THE MOUNTAIN DISTRICT CATTLEMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF VICTORIA NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 1981

Woodchopping – Tolmie Sports

Celebrating 75 years Red Cross in Australia and 50 years of Red Cross service by local Mansfield branch members, at the Mansfield Botanic Gardens, 29 September 1989. Bill and Rita Albers.

Mansfield Primary School Grade Prep 1965

Grocer shop. Murphy (Jim) and Parsons (Len), High Street.

Mr and Mrs Thomas Jones

The Merino lambs at the Walsh woolshed

Original Christensen’s Sawmill, Mirimbah, prior to October 1940 fire

Heavy snow on the Woods Point Road

FOOTAGE FROM SNOWY PLAINS PROTEST 1989 – MINISTER KAY SETCHES 3

Rachael and Carolyn Marks at the ‘Man from Snowy River’ film set, Harrison’s Homestead, Buttercup Road, Merrijig. 1982.

Morning Star mine, Woods Point – workers standing in front of head frame

Betty Gerrish with her Lincoln and Corriedale sheep at Alcheringa, Maindample, VIC, July 1999.

BUSHFIRES FORCE US TO POSTPONE THE GET-TOGETHER TO APRIL AND PLEASE HELP FUND THE PEOPLE’S INQUIRY INTO THE 2006 BUSHFIRES

Blacksmithing in the bush – bellows, tube, forge (note air intake, smoke) bag of charcoal

Eddie Davies salting St Johns Wort for Lands Dept. Took the family for a ride to Fry’s Hut.

Forestry Commission. Alby Gardiner and friend, in the snow.

Empire Day at Bonnie Doon State School, SS2098, 1944.

George Lawrence Jackson at 27 Hunter Street Mansfield. On Alice Burch’s “Scotty”. circa 1940.

NATURE OF HIGH PLAINS VEGETATION