Category: 100 Years Ago

Bateman’s Bay Punt

We were favored with two steamers last week, the Bodalla arriving with general cargo and the Benandra with a load of coal for the dredge Latona. H. J. Thomson reports having sold Mrs. Mison’s farm of 345 acres, house and outbuildings, about 50 head mixed cattle, farming implements, dairy utensils, fodder, etc., to Mr. P.…

Mr. and Mrs. Barney Welsh, who handed over the business of the Criterion Hotel, Mullenderee, on Monday to new licensee, Mr. Jas. Turnbull, leave shortly for Cobargo where they have purchased the goodwill of the Post Office Hotel. R. S. Brice is applying for oyster leases on southern and north-western banks of the Wagonga River.…

As permission has been granted by the Defence Department to have the Moruya Rifle Range re-instated as a branch of the Bergalia Club, the matter now rests with the Moruya riflemen if they are willing to manage it as such. … Mr. W. Lipscombe, Potato Point, who recently met with a serious accident in the…

Tilba is becoming famous through the foresight of its farmers. It is being held up as an example of what an up-to-date farm should be like in a time of drought. The dry spell, it is reported, has not affected Tilba to the same extent as further south. Most of the farms are equipped with…

Mr. Byrne has taken over Greenway Farm, at Bodalla, vacated by Mr. Marsden. A meeting of the Moruya Football Club took place on Friday night last. Present: – Messrs. O. J. Armstrong (chair), J. Nicholson, G. Roger, W. Armstrong, J. Bennett, F. Macintosh, P. J. Feneley, D. de Saxe and C. Carter. It was decided…

Messrs. A. L. Jeffery and A. Louttit are improving the value of their Old Man Bed properties and increasing the grazing areas by having the swamps thereon drained. Mr. A. F. Emmott has already commenced operations to improve “Riverview,” his newly purchased farm at Bodalla, having put a gang of men on to erect a…

Moruya Tennis Club Daisy Walters on back right and Ilma Waters front left

MR. Siddall, lessee of the local Refrigerating Works, who a few months ago advertised for eggs, has since received over 4,000 dozen. He sent his first consignment to Sydney last week. Receiving the handsome return of 1/9 per dozen. BATEMANS BAY (From our Correspondent.) There was a big influx of visitors to the Bay during…

THE presentation of the R. N. Bull Cricket Shield will take place in the Mechanics’ Institute on 26th inst., the premiers this year being the Bodalla Cricket Team. Moruya Cricket Club was second. T. Wray is applying for about 300 yards for an oyster lease on the southern shore of Tuross Lake, near the entrance.…