September 2020

Contents

• President’s column and museum projects - page 1Reports completion of the digital gallery, a planned gardens exhibition and the issue’s centenary retrospective on local war memorials.
• Society notices and new publication - page 2Includes Bruce Moore’s humorous column, Society notices, a description of Stephen Gard’s Once Upon a Hume volume 4 and a photograph of Maltings workers.
• The Maltings, Mittagong - page 3Reviews the history of the malthouses, major fires, closure and subsequent redevelopment proposals, including the proposal being assessed in 2020.
• Mittagong and Bowral war memorials - page 4Ian Mackey describes fundraising, construction and the 1920 unveilings of the Mittagong and Bowral memorials.
• Bowral and Moss Vale memorials - page 5Continues the Bowral unveiling account and traces the Moss Vale memorial campaign, donated land and 1922 unveiling.
• The Scrutineer and Edmund Hewison - page 6Continues the history of the Moss Vale newspaper, drawing on contemporary obituaries of proprietor Edmund Hewison and his family.
• Ada Hewison and The Scrutineer - page 7Traces Ada Hewison’s editorship and printing business, contemporary commentary and the newspaper’s final issue in 1948.
• Society information and office bearers - page 8Lists Society contacts, opening times, membership fees and office bearers as printed in September 2020; these details are historical and may have changed.

Issue highlights

• The Society describes the Mittagong Maltings and a proposed new use for the heritage site (p.3).
• Ian Mackey recounts the origins of Mittagong’s war memorial (p.4).
• The opening of Bowral’s war memorial and the development of the Moss Vale memorial are recalled (p.5).
• The Scrutineer history continues with the Hewison family, its printing work and local reporting (pp.6-7).

Original Society source