Warragul and District Historical Society

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• Coronavirus Pandemic Alert from 2020 Gazette Newspaper Cutting
  Newspaper cutting from Gazette dated 17.03.2020. Front page COVID - 19 ALERT Emergency declared for new pandemic of influenza. Originally named Coronavirus. Many events cancelled, powers to enforce isolation of people who had been in contact. Social interaction emphasised. Big risk to elderly. Schools camps and excursions, Farm world, Arts Centre all cancelled or closed until further notice.
• Australia: Land of Milk and Politics - A Dairy Industry Collaboration
  Book: titled Australia: Land of Milk and Politics. by Bill Pyle with Kevin Carmody. Bill Pyle was president of the VDA ( Victorian Dairyfarmers of Victoria ) Book titled Australia: Land of Milk and Politics - a collaboration between Bill Pyle and Kevin Carmody. Bill Pyle was a dairy farmer at Gaisborough. He led the dairy industry through the challenging restructure required to secure and strengthen the future generations. Bill Pyle has included much about his family - 13 siblings > Pyle: Pat, Ray, Kevin, Laurie, Marie, Maureen, Colleen, Janet, Carmel, Eileen, Peter, Mary and Bernice. He also talks of his marriage to Beverley Shanahan, their family and grandchildren. Contents are in sections but not indexed. Part 1: The Pyle Family......page 9 Part 2: The Pyle Children...........page 41 Part 3. Formation of the United Dairyfarmers of Victoria.... page 55. Part 4. The Australian Dairy Corporation........page 93 Part 5. A Change of Direction.............page103 Part 6. Looking After Bev.............page 117 Part 7. The future......page 125
• Warragul High School Song Book
  Warragul High School - Song book, this was used in the 1950's Index of Sections: Songs for massed singing. National Songs Sacred Songs Classical SongsSongs of all Countries: England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Italy, USA Spain, Russia Christmas Carols Sea Shanties Miscellaneous Songs Songs from Gilbert and Sullivan Songs of Australia.
• PLOD Essay on Wonthaggi Railway Station's Activities
  An 3 page article titled: PLOD ESSAY A Hive of Activity. by Jack Moyle and edited by C Landon. undated. Covers: Wonthaggi Railway Station - goods by train to businesses in town. Use of crane at staion. Worths Circus. Stockyards, droving, saleyards, mullock heaps, Ferguson tractors - demise of horses. Delivery of beer barrels to hotel. Moyle family carriers from 1924. Current buildings.
• Baw Baw Heritage Study Volume 2: Heritage Place & Precinct Citations (2011)
  The Baw Baw Heritage Study, dated Final September 2011 - prepared by David Bick. Volume 2 Heritage Place and Precinct citations
• Memoirs of J O'Connor: A Golden Age of Australian History
  Folder of typescript titled " Memoirs of J O'Connor " dated 1863 to 1963 - 36 pages. Contents: p 2. Tanjil Hils, Walhalla - gold discovery, Brandy Creek. p 3. Mrs Buntine - first load from Port Albert to Walhalla with bullock team. p 4. Hill End Run p 5. Establishment of Common schools. Seclectors p 6. On the banks of the Bunyip River p 7. Good description of isolation, dingoes. p 8. First stock sale at Brandy Creek. p 9. Droving experiences, Licensed shanties. Why Haunted Hills?. Safety of women - riding side saddle. p 11. Narracan - selectors appalling conditions p 12. Building huts, animals. p 13. Rail opened as far as Moe. Michael James O'Connor (his father) Justice of Peace / magistrate Severance from Shire of Alberton to form Shire of Narracan. p 14. First Narracan Councillor. Bush tragedies p 16. Mounted Rifles . Colonel Tom Price. p 18. Droving pigs from Hill End to Narracan, 35 miles. p 19. Thorpdale - mention of school teacher Mr Stranger. How they transported meat using side saddles on pack horse. p 20. 70% of settlers gave up and left the land. Moran and Cato had land at Thorpdale. p 21. Tin Kettling - Cornthwaite family. p 22. More droving tales. p 23. Henty's original Run p 25. Horses, gambling, Tarraville Post Office. Ada Crossley from Yarram became famous contralto. p 26. Visit of Percy Grainger with Ada Crossley. p 27. Traralgon, Morwell, Moe and Narracan - auctioneers. 1888 depression. p 28. Darriman Selection - 1897 rented Thornylen near Tarraville. p 29. Pair of ponies with buggy could travel 60 miles in one day. Astride horse could travel 70 miles in one day. p 31. O'Connell and Stockwell set up business at Yarram. 1907 bushfires. p 32. Rented St Margaret's Island and ran sheep and cattle. With WW1 made pots of money. 1933 cow cocky. p 33. Poem " The Pioneer "
• Shut the Gate. Author Jean Waddell
  Book titled "Shut The Gate" by Jean Waddell. Personal reflections on the preparation for the possible plane crash while travelling, fortuanately avert. Brought up on dairy farm at Warragul. 1920's. World War 2 - enlisted to work as Voluntary Aids ( V A D's ) in 1942. Duties through out Australia. Nursing experiences. 130th Australian General Hospital in Japan - Hiroshima Homewarde Bound.
• Trains, Truths & Trestles: Australian Railway Enthusiasts Magazine Vol.58 No.1 Autumn 2020
  Magazine titled - Australian Railway Enthusiasts - Vol 58 No 1. Autumn 2020. P 22 and 23: Train, Truth and Trestles warragul Noojee Branch Line.- text and photographs by David Wood. Also Pages 112 and 113 from magazine " Newsrail " April 2019 - Nayook to Noojee, article by Mark Cauchi
• Vintage Bankcard Imprinter: KLUNKA KLUNKA Machine
  A manual voucher imprinter - a bankcard machine, commonly known as a klunka klunka. Customers would present their credit / bank card and it would be placed on the imprinter with a voucher on top. The moveable top section would be firmly rolled over the voucher and rolled back again so making carbon copies of the voucher. 1 copy was issued to the customer, 1 copy to the relevant bank for the retailers banking and 1 copy to remain with the business.
• Local Government Transition: Gazette from 2020
  Gazette, dated 11.02.2020 The article as presented to Warragul and District Historical Society by Wayne Hardie ini November 2019. Wayne spoke of his experience as the former commissioner who oversaw the transition from Shires of Warragul, Buln Buln and Naraccan to form the Baw Baw Shire in March 1997.
• Noojee and Neerim
  Book titled " Noojee and Neerim" author Dorothy Hunt
• Cameron Algie Family Genealogy Documentation, 2020 Visit
  Retained the documents copied to provide information upon the visit of Cameron Algie and his son Mac on 50.02.2020
• Algeo Family Genealogy: A Historical Journey from Italy to Australia
  Draft document titled "History of the Italian Algeo (Algie) Family" covers: Scotland 1490 to Australia in 1853. List of contents: Part - Italian Tartan Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Italian Origins 2. Beginnings in Australia. 3. Beginnings in Neerim. 4. The Descendants. 5. Appendix.
• Autographed Program from Centenary Dinner, 1982
  Program for Centenary Dinner held 14th February 1982 - fully autographed for Councillor Pat Goran
• Edwards Thomas Jennings' Hand-Drawn Family Tree with Descendants and Granddaughter Olive Marrabel
  Hand-drawn family tree ( not very clear ) - descendants of Edwards Thomas Jennings - his granddaughter Olive (Bonnie) Marrabel.
• Four 1936 References Testify to Mr E H Jennings' Good Character
  Four references testifying the good character of Mr E H Jennings. 1. 9.03.1936 from Bert Gemmell, signed H A Gemmell. Cash Grocer, Nilma. 2. 10.03.1936 from Holdenson and Nielson Fresh food. Vermont Milk Products Pty Ltd. Warragul Signature V Scow ( manager ) 3. 22.12.1936 from Ex President Warragul shire, signature Hugh Copeland. 4. 29.12.1936 from "Woodlands" Nilma, signature William Carr - farmer and carrier.
• Swingler - Strands from the past. by Yolanda Reynolds.
  Book titled " Swingler Strands from the Past." author Yolanda Reynolds. First Edition: June 2019 Part 1: England. Part 2: Australia from 1859. 1892 Swingler at Walhalla 1900 Reclaimed land available on the Moe Swamp Trafalgar - Glen Iris Farm.
• Annual Rainfall Chart, 1905-2019: Gazette Newspaper Cutting
  newspaper cutting, Gazette, dated 7.01.2020. Annual rainfall chart from 1905 to 2019.
• Gazette Newspaper Cuttings from January 7th 2020 and 2019
  Newspaper cuttings - Gazette, dated January 7th 2020. 14.01.2020, 21.01.2020 News of 2019: January to March, April to June, July to December.
• Newspaper from 1866: Woods Point Times Vol.3 No.186
  The Woods Point Times and Mountaineer. Vol 3. No 186 . Dated November 21, 1866 This paper has no significance to Warragul and District History.
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• Darnum Dairy Factories in Casanelia, 1914
  Casanelia's milk depot on the Moe River at Darnum. c.1914
• Loading Butter Boxes at Vermont Factory in 1924
  B / W photograph of loading butter boxes at the Vermont Factory, Queen Street, Warragul. c. 1924
• Early Milk Truck from Holdenson & Nielson, Dairy Industry
  An early milk truck used by Holdenson and Nielson - Fresh Food Pty Ltd - Cream * Motor * Waggon.
• DAIRY FACTORIES: Holdenson & Nielsen's Butter Factory, 1912
  Photograph of Holdenson and Nielson's Butter Factory at the eastern end of Queen Street. c. 1912. Erected to replace the original factory at the western end of Queen street when destroyed by fire.