrage Society took up the challenge, joining forces to organise a petition. Embarking on a door knocking campaign across Victoria they collected about 30,000 signatures in six weeks. The 'Monster Petition' is housed at the Public Records Office Victoria where a purpose-built perspex case protects the 260 metres of signed pages glued to sewn swathes of calico. (ref. Creative Victoria). In 2008 the petition was a centrepiece of the centenary celebrations of women's suffrage. This document was prepared for that centenary celebration.The Women's Suffrage Petition (1891) reflects the dedicated work of those women, who went from door to door across Victoria to collect the signatures. Its tremendous length earned it the name of the ‘Monster Petition'. This document is a useful research item.A stapled 9 pp document containing names, photographs, signatures of the Orbost women who signed the petition for Women's Suffrage in 1891.women's-suffrage-orbost -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Centenary of Women's Suffrage, 2008
... Petitions ...A List of Petition signatories 1891.A List of Petition signatories 1891. Also first female parliamentarians, mayors and councillors in the Whitehorse area up to 2007 are featured.A List of Petition signatories 1891.women's suffrage petition 1891, victorian honour roll of women, petitions, mayors, councillors, parliamentarians -
Greensborough Historical Society
Article, Norm Colvin, Events leading up to the Plenty Ladies' Petition 1842, 2020_
... petitions ...This article, written and researched by Norm Colvin, GHS Secretary, identifies the people involved in the events leading to the petition to the Governor of Victoria, C. J. La Trobe, from 'Ladies resident on Plenty River' requesting protection from bushrangers, 5 May 1842. It identifies the bushrangers, the owners of the stations robbed, the group of men who rode out to assist and the identity of the "ladies" who signed the petition.This article identifies the people involved in the incidents, a list of locals in the 1840s.12 pages typescript, map.plenty river, bushrangers, petitions -
Greensborough Historical Society
Document - Article, Anne Paul, Resident ladies on the Plenty River - 1842 petition, 2019_08
... petitions ...A petition from ladies resident on the Plenty River was submitted to the Governor of Victoria, Charles La Trobe requesting protection from bushrangers, following an incident in 18423 p. typescript, colour photographbushrangers, petitions, plenty river -
Greensborough Historical Society
Document, Petition from 'Ladies resident on Plenty River', 05/05/1842
... petitions ...Copy of text of the Petition to the Governor of Victoria, C. J. La Trobe, from 'Ladies resident on Plenty River' requesting protection from bushrangers, 5 May 1842, with list of petitioners.Indicates dangers of living in the remote location of Plenty River in 1842 and lists women living in the area.2p. col. printed 2 sidesplenty river, bushrangers, petitions -
Greensborough Historical Society
Legal record - Document, Tasmanian Treaty. Petition, 06/08/18985
... petitions ...Petition about from the Victorian jam manufacturers and fruit growers against proposed reciprocal treaty with Tasmania to admission of Tasmanian jams into VictoriaBlack and white typed text, photocopy tasmania, victorian parliment, petitions, tasmanian treaty -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Book, The Pioneer Suffragettes of Casterton and District, n.d
20 Page booklet compiled by Jan Lier for the Casterton and District Historical Society Inc. Includes list of pioneer women from Casterton and district who signed the 1891 suffrage petition, biographical details of the women, and a number of photographs of the women.womens suffrage, suffragette, casterton, casterton and district historical society -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Print - Reproduction, Petition, Captains' Petition, 2016
This is a reproduction of the original 1897 Captains' petition to build a Central Institute on the Yarra river. "To the Executive Committee of the Victorian Seamen's Mission, Melbourne. "Ladies and Gentleman, "We, the undersigned captains of several ships now lying at the Melbourne wharves think it most desirable that the Victorian Seamen's Mission, being the mission that has for so many years shown a most part their interest in the spiritual, moral, and social well-being of the seamen of all nationalities, shall him on the banks of the Yarra an institute such as that at Port Melbourne, where sailors of every grade could profitably and pleasantly spend their evenings. At almost every other seaport in the world such institutions are being provided for seamen, and we are satisfied from our opinion of the Melbourne public that the matter needs only to be prominently brought under their notice to be accomplished. We are confident that the good work of the mission is being hampered by its not having such a place near the shipping at the Melbourne wharves. Our crews are at present placed at a great dis advantage through not having an institute more convenient to the scene of their labours than that at Port Melbourne, which, on a very wet or a very hot, is not easily reached. If a site could be obtained immediately above the Gasworks but on the other side of Flinders street extension, that is to say, on the lower part of the land on which the Harbour Trust offices are built, it would be most convenient for the shipping on both the north and south side of the river. Trusting that it may be possible to do some thing to meet this long felt want, We suscribe ourselves, Yours respectfully, Geo.H Steven, master ship Dharwar; Thos. Curd, master ship Narcissus; James Horne, master ship Loch Garry; T.Tait, master ship Loch Ryan; T. Nilsen, master ship Hebe; G. Ch Christian, master ship Anna; R.E. Peasley, master ship Seminole; Wm. Martin, master ship Loch Ness; T.C. Martin, master ship Loch Tay; W.H. Bennett, master ship Loch Vennachar; J. Raglan Brodie, master s.s. Warrnambool; James E. Coles, master ship Mermerus; J. H. Walker, master ship Hinemoa; R.J. Johns, master ship Ariel; D. Gorchem (sic. Gerckens), master ship Matador; H. Petersen, master ship Nesaia; Wm. J. Reid, master s.s. Star of New Zealand; A. F. Svhanstrom, master ship Hermes; Alex. Smith, master ship Sophocles; W. Y. Bunn, master ship Carmanian; William Anderson, master ship Loch Katrine."Framed and mounted reproduction of Captains' petitionpetition, seamen's mission, yarra river, captains, victoria, melbourne, ships, australia-wharf, signatures, 717-flinders-street-docklands, maritime welfare services, mission to seafarers, mission to seamen, mermerus, captain coles, sir john coode, loch line, loch ness, loch gary, loch ryan, ss warrnambool, loch tay, loch vennachar, matador, nesaia, d. gerckens, h. petersen, a.f. svhanstrom, hermes, ariel, loch katrine, william anderson, dharwar, narcissus, hebe, anna, hinemoa, sophocles, carmanian, early origins, 2016, exhibitions -
Royal District Nursing Service (now known as Bolton Clarke)
Document, black and white, c.1957
The name Melbourne District Nursing Society and After-Care Hospital came into being in 1935. In 1957 the two bodies separated and the Hospital and Charities Commission of Victoria received the document a 'Petition to Incorporate the After Care Hospital'The Melbourne District Nursing Society was founded in 1885 and in 1926 opened the After-Care Home. The Society then became the 'Melbourne District Nursing Society and After-Care Home' until 1935 when the word 'Home' was replaced b the word 'Hospital'. In 1957 the two bodies separated and the Hospital and Charities Commission of Victoria received a 'Petition to Incorporate the After Care Hospital'Black and white document 'Petition to Incorporate the After Care Hospital' The document is bold black printing on a white background. It commences; 'Hospital and Charities Act 1948 (No. 5300), Section 46. The body of the document contains nineteen lines and finishes with ‘'E. P. Cameron, Minister of Health’.melbourne district nursing society, after- care hospital, rdns, royal district nursing service -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - ABOLITION OF MINING BOARDS PETITION 1878, 1878
ABOLITION OF MINING BOARDS PETITION 1878.government, state, mines act, bendigo, sandhurst, gold mining, mining boards -
Public Record Office Victoria
Document (item) - The 'Monster' Women’s Suffrage Petition
It took just six weeks in the spring of 1891 to collect nearly 30,000 signatures on the ‘Monster Petition’ for women’s suffrage. Dedicated suffragists collected an average of 5,000 signatures a week (over 700 per day) before the petition was presented to the Victorian Parliament in September 1891. The six-week drive proved the determination of the suffragists, and was one of first major steps along the road to 1908 and the achievement of women’s franchise. Now a prized possession of the State of Victoria, the petition itself was truly a ‘monster’, running 20 centimetres across and 260 metres in length. Several men were required to carry it into Parliament. Its sheer size and unique shape make it a marvel; a stack of paper with an equal number of signatures would not be nearly as impressive as the huge, winding roll presented to Premier James Munro. Quoted from the article ‘The “Monster Petition” and the Women of Davis Street’ by Brienne Callahan, in Provenance: The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria, issue no. 7. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - CD OF BENDIGO 1856 PETITION, 1856
CD. Bendigo 1856 Petition. Original Petition from Sandhurst occupants to Major General Macarthur seeking to improve lands. See 1085, Box 500.bendigo, law, land improvements -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - MTT Petition to Victorian Parliament, Melbourne Tramways Trust (MTT), August 1905
... petitions ...Details a Petition to the Parliament of Victoria, Legislative Council from the Melbourne Tramways Trust, the owners of the cable tram infrastructure. The Municipalities that formed the Trust were concerned that the construction of electric tramways within their Municipalities would be in contrary to the Act that set up the cable trams and reduced revenue received from the cable tram operator, the MTOCo. They sought that Parliament would not sanction such tramways without the consent of the Trust's municipalities or members. Yields information about the concerns of the MTT about new electric tramways in 1905.Folded double foolscap sheet and then folded into four for presentation to the Victorian Parliament by the Melbourne Tramways Trust dated 16-8-1905. Paper has a MCC (Melbourne City Council) watermark - see image 3.mtt, cable tramways, petitions, parliament, electric tramways, melbourne tramways trust -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Petition 4/9/1872 for road to Melbourne from "Blood's Hill" (eventual corner of Bedford Road and Dublin Road, Ringwood East). Canterbury Road was later extended as a result of the petition
Catalogue card reads, 'Petition 4/9/1872 "for road to Melbourne". -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH. HOSPITAL PETTITION ELMORE
Photograph. Hospital Petition Elmore. Grace Hartland, Elmore. -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Newspaper - set of four, "Residents fight to save trams", 1967 -1968
... petitions ...Set of four newspaper cuttings about the Victorian Government's proposal to close Ballarat and Bendigo Tramways 1 - The Age 8/8/1968 - 455 x 84 - providing details of the proposal, SEC employees, bus replacement, and keeping some trams in Ballarat for use at Sovereign Hill. Notes the politics in the Government over this matter. 2 - The Age 27/10/1967 - 47 x 43 - noting that the State Government had ordered the TRB to hold an enquiry 3 - undated and unsourced - "Battle for Trams by Petition" - Cr Roff of Save the Trams Committee - slow start on the petition. Notes the TRB recommendation to scrap the trams. 4 - The Sun - "Save tram committee will meet" - 28/10/1967 - 122 x 40 - quotes Cr Rolf of the Committee and the negative view of Cr A Nicholson.Yields information about the 1967/1968 proposal to closure both Ballarat and Bendigo Tramways. This proposal did not have the numbers in the upper house of the State Government.Set of four newspaper cuttings.Some have the newspaper source in ink along the top edge.tramways, closure, ballarat, bendigo, trb, cr roff, cr nicholson, petitions -
Greensborough Historical Society
Letter, Greensborough TAFE up for sale!, 2014_06
Colin Brooks MP, State Member for Bundoora sent this letter to Greensborough residents to try to stop the sale of the abandoned NMIT Greensborough site in Diamond Creek Road.One page letter on letterhead and attached petition on green paper.colin brooks, nmit greensborough -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Archive - MINERS' PETITION, 1853
DVD. Miners' Petition 1853 (Red Ribbon). Print Version. -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Archive, Heart of Town Correspondence (Save Our Mall) 2002 a group of Stawell Citizens attempting to retain the Gold Reef Pedestrian Mall, 2002 - 2003
Correspondence, Petitions, Planning Schemes, Newspaper Items stored in Tyvek Bagstawell, main street -
Canterbury History Group
Photograph - Photograph of a petition in the window at shop No. 1 Theatre Place, 27/03/1993 12:00:00 AM
Coloured photograph of the the petition in the window of the restaurant Wildflower at No. 1 Theatre Placecanterbury, maling road, shops, theatre place -
Federation University Historical Collection
Document, Edward Hammond Hargraves Petition, 1864-5, 1864-1865
White Foolscap printed Government document relating to teh Edward Hargraves petition.petition, edward hargraves, edward hammond hargraves, charles latrobe, gold discovery, california, charles fitzroy -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - MINING ON PRIVATE PROPERTY - PETITION, 1877
MINING ON PRIVATE PROPERTY - PETITION - submitted to the legislative assembly of the colony of Victoria. 1877Wm. L. Jones, Mining Board of the Mining District of Ballarat.government, state, mines act, bendigo, mining, sandhurst, gold mining. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - BOOK: THE RED RIBBON REBELLION
The Red Ribbon Rebellion. The bendigo Petition 3rd-27th august 1853. By Geoff Hocking. -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, Ratepayers fume over library threat
1,000 signatures on petition protesting the possible closure of Blackburn Branch Library by Nunawading Council.1,000 signatures on petition protesting the possible closure of Blackburn Branch Library by Nunawading Council.1,000 signatures on petition protesting the possible closure of Blackburn Branch Library by Nunawading Council.public libraries, blackburn branch library, city of nunawading, friends of the nunawading libraries, blackburn adult literacy program -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - CONSTABLE RYAN COLLECTION: PETITION FROM CHINESE STOREKEEPERS
A photocopy of a petition presented to the Honorable the Legislative Assembly of Victoria by Chinese Storekeepers appeling for the removal of clause four of the "Act to make provision for certain immigrants". This clause imposed a tax of 10 pounds on every immigrant arriving. The petition was signed by 5186 people.document