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Introduction

1 A letter written by one of the original 1889 students of Princes Hill to Headmaster Gibson, Heritage, 1965.

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2 Recollections, the Honourable Evan Walker.

Chapter One

1 C.Gaz., 19/3/1887, p. 2.

2 Alexander Sutherland, Victoria and its Metropolis: Past and Present (Mel-

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VPRS 795/1714: 24/7/1889, 6/8/18891-6691. (Campbell had satis-factorily satisfactorily carried out at least one prior contract for the PWD). SchoolgroundsSchoolgrounds: VPRS 795/1714: 17/9/1889-38435. Newspaper reports inOctober in October 1896 refer to work needed in the yard and for boulders to beremoved be removed (C. Gaz., 9/10/1896, p. 2).

VPRS 795/1714: 22/8/1889-33313; 14/9/1889-36783, and memo10memo 10/2/1990.

C.Gaz., 24/1/1890, p. 2; 9/5/1890, p. 2.

VPRS 640/1811: 6/7/1891-33912. Lee Street, the only other schoolin school in North Carlton, had more than 1000 students (C. Gaz., 9/10/1890,p p. 2).

VPRS 795/1714: 20/8/1895-25801. .

VPRS 795/1714: 11/9/1901-20903. By the time of his next letter (30September 30 September 1901-35398), the number waiting for admission hadgrown had grown to 33.

V&R, 1, pp. 269-77.

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In 1904, Skewes forwarded a street plan outlining the proximity of StMichael’s St Michael’s to the school, VPRS 795/1714: 1904-1141.

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VPRS 795/1714: 2/8/1890-36723; 6/8/1890-37432 - noted in LeaseBookLease Book, ll/8/1890. C.Gaz., 18/12/1891, p.2.

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VPRS 795/1714: 12/2/1895-3557; 22/6/1899-20206: twenty-onechildren one children from years 1 to 3 lived nearer to SS Lygon Street. Amemorandum A memorandum dated 28/2/1895 (attached to 1895/3557) lists theDepartment’s the Department’s purpose.

VPRS 795/714: 22/6/1899-20206; 5/1 1/1903-5914.

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VPRS 795/1714: 17/6/1899 (Skewes’ information about St Mi-chael’sMichael’s); 27/9/1899 (Departmental memorandum advising the leasebe lease be taken); 31/10/1899-38342 (completion of transaction).

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VPRS 795/1714: 23/5/1904-5761.

V€9’RV&R, 1, pp. 327ff.

41 PWD March 1901/1380; 25/1/1902. By the time the contract was let,the  the cost had escalated to £4176 (27/2/1906-1906/674).

VPRS 795/1714: 28/2/1889-6691 (letting of contract); 28/2/18891889 (memorandum to Gardiner about the cost). That the building wastwo—storey was two-storey is indicated in a letter of Russell to the Department dated16 dated 16 April 1890 (VPRS 795/1714: 1890-16091). Unfortunately, noarchitectural no architectural plans of the Arnold Street building survive. According

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to According to L. Burchell, Princes Hill would have been modelled on the samebasic same basic plan as Kensington. I am most grateful to L. Burchell (VictorianSchools. Victorian Schools. A Study in Colonial Government Architecture, I873-I900, Mel-bourneMelbourne, 1980), for his generous help, advice and invaluable expertiseon expertise on school architecture. It was he who pointed out that the school wastwo—storeywas two-storey. He also generously reconstructed the floor plans illustrat-ed illustrated in this book. Between 1872 and 1888, the Education Departmenthad Department had its own Architectural Section, headed by Herbert R. Bastow. In1888In 1888, Bastow and his Department moved to the Public WorksDepartmentWorks Department, where, henceforth, the Education Department contract-ed contracted the PWD.

Argus, 3/9/1889, p. 9; Age, 2/9/889, p. 6; C.Gaz., 13/9/1889, p. 2.

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VPRS 795/1714: 7/10/1889 (land purchase for £l3.10.0 per sq. ft);The  The contract had been let on 17/8/1891, to be completed by 7/12/1891 . -Cost: an undated document attached to files of June 1906shows 1906 shows the cost of the three phases.Discussion  Discussion with L. Burchell. Tell-tale signs of Bindley’s work are the- corbelling the corbelling seen on the Head Teacher’s office. Similar features appear

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on appear on the Parkville Post Office, which was designed by Bindley. On theCongress the Congress of 1904, see Ed.Gaz., 20/9/1905, p. 37.Cost  Cost and size, VPRS 795/1714-undated file attached-to June 1906files1906 files. Contract: VPRS 795/1714: 27/2/1906-2111; delays: 10/l2/1906-8333.

49 The size of the hall: VPRS 3916/127: 26/6/1961. Threats in 1902 tocut to cut the hall from the original plan because of expense were averted onthe on the grounds of the school’s active role in kindergarten teacher.train-ing training (VPRS 795/1714: 17/3/1902-8611).

50 Recollections, Vera Shakespeare.

51 Melbourne Fire Brigade reports, VPRS 3916/127 2/10/1958.

52 VPRS 795/1714: 23/2/1911-697.

53 VPRS 640/1638: 20/6/1908-8032; internal memo, 21/2/1912; inter-nal internal memo, 795/1775-9/4/1914. 1 ’

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Victorian Parliamentary Debates, Session 1913-14, v. 134, 20/9/1913,p p.l4071407.

VPRS 795/1715: 30/4/1914; Argus, 22/4/1914, p. 14.

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VPRS 795/631: 13/12/1922-251. Delays were caused by alterationsto alterations to the plans, 29/3/1922, 31/7/1922-239.

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VPRS 795/631: 29/2/1924. No information exists as to what hap-pened happened from the last use of St Michael’s in 1914 until 1924.

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VPRS 640/2628: 8/10/1924.

Argus, 1/3/1924, p. 18; 17/4/1924, p. 12; 19/4/1924, p. 17. Cost:VPRS  VPRS 100592 6/7/1939.

V€9°RV&R, 1, pp. 376ff; VPRS10059I21VPRS10059: 21/10/1939; 13/1 111/1939; 18/1 111/1939.

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Argus, 27/5/1913, p. 5.

VPRS 640/4308-10/2/1956.

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2 By Prendergast in 1913 (see n. 56, Chapter One); the Princes Hilldeputation Hill deputation to Peacock in 1914 (n. 57, Chapter One); by Head Teach-er Teacher Bryant in 1937 and 1938 (VPRS 796/631: 26/10/1937; 796/632:12 12/1/1938); by Head Teacher Hart and District Inspector  inspector Scott in1943 in 1943 (VPRS 640/3515: 27/7/1943; 640/3575: 15/4/1943).

Adamson, Headmaster of Wesley, in V€9’R, 1, p. 455.

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VC°)’RV&R, 1, pp.487, 495.

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Vé’9’RV&R, 1, pp. 526f.

V€9’R, 1, pp. 532-5.

Carlton News, 28/1/1937, p. 6; 13/5/1937, p. 1. Although precise Carl-ton Carlton population figures are unavailable, (census statistics do notdistinguish not distinguish the figures for the City of Melbourne into individualsuburbsindividual suburbs), F.Lancaster Jones, ‘Italians in the Carlton Area: TheGrowth The Growth of an Ethnic Concentration’, A]PH, 10, April 1964, p. 86,estimates  estimates the population of Carlton-North Carlton before the war toapproximately to approximately 30,000, which declined to 27,455 by 1954. Enrolmentsalso Enrolments also declined among the district’s schools._Between 1937 and 1943,SS  SS East Brunswick’s population had dropped 41 per cent, AlfredCrescentAlfred Crescent, North Fitzroy 35 per cent, Faraday Street 46 per cent andRathdowne and Rathdowne Street 20 per cent. Lee Street alone suffered no losses.Princes  Princes Hill’s numbers had decreased by 38 per cent from 809 in1937 in 1937 to 487 in 1943. The average decrease for Victoria’s state schoolsfor schools for this period was 12 per cent (VPRS 640/3575: 15/4/1943).

V€9’RV&R, 3, pp. 220f. \

M. Spivakovsky, ‘Educational Architecture in Victoria, 1945-1973.The  The Design of State Primary and Secondary Schools’,  Arch.;University of Melbourne, 1973), pp. 19-20.

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21/2/1961. Recollections, John Polglaze.

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The Victorian Police have destroyed files of that period (McCoach toVlahogiannis to Vlahogiannis 7/9/1988). The Metropolitan Fire Brigade Board-FireReport Fire Report (8/2/1970) described the cause as ‘suspicious circumstances’. 

Gibson to ED 20/31963; architects: AdC Min. March 1965; quota-tionquotation: Thomson to ED 11/12/1968; Recollection,   Polglaze.

No renovations: AdC Min. 20/5/1969; delays because no money:AdC  AdC Min. 20/5/1969, Thompson to AdC, 6/8/1969.

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Memorandum to Melbourne City Council, 1970, PHSC Archives.

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Thompson to Heard (Assistant Town Clerk, MCC) 23/3/1970;

Rogan, (Town Clerk, MCC) to AdC 20/4/1970; Carlton News, 4/6/1970, p. 1.

Thomson to Thompson 5/3/1970.

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Complete details of the project are kept in the archives of D.Jackson,Architect Architect.

Walker & Jackson, meeting with Sier 11/8/1970.

The first quotation was $1,205,000, D. Cant (Quantity Surveyor) toWalker to Walker & Jackson 10/12/1970. Alterations pushed the estimation upto up to $1,315,000, Cant_to Walker & Jackson 9/7/1971. On 13/8/1971,O’Shannassey  O’Shannassey (Liason Architect, Building Division, PWD) instruct-ed instructed the architects to get the price below $1,205,000.

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The push for a canteen and assembly hall had begun in the early1960searly 1960s, AdC Min. 15/11/1960.

Thompson had promised a canteen, library and gymnasium (Thom-son Thomson to Thompson, 5/3/1970).

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ing During this period, Tripovich was quite active on the school’s behalf (seeVictorian see Victorian Parliamentary Debates, 14/9/1971, pp. 336-7).

Herald, 23/11/1971; Age, 24/1 1/1971, p. 11. The completion date wasset was set at April 1973. O’Shannassey’s notes show the original timetableastimetable as: Preliminary documents to be presented October 1970; Tenders tobe to be offered November 1970; Contractors to gain possession of siteJanuary site January 1971; Building to be completed May 1972. Indeed, on 3September 3 September 1970, Walker & Jackson were prepared to predict com-pletion completion by November 1971.

Walker & Jackson to S. Morton (Assistant Director-General, Build-ingsBuildings, Education Department) 23/6/1971; Reply 1/7/1971.

O’Shannassey’s letter to Walker & Jackson was sent 22/12/1971, andreceived and received by the architects 11/1/1972. Recollections, G. Casasayas,

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Herala’Herald, 31/7/1973.

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Recollections, Mr Bell, Mrs Seath. One of Sebire’s first moves was tochange to change the afternoon timetable to begin at 1.30 p.m. rather than 1.45p45 p.m. and finish at 3.45 p.m. so he could catch the infrequent train toClifton to Clifton Hill.

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Special Meeting of PHPS School Council 24/6/1976; K. Turnbull toHonto Hon. L. Thompson, 13/7/1976, PHPS Archives.

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PHPS Archives, 6/12/1983. Earlier in the year, the School Councilhad Council had voted to support the transfer ofa teacher whom they consideredmismatched considered mismatched with the School’s policies and practices (SC Min. 9/12/1983).

SC Report, 1986.

Recollections, William Johnston.

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and Citizens Association and the School Advisory Council, Heritage,1961 1961, p. 6.

Recollections, John Ireland.

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Recollections, John Ireland.

Age, 4/8/1973, p. 4.

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Recollections, P. Stapelton, Emile Hamer, Judy Ireland.

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Recollections,  Stirling.

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Recollections, Olive Hamilton.

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Green Paper, October 1986, PHSC Archives; Recollections,O O. Hamilton; Bob Meehan, ‘Re—organisation ‘Reorganisation of Local SecondarySchools’Secondary Schools’, Princes Hill News, 1, 1987, pp. lf.

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Chapter Four

VPRS 640/1816: 24/2/1890-7513.

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1914-2191). The number of replacement staff was inadequate, andmany and many were inexperienced student teachers. In November 1915,Sebire  Sebire reported five further vacancies at the school (VPRS 640/2407: 1914-6630). In 1939, Mylrea welcomed six new members ofstaff of staff (VPRS 640/2955: 25/7/1934-9620).

VPRS 640/2955: 25/7/1934-9620.

V6313V&R, 1, pp. 279f. In 1884, only five of the 2563 qualified teachersemployed teachers employed by the Department had a university degree, only twelvehad twelve had First Class Honours and only 221 had matriculated; another1076 another 1076 were pupil teachers, Vé’9°RV&R, 1, pp. 826-7.

V€9’RV&R, 1, pp. 280; 322f.

VYB, 1902, p. 123; 1910-11, p. 269; 1940, p. 248; 1950-51, p. 429.

K.S.Cunningham and E.A. Morey, Children Need Teachers (Mel-bourneMelbourne, 1947), pp. 75f.

VPRS 640/2315: 20/6/1908-8032.

V€9"V&R, 1, pp.826—7. .

D.Garden, The Melbourne Teacher Training Colleges. From TrainingInstitution Training Institution to Melbourne State College, I870-I98 (Melbourne, 1982),

V€9’RV&R, 1, p. 321.

Argus, 2.5/5/1916, p. 5: by 1916, there were 900 enlistments.

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Cunningham, Morey, Children, p. 79, table 14.

V€9’RV&R, 1, p. 1297.

VPRS 10059: 2/2/1943; 1/2/1944.

VPRS 640/3575: 26/2/1944; 10059: 1/3/1944.

V€'9°RV&R, 1, p. 327.

VPRS 640/1845: 1.890/7509.

VPRS 640/1777: 29/12/1890-63197; 640/1845: 21/7/1892-31029;5 5/10/1892-43641.

VPRS 640/1845: 1892/43641. .

Tate, The Australasian Schoolmaster. November 1892, pp. 75-6, De-cember December 1892, pp.92—3, January 1893, pp. 101-3, describes pupilteachers’ pupil teachers’ conditions. Also I/599R, 1, p.827; A. G.Austin, AustralianEducationAustralian Education, 1788-1900. Church, State and Public Education in Colonial Aus- .traliaAustralia, 3rd edition (Melbourne, 1972), pp. 246-9.

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Archives, Mrs Lister.

Cunningham, lVIoreyMorey, Children, pp. 92-4.

Tate, Australasian Sc/zoolmasterSchoolmaster, November 1892, pp. 75-6; December1892December 1892, pp.92-3; January 1893, pp. 101-3; J.O.Anchen, Frank Tateand Tate and his Worhfor Education (Melbourne, 1956), pp. l02f; Selleck, Tate,pp pp.90f. Austin, Australian Education, p. 248: Tate was workingagainst working against views current throughout Australia, and against govern-ment government interests. In 1902, more than 30 per cent of teachers werepupil were pupil teachers.

Recollections, Miss Checcucci; V€©’RV&R, 1, pp.851—2; cf. pp.866f;Garden Garden, Melbourne, pp. 125-6.

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VPRS 915/154: 8/7/1908-9183; V€°:?V&R, 1, pp. 868f.

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VPRS 640/2407: 23/ll/1914; 1915-1030.

VPRS 10059: 24/6/1958.

V€9°RV&R, 1, pp. 868-70.

VPRS 640/3454: 8/3/1940. ,

 Lawry, ‘Anton Vroland: His Life and Work’, (M.Ed.; MonashUniMonash Uni., 1981), pp.55-61. 1

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In 1930, the National Council of Women commented that, of the3000 the 3000 candidates on that year’s promotion list, only thirty-one werewomenwere women, Argus, 27/6/1930, p. 12. ‘

VPRS 640/2628: 27/3/1924-3857.

V€9’RV&R, 1, pp. 279f; p. 285 table 7, for teachers’ salaries; Austin, Aus-tralian Australian Education, pp. 249f.

V€©’RV&R, 1, pp. 285-9, 320, 378 table 20, 889.

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VPRS 640/2955: February 1933.

V€9’RV&R, 1, pp. 280f. On her retirement in 1915, 1\Iiss Miss Hyem was paid asuperannuation a superannuation allowance of £150 p.a. Her annual salary had been£250been £250. Skewes, who had retired two years earlier, received £314.2.2p2 p.a. His average salary had been £471.3.4 (VPRS 640/2315: 3/3/1913-3606). Superannuation, however, was not received by allteachersall teachers. According to the Victorian State Schools Teachers Union,2932  2932 teachers were not entitled to a pension in 1913 (Argus, 29/3/1913, p. 13).

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