Hmmm, well, somewhere around the area are a couple of teachers who either had very fast horses, or were very, very good cyclists. My source is "Vision and Realisation: a Centenary History of Education in Victoria", Vol3, page 1315, edited by ...... the one and same Leslie James Blake. Where he has the school half time with Prospect Reg No 3938 "20 miles south of Sale, and close to the coast near Lake Denison". Prospect is an early name for Seaspray, hence my placing it there - and since the Latrobe River goes right down to the shore of Lake Wellington, and there were many early red gum spot mills around, I took that to be a reasonable place for a Latrobe Sawmill, near Prospect. They could even send the timber out on steamers. However on checking, that parish does appear to be more like Noojee than Seaspray. So there are either some very fast-moving teachers (Rail???? Even then they have to regularly get maybe half-way to Seaspray with no public transport). Even despite that, schools that were half-time were usually closer to each other than Noojee and Seaspray. I am wondering if Blake made a mistake then in Vision and Realisation??? And if there is anyone on the list who is a regular visitor to the PRO who can have a look at some school files down there for 4070 Ellinging aka Latrobe Saw Mill to see if there are any clues in there as to where the school actually was. At 04:11 PM 5/05/05 +1000, you wrote: >Hi Linda > >Ellinging: Parish, Co. of Buln Buln; also, in Noojee district, n. of former >SS which had alternate n. of La Trobe Sawmill in 1921; Abor. word for >forehead. > >Les BLAKE: Place Names of Victoria. > >Carl MATTHEWS >Paynesville. 3880.

Twould appear Les was a bit astray here. Ah well, an interesting peice of research for someone at lands. Carl ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Barraclough" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 5:23 PM Subject: Re: [AVG] Town name Ailinging?