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'A lonely, narrow valley':

Teaching at an Otways Outpost

Peter Davies

September 2008 Number 7Pages 1 2 3 4 5 6

Endnotes
1. Clifford Stanford to Secretary for Education, PROV, VA 714 Education Department, VPRS 640/P1 Central Inward Primary Schools Correspondence, Unit 2328, File 3601, 28 November 1911.
2. N Houghton, Sawdust and steam: a history of the railways and tramways of the eastern Otway Ranges, Light Railway Research Society of Australia, Melbourne, 1975; N Houghton, The Beechy: the life and times of the Colac-Beech Forest-Crowes narrow gauge railway 1902-1962, Light Railway Research Society of Australia, Melbourne, 1992.
3. P Davies, Henry's mill: the historical archaeology of a forest community: life around a timber mill in south-west Victoria, Australia, in the early twentieth century, Archaeopress, Oxford, 2006.
4. PROV, VA 714 Education Department, VPRS 795/P0 Building Files: Primary Schools, Unit 1927, File 3601, 9 January 1905.
5. ibid., 1 June 1905.
6. ibid., 25 September 1905.
7. Petition for establishment of a State School at Otway Saw Mills, to WA Cavanagh (District Inspector), ibid., 7 July 1908.
8. Leo C O'Kelly to Secretary for Education, PROV, VPRS 640/P1, Unit 2245, File 3601, 27 January 1909.
9. PROV, VPRS 795/P0, Unit 1927, File 3601, 9 October 1911.
10. JG Johnstone to Secretary for Education, PROV, VPRS 795/P0, Unit 2812, File 3601, 3 March 1916, 8 March 1916.
11. ibid., 27 February 1923.
12. Cecil Turner to Secretary for Education, PROV, VPRS 640/P1, Unit 2423, File 3601, 23 September 1915.
13. John Murphy to John Cain, PROV, VPRS 640/P1, Unit 1671, File 4031, 4 February 1921.
14. Quoted in LJ Blake, Vision and realisation: a centenary history of state education in Victoria, 3 vols, Education Department of Victoria, Melbourne, 1973, vol. 3, p. 453.
15. ibid., vol. 1, p. 329.
16. PROV, VPRS 795/P0, Unit 1927, File 3601, 7 July 1908; Unit 2812, File 3601, 3 March 1916, 23 February 1923.
17. PROV, VPRS 640/P1, Unit 2423, File 3601, 15 April 1916.
18. The Birregurra times, 22 October 1918.
19. Blake, vol. 1, p. 322.
20. ibid., p. 326.
21. The timber worker (journal of the Amalgamated Timber Workers' Union of Australia, Victorian Branch), 26 April 1921.
22. Letter from A Cecil Wallis (teacher) to Secretary for Education, PROV, VPRS 640/P1, Unit 2639, File 3601, 3 May 1924.
23. The Colac herald, 14 June 1920.
24. PROV, VPRS 640/P1, Unit 1671, File 4031, 20 January 1921, 4 February 1921.
25. J Carroll, The Upper Yarra: an illustrated history, Shire of Upper Yarra, Yarra Junction, Victoria, 1988, p. 90.
26. Bernard E Flood to Secretary for Education, PROV, VPRS 640/P1, Unit 2423, File 3601, 27 October 1914.
27. WR Henry to Secretary for Education, PROV, VPRS 795/P0, Unit 1927, File 3601, 2 October 1909.
28. District Inspector's report to Secretary for Education, ibid., 9 January 1905.
29. G Parker (District Inspector) to Secretary for Education, PROV, VPRS 640/P1, Unit 2423, File 3601, 1 May 1915.
30. WA Cavanagh (District Inspector) to Secretary for Education, PROV, VPRS 795/P0, Unit 1927, File 3601, 11 July 1908.
31. Leo O'Kelly to Secretary for Education, ibid., 23 October 1909.
32. Index to Inward Registered Primary Schools Correspondence, summarising especially the appointment of teachers, PROV, VA 714 Education Department, VPRS 915/P0 Index to Inward Registered Primary Schools Correspondence, Unit 169, File 3601.
33. William A Morris to Secretary for Education, PROV, VPRS 640/P1, Unit 2328, File 3601, 7 October 1912.
34. William A Morris to Secretary for Education, ibid., 10 February, 16 June 1913.
35. Bernard E Flood to Secretary for Education, PROV, VPRS 640/P1, Unit 2423, File 3601, 27 October 1914.
36. M Lake, The limits of hope: soldier settlement in Victoria 1915-38, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987, p. 155.
37. AC Wallis to Secretary for Education, PROV, VPRS 640/P1, Unit 2639, File 3601, 3 May 1924.
38. Charles F Branditt to Secretary for Education, PROV, VPRS 640/P1, Unit 2563, File 3601, 1 February 1922.
39. CF Branditt, 'His love story', Forest, lake, and plain, vol. 1, issue 1, 1921, pp. 12-15; CF Branditt, 'How we bought our library', Forest, lake, and plain, vol. 2, issue 1, p. 34.
40. HJ Malone to Secretary for Education, PROV, VPRS 640/P1, Unit 1671, File 4031, 23 May 1925; The timber worker, 27 November 1925.
41. Edward C O'Connor to Secretary for Education, PROV, VPRS 640/P1, Unit 2639, File 3601, 1 November 1926.
42. Quoted in Blake, vol. 1, p. 339.
43. HJ Wilkinson to Inspector Hughes, PROV, VPRS 640/P1, Unit 2423, File 3601, 12 July 1916; Education Department to Edward Prendergast, PROV, VPRS 796/P0 Outwards Letter Books, Primary Schools, Unit 761, File 3601, 3 August 1916.
44. Clifford Stanford to Secretary for Education, PROV, VPRS 640/P1, Unit 2328, File 3601, 16 May 1911; G Parker (District Inspector) to Secretary for Education, PROV, VPRS 640/P1, Unit 2423, File 3601, 17 December 1916.
45. Education Department to Bernard Flood, ibid., 31 March 1915.
46. Cecil Turner to Secretary for Education, PROV, VPRS 640/P1, Unit 2639, File 3601, 23 June 1924.
47. Education Department to WR Henry, ibid., 9 June 1926.
48. Cecil Turner to Secretary for Education, PROV, VPRS 640/P1, Unit 2737, File 3601, 7 March 1927.
49. H Nelson, 'Minimay: one of six thousand weatherboard schools', Australian cultural history, vol. 7, 1988, pp. 5-17.

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