VICTORIAN HISTORICAL JOURNAL VOLUME 89, NUMBER 2, DECEMBER 2018 ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA VICTORIAN HISTORICAL JOURNAL ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA The Royal Historical Society of Victoria is a community organisation comprising people from many fields committed to collecting, researching and sharing an understanding of the history of Victoria. The Victorian Historical Journal is a fully refereed journal dedicated to Australian, and especially Victorian, history produced twice yearly by the Publications Committee, Royal Historical Society of Victoria. PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE Judith Smart and Richard Broome (Editors, Victorian Historical Journal) Jill Barnard Rozzi Bazzani Sharon Betridge (Co-editor, History News) Marilyn Bowler Richard Broome (Convenor) (Co-Editor, History News) Marie Clark Jonathan Craig (Review Editor) Don Garden (President, RHSV) John Rickard Judith Smart Lee Sulkowska Carole Woods BECOME A MEMBER Membership of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria is open. All those with an interest in history are welcome to join. 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Front Cover: Alfred and Ellen Waugh arrive at the Amsterdam Town Hall with Uiver bronze statuette for presentation to the burgemeester of Amsterdam, Willem de Vlugt, 15 August 1935, published in De Telegraaf, 16 August 1935, p. 3 (Courtesy AlburyCity Collection) VICTORIAN HISTORICAL JOURNAL VOLUME 89, NUMBER 2 DECEMBER 2018 ARTICLES Introduction 205 Judith Smart and Richard Broome Joan Hunt and the Local History Movement in Victoria 209 Bill Russell History and Heritage: The Inaugural Weston Bate Oration 214 Stuart Macintyre The Uiver: Memory Creation, Loss and Recovery 227 Noel Jackling Turning the Screw: The 1916 Victorian Campaign for Conscription 253 John Lack Melba’s Gift Book: Fund-raising, Propaganda and Australian Identity in 283 World War I Lucy Bracey A Place of Hope? Family Life and Post-war Refugee Experience in Somers 304 Migrant Holding Centre Sandra Sutcliffe Amelia Carey White—Her Book, Her Life: Victoria, October 1852 to November 1859 325 Marion Amies HISTORICAL NOTES Dendy’s Brighton Plan: Questions, Conjectures and Insights 347 Mike Scott Joseph Raleigh: ‘a new course of life’ and Some Street Names 360 John Daniels REVIEWS Pompey Elliott at War: In His Own Words. By Ross McMullin 371 Lucas Jordan Stealth Raiders: A Few Daring Men in 1918. By Lucas Jordan 373 Carolyn Holbrook La Trobe: Traveller, Writer, Governor. By John Barnes 376 Richard Broome From the Margins to the Mainstream: The Domestic Violence Services 378 Movement in Victoria, Australia, 1974–2016. By Jacqui Theobald and Suellen Murray with Judith Smart Shurlee Swain Returning the Kulkyne. By John Burch 381 Richard Broome Can You Hear the Sea? My Grandmother’s Story. By Brenda Niall 383 Marian Quartly Understanding Our Natural World: The Field Naturalists Club of Victoria 385 1880–2015. By Gary Presland Andrea Gaynor Cazaly: The Legend. By Robert Allen 387 The Game of Their Lives. By Nick Richardson Peter Burke ‘A Secondary Education for All’?: A History of State Secondary Schooling 391 in Victoria. By John Andrews and Deborah Towns Cheryl Griffin Granville Stapylton Australia Felix 1836: Second in Command to 393 Major Mitchell. By Gregory C. Eccleston John Burch Notes on Contributors 396 About the Royal Historical Society of Victoria 400 Guidelines for Contributors 401 How to become a Patron of the Victorian Historical Journal The RHSV invites you to become a patron of the journal to guarantee its future for the next 100 years. Annually: $250 $500 $1,000 Annually for the following periods I year 3 years 5 years (The RHSV is a tax-deductible entity and all contributions from patrons will be tax deductible) Please reply with your preferred pledge to Richard Broome, Chair of the Publications Committee, on [email protected] and you will be contacted regarding payment. If you are unable to become a patron at this time, please consider an RHSV membership: see http://www.historyvictoria.org.au/ and choose the ‘support us’ button on the service bar. CURRENT PATRONS Emeritus Professor Richard Broome FRHSV, La Trobe University; Jonathan Craig; Emeritus Professor Graeme Davison AO, Monash University; Jim Dixon; Dr John Dwyer QC; Dr Alan Gregory; Carol Holsworth; Associate Professor Renate Howe AM, Deakin University, and Professor Brian Howe AO, University of Melbourne; Dr Murray Johns; His Honour Paul R. Mullaly QC; Emeritus Professor John Poynter, University of Melbourne; Dr Gary Presland FRHSV; Emeritus Professor John Rickard FRHSV; Professor Lynette Russell, Monash University; Stephen Shelmerdine AM; Adjunct Professor Judith Smart FRHSV, RMIT University; Carole Woods FRHSV Enhance your next book with an Index by Terri Mackenzie Professional Back of Book Indexer Member of Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers Honorary Victorian Historical Journal Indexer [email protected] [email protected] The John Adams Prize To honour John D. Adams (1935–2015) FRHSV, Councillor (1966– 2005), and to use his bequest of $10,000 to the RHSV in an appropriate manner, the RHSV has created a biennial prize. Since John Adams, a lecturer in Librarianship at RMIT for 27 years, was also the honorary indexer of the Victorian Historical Journal, indexing it for the years 1954–2013, the prize will be for the best article or historical note in the journal over a two-year period, commencing with Issues 287–290 (2017 and 2018). The following terms apply to the prize: • This biennial prize will be awarded for the best article or historical note on Victorian history in the four VHJ issues over two calendar years, beginning 2017–18. • The prize will be awarded for an article or historical note that illuminates a significant element of Victoria’s history, is clearly and succinctly written, and is researched from original material. • Members of the RHSV Publications Committee are ineligible for the award. • The prize offered from the Adams bequest is $300 and three years’ free membership of the RHSV, which includes hard copies of the VHJ. • A short list of five articles will be compiled by the VHJ editors active in the prize period. • Short-listing will occur at the end of each two-year period, beginning in December 2018. • Two judges will be chosen by the Publications Committee from academic and community historians and will report to the Committee by the following April. • The John Adams Prize will be presented biennially at the RHSV AGM following its judging and will be announced in the ensuing June issues of the VHJ and History News. Richard Broome, Chair, RHSV Publications Committee viii Introduction Judith Smart and Richard Broome The articles in this issue of the Victorian Historical Journal span heritage and memory, patriotic fundraising and the pro-conscription campaign during World War I, post–World War II refugee experiences, and the recollections of a regimental officer’s wife in the 1850s. Two historical notes focus on early Melbourne—one on 1840s businessman and merchant Joseph Raleigh, the other on Brighton’s unique street plan of 1841. We pay special homage, too, to Dr Joan Hunt and her major contribution to community history. We begin with Bill Russell’s tribute to Dr Hunt, delivered at her memorial service in Ballarat on 20 September this year, and emphasising her key role in the local heritage and community history movements throughout Victoria. While Joan’s main focus was the Ballarat and Central Highlands region, she also ‘travelled from one end of the state to the other, organising meetings and seminars, talking and communicating, and providing a backbone of good relations among hundreds if not thousands of heritage-minded people across Victoria’. She is irreplaceable but her memory and legacy will endure. The RHSV was privileged this year to hear Professor Stuart Macintrye deliver the society’s Inaugural Weston Bate Oration, published here as ‘History and Heritage’. Since 2015 Professor Macintyre has chaired Victoria’s Heritage Council, the body responsible for adding places to the state’s Heritage Register working in conjunction with Heritage Victoria, a branch of the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning. His focus for this lecture was the limitations of the Heritage Council’s powers in relation to local heritage. He also noted ‘the disparity between resources available for places on the VHR and those included in local heritage overlays’; ‘the need for greater capacity at the local level’; and the desirability of ‘a review of the arrangements for local heritage’. Public surveys, he noted, have identified the preservation of local buildings and landmarks as the major popular heritage concern. In his article on ‘The Uiver’, Noel Jackling explores the process of ‘Memory Creation, Loss and Recovery’ arising from the role of the Albury community in ensuring the safe landing and extraction from 205 mud of a Dutch DC-2 aeroplane, known as the ‘Uiver’ or ‘Stork’, in the early morning of 24 October 1934.