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Road to Springs from my flat

Road to Springs from my flat

Black and white photograph of view of the road to the Springs at Mt Wellington from Olive Pinks flat in Ferntree, Hobart Tasmania

Olive Pink

Rhymes for Primary Schools

Acting Rhymes edited by Clive Sansom, London (A. & C. Black 1947): drafts, correspondence with publisher, book, reviews, revision; Rhythm Rhymes by Ruth Sansom, London (A. & C. Black, 1965): correspondence with publisher and with Argo about possible publication of recording (and of Activity Rhymes); Speech Rhymes edited by Clive Sansom (new edition 1974): correspondence 1972-1974; Counting Rhymes edited by Clive Sansom: draft, rejects, correspondence 1973-74; "Conversation Rhymes": rhymes collected for a possible collection (1970s?).

Clive Sansom

Return to Magic

Return to Magic c1969.
Poems of fairy tales:- correspondence and reviews 1966-1969.

Clive Sansom

Retirement 1968

Letters and statements in tribute to his work (1967-1970), including minutes of Federated Confectioners' Association of Australia Conference, Adelaide, 20-24 April 1970.

John Henry O'Neil

Retirement

File consistes of a letter enquiring his entitlement from Tasmanian Government Railways; letter from Henry Bland with thanks and congratulations for service and best wishes for retirement; Department of Labour and National Service. Staff 'Regional notes' including farewell to Ron Smith; folder of autographs of colleagues, photographs and newscuttings of farewell presentations and presentation from Hospital Board.

Ronald Campbell Smith

Resignation

Correspondence relating to John Henry O'Neil's resignation as secretary and delegate to State Executive owing to ill health and eye operation dated March-May 1958.

John Henry O'Neil

Research Notes

Research notes and draft of Meston's book. Copies of dispatches, minutes of the council and miscellaneous notes and correspondence of VDL. Notes on aboriginals including the incident when aboriginal women were killed at Emu Bay.

Archibald Lawrence Meston

Reprint : Piesse - "The foundation and early work of the Society"

Piesse, Edmund Leolin 1913 , 'The foundation and early work of the society; with some account of earlier institutions and societies in Tasmania' , Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania , pp. 117-174 . Read on 13th October, 1913, at a Meeting held in celebration of the Seventieth Anniversary of the Society. An account of the works of earlier Institutions and Societies, including the Van Diemen's Land Agricultural Society (1821), and the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1843-8.

Robert Mackenzie Johnston

Reprint

Journal article reprint entitled Two Tropical Volcanoes: the First Complete Ascents of Balbi and Bagana Bougainvillell , by Roland Rodda. Reprinted from N.Z. Alpine Journal vol.11, 1946, pp.118-125

Roland Arnold Rodda

Reports of bushrangers

Reports to Campbell Town Police Magistrate about bushrangers, including robbery at Henry Stieglitz place (1843); report
from the Police Magistrate at Fingal that his district Constable [?Ward] had been shot by bushrangers at Mr. Gilligan's near Avoca (1843)

Report from the Select Committee on the Native and Historical Objects and Areas Preservation Ordinance 1955 – 1960

Legislative Council for the Northern Territory. Report from the Select Committee on the Native and Historical Objects and Areas Preservation Ordinance 1955 –1960.Presented by Mr D. D. Smith, MLC on 10th August, 1965
Includes a handwritten letter from Olive Pink to Mr D D Smith who presented this report.

Olive Pink

Report and financial statement

Report and financial statement. December 1st, 1921, to June 30th, 1923. 31 pages. Printed in Melbourne by H.E. Pett & Co.
Fund started at instigation of the Quakers, and taken up by other churches and charities.
Margaret Thorp pages 4, 10, 19, 22; and Arthur Watts page 4.
After the Armistice, there were approximately twenty organisations - religious, social and philanthropic - taking part in relief work in Central Europe. The Australian Relief Fund for Stricken Europe was inaugurated in 1921 to coordinate funding efforts, after Australians (including Margaret Thorp of the Society of Friends) returned from relief work confirming stories of distress, disease and starvation rampant in Europe. On her return, Margaret Thorp lectured and organised committees throughout the Commonwealth

Margaret Sturge Watts

Remittance man

Remittance man

Framed caricature of an Englishman living at Hobart on his regular remittance from "Home" which he at once spent on alcohol etc.

Thomas Claude Wade Midwood

Reminiscences of William J. Johnstone

Copy of William J. Johnstone's reminiscences of the history of William Johnstone's business in Launceston from 1842 and the partnership with Stuart Eardley Wilmot, who had married Rosa c. Johnstone, founding the firm of Johnstone & Wilmot.

William Johnstone

Religion

"God is a spirit", "Duty of the Church" (1920), "Christianity and unemployment" (1933) (tyepscript)

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Registrar, James Henry Robert Cruickshank and his wife Mary

Registrar, James Henry Robert Cruickshank and his wife Mary

Black and white, 35mm slide of the University of Tasmania's Registrar, James Henry Robrert Cruickshank and his wife Mary.
Cruickshank was born on 24 May 1840 in Bombay, and he died on 26 January 1916 m Hobart. Cruickshank received his first commission in 1858, and served in the Bombay Presidency until he retired in 1885 when he immigrated to Tasmania, as one of the 'Non-Effective Officers . Cruickshank and his family arrived in Launceston on the Flinders on 15 May 1885.36 He was appointed Registrar of the University of Tasmania in succession to George Richardson on the 1 August 1892, and he held this post until his death on 26 January 1916. Cruickshank was given a land grant of 100 acres in the Parish of Wickham in the County of King Island on 13 June 1885 but he did not settle there. He had married Mary Emma Wright in 1865 in Bombay. Mary Emma was born on 24 May 1846 in Rochester Kent, and she died on 17 October 1940 at 'Burnside' Glenorchy Tasmania. The couple had nine children, the youngest of whom was Margaret Winifred Cruickshank. Margaret was born on 12 July 1888 in Hobart, and she died on 4 March 1980 in Hobart. She was married to Percy Hamilton Scott in 1922 in Hobart. Two years before her death Margaret was interviewed by John Roberts, as part of the University of Tasmania oral history recording program. Margaret told of her early life in the 1900s as the daughter of the Registrar of the new university. Her reminiscences are particularly valuable, as they provide a rare window into the early life of the university: interview available here https://sparc.utas.edu.au/index.php/interview-with-mrs-margaret-scott

Red Cross items

a) 1 metal filigree belt
b) 1 fabric red cross badge (shape of cross)
c) 2 Metal Red Cross badges –one with navy embroidered badge attached
d) 1 fabric Australian Red Cross Society VAD badge with metal VAD badge attached
e) 1 fabric VAD stripes and small striped ribbon bow
f) 2 white fabric epaulettes with metal numbers 15 (from the 15 Voluntary Aid Detachment)
g) Postcard ‘It’s our flag Fight for it Work for it’.
h) 1 New South Wales Division of the Australian Branch of the British Red Cross
i) Certificate of Membership for 1915 NSW branch (Miss Olive Pink)
j) 1 Voluntary Aid Detachment Darlinghurstmembership card (Miss Olive Pink) signed by Hon. Sec. Ethel A. Stephens

Above items contained in a Kodak photo envelope with annotations:-“Olive Pink’s VAD stripes etc 1st to register “15” Detachment. Miss Ethel Stevens then Mrs Marie Irvine Commandants. Vol. Aid from 1914 to after War –(about 1920)”

Olive Pink

Reconstruction and After the War

Articles and notes on "Reconstruction", including: municipal failures, federal and state government, individual and collectivism, after the war, Russia, loan for Europe, finance, etc., labour.

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Recipe book

Recipe book belonging to Mrs. M.M. Hayns before her death

Lawrence John Hayns

Receipted bills

Receipted bills for miscellaneous household goods, clothing, etc.

  1. 1825-1827
  2. 1828-1830
  3. 1831-1833
  4. 1834
  5. 1835
  6. 1836

Andrew Downie

Receipt book

Receipt book for hire of piano from Walch & Co. 1911 - 1917

William Edwin Fuller

Receipt

Receipt

Receipted account for 1 guinea paid to W.J. Ring for tuition of Master Ralph. Dated 1830

John Terry

Rapunzel

Opera for Children's Theatre, music by Don Kay: drafts.

Clive Sansom

Pussy Tails

Pussy Tails

Watercolour on card sketched by Olive Pink, (location unknown), 1960. Described by Olive Pink as " popular name Pussy Tails" (ugly?)

Olive Pink

Publication of "A lute with three strings"

Clive Sansom's correspondence with publishers and reviewers, accounts for fund for the publication - remainder of funds for a poetry prize - cheque book, copies of advertisements and reviews including review by Judith Wright, copy of poem "your heart has an irregular beat" written shortly before she died and printed with photographs in Australian Book Review March 1965. Also manuscript music "I am no nearer proving thee" - words by Helen Power, music by Richard Graves.

Clive Sansom

Public Works : bridges, roads, railways

Series of articles or letters to newspapers on "Public Works" relating to the New Norfolk Bridge (1874), roads and road trusts, Derwent Valley Railway and bridge (1883-6), railway extension (1889) (typescript, 20 p.)

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Public Examinations

Typescript draft with NS annotations, of consideration of reports of Board of Public Examination and Professional Board. c. 1943

Earnest Ewart Unwin

Psoralea patens

Psoralea patens

Watercolour on paper painted by Olive Pink at Edwards Creek, South Australia, 5/8/30. Notes on paper - "plants grow to about 4ft high". note on flower details "twice actual size or more" Identified by Olive Pink as Psoralea patens.

Olive Pink

Psoralea

Psoralea

Watercolour on card with pencil, painted by Olive Pink at Edwards Creek, South Australia 1930. Identified by Olive Pink as Psoralea

Olive Pink

Protection

One pamphlet entitled "Protection" dated 13 July 1921.
Speech by the Hon. John Earle reprinted from Parliamentary Debates.

John Earle

Prostanthera

Prostanthera

Identified as Prostanthera striatiflora . Watercolor on card sketched by Olive Pink near power station at Alice Springs on 7 June 1958
'has aromatic scent (leaves?) (very honeyed flower)

Olive Pink

Prostantera striataflora

Prostantera striataflora

Water colour on card sketched by Olive Pink, Alice Springs, 1958. Arid regions (of Australia) Native Flora Reserve, Alice Springs. Identified by Olive Pink as botanical name Prostantera striataflora one "popular" name was the silly one of mint bush.

Olive Pink

Promissory note

Thomas Risby's promise to pay £100 to John and Henry Morrisby and Grace Smith, at the age of 21, being the consideration for premises purchased from their father, James Morrisby. Dated 1823

Thomas Risby

Probate of Will of David Marshall

Probate of Will of David Marshall, died 16 September 1919 detailing that all real and personal estate be bequeathed to his son George Douglas Marshall of Flowerpot, Tasmania, farmer.

George Marshall

Printed stationery

Printed stationery

Two sheets of printed stationery –Home Hut (off) Native Flora Reserve Alice Springs Northern Territory

Olive Pink

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