Lot 3948

Description

Australia, historic documents, includes Menu for The Quarterly Luncheon of the Right Worshipful the Mayor of Sydney, Alderman Isaac Ellis Ives, at the Town Hall on Thursday, 9th Septr 1897; Young People's Industrial Exhibition May 1901, During the visit of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, First Order of Merit, named to, 'Harold C. Williams/Physical Drill with Arms'; The Commonwealth of Australia, Inaugural Celebrations at Sydney, 1901, printed programme booklet; invitation for the Commonwealth of Australia Inaugural Celebrations and to attend a Pyrotechnical Illumination of Sydney Harbour on the 4th January, 1901, unnamed; invitation for the Commonwealth of Australia Inaugural Celebrations and to attend a Naval & Military Banquet in the Town Hall, Sydney on 5th January, 1901, unnamed and glued to a board; Australian Commonwealth Celebrations, The Government of Victoria, invitation to Royal Review at Flemington on Friday 10th May 1901, named to 'Mr W. Lowrie', in the form of a large and colourful board certificate suitable for framing. Some foxing but mostly fresh colours and very fine or better. (6)

William Lowrie was an agricultural educationalist. He reported fruitlessly to the Victorian government on various aspects of this subject but he was continually hampered by a succession of ministers who, according to a journalist of the time, 'scarcely knew the difference between a nanny goat and a Hereford bull'. With much disappointment he left Victoria during 1901 and headed to New Zealand as director of Canterbury Agricultural College (later Lincoln College).