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Title The land of the lyre bird : a story of early settlement in the great forest of South Gippsland, being a description of the big scrub in its virgin state with its birds and animals, and of the adventures and hardships of its early explorers and prospectors, also accounts by the settlers of the clearing, settlement and development of the country
Published [Korumburra, Vic.] : The Korumburra & District Historical Society, 1998

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 ADPML GENEA  919.452 Lot/Lba 1998  LIB USE ONLY
Description 450 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25cm
Contents The early history of Westernport / A.W. Elms -- Old pastoral runs / T.J. Coverdale -- The scrub / T.J. Coverdale -- Animal, bird and insect life in the scrub / F.P. Elms -- The lyre bird / Miss Gillan -- Pack-tracks and packing / W.H.C. Holmes -- Scrub cutting / W.H.C. Holmes -- Picking up / W.H.C. Holmes -- The roads, and how we got them / T.J. Coverdale -- The pioneers of Poowong / A. Gillan -- Recollections and experiences / Caleb Burchett, Albert Nicholas, T.W. Horsley, T.J. Coverdale, H. Dowel, J. Eccles, Frank Dodd, A. Gillan, Mrs. R.J. Fuller, W.H.C. Holmes -- The lyre bird in South Gippsland / L.C. Cook -- Surveying recollections / J. Lardner -- Early coal exploration in Gippsland / Reginald A.F. Murray -- Recollections and experiences / A.C. Groom, W.M. Elliott, Mrs. A.R. Smith, W.C. Thomas, J. Glew, T. Horner, W. Johnstone, M. Hansen -- The Great Southern Railway / R.J. Fuller -- The coal industry of South Gippsland / M. Halford -- The dairying industry / The Committee -- Spring-time milking / W. Moore -- Recollections and experiences / J.A. Black, D. McLeod, A.W. Elms, J. Western, G. Matheson, R.N. Scott, W.J. Williams, W. Rainbow -- A fiery summer / A.W. Elms -- A lightning muster / J. Langham -- The pastoral industry / J. Western -- Recollections and experiences / J. Rainbow, W. McKenzie-McHarg, R. Cornall, E. Sheepway, F.P. Elms, J. Halford, Mrs. W.J. Williams -- Recollections and personal experiences of the great fires of February, 1898 / T.J. Coverdale -- Australia phoenix / Miss F. Finn -- A review / R.S.B. Young -- Recollections and experiences / A. McLean, Miss C. Elms, Wm. Watson, Ben. Brett, James Baker -- Pioneers of the Danish settlement at East Poowong / M.C.L. Hansen -- Education / W.H.C. Holmes -- The Methodist Church in South Gippsland / The Rev. Jas. Smith -- The Church of England / W.H.C. Holmes -- The Presbyterian Church / A. Gillan -- The Catholic Church / E.F. Williamson -- Impressions of Gippsland / Miss M.C. Johnson -- The country as it is, 1918 / P.H. Watkinson -- Return furnished by the Victorian Railway commissioners for the period of 5 years, 1909-1914
Notes First published, Melbourne: Gordon & Gotch for the Committee of the South Gippsland Pioneers' Association, 1920
Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Victoria -- Gippsland
Land settlement -- Australia -- Gippsland (Vic.)
SUBJECT Gippsland (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98005937 -- Rural conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007670
Gippsland (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98005937 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Author Korumburra & District Historical Society
ISBN 0646354973