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Newspaper
Blackheath Bulletin
Location
Blackheath, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 25, 1926
Page
4
Page lists residents and visitors guides with ready supplies and services in Blackheath. It names many trades and shops including auctioneers agents drapers grocers decorators painters and publishers with connections to nearby towns such as Katoomba and Mount Victoria and references the Blackheath Bulletin.
Six miles from Katoomba via Nellies Gully and ten miles from Night’s Right on the Meutong Creek, new rooms offer ideal day plans. Clear water, fruit from the orchard, honey from beehives, dairy cream, and a paddock for visitors. Maudy for tourists offers walking and riding with scenic beauty. Kirby, Proprietress.
Local councils consider borrowing £40,000 for two year road works across Katoomba and Leura. Aims include permanent construction over time, replacing patchwork with macadam and asphalt paths. Projected allocations total about £45,605 with main roads prioritized and maintenance funded from the General Fund and rates.
A local history sketch details Blackheath’s emergence from a municipality six years ago to a thriving town. It highlights electrical reticulation from Katoomba, a modern trading branch, cheap power for homes and factories, and plans for water, parks, gardens, and sports facilities including tennis courts, a clubhouse, Memorial Park, and ghost tennis venues.
A reflective note outlines possible funding limits of 2000 or 4000 and predicts a hopeful 18 month path for Katoomba's municipal development. Voters are urged to show patience as the council seeks reforms and aims to prove a turning point in the town's history by 1926-27.
The town boasts well appointed public buildings including 8 School of Arts with a rich library and reading rooms, Wemple and Hall’s cinema The Arcadia showing first releases, churches, a Public School and convent, plus Osboras Ladies College. Luxurious Astoria Hotel and several boarding houses, a central market, doctor, hospital, police station, volunteer fire brigade and brass band. Blackheath, 76 miles from Sydney, rises 9496 feet with scenic Grose Valley views and Trinity Cascade nearby.
A dramatic line from a speech mocks male ignorance of household labor. The speaker, an offended wife, cites daily chores and sacrifices endured by women, and her husband, present in the room, rises to claim the honor in a moment of irony.
A route lists Gunyon Wall's Cave Lodge Neate's Glen Bisckwall Junction Beauchamp Falls Wray's Fernery The Ripple Mount Bayse Hargraves Lookout Blackheath Glen Centouniel Glen Collier Causeway and Shipley orchard Village with a road motor trip plan. It notes a timetable includes the above sites and mentions that for farther options such as Jenaian Caves cars can be hired at reasonable charges.
Mr Tom Hart, previously connected with Wood Coffit Li two years ago, resumes management of Motor Penerals Ltd and returns to the Georges Street City branch after resigning to take a new position.
Monday gathering of about thirty five members of the Royal Ark Mariners in Pres Niwonly approved a second year of office for W.C.Ne. and noted the donation of flowers for the Wharking Four Woe. W. H. Cranney conducted the enthronement and a list of officers was invested. The banquet followed with speeches, gifts, and a special catering donation from Bro Gen Thompson and his daughter.
Youing Percy Wilden, son of a former ELMS president, played as a scrum behind the North Sydney forwards in the City league match against Union. He earned special mention for his performance in the Saturday game, marking a notable moment in early first grade football.
A printer statement notes that Robert Villiera Bmiythe printed and published for the proprietors of The Blackheath Bulletin at the temporary office on Parke-streat Retcombs N B W Tal GBE of 41 Buta.
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