Contents

• President’s column and Society news - page 1Museum visitors, a show-and-tell meeting, the image library and articles on local government and Sylvania Boardman.
• Mittagong swimming carnival photograph - page 2A glass-plate image of the pool in the 1930s accompanies Bruce Moore’s column and Society notices.
• Streeton’s Mittagong hotel painting - page 3An account of the discovery and proposed State Library purchase of Arthur Streeton’s small painting of Draper’s Commercial Hotel.
• Glass from the Past: Mittagong photographs - page 4Linda Emery introduces the Norman Haydon collection of glass-plate negatives, including the swimming pool, Maltings and butter factory.
• Sylvania Boardman: a Bowral trailblazer - page 5Linda Emery traces the businesswoman and property owner’s family, Boardman’s Corner and her election to Bowral Council in 1934.
• The Berrima District Council - page 6Philip Morton introduces local governance and traces the establishment of the district council in 1843.
• Roads, railways and district government - page 7The council’s financial difficulties, competing road proposals and the railway’s effect on Berrima and nearby towns.
• Society information and office bearers - page 8Contact, opening and committee details as printed in March 2023; they may have changed.