July 2017

Contents

• President’s report and meeting notices - page 1Reports on the June luncheon, honours for Lyn and Harlan Hall, Peg Harvey’s life membership and forthcoming speakers.
• Old Hume stories and railway anniversary - page 2Introduces Stephen Gard’s Once Upon a Hume and seeks material for the 150th anniversary of Moss Vale railway station.
• Family history speakers and Max Rogers book sale - page 3Introduces Joy and Allan Murrin’s family history services and explains the 2017 sale of surplus books donated from Max Rogers’ collection.
• Society volunteers and museum exhibition - page 4Records Peg Harvey’s life membership and the museum’s convict bonnets exhibition, made by members and friends of the Fellowship of First Fleeters.
• Old Hume guide and Bowral Courthouse jubilee - page 5Describes Society contributions to a self-guided road history and reproduces the introduction to A. V. J. Parry’s 1946 courthouse jubilee article.
• Box Vale colliery railway - page 6Philip Morton traces the coal mine, the railway’s construction and route from Mittagong, and its relationship to the Joadja line.
• Closure and Box Vale walking track - page 7The article covers the colliery’s difficulties, the 1896 sale of plant and later community work to establish a walking track along the railway formation.
• Society information - page 8Contact, opening, membership and committee information printed in July 2017; details may have since changed.

Issue highlights

• The Society recognises Peg Harvey and museum volunteers, and announces a Max Rogers book sale (pp.1, 3-4).
• An Old Hume Highway guide and a Bowral Courthouse jubilee article connect road and civic histories (p.5).
• Philip Morton traces the Box Vale colliery railway and the later walking track (pp.6-7).

Original Society source