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Orbost & District Historical Society
book, Snowy Water Inquiry, Snowy Water Inquiry Final Report, 1998
The Snowy Water Inquiry was commissioned in 1998 with a brief to recommend environmental water release options to the Commonwealth, Victorian, and NSW Governments so that corporatisation of the Snowy Mountains Scheme could proceed. These release options related to the Snowy River below Jindabyne, the Murray River and other rivers associated with the Scheme. The Inquiry objectives were that the recommendations would not adversely impact on water supplies to existing irrigators or the viability of the Snowy Mountains Scheme. (ref snowyhydro.com.au)This report contains information about water allocation and uses of the Snowy River.A book of 160 pp - Snowy River Inquiry Final report 23rd October 1998. Submitted to the Governments of New South Wales and Victoria / Commissioner: The Hon. Robert Webster. On the front cover are three aerial photographs of the Snowy River and Snowy Hydro Scheme. The book contains maps and photographs. snowy-river snowy-hydro snowy-mountains government-inquiry -
Coal Creek Community Park & Museum
Bottle, glass, c.1935-1939
Ref: Searching for Nineteenth-Century Florida Water Bottles by Catherine Sullivan, p.88-9. 'New York City directories list Murray and Lanman, druggists, at 69 Water Street from 1835 to 1849; David T. Lanman, druggist, at 69 Water Street from 1836 to 1857; and Lanman and Kemp at 69 Water Street from 1858 to 1870, when they relocated to William Street (New-York Historical Society 1834-1873).'Tall aqua tinted clear glass bottle, round in section with embossed text on sides and numerals on baseEmbossed on base '24' (indistinct). On sides 'FLORIDA WATER, MURRAY & LANMAN DRUGGISTS NEW YORK'.florida water, druggist, wholesale. -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Map, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, Goulburn Irrigation System, C 1940
A map showing the extent of Goulburn irrigation C. 1940. Also indicated by shading are: natural water resources, proposed extensions, existing stock and domestic supply areas, reservoirs, main channels, principal distribution channels, and railways.Irrigation Rivers Victoria.irrigation, victoria state rivers and water supply commission, map -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Watering Can, C1900
This watering can would have been used some decades ago to water pot plants and small plants in the garden requiring individual watering. Today watering cans are still used but mostly they are made of plastic although some cans are made in other materials for decorative reasons. Enamel is a hardy material but it chips when the object is knocked or dropped. This watering can has no known local provenance but is retained as an example of a common household item from early in the 20th century. This is an oval-shaped enamel watering can. It has two handles, a spout and a hinged lid. The can is very rusted. ‘Made in England’vintage household items, vintage watering can, enamel watering can, warrnambool -
Churchill Island Heritage Farm
Functional object - Furphy Water Cart, 1929
The family-owned Furphy company has been manufacturing agricultural equipment in Kyneton and then Shepparton in Victoria from the 1860s to the present day. In the late 1800s the company developed the Furphy Water Cart to help farmers transport water to and from and around their properties - especially in time of drought. At the beginning of World War One, the carts were used to distribute water amongst the thousands of soldiers completing their basic training at Broadmeadows. They were also used for the same purpose in the camps and battlefields overseas. As the soldiers gathered around the water carts they would often chat, share information and gossip amongst themselves. These practices resulted in the term Furphy evolving in to the Australian vernacular as meaning a statement or fact that isn’t quite true or a little bit dubious.Furphy water cart, unpainted with traces of red on embossed endOn side of tank in black paint "CHRURCILL ISLAND" Embossed on end: Furphy water cart; makers Furphy & Sons, Shepparton and other inscriptions.farm machinery, water, furphy cart, horse drawn, furphy, churchill island, shepparton, kyneton -
Millewa Community Pioneer Forest & Historical Society
Water Bottle, W Bowring Ltd, ?
Water carrier, used to transport water in the Malley. Used commonly used by horsemen farmers, etc They were also used by car travelers attached to the front of a vehicle to keep it cool.Commonly used in the region but now rarely used or found.Canvas Bag type water carrier,W Bowring Ltd Manufacturer Merbein, Mildura, Wentworth. Beneath a Black line around the middle No 14 Back is Plain , has a metal hanger thrue 2 canvas tabs, water, carrier, milewa, bowring, canvas -
8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles Regimental Collection
Photograph - AFV water training
8/13 VMR training in the water capability of the M113 LRV during Annual Camp.The 8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles was raised as a regiment of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps on 1 May 1948 with Headquarters in Melbourne and squadrons in Sale, Benalla/Wangaratta and Albury. In 1955 Regimental Headquarters moved to Wangaratta and a second squadron was located at Albury. The Sale squadron transferred to 4th/19th Prince of Wales’s Light Horse. In 1977 8/13 VMR Regiment was reduced to an independent squadron A Squadron 8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles and in 1991 was linked with 4th/19th Prince of Wales’s Light Horse forming the VMR Squadron of that regimentBlack and white photograph of M113 Light Reconnaissance Vehicle ( LRV ) emerging from lake during 8/13 Victorian Mounted Rifles Annual Camp 1972." Annual Camp 1972, Water training "military, water, vmr, m113, training -
4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment Unit History Room
Water bottle
This type of water bottle was used by mounted troops from @1914-1945 This type of water bottel was used by soldiers of 4th, 17th and 19th Light Horse Regiments til 1944Metal water bottle enamalled and surrounded in khaki wool cloth held in a leather frame and suspended from a leather shoulder strapF. S. Ltd 1941 shoulder, mounted, bottle, strap, water -
Friends of Westgarthtown
Water filter
Glazed earthernware white cylindrical water filter with brass tap at base and blue writing printed on front above tap. Filter has two pieces- outer cylinder with tap and internal cylinder with two filters inside.Printed on front "Delphin Filter assures absolutely germfree Drinking Water". Circular trademark reads, "Delphin Filter Company, Vienna, Made in Austria."domestic items, food and drink consumption, water, delphin, vienna, austria, germfree, filter, drinking water. -
Dandenong/Cranbourne RSL Sub Branch
Army helmet and water canteen, Water bottle 1967
Metal helmet with fibreglass inner covered with hessian and camouflage netting. Plastic water canteen with canvas cover.Both items are marked Sproule. Helmet marked Sproule 63043. Canteen marked Sproule G C 63043. -
Clunes Museum
DRIPSTONE WATER FILTER WITH LID
AN ITEM IN COMMON USE IN EARLIER YEARS, USUALLY CHARCOAL WAS PLACED ON A SCREEN AT ABOUT HALF OF THE DEPTH. IT WAS ALSO USED TO KEEP DRINKING WATER COOL.LARGE CERAMIC DRIPSTONE WATER FILTER WITH LIDJ.G. HOLT'S PURE CARBON WATER FILTER MELBOURNElocal history, domestic item, containers -
8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles Regimental Collection
Functional object - water bottle
This water bottle was carried by stretcher bearers in the Light Horse Field Ambulance. The cup/cap was used to give a drink to a wounded soldier who could not hold a water bottle to his lips. A light horse field ambulance was an Australian World War I military unit whose purpose was to provide medical transport and aid to the wounded and sick soldiers of an Australian Light Horse brigade. Typically a Lieutenant Colonel commanded each ambulance. All officers of the ambulance were medical doctors or surgeons. Dental units were often attached to the ambulance as well. A Field Ambulance consisted of two sections, the Mobile and the Immobile. The Mobile Section travel with its brigade into combat, where it would establish a Dressing Station. It use stretchers or carts to retrieve the wounded and transport them to the Dressing Station. The Immobile Section established and operated a Receiving Station, which received the wounded the Dressing Station sent on. The ambulance's surgeons would operate on the wounded at the Receiving Station. From the Receiving Station, the sick and wounded would go first to the Casualty Clearing Station and ultimately to a Base Hospital. Representative of a water bottle which differed from the regular water bottle and was used for a specific purpose.Water bottle, felt coated, with small metal cup over spout, all held in leather carrier. Strapped to a wooden stand.military, water, medical, light horse, ambulance, stretcher bearer -
Clayton RSL Sub Branch
Memorabilia - Metal water bottle and drinking vessel, Water bottle is dated 1918. Nothing shown on drinking vessel
Used by Lance Corporal W. B. Ashweirth - Signalman in the Australian Army who was held at Changi and later transferred to Osaka in Japan as a slave labourer.Combination military water bottle and panakin with [base metal] fold-away metal handleAustralian Coat of Arms and RIP 'Sig" mascot of 6th Line Section - Signals Regiment - Died at Changi Barracks on 27th February 1942. Also a 'love heart' showing WBA / EHAchangi, changi pow camp, pow, water bottle, world war two, second world war, wwii, ww2, changi barracks -
Clayton RSL Sub Branch
soft cover non-fiction book, Ice Water Press, Victory In Europe, 2010
The final crossing of the Rhine and the advance into Germany changed the course of European history forever. Introduces men and women from bith sides - British, American and German soldiers and civilians - whose bravery and endurance made the final push through Europe the defining drama of WW2.Soft cover book with 144 pagessticker on inside page P Cooper (personal contact details included on sticker) -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Water Well, Water Well Ceramic Registered Copy Press
Used in the printing process in the later part of the 19th Century.Used in the printing industryCream fluted bowl shaped item. Ceramic. Top has large split in middle with two smaller openings at either end.Registered copying press water well 4409 in black lettering on top surfacewarrnambool, water well, printing -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Water Wheel Accuracy Tester, Late 1900s
Used by State Rivers and Water Supply Commission prior to their privatisation about 1990.A clear tube with sand inside - similar to an egg timer. Used to measure the accuracy of water wheels over a half minute or less. Measurements marked on outside and related to one revolution. The blue scales relate to small meter outlets(wheels), yellow scales related to large meter outlets(wheels).Figures of rates relating to measurement of water in one revolution.irrigation, victoria state rivers and water supply commission, water wheel