... A handmade felt toy fallow deer which is light brown with darker brown spots. ...This item also has significance in its association with Helen Frances Warren, a popular Orbost identity who was well known as an accomplished photographer and needleworker, handcrafts needlework Warren-Helena A handmade felt toy fallow deer which is light brown with darker brown spots. ...

... Photograph of a drill sowing oats in stubble An extract from a publication Australasian 6 May 1922 The economy of this procedure is manifest The spring tynes on the implement are spaced three and a half inches apart in 4 ranks They have 4 inches shares and therefore cut and stir all the soil in this case of two and a half inches leaving a level unbridged bottom The seed and fertilizer in rows 7 inches apart are dropped right on this bottom and there get all the benefit of the moisture raising by capillary attraction and vigorous germination results These combined machines made at the Sunshine Harvester Works are being used on thousands of acres this season for this particular purpose as well as for sowing wheat on fallowed land Comments by cataloguer The machine pictured sows 12 rows of seed and fertilizer in rows 7 inches apart Spring tyres acted in a stump jump capacity The box along top of the machine was a 2 room apartment unit one for seed the other for fertilizer This was fed mechanically through a distribution which measured the amount of seed and fertilizer being dropped into a common tube where it was controlled in its drop to the furrow cut by the share on the end of the tyres...McKays Sunshine Harvester Works Farm Machinery Photograph of a drill sowing oats in stubble An extract from a publication Australasian 6 May 1922 The economy of this procedure is manifest The spring tynes on the implement are spaced three and a half inches apart in 4 ranks They have 4 inches shares and therefore cut and stir all the soil in this case of two and a half inches leaving a level unbridged bottom The seed and fertilizer in rows 7 inches apart are dropped right on this bottom and there get all the benefit of the moisture raising by capillary attraction and vigorous germination results These combined machines made at the Sunshine Harvester Works are being used on thousands of acres this season for this particular purpose as well as for sowing wheat on fallowed land Comments by cataloguer The machine pictured sows 12 rows of seed and fertilizer in rows 7 inches apart Spring tyres acted in a stump jump capacity The box along top of the machine was a 2 room apartment unit one for seed the other for fertilizer This was fed mechanically through a distribution which measured the amount of seed and fertilizer being dropped into a common tube where it was controlled in its drop to the furrow cut by the share on the end of the tyres HV McKay drill sowing oats Photograph HV McKay drill sowing oats ...

... ...fallow...Barker Library (top floor) Mount Helen goldfields From the earliest minute book (1918) the committee of this organisation included women in decision making positions. gordon eureka stockade ballarat fine art gallery lake penhalluriack eureka caravan park eureka hall frank williams eureka walk dale kelly john barnes eureka s children old colonists club peter nicholson paul wiliams taite ken clements darren gamston eureka playground roly mckenzie janet dore len fox pikeman s dog f nielson thomas keneally al grasby s jones brian harvey t bibby eureka centre eureka stockade centre eureka stockade park committee eureka stockade committee e.g. pearce bernardi ratford mckay carey mcgregor ham fallow feary jones j.r. hams j. davey w. wye r. quick d. bernardi eddy gingell micklejohn w. mckay w. carey r. mcgregor c. davies sports programm eureka stockade anniversary celebration s. barker d.c. mcgrath m. baird annual carnival r. britnall w. elsworth g. williams f. britnell eurkea stockade improvement and progress association w.j. corbett crago a. harrison b. groves s. leonard h. parsons e. plumridge j. dynan e.parsens w.k. hood walter a. shaw f. pearce a. pearce vic carey william carey de gaafe j.h. stanley j. andrewartha w. marshall v.c. jones m. byrne caravan park anan day helen mckay a. jones n. jones w. bromley j. lamb w. strange p. hetherington alex barnett\k. catios l. eva j. collins j. shannon\ g. calions l. o'brien j.a. cook w.g. fleet g. lee d. crooke s. mckenzie r. chittock g. drake s. romeo p. williams g. taite j. webb g. mckenzie j. berriman f. kennan d. miller d. scanlon eureka luncheon t. bibby f. nielan eureka dioramo Nine red hard covered books with the handwritten and computer generated minutes Eureka Stockade Memorial Park Committee . .1) Includes duties of officers, events, fundraising, payments, placing a tablet on the monument, list of members of the committee (139 names) .2) Eureka Widows and Orphans Fund, plan of proposed gardens, extension of the hall .3) Swimming pool improvement, proposed tramway extenson, electric light .7) Glasshouse .8) planting of trees .9) Eureka Stockade Centre .10) Financial Statements 11/2000-8/2003 Note, the minutes form 02/1932 to 1/1943 are not held within this collection, and were deemed to be missing when donated. ...