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SELECTED "CAMERODDITIES" CONTRIBUTED BY READERS
This section is open to contributions from readers, and for every picture published a reproduction fee is paid. Address your entries to "Cameroddities," c/o "The Argus," 365
Elizabeth street, Melbourne, C1, and enclose self-addressed envelope with Id. stamp for returns. Payments arc made twice monthly.
I One of Victoria's greatest tragedies is symbolised in this picture, which shows a land sale in | progress at Doncaster in 1889 In the "land boom" of the eighties, reckless speculation in land | ond properties mounted to dizzy heights, and when the "boom" burst in 1892 the colony was
I nearly ruined The orchard country at Doncaster, which had been subdivided by frenzied specu lators, reverted to farm or bush, and the landmark in the background, the Doncaster tower, was later pulled down. Mr. A. Robertson, 17 Myrtle road, Canterbury. 10/6.
This picture is claimed to De that ot the tirst male passenger to make a flight in an aeroplane in Victoria-on the Geelong racecourse on Sunday, July 5, 1914 In that year a Frenchman named Guilloux (in the cockpit) brought o Bleriot monoplane to Australia for demonstration purposes, and Mr E N Belcher made the flight to test the lood-carrying caoacity of the machine before Guillaux
made a flight to Sydney Mr F A Roberts co Box 30, PO Geelong 10/6
Historic as well as local interest is attached to this picture It shows aborigines playing cricket on the Coranderrk reserve, near Healesville, in the 'eighties Many of these natives were descendants of subjects of King Barok, of the Yarra tribe, whose monument stands to-day in Healesville's main street. The aboriginal reservation has now been transferred to Lake Tyers, and much of the site is occupied by the Sir Colin MacKenzie Sanctuary at Badger Creek. Miss Jean E. Kruqer, 2 Mitchell
road. Caulfield, S E 7. 10/6
The especial interest of this picture of a butcher's shop, taken in Bay street, Sandridge (now Port Melbourne), in 1839, lies in the manner in which meat for human consumption was treated in the days before refrigerators and stringent health regulations. It was displayed in the open air outside the shop, and formed a happy hunting-ground for flies, dust, germs, and adven-
turous dogs and cats Mr J O Russ, 200 Riversdale road, East Camberwell 10/6