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Accounts

Miscellaneous accounts and receipts of the Denison No.1 Branch, and statement of receipts and expenditure of Central Execution of Tasmanian Workers' Political League for year ending 24 April 1915.

Robert Cosgrove

Australian Natives' Association

Correspondence: Australian Natives' Association 1911, 1916. Meetings; committee to consider means of arousing public interest in the timber trade (1911); congratulations on William Ebenezer Shoobridge's election as M.H.A. (5 documents)

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Bacon Collection

Bacon Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC 2013/1
  • Collection
  • c1996-2004

Collection consists of ephemeral material collected by Jim Bacon during his time as Premier of Tasmania

James Alexander Bacon

Biography

Copy of a biography of William Ebenezer Shoobridge published in serial form in the Examiner under the heading "Tasmanian Industries". It deals especially with his work in irrigating the hopfields on the Valleyfield and Bushy Park estates and later the orchards, the installation in 1908 of a hydro-electric plant for lighting and small electric appliances on the estate driven originally by an iron water wheel but later by a turbine, and his interest in the development of Hydro Electric Power in Tasmania and the first Hydro Electric Power station at Waddamana and the proposal for a Hydro-Electric Commission for Tasmania. It also refers to William Ebenezer Shoobridge's work in the development of orchard irrigation, pruning of fruit trees, export of apples and the Saaz drying process for hops and its use for drying or curing of lemons and other fruit (part 5, pages 10-11 missing). Also copy of brief biographical details sent to the Advocate.

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Bolton Stafford Bird Papers

Bolton Stafford Bird Papers

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC B2
  • Collection
  • 1887-1924

Collection consists of awards including a Royal warrant on parchment, an insignia for the Companion of the Order of St.Michael and St.George, photograph and various newspaper clippings of obituary.

Bolton Stafford Bird

Coronation Elizabeth II

Miscellaneous papers including programmes, souvenir booklets, relating to Sir Robert and Dame Gertrude Cosgrove's visit to the Coronation of Elizabeth II, and visits to England, Ireland, and Canada.

Robert Cosgrove

Coronation Elizabeth II

Scrapbook of invitation cards relating to Sir Robert and Dame Gertrude Cosgroves visit to the Coronation of Elizabeth II, and visits to England, Ireland, and Canada.

Robert Cosgrove

Correspondence

Public halls (1919); copies of letters to newspapers concerning copies of evidence William Ebenezer Shoobridge. gave before the Public Works Committee (1920); redefinition of municipalities (1920).

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Defence

A.G. Ogilvie's file re 1939 Federal A.L.P. Conference defence motion - press cuttings, miscellaneous pamphlets and papers.

Robert Cosgrove

Executive Council

Executive Concil 1934. Includes Govr. E. Clark, A.G. Ogilvie, Premier, R.Cosgrove (Minister for Transport).

Robert Cosgrove

Group

Photograph of group ,including: Robert Cosgrove, Albert Ogilvie, Joseph Aloysius Lyons and William Ebenezer Shoobridge.

Robert Cosgrove

Groups, meetings

Groups, meetings, etc. Photograph 32 - In car with Mrs Cosgrove, "Caruso" group, hospital ladies' group including Mrs M.Cummings (nee Cosgrove), Goodyear tyre display, Melbourne restaurant, Parliament.

Robert Cosgrove

Health and hospitals

Notes on "Hospitals and the State" (Napier Burnett, 1919); health and smoke (ventiliation); article for Mercury on "The Public Hospital" (1931).

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Hydro-Electric Commission

Typescript notes on moving "A Bill to amend the Hydro-Electric Commission Act 1929" and copies of "Report on the Power Position to the Hon. the Minister for Lands and Works" and "Report of the Board of Inquiry on the Hydro-Electric Commission". Also includes "A Bill to Amend the Hydro-Electric Commission Act 1929".

Robert Cosgrove

John Earle

Material relating to John Earles parliamentary career including his appointment as attorney general, photographs and pamphlets

John Earle

Labor Party

Miscellaneous Labor Party election pamphlets, Labor's Challenge (1937), and notice of meeting of Shop Assistants and Warehouse Employees' Federation of Australia, 6 Sep. 1911.

Robert Cosgrove

Loss of Bass voting papers

Tasmanian Government Gazette No. 8337, 1 May 1922. Regulations under the Electoral Acts relating to House of Assembly and Legislative Council Elections and press cutting relating to loss of voting papers in Bass seat after floods .

Robert Cosgrove

Miscellaneous

The Development of the Labor Movement in the Sydney District of New South Wales by L. Thomas, 1962.

Robert Cosgrove

Miscellaneous

2 documents: Land Title Office No. 55734 and Tasmanian Pre-School News September 1958.

Robert Cosgrove

Miscellaneous advertisements and printed material

Including: Thomas Tyson of Melbourne: agricultural and mill machinery (1878); "Granny's household hints" (Sunset Drug Co. Sydney); Carry On No. 1 July 1925 issued by the Commonwealth Treasury (war loans and reinvestments). [The Wayfarer, a record of Quaker life and work, U.K., July, August 1925 transferred to Library]

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Newnham Hall Community School

Newnham Hall Community School 12 August 1948. Photograph album of the first weeks of the Newnham Hall Community School, founded 3 February 1948, presented to Robert Cosgrove, Premier and Minister of Education.

Robert Cosgrove

Official Appointments

Letters Patent or certificates of appointment to Government offices, justice of peace, etc., signed and sealed by Governor E. Clark or the Attorney General. Also illuminated tribute from the Education Department 1958, (framed) and grant of K.C.M.G., 1959 (framed).

Robert Cosgrove

Personal papers

Miscellaneous personal papers including character references, First Communion card, newspaper cutting relating to introduction of Fair Rents Bill, , House of Assembly notice of regret at his retirement,
1958, House of Assembly and Legislative Council notices of regret at his death 1969, funeral card 1969.

Robert Cosgrove

Photograph Collection

Photographs of Robert Cosgrove and others, including early photograph in group with staff of Robert Walker, grocer, various political groups, St Virgil's football team (1931,1932), visits to Britain, Royal tours.

Robert Cosgrove

Policy speeches

Policy speeches of R. Cosgrove dated 1946, 1948, 1950, 1955 &1956 also a copy of the Mercury newspaper report of 1941 speech, dated 20 November 1941.

Robert Cosgrove

Policy speeches

Policy speeches of Albert George Ogilvie, 30 April 1934 (typed), and Eric Reece, 14 April 1959.

Robert Cosgrove

Powers Referendum

Files of press cuttings, miscellaneous papers and pamphlets relating to the "Powers Referendum". Constitution Alteration (Post-War Reconstruction and Democratic Rights) 1944 was known as the "14 powers", or the "14 points referendum". It sought to give the federal government power over a period of five years to legislate on a wide variety of matters

Robert Cosgrove

Press Cuttings

Miscellaneous personal papers including character references, First Communion card, newspaper cutting relating to introduction of Fair Rents Bill, , House of Assembly notice of regret at his retirement,
1958, House of Assembly and Legislative Council notices of regret at his death 1969, funeral card 1969.

Robert Cosgrove

Press Cuttings

Various newspaper clippings from the years 1918, 1930 and 1933, contained in an unused 1914 pocket diary

Robert Cosgrove

Public Works : bridges, roads, railways

Series of articles or letters to newspapers on "Public Works" relating to the New Norfolk Bridge (1874), roads and road trusts, Derwent Valley Railway and bridge (1883-6), railway extension (1889) (typescript, 20 p.)

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Religion

"God is a spirit", "Duty of the Church" (1920), "Christianity and unemployment" (1933) (tyepscript)

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Robert Cosgrove Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC C5
  • Collection
  • 1898-1969

Collection consists of papers, speeches, press cuttings and photographs relating to Sir Robert Cosgrove.

Robert Cosgrove

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