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- 1930 - 1975 (Creation)
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3.2m
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In 1915 William Gauld Davies and Marjorie Grant Davies purchased Athol station from Davies' parents, William Davies and Elizabeth Jane Davies, who had purchased it in 1910 from John Murray. The partnership traded as W G Davies & Co. From February 1947 the partnership changed to include their children William Grant Davies, Barbara Grant Sharp and Catherine Grant Palmer. The partnership owned Athol station until it was sold in 1972.
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Station records, correspondence, financial files, stock and rainfall returns, notebooks and diaries, maps, and inspection and manager's reports relating to Landsdowne Pastoral Co and Malvern Hills Pastoral Co, including Athol, Mount Edinburgh, Southlands, Comfort Hill, Bayrick, and Tambo stations. Personal correspondence and financial records of WG Davies and MG Davies.
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Art Gallery of Ballarat holds the Davies Suite, a 3 piece suite of bedroom furniture by Robert Prenzel, given to Marjorie Grant Black and William Gauld Davies by Dr Archibald Black.
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Entered from deposit description on 28 July 2011