CHARLIE LOVICK’S SUBMISSION TO THE BUSHFIRES VICTORIA 2009 ROYAL COMMISSION PART 1

Police Stables 1889

PURCELL FAMILY COLLECTION. DROVING CATTLE ON MT STIRLING

Naturalisation Ceremony – Councillor Harry Nix welcomes Sandra Elliott.

Carolyn and Greg Marks in the stalls of ‘The Man from Snowy River’ film set, at Harrison’s Homestead, Buttercup Road, Merrijig.

Hart Paar tractor – timber jinker – canoe log – MMCF procession

POEM: THE GOLDMINERS

William John Davies married Amelia (Annie) Purcell at Merrijig 31st March 1902.

Children at the Mansfield State School

Lady Clair water wheel – Gaffneys Creek June 1979

David Arbuthnot, son of Pat and Stephen Arbuthnot.

Mansfield Mountain Country Festival Parade 1993

Mansfield Mountain Country Festival Parade 1993

VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS OF MOUNTAIN CATTLEMEN’S ANNUAL GET TOGETHER ROSE RIVER 2002. MUSIC AND DANCING -“ROCKIN’ ALL OVER THE WORLD”

With horses on the Wellington River

Bernie Anstee driving Hart Parr tractor – MMC Festival 1994 – pulling timber jinker loaded with “canoe tree” log.

Memorial Gates, Mansfield – Anzac Day wreaths

Jack Pollards Chev truck carting oaten hay on Charlie Christopher’s farm in Malcolm Street.

Ogilvies Estate State School SS4393 (a few miles from Mansfield)

Esther (Essie) Rebecca Woolf