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... the built up suburbs (to the west) and the developing housing areas to the east. Holmesglen played a pivotal role in postwar ... Avenue and the concrete-house factory run by the Housing Commission, Victoria, on the site of a former munitions plant. The Commission ...
... Doveton came into existence in the mid-1950s when the State Housing Commission purchased a large area of land to provide low cost housing for ...
... in 1875.
In 1914 the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission began the construction of the Sugarloaf Dam at the headwaters of the ... Waterworks school was established (1916) along with the housing for construction workers, and renamed the Eildon Weir primary school in ...
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In the postwar years migrant hostels and cheap land for housing attracted a large influx of settlers. The Midway Migrant Hostel, ... it was the Maribyrnong Migrant Hostel. The Housing Commission constructed a large housing estate, mainly south of Ballarat Road, ...
... in World War I. In 1922 the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission decided on an irrigation settlement at Robinvale. Four years earlier ... of government slowed development, and participation by the Housing Commission was stopped. The irrigation works, however, were quickly ...
... of the open cut brown coal mines of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, successive governments invested heavily in Morwell, ... factory and over 2000 houses built by the Victorian Housing Commission. With the demolition of Yallourn in the 1970s, Morwell’s ...
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After World War II Australian National Airways sponsored housing for its employees in Glenroy West (1946) and the War Service Homes Commission began building on the other side of the railway line in 1950. The ...
... during World War II. The camp was handed over to the State Housing Commission for emergency housing and in 1947 a temporary primary school was ...
... Melbourne, is part of Ashburton.
In 1944 the Victorian Housing Commission acquired land for its proposed Ashburton estate. The land was mostly ...
... of this the Coburg Reserve Estate Co subdivided land for housing, citing the convenience of the North Coburg railway station and another ... about 180 buildings, and shortly after the war the Housing Commission built 113 houses in south Fawkner. Private sector developers built ...
