Place Names of South Australia - B
Belair
Belair
Government Farm
It is described in the Adelaide Times,
11 November 1851, page 4d.
"Recollections of Old Government Farm" is in the Register,
20 November 1915, page 8f,
Observer,
27 November 1915, page 52a.
A fire at the farm is reported in the Register,
6 and 7 February 1877, pages 5g; also see
21, 24, 26 and 28 February 1881, pages 7c, 6c, 6e and 6f for discussion of its proposed sale,
26 November 1883, page 7a.
Also see South Australia - Natural Disasters - Bushfires.
Its history is in the Register,
11 January 1882, page 4d-5f; also see
12 January 1882, pages 4g and 6a and
Advertiser,
12 January 1882, page 6c,
Observer,
14 January 1882, pages 24d-35d.
The use of "unemployed labour" from Adelaide is reported in the Register,
30 November 1885, page 5,
1 and 14 December 1885, pages 5a and 7a; also see
8 and 13 January 1886, pages 4f and 4h-6d,
30 July 1889, page 6g.
A letter from Samuel Dixon under the heading "Government Farm as a National Park" is in the Register,
29 March 1890, page 7f; also see
16 June 1890, page 7f,
7 July 1890, page 6h,
30 July 1890, page 3d,
Advertiser,
30 August 1890, page 6d,
24 October 1890, page 5g.
Also see Register,
7, 18 and 21 October 1890, pages 4h, 7a and 5g,
25 November 1890, page 5e,
2 December 1890, page 7f,
23 and 29 April 1891, pages 3d and 6d,
18 May 1891, page 6c,
24 October 1891, page 4e,
Observer,
6 September 1890, page 7a,
16 and 23 May 1891, pages 31e and 7e,
6 February 1892, page 34d,
Advertiser,
5 November 1891, page 4d.
Register,
15 December 1891, page 5c,
1 February 1892, pages 4e-6f,
13 June 1892, page 5d,
18 November 1892, page 5b,
17 January 1893, page 6f,
7 August 1893, page 5a,
8 August 1894, pages 4h-6c,
22 April 1895, page 6b,
7 August 1895, page 3h,
5 September 1896, page 5a,
3 July 1897, page 4f,
23 January 1899, page 7d,
2 February 1903, page 7h,
Observer,
27 April 1895, page 13b,
10 July 1897, page 44b.
A field naturalists excursion is reported in the Register,
22 March 1892, page 7g,
18 October 1898, page 7d,
29 November 1898, page 7g,
1 November 1904, page 4f,
18 December 1906, page 11g.
A proposed National Park Hotel is discussed in the Register,
24 March 1892, page 3h.
"The National Park - An Enchanting Panorama" is in the Register,
21 September 1901, page 10h; also see
7 and 26 October 1901, pages 6g (history of)
1 November 1901, page 4f.
A photograph of the entrance to the park is in the Chronicle,
22 March 1902, page 40,
of the commissioners on
19 April 1913, page 31; also see
Observer,
20 January 1906, pages 29-30,
9 January 1909, page 31.
"The National Park" is in the Observer,
28 September 1901, page 3a,
Chronicle,
25 Otober 1902, page 32.
"What the National Park Lacks" is in the Register,
22 September 1904, page 4d; also see
4 November 1904, page 4f.
A picnic for poor children is reported on
20 February 1905, page 6c.
Photographs of picnics are in the Observer,
21 December 1912, page 32,
11 January 1913, page 32.
"National Park - A Grand Inheritance" is in the Register on
27 August 1910, page 6b,
"Our National Park" on
17 December 1918, page 4d; also see
Advertiser,
19 September 1931, page 5g and
21 December 1932, page 20i under "Saved the National Park".
An account of the drowning of the park's curator in the Long Gully reservoir is in the Observer,
11 January 1913, page 51e.
"National Park Tragedy" is in the Chronicle,
15 September 1923, page 46a.
"Arcady in the Hills" is in The News,
19 January 1934, page 6e.
"Looking After Our National Park" is in the Advertiser,
11 December 1937, page 12a.
Belair
Beefacres - Bellum Bellum
B
Place Names
Belair
Inebriates' Retreat
Also see South Australia - Social Matters - Temperance and Allied Matters - Treatment of Inebriates.
Information on the retreat is in the Observer,
29 April 1876, page 20g.
A sketch is in the Pictorial Australian in
March 1886, page 37.
The rules and regulations of the Inebriates' Retreat appear in Parliamentary Paper 68/1877 and the
Register,
8 June 1877, page 5g; also see
Advertiser,
9 January 1878, page 6g,
Observer,
13 July 1878, page 11a,
Register,
11 January 1879, page 16a,
25 July 1879, page 6a,
10, 13 and 17 January 1880, pages 5a-b-6a, 5a and 6d,
27 January 1881, page 6b,
1 February 1881, page 1f (supp.),
Advertiser,
15 August 1879, page 4f,
3 and 10 February 1880, pages 5d and 2d (supp.),
28 and 29 January 1881, pages 4e-6d and 6e,
31 July 1882, page 4d,
Express,
3, 10 and 12 February 1880, pages 3c, 3g and 3e.
A comprehensive article on the retreat is in the Register,
14 August 1880, page 5g; also see
19 August 1880, page 6b:
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Life at the retreat may be very easily described. It is one perpetual holiday - an Eden with several forbidden fruits.
15 January 1881, pages 5a-6f,
Express,
15, 17, 27, 28 and 29 January 1881, pages 3d, 3f, 2g, 3f and 3d, Register,
15 and 27 January 1881, pages 5a-6f and 4g-6b,
1, 4 and 5 February 1881, pages 1f (supp.), 6g and 1d (supp.),
29 July 1882, page 5b,
18 May 1883, pages 4f-g and 5g,
28 July 1883 (supp.), page 1d,
5 November 1883, page 5f,
1 August 1884, pages 4g-7b,
11 July 1885, page 4h,
1 August 1885, pages 4h-7h,
2 October 1885, page 4h,
14 November 1885, page 7d,
Express,
26 January 1885, page 3d.
Also see Register,
11 September 1886, pages 4h-6a,
12 January 1887, page 6f,
26 August 1887, pages 4h-6h,
24 July 1888, page 7a,
18 December 1888, page 5c,
14 January 1889, page 5c,
30 July 1889, pages 4g-6e,
12 October 1889, page 5c,
16 August 1890, page 7f,
25 July 1891, page 5c,
6 May 1892, page 5e,
23 July 1892, page 7e,
13 September 1892, page 6g,
15 November 1892, page 5c,
17 February 1893, pages 4h-6f,
15 April 1893 (supp.), page 1a,
11 August 1893, page 6b,
10 August 1894, pages 4h-6f,
20 February 1895, page 6h,
20 April 1896, page 6f,
13 May 1896, page 7g,
Observer,
9 March 1895, page 35a,
25 April 1896, page 43a,
Express,
18 August 1897, page 4d,
23 April 1912, page 4a,
Blackwood Magazine,
August 1914.
Biographical details of Rev W.L. Morton are in the Register,
18 November 1892, page 5c;
also see 17 February 1893, pages 4h-6f,
15 April 1893, page 1a (supp.).
"Hope Lodge, Belair" is in the Chronicle,
6 February 1897, page 15b; also see
Register,
11 August 1899, page 6g,
Observer,
19 August 1899, page 15b,
Express,
2 August 1901, page 3f.
"A New Tutor [Rev Berry] for Hope Lodge" is in the Register,
11 and 14 January 1899, pages 4h and 6c,
Observer,
14 January 1899, page 28c.
A photograph of the Angas Consumptive Home, formerly "Hope Lodge", is in the Chronicle,
7 May 1904, page 41.
"Inebriate Retreat - Eden Hills Building to be Used" is in the Register,
24 April 1912, page 10a.
Also see Place Names - Eden Hills
Place Names - Nunyara
Adelaide - Asylums, Reformatories and Homes
South Australia - Social Matters - Temperance.
Belair
Beefacres - Bellum Bellum
B
Place Names
Belair
Miscellany
Nomenclature
The Blackwood Magazine of June 1914 says:
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G.A. Ludewigs subdivided the place, giving it the appropriate name Belair, meaning "beautiful air''. Mr Ludewigs conducted the first store and post office in the district and General Registry Office records show him selling lots 3 and 4 of section 1144 in 1861. Earlier, the 'Township of Belair' was advertised in 1858 as being situated 'at the junction of the roads to Government Park, Cherry Gardens, Clarendon and Brighton.'
General Notes
"Free School at Belair" is in the Observer,
23 July 1859, page 8d:
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The picturesque highland recess of Belair, owing hitherto its charms to nature alone, will henceforth be indebted to civilisation and charity for adding those of a higher order - as among the various erections on the extensive plateau of the township will, at no distant time, be numbered a school and teacher's residence...
Also see
Chronicle,
7 July 1860, page 7g.
Register,
12 July 1860, page 2h.
The opening of a school is reported in the Register,
27 December 1860, page 3e; also see
Express,
4 May 1894, page 2c,
Register,
5 May 1894, page 6h,
Observer,
12 May 1894, page 14d.
A photograph of the school choir is in the Observer,
1 November 1913, page 29.
The opening of a Christian Brethren Chapel is reported in the Register,
20 May 1864, page 3b.
Miss Terry's jam-making factory is described in the Register,
8 February 1883, page 6c.
A field naturalists' excursion is reported in the Register,
27 October 1885, page 6e,
21 September 1886, page 6h,
25 October 1927, page 5g.
Sketches of a coach accident are in the Pictorial Australian in
January 1889, page 5;
a report is in the Register,
1 and 3 January 1889, pages 7a and 5a.
Also see South Australia - Transport - Horse Coaches.
"The Belair Nursery" is in the Register,
21 September 1889, page 5c.
The laying of the foundation stone of the Church of the Holy Innocents is reported in the Chronicle,
1 October 1898, page 17e.
A proposed consumptive home is discussed in the Register,
25 and 26 April 1904, pages 4d-6f and 7h,
2 and 18 May 1904, pages 4d-5b and 7h,
9 July 1904, page 10h,
24 and 31 August 1904, pages 9h and 8b.
Register,
10 October 1912, pages 6d-8g.
Photographs are in the Observer,
19 April 1902, page 50.
Also see Place Names - Kalyra and South Australia - Health - Consumption.
A photograph of the opening of a new parish school are in the Observer,
20 December 1924, page 34.
A history of Old Government House is in The News,
2 February 1927, page 4a.
A history of the district is in the Chronicle,
13 July 1933, page 50; also see
20 July 1933, page 44.
Information on a proposed golf course is in The News,
2 May 1935, page 6f:
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It is expected that the nine-hole golf course laid down at the National Park will be open to the public about the middle of the month. Forty acres of land has been cleared and the course is 2,640 yards long. The longest hole is 464 yards and there are two one-shotters. Slag scrapes have been put down, but the tees are grass.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Golf.
Belair - Obituaries
An obituary of Henry Nootnagel is in the Register,
11 August 1900, page 7b,
of Rev R.T. Morgan on 7 July 1906, page 7b.
An obituary of William Hogg is in the Observer,
21 June 1913, page 41d,
of Mrs Ann Jones on 26 June 1915, page 46a,
of Walter Gooch on 19 October 1918, page 19b,
of C.C. Hollard on 4 August 1923, page 35a,
of T.B. Harrington on 21 August 1926, page 11b.
An obituary of A.H. Nootnagel is in the Register,
30 June 1913, page 12g,
Biographical details of Rev W.L. Morton are in the Register,
18 November 1892, page 5c;
also see 17 February 1893, pages 4h-6f, 15 April 1893, page 1a (supp.)
.of Walter Gooch on 11 October 1918, page 4f,
of Caleb C. Hollard on 27 July 1923, page 8h,
of Thomas B. Harrington on 17 August 1926, page 8h,
of Mrs Elizabeth M.A. Edmonds on 21 January 1927, page 8h.
