PART 3. MOUNTAIN CATTLEMEN RESPOND TO THE VICTORIAN NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION OPPOSITION TO ALPINE CATTLE GRAZING. THE VNPA CLAIMS: “ANCIENT PEAT BEDS ARE DAMAGED BY GRAZING”.

Alex Trahair at Howitt Hut

Walhalla train crossing Thomson River bridge

D. Rowes Old Station

Betty Gerrish ‘Best Coloured Fleece’ in the Seymour Agricultural and Pastoral Society Inc Show, 1998.

Mansfield Railway Station wash basin

ANZAC Day March

Mansfield Cemetery, headstone carved out of rock, Chinese inscription

THE LAST RIDE

MOUNTAIN CATTLEMEN’S PROTEST RIDE TO PARLIAMENT HOUSE MELBOURNE 4 SEPTEMBER 1984. 304 HORSES, 2 WAGONS, 4 DOGS

Group of men at Sweetapples home on the Barkly

Members of the Mansfield Hunt Club

Horse team hauling a boiler to Main Reef – Maindample, VIC 1913.

Building of “Spirit of the Skier” monument, High Street, Mansfield

May Walsh – (formerly May Bulmer). Wife of James Berry Walsh.

Davies Building, (built 1924), High Street Mansfield 21/04/1955.

Nina June Leighton and Albert Frederick Walsh signing their wedding certificate

Two horses and wagon with driver

Euroa Picnic Races

Betty Booth, Red Cross Member, at the library