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The Hatchery: a blog about my adventures in bird watching

Illustration of a bird flying.
  • 50 Years Ago – 13 February 1974

    50 Years Ago – 13 February 1974

    Naders opening on Ford Street; auto parts manager needs a place to rent; and snap up a holiday home in Batehaven for $18,000Naders opening on Ford Street, auto parts manager needs a place to rent, snap up a holiday home in Batehaven for $18,000 and grab a counter lunch at the Pearly Shells.

    February 16, 2024
  • 100 Years Ago – 16 February 1924

    100 Years Ago – 16 February 1924

    A 12ft shark is spotted in Moruya River; Councillors petition to close river to net fishing; Carpenter and undertaker Mr. Ross’ dies and . Campbell St lots for sale.

    February 16, 2024
  • Quilt Raffle: Celebrate Craftsmanship and Generosity

    Quilt Raffle: Celebrate Craftsmanship and Generosity

    The MDHS is thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity for all quilt enthusiasts and supporters of our cause. Our latest raffle features two exquisite quilts generously donated by the talented champion quilt-maker, Deb Dawson. Deb’s masterpieces have once again swept the Moruya Show, earning her the prestigious title of Champion of the Show, along with…

    February 12, 2024
  • 100 Years Ago – 9 February 1924

    100 Years Ago – 9 February 1924

    Condolences to the Greig and Nunan families. Electricity lights up the the Court House corner. Narooma land auction announced.

    February 9, 2024
  • 50 Years Ago – 7 February 1974

    50 Years Ago – 7 February 1974

    New route from Batemans Bay to Moruya through Rosedale, Mossy Point and Broulee – expected to have a dramatic impact on coastline development.

    February 7, 2024
  • 100 Years Ago – 2 February 1924

    100 Years Ago – 2 February 1924

    Mr. Anthony White, a successful farmer and invaluable to Bodalla Estate, passed away at 85. And Dr. Cutler installed the district’s first wireless set.

    February 2, 2024
  • 50 Years Ago – 30 January 1974

    50 Years Ago – 30 January 1974

    Council concerned about State plan to resume land for coastal conservation While State Goverment is concerned about the lack of low-cost housing initiatives particularly for young people. Everything goes up . . . but Hector’s prices GO DOWN – get a perm for $6!

    January 31, 2024
  • 2024 – Another year of show memories!

    2024 – Another year of show memories!

    Many turned up at the 2024 Moruya Show this weekend including MDHS. Agricultural shows have been and remain an important social and cultural event in regional and local communities across Australia since the early 19th century.  They have a long and colourful history in regional and city communities providing a popular outing where agricultural production…

    January 29, 2024
  • 100 Years Ago – 26 January 1924

    100 Years Ago – 26 January 1924

    A teacher is appointed in Nerrigundah; a boy dies from poisoning; steamer Bodalla wrecks at Narooma with cargo lost.

    January 26, 2024
  • 50 Years Ago – 23 January 1974

    50 Years Ago – 23 January 1974

    Oil Shortage Hits Local Surfboard Enterprise Meanwhile you can drown your sorrows in a bottle of Cold Duck from Emmott’s for just 99 cents!

    January 24, 2024
  • Dr. Hugh Mackay: Remarkable Surgeon & Ambulance Pioneer

    Dr. Hugh Mackay: Remarkable Surgeon & Ambulance Pioneer

    Born in Kempsey in 1894 as one of ten children, Irwin Hugh Mackay’s journey from Sydney University to becoming a distinguished surgeon and founder of a district ambulance service is remarkable. After completing his education, including further studies in England, Dr. Mackay returned to Australia, eventually becoming the Assistant Superintendent at Newcastle Hospital. At age…

    January 22, 2024
  • 100 Years Ago – 19 January 1924

    100 Years Ago – 19 January 1924

    Saturday, 26th Jan. (Anniversary Day) has been gazetted a public holiday throughout the State, and not the 28th as anticipated. The holiday will be observed at the Post Office as usual, the office being open from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. No money order business will be transacted. All mails close at 10 a.m. Our…

    January 19, 2024
  • 50 Years Ago – 16 January 1974

    50 Years Ago – 16 January 1974

    Win a Holden Torana – Rotary is selling tickets to raise money for its War Memorial Scholarship Foundation – 2,500 tickets to be sold at $2 each!

    January 17, 2024
  • 100 Years Ago – 12 January 1924

    100 Years Ago – 12 January 1924

    The latest broadcasting development is called television; north shore granite for Harbour Bridge, and SS Kianga struck Narooma bar.

    January 12, 2024
  • 50 Years Ago – 9 January 1974

    50 Years Ago – 9 January 1974

    Wild West on show at the Mardi Gras, while Moruya Surfers ride the waves at the Kiama Surf Carnival

    January 10, 2024
  • 100 Years Ago – 5 January 1924

    100 Years Ago – 5 January 1924

    The name of John L. Stormon, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Stormon, of Eurobodalla, appears amongst the successful students in pharmacy at the recent University examinations gaining credit in chemistry. The Chief Secretary (Mr. Oakes) announced that the open season for quail of every species is to be closed for the years 1924 and…

    January 5, 2024
  • Living in the 70s – 50 Years Ago!

    Living in the 70s – 50 Years Ago!

    Highlighting life in the 1970s through extracts from the Southern Star, published in Moruya from 1970-2002 and the Moruya Examiner, the longest serving paper of the region, started in 1864. To some of us the 70s seems like just yesterday – and others weren’t even born. A time of disco, flared jeans and political upheaval.…

    January 3, 2024
  • 50 Years Ago – 2 January 1974

    50 Years Ago – 2 January 1974

    Show your tricks at the Moruya Rodeo, or snap up a second-hand Kingswood for $1850!

    January 3, 2024
  • A Woman’s Lot

    A Woman’s Lot

    Special Exhibition – providing a captivating peek into the lives of women during the early 1900s. On show from 3 January – 26 April 2024.

    January 1, 2024
  • The Pain of Paying Tolls – 150 Years Ago

    The Pain of Paying Tolls – 150 Years Ago

    If you find toll roads confusing and inconvenient spare a thought for the toll collector in 1871.  Toll roads were reinstated on the Southern Road in November 1871. The toll bars were at Bargo, Hanging-Rock, Wingelo and Towrang. Tolls in the 1870s1d =1 penny = A$0.78 in todays currency Item Toll in 1870 Value in…

    December 29, 2023
  • 100 Years Ago – 22 December 1923

    100 Years Ago – 22 December 1923

    Record heat experienced here last Saturday – 104 in the shade. [40°c] Monday and Thursday, 25th and 27th Dec., have been gazetted public holidays for Moruya and a radius of 10 miles therefrom. It is needless to remind our sporting fraternity that Bodalla’s annual pony race will take place on Boxing Day, as this popular…

    December 22, 2023
  • 100 Years Ago – 15 December 1923

    100 Years Ago – 15 December 1923

    At Moruya Police Court before Mr. Cohen, P.M., charges against the licensee of the Royal Hotel & two persons for drinking after hours were dropped. The death of Mrs. Edward Brown took place at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Claude Smith, Gundary. On Wednesday. Mrs. Brown, who has been an invalid for many months,…

    December 16, 2023
  • 100 Years Ago – 8 December 1923

    100 Years Ago – 8 December 1923

    The hot westerlies experienced during the past few months have had a disastrous effect on pastures. Latest reports state that the condition of the Director of the Commonwealth Immigration Bureau, Mr. Lionel J. Hurley, formerly of Moruya, and son-in-law of Mr. S. W. Bate of Central Tilba, is improving. Mr. Hurley was accompanying Mr. Penleigh…

    December 8, 2023
  • 100 Years Ago -1 December 1923

    100 Years Ago -1 December 1923

    In connection with the London College of Music an examination will be conducted at the Amusu Theater on Monday next, at which ten of Mrs. A. H. Preddey’s pupils will sit as candidates. At a well-attended meeting of suppliers to Tilba Tilba cheese factory last week, it was decided to build a new factory on…

    December 1, 2023
  • 100 Years Ago – 24th November 1923

    100 Years Ago – 24th November 1923

    Messrs. J. Neale (Nelligen), P. Bill and W. Linkenbagh have donated a silver cup for competition amongst Batemans Bay, Mogo, Nelligen and Benandra cricket clubs. That champion canvasser, Mr. J. Coppin, jnr., quite excelled himself this year by collecting the handsome sum of £22 13s 6d at Gundary in members’ subscriptions and special prizes for…

    November 24, 2023
  • Emmott House Verandah – Declared Open

    Emmott House Verandah – Declared Open

    A crowd of around 50 people gathered at the Museum from the opening of the new verandah of the Emmott House, the home of the Moruya Museum. Our Eurobodalla Mayor Mathew Hatcher spoke to the heritage value of the Emmott House, and the importance of community organisations working together to achieve outcomes. He congratulated the…

    November 20, 2023
  • 100 Years Ago – 17th November 1923

    100 Years Ago – 17th November 1923

    Little Lord Fauntleroy at the Amusu to-night, Saturday.  10,000 feet of the most fascinating picture. The annual-general meeting of the Moruya Pony Race Club was held in the Shire Hall on Monday night. … The following committee were elected: – Messrs. G. Constable, A. Cooper, A. Louttit, W. Ryan, J. Lynch, R. Spinks, P. Donnelly,…

    November 17, 2023
  • 100 Years Ago – 10th November 1923

    100 Years Ago – 10th November 1923

    * * * Part 2: Moruya Edition * * * Present at a meeting of the Moruya Progress Association in the Shire Hall on Tuesday: – Messrs. G. Mitchell (chair), C. Johnson, O. J. Armstrong, S. Ryan, C. Cheeseman, G. Hanscom and Secretary C. Carter. … A long discussion on the placing of an electric…

    November 10, 2023
  • 100 Years Ago – 10th November 1923

    100 Years Ago – 10th November 1923

    * * * Part 1: Special Bodalla Edition * * * M. and J. O’Reilly and Richardson and Wrench are offering special terms for the two unsold farms, “Mortfield” and “Elizabeth,” of the first subdivision at Bodalla. The first auction sale where these farms failed to sell was held 11th April 1923 with 13 individual…

    November 3, 2023
  • 100 Years Ago – 27th October 1923

    100 Years Ago – 27th October 1923

    Mr. J. A. Perkins, M.L.A., forwards the following from the Public Works Dept.:- “Following on my letter of 20th September, I am directed by the Minister  to inform you that an officer of this Department visited Narooma on the 27th September and examined the source of the proposed water supply for that village from Dromedary…

    October 27, 2023
  • 100 Years Ago – 20th October 1923

    100 Years Ago – 20th October 1923

    Messrs. Richardson and Wrench, in conjunction with M. and J. O’Reilly, report the sale of “West Flat,” Farm, Bodalla, to Mr. Harry Bridges, and M. and J. O’Reilly report the sale of Mr. Bridges’ farm at Tilba Tilba to Mr. Clive Wright. A special committee meeting of Moruya Race Club was held on Tuesday night,…

    October 20, 2023
  • 100 Years Ago – 13th October 1923

    100 Years Ago – 13th October 1923

    A number of men including Messrs. A. Ison, M. J. Keating, F. Ryan and B. Turner, leave here tomorrow to strip bark on Mr. M. Ryan’s estate at Runnyford. Mr. Harold Koerber is building a motor garage at the rear of his residence at Narooma. Mr. Milliner, of Tilba, will occupy the shop a couple…

    October 13, 2023
  • 100 Years Ago – 6th October 1923

    100 Years Ago – 6th October 1923

    Mr. Arch. Barclay, we are sorry to report, commemorated the opening of his new oyster saloon at Bateman’s Bay on Saturday, by running the oyster knife right through his hand. Variety is the spice of life. We have this week been visited by hot westerlies, cold westerlies, chilling southerlies, sleet, light rain, lightening gales, dust,…

    October 6, 2023
  • Mullenderee Matters

    Mullenderee Matters

    The story of early European settlement on the north bank of the Moruya River

    October 6, 2023
  • 100 Years Ago – 29th September 1923

    100 Years Ago – 29th September 1923

    Many old landmarks were uprooted by last week’s cyclone, amongst them being the stately old poplars at Mungerarie House, the home of Mrs. W. Collett, senr. Mr. Lewis Collett, of “Terrimbee Farm,” had the misfortune to have a 6-year-old draught horse killed through a tree falling on it during the tornado last week. The animal,…

    September 29, 2023
  • 100 Years Ago – 22 September 1923

    100 Years Ago – 22 September 1923

    Mr. Godfred Hanscom is installing the electric light throughout his residence in Queen St. and also throughout his father’s shop and dwelling. The 30 lights will be run by a Delco plant. There died at his residence, Gundary, on Wednesday, Mr. John Corrigan, at the age of 64 years. “Jack,” as he was familiarly called,…

    September 22, 2023
  • 100 Years Ago – 15 September 1923

    100 Years Ago – 15 September 1923

    At the request of the Mines Department a parcel of highly mineralized stone from Mr. G. G. Johnson’s claim at Donkey Hill was shipped this week to the London Exhibition. Mr. H. J. Thomson, who purchased Ninderra Estate from Mr. H. E. Simpson, has disposed of one sub-division to Miss Mary Boot and another to…

    September 15, 2023
  • 100 Years Ago – 8 September 1923

    100 Years Ago – 8 September 1923

    Householders should begin now to make an onslaught on flies both large and small, as it is feared we shall have a plague of these germ carriers, during the Summer months, on account of the large number of carcasses (the breeding grounds of the housewife’s worst pest) lying about the out-bush paddocks. Since our last…

    September 8, 2023
  • Emmott House – MDHS & Rotary Work Together

    Emmott House – MDHS & Rotary Work Together

    Built in 1875, the heritage-listed Emmott House has certainly withstood the test of time and is now home to the Moruya Museum. Since its acquisition by the Moruya and District Historical Society (MDHS) in 1976, substantial restoration work has been undertaken, but some aspects are ongoing. Recent challenges emerged with the deterioration of the front…

    September 5, 2023
  • Of Pigs & Whistles – Exhibition on Steamship Navigation

    Of  Pigs & Whistles – Exhibition on Steamship Navigation

    How Steam Navigation Linked South East NSW to the World! New exhibition now open – features special additional objects from our collection.

    September 4, 2023
  • 100 years Ago – 1 September 1923

    100 years Ago – 1 September 1923

    Under the guidance of Mr. C. Carter, Miss Dulcie Louttit has passed successfully her examination for entrance to Hereford House Teachers’ College.  Mitchell Brothers have just installed a fine machine at their Narooma Sawmill. It is a contrivance for emptying the sawdust trucks. This enterprising firm intends putting a tractor on the road shortly for…

    September 1, 2023
  • 100 years Ago – 25 August 1923

    100 years Ago – 25 August 1923

    Publicans are reminded that R. B. Heffernan will offer for sale, to-day at 2.30 p.m., at Carden’s Hotel, the booth for the forthcoming Ploughing Match. A committee meeting of the Moruya Race Club was held on Tuesday night. In the absence of the President (Mr. J. McKeon) Mr. J. R. Milne was voted to the…

    August 25, 2023
  • A Stich in Time – Quilt Raffle

    A Stich in Time – Quilt Raffle

    Imagine wrapping yourself in a cozy hand-crafted quilt. Now, you have the chance to own one, while supporting a noble cause. Welcome to our Quilt Raffle! Local artisan Deb Dawson has generously donated 2 of her beautiful handmade quilts for our fundraising raffle. Deb’s quilts are more than just decorative pieces; they’re works of art…

    August 22, 2023
  • Double-Dipping Debs – Young and Not So Young

    Double-Dipping Debs – Young and Not So Young

    By ShirleyJurmann Back in 1937 the Moruya Parish of the Catholic Church had quite a large debt and a method was sought to assist in liquidating this debt. Balls, with people dressed in evening wear, were a popular social activity, as was making their debut for the young ladies of the town. Someone had the…

    August 16, 2023
  • 100 Years Ago – 11 August 1923

    100 Years Ago – 11 August 1923

    Mr. C. Stubbs, jnr., of Dwyer’s Creek, who evidently has a penchant for the golden gleam, not only does he delve for the earth’s precious metal, but he has the busy bee gathering a golden harvest. During the past season 100 swarms of these active workers gave their owner 4 ½ tons of honey. No…

    August 11, 2023
  • Bergalia, Meringo & Bingie – New Book by Shirley Jurmann

    Bergalia, Meringo & Bingie – New Book by Shirley Jurmann

    This new book by Shirley Jurmann delves into the rich history of farming communities around the village of Bergalia, and is adorned with captivating images generously provided by descendants of local families, some of whom continue their farming legacy in the area. Bergalia is the area south of Moruya along the Princes Highway, before you…

    August 8, 2023
  • Family History for Beginners Workshop – Moruya Library

    Family History for Beginners Workshop – Moruya Library

    Thurs 24 Aug, 10.30-noon. Celebrate Family History Month and join us for an introduction to family history research. Hosted by the Moruya Library on Vulcan Street.

    August 8, 2023
  • 100 years Ago – 4 August 1923

    100 years Ago – 4 August 1923

    By advertisement it will be seen that Mr. Raymond Byrne, of Bodalla, is placing his fine new 22 h.p. Ford lorry at the service of residents of Bodalla and surrounding districts. As well as carrying general goods, he is prepared to convey picnic parties to any part of the country. A silo recently destroyed by…

    August 4, 2023
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