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Reference to the index of the correspondence, news cuttings and Gazette notices and Parliamentary Papers relating to the Launceston & Western Railway
Get PDFLaunceston & Western Railway 1856-1868 - volume of official printed Gazette notices and Parliamentary Papers relating to the Launceston & Western Railway. At back 15 pages of ms. notes on control of railway contracts and payments.
Main Line Railway 1873 -1874 - Parliamentary Papers together with correspondence (ms copies) and news cuttings. Front of volume consists of Statistical Returns of Tasmania 1873
Reference to the index of the miscellaneous papers relating mainly to the family of Joseph Benson Mather, deposited by his grand-daughter Miss Robey.
Get PDFMiscellaneous papers, (including scrapbooks, pamphlets and photographs), relating mainly to the family of Joseph Benson Mather, deposited by his grand-daughter Miss Robey. Joseph Benson Mather was the eldest son of Robert Mather (1782-1855) and Ann (d.1831) daughter of Rev. Joseph Benson. Robert Mather arrived in VDL in 1822 and set up in business at the corner of Elizabeth & Liverpool Sts in Hobart, and became a trustee of the Wesleyan Church. He received a grant of land at Lauderdale but his farm was unsuccessful and he went into business with his two elder sons, Joseph Benson (1814-1890) and Robert Andrew (1815-1884). In 1834 he and some of his family joined the Society of Friends, and his daughter Sarah Benson married the Quaker missionary George Washington Walker (1800-1859) in 1840. Joseph Benson married Anna Maria Cotton and had a son, (Joseph) Francis (d. 1925) and three daughters, one of whom married C H Robey. Robert Mather's second wife, whom he married in 1842, was Esther Dixon
Reference to the index of Magna Carta 1215.
Get PDFFacsimile of the 'Magna Carta' of King John, from the original manuscript in the British Museum, Cotton MS. Augustus II 106, with transcription and translation
Reference to the index of miscellaneous papers concerning Governor's memoranda (1886) and miscellaneous photographs.
Get PDFCirculars, signed by J.W. Agnew (cost of shipping),
C. Gellebrand (constitution and electoral acts), George C. Strahan (printed) (Governor's leave of absence).
Envelope addressed to walter Harrison containing:
photograph of Natural History Museum, London; photograph of
Sir william Crowther standing next to a memorial, Highfield,
Circular Head (1967); colour photograph of portrait (? Mrs Crowther).
- Private Deposit X.
Reference to the index of the Tasmanian Biological Survey, 1937 - 1983 and the Biological Club 1937 - 1959
Get PDFIn the 1920's and 1930's scientists studying animals began to realise that little
attention was being paid to how animals lived and how they reacted to their
environment and each other. Thus a worldwide interest in their general
ecology began.
In 1936 a Biological Survey of Australia was recommended with all states being represented.
The Tasmanian representative, Dr Joseph Pearson, director of the Tasmanian Museum, sought the help of the Biological Club and in May 1937, the Tasmanian Biological Survey was born. A committee was established consisting of Pearson (chair); Prof. V V Hickman (University -Spiders); Dr D Martin (CSIRO -Botany); J W Evans (Dept. of Agriculture -Entomology); D Colbrum Pearson (Museum -as secretary).
Later others joined: Dr H Gordon (University -Botany); Prof. H N Barber (University -Botany); Mr L Miller (Dept. of Agriculture -Entomology) & Dr E Guiler (University -Mammals). Includes Minutes of the Executive Committee 18 June 1937 -August 6 1953, correspondence and collectors of specimens. Includes list of members of the Biological Club and minutes of the informal meetings held a the members houses 1937 - 1959
Marcus Tatton (Art Forum)
Get PDFMarcus Tatton trained at Dunedin Polytech 1985, 86 before completing a bachelor of Art in Furniture Design at University of Tasmania from 1987 through 1989.
Since then he has based his practice in Tasmania working full time in high craft, public art and sculpture. Marcus has exhibited consistently in several National Australian Sculpture Awards over the last 7 years, such as The Helen Lempriere Sculpture Award and Sculpture by the Sea. He will show images of some unusual creative processes that get him to these outdoor public exhibitions and provide some insights into how these national events are staged.
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Judy Watson (Art Forum)
Get PDFJudy Watson is an artist whose Indigenous matrilineal family is from North West Queensland. She co-represented Australia in the 1997 Venice Biennale. In 2006 she won the Clemenger Contemporary Art Award held at the National Gallery of Victoria and the NATSIA works on paper award at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. Watson’s work is included in major Australian and International collections. Her public art commissions include - wurreka, a fifty metre etched zinc wall for the Melbourne Museum; walama forecourt, a sculptural installation of woven steel screens and upturned bronze dilly bags at Sydney International Airport; ngarrn-gi Land/Law, a fifty metre etched zinc wall at the Victorian County Court, Melbourne. Her work, heart/land/river 2004, is in the foyer of the Brisbane Magistrates Court and her piece fire and water is in Reconciliation Place, Canberra. She was one of eight Australian Aboriginal artists commissioned to make work for the Musee du Quai Branly in Paris.
Judy Watson's work was included in the National Indigenous Art Triennial 07 Culture Warriors exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia. In 2009 Culture Warriors travelled to the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC, USA. Judy Watson is Adjunct Professor at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane.
Judy Watson will discuss her work including her recent prints and installations inspired by a residency on Heron Island, Qld and a workshop at Baniyala, Blue Mud Bay, Arnhemland, NT
Reference to index of photographs of Bougainville Island 1945, diaries letters and notes
Get PDFI was a medical officer at RNZAF Station Torokina, Bougainville from 17 June 45 until 15 November 45.
At this stage the RNZAF in Bougainville comprised four squadrons of single seater Chance-Vought F4U-l Corsair aircraft with their servicing units. These aircraft supplied the air cover and ground attack air force for the Australian Army 2 Corps in the Bougainville campaign. In addition there were various attached RNZAF aircraft such as Lockheed Ventura PV-l reconnaissance bombers operating as photographic reconnaissance aircraft; Lockheed Hudsons operating as communication aircraft and Douglas Dakota C47 transport aircraft. All these aircraft operated from Piva North airstrip. In addition the RNZAF headquarters for all Pacific Islands Operations -Command of the New Zealand Air Task Force COMZEAIRTAF was at Torokina and the RNZAF personnel numbered more than two thousand on Bougainville.
The only RAAF at Bougainville was a small army cooperation and communications unit.
There were five RNZAF medical officers at Torokina -one Senior Medical Officer at COMZEAIRTAF headquarters and four of us responsible for the medical care of the personnel of the operational flying Station.
We shared responsibility for sick parades, for care of personnel admitted to our small Station Sick Quarters hospital for airstrip emergency duty and the supervision of hygiene and sanitation. Personnel requiring major surgery or intensive medical care were transferred temporarily to the Australian Army Hospital at Torokina. We were each given
responsibility for the specific medical care of the aircrew of one of the fighter squadrons and in the last few weeks before VJ day I was looking after 23 Squadron. On a previous tour of duty, this squadron had used a code whereby the squadron commander called "Spook one”, the flight commanders called "Spook two" and "Spook three" and the other pilots called "Spook four, five etc." when talking on their radio telephones. This code had effectively confused the Japanese radio operators who did not understand what a spook was and had been unable to understand or to give false instructions. The squadron had come to be known as the "Ghost" squadron". The squadron song was written by one of the pilots and was a parody of a hit in a war time American film.
I was on airstrip standby duty the day of what has since been referred to in the Australian press as the "Blamey affair" when an Australian army infantry unit supported merely by the H.M.A.S. Diamantina attempted a landing on a beach held by the Japanese. This operation was planned to occur at the time of a visit to Bougainville by the Australian G.O.C. General Blarney and was to be an entirely Australian affair so no air attacks by the RNZAF were asked for -until about mid-day when the landing parties had been severely mauled and quite a number of Australian soldiers killed and wounded. I was on the airstrip when the request for assistance came and within a very short time 36 fully armed and bombed up Corsairs -each with one or two 1000 lb bombs were roaring into the air. Their attack on the Japanese enabled the Australian infantry to withdraw. I well remember meeting my own squadron commander when he returned after that massive air strike. He was furious "If only those stupid Aussies had asked us this morning we could have flattened the place before they tried to land -not after!
The day after the Japanese surrender I went in an RAAF Aircraft
(Bristol Beaufort) dropping leaflets calling on them to lay down their
arms. The copies were made from some leaflets picked up by Australian
soldiers.
As medical officers we regularly attended clinical rounds at the
Australian Army General Hospital and I also visited frequently the
ANGAU hospital which cared for the locals -numbers of whom were
continually coming in from Japanese held areas and who were often very
sick and usually severely malnourished. It was this contact with
Angau which enabled me to arrange the successful trip to climb Balbi
after the Japanese surrender.
I was the last RNZAF medical officer at Bougainville and closed
the Medical Section and Station Sick Quarters. All our medical
supplies were given to ANGAU and the Senior MO of ANGAU Major Dudley
Williams AAMC undertook to hand these over to the Methodist Mission
which was expected to return to Bougainville not very long after. This is acknowledged in Rev. Voyce's subsequent letter.
The photographs used in making the slides were either official
RNZAF or RAAF photos which I was able to obtain. The others taken
from the air were taken by one of the aircrew of an RNZAF Hudson
(NZ 22031) during a test flight after servicing in which the captain
F/L Winefield kindly took me in a reconnaissance flight to both
Mt. Bagana and Mt. Balbi. One photo shows the captain and myself
discussing the route with the navigator and one of the servicing team. Captain
J. Heyward, NZDC was a Dental Officer at RNZAF Station, Bougainville. He died of poliomyelitis in N.Z. during the post war epidemic. Major H.A. Johnson, Australian Army Survey Corps was a member of staff at 2 Corps HO. He is now retired, living in Melbourne.
The police boys who came with us on the Balbi trip were kindly provided as an escort for us by ANGAU. Their uniform was a khaki lap-lap with leather belt and brass buckle inscribed "Gott Mit Uns" a remnant of booty captured in German New Guinea in 1914-18
Reference to index of "A home in the colonies"
Get PDFBraddon's "A home in the colonies" May -Oct. 1878
- Published serially in The Statesman & Friend of India in the form of 30 letters from Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon
(1829-1904) describing Tasmania. Braddon's letters to India from North West Tasmania 1878
- Private Deposit B.