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RECENT ADDITIONSMAY 2017

Australian Literature The Science of Appearances / Jacinta Halloran (2016)

Our Magic Hour / Jennifer Down (NSW Premier’s Literary Award UTS Glenda Adams Award Short List 2017) (2016)

Waiting / Phillip Salom (Shortlist Victorian Premier’s Literary Award (fiction) 2017 Long List Miles Franklin Literary Award 2017) (2016)

Their Brilliant Careers: The fantastic lives of sixteen extraordinary Australian writers / Ryan O’Neill (Long List Miles Franklin Literary Award 2017 Short List NSW Premier’s Literature Award: Christina Stead Prize 2017) (2016)

The Last Days of Ava Langdon / Mark O’Flyn (Miles Franklin Long List 2017) (2016)

Where The Trees Are /Inga Simpson (Miles Franklin Long List 2017) (2016)

Hold / Kirsten Tranter (Miles Franklin Long List 2017) (2016)

N [imagined political Australia 1940s] / John A. Scott (2014) [donated by Ursula Zamecnik]

Bushmore’s Dark Secrets / Peter Edwards (2015)

The Easy Way Out / Steven Amsterdam (Miles Franklin Long List 2017) (2016)

Storyland / Catherine McKinnon (2017)

A Loving Faithful Animal / Josephine Rowe (Miles Franklin Long List 2017) (2016)

Mysteries Dead in the Water / Tania Chandler (2016)

Dark City Blue / Luke Preston (2015)

Out of Exile / Luke Preston (2013)

All Mine: A story of obsession / Peter Edwards (2016)

Australian Literature ...... 1Australian History ..........2Victoria ...........................3Other States ....................... 6Art and Artists ............... 6Biographies .....................7Company Histories ........7Family History ................7Military Histories .......... 8Railways/Transport ....... 8

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Australian History Books Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else: The stories behind Australia’s weird and wonderful place names / Eamon

Evans (2016)

Smile, Particularly in Bad Weather: The era of the Australian airline hostess / Prudence Black (2017)

The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their craft [historiography of Australia] / Tom Griffiths (short listed the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for non fiction 2017) (2016)

Skeletons from Australia’s Strange Past / George Blaikie (1964) [donated by David Pool]

70/80/90: Iconic Australian Houses: Three decades of domestic architecture / Karen McCarthy photography by Michael Wee (2014)

Stories from the Sandstone: Quarantine inscriptions from Australia’s immigrant past / Peter Hobbins (2016)

The New Nature: Winners and losers in wild Australia / Tim Low (2017)

Number 96: Australian TV’s most notorious address / Nigel Giles (2017)

Australian GT Championships 1: The history 1960-2015 / John Morris (2016) [donated by David Pool]

Periodicals Australian Book Review: ABR P 028.1 ABR

No. 391 MAY 2017: Into the labyrinth: the searching, anguished style of Helen Garner / Jan McGuinness p13. On the receiving end: Australia as a global citizen [ Fear of Abandonment: Australia in the world since 1942 by Allan Gungell] / Frank Bongiorno p17. IMAs and UMAs and SAMs: A powerful anthology about asylum seekers [They Cannot Take the Sky: Stories from detention by Michael Green] / Madeline Gleeson p18. Derring-do [Losing Streak: How Tasmania was gamed by the gambling industry by James Boyce] / Michael Winkler p20. Big-league little lives: the role of Pauline Hanson in Australian politics [David Marr’s Quarterly Essay on Pauline Hanson] / Lucy Grainger-Brown p21. Living portal [Wooloomooloo: A biography by Louise Nowra] / Nicole Adabee p27. Now and then [A Hundred Small Lessons by Ashley Hay] / Tessa Lunmey p34. Richard Flanagan’s Narrow Road to the Deep North / Kerryn Goldsworthy p35. Indigenous exclusion: changing the settler-state from within [The Land is Our History: Indigeneity, law and the settle state by Miranda Johnson] / Kevin Bell p42. Seeing Garbo [And Then I Found Me by Noel Tovey] / Dennis Altman p45. The irreplaceable: A tribute to John Clarke (1948-2017) / Morag Fraser p52. Art and life [The Legacies of Bernard Smith edited by Jaynie Anderson] / Andrew Fuhrmann p53. Into the desert [Strict Rules: The iconic story of the tour that shaped Midnight Oil by Andrew McMillan] / Gareth Hipwell p54.

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RECENT ADDITIONSAustralian Book Review: ABR P 028.1 ABR

No. 392 JUNE 2017: Sacred and profane [The fiction of Tim Winton: earthed and sacred by Lun McCredden] / Tony Hughes-d’Aeth p23. No refuge [no more boats by Felicity Castagna] / Donata Carrazza p36. ‘A city of wheat’: literary witnesses of the wheatbelt [like nothing on this earth: A literary history of the wheatbelt by Tony Hughes-d’Aeth] / Delys Bird p38. Publisher of the month with Henry Rosenbloom p49. Catholic actions: examining the Split [of labour and liberty: distributism in Victoria 1891-1966 by Rae Mathews] p50. Signalers [code breakers: inside the shadow world of signals intelligence in Australia’s two Bletchly Parks by Craig Collie] / Simon Casterson p55 Whitely [movie about Brett Whitely directed by James Bogle] / Barnarby Smith p58. Van Gogh and the seasons [NGV exhibition] / Peter Hill p59. Three little words [Joanna Murray-Smith’s play] / Andrew Fuhrmann p65. Minnie and Liraz [Lally Katzs’ play] / Carol Middleton p71. Critic of the month with Morag Fraser p72.

Victoria Books Outline of the Physiography and Geology of Victoria / Ernest W. Skeats (1935)

The Last Battle [Federated Clerks Union, Vic. Branch] / Lindsay Tanner (1996)

Bendigo Celebrating Bendigo Women / Brenda Stevens-Chambers (2016)

Bendigo My ANZAC Quest [Henry Foster Midgley] / Brenda Stevens-Chambers (2014)

Camperdown The Volocanic Edge: The Mt Leura and Mt Sugarloaf Reserves Camperdown (2003)

Dandenong Celebrating 150 years: The history of the Dandenong Market / Michael Smith (2016)

Darebin Taking a Punt: first stop Bonegilla / stories by Darebin residents ; edited by Merrilee Moss (1997)

Geelong Polwarth Football: An Australian Rules journey to the Colac-Otway, Birregurra, Winchelsea and Bellarine regions (2015)

Gippsland Creeks and Harbours of the Gippsland Lakes / Richard Hawkins (1984)

Hamilton We Are Not All Gentlemen Here: The Hamilton Club 1875-2011 / Gordon Forth (2014) [donated by David Pool]

Kinglake A Shrine on the Mountain: The story of St. Peter’s Memorial Church Kinglake / Jillian Durance (2017) [donated by Jillian Durance]

Langwarrin Cruden Farm: Garden diaries / Michael Morrison and Linda Clausen (2017)

Maryborough Militia Units of Maryborough 1860-1901 / Michael P. Garnett (2017)

Mornington Peninsula Between the Bays: Mornington Peninsula [2nd copy] / Joan Bogunda and Leslie M. Moorhead (1979) [donated by David Pool]

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RECENT ADDITIONS

Parkville The Record: The magazine of the University High School-Parkville [1940] (1947) [donated by David Pool]

Pomborneit Hundreds and Hat-Tricks: The history of Pomborneit Cricket Club / Kenneth O’Neill (1986)

Romsey Romsey’s Tribute: 1914-1919 / Michael P. Garnett (2017) [donated by Michael P. Garnett]

St Kilda St. Kilda Tourism Development Plan. 1986?

Sunbury Rotary Club of Sunbury: 40 year history 1973-2013 / PDG Terry Grant and PP Peter Free (2013) [donated by David Pool]

Warncoort Warncoort and Mount Gellibrand history / Birregurra District History Centre (2016)

Western Melbourne Sites of Geological and Geomorphological Significance in the Western Region of Melbourne / N.J Rosengren (1987)

Western Port The Geology and Hydrogeology of the Western Port Area. / J.J Jenkins (1962)

Periodicals Royal Historical Society of Victoria: Victorian historical journal P 994.5 VHJ

No.286 DECEMBER 2016: I feel it dreadful to be out of work’: Tom Purcell and William Farrell and the Melbourne Labour Market 1875-1908 / John Lack and Charles Fahey p196. Melbourne journalist reports on the ‘Storm Centre of Asia’, 1931-32 Janet Mitchell: journalist, internationalist, educationalist / Patricia Clarke p217. Beechworth goldfield and large scale water management in colonial Victoria / Peter Davies, Susan Lawrence and Jodi Turnbull p237. The Wirrengren-Kulkyne Pathway: locating a cultural icon / John Burch p261. ‘The remarkable disappearance of Messrs Gellibrand and Hesse.’ What really happened in 1837? A re-examination of the historical evidence p278. Historical note: the day Georgiana McCrae got it wrong [George Smythe] / Barbara Minchinton p298.

National Trust Victoria P 363.69 TRU No. 9 MAY 2017: Avenues of honour: A photographic exhibition p2. Going, going, gone: the crisis in traditional trade skills / Bronwyn Dunn and Rhonda Emery p3. Having a voice: highlights of the 2017 Australian Heritage Festival / Jessica Antolino and Jessica Hood p7. Nightlight: A fashion exhibition of the 1920s and 30s p10. Our collections [mourning clothes] / Martin Green p12. Advocacy watchlist [Melbourne Metro rail project, Ovoid Sewer Aqueduct, Red Cross Rest House, Richmond Maltings complex, Queen Victoria Market, Carlton Inn/ Corkman Irish pub, Burnham Beeches, Mr Buffalo Chalet, Sunbury Rings cultural landscape, Point Nepean National Park, Ballarat Station precinct redevelopment] p14.

Ararat Ararat Genealogical Society: newsletter P 994.57 ARAR ARA MAY 2017: Old medical terminology p1. What was in the news 100 years ago [Ararat Borough Council, sports gathering, Ararat Fire Brigade, Rossbridge, Ararat High School, queen coronation ceremony, woodcutter’s mysterious disappearance, missing man found, John Bradshaw, Mrs Margaret Taylor, Mr Matthew Taylor, ] p3.

Avoca Avoca and District Historical Society: Pyrenees pioneers P 994.54 AVOC PYR No. 284 MARCH 2017: The 2016 annual general meeting [talk on the history of the RHSV] p1. Our gem has been re-polished [Avoca railway station] p3. Woodend and women’s rights p4.

Ballarat Ballarat Historical Society: the lamplight P 994.57 BALL LAM Vol.7 No.3 MAY 2017: The Walter J. Jones story / Kevin Williams p3. Demystifying Doctor Blake p4. It happened at our meetings: Doctor W.B Otway-a very interesting character / Michael Cuttle p8. Bardwell [photographer William Bardwell] p10. Down the White Swan Trail and the little silver bell [White Swan Hotel and the trip to Ballarat Girl’s School by bus] p11.

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RECENT ADDITIONSBright Bright and District Historical Society: newsletter P 994.55 BRIG BRI

Vol. 17 No. 3&4 MARCH-APRIL 2017: Dan Webb 1924-2017 p1. Wandiligong Swimming Baths (The Alpine Observer, October 31 1912) p3. Visitors to the museum [Bellis family] p4. Death at Dargo [Antonio Glaveorio who died in 1913] p5. A wayward tourist: lost in Bright (The Alpine Observer, May 16, 1913) p7.

Camperdown Camperdown Historical Society: newsletter P 994.57 CAMP CAM Vol. 27 No.2 APRIL 2017: WW1 medals [Woodhams family medals] p5. Burns festival 2017 p6. Dairy display [Gardiner Dairy Foundation] p6.

Carrisbrook Carisbrook Historical Society: the logs P 994.54 CARI LOG Vol.7 No.10 APRIL 2017: Local World War One honour boards II. St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Carisbrook [ Rupert Baker, Percy Charles Samuel Bland, Albert Edward Botten, Edgar Gordon Botten, Richard Thomas Botten, Robert Bruce Botten, William Alfred Botten, Robert James Capron, Samuel Robert Clover, Frederick Wilton Davis, Bernard Downs MM, Arthur Charles Victor Goodsell, Alexander Goodlett, Conrad Clyde Herd, James Henry Herd, Francis Lock DCM, Frank Godfrey Moss, Herbert Gladstone Moss, George McDonald, William Malcolm McIntyre, Charles Archibald Napier, Henry Livingstone Napier, William Louis Pickering, David John Roberts, Ernest Penningtn Smith, Alexander Wadsworth MM, Thomas Henry Wenmouth, Bernard Percival White, William Joseph Wilson, Frederick William Wright] / Alex Stoneman p3. Stamping around: Leviathan Reef post office / Alex Stoneman p12.

Inverloch Inverloch Historical Society: newsletter P 994.56 INVE INV No. 222 APRIL 2017: Display cards [people of Inverloch, Shack Bay, The Esplanade, Kongwak and Pound Creek, The Great Southern Railway] p1.

Kangaroo Ground Andrew Ross Museum: Kangaroo Ground chronicle P 994.51 KANG AND Vol.23 AUTUMN 2017: A brief history Kangaroo Ground Fire Brigade p2.

Linton Linton and District Historical Society: society notes P 994.57 LINT LIN No. 295 MAY 2017: Completion of restoration of Nelson’s Undertakers building p1. Max Kerr’s fascinating collection of objects and ephemera from our colonial past p2. International Women’s Day speech highlights the hidden story of women in history in Linton p4. John Howells-a new chum who settled in Linton p6.

Moreland Moreland history news P 994.51 MORE MOR No. 12 FEBRUARY 2016: The Upfield line p2. Two Brunswick pioneers: Frank Anstey and Jimmy Jewell p3. Down the line to Upfield [North Melbourne to Coburg and Somerton] p5. Ballroom dancing @ Jessie Morris Community Hall / Katherine Linehan p10.

Port Phillip Port Phillip Pioneers Group: newsletter P 929.2 POR No. 198 APRIL 2017: The Government Officer, Melbourne [lithograph by Thomas Ham] p1. Marg Kaan: The Mantons p3. Victoria’s first printing presses p5. Notes of a bush life: from the South Australian Register 1843 p6.

Rye Rye Historical Society: white cliffs journal P 994.52 RYE WHI APRIL 2017: Dorothy Houghton MBE: 1st January 1920-2nd January 2017 p6. A blast from the past: Rolling thunder in “The Cups” country in 1940-45 [WWII army training on the Peninsula] p7. Corinella: Victoria’s forgotten episode p8. Acetylene gas generators for home lighting p12. Rye: windmills and rainfall records p14.

Warracknabeal Warracknabeal and District Historical Society: Warunda review P 994.58 WARR WAR Vol.51 No.3 MAY 2017: John D. Searby MD Foyer officially opened p1. Our 50th rally a huge success p2. 150th celebrations p6.

Warragul Warragul and District Historical Society: monthly bulletin P 994.56 WARR WAR No.494 APRIL 2017: Last meeting [Dr Jim Connelly, Warragul Agricultural High School and Dr Harris and the bus from Garfield to Warragul] p1. John Balharrie p11.

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RECENT ADDITIONSWaverley Waverley Historical Society: newsletter P 994.51 WAVE WAV

No. 219 MAY 2017: The house [Millar House] p1. February meeting-Dr Jim Poulter: Aboriginal history and songlines p2. 100th anniversary of maternal child health nurses Victoria / MarJo Angelico p4. More recollections of Arthur Rhodes / Bevel Yeoman p5. The Glen Waverley-Hampton Park connection p8. Street names [Yanigin Drive] p219.

Queensland Other StatesBooks Crows Nest Shire From Tall Timbers: A Folk History of Crows Nest Shire-1988 (2nd copy) / Crow’s Nest

and District Progress Association (2016)

Lakes Creek Our suburb, Our story: Lakes creek and Koongal / Cheryl Haughton (2016)

South Australia Books Balliere’s South Australian Gazetteer and Road Guide: Containing the most recent and accurate

information as to every place in the colony [fascimile of 1866 edition] / Compiled by Robert P. Whitworth (1991) [donated by David Pool]

Western Australia Periodicals Royal Western Australian Historical Society: History West P 994.1 HIS

APRIL 2017: History in the city [Georgiana Molloy] / Lorraine Tholet p2.

Art and Artists Books Beyond the Battlefield: Women artists of the two world wars / Catherine Speck (2014)

Periodicals National Gallery of Victoria: NGV Magazine P 708 NGV

MAY 2017: Mixing prints [senior creator of international decorative arts and antiquities Amanda Dunsmore] p37. Women in leadership p44. Andrew Rogers / Lisa Marie Corso p57. Scott Tanner and the Great Hall ceiling / Greta Voller p64. New to the collection: contemporary chairs p68. Private tour [Ronnie Scott’s tour of the exhibition Every Brilliant Eye: Australian art of the 1960s.] p72. Creative sparks [Louise Patrick and her shoes inspired by the Van Gogh and the seasons exhibition] p82.

Art Deco and Modernism Society: spirit of progress P 720 SPI No. 69 AUTUMN 2017: Melmo: A modernist walk in Melbourne [Orica House, Gilbert Court, Coates Building, State Government Buildings, Reserve Bank, Collins Place, Hoyts Cinema Centre, Total House, Royal Mail House, Colonial Mutual Limited, AMP Square, Hosies Hotel] / Robin Grow p5. Bricks / Robin Grow p20.

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RECENT ADDITIONS

Biographies Books Beyond the Rock: The life of Joan Lindsay and the mystery of Picnic at Hanging Rock / Janelle McCulloch

(2017)

Margaret and Me: Recipes for life from my Grandmother’s kitchen / Kate Gibbs and Margaret Fulton (2015)

Left is Right: The life of Bas van den Ende 1935- / Bas van den Ende 2016? [donated by David Pool]

A Thinking Reed [autobiography] / Barry Jones (2006) [donated by Ursula Zamecnik]

Tom Price: From stone cutter to Premier / Stephanie McCarthy (2015)

Red Professor: The cold war life of Fred Rose / Peter Monteath (2015)

Dymphna [Dymphna Clark] / Judith Armstrong (2016)

The Iron Man of Sydney Cove: The untold story of Richard Dawson, colonial engineer / Harry Irwin (2017)

Company Histories Books Holden: our car 1856-2017 / Toby Hagon and Will Hagon (2017)

Building Cars in Australia: Morris, Austin, BMC and Leyland 1959-1975 (2007)

100 Years Electrical Contracting in Australia: From gas lighting to fibre optics [National Electrical and Communictions Association] / Brian C. Seymour (2016) [donated by David Pool]

Years of Grace: The first fifty years in Australia W.R Grace / Trevor Wilson (1986) [donated by Colin Davis]

Family History Books Thomson [Thomson family history] / Robin Dettmann (2015)

Frederick Fry. Mary Ann Simmons and Family c. 1900 / Bruce Fry and Gwenda Gullan (2015) [donated by David Pool]

Mary Esther Garraway and Family / Bruce Fry and Wally Percy (2014) [donated by David Pool]

Upon Reflection [Baker and Wade families] / Patricia Gagliardi (2012) [donated by David Pool]

Bright Morning: The story of an Australian Family before 1914 / Frances Margaret McGuire (1975) [donated anon]

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Periodicals Genealogical Society of Victoria: ancestor P 929.1 ANC

Vol.33 No.6 JUNE 2017: From destitution to prosperity [Rankins of Geelong] / James McDonald p4. My father never again celebrated christmas [Dugald Campbell and Catherine Matheson] / John Stewart p8. The wedding photo [wedding photo of James Gallagher and Mary Mooney] / Glad Wishart p12. The adventurous life of Jonathan Harris (1800-1891) of Benalla / John MJ Fitzpatrick p16. Robert, who’s your daddy? And your mummy, too, for that matter? [Robert Bowman] / Richard Olive p19. Bond to significant women holds with name and date [James Beaton] / Jacqueline Dinan p21. Walter James Tuck-tinsmith, plumber and iron workers, Mirboo North, Gippsland / Noreen Nation p23. Changed to the GSV library p27.

Military Histories Books Diary and Photographs of Ben Edgcumbe: May 1917 to July 1919 Western Front, France / edited by

Caroline Spowart (2016) [donated by Caroline Spowart]

A Lion in the Colony: A chronological diary of the evolution of the Tasmanian Colonial Military Forces 1859 to 1903 / Douglas Morris Wyatt, OAM, RFd (2016) [donated by David Pool]

Tomorrow We Escape: One man’s extraordinary story of courage and survival from Tobruk to the prison camps of occupied Europe / Tom Trumble (2014) [donated by David Harmer]

Australian and New Zealand Honours and Awards of the Boer War 1899-1902 / Ronald J Austin (2010) [donated by David Pool]

Railways/Transport Books Leyland P76: Anything but average. A history of a uniquely Australian motor car / Gavin Farmer (2008)

Ford Falcon GT & GT-HO: The total performance years / Gavin Farmer (2017)

Hey Charger: The sensational Australian Chrysler Valiant Chargers / Gavin Farmer & Gary Bridger (2016)

Tasmania’s Bygone Years of Road Transport 1900-1929 / L. J. Morley (2012)

Tasmania’s Bygone Years of Road Transport 1930-1939 / L. J. Morley (2013)

Tasmania’s Bygone Years of Road Transport 1940-1950 / L. J. Morley (2013)

Tasmania’s Bygone Years of Road Transport 1950-1965 / L. J. Morley (2013)

Over the Bridge: A suspended service: A historic precedent - the Northbridge to Wynyard bus service / Leon B. Manny (1988) [donated by Steven Haby]

Melbourne [railways in Victoria and NSW] / NSW Railway and Transport Museum (1973) [donated by Steven Haby]

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RECENT ADDITIONS

Periodicals The Times: A journal of timetable history and analysis

Vol.34 No.4 APRIL 2017: Bus maximus-coach minimus [comparison of Melbourne orbital bus routes and WA regional coach services] / Jim Wells p7. Key train changers at Albury [letter in response to article in March 2017 issue] / Albert Isaacs p9. Interrupted journeys [branch line train working Queensland Railways Goomburra branch] / Victor Isaacs p11.

The Times: A journal of timetable history and analysis Vol.34 No.5 MAY 2017: The last of the Mohicans [NSW railway timetables issued May 1968] / Geoff Lambert p3.

The Times: A journal of timetable history and analysis Vol.32 No.12 DECEMBER 2015: Trams and the Commissioner in deep water [Manly floods in 1931 and effect on trams] / Geoff Lambert p3. New South Wales Railways: 21 years after the first train left Sydney / Albert Isaacs p7.

The Times: A journal of timetable history and analysis Vol.27 n.5 MAY 2010: Avalon’s [Sydney] local bus routes 191-193: marking the demise of route 193 / Robert Henderson p3, Wild nights at Wildwood [rail services on the Bendigo line, Black Thursday 1941] / Geoff Lambert p7. Consider your verdict: railway crimes on trial [railway planning and management mistakes in Australia] p17.

The Times: A journal of timetable history and analysis Vol.24 No.9 SEPTEMBER 2007: From Wombat St to Govett’s Leap [Katoomba bus routes] / Jim O’Neil p3. Riding six white horses (when she comes) [Cobb & Co coach network in Australia] / Geoff Lambert p10. Urban bus routes in country Victoria [Daylesford-Hepburn Springs and Mooroopna-Shepparton] / Adrian Desanti p19.

The Times: A journal of timetable history and analysis Vol.24 No.5 MAY 2007: Red Top buses from Strathfield to Hurstville / Jim O’Neil p3. They’re racing [bus services that served Flemington Racecourse and the Showgrounds in Melbourne] / Geoff Mann p13.

Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division): newsrail P 385 NEW Vol.45 No.5 MAY 2017: Seymour to Southern Cross by Hudson / Peter Foote p137. Story Point: A basic perspective / Steve Dalton p140. Centenary of the opening of the Rushworth to Girgarre line p143. A2 Class locomotives in the 1960s / Robert Wilson p146.

Australian Railway Historical Society: Australian railway history P 385 AUS Vol.69 No.955 MAY 2017: The Norton Griffiths saga: misfortune or mismanagement / Neville Pollard p4. Alan Parkinson’s story: part 4: to senior management / Colin Bull p11. Locomotive depots of South Australia: their features and evolution / Rodney Barrington p20. Rough ride on 3378 / Percy Suckling p27.

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GovernanceThe PMI is incorporated under the Prahran Mechanics’ Institute Act No 1617 (1899) and operates under the Rules of the Prahran Mechanics’ Institute and Circulating Library, gazetted in the Victorian Parliament on 24 July 2007.Members are provided with copies of the PMI legislation and Library Policy on request, and can join our mailing list to receive committee meeting minutes.

CommitteeThe PMI is administered by a committee of seven people. Six Committee members are elected by the members of the PMI at the annual general meeting for a four year term of office and one person appointed by the City of Stonnington.The current PMI Committee Members are:

f Cr Steve Stefanopoulos (President) f Dr Judith Buckrich (Vice President) f Mr Ben Quin, CPA (Treasurer) f Cr John Chandler OAM

f Mr Chris Michalopoulos f Mr Peter Wolfenden f Cr Melina Sehr (City of Stonnington representative)

The PMI Library Staff f Steven Haby, (BASocSci Librarianship) (Secretary Librarian) f Ellen Coates (BA (Hons); MA (Info. Stud.)) (Collections Librarian) f Christine Moysey-Barker (AssocDegInfoStud) (Marketing and Communications Officer) f Ursula Zamecnik (DipLib&InfSt) (Library Technician)

The Prahran Mechanics’ Institute is an institutional member of the Australian Library & Information Association and is a member society of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria.

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ParkingParking is available at the institute on a first-come-first-serve basis.

There are 3 spaces at the front of the building and a further 7 spaces in the garage (accessed from the front of the building on St Edmonds Rd) – please park in the numbered spaces to avoid blocking cars in. If all spaces are taken, there is 1 hour parking in St Edmonds Road and Greville Street, and there is also parking (ticketed) at the Izett Street carpark (on the other side of Greville Street).

TrainsThe Institute is one block from Prahran Station (Sandringham Line), turn right into Greville Street and then right again into St Edmonds Rd.

Trams There is also the #6 tram running along High Street, the #72 tram along Com-mercial Road and the #78 tram along Chapel Street.

BusesBuses #216, #219 and #220 run along Commercial Road. You can alight at the Prahran Market stop.