The advance Australia

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N 059.4 ADV
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Melbourne : F. Davison, 1897-
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Vol. 03 No. 03 (7 Mar 1899)
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Advance Australia 1
Advertising 1
Advertising 1
No title 1
No title 1
TECHNICAL EDUCATION. 1
Advertising 1 , 2
ATTENTION. 2
NATHANIEL NEWCOME’S NOTIONS. 2
ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE. 2
HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA. 3 , 4
WHAT THE GOVERNMENT ACTUARY SAYS. 4
FLEMINGTON FLASHES. 4
THE MIDNIGHT HERD. 4
AN ARGUMENT FOR STATE OLD AGE PENSIONS. 5
SKELTON AT NORTH MELBOURNE. 5
Advertising 5
THE A.N.A. IN WEST AUSTRALIA. 5 , 6
BAREFOOT BILL. 6
Advertising 6
WAS THE BAZAAR A SUCCESS FINANCIALLY? 6
BRIGHTON BRANCH. 6 , 7
RICHMOND BRANCH. 7
A MATTER FOR CONSIDERATION. 7
Advertising 7
BOARD ANNUAL REPORT—SYNOPSIS. 7
ALBERT PARK. 7
Advertising 7
BOARD QUARTERLY MEETING. 8
TERANG BRANCH. 8
ALLSPICE. 8
THE MELBOURNE TURN AGAIN. 9
PYRAMID HILL BRANCH. 9
WEST AUSTRALIAN NOTES. 9
BRANXHOLME BRANCH. 10
CASTERTON BRANCH. 10
BALLARAT BRANCH. 10
Advertising 10
EGERTON BRANCH. 10
DEBATE TOURNAMENT. 10
Advertising 10
NOTES. 11
CARLTON ON THE “SHEET.” 11
BALLARAT BRANCH. 11
Advertising 11
ELSTERNWICK BRANCH. 12
OAKLEIGH BRANCH. 12
KILMORE BRANCH. 12
Advertising 12
THE CLIFTON HILL BRANCH. 12
Advertising 12
GAMBLING. 13
Advertising 13
METROPOLITAN COMMITTEE. 13
WHAT HAPPENED THERE. 13
Advertising 13
SURREY HILLS PRESIDENT’S NIGHT. 14
COLLINGWOOD LADIES’ NIGHT. 14
Advertising 14
CHILTERN BRANCH. 14
COBURG BRANCH. 14
WINDERMERE BRANCH. 14
ALBERT PARK BRANCH. 14
Advertising 14
FOR A WOMAN. 15
MALVERN MEMORIES. 15
TOURNAMENT DEBATE. 15
Advertising 15
NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS. BY No. 4. 16
OAKLEIGH BRANCH. 16
STAWELL BRANCH. 16
CHELTENHAM BRANCH. 16
KILMORE BRANCH. 16
Advertising 16
Consumption Can be Cured. 16
Advertising 16

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Advance Australia  

YOL. 111., No. 3.  

MARCH 7, 1899.  

ss. per annum, post free.  

JEFFERY  

STORE  

.WATER TANK  

JEFFERY’S PATENT  

TOWN COUNTRY FILTER  

TVAI tK TANK  

Specially recommended by  

Dr. Gresswell, Chairman of  

Board of Health, Dr.  

Springthorpe, and  

C. R. Blackett, Esq,  

Government nalyst  

SPRING ST.. Opposite Treasury. MELBOURNE.  

J. JEFFERY,  

Patent FILTER Maker,  

89 SPRING ST., MELB.  

By Special Appointment to his Excellency the  

Earl of Hopetoun.  

DR. GRESSWELL  

President of the Board of  

Public Health,  

REPORTS that  

OUT and OUT the Best Filters  

are  

JEFFERVS  

OF SPRING STREET, MELBOURNE.  

T. CRAIN  

Carriage Buggy Hanufacturer,  

CITY RD., PRINCES BRIDCE,  

Vehicles of every description. New or Second  

Hand, Exchanges Made  

Telephone 1011.  

Established 1854  

LADIES’ RALLI CART.  

ftif “|iluai\re  

PUBLISHED MONTHLY.  

133 BOURKE STREET, MELBOURNE.  

Business Manager— FRED. DAVISON.  

Subscription: —5s. per annum, in advance, post free to pri-  

vate address.  

For Advertisement Rates, and all other information, apply to  

the Business Manager —Fred. Davison, 133 Bourke Street Mel-  

bourne.  

We will be glad to receive items of news and reports of branch  

meetings, especially from the Country Branches. Such reports will  

tend to keep our members more in touch with each other, and  

promote friendly intercourse in manner that must be beneficial to  

the Association.  

Contributions, on National or Association topics, sent to the  

Editor, care of our Business Manager, will receive careful attention,  

and will find place in our columns, should the subject be deemed  

of sufficient importance.  

“ Fling out the flag, let her flap and rise  

With the rush of the eager air,  

With the ring of the wild swan’s wing  

As she flies from the swamp and her reedy lair.  

Fling out the flag, and let friend or foe  

Behold, for gain or loss,  

The Sign of our Faith and fight we fight—  

The Stars of the Southern Cross.”  

If proof were needed rf the harm that the art union is  

doing in the A.N.A., it could be found in the manner in  

which it has divided the members into two camps.  

Each party is saying hard things of the other, and the  

cohesion that is necessary for the welfare of the As-  

sociation is in danger of being lost.  

And all for what ?—For the continuance of diluted  

gamble, out of which its supporters do not make single  

shilling personally, by which the Association does not  

benefit in the slightest degree, and to which many of  

our members are conscientiously opposed.  

Then why does the Metropolitan Committee year  

after year tack the art union to their Demonstration  

It may be argued that such action is induced by charit-  

able motives but it will be remembered that time was  

was when it was run for other purposes than charity,  

and it was only when the law declared that the profits  

must be devoted to that end that the hospitals of Vic-  

toria began to benefit.  

Undoubtedly, the art union ensures the Metropolitan  

Committee against lost in running the national holiday  

celebration, and in that respect it is worthy of consider-  

ation. But the question arises whether such means  

of providing against failure is worthy of an Association  

that professes as high an aim as does the A.N.A. Can  

national holiday be worthy of the name that depends  

upon such backing for its continuance. National holi-  

days are, like national songs, not made by enactment or  

of set purpose—they grow spontaneously.  

The Association is making big effort to spew out  

this art union element of discord. Its presence (irre-  

spective entirely of its morality or otherwise) is dang  

erous to the general welfare—sundering, as it does, the  

members. It is something entirely outside the scope  

of the A.N.A., and certainly was not contemplated by  

our founders. It is setting member against member  

branch against branch, and —greatest danger of all—  

town against country and, there is nothing in the forir  

of set-off against all this mischief by which the As  

sociation benefits. Is the game worth the candle  

The Metropolitan Committee is body of delegates  

whose intentions and work are worthy of all praise  

At the present moment they are organising movemen  

that will lead to the development of musical and his  

trionic talent that is latent in our branches, and theii  

work in other directions is too well known to need re-  

hearsing here. They are progressive and enterprising  

and much good work remains to which they could put  

their hands. Does not the time spent in the run-  

ning of the art union prevent other and better ends  

being accomplished, as, according to statement in the  

public press, made by the secretary of the committee  

six months of the year are taken up by it—a statemenl  

well within the mark in fact, there has not been for  

the past twelve months single meeting of that body  

at which much of the time was not taken up by fete and  

art union business.  

Strong efforts will be made at the approaching Con-  

ference to induce delegates to vote for or against Board  

members according to their attitude towai'ds this ques-  

tion. No greater crime against the welfare of the As-  

sociation could be committed than yielding to such  

pressure—for it might result in the election of nonen-  

tities, and the rejection of capable men. We believe  

that delegates will use their commonsense, and answer  

all touters of that kidney in fitting manner.  

Again we emphasise that no question has arisen  

that has caused such split and engendered so much  

ill-feeling, and it will be well for our Association when  

finality is arrived at, and the cause of the trouble re-  

moved.  

And the ridiculousness of the situation is that neither  

the Metropolitan Committee nor the Association can  

under the present Act—whatever they may have done  

in the past—benefit to the extent of halfpenny.  

What are the supporters of the art union fighting for  

The whole business savors very much of misdirected  

energy and wasted effort.  

TECHNICAL EDUCATION.  

Search the pages of Australian history, and it is ques-  

tionable if there can be cited any previous question  

which has developed from the germ of academic  

thought and entered the fuller life of practical discus-  

sion more rapidly than that of technical education. The  

people of Victoria have become amazingly reflective  

since the Boom., The environment was favorable.  

The ocean requires the breeze to produce the ripple  

and the wave, and the one or two early earnest advo-  

cates had no difficulty in producing favorable impres-  

sions. They had the facts and figures, most of which,  

from the technical standpoint, were unanswerable.  

One of the healthiest signs in the movement was the  

manner in which many of the branches dealt with the  

question. The Board of Directors was urged to act.  

To them was offered the suggestion by this paper to  

adopt it as an article of the Association's faith. They  

await the instructions of the Port Fairy Conference.  

In the meantime, an association for the promotion of  

technical education has been formed, having for its  

president Sir John Madden, and for its vice-presidents  

some of the most respected and ablest of our citizens,  

including Professor Kernct, David Syme, L. MacKinnon,  

and our Carty Salmon. Amongst its council and mem-  

bers are University professors, journalists, clergymen,  

medical practitioners, architects, engineers, builders,  

modellers, carvers, representatives of every guild, asso  

ciation, trade, and of technical colleges and other edu-  

cational concerns.  

Briefly, technical education is acknowledged by  

nearly all as an absolute necessity.  

The Ministry of the day is fully alive to its import-  

ance. Within the Cabinet is technical education  

committee, in which the deparfments of Agriculture,  

Mines, and Education are represented. Beyond the  

Cabinet is sub-committee of departmental experts,  

all actively engaged upon enquiry and collating evi-  

dence.  

Professor Lyle has undertaken the onerous duties of  

collecting data in the United States and in Europe.  

Mr. Peacock is journeying to Sydney and Brisbane to  

see what they can do there. The permanent Secre-  

tary of Education, some two months ago, visited Syd-  

ney and reported confidentially into the then system.  

Indeed, the air is full of technical education, and it is  

highly satisfactory that so important subject is re-  

ceiving so much popular attention.  

Education is means to an end broadly, it deals  

with the intellectual and physical as well as the moral  

and spiritual development of mankind. Technical edu-  

cation is but branch of the educational requirements  

of the time, but it—let us repeat —has been shamefully  

neglected in Australia. There can be no doubt of its  

being national question, and as little doubt of its na-  

tional importance. We commend it most heartily to  

the favorable consideration of the Conference.  

PIANOS AND ■ ORGANS  

'h  

BY  

ALL THE  

LEADING MAKERS,  

INCLUDING  

Lipp Sohn, Ronisch,  

THE CELEBRATED  

Gors Kullman and  

Arion Pianos.  

Special Reduction in  

Prices.  

CASH OR EXTENDED TERMS.  

Brasch Co.,  

ioB  

ELIZABETH ST.  

Opposite McEwan’s.  

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