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Acknowledgements
The Gannawarra Shire Heritage Study Stage One was undertaken with the assistance of funds made available
from the Victorian State Government’s Victorian Heritage Programme.
This Study would not have been possible without the commitment and interest of the following members of
the Heritage Study Steering Committee: Councillor Oscar Aertssen, Councillor Graeme Mann, John McCurdy
Manager Planning and Regulatory Services, Lyn Merrett Land Use Planner, Stephen Monk Land Use Planner,
Geoff Austin Manager Local Government Services Heritage Victoria, and David Helms from Heritage
Victoria. We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to the following members of local history groups
who provided significant amounts of time and help: Diana Mitchell-Dorrity from the Cohuna and District
Historical Society, Pat Gillingham from the Kerang Family History Group, Rhonda Frankling and Allan
Tompkins from the Barham-Koondrook Historical Society, and Rhonda Coughlan from Quambatook. In
addition, a number of Gannawarra Shire residents gave generously of their time to help us identify places of
potential cultural significance, providing on some days with much needed and welcome victuals. Thankyou to
Tom Lowe, Stuart Simms, Marianne and Graham Cockroft, Ray Jewson, and members of the Benjeroop Hall
Committee for providing help in this area. Thankyou to Geoff Dale and residents who attended community
meetings at Cohuna, Kerang, Koondrook, Lake Charm, Leitchville, Murrabit, and Quambatook for providing
invaluable information in identifying places, and to those people who provided useful feedback on the
thematic environmental history.
Thankyou to Heritage Victoria staff for undertaking the entry of information into the HERMES database.
Conversions
Weights and measures
In this work imperial units for common measurements are used until 1970 when the present metric system
was introduced.
1 inch (in) = 2.54 cm
I foot (ft) = 0.30 m
1 yard (yd) = 0.91 m
1 chain (ch) = 20.11 m
1 mile = 1.61 km
1 ounce (oz) = 28.3 g
1 pound (lb) = 454 g
1 hundredweight (cwt) = 50.802 kg
1 ton = 1.02 t
Monetary Values
Before 1966, Australian currency was expressed in
pounds, shillings and pence (£ s. d.). The
following form is used: £2 13s. 6d.
1 acre = 0.405 ha
1 square mile = 2.59 km
1 horsepower (hp) = 0.746 kw
1 mile per hour (mph) = 1.61 km/h
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