The Eurobodalla Shire has received a special grant of £150 for a new road through Pompey Point. The work will be commenced as soon as the survey has been completed.

The need of a tinsmith in Moruya has been long felt, but the want has now been supplied, through Mr. Squires opening up a business of this kind near Mr. Wallace’s office in Vulcan St.

John Ward, the local skin buyer, wishes to bring to the notice of all rabbit trappers that during this hot weather an immense amount of damage is done by keeping dry skins tied in bundles or in bags. Skins thus kept soon go greasy, and lose weight, and greasy skins are of little value at present When the skins are taken off the bow they should be threaded on a wire or a tape so as to allow free passage of air between them.

The I.S.N. Co’s steamer Narani is expected in on tomorrow (Saturday) morning’s tide with another load of 120 tons of machinery for Dorman, Long’s quarry at Pompey Point.

There passed away at her residence “Balmoral Villa,” Moruya, on Thursday, a native of County Antrim, Ireland, in the person of Mrs. Mary Davis, wife of Mr. William Davis. … The deceased came to Australia about 37 years ago and lived for some time in Moruya before taking up her residence in Bega, in which town she lived for some 16 years. When Pompey quarry opened here Mrs. Davis came with her husband, who is a stone mason, and settled at Mullenderree. She was taken suddenly ill on Monday and passed away early on Thursday morning. She is survived by a family of six – Cecil, schoolmaster at Nethercote, Peter at Hawkesbury, Maud and Ethel at Sydney, Muriel and Eric at Moruya.

Mr. Thomas Taylor, of Narooma, and formerly a member of the Eurobodalla Shire Council, who went to Bega to undergo an operation, died in the hospital there on Wednesday aged 77.

At the Dorman, Long quarry the ground is now being prepared for the erection of a steel building 150 feet long. This will be utilised for turning out the finished product. Water is “raced” through 2½ and 3in. pipes from the vicinity of Cameron’s swamp to the quarry – about a mile distant, while motor pumps are used to convey the water to various sections on the face. The cranes at present in use are a 7-ton Derrick, with smaller ones of 3½ ton and 30 cwt. Pile-driving for the big wharf is being carried out by the Dredge Anteon, and the diver descends into the depths with his material for preparing the foundation. In all, 95 men are at present employed, and Mr. Gilmore, the manager, stated that in a short time that number would be very much increased.

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