Mr. J. A. Perkins, M.L.A., has been informed by the Dept. that specifications for improvements to Tilba public school will be completed at an early date and tenders invited for the work.

The members of the Progress Association will meet next Wednesday, 26^th inst., at the South Head, to repair and renovate the weather and bathing sheds. Any assistance will be gladly welcomed by the Association, who will be on the ground all day.

The postal authorities intimate that with a view to accelerating the delivery of correspondence to addresses by postmen, it has been approved that from the 1^st July, 1924, delivery by such means be made only to such buildings and residences as are equipped with a receptacle in which correspondence can be deposited by the postman.

A very large flying fox measuring 3 feet 10 inches from tip to tip of its wings was recently shot at Mr. Dawson’s orchard, Gundary.

According to Mr. Miller, manager of the Illawarra Steamship Co., the recently wrecked Bodalla will not be replaced, owing to the high cost of ship-building and the low returns obtainable on present trading operations.

Bodalla Estate Sale. – The second sale of farms on the Bodalla Estate took place on Wednesday. … Following are the results of the sale:- Old Bodalla or Greenwood Park, of 685 acres, 150 acres of alluvial flat, the balance good points and timbered country, situated on the main Eurobodalla road, was started at £5000 and finally knocked down to Mr. Norman Bate  of Tilba, for £9,750; Silo Farm of 395 acres, started at £4000 and passed at £5000; Heffernan’s Hill Farm, 428 acres, of which about 125 acres are alluvial flat, the balance hill ground, with no buildings thereon started at £6000 and bought by Mr. H. J. Bate, of Tilba, for £7,600; Home Farm, of about 540 acres, 185 acres of alluvial flat, the balance hill land, fully equipped with buildings and cheese factory, started at £8000 and knocked down to Mr. A. F. Emmott for £10,500; Lake Farm, of 380 acres. No offer; Widget Farm, of 260 acres, 160 acres of flat, balance hill land, necessary building, started at £4000 and passed at £5,350; Central Bails, 195 acres, 90 acres alluvial flat, balance grazing hill land, started at £5000 and passed at £5500; Pop’s Paddock Farm, 320 acres, 80 acres alluvial flat, balance hill land, started at £3000 and passed at £4000; Greenway Farm, 546 acres, about 120 acres alluvial flat. No offer; Punt Farm, 486 acres, about 140 acres alluvial flat, started at £1800 and passed at £4100; Gannon Point Farm, 736 acres, 140 acres alluvial flat, started at £2000 and passed at £2750; Comerang Farm, 260 acres, 45 alluvial flat. No offer.

Extracted from the Moruya Examiner by the Moruya and District Historical Society Inc.