April 2013

Contents

• Society information and meetings - page 1Society information and meeting notices printed in April 2013.
• Southern Highlands 1200 and notices - page 2Reports the museum exhibition project and upcoming events; later issues correct two statements on this page.
• Hazelton, Moss Vale - page 3Linda Emery traces the timber house from subdivision and boarding establishment to school, guest house and de Mestre family home.
• Anzac Day and Bert Stokes - page 4Introduces Bowral bandsman Bert Stokes and his family, community life and wartime service.
• Bert Stokes: farewell and remembrance - page 5Reproduces contemporary newspaper accounts and a letter following Stokes’s death at Gallipoli.
• Southern Portland Cement cricket team - page 6Identifies members of an SPC first-grade team photograph and draws on the company newsletter for 1959 cricket reports.
• Governance of the Berrima District - page 7Philip Morton introduces the 1843 district council, its boundaries and surviving minute book; the following issue corrects a councillor’s name.
• Diary and Society information - page 8Meeting dates and postal details printed in April 2013; details may have since changed.

Issue highlights

• Linda Emery traces Hazelton in Moss Vale from the 1882 Bull’s Hill subdivision through its use as a boarding house, girls’ school and later family home (p.3).
• Philip Morton follows Bowral bandsman Bert Stokes’s service and death at Gallipoli, reproducing contemporary reports and a letter (pp.4-5).
• An identified Southern Portland Cement cricket team photograph and 1959 company-newsletter extracts record sport at New Berrima (p.6).
• The first of two articles traces Berrima District Council’s establishment in 1843; the next issue corrects councillor James Comer’s name (p.7).

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