The Moriac District. Articles re-produced from 'The Australasian'. July 26th and Aug. 2nd, 1913
Geelong, S. Wrathall, Printer, 1913.
Duodecimo (external dimensions 169 x 90 mm), 20 pages.
Overlapping decorated card covers (light brown, printed in dark blue), originally saddle-stapled (with the slightly rusty staples still present), but with three small holes in all inner margins (where later stabbed for filing?); covers a little creased and bumped at the extremities; a very good copy.
Inscribed and signed in ink on the title page 'From E.E. Hendy Esq. Sept 1913'. Hendy figures regularly in the text by FWL (a regular contributor to 'The Australasian', it seems, but we have not yet identified him or her); 'the well-known Geelong firm, Messrs. Hendy, Leary and Co.' were pioneer developers in the district. Hendy's involvement was ongoing and substantial, according to the potted history contained in the Surfcoast Shire's 'Moriac Structure Plan' of February 2010 (accessed online). 'The rural village of Moriac [about 20 kilometres west of Geelong], south of Mount Moriac along the Hendy Main Road, is unusual as a privately laid-out township. It was the creation of E.E. Hendy, a Geelong estate agent and later a Shire of Barrabool Councillor. Hendy laid out the township beside Moriac Railway Station in 1924. He developed the subdivision at his own expense, including the construction of roads such as Hendy Highway ... Hendy also provided finance for a saleyard.' Not in Trove.
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