Series 2 - Family History


Date Range1906 - 1980
Quantity18.5 cm, 30 items
ProvenanceDewar Wilson Goode
Description

Material from Dewar's parents, Cecil H. Goode ("Pop") and Frances Ida Goode (née Sawers), known as "Dutchie", short for Dutchess. Cecil was appointed as the first Pastoral Inspector of South Australia in July, 1924, and as a member of the Pastoral Board in October, 1935. This file includes an account of their journey around central Australia, 1925, family history and information on land management, use and conservation through letters and diaries. Family correspondence; personal papers, documents and memorabilia; newspaper clippings, booklets, certificates, photographs, articles, maps, brochures, diaries and sketches; photographs of outback south and central Australia; Cecil H Goodes notebooks detailing pastoral inspections, appointments, general notes, conservation and land management, rainfall, land use, and extracts from his diaries; publications regarding North-South Railway including Parliamentary visits to South Australia and the Northern Territory; various material in relation to Goode and Sawers family history; and other miscellaneous notes, documents and correspondence.

Section 1 - Cecil H. Goode's notebooks, GOOD00044 - GOOD00051
Section 2 - Documents, GOOD00052 - GOOD00072, GOOD00937


Inventory Listing

GOOD00044 1937

Pocket-book: notes on pastoral inspections, appointments, general notes, 1937.

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1937    Quantity 0.7 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier GOOD00044 Box Number 16 Series 2
GOOD00045 1939

Pocket-book: notes on pastoral inspections, appointments, general notes, 1939.

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1939    Quantity 1.3 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier GOOD00045 Box Number 16 Series 2
GOOD00046 1940 - 1941

Pocket-book: notes on pastoral inspections, conservation and land management, appointments, general notes.

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1940 - 1941    Quantity 0.6 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier GOOD00046 Box Number 16 Series 2
GOOD00047 1942

Extract from work diary, notes and appointments.

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1942    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier GOOD00047 Box Number 16 Series 2
GOOD00048 1943

Exercise book: notes on pastoral inspections, sustainable production in primary industry, general notes.

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1943    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier GOOD00048 Box Number 16 Series 2
GOOD00049 1943 - 1944

Pocket-book: notes on pastoral inspections, rainfall, stock, appointments, general notes.

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1943 - 1944    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier GOOD00049 Box Number 16 Series 2
GOOD00050 1945 - 1947

Pocket-book: notes on pastoral inspections, rainfall, land use, appointments, general notes.

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1945 - 1947    Quantity 1.1 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier GOOD00050 Box Number 16 Series 2
GOOD00051 c.1951 - 1954

Extract from 'work diary': notes on wheat and woolgrowers' organisation, general notes.

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1951? - 1954    Quantity 0.6 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier GOOD00051 Box Number 16 Series 2
GOOD00052 Cecil H. Goode - Pastoral Inspection work

Letters of recommendation from: Geo F. Jenkins; T. Pascoe; J.E. Pick; W.G. Pryor (duplicates), 1924. Correspondence and documents of appeal against appointment of members to the Pastoral Board, not upheld, 1930; outline of duties; outline of professional appointments; application for reclassification, 1930 & 1937.

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1924 - 1937    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence and Forms
Inventory Identifier GOOD00052 Box Number 16 Series 2
GOOD00053 C.H.G. References; also D.W.G.

C.H.G. references from: J.E. Pick; Geo F. Jenkins; T. Pascoe; W.G. Pryor; Richard Butler. Letters from: P(?).S. Messent, Theo E. Day (Department. Lands & Survey); A.E. McKinnear (Public Service). Letters to: T. Butterfield; G.A. Hobler; Aust. Prime Minister (S.M. Bruce). Cecil Goode's Drivers' Licence, 1925; notes on the arid zone. D.W.G. references: V.U.A. Gratton, 1924; Sir Robert Menzies, 1980; University of Adelaide, Junior Commercial Examination, 1922.

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1922 - 1980    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Ephemera and Forms
Inventory Identifier GOOD00053 Box Number 16 Series 2
GOOD00054 North-South Railway, Parliamentary visit of the two possible routes through S.A. and the N.T. - 20 April to 31 May 1925

Press clippings, 1925: 'North-South Railway - Sr. Wilson Replies to Rp. Foster', Dr C. Chewings, 'Another Railway and a New State', and C.F. Gray, letter to the editor, Register, 20 April 1925; 'The North-South Line - Western Route Favored', 12 April; Hubert Basedow, S. Newland, C.L. Gray, 'North-South Railway - Letters to the Editor', Register (?) 20 April; 'The Bruce-Gunn Agreement', Advertiser, 23 April; 'The Need For A Railway - Freight Charges to Central Australia', Register(?), 17 May; 'Travellers Return. Ministerial Party in Adelaide', Advertiser, 2 June; 'Minerals Galore - Politicians Outback - Enthusiastic Welcome', Register(?), 20 May; 'Central Australia. Pastoral and Mineral Possibilities. Languishing for Lack of a Railway', and C.D. Baun, 'Views and Comments. North-South Railway' Advertiser, 21 May; 'North-East Pastoral Country' and 'Visit to Pastoral Areas' (source?); 'The North-South Line', Register, 22 April; 'Off to the 'Never-Never'. Parliamentary Party on Tour. Inspection of North-South Railway Routes', Advertiser, 13 May; Sir Josiah Symon, 'North-South Railway. One More Pilgrimage', Advertiser, 21 May; 'The North-South Railway. Ministerial Party's Tour. The Problem of the Aborigines.', Advertiser, 25 May; 'Legislators' Tour. Necessity for North-South Railway. Following the Survey Track', Register, 25 May; 'The North-South Railway. Ministerial Party Returning.' Advertiser, 25 May; 'North-South Railway. The Kingoonya Route. In the Grip of a Drought', Advertiser, 29 May; 'North-South Railway. Premier's Reply to Rp. Foster. Alleged Misstatements.', and 'Outback Conditions. Water the Prime Need. Stock in Unexpected Places', Register, 29 May; 'The North-South Railway. Tour of Inspection Finished. Splendid Pastoral Country.', Advertiser, 1 June; 'Rival Routes to the North. Tour of the Legislators. Return to Port Augusta. pinions of the Leaders.', Register, 1 June; 'The North-South Railway', Advertiser(?), 2 June; 'The North-South Railway. Which Route? Several Factors Discussed.', Register, 2 June.

Trans-Australia Railway, Dining Car Service Menu (x2), autographed by participants in parliamentary visit;

F.E. Bernhardt, 'Road Map from Marree to Oodnadatta via Coward Springs and William Creek'.

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1925?    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Formats News Clippings and Sketches
Inventory Identifier GOOD00054 Box Number 16 Series 2
GOOD00055 Cecil Goode - Correspondence

Letters from: P(?).S. Messent; J.W.S. Taylor; Brit Davies; Bank of Adelaide; L.G. (Lin) Riches; D(?).L. Greenfield; Geo F. Jenkins; J. Dunn. Letters to: Commissioner of Crown Lands; Beltana Pastoral Co; A.C. Jillett with application for Reclassification; Deputy Commissioner of Taxation; Dog Fence Board; J.C.B. Morley; Doug Edwards; S.A. Wheat & Wool Growers' Association. Correspondence: E.A. Scown; A.T. Honner, L. Barrett; Donald McLennan; John Brooke; R. Standford, Vermin Districts Association, with 'Buffer Fence Committees (sic.) Proposals'.

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1927 - 1952    Quantity 0.6 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier GOOD00055 Box Number 16 Series 2
GOOD00056 Dewar Goode - Correspondence

Letters from: C.H. Goode (Pop); Amateur Sports Club; D.L. Ross, Atlas Accident Assurance Co.; Astoria Taxi Service. Correspondence: K.L. Murray. Letter to Massey-Ferguson Ltd re newspaper advertisement, attached.

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1945 - 1961    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier GOOD00056 Box Number 16 Series 2
GOOD00057 Dutchie Goode's Letters

Letters from Dutchie Goode to Dewar and family: 1949, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, and undated.

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1949 - 1963    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier GOOD00057 Box Number 16 Series 2
GOOD00058 Family History, Goode and Sawers

Dutchie Goode's notes on Sawers family, notably Alexander Dewar Sawers, her father. Booklets: Sheoak Hills and Pitcarn, Property of A.D. Sawers & Sons, and Mintadloo, Property of Thomas Goode & Sons (originals and duplicates). Press clippings: 'Early Days at Canowie. Chat With Veteran Ex-Manager. Mr. Thomas Goode Reminiscent', Register, 1925 (2 copies); 'A Sturdy Pioneer. Stories of the Early Days.' Advertiser(?), 1925 (original, 2 copies); 'Death of Mr T. Goode. A Notable Sheepbreeder.', Register, 23 July 1926 (copy); 'Nonagenarian Pastoralist. Mr A.D. Sawers.' Register, 1925. Photocopies: photographs of family members, homesteads; press clippings, 'Sunderland Beats Eight Nazis - Shoots Down Three', June 1943 (source?), 'S.A. Air Hero Gets D.F.M.' (Ray M. Goode), and '2 S.A. Airmen Missing - One Holds D.F.M.', August, 1943 (source?); scroll commemorating death of R.M. Goode in WWII. Copies of documents tracing Goode family back to 1543; copies of letters from David Newgreen, 1966, and Glen H. Goode, 1973; copy of Rosina M. Sawers' last will (1 March 1930).

THIS ITEM IS MISSING (noted by Rachel Tropea and Ann McCarthy 25 Feb 2008)

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1925? - 1973?    Quantity 1.2 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier GOOD00058 Box Number 16 Series 2
GOOD00059 Ridgeway & Chamberlaine, Chiltern Road Land

Correspondence: D.A. McKenzie-McHarg Ll.B. re Ridgeway and Chamberlaine, Chiltern Road Land.

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1971 - 1972    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier GOOD00059 Box Number 16 Series 2
GOOD00060 Original Documents and Certificates

Cecil H. Goode: Birth Certificate; Marriage certificate of Cecil Goode and Frances Sawers and sepia photograph of same annotated by C. Goode, 1906; Certificate of Appointment of Inspector (of Pastoral Leases); Georgii V Regis A.D. 1922 and 1925, Nos. 1543 and 1710, 'Shearers Accommodation Act'; Malbooma Gold Mining and Prospecting Syndicate, shareholder's certificate (John A. Ryan, 1925); Yicova Limited, shareholder's certificate, 1932; Driver's Licence, 1953-56. Dewar W. Goode: Birth Certificate (x2) and extract; Grand Lodge Warrant (Free Masonry) 1934; certificate of appointment as Justice of the Peace; Identity Card, 1945; Certificate of Cremation, Frances Ida Goode, 1968.

THIS ITEM IS MISSING (noted by Rachel Tropea and Ann McCarthy 25 Feb 2008)

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1906 - 1960, Mostly 1906 - 1945    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Inventory Identifier GOOD00060 Box Number 16 Series 2
GOOD00061 Photographs of Outback South and Central Australia

Sepia tone and B&W photographs listed as 'Trip of Parliamentary Party to Oodnadatta, Alice Springs, Opal Fields, Kingoonya, etc. (May 13th to June 1st, 1925)'; Photographs numbered 1 to 57 and original list. Includes many photographs of people, including Aboriginal men and women.

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1925    Quantity 1.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier GOOD00061 Box Number 16 Series 2
GOOD00062 Photographs of Outback South and Central Australia

Sepia tone and B&W photographs listed as 'Trip of Parliamentary Party to Oodnadatta, Alice Springs, Opal Fields, Kingoonya, etc. (May 13th to June 1st, 1925)'; Photographs numbered 58 to 117 and duplicate list. Includes many photographs of people, including Aboriginal men and women.

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1925    Quantity 1.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier GOOD00062 Box Number 16 Series 2
GOOD00063 Photographs of Outback South and Central Australia

Sepia tone and B&W photographs filed as 'Trip of Parliamentary Party to Oodnadatta, Alice Springs, Opal Fields, Kingoonya, etc. (May 13th to June 1st, 1925)'; Photographs annotated (not numbered) and duplicate list. Includes many photographs of people, including Aboriginal men and women.

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1925    Quantity 0.9 cm, 1 file
Formats Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier GOOD00063 Box Number 16 Series 2
GOOD00064 Photographs of Outback South and Central Australia

Sepia tone and B&W photographs filed as 'Trip of Parliamentary Party to Oodnadatta, Alice Springs, Opal Fields, Kingoonya, etc. (May 13th to June 1st, 1925)'; Photographs neither numbered nor annotated. Includes many photographs of people, including Aboriginal men and women.

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1925    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier GOOD00064 Box Number 16 Series 2
GOOD00065 Press Clippings, Articles

'Pastoral Leases. Are They Under-valued? Prices Based on Production. A Fluctuating Quantity', 'Crown Leases. Method of Determining Unimproved Values. Report of Federal Royal Commission' and 'Pastoral Leases. Rents Said to be Too Low', Advertiser, February 1925; 'Motoring in the Far North', Dalgety's Review, 10 August 1928 (copy); 'World Bank For Reconstruction', 1944 (source?); 'Death Of Mr J.R. Goode', (date and source?); 'Inn painting for Chambers' re 'Goode's Inn' (copy, date and source?). Dewar Goode: 'The Situation of Landscape Planning for Agricultural Land Use in Australia', original and final draft, 1969. IUCN Eleventh Technical Meeting, extract from 'Papers and Proceedings': R.J. Benthem, D.W. Goode et al, 'The Northern Salt Lake Zone of Calcutta...', 1971.

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1925? - 1969?    Quantity 0.6 cm, 1 file
Formats Drafts, News Clippings and Published Papers or Articles
Inventory Identifier GOOD00065 Box Number 17 Series 2
GOOD00066 Sketches by Frances Ida Goode

Two pencil sketches, one annotated,

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1930?    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats Sketches
Inventory Identifier GOOD00066 Box Number 17 Series 2
GOOD00067 Notes and Incomplete Letters

'Rainfalls at Tarcoola', 1941; C.H. Goode and Dutchie Goode (?) diary notes (undated); notes for submission to the Pastoral Board; Kopperamanna Bore; incomplete letters. Dewar Goode: taxation calculations, 8 August 1949; 'Mallacoota'; telegram to L.G. Riches, 1946; general notes.

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1941? - 1949?    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence and Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier GOOD00067 Box Number 17 Series 2
GOOD00068 Family Letters

Cecil Goode: letter to Miss Dann, 1952; letter from W.E. Goode, 1957; correspondence with Dutchie Goode, 1957; letters to Mr & Mrs D.W. Goode sent overseas, 1968, from: Mrs Hugh Ross (Maggie) and telegram, C.H. Goode, Elizabeth (Liz) and David Smart, Mrs F.I. (Dutchie) Goode, Thomas D.M. Goode, Miss S. Jelbart; itinerary of journey.

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1952 - 1968    Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier GOOD00068 Box Number 17 Series 2
GOOD00069 Family Correspondence

Dewar Goode, letters from: Judy Goode; Liz and David Smart; Margaret and Hugh Ross; Margaret Margarey; copy of telegrams sent by the Australian Army re Thomas injured in Vietnam. Correspondence: Ban (?) re problems at Brim Brim; Thomas Goode; Margaret M. Goode; E.O. Cameron. Receipts from Margaret and from Elizabeth's weddings; will of Margaret M. Goode, 1969.Thomas Goode's letters to his family, Vietnam wartime, from the Army, 1967-69. Other personal family correspondence. Prescription for optical glasses, Dewar Goode. Notice of Margaret (Peg) Hyett's marriage to Dewar Goode, Geelong Advertiser, 26 January 1966; Betty Latty, 'Last Stop Brim Brim', re visit of Margaret Goode and friend to Arizona, Phoenix Gazette, 30 December 1965.

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1965 - 1969    Quantity 0.8 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier GOOD00069 Box Number 17 Series 2
GOOD00070 Maps and Brochures

Norman Bros. 'Map of Melbourne & Suburbs'; American Red Cross, 'Guide to Brisbane and Suburbs'; 'Plan showing approximate classification of Crown Pastoral Land'; Pamphlet, 'A Short Guide to the Devil's Bridge, The Punch Bowl and The Waterfalls'; small map showing Uro Bluff.

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range No date.    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Formats Ephemera and Maps
Inventory Identifier GOOD00070 Box Number 17 Series 2
GOOD00071 Miscellaneous Notes, Letters, Documents

'Some Aboriginal names and meanings'; 'Before (Pastoral) Board', cases presented by Cecil Goode, 1941-42; travel and transport permits and receipts; National Geographic Society, Bulletin, No. 18, November 1955: 'Some Important Australian Developmental Projects'; Bank of Adelaide cheque book; 3 colour photographs of Sawers family graves, Stirling; taxation forms; draft of proposed minute for Pastoral Board; Rules and Regulations of the Hamilton Club. Letters to Dot (?) from Fred Greene, Ted (?); notes.

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1941 - 1961    Quantity 0.4 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence and Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier GOOD00071 Box Number 17 Series 2
GOOD00072 Hymnbook and Baby Hair

Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1916, belonging to the Goode family; envelope, 'Baby Dewar's hair at 1 yr. 8 months'; photograph of Susan Howell (cousin of Dewar Goode).

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1908 - 1916    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Artefacts or Objects/Realia, Books and Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier GOOD00072 Box Number 17 Series 2
GOOD00937 Correspondence

Personal correspondence between Dewar Goode and others.

Creator Dewar Wilson Goode
Date range 1949 - 1958    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 plastic bag
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier GOOD00937 Box Number 17 Series 2

Published by the The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on AustehcWeb, August 2008
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