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Frederick Jowett : 09-March-2013
Frederick Jowett : 09-March-2013

Photographs supplied by Graeme Saunders

Bandstand commemorates Frederick Jowett.

Frederick Jowett served 34 years on the Shire Council. He made one mistake of opening an account in 1886 and forgot it until auditors discovered it in 1903, but the investigation stated this as "gross carelessness rather than intent to defraud".

When Frederick Jowett died in 1921, the council granted his wife an annuity of 500 pounds, arranged for W.H. Hughes PM to dedicate the YMCA bandstand and commissioned the Jowett Memorial Drinking Fountain. Council required that the fountain would `admit a head between the pillars thereof` and the designers only just fulfilled this specification. Four pillars stand around the fountain, mounted on a base and bearing a dome all in granite.

Location

Address:Hawthorn & Balaclava Roads, Caulfield Park, Caulfield North, 3162
State:VIC
Area:AUS
GPS Coordinates:Lat: -37.870967
Long: 145.026503
Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate.
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Details

Monument Type:Structure
Monument Theme:People
Sub-Theme:Government - Local

Dedication

Actual Monument Dedication Date:Friday 2nd December, 1921
Front Inscription

Dedicated To The Memory Of The Late
FREDERICK JOWETT
Town Clerk 1887 - 1921
By The Prime Minister
The Honble W. M. Hughes P.C. M.H.R.
On 2nd December 1921
Erected By The Caulfield Council
           And The
Caulfield Park Improvement League

Source: MA
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