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Nights in White Linen
Exhibition: 5 April – 31 May 2023 Moruya Museum: Wed Fri Sat 10am-noon Showcasing some of the finest linen in the Moruya Museum’s collection Linen has history extending back over 30,000 years and is still today used in high end clothing and home fabrics. A century ago this amazing fabric was used in everything from…
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The Rectory & The Postmaster’s House – New Releases from MDHS
Two new publications from Shirley Jurmann reveal the secrets of 2 very important buildings in the life of Moruya – the Postmaster’s House and the Rectory. Both are told in the first person by the house. All enquiries to secretary@mdhs.org.au The Postmaster’s House This booklet starts by covering the postal services in Moruya from their…
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Assigned: Convicts who came to Broulee Moruya District
NEW Book Now Available This book explores the lives of convicts assigned to the Broulee Moruya region, or who settled there after their sentences had expired. Read about the convict labour force who cleared the land, built the fences and helped to create the prosperity of the district. Also, the early landowners who were the…
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News from 100 years ago – 3 June 1922
3 June1922 The “Daily Telegraph” says that Tilba Tilba is the home of silage making in New South Wales. There are more silos to the square mile in that district than any other part of Australia. Another large haul of fish was made at Coila during the week, when Mr. W. Dennis netted a hundred…
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News from 100 years ago – 27 May 1922
27 May, 1922 Messrs. E. de Mestre and G. E. Siddall notify in this issue dissolution of partnership in the business of Moruya Refrigerating Works. PERSONS on the look-out for a comfortable home and an exceptionally rich small farm, will have the opportunity of doing so on next Saturday week, when Mrs. J. Strahan’s property…
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News from 100 years ago – 20 May 1922
20 May 1922 OWING to a cyclonic disturbance, which greatly disorganised shipping, the local steamer did not arrive until Tuesday last, four days over her schedule time. MR. W. S. NELSON, of Bergalia Store, having disposed of his handy little Hupmobile car to Mr. Fred Hutchings, has invested in a new 1922 model two-seater Buik.…
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News from 100 years ago – 13 May 1922
DONNELY BROS. slaughtered a prime cow last week end, fattened in Luck’s paddock. She turned the scales at 596 lbs, and is described as one of the best local beasts slaughtered for a long time. BROULEE. – Last week end a number of Isaac Walton’s deciples including Messrs A. H. Fox, M. J. Keating, Barty…
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News from 100 years ago – 6 May 1922
QUAIL season opens May 15th, closes August 31st. Lieut.-Colonel Hurley (well-known in Moruya as proprietor of Moruya-Tilba “Times,”) has been appointed to the vacancy at the head of Commonwealth Immigration Dept. THE Austral Starch factory near Nelligen is suspending operations for three months with a view to increase capacity of output. Mr. Abraham Emmott resumed…
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Leo De Saxe – Moruya’s First ANZAC ?
Leopold Franklin (Bill) De Saxe (1893–1988) was one of the first Moruya residents to volunteer for service in world War I enlisting at the age of 21 on 17 August 1914. He sailed from Albany on 1 November, disembarking in Alexandria, Egypt in early December 1914. He was sent with the A&NZ Division from there…
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News from 100 years ago – 22 April 1922
NAROOMA was well patronized again this year by long distance tourists, judging by the car loads that passed through Moruya making that way. The weather has been ideal for seaside resorts. Barbed wire may only be used lawfully if it falls entirely within the land boundaries of the person erecting it. WEDDING. – The Sacred…
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