Historical and Other Notes

  Star ( Vic.:  1865 - 1924), Friday 26 January 1923, page 1   Sewering  Ballarat   What is Being Done Interesting Visit First Outfall Sewer Pipe Laid   Ballarat, as a city, although it is aware that it is being sewered, and will in due time see the end of the antiquated system of “sanitation" has ruled for so many years, has as. 1 yet but' little idea of how the work is being carried out: it does not know, for instance, that in order to carry the sewerage down to the treatment works between. Buninyong and Sebastopol, the Yarrowee has to be funnelled under in three places. Probably it does not know that a series of shafts equipped with the old-fashioned windlasses has been sunk along a parallel course of the creek in order to test the ground, and that the out-fall sewer has, in the hands of the contractors, made such good progress that its direction is plainly indicated, either by open cuts or tunnels. Nor probably, is Ballarat aware how many pipes, ranging...

      Photo: Mark Bevelander Nerrina  is an outer-urban area, 6 km north-east of Ballarat.   The name is believed to be derived from an Aboriginal expression and is an alternative for the original name of the Little Bendigo gold diggings (1851).   In 1858 an Anglican school was opened in Little Bendigo, a small postal hamlet with several quartz crushing machines for the surrounding gold diggings. A Methodist church followed in 1865. In 1878 a government school, of Swiss-Gothic design, replaced the earlier building. Two hotels were recorded in the 1890s in the  Victorian municipal directory , which estimated the population to be about 400 people.  Nerrina  was described in 1903 in the  Australian handbook :     In 1890 the population of Little Bendigo reached a peak of about 3000.      As mining declined, the population dwindled. The school had 7 pupils in 1968, but after that, Ballarat’s outer-urban growth began...