For the last half-year ended 30th June last the amount paid to suppliers to the Moruya Cheese Factory on 124,975½ lbs of butter fat was £8,322 17s 4d. The Moruya Dairy Co’s sales for that period were 230,416 lbs nett cheese sold by agents at £7,596 15s 8d. 4,066 lbs of cheese sold locally amounted to £133 7s.

Mr. Albert Lynch has now decided to have his new bake house erected on the property he recently purchases from Mrs. J. Egan at Mullenderree, instead of the allotment in Vulcan Street. Messrs. C. Stewart and B. Coppin have the contract to build an up to-date bakery and shop, which will be composed of granite and concrete.

Mr. John Ward accomplished a smart performance recently. Leaving Moruya in his Chevrolet truck, laden with close on a ton of rabbit skins, on Sunday 19th inst., at 8 a.m. (half an hour before the departure of the service car) he reached Nowra at 3.30 p.m., ten minutes ahead of the car. Good travelling for the Chev., considering the bad state of the roads in many parts.

“Wattle Day” to-day, 1st August. Bleak Monaro winds have been sweeping across us this week.

Measles have broken out in the vicinity of Dwyer’s Creek, and the school there has in consequence been closed for a while.

Dormon Long’s steamer Dorlonco is expected in a few days to take the first shipment of granite prepared at the quarry works for the North Shore Bridge piers.

Shire Engineer Dawson informs us that the old road from the summit of Larry’s Mountain to the six-mile post at the Burra is now open for traffic. The Araluen mail is being conveyed via this road.

At last – after many weeks of agitation the pontoon dredge Ballina, fully equipped, arrived on Thursday. She will at once commence the work of opening up the river channel which has been unnavigable from the town wharf to Mynora, since the big flood in May. The tug, Waratah, arrived the previous day with the big punt for the dredge.

Rapid progress is being made at Dormon Long’s granite quarry works here. The main engine and generator have been given a successful trial run, and the big crusher is nearing completion. The 15-ton loco motor crane has been assembled and is now working, and the noise is increased by the sound of the surfacing machine in operation. Six three-roomed cottages have been completed and are occupied, and the four-roomed cottages will soon be finished. It is expected that in the course of a few weeks the whole of the works will be in full operation.

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

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