The autobiography of Sir John McEwen PC GCMG CHSoft covered book in pale yellow with title in gold and on spine.john mcewen

John McEwen, Australia's 18th Prime Minister (following the sudden death of Harold Holt) served 23 days as Prime Minister 19 December 1967 to 10 January 1968. The Prime Ministers Avenue is a collection of bronze bust portraits of the Prime Ministers of Australia, located at the Ballarat Botanical Gardens in Ballarat, Victoria. The Prime Ministers' portraits are commissioned after the incumbent term of each Prime Minister by the City of Ballarat. The City of Ballarat has taken responsibility for commissioning the busts after funds set aside by politician Richard Armstrong Crouch were exhausted in 2014. Crouch originally donate money to pay for six busts, the first of which was unveiled in 1940. The collection of prime ministers' busts are unique in Australia, representing the only sculptural portrait collection of all past Australian Prime Ministers. The different styles used reflect the unique artistic practices of the selected artists; textures, sizes and features and proportions are used by the artists to interpret the characteristics of each of the subjects.The artwork is of historic and aesthetic significance to the people of BallaratBronze bust cast on granite and concrete plinth.John McEwen Prime Minister 19 December 1967 to 10 January 1968 prime minister, australian pm

John McEwen repaired the Pompeii Fountain statue at Fortuna Villa in the early 1970s after it was damaged by gunfire in the 1960s. He was a ceramics teacher at Bendigo Institute of TAFE, later a farrier, and a volunteer teacher in outback NSW.In 2008, John and his wife Helen revisited Fortuna Villa to see his restoration work.The "Statue Massacre" IncidentShooting IncidentIn the early 1960s, a National Serviceman allegedly used a .303 rifle to shoot several statues at Fortuna Villa, possibly while intoxicated. There is some uncertainty about the exact timing and presence of National Servicemen on site, with conflicting accounts about when the incident could have occurred. Multiple statues were damaged or destroyed, but one original statue from the Lansell era survived. A notable surviving statue was of a boy carrying a basket, which sometimes caused confusion due to its lifelike appearance. John McEwen was contacted by two military men in the early 1970s to repair the damaged statue. The statue was made of compressed cement and was badly fragmented, with the front and left arm destroyed and the head separated but intact. John constructed a metal armature for the missing arm, used chicken wire for structure, and rebuilt the statue with cement mixed with Plastibond adhesive. Plastibond remains a commonly used material for such repairs.Fortuna - History Note "The Great Fortuna Statue Massacre" - Visit by John and Helen McEwen on Feb 25 2008 This item contains the following documents: 11217.78a Colour photo of Helen and John McEwen with the statue in the background 11217.78a Colour photo of the statue 11217.78a Two sided sheet labelled Fortuna Villa Historical Note 001 Fortuna "The Great Fortuna Statue Massacre"non-fictionbendigo, fortuna, george lansell, helen and john mcewen

Copy of auction leaflet for the sale of land fronting the Plenty River. Known as Heidelberg Park, this land is in what is now Lower Plenty. Sale circa 1913Digital copy of auction leaflet, 1 page.heidelberg park, lower plenty, land sales

Photocopy of pages 2, 3, 4, 6 to 10 of The Mining Record, Feb. 1862. Items mentioned are:- Epsom and Huntly Leads, Pottery Flat, & c, Parliamentary Intelligence, Deep Sinking On Quartz Reefs, The Comet Company (Formerly Cooper's Little Redan), Hustler's Reef Quartz Mining & Drainage Company, Sailors' Gully Quartz Mining Company, Star Reef, Sailor's Gully, Bendigo, Star Reef Quartz Mining Company's Claim, Wilson & Co's Claim, Murdoch and Co's Claim, Hollick and Co.'s Claim, Cook and Co.'s Claim, Coote and Co.'s Claim, Sailor's gully quartz Mining Company's Claim, Garden Gully Reef, Knobel & Co.'s Claim, Ladams and Co.'s Claim, Southern Cross Company, The Rainbow Company, Barry and Co.'s Claim, Union Company's Claim, Winterbottom and Co.s Claim, Jury and Co.'s Claim, Piles and Co.'s Claim, Steers and Co.'s Claim, Watson and Co.'s Claim, Coles and Co.'s Claim, James and Co.'s Claim, Morgan, Kirchner and Co.'s Claim, Boyd and Co.'s Claim, Shanks and Co.'s Claim, Day and Co.'s Claim, Brown and Co.'s Claim, St. Mungo Quartz Mining Company and the Nelson Reef Quartz Mining Company.document, gold, mining reports, mining record feb 1862, bell's life, wellington hotel, botanical gardens, mitchell gardens, bird-in-hand, independent co, ballarat co, perserverance co, north star co, all england co, macleod co, mather and co, gold washing co, bendigo valley co, robey and co, hobbs and co, taylor's, lewis and co, henwood and co, bullock and co, davey and co, webb and lathlean, the welshman's, bon accord, john thomas's, caledonian co, webster, hrdy bros, mcewen and co, the big engine co, epsom huntly and ironstone hill co, 'the thames' steamer, whitely and co, cambridge co, victoria co, dower m'intosh and co, thomas and davies, aurora co, brett's, thomas bros, mitchell brothers, ballarat co, north star co, all england co, mr b g davies, mr ramsay, dr evans, tarrangower times, mr humffray, clunes co, mr courtin, mr lawrence, port phillip and colonial gold mining co, mr bland, r brough smith, john s mcnair, john mathieson, mr r o smith, joseph millen, thomas kaye, john basset, william cook, james cousley, john hill, robert hollinger, thomas houston, george loudon, william manning, john matthews, john mcewen, thomas milligan, john moorhead, robert moorhead, david murdoch, andrew murdoch, joseph nevin, edward o'malley, wm newton paul, james reid, samuel robinson, jesse selwood, james shand, william woods, catherine united claimholders, star reef co, sailor's gully co, churchill davidson, wm wilson, john jervis, james patterson, john carmont, george m'naughten, alexander wiseman, james houston, m'lennan, clark, thomas hollick, james alfred bowles, john lampert, francis palmetser, nichols, little pumping engine co, m'niely, morrison, waight, john coote, robert hamilton, william wilson, john jervis, southern cross co, ladam's claim, knobel, bird, philip ladams, james anderson, cordon, ashley, godwin, burkamp, john lomasney, james bryant, matthew langridge, benjamin exley, j r finlayson, wormold, mccartney, schrade, schumacher, george barry, james patten, peter speares, thomas caley, shadbolt, john lomasney, peat, kenely, mcgenely, egan, exwell, james winterbottom, john winterbottom, william jury, jonathan laidman, john pile, simon howard, peter morris, bignall, charles robison, ferguson, thomas steers, adolphe witts, albert berchdolt, richard urand, thomas watson, klemm, boyd, abbot, peterson, taylor, henry day, walter wallan, brown, grennan, day, young, mr beckwith, joseph thomson, nelson reef quartz mining co

BHS CollectionBendigo Advertiser '' The way we were'' from 2002. Honoured: some distinguished guests visited Bendigo for the city's Agricultural Show in 1925. Above is a ticket to the annual show carnival, attended by Governor-General, Lord Stonehaven, and an invitation to the show's official dinner, attended by Minister for Commerce and Agriculture John McEwen. The clip is in a folder. The clip is in a folder.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were

RSSILA Wangaratta Sub Branch Dinner held to celebrate the Centenary of Wangaratta in 1938. Dinner guests included the Chief Commissioner of Police and Mr Holland, State President. Other Centenary events included the unveilling of the King George V Memorial Gardens which were opened by Mr McEwan Minister of the Interior, representing the Prime Minister. John McEwen was born on 29 March 1900 at Chiltern in Victoria, to pharmacist David McEwen and Amy (Porter) McEwen. His mother died after the birth of their second child in 1901, and his father died in 1907. McEwen and his younger sister were raised by their grandmother, Ellen Porter, who ran a boarding house. They lived first at Wangaratta and then moved to Dandenong in 1912. In June and July 1965 he was acting Prime Minister.Dinner held by Wangaratta Sub Branch to celebrate the Centenary of Wangaratta in 1938. Cream parchment card with embossed borderR.S.S.I.L.A. Wangaratta Sub Branch Centenary Dinner St Patrick's Hall Wednesday 19th October 1938 8pm Three Shillings RSVP Wed., 12th October F.H. McDonagh President. G. Balcke, Secretary.rssila wangaratta sub branch, centenary dinner 1938, wangaratta centenary

J. R. Pope officially began operating his pharmacy at 102 High Street, Wodonga on 1 October 1967. The pharmacy was purchased from John T. McSwiney who had operated his business from the same site from 1901. Mr. McSwiney was born in Chiltern in 1875 and qualified as a pharmacist in 1896 when he was apprenticed to David James McEwen, father of future Prime Minister Sir John McEwen. By October 1901 Mr. McSwiney was running his own business in High Street where he practised until he sold the business to J. R. Pope exactly 66 years later. Although he went into semi-retirement John McSwiney was still working at the age of 92 and was considered to be Victoria’s – if not Australia’s oldest practising chemist. These jars were part of the transfer of the pharmacy and its equipment in 1967 but date back to the earlier years of John McSwiney’s pharmacy in the early 1900s. These jars come from a Wodonga business which operated for over 70 years.A set of 9 blue and white lidded apothecary jars with gilt lettering depicting latin names of the contents. Also a mortar and and two pestles. The mortar has a groove on the side for the smaller pestle to rest. There is also a blue glass jar.apothecary jars, pharmacies wodonga, pope pharmacy, mcswiney chemist

These are anecdotal notes from a visit by John and Helen McEwen 25 February 2008. John recalled that he repaired the statue on the "Pompeii Fountain" located at Fortuna Villa after it had been shot believed to be by an unknown National Serviceman using a .303 rifle. The document describes what is believed to be information surrounding the shooting incident and the damaging of several other statues in the 1960s.Two A4 pages of typed textroyal australian survey corps, rasvy, fortuna, army survey regiment, army svy regt, asr

This poster was sponsored by Woolworths Limited an Australian Company to celebrate Australia Day 26th January 1984Prime Ministers of Australia 1901 - 1983 Edmund Barton 1901 - 1903 Alfred Deakin 1903 - 1904 John Christopher Watson 1904 George Houston Reid 1904 - 1905 Alfred Deakin 1905 - 1908 Andrew Fister 1908 -- 1909 Alfred Deakin 1909 - 1910 Andrew Fisher (1910 1913) Joseph Cook (1913 - 1914) Andrew Fisher (1914 - 1915) William Morris Hughes (1915 - 1917) William Morris Hughes (1917 - 1923) Stanley Melbourne Bruce (1923 1929) James Henry Scullin (1929 - 1931) Joseph Aloysius Lyons (1932 - 1939) Earle Christmas Grafton Page (1939) Robert Gordon Menzies (1939 - 1941) Arthur William Fadden (b1941) John Curtin (1941 - 1945) Francis Michael Forde (1945) Joseph Benedict Chifley (1945 - 1949) Robert Gordon Menzies (1949 - 1966) Harold Holt (1966 - 1967) John McEwen (1967 - 1968) John Grey Gordon (1966 - 1971) William McMahon (1971 - 1972) Edwward Gough Whitham (1972 - 1975) John Malcolm Fraser (1975 - 1983) Robert James Lee Hawke (1983 -)prime minister

Bendigo Advertiser ''The way we were'' from Monday, December 13, 2004. Sporting history: the Quarry Hill football club, runners-up 1915. Third from left in the back row is Peter Francis Hopley, his brother, John Hopley, is sixth from the left in the front row. Peter Francis Hopley and his wife raised a family of four boys and seven girls at Spring Gully Road, Spring Gully. Three of their sons, Paddy, Frank and Bob, played football for Kennington, with Bob later playing for Golden Square. In the first year he won the best and fairest trophy. Some of the names are: Howard, McEwen and McPherson. Peter Hopley was a blacksmith and during the depression he and a couple of friends walked from Bendigo to Broken Hill to get work in the mines.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were