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Overhead sprinklers watering the Maluka Beds in Wittunga farm garden [B 70984/29] • Photograph

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Summary

An overhead sprinkler system watering the Maluka Beds. Edwin Ashby built these raised beds especially for Australian plants needing good drainage. Esther, Edwin Ashby's wife, called them the Maluka Beds after the boss, Maluka, in the book 'We of the Never Never' by Mrs Aeneas Gunn. Esther said that was where the boss, Edwin, could usually be found. The water could be directed to one or other side by use of a simple lever. The three Maluka Beds run at right angles to Sherbourne Road.

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Physical description

Photograph (B&W print); 6.2 cm x 10.6 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1930

Collection

Part of Ashby Family Collection

Catalogue record

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General notes

An image from a collection of photographs and slides used to illustrate talks given by Enid Robertson: an address entitled 'Wittunga Garden - From a Family Point of View' given to the Historical Society of South Australia, 1996; and a second address entitled 'The Ashby Family' given to the Coromandel Valley National Trust, 2006. The individual images can be viewed by doing a number search on B 70984; this image relates to talk on 5 July 1996 (OH 363) by Enid L. Robertson.

Digitisation information

Date

08/12/2008

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,537 x 2,175 pixels (7.7 MP)

Size

23.11 MB

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