June 2014

Contents

• Society information and meetings - page 1Lists 2014 Society details and announces talks on Mittagong church history and Bowral trachyte.
• President’s report and community history award - page 2Reports a Boer War book launch and an award for former Society secretary Chrissie Fletcher’s Adopt a Digger project.
• Forgotten Soldiers and Harper’s Mansion - page 3Reports the launch of Janet Black’s Boer War research and a heritage award for Ann Beaumont’s history of Harper’s Mansion.
• State heritage listing for Mount Gibraltar - page 4Describes the 2013 listing of the trachyte quarries and their importance to local and wider architecture.
• Railway engineer John Whitton - page 5Philip Morton draws on John Simons’s address about Whitton’s railway career and his visits to Mittagong.
• Berrima in the 1841 census - page 6Chris Thompson and Philip Morton explain the census research project and its estimates of households and residents.
• Mittagong Star: Depression-era extracts - page 7Carol Nolan selects reports on the 1931 soup kitchen, unemployment, the maltings and other local events.
• Diary and Society information - page 8Meeting dates and postal information printed in June 2014; details may have since changed.

Issue highlights

• The Society launches Janet Black’s expanded Boer War history and reports an award for Ann Beaumont’s Harper’s Mansion book (p.3).
• The issue describes Mount Gibraltar’s heritage-listed trachyte quarries and recalls railway engineer John Whitton’s association with Mittagong (pp.4-5).
• A census project examines Berrima’s households in 1841, distinguishing residents from people recorded at the gaol, barracks and inns (p.6).
• Depression-era newspaper extracts record a Mittagong soup kitchen and reduced work at the maltings (p.7).

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