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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

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)

Reports of Hobart Chamber of Commerce 1852-1869

Printed reports of directors of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce, including names of officers and members, bound with copies of reports of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce for the years 1854, 1855, 1858, 1859, 1860 & 1869. Also included are Rules and Constitution for the years 1851 & 1854. Printed copies, bound with Abstracts of Council relating to Port and Customs regulations and with Reports
• Half yearly report 1852
• Annual reports 1855-1864, 1869
• Reports for 1870-1909 missing

Hobart Chamber of Commerce

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

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

Reprint from the Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania for 1913 entitled 'The foundation and early work of the society; with some account of earlier institutions and societies in Tasmania' , by Edmund Leolin Piesse. 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, 1843-1848.

Robert Mackenzie Johnston

Research material on the Van Diemen's Land Co.

Research material on Van Diemen's Land Company including:
• Brochure advertising land for sale, ca.1920;
• Sydney Stock Exchange, Investment Service. [Report] on Emu Railway Co., 1938;
• Mining Services [Report] on Mount Lyell Mining &Railway Co., Nov. 1939;
• copies of letters from J. Norton Smith, V.D.L. Co. to James Smith re Mt. Bischoff Tin Mine, 1873-79;
• Transcripts from Bigge's Report, 1820;
• Baptist Magazine, 1832; "Authentic Information regarding Van Diemen's Land Company" by F. Boucher, 1859 (Ferguson no. 7296).

Archibald Lawrence Meston

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

Retirement

File consists of material relating to Smith’s retirement:
• 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 news cuttings of farewell presentations and presentation from Hospital Board.

Ronald Campbell Smith

Retirement

Letter (dated February 1895) of dismissal to office staff as reducing staff; letters (dated June 1895) to London agents, Staley & Radford and Gilbert McCaul announcing his intention to retire on 1 September 1895

Alexander McGregor

Retirement

File contains 4 items:
Occasional address to graduand assembly, April 1974 (4 drafts)
Cutting from University of Tasmania News, 22 November 1974 - George Wilson retires, by Tony Manley
Cutting from University of Tasmania News, 25 April 1975 - Wilson's Promontories
Letter from University of Tasmania Superannuation Board, 8 May 1978

George Thomas Jamieson Wilson

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

Return to Magic

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

Clive Sansom

Rev. Frederick A. Woods Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC W8
  • Collection
  • 1915-1944

Collection consists of poetry, notes and photographs relating to Rev. Frederick A. Woods and his family.

Frederick Alfred Woods

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

Richard Stickney Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC S9
  • Collection
  • 1832-1835

Collection consists of family and legal correspondence and transcripts of letters

Richard Stickney

Ringrove

Frederick S. Gray, Earlham, Orford. Wished to buy or rent "Ringrove" at present leased to Alexander Ferguson dated 15 March 1883

Francis Cotton

Risby Brothers Collection

Risby Brothers Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC R2
  • Collection
  • 1823-1910

Collection consists of personal diaries and photographs relating to Risby Brothers, sawmillers and timber merchants

Thomas Risby

River Tamar from Cataract Hill

River Tamar from Cataract Hill

Photograph of the River Tamar in Launceston from Cataract Hill. The photographers were Anson Brothers who had studios in Liverpool, Collins and Elizabeth Streets, Hobart, between 1878 and 1891.

Anson Brothers

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

Robert & Ann Mather Papers

Robert & Ann Mather Papers

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC M10
  • Collection
  • 1821-1835

Papers relating to the voyage out and settlement of Robert Mather and his wife, Ann (Benson). Many of the papers (Ml0/16-20) consist of extracts from letters from Ann Mather to her brother, Rev. Samuel Benson, and sisters Isabella Whytall and Sarah Benson (m. Hammond 1832), in UK and were probably given to their niece, Sarah Benson Mather who married George Washington Walker in 1840, after Ann Mather's death in 1831.

Robert Mather

Robert Cosgrove Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC C5
  • Collection
  • 1898-1969

Collection consists of papers, speeches, press cuttings and photographs relating to Sir Robert Cosgrove.

Robert Cosgrove

Robert Doctor account book

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC D4
  • Collection
  • 1827-1851

Xeroxed copy of Robert Doctors account book for the years 1827 to 1851 with details of goods and services supplied by and to various residents in the Sorell area, including: boots, shoes soled and heeled, plough mould, beans, handle, tobacco, rum, sugar tea, callico, coffin, bread, repairing cart wheel, laying floor, shingles, glass, making ploughs. Also payments made.

Robert Doctor

Robert James Morris

Robert James Morris (1880-1963), youngest son of William Knibb and Sarah Morris, became a bookseller in Hobart. On a visit to his relatives in England 1905-7 he corresponded with his brothers and sisters in Hobart.

William Knibb Morris

Robert Mackenzie Johnston Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC J3
  • Collection
  • 1913

Collection consists of notebooks and sketchbooks mainly regarding fish, other files consisting of press cuttings and a reprint

Robert Mackenzie Johnston

Robert W. Giblin

Letter from Robert W. Giblin, The Academy, New Town, dated 6 December 1833. Ordering further 50 or 60 bushels of wheat

George Meredith

Robey & Mather Papers

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC R7
  • Collection
  • 1843-1962

Miscellaneous papers and photographs relating mainly to the family of Joseph Benson Mather

Joseph Benson Mather

Rocks on Mount Wellington

Rocks on Mount Wellington

Photograph rocks on Mount Wellington. The photographer was Albert Sargeant who had studios in Macquarie Street, Hobart and George Street, Launceston between 1886 and 1913.

Albert Sargeant

Rocky Cape

Rocky Cape

Illustration from Henry Hellyers diary - " Sketch of the map of Rocky Cape - sketch of coast looking eastward from the higher outer hill at Rocky Cape".

Roland Rodda Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC DX12
  • Collection
  • 1945-1946

Collection consists of diaries, letters, maps, photographs and slides compiled during a tour of duty as a medical officer at RNZAF Station Torokina, Bougainville from June- November 1945.

Roland Arnold Rodda

Ronald Campbell Smith Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC DX4
  • Collection
  • 1915-1973

Collection consists of papers and photographs relating to Ronald Campbell Smith.

Ronald Campbell Smith

Ronald Turner Ralph Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC R14
  • Collection
  • 1941-1948

Collection consists of material related to Ronald Turner Ralphs time at the University of Tasmania during the 1940's studying Civil Engineering. Included are text books, note books and Uni Revue programs and issues of Togatus relating to the reviews.

Ronald Turner Ralph

Rose Grant to Fanny Meredith

Two letters from Rose Grant to Fanny Meredith dated 14 January 1854, and 1 February 1854. Written from Tullochgorum: John's scarlet fever, pleased with contents of trunk, Maria liked her things - bonnet very ladylike and becoming - dresses fit well, day fixed for 9 February [? marriage] - bishop to perform ceremony, Miss Meadows bridesmaid, afraid to have Fanny and John in case James and Charlotte's children take it (?scarlet fever), Maria's little boy, Montague's visit. Cross-written.

Rose Grant

Ross v. Gurr

"Ross v. Gurr": transcripts from Hobart Town Courier and Van Diemens Land Almanac. 1833-35.

Archibald Lawrence Meston

Rough draft

Torn part of rough draft letter relating to land

Francis Cotton

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