Barrallier Plan Handover and Launch of Vera Deacon Regional History Fund

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On Friday 1st February 2008 Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO Governor of New South Wales had the great pleasure and honour in restoring to Newcastle and the Hunter Region, the complete survey plan completed by surveyor Ensign Francis Louis Barrallier in June - July 1801. This important historical document, lost to the Australian nation in its complete form for the past 200 years, was located in the National Archives in London by the University's Coal River Working Party in 2007. This achievement, along with the rediscovery of the convict coal mines, the first in the Southern Hemisphere, in 2005 was cause for great celebration.

This is the photographic record of the event.

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The Official Party Enters

Dr Bernie Curran of the University Foundation and MC

Dr Bernard Curran Speaks

Acknowledgement of Country - by Mr Michael McMahon

Speech of Welcome by Lord Mayor

Mr Knowles and the Governor

Lord Mayor John Tate speaks

Speech by Chairman Coal River Working Party Mr Gionni Di Gravio

Chairman Coal River Working Party Mr Gionni Di Gravio

Chairman Mr Gionni Di Gravio plucking invisible strings

Speech by Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO

Dr Bernie Curran - MC on the Pasha Bulker

Professor John Maynard accepts the Barrallier Plan

Mrs Irene Butterworth Stockton Historical Society

Professor Kevin McConkey accepts the Barrallier Plan

Barrallier Plan Handover and Launch of Vera Deacon Regional History Fund

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