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UIVER COLLECTION SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT

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Uiver Collection Significance Assessment

UIVER COLLECTION SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT LibraryMuseum

1 November 2015

Prepared for

Albury City Council

 Context Pty Ltd 2015

Project Team:

Dr Georgia Melville, Project Manager

Chris Johnston, Director

Catherine McLay, Heritage Consultant

Report Register This report register documents the development and issue of the report entitled Uiver Collection Significance Assessment undertaken by Context Pty Ltd in accordance with our internal quality management system.

Project Issue Notes/description Issue Date Issued to No. No.

2051 1 Draft report 20 Oct 2015 Carina Clement 2051 2 Final report 1 Nov 2015 Carina Clement

Context Pty Ltd 22 Merri Street, Brunswick VIC 3056 Phone 03 9380 6933 Facsimile 03 9380 4066

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CONTENTS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY IV 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Background 1 1.2 Scope 1 1.3 Assessment framework 2 1.4 Acknowledgements 2 2 METHODOLOGY 3 2.1 Assessment methodology 3 3 HISTORICAL OUTLINE 5 3.1 Historical themes represented 5 3.2 Contextual history 5 4 DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION 12 4.1 Collection description 12 4.2 Condition and archaeological potential 13 4.3 Integrity and intactness 13 4.4 Collection provenance and modifications 14 4.5 Uses: research and interpretation 14 5 COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS 15 5.1 Evidence of community connections 15 5.2 Associated individuals and groups 20 5.3 ‘Uiver’ communities 21 5.4 Community survey 21 6 SELECTED INDIVIDUAL COLLECTION ITEMS 23 7 COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT 32 8 SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT 34 8.1 NSW State Level Assessment 34 8.2 Australian National level assessment 39 9 RECOMMENDATIONS 44 REFERENCES 45 APPENDIX A: COMMUNITY SURVEY RESULTS 47 APPENDIX B: RECORD OF CONSULTATION AND RESEARCH 48 APPENDIX C: COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT RESEARCH DATA 51 APPENDIX D: ITEMISED COLLECTION LIST 67

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This collection significance assessment was commissioned by the Albury LibraryMuseum to determine whether or not the Uiver Collection meets the threshold for State Heritage List nomination, according to the NSW Heritage Council criteria and thresholds; as well as to assess the collection’s standing against the Collections Council of Australia’s Significance 2.0 criteria and thresholds at a National level. This report will allow Albury City Council to consider nomination of the Uiver Collection to the NSW State Heritage Register (SHR); and on receipt of this nomination, the SHR Committee will then undertake its own detailed research and analysis in consideration for SHR listing. The Heritage Division of the Office of Environment and Heritage have advised that at this early stage in the process, it is appropriate to flag a range of possible areas of heritage significance for their consideration. There are 286 archive, audio-visual and object-based heritage items in the Uiver Collection. The collection is managed and stored to national best practice standards by a team of museum professionals at the Albury LibraryMuseum. The ‘Uiver Story’ is central to the Uiver Collection. The Dutch KLM Douglas DC-2 ‘Uiver’ airliner competed in the London to MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race of 1934. Bad weather forced Uiver to make an emergency night landing on the Albury racecourse with considerable difficulty, only executed safely as a result of fast-thinking members of the Albury community. After spending a night stationary, Uiver was pushed out of the makeshift runway by their Albury comrades, re-joining the race to Melbourne in daylight, placing second overall and winning the Handicap Prize as a passenger liner. Uiver’s journey had a lasting effect, including continuing pride within the Albury (NSW) community, with visits and gifts being exchanged between people in and between the , Netherlands East Indies and in Australia, creating ongoing international ties, and even technological advances in the aviation industry. It is understood that the Uiver Collection of the Albury LibraryMuseum embodies at least some of these associations established during and in the wake of the 1934 Air Race, which continue to be felt by the Albury and wider Australian community. The Uiver Collection was found to hold historical, associative, aesthetic, social, research, rarity and representativeness heritage significance to the State of NSW when assessed against the Heritage Council of NSW’s Criteria for Listing on the State Heritage Register. While the Collection was found to hold historical, aesthetic, research and social significance to a National level according to the Collections Council of Australia’s Significance 2.0 - A Guide to Assessing the Significance of Collections (which also takes into account the comparative criteria of provenance, rarity/representativeness, condition/completeness and interpretative capacity). Based on this assessment, it is recommended that the Albury City Council nominate the Uiver Collection to the State Heritage Register of NSW for consideration, and to apply for the National Library of Australia’s Community Heritage Grant program. It is also recommended that Albury City Council continue to manage the collection to best practice national museum standards, supported by internal mechanisms as well as externally sought funding.

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1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background The Dutch KLM Douglas DC-2 ‘Uiver’ airliner competed in the London to Melbourne MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race of 1934. With the world watching on through the global broadcast of the event, bad weather forced Uiver to make an emergency night landing on the Albury racecourse with considerable difficulty, only executed safely as a result of fast-thinking members of the Albury community. After spending a night stationary, Uiver was pushed out of the makeshift runway by their Albury comrades, re-joining the race to Melbourne in daylight, placing second overall and winning the Handicap Prize as a passenger liner. Uiver’s journey had a lasting effect, including continuing pride within the Albury (NSW) community, with visits and gifts being exchanged between people in and between the Netherlands, Netherlands East Indies and Australia, the creation of ongoing international ties, and even technological advances in the aviation industry. The ‘Uiver Story’ occurred in the exciting context of early aviation development. The first air flight occurred in 1903. During these early decades, scientists, explorers and daredevils took to the skies – the focus of the time was often on these charismatic individuals. The 1930s saw the modernisation of metal aircrafts, taking over from timber, of which Uiver played a key role. Soon aircrafts were produced in mass for war. From WWII, we witnessed the increase of often sacred stories linked to amazing aircraft and their military feats. In these early times, it was very common for people watched aircraft arrive and depart - ‘Big Event’ flights were popular. As part of this, the Uiver Story is a rarity – there is no other similar incident, and community participation was a large part of it. It is understood that the Uiver Collection of the Albury LibraryMuseum embodies at least some of these associations established during and in the wake of the 1934 Air Race, which continue to be felt by the Albury and wider Australian community. There are 286 items in this collection and the collection has been well documented.

1.2 Scope This collection significance assessment was commissioned by the Albury LibraryMuseum to determine whether or not the Uiver Collection meets the threshold for State Heritage List nomination, according to the NSW Heritage Council criteria and thresholds; as well as to assess the collection’s standing against the Collections Council of Australia’s Significance 2.0 criteria and thresholds at a National level. This report will allow Albury City Council to consider nomination of the Uiver Collection to the NSW State Heritage Register (SHR); and on receipt of this nomination, the SHR Committee will then undertake its own detailed research and analysis in consideration for SHR listing. The Heritage Division of the Office of Environment and Heritage have advised that at this early stage in the process, it is appropriate to flag a range of possible areas of heritage significance for their consideration. While the assessment against Significance 2.0 criteria will also support the LibraryMuseum in any future application to the Community Heritage Grant program of the National Library of Australia for the Uiver Collection. There is a copious amount of information available in the public domain about the Uiver Story, the Uiver Memorial, the Uiver Collection, and communities’ connections to them. However, given timeframe and resourcing parameters for this particular project, this assessment focuses only on the required content to meet with the central aims of the project. There is future scope to draw from the many primary resources available and to analyse the raw community research data in greater detail.

1 UIVER COLLECTION 1.3 Assessment framework This collection significance assessment follows the NSW Heritage Office’s Assessing Heritage Significance Guidelines, 2001. These guidelines recommend an overarching three step approach to heritage management: 1) Investigate Significance 2) Assess Significance 3) Manage Significance. To understand the collection’s significance at a more general level, this assessment also follows the Collections Council of Australia’s Significance 2.0: A Guide to Assessing the Significance of Collections, 2009. Several best practice frameworks also provided guidance for this assessment. A full list of these frameworks can be found in the ‘References’ section of this report, under the sub-heading ‘Assessment Frameworks’.

1.4 Acknowledgements All individuals listed in Appendix B, Record of Consultation, in particular: • Carina Clement, Libraries and Museum Team Leader, Albury LibraryMuseum • Chris Edgar, Former Museum Collections Officer, Albury LibraryMuseum • Emma Williams, Museum Curator, Albury LibraryMuseum • Graham Quint, Director - Advocacy, the National Trust of Australia (NSW) • Helen Graham, Life Member and former President of the Art Deco and Modernism Society (ADMS) and a former Australian representative to the International Coalition of Art Deco Societies (ICADS) • Helen Livsey (Hon. Secretary) and Michael Browne (President), Albury Historical Society • Lucy Hampton, Heritage Listings Officer, Heritage Division, NSW Office of Environment • Nicole Thomas, Heritage Consultant – Aviation Heritage • Noel Jackling, Historian and retired Lawyer • Victoria Cooper, Museum Collections Officer, Albury LibraryMuseum The above named people provided their expert support and knowledge during the assessment process. Their help was greatly appreciated.

2 COLLECTION SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT 2 METHODOLOGY

2.1 Assessment methodology This assessment followed the existing methodological steps set out for the assessment of heritage collections in NSW and Australia-wide.

NSW – Heritage Council of NSW criteria for listing on the State Heritage Register The assessment of the Uiver Collection at a State level followed the recommended procedure outlined in Assessing Heritage Significance, NSW Heritage Manual, 2001, produced by the NSW Heritage Office as follows: • Step 1 Summarise what you know about the item • Step 2 Describe the previous and current uses of the item, its associations with individuals or groups and its meaning for those people • Step 3 Assess significance using the NSW heritage assessment criteria • Step 4 Check whether you can make a sound analysis of the item’s heritage significance • Step 5 Determine the item’s level of significance • Step 6 Prepare a succinct statement of heritage significance • Step 7 Get feedback • Step 8 Write up all your information Once the collection is assessed against the criteria, consideration of the significance guidelines for inclusion and exclusion are needed.

National – Collections Council of Australia, Significance 2.0 2009 for consideration at a generalised level Following Australian museum industry national standards, this assessment employed the methodology outlined in Significance 2.0: a guide to assessing the significance of collections (Collections Council of Australia 2009). The methodology comprises a step-by-step process: • Research history and provenance • Consult knowledgeable people • Explore the context of the collection • Analyse and describe the collections’ fabric and condition • Compare the collection with other examples • Identify related places or collections • Assess the significance against primary and comparative criteria • Produce a statement of significance • Develop recommendations for the collection, based on the assessment.

In order to accord with this methodology, the assessment tasks included: • Consultation with owners of the collection • Consultation with members of the public with associations with the collection

3 UIVER COLLECTION • Collection and historical research • Use of object catalogue files • Contact with other similar collections custodians to identify comparative collections • Visits to the collection to understand the collection and work on the assessment.

4 COLLECTION SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT 3 HISTORICAL OUTLINE

3.1 Historical themes represented The New South Wales Historical Themes (Heritage Council of NSW 2010) provide a thematic framework recommended by the State of NSW to best understand overarching themes of importance at the State level. The Australia Historic Themes Framework (Australia Heritage Commission 1998) was endorsed by the Commonwealth, State and Territory agencies in 2000 as a coordinated approach to encourage consistency in heritage assessments according to themes relevant at a national level. The table below presents the relevant themes from each framework. These are useful to better understand where the Uiver Collection sits within State and National historical narratives, and to situate the assessment. Table 1: Historical themes

National Theme National framework NSW framework subthemes subthemes

2. Peopling Australia 2.4 Migrating Ethnic influences Migration

3. Developing local, regional 3.7 Establishing communications Communication and national economies 3.8 Moving goods and people Events 3.8.9 Moving goods and people Technology by air Transport 3.15 Developing economic links outside Australia 3.17 Inventing devices 3.20 Informing Australians 3.20.2 Broadcasting

4 Building settlements, 4.6 Remembering significant Towns, suburbs and villages towns and cities phases in the development of settlements, towns and cities

7. Governing 7.6 Administering Australia Defence 7.6.1 Developing local Government and Administration government authorities 7.8 Establishing regional and local

8 Developing Australia’s 8.7 Honouring achievement Creative endeavour cultural life 8.9 Commemorating significant Social institutions events Sport 8.9.2 Remembering public spectacles

3.2 Contextual history The history of Uiver has been extensively documented in many sources (Thomas 2015:24-140; NBRS+Partners 2012:4-24); and the National Trust of Australia NSW 2012:11-33). While the National Trust of Australia (NSW) has previously developed a contextual history relevant to the Uiver Collection. Rather than re-writing a similar history for this report, the existing history taken from the Uiver Collection, National Trust Register Listing Report 2012 has been reproduced here with consent (Graeme Quint, Director – Advocacy). This history was largely sourced

5 UIVER COLLECTION from the ABC "This Australia Program", broadcast on 14 February 1984 and revised by Noel Jackling. The MacRobertson London to Melbourne Great Air Race of 1934 and the KLM DC-2 Uiver In 1934 as part of the centenary celebrations of the City of Melbourne the MacRobertson International Air Race was organised. The race was the brainchild of the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Sir Harold Gengoult- Smith, who wanted to commemorate the centenary of Victoria's statehood. Melbourne based chocolate manufacturer Sir Macpherson Robertson, known as ‘the chocolate king’ or ‘MacRobertson’, sponsored the event to demonstrate the feasibility of a scheduled air service between Europe and Australia. Sir McPherson offered fifteen thousand pounds prize money and attracted 64 entrants. A whittling down of entrants to the more serious competitors resulted in a final 20 aircraft from New Guinea, United States, Britain, Denmark, New Zealand and the Netherlands making the starting line. The racers took off from the Royal Air Force Mildenhall Aerodrome, 70 miles north of London. The race stared at 6:30 am on Sunday October 20th, 1934 with planes leaving at 45-second intervals. One of the most unusual entries was a Douglas DC-2 entered by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. It was registered PH-AJU, and following the convention of the period was called Uiver after the name of a bird starting with the last letter of the registration code. Uiver is a Dutch word for ‘stork’. It was the biggest competitor and the only craft to carry several passengers in addition to its crew of four. KLM wanted to prove that they could serve Australia with a twice- weekly air service and they were using their brand new all metal comfortably equipped DC-2 to make their point. One other plane had a single passenger. Harold Brook flew a Miles M.3 Falcon and a Miss E. Lay persuaded him for a fee to take her along as a passenger. Recent research has shown that she was also a pilot. The pilot Captain Koene Dirk Parmentier and First Officer Jan Johannes Moll knew much of the journey well as they flew the airlines weekly service to the Dutch East Indies. Plesman selected Moll for the flight to Australia because he had already flown to Australia. In 1931, Moll flew the KNILM FVIIB PKAFC Abel Tasman on a proving flight from Batavia to Sydney and thence to Melbourne. De Havilland DH 88 Comet racing planes especially designed for the event were favourites to win the speed section. A married couple, popular aviators Jim and Amy Mollison known in the press as the "flying sweethearts" flew one of the Comets. Jim Mollison was a pioneering Scottish pilot who had flown commercially for Kingsford Smith's ill-fated Australian National Airways. His wife Amy was , who in May 1930 had become the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia, flying a Comet "Black Magic". Mollison is said to have proposed to Johnson only eight hours after meeting her during a flight. English aviators Flight Lieutenant Charles Scott and Kenyan coffee plantation manger Captain Tom Campbell Black flew the other Comet a red aircraft dubbed "Grosvenor House" by the historic hotel's owner. A third de Havilland DH 88 Comet was flown by O. Cathcart Jones and K. F. Waller, and was the fourth plane to arrive in Melbourne. It was 15 to 16 hours behind the Boeing 247D. A day after the race began an enthusiastic Sir McPherson Robertson was in the Australian Broadcasting Commission Studios in Melbourne, he said, "Dear friends early yesterday morning before the sun had peaked over the horizon to disperse the mists enshrouding the Mildenhall Aerodrome in Suffolk; the competitors of the MacRobertson International Air Race were awaiting the signal to start on the epic flight of 11,323 miles. Never in the history of aviation has there been such a line up of aviators and never in the history of the world has there been such an aerial contest." The Melbourne Newspaper 'The Argus' said in its editorial, "In an age of extraordinary mechanical progress one takes many things for granted; but flight halfway across the world

6 COLLECTION SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT seems too remarkable for analysis. If the present conquest of speed be maintained at the present rate an air journey to England in these days will become commonplace. And Australia, that vast land over the edge of beyond will become part of a great world." The KLM Uiver was capable of only flying 1500 kilometre legs so had to refuel three times before the first official stop in Baghdad. The Dutch plane landed only three hours behind the Mollison's de Havilland Comet, which was able to fly non-stop from England. It was apparent that the huge airliner was a formidable opponent. The Comets may have had speed but they were uncomfortable and extremely noisy. Jim and Amy Mollison arrived in Baghdad deaf, hungry and very tired. One eyewitness described the crew and passengers of the Uiver as being "as fresh as a daisy. " Although it was not well known, Thea Rasche flew the Uiver for a couple of hours prior to Charleville, enabling Moll and Parmentier to get some sleep. Excitement mounted worldwide as millions of people followed the race on their wireless sets. At Allahabad, India the 'flying sweethearts' had to withdraw their Comet from the race because of a broken oil line. The race to Victoria became a war of attrition. Dutch pilot Geysendorffer's Pander S4 was destroyed in a ground collision also at Allahabad. Australian Jimmy Woods flipped his while landing at Aleppo in Northern Syria. A bumpy arrival in Bucharest, Hungary caused damage to the flaps of American aviatress Cochran's Granville R-6H. British entrants Gilman and Baines were both killed when their Fairey Fox I crashed near Palazzo San Gervasio in Italy. Tension mounted around the world as Scott and Campbell Black in their Commet and Parmentier in the KLM DC-2 fought out the battle for first place. A TIME Magazine article on, October 29, 1934 described the course that covered 16 countries and three continents. It "required night and day flying over country perilous with jagged mountains, snake-infested jungles, deserts, hurricanes and typhoons. The toughest stretch may have been across the Syrian Desert where blinding sandstorms sometimes rise 20,000 feet and huge kitebirds menace aerial navigation. Not much easier was the 2,210-mile jump from Allahabad to Singapore, with its Bay of Bengal water hop nearly as long as the North Atlantic. To the participants in the race Lloyd's of London gave a 1-in-12 chance of being killed." Between Singapore and Darwin, Scott and Campbell Black suffered a failure in one of the Comet’s two engines. They just made it to Darwin. The Uiver arrived soon after them in Darwin and was well positioned to take out both the speed and the handicapped sections of the race should the Comet be delayed for repairs or come to grief. By the time that the Uiver reached Darwin, the Grosvenor House Comet was well on the way to Melbourne and there was no chance of catching up in normal circumstances. Scott and Black knew of the increased risk occasioned by engine issues, but decided to take the risk and fly on. The Uiver had three passengers and taking a similar risk for them was never a possibility. In fact, the Douglas was so reliable that this kind of issue never arose. In the whole trip, only one part needed to be replaced, and this was done at Darwin. Parmentier learned at Charleville that Scott and Black had reached Melbourne. The bigger worry was that they would be passed by the Boeing 247D behind them, and this may well have been a factor in them deciding to press on despite the reports of adverse weather conditions ahead, which Moll was later to say should have caused them to pause in Charleville. The only reason why the Boeing 247D did not pass the Uiver while it was on the ground in Albury was because the Boeing struck engine trouble and had to land at Bourke for repairs. The British Comet flew on and seventy-one hours after take off from London Scott and Campbell Black crossed the finishing line at the Flemington Racecourse. They took first honours in the speed section of the race along with the impressive MacRobertson Trophy and 10,000-pound prize money. The race rules stated each entrant could only win one section of the race ruling them out of winning the handicap section. Later in the year the English Royal Aero Club awarded the crew with the "The " for the efforts. As the Grosvenor House touched down in Melbourne the Uiver was at Charleville. The Uiver went

7 UIVER COLLECTION via Batavia, because it was flying pretty much the standard route to there. This added some distance to the total number of miles travelled. The people in the small town of Albury on the New South Wales/Victoria border were following the race on the wireless as closely as everybody else in the world. On Tuesday the 23rd of October little did they know that within a few hours they were to be part of a drama which has become more famous than the record breaking race itself. It was a stormy lightning strewn night throughout nearly the whole of eastern Australia. Shortly after leaving the final official checkpoint in the Queensland town of Charleville on the last leg of a flight to Melbourne the Uiver lost effective radio contact. Race control does seem to have heard at least one of the three SOS calls that van Brugge made. Van Brugge heard the advice that they were reported as being over Yackandandah. With no effective aids for navigation the airliner drifted off course. In Melbourne air race officials were expecting the Uiver to arrive about thirty minutes after midnight. At about twenty minutes to midnight Albury residents heard a twin-engine plane high overhead travelling towards Melbourne and assumed that the DC-2 was on course to the finishing line. Half an hour later they were surprised to hear the roar of a twin-engine plane circling low above the dense storm clouds over the eastern section of the town. A local newspaper reporter Clifton Mott phoned air race officials in Melbourne who confirmed that the airliner had lost radio contact and was probably in grave danger. Independently, Arthur Newnham an announcer with the local ABC radio station 2CO rushed to the studio and broke into the normal program on relay from Melbourne with details of a desperate rescue plan. Former Senator Cleaver Bunton was also on the staff of 2CO at the time. The chief engineer in the postal department he had to get across Bungambrawatha Creek which was flooded as a result of the storms. It took him some little time to get over. The Chief electrical engineer; Mr (Lyle) Ferris was the town’s electrical engineer and had access to the switch that controlled the town’s power supply. Reg Turner was a telegraphist who knew Morse code, and it was he who did the flashing of the lights displaying ALBURY in Morse code. Arthur Newnham recommended the setting up a runway with the aid of motor headlamps. Captain Parmentier said later that they had seen the Morse signals but because of the excessive turbulence from the thunderstorm they were unable to read them. Only 22 minutes elapsed between Newnham’s call and the plane touching down. Approaching Albury from a southerly direction Parmentier and the crew of the DC-2 saw the feebly lit temporary strip on the racecourse and decided to attempt a landing. At 1:17 on the morning of October 24, 1934 Captain Parmentier successfully landed the airliner on the sodden field at the centre of the racetrack. As the plane traversed the ground towards the fence at the end of the course it slowed to a halt, stuck deep in the mud. Cleaver Bunton recalled that it was a remarkable piece of aviation that the plane got down safely, literally missing trees by very small margins. The amount of people who got to the racecourse was remarkable not only were cars there in big numbers but there was also a colossal crowd of people there too. It was fortunate actually that the racecourse was waterlogged as a result of the heavy rain we'd had. It saved the plane from overrunning. There is no doubt in the world that it would have overrun had it not been waterlogged as it was." In 1984, many of those who helped with the rescue of the UIVER relived their memories on the ABC 'This Australia Program', broadcast on February 14th, 1984 and were interviewed for the film ‘Race door de tijd’. Mrs Schubert was a teenager living in Wodonga at the time. "My brother said they wanted anybody with a car to go to the Albury racecourse and form a circle and turn their lights on. So George was always a very adventurous sort of a chap and he said to my father 'Well, how about it Bill, will we go?' And dad said 'Yes' and my brother said 'yes' and they were just about to leave when they said to me 'Would you like to come? Would I go?'

8 COLLECTION SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT To me, that was the most exciting thing that had ever happened. Anyhow we set off and we got to the racecourse. I can remember getting into the circle around the racecourse and the plane coming down. A big hooray went up. We got out of the cars to walk over and I can remember all of the talk that was going on and excitement and seeing the crew walk around. I can remember touching the plane." Mrs Schubert also remembers one of the crew members, opening the door of the Uiver and when seeing the sight before him asked, "Is this Melbourne?" ABC's 2CO spoke to the crew members Parmentier and van Brugge and passenger Gilissen on-air shortly after the miraculous escape. The broadcast was relayed across Australia and directly to Holland. Cleaver Bunton said "I interviewed the wireless operator Van Brugge, he was a giant of a man. It was the most emotional interview that I have ever experienced. Never have I seen a person speak in such glowing terms of a person that Van Brugge spoke concerning Parmentier. He had conducted what they thought to be their last get together on the plane a little religious service and with tears in his eyes. Parmentier was not only emotional, but I've never experienced such a love of man to man that was there. It was absolutely remarkable". Captain Parmentier told 2CO that there was no doubt that the setting up of the runway with the aid of motor headlamps saved the plane from crashing and indeed saved the life of the crew and their passengers." People around the world were listening and one of those listeners was a young Dutchman in . Ben Vene, who later lived in Albury for a number of years, vividly recalled that broadcast. "I was just 20 years old at the time and we were listening to the drama while the plane was as we thought flying over Albury on the local wireless. We heard about the electrical storm. Then we heard about the Morse signs with street lights and cars being asked to go to the racecourse and making a landing strip for the plane to come down. We knew about Melbourne being the end of the race but Albury was something entirely new to us. We had to look at a map to find out where it was. After the race the name of Albury in Holland came to mean more to us than Melbourne and Sydney." Ben Vene had his own personal keepsake from the historic flight, "My Uncle was a stamp collector and he sent two letters on the Uiver. One was addressed to himself and the other to the Mac Robertson organisers of the race. Their stamps were cancelled on the 24th of October, 1934 and they were then sent back to my Uncle." The morning after the landing a huge crowd gathered at the racecourse to lend what assistance they could. Clive Crosser, a retired builder from Albury was 12 years old at the time, "I had a pushbike and I hopped on and went out as early as I could. There were hundreds of people there. When I arrived the plane was pretty much hopelessly entrenched in the mud. Somebody showed up with a truck and a heap of planks and they put the wood underneath the wheels of the aircraft and ran the motors. It started to look dangerous as the planks began to tip up in the air and it looked like they were going to hit the props. The pilot waved them away and they abandoned the idea." On the 50th anniversary of the incident in 1984, Albury's Cecil Meredith recalled his part in the drama. In 1934 Meredith was working on the construction of the Hume Reservoir. He went to the race track the morning after to help haul the plane out of the mud. "The wireless operator Van Brugge asked me would I take charge of hauling her off so I took over and eventually we hauled her off. There were about 50 to 60 people on each rope, there were two ropes. From the time the wheel started to move it was about twenty five to thirty minutes removing her from the mud." Moving the plane by pulling the rope took place once at the northern end of the racecourse and twice at the southern end and also involved men in lifting the tail to accommodate changing the direction in which the plane was pointing. The aircraft was stripped of anything they could be dispensed with. Personal suitcases including 35,000 letters from Holland and all passengers and crew other than the Captain and First Officer were left offloaded in Albury. Clive Crosser said, "that caused a lot of trouble, a lot of sadness. Passenger Thea Rasche cried her eyes out when the plane finally departed."

9 UIVER COLLECTION Ron Braddy of Albury remembered what happened next, "before they took off Parmentier and Moll thanked us very much and got into the plane. I'm not sure about this but I think that if I remember rightly we held the ropes while they revved up. Then they took off and went off towards the weir and oh we held our breath while they took that fence. It almost hit it, just went over." Captain Parmentier flew the Uiver onto Melbourne to take second place in the speed section of the Centenary Air Race and first prize in the handicap section. Out of the twenty aircraft that left Mildenhall, England on October the 20th only seven finished the course in the time allowe by the race rules. The twelfth and last plane to arrive in Melbourne was a Fairey Fox piloted by ‘Battler’ Ray Parer and Geoff Hemsworth, who reached Melbourne on 13 February 1935. Technically they withdrew from the race in , but just kept going. MacRobertson was so impressed at their persistence that he also gave them a gold MacRobertson medal. Shortly after their arrival in Melbourne, Parmentier and Moll spoke to the ABC. "The first thing I want to tell you is that I am very grateful for all the things that the national broadcasting commission has done to make our landing last night possible at the racecourse in Albury. I also must express my thanks for the help I had from the Mayor of Albury and the population who were very helpful this morning to get our plane out of the mud and to make it possible for us to take off." Moll echoed his friend's sentiments "My dear Australian listeners, I express my thanks to the population of Albury and Mayor Mr Alfred Waugh for the splendid help they gave us to make us land safely. Also the assistance they gave us the next morning to get us here to Melbourne and be second in this great air race." In Holland where the entire country had been following the progress of the race on the radio their excitement knew no bounds when the Uiver took the handicapped prize. Commemorative Uiver postage stamps were issued, songs were written, and thousands of souvenired mementos were produced. As the name of the airliner Uiver meant 'stork', newborn babies were christened 'Uiverjay' or 'little stork'. The actions of the Albury people on that stormy night and the following morning would not be forgotten. Queen Wilhelmina sent a cable to Waugh advising him that he would be invested with the Order of Oranje Nassau. The investiture took place in Albury on 17 December 1934 in a ceremony conducted by Mr Paul Staal, Consul-General for the Netherlands. When Alfred Waugh and his wife Ellen went to the Netherlands in 1935, Queen Wilhelmina was unable to grant the Waughs an audience. But she went on holidays to Scotland and saw the Waughs there. Several days after its dramatic rescue the Uiver again passed over Albury on the first leg of its journey back to Europe. The plane flew low over the town and a cigarette case containing a small Dutch flag and a message was dropped onto the racecourse. The message read, "To all our good friends in Albury, we salute you and say farewell." The farewell was destined to be prophetic. Only eight weeks after its triumph in the centenary air race the Uiver crashed in the Syrian Desert in Irak and all those aboard were killed. None of those killed were on board the Uiver on its flight to Australia. Funded by subscriptions taken up in Albury, a memorial was erected in Holland to the memory of those lost in that crash. Radio operator Van Brugge died in 1943 when the Luftwaffe shot down the KLM DC-3 chartered by BOAC in which he was flying over the Bay of Biscay on route from Lisbon to Bristol. Captain Parmentier died in 1948 when his crashed at Tarbolton, near Glasgow. Flight Engineer Bouwe Prins died in retirement in the 1973 in Holland and Commodore J. Moll the Uiver's First Officer retired in 1954 and died in 1988 in Aalsmere, Holland. Whenever and wherever stories of epic achievements in aviation are recounted the flight of the Uiver will be recalled as also will be the part played by the citizens of Albury on that storm swept night in October 1934.

10 COLLECTION SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT Australian composer Peter Flanagan wrote the Flying Dutchman Suite for the re-enactment of the Uiver flight. In 1984 to commemorate the events of 1934, the Netherlands Broadcasting Corporation produced a three-part television documentary highlighting KLM's involvement in the famous air race. To help fund the project the Uiver Memorial Foundation was established in Holland. In order to recreate the flight of the original Uiver it was necessary to find a DC-2 that could be made airworthy. One was found in a private collection in the United States. The plane was completely overhauled and refurbished at the Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. It was painted in the 1934 KLM livery and given the original registration of the first Uiver. The crew of four was fitted out with KLM uniforms in the style of 50 years before. Captain of the crew was KLM 747 Jumbo pilot Jan Plesman, a grandson of Dr Albert Plesman, whose decision it was as Founder and Director of KLM to buy the Douglas DC-2 that became known as the Uiver. The flight to Australia flew over the original air race route . The journey took five weeks because of filming commitments instead of the three and three quarter days that the original plane took to reach their destination. The events at Albury were created for the film. On their final approach to the new Albury airport the Uiver passed low over the racecourse where it had all happened fifty years earlier. A crowd of several thousand was at the airport to greet the new Uiver. Welcoming the re-enactment crew Albury Councillor John Roach said "It's a wonderful day and a lot of people have been very interested and keen since first hearing about the Uiver foundations re-enactment of this flight. It's a wonderful spectacle and we are very pleased that the plane has landed here and they'll be the guests of the city for a few days. I'm sure a lot of people will reminisce and get together with the crew." As the Uiver rested on the lawn at the Western end of the tarmac a band played the national anthem of the Netherlands. Pilot Jan Plesman said "We were very interested to see the racecourse and how long it is. I think those guys did a good job at that time, it is a much greater achievement than what we have done especially navigation wise." He conceded that they were cheating on navigation a little bit for the modern day flight. Plesman said after the 1934 incident Albury Mayor Alderman Alf Waugh was the most popular man in Holland, "In Holland Albury is on the map and everybody knows where it is". After four days filming in Albury the Uiver II flew on to Melbourne where the race ended in 1934. The 1934 World Broadcast of the Uiver Incident Bertie Peacock was the Secretary of the Albury Racing Club. He and his elder son Donald helped Matthew Dowling marshal the cars into position to illuminate a landing strip for the plane. Back in the Peacock home, which overlooked the racecourse, Bertie’s wife Beatrice Peacock was on the phone to Arthur Newnham in the 2CO studio in Albury, describing the events as they happened. Newnham, on another phone, relayed the information to Melbourne, to Thomas Bearup, the General Manager for Victoria of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, who in turn relayed the information to an announcer, who by short wave radio told the listening world. By the time the wheels of the Uiver had come to a halt, the rest of the world knew that the plane had made a safe landing. For 1934, this was a remarkable achievement in radio.

11 UIVER COLLECTION 4 DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

4.1 Collection description Table 2: Collection content

Number of collection 286 items • Archives (newsletters, autographs, books, booklets, newspaper articles, Item types brochures, cards, certificates, diaries, menus, envelopes, invitations, letters, lists, logbook, magazines, maps, notes, passenger tickets, programmes, reports, scrap book, sheet music, song sheets, speeches, exhibition catalogue and telegrams) • Audio-visual (photographs, postcards, cartoons, sketches, audio tapes, oral histories, vinyl records) • Objects (badges, banners, boards, cigarette cases, cloths, jigsaw puzzle, medals, model aircraft, parachute, pencil, pins, plaques, plates, trophies, walking stick, spoons) • The MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race 1934 Sub collections (unofficial) • The Douglas DC-2 • The Uiver Story • Dutch/Australian relations

Geographic focus Albury, NSW, Australia, and the Netherlands

From 1984 until the present day, 286 items have been acquisitioned by the Albury City LibraryMuseum into the Uiver Collection. However, a search of the wider Albury City Cultural Collections database with Subject/Keyword ‘Uiver’ returns 556 records. These records relate to a range of material managed by the Albury City Council’s museum, the art gallery or the library. Of these, 286 officially belong to the Uiver Collection (as noted above). Another 248 belong to the Museum’s 303 item strong ‘Waugh Collection’ (a collection linked to the past Mayor of Albury, who is a principal individual in the Uiver Story). The remainder pertain to a number of different sub-collections.

Uiver Model Airplane, Uiver Collection, unknown photographer, Albury LibraryMuseum 2012

12 COLLECTION SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT 4.2 Condition and archaeological potential Overall, the items in the Uiver Collection are in good condition. The collection is managed by the Albury LibraryMuseum according to best practice national standards, by a team of professional collection managers and curators. The collection has no archaeological potential per se, however has ample research potential in terms of its content when considering this definition according to the Burra Charter of offering its potential to address important research questions (Australia ICOMOS 2013:3).

4.3 Integrity and intactness The general integrity and intactness of the collection is good. It covers a broad range of thematic areas and object types, enabling a number of stories associated with the Uiver to be told in different ways (textually and visually for example). Uiver related items (that is, items collected before the existence of an official Uiver Collection) were housed in the foyer of the Albury Town Hall, and then moved to Kiewa Street Albury when Council relocated to its present day premises. Up until 2006 many of Uiver items were displayed in a glass case in the Council foyer. In 2007 the collection came under the formal management of museum staff on the opening of the LibraryMuseum. Today the Uiver Collection is housed in two Albury City Council storage areas –paper based items are principally kept in a store room onsite at the LibraryMuseum in Albury City; and an offsite store of mainly object-based collection items is located in nearby Thurgoona. There are generally always Uiver Collection items on display at the LibraryMuseum or in other Council spaces.

Examples of current Uiver Collection management and storage systems, Georgia Melville, 2015

13 UIVER COLLECTION 4.4 Collection provenance and modifications This section provides an overview of how the collection originated (its provenance) and how it has been modified over time. Eighty-six items have been acquired into the Uiver Collection from different donors since 1984; 39 are identified as ‘Local Studies’ items that have been in the Albury Council collection for an indeterminate amount of time (pamphlets, newspaper articles and related supplementary archives often on microfiche), while 21 items were transferred from different departments of the Albury City Council between 2007 and 2009. The collection was given greater substance when in 2011, 116 items were donated to the Albury LibraryMuseum, followed with a donation of 23 items in 2012, both from relatives of people integrally involved in the Uiver event.

4.5 Uses: research and interpretation To date, the Uiver Collection has been used for both research and interpretative purposes. Uiver Collection items have been used for interpretation purposes as part of (at least) the following exhibitions: • Ongoing Crossing Place, Albury City LibraryMuseum permanent exhibition • 2015 Albury & Waugh, Albury City Council temporary exhibition • 2014 Identity, regional museum networking exhibition • 2012 Local Government Week, Albury City Council temporary exhibition • 2011 Albury Delightfully Deco temporary exhibition • 2009 75th Uiver Anniversary, Albury City LibraryMuseum temporary exhibition • 2006 and prior – Uiver Display Albury Town Hall foyer permanent exhibition. In terms of use of the collection for research, the LibraryMuseum receives enquiries relating to the Uiver Collection from the general public on a sporadic basis. Most recently these include enquiries from members of the Uiver Memorial Community Trust and from Noel Jackling (Jackling has extensively documented the Uiver Collection - refer to Jackling 2015 in the Reference section of this report). The front desk of the LibraryMuseum often receives walk-in enquiries about the ‘Uiver Story’, however; individuals making these enquiries often do not know of the existence of the Uiver Collection before making their requests.

Current interpretation examples of Uiver Collection material, Albury & Waugh and Crossing Place exhibitions, 2015

14 COLLECTION SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT 5 COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS

5.1 Evidence of community connections The following lists community involvement with the Uiver Story, the Uiver Memorial and the Uiver Collection – which are all interconnected. This long and diverse history of associations helps to frame the social significance of the Uiver Collection and to identify the relevant grouping of people into community types (see Section 5.2). • 1934 ‘The Old Bus’ Universal Films promotional movie by produced by Sir to promote the race in Australia (Thomas 2015:90). • 1934 onwards relationships formed between the people of Albury and Dutch people after the rescue of the Uiver during the 1934 race, which at the time captured the attention of the world (Thomas 2015:90). • 1934 (13 December) Visit to Albury by delegation from Netherlands East Indies, which gives lavish presents in Dean Square to Albury people who helped save the Uiver and provide assistance while the Uiver was in Albury (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 1934 (November, December) Mayor Alfred Waugh made an ‘Officier’ of the Order of Oranje-Naussau by the Dutch monarch, Queen Wilhelmina, with medal bestowed on him in Dean Square, Albury on 17 December 1934 by Consul-General Paul Staal (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 1935 (3–19 August) Mayor Alfred Waugh and wife Ellen’s official visit to Holland. They are ‘treated like royalty’. A crowd of 10,000 greets them at Alkmaar. They become ambassadors for Albury and Australia (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 1935 (21 August) Alfred and Ellen Waugh have afternoon tea with Queen Wilhelmina at her holiday residence at St Fillan’s, Scotland. Queen Wilhelmina expresses interest in Australia and asks Alfred Waugh to convey her thanks to the people of Albury for their prompt actions on the occasion of the landing of the Uiver at Albury, which he does from the balcony of the Albury Town Hall, Dean Street, on 17 October 1935 (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 1935 Plaque (bronze) from the ‘Albury Committee’, Amsterdam, artistically memorialising the Uiver and its landing with the aid of a landing strip illuminated by the headlights of motor vehicles, placed in Albury Council Chambers on arrival from the Netherlands on 4 July 1935. In 1963 the bronze plaque was relocated to the revamped airport, removed early in 1964 in order for copies to be made, subsequently returned, and on 13 September 1964, unveiled by the Dutch Ambassador, T. Elink Schuurman. In March 1980, a bronze plaque was placed at the entrance to Albury’s new civic centre. A copy of the bronze plaque was embedded in a rock and placed near the Uiver Entrance at the Albury Racecourse, The Uiver Entrance was opened by the Ambassador of the Netherlands, Mr Joris M. Vos on 27 January 1990, but the bronze plaque embedded in the rock probably dates to 1964. What is possibly the original bronze plaque was relocated from the municipal offices in Kiewa Street to the Albury LibraryMuseum when its new premises were opened in 2007. Today, there is one version of the plaque at the LibraryMuseum, another at the Albury Racecourse and a third in the Uiver café at the Albury Airport (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 1936 (22 April) KLM Netherlands Gold Cup at Albury Racecourse. Anton Bakker representing KLM presents gold cup to the owner of the winning horse. Prime Minister Joseph Lyons is in attendance (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 1936 (22 April) Dinner tended by Albury Mayor Alfred Waugh to Prime Minister Joseph Lyons. Dutch Consul-General T. Elink Schuurman unveils solid silver model Uiver presented to Alfred Waugh by the ‘Albury Committee’ of Amsterdam (in the presence of

15 UIVER COLLECTION KLM Director Albert Plesman) at a luncheon in Amsterdam on 15 August 1935 (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 1938 (3 July to 5 July) KNILM (Koninklijke Nederlandsch-Indische Luchtvaart Maatschappij or Royal Netherlands Indies Airways) makes the first flight of a scheduled airline service to Australia by a foreign airline corporation—from Batavia to Sydney. KNILM (not a subsidiary of KLM) becomes the first and only foreign airline corporation to be granted a licence to establish an air service to Australia prior to the start of World War II. It can be argued that this was a direct result of the on-going good relationships between Australia and Holland established as a result of the saving of the Uiver at Albury and furthered by the goodwill visit to Holland in August 1935 by Alfred and Ellen Waugh, Alfred being the mayor of Albury at the time of the Uiver’s landing on the Albury Racecourse (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 1939 (July) Australia’s first migration agreement with a foreign country was signed between Holland and Australia. This agreement developed from a visit to Holland by Dr Earle Page in June 1938, which was preceded by his earlier visit in June 1936. This was ten months after the visit by mayor of Albury, Alfred Waugh to Holland because of the Uiver incident. During Alfred Waugh’s visit, he made a short wave radio broadcast to Australia praising the Dutch people and their culture (Northern Standard Darwin 1939:3; Albury Banner and Wodonga Express 1938:9; Morning Bulletin Rockhampton 1938:7). • 1941 (December) Arthur Newnham, Radio 2CO announcer, who called on cars to go to the Albury Racecourse to illuminate a landing strip for the Uiver, makes a radio broadcast about the Uiver Story as one of the highlights of the first ten years of broadcasting by 2CO (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 1942 (November) Ceremony held at Albury Race Course in which the tulips sent by the Dutch to the Albury Racecourse as thanks for the assistance given to Uiver and pilots Parmentier and Moll, were cut so as to leave a red cross, and the flowers sold for the Red Cross’s war effort (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 1942–45 The Dutch contribute to the Australian war effort as ‘the Fourth Ally’. The Dutch provided RAAF 18 Squadron and 120 Squadron of Mitchell bombers and submarines based in Perth, remnants of the Royal Dutch Army based in Merauke, Dutch New Guinea and numerous small merchant boats from KPM (Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappi or Royal Packet Navigation Co.). These boats shifted an estimated one million tons of supplies and 100,000 troops (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). Doug Hurst in ‘The Fourth Ally’ writes about the excellent relationships between the Dutch RAAF 18 Squadron and the Australian 79 Wing. A photograph in the Albury LibraryMuseum Waugh Collection shows trainee soldiers of the Colonial Reserve at Nijmegen with a model Uiver they had built. These soldiers were being trained for service in the ‘Koninklijk Nederlands Indische Leger’ (Royal Dutch Indies Army) and would have had a strong connection to the Uiver as it, along with its sister-planes of the KLM, were a vital lifeline between Holland and the Dutch East Indies, which was to be their future station (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 1944 (March) Lieutenant Bouwe Prins of the Royal Netherlands Air Force, on active war service with RAAF 120 Squadron (Dutch), visits Albury and re-meets Alfred Waugh (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 1952 (13 February) Dutch Consul-General Jonkheer Dr. G. R. G. van Swinderen visits Albury and on behalf of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, presents to Mayor Cleaver Bunton an inscribed brass plate mounted on wood commemorating the post-war resumption of passenger flights from Holland to Australia (and recalling that it all began with the Uiver and Albury) and a Delft blue plate showing a forest scene (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.).

16 COLLECTION SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT • 1960 Aeroplanorama, the predecessor to the Nationaal Luchtvaart-Themapark at , opened at Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands, formed and acquired its own Uiver Collection that in some ways parallels the Uiver Collection of Albury LibraryMuseum. This museum closed in 1967, but in 1971, re-opened at Schiphol under the name of Aviodrome, which in 2003 shifted to Lelystad (Thomas 2015:100 & Jackling & Oostergo 2015: pers. comm.). • 1959 (October) Uiver co-pilot Jan Johannes Moll and Kik de Vries, daughter of deceased Uiver pilot Captain Koene Parmentier, visit Albury for 25th anniversary celebrations. Arthur Newnham comes from Melbourne, his place of residence, and makes broadcast over Radio 2CO. Albury ABC Manager Tom Roberts interviews Jan Moll (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 1970s Uiver Memorial fundraising by the Rotary Club Albury West (NBRS+Partners 2012:37). • 1979 (27 October) 45th anniversary. John Love lands a Lockheed 12 ‘Silver City’ on Albury Racecourse during a race meeting and gets bogged. The Lockheed was a 1937 plane with similar features to the DC-2. KLM uniforms were borrowed from KLM for the occasion (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 1979 Uiver Memorial DC-2 development by the Rotary Club of Albury West – a DC-2 is restored and dressed as Uiver, and installed on three poles at the Albury Airport (17 February 1980). Unveiled by Governor-General, Sir Zelman Cowen, with Albury Mayor, Cr John Roach on 2 March 1980 (NBRS+Partners 2012:37). • 1984 (January–February) For the 50th Anniversary of the Uiver incident, a team of Dutchmen in the Netherlands restored a DC-2 and dressed it in Uiver livery. This aircraft was used in a re-enactment of Uiver involvement in the MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race 1934. It flew the same route as the original Uiver to Albury and then Melbourne. Stops included Albury Airport, from where it was hauled onto the Albury Racecourse as part of a Dutch documentary, Race door de Tijd. This Douglas DC-2 (a sister plane to the Uiver and the Uiver monument plane) arrived in Albury on 31 January 1984 and departed on 5 February 1984 (Thomas 2015:100). • 1984 (October) 50th Uiver anniversary celebrations (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 1990 ‘Half a World Away’ ‘Uiver’ TV mini series produced by the ABC and co-produced by Dimsy Grigsby Pty Ltd, Consolidated Distribution and the Australian Film Finance Corporation (NBRS+Partners 2012: 151). • 1990 Dutch immigrants Herman and Geesje Blom were inspired to support the memorial Uiver cause, and with family and friends formed the Uiver Memorial Foundation Inc, became the honorary custodian of the monument. The Bloms had a regular stall at the local Rotary market and other regional markets, selling Dutch delicacies as a fundraising platform for the Uiver Memorial maintenance and to raise continued community awareness about the Uiver (Thomas 2015:101-104-106). It has been reported that the Bloms raised $130,000 towards the cause (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 1990 The Uiver Memorial Garden was developed under and around the memorial Uiver Aircraft– through community fundraising initiated and led by the Bloms. The Garden was opened by the Ambassador for the Netherlands Mr Joris M. Vos on 27 January 1990. In 2010 (March) the Uiver Memorial Garden was demolished and the poles removed to make way for airport extensions (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 1990 (27 January) The Albury Racecourse’s commemorative ‘Uiver Entrance’ was opened by Mr. Joris M. Vos Ambassador of The Netherlands (NBRS+Partners 2012:37). Adjacent to the Uiver Entrance is an Uiver bronze plaque embedded in a rock, which probably dates to 1963–4 when copies were made of the original bronze plaque of the Albury Town Hall municipal offices (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.).

17 UIVER COLLECTION • 1992 The Uiver Memorial Wall was constructed by the Uiver Foundation, on which thirteen plaques were affixed that ‘tell the story of the Uiver in bronze’. The wall was unveiled on 25 June 1992 by Netherlands Consul General, Dr Reinier Derkson. The plaques tell various stories including the dedication of the memorial plane on 2 March 1980 by Sir Zelman Cowen, Governor-General of Australia, the Great Air Race itself, the rescue on 24 October 1934, the design of the Douglas DC-1, DC-2 and DC-3, the history of the Uiver Memorial Aircraft, the contribution of Herman Blom and the Uiver Foundation, and the 1984 re-enactment flight. In 2010 (March) the Uiver Memorial Wall was demolished to make way for airport extensions. The plaques are now in the care of the Albury LibraryMuseum (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 1997 On 14 April 1997, Herman and Geesje Blom were made Lid in the Order of Oranje- Naussau by the Dutch Queen Beatrix for their efforts in restoring and conserving the Uiver Memorial Aircraft and the establishment of the Uiver Monument and surrounds in Albury. Their medals were bestowed on them at the municipal offices of Albury City Council on 6 June 1997 by the Dutch Consul General Ed J Reitsma in the presence of Albury mayor Cr Patricia Gould. The Uiver Monument, Uiver Memorial Wall and Uiver Memorial Gardens were so significant in the lives of the Herman and Geesje Blom that following their deaths, some of their ashes were to be scattered on the Uiver Memorial Gardens. Geesje Blom died on 9 December 2009. Due to a safety fence being placed around the Memorial Gardens, Herman Blom had to put his hand over the fence in order to comply with his wife’s request, as the memorial was being demolished at the time. Herman Blom died on 23 October 2011. By then the Uiver Memorial Gardens were no more (Blom 2015: pers. comm. & Border Mail 2011:1). • 2006 A chapter written on the Uiver DC-2 Memorial into a NSW Thematic History regarding the Dutch in NSW. • 2002 (20 August) Uiver Memorial Aircraft taken down from the poles it was on at the Albury Airport and was moved to the airport apron, where it remains today (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 2004 Community discontent/outcry at the lack of restoration work on the memorial (NBRS+Partners 2012: Appendix NT Listing). • 2006 Uiver Community Trust formed – Rotarians, Councillors, other leading members of the community. This resulted in effective public response (see NBRS+Partners 2012: Appendix NT Listing). • 2007 to the present day – a number of exhibitions have featured Uiver Collection items in their display. The Albury LibraryMuseum exhibitions include s permanent Uiver exhibition (Section 4.5 of this report). • 2007 (25 October) ABC air radio play of the Uiver incident performed at the Albury Performing Arts Centre and broadcast across Victoria on ABC Local Radio and 774 ABC Melbourne. Attended by about 800 people (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 2009 75th anniversary of the Uiver landing held by Albury City Council and KLM-Air France. Commemorative dinner (23 October) including entertainment, KLM presentations and ABC air radio play of the Uiver incident attended by about 350 people held at the Albury Airport to celebrate the story. A commemorative flight was made in a DC-3 dressed as the Uiver, which took off from Melbourne airport, and made an ‘emergency approach’ to Albury Racecourse prior to landing at the airport and taxiing to the entrance to the hangar where the commemorative dinner was being held. Attended by many local dignitaries, local community members and international guests, including Koen van Brugge, son of Uiver Wireless Operator Cornelis van Brugge (died 1943 in BOAC Flight 777) and Koen’s son Douglas (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.).

18 COLLECTION SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT • 2009 The Uiver Mural commissioned and the Uiver Café opened (23 October) at the newly constructed Albury Airport. Albury City Council commissioned New Zealand artist Mike Spijkerbosch to create the mural (Thomas 2015:100). • 2010 (January) A local aviation business SmartAir Pty Ltd offered to restore the Uiver Memorial Aircraft if Albury City Council provided a suitable museum environment for its display (NBRS+Partners 2012: Appendix NT Listing). This led to the development of a proposal to house the restored plane in an extended airport terminal. In March 2011, Council resolved to transfer ownership of the aircraft to a museum or to other parties interested in the preservation of aircraft through an expression of interest (EOI) process (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 2012 (May) Johan Domenie, son of Uiver passenger Roelof Jan Domenie, visits Albury and presents his father’s collection to the Albury mayor, Cr Alice Glachan, for the Albury LibraryMuseum. Johan Domenie makes a presentation in the LibraryMuseum to a public meeting of the Albury & District Historical Society (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 2012 (25 July) Following a submission made by a member of the public, the National Trust of Australia (NSW) listed the Uiver Memorial Douglas DC-2 on its heritage register. This is the first aircraft to be listed by the National Trust of Australia (NSW). • 2012 (2 August) Following a submission made by a member of the public, the National Trust of Australia (NSW) listed the Uiver Collection at the AlburyCity LibraryMuseum on the National Trust’s heritage register. This is the second collection to be listed by the National Trust of Australia (NSW). • 2013 (March) Albury City Council considered EOI submissions and resolved to accept the submission for the transfer of the Memorial Aircraft from The Uiver Memorial Museum Group (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 2013 (June) Mike Egan of the Albury Rotary Club re-established links between the Albury Rotary Club and The Netherland’s Leeuwarden Rotary Club, 78 years after they were first forged by Albury mayor and Rotarian Alfred Waugh. Mike Egan and the Secretary of the Leeuwarden Rotary Club arranged for an exchange of their respective banners. The banner of the Leeuwarden Rotary Club when received, was presented to the President of the Albury Rotary Club, Dutch immigrant Ivo Mol. The banner is now part of the Albury LibraryMuseum collection (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 2013 (13 December) the Uiver Memorial Community Trust formed to restore and display the Memorial Uiver Aircraft (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 2014 (October) ‘The Uiver Emergency’, a documentary by Martin Buzacott, is broadcast over ABC Radio National (2014). • 2014 (24 October) AlburyCity transfers ownership of the Uiver Memorial Aircraft to the Uiver Memorial Community Trust (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 2014 (25 October) Parade of antique cars and and army vehicles along Dean Street by Antique Car Club Albury-Wodonga Inc, with Dutch Ambassador HE Annemieke Ruigraok in the leading car - a 1928 Essex that was at the Albury racecourse illuminating a landing strip for the Uiver (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 2014 (25 October) Open Day at Albury Airport by Albury & District Aero Club, Uiver Memorial Community Trust, Antique Car Club Albury-Wodonga Inc and Friends of the Cumberoona. The Memorial Uiver Aircraft on display. Music came from a Dutch-style street organ. Attendance was estimated at c.1,200 (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 2014 (25 October) ‘High Flying Heroes’ 80th Anniversary celebrations in Albury. Attended by over 200 people, including HE Annemieke Ruigrok, the Dutch Ambassador to Australia and Mr Simon Spinks, General Manager Pacific for AirFrance-KLM. The event included

19 UIVER COLLECTION Wodonga Brass playing a march called ‘Albury’, written in Assen in the Netherlands in 1935 for the visit of Alfred and Ellen Waugh. Qantas pilot, Captain Richard de Crespigny, the pilot of QF-32 ex Singapore was the principal speaker, and compared the saving of QF- 32 with the saving of Uiver (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.). • 2014 (26 October) HE Annemieke Ruigrok, the Dutch Ambassador to Australia, visits the Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre, 18km out of Albury, where 30,000 Dutch migrants were introduced to Australia (Jackling 2015: pers. comm.).

5.2 Associated individuals and groups Examples of individuals and groups with associations with the Uiver Story (and who are often reflected in the collection) include: • MacRobertson Confectioner, Sir Macpherson Robertson - the race sponsor • Uiver crew and passengers - Capitan Koene Dirk Parmentier, First Officer Jan Johannes Moll, Flight Engineer Bouwe Prins and Uiver Wireless Operator Cornelis van Brugge, passengers Roelof Domenie, Piet Gllissen and Thea Rasche • Jan Johannes Moll (Uiver co-pilot) brought the first fare paying passengers in a passenger airliner to NSW (and Australia), his Abel Tasman flight provoked Imperial Airways and Qantas into establishing an accelerated the establishment by Imperial Airways and Qantas of an airmail service from London to Sydney earlier than they otherwise would have, and he promoted post-war migration to New South Wales by air and tourism out of New South Wales by air • Reginald Frank Turner - the Postal Inspector at the Albury Post Office who flashed the town’s electricity supply in Morse code and facilitated the sending of telegrams from the Uiver pilots and passengers. Turner’s work to save the Uiver as well as his actions during the 1949 and 1955 NSW floods led to him being awarded the honour of MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) • Alfred Waugh OON –Mayor of Albury at the time of the race and integrally involved in the ensuing development of Dutch-Australia relations. He served as Albury Mayor on 19 occasions. Waugh served as a member of the Executive Council of the Local Government Association of New South Wales for 25 years. Due to his public standing locally and further afield, he regularly attended events of state, national and international importance. He was appointed an ‘Officier’ in the Dutch Knighthood Order of Oranje-Nassau for his work associated with the Uiver incident as the representative of the town of Albury, whose citizens had saved the Uiver and it occupants. • Arthur Newnham - local City of Albury electrical goods store manager and ABC radio announcer who directed locals to the racecourse to illuminate the plane’s make shift landing strip • Cleaver Bunton - local accountant and ABC Radio sports announcer who claims to have interviewed Van Brugge • Lyle Ferris – municipal electrical engineer • Australian Prime Minister Joseph Lyons • The City of Albury • The Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) • Border Morning Mail staff for reporting Uiver stories ever since the landing in 1934, and whose sub-editor Clifton Mott formed the idea of using the town’s street lights to signal the word ALBURY in Morse code to Uiver, put that plan into operation, and reported the Uiver event

20 COLLECTION SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT • The Albury Racing Club (where the Uiver landed) • The Rotary Club of Albury West (including key members such as Adrian Love, John Love, Geoff Ross and Arch McLeish who created the Uiver Memorial in 1980, as well as Alan Harrison who was an integral part of the first Uiver Community Trust formed in 2006) • The Governor General Sir Zelman Cowen who formally dedicated the Uiver Memorial with Mayor John Roach • John Roach – Mayor presiding over the 1984 50th Anniversary re-enactment, with Mr J van Leeuwen - NSW Dutch Consul General, and KLM pilot Jan Plesman (grandson of the original KLM owner of the Uiver) performing another dedication • The Uiver Foundation (in particular Dutch immigrant Herman Blom - who strongly advocated to keep the Uiver story alive and was awarded a knighthood for his efforts and the NSW Premiers Award) and Henk Van de Ven • The Uiver Memorial Community Trust 2006 and 2009 (including Howard Hinde, Patricia Gould, Alan Harrison, Nicole Thomas, Pieter Mol, Ivo Mol among others) • Current and former AlburyCity Councillors (Henk Van de Ven, Ross Jackson, Philomena Sawyer, Neville Hull and Patricia Gould) • The National Trust of Australia (NSW) who adopted the conservation of the Uiver Memorial and Collection as a public advocacy project • Noel Jackling, responsible for facilitating the acquisition many of items in the Uiver Collection, along with many others who have spent years advocating for the Uiver memorial and/or collection over the last decade • Recent associations to the Uiver Story have been formed with the Australian Dutch Embassy and Consulate and modern aviation hero, QANTAS Captain Richard De Crespigny

5.3 ‘Uiver’ communities A number of key communities have been identified as having associations with Uiver. These communities were identified for the purpose of understanding contemporary community connections to the Uiver Collection. These are: • The Uiver community: Any organisation or individual with associations or an interest in the Uiver aircraft, story or collection, regardless of background or place of residence - from Albury locals to the wider Australian or international communities, including the Dutch community in Australia and in the Netherlands. • The Aviation community: Any individual or organisation associated with aviation - but not necessary related to Uiver - from collection custodians to aviation businesses and aircraft restoration groups. • The Albury community: Local Albury community members and local community organisations.

5.4 Community survey A brief public survey was developed using the online Survey Monkey tool between 5-16 October 2015. The survey asked people about their connections to the Uiver Story and the Uiver Collection. The purpose of this survey was to better gauge the social value any of the above communities may hold for this collection. The survey was initially distributed to a small number of people with known connections to Uiver Story or Uiver Collection. They were encouraged to pass on the survey link to their networks (a method re ferred to as a ‘snowball technique’ for engaging with wider networks of

21 UIVER COLLECTION people). The survey attracted 203 responses. The survey does not represent a randomised sample, and should not be considered to represent a general public view. The approach chosen instead provides a good indication of the views of people with known connections to the Uiver Story or Uiver Collection, which fulfils the aim of this assessment. A summary of survey results follows, while the full survey results can be found in Appendix A of this report. • 203 survey responses were received in the space of 12 days. The number of responses received in the short period of time is indicative of a strong community of people who value the Uiver Story and Uiver Collection. • 63 responses were received from people who identified themselves as members of the Albury community, 63 of the Uiver community and 71 respondents of the aviation community. There was a good spread of local, state, national and international respondents. • 90% of respondents had heard of the Uiver Story previously, while 57% of respondents had held this knowledge for more than a generation. • 70% of respondents had heard of the Uiver Collection prior to the survey, and 96% of all respondents agreed the Uiver Collection of heritage items was important to them. • Indicative of the continued social value of the Uiver Collection to these communities, 97% said they would be dismayed if the collection was deaccessioned or destroyed.

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6 SELECTED INDIVIDUAL COLLECTION ITEMS As it is not possible to assess all Uiver Collection items within the scope of this report, this section presents 13 individual items selected from the Collection to represent a diversity of items across the key areas of heritage significance identified in Section 8 of this report. Table 3: Significant items

Object type, catalogue Description / dimensions / History / provenance Comparative / related items Significance no. & image condition

Parachute A fully intact fine white silk One of two parachutes used by ‘Parachute Fabric Fragment’, Historical The MacRobertson International 9.56 parachute. Uiver to drop Wiley flares before Uiver Collection, Albury Centenary Air Race 1934 / The Uiver 700x300x5mm. the airliner’s historic emergency LibraryMuseum. Story – emergency landing and Albury’s landing at Albury Racecourse on involvement. Good condition. A number of historical images 24 October 1934. relating to the parachute in a Rarity One of only three remaining original Acquired from a donor in 1989. range of collections. items of DC-2 Douglas Uiver. Social Both parachutes were kept as souvenirs by the community – one was ripped into pieces and distributed for this purpose – their significance continues into the present day. NLA comparative criteria Provenance / rarity-representativeness / interpretative / condition-completeness. Medal Gold medal front - an image The medal was presented by Sir Thirty of these gold medals were Historical The MacRobertson International 11.15 of race sponsor Sir Macpherson Robertson at the presented to MacRobertson Centenary Air Race 1934 /The Uiver Story Macpherson Robertson, RAAF base in Laverton International Centenary Air Race / Post WWI - Great Depression social inscribed with International Air (Melbourne) on 24 October 1934 1934 crew and passengers of change, ‘better times ahead’ / An example Race 1934. for Uiver’s completion of the aircraft that reached Melbourne of Confectioner MacRobertson’s Gold medal back – an image MacRobertson International Air and one was embedded in the marketing/promotional expertise. of the race route map, Race to Roelof Jan Domenie, winner’s trophy. Aesthetic Finely crafted Inter War Classical inscribed with London to Uiver passenger. MacRobertson International Revival style, symbolising reassurance in Melbourne 1934 1935 18ct. Acquired from a donor in 2011. Centenary Air Race 1934 Gold the post depression era. Medal hangs from a thinly Medal awarded to Charles James Rarity The only MacRobertson light blue and white Melrose (Museum Victoria International Centenary Air Race 1934

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Object type, catalogue Description / dimensions / History / provenance Comparative / related items Significance no. & image condition

horizontally striped woven NU47536). medal identified in NSW collections, one cotton lapel pin attached to a Photograph of Domenie wearing other held at Museum Victoria. gold bar inscribed the gold medal (Rex Allinson Comparative criteria Provenance / rarity- MacRobertson. Collection, National Library of representativeness / interpretative / 72x37x5mm. Australia). condition-completeness. Good condition. Letter documenting gold medal awardees (Rex Allinson Collection, National Library of Australia).

Medal An ornate metal medal The medal was awarded to Alfred No other Medals of the Order of Historical The Uiver Story / Dutch and 9.567 hanging from a vertical striped Waugh (Mayor of Albury in Oranje-Nassau identified in Australian relations. orange, blue and white woven 1934) on his appointment as an collections in NSW or Australia Social The Uiver Story / ongoing Dutch cotton lapel pin in an orange ‘Officier’ in the Dutch (although c.5 WW2 service and Australian relations. case, both bearing images of Knighthood Order Oranje- people received a medal, as Rarity The only Medal of the Order of the Dutch royal crown Nassau: in recognition of the valuable recorded by the AWM). Oranje-Nassau identified in a NSW or assistance rendered by you and the 10x120x51mm (medal) Several related items exist about Australian collection. citizens of Albury to the Netherlands’ 2x132x62mm (case) this medal and its award: aeroplane, “Uiver”. Aesthetic Finely crafted, Inter War Good condition Telegrams from the Consul Classical Revival style. The original medal was issued in General of the Netherlands, Comparative criteria Provenance / rarity- 1934 but stolen. It was replaced Parliament House, Australian representativeness / interpretative / 1936. A miniature medal was also Prime Minister Lyons condition-completeness. gifted to Mayor Waugh. The (congratulatory) and Netherlands whereabouts of these medals is Minister on behalf of Queen unknown (Jackling 2015: pers. Wilhelmina (inviting the Waughs comm.). to an audience with Her Majesty) Believed to be transferred from (Waugh Collection, Albury the Albury Civic Council LibraryMuseum). Collection 2007. Border Morning Mail article (Uiver Collection, Albury LibraryMuseum,), The Argus Melbourne article and Algemeen

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Object type, catalogue Description / dimensions / History / provenance Comparative / related items Significance no. & image condition

Handelsblad Amsterdam article. Photographs of Waugh wearing the medal (Waugh Collection, Albury LibraryMuseum). Photographs of investiture. (Rex Allinson Collection, National Library of Australia). Model aeroplane A handmade silver model Uiver replica model aeroplane, Description of this model Historical The MacRobertson International 9.409 aeroplane with red painted text funded by the ‘Albury aeroplane exists in Rex Allinson Centenary Air Race 1934 / the Uiver Story on its body and wings, Committee’ in the Netherlands, albums (Rex Allinson Collection, / Dutch-Australian relations. opening cabin doors, interior crafted by N.V. As. Bonbakker National Library of Australia). Aesthetic Art Deco styling obvious in lighting and glass windows, Zzn of Amsterdam, gifted by the Various photographs exist of the streamlined metal Uiver aircraft design – with wood finishes (formerly citizens of the Netherlands to presentation dinner with VIP evokes feelings of progress, technology on a supporting metal pole Mayor Alfred Waugh on behalf guests and the model aeroplane, and speed of the modernist era. The real stand). of the citizens of Albury during as well as images of the model on Uiver’s exterior was polished aluminium, 170x585x425mm. his visit to the Netherlands in its original stand (Waugh use of silver in this item reflects maker’s 1935. Good condition. Collection, Albury desire for authenticity and value. Silver The model was then displayed in LibraryMuseum). perceived as much more valuable than

Amsterdam, The Hague and Finely crafted bronze plaque with aluminium. Rotterdam before arriving to an impression of the Uiver Rarity The only model of its type. Albury in 1936 where it was aircraft in the centre surrounded Social Dutch & Australian relations that unveiled by the Dutch Consul by cars and their headlights, and a continue into the present day and Uiver General at a dinner held by the coat-of-arms in each corner was Story community connection, further Mayor of Albury in honour of also gifted at this same time the Prime Minister of Australia. illustrated by the two Uiver scale model (3.076 Uiver Collection, Albury aeroplanes completed in 2006 by Albury Transferred from the Albury LibraryMuseum). resident Gerry Curtis, with the help of Col Civic Council Collection 2007. Laughton, Keith Frauenfelder and Ray Hartwig, which now form part of the AlburyLibrary Museum 'Crossing Place' permanent exhibition. Comparative criteria Provenance / rarity- representativeness / interpretative /

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Object type, catalogue Description / dimensions / History / provenance Comparative / related items Significance no. & image condition

condition-completeness. Passenger Tickets x2 Orange paper KLM airline An inbound and outbound ticket Uiver was the first commercial Historical Uiver Story / The (Uiver inbound and ticket with printed black were issued 12 October 1934 to flight for the Europe – Australia MacRobertson International Centenary Air outbound journeys) ticketing information, Roelof Jan Domenie, one of route – there were three Race 1934 / Development of Europe- 11.152.02 passenger name hand written three passengers on the Douglas passengers, one ticket’s issue date Australia air travel / Aviation history. in black ink, Mr Domenie, and DC-2, Uiver aeroplane by KLM, is unknown, the other ticket post Creative & Technical Heralds the future black ink stamps KLM and to travel on 20 October between dates this ticket). It is understood carriage of passengers over long distance in Aller (inbound) indicating London and Melbourne as part that the inbound and outbound heavy metal planes – the precursor of ticket use. of the MacRobertson tickets of the Uiver Collection are airline travel as we know it today. International Centenary Air Race the sole surviving tickets for this Includes Uiver luggage tag. Rarity Possibly the first ever ticket issued 1934. flight. 109x138x2mm. for passenger travel between Europe- Acquired from a donor in 2011. Good condition. Australia. No other ticket is known to have survived from this flight, although Aviodrome has a copy of the face of the ticket of Thea Rasche (London to Melbourne). Research Potential to yield information on early airline ticketing and travel requirements. Comparative criteria Provenance / rarity- representativeness / interpretative / condition-completeness. Pencil HB grey lead pencil, painted Said to have belonged to Uiver The pencil may have been used Historical The MacRobertson International 9.406 dark blue with white stripes, pilot Parmentier and may have to write the seven-page Uiver Centenary Air Race 1934 / the Uiver Story. and the letters KLM printed in been used by him to write flight report in Dutch Rarity One of only three remaining original white. telegrams for Reg Turner to take handwritten in pencil (Uiver items of DC-2 Douglas Uiver. to the Albury Post office for Collection, Albury Library 147x10mm. Comparative criteria Provenance / rarity- transmission. This 'Dutch' pencil Museum 11.190.02). Good condition. representativeness / interpretative / from the Uiver aircraft was made in Switzerland. condition-completeness. Transferred from the Albury Civic Council Collection 2007.

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Object type, catalogue Description / dimensions / History / provenance Comparative / related items Significance no. & image condition

Picture postcard Black and white photograph During the MacRobertson 88 images of diverse types Historical The MacRobertson International 84.119.02 postcard depicting the Uiver International Centenary Air Race relating to the MacRobertson Centenary Air Race 1934 / the Uiver Story. aircraft at Albury Racecourse 1934 Uiver ran into an electrical International Centenary Air Race Creative & Technical Heralds the future after making an emergency storm and trouble. The RAAF 1934 and the Uiver Story, Uiver carriage of passengers over long distance in landing whilst taking part in base in Melbourne could not Collection (Albury Library heavy metal planes – the precursor of the London to Melbourne contact them. RAAF signallers Museum). airline travel as we know it today. MacRobertson International alerted towns all along the route Similar scenes include - Social Origins of the history of community Centenary Air Race 1934, to be ready to help. Radio 11.190.01 Uiver’s bogged wheels surrounded by a large group of stations broadcast messages, navy connection to the Uiver Story that after emergency landing. continues today. Albury residents. ships switched on their 84.086 & 84.090 Albury residents Comparative criteria Provenance / On the back: Post card / searchlights, and railway stations trying to free the Uiver after interpretative / condition-completeness. Correspondence, Address only / along the Albury Melbourne line emergency landing. Australia Kodak /The Uiver turned on their signal lamps. Albury Racecourse Oct 34 / Albury town flashed its entire

Albury & District Historical lighting system to flash the word Society archives. Albury in Morse code. Local radio announcer asked listeners 84x134mm. to drive to Albury racecourse an Good condition. illuminate the makeshift landing strip. People around the world huddled around their wireless listening to the unfolding of the event. Uiver landed safely. Three hundred people dug Uiver out of the mud and hauled it out of its bog with ropes attached to the plane’s axles. It went on to finish second in the race and took first prize in the handicap division. Acquired from a donor in 2011. Walking stick Wooden walking stick with a This walking stick was crafted in Other gifts presented on 13 Aesthetic finely crafted artisan souvenir 9.576 brass tip and an ornate silver the Netherlands East Indies December 1934 to citizens of evoking a time before mass production. handle, inscribed with Uiver province of Jogjakarta (today Albury who had helped save the Speaks of societal standing and bringing

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Object type, catalogue Description / dimensions / History / provenance Comparative / related items Significance no. & image condition

Jogjakarta. Indonesia), and presented to Uiver or otherwise assisted the new styles into provincial Australia. 668x980x18mm (framed). Albury radio announcer Arthur Dutch, the most common of Rarity Unusual example of a public gift. Joseph Newnham on 13 which were gold or silver Good condition. (Also of a ‘marketing’ exercise to ascertain December 1934 by a delegation cigarette cases (Albury potential passenger interest in a viable representing the people of the LibraryMuseum holds a small Europe/Australia air route). Netherlands East Indies. They number of these gifts). Historical The Uiver Story. came from Java, Sydney and Melbourne. Social History of Dutch & Australian relations that continue today, which further Newnham was the Albury radio demonstrates the value the Dutch placed announcer who called upon the on Arthur Newhham’s role that night. owners of motor vehicles from the Radio 2CO studio at the Comparative criteria Provenance / rarity- Albury Post Office to proceed to representativeness / interpretative / Albury Racecourse to illuminate condition-completeness.

the make-shift landing strip. Acquired from a donor in 2009. Cartoon Square-framed black ink After the MacRobertson No other cartoons depicting the Historical The MacRobertson International 11.16 cartoon on white paper. International Centenary Air Race MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race 1934 / the Uiver Story Depicting three MacRobertson 1934 cartoonists sought to Centenary Air Race 1934 Aesthetic Very creative use of the cartoon International Centenary Air encapsulate its highlights. identified in NSW or Australian medium in the Art Deco/Inter War style Race aircraft, pilots shown In this cartoon, Uiver pilots, collections. of character depiction. Background pen holding the trophy/laurel Parmentier and Moll take the strokes evoke feelings of speed and wreath, and passengers. winning pilots Scott and urgency. Chiseled-jawed men depict the Top right hand corner text: In Campbell-Black for a ride & ‘international adventurer’ before memory of the tension-ridden days – passenger Roelof Domenie is the international tourism was common. October 20-24, 1934 and the great middle of the three Uiver Rarity The only cartoon depicting the accomplishments of the pilots Scott passengers. MacRobertson International Centenary Air and Campbell-Black as the first Acquired from a donor in 2011. Race 1934 identified in NSW or Australian finishers in the Race and the brave collections. crew of the commercial airliner Comparative criteria Provenance / rarity- ‘Uiver’, Parmentier, Moll, van representativeness / interpretative / Brugge and Prins as second condition-completeness. finishers.

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Object type, catalogue Description / dimensions / History / provenance Comparative / related items Significance no. & image condition

551mmx483x15mm. Good condition. Plaque Rectangular bronze plaque The plaque commemorates the This is believed to be one of two Historical The MacRobertson International 3.076 with an impression of the emergency landing of the Uiver originals of this plaque. The Centenary Air Race 1934 / the Uiver Story Uiver aircraft in the centre aircraft on 24 October 1934 on other original was affixed to the / Dutch & Australian relations. surrounded by cars and their the Albury Racecourse whilst wall of the terminal at Schiphol Aesthetic Finely crafted Art Deco style. headlights, and a coat-of-arms competing in the London to Airport, the Netherlands, but its Embodies an aesthetic of modern in each corner (British, Dutch, Melbourne MacRobertson present whereabouts is unknown. adventure and internationalism. A very KLM and unknown). International Centenary Air Race. In 1964, two copies were made. good example of Modernist design which Albury residents illuminated the One of these hangs in the Uiver tells the story in a highly visual manner. A makeshift landing strip with their Café at the Albury Airport. The very tactile rendition. other is embedded in a rock car headlights Rarity The only known plaque of its type. located at the Uiver Entrance Transferred from the Albury City gateway at the Albury Social Dutch & Australian relations, Council Council Offices 2007. Racecourse. further evidenced in the number of plaque copies displayed in community spaces There are five other Uiver related today. plaques in the Uiver Collection, Albury LibraryMuseum. Comparative criteria Provenance / rarity- representativeness / interpretative / There are a thirteen other plaques condition-completeness. relating to Uiver community connections to the Uiver that formed part of the Uiver Memorial, which are now held in storage by the Albury LibraryMuseum.

Envelope & letter Grey postal envelope This letter dated 18 December None identified. Historical The DC-2 aircraft / the Uiver 12.951.02 containing a handwritten 1934, and postmarked the same, Story. letter, with postal stamps, ink day was from Mr Johan M.B. Rarity – It is the only known surviving stamps, and burnt top edge. Adriani of Amsterdam to Mrs item from the Uiver crash in the Syrian

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Object type, catalogue Description / dimensions / History / provenance Comparative / related items Significance no. & image condition

Good condition (its damaged Helen Coleman of East Malvern, Desert. condition and burnt edge from Melbourne thanking her for her Research Example of an item reflecting the the crash are part of its support of the Uiver cause. DC-2 Uiver’s crash (from which technical interpretive value). This envelope was carried on the learnings led to advances found in the DC- 123x153mm. last flight of KLM Royal Dutch 3 – the world’s most successful airliner). Airlines PH-AJU Uiver departing Comparative criteria Provenance / rarity- Amsterdam on 19 December representativeness / interpretative / 1934 for Batavia, but crashing condition-completeness. near Rutbah Wells in the Syrian Desert in Iraq on 20 December 1934. Acquired from a donor.

Plaque Flat brass/brass plaque affixed This plaque was made in 1951. It This is the only plaque of its type Historical The Uiver Story / Dutch & 9.405 to a varnished wooden base. was gifted to the citizens of in existence. There are five other Australian relations / Early Australian The plaque inscription reads: Albury by the Dutch Consul Uiver related plaques in the Uiver aviation history (the difficulty KLM and Presented to Aldermen and Citizens General on behalf of KLM Collection, Albury KNILM had in obtaining a licence to fly a of Albury by K.L.M. Royal Dutch airlines on the occasion of LibraryMuseum. regular service to Australia despite cordial Airlines to commemorate the re- resumption of passenger flights There are thirteen other plaques relationships, the impact of WWII on opening of a regular air service to from Amsterdam to Australia in relating to Uiver community commercial aviation). Australia in December 1951, one 1951. In 1938, KNILM obtained connections, that formed part of Social Uiver community connections / a permit to open a service Batavia of the foundations of which was laid the Uiver Memorial Wall, which Dutch & Australian relations demonstrated by Albury on the night of 14th [sic (now Jakarta)–Sydney which are now held by the Albury 17 years after the MacRobertson 24th] October 1934. connected with a KLM service LibraryMuseum. International Centenary Air Race 1934 that Amsterdam–Batavia. The 140x208x8mm. continue today. Batavia–Sydney service was Rarity The only known plaque of its type. Good condition. suspended in 1942 because of World War II and could not Research Potential to yield information on resume because of the early Australian aviation history. Indonesian War of Comparative criteria Provenance / rarity- Independence, which finally representativeness / interpretative / concluded with a transfer of condition-completeness. sovereignty on 31 December

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Object type, catalogue Description / dimensions / History / provenance Comparative / related items Significance no. & image condition

1949. Transferred from the Albury Civic Council Collection 2007. Cigarette case Solid gold cigarette case with This cigarette case was made by Seven Albury men including Reg Historical The Uiver Story. 13.359 inlaid gold representation of Ned-Indische Maatschappij, Turner received cigarette cases Aesthetic The graduation of vertical stripes Uiver, contained within a Begeer van Kempen Vos. On 13 from the same delegation relating embodies the illusion of progress and green leather gift box with a December 1934 it was presented to their role in the Uiver technology and speed (Art Deco). The small gold clasp. to Reginald Turner of Albury by emergency landing. Two company who made this in Holland was a Good condition. a delegation from the Dutch East Melbourne men were presented long established company. The Dutch were Indies as an expression of with gold cigarette cases in 13mmx143mmx82mm. leaders in the modernist movement. They gratitude for the role he played in Melbourne relating to their role helped introduced this aesthetic to the successful Uiver emergency in the Uiver emergency landing. provincial Australia in the 1930s. landing. The Uiver Collection contains Social History of Dutch & Australian Acquired from a donor. one of the latter–a gold cigarette relations that continue today, which further case presented to Flight demonstrates the value the Dutch placed Lieutenant Walter Stewart on the Albury community’s role. Armstrong, the person in charge Comparative criteria Provenance of race control at the Melbourne /interpretative / condition-completeness. Town Hall at the time of the Uiver emergency. (Albury LibraryMuseum 14.299).

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7 COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT Research into collections around NSW and Australia, and internationally, that are comparable with the Uiver Collection took place over September and October 2015 (refer to Appendix C for full details). The comparative assessment was based on four key aspects of the Uiver Collection’s significance: • The Uiver Story; • The Douglas DC-2 aircraft; • The 1934 MacRobertson Centenary International Air Race; • Aircraft-related collections of social importance. Uiver collection items Two collections were identified within NSW, and nine collections identified elsewhere in Australia with a small number of items related to the Uiver Story, comprising picture postcards, newspapers, photographs and aircraft models, for example. By comparative assessment the Uiver Collection at Albury LibraryMuseum has been identified as the largest and most complete collection on the Uiver Story in NSW and across Australia. It contains a diverse range of items spanning from the time of the 1934 event and through various subsequent community commemorations and re-enactments. The most comparable collection of Uiver material is held by the Dutch National Aviation Museum Aviodrome, the Netherlands, which comprises 200 collection items directly relating to the Uiver Story, such as crew paraphernalia, photographs, commemorative items and official aircraft documentation. Douglas series DC-2 aircraft collection items One other collection in NSW and eight collections Australia-wide were identified as containing material on the Douglas DC-2 aircraft, comprising picture postcards, secondary reference books, photographs and original aircraft. Collection material relating to the Douglas DC-2 within Australia is generally limited in scope to its participation in the 1934 MacRobertson Centenary International Air Race, and therefore DC-2 collections tend to overlap into the Air Race and the Uiver Story themes. Through comparative assessment, the Albury LibraryMuseum has been identified as the largest and most complete collection relating to the Douglas DC-2 aircraft in NSW and in Australia. DC-2 related collection items in the Albury LibraryMuseum’s Uiver Collection have high interpretive capacity within the context of the Uiver Story and the 1934 Centenary Air Race. Comparable collections identified in Australia have strong associations with the Albury LibraryMuseum’s Uiver Collection, despite being located elsewhere (including original DC aircrafts dressed as Uiver that participated the commemorative Uiver anniversary re- enactments of 1984 and 2009). MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race 1934 collection items Being an event of international standing, material relating to the 1934 MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race is found in collections worldwide, ranging greatly in size and completeness. Seventeen examples of MacRobertson collections were identified within Australia, four of these in NSW. The majority of these collections hold no more than 10 items each. Collections consist of photographs taken during the Race of a range of subjects at various locations, archival records and paraphernalia relating to specific aircraft and/or pilots who participated in the race, commemorative and promotional material from the event, trophies and medals awarded to place getters, as well as administrative documentation such as flight routes, correspondence between agencies and minute books. By comparative assessment, the Uiver Collection at Albury LibraryMuseum has been identified as the largest and most complete collection of material on the MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race in NSW (around 100 items); it also has the unique capacity to represent

32 COLLECTION SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT Uiver in the Centenary Air Race, which was the only aircraft with commercial fare-paying passengers on board. Australia-wide however, the Royal Historical Society of Victoria holds an apparently larger collection covering the Race in a more general sense, and with a greater focus on the ‘MacRobertson’ theme (approximately 200 of items). While the State Library of Victoria also holds a substantial collection (60 items) in relation to the Race. Aircraft-related collection items of social importance It is difficult to provide comparisons on social significance without first seeking feedback directly from the communities that hold these value associations. There are potentially many more aircraft collections of social significance in Australia, however, this assessment provides an initial indication based on our discussions with a range of aviation heritage specialists and collection custodians (listed in Appendix B). In NSW for example, the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney has been found to contain four collections associated with aircraft of social significance comparable to that of Uiver – the Bleriot XIm Catalina flying boat, the Jetranger helicopter and the Transavia air truck. Yet these collections differ in that although they include an original aircraft, other items are minimal in number and range. On the other hand, the Qantas Heritage Collection at Sydney Airport in NSW holds substantial collections relating to the socially valued and 707, however, as is also the case for the Uiver Collection, these collections do not include an associated original or replica aircraft. Based on this comparative assessment, Albury LibraryMuseum’s Uiver Collection has been identified as the largest and one of the most complete collections relating to an aircraft of social importance in NSW and Australia. However, although the Albury LibraryMuseum Uiver Collection contains substantially more collection items than the majority of collections in Australia, it may be considered less intact than most comparable aircraft collections identified, because it does not contain an actual related aircraft (the Uiver Memorial Aircraft was deaccessioned by the Albury City Council in 2014). Yet, the Collection’s ongoing social significance to communities, together with its diverse range of item types, adds to its comparative significance despite this deficiency.

33 UIVER COLLECTION 8 SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT There are two parts to this section. The first is a State level heritage significance assessment. The second part is a National level assessment. The wording in both parts is similar but slightly varies given the difference in each level’s framework for criteria and threshold. This approach has been taken so the first part can be used in future projects of a State scope, and the second part in future projects of a National scope.

8.1 NSW State Level Assessment

Framework This assessment of the Uiver Collection considers its heritage significance to the State of NSW. It is based on the seven criteria identified in the Heritage Council of NSW’s Criteria for Listing on the State Heritage Register. These are the current criteria recognised under the Heritage Act 1977. To be assessed for listing on the NSW State Heritage Register the collection must meet two or more of the following criteria at a State threshold, in the opinion of the Heritage Council of NSW.

Analysis Criterion (a) an item is important in the course, or pattern, of NSW’s cultural or natural history The Uiver Collection contains dozens of items relating to the MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race 1934, including photographs, books, newspaper articles, cartoons, aircraft items, medals and memorabilia. In this way, it embodies the air race story. This race is widely recognised as one of the world’s greatest air races (NSW State Heritage Register Committee 2013:312; National Trust of Australia NSW 2012:34; Clayton 2002:2; Veitch 1984:3,9,16,71). According to Museum Victoria (http://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/146675): The race was symbolically important to Australia since it demonstrated to the world that Australia was only days away. It raised public spirits in the post-depression years and made MacRobertson a household name around the world. It is also the case that the collection holds significant historical value because of its embodiment of the Uiver Story. This story centres on the emergency landing of Uiver in Albury in which the local community ingeniously banded together to ensure the aircraft’s safe arrival and departure, resulting in Uiver taking second place in the race and winning the Handicap Prize. This event was followed keenly at the time locally, throughout NSW, Australia and internationally. It is a unique event in the history of NSW that is recognised well beyond the local level, as is evidenced by the content of the Uiver Collection. The experience of Uiver in this race was followed by a chain of events at local, state, national and international levels that are of significant historical value recognised as well beyond the regional level. The ‘world’s eye’ was on Uiver in the race due to its overall performance and the incident in Albury, contributing to a number of important historical occurrences. Learnings from Uiver’s performance shaped further technological advances of the Douglas Commercial Series, with the subsequent DC-3 considered one of the most significant aircraft in transport history (Thomas 2015:68. & NBRS+Partners 2012:1). Uiver’s race performance also influenced the development of Australia’s airline industry, with the later introduction of Douglas Commercial Series aircraft into their fleet (National Trust of Australia NSW 2012:2&34 & Clayton 2002:3). The Uiver Collection includes dozens of Douglas DC-2 related items, from visual depictions of the aircraft in photographs, models and memorabilia, to flight reports. Uiver’s 1934 flight in the Centenary Air Race was the first commercial passenger flight to occur between Europe and Australia, Uiver being the only competitor with fare-paying passengers on board. It has been argued that Uiver’s performance in the race ‘…heralded the arrival of regular international passenger air travel. Suddenly Australia was less than four days

34 COLLECTION SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT from the “mother county”. But it took this American inter-capital airliner, flown by a Dutch Airline (the oldest in the world) to do it’ (Randall 1985:130). The Uiver Collection includes one of the first two passenger tickets issued for this intercontinental route (and perhaps the only one surviving today). Furthermore, it can be argued that Uiver contributed to historical connections forged between Australia and the Netherlands as a consequence of the flight. In 1935 the Mayor of Albury Alfred Waugh visited Holland by invitation of the Dutch government, whose monarch, Queen Wilhelmina, conferred on him membership as an ‘Officier’ of the Order of Oranje-Nassau (Border Mail 1934:6). King George V of England granted consent to the award being made. In 1938, Sir Earle Page, the Australian Federal Minister for Commerce, travelled to Holland and reported ‘…Dutch ministers were in cordial agreement with the possibility of planned migration’ (Morning Bulletin 1938:7), referring to a planned migration scheme from Holland to Australia. Following the Page report, Waugh received and responded to letters from Dutch citizens living in the Netherlands wanting to emigrate to Australia (Albury Banner and Wodonga Express 1938:9). In 1939, Australia’s first migration agreement with a foreign country was signed between Holland and Australia (Northern Standard 1939:3). These higher-level political relations are intermeshed with a myriad of other Dutch–Albury relations – from gift exchanges and influences on local fundraising and music, to KNILM or Royal Netherlands Indies Airways) in 1938 becoming the first foreign airline corporation to be licensed to establish an air service to Australia. The Uiver Collection includes dozens of items relating to Australian– Dutch relations. It is considered therefore that the Uiver Collection meets the NSW State threshold for historical significance. Criterion (b) an item has strong or special association with the life or works of a person, or group of persons, of importance in NSW’s cultural or natural history The Uiver Collection is associated with a range of individuals and groups. However, although many of the people identified are important to at least a local level, the Uiver Collection principally documents the ‘Uiver Story’, the MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race 1934 and the DC-2 Aircraft, rather than individual lives and works. (Refer to Section 5.2 of this report for an indicative list of associated people. Of particular consideration are Alfred Waugh, Reginald Turner and Jan Johannes Moll – all of whom have contributed to the cultural history of NSW and are represented in the collection to some extent). However, the collection has been assessed to meet this criterion based on its strong and special association with the MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race 1934 event (of which the Uiver Story is a central part); an event that has been previously assessed as important to NSW’s cultural history (NSW State Heritage Register Committee 2013:312 & National Trust of Australia NSW 2012:34). The Uiver Collection is the largest and most complete collection of material on the race identified in NSW (refer to Section 7 ‘Comparative Assessment’ and Appendix C ‘Comparative Assessment Research Data’ of this report). Criterion (c) an item is important in demonstrating aesthetic characteristics and/or a high degree of creative or technical achievement in NSW The Uiver Collection has been previously assessed as likely to hold aesthetic, creative and technical achievement at State level due to its embodiment of the Art Deco movement as well as items valued for their technical design and construction quality (NSW State Heritage Register Committee 2013:312; National Trust of Australia NSW 2012:34-35). ‘The defining characteristic of Art Deco was that it was one of scientific progress amalgamating with technology and commerce’ (Graham 2013:1), these are features with which both the Uiver Story and Uiver Collection have strong associations. On analysis, at least 10 per cent of the objects in the Uiver Collection can be considered as reaching this State level threshold for their aesthetic value relating to design and construction qualities advocated by both the Inter War Classical Revival style and Art Deco movement (for

35 UIVER COLLECTION example, cigarette cases, decorative ceramic plates, photographs, badges and pins, scarves, a gavel, a walking stick, trophies, illustrations, plaques and medals). Additionally, the collection aesthetically depicts the DC-2 Uiver aircraft — a metal aircraft of distinctly Art Deco style — a visual representation of streamlined modernity and progress. The aesthetic representation of the DC-2 is found in the Uiver Collection in many forms, from aircraft models to images, plaques to official gifts. The Uiver Collection is strongly associated with, and tells the unique story of, creative achievement in NSW, when the community of Albury banded together to guide Uiver, not only to safety after its wings and propellers iced up when attempting to cross the Australian Alps, but also to win second place in the speed and handicap sections of the MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race in 1934 and take first prize in this handicap section. This achievement was recognised by the citizens of NSW, Australia and other parts of the world (Graham 2013:3). Given these considerations, the Uiver Collection is understood to demonstrate valued aesthetic characteristics and a high degree of creative and technical achievement in NSW to meet the State threshold. Criterion (d) an item has strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group in NSW for social, cultural or spiritual reasons The Uiver Collection holds social significance because of its strong and special associations with the aviation community (in this case defined as individuals or organisations associated with aviation), the Uiver community (people with connections with the Uiver Story - from Albury locals to the wider Australian or international communities, including the Dutch community in Australia and in the Netherlands), and the Albury community (local community members and local community organisations). A public survey conducted over two weeks in October 2015 gained 203 responses (refer to Appendix A of this report – the survey was not drawn from a random sample, rather it focused on individuals with known community connections, meeting with the purpose of this assessment). People belonging to these communities indicated that the importance of the collection is based on its embodiment of the continued value that the Uiver Story and the Uiver Memorial Aircraft holds to them (Context Pty Ltd 2015: 12-21). These communities continue to hold special associations with the collection itself; with the majority of respondents indicating that a sense of loss would be felt if the collection was deaccessioned or destroyed (Context Pty Ltd 2015:18). These community connections are long and enduring at an inter-generational level (Context Pty Ltd 2015:2). The social significance of the Uiver Collection, and other associated items held in Albury that are not formally part of this particular collection (such as the Uiver Memorial Aircraft and items in the Albury Library Museum Waugh Collection for example), is evidenced in ongoing community engagement with the Uiver Story over many years. These include gift exchanges and dignity visits between Albury and the Netherlands, which continue into the present day; the development of the Uiver Memorial (aircraft, wall, gardens and plaques); related organisations such as the Uiver Memorial Foundation and the Uiver Memorial Community Trust; regular and ongoing Uiver anniversary celebrations; an ABC television mini-series and Dutch television documentary; along with the show of community discontent concerning the lack of Uiver Memorial restoration work (refer to Section 5.1 ‘Evidence of Community Connections’ in this report). Many items held in the Uiver Collection are artefacts of this social exchange, from newspaper articles to gifts and plaques. It has been noted elsewhere that the case of the Uiver Story is one of the earliest and most enduring examples of an Australian community displaying a strong emotional and historical link with an aircraft (Clayton 2002:4), and for this reason the National Trust of Australia (NSW) had assessed the Uiver Collection as reaching the State threshold in 2012 (National Trust of Australia NSW 2012:35).

36 COLLECTION SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT The strong and special associations held by the Albury community may be considered to be of local rather than State heritage significance, however the associations held by the Uiver and aviation communities to the Uiver Collection are considered to reach the State threshold. Criterion (e) an item has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of NSW’s cultural or natural history Previous assessments have identified that the Uiver Collection may have the potential to yield further information contributing to an understanding of NSW’s cultural history in terms of the introduction of the DC-2 to the Australian commercial aviation service in the late 1930s (NSW State Heritage Register Committee 2013:312; Clayton 2002:3 & Thomas 2015: 75-76). The DC-2 related items in the collection (from objects to indexed newspaper articles), if investigated, could further reveal information of this nature. It is considered that the Uiver Collection holds research potential in terms of the important role that Albury and NSW played in the 1934 MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race. Dozens of items in the Uiver Collection relate to this air race, many of which highlight Albury and NSW to the rest of Australia and the world. The collection also provides evidence on how this race was a consummate marketing exercise for both Macpherson Robertson and his MacRobertson brand of confectionary, and KLM the airline service – both of which were looking to create international connections. Additionally, the Uiver Collection holds potential research value in terms of its reflection of technical advances in aviation, including the introduction of DC-2s to the Australian airline service and the developmental changes seen in the prolific DC-3 aircraft, which are in part based on the Uiver DC-2’s performance in the MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race 1934 and its later crash in the Syrian desert of Iraq (Clayton 2002:3; Harwood 2015: pers. comm.; McCulloch 2015: pers. comm.). This kind of information is reflected in the various items representing the aircraft’s design (replica models for example), to more concrete textual information (books and indexed newspaper articles). Uiver’s participation in the 1934 air race was the first commercial passenger flight to occur between Europe and Australia. The collection contains material that can provide a better understanding of this intercontinental flight route, including passenger tickets outlining travel requirements. Together these aspects of the Uiver Collection provide research potential that contribute to understandings of NSW’s cultural history. Criterion (f) an item possesses uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of NSW’s cultural or natural history The Uiver Collection is currently identified as the largest and most intact collection of materials in NSW relating to the Uiver Story, the Douglas DC-2 aircraft, and the MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race 1934. This assessment is based on a comparison of items relating to these individual themes held in a range of different collections around NSW and further afield (refer to Section 7 ‘Comparative Assessment’ and Appendix C ‘Comparative Assessment Research Data’ of this report). Interestingly, in collections Australia- wide — including the Uiver Collection — these areas tend to overlap, indicating their thematic interconnectedness nation-wide. As the most substantial collection in NSW covering these significant and interconnected historical themes, it has been identified that the Uiver Collection is a rare collection at a State level. Criterion (g) an item is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of NSW’s - cultural or natural places; or - cultural or natural environments The Uiver Collection is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a collection relating to an aircraft of importance to the people of NSW. The Uiver Collection is comparable to the Boeing 747 and 707 sub-collections held at the Qantas Heritage Collection, Sydney Airport, NSW in that it contains hundreds of items of a diverse type telling these

37 UIVER COLLECTION important aircraft stories, however no associated aircraft. There are a number of other important aircraft collections in NSW that hold an associated aircraft (namely the Bleriot XIm Catalina flying boat, the Jetranger helicopter and the Transavia air truck at the Powerhouse Museum), however their related collection items are quite minimal in terms of number and range. This assessment finds the Uiver Collection has representative value as a substantial and diverse collection relating to an aircraft of importance to NSW. Further analysis by the NSW State Heritage Register Committee would be required to decide how the lack of an associated aircraft in the collection affects this threshold.

Statement of Significance This statement has been prepared according to NSW’s Criteria for Listing on the State Heritage Register. State Significance in this context means significance to the people of NSW (NSW Heritage Office 2010:7). The Uiver Collection of 286 objects is owned and managed by the Albury City Council. The Uiver Collection is of State historical significance criterion (a) for its wide range of content relating to the MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race 1934, the emergency landing of Uiver in Albury aided by the local community (observed with keenness around the world), the ensuing development of Dutch–NSW relations, and advances in the prolific Douglas Series aircraft worldwide, as well as commercial aviation services of relevance to NSW. The Uiver Collection holds associative significance criterion (b) based on its representation of the MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race 1934 event (of which the Uiver Story is a central part). The Uiver Collection is the largest and most complete collection of material on this race currently known of in NSW. The Uiver Collection is of aesthetic significance to the State of NSW against criterion (c) for its embodiment of design and construction qualities advocated by the Inter War Classical Revival style and Art Deco movement that can be identified in a number of items. This includes the collection’s representation of the DC-2 Uiver aircraft, evoking feelings of progress, technology and speed of the Modernist era; as well as a range of finely crafted gifts and memorabilia symbolising commercial confidence and public status in the post-Depression era. Collection items also tell the story of creative community achievement in NSW (when the community of Albury banded together to ingeniously guide Uiver to safety and win second place in the air race). Socially, criterion (d), the Uiver Collection is significant at a State level because of its special associations with the Albury, Uiver and aviation communities. These communities have long and enduring connections to the Uiver Story and these connections are embodied in the Uiver Collection. The collection itself is also intrinsically valued by these contemporary communities. The social and cultural value of the collection is based on the communities’ involvement in the Uiver’s historic landing in Albury, the strengthening of Australian–Dutch community relations that ensued, and the communities’ strong emotional and historical link with the Uiver Story that has resulted in a range of valued cultural material — from the Uiver Collection to the Uiver Memorial Aircraft. These communities’ connection to the Uiver is the earliest and most enduring example of social attachment to an aircraft in NSW. The Uiver Collection meets NSW State heritage criterion (e) in terms of research potential. The collection is a resource for exploring the role of the DC-2 in commercial aviation services in NSW during the late 1930s (Uiver provided the first commercial passenger flight between Europe and Australia). While the documented performance of Uiver in the MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race 1934 and later crash in the Syrian Desert of Iraq together influenced the design of the prolific DC-3 aircraft. The Uiver Collection also offers information on the MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race 1934, Albury’s and NSW’s role in this event, and how this race was a consummate marketing exercise for both the

38 COLLECTION SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT MacRobertson brand of confectionery and KLM the airliner – both of which were looking to create connections at a time of international expansion in the Modernist era. The NSW State Heritage Register criterion (f) is met for the collection’s rarity. It is the largest and most intact collection of materials identified in NSW relating to the Uiver Story, the Douglas DC-2 aircraft, and the MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race 1934 – as both individual and inter-related themes. Representativeness is embodied in the Uiver Collection, meeting the threshold for State heritage criterion (g). It demonstrates the principal characteristics of a collection relating to an aircraft of importance to the people of NSW. The Uiver Collection is comparable to the Boeing 747 and 707 Collections held at the Qantas Heritage Collection, Sydney Airport, NSW, in that it contains hundreds of items of diverse types to tell important aircraft stories (these three collections, however, hold no associated aircraft). Other comparable collections in NSW include original aircraft, but only contain a fraction of the range and item diversity of the Uiver Collection.

8.2 Australian National level assessment

Framework The significance assessment of the Uiver Collection at a National level is based on the four primary criteria and the four comparative assessment criteria contained in Significance 2.0: a guide to assessing the significance of collections. They are published by the Collections Council of Australia and are the assessment criteria referred to in the National Library of Australia guidelines How to Prepare for a Significance Assessment. To be assessed as holding national level significance, the collection should satisfy most of the primary criteria (historic, social, spiritual, scientific or research significance) and most of the comparative criteria (strong provenance, contains rare or unique material, is in good condition and demonstrates interpretive potential).

Analysis Primary criteria assessment Historic significance The Uiver Collection contains dozens of items relating to the MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race 1934, including photographs, books, newspaper articles, cartoons, aircraft items, medals and memorabilia. In this way, it embodies the air race story. This race is widely recognised as one of the world’s greatest air races (NSW State Heritage Register Committee 2013:312; National Trust of Australia NSW 2012:34; Clayton 2002:2; Veitch 1984:3,9,16,71). According to Museum Victoria (http://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/146675): The race was symbolically important to Australia since it demonstrated to the world that Australia was only days away. It raised public spirits in the post-depression years and made MacRobertson a household name around the world. It is also the case that the collection holds significant historical value because of its embodiment of the Uiver Story. This story centres on the emergency landing of Uiver in Albury in which the local community resourcefully banded together to ensure the aircraft’s safe arrival and departure, resulting in Uiver taking second place in the race and winning the Handicap Prize. This event was followed keenly at the time locally, throughout NSW, Australia and internationally – it was broadcast worldwide. It is a unique event in the history of NSW and Australia that is recognised well beyond the local level, as is evidenced by the content of the Uiver Collection. The experience of Uiver in this race was followed by a chain of events at local, state, national and international levels that are of significant historical value recognised as well beyond the regional level. The ‘world’s eye’ was on Uiver in the race due to its overall performance and the incident in Albury, contributing to a number of important historical occurrences. Learnings from Uiver’s performance shaped further technological advances of the Douglas Commercial

39 UIVER COLLECTION Series, with the subsequent DC-3 considered one of the most significant aircraft in transport history (Thomas 2015:68. & NBRS+Partners 2012:1). Uiver’s race performance also influenced the development of Australia’s airline industry, with the later introduction of Douglas Commercial Series aircraft into the nation’s fleet (National Trust of Australia NSW 2012:2&34 & Clayton 2002:3). The Uiver Collection includes dozens of Douglas DC-2 related items, from visual depictions of the aircraft in photographs, models and memorabilia, to flight reports. Uiver’s 1934 flight in the Centenary Air Race was the first commercial passenger flight to occur between Europe and Australia, Uiver being the only competitor with fare-paying passengers on board. It has been argued that Uiver’s performance in the race ‘…heralded the arrival of regular international passenger air travel. Suddenly Australia was less than four days from the “mother county”. But it took this American inter-capital airliner, flown by a Dutch Airline (the oldest in the world) to do it’ (Randall 1985:130). The Uiver Collection includes one of the first two passenger tickets issued for this intercontinental route (and perhaps the only one surviving today). Furthermore, Uiver contributed to historical connections forged between Australia and the Netherlands as a consequence of the flight. In 1935 the Mayor of Albury Alfred Waugh visited Holland by invitation of the Dutch government, whose monarch, Queen Wilhelmina, conferred on him membership as an ‘Officier’ of the Order of Oranje-Nassau (Border Mail 1934:6). King George V of England granted consent to the award being made. In 1938, Sir Earle Page, the Australian Federal Minister for Commerce, travelled to Holland and reported ‘…Dutch ministers were in cordial agreement with the possibility of planned migration’ (Morning Bulletin 1938:7), referring to a planned migration scheme from Holland to Australia. Following the Page report, Waugh received and responded to letters from Dutch citizens living in the Netherlands wanting to emigrate to Australia (Albury Banner and Wodonga Express 1938:9). In 1939, Australia’s first migration agreement with a foreign country was signed between Holland and Australia (Northern Standard 1939:3). These higher-level political relations are intermeshed with a myriad of smaller scale Dutch–Albury relations – from gift exchanges and influences on local fundraising and music, to KNILM (or Royal Netherlands Indies Airways) in 1938 becoming the first foreign airline corporation to be licensed to establish an air service to Australia. The Uiver Collection includes dozens of items relating to Australian–Dutch relations of this nature. The Uiver Collection therefore meets the National threshold for historical significance, based on its ability to demonstrate milestones in Australia’s aviation history, as well as in its Dutch migration history. Artistic or aesthetic significance The Uiver Collection has previously been assessed as likely to hold aesthetic significance, due to its embodiment of the influential Art Deco movement, as well as items valued for their technically unique design and construction qualities (NSW State Heritage Register Committee 2013:312; National Trust of Australia NSW 2012:34-35). ‘The defining characteristic of Art Deco was that it was one of scientific progress amalgamating with technology and commerce’ (Graham 2013:1), these are features with which both the Uiver Story and Uiver Collection have strong associations. On analysis, at least 10 per cent of the objects in the Uiver Collection can be considered as holding strong significance for their aesthetic value relating to design and construction qualities advocated by both the Inter War Classical Revival style and Art Deco movement. For example, cigarette cases, decorative ceramic plates, photographs, badges and pins, scarves, a gavel, a walking stick, trophies, illustrations, plaques and medals. Additionally, the collection depicts the DC-2 Uiver aircraft — a metal aircraft of distinctly Art Deco style — a visually pleasing object representative of streamlined modernity and progress. The aesthetic representation of the DC-2 is found in the Uiver Collection in many forms, from aircraft models to images and plaques to official gifts.

40 COLLECTION SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT The Uiver Collection is strongly associated with, and tells the unique story of, creative achievement, when the community of Albury banded together to guide Uiver – not only to safety after its wings and propellers iced up when attempting to cross the Australian Alps – but also to win second place in the speed and handicap sections of the MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race in 1934 and take first prize overall in the handicap section. This achievement was recognised by the citizens of NSW, Australia and other parts of the world (Graham 2013:3). Given these considerations, the Uiver Collection demonstrates valued aesthetic characteristics at the National threshold, through its aesthetically pleasing and evocative variety of items and representative value of important aesthetic movements. Research or scientific significance Previous assessments have identified that the Uiver Collection may have the potential to yield further information in terms of the introduction of the DC-2 to the Australian commercial aviation service in the late 1930s (NSW State Heritage Register Committee 2013:312; Clayton 2002:3 & Thomas 2015: 75-76). DC-2 related items in the collection (from objects to indexed newspaper articles), if investigated, could further reveal information of this nature. With this in consideration, the Uiver Collection holds research potential in terms of the important role that Albury, NSW and Australia played in the 1934 MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race. Dozens of items in the Uiver Collection relate to this air race, many of which highlight Albury, NSW and Australia to the rest of the world. The collection also provides evidence on how this race was a consummate marketing exercise for both Macpherson Robertson and his MacRobertson brand of confectionary, and KLM the airline service – both of which were aspiring to expand their international networks. Additionally, the Uiver Collection holds potential research value in terms of its reflection of technical advances in aviation, including the introduction of DC-2s to the Australian airline service and the developmental changes seen in the prolific DC-3 aircraft, which are in part based on the Uiver DC-2’s performance in the MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race 1934 and its later crash in the Syrian desert of Iraq (Clayton 2002:3; Harwood 2015: pers. comm.; McCulloch 2015: pers. comm.). This kind of narrative is reflected in the various items representing the aircraft’s design (replica models for example), to more concrete textual information, such as books and indexed newspaper articles. Uiver’s participation in the 1934 air race was the first commercial passenger flight to occur between Europe and Australia. The collection contains material that can provide a better understanding of this intercontinental flight route, including passenger tickets outlining travel requirements. Together these aspects of the Uiver Collection demonstrate research potential at the National threshold. Social or spiritual significance The Uiver Collection holds social significance because of its strong and special associations with the aviation community (in this case defined as individuals or organisations associated with aviation), the Uiver community (people with connections with the Uiver Story - from Albury locals to the wider Australian or international communities, including the Dutch community in Australia and in the Netherlands), and the Albury community (local community members and local community organisations). A public survey conducted over two weeks in October 2015 gained 203 responses (refer to Appendix A of this report – the survey was not drawn from a random sample, rather it focused on individuals with known community connections, meeting with the purpose of this assessment). People belonging to these communities indicated that the importance of the collection is based on its embodiment of the continued value that the Uiver Story and the Uiver Memorial Aircraft holds to them (Context Pty Ltd 2015: 12-21). These communities continue to hold special associations with the collection itself; with the majority of respondents indicating that a sense of loss would be experienced if the collection was deaccessioned or destroyed (Context Pty Ltd 2015:18). These

41 UIVER COLLECTION community connections are long and enduring at an inter-generational level (Context Pty Ltd 2015:2). The social significance of the Uiver Collection, and other associated items held in Albury that are not formally part of this particular collection (such as the Uiver Memorial Aircraft and items in the Albury Library Museum Waugh Collection), is evidenced in ongoing community engagement with the Uiver Story over many years. These include gift exchanges and dignitary visits between Albury and the Netherlands, which continue into the present day; the development of the Uiver Memorial (aircraft, wall, gardens and plaques); related organisations such as the Uiver Memorial Foundation and the Uiver Memorial Community Trust; regular and ongoing Uiver anniversary celebrations; an ABC television mini-series and Dutch television documentary; along with the show of community discontent concerning the lack of Uiver Memorial restoration work (refer to Section 5.1 ‘Evidence of Community Connections’ in this report). Many items held in the Uiver Collection are artefacts of this social exchange, from indexed newspaper articles to gifts and plaques. It has been noted elsewhere that the case of the Uiver Story is one of the earliest and most enduring examples of an Australian community displaying a strong emotional and historical link with an aircraft (Clayton 2002:4), and for this reason the National Trust of Australia (NSW) had assessed the Uiver Collection as reaching the State threshold in 2012 (National Trust of Australia NSW 2012:35). The social connections held by the Albury, Uiver and Aviation communities to the Uiver Collection reach the National threshold. Comparative criteria assessment Provenance The provenance of the Uiver Collection is clearly recorded in the Albury LibraryMuseum collection records, detailing a consistent chain of ownership. Johan Domenie, son of Roelof Domenie (one of the three Uiver passengers who travelled on Uiver during the MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race 1934 between London and Melbourne) donated 116 items of the 286-item Uiver Collection. Twenty-three items were then donated by John Reginald Turner (son of Reginald Frank Turner MBE - the Postal Inspector at the Albury Post Office who flashed the town’s electricity supply in Morse code and facilitated the sending of telegrams from the Uiver pilots and passengers). The remaining 147 items originated from the City of Albury Civic Collection and were accessioned from a range of different donors. Rarity or representativeness The Uiver Collection is currently identified as the most comprehensive collection of materials relating to the Uiver Story in Australia. The Dutch National Aviation Museum Aviodrome in the Netherlands holds the only known comparable collection to that of Albury LibraryMuseum. It is also one of the most comprehensive collections in Australia documenting the Douglas DC-2 aircraft, the MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race 1934, and an aircraft of continuing social value. As an ‘aircraft’ collection, however, it lacks an original or replica aircraft as part of the collection. Yet, this is also the case for all other aircraft collections identified in Australia that cover such a broad range of thematic areas and object types. This assessment is based on a comparison of items relating to these individual themes held in a range of different aviation collections around Australia (refer to Section 7 ‘Comparative Assessment’ and Appendix C ‘Comparative Assessment Research Data’ of this report). Condition or completeness Overall, the items comprising the Uiver Collection are in good condition, aided by the fact that they are managed according to best practice national standards by Albury LibraryMuseum. Interpretive capacity The Uiver Collection has a high interpretative capacity, based on the wide range of thematic content and item types that it covers. This enables the telling of a range of stories associated with the Uiver Story generally in a variety of ways (textually and audio-visually for example),

42 COLLECTION SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT based on the collection’s aesthetic qualities, technical merits and socio-cultural memories. From 2006 for example, Uiver Collection items have been used in at least six exhibitions, covering themes of the Albury region generally, past Albury Mayor Alfred Waugh, identity, local government, Art Deco, the Uiver Story and MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race 1934.

Statement of Significance This statement has been written according to Significance 2.0: a guide to assessing the significance of collections. National significance in this context generally means that the collection satisfies both the primary criteria - historic, social, spiritual, scientific or research significance; and the comparative criteria - strong provenance, contains rare or unique material, is in good condition and demonstrates interpretive potential. The Uiver Collection of 286 items (archival, audio-visual and object-based) is owned and managed by the Albury City Council. The Dutch National Aviation Museum Aviodrome in the Netherlands holds the only known comparable collection within NSW, Australia and internationally. The Uiver Collection has strong provenance and is in good condition. It covers the principal thematic areas of the ‘Uiver Story’, the MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race 1934, the Douglas DC-2 aircraft and Dutch/Australian relations. Together these attributes provide abundant material for interpretation. The collection explores in detail the performance of the KLM Uiver aircraft during the MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race 1934, including its emergency landing in Albury aided by the local community (and observed keenly around the world), the ensuing development of Dutch–Australian relations, and subsequent advances in the prolific Douglas Series aircraft and commercial aviation services both in Australian and internationally. The collection is significant for a range of reasons. The adventures of Uiver in the MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race 1934 is a unique historical event that continues to be socially valued today by the Albury, wider Uiver and aviation communities. The collection provides many items of research potential concerning the Race and the beginnings of commercial aviation services to and within Australia; the Uiver (a DC-2 aircraft) provided the first commercial passenger flight ever between Europe and Australia and in large part based on its success in the race, the DC-2 was then introduced into Australia for domestic passenger service. Additionally, the race was a consummate marketing exercise for both the well-known MacRobertson brand of confectionery and KLM the airliner – both of which were looking to create connections at a time of international expansion in the Modernist era. Given the substantial number of status-evoking public gifts and memorabilia contained within the collection, it embodies important design and construction qualities advocated by the Inter War Classical Revival style and Art Deco movement.

43 UIVER COLLECTION 9 RECOMMENDATIONS These recommendations are to guide future management of the collection itself, as well as public interactions with the collection. It is acknowledged that the Albury LibraryMuseum currently manages and interprets the collection to best practice national standards, which requires ongoing maintenance of the collection. • Given the Uiver Collection has been assessed in this report as reaching the criteria and threshold of State heritage significance, the Albury City Council may consider it appropriate to nominate the collection for the State Heritage Register (SHR) of NSW. The SHR team would then apply their internal heritage assessment process to the collection. Nomination is not compulsory, and any member of the public could make such a submission. SHR listing would confirm the collection’s heritage status at a State level that may be a source of pride for many people; the rigorous assessment process may lead to new information being uncovered about the collection; it would enable access to further heritage grants and allow for heritage agreements at a State level; and it would result in further collection protection (protection levels and requirements would be negotiated between the Albury City Council and the Heritage Council of NSW once the assessment process had taken place). • Undertake a review of existing items in the Uiver Collection as well as the additional items recorded in the wider AlburyCity Cultural Collections database under the Subject/Keyword ‘Uiver’ (556 items in total). This is in line with AlburyCity Museum and Social History teams broader review of the use of named sub-collections. • Continue to digitise the collection using the DB/TextWorks collection management system. Consider ensuring that the ‘Description’ field reflects the physical description of the item, rather than containing historical content. • Commission a preservation needs assessment for the collection to inform best practice management. Archive, audio-visual and object based collections items should be taken into account. • Given the relevance of the Uiver Memorial Aircraft to the Uiver Collection, and the synergy they create in telling the Uiver story, consider developing an MOU with the Uiver Memorial Community Trust. This will assist the two organisations in continuing to work together on projects of mutual benefit towards the broader goal of interpreting the Uiver story. • Seek funding to undertake these recommendations. Possible funding sources include – the National Library of Australia Community Heritage Grant program, the NSW Heritage Grants program, museum sector grants programs, and International Cultural Exchange grant programs.

44 COLLECTION SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT REFERENCES Assessment frameworks Australia Heritage Commission 1998, The Australia Historic Themes Framework. Australia ICOMOS 2013, ‘Understanding and Assessing Cultural Significance’, Burra Charter Practice Note (retrieved from http://australia.icomos.org/wp-content/uploads/Practice- Note_Understanding-and-assessing-cultural-significance.pdf). Collections Council of Australia 2009, Significance 2.0: A Guide to Assessing the Significance of Collections. Heritage Council of NSW 2001, The New South Wales Historical Themes. National Library of Australia 2014, Community Heritage Grants Assessment Report (retrieved from http://www.nla.gov.au/chg/2014-community-heritage-grants-assessment-report). NSW Heritage Office & Ministry for the Arts 2000, ‘Movable Heritage Principles’, Heritage Information Series. NSW Heritage Office 2001, ‘Assessing Heritage Significance’, NSW Heritage Manual, Office of Environment and Heritage. Heritage Council of NSW 1999, Criteria for Listing on the State Heritage Register (retrieved from http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/resources/heritagebranch/heritage/listings/criteria.pdf). NSW Heritage Office, Guidelines for Nominations to the State Heritage Register, 2006 NSW Government Department of Planning. Bibliographic references Randall, Alan 1985, There and back: reminiscences, episodes, anecdotes and wartime exploits of the famous R.A.A.F. 36 (Transport) Squadron, Melbourne. Veitch, Robert 1984, ‘The Centenary Air Race’, Aviation Heritage, 24, pp. 1–100. Report references Clayton, Mark 2002, ‘Albury’s DC-2’, A Cultural Heritage Assessment, prepared for the City of Albury. Graham, Helen 2013, Application for the listing of The Uiver Memorial Collection Albury, prepared for the Heritage Council of NSW. Jackling, Noel 2015, The Uiver Collection, A Listing of Uiver Collection Items. National Trust of Australia NSW 2012, ‘Uiver DC-2 Memorial and Collection’, State Heritage Register – Nomination for Review. The National Trust of Australia NSW 2012, ‘the Uiver Collection’, National Trust Register Listing Report. NBRS+Partners 2012, ‘DC-2 Uiver Memorial Aircraft’, Heritage Assessment, prepared for Albury City Council. NSW State Heritage Register Committee 2013, ‘Uiver DC-2 Memorial and Collection’, State Heritage Register – Nomination for Review. Thomas, Nicole Peta 2015, ‘Uiver Memorial DC-2’, Conservation Management Plan, prepared for Albury City Council. Velthuis, Kirsten 2005, ‘The Dutch in NSW – A Thematic History’, The Johnstone Centre Report No. 201, Charles Sturt University Albury. Media references ABC Radio National, 2014 ‘The Uiver Emergency’ a documentary by Martin Buzacott (http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/the-uiver-emergency/5810300).

45 UIVER COLLECTION Border Mail 1934, Queen of Netherlands confers high honour on Mayor of Albury [Ald. Waugh]: Orange- Nassau, 27 November, p. 6. Morning Bulletin [Rockhampton] 1938, Migration discussed with Dutch ministers: Desirable settlers for Australia, 28 June, p. 7. Albury Banner and Wodonga Express 1938, Dutch people anxious to live in Australia, 12 August, p. 9. Northern Standard [Darwin] 1939, Dutch Farmers: Settlement in Australia, 11 July, p. 3. Community references Blom, Gerard 2015, son of Dutch immigrants Herman and Geesje Blom, personal communications, 21 October 2015. Context Pty Ltd 2015, ‘The Uiver Collection’, Survey Monkey survey summary report, prepared for the Albury LibraryMuseum. Harwood, Tom 2015, personal communications, Qantas Founders Museum, 8 October 2015. Jackling, Noel 2015, personal communications, Historian and retired Lawyer, various dates October 2015. McCulloch, John 2015, personal communications, Australian National Aviation Museum, 19 October 2015.

46 COLLECTION SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT APPENDIX A: COMMUNITY SURVEY RESULTS

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Q1 Had you heard of the Uiver before today?

Answered: 203 Skipped: 0

Yes

No

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

Answer Choices Responses

Yes 90.15% 183

No 9.85% 20

Total 203

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Q2 How long have you known about the Uiver?

Answered: 203 Skipped: 0

Under 1 year

1 to 10 years

11 to 20 years

21 years plus

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

Answer Choices Responses

Under 1 year 8.87% 18

1 to 10 years 19.70% 40

11 to 20 years 14.29% 29

21 years plus 57.14% 116

Total 203

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Q3 Is the Uiver aircraft or story important to you?

Answered: 203 Skipped: 0

Yes

Somewhat

No

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

Answer Choices Responses

Yes 78.82% 160

Somewhat 17.73% 36

No 3.45% 7

Total 203

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Q4 To which community do you broadly belong? (you can choose more than one option)

Answered: 203 Skipped: 0

The Albury community...

The Uiver community (a...

The Aviation community (a...

Other

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

Answer Choices Responses

32.02% The Albury community (local Albury community members and local community organisations - with or without Uiver associations) 65

31.03% The Uiver community (any organisation or individual with associations or an interest in the Uiver aircraft, story or collection, regardless of background 63 or place of residence - from Albury locals to the wider Australian or international communities, including the Dutch community)

34.98% The Aviation community (any individual or organisation associated with aviation - but not necessary related to the Uiver - from collection custodians to 71 aviation businesses and aircraft restoration groups)

23.15% Other 47

Total Respondents: 203

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Q5 Did you know before today that the Albury City Council LibraryMuseum holds a collection relating to the Uiver?

Answered: 203 Skipped: 0

Yes

No

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

Answer Choices Responses

Yes 69.95% 142

No 30.05% 61

Total 203

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Q6 Is the Uiver Collection of heritage items important to you?

Answered: 203 Skipped: 0

Yes

Yes (although I only learn...

Somewhat

No

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

Answer Choices Responses

Yes 71.92% 146

Yes (although I only learnt of it today) 16.26% 33

Somewhat 8.37% 17

No 3.45% 7

Total 203

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Q7 Would you be upset if the collection was deaccessioned or destroyed? (This is only a hypothetical question to gauge heritage value. The collection will continue to be managed by the LibraryMuseum as per the Albury City Council's Cultural Collections Policy).

Answered: 203 Skipped: 0

Yes

Somewhat

No

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

Answer Choices Responses

Yes 91.13% 185

Somewhat 5.91% 12

No 2.96% 6

Total 203

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Dates Organisation Person Purpose

Various Albury LibraryMuseum Carina Clement, Emma Collection research Williams, Victoria Cooper and Chirs Edgar Various The National Trust of Graeme Quint, Director - Historical research Australia (NSW) Advocacy Various Art Deco and Modernism Helen Graham Aesthetic heritage value advice Society (ADMS) / International Coalition of Art Deco Societies (ICADS) Various Albury Historical Society Helen Livsey (Hon. Secretary) Heritage values advice and Michael Browne (President) Various Heritage Division, NSW Lucy Hampton, Heritage NSW heritage criteria and Office of Environment Listings Officer threshold advice Various The Camden Museum of Nicole Thomas, Heritage Heritage values and aviation Aviation, NSW Consultant – Aviation Heritage heritage advice Various N/A Noel Jackling, Historian and Uiver Collection advice and retired Lawyer historical research 28/09/2015 – Dutch National Aviation Raymond Oostergo, Collection, Comparative assessment 21/10/2015 Museum Aviodrome, The Facilities and Aircraft Netherlands Operations Manager 28/09/2015 Stichting Historisch DirkJan Rozema, Trustee Comparative assessment Museum, The Netherlands 28/09/2015 Australian National Mark Pilkington Comparative assessment Aviation Museum, VIC

28/09/2015 Royal Aero Club Trust, Andrew Dawrant, Trustee Comparative assessment UK 28/09/2015 Royal Air Force Museum, Guy Revell, Assistant Curator Comparative assessment UK 28/09/2015 The Shuttleworth Veteran Terry Mace, Shuttleworth Comparative assessment Aeroplane Society, UK Collection Volunteer 28/09/2015 – South Australian Aviation Peter Ingman & Peter Van Comparative assessment 15/10/2015 Museum, SA Dyke 29/09/2015 Queensland Air Museum, Ron Cuskelly OAM, Vice Comparative assessment QLD President & Historian 28/09/2015 – The Airways Museum & Leighton Passant, member & Comparative assessment 16/10/2015 Civil Aviation Historical Roger Meyer Society, VIC 28/09/2015 – RAAF Museum Point Emily Constantine Comparative assessment 16/10/2015 Cook, VIC 28/09/2015 – Qantas Heritage David Crotty, Curator Comparative assessment 27/10/2015 Collection, NSW

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Dates Organisation Person Purpose

28/09/2015 - Qantas Founders Tom Harwood, Curator Comparative assessment and 15/10/2015 Museum, QLD general specialised knowledge 28/09/2015 Smithsonian National Air Bob van der Linden Comparative assessment and Space Museum, USA 28/09/2015 The Boeing Company, Michael Lombardi, Corporate Comparative assessment USA Historian 13/10/2015 – The Powerhouse Museum, Matthew Connell, Senior Comparative assessment 27/10/2015 NSW Curator & Ian Debenham, Past Curator 28/09/2015 Museum of Flight, USA Dan Hagedorn Comparative assessment 15/10/15 Temora Aviation Lisa Love, Curator Comparative assessment Museum, NSW 15/10/15 Fighterworld Aviation Terry Wells, Volunteer Comparative assessment Museum, NSW 15/10/15 Central Australian Brian Ether, Administrator Comparative assessment Aviation Museum, NT 15/10/15 RAAF Museum Peter Tyack Comparative assessment (Townsville), QLD 15/10/15 Australian Aviation Kevin Snowball, Curator Comparative assessment Museum, Bankstown, NSW 15/10/15 Luskintyre Aviation Flying Online enquiry Comparative assessment Museum, NSW 15/10/15 The Australian Aviation Craig Bellamy Comparative assessment Centre, NT 15/10/15 Classic Jets Fighter Bob Jarret, Director Comparative assessment Museum, SA 15/10/15 Ballarat Aviation Museum, Ronald Fisher Comparative assessment VIC 15/10/15 - Trans-Australia Airlines Online enquiry Comparative assessment 19/10/2015 Museum, VIC 15/10/15 - Aviation Heritage John Parkham Comparative assessment 23/10/15 Museum of Western Australia, WA 19/10/15 - Hinkler Hall of Aviation, Online enquiry Comparative assessment 15/10/2015 QLD 19/10/15 Northern Territory Online collection search Comparative assessment Library, NT 19/10/15 Museum Victoria, VIC Online collection search Comparative assessment 19/10/15 Australian War Memorial, Online collection search Comparative assessment ACT 19/10/15 National Library of Online collection search Comparative assessment Australia, ACT 23/10/15 National Museum of Online collection search Comparative assessment Australia, ACT 23/10/15 RAAF Museum Due to timing limitations of Comparative assessment

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Dates Organisation Person Purpose (Tamworth), NSW this report a formal information request could not be made in accordance with ADFA confidentiality processes 23/10/15 State Library of New Online collection search Comparative assessment South Wales, NSW 23/10/15 Fleet Air Arm Museum, Due to timing limitations of Comparative assessment NSW this report a formal information request could not be made in accordance with ADFA confidentiality processes 23/10/15 Queensland Air Museum, Museum Secretary Comparative assessment QLD 27/10/2015 Beverley Aeronautical Beverley Visitor Information Comparative assessment Museum, WA Centre 30/10/2015 Royal Historical Society of Kate Prinsley, Executive Comparative assessment Victoria, VIC Officer & David Thompson, Exhibition Team Volunteer

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APPENDIX C: COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT RESEARCH DATA This research data was collected over September and October 2015. It provides an overview of comparable collections to establish rarity and representativeness for the purposes of this report, identified based on their ability to demonstrate comparable themes to that of the Uiver Collection; the Uiver aircraft story, the DC-2 and other aircrafts with associated collections of social significance. This list is as comprehensive as possible given project timelines and scope. It may be useful to amend this list in the future as further related collection items are identified and collection details rectified.

Collection Uiver collection items Douglas DC-2 aircraft MacRobertson Aircraft related collection collection items International Centenary items of social importance Air Race collection items

NSW The Uiver Collection, Archives, audio-visual and Dozens of items of various Dozens of items of various Uiver Collection (items and Albury LibraryMuseum, objects (286 items). types (estimated at around 100 types (estimated at around 100 numbers as per ‘Uiver collection’ NSW items). items). items column). (Not including the additional approx. 280 Uiver related items held other Albury City Council Collections). Australian Aviation No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections Museum, Bankstown, NSW identified. identified. identified. identified. RAAF Museum Tamworth, No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections Original Avro Anson aircraft but no NSW identified. identified. identified. related collection items (associated collection held by NLA - approx. 30 items). Qantas Heritage Collection, No comparable collections No comparable collections Objects and archives relating Avro 504K aircraft replica that Sydney Airport, NSW identified. identified. to race pilot, CWA Scott, who incorporates many original parts on was formerly employed by display in Qantas domestic terminal. Qantas (approx. 10 items). Associated collection of records and photographs (approx. 20 items). Collection associated with the Boeing 707 (original aircraft held by Qantas Founders Museum), socially

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Collection Uiver collection items Douglas DC-2 aircraft MacRobertson Aircraft related collection collection items International Centenary items of social importance Air Race collection items significant as the first jet passenger liner used by Qantas. Collection comprises technical documents, reports and images (approx. 500 items). Collection associated with the Boeing 747 (original aircraft held by Qantas Founders Museum), socially significant as the first non-stop flight between London and Sydney in 1989. Collection comprises technical documents, reports and images (approx. 100 items). Collection associated with the Boeing 747-200 (original aircraft held by Qantas Founders Museum), socially significant as an example of the first models manufactured in 1971. The Boeing 747-200 is credited for having opened up international travel to Australia by making it more affordable. Collection comprises technical documents, reports and images (approx. 50 items). The Powerhouse Museum, Model of the Uiver (1 item). No comparable collections Posters, aircraft models, an Original Bleriot X11 aircraft – one NSW identified. engine and undercarriage of the earliest civil aircrafts to fly in starboard, envelope, Australia carrying air mail. publications, and photographs Associated collection includes (approx. 10 items). postcards and letters carried on its first 1914 flight (approx. 12 items). Original Catalina Flying Boat aircraft, flight photographic log

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Collection Uiver collection items Douglas DC-2 aircraft MacRobertson Aircraft related collection collection items International Centenary items of social importance Air Race collection items book of journey (approx. 20-30 items, some yet to be catalogued). Pioneering pilot PJ Taylor took a crew across the Pacific to Chile looking for flight routes. Dick Smith Jetranger helicopter, torch, commemorative stamps and postcards issued by Australia Post (approx. 12 items). Nationally recognised persona. Transavia air truck prototype, associated collection of manuals and plans (approx. 10 items). Used extensively in NSW for crop dusting. Collection associated with Kingsford Smith’s Southern Cross (original aircraft at Brisbane airport), collection comprises aviation equipment, pilot correspondence & mechanical parts from original aircraft (approx. 30 items). Temora Aviation Museum, No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections Original DH B2-A Tiger Moth – NSW identified. identified. identified. crashed in Sydney Harbor then retrieved and pressed into military service for aircraft training during WWII. Associated collection of material on Temora as an RAAF Base for pilot training. The most iconic aircraft in the collection, highly visited. Navy Fleet Air Arm No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections Bristol Sycamore helicopter that

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Collection Uiver collection items Douglas DC-2 aircraft MacRobertson Aircraft related collection collection items International Centenary items of social importance Air Race collection items Museum, NSW identified. identified. identified. provided relief during the 1950s Maitland floods (no related collection items). Bell Iroquois helicopter that provided flood relief during the 1960s-70s, including at Shoalhaven (no related collection items). Westland Wessex helicopter, used for flood relief and search & rescue. This particular aircraft’s squadron disbanded, at which time the squadron’s honour boards, trophies, presentations, plaques, crests, etc. were donated to the collection (approx. 50 items). Each aircraft has an associated collection of material detailing its involvement in emergency response measures, including logbooks, squadron diaries and line books (approx. 5 items per aircraft). Luskintyre Aviation Flying No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections Understood to hold Tigermoth Museum, NSW identified. identified. identified. aircrafts of social value, however associated collection items have not been identified. The Camden Museum of No comparable collections Original DC-2 instruction Race storyboard (1 item). Southern Cross Fokker FVIIb and Aviation, NSW identified. manual (1 item). Charles Kingsford Smith logbooks DC-2 cockpit instruments (approx. 10 items) & archive of (approx. 50 items). photographs, manuals and documents (approx. 50 items). Items relating to Southern Cloud - Avro 618– including wreckage,

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Collection Uiver collection items Douglas DC-2 aircraft MacRobertson Aircraft related collection collection items International Centenary items of social importance Air Race collection items photographs & log books (approx. 15 items). Items relating to the Gipsy Moth “Jason” aircraft and Amy Johnson (3 items). Fighterworld Aviation No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections Museum, NSW identified. identified. identified. identified. Historic Aircraft No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections Replica of Kingsford-Smith’s Restoration Society, NSW identified. identified. identified. Southern Cross (original aircraft at Brisbane airport), associated collection held by Powerhouse Museum comprising aviation equipment, pilot correspondence & mechanical parts from original aircraft (approx. 30 items). State Library of New South Photographs of the ‘Uiver’ at No comparable collections Copy of Albury Mayor's Videocassette documentary on Wales Albury racecourse (approx. 10 identified. souvenir photo album notable aviator Bert Hinkler called items). reproduced for the 80th ‘The Lone Eagle’ (1 item). Secondary reference material anniversary, map of centenary Flight testing records of the in Dutch c1935 (approx. 3 air race, air race promotional Southern Cross replica aircraft by items). poster c1934 & race the Department of Defence (1 supplementary regulations of item). Royal Aero Club London Collection of pamphlets and (approx. 4 items). ephemera relating to air transport history in Australia, including Kingsford-Smith, Amy Johnson, etc. (approx. 25 items). Australia-wide Australian War Memorial, No comparable collections Photographs of DC-2 aircraft Books relating to Centenary “G for George” Avro Lancaster ACT identified. with military associations (88 Air Race and pilot `Jimmy' Bomber original aircraft and items). Melrose portrait (2 items). associated collection of medals,

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Collection Uiver collection items Douglas DC-2 aircraft MacRobertson Aircraft related collection collection items International Centenary items of social importance Air Race collection items navigation logs, pilot logbooks and photographs and films of the aircraft in-flight, its crew members and its dismantling for transport to the AWM (approx. 160 items). Most operational Lancaster’s were shot down during WWII. G for George is the only Lancaster that brought home, alive, every crewman who flew aboard it. Albatros D.Va Scout original aircraft (1 item) and associated collection comprising a photograph and mechanical parts from the original aircraft (5 items). The Albatros was a Prussian aircraft shot down during an attack on Australian patrol aircraft during WWI and recovered under enemy fire as a war trophy. National Library of Uiver photographs taken at Photographs of DC-2 in-flight Photographs of pilots, planes Collection associated with the Australia, ACT Albury and on airfields during & stationary, in various & scenes at aerodromes, RAAF Avro Anson (original aircraft the race and wax seals from hangars and settings (approx. correspondence regarding the held by RAAF Museum race gold medals (approx. 10 50 items). organisation and incidents of Tamworth), comprising items). the race, cables sent by pilots photographs of aircraft in-flight and during the race, flight covers, stationary (approx. 30 items). control and check point forms, The Anson is significant to the entry forms, list of RAAF, which ran more of those competitors, programs, maps, aircraft than any other type. They Allison's manuscript giving then had a second life as training biographical details about the aircraft for Observers and pilots, notes on their Navigators under the Empire Air subsequent careers and an Training Scheme. account of the race, cheques

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Collection Uiver collection items Douglas DC-2 aircraft MacRobertson Aircraft related collection collection items International Centenary items of social importance Air Race collection items given to winner and second place-getters and posters (approx. 30 items). National Museum of No comparable collections No comparable collections Newspaper clipping "City's Collection of material related to the Australia, ACT identified. identified. Amazing Welcome to Air Race Southern Cross (original aircraft at Heroes" (1 item). Brisbane Airport), comprising leaflets, commemorative souvenirs and personal effects of Kingsford- Smith and his wife (approx. 30 items). Collection of material associated with notable aviator Louis Bleriot (original Bleriot X1aircraft at Powerhouse Museum), comprising receipts from Bleriot aeronautics and photograph copies of Bleriot (4 items). Central Australian Aviation No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections Museum, NT identified. identified. identified. identified. The Australian Aviation Uiver photographs – copies No comparable collections Photograph of the event (1 No comparable collections Centre, NT only (approx. 10 items). identified. item). identified. Northern Territory Library, Photograph of ‘Uiver’ DC-2 at No comparable collections Photographs of planes and No comparable collections NT Darwin airport, 1984, during identified. spectators at Darwin during identified. re-enactment of the air race (approx. 10 items). MacRobertson Air Race (1 item).

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Collection Uiver collection items Douglas DC-2 aircraft MacRobertson Aircraft related collection collection items International Centenary items of social importance Air Race collection items

Brisbane Airport, QLD No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections Original Southern Cross aircraft and identified. identified. identified. items associated with Kingsford Smith, including flying suit, goggles and other personal effects (approx. 50 items). Southern Cross is an iconic aircraft that was flown by Kingsford Smith, the ‘Australian pioneer’ of the ‘Australian and the Great Race’ fame. (Related collection also held by Camden Museum of Aviation). Qantas Founders Museum, Digital images of Uiver DC-2 No comparable collections Digital image of the three first Original Boeing 707 Jet, magazines, QLD at Albury (2 items). identified. place getters in a hanger in photos, advertising images and Melbourne (1 item). books (approx. 50 items). First jet registered in Australia, 1959, and widely used as a commercial plan. Queensland Air Museum, No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections Collection associated with original QLD identified. identified. identified. Southern Cross aircraft on display at Brisbane Airport, comprising photographs of pilot Charles Kingsford Smith, a boomerang presented to Smith by Aboriginal Australian community members after his record-breaking England to Australia flight in 1930, as well as a helmet he is reputed to have worn during the journey. Collection also contains a canvas mail bag used by QANTAS to transport mail on the first airmail service between Australia and England in 1931;

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Collection Uiver collection items Douglas DC-2 aircraft MacRobertson Aircraft related collection collection items International Centenary items of social importance Air Race collection items Kingsford Smith transported the mail bag aboard the Southern Cross on the Darwin to England leg of his return journey (approx. 10 items). Hinkler Hall of Aviation, No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections Full-scale model of The Ibis, a QLD identified. identified. identified. custom aircraft designed by Hinkler and notable aeronautical engineers. Avro Baby original aircraft (on short term loan from Queensland Museum) flown by Hinkler in 1920 on record-breaking solo flight from London to Turin. Associated collection of items documenting the lifetime and achievements of Bert Hinkler as a notable aviator and aircraft designer, including photographs, records and personal effects (approx. 1000 items). The Hall’s Hinkler Collection also relates to the original Avro Avian aircraft held by Queensland Museum, which was flown by Hinkler from Croydon, England to Darwin in 1928 in record-breaking time. RAAF Museum No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections (Townsville), QLD identified. identified. identified. identified Adelaide Airport, SA No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections Vickers Vimy original Aircraft – identified. identified. identified. iconic early aircraft flown in 1919 London – Australia air race. First aircraft to make that journey, marking the ‘end of isolation for Australia’. Only related collection

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Collection Uiver collection items Douglas DC-2 aircraft MacRobertson Aircraft related collection collection items International Centenary items of social importance Air Race collection items identified at Museum Victoria, comprising a 1:13 scale model, photographs of the aircraft and commemorative medal c1919 (approx. 20 items). Classic Jets Fighter No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections Museum, SA identified. identified. identified. identified. South Australian Aviation No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections Kingsford Smith’s flying suit, Museum, SA identified. identified. identified. goggles and other personal effects (approx. 50 items). Southern Cross is an iconic aircraft that was flown by Charles Kingsford Smith, the ‘Australian pioneer’ of the ‘Australian and the Great Race’ fame. Australian National A DC-3 dressed as the Uiver A DC-2 aircraft – one of three Original Desoutter Mark II No comparable collections Aviation Museum (used in the Uiver re- in Australia & only one with Aircraft that greeted Air Race identified/ (Moorabbin Air Museum), enactment) owned by Hawdon original fin. competitors when they arrived VIC currently at Melbourne airport. in Melbourne. Photographs, race brochure (approx. 30 items). Ballarat Aviation Museum, No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections VIC identified. identified. identified. identified/ The Airways Museum & No comparable collections No comparable collections Correspondence between Empire flying boats – backbone of Civil Aviation Historical identified. identified. agencies, airlines, sets of passenger (and mail) air travel of the Society, VIC maps/plans of aerodromes, late 1920s to 40s throughout the fold out maps (approx. 50 commonwealth, link to England – items). taken over by the American DC-2 and DC-3 “modern airliners”, associated collection of Air Mail records (approx. 100 items).

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Collection Uiver collection items Douglas DC-2 aircraft MacRobertson Aircraft related collection collection items International Centenary items of social importance Air Race collection items

Trans-Australia Airlines No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections Museum, VIC identified. identified. identified. identified. Dutch Australian Heritage Picture postcards (8 items). No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections Centre, VIC identified. identified. identified. RAAF Museum (Point No comparable collections No comparable collections Documents and photographs Extensive records on every aircraft Cook), VIC identified. identified. (approx. 20 items). in the collection (48 aircraft in total), comprising service history, operating manuals, photographs in flight, personal log books of pilots, etc. Each aircraft is considered individually significant in Australian military history, some with social significance. Unable to seek further information as Point Cook is an active RAAF base and subject to classified access. Museum Victoria, VIC A small image collection of No comparable collections A small collection of race Collection associated with Sir Keith negatives and photographs identified. medals, negatives, Smith’s Vickers Vimy, original (approx. 8 items). photographs, postcards and aircraft on display at Adelaide memorabilia, including Airport, comprises a 1:13 scale MacRobertson International model, photographs of the aircraft Centenary Air Race 1934 Gold and commemorative medal c1919 Medal awarded to Charles (approx. 15 items). James Melrose, as well as a model of the De Havilland DH-88 Comet, 'Grosvenor House' that won the race (approx. 20 items). Royal Historical Society of A small collection of Uiver No comparable collections A large and comprehensive No comparable collections Victoria, VIC related items, mainly identified. collection comprising identified. newspaper articles (approx. 50 scrapbooks of press cuttings items). (including Race-related items)

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Collection Uiver collection items Douglas DC-2 aircraft MacRobertson Aircraft related collection collection items International Centenary items of social importance Air Race collection items for the years leading up to the Air Race, newspaper pages, images of race winners and the cup, brochure and commemorative glass pen tray (approx. 200 items). State Library of Victoria, Photographs of KLM Royal Instrument panel taken from MacRobertson Air Race Model of Southern Cross Fokker VIC Dutch Airlines DC-2 Uiver in original Australian National Trophy, race guiding brochure F.VII-3m (scale 1:13) c1930, Laverton hangar c1934 Airways Douglas DC-2 and flight handbook, associated collection of Southern (approx. 20 items). ‘Bungana’ c1936 (1 item). promotional and Cross commemorative coins and commemorative race medallions and air speed indicator paraphernalia and assorted from original aircraft (approx. 10 images of pilots and aircraft items). (approx. 60 items). Aviation Heritage Museum No comparable collections No comparable collections Trophies, commemorative and A large number of socially of Western Australia (Bulls identified. identified. promotional material from the significant aircraft, including an Creek), WA Air Race (approx. 20-30 Avro Anson, Catalina Flying Boat, items). Tigermoth, Lancaster bomber, Dakota, Beach Baron and more, mostly former-RAAF and search and rescue/relief aircraft. All aircraft in the collection (30 in total) have a small number of associated objects, namely log books, servicing records, photographs, etc. (approx. 5 items per aircraft). Collection also holds a 23 inch vinyl record of Charles Kingsford Smith recounting his infamous flight on the Southern Cross. Beverley Aeronautical No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections The Silver Centenary is Western Museum, WA identified. identified. identified. Australia's oldest existing aircraft,

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Collection Uiver collection items Douglas DC-2 aircraft MacRobertson Aircraft related collection collection items International Centenary items of social importance Air Race collection items built to commemorate the State's centenary in 1929 and was constructed from chalk drawings sketched on the floor of a country town powerhouse. The Beverley community raised funds to construct a purpose-built Museum to house the Silver Centenary in memory of its local designer and builder, Selby Avon Ford. The aircraft had superior flying characteristics to the then popular Gipsy Moth. International Dutch National Aviation Uiver mechanical log book No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections Museum Aviodrome, the Various items of identified. identified. identified. Netherlands documentation related to the Uiver such as copy Rasche KLM ticket, invitations, Uiver registration, Uiver certificate of airworthiness, bulletins, correspondence, books, sheet music, photographs, Racing Conditions, list of entrants, newspaper clippings. Significant number of planes and replica planes - part owner with KLM and the City of Lelystat of a Douglas DC-2 msn 1404 (maintained in flying condition), owner of a DC-2 unrestored msn 1288. Post-Uiver-reaching-

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Collection Uiver collection items Douglas DC-2 aircraft MacRobertson Aircraft related collection collection items International Centenary items of social importance Air Race collection items Melbourne memorabilia: including posters, pennants, metal laurel wreath, biscuit tins, playing cards, jigsaw puzzles, printed artificial silk commemorative cloth, small silver model Uiver, medallions, commemorative plaques and assorted dinnerware Replica of the original Schiphol terminal. Finnish Air Force Museum, No comparable collections Dougals DC-2 aircraft msn No comparable collections No comparable collections Finland identified. 1354 and an original restored identified. identified. “Hanssin Jukka” former KLM aircraft “de Haan” which replaced the Uiver in the KLM fleet 1935. Stichting Historisch Drawing and archives No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections Museum, The Netherlands documenting the Uiver crash identified. identified. identified. (Foundation Historical in the Syrian Desert in Iraq Museum NLR) (<10 items) including Uiver crash diorama by Van def Maas. Formerly on display was wind tunnel models of several crashed planes, one of which was of the Uiver. This was owned by Aviodrome and has been returned there following the closure of Stichting Historical Museum NLR.

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Collection Uiver collection items Douglas DC-2 aircraft MacRobertson Aircraft related collection collection items International Centenary items of social importance Air Race collection items

Royal Aero Club Trust, UK No comparable collections No comparable collections Royal Aero Club Sub- No comparable collections identified. identified. Committee Minute Books identified. relating to the race, original Race brochures, souvenir program signed by winner T Campbell and MacRobertson trophy replica (approx. 20 items). Royal Air Force Museum, No comparable collections No comparable collections Administrative material No comparable collections UK identified. identified. relating to the race, including identified. blank entry forms, official programmes, the entry list and the rules as issued by the Royal Aero Club, as well personal records of competitor Sqdn Ldr David Edmund Stodart (approx. 76 items). The Shuttleworth Veteran No comparable collections No comparable collections Secondary reference material The Shuttleworth Collection has the Aeroplane Society, UK identified. identified. of the air race (number of red De Havilland DH-88 items unknown). ‘Grosvenor House’ Gomet that came first in the race, and probably supporting material including material relation to pilots Scott and Black. Smithsonian National Air No comparable collections No comparable collections Secondary reference material No comparable collections and Space Museum, USA identified. identified. of the air race. Two identified. photographs taken in London prior to the event - D flown by the third place- getters Turner and Pangborn (number of items unknown). The Boeing Company, USA No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections No comparable collections

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Collection Uiver collection items Douglas DC-2 aircraft MacRobertson Aircraft related collection collection items International Centenary items of social importance Air Race collection items identified. identified. identified. identified. Museum of Flight, USA No comparable collections Original Douglas DC-2 No comparable collections No comparable collections identified. aircraft. identified. identified.

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APPENDIX D: ITEMISED COLLECTION LIST

67 Registration No. Object Name Brief Description 10.121 Autographs Rectangle of plain paper with two signatures (in pencil) of Uiver crew members. Half page with captions from Autograph Book. 13.994.01 Badges Two coloured pinback badges commemorating the Uiver Memorial Flight from London to Melbourne in 1984. The original flight was the London to Melbourne Air Race of 1934. The badges show the original Uiver with a map of the world in the background. The badges are edged in blue and red. 15.019 Banner Large natural coloured calico banner with blue illustration of the KLM Uiver plane and UIVER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION text underneath in same colour. 13.083 Board A corner of the Uiver souvenir board. One side is the bottom right corner the back end of the Uiver plane in the air is visible with land and buildings in the background. There is an orange border on the right and bottom and KLM running vertivally in blue along the right. The other side is the top right corner with a blue and white illustration of the globe with four men standing and a portrait of another with a plane at each corner. The orange border is on the top and right side. 9.574 Book Dutch book about the London to Melbourne Air race and the specific situation of the Dutch crew around Albury. 9.575 Book Book called "Advance in the Air" by F. V. Monk and T.H. Winter, 11.172 Book Illustrated book by the captain of the Uiver on the London to Melbourne Air Race 1934. Includes maps. Written in Dutch. 11.173 Book Illustrated book on the London to Melbourne Air Race 1934. Jeugdbibliotheek no. 36a. [Youth Library no. 36a]. Written in Dutch. 11.195 Book Illustrated book on the history of KLM airlines from 1919-1969. Planes of the airlines fleet are illustrated with concise technical specifications and are repeated on a separate, folded colour poster. The MacRobertson Air Race is featrured from page 97. Written in Dutch. 11.197 Book Illustrated Dutch language book on the flight of the Uiver. 11.198 Book Book showing black and white photographs of aerial views of the Netherlands. 39 pages of text. Written in English. Captions with the photographs are in four languages - Dutch, English, French and Spanish. Aerial photographs by the Aerial Survey Division of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines 11.199.01 Book Volume one of three volumes of Domenie family history. Includes family trees, descendant chart, maps and photographs. Cover shows the coat of arms of the Province of Zeeland. Ring bound. 11.199.02 Book Volume two of three volumes of Domenie family history. Approximately half the book is devoted to the MacRobertson Air Race 1934 and the Uiver. Includes photographs. Cover shows the coat of arms of the Town of Middelburg. Ring bound. 11.199.03 Book Volume three of three volumes of Domenie family history. Includes photographs. Cover shows a photograph of Rudolf Jan Domenie and Johan Domenie in 1933. Ring bound. 12.595 Book Blue hard-covered 335 page book with Dutch text. Loose cover has coloured sketch of the Uiver landing at Albury Racecourse, showing lightening, cars lined up, and people watching. 09.561.1 Booklet Souvenir booklet titled 'The Flying Dutchmen', issued to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Rotary International and highlighting the flight of the Uiver in the London to Melbourne Air Race of 1934, as well as the history of Rotary International. Vinyl record accompanies booklet. 11.171 Booklet Illustrated booklet on the London to Melbourne Air Race 1934. Written in Dutch. 11.192 Booklet Cream cover book of military records, including printed instructions and hand-written entries for 1919. 11.192.01 Booklet Light grey cover book of printed instructions with one page hand-written. Certificates/coupons attached inside back cover. A4365445B Booklet Programme for the Albury-Wodonga Airport Carnival organised by the Rotary Club of Albury West. Includes information about plans to establish a local sheltered workshop, descriptions of aircraft and advertisements for local businesses BM31011984.A Border Mail Illustrated article on the forced landing of the KLM DC-2 Uiver at Albury Racecourse on 23 October 1934 during the London to Melbourne Air Race and a re-enactment of its flight in 1984. See References for more articles on this subject BM22101959.A Border Mail Illustrated article on the forced landing of the Uiver at Albury racecourse in 1934. BM22101994.A Border Mail The emergency landing of the Uiver in Albury 23 October 1934, and the reenactment of the flight in 1984, includes photographs. BM26021980.A Border Mail The story of 'Hellfire' Jack Nichols, who transported 5 million pounds worth of gold from the stranded Uiver to Melbourne. Includes details of activities relating to the Uiver as part of Rotary's 75th anniversary. BM29072003.A Border Mail The Uiver memorial's plane is to be placed into storage to prevent further deterioration. BM12011984.A Border Mail A replica of the Uiver will arrive in Albury as part of a re-enactment of the London to Melbourne air race of 1934. BM14121991.A Border Mail Celebrations to mark 60 years of ABC Radio on the border. BM24022001.C Border Mail Article talks of Mr Clifton Mott, who passed away at the Lutheran nursing home in Albury. BM29112005.D Border Mail Albury City Council sealed documents establishing a charitable trust for the Uiver memorial plane at the Albury Airport. BM02112007.A Border Mail Albury Council is ready to sell or give away the Uiver memorial DC2. It will look at ways of disposing of the plane so that it can be kept intact and rebuilt. See also: Border Mail 8/11/2007, p. 10 'Plane not going anywhere fast after meeting'. BM08012008.A Border Mail Four Albury heritage items face an uncertain future. BM09012008.B Border Mail Uiver Trust chairman Howard Hinde appealed for public support to create an Uiver display at he Albury Airport terminal. BM15122001.A Border Mail 2CO radio station celebrates 70 years of broadcasting. BM18111983.A Border Mail An attempt will be made to refly the route of the London to Melbourne Air Race of 1934. BM13122008.H Border Mail Albury's DC2 Uiver plane should be sold to a Queensland museum to save it, says the managing director of aviation communications firm Mobile One Australia. BM10122008.C Border Mail Albury's DC2 plans is more than a memorial to the KLM Uiver, says Neville Hull. BM08122008.D Border Mail A proposal to sell the DC2 Uiver for $20,000 to a Sydney enthusiast will be debated at Albury City Council. See also: Border Mail 9/12/2008, p. 5 BM23122008.D Border Mail The Uiver memorial DC2 will stay at Albury Airport while the chief of the RAAF and the Federal Government are asked to help. BM29122008.B Border Mail All seven people on board the Uiver were killed when the plane crashed in Iraq in 1934. BM11032010.A Border Mail Albury aviation business, Smartair, has approached AlburyCity to restore the Uiver and place it on display. BM20032010.C Border Mail Albury Council has removed the Uiver Memorial Wall to make way for a new carpark. BM07012011.A Border Mail AlburyCity has a survey on its website regarding the fate of the Uiver. BM25082011.A Border Mail Albury Council is at last looking for somewhere to store the Uiver under cover. The Uiver CommunityTrust is being wound up. If a big enough hangar cannot be found the wings may have to come off so they could be stored safely with the fuselage in a smaller premises. BM15122011.B Border Mail A rare KLM oil can from the Uiver plane that landed in Albury in 1934 has turned up in a shed. It has now been donated to the Albury LibraryMuseum. BM25102007.A Border Mail Almost 73 years from the day that the Uiver landed in Albury, the Albury Wodonga Theatre Company and ABC Radio Goulburn-Murray will present the Flight of the Uiver at the Albury Performing Arts Centre. BM02062005.A Border Mail Jack Winnel, now 99, clearly remembers helping pull the Uiver plane from the mud at the Albury Racecourse in 1934. And his obituary from a later newspaper article.See References for other articles on this subject.

BM24101934.A Border Morning Mail The K.L.M. Uiver is forced to do an emergency landing on the Albury racecourse during the London to Melbourne Air Race of 1934. 11.158 brochure KLM advertising brochure (1934) KLM brochure advertising the flight of the DC2 Uiver from London to Melbourne owned by Roelof Jan Domenie advertising the MacRobertson International Air Race. The Fokker ‘Snip’ is shown on the brochure, and is the plane on which Domenie flew from Amsterdam to London immediately prior to the flight on the Uiver. ADHS332.A Bulletin Albury and District Historical Society newsletter ADHS456.D Bulletin Albury and District Historical Society newsletter 13.085 Card Small business card shape card for The Uiver Foundation with an image of Herman Blom in front of the Uiver with white text over the image. 11.16 cartoon MacRobertson, London to Melbourne Air Race commemorative cartoon. In this cartoon, Roelof Domenie is the middle of the three Uiver passengers. The Uiver’s pilots Parmentier and Moll took the winning pilots Scott and Campbell-Black for a ride in the Uiver. They are shown holding the trophy and with laurel wreath. 11.194 CDs and memory stick 3 CDs, pink, blue and gold, two marked PP (Powerpoint), and another marked Oral 6-8-11 Albury. Two the same containing slides, one showing text, for Johan Domenie's address to Albury and District Historical Society meeting at Albury LibraryMuseum. June 2011 Also a SanDisk black memory stick containing the pictures, marked Australia PP, Australia Word. 11.190.22 Certificate Birth Certificate on cream paper, eagle with crown at top, and similar on purple rubber stamp at bottom. Also photocopy of hand-written entry in book for November, No. 459, Roelof Jan Domenie. 9.411 Certificate, framed Framed certificate with image of the Uiver areoplane and hand written caligraphy text, presented to the citizens of Albury from the Netherlands thanking them for their assistance during the Uiver areoplane's emergency landing in Albury. 13.359 Cigarette Case Gold plate cigarette case with DC2 Uiver on the case cover, owned by Reginald Turner, awarded to 14.299 Cigarette case Gold cigarette case with small relief of DC2 Uiver aeroplane located on top left hand corner of case him for his efforts in flashing the Albury town lights early in the morning of 24 October 1934 to cover. It was presented to W. S. Armstrong by the Dutch government in 1934 for assistance with 11.504 Cloth A cotton printed cloth, depicting a scene of the Uiver flying over a map of the world. The image is the emergency landing in Albury. It is housed in a green leather case with small gold clasp. printed in orange, blue and white the Dutch national colours. The inscriptions are in Dutch. 9.413 Cloth, framed Framed patterned cloth with the words "Royal Dutch Airlines, Amsterdam - Batavia Service" embroidered in the top left hand corner on a white square. Frame also includes two images at the left; one of the black and white photograph of the Uiver landing in Albury and the other of two KLM crew members. 11.161 Diary Domenie diary notes (1934) Roelof Jan Domenie, a passenger on the Uiver on its flight to Australia, wrote a diary as the journey progressed. The diary covers London to Charleville (Queensland). No diary notes have been found for the Charleville to Melbourne segment. These notes cover the Singapore to Charleville part of the race. 11.190.33 Drinks menu Single-fold card with photo of Hindenburg on top and two large buildings (hangars?) at bottom front. Inside are wine, spirits, etc. lists in Dutch. 9.57 Envelope Historic envelope that was carried aboard the Uiver during the 1934 London to Melbourne Air Race. Three Dutch stamps are affixed to the top-right corner. 11.151 envelope MacRobertson, London to Melbourne Air Race commemorative postal envelope from DC-2, Uiver. (October 1934) Sent by Roelof Jan Domenie a passenger on the DC-2, Uiver areoplane. Commemorative postal envelope posted on 14 October 1934 by passenger Roelof Jan Domenie to himself at KLM’s representative in Sydney and carried on the Uiver during its flight from London to Melbourne 20–24 October 1934. After the plane made an emergency landing at Albury on 24 October 1934, the mail bags containing 26,000 items were off-loaded and driven to Melbourne by Albury hire car proprietor Mr Jack Nichols in a Nash sedan. In Melbourne they would have been reloaded on to the plane and on 1 November 1934 flown to Sydney. This may be the only extant example of a commemorative Uiver postal envelope posted by a person flying on the Uiver on its London to Melbourne flight. 11.165 envelope Air service postal envelope dated 28 July 1934. Postal envelopes from KLM to Roelof Domenie in Brazil carried on the Graf Zeppelin just before the October 1934 London-Melbourne MacRobertson International Air Race. KLM was responding to Roelof Domenie’s expressions of interest in flying on the Uiver. 12.951.02 Envelope A grey envelope which came with a handwritten letter to Mrs. Helen Coleman in East Malvern, Melbourne, from Mr. Johan M.B Adriani, Amsterdam, Holland. There are postal stamps and ink stamps on the envelope and the top edge is burned. 9.416 envelope Light cream rectangular envelope carried aboard the Uiver aircarft during the MacRoberston 13.003 Envelope Small envelope with black ink handwriting on the front. Used to hold three photographs relating to London to Melbourne air race. Three Netherlands stamps located on the upper right hand side of the Uiver landing, 11.165.1 envelope Air service postal envelope dated 4 August 1934. Postal envelopes from KLM to Roelof Domenie in Brazil carried on the Graf Zeppelin just before the October 1934 London-Melbourne MacRobertson International Air Race. KLM was responding to Roelof Domenie’s expressions of interest in flying on the Uiver. 11.19 Folder Black A3 folder, with slide-in cover, housing part of the Domenie Collection. 11.191 Folder Dark Brown A4 3-ring folder housing part of the Domenie Collection: magazine and newspaper stories, details of competing aeroplanes, Sir Macpherson Robertson, 3 pages of Johan P. Nater's book about the crash of the Uiver, Dutch stamp catalogue with story of the race and photos including Albury, text of Johan Domenie's presentation to A & DHS meeting June 2011. 11.199.04 Folder Navy blue folder with silver writing: Ter Herinnering AAN UW Deelname. AAN DE / Londen- Melbourne Race 20-24 October 1934 / Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij Voor Nederland en Kolonien N.V. with KLM logo with crown and wings. 11.181 Fuel Can A large red tin KLM hydraulic fluid can with brown coloured paper on three sides each with black text and one side with an illustration a plane and one side with yellow paper with red and black text. The top of the can has a handle, a screw top spout and the Shell Oil logo embossed. 9.41 Gavel Gold mounted timber gavel, given by the citizens of the Netherlands to Mayor Alfred Waugh thanking the citizens of Albury for their assistance in the Uiver's emergency landing. 09.410.01 Gavel box Gold mounted hindged timber gavel container box, given by the citizens of the Netherlands to Mayor Alfred Waugh thanking the citizens of Albury for their assistance in the Uiver's emergency 11.190.07 Invitation Card from The Government of Victoria inviting Mr Dominie (sic) to Luncheon at Parliament House.landing. 13.049 Invitation Card invitation with blue text and the name hand written in black ink. It is from the Albury Racing Club Chairman to 'Mr. and Mrs. Reg Turner' for Monday 17th December at 4 o'clock p.m 11.190.10 Invitation ? Folded printed card which mentions Uiver and includes a programme of demonstrations an date of 21 November 1934. Hand-written on the front is: Merrouw Domeni. Map of location on back. 11.168 Jigsaw puzzle MacRobertson, London to Melbourne Air Race commemorative jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw has a globe in the centre covering Europe to Australia with KLM routes marked with red lines, and the additional route to Melbourne in red dots. In each corner a KLM aircraft is pictured; two Fokker F.XVIII aircraft, PH-AIP Pelikaan and PH-AIS Snip, a Fokker F.XXXVI, PH-AJA at the bottom left and Douglas DC-2, AJU Uiver at the bottom right. The four crew members of the Uiver are depicted at the bottom at either side of the KLM wings and crown logo, with a portrait of KLM founder Albert Plesman in a wreath above the wings.

10.12 Letter Letter, 1983 to President Albury Historical Society about writer's experience when the "Uiver" plane landed in Albury during the Centenary Air Race 1934, accompanying autographs of two autographs of Uiver crew. Handwritten in biro on writing pad beige paper, 12.951.01 Letter A handwritten letter to Mrs. Helen Coleman in East Malvern, Melbourne, from Mr. Johan M.B Adriani, Amsterdam, Holland.The letter is written on both sides and has a burned left and right edge. On the front of the letter there is a letterhead for the Amsterdam-Batava with a illustration of the Uiver plane in the left top corner. 11.190.13 Letter Two yellow sheets of thin paper with carbon copy of letter dated 25 Juli (sic)1934. Near top it has: MacRobertson Race and is addressed: Aan den Weledelgestrengen Heer R.J. Domenie, Rio de Janeiro. Second page has: Copie per Graf Zeppelin, 4-8-'34 van Friedrichshafen. English translation with original page of letter. 13.045 Letter 2 copies of a typed Memorandum letter to Reginald Turner from the Deputy Director of PostMaster-General's Department, Sydney. The letter is in reference to the Uiver landing and is giving Reginald Turner permission to accept 'any token of appreciation with the Dutch Delegation seeks to present to you' 13.047 Letter typed letter from Town Clerk of Municipality of Albury to Reginald Turner as an invitation for Reginald to presentation made by the Dutch Delegation at 3pm 'to-morrow' on behalf of Mayor, Alfred Waugh. 13.048 Letter typed letter from Municipality of Albury on behalf of the Nethwerlands Delegation and Mayor Alfred Waugh to invite Reginald Turner to afternoon tea after the presentations of the delgeation on 'Thursday next the 13th inst. at 3.45pm' 13.066 Letter A typed letter on a foolscap copy paper written by Reginald Turner asking Deputy Directer in Sydney permission to accept the presentation being from from the Dutch delegation to Turner in realtion to the Uiver landing. 13.067 Letter A typed letter on copy paper from the Postmaster-General's Department, Deputy Director to Reginald Turner regarding his assistance with the Uive landing and permission for him to recieve 'any token of appreciation which the Dutch Delegation seeks to present' him. 13.068 Letter A typed letter on foolscap paper from the Prime Minister's office regarding Reginald Turner and the Uiver landing. It is typed, with a letter head and a signature at the bottom sign off and the top left corner. 13.069 Letter A handwritten letter to Reginald Turner from Victor Hall written over two pages. 13.074 Letter Handwritten letter for Captain H. Sluiter to Reginald Turner about the presenting of Uiver souvenirs written in Java 19 January 1935. There is a stamped at top left with Sluiter's name. 11.190.41 List of race participants One-page list of Aeroplane, Crew, Country, and Finish Time, in days, hours and minutes, of participants in the London to Melbourne 1934 air race 9.572 Logbook Copy of the Uiver flight navigator’s logbook written by C. van Brugge, predominantly written in English, but written in Dutch during period when the Uiver became lost in the storm while flying over Albury as tensions ran high and the crew feared for their lives. 11.196 Magazine Illustrated Dutch language aviation history magazine. Features an article on the Uiver, commencing on page 18. Includes a letter to John Domenie discussing the magazine and its contents. Copyright: National Aviation Theme Park Aviodrome 11.190.48 Magazine Illustrated magazine, Uiver special edition. 24 November 1934. Title: Het Leven. Beige cover, white pages numbered 1489 to 1520. Contains lots of tourist advertising. Middle pages have photos of the arrival of the Uiver at Schiphol and passengers, crew and families. 15.01 Magazine Magazine containing Uiver article by Noel Jackling: Uiver Royal Connections. Alfred Waugh and Jan Good picture of Mr Domenie and one of passenger, Thea Rasche, photographing Alf Waugh. Moll. 15.02 Magazine Magazine containing Uiver article by Noel Jackling: 1935 Dutch gramophone records survive 9.573 Map Framed third edition map of race route London to Melbourne of the MacRobertson International Air Race, with list containing each nominator, section, number and name of plane, name of pilots and landing places and showing route with compulsory stopping points for contestants and 9.571 Medal Commemorative medallion celebrating the flight of the Uiver, depicting a stork superimposed on the words London and Melbourne. Made in an art deco style with a red, white and blue ribbon and issued by the Dutch government in 1934. 11.15 medal MacRobertson, London to Melbourne Air Race gold medal with light blue ribbon. (October 1934) Presented to Roelof Jan Domenie a passenger on the DC-2, Uiver areoplane. 11.153 medal Silver stork badge (1934) This badge has a stork on it, similar to the stork on the coat of arms of the City of Den Haag, the city where KLM then had its headquarters. The badge was issued by the Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) for limited distribution, and that it sent one of these badges to Roelof Domenie.. (October 1934) Presented to Roelof Jan Domenie a passenger on the DC-2, Uiver areoplane. 11.154 medal Silver commemorative medal (1934) showing a flying stork — “uiver” being one of the Dutch words for stork. The blue, red and white colours of the ribbon are those of the Dutch national flag. 9.567 Medal Dutch medal in orange case bearing the royal crown and awarded to Alderman A. Waugh (mayor of Albury in 1934) on his appointment as an officer in the order Orange-Nassau, ‘in recognition of the valuable assistance rendered by you and the citizens of Albury to the Netherlands’ aeroplane, 11.190.03 Menu Folded page with 2 pictures, one being the Graf Zeppelin, on front, and menu typed inside.“Uiver”’. 11.190.08 Menu Menu for The Government of Victoria Luncheon for contestants in MacRobertson International Air Races (sic) England to Melbourne. Sketch of Parliament House, Melbourne, on back. 11.190.36 Menu Small card with photo of a female and a male pasted under a printed arch of a ribbon pattern with a handwritten menu underneath. 9.568 Menu Menu from 1959 commemorative luncheon held to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Uiver landing in Albury, signed by some of the luncheon attendees, including Arthur Newnham. 9.566 Model Scale model (1:12) of the Uiver in the 'Crossing Place' exhibition, completed in 2006 by Albury resident Gerry Curtis with the help of Col Laughton, Keith Frauenfelder and Ray Hartwig. 09.566.001 Model Small scale model of the Uiver KLM plane PH-AJU, which competed in the London to Melbourne Centenary Air ,Race. Artist, Albury resident Gerry Curtis. Mounted on metal stand. 9.409 Model Aeroplane 'Silver replica model Uiver with a wing span of two feet, opening cabin doors, interior lighting and 11.190.23 News clipping News clippings of two photos of people around door of Uiver, one with an arrow marked "Mother glass windows, given by the citizens of the Netherlands to Mayor Alfred Waugh representing the & Dad". 11.190.35 News clipping Yellowed newspaper cutting with men playing polo. (foreign newspaper) 13.046 Newsletter A newsletter titled 'Postal Notes' of brown colours with text, borders and an image on front page. There are pages 16 between the cover, held together by being folded and stapled at centre. 92.039 Newspaper Newspaper, 'The Star', Melbourne, Wednesday 24 October 1934. the front page has a picture of two men,'The Flying Dutchmen', with a wreath and the subtitle Dutch Just Get There. 13.084 Newspaper A collection of newspaper articles relating to the Uiver landing, incuding Articles from 1934 Sydney Morning Herald. They are held in a large paper envelope. L0407364M Newspaper article Copy of a newspaper article on the donation of a framed momento from the Uiver landing in 1934. Helen Ray presented a framed towel and serviette to the Albury Council. Her father, Jim Wells, received the objects when he assisted in pushing the plane out of the muddy racecourse. The Advertiser, 8 February 1990, p. 6. L0782793M Newspaper article Photocopied article in the Twin Cities Post, reprinted from the Melbourne Star newspaper of 24 October 1934 on the forced landing of the Uiver. The article is from a scrapbook put together by A4365739B Newspaper cutting Article about aviation in Albury. Source: Express newspaper.Janet Cook who was lving at Tallangatta at the time of the air race. Also, the recollections of A4365763B Newspaper cutting Article on the Centenary Air Race relating the connection between Albury and Holland following the landing of the Uiver at Albury Racecourse during the race. Map. Source: Express newspaper 14.23 newspaper cutting and photocopy One undated newspaper cutting with photocopy of same, relating to the 1928 Essex which was at the racecourse on the night the Uiver landed at the racecourse. On photocopy another article from October 26, 201?, relating to ownership of the car 11.190.32 a & b Notes (a) 15 small yellowed pages of pencil writing in Dutch. (b) 4 A4 white pages of translation. A3917304B Oral history Oral history interview with Cleaver Bunton, Dean Street, Albury. Date of birth - 1902. Covers Albury War Memorial, entertainment, Albury Civic Centre, Uiver, Albury Wodonga Development Corporation. On a reel-to-reel tape in a box. Tape 3 of 3 tapes (Tape 1 - A3917258B; Tape 2 - A3916561B Oral history Oral history interview with Will Colley, 601 Macauley Street, Albury. Date of birth - 1984. Covering A3916405B) horse breaking and training, trotting, Deputy Mayor of Albury Council, Uiver, district Hospitals, Albury Gaol, entertainment. On a reel-to-reel tape in a box. Tape 2 of 2 tapes. (Tape 1 - A3916510B) A4365399B Pamphlet Information on the weekend organised by the Clubs of Rotary District 979 the highlight being the unveiling of a restored DC2 aircraft as a memorial to the "Uiver" landing at Albury Race Course in 1934. [5] leaves. 9.414 Paper Small square paper with the wording E.A. Competitor Number 44. 9.408 Paper, autographed Autographed paper on John Sanderson & Co letterhead. Recording the signitures of the Uiver crew after their emergency landing in Albury. 9.56 Parachute This fine pure silk parachute was one of two used by the Uiver to drop Wiley flares – only one of which ignited – before the airliner’s historic landing at Albury Racecourse on 24 October 1934. The parachute was found next morning tangled along a fence by Gordon Thompson (17) and his sister Dorothy (12), now Mrs Pat Baine, whose father Richard Thompson had a farm on Vineyard Lane, close to the racecourse. 15.001 Parachute, Fabric Part of a fine white silk parahcute about 820 mm long and of varying widths (maximum 180 mm). It is torn on both long sides, as it was a part of the second of the two parachute flares dropped from 11.190.31 Pass Grey pass with rounded corners. Navy print on light-weight card.the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Uiver. 11.166 passenger list Hindenburg passenger list (29 October 1936) Passenger list for the Hindenburg zeppelin showing Roelof Domenie as a passenger. 11.163 passenger ticket Graf Zeppelin flight ticket (1932). This is Roelof Domenie’s Graf Zeppelin ticket for a flight over the Swiss Alps with his wife Jakomina on 28 June 1932. 11.152 passenger tickets MacRobertson, London to Melbourne Air Race KLM passenger ticket (12 October 1934) for DC-2, Uiver. Issued to Roelof Jan Domenie a passenger on the DC-2, Uiver areoplane by KLM. One of two tickets - "Aller" Inward bound journey ticket. 11.152.01 passenger tickets MacRobertson, London to Melbourne Air Race KLM passenger ticket (12 October 1934) for DC-2, Uiver. Issued to Roelof Jan Domenie a passenger on the DC-2, Uiver areoplane by KLM. 9.406 Pencil Grey lead HB pencil with blue and white stripes used by the Uiver crew on board the KLM Uiver, One of two tickets - "Retour" Return journey ticket. DC2 areoplane. This'Dutch' pencil from the Uiver aircraft was made in Switzerland. The letters KLM are printed onto the pencil. A4365372B Photograph Black and white photocopy of a photograph of the aircraft "Uiver" on the ground surrounded by people. 84.119.02 Photograph Black and white photograph of the Royal Dutch Airlines plane "Uiver" at Albury Racecourse after making an emergency landing whilst taking part in the London to Melbourne Air Race in October 84.119.01 Photograph Black and white photograph of one of the bogged down wheels of the Royal Dutch Airlines plane 1934. "Uiver" at Albury Racecourse after making an emergency landing whilst taking part in the London to Melbourne Air Race in October 1934. 84.09 Photograph Black and white photograph of the Royal Dutch Airlines plane "Uiver" at Albury Racecourse after making an emergency landing whilst taking part in the London to Melbourne Air Race in October 1934. Group of people are trying to free it after becoming bogged down in the mud. 84.086 Photograph Black and white photograph of the Royal Dutch Airlines plane "Uiver" at Albury Racecourse after making an emergency landing whilst taking part in the London to Melbourne Air Race in October 1934. Group of people are trying to free it after becoming bogged down in the mud. 11.182 Photograph A line of men and boys pulling DC2 Uiver plane out of the mud. Man in suit and hat in foreground, right. 11.183 Photograph 4 air crew reading document in front of DC2 Uiver plane. 11.184 Photograph 4 air crew, with hats under their arms, standing in front of plane, painted as DC2 Uiver, in hangar. 11.184.1 Photograph 4 air crew, with hats under their arms, standing in front of plane, painted as DC2 Uiver, in hangar. 11.185 Photograph KLM Royal Dutch Air Lines Uiver DC2 PH-AJU in the air over a European city. 11.190.01 Photograph Head and shoulders of man wearing coat, hat and tie. Medal hanging from ribbon on lapel. 11.190.04 Photograph Side view of aeroplane PH-AJU. KLM. with 44 on tail. Appears to be water splashing up behind plane. 11.190.05 Photograph Side view of aeroplane PH-AJU. KLM. with 44 on tail surrounded by people. Grandstand at left. 11.190.06 Photograph Front view of aeroplane, with 44 under nose, surrounded by people. Grandstand at right rear. Something is happening at left, outside picture, which people are looking at. 11.190.15 Photograph Looking down on Uiver PH-AJU with 44 on tail at an airport. A dozen cars, about 5 motor bikes and lots of people on ground. High buildings, and others, at left. Gyrocopter? just above ground 11.190.16 Photograph Uiver PH-AJU with 44 on tail at an airport. Bandsmen with instruments at right and lots of people in background behind a fence. 7 figures in foreground, including one with drum. 11.190.18 Photograph Doorway area of Uiver with about 13 adults and children on ground as people alight. 11.190.19 Photograph Uiver on ground with propellers moving. Small crowd in foreground. One man carrying two (cases?) near plane. Four horses and riders in background. 11.190.20 Photograph Doorway area of Uiver with about 13 adults and children on ground as 2 men alight. Man at right with walking stick. 11.190.21 Photograph Uiver on ground, with propellers moving, to right of a dais with stairway, and 6 flags. Small crowd in foreground near a few tables and chairs. Large crowd on hill or grandstand in background. At centre of picture there is a band at left, and people lined up around roped areas. Small plane flying over. 11.190.24 Photograph Uiver crew, passengers, spouses and children in front of the door of the plane, Domenies at centre. Also sketch of people, list of names including Koene Dirk Parmentier, Mrs Parmentier, Doctor Hendrikus Colijn, Netherlands Prime Minister, Jacomina Maria Elisabeth Domenie-van Hoeflaken, Roelof Jan Domenie, Mrs Prins, Bouwe Prins, Mrs Moll, Jan Johannes Moll.

11.190.25 Photograph Uiver crew, passengers, spouses and musicians, indoor setting. Mrs & Mr Domenie at left. 28 people in photo. 11.190.26 Photograph Four men standing. Three at right wearing boater hats. One sitting in cane chair in front. 11.190.27 Photograph 30 people comprising two rows standing, one row sitting on floor, some holding musical instruments. Mr Domenie may not be in the picture. 11.190.28 Photograph 13 people, 12 standing and Roelof Domenie sitting on Wooden chair in front. Brick building with windows behind them, with folliage at left. 11.190.44 Photograph Uiver in air above crowd of people, some climbing on scaffolding at the end of a building. The people look like islanders and there is a high mountain in the background. 11.190.45 Photograph Cut-away model showing cockpit and passenger area of KLM aeroplane with KLM on the wing. 11.190.46 Photograph Internal view of plane with hostess and 12 passengers. Luggage webbing overhead. 11.190.47 Photograph Nine men standing beside door and wing of aeroplane, 5 in uniform one of whom is holding his hat. Boeing written above doorway. Signature under each person. 12.998 Photograph Black and white photograph of the Uiver plane at the forced landing in 1934. There is pen Separate copy of photo with names printed near signatures. handwriting on the back. 12.999 Photograph Black and white photograph of the Uiver plane at the forced landing in 1934. There is pen handwriting on the back. 13.001 Photograph Black and white photograph of the Uiver plane at the forced landing in 1934. It is of the side of the plane with a group of people in front. There is pen handwriting on the back. 13.002 Photograph Black and white photograph studio portrait photograph of the Uiver giftees. Sitting at front is (l-r) Alfred Waugh and Beatrice Peacock. Standing at back are (l-r), Arthur Telford, Lyle Ferris, Robert (Bob) Matthews, Reginald Turner, Arthur Newnham, Clifton Mott, Robert Jillard and Bertie Peacock. 11.199.05 Photograph Title picture, black on silver background. Map showing route of Londen to Melbourne air race. Uiver on top right hand corner. 20-24 October 1934 in lower right corner. 11.199.06 Photograph Print of sketch of lion with hind legs in the air and facing a royal crown. Other items shown are a sheaf? and a sword. Text: Al Hebben Wu Niet Gewonnen. Toch ...! Artist's name: Louis 11.199.07 Photograph Two men standing in front of microphones. Another man in cap at rear, in front of a motor vehicle.Raemaekers 11.199.08 Photograph Four men in uniform standing in front of KLM Uiver. 11.199.09 Photograph Front half of KLM Uiver with propellers turning and crowd of people waving from wet tarmac 11.199.10 Photograph Interior of plane showing 12 single seats and overhead luggage racks 11.199.11 Photograph Front half of KLM Uiver with workmen inspecting each wheel. Another plane at right. 11.199.12 Photograph Front view of aeroplane at an airport 11.199.13 Photograph KLM Royal Dutch Air Lines PH-AJU above a city 11.199.14 Photograph Aerial view of a large city 11.199.15 Photograph Aerial view of a large statue, from waist up, with left arm extended, in parkland setting with trees and a few close buildings. 11.199.16 Photograph Smoke billowing from, what looks like, a small island. 11.199.17 Photograph Section of a city beside a wide river probably showing public buildings, and maybe a temple. 11.199.18 Photograph KLM plane on tarmac with white silhouette of two passengers in front. 11.199.19 Photograph Three airmen in uniform, one of whom is obscured, one being fed a piece of fruit on a toothpick. 11.199.20 Photograph Underside of a flying plane, showing it mainly in silhouette 11.199.21 Photograph Flags flying, maybe at airport. Large number of people, mainly men, standing below a statue of a winged man standing on a globe. Two men in uniform saluting each other in centre of crowd. 11.199.22 Photograph Thea Rasche looking out doorway of plane with K.L.M. Holland painted on inside of door. 11.199.23 Photograph Probably Thea Rasche looking up at KLM plane as it stands on th tarmac. 11.199.24 Photograph Newspaper headlines in foreign languages about the Uiver and photo of large crowd of people, mainly men, in a street. 11.199.25 Photograph Newspaper headlines in English about the Uiver and photo of the nose of the plane in lower right hand corner. 11.199.26 Photograph Newspaper headlines in foreign languages about the Uiver and photo in the middle of three men sitting at a table in front of a microphone and wearing headsets. 11.199.27 Photograph Story in foreign language about the Uiver headed Bravo! 11.199.28 Photograph Sketch/cartoon of horses racing with groups of five different nationalities looking on. 11.199.29 Photograph Sketch/cartoon of people of different nationalities seated and one lady standing. Text: 1984 - in de luchtbus Londen-Melbourne: (translated) Get up young man. The lady has been standing since Athens. 11.199.30 Photograph Small kangaroo holding a laurel wreath with ribbons. Larger stork with window in body and four airmen waving from the window. Written on side of stork: KLM PH-AJU. Uiver. 11.199.31 Photograph Sketch containing one large picture and a lot of smaller ones beneath, each with captions. 11.199.32 Photograph Picture of telegram in Dutch finishing with name Wilhelmene 11.199.33 Photograph Large crane lifting KLM plane PH-AJU near water. Ships in background. 11.199.34 Photograph KLM plane PH-AJU flying over water (canal?) with a lot of ships. 13.086 Photograph Black and white photograph of Uiver dedication unveiling with Mayor Roach and Sir Zelman Cowen in front. The photograph is a recently printed copy. 13.375.01 Photograph Black and white photograph of group of nine men in front of Boeing aircraft. Left to Right named Prins; Van Brugge; Parmentier; Campbell Black; Scott; Moll; RoscoeTurner; Clyde Pangborn; and John Nocholls 13.375.02 Photograph Black and white photograph of Albury Alderman Waugh and KLM 'Uiver' passenger Thea Rasche with camera 13.375.03 photograph Black and white showing unloading of the Uiver from the S.S. Statenham at Rotterdam, August 1934 13.375.04 photograph Black and white photograph (reproduction) showing the Uiver landing at Rotterdam Airport after the race 13.375.05 photograph Black and white photograph (reproduction) showing the Uiver arrives at Soerabaya, Dutch East Indies. 13.375.06 photograph Black and white photograph of commemorative glass pen-tray sandblasted with motives depicting Victorian and Melbourne Centenary flight 1934-1935 13.375.07 photograph Black and white photograph of 1934 KLM Uiver race participants; 13.375.08 photograph Black and white photograph (reproduction) of Dutch crews: Pronk. Ptins, Asjes, Parmentier, Moll & Top left -Hemsworth and Ray Parer; Top right - Gillam and Baines; Geysendorffer 13.375.09 photograph Black and white photograph (reproduction from newspaper) of 4 men: and Clyde Pangborn of the Boeing 247; Waller and Cathcart Jones of the D.H. Comet 13.375.10 photograph Black and white photograph (reproduction) of the KLM PH-AJU Uiver DC2 aircraft receiving the starting signal for the London to Melbourne Centenary air race 1934 13.375.11 photograph Black and white photograph (reproduction) of the Royal Dutch Airlines KLM PH-AJU Uiver DC2 after arrival in Melbourne. Showing the Commander of Laverton Aerodrome RAAF, Moll, McPherson, Parmentier and Dutch Consul Colonel Wright 13.375.12 photograph Black and white photograph (reproduction) showing breakfast time at a Melbourne Hotel left to right: Campbell Black, Moll, Scott, Van BRugg, Prins and Parmentier 13.375.13 photograph Black and white photograph (reproduction) showing function in Melbourne. Left to Right: Nicholls, wireless operator Boeing Campbell Black, Moll, Scott, Parmentier and Roscie Turner 13.375.14 photograph Black and white photograph (reproduction) showing special navigation logbook used by the Uiver during the 1934 London to Melbourne Air Race 13.375.15 photograph Black and white photograph (reproduction) showing lineup of aircraft at Milden Hall. 14.231 photograph Coloured photo of motor bike, and three cars with DC3 in background. Two people inspecting 1928 Essex which attended the racecourse when the Uiver crash landed in 1934. Photograph thought to be taken at Uiver Fair, unknown date, at Albury Aerodrome 14.249 photograph Coloured photo of DC2 aeroplane at Albury Racecourse for 50th Anniversary re-enactment of the Uiver landing in 1934. vintage car in background and two men standing in front of plane 14.25 photograph Coloured photo of DC2 aeroplane at Albury Racecourse for 50th Anniversary re-enactment of the Uiver landing in 1934. 2 vintage cars in background with various people standing near a fence in front of plane. 14.251 photograph Coloured photo of DC2 KLM aeroplane at Albury Racecourse for 50th Anniversary re-enactment of the Uiver landing in 1934.View of full length of plane which has flag flying. Wheels of vintage car visible rh side. 14.252 photograph Coloured photo of DC2 KLM aeroplane at Albury Racecourse for 50th Anniversary re-enactment of the Uiver landing in 1934.View of side front of plane with man (pilot?) waving from cockpit 14.253 photograph Coloured photo of DC2 KLM aeroplane at Albury Racecourse or Albury Aerodrome for 50th Anniversary re-enactment of the Uiver landing in 1934. 5 men walking away from plane, two in overalls. 14.254 photograph Coloured photo of DC2 KLM aeroplane at Albury Airport, with Memorial DC2, replica of elevated KLM Uiver with explanatory lnels in background 14.255 photograph Coloured photo of DC2 KLM aeroplane being towed by large frontend loader from Albury Airport to Albury Racecourse for re-enactment filming. Two men in dark pants and white shirts on road in front of plane, 2 children and two adult men to right of photo. 14.256 photograph Close up coloured photo of DC2 KLM aeroplane being towed by large frontend loader from Abury Airport to Albury Racecourse for re-enactment filming 13.355 Photograph Framed reproduction black and white prints of the Uiver and crowd (left) and the Uiver and pilots (right) created for the 75th Anniversary. 11.206 Photograph. Black and white K.L.M. Uiver aeroplane at Albury Race Course. All wheels bogged and pool of water in foreground, About forty people, including about three small boys, standing around the plane. 11.162 Photographic Album KLM photo album (1934) After the London to Melbourne MacRobertson International Air Race, KLM issued this limited edition album of loose photographs and sent a copy to Roelof Domenie. 29 pages in album 11.155 pin Navy blue commemorative aeroplane pin (1934) of the DC-2 Uiver aeroplane that flew in the 1934 London to Melbourne MacRobertson International Air Race. Owned by Roelof Jan Domenie, a passenger on the Uiver. People of the Netherlands were euphoric about the saving of the Uiver at Albury and its successful completion of the London to Melbourne race as the second plane to arrive. The flight of the Uiver and the return of the heroes who flew it, was a big national event. Many corporations made and sold mementos of the occasion. This Uiver commemorative pin provides a great example. 11.156 pin Commemorative pin (1934) of the DC-2 Uiver aeroplane that flew in the 1934 London to Melbourne MacRobertson International Air Race. Owned by Roelof Jan Domenie, a passenger on the Uiver. People of the Netherlands were euphoric about the saving of the Uiver at Albury and its successful completion of the London to Melbourne race as the secondplane to arrive. The flight of the Uiver and the return of the heroes who flew it, was a big national event. Many corporations made and sold mementos of the occasion. This Uiver commemorative pin provides a great 9.405 Plaque Bronze plaque donated by KLM on the occasion of resumption of passenger flights to Australia in example. 1951. In 1938, KNILM got a permit to open a service Jakarta–Sydney. That service was initially suspended in 1942 because of World War II and could not resume because of the Indonesian War of Independence, which finally concluded with a transfer of sovereignty on 31 December 1949. 14.089 Plaque A long rectangle plaque with wooden back and (from left to right) metal 1982 Antique Car Club emblum, 1928 NSW car numberplate with adjustable sequence for numbers, metal 1992 Antique Car Club emblem and a 1979 Antique Car Club 10th Anniversary badge for B. Follington. 3.076 Plaque, Bronze Rectangular bronze plaque depicting the landing of the Uiver at Albury in 1934. Plaque has 4 Coats- of-Arms, with an impression of the plane in the centre surrounded by cars and their headlights 9.403 Plaque, Bronze Rectangular bronze plaque depicting the landing of the Uiver at Albury in 1934. Plaque has 4 Coats- of-Arms, with an impression of the plane in the centre surrounded by cars and their headlights 9.407 Plaque, clay Round clay plaque with the Dutch tranlated wording 'London Melbourne Race flight time of 81 hours and 10 Minutes within 20 to 24 October 1934'. The centre of the plaque comprises a form of coat of arms that contains the word ‘UIVER’, an impression of the Douglas DC-2, two royal lions (they refer to the coat of arms of the Netherlands) holding a medal and two daggers or swords, and a shield signed by all four crew members (Parmentier, Prins, Moll and van Brugge). 9.563 Plate One of a set of two blue and white delft plates commemorating the 1934 London to Melbourne air race. The rim displays ‘London–Melbourne Race, October 1934’ along with stylised clouds. In the centre is the Dutch air race entrant, the DC-2 Uiver flying over the outline of Africa, Europe, Malaysia and Australia, ahead of three other planes with Dutch text below. Presentation text from KLM and makers marks are on the reverse.

9.412 Plate Large blue and white Delft plate, displaying the Uiver plane flying in the centre. The top rim has the wording "1934, London, Uiver, Melbourne, 1984" and a small map with the locations of all the designated stops in the MacRobertson race from London to Melbourne. The letters KLM are written in the background and portraits of four male KLM staff members displayed on the bottom plate rim. 9.415 Plate One of a set of two blue and white delft plates commemorating the 1934 London to Melbourne air race. The rim displays ‘London–Melbourne Race, October 1934’ along with stylised clouds. In the centre is the Dutch air race entrant, the DC-2 Uiver flying over the outline of Africa, Europe, Malaysia and Australia, ahead of three other planes with Dutch text below. Makers marks are on the reverse along with wire tied through two holes for hanging the plate.

11.164 postcard Graf Zeppelin postcard (1934) From 30 June 1934 to 2 July 1934 Roelof Jan Domenie flew in the Graf Zeppelin on the inaugural flight of a zeppelin from Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Aires. This postcard, sent to his son Rudy, reveals sleeping quarters rather different from the seating arrangements in today’s jumbo jets. The 11.167 postcard LZ 129 Hindenburg postcard (July 1934) Roelof Domenie travelled twice in the Hindenburg, once in 1934, just before the London- Melbourne Air Race and again in 1936 when he went to Europe from Rio de Janeiro. The Hindenburg came to a disastrous end on 6 May 1937 when it caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA. Zeppelins were soon overtaken by heavy metal planes as the major means of passenger and freight transport. Advertising blimps are the remnants of this era of flight, which reached its zenith in the 1930s. 11.190.29 Postcard Large dining room on ship. Tables set with white cloths and serviettes. Roof supported by round pillars. Lines of light globes from ceiling. 11.190.30 Postcard Large ornate room on ship. Small tables and chairs, and lounges. Roof supported by round fluted pillars. Droplet lites hanging from ceiling and on pillars. Windows have stained glass ornamentation. 13.075 Postcard A souvenir postcard commemorating the Uiver landing from the Australian Croadcasting Commission with text about the landing with an image of the Uiver top centre with an image of K.D. Paramentier on the left and J.J. Moll on the right on the front and post card markings, correspondence/address and the ABC markings on the back. 11.190.34 Postcards Set of 10 coloured postcards, numbered 1-10 on back, of interior views of the Luftschiff Hindenburg. 11.190.12 Programme Single sheet to fold, printed in mauve. Official Programme of Uiver arrival at Schiphol 21 November 1934. May belong with song sheet, ARM 11.190.14.

L0782858M Programme Photocopy of the programme for the unveiling of the Uiver Memorial Plaques at the Albury Airport in 1992 by Consul General of the Netherlands, Dr. Reinier Th Derksen. It also discusses the restoration of the memorial plane when it was acquired in 1979. 09.564.1 Record booklet Souvenir booklet containing record of the Uiver Memorial Flight of 1984, generated for the 50th anniversary of the 1934 London to Melbourne Air Race flight. One of two copies. 11.190.02 Report Seven pages, in Dutch, handwritten in pencil. First page is in LibraryMuseum Uiver display. 11.190.38 Report 3-page typed report Melbourne Race listing Uiver and Panderjager crews, specifications of planes, stopping places. Also mentions Hindenburg. Charlesville (sic) to Albury has more detail than the rest. Finishes over the Albury area before landing. 11.190.39 Report 14-page typed report. First two pages are original, the rest are carbon copies. London-Melbourne Race 20-24 October 1934. First page starts at Mildenhall and mentions that the Uiver's mechanic is also the cook. 1e bericht means 1st notice. (2 pages) Finishes Rome from where original copy was posted. 2e bericht, 2nd notice, (1 page) was posted from Athens. 3e bericht, 3rd notice, (2 pages) posted from Bagdad. 4e bericht, 4th notice, (2 pages) also posted Bagdad. 5e bericht, 5th notice, (3 pages) posted from Batavia. Mentions Panderjager was missing and "Dutch Plane Crashed", which was later corrected, and that they are third day out from Mildenhall and due in Melbourne next night. 6e bericht, 6th notice. (4 pages) mentioned they had left Charleville. Finishes over the Albury area before landing. Also 13 white pages of English translation,

11.190.40 Report Report of return trip following the Uiver flight Mildenhall to Melbourne. 2-page typed report, original pages, not carbon copies. Headed: Maandag 5 November. 6 a.m. vertrek Darwin. Last line on page 2: Om 6 a.m. door naar Rangoon via Bangkok. (meaning: At 6 am forward to Rangoon and Bangkok). Also 3-page English translation, Notes from Dad's Return Trip to Holland.

11.190.49 Scrap book Book with purple cover, black binding at spine, blank sticker with blue edges on front cover. 9.569 Sheet Music Eight photocopied pages of sheet music for 'The Flying Dutchman March'.Contains newspaper and magazine clippings in Dutch about the London to Melbourne 1934 air 11.190.50 Sketch Brown sketch of Zeppelin over a large town with a high hill in the background. 11.190.14 Song sheet Small sheet printed in mauve. Dutch National Anthem and prayer. May belong with Official Programme for the Uiver arrival at Schiphol 21 November 1934. 11.190.43 Song sheet Large single cream sheet: Zanghulde. van de "Amsterdamsche Jeugd" onder leiding van den Heer Jacob Hamel. 11.190.42 Song sheet? Folded sheet with Hulde aan de "Uiver" - bemanning on front cover. Left hand page has: Pangajoebagio. Right hand page has: Hulde 13.312 Souviner, Dish Glass victorian and Melbourne Centenary souvenir long dish with two small flat ends and two long curved sides, each with a scalloped edging. The base has engraving of the Centenary Air Race, with an outline of England, four planes and an outline of Australia so it can be seen and read from the 11.190.17 Speech Two yellowed foolscap pages of typed carbon-copy script, with name at bottom, R.J. Domenie.top. Two white A4 pages of typed translation. 9.58 Spoon Souvenir silver teaspoon decorated with aeroplane on top of "Uiver" in rectangle below which is a stork on one leg. A propellor is at the join of handle to bowl of spoon. Engraved on bowl are the words "Londen" (Dutch spelling) and "Melbourne". Between the names is an outline of part of the UK and map of Australia with journey line between London and Melbourne. Across the middle of the bowl is "Oct.1934".

11.204 Spoon A spoon with a decorative handle and an miniature enamel plaque attached to the end of the spoon surrounded by a detailed frame of silver. The spoon handles is thin and the spoon shovel is standard size. The enamel plaque is of a handdrawn image of the Albury War Memorial in green, yellow, blue and purple with the title, "Albury"

9.404 Spoon Souvenir silver teaspoon decorated with aeroplane on top of "Uiver" in rectangle below which is a stork on one leg. A propellor is at the join of handle to bowl of spoon. Engraved on bowl are the words "Londen" (Dutch spelling) and "Melbourne". Between the names is an outline of part of the UK and map of Australia with journey line between London and Melbourne. Across the middle of the bowl is "Oct.1934".

11.17 Stamp exhibition catalogue Illustrated Dutch catalogue of an exhibition of airmail letters and stamps featuring articles about the London to Melbourne Air Race 1934. The exhibition was part of Postex 2004 held in October 2004 in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. Includes excerpts from the diary of Roelof Jan Domenie who was a passenger on the flight. Written in Dutch. 9.565 tape, cassette Radio interview taped in Holland on 3 August 1935 with then Albury mayor Alfred Waugh on the Albury landing of the Uiver. 09.565.01 tape, cassette Radio interview taped in Holland on 3 August 1935 with then Albury mayor Alfred Waugh on the Albury landing of the Uiver. 09.565.02 tape, cassette Radio interview taped in Holland on 3 August 1935 with then Albury mayor Alfred Waugh on the Albury landing of the Uiver. 11.190.09 Telegram Message printed on three narrow strips of paper and pasted on telegram form. 11.190.37 Telegram Top has festive Christmas decoration in red and green: Boas Festas e Feliz Anno Novo. All America Cables. Message typed in purple. Reverse side covered in printing. 13.071 Telegram Handwritten telegram both typed and handwritten in English and Dutch. 13.072 Telegram Handwritten telegram both typed and handwritten and about the forced Uiver landing. 13.073 Telegram Handwritten telegram in Dutch 13.07 Text Typed text over two foolscap pages about the Uiver landing, it was written in 1934 and has a pencil marking the signature and date underneather right of the second page text. 11.190.11 Ticket Card which mentions Uiver in the Dutch text. 11.190.51 Ticket Quarto-size Ticket, beige paper with blue edge: Luftschiffbau Zeppelin. Fahrkarte Nr. Ticket No. 6354 Friedrichshafen via Schweiz. Graf Zeppelin. 28 Juni 1932. Herr R.J. Domenie 11.157 Tie bar Commemorative tie bar (1934) of a stork (uiver) representing the DC-2 Uiver aeroplane which flew in the 1934 London to Melbourne MacRobertson International Air Race. Owned by Roelof Jan Domenie, a passenger on the Uiver. People of the Netherlands were euphoric about the saving of the Uiver at Albury and its successful completion of the London to Melbourne race as the second plane to arrive. The flight of the Uiver and the return of the heroes who flew it, was a big national event. Many corporations made and sold mementos of the occasion. This Uiver commemorative tie bar provides a great example. 11.159 Trophy Uiver polo silver cup (24 October 1935) Silver cup presented to Roelof Jan Domenie by the Dutch Ambassador after a polo match held in Rio de Janeiro to commemorate the first anniversary of the flight of the Uiver and its safe landing in Albury. The Gavea Golf and Country Club captained by Domenie beat Itanhanga 6-1. 11.193 Trophy Polo silver cup, miniature, with handles and separate plastic or bakelite base. 1939. A silver cup (full size) was presented to Roelof Jan Domenie by the Dutch Ambassador in 1935 after a polo match held in Rio de Janeiro to commemorate the first anniversary of the flight of the Uiver and its safe landing in Albury. The Gavea Golf and Country Club captained by Domenie beat Itanhanga 6-1. 11.193.01 Trophy Polo silver cup, miniature, with handles and separate plastic or bakelite base. 1939.This miniature is one of two, between different teams, for 1939. A silver cup (full size) was presented to Roelof Jan Domenie by the Dutch Ambassador in 1935 after a polo match held in Rio de Janeiro to commemorate the first anniversary of the flight of the Uiver and its safe landing in Albury. The Gavea Golf and Country Club captained by Domenie beat Itanhanga 6-1. This miniature is one of two, between different teams, for 1939. 12.639 Twin Cities Post Centre-page lift-out from Twin Cities Post 28 February 1980 to commemorate the New Uiver, to stand at Albury airport as a perpetual memorial to the Dutch airliner, the Uiver, and its crew. 12.910.01 Uiver Illustration A black and white illustration of the KLM DC 2 aircraft the 'Uiver' flying, showing the plane from a front / underneath angle. It is printed on photographic paper. 12.910.02 Uiver Photograph A black and white illustration of the KLM DC 2 aircraft the 'Uiver' on a landing strip. 9.578 Video tape cover Video tape cover case on the Albury landing of the Uiver titled "DC-2 Uiver Flies Again". Compilation of the NOS Television series by Rob Swanenburg. 07.001.02 Vinyl Record Vinyl record of the Flying Dutchmen Suite on one side and the Flying Dutchmen Monologue and Flying Dutchmen March on the other. Record is in a paper sleeve. Accompanies a souvenir booklet issued to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Rotary International. The booklet highlights the flight of the Uiver in the London to Melbourne air race in 1934 as well as the history of Rotary International. 9.562 Vinyl record Vinyl record of 'The Flying Dutchman Suite' on one side and 'The Flying Dutchman Monologue' and 'Flying Dutchmen March' on the other. Record is in a paper sleeve at the back of a souvenir booklet issued to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Rotary International. 09.182.002 Vinyl Record Record with yellow Festival label 09.561.2 Vinyl Record Souvenir vinyl record titled 'The Flying Dutchmen', issued to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Rotary International and highlighting the flight of the Uiver in the London to Melbourne Air Race of 1934, as well as the history of Rotary International. 16 page booklet with light cardboard cover (182mm x 182 mm), whose rear cover is folded back to provide an insert jacket for a 7 inch 45 rpm vinyl record. 9.577 Vinyl Record Souvenir vinyl record titled 'The Flying Dutchmen Monologue' and on reverse'The Flying Dutchmen March' issued to commemorate the flight of the Uiver in the London to Melbourne Air Race of 1934. 07.001.03 Vinyl Record Vinyl record of the Flying Dutchmen Suite on one side and the Flying Dutchmen Monologue and Flying Dutchmen March on the other. Record is in a paper sleeve. Accompanies a souvenir booklet issued to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Rotary International. The booklet highlights the flight of the Uiver in the London to Melbourne air race in 1934 as well as the history of Rotary International. 13.999 Vinyl Record Vinyl record of the Flying Dutchmen Suite on one side and the Flying Dutchmen Monologue and Flying Dutchmen March on the other. Record is in a paper sleeve. Accompanies a souvenir booklet issued to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Rotary International. The booklet highlights the flight of the Uiver in the London to Melbourne air race in 1934 as well as the history of Rotary International. 09.564.2 Vinyl record Souvenir booklet containing record of the Uiver Memorial Flight of 1984, generated for the 50th anniversary of the 1934 London to Melbourne Air Race flight. One of two copies. 9.576 Walking stick Wooden walking stick with an ornate silver handle and brass tip, crafted in the Indonesian province of Jogjakarta, and presented to Albury radio announcer Arthur Joseph Newnham on 13 December 1934 by a delegation representing the people of the Netherlands.

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COMMUNITY & CULTURAL GRANTS PROGRAM 2015/16

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Community and Cultural Grants recommendations for funding

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Community and Cultural Grants 2015/2016 – Assessment Recommendations

Applicant Project Summary Assessment Panel Comments Amount Recommended Requested Grant Amount 1601 The Other Theatre The Tempest Committee would like company to also $5,000.00 $5000.00 Company An amateur performance of a modern language raise funds by putting ticket prices up a adaption of Shakespeare's The Tempest as little bit. community theatre in the Albury Botanic Gardens. Low cost family targeted event March 2016 1602 Brave Hearts on the Albury Wodonga Dragon Boat Regatta 2016 Proven event that is for the community $1,000.00 $1000.00 Murray Inc 8th annual dragon boat regatta to be held over 2 and is enjoyed by Albury and days. Attracts local community teams as well as Wodonga. sport teams from across Victoria and southern NSW. The theme is "Get active for your health" to encourage community members to try a new sport and engage in activity that will reduce the risk of cancer and other diseases 1605 Seed Savers Albury Fabulous backyard fruit Not a broad enough involvement from $2,000.00 0 Wodonga The project aims to give back yard food growers the Community. A good concept, can greater skills in managing their fruit trees to we offer to work with them to apply in maximise production, health, pest control next round taking on board (particularly Fruit fly) and high quality healthy food. suggestions. 1606 2nd Albury Scouts Jamboree Troop Committee suggested all troops in the $4,725.00 0 Australian Jamboree 2016 will be held at Cataract area combine for one submission Park, near Wollongong from 3rd to 13th January, benefiting all participants. 2016. Over 12,000 Scouts are expected to attend. They are aged 10 to 15. This application is asking for support for the 5 Leaders who are attending with the children. Their fees are $945 so we are asking for $4,725 or part thereof. 1607 Woomera Mandala Magic Committee considered this a $5,000.00 0 Aboriginal Corporation Mandala magic is a painting process which is commercial opportunity.

thearaputic and relaxing for the body. In Mandalas the centre represents the point from which everything began and the boundary is the central dot magnified or expanded. These two aspects of a Mandala represent the connection between our deep inner self and our outer world, which exist simultaneously. A Mandala therefore is a ‘complete picture’. 1610 Flying Fruit Fly Circus Storytelling Project Strong application $5,000.00 $5000.00 Circus Circus Storytelling Project is a new outreach community program for the Flying Fruit Fly Circus (FFFC). The FFFC will work in partnership with Acrobat (Jo Lancaster and Simon Yates) and the Westside Community Centre. 1611 Albury Toy Library Albury Toy Library Not supported $1,522.90 0 A stocktake during July 2015 identified that some toys in our collection were in need of replacing due to them being held for several years and borrowed frequently. The stocktake also identified gaps in our range of toys. We used to have more than 800 toys but now have about 680. Current members compiled a wish list of toys which is the subject of this grant application. Wodonga Ethnic Applicant would be using commercial photographers Committee suggest applicant apply $5,000.00 0 Minorities from outside the local are to take photos of ethnic directly to MAMA for exhibition and community in Albury Wodonga and then have an project support. Exhibition at MAMA 1615 Thurgoona Thurgoona Youth Action – Chill Zone Project Committee support the project and $3,550.00 $3,550.00 Community Centre Inc Financial assistance is being sought for the "Chill suggest further liaison with other local (TCC) Zone" after school once a week Drop in Project high schools to get broad range of because the TCC Facility Co-ordinator is unable to participants. take on the added responsibility as Action4Action Youth Team Leader because of regular work commitments within the Centre.

1616 Thurgoona Baptist Hot Chilli Christmas Not supported. $4,200.00 0 Church The group is endeavouring to hold a large festival on Christmas Day at a Community Centre. Whilst for many Western people, Christmas day is where families meet in family homes, the Bhutanese/Nepalese are more accustomed to celebrating as a community together. The day will be an opportunity for people from other faith heritages (e.g. Hindu/Buddhist) to come to share in the festivities and be included in this significant cultural and spiritual event. 1617 Bread of Life Musical Team Techniques Training Not supported $3,024.00 0 Christian Church The group would like to train up a pianist, a guitarist, and a drummer. They would like them to go to have lessons from professional musicians from January to November 2016, not including some school holidays, totalling 36 weeks. 1618 MurraMurra Arts and Crafts Not supported $5,500.00 0 To do various arts and craft activities (mandala arts activity, basket weaving) 1619 Ovens and Murray Waterpolo Safety Netting Redirected to Sport and Recreation $3,278.00 0 Amateur Waterpolo Safety netting with an easy maneuverable system Funding Round 50% of build cost Association which members can pull across the pool prior to waterpolo games commencing. This netting is used to protect the general public from fast flying balls and will assist in creating a safe environment. 1620 Placemaking Community Garden in Plummer Street $3,000.00 $3000.00 To create a community garden in Plummer street park South Albury in the hope that it will: - provide the local community with an opportunity to grow their own food - create a community space to engage with each other and share experiences - be the beginning of other projects in the park such

as public art infrastructure (chairs, shade, play equipment,etc). - make use of a significant public space that is neglected and under utilised. - increase safety in the park by increasing use 1621 HotHouse Theatre At the hip: workshop training and Program already supported through $4,844.00 0 Ltd performance lecture ACC Annual Financial Support From May 2016, acclaimed documentary theatre- maker Roslyn Oades will begin a complex six-month journey with HotHouse Theatre’s Studio youth ensemble (ages 17-26) and regional journalists, into the heart of the border. To prepare our young artists fully for this experience, HotHouse would love to bring writer/dramaturg Ros Oades and two professional actors (Katia Molino and Michael Mohammed Ahmad) familiar with her techniques to Albury-Wodonga in April, to conduct a four-day intensive workshop in documentary and verbatim techniques. We will also invite a local journalist into this process as lead interview mentor for the Studio members. 1622 Albury High School Composer in Residence Not supported $2,000.00 0 The project will engage renowned Australian composer and educator Jodie Blackshaw as artist in residence to conduct a series of composition workshops with the intent of creating and promoting original Australian compositions. The project will be conducted over a series of weeks with Jodie working closely with students in years 9, 10, 11 and 12. The students will work in groups to create their own original composition. The project will culminate with live performances of the works. 1623 Albury Wodonga Can the Can Not supported $3,080.00 0 Volunteer Resource This project will take place in Thurgoona. The

Bureau Inc volunteer team will consist of volunteers supporting younger volunteers to remove graffiti in the Thurgoona area. Young people with Work Development Orders will be invited to participate to reduce their fines by way of volunteering. 1624 City to City City to City Albury Wodonga Supported $3,000.00 $3000.00 The City2City RunWalk is an annual event aimed at promoting community health and wellbeing while raising funds for the local health service, Albury Wodonga Health. The City2City RunWalk will take place on Sunday 21 February, 2016. 1625 Thurgoona Mens Computershare Supported with condition that Applicant $1,717.00 $1717.00 shed - Computer share will allow many inexperienced consider incorporating an Internet participants a chance to be shown how to use a Policy similar to ACC for users. computer. 1626 Rotary Club of River of Stories Supported $1,500.00 $1500.00 Albury Hume Inc The objective of the project: 1. To provide a positive opportunity for young school students to enhance their literacy learning and skills and the underlining of the importance of literacy in our community 2. The encouragement of inspiring of literary creativity underpinning the celebration of our regional literary talent. TOTAL 67,940.90 $23,767.00

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CRIME PREVENTION PLAN 2015-2018 COMMUNITY CONSULTATION

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Highlights of the previous Crime Prevention Plan

Attachment 1. Highlights of AlburyCity Crime Prevention Plan 2010 – 2013

In 2010 a Crime Prevention Plan was developed for the NSW Department of Attorney General and Justice, (DAG&J) using their template. The plan focused on two crimes – Break & Enter Dwelling and Graffiti, as these were the crimes which were on the rise in Albury, or Albury was deemed as one of the top cities in NSW with this issue. We were successful in obtaining grant funding from the DAG&J to implement the planned projects - $44,000 for Break and Enter Dwelling (2013), $50,000 for Graffiti Management (2012), and $57,000 for Graffiti Hotspot Funding (2013).

Some of the highlights of these projects were:

Graffiti  Oddies Creek Play ground - Lighting for BBQ area;  Freeway wall panels – metal panels with local flora and fauna cut-outs to cover panels frequently targeted;  Thurgoona Community Centre – removal of low shrubs allowing for improved surveillance;  Graffiti management brochure delivered to all Albury homes;  Free graffiti kits made available to residents;  Citizenship awards to all schools - $20 book voucher per term to each school.

Graffiti Hotspot Funding  Vinyl decals covering the glass windows of the freeway bridges;  Bumps depicting gum nuts placed along the tops of the stairs, to prevent skateboarding;  Vinyl skins attached to Essential Energy power boxes; These actions have resulted in a reduction of graffiti at these sites.

Break & Enter Dwelling  Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) session offered to all builders, designers, landscape architects etc;  Youth diversionary activities forum for solicitors, court workers, police;  Subsidy of $150 towards each victim of burglary to purchase security products;  Media campaign over a year reminding residents to lock their houses;  Fridge magnets delivered to households with reminders about home security.

Additionally, a fuller Crime Prevention Plan was developed around general categories of crime, in partnerships with many other agencies. It focused on child protection/safe families; drug and alcohol issues; making Albury an even safer place to live; security and policing; road safety. Various agencies provided a range of services for people of all ages about alcohol and drugs, home security, identity theft and personal safety.

KEY STRATEGIC ACTIONS: 1. To develop a Crime Prevention Plan, an Alcohol & Other Drugs Management Plan, and a Graffiti Management Plan. Objective (i) Develop, implement and review Albury Crime Prevention Plan to include an Alcohol Management Plan and Graffiti Management Plan. ALL COMPLETED

2. Community Justice – To ensure appropriate sentencing consequences and investigate additional diversionary programs. Objective (i) Ensure appropriate sentencing consequences and investigate additional diversionary programs.

AlburyCity held a forum to discuss the processes available, the local approach, and to share ideas about the effectiveness of how the system works and any ways it could be made better.

The forum was aimed at local solicitors who work in the Children’s Court, Police, Local Court staff, and community workers who work with young people and their families. It was well attended, and a sub committee was formed to work through the ideas which came out of the forum.

3. Child Protection / Family Health / Family Safety - To raise awareness of the criminal nature of domestic violence, family violence and sexual assault / to promote healthy relationships / to promote support services for families and young people and identify any gaps in these services / to offer opportunities for personal development. Objective (i) Raise awareness of the criminal nature of domestic violence, family violence and sexual assault. Objective (ii) Promote healthy relationships. Objective (iii) Promote support services for families and young people and identify gaps in these services. Objective (iv) Offer opportunities for personal development.

A range of agencies provided a range of programs for all ages including:  Gateway Community Health: Indigenous Community Links - supporting Aboriginal Families  Police encouraged local media to include positive news items related to community safety and healthy relationships through their daily media releases;  Gateway Community Health operated a Young Parents group in partnership with Albury City;  A range of programs was implemented for Frail Aged People and People with a Disability through the Centre Based Day Programs;  A range of programs for men, developing relationships within their lives was provided by Intereach;  Retro Youth Café provided regular Friday Night Gigs, ran a Youth Committee, School holiday activities happened during each school holiday period, VENT Magazine committee meet fortnightly and produced a magazine each half year;  Community Centres ran supported playgroups;  Albury Police liaised regularly with the Department of Public Housing where information is exchanged and strategies developed to address issues such as excessive noise, neighbour disputes and crime. This is an on-going process;  Tenant Participation Resource Program has supported the Westside Community Centre with arts project and tenant forums to provide information to public housing tenants;  Leadership programs were conducted by Police and AlburyCity.

4. Drug and Alcohol Abuse – To raise community awareness regarding drugs and alcohol / to decrease anti-social behaviour connected with alcohol and drugs. Objective (i) Raise community awareness regarding Drugs and Alcohol.

Objective (ii) Decrease antisocial behaviour connected with alcohol and other drugs. CDAAT / AlburyCity /Albury Liquor Accord:  Drug and alcohol information sessions were offered to all secondary schools in Albury, and taken up by an average of four schools each year.  A ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’ style game focusing on alcohol was designed / used in schools and tertiary institutions  Annual Drug Awareness program with exhibition in Library held on drugs.  Successfully obtained two years of RSA grants from RMS for 18 yr olds.  Funds given each year to providing drug and alcohol free events for youth.  An Alcohol and other Drug Management Plan was developed  AlburyCity funded a Night Rider bus to run on Christmas Eve, New Years Eve and Gold Cup Day each year.  Arrive Home Safely program held each year by AlburyCity Road Safety Officer / Community Safety Officer to offer subsidised taxi vouchers for people to get home from Christmas work parties.

5. Community participation – To increase awareness of Albury as a safe place to live / develop our neighbourhoods, fostering a sense of community belonging. Develop our neighbourhoods, fostering a sense of community belonging. Objective (i) Increase community awareness of Albury as a safe place to live. Objective (ii) Develop our neighbourhoods, fostering a sense of community belonging.

AlburyCity delivered on average 6 programs per year which generated an increased awareness of community and personal safety. With the assistance of Department of Attorney General and Justice grants, AlburyCity coordinated huge media campaigns, a brochure to go out to hotspots for burglary, safety audits and subsidies to purchase home security products for victims of break and enter. With the help of an NRMA grant, morning teas were held in 8 neighbourhoods to foster a sense of belonging and encourage residents to look out for each other.

6. Security and Policing – To decrease vandalism and malicious damage to property / to identify community hotspots and develop appropriate coordinated responses / to reduce theft of and from motor vehicles / to reduce break and enter from dwellings and non dwellings / to incorporate best practice regarding crime prevention into planning and development of programs. Objective (i) Decrease vandalism and malicious damage to property. Objective (ii) Reduce break and enter from dwellings. Objective (iii) Reduce break and enter from non dwellings. Objective (iv) Identify community hotspots and develop appropriate coordinated responses. Objective (v) Reduce theft of and from motor vehicles. Objective (vi) Incorporate best practice regarding crime prevention into planning and development of programs.

AlburyCity was able to obtain $107,000 to work towards combating graffiti in Albury, using public art in particular. Murals, vinyl coatings on glass and power boxes, metal gum nuts. AlburyCity coordinated huge media campaigns, a brochure to go out to hotspots for burglary, safety audits and subsidies to purchase home security products for victims of break and enter.

7. Road Safety - To endeavour to reduce road trauma in the city.  Road Safety Strategic Plan (RSSP) 2010 – 2015 completed;  Implemented strategies and actions identified in 2010 – 2015 RSSP;  Determined local crash statistics for inclusion in annual Road Safety Action Plan.

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Snapshot of local crime data 2011-2015

Attachment 2. Albury LGA Crime Snapshot July 2011 – June 2015 Source – NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR)

Table 1. Five year trend and Ranking against other NSW LGAs Source – NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) Offence category 5 year trend Albury Albury Ranking April 2011 to Ranking 2009 March 2015 2015 % per year Assault - domestic violence related 9.5% 29 44 Assault - non-domestic violence related Stable 18 29 Break and enter – dwelling - 6.3% 22 10 Break and enter - non-dwelling -16.2% 37 23 Motor vehicle theft Stable 25 22 Steal from motor vehicle -7.9% 19 3 Steal from retail store Stable 10 11 Fraud Stable 77 43 Malicious damage to property -9.2% 17 9 Liquor offences Stable 25 48 Drug offences 34.4% No ranking No ranking provided provided Dealing / trafficking in amphetamines Stable No ranking No ranking provided provided Possession & or use of amphetamines Stable No ranking No ranking provided provided Red indicates an upward trend over 5 years or a higher ranking against other NSW LGAs. (1 = highest in state)

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Crimes which are on the increase in Albury

Attachment 3. Albury LGA Crimes which have a statistically significant increase

up by an average of 34.4% per annum

up by an average of 9.5% per annum

Source – NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR)

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Crimes which remain very high

Attachment 4. Other crimes which remain high 1. Malicious damage to property - includes a) vandalism and b) graffiti

Table 1. Malicious Damage to property Albury LGA – actual numbers Source - NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR)

The figures above are from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) and show a downward trend in malicious damage (actual numbers) to property across the Albury LGA; this seems to reflect the lack of reporting to the police, because when AlburyCity’s property figures are examined, a different picture is obvious.

The table below shows the increase in costs to AlburyCity Council for the removal of graffiti from Council’s infrastructure.

Table 2. Graffiti removal - $ costs to AlburyCity Council Source - AlburyCity Authority property figures

Table 3. Actual numbers of graffiti incidents on AlburyCity infrastructure Source - AlburyCity Authority property figures

The table below shows the $ cost of vandalism (as opposed to graffiti) to AlburyCity infrastructure.

Table 4. Vandalism property repair costs to AlburyCity Source - AlburyCity Authority property figures

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Project Management Strategy

Attachment 5

AlburyCity Project Management Framework

Project Plan – Crime Prevention Plan 2015 - 2018

 Implement strategies within Crime Prevention Plan 2015- Project Name 2018

 FIL14/03599 Project Plan Author  Community Safety Officer – Heather Webster

Date of Project Plan  2015 - 2018

 DOC15/29729 TRIM Number

The scope of the Crime Prevention Plan will include the actions identified in the plan, plus the Alcohol and Other Drugs Management Plan and the Graffiti Management Plan.

Objectives are:  To work towards a safe community – security and policing.  To implement crime prevention strategies in line with Scope and Objectives CPTED principles.  To reward good citizenship behaviour.  To educate the community in relation to cyber crime and identity theft.

Roles and Responsibilities  Council’s Community Safety Officer will be the person responsible for the implementation of the CPP.  Plans to be prepared – one for Department of Attorney General and Justice (DAGJ), one for Albury Community  Stakeholder engagement – - Crime Prevention Committee - includes Police, Chambers of Commerce, Albury Community Health,

Albury Liquor Accord, Member Parliament, Albury Implementation Central, AlburyCity Council.

- Have Your Say

 Plan to be submitted to Manex

 Plan to be submitted to Council  Plan to be submitted to DAGJ  A detailed implementation plan with time frames / milestones will be developed once the Action Plan for the Crime Prevention Plan is documented. Organisational resources  Many sections of AlburyCity have responsibility for sections required of the Crime Prevention Plan, Alcohol and Other Drugs

Management Plan, and Graffiti Management Plan  The plans will be in the public domain, and will generate considerable attention from the public and media. The following community engagement is being undertaken as part of developing the Crime Prevention Plan 2015 – 2018:

- Crime Prevention Committee - includes Police, Community Engagement Chambers, Albury Health, Albury Liquor Accord,

Member Parliament, Albury Central, AlburyCity - Have Your Say  No risk assessment is required for the development of the Risk Management plan. On occasions, if actions require a risk assessment , it will be done at the time.  The Community Safety Budget of approximately $17,000 will be used to implement parts of the plan. Hopefully we Budget will receive funding from DAGJ to help with implementation. Other agencies working with Council will use their own budgets to carry out their parts of the plan.  A detailed implementation plan will be developed after the Monitoring and Evaluation plan is endorsed by DAGJ and Council. The plan will be monitored and evaluated as it is implemented. Director Approval  James Jenkins

ATTACHMENT TO CCC 7A – 11/2015

CRIME PREVENTION PLAN 2015-2018 COMMUNITY CONSULTATION

ATTACHMENT 6

Community Engagement Plan

AlburyCity Stakeholder Engagement Plan

 Crime Prevention Plan 2015-2018 Stakeholder Project Name Engagement  FIL14/03599 Engagement Plan Author  Heather Webster Date of Engagement Plan  November / December 2015 TRIM Number  DOC15/105682  The stakeholder engagement objective is to invite the Stakeholder Engagement opinions and thoughts of many stakeholders, in order that Objective the Crime Prevention Plan is a meaningful document for Albury citizens.  The stakeholder engagement involves: - a ‘Have a Say’ survey which will be published on the AlburyCity website in November, asking the general community their thoughts and experiences about priority crimes. Key stakeholder groups will be directed to the ‘Have a Say’ survey. - A media release will be issued to inform the community of the ‘Have a Say’ survey being conducted. - Promotion of the Have a Say survey will be in the Albury and Lavington Libraries, Customer Service, in What’s On, and Albury News online.  The key stakeholders of the project are - Albury general community, - Albury Northside Chamber,

- Albury Central, Project Overview and - NSW Police, Stakeholders - Albury Liquor Accord,

- Community Drug and Alcohol Action Team (CDAT), Albury Domestic Violence Committee, and - Crime Prevention Committee  Some of the questions in the Have a Say survey may have an impact by raising unpleasant memories for some people; this could be mitigated by the inclusion of contact details for support agencies such as Lifeline etc.  Other AlburyCity staff involved are the Corporate Planner (assistance with the Project Management Plan), the Media and Communication Officer (planning the associated media), the Online Communications Officer (planning the Have a Say survey) and the Director of Community and Recreation (overview).

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 The engagement activity will run for at least 28 days from Timeline late November 2015.  The levels of engagement are INFORM and CONSULT. Level of Engagement The Have a Say survey will INFORM the community and (IAP2 Spectrum) stakeholders about the crime data for Albury, and then CONSULT with them about their thoughts and opinions about particular crimes.

 The project is likely to generate considerable attention from Media interest the public and the media.

 Not applicable – the stakeholder engagement will be online Budget and part of the Community Safety Officer’s regular work.  The success of the Stakeholder Engagement Plan will be measured by Evaluation - The number of responses to the Have a Say survey - The number of people who give their opinion during a verbal consultation with the Community Safety Officer.  Stakeholder Engagement Plan approved by MANEX, 10 Approval November 2015

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ATTACHMENT TO CCC 7A – 11/2015

CRIME PREVENTION PLAN 2015-2018 COMMUNITY CONSULTATION

ATTACHMENT 7

‘Have a Say’ survey

Attachment 7 - Have a Say

Crime Prevention Plan 2015 - 2018

AlburyCity is developing a new Crime Prevention Plan. Local crime data, latest research and key crime priorities for the City will be taken into consideration. We want to know what the community feels are the issues of greatest concern.

Through the previous Crime Prevention Plan, AlburyCity was able to run education programs, subsidise a campaign targeting Break & Enter Dwelling, implement environmental projects and undertake public art projects to combat Graffiti.

Here are some of the highlights from the last plan. (hyperlink) DOC15/81415

The Crime Prevention Plan 2015-2018 will outline how Council will continue to assist and work with the local police, community and other tiers of government to address crime and safety concerns and further enhance our sense of safety and community wellbeing.

Most crimes in Albury are declining or are well under control. Unfortunately, though, there are a small number of crimes which have either risen over the past five years or are still too high.

Here’s a snapshot of the local crime data from 2009-10 to 2013-14. (hyperlink) DOC15/81422

The NSW Department of the Attorney General and Justice (DAGJ) supports councils that have submitted a Crime Prevention Plan focusing on one or two crimes only. These crimes need to be those which have increased, or have increased in the State ranking of LGAs (Number 1 is the worst in the state).

AlburyCity is committed to working with other agencies to decrease a range of crimes in the city, rather than just focussing on one or two. Therefore, in the development of the new Crime Prevention Plan we will highlight the increasing crimes for the city, and also include those crimes that are important to the community.

These are the crimes that have increased or have increased in their ranking against other NSW LGAs. (hyperlink) DOC15/81429

1. Domestic Violence

Domestic and family violence takes many forms. It involves violent, abusive or intimidating behaviour carried out by a partner, carer or family member to control, dominate or instil fear. It doesn’t have to be physical abuse. It can be emotional, psychological, financial, sexual or other types of abuse.

It can affect anyone in the community, regardless of gender, sexual identity, race, age, culture, ethnicity, religion, disability, economic status or location.

What is Council’s role regarding Domestic Violence? Council can support and work with other agencies working to make a safer life for women and children. Council’s role in this area can be around education and awareness raising programs in schools and community groups and making sure that infrastructure and community facilities meet the needs of women and children.

How significant do YOU think Domestic Violence is in Albury? (1 = not at all significant, 5 = very significant)

1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5

Reminder, these survey results are totally anonymous, and these questions are asked simply to obtain the community’s perceptions and experiences.

Have you or your family experienced Domestic Violence in the past twelve months? YES NO

2. Drug offences

In NSW, it is an offence to possess, use, produce or supply a drug which has been declared prohibited. In Albury, the Police focus is on catching the suppliers, in an attempt to stop the increasing trend of drug offences.

What is Council’s role regarding Drug Offences? AlburyCity can play an educational and awareness raising role in this area.

How significant do YOU think this crime is for Albury? (1 = not at all significant, 5 = very significant)

1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5

Reminder, these survey results are totally anonymous, and these questions are asked simply to obtain the community’s perceptions and experiences

Has this crime affected you or your family in the past twelve months? YES NO

Other crimes which are still too high: Here is the Council data around these crimes (hyperlink) DOC15/81438

2. Malicious damage to property - includes a) graffiti and b) vandalism

How significant do YOU think graffiti is for Albury? (1 = not at all significant, 5 = very significant)

1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5

Has this crime affected you or your family in the past twelve months? YES NO

How significant do YOU think vandalism is for Albury? (1 = not at all significant, 5 = very significant)

1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5

Has this crime affected you or your family in the past twelve months? YES NO

Do you have any other comments regarding crime in Albury?

Thank you for your participation.