traditional practices; indigenous narratives.
This memorandum presents a proposal for a 13-day tour of Victorian gardens, signed by Hank van Apeldoorn. It also reports on the Cultural Tourism Conference of August 1987 and progress in establishing a Cultural Tourism Association.
“Our 13 day tour explores the contrasts between the traditional English garden designs with the use of exotic species and the increasingly popular use of native Australian plants in the changing gardens styles of Victoria.”
This booklet authored by Ray Sumner and published by the Victorian National Parks Service in 1982 interprets the Steiglitz Historic Park, proclaimed in 1979, and covering 655 hectares of land, including parts of the township of Steiglitz and much of the surrounding Steiglitz goldfield. Steiglitz is about 60km west of Melbourne and about half way between Geelong and Ballarat.
This rather charming memoir of a personal journey along the Kokoda Track is by Ron Turner, former Ranger in Charge and District Ranger in Victoria’s and Queensland’s national parks systems.
Ron is an accomplished writer: see his First Ranger: A Memoir and Cooloola and its Hinterland in our Document Library as well as his lighthouse series (also relevant to PaRC) indexed on the website of the Queensland Science Network.
This “Discussion Paper” of uncertain authorship and date unpicks the concepts of landscape and scenery along with some other relevant attributes. It includes a substantial list of government documents and also an annotated bibliography.
The paper was prepared for Steve MacDonald, Manager of the Queensland Regional Landscape Strategy office from 1995-2012 and is likely to have been written in 2008 or 2009.
In 1989, the National Capital District Interim Commission, the provincial government for the capital city of Papua New Guinea, published a guide to gardening in the city, compiled by the Manager, Parks, Gardens and Sports with the assistance of many staff and other contributors.
The book has parallel texts in English, Tok Pisin (Melanesian Pidgin) and Papuan Motu.
The book has been scanned to make it available to a wide audience. Given the size of the files, the book has been split into sections. But before opening or downloading the book, please read the warning at the foot of this post.
Front cover, inside cover, frontispiece, inside back cover, back cover (15MB)
Pages 1-68 (44MB)
Colour photos in centre
Pages 93-160
WARNING
To come
This conference paper was delivered by Mr Jack Kutal, a Commissioner of Port Moresby’s National Capital District Interim Commission, to a international conference in May 1989. Although the headline subject is somewhat outside the scope of PaRC, the paper does contain useful insights into city design and also into some differences between European culture and Melanesian culture.
NCDIC was the provincial government for the capital of Papua New Guinea.
The Australian Heritage Parks Association was a national group representing the owners and managers of theme parks with a heritage theme. Members as at 1986 are listed in the 1986 Conference program.
PaRC has not been able to contact the former office-bearers. The group’s company registration was terminated in 2008. Any former office-bearer or member representative is invited to improve this stub of a narrative.
6th Biennial Conference – Echuca
PaRC has uncovered some papers from its 6th Biennial Conference, held at Echuca, Victoria in 1986, including a list of attendees.
Reference in the National Library of Australia catalogue.
Funding the Dream by keynote Crawford Lincoln
Preserving Technologies by T.J. Hobson
Historic Buildings and the Heritage Park by Allan Willingham
Knowing Your Visitor: A Survey of Visitor Types by Philip Pearce
Management Structures and Systems for Resolving Conflict by Paul Power.
PaRC does not usually save ephemera, such as visitor leaflets, but we have come across a batch of material from the pre-digitisation era and have decided to post them here as part of the historical record. However, readers are urged not to rely upon the information here without checking against modern material.
Point Cook leaflet
A compilation of visitor materials including trail guides and teachers’ materials (compressed to reduce download time at the expense of resolution). Readers who can demonstrate a need to have the original scanned file at 41.8 MB should contact PaRC). (to come)
PaRC does not normally showcase ephemera such as event brochures, but we make an exception for these two guides to significant cultural events, found in our archives.
The guide to the Port Moresby Show 1987 (16.1MB) interestingly includes advertisements for tobacco products.
The guide to the Sogeri SingSing 1987 (10MB) presents brief explanations of dances from the provinces.
