Thomas J. NEVIN, juror, Supreme Court 1918
Xenophobia: Greek, Chinese businesses attacked
Military Police Tasmania 1912-1918
George JOYCE: the face of racism
"Like an ignorant and vicious man you tried to bait these foreigners, thinking to get fun out of abusing them. You ought to know, and the public ought to know that this man and any other foreigner is as much entitled to the protection of the law as any others, and shall be so so far as this court is concerned. I have frequently noticed in this Court and elsewhere of vicious, ignorant people thinking it good sport to abuse and bait Chinese and other foreigners."On sentencing George Joyce to 12 months' imprisonment in the Casimaty Case
The Solicitor-General, Supreme Court Hobart 15 October 1918
Thos J. Nevin, juror on the Casimaty Case
It was either photographer Thomas James Nevin senior (1842-1923) resident of 270 Elizabeth St with a business at 279 Elizabeth St. Hobart, who was chosen for jury duty on the Casimaty case heard in the Supreme Court Hobart on 15 October, 1918, or it was his eldest son by the same name, Thomas James Nevin junior (1874-1948), bootmaker of 236 Elizabeth St. Hobart, known as Tom Nevin and "Sonny" to family.
Given that the names of two other members of the twelve-man jury - viz. Jacob Triffett, jun and Julian G. Brown, jun were indicated as "junior" and Thos Nevin wasn't - where "jun" conventionally signified they were sons with the same name as their respective fathers - it may well have been Thomas J. Nevin senior who sat in the juror's box on this case. He had signed the birth registrations of his children with the same abbreviation of his name - "Thos J. Nevin" - from 1872 on the first child's certificate (May's) to the last child's (Albert's) in 1888, with the exception of Tom's birth registration in 1874 which his father-in-law Captain James Day signed while he was away on business at Port Arthur. He was still listing his occupation as "photographer" when he signed youngest son Albert's marriage certificate to Emily Maud Davis in 1917, and he was buried with the occupation "photographer" on his death records. It now seems possible from family memorabilia that Thomas J. Nevin snr collaborated with photographer Peter Laurie Reid during the 1890s-1911 up to Reid's death, aged 78 yrs in 1911 at Reid's property, 4 Andrew St. around the corner from Newdegate St. North Hobart where four of the Nevin adult children would settle at No's. 23-29 on their father's death and where they would remain until the death of the eldest (and unmarried) daughter May Nevin in 1955.
With the death in 1914 of his wife Elizabeth Rachel (Day) Nevin, mother of their six children to survive to adulthood, their eldest child May (Mary Florence Elizabeth) Nevin (1872-1955) stayed with her father to care for him at their residence, 270 Elizabeth St. Hobart where he died in 1923. From about 1913 and up to his death in 1923, Thomas J. Nevin snr was operating a livery yard and stables business at 279 Elizabeth St. where he was assisted by his youngest son Albert Edward Nevin (photo below) whose successes as a young trainer and reinsman of pacers at the racetracks in Launceston and Hobart were regularly noted by the press. So, when called for jury duty to sit on the Casimaty case in 1918, Thomas J. Nevin snr was selected as a registered business owner of a livery yard and stables which kept and boarded horses for owners who paid a weekly or monthly fee.
Nine (9) Tasmanian residents were listed with the surname NEVIN in Wise's Tasmanian Directory for 1913; all but two were members of the Nevin clan living in the north of the island and unrelated to the other two in the south - Thomas J. Nevin snr, who registered his livery business at 279 Elizabeth St. Hobart, and his wife Elizabeth Rachel (Day) Nevin, who was listed as Mrs E, 270 Elizabeth St, Hobart where they both resided and where Elizabeth Nevin died in 1914.
Mrs E, 270 Elizabeth St, Hobart
Nevin, Thos J, liv stble, 279 Eliz st. Hobt
Wise's Tasmanian Directory for 1913
Archives Office Tasmania
Link:https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/AUTAS001126438076/AUTAS001126438076P1913PDF
Youngest son of Thos Nevin snr, Albert E. Nevin (1888-1955) at Nevin's livery stables, 279 Elizabeth St. Hobart
Verso inscribed "To Miss E. Davis, From Mr. A. Nevin, 1914"
Unattributed; black and white; cardboard frame
Copyright © KLW NFC Imprint Private Collection 2020
1918: the Casimaty Case
On 15 October 1918 before noon, a crowd of 30 to 50 people gathered outside Gregory Casimaty's fish shop and dining saloon at 35 Elizabeth Street, Hobart from where George Joyce had emerged and was attempting to kick in the shopfront window. This act of malice followed the scene inside the cafe where Joyce had sought to game the Greek proprietor and his assistant Basil Castrissos by refusing to pay for his meal and those of his two companions - his brother and another. Casimaty locked the doors until Joyce finally handed over 2 shillings but once outside, Joyce began kicking at the shop window. Gregory Casimaty attempted to stop him but was struck by Joyce's brother. Military Police Officer Dalziel claimed in court to have witnessed George Joyce smash the window on his third attempt at kicking it in and could corroborate Casimaty's evidence. Two more military police, P.O. McHare and Henry McNally corroborated Dalziel's evidence. The crowd, however, saw the situation in a different light by the time Gregory Casimaty had chased George Joyce up the street to the Empire hotel, caught him and pinned him down. Someone in the crowd struck the military policeman and pulled Casimaty off Joyce who then escaped and ran off towards Murray Street where he was spotted by army serviceman Private Sellars. Two local police constables, Hill and Godfrey arrived and arrested George Joyce on being identified as the offender by his victim Gregory Casimaty.
Source: Daily Telegraph (Launceston, Tas. : 1883 - 1928), Saturday 7 December 1912, page 6
TRANSCRIPT
MILITARY POLICE
As the State authorities have refused to allow their police to see that the compulsory training obligation under the Defence Act is enforced, the Minister for Defence has established a. form of military police. Under this arrangement Tasmania will have one sergeant-major who will receive £204 a year. The Minister offered the State police £6 a year, but most of the State Governments thought that it was not enough.
Source: MILITARY POLICE (1912, December 7). Daily Telegraph (Launceston, Tas.), p. 6
Link: https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article152481861
The presence of military police on Hobart's streets was evidence of the State's refusal to train regular police under the Defence Act. With the loss of young men to military service at the Great War in Europe (1914-1918), the regular police force was both compromised and diminished. Their evidence in this case was discounted by George Joyce's defence attorney, Mr. O'Brien, who sought sympathy from the jury for Joyce as "a hard-working man, and the sole support of a widowed mother". Thos Nevin snr and the eleven other members of the jury were not swayed. They took just fifteen minutes to deliver their verdict of guilty.
Trial of George JOYCE, 15 October 1918
Source: SUPREME COURT. (1918, October 16). The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), p. 7.
Link: https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11413316
TRANSCRIPT
SUPREME COURT.
HOBART CRIMINAL SITTINGS.
At the criminal sittings of the Supreme Court yesterday, Mr Justice Crisp presided.
The following jury was empanelled :-
Joseph Bradley (foreman), John Marney, Theodore Batten, Wm. E Smith, Wm H. Cripps, Thos. J Nevin, Jacob Triffett, jun., Jos. Nichols, Sydney Alomes, Jas. Gallagher, Wm. Reynolds, Julian G. Brown, jun.
George Joyce was charged with having wilfully and maliciously damaged the window of Gregory Casimaty's fish saloon at 35 Elizabeth-street, Hobart, on August 17, 1918. Accused pleaded not guilty.
The Solicitor-General (Mr. Chambers) prosecuted, and Mr. O'Brien appeared for the defence.
The Solicitor-General pointed out that the damage amounted to £18 10s.
Gregory Casimaty, restaurant-keeper, of 35 Elizabeth street, stated that accused, after having had supper with three other men, refused to pay. Witness then instructed one of his shop assistants to close the door, and informed accused that if he did not pay the police would be called in. After threatening witness, accused struck at one of the restaurant assistants - Basil Castrissos.
Finally accused paid 2s., and went outside with his brother, and began to swear and invite witness outside to fight. Accused's brother attempted to strike witness while accused kicked at the window three times. At the third kick he broke it, and ran away. Witness followed him, and caught him outside the Empire Hotel, where accused fell. Witness held him down awaiting the police. A military policeman came up and assisted witness. One of the crowd struck the military policeman, who then let Joyce go. The crowd pulled witness away from accused, who escaped up Elizabeth street. At 12 pm witness, in consequence of a summons, saw the accused at the corner of Murray and Bathurst Street and identified him as the person who had broken his window.
In reply to Mr. 0'Brien, witness said disturbances were not frequent in his restaurant, as a result of his hasty temper. The accused and his brother had not paid for their supper until they were threatened with the police. At the time of the breaking of the window there were between 30 and 50 people outside the shop.
Basil Castrissos, assistant at Casimaty's restaurant said that when he asked the accused and his brother for payment, the brother said, "I have no money to pay you, but if you want a fight, I will fight you." Subsequently they went out after paying, and accused said "If you do not come out and fight , I will smash your window." Thereupon, he made three kicks at the window. The last smashed it. Witness corroborated Casimaty's evidence from this stage.
In reply to Mr. O'Brien, witness said he was not the cause of the disturbance. He saw accused break the window.
P.O. Dalziel, military policeman, said he saw accused break the window, From this stage he corroborated Casimaty's evidence.
P.O. McHare, military policeman, corroborated Dalziel's evidence. He said he accompanied him on the night of the disturbance.
Henry McNally, military policeman, corroborated Dalziel also. He said he was satisfied beyond doubt that the accused was the man who broke the window.
Constable Hill stated that accused was pointed out to him on the corner of Liverpool and Elizabeth streets at 12 pm by Private Sellars. Accused then ran off to towards Murray street, and was taken in a lane off that street a few minutes later. Accused refused to move until Casimaty and Constable Godfrey came up.
Constable Godfrey testified that he had arrested, and took him to the police station.
Gregory Casimaty, recalled, gave evidence that the window was 3ft from the asphalt.
The Solicitor-General, addressing the jury, said there was no question that the breaking of the window was deliberate and malicious. The evidence showed that accused had made three kicks at the window. The fact that he ran off when the damage was done strengthened the belief that he was guilty. Each witness deposed that he had seen accused break the window.
Mr. O'Brien, addressing the jury, said it was not likely that accused could make three kicks at the window without being molested and prevented by Casimaty, or Castrissos. He discounted the evidence of all the witnesses for the Crown.
His Honor in summing up said the only question the jury had to decide was whether accused was the guilty party. The accused man and his companion has meanly tried to cheat Casimaty, and when asked to pay maliciously broke his window, that was if the evidence of the Crown was to be believed, the question hinged entirely, it would appear, on identity, and five witnesses had deposed that they saw accused kick at the window. It would be a peculiar thing if Casimaty was trying to do business in the city and abusing his customers, as counsel for the defence had suggested.
The jury, after a quarter of an hour's retirement, returned a verdict of guilty.
Mr O'Brien pleaded in mitigation of penalty that accused was a hard-working man, and the sole support of a widowed mother.
His Honor sentenced the prisoner to 12 months' imprisonment, and said: - "Your unmanly and vicious action of August 17 caused a considerable disturbance. I have no doubt that this trouble arose from the fact that you tried to defraud a foreigner of what was justly due to him. Like an ignorant and vicious man you tried to bait these foreigners, thinking to get fun out of abusing them. You ought to know, and the public ought to know that this man and any other foreigner is as much entitled to the protection of the law as any others, and shall be so so far as this court is concerned. I have frequently noticed in this Court and elsewhere of vicious, ignorant people thinking it good sport to abuse and bait Chinese and other foreigners.
Source: SUPREME COURT. (1918, October 16). The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), p. 7.
Link: https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11413316
Chinese businesses in Hobart
The Solicitor-General's reference to the abuse of Chinese businesses in particular in his summing up and sentencing of George Joyce would suggest similar cases of racism were frequently reported to police and tried in the courts. The newly formed Federal Parliament's introduction of the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901 officially sanctioned racism in so much as it sought to keep Asians and Pacific Islanders out of a "white Australia".
Brass ‘White Australia’ protection badge, 1906.
The words ‘population’, ‘production’, ‘progress’ and ‘protection’ appear on the other side.
Source: National Museum of Australia
Link: https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/white-australia-policy
Despite decades of insults and abuse, even murder, (see this post about prisoner Daniel Davis 1883, 1892 and 1897), the Chinese who had established businesses in Hobart before the 1901 Immigration Act continued to operate as fruiterers, green-grocers, market gardeners, tobacconists, gift and fancy goods retailers, and industrial laundries. For example, by 1918 these businesses in Elizabeth St. and surrounds would no doubt have experienced the sort of racism metered out to George Casimaty at his fish saloon by the likes of George Joyce:
Ah Chung Mrs, tob & fcy gds, 96 Eliz st, HobartChinese businesses in Elizabeth St. Hobart and surrounds
Chung-Doo W, grngrcr, 45 Bathurst st, Hobart
Chung J, fncy gds, 77a Eliz st, Hobart
War Shing, lndry 302 Eliz st Hobart
Lee Ping, laundry 394 Eliz st Hobart
Chong W Y, frtr, 71 Harrington st, Hobart
Goong Peter L, greengrocer, 103 Murray st Hobart
Ah Toy, Albert rd, Moonah
Ah Wak, mkt gdnr. 10 Forster st, New Town
Source: 1917-1918 Wises' Tasmanian Directory
Archives Office Tasmania
Link:https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/AUTAS001126438076P1918PDF
George Joyce's rap sheet, 1913-1918
Photo No. 506c, 18-10-1918
Mugshots of George JOYCE, profile with cap, full-frontal no hat, pasted to rap sheet below:
Rap sheet: George JOYCE
Archives Office Tasmania. Link:https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/GD63-1-5P493
George JOYCE, Hobart Gaol record 1918
DETAILS TRANSCRIBED from page 60408.
Joyce, George. Native, Free. R&W. [read and write]. Single.
Photo no. 506s.
F.P. Class m [Finger print class male] 13/18 R/A (00/.) 21
Trade: Plasterer's labourer
Religion: R.C. [Roman Catholic]
Height: 5ft 10 in
Weight: 10st [stone], 12½ lbs[pounds]
Date of birth: 26/3/1894 [3 March]
Complexion: Fresh
Head: Med [medium]
Hair: Brown
Whiskers: - [none]
Visage: Oval
Forehead: Broad
Eyebrows: Brown
Eyes: Grey
Nose: Med large
Mouth: Small
Chin: Deep
Native Place: Hobart
Marks: Indistinct tattoo marks including G. J. , left forearm. Large scar on same arm below tattooing, dot between left thumb index finger & ring on left little finger.
8.7.13 P.O. Hobart - Disturbing the peace - Fined £1 & costs
11.2.14 Ditto - Indecent language - Fined 10/- or 7 days
15.10.18 S. C. Hobart - Maliciously damaging property - 12 months
George JOYCE, Police Gazette notice 1918
Police Gazette Tasmania October 25, 1918. Page 205.
Tasmania police gazette for police information only
Link:https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/POLICEGAZETTE/POL709-1-46P207
The key details included in this notice were transcribed directly from George Joyce's rap sheet:
Conviction for the offence of maliciously damaging property, sentenced to 12 months.
Native of Tasmania, a plasterer's labourer by trade, born 1894.
Height 5ft 10in.
Fresh complexion, brown hair, grey eyes, large nose.
Previous Gazette reference, 1918, p.180.
Distinguishing marks and Number of photograph: indistinct tattoo marks, including G. J. on left forearm, large scar on same arm below tattooing, dot between left thumb and index finger, ring on left little finger. Photo No. 506c.
Resources: the Casimaty family
Biographies
1. Companion to Tasmanian History
Source: https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Casimaty%20family.htm
[Photo: Bill Casimaty, Senate candidate 1975 (AOT, PH30/1/5051)]
The Casimaty family first visited Australia when Georgios Kasimatis (1866–1959) worked in Sydney, 1891–96. He returned to Greece, but sent his four children to Australia. All ended up in Tasmania.
Georgios' oldest son Gregory (1890–1972) came to Sydney in 1905 and arrived in Hobart in 1914. He bought a fruit shop and turned it into a restaurant, the Britannia Café, but the brothers, Gregory, Anthony (1897–1977) and Basil (1902–1962), were best known for their wholesale and retail fishing enterprises. Casimaty Bros' fish shop (1918) was a Hobart landmark for decades. They were also among the pioneers of the crayfish and scallop industries, exporting crayfish to Sydney.
The brothers were extremely successful, playing a major role in Hobart commercial life, and Gregory and his wife Katina were particularly known for their philanthropy. Many other family members joined them in Hobart. In the 1940s the family began purchasing farming properties: Llanherne and Acton at Cambridge, Strathayr at Richmond, Christianmarsh at Bothwell, and Stockman at Kempton. Strathayr became particularly well-known for Bill Casimaty's flourishing instant lawn enterprise.
Further reading: H Kalis, Casimaty family, 1891–1996, Hobart, 1996.
Helen Kalis. Copyright 2006, Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies
2. Australian Dictionary of Biography
Source: https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/casimaty-anthony-george-9978
CASIMATY BROTHERS: Gregory George (1890-1972), Anthony George (1897-1977) and Basil George (1903-1962), fishermen, fishmongers and restaurateurs, were born on 6 January 1890, 15 March 1897 and 2 February 1903 at Kithira, Greece, sons of Georgios Grigoriou Kasimatis (d.1959), farmer, and his wife Stamatina, née Kastrisios. The brothers received an elementary education and, with their father's encouragement, emigrated separately to Australia.
Gregory left Greece in 1905. Arriving in Sydney, he washed dishes at the Acropolis Café for nine months, spent several years in the fruit trade in Queensland and in 1911 came back to Sydney. In 1914 he went to Hobart where, with Peter Galanis, he established the Britannia Café in Elizabeth Street; next year he took over the business in partnership with his brother Anthony. Casimaty Brothers initially leased, then bought the premises occupied by their café and by the fish shop which they had added. By 1918 they had expanded into cray-fishing, exporting their catch to Sydney, and they later pioneered the scallop industry in Tasmania. Appointed fishmongers to the governor Sir James O'Grady, the brothers expanded their partnership to include Basil.
In 1928 Gregory returned to Kithira, married Katina (Kathleen) Haros and brought her to Tasmania. He visited New Zealand in 1935 to open the firm's crayfish markets there. The Casimatys developed seine-fishing in Australian waters, commissioning the trawler, Nelson, and acquiring the Margaret Twaits. In 1941 the Tasmanian Fisheries Board of Enquiry investigated allegations of monopolizing and of environmental damage by Casimatys' fishermen, only to find the claims unproven. Anticipating better markets, the brothers sent the boats to Sydney, but became disillusioned when Victor Vanges, skipper of the Margaret Twaits, was drowned off Eden and the trawlers were commandeered for war service in New Guinea.
During the Depression the Casimatys had provided hundreds of Christmas dinners for the needy and promoted a free-milk scheme for schoolchildren. In World War II the family supported the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Red Cross Society; for his contribution to the international organization, Gregory was awarded the Red Cross medal of Greece (1946) and the Silver Cross of Phoenix (1950). In 1945 Gregory's case against the Federal government for attempting to tax and to raise loans under the national security regulations was settled out of court.
Hobart's Greek Orthodox Church of St George was built in Antill Street in 1957 on land provided by the Casimatys. The family also gave land on Kithira for an old people's home which was named Kasimateion in their honour. Among the first Greeks to settle in Tasmania, the Casimatys supported later immigrants from their homeland and fostered Greek-Australian relations.
Portly and 5 ft 6 ins (168 cm) tall, Gregory was known for his hospitality and for his practical jokes. He was an active member (from 1936) of the Rotary Club, Hobart, he supported the Tasmanian Society for the Care of Crippled Children and he was foundation president (1953) of the Greek Community of Hobart and Tasmania. Kathleen shared her husband's community involvement; a life member of Elizabeth Street State School Mothers' Club and of the Inner Wheel Club, she was a member of Task Force Action for Migrant Women and acted as a volunteer interpreter for many years. Ill health obliged Gregory to retire in 1965. Survived by his wife, two sons and four daughters, he died on 22 March 1972 at Sandy Bay and was buried with Greek Orthodox rites in Cornelian Bay cemetery.
Anthony sailed from Greece in 1912 and worked in Sydney cafés before joining Gregory in Hobart in 1915. Anthony returned to Greece in 1931 where, two years later, he married Adamantia (Manty) Haros, sister of Gregory's wife. Back in Hobart, he was a member of the Chamber of Commerce and often acted as spokesman for the retail fish industry. A life member of the Goulburn Street State School Mothers' Club, Manty was a volunteer medical interpreter for the Greek community for forty years. Immaculately dressed and with impeccable manners, Anthony was small and rather shy, yet he had boundless energy, enjoyed life and indulged a passion for hunting. After some fifty years in the fish shop, he retired in 1967. Survived by his wife, two sons and two daughters, he died on 14 March 1977 at Sandy Bay and was buried in the same cemetery as his brothers.
Basil joined his brothers in Hobart in 1923, but went back to Greece in 1929 to care for their ageing parents. While there, he married Panagiota (Nota) Tzoutzouris in 1935; they were to remain childless. The couple came to Tasmania in 1939. Basil soon left the partnership to open the California Fruit Co. in Hobart. During the 1940s he purchased Stockman, a property at Kempton, on which he ran cattle and sheep, while Nota managed the fruit business. Responsible for introducing Greek films to Tasmania, he was president of the Greek Community of Hobart and Tasmania (1958-60) and of the Olympia Soccer Club. Survived by his wife, he died of a coronary occlusion on 18 August 1962 at Sandy Bay and was buried in Cornelian Bay cemetery.
Select Bibliography
G. V. Brooks, 30 Years of Rotary in Hobart (Hob, 1955)
Fisheries Newsletter, 7, no 1, Feb 1948
Mercury (Hobart), 27 Dec 1930, 10 Dec 1935, 23 July, 24 Dec 1941, 20 Aug 1962, 23 Mar 1972
Casimaty family papers (privately held).
Citation details
Anne Tucceri, 'Casimaty, Anthony George (1897–1977)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/casimaty-anthony-george-9978/text17139, published first in hardcopy 1993, accessed online 28 August 2024.
This article was published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13, (Melbourne University Press), 1993
Films and Photographs
This film Coastal scallop fishing in southern Tasmanian waters was made by the Tasmanian Film Corporation in the 1940s. It documents the journey of scallops from being caught at sea to their sale on the waterfront and at Casimaty Bros.' fish shop in Elizabeth St. Hobart. The film has no sound and in parts is in poor condition, but it is well worth a viewing.
View online: https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/AB869-1-965
Link: https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Record/Archives/AB869-1-965
Screenshot: The Casimaty Bros' shop sequence appears at 15.02. Watch to the end - there is a little joke from the original editors who run the film in reverse showing three men in a restaurant drinking beer and eating scallops and then undrinking the beer and uneating the scallops. The final frame shows a profile photograph of King George VI, father of Queen Elizabeth II.
Screenshot: a woman buying scallops from the boat at Constitution Dock, Hobart.
Screenshots: Casimaty Bros' sign, shopfront and customers, 35 Elizabeth St. Hobart, Tasmania
1. Film - Coastal scallop fishing in southern Tasmanian waters, including inspection from the Sea Fisheries vessel 'Allara' of legal size limits, selling scallops on the Hobart waterfront, Casimaty's fish shop, and IXL canned scallops.
Item Number: AB869/1/965
Further Description: 16ECINEG 16mm internegative, colour, no sound 18min 24sec, poor condition 480 ft. No.2 internegative D.F.P. Original record: 4092.
Start Date: 01 Jan 1940
End Date: 31 Dec 1949
Source: Tasmanian Archives
Format: film
Creating Agency: Department of Film Production (TA178) 01 Jan 1960 31 Dec 1977
Tasmanian Film Corporation (TA179) 01 Jan 1977 31 Dec 1982
Administrator, Tasmanian Film Corporation (TA1021) 01 Jan 1983 31 Dec 1993
Series: Films and Videos Produced and Acquired by the Agency (AB869) 01 Jan 1950 31 Dec 1995
View online: https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/AB869-1-965
https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Record/Archives/AB869-1-965
2. Film - Tasmanian Magazine Number 6 - Strathyr Mushrooms (Casimaty's) - violin maker Gordon Triffitt - mini motor racing model cars - shot tower jeweller Max Sawbridge. Sponsored by Tourist Department.
Item Number AB869/1/2707
Series Films and Videos Produced and Acquired by the Agency (AB869)
Start Date 01 Jan 1961 End Date 31 Dec 1962
Format film
View online AB869-1-2707https://youtu.be/BV9lFOvIFF8
3. 35mm colour transparency - Hobart - Elizabeth Street - Casimaty's "City Fish Supply" - shop front - March 1977
Item Number:NS3373/1/310
Further Description: Reproduction of the images to acknowledge Margaret Bryant as the photographer.
Start Date:01 Apr 1976 End Date: 01 Mar 1980
Source: Tasmanian Archives
Format: photograph
Creating Agency: Margaret Bryant (NG2652)01 Jan 1950 Series: Margaret Bryant Photographs (NS3373) 01 Apr 1976-01 Mar 1980
View online: https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/NS3373-1-310/NS3373-1-310
Casimaty's City Fish Supply shopfront with fish shop rain pouring down (inside) the window displaying fresh fish, poultry and rabbits, photographed in 1977 (M. Bryant). The sign "THIS IS A METRIC SHOP" referred to the introduction of decimal currency to Australia in February 1966.
Paper documents
4. Hobart- Premises of G. Casimaty- Complaint re. Nuisance Caused by Scallops and others
(vide report of Sergent Challenger)
Item Number: HSD1/1/3292
Start Date:04 Mar 1938 End Date:16 Dec 1938
Source: Tasmanian Archives
Format: file/volume Creating Agency: Department of Public Health (TA19)
5. Artwork, negatives, mock-ups for labels, stationery, containers, publications for Casimaty's Cafe
Item Number: NS1211/1/44
Start Date:01 Jan 1920
Link: https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Record/Archives/NS1211-1-44