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Photograph - Copy of a publication depicting the opening of the Mt Helen valve supplying first water to Buninyong Water Trust 1958, Supplying the first water to Buninyong Water Trust 1958

  • Photograph of the official turning on of the Mt. Helen valve which supplied the first water to Buninyong in 1958. Commissioner A. W. Nicholson operates the valve witnessed by Officials, Councillors of Ballaarat Council and Commissioners and Officers of the Ballaarat Water Trust and Buninyong Water Trust.

    Supplying the first water to Buninyong Water Trust

Historical information

This image depicts the official opening of the permanent water supply for the Buninyong Township and District in 1958 for Buninyong Water Trust

Significance

This image illustrates the turning on the valve for the first permanent water supply to Buninyong in 1958

Physical description

A black and white photocopy of a photo showing the official opening of the valve supplying the Buninyong Water Commission 1958

Inscriptions & markings

The Chairman (Commissioner A. W> Nicholson) officially operating the valve which supplied the first water to the Buninyong Water Trust. With the Chairman are the Mayor of Ballaarat Councillor G. L. Scott, M.L.A.) the Chairman of the Buninyong Water Trust (Councillor A. A. Davis) the Sire President (Councillor C. G. Smith), Councillors, Officers of the Ballaarat Water Commissioners and the Buninyong Water Trust.

Subjects

References

  • A Century of Permanent Water Supply The Ballarat Water Commissioners, 1962
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