NOTES
Introduction
1 A letter written by one of the original 1889 students of Princes Hill to Headmaster Gibson, Heritage, 1965.
2 The numbers decreased nearer to the present. The proportion of male and female respondents was fairly even.
Part One, Introduction
1 Argus, 3/9/1889, p.9; Age, 3/9/1889, p.6; C.Gaz., 6/9/1889, p. 2; 13/9/1889, p. 2.
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-bourneMelbourne, 1888), Vol. 1, p. 573; Isaac Selby, The Old Pioneers’ Memorial.
The History ofildelbournefrom of Melbourne from the Discovery ofPort of Port Phillip to the World WarWar (Melbourne, 1924), p. 365: the cemetery ‘created a mental road’.
3. ‘Garryowen’, Chronicles of Early Melbourne, 1835-52 (Melbourne, 1888), p. 29.
4. C.Gaz., 25/10/1889, p. 2; 11/9/1891, p. 2: the population of Victoria ward was increasing every year; 27/12/1895, p. 2.
5. ‘Garryowen’, Chronicles, p. 30: when Carlton was put on the market, it was gobbled up by investors with money from the gold days. Noelle Belcher, A Historical Tour of Princes Hill, North Carlton (Carlton, 1976),pp. 1-2.
6. VPRS 795/1714: 5/4/1887-10109; 27/5/1888-38207. Robertson’s reply to the Tynan report, 30/6/1888-21714. In 1892, the Lygon Street school was made an adjunct to SS 112 Faraday Street. It was closed in October 1908 (V€9’R, 3, p. 55).
7. Application no. 2946, 15/6/1887-18646. VPRS 795/1714: 17/5/1887-13190; 20/5/1887-15097; Government Gazette, 3/6/1887, p. 1517.
8. VPRS 795/1714: 1/9/1887-28599; 22/9/1887-31170; 28/9/1887-32013.
9. VPRS 795/1714: 27/10/1887-33786.
10. MLA Motions and Orders no. 55, p.3l7f; VPRS 795/1714: 2/11/1887-37148.
11. Argus, 29/10/1924, pp. 6, 9.
12. V&R, 1, p.xxxix.
13. ibid., p. 277
14. VPRS 23/2/1889-6691. School Roll: 897/8: 28/2/1889-7580.
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VPRS 795/1714: 23/5/1904-5761.
V&R, 1, pp. 327ff.
41 PWD March 1901/1380; 25/1/1902. By the time the contract was let, the cost had escalated to £4176 (27/2/1906-1906/674).
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VPRS 795/1714: 7/10/1889 (land purchase for £l3.10.0 per sq. ft); 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 1906 shows the cost of the three phases. Discussion with L. Burchell. Tell-tale signs of Bindley’s work are the corbelling seen on the Head Teacher’s office. Similar features appear on the Parkville Post Office, which was designed by Bindley. On the Congress of 1904, see Ed.Gaz., 20/9/1905, p. 37. Cost and size, VPRS 795/1714-undated file attached-to June 1906 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 to cut the hall from the original plan because of expense were averted on the grounds of the school’s active role in kindergarten teacher.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; internal memo, 795/1775-9/4/1914. 1 ’
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VPRS 640/4308-10/2/1956.
Chapter Two
1 VPRS 10059-25/6/1958.
2 By Prendergast in 1913 (see n. 56, Chapter One); the Princes Hill deputation to Peacock in 1914 (n. 57, Chapter One); by Head Teacher Bryant in 1937 and 1938 (VPRS 796/631: 26/10/1937; 796/632: 12/1/1938); by Head Teacher Hart and District inspector inspector Scott in 1943 (VPRS 640/3515: 27/7/1943; 640/3575: 15/4/1943).
Adamson, Headmaster of Wesley, in V€9’RV&R, 1, p. 455.
V&R, 1, pp. 470, 475-9.
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V&R, 1, pp. 459f; 482f.
V&R, 1, pp. 526f.
V€9’RV&R, 1, pp. 532-5.
Carlton News, 28/1/1937, p. 6; 13/5/1937, p. 1. Although precise Carlton population figures are unavailable, (census statistics do not distinguish the figures for the City of Melbourne into individual suburbs), F.Lancaster Jones, ‘Italians in the Carlton Area: The Growth of an Ethnic Concentration’, A]PHAJPH, 10, April 1964, p. 86, estimates the population of Carlton-North Carlton before the war to approximately 30,000, which declined to 27,455 by 1954. Enrolments also declined among the district’s schools._Between 1937 and 1943, SS East Brunswick’s population had dropped 41 per cent, Alfred Crescent, North Fitzroy 35 per cent, Faraday Street 46 per cent and Rathdowne Street 20 per cent. Lee Street alone suffered no losses. Princes Hill’s numbers had decreased by 38 per cent from 809 in 1937 to 487 in 1943. The average decrease for Victoria’s state schools for this period was 12 per cent (VPRS 640/3575: 15/4/1943).
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Memorandum to Melbourne City Council, 1970, PHSC Archives.
40 ibid.
Thompson to Heard (Assistant Town Clerk, MCC) 23/3/1970;
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O’Shannassey’s letter to Walker & Jackson was sent 22/12/1971, and received by the architects 11/1/1972. Recollections, G. Casasayas,
59 Melbourne Times, 15/7/1973; Age, 17/7/1973, p.4; Herald, 17/7/1973; Sun, 19/7/1973.
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AdC Min. November 1973.
Part Two, Introcluction
1 FF.Tate, ‘Teaching: The Noblest of Professions, but the Sorriest of Trades’, The Australasian Schoolrnaster, November 1892, pp. 75-6, December 1892, pp. 92—3,January 1893, pp. 101-3. 1
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C.Gaz., 24/12/1896, p. 2.
VPRS 640/2144: 23/7/1901—25l 1901—251 13; 10/8/l90l—280441901—28044; 11/9/1901-32697; 9/10/1901-32698, 35397, 36726.
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R.J. W.,Selleck, Frank Tate. A Biography (Melbourne, 1982), p. 121.
ibid.
'VPRS 640/2628: 6/1/1925~3742.
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Recollections, John Ireland.
Age, 4/8/1973, p. 4.
50 Recollections, Peter Stapelton.
51 November, 1969, p. 2.
Recollections, P. Stapelton, Emile Hamer, Judy Ireland.
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Recollections, Stirling.
56 ibid.
Recollections, Olive Hamilton.
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V&R, 1, pp. 868-70.
VPRS 640/3454: 8/3/1940.
LawryLawry, ‘Anton Vroland: His Life and Work’, (M.Ed.; Monash Uni., 1981), pp.55-61. 1
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