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Introduction

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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.

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  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 Scott in 1943 (VPRS 640/3515: 27/7/1943; 640/3575: 15/4/1943).
  3. Adamson, Headmaster of Wesley, in V&R, 1, p. 455.
  4. V&R, 1, pp. 470, 475-9.
  5. V&R, 1, pp.487, 495.
  6. V&R, 1, pp. 459f; 482f.
  7. V&R, 1, pp. 526f.
  8. V&R, 1, pp. 532-5.
  9. 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’, AJPH, 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).
  10. V&R, 3, pp. 220f.
  11. M. Spivakovsky, ‘Educational Architecture in Victoria, 1945-1973. The Design of State Primary and Secondary Schools’,  Arch.;University of Melbourne, 1973), pp. 19-20.
  12. VPRS 3916/127: 18/4/1962; 27/4/1964; PWD M293743.
  13. VPRS 3916/217: 17/5/1958; 20/8/1958.
  14. Examiners Report, 1958, PHSC Archives.
  15. School Register, Princes Hill.
  16. Heritage, 1960.
  17. AdC Min., 20/3/1962.
  18. V5513, 1, pp. 529, 532, 535.
  19. VPRS 3917/5: 8/10/1959.
  20. Recollections, Harold Law; VPRS 10059: 27/8/1962 - primary school; Speech Night 1963
  21. 21/2/1961. Recollections, John Polglaze.
  22. AdC Min. 20/3/1962; Heritage, 1963, HM Report.
  23. Heritage, 1961.
  24. Heritage, 1962; Yabberstick, April 1970, p. 3.
  25. Spivakovsky, ‘Educational Architecture’, pp. 26-7.
  26. Age, 9/2/1970, p. 1; Herald, 9/2/1970, p. 3.
  27. Recollections, Chris Hilton.
  28. Age, 9/2/1970, p. 1.
  29. The Victorian Police have destroyed files of that period (McCoach to Vlahogiannis 7/9/1988). The Metropolitan Fire Brigade Board-Fire Report (8/2/1970) described the cause as ‘suspicious circumstances’. 
  30. Gibson to ED 20/31963; architects: AdC Min. March 1965; quotation: Thomson to ED 11/12/1968; Recollection, Polglaze.
  31. No renovations: AdC Min. 20/5/1969; delays because no money: AdC Min. 20/5/1969, Thompson to AdC, 6/8/1969.
  32. Thomson to Thompson, AdC Min. 6/8/1969.
  33. Sier to Cn Rohrt 22/9/1969.
  34. Herald, 6/2/1970, p. 2.
  35. AdC Min. 18/3/1969.
  36. AdC Min. 15/4/1969.
  37. Rossiter to Thomson 29/8/1969.
  38. AdC Min. 15/4/1969.
  39. Memorandum to Melbourne City Council, 1970, PHSC Archives.
  40. ibid.
  41. 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.
  42. Thomson to Thompson 5/3/1970.
  43. Recollections,  Stirling.
  44. ibid.
  45. Complete details of the project are kept in the archives of D.Jackson, Architect.
  46. Walker & Jackson, meeting with Sier 11/8/1970.
  47. The first quotation was $1,205,000, D. Cant (Quantity Surveyor) to Walker & Jackson 10/12/1970. Alterations pushed the estimation up to $1,315,000, Cant_to Walker & Jackson 9/7/1971. On 13/8/1971, O’Shannassey (Liason Architect, Building Division, PWD) instructed the architects to get the price below $1,205,000.
  48. Thompson to Sier 26/8/1970.
  49. The push for a canteen and assembly hall had begun in the early 1960s, AdC Min. 15/11/1960.
  50. Thompson had promised a canteen, library and gymnasium (Thomson to Thompson, 5/3/1970).
  51. Thompson to Sier 18/8/1971; AdC Min. 16/2/1971.
  52. Thompson to Heard (Assistant Town Clerk, MCC) 23/3/1970.
  53. Walker & Jackson to O’Shanassey 22/9/1970; O’Shannassey to Walker & Jackson 16/10/1970.
  54. Walker & Jackson to O’Shannassey 30/4/1971.
  55. Thompson to Tripovich 23/7/71; Tripovich to Sier 23/7/1971. During this period, Tripovich was quite active on the school’s behalf (see Victorian Parliamentary Debates, 14/9/1971, pp. 336-7).
  56. Herald, 23/11/1971; Age, 24/1 1/1971, p. 11. The completion date was set at April 1973. O’Shannassey’s notes show the original timetable as: Preliminary documents to be presented October 1970; Tenders to be offered November 1970; Contractors to gain possession of site January 1971; Building to be completed May 1972. Indeed, on 3 September 1970, Walker & Jackson were prepared to predict completion by November 1971.
  57. Walker & Jackson to S. Morton (Assistant Director-General, Buildings, Education Department) 23/6/1971; Reply 1/7/1971.
  58. 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.
  60. Herald, 31/7/1973.
  61. AdC Min. November 1973.

Part Two,

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Introduction

  1. F.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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