Mr. H. Bate, of Tilba, and the Government have devised a new style of moulding for the construction of silos. The moulds will be the property of the Government and will be lent to farmers. One of them will be on exhibition and a demonstration given on Durham Farm, Bodalla, during the week.

What might have been a very serious accident occurred on the Prince’s Highway the other night. Mr. Morchell, of the Public Works Department, was returning from Bergalia alone in his Chevrolet car, and when turning the corner near Mr. John Jeffery’s collided with a horse on the road. The radiator, bonnet, mud-guard and lamps on the car were badly damaged. Mr. Morchell returned to town and took out the police, who found the horse (which was a valuable draught horse belonging to Mr. D. A. McIntosh), so seriously injured, his leg being broken, that it had to be destroyed.

By the death of Mr. Robert Henry Harvison, at his home at Moruya on Saturday morning last, this district and the Far South Coast has lost one of the oldest and most respected residents, as well as one its most outstanding personalities. The late Mr. Harvison was born at “Bonona,” Kiama, … in 1848, and was thus in his 77th year. His father, James Harvison, was a landed proprietor at Kiama. Mr. Harvison came to Moruya over 50 years ago, and had thus been associated with all its progress and social activities for over half a century. He married Henrietta Pomphrey, of the Mynora Estate, who predeceased him by many years.

He had owned and conducted the Moruya “Examiner” since 1878, and made it one of the most readable and popular of country newspapers. He also engaged in auctioneering, and had wielded the hammer in Moruya for over 40 years. He was a prime mover in 1890 in the petition for the formation of Moruya into a Municipality, and was the Returning Officer for the first Municipal elections in the following year. He donated free of charge the house and land until the Cottage Hospital (as it was called) was established, and for some time he held a seat on the Hospital committee. For years he advocated the establishment of a cheese factory at Moruya, and in 1892 he presented a block of land for a factory at Gundary. That year saw the establishment of the factory, which has been the mainstay of the district’s prosperity. He was chairman of the Park Trust, and the last of the original trustees. He was a life member of the Moruya Agricultural Society and Race Club. Mr. Harvison left one son, Mr. Alwyn (Bob) Harvison, of Sydney, and three daughters, Mrs. A. W. Constable, “Examiner” Office, Moruya, Mrs. W. H. Face, of Jerilderie, and Mrs. A. Keating, of Hong Kong.

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