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”.

THANKS TO NUNAWADING

Fire Brigade Project. Burning Miss Eilleen Close’s house at the corner of Malcolm St. & The Parade, Mansfield.

Shire Engineer Len Lynch standing beside the ‘Welcome to Mansfield’ sign at the Melbourne approach to Mansfield.

Win the War day Number 24 – Mansfield – Recruitment drive for World War 1.

Nillahcootie School pupils

Portrait photograph of Deborah M. (Griffiths) Highett

Emma Smith and her two surviving children, Robert James Wright Smith and Edna.

Floods after the 1939 fire

Emma Ross and Joseph Snell wedding in 1912

Original “Wairere” Homestead.

Frank and Marg McCormack’s prize winning fleece, Mansfield Agricultural Show, November 2011.

New Dempsey’s Boiler

First ski tow on Mt Buller.

DROVING IN GIPPSLAND ALBUM. CATTLE

KENNETT HITS ALP FOUL PLAY

GRAZING OF THE HIGH COUNTRY 1839-1935. THESIS BY PETER CABENA. CATTLE YARDED AT THE BASE OF MT BUFFALO PLATEAU, 1892

Marbut-Gunnersen Sawmill. Case W26 loader – putting logs in mill for sawing.

Mt Buller – snow – skiing

Photograph on the page in The Leader titled ‘The Golden Love – Aberfeldy Romantic Story’