The Anglican Diocese of Riverina was established officially on 16 December 1881 by a Declaration of Trust, and sponsored by the Hon. John Campbell, MLC, who donated £10000. Covering at least one third of the total area of New South Wales, parishes in the Riverina Diocese prior to 1881 were administered either from the Dioceses of Goulburn or Bathurst, and were often worked tirelessly by itinerant priests on horseback. The idea behind the carving up of Goulburn and Bathurst Dioceses stemmed from Bishop Selwyn's policy of extending missionary Anglicanism into remote parts of New Zealand by splitting up the countryside into smaller and more manageable bishoprics. Although the Anglican Church was intent on bringing church to the people of Riverina, the first three Bishops were however consecrated on the other side of the world in England.
After his consecration in England on 1 May 1884, the first Bishop of Riverina, Bishop Sydney Linton, set sail for Australia with his family on 15 January the following year. Upon his arrival he was welcomed in Melbourne, Sydney and Goulburn before travelling west to Hay to inspect the site of the proposed bishopric. On 18 March 1885, Bishop Linton was installed formally as Bishop of Riverina in St Paul's in Hay by the Incumbent, Reverend James Macarthur. Throughout his pioneering service, the Bishop toured extensively around to Riverina parishes and was instrumental in setting up the first Synod for the Anglican Church in 1887. The Bishop made the last of his journeys throughout the Diocese during 1894, when suddenly he fell ill and died later in Melbourne. The second Bishop nonetheless found the Diocese in a somewhat ailing financial state.
Bishop Ernest Augustus Anderson was installed in Hay as the second Bishop of Riverina on 11 February 1896, at a time when funding for the church was in short supply. Station owners no longer had the means of supporting the church because of the continuing drought and rabbit plague, which meant that clergymen had to work for almost nothing. Bishop Anderson's episcopate was also characterised as a time of conflict between the Bishop and his clergy, and between the clergy and their parishioners. However, at the turn of the century new towns throughout the Riverina began to flourish as the growing wheat industry gave the district a much needed economic boost. The Bishop retired from service on a rather positive note in 1925, leaving twice as many parishes in the Diocese as he took over originally.
The third Bishop of the Riverina was elected for the first time in the actual diocese he was serving. Reginald Charles Halse was elected Bishop of Riverina on 22 July 1925 and consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury at Westminster Abbey in London on 29 September. Bishop Halse's reign saw a number of significant changes, including the introduction of the motor car and aeroplane to assist priests in bringing the church closer to the people in remote areas. By the 1930s, the motor car was the accepted means of travelling to cover an increasing number of parishes and services, and the use of the plane to establish contact with frontier parishes was the idea of the Rector of Wilcannia, Reverend Leonard Daniels, who had been dubbed the 'first flying parson' in Australia. Halse remained Bishop of Riverina until 1943, when he was transferred to Brisbane as Archbishop. The successor to Halse was Bishop Charles Herbert Murray, who was elected to administer Riverina in November 1943 and officially consecrated at St Andrew's Cathedral in Sydney on 2 February 1944.
Compiled by : James Logan.
Sources : Clyde, Laurel, In a Strange Land: a history of the Anglican Diocese of Riverina. The Hawthorn Press: Melbourne, 1979.
The Australian and South Pacific External Studies Association (ASPESA) was established in 1973.
Its first objectives were to: 1) promote understanding and cooperation among those concerned with the improvement of external studies in Australia, New Zealand, the South Pacific, and other neighbouring countries; 2) foster a high standard in the practice and study of external studies at post-secondary level; 3) hold forums on various aspects of external studies; and 4) disseminate information about research and practice in external studies. [1]
The association was reconstituted in 1993 as the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia, Inc.
References:
[1] ODLAA - Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia. (n.d.) Our History. https://odlaa.org/who-we-are/our-history/
The Riverina Regional Council of Adult Education was formed by the NSW Board of Adult Education, as part of a move to "establish regional level co-ordination and communication between government, institutional and non-institutional providers of adult education". The objectives of the Council were to "promote, encourage, develop and co-ordinate" adult education in the Riverina. In real terms, the Council provided advice and assistance to Riverina adult education providers, as well as some funding. [1]
The inaugural meeting of the Riverina Regional Council of Adult Education was convened on 24 September 1986. The first Council members were: Mrs Beryl Ingold (president), Mr Edward Reid-Smith (Secretary-Treasurer), Mr Jack Faulkner, Mr Alan Le Marne (Riverina-Murray Institute of Higher Education), Mr Richard Jordan (Dept. of Technical and Further Education - TAFE), Mr Richard Stevenson (Dept. of Education), Mr Dennis Toohey (Dept. of Agriculture), Mr John Harding (Dept. of Sporting and Recreation), Mr Brian Tutt (Dept. of Health), Ms Robyn McPherson (Riverina Regional Evening College), Mr Jim Saleeba (Albury-Wodonga Post School Education Council), and Mr Frank Skinner (Community Adult Education. [2]
The Council was dissolved on 31st December 1992. [3]
References:
[1] Riverina Regional Council of Adult Education. (1988, September). Newsletter No.1. Charles Sturt University Regional Archives (RW2053 item 52), Wagga Wagga, NSW.
[2] Riverina Regional Council of Adult Education. (1986, September 24). Minute book, 1986-1989. Charles Sturt University Regional Archives (RW2053 item 1), Wagga Wagga, NSW.
[3] Riverina Regional Council of Adult Education. (1993, March 8). Correspondence from Mrs Beryl Ingold, President, to Ms Jan Smith, Executive Director of the NSW Board of Adult Education. Charles Sturt University Regional Archives (RW2053 item 40), Wagga Wagga, NSW.
The Riverine University League was a single issue regional pressure group, based on and funded by local government organisations. Originally known as the Riverina Councils' University League, it changed its name to the Riverine Councils' University League within months of its establishment in 1952 in the hope of attracting support from councils in north east Victoria as well as from those in southern New South Wales. Although it attracted some Victorian backing, most of the League's forty six institutional members were from New South Wales. In 1959, when it was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee, it took the name Riverine University League.
Under the leadership of Dr William Andrew Merrylees (1900-69) the League come close to securing the establishment of a Riverina University College in 1966-67, and was instrumental in persuading the New South Wales Government to establish the Riverina College of Advanced Education in 1971 as a genuinely regional institution, with campuses initially at Wagga Wagga, Albury and Griffith.
The largest and most important accessions of the League's records at CSU Regional Archives (RW74, RW624) comprise the papers of the president, Dr Merrylees, who served until his sudden death in 1969. A Rhodes Scholar and former senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Melbourne, Merrylees had been involved since 1936 in the management of a family property, Groongal Station, Hay (RW75), becoming widely known for his pioneering experiments in large scale irrigation. Active in a number of regional development organisations - among them the Murrumbidgee Valley Water Users' Association, the Murray Valley Development League (RW214) and the Lachlan Valley Development League - Merrylees was a prolific pamphleteer and writer, who maintained an extensive correspondence with many key figures in Australian politics and education. His correspondents include Sir Kenneth Bailey, Professor J.P. Baxter, C.E.W. Bean, Sir John Behan, A.G. Enticknap, MLA, Sir John Gorton, Eric Hoare, Sir William Hudson, G.V. Lawrence, Sir Leslie Martin, Sir Robert Menzies, Professor E. Morris Miller, R.W. Prunster, Hugh S. Roberton, MHR, Sir Ian Wark, Sir Alan Watt, and E.R. Wilson.
History compiled by Don Boadle (c.2001).
Sources : Boadle, Donald, Selling the Rural University: W.A. Merrylees' Writings for the Riverine University League, Wagga Wagga, 1986; ____, 'The Idealist as Lobbyist: W.A. Merrylees and his Campaign for an Australian University' in D. Stockley (ed.), Melbourne Studies in Education, Melbourne, 1989-90, 34-48; ____, 'Critics of Australia's Binary Policy: the Riverina University College Debate, 1965-67', History of Education Review, 23 (2), 1994, 18-31; ____, 'William Andrew Merrylees (1900-1969)' in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 15, Melbourne, 2000.
Created with the NSW Valuation of Land Act, 1916 (Act No. 2, 1916).
The Albury Court of General and Quarter Sessions was proclaimed on 6 July 1859 with its first? sitting on 8 November 1859. (1) The Court was originally within the boundaries of the Southern District (2) but was transferred to the South-Western Division by 7 July 1862 (3) where it remained until the system of Quarter Sessions was discontinued.
The role of the Court of Quarter Sessions was to hear less serious criminal cases.
The Albury Court of General and Quarter Sessions was abolished on 1 July 1973, along with all Courts of General and Quarter Sessions. The district courts took on the criminal as well as the civil jurisdiction.
References:
(1) NSW Government Gazette 6 July 1859, page 1511
(2) NSW Government Gazette 7 December 1858, page 2173
(3) NSW Government Gazette 15 July 1862, page 1267
(4) NSW Government Gazette
The Adelong Warden's Court was established by proclamation on 12 May 1874, under Section 67 of the Mining Act, 1874 (37 Vic. No.13), and was to be held at the Adelong Court House. (1)
Warden’s Courts were Courts of Record, and the Wardens had the power to issue summonses and warrants. The office of Mining Warden was usually held in conjunction with other offices including Police Magistrate or Clerk of Petty Sessions, but the court was a separate legal identity.
The Courts had original jurisdiction over the claims concerning:
a) the possession or occupation of Crown Land by virtue of a miner’s right or mineral lease of license;
b) recovery of land, race, drain, dam or reservoir abandoned or forfeited under an Act or regulation and the right to any profits;
c) the use, enjoyment and sale of water due to holding a miner’s right or mineral lease or license;
d) trespass or damage to property, unlawful abstraction of water and the exclusion of any person from use and enjoyment of water;
e) debt or damages consequent to any contract or agreement relating to gold or mineral mining;
f) claims to gold and minerals mined;
g) contracts and partnerships formed to mine gold or minerals;
h) contributions to working expenses or mines; mortgages or assignments of land used for mining purposes
i) boundaries of mining leases;
j) possession and occupation of mining leases; and any other disputes arising out of the right to mine on Crown Land. (2)
Various acts in subsequent years extended the powers and authorities of the Mining Wardens.
On 1 August 1968, the Adelong Warden's Court was abolished by proclamation under the provisions of the Mining Act 1906 (Act No. 49, 1906), as amended. (3)
References:
(1) NSW Government Gazette, 12 May 1874, pages 1460-1461.
(2) Museums of History NSW, Agency 4443 Albury Warden's Court [https://search.records.nsw.gov.au/permalink/f/1ebnd1l/ORGANISATIONS1003905]
(3) NSW Government Gazette, 27 September 1968, page 3880.
The Lower Adelong Creek Court of Petty Sessions was created on 21 June 1858 under the provisions of s.17 of the Offenders Punishment and Justices Summary Jurisdiction Act of 1832 (3 Wil.IV No.3). (1) It later became known as the Adelong Court of Petty Sessions.
The Adelong Court of Petty Sessions within the Tumut Police District was abolished on 1 August 1968 under the provisions of the Justices Act, 1902 (Act No.27, 1902). Its records were removed to the Tumut Court of Petty Sessions, under the provisions of s.4A(2) of the Small Debts Recovery (Amendment) Act, 1922 (Act No.4, 1922). (2)
References
- NSW Government Gazette No.82, 22 June 1858, p.965.
- NSW Government Gazette No.81, 5 July 1968, p.2658.
The Ten-Mile Creek Warden’s Court was established by proclamation on 12 May 1874, and was to be held at the Ten-Mile Creek Police Station. (1)
In 1880, the Ten-Mile Creek Court of Petty Sessions was renamed Germanton “that being the present designation of the town and parish”. Therefore, the Ten-Mile Creek Warden’s Court also was later known as Germanton Warden’s Court. (2)
On 30 November 1915, Germanton Warden’s Court was renamed Holbrook Warden's Court [I]. (3)
The Holbrook Warden’s Court [I] was abolished with the Holbrook Mining Division of the Tumut and Adelong Mining District on 24 April 1942. (4)
In accordance with Section 131 of the Mining Act, 1906 (Act No.49, 1906) (as amended), the Holbrook Warden's Court was again established by proclamation on 13 December 1946. (5)
The Holbrook Warden's Court [II] was abolished with the Holbrook Mining Division of the Tumut and Adelong Mining District on 1 December 1970. (6)
Endnotes
(1) NSW Government Gazette No.112, 12 May 1874, pp.1460-1461.
(2) NSW Government Gazette No. 356, 3 September 1880, p.4554; Geographical Names Board Website, http://www.gnb.nsw.gov.au/name_search/extract?id=MaIOZxrXGH, Geographical Names Register Extract, (cited 2 September 2009); Greater Hume Shire Council Website, http://www.greaterhume.nsw.gov.au/VistOurShire/Holbrook/tabid/98/98/Defa... (cited 3 September 2009).
(3) NSW Government Gazette No.219, 8 December 1915, p.7382.
(4) NSW Government Gazette No.64, 24 April 1942, p.1456.
(5) NSW Government Gazette No.138, 13 December 1946, p.2842.
(6) NSW Government Gazette No.153, 27 November 1970, pp.4793-4795.
The Albury Warden's Court was established by proclamation on 12 May 1874, under Section 67 of the Mining Act, 1874 (37 Vic. No.13), and was to be held at the Albury Court House. (1)
Warden’s Courts were Courts of Record, and the Wardens had the power to issue summonses and warrants. (2) The office of Mining Warden was usually held in conjunction with other offices including Police Magistrate or Clerk of Petty Sessions, but the court was a separate legal identity.
The Courts had original jurisdiction over the claims concerning:
a) the possession or occupation of Crown Land by virtue of a miner’s right or mineral lease of license;
b) recovery of land, race, drain, dam or reservoir abandoned or forfeited under an Act or regulation and the right to any profits;
c) the use, enjoyment and sale of water due to holding a miner’s right or mineral lease or license;
d) trespass or damage to property, unlawful abstraction of water and the exclusion of any person from use and enjoyment of water;
e) debt or damages consequent to any contract or agreement relating to gold or mineral mining;
f) claims to gold and minerals mined;
g) contracts and partnerships formed to mine gold or minerals;
h) contributions to working expenses or mines; mortgages or assignments of land used for mining purposes
i) boundaries of mining leases;
j) possession and occupation of mining leases; and any other disputes arising out of the right to mine on Crown Land. (3)
Various acts in subsequent years extended the powers and authorities of the Mining Wardens.
On 7 April 2009, all Warden’s Courts were abolished under the Court and Crimes Legislation Further Amendment Act 2008 (Act No.107, 2008). (4)
The jurisdiction conferred on the Warden’s Courts and the Wardens by the Mining Act 1992 (Act No.29, 1992) was transferred to the Land and Environment Court. (5)
References:
(1) NSW Government Gazette No.112, 12 May 1874, pp.1460-1461.
(2) Mining Regulation Act, 1874. s.68.
(3) Mining Regulation Act, 1874. s.69.
(4) Courts and Crimes Legislation Further Amendment Act, 2008 Schedule 19 (54) Amending Schedule 6 of the Mining Act 1992; Commencement Proclamation under the Courts and Crimes Legislation Further Amendment Act 2008 (Act No.107, 2008), published NSW Legislation Website (2009-112), 3 April 2009, Explanatory note.
(5) Ibid. Commencement proclamation, Explanatory note.
The Albury District Court was established on 9 December 1858 within the South-Western District, utilising the boundaries of the Albury Police District. (1)
The District Court Act of 1858 (22 Vic No 18) was assented to on 12 November 1858, replacing the Courts of Requests, with jurisdiction in civil cases where the values of the property involved did not exceed £200. (2)
The court performed the function of an intermediate court between the Small Debts and Supreme Courts. Sittings occurred at least twice each year in major country towns, with cases normally heard by a judge, but could include a jury if the amount in dispute exceeded £100. (3)
The District Court Act 1973 (Act No 9, 1973) (4) abolished the existing District Courts and Courts of Quarter Sessions and the District Court was reconstituted as a single Court with both criminal and civil jurisdiction throughout New South Wales. (5)
References
(1) NSW Government Gazette, 9 December 1858, p.2173
(2) NSW Government Gazette, 12 November 1858, p.1899
(3) Official Yearbook of NSW, 1966. pp 380-1
(4) NSW Government Gazette, 8 June 1973, p. 2158
(5) The District Courts Act, 1973 s. 8 and s.9
The Public Trustee Act of 1913 (Act No 19, 1913) abolished the office of Curator of Intestate Estates and established the office of the Public Trustee, with its powers taking effect from 1 January 1914. (1)
According to the Public Trustee Act of 1913 the Public Trustee exercised the following administrative functions:
. to act as a trustee under a will, or marriage or other settlement;
. as executor or administrator of a will;
. as administrator under a will where the executor declines to act, dies or is absent from the State;
. as administrator of intestate estates;
. and as agent or attorney for any person who authorises him so to act. (2)
Under the NSW Trustee and Guardian Act 2009 (Act No.49, 2009), the office of the Public Trustee was abolished on 1 July 2009. (3)
References:
(1) Public Trustee Act, 1913
(2) Museums of History NSW Agency Description: Public Trust Office / Public Trustee AGY-28 https://records-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1e5kcq1/ORGANISATIONS1000151
(3) NSW Trustee and Guardian Act 2009 (Act No.49, 2009)
BSc (Rhodes), MSc (Illinois), FIMA; applied science academic, Charles Sturt University Bathurst
Lawson Lobb was born in South Africa
- The North Berry Jerry Co-Operative Society was formed in early 1921 (Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review, 18 March 1921, pg 4).
- A store was opened at Swann's Coffee Palace in Junee in April 1921 (Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review, 29 April 1921, pg 3).
- By the date of the half-yearly, the society had changed its name to the "Coolamon Co-operative Society" (Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review, 26 April 1921, pg 4).
- The following notice was published in the Government Gazette of NSW: "...Passed the 15th June 1979. - At a special general meeting of the abovenamed society, duly convened and held at Coolamon on the 15th June, 1979, the subjoined special resolution was duly passed: "That the Coolamon Co-Operative Society Limited be wound up voluntarily"."
Paul Casey was an academic in the field of psychology. He was employed at the Goulburn College of Advanced Education and then at the Riverina College of Advanced Education.
The Bulldogs were formed in 1954 at a reserve grade level. The seniors commenced in1955 and a junior team was formed in 1958. Their team colours are blue, red, and white.
George Frederick Hutchings (1870-1951) married Margaret Wilson, nee Hansen (1868-1940) in 1899. They moved to 'Dalrye' at Yerong Creek in 1909 from Rupanyup in Victoria. This property of approximately 4,500 acres had been purchased by Hutchings at a Grubben Station auction in September 1909.
In 2024, Dalrye was situated at 109 Seeliger's Lane, Yerong Creek.
Formed at a conference in Cootamundra, NSW.
Margaret Read was born in the Victorian district of Colac, the daughter of George Read and Alice Jane Thomas (married in 1901). She had one sister, Trixie, and three brothers, Bill, Stuart, and Don. The family moved to Wagga Wagga in 1924, purchasing 'Braehour' at Forest Hill. Alice Jane died in 1934 and a few years later, George moved into a house in Kincaid Street with Margaret and Trixie. Margaret and Trixie were extremely involved in the Girl Guide movement and the Art Society in Wagga Wagga throughout much of their lives.