Historical information

social, people, business

Physical description

Photocopy of advertisement for T.B.Hiscock & Son, Saddlers etc. in North Melbourne, from Bunimnyong & District Old Boy's Newsletter 1918

Inscriptions & markings

arrivals in Australia Felix were venturing
out from the settlement at Port Phillip
In search of pastures for their flocks.
The centenary of Buninyong was officially
celebrated last Easter, when many former
residents and descendants of pioneering
families returned to the "Ancient Village"
and renewed old friendships. Mrs. Whit-
ten is a daughter of the late Mr. George
House, who was one of the first arrivals
In the district after the discovery of gold
by Hitchcock at a place which now bears
the discoverer's name, about a mile and
a half from Buninyong. One of a family
of ten, Mrs. Whltten was born at Bunln-
yong, and still lives in the house in which
she was reared as a child, and In which
she has reared her own family.