LIBRARY BRANCH CLOSURE

Kingston Library will be closed Saturday, 20 April 2024.

Return chute remains open.

All other branches will be open at normal hours.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

HMSS 0261 Old Canberrans Book Club Membership List


ACT Heritage Library Manuscript Collection

HMSS 0261 Old Canberrans Book Club List of Foundation Members

Scope and Content Notes

 

Call Number

HMSS 0261

Collection 

Old Canberrans Book Club List of Foundation Members

Date Range

1944-1945

Quantity

0.09  (1 manuscript box)

Access Conditions

open

Copying Conditions

with attribution

Related Collections

 

List of foundation members of the Old Canberrans Book Club.

The list is pasted on the inside front cover of Kylie Tennant’s Ride on Stranger, a novel published in 1943, is the story about a young woman growing to maturity in Sydney between the two World Wars. 

Former students of the Australian Forestry School (AFS) formed a club to share books.  This is the distribution list for 1944/45 and includes not only their current address but the years they attended the AFS.

Most of the men on this list, many of them very prominent in their profession, did not remain in Canberra, but they maintained a relationship with the place and their professional community through membership of a book sharing club known as the Old Canberrans Book Club.  By cross-checking this list against a list of students of the AFS published in LT Carron’s A Brief History of the Australian Foresty School, 2000 we find that 37% of all students maintained membership of the Old Canberrans Book Club 

Old Canberrans Book Club

TRANSCRIPTION

OLD CANBERRAN’S BOOK CLUB

FOUNDATION MEMBERS

1

Bailey, F.M.

1926-1927

Forestry Commission, Box 2667EE, Sydney

 

2

Maclean, G.H.

1926-1927

Forestry Commission, Box 2667EE, Sydney

 

3

Westbrook, W.R.

1926-1927

Forestry Commission, Box 2667EE, Sydney

 

6

Wallace, W.R.

1927-1928

Forest Office, Dwellingup, W.A.

 

4

Muir, W.D.

1928-1929

Forestry Commission, Sydney

 

7

Cameron, M.A.

1928-1929

Box 36, Yarraman, Queensland

25.2/12.3.46

5

Cromer, D.A.

1930-1931

Forestry Commission, Sydney

 

8

Doggrell, R.H.

1930-1931

Forest Office, Imbil, Queensland

 

9

Lane, Col. A.D.

1931

Forestry Department, Hobart, Tasmania

 

12

Anderson, C.W.

1931-1932

15 Percy Street, Maryborough, Queensland

 

11

Boyd, G.

1932

10 Cleveden Rd., Hurstville, Sydney

 

10

Cox, E.K.

1932-1933

Forestry Department, Hobart, Tasmania

 

13

McAdam, Major J.B.

1932-1933

1 Aus. C.R.E., New Guinea Forests

 

14

Thomas, Major J.

1932-1933

1 Aus. C.R.E., New Guinea Forests

 

16

Shoobridge, D.W.

1932-1933

10 Ipima Road, Braddon, A.C.T.

 

20

McIvor, L.

1933

Forest Office, Coffs Harbour, N.S.W.

 

19

Rutley, T.

1933

Forest Office, Casino

 

23

Teague, P.D.

1933-1934

Forest Office, Wauchope, N.S.W.

 

24

Richards, A.S.

1934-1935

Forest Office, Bateman’s Bay, N.S.W.

 

17

Pryor, L.D.

1934-1935

Department of Interior, A.C.T.

 

21

Clarke, B.B.

1935-1936

Forest Office, Coffs Harbour, N.S.W.

 

25

Regan, E.L.I.

1935-1936

Forest Office, Kempsey, N.S.W.

 

27

Boomsma, C.D.

1937-1938

Mt. Burr, via Kalangadoo, S.A.

 

26

Barrett, P.H.

1937-1938

Forest Office, Pemberton, W.A.

 

28

Pawsey, C.K.

1937-1938

Mt. Burr, via Kalangadoo, S.A.

 

30

Healy, V.M.

1938-1939

Woods & Forests Dept., Box 1406G, Adelaide

 

32

Whale, R.

1938-1939

Forest Office, Fraser Island, Queensland

 

33

Hamilton, C.D.

1939-1940

Forest Office, Pemberton, W.A.

 

31

Jacobs, L.T.

1940-1941

Woods & Forests Dept., Box 1406G, Adelaide

 

15

Parkhouse, T.W.

1940-1941

1 Aus. C.R.E., New Guinea Forests

 

34

Beesley, J.

1941-1942

Forests Department, Perth, W.A.

 

41

Hinkley, K.

1941 & 1945

A.F.S, A.C.T.

 

18

Johnson, E.P.

1941-1942

Department of Interior, A.C.T.

 

22

Dark, J.O.

1942-1943

Forest Office, Coffs Harbour, N.S.W.

 

35

Feagan, W.J.

1942-1943

Forest Office, Mathoura, N.S.W.

 

37

Green, J.H.

1942-1943

Forest Office, Cessnock, N.S.W.

 

39

Bell, H. McK.

1943-1944

Forest Office, Wagga, N.S.W.

 

36

Heather, W.A.

1943-1944

Forest Office, Mathoura, N.S.W.

 

40

Hindmarsh, W.R.

1943-1944

Forest Office, Green Hills, N.S.W.

 

38

McArthur, A.G.

1943-1944

Forest Office, Cessnock, N.S.W.

 

29

Woods, R.V.

1943-1944

Mt. Burr Forest, via Kalangadoo, S.A.

 

42

Dunn, D.B.

1944-1945

A.F.S., A.C.T.

 

43

Edwards, R.J.

1944-1945

A.F.S., A.C.T.

 

44

Lewis, N.

1944-1945

A.F.S., A.C.T.

 

45

The Hon. Librarian Students’ Library

A.F.S., A.C.T.

 

 

[IMPOR]TANT.  Please notify the Hon. Librarian, A.F.S., of any change of addr[ess.]