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Moorabbin Air MuseumArticle (Item) - Fire Safety - Aircraft refueling
... Fire Safety - Aircraft refueling...Fire Safety - Aircraft refueling...Moorabbin Air Museum Moorabbin Airport 12 First Street Moorabbin melbourne Fire Safety - Aircraft refueling Article Fire Safety - Aircraft refueling ... -
Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc.Information folder - Fire Safety
... Information folder - Fire Safety...Folder containing fire safety pamphlets. Contents: -"Bushfire safety in urban fringe areas", Insurance Council of Australia -"Belgrave Heights & South Volunteer Fire Brigade Fire Information Pamphlet", 2 copies. ...Information folder - Fire Safety ...Folder containing fire safety pamphlets. Contents: -"Bushfire safety in urban fringe areas", Insurance Council of Australia -"Belgrave Heights & South Volunteer Fire Brigade Fire Information Pamphlet", 2 copies. -CFA recruitment pamphlet, Belgrave Heights & South FB/Home Safety Awareness, CFA -"Ordinary People, Extraordinary job", CFA recruitment pamphlet. -"Living In The Bush", CFA booklet. -"Bushfire, Recognise The Risks", CFA, 3 copies. -
Department of Energy, Environment and Climate ActionFire safety blanket
... Fire safety blanket...Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action 71-79 Kyle Road Altona North Carried in all vehicles Forests Commission Victoria (FCV) Safety equipment Emergency fire blanket Woollen safety blanket carried in all departmental vehicles in case of being trapped in a bushfire Vinyl carry bag Fire safety blanket ...Carried in all vehiclesWoollen safety blanket carried in all departmental vehicles in case of being trapped in a bushfire Vinyl carry bagEmergency fire blanketforests commission victoria (fcv), safety equipment -
Greensborough Historical SocietyNewspaper Clipping, Diamond Valley Leader, Warning issued on fire safety, 13/11/2019
... Warning issued on fire safety...Warning issued on fire safety Newspaper Clipping Diamond Valley Leader Jessica Coates Diamond valley Leader ...Drones, out of control burn offs and badly executed barbecues could lead to a fire disaster across the Diamond Valley and other rural areas this summer, the CFA has warned.News article 1 page, black text.cfa, bushfire warnings, bushfires, country fire authority -
Marysville & District Historical SocietyTHE TRIANGLE NEWS-VOL 27 NO 43-3 NOVEMBER 2000
... ...summer fire safety strategy...Marysville & District Historical Society 39 Darwin Street Marysville yarra-valley-and-the-dandenong-ranges marysville victoria australia our link with history keppel family marysville & district historical society the australia hotel australia day 2001 lions club diary dates mystic mountains tourism marysville & district ratepayers' & residents' assocn advertising rates advertising deadline narbethong fire brigade marysville & district horse riders novelty & games day fire calls murrindindi shire council time out travel healesville advertisements church notices mops old yarra track tea rooms 2001 kinder enrolments street stall community carols minefield campaign igloo roadhouse fm 88 smooth jazz marysville art exhibition golf report cricket club duck race marysville country club bowls section gardening corner flower plot farm nursery mystic mountains open gardens festival murrindindi community health services remembrance day fire brigade news murrindindi valley economic project councillor lyn gunter comments vic roads bike ride grants to boost lake eildon summer fire safety strategy country touch marysville s.e.s. news n.y.e. gallipoli park public notices for sale rural & lifestyle property marketing triangle property news THE TRIANGLE NEWS-VOL 27 NO 43-3 NOVEMBER 2000 ...marysville, victoria, australia, our link with history, keppel family, marysville & district historical society, the australia hotel, australia day 2001, lions club, diary dates, mystic mountains tourism, marysville & district ratepayers' & residents' assocn, advertising rates, advertising deadline, narbethong fire brigade, marysville & district horse riders, novelty & games day, fire calls, murrindindi shire council, time out travel healesville, advertisements, church notices, mops, old yarra track tea rooms, 2001 kinder enrolments, street stall, community carols, minefield campaign, igloo roadhouse, fm 88 smooth jazz, marysville art exhibition, golf report, cricket club, duck race, marysville country club, bowls section, gardening corner, flower plot farm nursery, mystic mountains open gardens festival, murrindindi community health services, remembrance day, fire brigade news, murrindindi valley economic project, councillor lyn gunter comments, vic roads bike ride, grants to boost lake eildon, summer fire safety strategy, country touch, marysville s.e.s. news, n.y.e. gallipoli park, public notices, for sale, rural & lifestyle property marketing, triangle property news -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and VillageDomestic object - Match Safe, after 1830's
... ...fire safety...safety matches and the early use of matches was a dangerous affair given they were easily combustive if rubbed together in a pocket for example. The item is also an example of the shipwreck artefacts gathered along the southwest coast of Victoria. Flagstaff Hill Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village Warrnambool Maritime Museum Maritime Village Great Ocean Road Shipwreck Coast shipwreck artefact Port Phillip Bay Port Lonsdale Lighthouse wreck 1960’s diver Queenscliff Marine Shop match container match safe matches fire lighter fire safety heat fire portable match safe 19th century Match Safe; hollow brass cylinder with ribbed match striker texture on base and screw thread around top. ...This match safe was amongst various items collected from a sea dive in Port Phillip Bay. The diver was the caretaker of the Port Lonsdale Lighthouse, who dived on various wrecks in the bay during the 1960's. After the caretaker's death, his son sold off many of the shipwreck artefacts. The match safe was purchased from the caretaker's son in the 1990's by a previous owner of the Marine Shop, Queenscliff, Victoria. Pocket match safes or match safes were small portable boxes, or containers made in a great variety of forms and shapes, each with lids or covers to contain matches and retain their quality. Matches came into use around the 1830's and were produced extensively between the years 1890 and 1920. During this period everyone carried strike anywhere matches, so they could ignite stoves, lanterns and other devices. Early matches were unreliable and prone to ignite from rubbing on one another or spontaneously. Accordingly, most people carried a match safe to house their matches. Wealthy people had ‘match safes made of gold or silver, while common folk had ones made of tin or brass. They were made throughout the world including the United Kingdom, in the U.S.A., continental Europe and Australia. Significant English makers of cases were, Sampson Mordan and Asprey & Co. Significant American manufacturers of match safes include Wm. B. Kerr, Gorham, Unger Brothers, Battin, Blackington , Whiting, George Scheibler and Shreve & Co. Different patterns and types run into thousands as well as plain and decorative examples. They were also made in a wide range of materials, including pressed brass, pressed tin, gunmetal, nickel silver, gold, bone, ivory, the wood of varying types, early plastics like tortoiseshell and Bakelite, and ceramics. A distinguishing characteristic of match safes is that they have a ribbed surface, usually on the bottom, for lighting the matches. The item gives a snapshot into the social development through it's application in every day use match safes were used at a time when there were no safety matches and the early use of matches was a dangerous affair given they were easily combustive if rubbed together in a pocket for example. The item is also an example of the shipwreck artefacts gathered along the southwest coast of Victoria.Match Safe; hollow brass cylinder with ribbed match striker texture on base and screw thread around top. Fitted brass lid has an internal screw thread, and the top's flat surface has concentric circles design, with a twisted rope pattern grip around the edge. flagstaff hill, flagstaff hill maritime museum and village, warrnambool, maritime museum, maritime village, great ocean road, shipwreck coast, shipwreck artefact, port phillip bay, port lonsdale lighthouse, wreck, 1960’s diver, queenscliff marine shop, match container, match safe, matches, fire lighter, fire safety, heat, fire, portable match safe, 19th century -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus ArchivesPlan, VCAH Burnley College, Swan Street Richmond - Site Plan 1:1000 Fire Services Survey, 1991
... ...fire safety...University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives 500 Yarra Boulevard Richmond melbourne vcah burnley fire safety Plan with Buildings named, External Hydrant Sources and Main Entry Points marked. ...Plan with Buildings named, External Hydrant Sources and Main Entry Points marked. Scale 1:1000. Dated January 1991.vcah, burnley, fire safety -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and VillageFire Pump, 20th century
... ...fire extinguisher...safety...Dr Angus assisted Dr Tom Ryan, a pioneer in the use of X-rays and in ocular surgery. flagstaff hill warrnambool shipwrecked coast flagstaff hill maritime museum maritime museum shipwreck coast flagstaff hill maritime village great ocean road dr w r angus dr ryan surgical instrument t.s.s. largs bay warrnambool base hospital nhill base hospital mira hospital flying doctor water pump fire pump fire extinguisher safety equipment Moulded into metal "STOKES" and “MELB”. ...This water pump was owned by Dr. W.R. Angus AND was donated to Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village by the family of Doctor William Roy Angus, Surgeon and Oculist. It is part of the “W.R. Angus Collection” includes historical medical equipment, surgical instruments and material once belonging to Dr Edward Ryan and Dr Thomas Francis Ryan, (both of Nhill, Victoria) as well as Dr Angus’ own belongings. The Collection’s history spans the medical practices of the two Doctors Ryan, from 1885-1926 plus that of Dr Angus, up until 1969. ABOUT THE “W.R.ANGUS COLLECTION” Doctor William Roy Angus M.B., B.S., Adel., 1923, F.R.C.S. Edin.,1928 (also known as Dr Roy Angus) was born in Murrumbeena, Victoria in 1901 and lived until 1970. He qualified as a doctor in 1923 at University of Adelaide, was Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1924 and for a period was house surgeon to Sir (then Mr.) Henry Simpson Newland. Dr Angus was briefly an Assistant to Dr Riddell of Kapunda, then commenced private practice at Curramulka, Yorke Peninsula, SA, where he was physician, surgeon and chemist. In 1926, he was appointed as new Medical Assistant to Dr Thomas Francis Ryan (T.F. Ryan, or Tom), in Nhill, Victoria, where his experiences included radiology and pharmacy. In 1927 he was Acting House Surgeon in Dr Tom Ryan’s absence. Dr Angus had become engaged to Gladys Forsyth and they decided he further his studies overseas in the UK in 1927. He studied at London University College Hospital and at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and in 1928, was awarded FRCS (Fellow from the Royal College of Surgeons), Edinburgh. He worked his passage back to Australia as a Ship’s Surgeon on the on the Australian Commonwealth Line’s T.S.S. Largs Bay. Dr Angus married Gladys in 1929, in Ballarat. (They went on to have one son (Graham 1932, born in SA) and two daughters (Helen (died 12/07/1996) and Berenice (Berry), both born at Mira, Nhill ) According to Berry, her mother Gladys made a lot of their clothes. She was very talented and did some lovely embroidery including lingerie for her trousseau and beautifully handmade baby clothes. Dr Angus was a ‘flying doctor’ for the A.I.M. (Australian Inland Ministry) Aerial Medical Service in 1928 . Its first station was in the remote town of Oodnadatta, where Dr Angus was stationed. He was locum tenens there on North-South Railway at 21 Mile Camp. He took up this ‘flying doctor’ position in response to a call from Dr John Flynn; the organisation was later known as the Flying Doctor Service, then the Royal Flying Doctor Service. A lot of his work during this time involved dental surgery also. Between 1928-1932 he was surgeon at the Curramulka Hospital, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. In 1933 Dr Angus returned to Nhill and purchased a share of the Nelson Street practice and Mira hospital (a 2 bed ward at the Nelson Street Practice) from Dr Les Middleton one of the Middleton Brothers, the current owners of what previously once Dr Tom Ryan’s practice. Dr Tom and his brother had worked as surgeons included eye surgery. Dr Tom Ryan performed many of his operations in the Mira private hospital on his premises. He had been House Surgeon at the Nhill Hospital 1902-1926. Dr Tom Ryan had one of the only two pieces of radiology equipment in Victoria during his practicing years – The Royal Melbourne Hospital had the other one. Over the years Dr Tom Ryan had gradually set up what was effectively a training school for country general-practitioner-surgeons. Each patient was carefully examined, including using the X-ray machine, and any surgery was discussed and planned with Dr Ryan’s assistants several days in advance. Dr Angus gained experience in using the X-ray machine there during his time as assistant to Dr Ryan. When Dr Angus bought into the Nelson Street premises in Nhill he was also appointed as the Nhill Hospital’s Honorary House Surgeon 1933-1938. His practitioner’s plate from his Nhill surgery is now mounted on the doorway to the Port Medical Office at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, Warrnambool. When Dr Angus took up practice in the Dr Edward and Dr Tom Ryan’s old premises he obtained their extensive collection of historical medical equipment and materials spanning 1884-1926. A large part of this collection is now on display at the Port Medical Office at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village in Warrnambool. In 1939 Dr Angus and his family moved to Warrnambool where he purchased “Birchwood,” the 1852 home and medical practice of Dr John Hunter Henderson, at 214 Koroit Street. (This property was sold in1965 to the State Government and is now the site of the Warrnambool Police Station. and an ALDI sore is on the land that was once their tennis court). The Angus family was able to afford gardeners, cooks and maids; their home was a popular place for visiting dignitaries to stay whilst visiting Warrnambool. Dr Angus had his own silk worm farm at home in a Mulberry tree. His young daughter used his centrifuge for spinning the silk. Dr Angus was appointed on a part-time basis as Port Medical Officer (Health Officer) in Warrnambool and held this position until the 1940’s when the government no longer required the service of a Port Medical Officer in Warrnambool; he was thus Warrnambool’s last serving Port Medical Officer. (Masters of immigrant ships arriving in port reported incidents of diseases, illness and death and the Port Medical Officer made a decision on whether the ship required Quarantine and for how long, in this way preventing contagious illness from spreading from new immigrants to the residents already in the colony.) Dr Angus was a member of the Australian Medical Association, for 35 years and surgeon at the Warrnambool Base Hospital 1939-1942, He served with the Australian Department of Defence as a Surgeon Captain during WWII 1942-45, in Ballarat, Victoria, and in Bonegilla, N.S.W., completing his service just before the end of the war due to suffering from a heart attack. During his convalescence he carved an intricate and ‘most artistic’ chess set from the material that dentures were made from. He then studied ophthalmology at the Royal Melbourne Eye and Ear Hospital and created cosmetically superior artificial eyes by pioneering using the intrascleral cartilage. Angus received accolades from the Ophthalmological Society of Australasia for this work. He returned to Warrnambool to commence practice as an ophthalmologist, pioneering in artificial eye improvements. He was Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist to Warrnambool Base Hospital for 31 years. He made monthly visits to Portland as a visiting surgeon, to perform eye surgery. He represented the Victorian South-West subdivision of the Australian Medical Association as its secretary between 1949 and 1956 and as chairman from 1956 to 1958. In 1968 Dr Angus was elected member of Spain’s Barraquer Institute of Barcelona after his research work in Intrasclearal cartilage grafting, becoming one of the few Australian ophthalmologists to receive this honour, and in the following year presented his final paper on Living Intrasclearal Cartilage Implants at the Inaugural Meeting of the Australian College of Ophthalmologists in Melbourne In his personal life Dr Angus was a Presbyterian and treated Sunday as a Sabbath, a day of rest. He would visit 3 or 4 country patients on a Sunday, taking his children along ‘for the ride’ and to visit with him. Sunday evenings he would play the pianola and sing Scottish songs to his family. One of Dr Angus’ patients was Margaret MacKenzie, author of a book on local shipwrecks that she’d seen as an eye witness from the late 1880’s in Peterborough, Victoria. In the early 1950’s Dr Angus, painted a picture of a shipwreck for the cover jacket of Margaret’s book, Shipwrecks and More Shipwrecks. She was blind in later life and her daughter wrote the actual book for her. Dr Angus and his wife Gladys were very involved in Warrnambool’s society with a strong interest in civic affairs. He had an interest in people and the community They were both involved in the creation of Flagstaff Hill, including the layout of the gardens. After his death (28th March 1970) his family requested his practitioner’s plate, medical instruments and some personal belongings be displayed in the Port Medical Office surgery at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, and be called the “W. R. Angus Collection”. The W.R. Angus Collection is significant for still being located at the site it is connected with, Doctor Angus being the last Port Medical Officer in Warrnambool. The collection of medical instruments and other equipment is culturally significant, being an historical example of medicine from late 19th to mid-20th century. Dr Angus assisted Dr Tom Ryan, a pioneer in the use of X-rays and in ocular surgery. Fire pump, part of the W.R. Angus Collection. Red metal water pump. "D" shaped pump handle slides within pump cylinder, stand has 'U" shaped footrest. Pump has threaded fitting for pipe at top and wire filter at bottom. Made by Stokes, Melbourne. Remnants of red paint left on pump. Card label is attached. Moulded into metal "STOKES" and “MELB”. Label attached with string to handle (no text visible).flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, dr w r angus, dr ryan, surgical instrument, t.s.s. largs bay, warrnambool base hospital, nhill base hospital, mira hospital, flying doctor, water pump, fire pump, fire extinguisher, safety equipment -
Ballarat Tramway MuseumSign - Emergency Response - SEC Tram Depot Ballarat
... ...Fire fighting...Safety...Tramways Ballarat signs Emergencies tramway Power Fire fighting Safety Set of two wooden signs, with chamfered edges, red background with white painted letters, advising SEC Ballarat Depot workers or Firefighters that the power had to be cut to the Trolley Wire prior to using a fire hose in the depot building. ...Possibly made by local SEC Staff for the refurbished Ballarat Tram depot during the mid 1930's. Note the spelling of Depot with the accent.Demonstrates and provides information to Depot workers and Fire Fighters that the power had to be turned off to the Trolley Wire inside the depot using an emergency circuit breaker and where this equipment was provided before using a fire hose.Set of two wooden signs, with chamfered edges, red background with white painted letters, advising SEC Ballarat Depot workers or Firefighters that the power had to be cut to the Trolley Wire prior to using a fire hose in the depot building. An emergency button was provided in a circuit breaker box for this purpose. Rear has been primed with a pink primer. .1 - complete sign .2 - bottom section broken offtramways, ballarat, signs, emergencies, tramway power, fire fighting, safety -
Federation University Historical CollectionDocument - Document - Report, VIOSH: BCAE;, Special Inspection Report prepared for The Sovereign Hill Park Association; 1980
... ...general public safety...fire...safety at Sovereign Hill, Ballarat. Interviews with those at Sovereign Hill and external public officials - fire brigade, police, ambulance contributed to the report....safety at Sovereign Hill, Ballarat. Interviews with those at Sovereign Hill and external public officials - fire brigade, police, ambulance contributed to the report. viosh victorian institute of occupational safety and health ballarat college of advanced education bcae occupational hazard management sovereign hill general public safety fire brigade police ambulance inspection report neville betts student Twenty-eight A4 pages - typed document. ...Victorian Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (VIOSH) Australia is the Asia-Pacific centre for teaching and research in occupational health and safety (OHS) and is known as one of Australia's leaders on the field. VIOSH has a global reputation for its innovative approach within the field of OHS management. VIOSH had its first intake of students in 1979. At that time the Institution was known as the Ballarat College of Advanced Education. In 1990 it became known as Ballarat University College, then in 1994 as University of Ballarat. It was 2014 that it became Federation University. VIOSH Australia students are safety managers, senior advisors and experienced OHS professionals. They come from all over Australia and industry. Students are taught active research and enquiry; rather than textbook learning and a one-size fits all approach. VIOSH accepts people into the Graduate Diploma of Occupational Hazard Management who have no undergraduate degree - on the basis of extensive work experience and knowledge. This special report was prepared by Neville Betts, Occupational Hazard Management student at Ballarat College of Advanced Education in 1980. It was to provide comment and recommendations aimed towards improving the standards of both occupational health and safety and general public safety at Sovereign Hill, Ballarat. Interviews with those at Sovereign Hill and external public officials - fire brigade, police, ambulance contributed to the report.Twenty-eight A4 pages - typed document. Photographs included showing various safety concerns. Small holes down left side from binding which has been removed.viosh, victorian institute of occupational safety and health, ballarat college of advanced education, bcae, occupational hazard management, sovereign hill, general public safety, fire brigade, police, ambulance, inspection report, neville betts, student -
Moorabbin Air MuseumBook - Flight training for private pilots, Ground Training For The Private Pilot Licence Manual 4
... Fire...First aid & safety equipment...Moorabbin Air Museum Moorabbin Airport 12 First Street Moorabbin melbourne Flight Training Aircraft types Fire First aid & safety equipment Overview of technical subjects section of UK private pilot's syllabus circa 1980s Ground Training For The Private Pilot Licence Manual 4 Book Flight training for private pilots ...Overview of technical subjects section of UK private pilot's syllabus circa 1980snon-fictionOverview of technical subjects section of UK private pilot's syllabus circa 1980saircraft types, fire, first aid & safety equipment -
Grey Street Primary School, TraralgonScrapbook, Newspaper Cuttings 1994, 1994
... Items about Preps starting, new principal, 19th Surrey Downs visit, Kosciusko St PS fire, Safety House Program, Junior sports Week, Admin upgrade, tabloid sports carnival, Education Week, Greyathon, restoration work in Traralgon, satellite dishes for interactive learning, Bookweek, Mr Coverdale's American Reunion, Childrens Week, School Fair, PASE courses, Presentation Night...Grey Street Primary School, Traralgon 30-44 Grey Street Traralgon gippsland Items about Preps starting, new principal, 19th Surrey Downs visit, Kosciusko St PS fire, Safety House Program, Junior sports Week, Admin upgrade, tabloid sports carnival, Education Week, Greyathon, restoration work in Traralgon, satellite dishes for interactive learning, Bookweek, Mr Coverdale's American Reunion, Childrens Week, School Fair, PASE courses, Presentation Night Contact covered scrapbook Newspaper Cuttings 1994 Scrapbook ...Items about Preps starting, new principal, 19th Surrey Downs visit, Kosciusko St PS fire, Safety House Program, Junior sports Week, Admin upgrade, tabloid sports carnival, Education Week, Greyathon, restoration work in Traralgon, satellite dishes for interactive learning, Bookweek, Mr Coverdale's American Reunion, Childrens Week, School Fair, PASE courses, Presentation NightContact covered scrapbook -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)Equipment - Equipment, Army, Survival Kit, individual survival kit, reserve packet
... Contains mossie headnet and mittens, tablets, safety pin, fire starting kit....National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM) 25 Veterans Drive Newhaven phillip-island-and-the-bass-coast Survival Equipment Army 0545 - c50 - 9500 Contains mossie headnet and mittens, tablets, safety pin, fire starting kit. Survival Kit, individual survival kit, reserve packet. ...Contains mossie headnet and mittens, tablets, safety pin, fire starting kit.0545 - c50 - 9500survival equipment, army -
Eltham District Historical Society IncDocument - Folder, O'Malley, Stephen
... Eltham resident, Stephen O'Malley, as Melbourne Fire Brigade's multicultural liaison officer, teaches new arrivals to Australia about fire safety and emergency services in Australia. ...Eltham District Historical Society Inc 728 Main Rd Eltham melbourne Eltham resident, Stephen O'Malley, as Melbourne Fire Brigade's multicultural liaison officer, teaches new arrivals to Australia about fire safety and emergency services in Australia. ...Eltham resident, Stephen O'Malley, as Melbourne Fire Brigade's multicultural liaison officer, teaches new arrivals to Australia about fire safety and emergency services in Australia. He was awarded an Australian Fire Service Medal in the 2010 Australia Day Awards. Contents Newspaper article: "A great honour for firefighter Stephen O'Malley", Diamond Valley Leader, 27 January 2010, Stephen O'Malley awarded an Australian Fire Service Medal in 2010 Australia Day Awards.Newspaper clippings, A4 photocopies, etcstephen o'malley, metropolitan fire brigade -
Falls Creek Historical SocietyJournal - Ski-Horizon Vol 3 No 4
... Items related to the Falls Creek Area in this publication include:- Page 5 - A general reminder about fire safety in the summer. - The Albury Ski Club Ball was a great success. - Some race results not hitherto published. ...Items related to the Falls Creek Area in this publication include:- Page 5 - A general reminder about fire safety in the summer. - The Albury Ski Club Ball was a great success. - Some race results not hitherto published. ...Ski-Horizon is the official journal of the Federation of Victorian Ski Clubs which began publication in 1949. The were 26 original member clubs which included Albury Ski Club, Bogong Ski Club, Myrtleford Ski Club, Tallangatta and District Ski Club and Wangaratta Ski Club. Two pioneers of Falls Creek, Tom Mitchell, M.L.A., and Martin Romuld were Vice-Presidents of the Federation.This Journal is significant because it documents the early development of skiing in Victoria.The journal features stories and events chronicling developments in Victoria and internationally. Items related to the Falls Creek Area in this publication include:- Page 5 - A general reminder about fire safety in the summer. - The Albury Ski Club Ball was a great success. - Some race results not hitherto published. Bogong Ski Club Open Championship: A. Lejins 1, F. Sik-tane 2. S. Hooke 3. Albury Ski Club Championship Combined: Bob Howe 1. Bob Scott 2, Skippy St. Elmo 3.ski history victoria, federation of victorian ski clubs, ski results skippy st elmo, bob scott -
Ballarat Tramway MuseumDocument, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), "General instructions - maintenance of electric trams", 11/1948
... Sets out First Aid, Safety, fire precautions, ladders, tools, access to depot, working on rooves, tram operation within depot, and changing lamps. ...Sets out First Aid, Safety, fire precautions, ladders, tools, access to depot, working on rooves, tram operation within depot, and changing lamps. ...Instruction dated Nov. 1948 titled "General instructions for employees engaged on the construction, repair and maintenance of electric trams" issued in Ballarat. Sets out First Aid, Safety, fire precautions, ladders, tools, access to depot, working on rooves, tram operation within depot, and changing lamps. Appendix A - first aid treatment, B - form to be signed by the employee that they understood "live equipment" and C - regarding the return of tools and equipment when employment ceases.Yields information about depot first aid and general work instructions.Memo duplicated nine foolscap sheets, stapled along left hand edge.has numerous pen updates on the sides of the document.secv, depot, employees, workshops, first aid, •electrical equipment -
Ballarat Tramway MuseumDocument, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), "Annual report 1957/58 - Works Section", August 1958
... The report on the Workshops includes a listing of staff, power station work, labour issues, vehicles, fire control and safety. Report dated 13/8/1958....The report on the Workshops includes a listing of staff, power station work, labour issues, vehicles, fire control and safety. Report dated 13/8/1958. Yields information about the Ballarat tramways and workshops of the SECV during 1957/1958. tramways tramcars Ballarat depot works foreman reports "Depot Foreman" in top left hand corner in ink. ...Document by the SECV Ballarat Work's Superintendent looks at the activities and issues of tramways and workshops. Includes notes on the operation and personnel of the depot - reduction in staff, maintenance, accidents, permanent way or track maintenance, including replacement of rail at the Sebastopol terminus using lighter rail ex Geelong. Has an extensive report on tramcar maintenance. The report on the Workshops includes a listing of staff, power station work, labour issues, vehicles, fire control and safety. Report dated 13/8/1958.Yields information about the Ballarat tramways and workshops of the SECV during 1957/1958.Carbon copy of a 15 foolscap page report stapled in the top left hand corner."Depot Foreman" in top left hand corner in ink.tramways, tramcars, ballarat, depot, works foreman, reports -
Eltham District Historical Society IncDocument - Series Listing, Fraser Faithfull et al, Series 61: Shire Scenes / Activities / Staff, negatives, 2000
... in the Chambers wearing the Presidential Chain. 375 negatives. 2) Activities documented include: Fire Safety workshop and massage, Leisure Centre activities including pool construction, Living and Learning Centre, Pottery, Netball, Shire Offices, Elderly Citizens, Buildings, Youth Services, Sporting Facilities, Parklands, Community Arts, Childca re, Childrens Week Book Launch 23/ 10/1991 , Environment Week Launch 19/9/1991 , Childrens Services and Activities, Buy A Book Campaign Launch November 1990, Thelma Barkways' Birthday 1990, Engineering activities including Waste Collection, Building and Health Services activities including water testing, examples of new housing, blocks of land, letter box numbers. ...in the Chambers wearing the Presidential Chain. 375 negatives. 2) Activities documented include: Fire Safety workshop and massage, Leisure Centre activities including pool construction, Living and Learning Centre, Pottery, Netball, Shire Offices, Elderly Citizens, Buildings, Youth Services, Sporting Facilities, Parklands, Community Arts, Childca re, Childrens Week Book Launch 23/ 10/1991 , Environment Week Launch 19/9/1991 , Childrens Services and Activities, Buy A Book Campaign Launch November 1990, Thelma Barkways' Birthday 1990, Engineering activities including Waste Collection, Building and Health Services activities including water testing, examples of new housing, blocks of land, letter box numbers. ...Series consists of a large collection (over 1150) of negatives of scenes, activities and staff of the Shire of Eltham. Many of the films were taken for publicity purposes and necessarily cover a broad range of topics. The films or individual strips have been organised into Scenes, Activities and Staff groupings, however there are many overlaps. 1) Scenes includes: Parks and Roads including Alistair Knox Park, Tree Planting, Trees and Flowers, general Shire Scenes. One of the Alistair Knox Park films also contains shots of the Shire President (John Graves?) in the Chambers wearing the Presidential Chain. 375 negatives. 2) Activities documented include: Fire Safety workshop and massage, Leisure Centre activities including pool construction, Living and Learning Centre, Pottery, Netball, Shire Offices, Elderly Citizens, Buildings, Youth Services, Sporting Facilities, Parklands, Community Arts, Childca re, Childrens Week Book Launch 23/ 10/1991 , Environment Week Launch 19/9/1991 , Childrens Services and Activities, Buy A Book Campaign Launch November 1990, Thelma Barkways' Birthday 1990, Engineering activities including Waste Collection, Building and Health Services activities including water testing, examples of new housing, blocks of land, letter box numbers. Also in this section are Shire Office and Handbook shots, nature shots including butterflies (Eltham Copper Butterfly?), wheelchairbound CEO Rodney Roscholler, Community Services Xmas Lunch 1991. 607 negatives. 3) Staff including many groups and individuals to be identified, Rodney Roscholler, Thelma Barkway, Councillors, Shire President Pamela Sladden, Roma O'Callaghan, Irene in the Kitchen/Entertainment Area, also Farm Scenes. 169 negatives.shire of eltham archives, series listing -
Department of Energy, Environment and Climate ActionProtective Bushfire overalls
... The Committee, among other things, wanted to upgrade fire safety clothing. Alan also initiated a radical colour idea after a work trip to the UK in about 1981 and brought home a small sample swatch. ...The Committee, among other things, wanted to upgrade fire safety clothing. Alan also initiated a radical colour idea after a work trip to the UK in about 1981 and brought home a small sample swatch. ...At the time of the 1982-83 bushfire season FCV firefighters wore either navy blue issue overalls or their own clothing, generally a checked flannel shirt and jeans. Uncomfortable safety boots and hardhats were issued. The CFA had switched from white overalls to their distinctive yellow kit by 1983. In about 1980, in a far-sighted corporate move for the time, Alan Threader, who was the Chairman of the FCV, established a departmental safety committee, which he personally chaired. The Committee, among other things, wanted to upgrade fire safety clothing. Alan also initiated a radical colour idea after a work trip to the UK in about 1981 and brought home a small sample swatch. Alan believed that the now distinctive bright yellow-green was a good colour contrast to the Victorian bush which is a blue-green hue. Trevor Brown from Stores Branch scored the task to make the change and letters were sent to the UK seeking information about the pigment. The FCV worked with the Commonwealth Dyers Association and Cushen Clothing to replicate the shade on cotton drill, which presented darker when it was treated with the flame-retardant chemical, Proban. The first of the new Kermit Suits were rolled-out in late 1984, and the stylish colour was initially registered and patented to the Department. But it's also fair to say that the new gaudy shade of apparel wasn’t universally popular with staff. The lime green overalls were an Australian first, and forest agencies in other states followed a few years later. In the early 1990s, armed with a pair of dressmaker’s scissors, the baggy one-piece Kermit boilersuits were tailored by Peter Billing from Fire Protection Branch and Trevor Brown in conjunction with the family-owned business, Top Level Workwear, which saw numerous enhancements and prototypes. The two-piece Kermit suits were available in the late 1990s after many years of argy-bargy and complaints from field firefighters. Protective overalls Two types - early FCV (c 1983) and later CNR (1992) forests commission victoria (fcv), protective clothing, safety equipment -
Bendigo Military MuseumDocument - INSTRUCTIONS, EXPLOSIVE TRAINING, Aust Army, c1953 - 1972
... Preparation of M18A1 Claymore mine for firing. 4. Foolscap page - Safety regulations for M2A1-7 Flame thrower. 5. ...Preparation of M18A1 Claymore mine for firing. 4. Foolscap page - Safety regulations for M2A1-7 Flame thrower. 5. ...1. A4 pages held together with one staple - Assault Pioneers Demolitions Part 1, 1953. 8 pages. 2. A4 size page - held together with one staple - Assault Pioneers 1953 - 2 pages. 3. A4 size page single. Preparation of M18A1 Claymore mine for firing. 4. Foolscap page - Safety regulations for M2A1-7 Flame thrower. 5. Foolscap page - single sheet. Assault Pioneers, Mine Warfare and Booby Traps, General Rules.training, army, notes -
Eltham District Historical Society IncDocument - Folder, Jones, 1979
... Geoff was posthumously awarded the British Empire Medal for his services to fire safety at the CFA. A small man, handicapped from his childhood polio, he had figured prominently in the area as an active Apex member and as group officer for the 13 local brigades in the CFA Lower Yarra Group. ...Geoff was posthumously awarded the British Empire Medal for his services to fire safety at the CFA. A small man, handicapped from his childhood polio, he had figured prominently in the area as an active Apex member and as group officer for the 13 local brigades in the CFA Lower Yarra Group. ...Fred, Gwenda and Geoff Jones Contents 1. Proud memory; Geoff Jones, Diamond Valley News, 21 Nov 1979 2. Sudden death of 'much loved man', Diamond Valley News, 13 Feb 1979 3. Honor for a community friend, Diamond Valley News, 8 March 1995 (On reverse, 'Diverse program to entice riders' about St Andrews Saddle Club and fgeatures a photo of Debbie Jones) Gwendoline (Gwenda) Grace Watson Davies, only daughter of Mr. William Watson Davies and Mrs. Grace Davies (nee Hayes) of Arthur Street, Eltham was born in Newport, 18 February 1908. Gwenda grew up in Arthur Street and when she left school she was employed as an officer at the State Bank of Victoria, Chief Accountants Department, Head Office, Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. On October 20, 1937 after ten years of service, Gwenda submitted her letter of resignation effective November 26th as she was to be married in the near future to Fred Jones. Frederick Geoffrey Jones, born 7 January 1911, third son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Jones of Napoleon Street, Eltham, married Gwenda at the Eltham Methodist Church on 27 November 1937. They made their home at ‘Llangollen’, Arthur Street, Eltham, a new house Fred had constructed earlier that year opposite the Shire Offices. Their residence was recorded in the Electoral Rolls from 1963-1980 as 6 Arthur Street, Eltham which was situated on the corner of Arthur Street and present-day Commercial Place. In the 1970s their home was sold and demolished to make way for the new shops. They built a new home at the top of the hill in Bible Street. In the Electoral Rolls for 1943-1980, Frederick’s occupation was recorded as a Plumber’s Assistant. Fred was also a long-standing member of the Eltham Cemetery Trust. He was first appointed 26 April 1944 and resigned 17 July 1957 to be appointed to the Warringal and Eltham Joint Trust where he served till February 1980. He then re-joined the Eltham Cemetery Trust and served a further 14 years till his resignation on 24 August 1994. In total, Fred represented the interests of Eltham Cemetery for 50 years (1944-1994). Gwenda and Fred were blessed with a son, Frederick William Jones in March 1942. Sadly, Frederick only lived two days and was buried at Eltham Cemetery on March 11. It is not known whether his grave is marked. A second son, Geoffrey Morris Jones arrived 25 November 1944 but he sadly contracted polio as a child. A fall down the front steps of Fred and Gwenda’s new home in Bible Street culminated in Geoff’s death from a heart attack whilst in transit to the Austin Hospital on February 6, 1979, at age 34. He was also interred in the Eltham Cemetery. Geoff was posthumously awarded the British Empire Medal for his services to fire safety at the CFA. A small man, handicapped from his childhood polio, he had figured prominently in the area as an active Apex member and as group officer for the 13 local brigades in the CFA Lower Yarra Group. His work for the CFA, all voluntary, included writing a fire-fighting manual and the innovation of aerial fire spotting and weekly fire reports. Gwendoline and Fred were presented with Geoff’s B.EM. award at Government House. Four years later on the anniversary of Geoff’s death, Gwenda could not sleep and collapsed in the hallway at home from a heart attack, 6 February 1983 at age 74. She was interred with her son Geoff, at Eltham Cemetery on February 9th. Fred died 31 July 1997 at age 86 and was also interred at Eltham Cemetery. A memorial plaque to Gwenda, Fred and Geoff lies within the lawn cemetery at Eltham Cemetery.Newsprint clippingscfa, eltham cemetery, eltham cemetery trust, frederick geoffrey jones, geoffrey morris jones b.e.m., gwendoline grace watson jones (nee davies), lower yarra group, debbie jones, st andrews saddle club -
Eltham District Historical Society IncBook, Gwendoline G. W. Davies, Poems - G. Davies, 1933-1934
... Geoff was posthumously awarded the British Empire Medal for his services to fire safety at the CFA. A small man, handicapped from his childhood polio, he had figured prominently in the area as an active Apex member and as group officer for the 13 local brigades in the CFA Lower Yarra Group. ...Geoff was posthumously awarded the British Empire Medal for his services to fire safety at the CFA. A small man, handicapped from his childhood polio, he had figured prominently in the area as an active Apex member and as group officer for the 13 local brigades in the CFA Lower Yarra Group. ...Gwendoline (Gwenda) Grace Watson Davies, only daughter of Mr. William Watson Davies and Mrs. Grace Davies (nee Hayes) of Arthur Street, Eltham was born in Newport, 18 February 1908. Gwenda grew up in Arthur Street and when she left school she was employed as an officer at the State Bank of Victoria, Chief Accountants Department, Head Office, Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. During 1933-1934 in her early to mid-twenties, Gwenda wrote a series of poems which were captured in three books: one a leather bound three-ring binder with personalised gold embossing on the cover and two paper booklets held together by pink ribbon. These poems are a reflection of her childhood days, home, her mother, her environment, pioneering days and other miscellaneous subjects including one example titled “EIGHTEEN YEARS TO-DAY”, an homage to the brave men of Gallipoli. On October 20, 1937 after ten years of service, Gwenda submitted her letter of resignation effective November 26th as she was to be married in the near future to Fred Jones. Frederick Geoffrey Jones, born 7 January 1911, third son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Jones of Napoleon Street, Eltham, married Gwenda at the Eltham Methodist Church on 27 November 1937. They made their home at ‘Llangollen’, Arthur Street, Eltham, a new house Fred had constructed earlier that year opposite the Shire Offices. Their residence was recorded in the Electoral Rolls from 1963-1980 as 6 Arthur Street, Eltham which was situated on the corner of Arthur Street and present-day Commercial Place. In the 1970s their home was sold and demolished to make way for the new shops. They built a new home at the top of the hill in Bible Street. In the Electoral Rolls for 1943-1980, Frederick’s occupation was recorded as a Plumber’s Assistant. Fred was also a long-standing member of the Eltham Cemetery Trust. He was first appointed 26 April 1944 and resigned 17 July 1957 to be appointed to the Warringal and Eltham Joint Trust where he served till February 1980. He then re-joined the Eltham Cemetery Trust and served a further 14 years till his resignation on 24 August 1994. In total, Fred represented the interests of Eltham Cemetery for 50 years (1944-1994). Gwenda and Fred were blessed with a son, Frederick William Jones in March 1942. Sadly, Frederick only lived two days and was buried at Eltham Cemetery on March 11. It is not known whether his grave is marked. A second son, Geoffrey Morris Jones arrived 25 November 1944 but he sadly contracted polio as a child. A fall down the front steps of Fred and Gwenda’s new home in Bible Street culminated in Geoff’s death from a heart attack whilst in transit to the Austin Hospital on February 6, 1979, at age 34. He was also interred in the Eltham Cemetery. Geoff was posthumously awarded the British Empire Medal for his services to fire safety at the CFA. A small man, handicapped from his childhood polio, he had figured prominently in the area as an active Apex member and as group officer for the 13 local brigades in the CFA Lower Yarra Group. His work for the CFA, all voluntary, included writing a fire-fighting manual and the innovation of aerial fire spotting and weekly fire reports. Gwendoline and Fred were presented with Geoff’s B.EM. award at Government House. Four years later on the anniversary of Geoff’s death, Gwenda could not sleep and collapsed in the hallway at home from a heart attack, 6 February 1983 at age 74. She was interred with her son Geoff, at Eltham Cemetery on February 9th. Fred died 31 July 1997 at age 86 and was also interred at Eltham Cemetery. A memorial plaque to Gwenda, Fred and Geoff lies within the lawn cemetery at Eltham Cemetery. In February 2022 Gwenda’s book of Poems along with a copy of her letter of resignation from the State Bank of Victoria and a news clipping about the Autumn Show held in the Public Hall at Eltham (opposite her home with Fred) in which Gwenda is listed as having entered Cream Puffs and a Swiss Roll into the Cooking section, were donated to the St Vincent’s de Paul Society in Bega, N.S.W.. A dedicated volunteer there researched their origins and desirous for these items to return ‘home’, posted them to the Eltham District Historical Society for which we are most appreciative. EIGHTEEN YEARS TO-DAY “Tell me why you’re dreaming, Daddy” Said my little son to me, So, I told him all about it, As he sat upon my knee. I told him of that Sunday morn, ‘Twas eighteen years to-day, When the men of Australasia, Joined the mighty fray. How they landed on that foreign shore, And fought the gallant fight, Of how they nobly won the day, And put the Turks to flight. We saw the cliffs before us, To be scaled ‘mid shot and shell, And our comrades fell around us - - - - I remember it - - - so well. There are some who’ll sleep forever, On a hill that’s called Lone Pine, And the twenty-fifth of April, Is famous for all time. And so to keep their memory green, We march each Anzac Day, To pay tribute to those Heroes, Who gave their lives that day. - Anzac Day 1933 And in reflections to Gwenda’s childhood home in Arthur Street: HOME Where do my thoughts ever wander? Where do my thoughts always roam? To a little old house, on the top of a hill, To the place, that I call “Home Sweet Home.” No matter where-ever I travel, On land, or away on the foam. My thoughts will return, and my heart ever yearn, To the place, that I call “Home Sweet Home”. - 2/7/1933 Sources: Book of Poems, G. Davies Letter of Resignation, 1937, Oct. 20, G.G.W. Davies Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria New House at Eltham (1937, September 10). Advertiser (Hurstbridge, Vic. : 1922 – 1939), p. 6. Retrieved May 12, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56845735 Family Notices (1937, December 17). Advertiser (Hurstbridge, Vic. : 1922 – 1939), p. 3. Retrieved May 12, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56846386 Geoff Jones, Proud Memory, unknown newspaper clipping, 1979 1979 Birthday Honours, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Birthday_Honours Australian Electoral Rolls, Ancestry.com Family Trees, Ancestry.com Eltham Cemetery, Deceased Search findagrave.com Personal recollections, Joan Castledine The poetry by Gwendoline Davies provides an insight into life growing up in Eltham and the early 1930s. A long time resident, Gwendoline, her husband Fred Jones and son Geoff Jones were fully dedicated to the Eltham community for over 50 years.1. Brown leather bound three-ring binder with personalised gold embossing on the cover 20.5 x 14.5 cm, Walkers Loose Leaf Book, pages typed with some pasted in colour illustrations, alphabeticised dividers (some tabs missing), 21 leafs (some blank) 2. Two paper booklets held together by pink ribbon 15.5 x 12 cm, typed, some with colour illustrations, pages numbered (rh only) 12 pages and 25 pages and paper cover 3. Newspaper clipping 4. Letter sized hand written page in ink folded in three and damaged by foxing and insectsanzac day, arthur street, napoleon street, cfa, eltham cemetery, eltham cemetery trust, frederick geoffrey jones, geoffrey morris jones b.e.m., grace davies (nee hayes), gwendoline grace watson jones (nee davies), llangollen, lower yarra group, poems, william watson davies -
Eltham District Historical Society IncNewspaper - News Clipping, Herald, The big Eltham clean-up gets under way, Herald, 4 March, p3, 1965
... Retrieved May 19, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131758981 Includes two photos of the fire in North Eltham “Firemen make for safety as fire rages in Upper Glen Park Road, North Eltham, Victoria. ...Retrieved May 19, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131758981 Includes two photos of the fire in North Eltham “Firemen make for safety as fire rages in Upper Glen Park Road, North Eltham, Victoria. ...Full page newspaper clipping featuring the March 1965 Victorian bushfires. Items include: Photograph - TWO-WOMAN BUCKET BRIGADE, Mrs Henry Marsden (left) and Mrs Moureen Ellis, whose fire-fighting efforts yesterday were highly praised today by their Eltham neighbours, carry out mopping-up operations Photograph - DOGS MADE HOMELESS by the fire in North Eltham yesterday are being cared for at First-Constable Doug. Mummery's kennels at Eltham and here is kennel maid Helen Oliver, 17, with some of them today. The two basset hounds are owned by Mr Bill Guy who lost about 100 daschund and basset hound puppies and dogs in the fire. Photograph - He died at Eltham [Picture of John Lawrence Coleman] Builder Mr John Lawrence Coleman, 31, of Main Rd., Eltham, one of three men burnt to death yesterday in the fire at North Eltham. The other two were XXXXX, 33 who lives opposite the Colemans and Mr William Elwers, 64 of Batman Rd., Eltham. John Lawrence Coleman (1934-1965) born January 10, was the son of Raymond John Coleman and Hanna May (Gillet) Coleman. He married Margaret Frances Dare in 1955 and was the father of two children. He died whilst attempting to rescue an older man trapped in the bushfire at North Eltham on March 3, 1965 Other news stories of the day: Bushfires rage in Victoria, Snowy: Three dead (1965, March 4). The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), p. 1. Retrieved May 19, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131758981 Includes two photos of the fire in North Eltham “Firemen make for safety as fire rages in Upper Glen Park Road, North Eltham, Victoria. The smoke hides a house.” and “A house explodes into flames at North Eltham, Victoria. Firemen said bottled gas went up.” Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Thursday 4 March 1965, page 1 ________________________________________ Firemen make for safety as fire rages in Upper Glen Park Road. North Eltham. Victoria. The smoke hides a house. A house explodes into flames at North Eltham. Victoria. Firemen said bottled gas went up. Bushfires rage in Victoria, Snowy: Three dead MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Three people died today in a bush» fire which raged through North Eltham, about 15 miles from Melbourne. The victims were three men. A fourth man is feared to be dead. Another bushfire. sparked off by the heatwave sizzling over south-eastern Australia, is burning out of control in the Kosciusko State Park, in the Snowy Mountains. Firefighters fear that if it reaches pine forests up the Yarrangobilly River, they will be powerless to stop it. The three victims of the North Eltbam fire were trapped by flames in a valley. Their bodies were found only a few yards apart. They were named by police tonight as Mr. George Crowe, 78, of North Eltham, William John Ewers, 64, and John Laurence Coleman, 31, both of Eltham. The other two have not been identified. They are believed to be a man aged about 40 and an 18-year-old youth. At least 12 homes were destroyed by the fire, the worst in Victoria since 1962, when eight lives were lost and hundreds of homes burnt down at Warrandyte. At one time the township of Eltham was threatened, but a cool change swept in from the south and held back the wall of flames. More than 100 dogs, worth about £4,000, died when the fire raced through two kennels in Short Street, Eltham. and Upper Glen Park Road, North Eltham. A trickle of water Residents ran into the streets as the blaze raced towards their houses. Others frantically dug firebreaks around their homes. Mrs. Sue Recourt wept when firemen arrived while she was vainly trying to stop the flames with a trickle of water from the garden hose. A stack of firewood was blazing, but the firemen managed to save the house and rescue four goats. Many homes in Eltham were saved after flames had crept to within feet of their fences. Students at North Eltham State School had to be evacuated when the blaze threatened the building. Fire fighters were severely hampered by lack of water and narrow roads. The blaze, which began in above century heat, turned toward Wattle Glen, where two houses were gutted. Then the flames raced towards Hurstbridge to the north. Firemen battling desperately, controlled the fire late this afternoon. Five forest fires were still burning in Victoria tonight. IN VICTORIA THIS WEEK Tragic lack of central fire authority (1965, March 9). The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), p. 2. Retrieved May 19, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131759928 Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Tuesday 9 March 1965, page 2 ________________________________________ IN VICTORIA THIS WEEK Tragic lack of central fire authority From Rohan Rivett It was the worst week for Victorian fire fighters since Black Friday 27 years ago. On that day one pilot up in a spotter plane said afterwards: "It seemed at times that half the State was on fire." This time, for three days on end, Gippsland men, women and children had moments of conviction that their towns would have blackened into anonymity before the weekend was out. The week began with horror at Eltham on the North-eastern edge of Melbourne. Eltham today is something of an artists' colony. Oil painters, water colourists, potters and sculptors proliferate. A number of University folk have emulated the example of Professor MacMahon Ball who pioneered the way by moving to Eltham and carving a home out of the bush in the thirties. Innermost Eltham is barely 14 miles from the G.P.O. Farthest Eltham stretches miles beyond. It served to illustrate the tragi-ludicrous truncation of Victoria's fire control. Part of Eltham is under the protection of the Melbourne Fire Brigade. But this responsibility ceases at some invisible and incomprehensible line — apparently determined by the meanderings of the water mains. At this point everybody's property throughout the rest of Eltham is dependent on the Country Fire Authority. Half an hour before midday on Wednesday, a fire suddenly started on the West side of Upper Glen road on the edge of Eltham. Before the fire brigade could arrive, it was burning on a widening front through timber and high grass north of Eltham. Two wind changes in rapid succession saw the fire leaping Diamond Creek. With a freshening wind it struck home after home in three streets. More than one of them exploded suddenly as if hit by an incendiary bomb. There is no piped gas in the Eltham area, hence many housewives use bottle gas. The flames outside caused the bottles to explode. Altogether twelve homes were completely incinerated and four more were badly damaged. Thirty prize dogs perished. About three hours after the fire started it raced suddenly down a gully hillside trapping an elderly man. Two other men apparently raced to the rescue. Flames caught the three men within yards of each other, not 200 yards off the Upper Glen Park Road where safety lay. They were burned to death. Next evening an angry and convincing secretary of the Fire Brigade Union, Mr. W. M. Webber, came on television and appealed to the people of Victoria to end the ridiculous and dangerous dualism in fire-fighting control. The Eltham fire, he said, had precisely illustrated the situation. The Metropolitan Fire Brigade area touched Eltham, but where the fire had gutted and killed, was just outside its area. Mr. Webber said his union had constantly urged one authority for the State with a complete reorganisation of fire protection. On Wednesday the union had repeated its call for an inquiry into fire protection in Victoria to the Chief Secretary, Mr Rylah. "No matter how close the liaison between the two organisations, there are always divided sections of thinking," Mr. Webber told viewers. "I don't know how much tragedy the com-munity can take before it demands that it is properly protected." Rumours that differences in gauge between taps and hose nozzles (as between the two authorities) accentuated the damage were denied by fire chiefs who said that all appliances were now carrying adaptors so that hoses could be linked to mains everywhere. But there is grave concern in the Metropolitan Fire Brigade's higher councils at the action of several Federal authorities with projects in and around Melbourne. They are installing non-standard equipment without reference to the State authorities or any dovetailing of appliances and equipment. Public alarm was not diminished by the publication on Friday and Saturday of a heart tearing letter from the young widow of John Lawrence Coleman, 31 year old father of two, who had died in the flames apparently trying to rescue the old man trapped in the gully. By that time, a Vast area of Gippsland was in flames and the troops had been sent in to back up the overworked and often helpless fire-fighters. By Saturday, the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Stoneham, who has previously demanded a Royal Commission into fire-fighting arrangements, repeated his demand. To add to the Chief Secretary's worries he was publicly rebuked for allegedly implying on television that lives had been lost at Eltham because people went to the wrong place at the wrong time. In a letter to the Press, Professor MacMahon Ball pointed out that two of the men involved were experienced bushmen who had gone "to help an old man in great danger fully aware of the danger to themselves". As Victoria faced its sixth day of total State-wide fire ban, it looked likely that even official resistance was not going to silence the demand for one central authority to control the fire fiend. At the moment, the 400 square miles where two million Victorians live in Greater Melbourne are divorced from the rest of the State in planning, communications, equipment and control of personnel. No one doubts the whole-hearted co-operation and willingness to back each other up of the M.F.B. and the C.F.A., both at top-level and among the firemen themselves. However, when a city straggles so deeply into the country side, the absence of a single authority, to oversee and analyse the fire threat as a whole, suggests suicidal policy of divide and fuel. Emphasis of the tragic loss of a member of a pioneering family who died whilst helping others in his communitybushfire, cfa, country fire authority, fire brigrade, glen park road, heroes, john lawrence coleman, north eltham, victorian bushfires - 1965, volunteers, william john elwers, fire fighter, frank martin, george john crowe, ken gaston, orchard avenue, doug mummery, helen oliver, mrs henry marsden, mrs moureen ellis -
Eltham District Historical Society IncNewspaper - News Clipping, Herald, He died at Eltham. Herald, March 4, p3, 4 Mar 1965
... Retrieved May 19, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131758981 Includes two photos of the fire in North Eltham “Firemen make for safety as fire rages in Upper Glen Park Road, North Eltham, Victoria. ...Retrieved May 19, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131758981 Includes two photos of the fire in North Eltham “Firemen make for safety as fire rages in Upper Glen Park Road, North Eltham, Victoria. ...John Lawrence Coleman (1934-1965) born January 10, was the son of Raymond John Coleman and Hanna May (Gillet) Coleman. He married Margaret Frances Dare in 1955 and was the father of two children. He died whilst attempting to rescue an older man trapped in the bushfire at North Eltham on March 3, 1965 He died at Eltham (Herald, 4 March 1965, p3) [Picture of John Lawrence Coleman] Builder Mr John Lawrence Coleman, 31, of Main Rd., Eltham, one of three men burnt to death yesterday in the fire at North Eltham. The other two were XXXXX, 33 who lives opposite the Colemans and Mr William Elwers, 64 of Batman Rd., Eltham. * * * Frank Martin was a volunteer with the Eltham rural fire brigade at the time of the 1965 bushfires which burnt Eltham North and Research. Frank was asked to assist with the removal of three bodies from the back gully (now Orchard Avenue). They were badly burnt and one was found stuck under a fence as though trying to escape. Volunteers John Coleman Jnr, William Elwers and George Crowe were killed trying to protect Eltham from bushfire – they were local heroes. At the time, John Coleman Jnr was survived by his wife Margaret and two young children – John 11 and Vicky 2. Margaret Coleman lived in the family home until 1992 when she sold it and moved to Tasmania to be close to her son. She died in 1997 aged 65 years. 75 yr old Ken Gaston grew up on Edendale farm, which was originally a poultry farm but is now owned and run by the Shire of Nillumbik as an educational farm for schools and visitors. He was Captain of the Eltham rural fire brigade in 1965 when John Coleman Jnr was burnt to death in the Eltham North bushfires serving as an unofficial volunteer. He was able to draw where the original Wattletree Road was and at the time was verified with the location of some remaining bitumen and a post from the original bridge over the Diamond Creek located near the junction of the Diamond Creek and another small creek which is further down from Research or Christmas Creek as locals refer to it. The original Main Road ran behind Colemans before the railway line was built beyond Eltham in 1912. (Information recorded by Harry Gilham, President EDHS c.2011) * * * Bushfires rage in Victoria, Snowy: Three dead (1965, March 4). The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), p. 1. Retrieved May 19, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131758981 Includes two photos of the fire in North Eltham “Firemen make for safety as fire rages in Upper Glen Park Road, North Eltham, Victoria. The smoke hides a house.” and “A house explodes into flames at North Eltham, Victoria. Firemen said bottled gas went up.” Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Thursday 4 March 1965, page 1 ________________________________________ Firemen make for safety as fire rages in Upper Glen Park Road. North Eltham. Victoria. The smoke hides a house. A house explodes into flames at North Eltham. Victoria. Firemen said bottled gas went up. Bushfires rage in Victoria, Snowy: Three dead MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Three people died today in a bush» fire which raged through North Eltham, about 15 miles from Melbourne. The victims were three men. A fourth man is feared to be dead. Another bushfire. sparked off by the heatwave sizzling over south-eastern Australia, is burning out of control in the Kosciusko State Park, in the Snowy Mountains. Firefighters fear that if it reaches pine forests up the Yarrangobilly River, they will be powerless to stop it. The three victims of the North Eltbam fire were trapped by flames in a valley. Their bodies were found only a few yards apart. They were named by police tonight as Mr. George Crowe, 78, of North Eltham, William John Ewers, 64, and John Laurence Coleman, 31, both of Eltham. The other two have not been identified. They are believed to be a man aged about 40 and an 18-year-old youth. At least 12 homes were destroyed by the fire, the worst in Victoria since 1962, when eight lives were lost and hundreds of homes burnt down at Warrandyte. At one time the township of Eltham was threatened, but a cool change swept in from the south and held back the wall of flames. More than 100 dogs, worth about £4,000, died when the fire raced through two kennels in Short Street, Eltham. and Upper Glen Park Road, North Eltham. A trickle of water Residents ran into the streets as the blaze raced towards their houses. Others frantically dug firebreaks around their homes. Mrs. Sue Recourt wept when firemen arrived while she was vainly trying to stop the flames with a trickle of water from the garden hose. A stack of firewood was blazing, but the firemen managed to save the house and rescue four goats. Many homes in Eltham were saved after flames had crept to within feet of their fences. Students at North Eltham State School had to be evacuated when the blaze threatened the building. Fire fighters were severely hampered by lack of water and narrow roads. The blaze, which began in above century heat, turned toward Wattle Glen, where two houses were gutted. Then the flames raced towards Hurstbridge to the north. Firemen battling desperately, controlled the fire late this afternoon. Five forest fires were still burning in Victoria tonight. IN VICTORIA THIS WEEK Tragic lack of central fire authority (1965, March 9). The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), p. 2. Retrieved May 19, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131759928 Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Tuesday 9 March 1965, page 2 ________________________________________ IN VICTORIA THIS WEEK Tragic lack of central fire authority From Rohan Rivett It was the worst week for Victorian fire fighters since Black Friday 27 years ago. On that day one pilot up in a spotter plane said afterwards: "It seemed at times that half the State was on fire." This time, for three days on end, Gippsland men, women and children had moments of conviction that their towns would have blackened into anonymity before the weekend was out. The week began with horror at Eltham on the North-eastern edge of Melbourne. Eltham today is something of an artists' colony. Oil painters, water colourists, potters and sculptors proliferate. A number of University folk have emulated the example of Professor MacMahon Ball who pioneered the way by moving to Eltham and carving a home out of the bush in the thirties. Innermost Eltham is barely 14 miles from the G.P.O. Farthest Eltham stretches miles beyond. It served to illustrate the tragi-ludicrous truncation of Victoria's fire control. Part of Eltham is under the protection of the Melbourne Fire Brigade. But this responsibility ceases at some invisible and incomprehensible line — apparently determined by the meanderings of the water mains. At this point everybody's property throughout the rest of Eltham is dependent on the Country Fire Authority. Half an hour before midday on Wednesday, a fire suddenly started on the West side of Upper Glen road on the edge of Eltham. Before the fire brigade could arrive, it was burning on a widening front through timber and high grass north of Eltham. Two wind changes in rapid succession saw the fire leaping Diamond Creek. With a freshening wind it struck home after home in three streets. More than one of them exploded suddenly as if hit by an incendiary bomb. There is no piped gas in the Eltham area, hence many housewives use bottle gas. The flames outside caused the bottles to explode. Altogether twelve homes were completely incinerated and four more were badly damaged. Thirty prize dogs perished. About three hours after the fire started it raced suddenly down a gully hillside trapping an elderly man. Two other men apparently raced to the rescue. Flames caught the three men within yards of each other, not 200 yards off the Upper Glen Park Road where safety lay. They were burned to death. Next evening an angry and convincing secretary of the Fire Brigade Union, Mr. W. M. Webber, came on television and appealed to the people of Victoria to end the ridiculous and dangerous dualism in fire-fighting control. The Eltham fire, he said, had precisely illustrated the situation. The Metropolitan Fire Brigade area touched Eltham, but where the fire had gutted and killed, was just outside its area. Mr. Webber said his union had constantly urged one authority for the State with a complete reorganisation of fire protection. On Wednesday the union had repeated its call for an inquiry into fire protection in Victoria to the Chief Secretary, Mr Rylah. "No matter how close the liaison between the two organisations, there are always divided sections of thinking," Mr. Webber told viewers. "I don't know how much tragedy the com-munity can take before it demands that it is properly protected." Rumours that differences in gauge between taps and hose nozzles (as between the two authorities) accentuated the damage were denied by fire chiefs who said that all appliances were now carrying adaptors so that hoses could be linked to mains everywhere. But there is grave concern in the Metropolitan Fire Brigade's higher councils at the action of several Federal authorities with projects in and around Melbourne. They are installing non-standard equipment without reference to the State authorities or any dovetailing of appliances and equipment. Public alarm was not diminished by the publication on Friday and Saturday of a heart tearing letter from the young widow of John Lawrence Coleman, 31 year old father of two, who had died in the flames apparently trying to rescue the old man trapped in the gully. By that time, a Vast area of Gippsland was in flames and the troops had been sent in to back up the overworked and often helpless fire-fighters. By Saturday, the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Stoneham, who has previously demanded a Royal Commission into fire-fighting arrangements, repeated his demand. To add to the Chief Secretary's worries he was publicly rebuked for allegedly implying on television that lives had been lost at Eltham because people went to the wrong place at the wrong time. In a letter to the Press, Professor MacMahon Ball pointed out that two of the men involved were experienced bushmen who had gone "to help an old man in great danger fully aware of the danger to themselves". As Victoria faced its sixth day of total State-wide fire ban, it looked likely that even official resistance was not going to silence the demand for one central authority to control the fire fiend. At the moment, the 400 square miles where two million Victorians live in Greater Melbourne are divorced from the rest of the State in planning, communications, equipment and control of personnel. No one doubts the whole-hearted co-operation and willingness to back each other up of the M.F.B. and the C.F.A., both at top-level and among the firemen themselves. However, when a city straggles so deeply into the country side, the absence of a single authority, to oversee and analyse the fire threat as a whole, suggests suicidal policy of divide and fuel. Emphasis of the tragic loss of a member of a pioneering family who died whilst helping others in his communitybushfire, cfa, country fire authority, fire brigrade, glen park road, heroes, john lawrence coleman, north eltham, victorian bushfires - 1965, volunteers, william john elwers, fire fighter, frank martin, george john crowe, ken gaston, orchard avenue -
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Operator Jim Bragg 4647.036 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor & MF38 Tiller Mounted 4647.037 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor In Markot Garden 4647.038 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractors With YUBA Fire Safety Exhaust Fitted 4647.039 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor & MF38 Tiller 4647.040 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF130 Tractor With MF522 Spinnrer Broadmaster Fitted With Small Seeds Box. ...Operator Jim Bragg 4647.036 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor & MF38 Tiller Mounted 4647.037 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor In Markot Garden 4647.038 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractors With YUBA Fire Safety Exhaust Fitted 4647.039 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor & MF38 Tiller 4647.040 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF130 Tractor With MF522 Spinnrer Broadmaster Fitted With Small Seeds Box. ...Many of these photographs appeared in the Massey Ferguson Review Publication4647.001 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF3366 Crawler Tractor With Dozer Blade & Rear Ripper. Made in Italy by Landini 4647.002 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF3366 Crawler Tractor With Logging Attachment. Made in Italy by Landini 4647.003 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF3366 Crawler Tractor With Dozer Blade & Safety Frame Fitted. Made in Italy by Landini 4647.004 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF3366 Crawler Tractor With Dozer Blade & 3 Point Ripper At Rear. Made by Landini 4647.005 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - M135 Tractor On Test At Werribee Tractor Testing Station. Dos Blazey Facing Camera 4647.006 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF184-4 Four Wheel Drive Farm Tractor. Made in Italy by Landini 4647.007 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF1100 Tractor With Spring Release Cultivator 4647.008 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF1080 Tractor 4647.009 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF90 Super Tractor With Front End Weights. Operator Allen Murray 4647.010 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF1080 Tractor 4647.011 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF1080 Tractor Fitted With Cab 4647.012 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF1150 Tractor With Cab. L - R G. Bunney, C. Bywaters, M. Bywaters & B. Synington In WA 4647.013 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - First MF65 To Arrived In Bundaberg, QLD. John Velle On Tractor 4647.014 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF1080 Tractor 4647.015 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF500 Tractors In Three Different Configurations 4647.016 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF1080 Tractor 4647.017 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF1100 Tractor With Cultivator In Sorghum Stubble 4647.018 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF30 Tractor 4647.019 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF Tractor With Offset Disc Harrow 4647.020 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractors 4647.021 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF178 Tractor With Wide Level Cultivator 4647.022 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF178 Tractor 4647.023 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF178 Tractor 4647.024 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF178 Tractor With Drill 4647.025 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF165 Tractor 4647.026 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor Production Line In Victoria 4647.027 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors 4647.028 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor With Ripper 4647.029 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF165 Tractor 4647.030 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor And Broadacre Cultivator 4647.031 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractors 4647.032 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With Service Unit 4647.033 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor With Transporter Cardyine Spray Equipment 4647.034 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractors 4647.035 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor With Safety Frame And Front End Weights. Operator Jim Bragg 4647.036 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor & MF38 Tiller Mounted 4647.037 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor In Markot Garden 4647.038 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractors With YUBA Fire Safety Exhaust Fitted 4647.039 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor & MF38 Tiller 4647.040 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF130 Tractor With MF522 Spinnrer Broadmaster Fitted With Small Seeds Box. Field Test Op 4647.040 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF203 Tractor & MF702 Loader 4647.041 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF203-5 Tractor Showing HD Front Grill 4647.042 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF184-4 Tractor Four Wheel Drive Made By Landini In Italy 4647.043 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF1100 Tractor & MF135 Tractor Both With Locally Made Yuba Exhursts 4647.044 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF130 Tractor 4647.045 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF130 Tractor 4647.046 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor 4647.047 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor 4647.048 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor With Planter 4647.049 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF203-5 Tractor With MF702 Loader & MF220 4647.050 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor With Disc Harrows 4647.051 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor 4647.052 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF165 Tractor With MF228 Chisel Plough 4647.053 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF178 Tractor And MF56 Drill 4647.054 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF178 Tractors At Train Platform 4647.055 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF178 Tractor 4647.056 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF165 Tractor With MF38 Tillers 4647.057 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF175 Tractors With 10 Disc Sundercut & Tine Cultivator 4647.058 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF165 Tractor 4647.059 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF30 Tractor, John Plunket Manager On Left & A. Collins On Right. Tractor Operator Unknown 4647.060 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF35 Tractor 4647.061 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF35 Tractor With Cab 4647.062 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF30 Tractor 4647.063 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF1100 Tractor And James 'Jim' Poole (With Filter In Hand) 4647.064 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF1100 Tractor Coupled To Disc Harrow Set 4647.065 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF1100 Tractor (Probably In SA Wharehouse) 4647.066 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF165 Tractor With Offset Disc Harrow 4647.067 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF165 Tractor 4647.068 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With Service Van 4647.069 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF Tractors 4647.070 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF203-5 Tractor 4647.071 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF3090 Tractor 4647.072 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF1100 Tractor With Side Mounted Liquid Fertiliser Tanks And Rear Toolbar Disc Attachment 4647.073 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF1100 Tractor With Side Mounted Liquid Fertiliser Tanks And Rear Toolbar Disc Attachment 4647.074 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF1100 Tractor With Side Mounted Liquid Fertiliser Tanks And Rear Toolbar Disc Attachment 4647.075 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF1100 Tractor With Side Mounted Liquid Fertiliser Tanks And Rear Toolbar Disc Attachment 4647.076 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF1100 Tractor With Side Mounted Liquid Fertiliser Tanks And Rear Toolbar Disc Attachment 4647.077 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF178 Tractor With Heavy Duty Disc Harrow 4647.078 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF178 Tractor With Heavy Duty Disc Harrow & Transport Wheels 4647.079 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With 34 Disc Harrow & 20 Dine 4647.080 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.081 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF40 Tractor With Offset Disc Harrow Imported Model From North America (Note Lynches Garage Sunshine In Background) 4647.082 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF178 Tractor With Heavy Duty Offset Disc Harrows 4647.083 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With A L.A. Armstrong Manufactured Co Milperra NSW. Made For MF Sunshine 4647.084 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF Tractor With Trailed Disc Harrow 4647.085 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF178 Tractor With Offset Disc Harrow 4647.086 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF40 Tandem Harrow (Not Australian Photo) 4647.087 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - 4647.088 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF620 With Disc Harrows 4647.089 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF620 Offset Disc Harrows 4647.090 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.091 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF700 Wheel Control Offset 4647.092 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF501 3 Point Linkage Mounted Harrow 4647.093 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Super 90 Tractor With Grain & Fertilizer Drill. Allen Murray On Tractor 4647.094 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With Rod McCosker On Tractor 4647.095 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Finger Wheel Rake Tractor Wheels Fitted With Traction Grips At Half Tracks Operating In Vergin Country 4647.096 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Ferguson Tractor Steel Wheels With Moundboard Plow 4647.097 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF65 Tractor & MF531 Mower. Vic Andrews On Tractor 4647.098 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With Grow Toolbar Planter 4647.099 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor Assembly Line 4647.100 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor And Forage Harvester At Work 4647.101 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.102 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF175 Tractor 4647.103 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF35 Tractor 4647.104 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF175 Tractor 4647.105 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF175 Tractor 4647.106 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF175 Tractor 4647.107 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor Climbing Hill 4647.108 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF175 Tractor With Sundercut & MF175 Tractor With Spring Tyne Culivator 4647.109 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF538 Tiller 4647.110 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF175 Tractor 4647.111 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF175 Tractor With MF38 Tiller 4647.112 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor With Trailers 4647.113 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF35 Tractor Mounted With MF1 Post Hole Digger Made In Sunshine 4647.114 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF35 Tractor Mounted With MF1 Post Hole Digger Made In Sunshine 4647.115 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF1100-1105 Tractor Controls 4647.116 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - 399 Engine 4647.117 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors Tractor Seat 4647.118 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF165 Tractor & Trailer With Mower & MF585 Self Propelled Header At Wyeera 4647.119 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - 2 MF1100 Tractors At Work In The Field Cultivating Between Runs 4647.120 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF178 Tractor With Row Crop Forming Equipment Mid & Rear Mounted 4647.121 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Catapillar Tractor With 24 Disc Sunmaster 4647.122 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.123 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF Treever Unloading Trailer 4647.124 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.125 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors Tractor Towing MF55 Drill Culitvator 4647.126 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor Towing MF55 Drill Culitvator 4647.127 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor Towing MF55 Drill Culitvator 4647.128 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF585 Power Takeoff Header With 50 Bushed Tank & Field Bin 4647.129 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF56 Drill 4647.130 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF175 Tractor With MF56 Drill 4647.131 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF585 Power Takeoff Header Unloading Grain Direct Into Mobile Bin 4647.132 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.133 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF55 Drill Culitvator And Toolbar 4647.134 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF Tractors With Mid And Rear Mounted Cultivating Attachments 4647.135 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.136 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF1100 Tractor With Tool Bar With Seeding And Fertilising Boxes 4647.137 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors MF1100 Tractor With Mid And Rear Mounted Cultivating Tools 4647.138 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor Fitted With 3 Point Mounted Finger Rake 4647.139 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF165 Tractor & L-R Bert Davis, Ray Schult (Saddleworth Dealer) & Norm Davies 4647.140 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF120 Scarifier In Tandem 4647.141 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.142 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.143 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.144 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.145 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF Super 90 Tractor With Curly Tine Culivator. Allen Murray On Tractor 4647.146 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF7600 Sweep Plow 4647.147 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.148 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF Winged Cultivator Made By Jow McKenzie Rainbow, Victoria 4647.149 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.150 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.151 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With 3 Bottom Mouldboard Plow Linkage 4647.152 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractors With MF538 Tillers 4647.153 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF538 Tiller 4647.154 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Unknown Make Tractor With Folding Wide Level Cultivator 4647.155 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With Prototype Grain Drill Probably Not MF Australia 4647.156 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - 560 4647.157 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor 4647.158 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF538 Tiller 4647.159 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.160 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With Winged Culivator Made By Joe McKenzie Rainbow Victoria 4647.161 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With Winged Culivator Made By Joe McKenzie Rainbow Victoria. Operator Kevin Day From MF Service Department 4647.162 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF178 Tractor With Winged Culivator Made By Joe McKenzie Rainbow Victoria 4647.163 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With Mid Mounted Cultivator Rear Tool Bar Linkage Mounted For Row Crop Forming 4647.164 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF Industrial Tractor 4647.165 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF128 Cultivator Fitted With Spring Release Chisel Plow. Operator Graeme Fry 4647.166 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF165 Tractor With MF228 Chisel Plough 4647.167 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF165 Tractor With MF228 Chisel Plough 4647.168 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With Heavy Duty 3 Point Linkage Tiller 4647.169 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.170 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With 3 Point Linkage Mounted Chisel Plow 4647.171 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With Chisel Plough 4647.172 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.173 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor 4647.174 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF165 Tractor With MF228 Broadarce Cultivator With Chisel Plow Wokring In Sunshine Area 4647.175 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.176 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.177 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With 5 Bottom Moulboard Plow 3 Direct Linkage Mounted (Sunshine Made) 4647.178 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With 3 Point Linkage & Moulboard Plow (Probably Made In Sunshine) 4647.179 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor On Dam Wall 4647.180 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF585 Power Takeoff Header Unloading Grain Direct Into Mobile Bin 4647.181 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF80 Tractor With MF585 Power Takeoff Header 4647.182 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - M165 Tractor With MF515 Cane Harvester 4647.183 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF220 Digger 4647.184 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.185 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF564 Disc Plough 4647.186 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With 4 Bottom Disc Plow 3 Point Linkage (Sunshine Made) 4647.187 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF130 Tractor With MF564 Disc Plough 4647.188 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - No 50 Tractor With 4 Bottom Disc Plough (Sunshine Made) 4647.189 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - No 50 Tractor With 4 Bottom Disc Plough (Sunshine Made) 4647.190 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF65 Tractor With MF564 Disc Plough 4647.191 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor With David Holmes Field Test Operator 4647.192 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF165 Tractor With MF74 Mouldboard Plough 4647.193 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF165 Tractors 4647.194 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF67 Sundercut 20 Disc 4647.195 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF67 Sundercut 4647.196 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.197 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF65 Tractor With MF585 Power Takeoff Header & Bulk Grain Truck 4647.198 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With Tandem Disc Ploughs 4647.199 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.200 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF20 Disc Sundercut (Sunshine Made) 4647.201 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF203 Tractor With Front End Loader 4647.202 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF35 Tractor After 1st Pass With Mouldboard Plow 4647.203 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF35 Tractor 4647.204 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF35 Tractor Massey Harris - 4647.205 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With Disc Plough Made For MF By L. A. Armstrong Milperra N.S.W. 4647.206 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF130 Tractor With MF522 Spinnrer Broadmaster Fitted With Small Seeds Box. Field Test Op 4647.207 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - TE20 Tractor At Coventry Tower Block England 4647.208 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor With MF38 Tiller 4647.209 - H.V McKay Massey Harris - Tractors - 55 Tractor With H.V. McKay Sunderseeder Cultivator 4647.210 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor With Mounted Coil Spring Tine Boardacre Cultivator 4647.211 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF699 Tractor With Rotary Cultivator (Not Used In Australia) 4647.212 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF35 Tractor With 3 Bottom Mouldboard Plow & MF65 Tractor With 5 Bottom Mouldboard Plow 4647.213 - Massey Ferguson Tractors - Tractor With MF67 Sundercut (Sunshine Disc Cultivator With Undercut). Operator Graeme Fry 4647.214 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor At Plough & Cultivator School West Australia 4647.215 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With 3 Linkage 3 Bottom Mouldboard Plow 4647.216 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With 3 Linkage 5 Bottom Mouldboard Plow 4647.217 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor With 3 Linkage 3 Bottom Mouldboard Plow 4647.218 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractors With Mouldboard Poughs 4647.219 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With 3 Linkage 3 Bottom Mouldboard Plow (Made In Sunshine) 4647.22 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Massey Ferguson Factory Banner Lane, Coventry, England 4647.220 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With 3 Linkage 3 Bottom Mouldboard Plow (Made In Sunshine) 4647.221 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With 3 Linkage 3 Bottom Mouldboard Plow (Made In Sunshine) 4647.222 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF130 Tractor With MF522 Spinnrer Broadmaster Fitted With Small Seeds Box. Field Test Op 4647.223 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF165 Tractor 4647.224 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF3070 Tractor 4647.225 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Massey Ferguson Factory Banner Lane, Coventry, England 4647.227 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With Shannee Loader 4647.228 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With Direct Mounted 3 Bottom Mouldboard Plow 4647.229 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.230 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF5516 Tractor With McKay Massey Harris No 4 Power Takeoff Header 4647.231 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Massey Ferguson Factory Banner Lane, Coventry, England 4647.232 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Massey Ferguson Factory Banner Lane, Coventry, England 4647.233 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Massey Ferguson Factory Banner Lane, Coventry, England 4647.234 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Massey Ferguson Factory Banner Lane, Coventry, England 4647.235 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With 4 Furrow Sunload Disc Plough. Operator Graham Fry 4647.236 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.237 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With Disc Plow First Cut 4647.238 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.239 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF165 Tractor With Land Levelling Grader 4647.241 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With Proto Type 120 Scarifier Rockbank Vic. Operator Frank Barrie 4647.242 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With 20 Disc MF Sundercut Oneway Disc Plough 4647.243 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF130 Tractor. Operator Morrie Futchor 4647.244 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF184-4 Four Wheel Drive Tractor Made By Landini, Italy 4647.245 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF130 Tractor With Rake 4647.246 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF165 Tractor. A. Collins, R. McKay, L. Williamson, D. Murphy, L. Crane, A. Bitch, B. Thomas 4647.247 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF347 Semi-Mounted Sled Tool Carrier 4647.248 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - UK Manufacturing Plant 4647.249 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With Rear Mounted Cultivator 4647.250 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.251 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF1100 Tractor 4647.252 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF1100 Tractor With Rear Toolbar & Mid Mounted Cultivator 4647.253 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF1100 Tractor 4647.254 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With Post Hole Digger 4647.255 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF175 Tractor With 16ft Boardarce Culitvator With Coil Tines 4647.256 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF175 Tractor With 16ft Boardarce Culitvator With Coil Tines 4647.257 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF175 Tractor With 16ft Boardarce Culitvator With Coil Tines 4647.258 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF175 Tractor With 16ft Boardarce Culitvator With Coil Tines 4647.259 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF67 20 Disc Sundercut 4647.260 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF67 20 Disc Sundercut 4647.261 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.262 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With Front Blades With Rear Cultivator And Seeding Drill 4647.263 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor Massey Harris 4647.264 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF531 Dyna Balance Mower 4647.265 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With MF562 Sod Seeder 4647.266 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor With Two Bottom MF66 Mouldboard Plows Sunshine Made 4647.267 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.268 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor At Sten Park 4647.269 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractors 4647.270 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 Tractor In Workshop 4647.271 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF135 In Show Room 4647.272 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.273 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - MF No 23 Tractor 4647.274 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.275 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractors 4647.276 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Proof Sheet 4647.277 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractor 4647.278 - Massey Ferguson - Tractors - Tractormassey ferguson, sunshine harvester works, farm machinery -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.Functional object - Safety Matches, Ever-Brite, Australia, Ever-Brite Safety Matches, c. 1950
... This container of 11 boxes of safety matches would have been a common item in a household during the first half of the 20th century and would have been used for the safe lighting of lamps, candles, room heating (fires), bath heaters, cigarettes, pipes etc. ...Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc. 2 Gilles Street (south of Merri St) Warrnambool great-ocean-road This container of 11 boxes of safety matches would have been a common item in a household during the first half of the 20th century and would have been used for the safe lighting of lamps, candles, room heating (fires), bath heaters, cigarettes, pipes etc. ...This container of 11 boxes of safety matches would have been a common item in a household during the first half of the 20th century and would have been used for the safe lighting of lamps, candles, room heating (fires), bath heaters, cigarettes, pipes etc. Safety matches came into use in the first half of the 19th century and the safety aspects have been improved after that time. Safety matches are still used today - for instance, when camping or in times of power failure. These matches are of interest as an example of household items in common use in the past. These are eleven boxes of safety matches (one box missing) wrapped in a buff-coloured paper cover with a label in red, blue and white colours with printing and an image of a dark-haired woman set against a white flame. Each box contains about 60 matches with a label similar to the one on the outside packaging. The matches are wooden with pink tips. The boxes have a rough surface on the side acting as a striking mechanism. The back of each box has a message containing some thoughts from thinkers and philosophers from the past.Ever-Brite Safety Matchesvintage lighting, safety matches, everbrite matches -
Kiewa Valley Historical SocietyLeaflet - Kiewa, Welcome to Kiewa
... Front cover has the title in the middle, the SECV emblem at the centre top and across the bottom is a message to read the inside pages which are safety messages for driving and bush fires. The back cover has a RACV road map of Kiewa and its 'works' including the Gatehouse which was the entrance to the scheme.The map also has an insert of the main roads & nearby cities. ...This leaflet was published by the SECV to ensure all visitors to the Kiewa Hydro Electric Scheme were made aware of safety measures with regard to their driving and to bush fires. These were necessary as the area was unique with driving on mountainous roads, changeable and extreme weather and the threat of bush fires. ...The State Electricity Commission of Victoria constructed the Kiewa Hydro Electric Scheme from 1938 to 1961. The Scheme included three power stations, dams, tunnels and was becoming a popular tourist destination with Falls Creek Ski field within its boundaries.This leaflet was published by the SECV to ensure all visitors to the Kiewa Hydro Electric Scheme were made aware of safety measures with regard to their driving and to bush fires. These were necessary as the area was unique with driving on mountainous roads, changeable and extreme weather and the threat of bush fires. The gatehouse existed during construction, when the SECV was in charge, as a restriction to entry to the Scheme for SECV workers and those with permission to enter. The SECV controlled the area so in case of accident, the SECV was the body to contact not eg. the police.Small white and green leaflet made from one sheet of glossy paper and folded in half. Front cover has the title in the middle, the SECV emblem at the centre top and across the bottom is a message to read the inside pages which are safety messages for driving and bush fires. The back cover has a RACV road map of Kiewa and its 'works' including the Gatehouse which was the entrance to the scheme.The map also has an insert of the main roads & nearby cities. state electricity commission of victoria; kiewa hydro electric scheme; gatehouse; safety rules; kiewa -
Kiewa Valley Historical SocietyNotice -SECV Fire Brigade - Fire Warning Signals & Evacuation
... Bushfires and fires in the towns were a threat during the Fire Danger Season. The SECV was responsible for looking after the safety of the community. ...The State Electricity Commission of Victoria, who constructed the Kiewa Hydro Electric Scheme, established and controlled the Mt Beauty Fire Brigade before it was handed over to the CFA.Bushfires and fires in the towns were a threat during the Fire Danger Season. The SECV was responsible for looking after the safety of the community. Interesting to compare the information on the notice to that of today.Cardboard Notice to the SECV Fire Brigade re Fire Warning Signals for the 1962-63 Fire Danger Season. There are 3 messages: 1. Long Blasts 2. Short Blasts 3. Continuous Blasts. On the back "Evacuation": Be Prepared. Things to Take. Protection of House Property - Before leaving the house and lastly Where to Gomt beauty fire brigade, khes fire brigade, fire warnings -
Kiewa Valley Historical SocietyPhotograph Fire Prevention Victorian Alps, Burning, Circa 1950
... fire. The men in this photograph are not wearing any protective clothing. Their visibility to other firefighters is severely reduced by smoke. This photo is a snap shot in time when Occupational Health and Safety Legislation was in its infancy stage....fire. The men in this photograph are not wearing any protective clothing. Their visibility to other firefighters is severely reduced by smoke. This photo is a snap shot in time when Occupational Health and Safety Legislation was in its infancy stage. ...This photograph, in late 1950s, shows an Alpine Fire Prevention technique of "burning off" low levels of scrub to reduce the level of available fuel against any possible summer bush fires. The Alpine regions accumulate high levels of potential fuel (undergrowth and small shrubs) which if not reduced has the potential of breaking into a dangerous bush fire. The men in this photograph are not wearing any protective clothing. Their visibility to other firefighters is severely reduced by smoke. This photo is a snap shot in time when Occupational Health and Safety Legislation was in its infancy stage.This photograph details the fire prevention activities in the Victorian Alps under the management of the SEC Victoria. The level of undergrowth within the Australian bush needs to be kept under control to avoid the possibility of lightning strikes (during summer storms) igniting dry forests resulting in a major bush fire. Controlled fires within alpine regions are required not only to reduce the level of dry undergrowth but also to provide those various plant species requiring fire for regenerate. This method was used by the original inhabitants (Aborigines) as limited scrub fires were used to flush game and bird population for eating with the side benefit to those plants requiring the fire for regeneration.This black and white photograph shows an Alpine Fire Prevention technique of "burning off" low levels of scrub. The photograph is on 200gsm paper but it is not photographic paper. It can be assumed that the photo is not the original but a copy. alpine fire prevention, sec fire prevention -
Kiewa Valley Historical SocietyPhotograph Fire Prevention Victorian Alps, Burning, Circa 1950
... fire. The men in this photograph are not wearing any protective clothing. Their visibility to other firefighters is severely reduced by smoke. This photo is a snap shot in time when Occupational Health and Safety Legislation was in its infancy stage....fire. The men in this photograph are not wearing any protective clothing. Their visibility to other firefighters is severely reduced by smoke. This photo is a snap shot in time when Occupational Health and Safety Legislation was in its infancy stage. ...This photograph, from the 1950s, shows an Alpine Fire Prevention technique of "burning off" low levels of scrub to reduce the level of available fuel against any possible summer bush fires.The Alpine regions accumulate high levels of potential fuel (undergrowth and small shrubs) which if not reduced has the potential of breaking into a dangerous bush fire. The men in this photograph are not wearing any protective clothing. Their visibility to other firefighters is severely reduced by smoke. This photo is a snap shot in time when Occupational Health and Safety Legislation was in its infancy stage.This photograph details the fire prevention activities in the Victorian Alps under the management of the SEC Victoria. The level of undergrowth within the Australian bush needs to be under control to avoid the possibility of lightning strikes (during summer storms) igniting dry forests resulting in a major bush fire. Controlled fires within alpine regions are required not only to reduce the level of dry undergrowth but also to provide those various plant species requiring fire for regenerate. This method was used by the original inhabitants (Aborigines) as limited scrub fires were used to flush game and bird population for eating with the side benefit to those plants requiring that fire for regeneration.This black and white photograph shows an Alpine Fire Prevention technique of "burning off" low levels of scrub. The photograph is on 200gsm paper but it is not photographic paper. It can be assumed that the photo is not the original but a copy produced by the SEC Vic. See also KVHS 0413 and KVHS 0414 for other similar photos.kiewa valley tourism, victorian alps, alternate energy supplies, alpine population growth
