Endnotes
1. Letter from AE Burrell to Northcote High School, PROV, VA 714 Education Department, VPRS 10249/P0 High Schools
Inward Correspondence Files, unit 160 Northcote High School 1931-1939, 14
December 1931. All correspondence discussed in this article (including copies
of outwards correspondence) is contained in this file. On the Depression
see LJ Louis and I Turner (eds), The Depression of the 1930s, Cassell
Australia, Stanmore, New South Wales, 1968.
2. Letter from Mr HJ West to Sidney Kitson,
9 December 1931.
3. Undated list in 1932 correspondence
file.
4. Letter dated 18 December 1931.
5. AM Badcock, 'The secondary Division',
in LJ Blake (ed.), Vision and realisation: a centenary history of state
education in Victoria, Education Department of Victoria, Melbourne, 1973,
vol. 1, pp. 473-80.
6. A Lemon, The Northcote side of the
river, City of Northcote in conjunction with Hargreen Publishing Company,
North Melbourne, 1983, p. 198.
7. Badcock, pp. 473-80.
8. B Bessant, 'Education and politics in
the development of the education systems of N.S.W. and Victoria 1900-1940, with
particular reference to post-primary education', PhD thesis, Monash University,
1971, p. 435.
9. ibid.
10. ibid., p. 504.
11. ibid., p. 505.
12. W Lowenstein, Weevils in the flour, Hyland House, Melbourne, p.
15.
13. Lemon, pp. 213 and 221.
14. Letters from Mr HF Tulloch to Minister of Education, 21, 22, 28 January, 2
February 1931.
15. Bessant, pp. 291-2.
16. ibid., p. 295.
17. J Bessant, 'An examination of public criticisms of schooling during three
periods of economic crisis: the 1890s, the 1930s, and the mid 1970s to 1980s',
PhD thesis, La Trobe University, 1988.
18. Letter from Mrs J Street to Mr Sidney Kitson, 5
November 1932.
19. Reply to Mrs Street's letter from the secretary, Education Department, 9
November 1932.
20. Letter from the Minister to HF Tulloch, 28 January 1931: 'The Education Department
has always given sympathetic consideration and assistance to parents who are
anxious to have their children provided with a good education.'
21. Badcock, p. 504.
22. Pro-forma Application Form for Fee Exemption issued by the Victorian Education
Department.
23. Badcock, p. 504.
24. Letter from Mrs Olive Greig to Northcote High
School, 16 March 1933.
25. Lowenstein, p. 3.
26. Letter from Mr JJ Jeffrey to Northcote High
School, 27 March 1933.
27. Letter from Mr Samuel Burgess, 23 June 1934.
28. Northcote High
School archives, Inspector's Reports, 1931, 1934.
29. Northcote High
School archives, Council Minutes Book 1932-38, 18
May 1933.
30. ibid., 5 December 1933, 6 March
1934.
31. Badcock, p. 505.
32. Bessant, 'Education and politics', p. 434.
