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Ballarat Tramway Museum
Ephemera - Ticket, Electric Supply Co of Vic. (ESCo), Pensioners Fare Concession Ticket and Hospital Travel Voucher
... Pensioners Fare Concession Ticket and Hospital Travel ...Gives an understanding of the variety of special purpose tickets issued by the Electric Supply Company for use on the Provincial Tramways of Victoria.The Pensioner's Fare Concession Certificate is for the year 64-65. Printed on tan colored card, with black print. It notes Restrictions on the time of travel. The reverse gives additional information about the ticket, including the expiry date. There is a space for the ticket-holder's signature. The Hospital travel voucher is printed on white card with black ink. It is issued by the Electricity supply Department for use on Provincial Trams. The ticket is not transferable. This appears to be a sample and shows that the 2d ticket as shown can be altered in value to 3d,4d,5d,6d or 7d. The Pensioner's Fare Concession Certificate has the word "Cancelled" stamped in red ink across both face and back. The Hospital Travel Voucher has "Issued to Base hospitals Ben & Bal who issue to pensioners. Collected by SEC. Charged to Health Dept". This wording is written in pencil on the front of the ticket example.electric supply company, tickets, provincial tramways -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Book, Exercise book containing minutes of meetings of Ringwood Old Age and Pensioners Association. 20 pages, 1952 - 1955
... Old Age and Pensioners Association. 20 pages. ...Book - VANA exercise book containing minutes of meetings of Ringwood Old Age and Pensioners Association. 20 pp. +Additional Keywords: Parker / Trewhitt, Albert Henry -
Greensborough Historical Society
Newspaper - Newspaper Clipping, Diamond Valley News et al, Pensioners gain on rate discount, 09/06/2004
... Pensioners gain on rate discount ...Article about Rosie Bray's lobby for an increase in pensioner discounts on council rates, and response from Sherryl Garbutt, Minister for Community Services.News clipping with text and black & white image and accompanying letterrosie bray, banyule city council, rate discounts -
Heidelberg Golf Club
Memorabilia - Framed Pennant Flag, Heidelberg Golf Club Bowling Club: R.V.B.A. - Pensioners Network & Bendigo Bank Pennant. Division C.3, section winner, 1999-2000, 2000
... Heidelberg Golf Club Bowling Club: R.V.B.A. - Pensioners ...Heidelberg Golf Club Bowling Club: R.V.B.A. - Pensioners Network & Bendigo Bank Pennant. Division C.3, section winner, 1999-2000Dark blue felt flag with white lettering, mounted on cardboard in metal frame under glass.heidelberg golf club, heidelberg golf club bowling club, bowls victoria, pennant (bowls), royal victorian bowling association -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Folder, Building of Pensioners Cottages at St Andrews
... Building of Pensioners Cottages at St Andrews ...Letter from Postmaster-General's Department to J.T. Niclassen of Buttermans Track, St Andrews concerning telephone equipment destroyed in recent bushfires, 22 Feb 1962 Letter, Joan Kennedy to Mavis Gill, 8 Nov 1962 Letter, Dick (Windy) Gale to Mavis Gill, 18 Apr 1962 Letter, Winnifred Whyte to Mavis Gill, 25 Jun 1962 Letter, N. Cleary to Mavis Gill, 18 Dec 1962 Letter, Doris Young to Mavis Gill, 22 Dec 1962 Re-building of Pensioners Cottages, St Andrews 1962c Declaration of Trust, Eltham and Diamond Valley Benevolent Society, c/o Mrs Mavis Gill, 1973Newsletter No. 136, January 2001 Mavis Gill who is known to our 'older generation' of members (oh to be an octogenarian) has given the Society papers and photographs of the 1962 fires in the St Andrews area. Mavis was involved in obtaining funds for "building relief' purposes so that volunteers could rebuild for those who lost their homes in that area. It lists many voluntary groups who were also involved in the rehabilitation of the fire victims in the area.Folder of letters and documentsvictorian bushfires - 1962, bushfires, fire damage - buildings, houses, st andrews, mavis gill, pensioners cottages, christmas hills, alistair knox, arthur leonard sloman, brian redmond smyth, buttermans track, con sloan, d. goddard, dick (windy) gale, doris young, e. howard, frederick thomas scott, gaunt henry, grant lane, j.t. niclassen, jack niclassen, joan kennedy, joseph kennedy, kangaroo ground relief committee, molly clark, n. cleary, n.r. cleary, patterson, pmg, postmaster-general, robert barclay, robert william fell, winnifred whyte -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Newspaper, The Sun, The Herald, The Age, "Rises in Tram Fares Hits at Pensioners", "Tram Fares may increase" "Train chaos if no new station soon", Nov. 1968
... "Rises in Tram Fares Hits at Pensioners", "Tram Fares may ...Newspaper Clipping - set of six clippings adhered to two sides of one sheet of ruled quarto paper with punched holes on the left hand side - primarily about the increase in fares - Nov. 1968 1 - "Rises in Tram Fares Hits at Pensioners" 2 - "Tram Fares may increase" 3 - "Train chaos if no new station soon" - Flinders St station 4 - "Fares Rise next year" 5 - "Sunday trams adequate" 6 - "Change Tramways Board of the system" - about the design of tramcars - letter from J. Wunderly of Burwood. Cuttings from The Herald, The Age and Sun newspapers.trams, tramways, fares, flinders st station, sunday services, tramcars -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Archive, Combined Pensioners Association, 1981 - 1993
... Combined Pensioners Association ...Assorted Correspondencestawell -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - COMBINED PENSIONERS' ASSOCIATION: MEMBERS REGISTER 1961, 1961-1962
Combined Pensioners' Association Members Register 1961 - 1962 contained in red patterned index book. Handwritten 'The Combined Pensioner Assoc. Bendigo Branch' on inside front cover. Financial members Combined Pensioners Assoc, are listed for 1961 and 1962 and arranged according to surname and including address. -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - City of Port Melbourne, Application for firewood, 1940s - 1950s
Application for firewood by pensioners. City of Port Melbourne. Requires residential details, length of residence, number of people at residence (and their employment status) other than pensioner. Used approximately 1940s and 50slocal government - city of port melbourne, john may -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Garden City Pensioner's Club at Warburton, 16 Oct 1963
.01 - B&W photocopy of Garden City Pensioner's Club at Warburton (16.10.1963). .02 B&W photocopy of Garden City Pensioner's Club outside St Mary's Parish Hall at Warburton (16.10.1963).Gardengarden city, garden city pensioner's club, st mary's warburton -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - HARRY BIGGS COLLECTION: PENSIONER IN CHARITABLE INSTITUTION
Document. Harry Biggs Collection. An official document titled 'Pensioner In Charitable Institution' in which the name & address and Pension Certificate no. of any pensioner has to be written on their admittance to an institution. This has to be sent to the Deputy Commissioner of Pensions.organization, government, health, harry biggs collection, pensioner in charitable institution -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - Ticket, Port Melbourne Football Club, 1987
Season ticket Port Melbourne Football Club 1987, belonged to C. Reid of Sandringham (pensioner membership)sport - australian rules football, port melbourne football club, pmfc, c reid -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - Ticket, Port Melbourne Football Club, 1988
Season ticket Port Melbourne Football Club 1988 - belonged to C. Reid of Sandringham (pensioner membership)sport - australian rules football, port melbourne football club, pmfc, c reid -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - Ticket, Port Melbourne Football Club, 1990
Season ticket Port Melbourne Football Club 1990- belonged to C. Reid of Sandringham (pensioner membership).sport - australian rules football, port melbourne football club, pmfc, c reid -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - Ticket, Port Melbourne Football Club, 1991
Season ticket Port Melbourne Football Club 1991 - belonged to C. Reid of Sandringham (pensioner membership).sport - australian rules football, port melbourne football club, pmfc, c reid -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - Ticket, Port Melbourne Football Club, 1992
Season ticket Port Melbourne Football Club 1992 - belonged to C. Reid of Sandringham (pensioner membership).sport - australian rules football, port melbourne football club, pmfc, c reid -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - Ticket, Port Melbourne Football Club, 1995
Plastic card issued as Pensioner's 1995 Season ticket No.1505 by Port Melbourne Football Club (Unpunched)sport - australian rules football, port melbourne football club, pmfc -
Southern Sherbrooke Historical Society Inc.
Article, Protests at Menzies Creek
Article titled “Protests at Menzies Creek” about pensioners protesting cuts in pensions. Age 6th September 1932. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - CORRESPONDENCE: HAROLD CURNOW RE DECIMAL CURRENCY ISSUE
Correspondence - Harold Curnow re decimal currency issue to J T Dawson, Combined Pensioner's Association 21/5/1963.person, individual, harold curnow, combined pensioner's association, harold curnow, j t dawson. -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Article - Newspaper Article, "Tom the wharfie now lifts a pen", 5 Apr 1983
Article relating to Tom Hills taking up writing/publishing. Page from "Australian Pensioner" periodical ("Under the hook" discussed)piers and wharves - waterside workers, tom hills, noel turnbull -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Ephemera - Ticket/s, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), Set of 5 MMTB paper tickets, late 1970s early 1980's
Set of 5 MMTB paper tickets - all with numbers printed in black ink. 1 - 25c - orange block and orange printing - Nos. 240931 and 241652 2 - 25c - concession or pensioner - P - orange block and printings No. 169191 and 169196 3 - 20c - Concession or pensioner - P in red ink, blue paper, black printing No. 928727trams, tramways, tickets, concession fares, pension, mmtb -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Ringwood Bowling Club- RVBA Pennants, 1995-96
Sepia photographPennants are for Division 3 Section Winner, and Division 3 Runner Up, Pensioners Network, 1995-96. -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Document - Ticket, Port Melbourne Football Club, 1989
Season ticket Port Melbourne Football Club 1989 - belonged to C. Reid of Sandringham (pensioner membership). contains loose, handprinted schedule of gamessport - australian rules football, port melbourne football club, pmfc, c reid -
Broadmeadows Historical Society & Museum
Award - Presentation Trophy, c. 1989
Presentation to Cr. Rosemary KerrPresentation to Mayor from local Italian CommunityWooden shield, with golden adhesive lettering. In the top half at centre is a wooden roundal with a metal centre. Shield is made from two types of wood, a dark (on top) with a backing of a lighter wood. The same lighter wood makes up the roundal.City of Broadmeadows / in appreciation from / Glenroy Italian Pensioner Group - Presented to / Her worship the mayor / Cr. Rosemary Kerr/ 31-8-1989glenroy, glenroy italian pensioner group, cr. rosemary kerr, mayor, city of broadmeadows -
Glen Eira Historical Society
Document - CAULFIELD COMBINED PENSIONERS ASSOCIATION INC
This file contains 3 items about pensioner issues: 1/Original copy of typed document titled ‘Pensioners are People with the right to live as every Australian’, written by the President of the above mentioned association. It discusses how Pension payment increases are delayed long after they are announced which results in pensioners living below the poverty line. 2/Copy of newspaper article dated to 24/07/1982. The article is titled ‘Aged burden a myth: professor’ by Philip McIntosh. The professor of social and preventative medicine at Monash, Professor Lou Opit, was speaking at a seminar about the rising welfare payments for the aged and their cost to the taxpayer. The article also shows a table of countries rated in order from highest to lowest for welfare spending and Australia is 17th out of 19 countries. 3/Original copy of typed document titled ‘Facts about Pensioners’ authorised by the President of Caulfield Combined Pensioners Associations. Document talks about claims that welfare payments (social security) are not in fact a burden on taxpayers but the real cost to the country is caused by tax evasion and overspending in other areas. Statistics also show a decline in the rate of pension increases.caulfield, meaney street, elsternwick, morton alma, caulfield combined pensioners, community services, people by circumstance, parliamentary representatives, social problems, clubs and associations -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Poster, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "Travel Cards", Oct. 1982
Poster - printed on paper, titled "Travel Cards" advising new issue travel cards do not show a price. Gives prices for Adults, Children and Pensioners - Central Zone, and Zones 1 to 3. Dated Oct. 1982.trams, tramways, tickets, travel cards, mmtb -
Frankston RSL Sub Branch
Photograph, Portrait, c. 1914
Portrait of Thomas Richard Cook, 7465, who departed overseas 9/1/1915 and returned to Australia on 22/9/1919Studio portrait of World War 1 soldier, Thomas Richard Cook, seated on stool, with cane.Notation on obverse, "Thomas Richard Cook/TPI Pensioner Deceased 23/3/74/Presented to RSL/from Mrs V Cook/Phone 783 1193"ww1, portrait, soldier, thomas richard cook -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, George W. Bell, 'Windy' Gale's burnt out home, Wild Dog Creek Road, Jan. 1962, Jan 1962
Building of Pensioners Cottages at St Andrews; for those burnt out in the 1962 bushfires. A voluntary scheme of Mavis Gill through the Kangaroo Ground Relief CommitteeBlack and white photo mounted on card'Windy' Gale's burnt out home, Wild Dog Creek Road Photo Geo. W. Bell, Jan. 1962victorian bushfires - 1962, bushfires, dick (windy) gale, fire damage - buildings, george w bell, houses, st andrews, wild dog creek road, mavis gill, pensioners cottages -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, George W. Bell, Mavis Gill making a turn near 'Windy' Gale's home, Wild Dog Creek Road, Jan. 1962, Jan 1962
Building of Pensioners Cottages at St Andrews; for those burnt out in the 1962 bushfires. A voluntary scheme of Mavis Gill through the Kangaroo Ground Relief CommitteeBlack and white photo mounted on cardMavis Gill making a turn near 'Windy' Gale's place Wild Dog Creek area Photo Geo. W. Bell, Jan. 1962victorian bushfires - 1962, bushfires, dick (windy) gale, fire damage - buildings, george w bell, houses, st andrews, wild dog creek road, mavis gill, pensioners cottages -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, George W. Bell, Christmas Hills bushfire, Jan. 1962, Jan 1962
Building of Pensioners Cottages at St Andrews; for those burnt out in the 1962 bushfires. A voluntary scheme of Mavis Gill through the Kangaroo Ground Relief CommitteeBlack and white photo mounted on cardChristmas Hills bushfire Photo Geo. W. Bell, Jan. 1962victorian bushfires - 1962, bushfires, fire damage - buildings, george w bell, houses, st andrews, mavis gill, pensioners cottages, christmas hills, water tank