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Number 19, 1991 the Historical Society of South Australia JOURNAL of the HISTORICAL SOCIETY of SOUTH AUSTRALIA NUMBER 19, 1991 THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA Founded 1974 Objects: JOURNAL (a)to arouse interest in and to promote the study and discussion of South Australian and Australian history. (b)to promote the collection, preservation and classification of of the source material of all kinds relating to South Australian and Australian history. (c)to publish historical records and articles. (d)to promote the interchange of information among members of HISTORICAL SOCIETY the Society by lectures, readings, discussions and exhibitions. (e)to co- operate with similar Societies throughout Australia. (t)to do all such things as are conducive or incidental to the attainment of the above objects or any of them. of SOUTH AUSTRALIA COUNCIL 1991 PATRON: Sir Walter Crocker, K.B.E PRESIDENT: Dr R.P.J. Nicol VICE PRESIDENT: Mr B.J. Samuels SECRETARY: Mr M. Keain TREASURER: Mrs A. Huckel MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY: Mrs E. Ulbrich JOURNALEDITOR: Dr J. D. Playford MEMBERS: Mr H. Angas Mr R.M. Gibbs, A.M. NUMBER 19, 1991 Dr P.A. Howell Ms P. Payne Mr W. Stacy Ms P. Sumerling Editors: John Playford NEWSLETTER EDITOR: Dr I. Harmstorf AUDITOR: Mr G. Ralph Robert Nicol All enquiries about membership of the Society or purchase of the Journal should be directed to the Secretary, The Historical Society of South Australia, Institute Building, 122 Kintore Avenue, Adelaide, SA 5000. Correspondence with the Editor of the Journal should be directed to the same address. CONTENTS Obituary Richard Hugh Bell Kearns (1914 -1991) 5 Articles From Crewman to Cabbie: A Profile of the First Italian Settler in South Australia Desmond O'Connor 8 Pull -down Brigade': The Conservative Campaign against the Village Settlements in 1895 Julie -Ann Ellis 26 Gardens and Gardening in Adelaide in the Nineteenth Century Roma Hodgkinson 42 John Gould: Travels and Faunal Collections in South Australia Sean Dawes 78 A Statistical Approach to the Peopling of South Australia: Immigration from the United Kingdom, 1836 -1900 Robin Haines and Ralph Shlomowitz 108 Early Lutheran Printed Books in South Australian Collections Maurice E. Schild 119 `What Splendid Country': John McDouall Stuart and the Chambers Bay Coastal Plains David Carment 135 Quality Control in Twentieth Century South Australia Matthew Jordan 144 From Pariah to Pacesetter: The Adelaide Media and the Quakers, 1915 -1923 Charles Stevenson 165 Sir George Murray (1863 - 1942): His Public Community Career V.A. Edgeloe 173 Reviews Obituary Heritage of the City of Adelaide: An Illustrated Guide, Susan Marsden, Paul Stark and Patricia Sumerling (eds)(R.M. Gibbs) 183 Calling me Home: The Romance of South Australia in Story and Song, Richard Hugh Bell Kearns (1914 -1991) Graham Jenkin (Jenis Stock) 186 When Dick Kearns died in Adelaide on 3 June 1991, the Historical Society of Britain's Convicts to the Colonies, Wilfred Oldham South Australia lost a former President and one of its staunchest supporters. (Ralph Sholomowitz) 187 Almost from the Society's foundation its members have enjoyed Dick's friend- Resistance and Retaliation: Aboriginal- European Relations in Early Co- ship and profited from his endeavours. The Society is fortunate that Dick chose lonial South Australia, Alan Pope (P A. Howell) 191 to include it in his wide range of interests and avenues of service. Manning's Place Names of South Australia, Geoffrey H. Manning Richard Hugh Bell Kearns, son of Richard and Rachel Kearns, was born in (Rob Linn) 192 Adelaide on 8 November 1914. After his father's early death he grew up in SACA: The History of the South Australian Cricket Association, Burra, where his mother's family lived and where he attended the local primary Chris Harte (Wray Vamplew) 194 and high schools. His first job was with the firm of Drew and Crewes, the The Confessions of Clyde Cameron 1912 -1990, as told to Daniel well -known merchants and importers at Kooringa and Aberdeen. Founded in Connell (Jenis Stock) 196 1847, the firm grew to be the largest of its kind outside Adelaide. It was a daily The Cameron Diaries, Clyde Cameron (Jenis Stock) 196 anchor for Dick's enterprise, which extended after hours to Leaving Certificate A Matter of Independence: a History of the South Australian Auditor classes, to the activitiesespecially choral of the Kooringa Methodist General's Department 1848 -1990, Glen Ralph (P A. Howell) . 198 Church, and to tennis. After joining a legal firm in 1935 he took subjects for an Shipwreck Sites in the South -East of South Australia 1838 -1915, accounting diploma. Paul Clark (R.T. Sexton) 199 Shipping Arrivals and Departures South Australia 1627 -1850, R.T. Sexton (Ronald Parsons) 201 Report The Society's Activities, 1990 202 Correction 204 air Editorial Committee: R.M. Gibbs, R.P.J. Nicol, J.D. Playford, W.S. Stacy The Historical Society of South Australia gratefully acknowledges the sup- a port of the History Trust of South Australia in the production of this Journal. Mr David Smith (Managing Editor of the Advertiser), the late R.H.B. Kearns and the ISSN 0312 -9640 Society's patron, Sir Walter Crocker, at the launching of the Society's facsimile volume. 6 Obituary 7 In 1938 Dick joined the accounting department of North Broken Hill Ltd. Pictorial History (248pp.) His energy also flowed into other historical causes, (His move had an interesting precedent: `Dick' Lewis Essington Lewis such as the founding of the museum in the old Silverton Gaol, the restoration another Burra boy studying for a diploma, had gone to Broken Hill three decades of the Broken Hill Mosque and, most notably, the successful campaign to avert earlier, and both had grandfathers who had been in the district before the town the destruction of the ornamental facade of the Broken Hill Town Hall. was founded.) In Broken Hill Dick continued his accountancy studies, choral Retiring to Adelaide in 1976, Dick was soon active in the Historical Society work, tennis and Methodist associations. His fine tenor voice was heard in of South Australia. Alert, cheerful and industrious, he had much to offer, and quartets and the Broken Hill Philharmonic Society; it was trained in public was welcomed as a Council member in 1978 and then as Vice - President. He speaking in the YMCA; it was the medium for conversation with the many local was President for a two -year term from 1982 to 1984, and continued as a Council families whose hospitality he much enjoyed. War, however, broke the measure member until April 1989. Dick brought to the Council the same enthusiasm and of that full life. Enlisting in the Royal Australian Air Force in June 1 940, he efficiency that had marked his previous undertakings. He was anxious to see trained as a wireless operator, serving in New Guinea and the Solomons. In the that the 1986 Sesquicentenary celebrations should produce historical publica- Solomons, where he endured constant aerial bombardment, his base was evac- tions of quality, and took his work on the relevant committee very seriously. uated only an hour before the islands fell. An old copra trading launch, moving The Historical Society had already considered republishing some early issues only at night, became the means of retreat for Dick and a few others. Something of the South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register, but those who examined of the future historian and careful custodian of records was already evident: with the question, including the writer of this obituary, had wilted before the many him in the withdrawal were his Tulagi diary and photographs. records carefully problems that had appeared. Not so Dick Kearns. In dogged fashion he sur- compiled with the aid of film sent quietly by his mother. The Australian National mounted all the difficulties, and the publication of the first forty -nine issues in War Memorial and the Mortlock Library hold copies of this valuable record of 1988 was the result. As Sir Walter Crocker said in the Foreword: `The project Australian involvement in the Guadalcanal area before the American arrival. is largely his, in both its concept and execution. It is only because of his Dick's remaining war service was at mainland bases; his final post was as an imagination, knowledge, zest, persistence and business sense that this admirable instructor at Point Cook. After returning to Broken Hill he was married on 1 volume has at last been published'. January 1947. His accounting and secretarial qualifications helped his steady Dick carried these qualities to the end, in the Society and well beyond it. progress in North Broken Hill, and in 1963 he became Chief Mine Accountant, Because he had interests in a number of different fields; few may realise his total a position he held until his retirement in 1976. Dick's involvement in community achievement, his extraordinary capacity for work and his clear- sighted percep- affairs was remarkable, not merely for its range but for its level of commitment. tion of how to do thingsespecially when some officialdom stood in the way. At various times he was president or chairman of the Legacy Group, the Hospital His efforts for Legacy, a cause to which he gave countless days, brought him Board and five building societies; he held office in many other bodies; he could an outstanding reputation for securing pension entitlements. He gave much of be found singing in Handel's Messiah, auditing the books of charitable or- his final energy, in late hours of the night, to the National Trust's work in the ganisations and helping to administer health and pension funds. His public registration of significant trees. Despite heart trouble he continued his busy service was recognised when he was made a Member of the Order of the British schedule until the last weeks of his life.
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