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I -Urn son f . I. SSI. AUJtftiiMfl 

 pp SI g( 



.: ,11 I I) |?5T. I lie Ausiralian Ahori- 



BUKSt afld fossils, fin No/, 74: 93 



(.oil. I p., I%7. Evolution of ilk 



Witrrnstnihonl-PoTi Pafry eansl ami 

 (he lowci Hill Brupb'tnt, Wepts-ii 

 vv-io.Ki. chop u m imdioftn 

 StiuiU s m insttntia uiht fifew Guinea^ 

 hd. lenmnjs nnd Ivfcbbotl a.vi 

 GiU, B. Q.. ;i no Gibbons R i""'> 



Kadioc.nl-on date related lo VUWBff- 



istn ;md lake deposits in Western Vk 

 iiit i.i ,tmi. >"w. 32: iiw 

 tones. I , WoOd, M afc, t£*"L lady j M |j, 

 Pi l. s Maud. Reports of the Lxpcjj. 

 lion . fVPfi Key. 5ct . 1'i'rj 4) ; 

 ^7-4.17. 



Malhew. k. H.. 1904 rihnolnsiu 

 Note* on iho Aboriginal mhes of S,,., 

 Soiill. Wales and Victoria ./. RoJ-, v, 

 •V..S H'„ p. 297 



Stach, I. W. 1537, General &obm 

 iNKi ov SOS RepD. Ihid. 49: J$ 

 341 



William Hunter (1893-1971) 



Doyen of East Gippsland Botanists 



On 21 lanu.uy, M (he uippslatid 

 Home Hod Hospital in Bfl i rnsdale. 

 life ended lor a line, accomplished, 

 helpful Mid lOVilbfe old nuluralist in 

 his 78th. voar. William Hunter was 

 lioin at Tatur.i m die (ioulbuiu Val- 

 ley, Vic. on 16 Inly. 1895. His 

 I'icshytcmn lather, also William 

 Hunter who owned a drapciy and 

 general store there, had migrated 

 with a younger hrolher liom Millport 

 on Ihc Fiilh of Clyde, Scotland, dm 

 i tig the I860's. 



one of six children, ywai Hunta 



WaS educated at the local I alma 

 Stale School until 12 years old, 

 when he continued at Mr. Xeivho's 

 rv.ieonesses - High School I Anglican i 

 lor anoihei thiee years. Wishing for 

 him In go into business at the lunnlv 

 store, his fattier was eventually per 

 suaded — by Mr. Campbell at 'he 

 Working Men's College— to let Wil 

 liam come lo Melbourne and lake a 

 Junior Technical Course. Alter his 

 first veai al College, the hoy won a 

 scholarship for senioi technical train- 

 ing over Hie next three ycurs; but in 

 his second year he hecamc u survey 

 ing apprentice to W P. Stecn (who 

 was U lecturer on the College staff), 

 at the age of 18. 



When .2, and with apprentice vii,' 

 completed, he- enlisted m the A.I.I 

 during November. 1915. as gg 

 mlanlryman — although he would 

 much have prelcited the engineers. I 

 He iomed a mining and ttUUtettiflg I 

 company, and went abroad in Sep- ' 

 [ember I 9 If. in the Second I'iom-r 

 battalion While in camp on Salishur, 

 Plain he was able lo visit Slonehenge I 

 and Salisbury Cathedral. Ill March 

 1917 he went on service to France 

 until the end of Wotld War L ' 



Withifl B morilb ol his return Ki 

 Victoiia. Hunter applied for a sin- 

 veynig posiuon and worked under 

 Mi. I. O. Hope in Ciippsland, hui 

 eatly in 1921 he went surveying in 

 latma district so as to be near hi- 

 i in, I j Mi. Mcrti. district surveyor in 

 I asi liippsland. recommended him 

 for feature surveying in thai dislriel 

 and lie went there in 1923. Except 

 lor occasional jobs in the Cioulhino 

 \ alley. Hill Hunter's activities heiice- 

 Emth wcrc virtually restricted to East 

 ti.ppsl.md for the remainder of his 

 life As a licensed surveyor lie wotkeii 



\ insiv fur government niMi mum 



lahncs and shire councils. His plaiv, 

 wore models ol tie nuess and lliomugfi- 

 ncss. while his laultless c-oppcr-plaic 



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