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Provenance 2011 Issue 10, 2011 ISSN: 1832-2522 Index About Provenance 2 Editorial 4 Refereed articles 6 Susanne Davies The Search for a Certain Cure: Doctors, Drunkards and Victoria’s Committee of Inquiry 1901 7 Charles Fahey John Sweeney and the Making of an Australian Farming Landscape: A micro-level study of Baulkamaugh and Katunga, 1877-1955 17 Barbara Minchinton The Trouble with Otway Maps: Taking up a selection under Land Act 1884 29 Dr Sarah Mirams ‘Situated Among the Gum Trees’: The Blackburn Open Air School 42 Richard Pennell Looking for Azzopardi: A historic and a modern search 50 Jeremy Smith Losing the Plot: Archaeological Investigations of Prisoner Burials at the Old Melbourne Gaol and Pentridge Prison 62 Brett Wright In Pursuit of the Kelly Reward: An examination of applicants to join the hunt for the Kelly gang in 1879 73 Forum articles 81 Kimberley Meagher and Jill Barnard Exhibiting PROV at the Old Treasury Building 82 Andrew J Kilsby Thomas Joshua Jackson (of ‘Young and Jackson’s Hotel’) 89 Fiona Poulton Little Latrobe Street and the Historical Significance of Melbourne’s Laneways 95 Joan Hunt Campbell and Woolley’s Store 105 Arthur Mitchell Fraas Local History from 8000 Miles Away: Early Colac Court Records in the United States of America 111 1 About Provenance The journal of Public Record Office Victoria Provenance is a free journal published online by Editorial Board Public Record Office Victoria. 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In his article on this long-term project that in their efforts, as they encountered the reality of the has just come to fruition, Jeremy Smith from Heritage impassable places on their selected allotments. Victoria recounts the processes and investigations involved in sorting out the bones in the burial site, and Attempts to address the problem of habitual the remarkable discovery that a stolen skull returned drunkenness date back to the nineteenth. Susanne to Heritage Victoria by Tom Baxter, who thought it was Davies looks at the transition to treatment-based Ned Kelly’s, turns out to belong to Frederick Bailey approaches to this problem which recast it as a Deeming, the nineteenth-century serial killer. Among disease rather than a moral failing. Davies revisits the fascinating insights into the effect of the generous the proceedings of a Victorian government committee reward issued for the capture of Ned Kelly on the established in 1901 to gain an insight into the various progress of the police investigation, Brett Wright draws opinions and cures that were debated at the time, our attention to the ‘engineer Benjamin Dodds, of many of which find their echo in contemporary debates Flinders Lane, Melbourne, [who] laboured over a plan to about substance abuse. establish a network of tethered hot-air balloons in four country towns. Each balloon would act as a look-out In 1942, a Maltese man, Giuseppe Azzopardi murdered and – equipped with an officer, telegraphic operator, a Dutch woman in Smyrna (now Izmir) in Turkey in arms and telescopes – it would be able to rise to a 1842. Richard Pennell’s goes in search Azzopardi, one height of two miles’! of the many people who disappeared between the cracks of the British Empire. Along the journey, Pennell Land records also feature prominently in this year’s discovers that in 1857, Azzopardi’s abandoned wife batch of articles. Charles Fahey presents the story of Concetta had already made an unsuccessful attempt John Sweeney as a case study of the transformation along with several others to trace his location. Like of farming practices on the northern plains of Victoria the earlier search, Pennell’s search, though pushing a during the era of land selection in the 1860s and little further into Azzopardi’s presence on the Victorian 1870s. Part of this transformation involved the clearing goldfields, pursues a trail that eventually goes cold, of woodlands and the use of the felled timber as which leads us to wonder how many other people material for fencing. As Fahey explains, ‘Fencing placed simply disappeared at the fringes of the empire by a huge burden on the northern woodlands… When he selectively obscuring their identities. finally secured his lease … [in 1882], John Sweeney had completed over 5500 metres of fencing erected from From Sarah Mirams we learn about the Open-Air local bush materials… In total, at a minimum estimate, Movement and the little-known experiment that was they [selectors of Baulkamaugh and Katunga where initiated by the Victorian Education Department in Sweeney’s farm was located] constructed over 360,000 1915 in semi-rural Blackburn. The Blackburn Open metres of fencing. When we extrapolate from these two Air School, which was the first of its type in Australia, parishes to the hundreds of parishes on the northern adapted a model first implemented in Germany in plains we can begin to visualise the staggering scale of 1908. The article traces the history of the school, and timber use.’ considers the extent of the adaptation of the open- air philosophy to local conditions and the evidence The impact of inaccurate maps produced by the Lands available in PROV records to tell us about the actual Department for the Otway Ranges is examined by experience of the students and teachers of the school.