CONTENTS:
Acknowledgements vi. Illustrations vii. Forest: 1: Before Selection p3. Selecting and Clearing 1869-1914: 2: Selectors p27. 3: Sawmillers and farmers p51. 4: Big families and small schools p90. Cows and Cars 1900-1945: 5: Making a living in the new century p137. 6: Warragul gets closer to Melbourne p168. 7: A generation with roots p193. Farms and Factories 1939-1988: 8: More cows and more people p225. 9: Warragul gets older p250. 10: Freeways and hobby farms p279. Notes p303. Index p319.


ILLUSTRATIONS (selected):
Map: Aboriginal groups in West Gippsland (Kulin, Kurnai, Woiworung, Bunurong, Brataoulong, Braiakolung) p5. Map: Western Port District 1840 p6. Map: Walsh’s route through Gippsland 1845 p13. Gazetteer map of Victoria 1865 p18-19. Brandy Creek about 1880 p22. Henry Boyce’s Hotel at Brandy Creek about 1880 p23. John Rogers’ house, Buln Buln 1876 p28. Biram’s Store at Brandy Creek p35. Queen Street, Brandy Creek about 1880 p37. Queen Street about 1888 with Railway Station p37. Streitberg’s Railway Hotel about 1879 p38. Map of Selections near Brandy Creek 1877 p41. Logging with bullocks at Gainsborough about 1910 p49. Sargeant’s Mill at Minnieburn Creek 1891-5 p52. Warragul Sawmill Company about 1888 p54. Bull Swamp Butter Factory about 1894 p70. Disk plough demonstration, with Bob Lillico, John Hastings, Mr Henderson, Bill Hastings, Mr Fry, Mr Kirkpatrick, Jim Stone, Grandad Walburn, Andy Lillico, Jack Lillico, Selby Hastings, Mr Lillico p78. R.W. Judd’s Seed and Grain Store, Victoria Street p83. Club Hotel (interior) p85. Mrs Fines’ Shop, corner of Victoria Street and Napier Street about 1910: Miss A. Harris, Mrs Fines, Miss L. Weidner p88. Jane Grant’s dance programme 1877, she married J.E. Marrabel in 1881 p91. John Hardie’s house ‘Ellen Bank’ about 1896: Maggie, Bella, Mrs Sarah Maria Hardie, George, John (or Ninian) and Nellie p95. George and Eliza Jones’ children: Enid, Howard, Norman, George Rule, Arthur p103. Seaview picnic: married ladies’ race p105. Knife and Fork tea menu, celebrating opening of New Wesleyan Church 1889 p107. Jack Topp about to set off delivering meat about 1892 p110. Lounge of the Miller Brothers’ house about 1910 p113. Warragul Post Office interior about 1910 p116. Warragul Show about 1910 p117. Opening of the Bowling Green 1896: James Gray, F.C. Mason, Wellwood, Father P. Coyne, F. Walker, Gibbs, D. McNeil, E.J. Fowler, Carl Nelson, Jennings, A.J. Harvey, Rev. Parkes, W.S. Iliffe, Dr D. Trumpy, G.J. Turner, Jones, A.J. Harris, James Connor, Jones, J. Picken, Ben Stanton, J. Cromie, D. Small, Porter, W. Matchett p124. Picnic on the Tarago River: Margaret Ball with Bob on her lap, Florence Ball, Belle Webb, Frank Ball, Miss Pollack, Ruth ?, Mrs Matthews, Jean Matthews, Katy Matthews p125. Lady musicians at the back of ‘Carbethon’, the home of Charles and Mary Sargeant, about 1905: Beth Seaton, Maraquita Sargeant and Alice Jones p126. Armour’s milking shed about 1914: Ethel Cook and her sister, Jim Armour senior, Jack Armour, Peter Snodgrass, Hugh Armour p138. Casanella’s Darnum Milk Supply p146. W.B. Hardie’s first crop of grass hay about 1927, the team ready to begin mowing p154. The hay is turned with a home-made rake p155. Pitchforking the hay onto a home-made sledge p156. Pitchforked again, this time into the shed p157. Lily Wheeldon milking cow p157. Gathering of local tradespeople, Buln Buln East until 1920: E. Freckleton, Arbuthnot, W. Bryan p160. Loading boxes of butter outside Vermont Casein Pty Ltd’s factory, about 1924. Cromie’s Corner, about 1935. The interior of Wilkinson’s General Store, about 1935: Len Hallatt, George Ponton p166. Gallagher’s team at work on the road south of Darnum p171. Bridge over the Bear Creek, on the Warragul-Leongatha Road, just north of Seaview p172. School buses outside the Shire Hall, about 1926 p179. The River Latrobe Hydro Electric Company Ltd’s powerhouse p182. Warragul Agricultural High School cookery class 1912 p200. Physics class 1912 p201. Skating Carnival at the old Public Hall in William’s Lane (pre-1922) p205. Buln Buln Golf Club, about 1928 p215. Warragul Post Office, 1930s p215. Recruiting rally outside the Shire Hall (World War One) p217. Bill Wallace with baby Shirley p226. Bill Wallace taking his milk up the road at Ellinbank about 1947 p227. Milk trucks returning to Warragul about 1950 p229. Catherine Kingston with some of her father’s beef cattle, about 1940 p231. Neville Nielsen at Holdenson and Nielson, about 1956 p242. Warragul Municipal Band playing at the 1988 Warragul Show p268. Staff outside the Blue Bird Café on Queen Street: Lorraine Watson, Ann White, Faye Charles, Joyce Watson, Ann’s sister and Lorraine’s mother (Mrs White) p270. Childhood in the country: Pam Robinson feeding a calf whilst staying with Mrs Enid Wallace, about 1947 p278. Gippsland Field Day, Lardner Park, March 1988 p288. Warragul in 1988 p297.

SURNAMES / FAMILY NAMES from the index:
Affleck. Alford. Allen. Anderson. Arbuthnot. Ardagh. Armour. Armstrong. Ashcroft. Baker. Balharrie. Ball. Banner. Barnes. Bartram. Beamish. Beard. Beaseley. Beau. Bellamy. Bergland. Bertram. Biram. Black. Bland. Bloomfield. Blowes. Bloye. Bond. Bourchier. Boyce. Boyd. Boyes. Bradley. Bramstedt. Brodribb. Brooker. Brooks. Brougham. Brown. Brunt. Bryan. Buntine. Burville. Cahill. Calder. Cameron. Campbell. Carmichael. Casey. Cathcart. Caygall. Chapman. Charles. Chilvers. Christie. Clark. Cleary. Cobb. Coghlan. Cole. Colvin. Commins. Connor. Cook. Copeland. Corby. Cormick. Cornall. Cornish. Cox. Coyne. Crawford. Cresswell. Cromie. Cropley. Crow. Crowly. Cruickshank. Cunningham. Currie. Dale. Dana. Darling. Davine. Davis. Dax. Decker. Dellow. Dent. Derbyshire. Devereaux. Devine. Devlin. Dickson. Dimmock. Dinenny. Doery. Donoghue. Dow. Duncan. Dunderdale. Dunn. Dwyer. Edgoose. Ednie. Eisdel. Elliot. Ellis. Emmett. Erlandson. Eyre. Fairweather. Faragher. Faulkner. Ferguson. Fines. Fink. Fitch. Fitzpatrick. Forrest. Foster. Fowler. Fraser. Freckleton. Friend. Fry. Fryer. Gabbe. Galway. Gannon. Gardner. Gardiner. Garside. Gay. Ge Dok. Gerrans. Gibson. Gill. Gleeson. Goodwill. Gourlay. Grant. Gray. Greener. Gregory. Greig. Guest. Gunn. Haines. Hall. Hallatt. Hallett. Hamer. Hamilton. Hammond. Handley. Hardie. Harris. Harrison. Harvey. Harvie. Hastings. Hawkins. Haworth. Haycroft. Hayes. Haysom. Henderson. Hemley. Henry. Henshall. Herberts. Herdman. Heywood. Higgins. Higgs. Hill. Hilton. Hindoo Jhonnie. Hine. Hollier. Honnecker. Hosking. Hoskins. Howitt. Hughey. Hunt. Hunter. Huse. Iliffe. Interlandi. Irwin. Jackson. James. Jefkins. Jenkins. Jennings. Johns. Johnson. Johnston. Jones. Judd. Keating. Keeble. Kelly. Kennedy. Kidd. Kinghorne. Kingston. Kinlock. Kirk. Kirkpatrick. Kirsopp. Knott. Lacy. Laing. Laity. Lane. Langdon. Langford. Lardner. Lawler. Lawry. Lawson. Leslie. Levien. Ley. Lillico. Linahan. Lind. Lines. Lintott. Little. Lockwood. Long. Lorenz. Lousada. Love. Lowell. Lyall. Lyons. Macarthur. McColl. McDermid. McDonald. McDuffy. McEwan. McFarlane. McGregor. McGrath. McKay. McKindlay. McLeod. McMaster. McMillan. McNab. McNeill. McNulty. McPhate. McQueen. McSweeney. Mahoney. Mannix. Mapleson. Marrabel. Mason. Masters. Matchett. Matkovitch. Matthews. Maynard. Mayo. Medley. Mickleburgh. Miller. Mills. Milner. Mitchell. Moffatt. Monaghan. Moore. Morris. Mulhare. Munro. Murdoch. Murrard. Nancarrow. Negus. Nelson. Nestor. Nicholson. Nind. Nobelius. Nolan. Notman. O’Connor. O’Dowd. Ogilvie. O’Neil. Osborne. Osler. Page. Palmer. Parke. Parkes. Parkinson. Pascoe. Paterson. Patrick. Paynter. Pedersen. Penny. Perry. Pettit. Pharaoh. Phelan. Phillips. Picken. Pierrehumbert. Polkinghorne. Pollack. Pollock. Ponton. Porter. Pratt. Purchase. Purkiss. Purcell. Putmann. Pyle. Randall. Rankin. Read. Reid. Renouf. Rhodes. Riley. Rimington. Roberts. Robertson. Robinson. Roche. Rogers. Rolfe. Rose, Lionel. Rosling. Rosson. Roundtree. Rowan. Rowbottom. Rowe. Russell. Rutledge. Ryan. Sadler. Sandiford. Sargeant. Savige. Sayer. Scarlett. Schindler. Seaton. Shearman. Sheehan. Shields. Sillcock. Simmons. Sinclair. Skinner. Small. Smith. Smyth. Snape. Snodgrass. Somerville. Spokes. Staley. Stanton. Stapleton. Stockdale. Stoffers. Stone. Stosic. Strahan. Streitberg. Strickland. Strugnell. Strzelecki, Count Paul. Sutherland. Swan. Swinburne. Tackaberry. Tarra. Tatterson. Taylor. Teese. Thomas. Thorley. Tindale. Tinker. Tipping. Tomney. Topp. Tory. Toynbee. Treacle. Trinca. Trollope, Anthony. Trottman. Trumpy. Turnbull. Turner, Henry Gyles. Tyers, Commissioner. Valpied. Van Sittart. Von Horn, Count. Walburn. Walker. Wallace. Walsh. Walton. Warman. Watson. Watt. Waye. Weatherman. Webb. Weidner. Weipperst. Wellings. Wellwood. Wheeldon. White. Wilby. Wilkinson. Willing. Willis. Wills. Wilson. Witton. Woodrow. Woolan. Wooley. Worth. Yates. Yeoman. Young. Yuill.

FULL INDEX available on library computers: Electronic resources \ Indexes \ Warragul

FROM THE INDEX (Place names, institutions, etc.):
Aborigines. Alcoholics Anonymous. Alford House. Allen Brothers. Ambulance Service. Amnesty International. Amos and Gunn Sawmillers. Apex Club. Apple and Pear Board. Australian Natives’ Association (ANA). Babcock tester. Baby Health Centre. ‘Back to Warragul’. Banks: Bank of Australasia; Commercial Bank of Australia; State Savings Bank. Bartram and Sons. Bear Creek. Beard Brothers. Beaseley Brothers. Better Farming Train. Bloomfield. Bloomfield Butter Factory. Bloomfield Co-operative Store. Bloomfield Co-operative Creamery Company Ltd. Bloomfield Sawmill and Tramway Company. Bona Vista. Bonlac. Bradley Brothers. Brandy Creek. Bull Swamp.

Buln Buln: Butter Factory; Co-operative Creamery Co. Ltd; Flax Factory; ploughing matches; Protestant Church; Railway Station; School.

Buln Buln East. Burtons Store. Casanella’s Darnum Milk Supply. Catholics. Catholic Youth Association. Central Emporium. Charles Gray and Company. Chemists, general. Chinese. Churches. Burton and Taylor’s Circus. Closer Settlement Board. Cloverlea. Colonial Mutual Life Insurance Society. Combined Pensioners’ Association. Conscription. Convent de Notre Dame de Sion. Country Roads Board. Courtney, Dunn and Williamson solicitors. Courts: County; of Petty Sessions. Cricket. Crossover. Dairy Inspector. Dairy Supervision Act 1905. Dairy Supervisor. Dances, teenage. Darnum. Darnum Milk Supply. Department of Agriculture. Develop Victoria Council. Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act. ‘Dollar Burn’. Drouin. Drouin Co-operative Butter Factory. Drouin Co-operative Creamery Company Ltd. Drouin Flax Factory. Drouin West. Dwyerstead Estate. Egg Circle. Electricity supply. ‘Ellen Bank’. Ellinbank. Ellinbank Dairy Research Station. Fairview Homes for the Aged. Ferndale. Fire Brigade. Football. Frail Aged Nursing Home. Frederick Daniels and Sons. Princes Freeway. Fresh Food and Frozen Storage Company. Fresh Food Milk Company Pty Ltd. Fumina. Gainsborough. Gallaghers contractors. Gas supply. George Brothers. Gippsland and Northern. Gippsland Field Days. Gippsland Gold Mining, Warragul and Drouin Water Supply and Sluicing Company Ltd. Gippsland Guest House. Gippsland Hospitals Association. Gippsland Spastic Centre. Gippsland Trading Company. Glue Pot. Golf. Good Neighbour Council. Goodwood Timber Company. Grace Bergland Spastic Centre. Gray and Friend solicitors. Girl Guides. Hazel Creek. Herd Testing Association. High School. Hiscock’s Pharmacy. Holdenson and Nielson Fresh Food Pty Ltd. Hollandaise Cheese Factory. Home Help Service. Hospitals, private.

Hotels: Buln Buln Hotel; Club; Commercial; Crown; Darnum; Drovers’ Rest; Higgs’; Nilma; Railway; Royal; Simes’.

Housing Commission. Independent Order of Oddfellows. Infant Welfare Centre. Interlandi Cheese. James Miller and Company. Jaycees. Kindergartens. Korumburra Co-operative Butter Factory. Ladies Benevolent Society. Lardner. Lardner’s Track. Liberty Inn. Lillico. Lions Club. Longwarre Run. McDonald’s Track. McMillan Rural Studies Centre. Mails. Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows. Marching Girls. Marist Brothers College. Market. Masonic Lodge. Mawarra. Meals on Wheels Service. Melbourne Chilled Butter Company. Mental Hygiene Authority. Metropolitan Milk Suppliers’ Co-operative Company. ‘Middleton and Maning’s Gippsland Directory’. Miller Brothers. Milk contracts. Milk Pasteurization Committee. Mizpah settlement. Moe River. Morris Brothers. Mount Worth State Park. Mundic River. Municipal Band. Museum. Neerim. Neerim and Latrobe Hydro Electric Company Ltd. Neerim South. Neighbourhood House. Nilma. Nilma Federal Bakery. Noojee. Parking meters. ‘Path of Progress’. Pears Furniture Store. Pensions. Petersville. Pharaoh Brothers. Philharmonic Society. Pioneer Dairy Concentrated Milk Company. Post offices: Brandy Creek; Darnum; Nilma; Warragul. Premier Town contest. Princes Highway. Proceed Continuing Education Centre. Protestant Federation. Rabbit inspector. Radio 3UL. Railways. Ratepayers’ Association. Rechabite Hall. Rechabites, Independent Order of. Religious denominations. River Latrobe Hydro Electric Company Ltd. Rokeby. Rollo. Rotary Club. Royal visit. Salvation Army. Scouts. Seaview. Senior Citizens’ Club. Senior Citizens’ Welfare Committee. Sewerage scheme. Shire of Warragul. Skewes, Hunter and Co. Smethurst and Young. Soldier Settlement Commission. Solicitors. ‘South Gippsland Express’. South Gippsland Tramway and Timber Company. St Andrews’ Kindergarten. State Electricity Commission. ‘Sunny South’ brand butter. Supermarkets. Super-Soft. Swimming Pool Committee. Tarago Creamery. Tarago River. Tarago Sawmill Company. Tarween Run. Technical School. Television. Tetoora Estate. Tetoora Road. Toorongo River. Trafalgar. Trida. Trinca’s Hall. Unigate. Union of Australian Women. United Dairyfarmers of Victoria. ‘The Valley’. Vermont Casein Company. ‘Victoria and its Metropolis’. Victorian Dairyfarmers’ Association. Victorian Farmers’ Union. Victorian Creamery and Butter Factory Ltd.

Warragul: Aerated Water Factory; Agricultural Society; and District Artificial Breeding Society; and District Educational Committee; and District Herd Testing Association; Athenaeum; Bowling Club; Butter Factory; Chamber of Commerce; Co-operative Butter and Cheese Factory Ltd; Dusties; ‘Gazette’; Grammar School; ‘Guardian’; Historical Society; Oil Mill Company; Progress Association; Public Hall; Public Hall and Skating Rink Company; Railway Station; Sawmill Company; Show; Showgrounds; South Telephone League; State School; Telephone Exchange; Tennis Club; Theatre; Town Band; Traders Association; Waterworks Trust.

Water supply. Waterloo. West Gippsland and Latrobe Valley Community Education Centre. West Gippsland Arts Centre. West Gippsland Hospital. West Gippsland Regional Library Service. West Gippsland Social Worker Group. West Tarwin Co-operative Butter and Cheese Factory. White Manufacturing. Whitesides sawmillers. Wild Cattle Run. Wood and Co. Woodruff’s Dairies.