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APRIL
2002 NEWSLETTER
ANNUAL
MEETING
Our
Annual Meeting took place on Monday night, 15th April in the
courthouse. Many members as well as visitors from Castlemaine Historical Society
were present to hear the reports, elect office bearers and to listen to the
guest speaker Daryl McLeish. Alan Burgess in his President’s report spoke of
Maintenance. White treatment has been carried out, the glass case moved to the
magistrate’s bench, the sandstone footings have been repaired, the tap
replaced on the tank and an overflow installed, a display cabinet turned into a
cupboard for the microfilms and awnings for the barbeque area at Rotunda Park on
Market Days made. A meeting with Mandy Jean, Heritage Officer for the council,
Bryce Collie the landscaper, and members of the society was a very valuable
exercise in making sure our efforts are heading in the right direction.
Equipment. A major purchase was the second hand microfilm reader-printer which
has enabled an extra person to be involved in indexing the Newstead Echo
microfilms that arrived, as well as printing copies of Echo articles, an extra
filing cabinet was obtained and 6 office chairs procured with money from the
Grant for Volunteers. A grant for the restoration of the Thornhill Reef roasting
kilns was received and has been completed and the Landscaping was finally done
not without some interference by the weather! Other projects for the year were
the updating of a permanent minute book, the copying of more brochures for the
Heritage Walks, the putting together of a booklet on the Newstead Cemetery as
well as continuing work on indexing of family history files, cataloguing of
photos, putting onto computer the data supplied by Margaret Di Fiore of
newspaper articles and pasting into files hard copies of these. Extra curricular
activities included The Family History Expo at Ballarat, Newstead on Show Day,
Summer School in Melbourne run by RHSV, hosting the CHHA meeting, 2 Market Days
and the donation of $100 to the refugees, displays on Transport and the Butter
Factory as well as our party in October to present Liz Cody with her Life
Membership. Excursions. We have had some great days on our excursions which
included a trip to the Melbourne Museum, a visit to the Newstead Cemetery, the
Harry Lauder Mine (twice!), Thornhill Reef and Frenchman’s Mine Young
Australia and nearby sites, Charlie’s Hope and the rifle range, Strangways
School and Pleasant Grove and to Rodborough.
Janet
Trudgeon, our treasurer presented the statement of our financial year, a copy of
which is attached. Our visitor from Castlemaine Historical Society, Jenny Taylor
then took the chair for the election of office bearers.
President
Alan Burgess 54762367
Vice
president
Peter Skilbeck 54762450
Secretary
Dawn Angliss 54762006
Treasurer
Janet Trudgeon 54762437
Public
Officer Derek Reid
54762274
Committee Dorothy Clark 54762220
John Neall 54762207
The
guest speaker was then introduced. Daryl McLeish, Carisbrook Historical Society,
has recently published a book, ”In The Beginning There Was Carisbrook”.
Daryl spoke of how he began by collecting photos of the area including a find of
early photos on glass plates that were rescued from the man who has picked them
up at the local tip to use as windows in his glass house! He has about 1200
photos and 600 are included in the book. The story of Carisbrook, its beginning
as the first town to be proclaimed after the separation of Victoria from New
South Wales and its history through the years since, are well captured in the
book and also spoken of by Daryl on the night. The proximity of the district to
ours ensured many questions from our members. Our Society has a book for loan.
EXCURSION
What
a great day we had at Rodborough! John Lawton had arranged the day, Ken Bucknall
was there to meet us and open up the Rodborough Church for us. Then we explored
the old cemetery on the headland overlooking Tullaroop Reservoir, the old
buildings and then moved to another area to see a bluestone barn and an
absolutely wonderful shepherd’s hut. The society has a book on the Bucknall
family describing their family history and precis of their background made the
day a moving experience. Next month John has arranged a trip to the adjourning
area of Charlotte Plains. We leave from the courthouse at 1.30 on May 6.
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Our
annual fees are now due and payable to our treasurer Janet Trudgeon. They are
unchanged - $15 for single membership, $25 family membership and $5 if the
newsletter is posted to you. Membership forms are included.
CALENDAR
Excursion
to Charlotte Plains May 6 leaving from the courthouse at 1.30pm. Meeting at the
courthouse May 20 1.30pm
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