August 2023

Contents

• President’s column and Society news - page 1The Moss Vale courthouse centenary, a visit to The Mill and articles on the local dairy industry and Mittagong Maltings.
• The Mill and readers’ letters - page 2Photographs of a Society visit to the historic Moss Vale property, letters from members and Bruce Moore’s column.
• Berrima’s Catholic church and a geology book - page 3Linda Emery introduces her talk on St Francis Xavier Church; a donated 1850 edition of Lyell’s Principles of Geology is described.
• Local dairy industry: factories and milk transport - page 4Philip Morton traces cooperatives and the 1920s milk and butter facilities at Bowral and Moss Vale.
• Berrima Co-op and Moss Vale Dairy Farmers - page 5The establishment and development of the Bowral cooperative and the 1922 Moss Vale milk factory.
• Dairying and the Mittagong Maltings - page 6Later changes in the district’s dairy industry, and donated tools and architectural drawings from the Maltings.
• Books for sale and library additions - page 7A 2023 list of local-history titles and new Society library acquisitions, including shelf numbers.
• Society information and office bearers - page 8Contact, opening and committee details as printed in August 2023; they may have changed.

Issue highlights

• Linda Emery introduces a talk on Berrima’s Catholic community and the Pugin-designed St Francis Xavier Church (p.3).
• A donated 1850 edition of Lyell’s Principles of Geology and early Bowral postcards are described (p.3).
• The dairy history traces Bowral and Moss Vale factories, the Berrima Co-operative and local milk transport (pp.4-6).
• A display of Mittagong Maltings objects and drawings and a list of recent library acquisitions provide further research leads (pp.6-7).

Original Society source