Wynnum Manly Historical Society Inc. ABN 49 071 835 845 Newsletter No 46 ISSN 1835-8500 September 2012 VISIT TO THE ORMISTON HOUSE 150TH SEPTEMBER MEETING DETAILS ANNIVERSARY GALA CONCERT Thursday 20 September at 7.30pm SEPTEMBER GENERAL MEETING Ambulance Museum Auditorium (Cnr Cedar Street & Tingal Road, Wynnum) Speaker: Peter Hughes Topic: 1943-1944 at Wynnum Central School Speaker: Betty Sinden Topic: Balmoral/Bulimba and Hemmant Cemeteries We are organising a group booking to attend the Ormiston House 150th anniversary gala concert on the afternoon of Sunday, 30 September 2012. Full details are on page 9. Gold coin entry – covers hire of venue and Supper. If you are interested in attending this event, please leave your name at the Resource Centre or at the next general meeting. We will be Raffle: This month’s mystery raffle prize is once again making a group booking. It is proposed that we will arrange car donated by Sandra Wheeler. pooling to pick up and drop everyone home who requires transport. IN THIS ISSUE September meeting details 1 Committee contact details 2 Volunteers and Helpers 2 Supper roster 3 This month in Wynnum in the years … 1917 and 1933 3 From the President 4 News from the Resource Centre 5 Where was I? 6 Tickets are only $1.00 each or 3 for $2.00. Where am I? 6 The reformatory hulk Proserpine 7 Waterloo Bay Leader – H.A. Irvine & Sons / F. Farley & Sons 8 Bring and buy stall - Please bring your unwanted gifts, Advertising: Ormiston House concert & Garden Club bus tour 9 Minutes from August 2012 meeting 10 cakes, fruit, vegetables, plants, etc to a meeting or leave at Resources held and for sale 11 the Resource Centre. All proceeds from this stall go to Upcoming WMHS events 12 support the Resource Centre. Upcoming other events of interest 13 Appreciation to Jillian Mahoney, Jan Aplin and Anne Wenzel for providing your supper this month. No 46 - September 2012 WMHS Newsletter Page 1 2012/13 COMMITTEE MEMBERS President: Jan Parnell 3396 6001 [email protected] Vice President: John Coupland 3899 1326 [email protected] Secretary: Lena McCreadie 3393 4393 [email protected] Treasurer: Sandy Liddle 3207 4467 [email protected] Librarian: Jill Greenhill 3393 3208 [email protected] Events Coordinator: Myrtle Beitz 3396 4711 [email protected] Membership Coordinator: Anne Hall 0412 634 569 [email protected] Newsletter Editor: Sandy Liddle 3207 4467 [email protected] Supper coordinator: Deborah Tearle 3396 9697 [email protected] Publicity Officer: Anne Hall 0412 634 569 [email protected] Welfare Officer: Ellen Coupland 3899 1326 Committee member: Noela Stratton 3396 0069 Life Members: Myrtle Beitz, John Davies, Jack Sands, Jill Greenhill, Noela Stratton Late life member: Merv Beitz Patron: Cr. Peter Cumming. REGULAR SOCIETY VOLUNTEERS AND HELPERS GENERAL MEETINGS: Afternoon set up: Col Brown, John McIntyre, Jill Greenhill and Myrtle Beitz Welcome at Door and raffles: Ian Wheeler & Noela Stratton Bring and buy: Jan Aplin and Carmel Henderson Kitchen Coordinator: Margaret Mack Supper Coordinator: Deborah Tearle Supper Donations and servers: Jan Aplin, Jan Bird, Margaret O’Neil, Myrtle Beitz, Lena McCreadie, Ian Wheeler, Shirley Houghton, Lyla Feige, Laurima Rabe, Noela Stratton, Beth Hume, Eris Powell, Daphne Liddle, Nena Robertson, Alison Roff, Jan Parnell, Margaret Collins, Deborah Tearle, Lyn Shanks, Shirley Jeffries, Thelma Crouch, Carol Astill, Anne Wenzel, Lou & Anne Hall, Christina Stevens, Christina R-Westhouse, Ellen Coupland, Marie Stokes, Jan Bird, Jillian Mahoney, Heather Langston. Raffle prizes: Sandra Wheeler Speaker Coordinator: Myrtle Beitz NEWSLETTERS: Compiler & Editor: Sandy Liddle Printing: Ian Wheeler Delivery Coordinator: Anne Hall Delivery persons: Jan Bird, Jill Greenhill, Anne and Lou Hall, Ian Kennedy, Sue Laakso, Margaret Mack, Lena McCreadie, John McIntyre, Nena Robertson, Neville Watson RESOURCE CENTRE: Volunteers on duty: Ian Wheeler, Ian Kennedy, John McIntyre, Noela Stratton, Dennis O’Neill, Col Brown, Myrtle Beitz, Dawn Wilkins, Jan Aplin, Heather Langston, Margaret Bulloch Information Sources: Lloyd Kelk, Jack Sands and Kate Harbison TOURS: Planning & Coordination: Jan Parnell, Jill Greenhill and Lena McCreadie Booklet: Jill Greenhill Bookings: Sandy Liddle at General Meetings Resource Centre staff each weekday ORAL HISTORY: Vacant Can you help in any way? If so, please let us know. We are always looking for willing members to help in any way possible. No 46 - September 2012 WMHS Newsletter Page 2 2012 SUPPER ROSTER SEPTEMBER: Jan Aplin 3396 4728 Anne Wenzel 3399 5175 Jillian Mahoney 3393 1655 OCTOBER: Lou & Anne Hall 0412 634 587 NOVEMBER: Myrtle Beitz 3396 4711 Marie Stokes 3390 5832 Margaret O’Neil 3348 3123 Ellen Coupland 3899 1326 Deborah Tearle 3396 9697 If you would like to volunteer to help out on supper roster or would like to swap your assigned roster month to another one, please contact Deborah on 3396 9697. Your assistance is appreciated. MANY HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK Deborah Tearle, Supper Coordinator CAN YOU HELP? Sandra Wheeler who kindly donates most of our raffle prizes is in desperate need of more baskets for hampers. If you can help, please leave them at the Resource Centre or bring along to Ian Wheeler at the next meeting. She is also chasing some small jars to put jam in. If you have any, please bring them along to the meeting or drop them into the Resource Centre for Ian Wheeler to collect. Ian Wheeler is also wondering if anyone has any old analogue televisions that are in working order but which are no longer wanted. If so, he would like them to send up to New Guinea. If you can help, please give Ian a ring on 3396 9923 or bring along to the general meeting. THIS MONTH IN WYNNUM IN THE YEARS … 1917 ANZAC COTTAGE BUILDERS. WYNNUM SOUTH, September 9. A pleasant function took place on the Martinville Estate, Wynnum South, this afternoon, when the ceremony of capping a stamp of a cottage to be erected by the Anzac workers for a soldier’s widow was performed. The allotment was donated by Mr. G. Martin, of the Empire Theatre. Music was supplied by the Moreton Bay Junior Brass Band, with Mr. Bligh as conductor, and items were rendered by the Wynnum and Manly Sailing Club Glee Party, and Mrs. B. Gunderson, Misses D. Hargreaves and Morgan. The members of the Anzac Workers’ Committee present were Messrs. J.H. Coyne (Minister for Railways, who is chairman), J. Munro (stadium manager), W. Sadler, Chiltern and Sergeant-major Runcorn. The stump capping ceremony was performed by Mr. Coyne, Warrant-officer Runcorn held a snowball auction of a Turkish coin, £11/16/ being thus raised for the Anzac Cottage Fund. Mr. Meadows, of Wynnum South, donated two cleared allotments on the Martinville Estate, and Mr. Brandon, of the Star Pictures, offered to hold a benefit entertainment for the fund. Those desirous of helping in connection with the construction of this house are invited to supply their names to Mr. Martin, at Wynnum South. Reference: 1917 'ANZAC COTTAGE BUILDERS.', The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), 10 September, p. 8, viewed 29 August, 2012, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article20147553 1933 16FT. SAWFISH. CAUGHT AT WYNNUM. WYNNUM, September 25. A sawfish measuring 16ft over all formed the major, and unwelcome, portion of a haul made by three lads early today in a net off the foreshore north of Wynnum jetty. The boys, Jim, Vic., and Ben. Russell, when hauling the net into their rowboat, were astounded to see the sawfish entangled broadside on in the upper section. They managed to attach a rope to its tail and towed it to shallow water, where it was killed. Later the boys made an unsuccessful attempt to tow the carcass into Wynnum Creek, but they hacked off the huge saw, which was more than 4ft long and 6in. wide. The saw carried 51 sharp white tusks, some nearly 1½ in. in length. Reference: 1933 '16FT. SAWFISH.', The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), 26 September, p. 12, viewed 29 August, 2012, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1123273 No 46 - September 2012 WMHS Newsletter Page 3 FROM THE PRESIDENT September 2012 Greetings Grey Winter hath gone, like a wearisome guest, And, behold, for repayment, September comes in With the wind of the West and the Spring in her raiment! Some of you may recall these words written by Henry Kendall, from the old school readers. The poem was entitled September in Australia and was actually part of a much larger poem called The Austral Months in which Kendall wrote about each of the months of the year. Kendall was born near Ulladulla, a coastal town south of Sydney on 18 April 1839 and died at Redfern in Sydney on 1 August 1882. During his 43 years he published several volumes of poetry - The Bronze Trumpet : A Satirical Poem (1866 ), Leaves from Australian Forests (1869), Songs from the Mountains (1880), Orara: A Tale (1881) and Poems (1886). He has also the distinction of being the first Australian poet to receive recognition by an English journal, The Athenaeum on 27 September 1862. During his life, Kendall worked as, firstly, a shop assistant, then in a solicitor’s office and later for the State Survey Department of New South Wales. Sadly, in the latter part of his life he drifted into heavy drinking which had a detrimental effect on his health which had never been very strong. Nevertheless, he left a legacy of poetry which portrayed the natural Australian environment in all its beauty. His poem Bell Birds which was first published in Leaves from Australian Forests is perhaps one of his best known and best loved works, and certainly conveys vivid imagery of the Australian bush.