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Legumes, the Australian experience : the botany, ecology, and agriculture of indigenous and immigrant legumes / B.R. Davidson and H.F. Davidson.

This collection documents Alan Catford's activities in the environmental conservation movement, and includes copies of National Parks Association of New South Wales records.

This collection is chiefly described by file titles in the following box listings.

BOX 1
‘Colong Caves, Boyd Plateau, Boyd – Kanangra National Park’, 1966-1972

‘Reserves Committee [National Parks Association of New South Wales (NPA)]’, 1972-1978, being mainly copies of minutes of meetings

‘Revenue Committee [NPA]’, 1980-1981, relating to the establishment of a Fund Raising Committee

‘Camping Committee’, 1976-1979

‘Coal – Parks Study’, 1977, relating to possibility of coal mining in the Upper Hunter Valley in areas proposed for national parks and other forms of reservation

‘Border Ranges’, 1976-1978

‘ANPC [Australian National Parks Council]’, 1974-1976

‘NPA General Meetings – Notes etc.’, 1973

‘Federal Acquisition Grant’, 1974-1976, relating to land acquisition for national park purposes

‘NPA Correspondence (Old)’, 1965-1966

‘Clarence Proposal [near Lithgow, NSW]’, 1973, including correspondence with Marie Byles and photographs

‘ARPCCA [Association for Regional Parks and Countryside Commissions of Australia]’, 1997-1998

‘Woodchip’, 1975-1978

‘NPA Central Region Committee 1972 on’, 1966-1978, being mainly copies of minutes of Central Region Committee and Sydney Branch meetings

BOX 2
‘Plant Associations’ – Fauna Protection Panel’, 197-

‘Duffy [Duffy’s Forest] Airport’, 1972

‘Clutha’, 1971-1973

‘Cass’ 1973, relating to statement to increase funds to conservation bodies by Federal Minister for the Environment and Conservation, Dr Moss Cass

‘”Forest & Timber“’, 1970-1978, being issues of the periodical published by the Forestry Commission of New South Wales

‘Erosion’, 1958 - 197-

‘Colong Bulletin etc., Colong Committee literature etc.’, 1968-1978

‘Lecture Notes – General’, 1967-1973, including notes and notices

‘Lake Pedder’, 1972-1973

‘National Trust Bulletin’, 1971-1975

‘Oil Boom’, 1970, including correspondence with oil companies about proposed use of oil booms to contain oil slicks

‘Natural Area Classification etc.’, 1966-1974

‘Macquarie Marshes’, 1970

‘Hunting’, 1968

‘Total Environment Centre’, 1973-1977

‘SPA [State Planning Authority of New South Wales]’, 1973

‘Population & Growth’, 1968, 1975

‘Pollution, Pesticides, Garbage, Pests, etc.’, 1965-1976

‘Policies (various)’ [empty folder]

‘Pipeline across Blue Mts [Mountains]’, 1972-1973

‘Phytophthora Cinnamoni’, 1971, relating to root fungus in jarrah forests of Western Australia

‘”Parks & Wildlife”’, 1967-1971, including issues of National Parks & Wildlife Service of NSW publications

BOX 3
‘Fees (National Park Entrance Fees)’, 1994-2000

‘Regional Advisory Committees (NPWS – NSW), 2000-2001

‘Tourism’, 1994-2010

‘NATOUREC [Nature Tourism and Recreation Strategy]’, 1997-1998

BOX 4
‘Dee Why Lagoon’, 1959-1968

‘Barrington Tops NP’, 2003-2004

‘Kosciuszko – General’, 2000-2010

‘Kosciuszko – General (Snowy flows, visitor centre (Alps Liaison Committee))’, 1997-2007

‘Morton – Budawang [National Parks] (Map, DPOM [Draft Plans of Management], Newhaven Gap, 1997-1998’

BOX 5
‘Plans of Management – General (inc. Generic Faults)’, 1989, 1997-2007

‘Kosciuszko reports & matters (current year)’, 1995-2009

‘South-East Forests National Park & Far South Coast Escarpment Parks’, 1994-2005

‘Horse Riding [in National Parks]’, 1989-2008

‘Horse Riding Policy – NPWS’, 2001-2006

‘Wilderness Policy’, 1994-1996

BOX 6
‘Letters’, 1980-2010, being correspondence of Alan Catford

‘Letters to the Editor – General (Newspapers etc.)’, 1964-1977

‘Conservation – General’, 1962-1972

‘Questionnaire on Land Degredation – ACF [Australian Conservation Foundation]’, 1965-1985

‘NPA Park Management Committee’, 1974-1988

‘NPA Reserves Committee’, 1975-1988

‘Woodchip & Forestry’, 1973-1975

‘Whales’, 1974-1977

‘Towra Point – Quibray Bay – Kurnell’, 1969

‘NPA Reserves Committee Notices, Minutes, Reports etc.’, 1966-1971

BOX 7
‘Bushfire’, 1994-2009

‘Legislation Conservation Issues’, 1997-2009

‘Coastal Development Seminar’, 11 May 1990

‘Kempsey Seminar – Coastal Development [21-23 Mar. 1975]’, 1974-1975

‘Coastal – General’, 1985-2001

‘North Coast Bulletin’, 1972-1976 being issues of the journal of the NPA North Coast Committee

‘Marine – General – Jetskis (PWC) [Personal Watercraft]’, 1984-2001

BOX 8
‘North Head [inc. Quarantine Station]’, 1985-2002

‘Lord Howe Island – Pre 1990’, 1984-2009

‘Forests’, 1990-2003

‘Exotic Animals [Policy Review]’, 1988-1995

‘Murramarang [National Park] – Pretty and Merry Beaches’, 1998

‘Wilderness’, 1996-2008

BOX 9
‘Jervis Bay’, 1985-1995, including papers relating to the Jervis Bay Management Committee of the Total Environment Centre

‘Game Bill (2002)’

‘Election’, 1995-2007, relating to policies of political parties

‘State Election 1995

‘Aboriginal Conference Nov. 1994’, relating to NPA and Aboriginal Land Council workshop ON Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal interests in national parks

‘Aboriginal Issues’, 1995-2006

‘Aerial Detection of Bushfires’, 2007

BOX 10
‘”Visions for the New Millennium”’ relating to symposium at the University of Sydney, 16-19 July 1998

‘Rainforest – General’, 1984-2000

‘Huts [in National Parks] Policy’, 2003-2007

‘Education & Community Programs [Directorate]’, 1999-2003

‘FSD – Field Services Division NPWS’, 1997-1999

BOX 11
‘Central Directorate [NPA & NPWS Central Directorate], 2000-2001[2000-2004]’

‘Deputy Director-General & Director-General Meetings [Parks and Wildlife Division]’, 2000-2007

Papers relating to the resident action group People Against Valley Expressways, 1987-1994

BOX 12
‘Kosciuszko National Park’, 1996-2004, including papers relating field trips and management review

‘Kosciuszko Thredbo Disaster’, 1997-2001

‘Kosciuszko – Road Kills (Fauna) Pigs, Pigdogging’, 1998-2003, relating to the protection of fauna and potential roadkill reduction measures

‘Kosciuszko Field Trips’, 2002

‘Kosciuszko – Perisher Development and other developments’, 1991-2001’ relating to property development in Kosciuszko National Park

‘Lord Howe Island’, 1990-1998

‘Botany Bay, Towra Point’, 1988-2005

‘Barraba Track [Mount Kaputar National Park]’, 1997-2000

‘Pittwater Track’, 1997-1999

‘Coronial [NSW] Bushfire Inquiry’, 1994, relating to Coronial Inquiry into January 1994 Bushfires

BOX 13
‘Marine Parks Act, issues etc.’, 1985-2005

‘Bushfire – Various’, 1966-2007, including copy of letter from Catford to Director, NPWS, 26 Aug. 1969, relating to Smokewalkers [NPA Fire Fighting Force], a reserve of volunteer fire fighters

‘Bush Fire – Fire Effects – Research & Information’, 1986-2009

‘Fire’, relating to NSW Rural Fires Bill 1997

‘Fire – General’, 1966-1997

BOX 14
‘Horses (Feral)’, 1999-2007, relating to feral horse management plans in national parks, including Kosciuszko National Park

‘Jervis Bay & Lake Wollumboola’, 1975-2004

‘Accommodation Buildings in National Parks etc.’, 1999-2009

‘Coast – General – Govt Policy etc.’, 1989-2002

‘National Trust CCC [Coastal Conservation Committee]’, 1986-1989

‘Weeds’, 1989-2001

BOX 15
Printed material mainly relating to bush fires, 1947-1999, including annual reports, books, manuals, conference and seminar proceedings, and including Bush Fire Control in Australia (1961) by R. H. Luke, and Fires in Mosman Bushland (Dec. 1972) by Eileen Bradley

BOX 16
‘NPA Coastal Policy’, 1988-1996

‘Submissions to Environmental Effect [Impact] of Bushfires 1983’

Files of Alan Catford (Convenor, Bush Fire Committee, NPANSW):
‘Bushfire – General Information (Not Fire Effects)’, 1967-1971

‘Bushfire – Letters & Articles to the Editor (Newspapers etc.)’, 1968-1971

‘Bushfire – My Papers, Lectures’, 1969

‘Bushfire – Aeroburning Submission’, 1975-1976

‘Bush Fire Committee (NPA) – Reports’, 1967-1973

‘Bushfire – Eco Fire Proceedings’, 1972, 1976, mainly relating to NPANSW Symposium on Fire Control in Relation to the Management of Natural Ecosystems and Natural Reserves, Sydney 1 May 1976

‘Bushfire – Fire Control – Phil Gabel’, being writings of C. P. Gabel (Operations Officer, National Parks & Wildlife Service)

‘Bushfire – Fire Control – General’, 1969-1972

‘Bushfire – Replies re Proposed Letter on Aerial Control [to Hon. T. L. Lewis, Minister for Lands]’, 1967

‘Bushfire – Local (Ku-ring –gai)’, 1949-1971

‘Bushfire – Historical (Includes Fire Stick Farming)’, including notes by Myles J. Dunphy, 8 Mar. 1967

‘Smokewalkers – Notes on Fires Attended’, 1968-1969, including draft of article by Milo Dunphy relating his and Catford’s experiences in the Cedar Creek – Narrow Neck Fire [Blue Mountains] 21-22 Dec. 1967 

‘Smokewalkers – Correspondence – Internal’, 1968-1972

‘Smokewalkers – Correspondence – External’, 1968-1973

‘Smokewalkers – General’, 1968-1972

‘Smokewalkers – Recruiting’, 1968-1971

‘Smokewalkers – Samples of All Circulars’, 1969-1972

‘Smokewalkers – Early Talks, etc.’, 1965-1968

BOX 17
‘Smokewalkers – Contacting Organization’

‘Smokewalkers – Master Lists [of members]’

‘Smokewalkers – Meetings – Minutes etc.’

‘Smokewalkers – Rough forms for notifying contacts of additions to membership’

‘Smokewalkers – Hazard Reduction by Aerial Ignition Burning’, being copies of synopsis of a talk by ranger P. Moore at Smokewalkers’ training day at Terrey Hills, NSW, 17 Sept. 1972

‘Fire – Resolutions of Conference ‘Towards Maximum Ability to Control Wildfire’ [organised by NCC of NSW and NPANSW, in Canberra, 26-27 Aug. 1967] and symposium ‘Environments to Order ?’: A Sit-in on Fire !’, 1970, with enclosed copy of ‘The Burning Questions’

‘Bushfire – ‘Towards Maximum Ability … Invitation, Agenda, Proposed Letter’, 1967

‘Bushfire – Responses to receipt of Report on Towards Maximum … ‘, 1967-1968

‘Eco Fire’, 1968, 1976, mainly relating to, and including proceedings of, Symposium on Fire Control, 1 May 1976

‘Bushfire – Correspondence [with Allen A. Strom]’, 1966-1970

‘Bushfire [Committee] – Minutes or Reports of Special Meetings’, 1972-1973

‘Bushfire – Policies’, 1969-1994

‘Hume – Snowy Burning Plans etc.’, ca. 1973

‘A.C.F. Publications’, 1970-1971, relating to fire and bush fire control

‘Fire Effects Papers’, 1982-1983, relating to hazard reduction burning of urban bushland

‘Bushfire – Current General’, 1969-1982

‘Bushfire – Meetings – NP&WS Liaison & Correspondence’, 1969-1976

‘Bushfire – Safety – Personal & Property’, 1962-1972, including letter received from Isobel Bowden (Katoomba & District Wildlife Conservation Society), 13 Nov. 1968

‘Bush Fire Committee – Aerial Fire Control’, 1966-1975

BOX 18
‘Bush Fire Committee – Minutes’, 1970-1977

‘Bushfire – Country Council Replies to Survey on Burning-off Escapes’, 1975

‘Bushfire – Fire Letter – Out’, 1967-1970

‘Bushfire – Correspondence – General’, 1967-1973

‘Bushfire’, 1971-1982, relating to Bush Fire Committee

‘STEP [South Turramurra Environment Protection]’, 1983-1985

‘Fire Policy NPA – Current Matter’ 1994

‘Fire Policy’, 1984-1994

‘Kosci [Kosciuszko] Fires 2003’

BOX 19
‘Bushfire – Helicopter’, 1956-1966, being American printed material on use of aircraft in fighting fires

‘Bushfire 1968’, 1964-1981, including papers relating to Environments to Order ? Symposium, 1970

‘Fire – Various’, 1983-1984, including submissions to House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation on Environmental Impact of Bushfires (other submissions located in Box 16)

‘Weir Talk, Wilcox Talk, Gill Questions’, being incomplete transcript of talk on Eco-Fire by Mr Weir followed by question and answer session

‘Fire Policy Comments’, 1980, 1994-1996

BOX 20
Information Kit for Bushfire Management Committee Representatives and Regional Fire Association Representatives (15 June 1995) / nature Conservation Council of NSW

‘Voluntary Bush Fire Brigades – General’, 1969-1985

‘Bushfire’, 1962-1983, being mainly correspondence and printed material, Proceedings of the Rural Fires Conference, Academy of Science, Canberra, 15-17 July 1969

‘T.E.C [Total Environment Centre] Bushfire Committee’, 1968-1984

‘Bushfire’, 1962-1982, including correspondence and printed material

BOX 21
‘Myall Lakes’, 1984-2004, including plan of management review

‘Myall Lakes Committee – Minutes’, 30 Dec. 1968-24 Jan. 1977, including copies of and rough minutes 

‘Myall Lakes Committee – Land Purchase Scheme – Natural Areas Ltd’, 1971

‘Myall Lakes – Letters to the Editor [mine & others] & Press Releases’, 1968-1984

Loose papers on Myall Lakes, 1967-2002

Alan Catford papers, 1947-2010

BOX 1
Viv Thicknesse diary ‘Kangaroo Tour of England 1933-4’. Bound exercise book, 120 pages. Entries from 4 July 1933 to 24 February 1934. Subjects include: voyage from Sydney to Melbourne; activities and sightseeing in Melbourne; varying financial arrangements for players in Melbourne and Adelaide; activities and sightseeing in Adelaide; activities on board ship; arrival and exhibition match at Colombo; sightseeing in Colombo; boredom on ship; arrival at Suez; arrival and shopping at Port Said; exhibition match at Sporting Club de Port Fuad; arrival and activities at Malta; death of Ray Morris, 10 August 1933; unanimous decision that extra player not needed; arrival and reception at Southampton, and London; meeting with cricketer Sid Hird; training at Wembley; sightseeing and strolls around London; training at Arsenal ground; train from London to Leeds; Australians in Leeds acquiring English accents; civic reception in Ilkley; being allowed to smoke in theatre; becoming more used to new way of putting ball in scrum; seven-a-side match played at Leeds; signing autographs; match against St Helens Recs; cricket match against Ilkley; match against Leigh won 16-7; road trip to Scarborough; giving ‘war cry’ at various locations including the steps of Oldham Town Hall at civic reception prior to match, 9 September 1933; cable for Les Mead that he was father of a baby girl, and ensuing celebration; match against Yorkshire at Headingley won 13-0;  inspection of shipbuilders Vickers Armstrong; dances, dinners, and picture theatres attended; meeting with Douglas Clark, English forward and champion wrestler; match against Bradford Northern lost in the last minute; post match and after dinner activities at Warrington and Blackpool; decision not to train the day before test matches; seeing Gracie Fields in the flesh; being unlucky to lose 7-5 to Northern League; receiving clock as gift from team mates on 23rd birthday, 18 November 1933; inspection of Stuart Surridge cricket bat factory; training under floodlights at White City; gorgonzola cheese in Joe Pearce’s pocket; swapping ties with Harry Dawson, President Huddersfield Old Boys Rugby Union Club; heavy fog obscuring view of match during third test; broadcasting from BBC Leeds to Australia, 23 December 1933; travel via charabanc from Hull to London; New Year’s Eve and sightseeing in Paris; tea in Gateshead Town Hall with the mayor; picture shows, dances, deck tennis, fancy dress balls, concerts, pillow fights, playing cards, and sunbaking on return voyage; stopover at Colombo; pub crawl in Fremantle and Perth.

Scrapbook titled ‘Football career of Viv. Thicknesse’, containing newspaper cuttings, match reports, articles, and photographs, some loose, relating to career of Thicknesse in rugby union with Easts and the Waratahs, as a representative water polo player, and his conversion to rugby league with Easts, NSW, and Australia. Cover reads ‘So this is football. R.U. Water Polo 1931 - R.L. 1933-1934’. Loose inside are three photographs: rugby match in progress; ‘Varilly Thine Bart, a Nice 1933’; team photograph ‘Easts in N. Zealand. Training at Carlaw Park’. Also contains postcard of R.M.S. Wanganella, Huddart Parker Line.

Scrapbook, approximately 100 pages, titled ‘Easts-1931-32. NSW v QLD 1933. Aust. Tour England 1933-34’ containing newspaper cuttings of articles and photographs relating to rugby league and rugby union career of Viv Thicknesse. Subjects include: matches played by Eastern Suburbs; match reports and previews; East Sydney Winter Swimming Club; various players switching from union to league; NSW vs QLD; Jack Thicknesse hitting century for Paddington CC in Poidevin-Gray Shield match; selection of Thicknesse for Kangaroo tour; Combined Sydney Firsts vs Combined Country Firsts; photographs of Kangaroos giving the war cry; photographs of Kangaroos training; Kangaroos send off; articles written by Thicknesse for the Truth newspaper; admission to hospital of Ray Morris at Malta; match performances of Kangaroos on tour; funeral of Ray Morris; warm reception at Ilkley; tense relations due to Bodyline series recently played in Australia.
Scrapbook also contains three photographs: ‘Easts v South Sydney’; ‘Easts - St George’ with Joe Pearce; ‘Paris Sprint training’, autographed picture of Dave Brown, and cover of ‘Rugby League Annual and Souvenir 1928’ with cutting stuck to reverse ‘League’s Lure for Public’.

Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings, subjects including: visit of Waratahs to Grafton, 28 May 1931; Jack Thicknesse’s 78 not out for Paddington vs Gordon in the Poidevin-Gray Shield; various match reports of Eastern Suburbs rugby union matches; various match results for first, second, and third grade cricket matches in Sydney ca 1930; team photograph of The NSW Schoolboys; article titled ‘Meet one of our juniors, No. 20: Thicknesse Wants Experience’; announcement of East-West water polo teams; match programme for New South Wales vs Queensland match; match programme for New South Wales vs Clarence River match, 27 May; Regal Cup interstate water polo competition; team sheets for Australia vs The Rest, and Metropolis vs Queensland, played at Sydney Cricket Ground; Alex Ross cartoon; ‘Manly v. Easts at the Cricket Ground’ cartoon; Easts club championship victory over Manly, 1931; Paddington Cricket Club annual 1931-1931; Eastern Suburbs rugby union premiership win, 1931; Viv Thicknesse changing from rugby league to rugby union; letter to Thicknesse explaining why he was not given any match time at NSW union trial; First rugby league match played by Thicknesse, for Eastern Suburbs Reserves; conjectures about amateur swimming and water polo status of Thicknesse; rugby league debut of Thicknesse; Eastern Suburbs League team tour of New Zealand, 1931; team photograph of Eastern Suburbs League team to tour New Zealand, 1931; match report for cricket match Paddington vs Kippax’s XI in which Stan McCabe hit 91 runs in 70 minutes; cuttings of match reports and photographs from New Zealand newspapers related to the Eastern Suburbs 1931 tour; Thicknesse swimming 100m in 2 min 7 sec as 8 year old, 17 November 1920.
Also contains photograph of Thicknesse, coach A. Halloway, and other players in front of car during 1931 tour of New Zealand, photograph of Thicknesse playing for Eastern Suburbs, and tongue-in-cheek document addressed to the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand stating that V. Thicknesse is ‘Declared to as Dangerous Cargo … disguised as a footballer … wound on cones and twisted (round the nearest thing he can find on deck)’, signed ‘Soccer Joe’.
‘Raw Materials’ ledgers ruled in to back of exercise book.

BOX 2
Scrapbook titled ‘1933-4 Kangaroos English Papers No I’, containing English newspaper cuttings relating to the Kangaroos tour of England. Subjects of articles include: Kangaroos arrival in London; Kangaroos performing the war cry; reception of Kangaroos at Ilkley and various other northern English towns; articles written by Kangaroos trainer Norman Potter; first rugby league match to be played in Paris; cartoon ‘Monk takes a look at the Aussies’; Turog bread advertisement featuring the Kangaroos; match reports from the test matches; cuttings of articles written by Viv Thicknesse for Sydney newspaper Truth.
Scrapbook also contains pamphlet ‘Souvenir of the Australian Rugby League “Kangaroos” World’s Tour 1933-34’, including player autographs; text of ‘The Kangaroos’ War Cry’; team photograph; telegram from Darcy Gardner to Viv Thicknesse; illustrated envelopes sent to Thicknesse from Australia.

Bound copy of The Rugby Football League Official Guide Season 1933-1934, inscribed on cover in gold lettering ‘V. A. Thicknesse’. Annotated in black pen. Newspaper cuttings of match reports glued in.
Printed team list from exhibition match between Kangaroos squad at Colombo, 24 July 1933, including Thicknesse’s handwritten match report on reverse.
‘Welcome Home Dinner’ card menu, Restaurant Annexe, Farmer & Company Limited, Pitt St, Sydney, Monday 26 February 1934.
List of toasts for the Austrtalians at Marlborough House, Ilkley, printed on luggage tag, tied with green and gold ribbon. Tag has picture of H Flegg, President, NSW Rugby League Football.
Dinner card menu for the Australian Kangaroos, MV Manuda, Wednesday 5 July 1933.
Telegram addressed to Vivian Thicknesse, ‘Congratulations of your vice captaincy. Harry’, 24 April 1934.

BOX 3
Scrapbook titled ‘No.2 English papers’, containing English newspaper cuttings with subjects including: the Kangaroos tour of England; previews of second test; photographs of team training, playing matches, and posing for photographers; suggestion that England adopt a more open style of play; match reports from second test at Headingley; ‘Finance of the Australians’ Tour’ article by Harry Sunderland, The Sports Post, Saturday 11 November 1933; Janet Thicknesse on front page of newspaper, January 20 1938; Rugby League Council’s play-the-ball rule; victory of England in the third test; Whitehaven match incident; rugby league match in Paris; ‘Tourists receipts down’ article by Norman Potter, The Sports Echo, Saturday 23 December 1933; telegram from Harry Connie; article titled ‘Kangaroo “Eats” Leek’; French Rugby Federation ban on playing of amateur rugby matches at the Stade Pershing; cuttings from French newspapers of articles relating to Kangaroos match played in Paris; rugby league ‘drop-out’ rule; last match played by the Kangaroos vs England at Gateshead; departure of Kangaroos; profit of £9,000.
Scrapbook also contains: copy of ‘Bond for the payment of compensation’ document, signed by Viv Thicknesse, 1 July 1933; illustrated envelope sent to Thicknesse from Australia; cartoon ‘Mr Sutherland presents the “Kangaroos”’, published in the Huddersfield Examiner, 18 November 1933; telegram from Lou Brown; invitation to Farewell Dinner at Farmers, Sydney, Monday 3 July 1933; two pages of handwritten notes ‘1933-4 Kangaroos: notable features of English rugby’; letter of congratulations from A M Smairl (Treasurer, Eastern Suburbs District Rugby Union Football Club); letters from New South Wales Rugby Football League regarding travel arrangements, income tax, and medical examination; copy of ‘On Ilkla Moor baht ‘at. A dialect song from the West Riding of Yorkshire’; photograph of team in recording studio; picture card ‘A handful of Australians. Rugby League Pioneers 1907’; handwritten account of match played in Paris.

Kangaroos player contract, ca 1933, between the Australian Rugby League Board of Control (ARLBC) and all players, signed by Viv Thicknesse, dated 1 July 1933.
Letter, account, and receipt, from ARLBC to Viv Thicknesse.

‘Souvenir of the Australian Rugby League “Kangaroos”: The Official Touring Combination of the Australian Rugby League Board of Control’. 16 page booklet including pen and picture portraits, fixture list, team photographs, and advertisements.

8 photographic prints:
‘Kangaroos Touring England 1933-4’. Kangaroos Australian rugby league team aboard ship Kookaburra, ca 1933-1934. Signed in ink by 29 players and officials. Inscribed at bottom ‘Cabin 48. Jervis Bay. Vic Hey. Dave Brown. Viv Thicknesse.’
Postcard of R.M.S. Wanganella, Huddart Parker Line.
Australian Kangaroos team members on field with trophy after match at Halifax, 30 September 1933.
Halifax rugby ground covered in snow. Inscribed on reverse ‘Fancy baring your knees in this!! Makes rum taste good though. Halifax Ground. We used a BLACK ball this day!! Tha’s a good ‘un’.
‘The “Kangaroos” - Australian Team 1933-4’ team photograph postcard inscribed on reverse ‘Bobby, Kind regards from Marlborough House, Ilkley, 9/10/33, Viv’.
Photograph studio group portrait of Australian Kangaroos 1933.
International rugby league players and members of the Bondi Icebergs Joe Pearce, Tony Brown, Reg Ferguson, Jazzer Byrne, Viv Thicknesse, and Maurie Tate.
Team photograph of wartime rugby league team captained by Viv Thicknesse.

BOX 4
Scrapbook titled ‘1933-1937, Retirement’ containing newspaper cuttings with subjects including: the Kangaroos tour of England, 1933; rugby league matches played in Sydney; articles by Harry Sunderland (Tour Co-Manager) published in the Newcastle Herald and Miners Advocate including ‘Life on Board the Jervis Bay: How Players Keep in Trim’, ‘Features of Match at Colombo’, ‘The Australians see London’, and various match previews and reports; articles by Claude Corbett published in the Telegraph and The Sun including ‘Kangaroos Staggered by Queer Rulings of Referee’, ‘Remarkable Rush For Seats at First Test’, ‘Kangaroos’ Policy Is To Rely on Best 13’, match previews and reports, articles relating to lack of open play, opinion on referee in match versus Lancashire, experiment moving Vic Hey from five-eighth to centre, selection of Thicknesse as five-eighth for match against Widnes, Australian managers’ letter of complaint against one referee and touch judges, Kangaroos victory over Widnes 31-0, injuries sustained by Kangaroos players, English journalists' opinion that despite losing Australia played better in the second test, Kangaroos match played in France; rugby league referees grading, 1937; R E Savage replacing S G Ball as Chairman of Rugby League management committee; two separate competitions conducted by the New South Wales Rugby League; articles written by Viv Thicknesse, 1937; Thicknesse handed captaincy of Easts; cartoon ‘Circus Days’ about Easts; Thicknesse on front cover of ‘The Rugby League News’, 26 April 1937; retirement of Thicknesse, May 1937; article by Thicknesse ‘Football now no pleasure’, 25 May 1937; match report of last match played by Thicknesse.
Scrapbook also includes handwritten player and team statistics on League teams Balmain, Canterbury-Bankstown, Eastern Suburbs, Newtown, North Sydney, St George, South Sydney, University, and Western Suburbs, 1937.

Scrapbook containing newspaper cuttings of match previews and reports, articles relating to matches, engagements, and activities during the 1933 Kangaroos tour to England, and photographs of matches played on tour; previews and match reports of rugby league matches played in Sydney 1934; Blues vs Maroons match; articles relating to the use of Sydney Cricket Ground for rugby.
Scrapbook also contains Warrington Football Club Official Program; 26th, 27th, 28th Annual Reports of the Eastern Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club, 1934-1936; letter advising selection of players to represent NSW, 16 April 1934; NSW Rugby Football League registration of player papers; flyer for Eastern Suburbs vs Grafton and South Grafton Combined, 26 September 1934; match reports from Kangaroos tour to New Zealand, 1935; letter advising Thicknesse of his entitlement to £2.11s.4d. as his share of the profits from the tour of New Zealand; player retention fund; decision by Thicknesse to become licensee of Grand View Hotel, Park Road, Paddington, 12 April 1936; Blues vs Maroons 1935 and 1936; England tour of Australia, 1936; Thicknesse not selected for third Test against England, 1936.
Loose in scrapbook are photographs of Viv Thicknesse running with the ball during Easts match; Easts vs Manly rugby union match 1931; Thicknesse running with the ball during NSW vs QLD match; Thicknesse being tackled by opponent during Easts match; Thicknesse passing and being tackled during Easts match; Eastern Suburbs vs Balmain; Thickensse with ball during Easts match; NSW vs QLD.

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Eastern Suburbs Poster ca 1936: fixture poster for Easts tour of Coffs Harbour, Grafton, Maclean, Lismore, Casino, Tweed Heads, and Murwillumbah. Includes photographs of Dave Brown, Viv Thicknesse, and Ray Stehr.

Viv Thicknesse tour diary, scrapbooks, and photographs, 1931-1934.

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