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Owner and donor details - See Cat No. 5836.3.Soft cover book. Cover - cardboard, black print on front and spine. Illustrated front, black ink, Rising Sun Badge above light green and dark green unit colour patch. Dark green background. 175 pages, cut, plain, white paper. Illustrated black and white photographs and maps.books, military history, aif, ww2

Collected from the chemistry laboratory at School of Mines. The was being dismantled due to the cutbacks in funding to TAFE and science was no longer being taught. The Quickfit Chemistry Set was the most popular set for schools, colleges and universities. There are nine basic items. It allows the construction of at least eight combinations by adding sections together. A labelled diagram included in the box. Included in the box is a BRANNAN 76mm Immersion Glass Thermometer. These are also used in beer and wine making.Solid cardboard box with molded insert for glass instruments.Model No. 27BU/Mchemistry, ballarat school of minestafe, quickfit chemistry set, schools, colleges, universities, thermometer, brannan, immersion thermometer, scientific instrument

A3 and A4 sized photocopies showing map section of land title showing streets, easements and allotment numbers, some with handwritten names and pricing notations circa mid 1950s.Map includes Valley Road, Granard Avenue, Park Road, Arundel Avenue, Hylton Avenue, Aviemore Avenue, Bowmore Avenue, Hopetoun Road, Colin Avenue, Daintree Avenue, Brucedale Crescent, Feversham Avenue, Ennismore Crescent, Iona Grove, Elgin Crescent and Gosford Crescent, Park Orchards, Victoria.

Copy of a map from 'A Short HIstory of Australia' by Ernest Scott.map, explorers, exploration, new south wales coast, parramatta, sydney, gosford, maitland, newcastle, blue mountains, picton

1. RECTANGULAR, YELLOW, CARDBOARD DRINK COASTER. IN THE CENTRE IS THE BADGE OF RATS OF TOBRUK ASSOCIATION. THE BANNER AT THE TOP SHOWS 1941 50TH ANNIVERSARY - 1991, BOTTOM BANNER SHOWS 10.4.41 SIEGE OF TOBRUK 7.12.41. 2. SQUARE, WHITE CARDBOARD, DRINK COASTER. IT HAS THE COLOURED BADGE OF THE RATS OF TOBRUK ASSN. BOTTOM WORDS ARE 1980 VICTORIA. 3. WHITE, CARDBOARD DRINK COASTER. IT HAS THE BLACK AND GOLD BADGE OF RATS OF TOBRUK ASSN OVER TWIN SPHERES OF THE WORLD. WORDS PRINTED ON COASTER WERE:- "WORLD REUNION AND 42nd COMMEMORATION SERVICE AND DINNER". "GOSFORD ON THE CENTRAL COAST, NSW 7 - 11th APRIL 1983.NILsouvenir, drink coasters

Large linen backed map of the Park Orchards subdivision for private sale of residential sites and recreation club, highlighting local facilities, services and layout of the estate. Surveyors - Tuxen & Miller, 34 Queen Street, Melbourne. Agents - Wm Addey & Co., Pty Ltd., National Mutual Buildings, 395 Collins Street, Melbourne, Phone F3906. Terms £5 deposit balance monthly installments of £1 with the residue at the end of five years. Subdivision includes Alva Avenue, Arundel Road, Aviemore Avenue, Berringa Road, Bowmore Avenue, Brucedale Crescent, Brympton Avenue, Camber Avenue, Cawdor Avenue, Colin Avenue, Corriedale Crescent, Craithie Avenue, Daintree Avenue, Dalry Avenue, Dirlton Crescent, Drayton Crescent, Elgin Crescent, Enfield Avenue, Ennismore Crescent, Euston Avenue, Feversham Avenue, Frogmore Crescent, Gosford Crescent, Granard Avenue, Hopetoun Road, Hylton Avenue (later Knees Road), Jura Avenue, Park Road.

Ludmilla Meilerts, Oil On Board, Botanical Gardens, Circa 1970 Ludmilla Meilerts (1908 - 1997), Botanical Gardens, Melbourne, an impressive work painted with bold brushstrokes and a vivid colourful palette which typifies the artists work. ​ Born in Riga,Latvia in 1908 - After displaying an early talent for art she studied at The Latvian Academy Of Fine Arts graduating in 1940. Later that year she married Otto Meilerts, an Economist, and they moved to Stuttgart, Germany to avoid living under Soviet occupation and then emigrated to Australia in 1948 settling in Melbourne. She worked as a nurse's aid and in a clothing factory to fund the further development of her artistic career achieving considerable early success with her colourful work encompassing portraiture, florals and city and landscapes. She particularly like painting dockland scenes. She was a member of The Victorian Artists Society (VAS) and The Melbourne Society Of Woman Painters And Sculptors. ​ Major prizes include The Dunlop Prize in 1952, Gosford Art prize 1971, Camberwell 1973, VAS Purstitz Gold Medal 1982. She is represented in The State Galleries of Victoria, NSW, Tasmania and Western Australia as well as several regional Galleries.​ ​Still life of fruit and a jog. Painted in thick impasto paint, creating a very textured surface. Fruit is depicted in green, brown, apricot, pink and red. Background is abstract. Upper left background is brown, upper centre and right background is in shades of grey, blue and green, with some white. Brown wooden frame.Front: L Meilerts 70 (lower right, black paint)still life, female artists, women, women artists

The aircraft (Serial Number 159 – registration VH-GNT) was assembled by RAAF Richmond Gliding Club from a kit manufactured by Schweizer Aircraft Corporation, Elmira, New York State, USA, in 1963. First flown 21 December 1963. Served at RAAF Base, Richmond, NSW, until December 1978 at which time it had recorded 1981 hours from 9870 flights. The aircraft was sold to Peter Fitzgerald and moved to Gosford and later on, to Queanbeyan where it was stored under cover until April 1983. It was not flown between 1978 and July 1983. In 1983 the glider was sold to Harold Walton. A Certificate of Airworthiness inspection was done by various members of the Canberra Gliding Club where minor repairs were made. On 24 July 1983, it first flew on the airworthiness certificate test flight at Bunyan, NSW, the home of the Canberra Gliding Club. In service at Bunyan until November 1986 the hours flown increased to 2078 from 10249 flights. A certificate of airworthiness inspection was completed on 11 April 1987 but the aircraft was apparently only recorded a few more hours by 9 January 1998 when it last took to the air. When donated to the Australian Gliding Museum in January 2020, the aircraft was in storage at premises of the donor, Harold Walton, at Walkerville, South Australia.This aircraft is the only one of the 258 SGS 2.22s produced by Schweizer to come to Australia. It is a good representative example of the SGS 2.22 type which featured metal construction for production of a robust club trainer. The aircraft apparently played a useful role over many years at Richmond and Canberra.High wing two seat utility glider of metal construction with fabric covering.Registration letters ‘GNT’ on each side of vertical stabiliseraustralian gliding, sailplane, glider, schweizer, raaf, richmond, fitzgerald, walton, canberra, bunyan.

ill, maps, p.144.non-fictionTraffic Officer: Relief Guard at Nyngan; No Sand, No Go; The Short North: Gosford to Wyong; Profile of a Master Fitter; Mountain Quest; Strange Railway Accident.railroads - nsw - history, steam locomotives - nsw – pictorial

ill, maps, p.128.non-fictionWoy Woy to Gosford; Traffic Officer; Our Rail Heritage: Whitton’s Vision; Like Father, Like Sonrailroads - nsw - history, steam locomotives - nsw – pictorial

ill, maps, p.136.non-fictionFeatures: The Short North: Fassifern to Newcastle, by Peter Attenborough. The third and concluding essay in the series reviewing the main northern line between Gosford and Newcastle looks in detail at the section of railway between Fassifern and Newcastle. Passing through the southern suburbs of New South Wales’ second largest city, the line plays host to local goods and passenger services, a constant procession of coal trains, as well as the heavy traffic plying between Sydney and Newcastle. Driver in a Hurry, by Pat Turner. Pat Turner spent his entire railway career on the main southern line and in this essay recalls a couple of fast trips on the Southern Expresses during the late 1950s. Useful to Yardmaster, by Leon Oberg. Bob Payne commenced work for the NSWR in Goulburn in 1940 as a useful. Leon Oberg reports on Bob’s varied railway career in the Southern Tablelands town of Goulburn up until the time Bob finished work as a Yard Master. Traffic Officer: Station Master at Coonabarabran, by Russell Bright. In this, the final instalment of his career as an officer in the Traffic Branch of the NSW Railways, Russell describes his duties as Station Master, Coonabarabran during the period 1970 to 1990. This was a time when severe cutbacks were being made in the NSWR, particularly in country areas. Russell takes us through the effects this had on the railway at Coonabarabran during these years of change, as well as his additional responsibility as a union representative involved with the downsizing, closure and staff redundancies at many locations. The last duty he performed was his own redundancy and closure of Coonabarabran station in 1990.railroads - nsw - history, steam locomotives - nsw – pictorial