Quart Pot Flat, Alpine Huts 1994-5 sheet 19 1
Victorian Alpine Huts survey, for Parks Victoria 1994-5.
The history surrounding the grazing of this site can be traced from 1908 when DJ Cronin tendered 10 pounds per annum for grazing block 7 (lot 293, 13000 acres west of Wheelers Crk, parish Burrungabugge){ DCNR 63/121 LIMS 11/0}. A daughter, Margaret Cronin of Nariel was a later lessee. After the block was thrown open for tender in 1922, Cronin wrote of his father's pioneering of this area for grazing, having `cut his way into the hills with an axe before the Government made any roads. Are the children of the pioneers not entitled to any consideration..' WJ Hodgson & R Pendergast and later Arthur Hughes were lessees in the 1930s along with block 8. RJ Cardwell of Mitta Mitta had it in the 1940s{ ibid.}. The history of huts in the area includes Ralston's hut which was reputedly 500m downstream from this site, near Spillings Reef. Ralston was a gold miner and the lode named after him was `easily seen just up the spur behind the caves'{ Max Dyer, `Re Quartpot Hut'}. Another structure, Maloney's boarding house, was reputedly closer to the creek and remnants of it survived until recently. The Quart Pot Hut was one of two built for the Wombat Hydraulic Sluicing Co. in 1931-2, during the renewed interest in gold seeking caused by the Depression. One was burnt c1937 but this hut survived in part. It was once reputedly twice as long and served as a mess hut. When the grazing lease was held by James E & Charlie Matthews, they resolved to use the hut for shelter after initially using tents{ ibid. (does not match above lease history)}. Alfred G Dyer was the next lessee in 1942. Many years later in 1956, Dyer and his two sons (Max & Steve) repaired the hut by splitting new slabs for its walls, making it `really comfortable' for the remaining three years of their tenure{ ibid.}. These slabs were later used for firewood{ ibid., as of 1982}. A group of builders from Lang Lang led by David Williams and `Stretch’ Conger, rebuilt the hut In 1999, with the full support of Parks Victoria. They were inspired to see the hut after reading a publication by Max Dyer and finding the hut in disrepair { Carroll}.
Quart Pot Flat, Alpine Huts 1994-5 sheet 19 1
Victorian Alpine Huts survey, for Parks Victoria 1994-5.
The history surrounding the grazing of this site can be traced from 1908 when DJ Cronin tendered 10 pounds per annum for grazing block 7 (lot 293, 13000 acres west of Wheelers Crk, parish Burrungabugge){ DCNR 63/121 LIMS 11/0}. A daughter, Margaret Cronin of Nariel was a later lessee. After the block was thrown open for tender in 1922, Cronin wrote of his father's pioneering of this area for grazing, having `cut his way into the hills with an axe before the Government made any roads. Are the children of the pioneers not entitled to any consideration..' WJ Hodgson & R Pendergast and later Arthur Hughes were lessees in the 1930s along with block 8. RJ Cardwell of Mitta Mitta had it in the 1940s{ ibid.}. The history of huts in the area includes Ralston's hut which was reputedly 500m downstream from this site, near Spillings Reef. Ralston was a gold miner and the lode named after him was `easily seen just up the spur behind the caves'{ Max Dyer, `Re Quartpot Hut'}. Another structure, Maloney's boarding house, was reputedly closer to the creek and remnants of it survived until recently. The Quart Pot Hut was one of two built for the Wombat Hydraulic Sluicing Co. in 1931-2, during the renewed interest in gold seeking caused by the Depression. One was burnt c1937 but this hut survived in part. It was once reputedly twice as long and served as a mess hut. When the grazing lease was held by James E & Charlie Matthews, they resolved to use the hut for shelter after initially using tents{ ibid. (does not match above lease history)}. Alfred G Dyer was the next lessee in 1942. Many years later in 1956, Dyer and his two sons (Max & Steve) repaired the hut by splitting new slabs for its walls, making it `really comfortable' for the remaining three years of their tenure{ ibid.}. These slabs were later used for firewood{ ibid., as of 1982}. A group of builders from Lang Lang led by David Williams and `Stretch’ Conger, rebuilt the hut In 1999, with the full support of Parks Victoria. They were inspired to see the hut after reading a publication by Max Dyer and finding the hut in disrepair { Carroll}.