nt National Trust Heritage Festival Historic Rail Trail Bicycle Tour Date: Saturday 15th May 2021, 6.45am to 10.30am Start / Finish: Yarrawonga Village car park, 5 McKenzie Place, Yarrawonga Enter off Yarrawonga Road opposite Gateway Shopping Centre or via Wallaby Holtze Road. Route: Yarrawonga Village to Wishart Siding. Sealed bike pathmore
nt The mossy stones which border the pathway into Burnett House are relics from Vestey’s Meatworks. Vestey’s Meatworks was a large abattoir set up in 1914 by the British Vestey Brothers, who were once the largest meat conglomerate in the world. Vestey’s was the most ambitious economic venture in the Northernmore
nt EARLY DAYS In 1870 South Australian Superintendent of Telegraphs Charles Todd, organised three teams to lay the overland telegraph wire. He appointed John Ross to lead the exploration party. Using explorer John McDouall Stuart’s maps, Ross generally followed Stuart’s trail, which was itself a traditional trade route created and travelled bymore
nt The Night Dawn’s House was Blown Down During the last few days leading up to Christmas 1974 the sky was overcast and the atmosphere unusually heavy. Although we noted and took heed of the frequent cyclone warnings being broadcast, it was only in hindsight that we appreciated the cause ofmore
vic Nominations are now open for 2021 Victorian Tree of the Year. The National Trust of Australia (Victoria) is the state’s leading advocate for the protection of trees, celebrating the benefits they provide to our communities. Since 1982 the Trust has classified over 20,000 trees in 1,200 places across the statemore
nt Are you looking for some time for reflection and renewal as we head towards the end of 2020? Arafura Music Collective presents ‘Times of Change’ on November 29 at the Darwin Entertainment Centre. It is a stunning affirmation of the power and relevance of musical creativity in times of uncertainty,more
nt Gulf Branch update for October 2020. A special Welcome and thanks to all our new Gulf Branch members Leanne Cameron, Seumas Christir- Johnstone, Cherie Gaffney, Catherine Hinton, Karol Jarentonski , Karen Maloney, Craig McCormack, and Patsy Shadforth and all our old residents who have renewed their memberships! Visitors continue tomore
nt Gulf Branch Enews update for September 2020: Gulf Branch Members are still kept busy caring for the Old Borroloola Police Station, maintaining the grounds, opening and closing, banking, etc. and organising fencing materials and work crew for the replacement of the old fence which has suffered damage from vehicles andmore
nt Name change Yes, we are again the Darwin Branch. The former Larrakeyah Branch of the National Trust (NT) has officially changed its name back to the Darwin Branch. This decision was unanimously voted for by the Larrakeyah Branch committee and was formally ratified at the last Council meeting. Originally wemore
nt Sunday, July 19th 2020 was the date of our first post-COVID afternoon tea at Burnett House. We were overbooked to the extent that we had to turn people away and could not accommodate those on the wait-list. In all, we served about 74 people for the day plus a couplemore
nt Towards the end of last year, the Darwin City Council’s Karama Library asked the National Trust if a speaker was available to give a talk to the Karama Seniors Group. The suggested topic was on the history of Darwin’s Northern Suburbs. Trevor Menzies, Manager/Curator of Roadmasters House Museum, responded tomore
nt From a relatively quiet start to the Year with a drawn out slow hot not very wet wet season, fires across most of southern Australia and now the whole country and the world in Covid-19 lockdown. The unexpected has been happening, our Trust Properties closed across the Territory mid-March, Festivalsmore
nt POSITION VACANT: Director, National Trust (NT) Location: National Trust (NT), Darwin Term: 2 year contract, part-time (.8 FTE) Package: $99,000 pa (pro rata) plus 9.5% superannuation Responsible to: President of the National Trust (NT) Board Closing date: Monday 16 March 2020 An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and/ormore
nt The Trust year has started off with a successful Goyder’s Day observance on the 5 February under the direction of Trevor Menzies down at Roadmasters House, No 1 McMinn Street! The 12 February marked another farewell as we offered our best wishes to our Director Tim Dixon, with a morning teamore
nt From possibly as early as the 1500s to 1907 fishermen from Makassar would sail with the North-West monsoons to the northern coast of Australia in search of Trepang (Sea Slug) for the lucrative trade with China (generally around December). In some years up to a thousand fishing, praus would descendmore
nt About 30 persons attended the National Trust’s annual Goyder’s Day event at Roadmasters House on 5th February. Goyder’s Day commemorates the arrival of the Northern Territory Survey Expedition under South Australia’s Surveyor-General, George Woodroffe Goyder, to survey land for a settlement that has since evolved into the City of Darwinmore
nt Goyder’s Day South Australia’s Surveyor-General, George Woodroffe Goyder, arrived in Port Darwin on 5th February 1869 with a team of 135 men to survey land for a settlement. His ship Moonta dropped anchor in the harbour that afternoon and Goyder with a small party rowed ashore in a small boatmore
nt 2020 Darwin Heritage Festival Coordinator Great opportunity to deliver the 2020 Darwin Heritage Festival Festival is between 18 April and 19 May 2020 Festival theme is ‘Our Heritage for the Future’ Unleash your creativity, exercise your people and organisational skills, become a part-time festival coordinator. The National Trust (NT)more
nt About 40 Members and Volunteers attended our Christmas party held 6 December at Burnett House. Christmas parties are generally happy occasions but there was also sadness as this was the first Christmas party in recent memory that was not attended by our Territory President, Trevor Horman, but we trust hemore
nt GULF Branch of National Trust NT update for December! 2019 has been a busy year with tourist, locals and local students visiting through-out the year in the Gulf Region! Extending the year with over 13 Outback Tourist Buses coming through caretaker Glen has been kept busy meeting, greeting and settingmore
