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100 Years Ago – 17 March 1923
OVER 300,000,000 rabbit skins have already been sold in Sydney markets this year. The value of rabbit skins exported last year totalled £1,194,972. MR. John Whelan, who has worked for the Bodalla Company for 50 years, is to be entertained in the Bodalla Hall on Friday night, 10th April. At this function the Bodalla Company,…
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Persia Campbell – a long way from Nerrigundah
Professor Emelita Persia Campbell was born at Nerrigundah on 15th March 1898. From this simple beginning she rose to very top of her profession as an academic and economist in the USA. In 1962 she was appointed by President Kennedy to the Presidents Council of Economic advisers; and was re-appointed to that body by President…
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100 years Ago – 17 February 1923
THE work of repairing and renovating the local public school is in progress, also minor renovations to the school residence. MR. John McKeon has completed the purchase of the Donkey Hill mine from Mr. C. Stubbs, jnr., and will continue working the same. WE regret to inform that Mr. J. Jenner, of Newstead, was seized…
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100 Years Ago – 23 December 1922
THREE farms in Tilba district experienced an outbreak of pleuro among their cattle, resulting in the death of several cows. Strict steps for isolation were taken, with the result that infection was checked. It is stated that all danger of any further loss by the disease is now over. A SIGHT WORTH SEEING. – Beautiful…
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100 Years Ago – 16 December 1922
FOR the benefit of dairymen we wish to notify them that their registration was due yesterday 15 inst., and that they must make their application forthwith at the local Police Station, or otherwise they will be penalized. AUCTIONEER M. E. Ryan, of Runnyford reports the sale on Saturday last of 137 acres of land –…
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100 Years Ago – 9 December 1922
THROUGH the axe he was using gliding off the wood, Mr. George Belette, of Mogo, severely gashed his leg. SOME of our local anglers had excellent sport on Sunday on the shores of Broulee. In a short time three lines were responsible for 44 sand whiting and bream being landed. PILOT Chapman, who was reported…
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Char-a-banc Tour Comes to Town!
In October 1922 a charabanc tour came to Moruya from Melbourne en route to Sydney with a cameraman on board: A BIG party of tourists from Melbourne passed through Moruya on Tuesday. There were 35 in all, and they are travelling in two big char-a-bancs. They left Melbourne last Monday week, and are proceeding by…
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100 Years Ago – 30 September 1922
THE Minister for Lands has announced the Government’s intention to grant £200,000 for rabbit-proof fencing. The following tennis players will represent Moruya against Bateman’s Bay to-day on the local courts: – Mesdames Ison, Simpson, Armstrong, and Sanders, Messrs. Carter, Knight, Feneley, Armstrong and Sanders. Play to commence at 1.30 p.m. MR. T Cooper is having…
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Attack on the Dureenbee, 80 years on
Extracted from War? What War? by Shirley JurmannPublished in the MDHS Journal, Sept 2020 On 3rd August the people of Moruya were awoken in the early hours of the morning by the sounds of gunfire at sea and flashes of light could be seen from higher points in the town. The gunfire was coming from…
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Motor Gymkhana at Harry’s Farm
Extracted from The Story of Harry’s House By Shirley Jurmann There was a house on the eastern side of the Princes highway, as you come along the Mullenderree Flats into Moruya from the north. It was known in times past as “Oaklands” and has a long history starting in the 1860s when James Francis Lynch…
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