Mackay John Scobie Gair (1847-1941) was a Councillor in the North Ward in Brighton, elected Mayor in 1892-93. He was a solicitor and partner in the firm Brahe and Gair and became a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the Bourke East electorate from 1897-1904. portrait, policitian, victorian legislative assembly, m.l.a., mackay john scobie gair, cr. m.j.s. gair, councillor, mayor, brighton, north ward, solicitor

A large flag with the Legacy logo. It was made in the 1950s possibly for use at events like the annual demonstration. The symbol of Legacy is the Torch and Wreath of Laurel. The Torch signifies the undying flame of service and sacrifice of those who gave their lives for their country.An example of the Legacy logo being used on a flag in the 1950s.Cream coloured flag. Commercially made by Gairs Melbourne for Junior Legacy Club featuring the Legacy torch logo.legacy promotion, logo

A letter from the Trustees Executors and Agency Co Ltd to T.R.B. Morton & Son asking for valuation for probate of property of D.B.D. Wilson at Central Road, Tunstall in 1926. Response from Gair & Brahe, Solicitors, giving valuation of property and buildings.land values, wilson, david duncan butchart, central road, nunawading, tunstall, doughty, j. s., gair & brahe trustees executors and agency co. ltd.

This UN flag was flown at a YMCA centre in South Korea under a U.N Protectorate against Communist aggression, the YMCA supported the Australian Army.Flag, blue colour with circular motif of the world in white with Oak leaf around, The spine has a pole sewn in, the spine has a cloth badge on with wording as well as a stamp.Cloth badge on spine, “ Aust Flag”, “Gairs of Melbourne”. Stamp on spine in blue ink, “Australian YMCA” Around stamp in green ink, “.......National Council........YMCA.........”u.n, ymca, flags

This document concerns the estate of Alexander Florida Cameron, a seedsman from Melbourne in the firm of Grant and Cameron of 41 Bourke Street West, Melbourne. He died intestate in 1887 and left real estate to the value of £263 and personal estate to the value of £4744. This estate was to be administered by his son, Richard Ross Cameron. Tait collection: item 8 of 62This document has no apparent local significance and is of interest only as an example of the Letters of Administration issued in the 1880s. This is a piece of cream parchment with ruled black lines and the lower edge folded back with a seal of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Victoria attached to the document by a black ribbon. The document contains handwritten material in black ink and a blue stamp from the Revenue and Pay Office and a red stamp from the Master in Equity of the Supreme Court. The document is somewhat stained but is otherwise in good condition.‘In the Supreme Court of the Colony of Victoria in its probate jurisdiction in the Estate of Alexander Florida Cameron, late of Bourke Street West in the City of Melbourne, Seed Merchant, deceased intestate, Letters of Administration, I certify that the sum of £40-7-0 duty of the within Letters of Administration has been paid, Drake and Gair, 3 St. James Buildings, 59 William Street Melbourne, Proctors. W. Ravent Stephen, Office under Section 6, Act 388, 10/6/87’alexander florida cameron, drake & gair, solicitors, warrnambool

32 invoices from Jan to Dec 1918, from a range of businesses; addressed to J.H. Abbott & Co. Abbott Collection: 32 invoices from Jan to Dec 1918, from a range of businesses; addressed to J.H. Abbott & Co. J.H. Abbott & Co. Bendigo invoice The State Assurance Co Ltd (of Liverpool) - 2 renewal receipts The British imperial Oil Co. Ltd. - 2 invoices & receipts The Lion Rolling Mills - 4 invoices & receipts McPhersons Pty. Ltd. - 2 invoices & receipts Miller & Co. Pty. Ltd. - 2 invoices & receipts George Russell, 454-460 Flinders Str Melbourne. - 3 invoices & receipts Ullathorne Hartridge Co. Ltd. invoice The Dunlop Rubber Co. of AUS. Ltd. - 3 invoices & receipts The Dalgety Company Limited - 2 receipted invoices Guthridge & Co. invoice The Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria correspondence Eliza Tinsley, steel merchants Melbourne - invoice The Australian Explosives and Chemical Company Limited invoice & receipt The Gair Manufacturing Co. - 2 invoices & receipt C. S. Green & Son, 368-370 Post Office Place, Melbourne, hardware merchants' invoice Barnet Glass Rubber Co. Ltd. - receipted invoice C. Harper, saddle & harness Manufacturer & Importer, Bath Corner, Charing Cross, Bendigo - invoiceabbott, invoices

The Morwell War Memorial Morwell War was unveiled on 06 June 1921. The Memorial was originally the level crossing between Commercial Road and Station Street (later Princes Highway). It was later moved to its present position on the Princes Highway opposite Hoyle Street. (http://www.morwellhistoricalsociety.org.au/warmemorial.htm) Names Inscribed on War Memorial – World War 1 *Killed in action * Allis G. Francis J. Pettit H. Amiet C. Graur R. L. Pryor W. * Amiet F. D. Hall J. A. Pryke R. Anderson C. Hall S. D. Rowell F. Billingsley A. H. Hare Bert Rowe C. Butters C. * Handler P. Ronald A. Q Butters R. Hogan E. J. Rintoull W. G. (D.C.M.) Brown H. H. Kleine F. W. Saddler J. Brinsmead F. S. Whitelaw A. Smith C. Collins W. Whitelaw D. Symons H. Collins J. S. F. Keegan F. Thomas L. G. Cooper H. S. Little K. Thomas R. W. Capon W. V. Lock E. * Thomson R. H. Davey R. R. Lyons C. * Tulloch J. Davey E. W. Lyons R. P. Vunell C. R. E. Davey W. R. Miller F. Vinall H. V. Davey C. E. Maher A. Wood A. Duncanson J. Maher L. Wilkins F. Dusting C. * McIntosh A. Warnett J. * Dusting H. Neal A. E. Warnetyt W. H. Derham H. * O’Donnell T. Young J. A. World War 2 – Killed in action Allen H. A. Eason L. W. McDonald D. Angus C. P. Evans H. T. Muncaster J. Bolitho H. Ferguson R. W. Murray A. M. Bolton C. R. A. Gair N. Peter T. Bowden N. J. Green D. I. A. Read L. H. M. Brudge W. G. Hewat G, A, Roy E. W. Catterick J. H. Horsefall L. Sillcock R. R. Deanne A. Johnson F. Stagg J. L. Deering C. J. King L. S. Templer R. C. Doolan W. T. Lawrence F. E. Tienery R. Dickson L. H. McArthur D. Turner R. H. Williams R. K. Vietnam War – Killed in action Adrian RichColour photograph of a life sized Australian soldier wearing a slouch hat, on top of a large raised platform. A commemorative plaque is depicted in the foreground. The front inscription of the memorial reads: "This plaque was erected in memory of those who paid the Supreme Sacrifice in the Boer War [Names] Erected by the residents of Morwell riding as a tribute to the men resident in the riding who enlisted and in memory of those who made the Supreme Sacrifice in the Great War 1914-19 [Names] This plaque is erected in memory of those who paid the Supreme Sacrifice in World War II and Korea [Names] In affectionate remembrance of A. Rich R.A.R killed in action Vietnam 1962-72"The plaque in the foreground reads" "Centenary Commemoration Plaque This plaque commemorates 100 years since the first World War commended in 1914 and Australian and New Zealand (ANZAC) troops landed at Gallipoli on 25th April, 1915. Members of the Morwell RSL Sub-Branch will always remember the sacrifices made by service personal to give us the freedom we enjoy the this day. They Shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them Lest We Forget."morwell, morwell war memorial, world war one, anzac centenary, gippsland

This Ensign was last flown over “Lae” in New Guinea in 1946 by No 33 RAAF Transport Sqd. Item belonged to Maxwell Lennox Matheson No 418447 RAAF, enlisted 22.5.42 age 19 years. At discharge from the RAAF on 19.2.48 he held the rank of Flight Lieut. RAAF 33rd Transport Sqd ensign. Light green/blue fabric lower half, top right hand quarter. Union Jack in top left hand corner. Canvas inner edge with rope looped at top (stitched) looped at bottom (tied).“IWB 2005”, written on canvas edgeflags - military, raaf, ensign

RECORDING OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND WESLEY COLLEGE STUDENT MUSICIANS; VOCALS; TOM HOWARTH, JODIE WHITTON, NORM WHITTON, LES PATTEN, SATCH NIEMIEC, JUDE NIEMIEC, SIMON NIEMIEC, KIT ANDERSON, FENJA SHAW, WESLEY COLLEGE & ST ANDREWS CHOIR; RICK MORRIS, PENNY ROGERS, LIZ FLETCHER, MICHELLE MUNRO, CANDICE COLLINS, PAT COOK, JENNIFER HULL, MAUREEN HARRIS, DOLLY TORNEY, GLENICE MCLENNAN, FRANK HARRIS, REG KINNERSLY, KEN HALL, TOM WICKHAM, JUDITH FAWCETT (CONDUCTRELL) ORGANIST MARGARET MCCALLUM MUSICIANS GUITARS: SATCH NIEMIEC, LES PATTEN, JODIE WHITTON BASS: SATCH NIEMIEC KEYBOARDS: MICHELLE LEISHMAN, GEOFF GAIR, SATCH MIEMIEC ACCORDION: KATHLEEN CRANAGE DRUMS: PERCUSSION - NORM WHITTON HARMONIES: MODIE WHITTON VIBRAPHONE, SAX & CLARINET: GEOFF BAIR WESLEY COLLEGE; VIOLINS: NAYAN PURI, KATE MORGAN, JOSH CASAN VIOLA: DAVID BAIN CELLO: NOCHOLE SANDS, KATHERIN SCHORNKOW TRUMPET: LEIGH CONSENTINO, BRANDON CHEONG FLUTE: TASHI COOPER, DOMINIQUE SLOMAN CLARINET: EMILY SIM, ZAC GROSSCOMPACT DISC WITH RECORDINGS OF CHRISTMAS CAROLSclunes christmas, clunes 150yrs

Brochure of auction of Blackburn land on 13th November, 1920. Bounded by Blackburn Railway, Gwenda Avenue and Central Road and including Glen Ebor Avenue and Game Street.Brochure of auction of Blackburn landland subdivision, t.r.b. morton & son, railway lines, coghill & haughton, gair & brahe trustees executors and agency co. ltd, gwenda avenue, blackburn, central road, glen ebor avenue, game street

The Flag contains the Sandringham seal, which was designed by Sans and McDougall, had been selected in 1917 by a special committee and depicted as its main feature the Sandringham pier and breakwater, with a yacht in full sail, as an inset, and supported by two dolphins. The motto selected was Omni Opere ("With all earnestness.").Dark blue flag with circular City of Sandringham seal in the centre with the words CITY OF SANDRINGHAM in yellow border around the outside. The seal contains a central shield depicting a large sailboat in the water at the top, below it an L-shaped pier protruding from the right and below that another pier protruding from the left with two small boats at the bottom. The shield is flanked by two dolphins, with St Edward's crown above, and a banner containing the motto 'OMNI OPERE' beneath. flag, city of sandringham, seal, crest, omni opere, pier, boat, motto, sans and mcdougall, with all earnestness, st edward's crown

Refers to history of Edmond Paget Seymour, VX 102058 (V25458). Enlisted 15/8/42 into 2nd AIF age 43, Discharged 13/6/43. Rank Lt.Colonel. Last unit was 14 Armoured Regiment Initially in CMF - enlist Dec 1936. WW2 Model of a swag. It has a hood/bag section which acts as a carry bag or pillow. The main body would form a type of "A" frame style. The right side has strong US pattern press clips to keep it shut. It has a mattress (probably Kapok) which is clipped in and is formed of 14 cotton covered cells. The bottom of each cell has a black waterproof material. The whole swag rolls up and fits inside the hood section for transport.At the top of bag/hood is: E.P. SEYMOUR.ww2, swag, sleeping kit