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Australian Literature

The Australian Collection: Australia's greatest books / Geoffrey Dutton (1985) [donated by anon]

Extinctions / Josephine Wilson (2017) (Miles Franklin Shortlist)

Ache [a woman and town coming back after a bushfire] / Eliza Henry Jones (2017)

Henry Lawson's Best Stories / chosen by Cecil Mann (1966) [donated by John Payne]

Banjo Paterson's People / selected poems and prose by A.B. Paterson: illustrations by Dorothy Gauvin (1987) [donated by John Payne]

The Boy From Snowy River / Fred Silcock (2017)

Periodicals

Adam Lindsay Gordon Commemorative Committee: The wayfarer P 820 GOR No. 42 JUNE 2017: The house, pictured above, stands at 3 Dowling Street, Ballarat, and it will soon be contended that this house was once occupied by Adam Lindsay Gordon p4. The sequel to "An Unsentimental Journey"-The Return Home, Brighton 15 Feb. 1869 p6.

Australian History

Books

A Nation United - 9 May 2001: A joint commemorative meeting of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia and the Centenary Commemoration Ceremony / [edited by] Barry Whelan and Royce Communications (2001) [donation]

Glorious age: Growing older gloriously / edited by Jocelynne A. Scutt (1993) [donated by Wallace Kirsop]

The Irish Exiles in Australia / T.J Kiernan (1954) [donated by Charles Lewis]

Those Wild Rabbits / Bruce Munday (2017)

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Contents Australian Literature............. 1 Australian History................. 1 Victoria................................. 4 Other States ........................ 14 Aboriginal Australians.........17 Art and Artists..................... 18 Biographies.......................... 18 Company Histories............. 19 Family History..................... 19 Military Histories ............... 19 Railways/Transport............. 19 Politics and Government....22

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As Time Goes By [Australian nostaligia] / John Larkins, Bruce Howard (2nd ed.) (1980) [donated by Andrew Turner]

Australia: History and horizons / Roderick Cameron (1971) [donated by Andrew Turner] Every Australian Bird Illustrated / Peter Wade, editor (1975) [donated by Andrew Turner] Great Australian Flood Stories / Ian Mannix (2012) [donation] Mining Towns: Making a living, making a life / Erik Eklund (2012) [donation] A Passion For Exploring New Countries: Matthew Flinders and George Bass / Josephine Bastian (2016) Lu Xun and Australia / edited by Mabel Lee, Chiu-Yee Cheung & Sue Wiles (2016) Going Native: The passions of Philip Jacks / Rohan Price (2016) A Nation in the Making: Australia at the dawn of the modern era [pictorial] / Alasdair McGregor (2011)

[donated by Laurie Burchell] Australia's Censorship Crisis / edited by Geoffrey Dutton & Max Harris: contributors: Anthony Blackshield

... [et al.] (1970) [donated by Laurie Burchell] The Book of the Bush: Containing many truthful sketches of the early colonial life of squatters, whalers,

convicts, diggers, and others who left their native land and never returned / by George Dunderdale: illustrated by J. Macfarlane (1973) [donated by Laurie Burchell] The Australian [first edition of The Australian newspaper] (1964) [donated by David Harmer] Old Timers: Stories about the good old days / David Darcy (2015) Notable Australians: The pictorial who's who: First edition (1978) [donated by anon]

Periodicals

Australian National Dictionary Centre: Oz Words P 427 DIC Vol. 26 No.1 APRIL 2017: Barry Humphries: Satirist of suburbia / Tim Bowden p1. Mailbag [bush week, what's a brick weigh? Ten pounds! Metallic books and pencils, dicko says, zie and hir] p4. From the centre [launch of Australian National Dictionary, ANU media award, word of the year 2016: Democracy sausage (runners up: Ausexit, census fail, deplorables, shoey, brexit] p5. The nabes of New Idea / Catherine Horne p6. The claret ash: A dinky-di exotic / Bernadette Hince p7.

Australian National Placenames Survey: Placenames Australia P 910.3 PLA JUNE 2017: Jervis Bay-what Lt James Cook really named / Trevor Lipscombe p1. Toponymy 101 [linguistic process of name formation] / Jan Trent p5. Drop bears and kangaroo tails [Australian hoaxes] p6. Early names of Australia's coastal regions [Terre Naploeon, Terre de Baudin, Terre de Flinders, Terre de Freycinet, New South Wales, Terre de Grent/Grant/Grants Land, Australia Felix, Dampier's Land, Tasmans Land, Dinnings Land, Ulimaroa and Notasia] / Jan Trent p7.

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Cinema and Theatre Historical Society: Cinema record P 792 CIN No. 94 2017: Newsreal [Mildura: Deakin cinema. Preston: Preston Progress Hall. Collingwood: Austral, Rivoli Camberwell, Rivoli East Hawthorn. Footscray: La Scala. Melbourne: Forum Theatre. Daylesford: Rex Cinema. Balwyn: Palace Cinema Balwyn] p4. Hoyts and mid city cinemas, Melbourne / Cameron Hall p6. The Amusu Theatre, Manildra NSW / Richard Twentyman p12. The cinemas of Moruya, NSW / Gerry Kennedy p14. The Piccadilly North Adelaide / John Thiele p16. The picture theatre orchestra: A Tasmanian perspective / Phil Corby p24. The Royal Prince Alfred Hall, Ballarat / Earl Martell p27. A look at the process of super technirama 70 / Earl Martell p28. Crossroads Drive-In Theatre, Mildura / Gerry Kennedy p30. Cinema promotion 1940 style / Royce Harris p32. Paramount pictures and the auditorium: A short lived romance / Bernie Halperin p36.

Journal of Australasian Mining History P 622 JOU Vol. 10 OCTOBER 2012: Gilles v. the Glen Osmond Union Mining Company: Anatomy of a lease dispute / Ross A. Both p1. The open cut era (late 1940s-mid 1960s) in the western coalfield of New South Wales: Including some autobiographical memories / David Branagan p12. Reviled in the record: Thomas Logan and the origins of the Cromwell Quartz Mining Company, Bendigo, Otago / Lloyd Carpenter p26. The Buchan Proprietory Company: A Victorian mining swindle / Jim Enever p42. An island within an island: The maritime/riverine culture of Tasmania's Pieman River goldfield 1877-1885 / Nic Haygarth p55. Mine fumings and miners' ill health, 1880s-1910s: The hazards of nitroglycerine fumes / Lenore Layman p72. Early developments in treating pyritic and refractory gold in Australia / Ken McQueen p88. Disaster at the Hoskins' Ironside quarry, Cadia, Orange 1921 / Clive Beauchamp p103. The BHP lock-out of 1909: The view from three generations of Broken Hill miners / Bill O'Neil p129. Anchor tin mine, Tasmania: A century of struggle for prosperity / Keith Preston p140.

Journal of Australasian Mining History P 622 JOU Vol. 11 OCTOBER 2013: Company and Labour loyalties in a central Queensland gold mining town, 1882 to 1992 / Erik Eklund p24. A difficult challenge: Processing complex ore at Bethanga / Jim Enever p43. The establishment of iron ore giants: Hammersley Iron and the Mount Newman Company, 19611969 / David Lee p61. When is a store not a store? When it is a smelting house / Jason Shute p78. Disaster at the ("Welsh Mine") Stanford Merthyr Colliery, Kurri Kurri, NSW, 1905 / Clive Beauchamp p98. Gold streaming: The application of volumetric production payments in financing gold mine development in Australia / Brian Hill p110. Hydraulic sluicing on the Gladstone tinfield, Tasmania / Keith Preston p121.

Journal of Australasian Mining History P 622 JOU Vol. 12 OCTOBER 2014: The life and times of Edward Bovill Chandler: In search of El Dorado / Robert Ashley p1. Bitumen paper pipes and technology transfer on the Victorian goldfield / Peter Davies and Susan Lawrence p45. Aboriginal prospectors and miners of tropical Queensland from pre-contact times to ca.1950 / Galiina (Kal) Ellwood p59. Evolution of underground coal mining explosion law in Australia, 1887-2007 / Apurna Kumar Ghosh and Sentai Wang p81. Peter Ferguson and his New Era / Philip Hart p98. Early history of graphite mining in South Australia / Brian R. Hill p113. The development of bauxite at Gove, 1955-1975 / David Lee p131. Gold in the `Mundic': The saga of Dargue's Reef, Majors Creek, NSW / Ken McQueen p148. Codifying coexistence: Land access frameworks for Queensland mining and agriculture in 1982 and 2010 / David J. Turton p171. Disaster at the Australian Agricultural Company's mine, Hamilton, NSW, 1889 / Clive Beauchamp p193. William Bibby: Gold miner, engineer and pioneer - his life in Australia from 1859 to 1888 / Victor Bibby p205. Golconda goldfield, Tasmania: A source of wealth or despair / Keith Preston p217.

Journal of Australasian Mining History P 622 JOU Vol. 13 OCTOBER 2015: Discovering gold in the north: The evidence changes / Peter Bell p11. `Jon and Jackey': An exploration of Aboriginal and Chinese people's associations on the Victorian goldfields / Fred Cahir and Ian Clark p23. `The rush that ended': The quest for rubies in Central Australia / Jim Enever p42. The Wolfram Mine at Wilks Creek, Victoria / Peter S. Evans p62. `The Broken Hill of Tasmania': The rise and fall of the 13-mile silver-lead field, western Tasmania / Nic Haygarth p102.

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Robert Menzies: Miners and the metals market crash of 1930 / Sybil Nolan p111. Songs from the Australian goldfields, part 1: Gold mania / Ross A. Both and Warren Fahey p144. Don Johnson's Charters Towers mining history: The importance of historical data / Jim Morrison and Ian Hodkinson p160. The Magnet Mine 1894-1940: `careful management - constant production' / Keith Preston p176. The genesis of heavy haul freight railroads in the Pilbara / William Walker p198. Journal of Australasian Mining History P 622 JOU Vol. 14 OCTOBER 2016: Women on the Woods Point goldfield: A case study in microhistory / Louise Blake p1. The River Loddon & Tributaries Water Supply Company / Peter Davies, Susan Lawrence, Jodi Turnbull p21. Hall, Hooper, Hoover and the Sons of Gwalia / Wlwyn Evans p37. The `Tin Man': George Renison Bell, Tasmanian mineral prospector / Nic Haygarth p61. `Tackaringa': First step to Broken Hill / Ken McQueen p77. Too much haste, not enough prospecting: Mt Garnet Mine and Smelters, North Queensland / Jan Wegner p99. Lead poisoning and disease at Broken Hill / Clive Beauchamp p116. Songs from the Australian goldfields, part 2: Life on the goldfields / Ross A. Both and Warren Fahey p128. Tailings disposal at the Arba Mine: A legislative nightmare / Keith Preson p150. Herbert Hoover: From Australia to Burma / David Rogers p170.

Victoria

Books

The Plenty Bushrangers of 1842: The first Europeans hanged in Victoria / Lindsay Mann (1996) [donated by Charles Lewis]

Rediscovering Victoria's Goldfields / John Bechervaise (1980) [donated by Charles Lewis] The Doggies Almanac 2016 / edited by John Harms & Mandy Johnson (2016) School Days: Looking back on education in Victoria / edited by Brian McKinlay (1985) [donated by

Charles Lewis] A History of the Port Phillip District: Victoria before separation / A. G. L. Shaw (1996) [donated by Charles

Lewis] Men & Women of Port Phillip / Martin Sullivan (1985) [donated by Charles Lewis] Historical Records of Victoria: Volume 8: Cumulative indexes (2002) Foothills to Foreshore: A field guide to selected indigenous plants of Southern Victoria suitable for

cultivation / Kathie and Peter Strickland (2003) [donated by Penny Woodward] A Journey of Hope and Resilience: Safeguarding children for 120 years [Children's Protection Society] /

Lucy Bracey and Fiona Poulton (2016) [donated by Children's Protection Society] The Mill: Experiments in theatre and community / Meredith Rogers (2016)

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State Housing: The work of the Housing Commission, Victoria (1965) [donated by Laurie Burchell]

Schools of the 70's / Public Works Department, Victoria 1977? [donated by Laurie Burchell]

Ararat Shire of Ararat: Its settlement and development 1864-1964 / Lorna L. Banfield (1964) [donated by Charles Lewis]

Benalla Benalla Migrant Camp: A difficult heritage / Bruce Pennay (2015) Bendigo Bendigo's talking trams, present, past and future ... / by Jan-Werner

Hente (1973) [donated by Laurie Burchell] Berwick Berwick: Some aspects / by John C. Wells (1980) [donated by Pam

Baragwanath] Betley The Stevens Family of Elm Grove and Forest View Betley-Victoria: From the goldfields to the new

millennium / Brenda Stevens-Chambers (2015) Brunswick A Visit to Christ Church Brunswick / Lance Taylor (1986) [donated by Laurie Burchell] Camberwell Camberwell Sketchbook / Brian Carroll and Bill Beasley (1978) [donated by Charles Lewis] Carlton Carlton & Parkville Sketchbook / drawings by Bill Beasley, text by Brian McKinlay (1976)

[donated by Charles Lewis] Carlton Carlton / Les Gray (1973) [donated by Oakleigh and District Historical Society] Carlton The Planning and Development of the University of Melbourne: An historical outline / George

Tibbits (2000) [donated by Laurie Burchell] Castlemaine As If It Were Yesterday: Significant experiences of 33 members of U3A Castlemaine Inc. /

edited by Narelle Stocks (2007) [donated by Penny Woodward] Central Goldfields Former Maryborough Knitting Mills Site, Corner Tuaggra and Burke streets,

Maryborough. Heritage study [electronic resource] (2007) Clunes Buckets to Pagers: Clunes Fire Brigade 150 years of service / Robert Campbell (2014) Coburg Newlands 1970: Newlands High School year book (1970) [donated by Laurie Burchell] Fawkner Will Will Rook: Magazine of Fawkner High School [1959, 1960, 1961, 1962] [donated by

Laurie Burchell] Fawkner Fawkner High School: 25th anniversary 1956-1981 [donated by Laurie Burchell] Geelong Aberdeen Street (Newtown) Heritage Area: Planning scheme [electronic resource] Geelong Eyre Heritage Area: Planning scheme [electronic resource] Geelong Hermitage Heritage Area. Planning scheme [electronic resource] Geelong Shannon Avenue Heritage Area. Planning scheme [electronic resource] Geelong Clarkes Hill Heritage Area. Planning scheme [electronic resource] Geelong Mercer's Hill Heritage Area. Planning scheme [electronic resource] Geelong Cairns Avenue Heritage Area. Planning scheme [electronic resource] Geelong Fairview Avenue Heritage area. Planning scheme [electronic resource] Geelong Armstrong Creek West Precinct. Cultural heritage assessment. 2009 [electronic resource] (2009) Geelong Lara Lakes, Lara. Heritage due diligence study. 2011 [electronic resource] (2011) Geelong City of Greater Geelong. Outer areas heritage study. Stage 2. The report. 1998-2000 [electronic

resource] 1998-2000 Geelong Lara Heritage Review. Phase 2. The Report. Volume 1. 2013 [electronic resource] (2013)

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Geelong Lara Heritage Review. Phase 2. Heritage citations. Volume 3. 2013 [electronic resource] (2013) Geelong Aboriginal Heritage Advice for Proposed Multi-Lot Subdivision of 40-42 Newcombe Street and

41-47 Elgin Street, Drysdale.2015 [electronic resource] (2015) Geelong Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Due Diligence 38-42 Mainsail Drive, St Leonards. 2015 [electronic

resource] (2015) Heytesbury Shire Heytesbury: Once in a lifetime / Hec Fisher (1997) [donation] Kew Ruyton Remembers 1878-1878 / Marjorie R. Theobald. First edition. Signed by author. (1978)

[donated by Charles Lewis] Kew A History of Kew / Dorothy Rogers (1973) [donated by Charles Lewis] Lakes Entrance Lakes Entrance- A short history / revised edition (original edition edited by D.W. Morrissey

and E.W. Morrissey) (1980) [donated by Pam Baragwanath] Melbourne Historic Melbourne Sketchbook / drawings by Unk White et al and text by W. H. Newnham

et al. (1977) [donated by Charles Lewis] Melbourne The Streets of Melbourne From Early Photographs / Joe Murray and Peter McIntosh (1988)

[donated by Charles Lewis] Melbourne Melbourne Our City: Do you know it? A guide to some interesting places to view / edited by

Harold H. Paynting and Malcolm Grant (1984) [donated by Charles Lewis] Melbourne Melbourne: An illustrated history / Brian Carroll (1972) [donated by Charles Lewis] Melbourne Westography: Images of a vanishing suburbia / Warren Kirk (2016) Melbourne Morgan's Official Street Directory: Melbourne and suburbs (39th ed.) [donated by Laurie

Burchell] Merrijig About Merrijig: A historical record since European settlement / Adele McCormack (2004)

[donated by Oakleigh and District Historical Society] Mildura Mildura Calling / Alice Lapthorne. 2nd ed. (1965) [donated by Charles Lewis] Mildura Mildura High School: A scholars' history of interest to ex-students and the general public of

Mildura and district, 1912-1943 [donated by Laurie Burchell] Mirboo North Mirboo North Reflections: Back to Mirboo North - Easter 1973 / Back to Mirboo North

Committee (1973) [donated by Charles Lewis] Modella Modella: A brief history / compiled by Graham Utber (1968) [donated by Pam Baragwanath] Moorabbin A Shire Preceded Three Cities: Moorabbin, Sandringham, Mordialloc / Tom Sheehy (1965)

[donated by Pam Baragwanath] Mount Alexander Heritage Study of the Shire of Newstead Stage 2. Section 1: Report. [electronic

resource] (2004)

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Mount Alexander Heritage Study of the Shire of Newstead Stage 2. Section 2: Environmental history. [electronic resource] (2004)

Mount Alexander Heritage Study of the Shire of Newstead Stage 2. Section 3 Heritage citations. Volume I. Campbells Creek. 2004. Rev.2012 [electronic resource] (2012)

Mount Alexander Heritage Study of the Shire of Newstead Stage 2. Section 3 heritage citations. Volume II. Campbelltown to Muckleford South. 2004. Rev 2012. [electronic resource] (2012)

Mount Alexander Heritage Study of the Shire of Newstead Stage 2. Section 3 Heritage citations. Volume III. Newstead. 2004. Rev 2012. [electronic resource] (2012)

Mount Alexander Heritage Study of the Shire of Newstead Stage 2. Section 3 heritage citations. Volume IV. Sandon to Yapeen 2004. Rev 2012. [electronic resource] (2012)

Mount Alexander Review of the Shire of Newstead Heritage Study Precincts and Specific Individual Places. 2011. [electronic resource] (2011)

Mount Alexander 5 Maps For Proposed Heritage Precincts in Mount Alexander Shire. [electronic resour ce]

Nhill Land of the Lowan: 100 years in Nhill and West Wimmera / by Les Blake (1976) [donation]

Parkville Life After Dawkins: The Univeristy of Melbourne in the Unified National System of Higher Education 1988-96 / Stuart Macintype et al (2016)

Port Fairy Port Fairy: Pioneer whaling station / Jan Neil (1975) [donated by Charles Lewis]

St Albans Alba / St. Albans High School [1961 and 1962 editions] [donated by Laurie Burchell]

St James St James 1871-1977: Lake Rowan, Yundool, Waggarandall, Almonds (1977) [donated by Charles Lewis]

Sunshine Eureka 1972 / Sunshine High School (1972) [donated by Laurie Burchell]

Tyntynder Tyntynder: A pioneering homestead and its families / Alice M. Cerutty (1977) [donated by Charles Lewis]

Warrandyte Two Become One: A history of the Rotary Club of Warrandyte Donvale Inc. 1980-2015 / Rotary Club Club of Warrandyte Donvale Inc. (2015) [donated by The Rotary Club of Warrandyte Donvale Inc.]

Warrnambool Warnambool Past and Present / Edward A. Vidler [CD] (1907) [donated by Oakleigh and District Historical Society]

Warrnambool Warrnambool: Past and present: Sixty years of progress [facsimile edition] / Edward A. Vidler (1907) [donated by Charles Lewis]

Warrnambool Historical Warrnambool / presented by John A. Wilkins (1970s?) [donated by Laurie Burche ll]

Warrnambool A History of the Warrnambool and District Base Hospital / Gordon Forth and Peter Yule (2011)

Wodonga Wodonga Across Three Centuries / Howard Jones (2016)

Yarra, City of Review of heritage overlays 2007: Updated March 2013 [electronic resource] (2013)

Yarra, City of Introduction to City of Yarra heritage overlays 2007.[electronic resource] (2007)

Yarra, City of Introduction to City of Yarra heritage overlays 2007 part 2. [electronic resource] (2007)

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Periodicals

Mechanics' Institutes of Victoria: Useful knowledge P 374 MIV No. 43 AUTUMN 2017: Putting mechanics' institutes in the frame [Damian Callanan sketching mechanics' institutes, Fryerstown Burke and Wills Mechanics' Institute] p1. MIV delegation meets with minister's staff [Natalie Hutchins, Minister for Local Government, met delagate from MIV and some MI's] p5. Farewell to the Emerald Mechanics' Institute p6. MIV bus tour: Berwick to Briagolong5 March 2017 [visited: Trafalgar Public Hall, Tyers Public Hall, Glengarry Mechanics' Institute, Toongabbie Mechanics' Institute, Cowarr Public Hall, Heyfield Mechanics' Institute, Tinamba, Maffra, Boisdale Mechanics' Institute, Briagolong Mechanics' Institute, Stratford Mechanics' Institute, Fulham Hotel, Kilmany Hall, Rosedale Mechanics' Institute and Library and Scientific Association, Flynn Mechanics' Institute] p8. MIV's historical plaques program: Plaque No.56 unveiled at Ararat [Ararat Mechanics' Institute] p12. Business in the mechanics' [Newlyn antiques and cottage garden nursery formerly Newlyn Mechanics' Institute, Healesville Mechanics' Institute now The Old Mechanics' b&b, Nurmurkah Mechanics' Institute now Numurkah Department Store, Warragul Athenaeum and Public Library now Gippsland Phones. Woodend Mechanics' Institute and Free Library now Grand Antiques House and Garden, Wunghnu Mechanics' Institute and Free Library now InnStitute Tavern] p14. Freethought halls in Australia and New Zealand / Nigel Sinnott p16. A vintage year-20152016 [MIV achievements in 2015/16] p18. State Library user organisations council [Peter Pereyra delegate] p18. Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum-site visit p19. Around Victoria's institutes [Alexandra Mechanics' Institutes and Free Library, Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute, Bright Mechanics' Institute and Free Library, Goorambat Mechanics' Institute, Kyambram Mechanics' Institute, Lardner Mechanics' Institute, Lilydale Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute, Little River Mechanics' Institute Free Library, Melbourne Athenaeum Library, Moonambel Mechanics' Institute, Newham Mechanics' Institute, Prahran Mechanics' Institute, Romsey Mechanics' Institute, Talbot Mechanics' Institute] p20. The wonderful world of Mechanics' Institutes [Australia: New South Wales: Gerringong School of Arts, Narooma School of Arts, Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts. Queensland: Booie Farmers' Hall, Yangan School of Arts. South Australia: Coonnalpyn Institute. Tasmania: Avoca War Memorial Hall, Friends of the Launceston Mechanics' Institute. Western Australia: Hamel Agricultural Hall] p24. Internation cooperative research project on mechanics' institutes p28. Update on Southhem project p28. History of the hall in Australia p29. Future mechanics' institute conferences [Mechanics' Institutes Australia-2018, MW 2021 Edinburgh] p29. Where they stood: Broadford Mechanics' Institute p30. Curtain Call: Birregurra Mechanics' Institute p31. Ex-libris: From the shelves of a mechanics' library [ The Story of a Sail by Raymond Edward Parkin from the Emerald Mechanics' Institute] p32. The history page [music at Booie Hall] p33. Our people [Philip McKenzie Roberts, Dr Timothy James Smith, Connie A Weinzapfel, Leslie Townsend, Sue Bateson, Janelle Pritchett, Allan Parker, Liz Lumsdon, Leonie Dunbar, Tom Thorburn] p36. Vale [Bruce Henry Turner, Gordon Leon Muir, Susan Margaret Bromilow, Dr Carlotta Kellaway, Leslie William Pardy] p37.

Balnarring Balnarring Historical Society: Snippets from our collection P 994.52 BALN SNI MAY 2017: The Hestor Family at Balnarring Beach / Ian Hestor p1. Scissors N. Curls hairdressing salon / Debbie Dunbabin p2. Legacy camps at Somers (Argus Saturday 4 Janurary 1930) p4. Kindilan at Palmers Hill p5. That other family named Buckley / Eleanor Castle p7.

Benalla Benalla Family History Group: Roses and thorns P 994.55 BENA ROS MARCH 2017: Elizabeth Hayward-1st fleet convict p4. Aaron Crawford 1821-1855 and Mary Ross 1819-1899 p6. Catherine Elizabeth Woods 1865-1944 p7.

Bendigo Bendigo branch of the Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies: Bendigo genealogist P 994.54 BEND GEN No.119 JUNE 2017: Last tram to Bendigo from Eaglehawk p1. Research [Charles Mundelein married Theresa Deehan they had two children Frederick Mundelein and Theresa Mary Angus, John Hooper married Ann Coad, Mary Kenneally married Charles Partek] / David Cotton p2. Bendigo Railway loco works p2. Children in Bendigo Benevolent Asylum Industrial School p5.

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