Showing 214 items matching "victoria. department of agriculture"
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Victorian Apiarists Association
Publication, The Honey Flora Of Victoria (Department of Agriculture Victoria), 1949
... The Honey Flora Of Victoria (Department of Agriculture... The Honey Flora Of Victoria (Department of Agriculture Victoria ...A5 sized soft cover book, cream colour with green circle & Cream & green writing. Has been taped 136 pages -
Beechworth Honey Archive
Publication, The honey flora of Victoria. (Victoria. Department of Agriculture). Melbourne, [194-], [194-]
... The honey flora of Victoria. (Victoria. Department of.... (Victoria. Department of Agriculture). Melbourne, [194 ...136 pages, illustrated. -
Greensborough Historical Society
Book - Recipe Book, Victoria. Department of Agriculture, Preserving fruits and vegetables; Bulletin No. 43, Department of Agriculture Victoria, 1944
... , Department of Agriculture Victoria....Victoria. Department of Agriculture... No. 43, Department of Agriculture Victoria. Book Recipe Book ...A Department of Agriculture bulletin on preserving fruits and vegetables. Various methods of preservation are covered.Part of a collection of recipe books from Laurence N. Lewis104 p., illus. non-fictioncookbooks, recipe books, preserving (cookery) -
Greensborough Historical Society
Book, Government Printer, Wartime vegetable growing at home, 1941_
... victoria department of agriculture... growing. victoria department of agriculture 24 pages, balck ...In this book, people are urged to grow some of their own vegetable requirements at home in order to support the War Effort. Issued by the Victorian Department of Agriculture, instructions are given on all aspects of home vegetable growing.24 pages, balck and white text and illustrations.victoria department of agriculture -
National Wool Museum
Book, The Sheep Industry
... Victoria; Department of Agriculture... by the Department of Agriculture, Victoria.... by the Department of Agriculture, Victoria.... by the Department of Agriculture, Victoria. Animal Breeding Victoria ...Book entitled "The Sheep Industry" produced by the Department of Agriculture, Victoria.Book entitled "The Sheep Industry" produced by the Department of Agriculture, Victoria.animal breeding, victoria; department of agriculture -
National Wool Museum
Calendar, Planned Flock Management: 1984 Calendar
... Victoria; Department of Agriculture... Victoria; Department of Agriculture Wool Growing Sheep breeding ..."Planned Flock Management: 1984 Calendar". Produced to assist wool growers in working out when to vaccinate their flock, when to allow lambing, etc.wool growing sheep breeding, victoria; department of agriculture, wool growing, sheep breeding -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Pamphlet - Newsletter, Vegetable Grower's Digest, 1970
... victoria. department of agriculture... Mitcham melbourne market gardens victoria. department ...Summer 1970 edition of Vegetable Grower's Digest.Summer 1970 edition of Vegetable Grower's Digest. Includes the story of early market gardens in Melbourne in article 'In the Beginning' by T.M. Farmilo, Senior Horticultural Adviser.Summer 1970 edition of Vegetable Grower's Digest. market gardens, victoria. department of agriculture, farmilo, t.m. -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Pamphlet - Newsletter, The Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Victoria, 1916
... The Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Victoria....victoria. department of agriculture...Volume 14. The Journal of the Department of Agriculture... Mitcham melbourne agriculture victoria. department of agriculture ...Volume 14. The Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Victoria. January 1916Volume 14. The Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Victoria. January 1916Volume 14. The Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Victoria. January 1916agriculture, victoria. department of agriculture -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Pamphlet, Pest and Disease Control, 1959
... of Agriculture, Victoria, Rev 1959.... from the journal of The Department of Agriculture, Victoria... of Agriculture, Victoria, Rev 1959. Victoria Department of Agriculture ...Pest and Disease control in the home orchard.Pest and Disease control in the home orchard. Reprinted from the journal of The Department of Agriculture, Victoria, Rev 1959.Pest and Disease control in the home orchard.victoria, department of agriculture, pests and pest control, orchards -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Article, A Green belt for Melbourne, 1/06/1948 12:00:00 AM
... victoria. department of agriculture.... department of agriculture railways state electricity commission ...Weekend Magazine of 'The Argus' of 19 June 1948 by Geoffrey HuttonAn article from the Weekend Magazine of 'The Argus' of 19 June 1948 by Geoffrey Hutton calling for a halt to the unending sprawl of Melbourne's suburbs and the creation of a green belt.Weekend Magazine of 'The Argus' of 19 June 1948 by Geoffrey Hutton land use, howard, ebenezer, melbourne, osborn, f.j., webb, (cr), melbourne and metropolitan board of works, tram services, commonwealth scientific and research organisation, victoria. department of agriculture, railways, state electricity commission -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Journal (Item), The Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Victoria, Australia. Vol. 49 - Part 7, July 1951. Victoria Centenary, 1851 - 1951
... The Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Victoria...Victoria Department of Agriculture... Victoria Victoria Department of Agriculture 71 pp. including 13 ...agriculture, history of agriculture, victoria, victoria department of agriculture -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Work on paper (Item) - Report, Burnley Horticultural College
... Victoria Department of Agriculture.... Simpson Victoria Department of Agriculture Confidential report ...burnley horticultural college, w.j. simpson, victoria department of agriculture -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Booklet (item) - Prospectus, Diploma Course in Horticulture
... Victoria Department of Agriculture... Victoria Department of Agriculture prospectus Diploma Course ...Some annotations by T.H. Kneen?burnley college of horticulture, victoria department of agriculture, prospectus, diploma course in horticulture -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Plan - Photocopy, Burnley Gardens, 1957
... Victoria Department of Agriculture...Photocopy of Department of Agriculture - Victoria. Plan... of Department of Agriculture - Victoria. Plan of Burnley Gardens dated ...Photocopy of Department of Agriculture - Victoria. Plan of Burnley Gardens dated 16.12.1957. CBR? UCB.2.129 16 ref. no.(Public Records Office). Buildings marked in black."Public Records Office ref. no. 1957"burnley gardens, buildings, victoria department of agriculture -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Plan, Proposed Sign for Entrance to Burnley, 1931
... Victoria. Department of Agriculture.... Department of Agriculture On verso of drawing: "Gate sign & Watering ...(1) Correspondence between Mr Zevan (Government Cool Stores), the Agricultural Superintendent, R. Crowe (Exports Superintendent) and A.W. Jessep re design for new entrance gates at Burnley Gardens, between 31.03.1931 and 09.07.1931. Invoice from signwriter (A. Clegg). (2) Pencil sketch of proposed design with annotations. (3) Coloured drawing to scale.On verso of drawing: "Gate sign & Watering plans" and "File State Public Works"a.w. jessep, burnley gardens, f. zeven, signs, victoria. department of agriculture -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Photograph - Black and white print, Information Branch Victorian Department of Agriculture, Staff Photographs, 1967-1977
... "Photograph by Information Branch Victoria Department... Branch Victoria Department of Agriculture Ref. No. D1655C ...2 very similar photographs. Eric Littlejohn with staff (Principal 1967-1977.) "Photograph by Information Branch Victoria Department of Agriculture Ref. No. D1655C and D1655D."eric littlejohn, staff, principal -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Photograph - Black and white print, Publicity Branch Victorian Department of Agriculture, Potted Plants in Small Glasshouse, Unknown
... Department Of Agriculture Ref. No. D521 I."... Branch Victoria Department Of Agriculture Ref. No. D521 I." Black ...Note by T.H. Kneen 20 February 1991, "Central bed in glasshouse equipped with bottom heat and mist propagation."Black and white photograph of potted plants in a small glasshouse inside another buildingOn reverse, "Photograph by Publicity Branch Victoria Department Of Agriculture Ref. No. D521 I."glasshouse, mist propagation, nursery, heating, potted plants, seedlings, propagation -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Photograph - Black and white print, Information Branch, Victorian Department of Agriculture, Student Using Laboratory Equipment, 1967-1968
... Victoria Department Of Agriculture Ref. No. D1100.A.... by Information Branch Victoria Department Of Agriculture Ref. No. D1100 ...Note by T.H. Kneen 18 December 1991, "Student Adrian Wells 1968."Black and white photograph. Student using laboratory equipmentOn reverse stamp, "Photograph by Information Branch Victoria Department Of Agriculture Ref. No. D1100.A.students, adrian wells, 1968, laboratory equipment, inside classes -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Photograph - Black and white print, Information Branch Victorian Department of Agriculture, Student Taking Soil Samples, c. 1969
... Department Of Agriculture Ref. No. D1101.D."..., "Photograph by Information Branch Victoria Department Of Agriculture ...Black and white photograph. Student taking soil samples In the Orchard in Spring.On reverse, "Photograph by Information Branch Victoria Department Of Agriculture Ref. No. D1101.D."students, soil samples, orchard, publicity -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Photograph - Black and white print, Information Branch, Victorian Department of Agriculture, Student Welding, 1967-1968
... Victoria Department Of Agriculture Ref. No. D1101.C."... Branch Victoria Department Of Agriculture Ref. No. D1101.C ...Note by T.H. Kneen 18 December 1991, "Probably 1968."Black and white photograph. Student wearing protective gear welding in the workshopOn reverse stamp, "Photograph by Information Branch Victoria Department Of Agriculture Ref. No. D1101.C."students, 1968, adrian wells, welding, students class, workshop, publicity -
Federation University Historical Collection
Books, H.E. Daw Government Printer, Ballarat School of Mines and Industries Departmental Papers, 1914-1950, 1914-1950
... by the Education Department, Victoria. Examinations include: Agriculture... education department victoria agriculture algebra architecture ...Used at the Ballarat School of Mines and the Ballarat Technical Art SchoolThis collection of examinations is significant because of its completeness with the full range of examinations between 1914 and 1950.Large leather bound books, with leather spine, containing all examinations held at the Ballarat School of Mines (including the Ballarat Technical Art School and Ballarat Junior Technical School). The examination papers were supplied and printed by the Education Department, Victoria. Examinations include: Agriculture, Algebra, Architecture, Arithmetic, Applied Mechanics, Assaying, Biology, Botany, Boilermaking, Building Design, Blacksmithing, Bricklaying, Carpentry and Joinery, Coachbuilding, Cabinet Making, Civil Engineering, Cabinet Making, Commercial, Chemistry, Engineering Drawing, Economics, English, Electrical technology, Electricity and Magnetism, Electric Wiring, Electric Welding, Electrical Fitting, Electrical Trades, Food Analysis, Geology, Geological Mapping, Graphics, Geometry, Heat Engines, Heat Treatment, Hydraulics, Hand Railing, Instrument Making, Millinery, Milling and Gearouting, Machine Shop Practice. Metal Founding, Mining, Metallurgy, Mineralogy, Mathematics, Motor Mechanics, Mine Surveying, Mining Mechanics, Petrology, Physics, Painting and Decorating, Pattern Making, Plastering, Plumbing and Gasfitting, Printing, Refrigeration, Spelling, Science , Shorthand, Surveying. Signwriting. Sheet Metalwork, Toolmaking, Ladies Tailoring, Trigonometry, Typewriting, Welding, Commercial Geography. Millinery, Dressmaking, Needlework, Decorative Needlework, Architecture, Building Design and Construction, Art (Composition in Form and Colour), Art (Casting Clay MOdels) Art (Drapery), Art (Drawing the Human Figure From Casts), Art (Drawing the Antique from Memory), Art (Drawing from Memory); Art (Drawing Plant Forms from Nature, Art (Drawing Plant Forms From Memory), Art (Drawing from Models and Objects), (Drawing From a Flat Example). Art (Drawing in Light and Shade from a Cast of Ornament or Lower Nature), Art (Drawing Ornament from the Cast), Art (Drawing from Models or Objects), Art (Drawing fro Dressmakers' and Milliners' Fashions), Art (Drawing With the Brush), Art (Drawing from a Flat Example); Art (Modelled Design), Art (General Design), Art (Embossed Leatherwork), Art (Practical Plane Geometry), Art (Practical Solid Geometry), Art (Geometrical Drawing), Carpentry and Joinery, Art (Human Anatomy), Art (Historic Ornament), Art (House Decoration), Art (LEttering), Signwriting, Art (Light Metalwork), Art (Modelling), Art (Modelling the Human Figure from a Life), Art (Stencilling); Art (Wood Carving) Refrigeration, Teaching, Boilermaking, Blacksmithing, Carpentry and Joinery, Coachbuilding and Carriage Drafting, Electric Wiring, Electrical Fitting, Graining and Marbling, Instrument Making , Machine Shop Practice, Metal Founding, Milling and Gear Cutting, Motor Mechanics, Painting and Decorating, Sheet Metalwork, Toolmaking, Printing, Pattern Making, Plumbing and gasfitting, examinations, ballarat school of mines, ballarat technical art school, trades, education department victoria, agriculture, algebra, architecture, arithmetic, applied mechanics, assaying, biology, botany, boilermaking, building design, blacksmithing, bricklaying, carpentry and joinery, coachbuilding, cabinet making, civil engineering, commercial, chemistry, engineering drawing, economics, english, electrical technology, electricity and magnetism, electric wiring, electric welding, electrical fitting, electrical trades, food analysis, geology, geological mapping, graphics, geometry, heat engines, heat treatment, hydraulics, hand railing, instrument making, millinery, milling and gearouting, machine shop practice, metal founding, mining, metallurgy, mineralogy, mathematics, motor mechanics, mine surveying, mining mechanics, petrology, physics, painting and decorating, pattern making, plastering, plumbing and gasfitting, printing, refrigeration, spelling, science, shorthand, surveying, signwriting, sheet metalwork, toolmaking, ladies tailoring, trigonometry, typewriting, welding., dressmaking, needlework, decorative needlework, architecture, building design and construction, art (composition in form and colour), art (casting clay models), art (drapery), art (drawing the human figure from casts), art (drawing the antique from memory), art (drawing from memory), art (drawing plant forms from nature, art (drawing plant forms from memory), art (drawing from models and objects), (drawing from a flat example), art (drawing in light and shade from a cast of ornament or lower nature), art (drawing ornament from the cast), art (drawing from models or objects), art (drawing for dressmakers' and milliners' fashions), art (drawing with the brush), art (drawing from a flat example), art (modelled design), art (general design), art (embossed leatherwork), art (practical plane geometry), art (practical solid geometry), art (geometrical drawing), art (human anatomy), art (historic ornament), art (house decoration), art (lettering), art (light metalwork), art (modelling), art (modelling the human figure from a life, art (stencilling), art (wood carving), teaching, coachbuilding and carriage drafting, graining and marbling, milling and gear cutting, commercial geography, exams, examination book -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Book, The Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Victoria - June, 1920, June 1920
... The Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Victoria.... The Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Victoria - June, 1920 ...Vol. XVIII Part 6. Principal Contents - Report on Victorian Egg-Laying Competition, Loganberry Culture, Agricultural Display at the Special Show, Farm Notes.Includes article on Loganberries - "Small Fruit Culture in Victoria" by A.A. Hammond, Orchard Supervisor. Article also includes a photograph of "Mr. Murfet's Loganberry Plantation at Ringwood". -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Programme - Order of Service, Les O'Callaghan, 2014
This is the funeral Order of Service for Les O' Callaghan. Born in Balmoral Victoria, he came to Warrnambool in 1932 to study at the Warrnambool Technical School. He worked for forty years in the laboratory as a microbiologist in the Kraft Cheese Factory based at the Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory in Allansford . His research work here formed the basis of the Department of Agriculture guidelines for dairy production in Victoria. He was a noted Warrnambool historian and was President of the Warrnambool and District Historical Society for forty years.This item is a memento of Les O Callaghan a prominent 20th century identity in Warrnambool.A sheet of white paper folded in two to make four pages. There are three photographs and black printing. Two of the pages have black edging.A Celebration of the life of Leslie Alexander O'Callaghan 1st August 1918 -26th November 2014les o callaghan, kraft factory allansford -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Booklet, The Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Victoria 1905, 1905
... The Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Victoria.... The Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Victoria 1905 Booklet ...This journal has been produced in 1905 for the Government of Victoria under the direction of the Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. George Swinburne, M.L.A. It has articles on agriculture in Victoria, including an article on how to increase and improve our dairy products and an article on the Grasmere Butter Factory. This journal produced in 1905 is of considerable interest because it has an article on the inspection of the Grasmere Butter Factory and the resultant erection of a new building on the site. Dairying is a major industry in the Warrnambool area and this journal contains important historical information and photographs.This is a soft cover journal of 68 pages (pages 482 to 550 in Part 7 of a journal). The front cover has a black and white photograph of a wheat harvesting scene. The back cover is missing. The first two pages have advertisements for insurance and banking firms. The journal contains black and white photographs and statistics tables. The pages show considerable silverfish damage. The journal is bound with cotton thread and rust marks show where metal staples may have been removed. grasmere butter factory, dairying in the western district, warrnambool history -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, The Victorian Reading book - first edition, 1928 (first edition)
This is a first edition copy of the Victorian School Readers (Eighth Book) issued by the Education Department of Victoria. These readers were first published in 1928 and became standard texts for all school children up to Year Eight. They complemented the School Paper which had been published monthly for different year levels since the end of the 19th century. Both the Readers and the School Papers were in widespread use until the late 1940s and the early 1950s. William McCullagh and his wife Margaret had the property Oak Grove at Yangery at the end of the 19th century and in the early decades of the 20th century. Yangery is an agricultural area situated between Woodford and Koroit. There is a record of Silvie Jean McCullagh (parents – William and Margaret) born in 1914 and this is probably the person who owned and used this reader. This book is of interest not only because it is a first edition copy of one of the well-known Victorian School Readers but also because it was connected to the McCullagh family of Oak Grove, Yangery. This is a hard cover book of 260 pages. The cover was originally a burnished brown colour but the book has been covered with a mottled patterned cloth material (red, green and brown). The cover is partly torn off at the bottom of the spine. The book has poetry and prose extracts and includes many black and white sketches, maps, photographs and illustrations. The inscription and some other annotations throughout the book are handwritten in pencil. ‘Sylvia McCullagh, Oak Grove, Yangery, Dennington P. Office’ history of warrnambool, oak grove, yangery, mccullagh family, school readers -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Journals - Department of Agriculture, 1. 1950s and 2. one 1932 & others 1970s
... , department of agriculture in victoria, kiewa hydro electric scheme,..., cattle, pasture, kiewa valley, department of agriculture ...The Kiewa Valley has been a farming district from early settlement of white people. This has continued until the present although the nature of farming has varied over the years. Access to information has improved with transport and technology. The journals kept the farmers informed and up to date.These booklets and journals were one of the few sources of information during the 1950s for the isolated farmers of the Kiewa Valley. The Kiewa Hydro Electric Scheme improved both transport and technology during the scheme's construction from the 1940s. It provided the township of Mt Beauty at the upper end of the valley where shops and schools were constructed, roads were improved out of the valley and the supply of electricity for milking etc. became available. 1. 14 articles each bounded by 2 staples, and each reprinted from Dept. of Agriculture Journal on a particular topic relating to Agriculture. All black & white and c1950s. 2. 4 Journals with colored covers 3 from Victoria Dept. of Agriculture (1932, 1974 & 1975) and 1 from Sth. Australia.1. "J.H.Wallace" hand written top right corner of covers of pamphlets titled 'Diseases Affecting /Young Cattle' and 'Mastitis'. "AHW" hand written top right corner of cover of pamphlet titled ' Grading Land for Irrigation' 2. Nonefarming, agriculture, cattle, pasture, kiewa valley, department of agriculture in victoria, kiewa hydro electric scheme, -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Book - Gardening - Reference, Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria Part 11 by C. French, Preface dated 1893
A gardening book useful as a reference for gardeners and horticulturists. Illustrated with detailed coloured pictures.This book was possibly part of a school library in the Kiewa Valley. Bogong school had a reputation for an excellent library especially with regard to nature. Hard covered brown book with gold embossed writing on the cover and spine including the title, author, part 11 and Price 2/6. Spine has black stamp near the base indicating it was in a library. Includes coloured Plates which illustrate the text - showing the insects and plants. Inside the covers the pages are a pale green floral type decoration. Page 85 circular stamp 'Education Department Victoria' around the outside and in the middle 'Library'education, victoria, insects, fruit and vegetables, pests, gardening -
Federation University Historical Collection
Letter, Inward Correspondence to the Ballarat School of Mines, 1910, 08/1910
Inward Correspondence to the Ballarat School of Mines, October 1910letterhead, education department, telegram, pharmacy board of victoria, launceston, l.f. fairthorne & sons, empire typewriter company, rotary duplicator, n.j. coote, clunes, octavius williams, h.a. taylor, s. radcliffe, bairnsdale, broken hill, frederick e. barclay, incorporated institute of analysts assayers and metallurgists, i.h. davies, j.f. dentry, j. refshauge, ballarat agricultural high school, tinghae, w. jennings, chemistry, gordon and gotch, gordon technical college woolsorting department, v.m. pearson, assaying, felton and grimwade, colac, macquarie steam brick yards, bairnsdale district school of mines, scools of mines, s. radcliff, frederick k. fairthorne, noyes brothers, fried krupp, h.g. taylor, w.d. hill, w.e. humphreys, william nixon, bell lambert and nixon, r.m. lambert -
Federation University Historical Collection
Document - Document - Letter, Ballarat Junior Technical School: Letter from the Department of Agriculture, Victoria, 1953
... Department of Agriculture, Victoria, 1953...department of agriculture victoria...Letterhead for Department of Agriculture, Victoria... leslie garner head master department of agriculture victoria ...Letter to Mr L Garner, Junior Technical School Ballarat from the Principal of the Dookie Agricultural College. It was sent with a prospectus and details of the course of instruction for the Diploma of Agriculture, fees and educational standard required at entrance. Enrolments are handled through the office of the Superintendent of Agricultural Education, Department of Agriculture, Public Offices, Treasury Gardens, C.2. Melbourne/ Yellow paper typedLetterhead for Department of Agriculture, Victoria and Dookie Agricultural College. Signature of J L Provan, Principalballarat junior technical school, leslie garner, head master, department of agriculture victoria, dookie agricultural college, j provan, principal, diploma of agriculture, melbourne -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Book, Handbook of Fungus Diseases
... and their Treament Department of Agriculture, Victoria Author: D McAlpine... and their Treament Department of Agriculture, Victoria Author: D McAlpine ...WARRNAMBOOL MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE Warrnambool's Mechanics' Institute (or Institution as it was sometimes called) was one of the earliest in Victoria. On 17th October 1853 a meeting was held where it was resolved to request the Lieutenant Governor of the Colony to grant land for the erection of a Mechanics' Institutes building. A committee was formed at the meeting and Richard Osburne chaired the first meeting of this committee. The land on the North West corner of Banyan and Merri Streets was granted but there were no funds to erect the building. The Formal Rights of the Warrnambool Mechanics' Institute's encompassed its aims and these were officially adopted in1859; "This Institution has for its object the diffusion of literary, scientific, and other useful knowledge amongst its members, excluding all controversial subjects, religious or political. These objects are sought to be obtained by means of a circulating library, a reading room, the establishment of classes, debates, and the occasional delivery of lectures on natural and experimental philosophy, mechanics, astronomy, chemistry, natural history, literature, and the useful and ornamental arts, particularly those which have a more immediate reference to the colony." The Warrnambool Mechanics' Institute opened its first reading room in November1884 in the National School building at the corner of Banyan and Timor Streets. The Institute was funded by member subscription, payable on a quarterly, half yearly or yearly basis. Samuel Hannaford, the Manager of the Warrnambool Bank of Australasia, was the first Honorary Secretary of the Mechanics' Institutes, and an early President and Vice-President. He also gave several of the early lectures in the Reading Room. Another early Secretary, Librarian and lecturer was Marmaduke Fisher, the teacher at the National School. Lecture topics included The Poets and Poetry of Ireland', 'The Birth and Development of the Earth', 'The Vertebrae - with Remarks on the pleasures resulting from the study of Natural History' and 'Architecture'. In 1856 the Reading Room was moved to James Hider's shop in Timor Street, and by 1864 it was located in the bookshop of Davies and Read. In the 1860's the Mechanics' Institute struggled as membership waned but in 1866, after a series of fund raising efforts, the committee was able to purchase land in Liebig Street, on a site then called Market Square, between the weighbridge and the fire station. A Mechanics' Institute building was opened at this site in August 1871. The following year four more rooms were added to the main Reading Room and in 1873 the Artisan School of Design was incorporated into the Institute. The same year Joseph Archibald established a Museum; however it deteriorated when he was transferred to Bendigo in 1877. In 1880, with Archibald's return to Warrnambool, the Museum was re-established, and in 1885 a new building was built at the back of the Institute to accommodate the re-created School of Design, the Art Gallery and the Museum. In 1887 the Museum section was moved to the former court house in Timor Street (for some time the walls of the building formed part of the TAFE cafeteria but all is now demolished)). In 1911 the Museum was transferred back to the original building and the management of the Mechanics' Institute was handed over to the Warrnambool City Council. The Museum and Art Gallery became one and housed many fine works of art, and the Library continued to grow. The building was well patronised, with records showing that at the beginning of the 20th century there were between 500 and 800 visitors. During World War One the monthly figures were in the thousands, with 3,400 people visiting in January 1915. The Museum was a much loved Institution in Warrnambool until the contents of the Museum and Art Gallery were removed to make room for the Warrnambool City Council Engineers' Department. The contents were stored but many of the items were scattered or lost. When the original building was demolished the site became occupied by the Civic Centre, which included the new City Library. (The library was temporarily located in the old Palais building in Koroit Street.) In the process of reorganisation the Collection was distributed amongst the community groups: -The new City Library took some of the historic books and some important documents, historic photographs and newspapers. -The Art Gallery kept the 19th Century art collection and some of the artefacts from the museum. -The Historic Society has some items -The State Museum has some items -Some items were destroyed -Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village has old newspapers, Government Gazettes, most of the Mechanics' Institute Library, ledgers and documents connected to the Mechanics' Institute Library, some framed and unframed art works and some photographs. The Warrnambool Mechanics' Institute Library book collection is deemed to be of great importance because it is one of the few collections in an almost intact state, and many of the books are now very rare and of great value. Handbook of Fungus Diseases of the Potato in Australia and their Treament Department of Agriculture, Victoria Author: D McAlpine Publisher: Government Printer Melbourne Date: 1911Label on spine cover with typed text R.A. 633 .491 MAC Pastedown front endpaper has sticker from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute and Free Library Fly paper has a stamp from Warrnambool Public Museumwarrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, great ocean road, book, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library, warrnambool public library, handbook of fungus diseases, handbook of fungus diseases of the potato in australia and their treament, d mcalpine