1. PLANTEAMIENTOS TEÓRICOS
1.3 Etnografía del post-socialismo y la ciudad
1.3.2 La ciudad post-socialista
Gippsland Heritage Journal no.7 pages 29-30.
H.B. Hammond opened a photographic studio in Maffra in the early 1900s. By the time of his death in 1951 he had compiled an extensive photographic record of events in Maffra and district.
Pearce, Florence
The history of herd testing and artificial breeding in the Maffra district
[Boisdale, Vic: F. Pearce], 1983. 38 pages.
History of the early years of herd testing and artificial breeding in the Maffra district, with biographies of some of the main personalities involved.
Pearce, Florence
Maffra 1840-1900
Gippsland Writer vol.1 no.1 pages 44-45, Winter 1986.
Brief history of the early years of settlement in the Maffra district. Pearce, Florence
The Hon Allan Mclean 1839-1911: An Australian story.
Maffra, Vic: Maffra and District Historical Society, 2000. 18 pages, processed. Allan McLean, a Maffra stock and station agent, was Premier of Victoria, the
Gippsland’s first federal parliamentarian. There he rose to a position today equivalent to Deputy Prime Minister.
Pearce, Florence.
The street where you live: historic buildings of Maffra
Boisdale, Vic: F. Pearce, 1991. 32 pages.
Historic and recent photographs of buildings in Maffra are accompanied by brief histories.
Powel, R.W. [Roy]
A history of Maffra Co-operative Milk Products Ltd 1918-1967
Maffra, Vic, MS. 149 pages. [Maffra Library] Power, John
Squatters and selectors: an historical geography of the Central Gippsland Plains
1979. 64 pages. (B.A. University of Melbourne)
The process of land settlement, in a wide area around Sale and Maffra, is examined in relation to the geography of the region. The problems faced by selectors under the Selection Acts from 1860 to 1880 are also scrutinised.
Report on inspection of dairy herds premises at Maffra Gippsland August 1897 for the Maffra Concentrated Milk Coy Ltd
1898. 2 pages.
Copy of report detailing farmers, numbers and condition of cows, pastures, and state of milking sheds.
Rotary Club of Maffra: 50 years of service : the story of the Rotary Club of Maffra 1947-1997.
Maffra, Vic: the club, [1997?]. 41 pages. Traill, Bill
Memories of a Maffra boyhood 1937-48
33 pages, processed, 2002.
Recollections of a childhood living in Maffra, describing events in the town as well as everyday life during the depression, the war years and the postwar period. Food and shopping, travel, recreation and school experiences are recalled. [CGS]
Traill, W.J.; Reed, Ron; Popov, Val.
The Maffra football story.
Maffra, Vic: Past Players Assoc., 2008. Vardy, Wal
Lions Club of Maffra: twentieth anniversary 1970-1990
1990. 32 pages.
Victoria. State Development Committee
Report of the State Development Committee on the Maffra beet sugar factory
Melbourne: Government Printer, 1948. 28 pages.
Beet sugar growing and processing at Maffra is investigated, examining profit and loss accounts, sugar beet prices, areas planted, experiments into means of reducing cost of production, and the effects of the stabilisation of the dairy industry. The report does not recommend the reopening of the factory and suggests maize as an alternative industry.
Waldron, Alan E.
The beet sugar industry in Maffra: establishment, failure and re-establishment, 1895-1910
1982. 44 pages. Whitmore, S.J.
Maffra and federation
N.d. 10 pages.
Research essay analysing the effect of the sugar beet industry on the way Maffra residents voted in the referendum on federation in 1898.
M
AFFRAS
HIREThe beet sugar industry: 1894 to 1948.
[Previously published as Maffra’s Beet Sugar Industry, 1894-1948]. Maffra, Vic: Maffra and District Historical Society, 2011. 35 pages, processed, includes
photographic supplement.
Dairy Factories in the former Maffra Shire: research notes.
Notes, mainly from newspapers, of factories and creameries at Maffra, Tinamba, Heyfield, Glenmaggie, Newry, Boisdale, Valencia Creek and Briagolong.
Eager, Elaine
An economic study of share tenancy on dairy farms in the Maffra Shire of Victoria
1972. 392 pages. (M.Ag. University of Melbourne) Study of sharefarming in the Victorian dairy industry, based on a survey of sharefarms in the Maffra Shire in 1970. Kemp, Doris
Maffra: the history of the shire to 1975
[Maffra, Vic]: Maffra Shire Council, 1975. 162 pages.
Comprehensive history of the Shire of Maffra, from the early pastoral runs, then closer settlement, the formation of the shire, the beet sugar industry and development of the area up to 1975.
Local resources: Shire of Maffra
Gippsland Heritage Journal no.6 pages 47-48, 1989.
Listing of resources of assistance to family historians and local history researchers. Maffra & District Historical Society
Full index of names, places and topics for The Bulletin nos 1-88
Maffra, Vic: JJB Publications, 1996.
[A more up-to-date index is now available online through
http://www.maffra.net.au/heritage/
Maffra & District Historical Society
Maffra & District Historical Society Bulletin
No.1 (Aug 1973) – Contains articles on the history and pioneers of the Maffra district. Maffra Shire Council; Maffra Chamber of Commerce
Shire of Maffra
Victoria's Resources vol.5 no.2 pages 54-7, June-Aug 1963.
Brief history of Maffra, detailing the amenities of the town and the agricultural pursuits and secondary industries of Maffra Shire.
Meals, memories and Maffra: a collection of recipes and memories from your grandmother's days
Maffra, Vic; St Andrew's Uniting Church, 1997. 101 pages.
Includes notes and photographs of churches of all denominations in Maffra and the surrounding districts.
Monash Public History Group; Aitken, Richard (ed)
Macalister landscapes: history and heritage in Maffra Shire
Bairnsdale, Vic: Kapana Press/Centre for Gippsland Studies, 1994. 118 pages. An examination of how natural features and human occupation have formed the present landscape, covering the themes of Aboriginal occupation, squatting, selection, timber industry, dairying, sugar beet industry, irrigation and high country grazing.
Mosaic memorials in Maffra Library.
Short history and description of memorials to Louise B. Riggall, a Red cross volunteer who died in WWI, and Irene Singleton, a nurse who died as a prisoner of war in WII. Neilsen, C.
The origin and development of Maffra Shire from 1840-1950
1969. 270 pages.
History of settlement in the Maffra district, including a history of each town, the formation of the Shire and the sugar beet industry.
Pearce, Florence (comp); Hitchins, Pauline (comp)
Bald Hills to Bundalaguah: first one hundred years
[Maffra, Vic]: Maffra and District Historical Society, 1975. 28 pages. Brief history of all the towns and districts within the Shire of Maffra.
Shire of Maffra centenary celebrations 1875-1975: programme and invitation
Maffra, Vic: Shire of Maffra, 1975. Watson, Darren
Unlocking the land: selection in Maffra Shire
Gippsland Heritage Journal no.15 pages 11-17, Dec 1993.
Examination of changes in the environment in Maffra Shire resulting from the selection of land after the Land Sale Acts of the 1860s.
M
ARLAYP
OINT10th anniversary Lake Wellington Yacht Club 1978 Marlay Point Overnight Race : Australia’s top trailer sailer event : Saturday, 11th March, 1978.
Sale, Vic: Lake Wellington yacht Club, 1978. 28 pages. Johns, Flora
From Bundalaguah to Marlay Point
[Sale, Vic: F. Johns, 1985]. 66 pages.
History of settlement in the district surrounding Bundalaguah.
M
EERLIEUSimpson, Marjorie M.