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It was written by Sir Julius Vogel ( 1835-1899) , a liberal-minded New Zealand statesman , who championed women's rights and in l887 introduced the first women's Suffrage Bill to Parliament .
In 1893 New Zealand became the first nation in the world to grant voting rights to women.
Anno Domini 2000 ; or Woman's destiny, which influenced the cause, first came out in a colonial edition of 2000 ,followed soon after by a British issue of l500.
The story follows the fortunes of its female protagonist, young New Zealand woman Hilda Fitzherbert, Undersecretary for Home Affairs in the Imperial Federation (an imagined version of the British Empire in the year 2000); her nemesis is the Australian republican arch-villain, Sir Reginald Paramatta.
From a London Jewish family, Vogel studied chemistry and metallurgy at the Royal School of Mines and emigrated to Australia in l852 during the goldrush ,where he worked as an editor on several goldfield newspapers.
He moved to New Zealand in l861, started a newspaper , got involved in politics and served as premier of NZ in 1873-5. During his political career he also worked for reconcilation with the Maori people.
The book is in the latest list from Douglas Stewart Fine Books ,Melbourne, for $1000 . There is an owner inscription of Melbourne bibliophile Herbert George Fricker (1887-1951).
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The discovery of two engraved military serving trays led to extensive , graphic war details and an unusual account of living with Aborigines in Alice Springs in the early l950s.
One tray was presented to Sgt Jenkin and Family , with best wishes for the future, from the Gallipoli Coy. The other , pictured , Ranleigh silverware, was given to WO2 (Warrant Officer) D.K.Jenkin from the Sergeants Mess at UN. Coy. UNSWR ( the University of New South Wales Regiment ) , Duntroon Military College, Canberra.
Gallipoli Company was the first one turned out by Duntroon , other battle related ones were named Alamein, Kokoda , Kapyong, Long Tan, Romani another .
It seems the late Daryl Kenneth Jenkin , listed in Townsville's North Queensland Garden of Remembrance , was the recipient of one, if not both trays ; a grandfather had been gassed in WW1.
Billed as Platoon Sergeant, ll Platoon D Company 4RAR , South Vietnam 1971- l972, Jenkin was interviewed in August 2004 for the University of New South Wales Australians At War Film archive, which can be downloaded.
In it , he said he had been born in Adelaide in 1945 and as a young boy had been taken to the Northern Territory by his parents , his father in the Department of Civil Aviation, where they lived out of Alice Springs , later in Darwin.
He and his brother had a close relationship with Aborigines - ran about barefoooted with them in the Centre , involved in their games, Sunshine powdered milk cans turned into toys, food , hunting , encountering ones who came in from out bush who could not speak English.
On his l8th birthday, Jenkin joined the Army , serving with 3RAR and then 4RAR. He took part in the Indonesian Confrontation with Malaysia ,serving in Singapore, Kuching, Borneo and Sarawak.
He was mentioned in dispatches in the Vietnam War . His taped interview provides detailed information about the conflicts, especially the Vietnam War . His military service included a posting to the Royal Military College, Duntroon, for three years.
He was discharged as a warrant officer in Townsville after 20 years in the Army and worked in the Dog Squad , died 2023 .
In following up the Jenkin surname a range of information surfaced about a number of men with that name , or Jenkins, and others, who had performed military service , many killed.
The Soldiers of Anzac Hill , Maldon ,Victoria .
The above online website includes the following emotional explanatory introduction about those included in the WWl memorial : Compiling these notes on the first thirty-two soldiers to be commemorated in Anzac Circle, has been a joyless task. Who would believe that from our relatively small community, there would be such a variety of men who served and died in so many different ways?
There were three teachers, a doctor, one prisoner of war who died whilst in German hands, two light horsemen who never took their horses into battle, two soldiers who died after being in the Aegean Sea when their troopship was torpedoed, one who was accidentally shot on board ship en route to Egypt, and many, many other "ordinary" yet extraordinary soldiers who died just doing their best.
By and large, the men from Maldon who died serving their Country in World War One, were mostly young, single and keen to "do their bit". Anzac Hill is a special place where all of them can be remembered and their sacrifice recognised.
One of those listed , with condensed details , was Ernest Jenkin, 23, a labourer, who had survived Gallipoli , suffering shock , killed on the Western Front at the Battle of Framelles , described as the worst 24 hours in Australia's history , the AIF suffering more than 4000 casualties. .
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