June 2016

Contents

• President’s column and meeting notices - page 1Reflects on interest in family history and announces the Society’s June luncheon.
• Society notices and Bundanoon events - page 2Includes historical membership and museum notices and a Bundanoon History Group book sale.
• Commercial Hotel and Bungonia visit - page 3Draws on Shylie Brown’s hotel research and reports a Bundanoon History Group tour to Bungonia.
• A new newsletter masthead - page 4Introduces four district landmarks and describes their histories; the following issue clarifies Bundanoon’s town status.
• James McCleery and the early business - page 5Philip Morton begins a Moss Vale coachbuilding history; a birth-year misprint in this page is acknowledged in the following issue.
• McCleery’s coachbuilding works - page 6The article describes the Moss Vale workshop, vehicles, machinery and family, drawing on an 1892 Scrutineer report.
• Museum meeting and collection work - page 7Reports a behind-the-scenes meeting at Berrima District Museum; the next issue corrects details of the SH1200 research and accession process.
• Society information - page 8Contact, opening, membership and committee information printed in June 2016; details may have since changed.

Issue highlights

• Shylie Brown’s hotel research and a Bungonia history tour feature on page 3.
• Philip Morton begins the McCleery coachbuilding history; the next issue acknowledges a birth-year misprint (pp.5-6).
• A museum meeting describes collection and exhibition work, with corrections published in the following issue (p.7).
• The new newsletter masthead uses photographs of district landmarks, including Mittagong’s memorial clock tower (p.4).

Original Society source