Tag: Queen Street

  • The editor’s ”’I told you so”, the ‘new’ Country Party and other news from 100 years ago

    The editor’s ”’I told you so”, the ‘new’  Country Party and other news from 100 years ago

    Featured image: Queen St. Moruya looking westward from Vulcan St. Shire-wide news extracts from the Moruya Examiner of 20 March 1920, provided by the Moruya & District Historical Society VOTING TO-DAY.  No matter how disgusted the electors may feel with our politicians of the past, it is their bounden duty to go to the poll…

  • Moruya Votes For 6pm Closing – news from 17 june, 1916

    Moruya Votes For 6pm Closing – news from 17 june, 1916

    Shire-wide news extracts from the Moruya Examiner of 17 June 1916, provided by the Moruya & District Historical Society: WHARF ROAD – We are pleased to hear that those of our Shire Councillors, interviewed on the subject, are quite in accord with the views expressed by us in a recent issue favouring the formation of…

  • Moruya’s CBD – Queen Street

    Moruya’s CBD – Queen Street

    Extracted from Camp Fire Tales by Noel Warry, and based on the recollections of George Chewying and his memories of a childhood spent on Queen Street, Moruya – a fascinating read! For over forty years, during the last half of the 19th century and well into the early part of the 20th century, Moruya’s business…