Bob (Herman) Hymans (a former member of the Royal Netherlands Navy) was born in Bloemendaal, Holland on 30th September 1922. During World War II he fought against the Japanese in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) and was imprisoned in Changi and on the Burma Railway. After gaining qualifications as a Ski Instructor, Bob arrived in Falls Creek in July 1950. Working as an Instructor and Supervisor at Bogong Lodge, Bob decided his future was in accommodation. He was successful in negotiating an indenture for land from the State Electricity Commission (SEC). It took Bob two years to build his Grand Coeur Chalet but, tragically, it was burned down in August 1961. Bob also built the first Chairlift in Australia. This was a single chairlift and the structure was built from wooden electricity poles. He was constantly full of new ideas and proposals for the village. Bob Hymans die on 7th July 2007. This Collection of documents and letters tells the story of Bob's endeavours to develop Falls Creek into the ski village it is today.This item is significant because it documents proposals put forward by Bob Hymans to develop facilities in the Falls Creek Tourist Area.A letter of application from Mr Hymans for the lease of land offered by the State Electricity Commission to develop a tourist hotel. His hotel would provide accommodation for 100 guests. It would contain a dining-room seating 140 and cater for guests and day-visitors. Other facilities included a lounge, public-bar and lounge-bar facilities. A private lounge for reception would also provide guest and convention facilities. His project was designed as a year-round resort hotel. As well as serving as a winter sports hotel, the plan featured indoor facilities including a heated swimming pool, squash courts, bowling alley and sauna bath. Stables, a tennis court and boats would also attract year-round tourism. The budgeted cost was £130,000 plus bowling alley equipment. He planned that construction would commence in October, 1963 and be completed in June, 1965.falls creek tourist area management committee, hymans' hotel plans, falls creek development

Document. Cream coloured, handwritten envelope containing 3 documents. Lease application by John Jepson Stanistreet for Virginia Consols Gold Mining Co. Virginia Consols handwritten on the envelope.McColl, Rankin & Stanistreetorganization, business, north virginia gmc n l, mccoll, rankin & stanistreet, north virginia gmc n l, gold mining, application for lease

Documents: 14 copies of application for a mining lease, 3 copies of consent to the inclusion of certain lands in a mining lease ( 1928 ).Secretary by the Mines. State Public Offices, Treasury Gardens, Melbourneorganization, mining, lease documents ( blank ), mccoll, rankin and stanistreet: lease application

Application for mining lease; Garden Gully and Moon Extended Gold mines, Lease No. 10073 and a receipt for same (3 documents in total). Dated 7th October 1933.McColl Rankin & Stanistreetgold, mining, lease application, garden gully and moon exlended gold mines, bendigo, gold mining

Eleven documents relating to an agreement between Thomas Watson Bassett, Valentine Bassett, Charlie Bassett and John Taylor and John Severn Barke for Mining Lease 10073 dated 29th August 1933. Also a letter from Luke Murphy & Co. solicitors revoking the lease on 22nd September 1933. Mentions Garden Gully and Moon Extended Gold mines.Luke Murphy & Co Barristers and Solicitorsgold, mining, lease application, gold mining, sebastion, garden gully, moon extended, thomas watson bassett, valentine bassett, charlie bassett, john severn barker, john taylor

Documents: folder contains - 1940 Lease applications for 11053 Bendigo, 1940 batch of 'Consent to the Inclusion of Certain Lands in a Mining lease', documents re: Mrs Highmore unlawfully occupying Crown Lands, application for Mining Lease, list - application for shares. North Hustlers Gold Mine Company.MCCOLL RANKIN AND STANSISTREETorganization, business, gold mining - legal, mccoll rankin and stansistreet, north hustlers gold mine company

Manilla Folder containing Lease application and correspondence for lease No. 11007 (Tambour Major). Includes Map of lease. Also references to lease Numbers 10168 and 10899. Dated September 1939McColl Rankin & Stanistreet, Charing Cross Bendigo.gold mining, miners' safety cage, tambour major lease, gold mines, bendigo tambour major

Documents: Wedderburn Lease folder contains copies of correspondence re Lease 6724 Maryborough - application for Lease in 1935.MCCOLL RANKIN AND STANSISTREETorganization, business, gold mining - legal, mccoll rankin and stansistreet

Documents: folder contains - plan of area applied for on Lease No. 10486 - 1934, 1933 application for mining lease, 1934 application for mining lease. Great Southern Extended and South New Chum.MCCOLL RANKIN AND STANSISTREETorganization, business, gold mining - legal, mccoll rankin and stansistreet, great southern extended, new chum line.

J D McHaffie, Phillip Island's first leaseholder, relate how McHaffie set up his headquarters (and later built his house) alongside what is now known as McHaffies lagoon. The McHaffie brothers – John David and William – occupied Phillip Island under a license from the Admiralty in 1842 and farmed it as a sheep run.Historical3 A4 photocopies showing application for lease in 1850, size and description of the land and instructions for the application.w.j.mchaffie, land grant, farming, saltwater creek, crown land

Small printed plan of the of the Berringa Mines, including Price Application, Collins Lease, Birthday Tunnel Extended, Peel Application, Edgar's Lease, Birthday Tunnel North, Kangaroo, William's Fancy, Birthday, South Birthday, Bunge's Lease, Jones' Lease, Verso is an advertisement of r Ballarat Hardware Co.berringa mines, price application, collins lease, birthday tunnel extended, peel application, edgar's lease, birthday tunnel north, kangaroo, william's fancy, birthday, south birthday, bunge's lease, jones' lease, ballarat hardware co. f.w holst, stockbrokers, cgt

Photographs of title documents related to the Sister’s Rocks. c 1867. In 1866 a photographer Mr. O.G. Armstrong feared the Sister's Rock's would be used for building material. Mr. Armstrong and Samuel John Davidson squatter of Great Western leased the ground around the Rock's under the 42nd section of then existing "Land Act" enclosing the rocks with a rough fence. Davidson's lease application was dated 30th Jan 1867. The area applied for was 10 acres and issued 2nd July 1867. The fee paid 2 pound 10 shillings annually till July 1871 when an application to purchase was lodged. Two years later the land was transferred to the Borough of Stawell. Photographs also show maps of the areas. Information also includes 3 typed pages copied from the documents photographs. Documents relating to the Sister Rock's c 1867.documents relating to sister's rock's

5 Page Legal Document with map of lease area, 6 land application forms (see attached pdf for details).organization, business, industrial - mining, mccoll rankin & stanistreet, mining, gold mining, napoleon reef

Manilla Envelope containing 3 copies of a Lease agreement between John Taylor of California Gully and John Severn Barker of Jobs Gully for a company called the Garden Gully and Moon Extended Gold Mines NL. These men are the holders of an application for Gold Mining lease 10073 comprising about 90 acres in the Parishes of Yarraberb and Neilborough. The company is being formed to acquire the application for the lease and to carry out mining operations on and in the land comprised in the lease application. Dated 24th November 1933. Also in the envelope is a lease document for mining Lease No. 9993, for the Central Garden Gully Gold Mining Co. NL which includes a map of the lease. Written in pencil on the front of the lease is : allowed to lapse.gold, mining, lease agreement, gold mining, garden gully and moon extended mines, central garden gully

Mining lease 5 page document for lease application 10173, dated 9th March 1934, within area bounded by Don, Barnard Streets up to Mt. Korong Road, area 10 acres. Document signed by John Jepson Stanistreet in the presence of W.A. Kell, Warden's Clerk, Bendigo. Hand coloured plan of lease appended to document, yellow section refers to lease. Marked on map Central Garden Gully shaft. On front of lease ' entered in the Register Book Vol 303 Fol 33698' On back ' His Majesty the King to J.P. Stanistreet (Cent G Gully not renewed written in pencil) Form C Gold Mining Lease Crown and Private Land'gold, mining, garden gully shaft

Hard cover folder with gold lettering 'Lease Regulations' containing Mines Act 1915 No. 2198 (in force 1916) Requirements in connection with application for mining lease (1930). Application for registration as a Gold Producer (Mines Act 1928). Requirement in connection with an application for a mining lease and water right license or a license to treat tailings. Application for a Tailings License.Mines Dpartmentgold mining, miners' safety cage, lease regulations, gold mining, lease regulations

Document. Buff folder containing Letters dated 1934 re applications for lease. Options to purchase leases. Prospectus of the Hustlers Gold Mining Co. Report on Agnew Hustlers Group.McColl, Rankin & Stanistreetorganization, business, north hustlers gmc, mccoll, rankin & stanistreet, north hustlers gmc, gold mining, leases, agnew hustlers group

Collection of documents related to mining : 15 application for a water right licence; 17 notice of application for a tailings licence; explanatory paper companies bill 1936; tribute agreement ( some sections filled in 1954, enclosed South Costerfield Antimony and Gold Mining Company share call notice signed J. Stanistreet Jnr ); 3 applications for a water right licence; 4 application for lease; 2 notice of application for a mining lease; 5 copies of notice of application for a mining lease ( copied); 8 copies of inclusion of private land in a mining lease; 2 copies of application for consent to the registration of a new company; 21 copies of requirements in connexion with an application for a mining lease, a water right licence, or a licence to treat tailings.bendigo, mining, mccoll, rankin & stanistreet

Letter from Mines Department, Treasury Gardens, Melbourne C2., dated 21st November, 1940, to E. Arnold, Manager, Deborah Gold Mines N.L., 125 Queen Street Melbourne, regarding the application for lease 11062, Bendigo.bendigo, business, mccoll, rankin & stanistreet

Document. Bundle of letters, etc bound together with string. Reports for Annual General Meetings including profit & loss statements. Lists of shareholders. Proxy forms. Application for renewal of lease for North Hustlers Mine 9.4.1950. Prospectus for Hustlers Reef. Plan of residential area for application of lease.McColl, Rankin & Stanistreetorganization, business, north hustlers gmc, mccoll, rankin & stanistreet, north hustlers gmc, gold mining, lease, share holders, profit & loss, prospectus, agm

Documents: folder contains - correspondence N L Long re: prospecting, re lease 10731 Bendigo 1936 printed notice of application for a Mining Lease - Ernest Smith, map of Lease 10731 showing expired mining rights and consents, 1936 correspondence re application for lease 10731. Great Central Lease and New Chum Line.MCCOLL RANKIN AND STANSISTREETorganization, business, gold mining - legal, mccoll rankin and stansistreet, great central mine, new chum line.

Letter from the Department of Mines to the Central Nell Gwynne Gold Mining Co. re. application for lease No. 10088 stating that unless the question of compensation with regard to the private land be settled without delay, the application cannot be allowed to proceed. Dated 13th June 1933. Also a receipt from the Mines Department for 2/6 for supplying a copy of the lease plan. (Not included)gold, mining, central nell gwynne, gold mines, central nell gwynne, bendigo

Documents: folder contains documents - Lease No. 8769 Castlemaine, No. 8770 Castlemaine, application for lease - Thomas Thomson - Wattle Gully Extended, prospectus - of the South Frederick the Great Company, prospectus - North Hustlers Lease No. 9077 Castlemaine, draft prospectus for Central Wattle Gully Company, shares listing, report on Chewton Goldfield 1937, prospectus - Lansells Concord, Maxwell Consolidated Central Napoleon.MCCOLL RANKIN AND STANSISTREETorganization, business, gold mining - legal, mccoll rankin and stansistreet, central white gully