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June 08 WORKSHOPSMuseums Australia (Victoria) are currently providing a Training Program for custodians of Community Collections in various parts of Victoria.
Our members have already attended three of the Workshops held in Shepparton and have found them of great benefit.
Topics covered at these sessions have been Museum Standards, Significance Assessment, Digitising Collections, and Interpretation & Exhibitions.
The material covered has direct application to our own situation at the Heritage Centre in Murchison. Networking between participants is of course always useful.
It is pleasing to see good attendance numbers when Museums Australia are providing such valuable training. Bringing the training to Regional Centres is a great help as the workers involved with Community Collections are usually Volunteers. April 25 Work In ProgressOur current project is the compiling of a DVD telling the story of the Goulburn River and the changes that have occured to the section running through Murchison district over the years since the arrival of white settlers. The project should be completed by October and it will be exciting to launch the finished product. March 19 Executive Elected at Annual General MeetingThe Annual General Meeting held on 17th of March was well attended and it was good to welcome several visitors. The DVD compiled and shown by Anne Finlay was very well done and showcased some rarely seen photographs of places, events and people who have shaped Murchison's history.
The election of office bearers took place and Warwick Finlay was elected as our President, Shirley Cloggie has accepted the position of Vice President on the retirement of Helen Newton from this position due to family committments. Kay Ball continues as Secretary, Jeff Huddle as Treasurer and our Committee members are Don and Gloria Polkinghorne and John Ball.
Warwick detailed an active and eventful year in his Annual Report to members and particularly thanked members and volunteers who are busy doing a variety of activities. Lots of support comes from our volunteers and members, in particular Anne Finlay, & George Cloggie who have worked hard in recent months to enable the volunteers to have appropriate technical support.
We look forward to another productive year ahead with a dedicated and hard working Executive taking the lead.
January 31 News This MonthThe Society has been successful in engaging volunteers under the Heritagecare Program, working 2 days a week on projects nominated by the Hisorical Society.
Cataloguing of photographs is progressing well and the cataloguing of our reference library will start soon.
This has been a great boost in motivating other activities at the Heritage Centre as well.
December 16 Day's Milll and FarmDays Mill and Farm is the best preserved 19th century flour mill in Victoria and contains probably the finest example of traditional milling technology in working form in it original setting in Australia.
The property consists of the Mill, a house and about a dozen farm buildings on 4 hectares of land south of Murchison in the Goulburn Valley, 150 km north of Melbourne.
In 1865 William Day selected about 420 acres in the Parish of Murchison and built a two story flour mill. He also operated a bush sawmill and a punt over the Goulburn River and his wife Ann ran a local store.
William died in 1872, leaving Ann to support seven children aged 5 to 19.
Ann Day very capably ran the Farm and Mill from 1872 until 1891 during which time the property was considered one of the more advanced in the district. Farm documents reveal a strong woman astutely conducting business in the male dominated Victorian business world.
When Day's built their mill in 1865 they employed traditional mill stones which were not entirely suitable for the hard grains of Australia. The Day family did not make the transition to the expensive new roller mills developed in the 1870's and they simply stopped milling flour in the late 1880's.
After 1891 Joseph the eldest son, took over the mill on Ann's retirement and from then on the property operated simply as a farm.
Parts of the house date from 1865, the same time the mill was built, but the two storey house was added in about 1905. |
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