100 Years Ago – 10 July 1926

Mr. Albert Flanagan, of Mullenderree, who has been affected with nervous debility, with Mrs. Flanagan and daughter, left for Sydney on Tuesday.

Mr. B. Bartlett, who has been living on the North Coast for a number of years, is, with Mrs. Bartlett and the unmarried members of his family, returning to Kiora to take over Hawdon’s Farm recently occupied by the late Mr. J. W. McIntosh.

Trees of remarkable height have been found in various districts of New South Wales, but Moruya Forestry is credited with one of the highest, which is a blackbutt with a good milling bole of 80 feet, with a 9-inch pipe, 198ft high, parish of Tomerong; a spotted gum, two trees, 188ft. and 196ft, respectively, parish Tomerong, and one 174 feet, State Forest No. 148, Moruya district. A blue gum in Ourimbah State Forest is 213 feet high.

P. Egan, of Bateman’s Bay, wrote asking co-operation of the Tallaganda (Braidwood) Shire Council, in urging that a railway line be constructed from Braidwood to Bateman’s Bay. A line, he said, had been surveyed. He knew all the country between Braidwood and the Bay, and would be glad to give every assistance in his power. He estimated the cost at roughly £2,000,000. The President said that the Engineer had turned down a proposal to construct a road from Queanbeyan to Bateman’s Bay. He said he had unofficially approached Mr. Bruce [Prime Minister 1923-1929] when he visited Braidwood and he said it was necessary to show how it would benefit the Commonwealth Government. He had since been in communication with Mr. Perkins [Member for Eden Monaro], but so far he had nothing tangible to go on. When he did he would call a meeting.

The Bermagui arrived on Monday with a shipment of coal for the dredges Neptune and Ballina, now at work in our river. The dredges had been idle for some months owing to the coal strike.

Captain Jolly, the wonderful survivor of ten crashes, and the winner of the “Herald” Aerial Derby, is engaged in the floatation of a large company to be known as the Federal City Airways Ltd., which proposes to conduct services between Sydney and Melbourne, via Albury, Canberra and Goulburn. By this service, he stated, passengers will be able to proceed from one State to the other in less than seven hours.

Householders are warned by the Shire Council against throwing slop water from the balconies onto the streets.

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Extracted from the Moruya Examiner by the Moruya and District Historical Society Inc. If you are interested in history why not join us and become a volunteer at the Museum or our library. Check us out at https://www.mdhs.org.au