Item 8 - Children playing on black steam locomotive

Graeme Raphael was a councillor on both the Oatlands Council and the municipal body that replaced it, the Southern Midlands Council. He served on the board of the Oatlands/Bothwell Uniting Church Council and was a founding member of the Oatlands Historical Society. He worked for the Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, as an apiary officer, and was also a member of the Tasmanian Beekeepers’ Association and committee member of the Parattah Railway Station, committee member of Neighbourhood Watch Tasmania Inc., Jubilee Hall and Progress Association and the Upper Coal River Landcare Group at Tunnack.