July 2020

Contents

• President’s column and Bowral water supply - page 1Reports Society activities and begins a retrospective on Bowral’s long campaign for a town water scheme approved in 1920.
• Society notices and the Waratah butter factory - page 2Includes Bruce Moore’s dancing reminiscence, a note on language about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and a photograph of the East Kangaloon factory.
• Bowral water scheme and Exploring Exeter - page 3Describes the reservoir, pumping and reticulation scheme, its 1922 opening and later filtration plant; also introduces a revised Exeter history.
• The Pritchett family and dairy factories - page 4A family history donated by Elaine Zendler follows Arthur and Agnes Pritchett from England to the South Coast and the Robertson and East Kangaloon butter factories.
• Dairying and the Pritchett family’s move north - page 5Sets local butter factories in the cooperative dairying movement and follows the family’s 1896 departure for northern New South Wales.
• Early Berrima District newspapers - page 6Philip Morton introduces the district’s competing newspapers, including the Scrutineer and the Burrawang Herald, using earlier newspaper histories.
• The Bowral and Mittagong papers - page 7Traces the Bowral Free Press, Mittagong Mail and later Four Mails through ownership changes and their amalgamation with the Southern Highland News.
• Society information and office bearers - page 8Lists Society contacts, opening times, membership fees and office bearers as printed in July 2020; these details are historical and may have changed.

Issue highlights

• The president recalls early Bowral water-supply proposals and introduces a new vice-regal history (p.3).
• The archives receive research on Arthur and Agnes Pritchett and their time near Robertson (p.4).
• The Pritchett family account follows Arthur’s district connections and departure from Bowral in 1896 (p.5).
• A history of local newspapers traces the Scrutineer and the Bowral Free Press and their publishers (pp.6-7).

Original Society source