Molong Express 23 September 2021

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THURSDAY 23 September 2021

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"THE MOLONG STORES" REVIVAL "is this finally where men can go shopping while the ladies go to the pub?"

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Magazine

SCAMS

What you need to know P8

Gardening in Cabonne P9

The Show goes on P6

Robbie Carroll out front on opening day

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Robbie brings an “overload of feel and taste” to Molong Robbie Carroll knows about “feel and taste”. He is a Milliner with 30 years in the business - including at the upmarket Strand Arcade in downtown Sydney.

Ages ago, Robbie and Peter Manwaring, were in a Sydney bar discussing moving out of the big smoke.

Peter and partner Lian Loke subsequently purchased Molong’s “Upstairs Downstairs Molong Express” building from passionate local Peter Thomas (see story in the Express of 22 July).

The building is a defining part of the Molong townscape and now returns to its former glory via Pete and Lian’s refurbishment investment and Robbie’s reopening of the business that once operated in the same building - back in Molong’s history.

Robbie visited Peter mid last year - and never left town. He is now a prime tenant, opening the “Molong Stores” last Saturday.

It’s pleasing to see the return of the “Molong Stores” product list of the late 1800’s (“Ironmongery, Haberdashery and Hats”) Well, the hats are back, with a vengeance, as well as a mesmerising range of goods and gifts to suit the man - or the man in your life.

Robbie is correct when he says “It’s a sensory overload of feel and good taste”.

Pop in and take a look - it’s fantastic.

Molong is so fortunate!

Locals have been watching the renovations with interest - a gift to the town.

(Below) Back in the day. Local artist Ambrus’ rendition of the goings on around the building. Check the balcony - they could be coming back.

(Below) Just some of the wares at Robbie’s “Emporium”

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Cabonne, Blayney told to stay away from Orange unless essential - but lockdown could end today

Orange could be coming out of lockdown today as a review of the LGAs Covid record will be looked at by the Crisis Cabinet this morning.

On Tuesday morning, Sam Farraway, Nationals MLC and Deputy Premier John Barilaro said Brewarrina Shire Council, Gilgandra Shire Council, Narromine Shire and Orange City Council would all have their situations reviewed.

The the inter dependence between Orange and Cabonne was on their minds. Cabonne is a “doughnut” rural shire that surrounds Orange City - where many residents travel to shop and work.

Lockdowns were lifted in Cabonne and Blayney last Thursday.

While Orange is under stay-at-home orders, residents from Cabonne and Blayney were allowed to travel into the city - but only for items and services “essential to every day living”.

On Monday, Western NSW Local Health District (WNLHD) executive officer Scott McLachlan clarified that these “absolutely essential” supplies included fuel and food.

Medical appointments were also considered an essential reason to visit a locked-down area from an LGA where restrictions had been lifted.

Local social media suggests that some Cabonne residents were confused whether thay had to self

WNSW PHN Offering Extra Support for After-Hours Primary Health Care

isolate at home for 14 days after visiting Orange [that appears never to have been the case].

Meanwhile Western NSW Local Health District (WNSWLHD) is expanding COVID-19 surveillance testing across the District as of yesterday, Wednesday 22 September, following a strong response to its introduction in highpriority areas.

Surveillance testing encourages people to be tested for COVID-19 even if they have no symptoms, and is designed to give clearer insight into whether COVID-19 is present in a community.

Scott McLachlan, WNSWLHD Chief Executive, “Surveillance testing has a particularly important role to play in communities where we have seen detections in sewage in towns where there are no known cases, or where we haven’t been able to identify a source of transmission.

“But with vaccination rates across the District are increasing at a rapid rate and as more people build that protection there is potential for less obvious or minimised symptoms.

“So widespread surveillance testing can offer greater assurance for our communities by testing as many people as people, some who may have been hesitant to come forward previously.

NSW Govt. figures as at Monday 20 September

Western NSW Primary Health Network (WNSW PHN) has launched its AfterHours Grants Program, specifically aimed at supporting accessible and effective afterhours primary health care for those unable to wait for treatment during regular hours.

Under the Australian Government’s AfterHours Funding Program, grants of up to $100,000 in seed funding are available to the region’s general practices, Aboriginal Medical Services (AMSs) and Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs) to trial after-hours business models to enable increased access to appropriate after-hours primary health care for the public.

WNSW PHN CEO, Andrew Coe, says access to

Letters Australia, more specifically NSW, becoming an Apartheid State Dear Hon. Gladys Berejiklian MP I grew up in South Africa during Apartheid. I never questioned the system until my late 20’s, but by then, it had been abandoned.

I benefited from the system as a white person.

I was conscripted "all white males" to defend this way of life as a soldier in the then South African defence force. I learnt from this that evil will prevail if good people stand by and do nothing because it does not affect them. The human rights violators defence during the reconciliation process was - I was only following orders. Twentyseven years later, I still need to live with myself, knowing I did nothing to stop the wrong.

Julia stayed on the farm and worked in our home. I can remember growing up on a farm playing soccer with Julia's children. Still, we had to go to different schools because it would be dangerous if we went to the same school. We had a public pool in town, but Julia's children were not allowed to use it because we may get something from them.

Julia was not allowed to go and visit her family member who did not live in the same local government area without government approval.

It was called the Pass Laws. I remember going shopping "nonessential" with Goud (it means Gold), a man that worked with me on the farm. I would walk in the front door and do my shopping. He had to go around the side and shop through a small window because it would be dangerous if he shopped with me.

I could start a business, travel wherever I wanted, apply for any job I wanted but not Goud. He was

restricted in where he lived, where he started a business, he was not allowed to own property. Julia's children were not allowed to go to church with us. They had to meet under a tree somewhere.

Julia and her children had to sit outside the church when my brother, who grew up on the farm, got married because the Government told us that it was "the right thing to do".

The censored newspaper and national television supported the Government. They never questioned it, and those that questioned the Government's wisdom were placed in prison-like Nelson Mandela.

Discrimination in any form is never the "right thing to do."

My question to you, Hon. Gladys Berejiklian, is whether you will be like Daniël François Malan, the first apartheid Prime Minister or like Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the man willing to speak up for the oppressed.

Please do not stand by while the Government demonise a small minority of people.

In the words of philosopher John Stuart Mill, "Let not anyone pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject."

[Name supplied] Molong.

Newcrest’s Cadia Valley Operations (Cadia) is lending a hand to the Orange Aboriginal Medical Service (OAMS) to help fast track vaccines to the local Aboriginal community in the central west.

Through the Newcrest $20M Community Support Fund, which was established in 2020 to provide support to local communities affected by COVID-19, OAMS was successful in securing funding for the mobilisation of a Locum GP to be based at Marang Gunya Centre, 8 Oxley Place, to help accelerate

vaccine roll-out in the community.

Commencing this week at the OAMS temporary vaccination hub, the GP has the goal of vaccinating an additional 2,500 Indigenous community members through the walk-in facility over the next two months.

OAMS Operations Manager, Michael Newman, said the $65,000 donation made by Newcrest will ensure a dedicated GP is readily available for local Aboriginal community members to discuss the vaccine with a GP.

Cadia helps Orange AMS to fast track vaccine roll out

primary health care for patients after hours-can be vital.

“There are many unique challenges for accessible and effective primary health care across our vast region and this is one of our innovative strategies to ensure the people of Western NSW have access to the right care at the right place and at the right time,” said Mr Coe. More details can be found on the WNSW PHN website, at www.wnswphn.org.au/procurement.

Landcare Program under second review

· The National Landcare Program is the Australian Government’s flagship program to protect and conserve Australia’s water, soil, plants, animals and ecosystems, as well as support the productive and sustainable use of these valuable resources. · The second phase of the program commenced in 2018 and is currently investing $1.1 billion over five years. · The review will examine the effectiveness of the program in delivering sustainable agriculture, environmental, biodiversity and broader community outcomes, and consider design options for the next phase of the program.

Interested parties are invited to provide feedback on the National Landcare Program as part of its second 5-year review.

Minister for Agriculture and Northern Australia David Littleproud and Minister for the Environment Sussan Ley said the review is an important opportunity for anyone interested in Landcare to help shape the future of the program

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“When it comes to delivering on-ground activities that help improve our soil, water and biodiversity, Landcare is one of the best tools we have,” Minister Littleproud said.

“The National Landcare Program has been pivotal in improving how farmers and other land managers look after their land, and this review provides an opportunity for all stakeholders to tell us what works, what doesn’t and where it can be improved.

“Stewardship of the land is a key pillar of the MorrisonJoyce Government’s commitment to supporting agriculture reach its goal of $100 billion by 2030, and Landcare is a major component of this.

“Going forward, we want the program to be effective as possible to ensure our farmers have the right skills and knowledge to drive sustainable agriculture production.”

Minister for the Environment Sussan Ley said that Landcare brings communities, land managers and Traditional Owners together to make vital contributions to our environment.

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Terms of Reference for the review, along with information on how to get involved, is available at www.nrm.gov. au/national-landcare-program

Andrew Gee - Statement On New Security Partnership And NuclearPowered Submarines

The announcements of Australia’s new security partnership with the United States and United Kingdom, and that we will be working with them to build nuclear-powered (not nuclear armed) submarines in Australia, is the most important defence initiative of our time.

We know that the security outlook in our region is changing quickly. We owe it to our children and grandchildren to ensure that the decisions taken today provide them with the highest possible safety and security.

History has taught us that the best way to meet threats is to be prepared.

When World War Two broke out, in almost every respect Britain and Australia were not ready.

However, there was one technical innovation that was to prove critical. When hostilities commenced Britain had developed the world’s best fighter plane in the Spitfire, and it was to prove decisive in the Battle of Britain and in preventing a German invasion.

The French submarine deal has now been scrapped. We shouldn’t mourn its loss.

By the time those submarines came into service, they would have been technologically obsolete.

Future generations would not have thanked us for passing them down to them.

With so much coastline to defend, and so much uncertainty in the Indo-Pacific, Australia can’t afford to gamble with something as crucial as our national security.

Nuclear-powered submarines are the best technology available.

This is the right decision for Australia, our national security, and for future generations.

Industry Minister Christian Porter has been forced to resign from cabinet after declining to seek and provide to Scott Morrison the names of the anonymous benefactors who have helped fund his legal costs.

Morrison has appointed energy minister Angus Taylor acting industry minister and sources say he is likely to continue in the dual role.

Porter’s resignation comes as Newspoll shows the government slightly reducing Labor’s two-party lead, from 54-46% to 53-47%. Labor’s primary vote fell 2 points to 38%; the Coalition rose a point to 37%.

Both leaders took hits in approval: Morrison is on a net negative of minus 4, while Anthony Albanese is on a net negative of minus 11. Morrison’s lead as better PM has fallen to 47-35%, from 50-34% three weeks ago – this is the closest since March last year.

In a three-page statement, Porter renewed his attack on the ABC and said a statement provided by the nowdeceased woman who accused him of historical rape – which he denies – showed the allegation lacked credibility and was written by someone “very unwell”.

Porter is keeping the funds donated to a “blind trust”, the amount of which is unknown. He also says he will seek to run again in his Western Australian seat of Pearce, which is on a 5.2% margin.

Last week, Porter updated his parliamentary register of interests to reveal a “part contribution” to his legal bills for his (now settled) defamation case against the ABC from “a blind trust known as the Legal Services Trust”.

Porter said he did not know the names of donors.

Morrison asked his department to advise whether the arrangement breached ministerial standards.

But Morrison indicated at a news conference on Sunday he and Porter had finalised his future ahead of the advice.

Morrison was clearly anxious to have it settled before his trip to the United States, so it would not be a distraction during what he hopes will be a time of positive news following last week’s announcement of the AUKUS security agreement.

Bad publicity around Porter has been a running sore for the government for much of the year.

View from the Hill

Michelle Grattan

Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Christian Porter quits cabinet, refusing to find out who gave him money for legal costs

The historical rape allegation surfaced publicly in February, when the ABC reported material about it had been sent to several politicians, including the prime minister. Porter was not named but later identified himself, declaring the alleged assault had never happened.

Initially, he hoped to retain his position as attorneygeneral, but this was politically untenable and he was moved to the industry job in a reshuffle.

With an outcry over the “blind trust” and an election approaching next year, Morrison could not afford another prolonged scandal around Porter. He indicated Porter’s future was in doubt when he said last week he was taking the matter very seriously.

Morrison said on Sunday that in their discussions, Porter had been unable to “practically provide further information because of the nature of those [trust] arrangements”.

That Porter couldn’t provide the information meant he could not conclusively rule out a perceived conflict of interest.

Morrison said Porter was upholding the ministerial standards by resigning.

Porter said in his statement that while he had no right of access to the trust’s funding or conduct, he had asked the trustee for an assurance, which he received, “that none of the contributors were lobbyists or prohibited foreign entities.

"This additional information was provided as part of my Ministerial disclosure,” he said.

He said no doubt the desire of some or many of the donors to remain anonymous was driven by wanting to

avoid “trial by mob”.

Porter said he believed that he had provided the information required under the Members’ Register of Interests, and that the additional disclosures he provided under the Ministerial Standards were in accord with its additional requirements.

“However, after discussing the matter with the Prime Minister I accept that any uncertainty on this point provides a very unhelpful distraction for the Government in its work.”

He said to the extent the uncertainty might be resolved by seeking further information about donors’ identities, “this would require me to put pressure on the Trust to provide me with information to which I am not entitled.

"I am not prepared to seek to break the confidentiality of those people who contributed to my legal fees under what are well-known and regular legal structures, including the confidentiality attached to the Trust contribution,” Porter said.

He had explained he “could not assist any process that would ultimately allow people who have done nothing wrong to become targets of the social media mob.”

“Ultimately, I decided that if I have to make a choice between seeking to pressure the Trust to break individuals’ confidentiality in order to remain in Cabinet, or alternatively forego my Cabinet position, there is only one choice I could, in all conscience, make.”

In his renewed attack on the ABC, Porter said that “seemingly with great care and effort – [it] has reported only those parts of the information that it has in its possession which feeds into its narrative of guilt.

"I have recently been provided from a source outside the ABC with a copy of the only signed document that the person who made and subsequently withdrew the complaint ever made.

"Many parts of that 88-page document are such that any reasonable person would conclude that they show an allegation that lacks credibility; was based on repressed memory (which has been completely rejected by courts as unreliable and dangerous); which relied on diaries said to be drafted in 1990/91 but which were actually words composed in 2019; and, was written by someone who was, sadly, very unwell.”

Albanese said Porter needed to answer where the money had come from. He also said Morrison had not sacked Porter – Porter had resigned.

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The Show Goes On With the Show unfortunately cancelled again this year, as promised, the Molong Show Society are conducting their 2021 (non traditional) Show & 2nd Scarecrow Competition on what would have been the Show weekend!

MOLONG SHOW SOCIETY INC. ONLINE SHOW DISPLAY & 2nd ANNUAL SCARECROW COMPETITION STEP 1. Please tick exhibits entered – 1 form per person LOCKDOWN PROJECTS  What have you made or learnt to do during lockdown?

Brief description of your project: ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________  Exhibit of variety of herbs in water - 3 varieties, 2 pieces of each  Collection of vegetables and/or fruit - minimum 4 varieties  Four Arrowroot Biscuits or Four Cup Cakes Decorated using edible decorations

 CREATIVE WRITING Theme: ‘If I could turn back time’ Have fun with the topic of "If I could turn back time" - see if you can make us laugh, be serious if you want, or have fun by returning us to the time of the dinosaur. It's up to you how far you go back.

This topic is one where you can express yourself or live out your dreams by changing or even visiting the past.

All to be on A4 size paper    

Pre School Create a story using pictures & words Infants school – Kinder, Yr1, Yr2 Max 100 words Primary school – Yr3, Yr4, Yr5, Yr6 Max 200 words High School to Adult Max 500 words

 SCARECROW STEP 2. Fill out your details 

 Novelty fruit/vegetable figure  Miniature garden

I hereby enter the above exhibits and give permission to publish via print, online and social media if applicable

Name ________________________________________ Age ________

 One photo depicting your lockdown  ART - any media on A4 size ‘What would you have done at/what’s your favourite thing about the Molong Show?’

Address __________________________________________________ Email ____________________________________________________

 COLOURING-IN (KIDS) - on A4 size Send us a colouring-in of your favourite animal, vehicle or a scarecrow

Phone _______________________________ Date ________________

 LEGO MASTERS (FAMILY) Adults and children to collaborate. Theme: Molong Show

Signature of exhibitor or guardian if under 16 years old __________ STEP 3. Attach this form, files and photos of your entries and send via email to molong.show@gmail.com

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As you know it is impossible to have a book launch at the moment due to Covid. However, due to the generosity of the publisher (Dr David Bershoff) I have decided that all the revenue from books sold will be donated to the Molong Hospital, a charity which will benefit all of the community.

Thanks go to Paul & Rozzi of the Molong Express, Kaylene Phillpott at the Newsagency and Peter Moon of Farm Supplies.

Thank you all, AJW Lloyd

ON THE SHEEP’S BACK STORIES FROM A LIFE IN THE SHEDS ... A WOOLLY RECOLLECTION

BY ANTHONY (TONY) LLOYD Available for purchase at the Molong Express, Molong Newsagency & Farm Supplies

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Wow! A whole set of the once popular ‘The Western Stores’ tea-set - including the teapot, milk jug, sugar bowl and the larger (maybe water) jug. This set we noticed was placed on the fabulous facebook site, ‘Memories of Molong’ by Irene Dwight (Orange) who has a long history with Molong and Manildra.

Question is? Were those now rare pieces sold at The Western Stores (Molong, Orange etc) or were they customer give-aways or maybe given out as staff rewards? There’s sure to be an Express reader or a Ben Caldwell collector out there who can let the Express know the story?

What about? Who remembers the timber chest in the window of The Molong Western Stores with the lock and the keys customers were rewarded with linked to sales? Who could then roll up and see if their key could open the lock? What was inside the chest?

Where was The Western Stores? It was a marvellous store - an old style Department Store with various Departments set up inside.

Ladies Fashion, Men’s Fashion, Children’s

Ware. Shoe Department, Giftware, Hardware, Deli and Groceries (changed to a small supermarket) Haberdashery, Fabrics ... and the list goes on.

Each Department had lovely timber and glass counters. The building also had unique features of the 1920’s - including ‘flying fox’ that zipped money to the office for checking and zipped back with the change to the relevant Department and customer.

One can only imagine today how a wonderful model of retailing of the 1920’s - 1970’s (closed early 1970’s) like The Western Stores would be popular again in today’s retail climate.

Then again ... Robert Carroll’s ‘The Molong Stores’ (see story this issue) opened last weekend in the former Express building in Bank Street ... it’s pretty close to what Bank Street had ... down to the gold signage! If readers know the story to the above - or would like to make a comment about The Western Stores ... Rozzi 0490734650 ... Paul 63668017 or Facebook Memories of Molong.

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SCAMS are everywhere Here’s what to watch out for

Scammers capitalise on pandemic as Australians lose record $851 million to scams

Australians lost over $851 million to scams in 2020, a record amount, as scammers took advantage of the pandemic to con unsuspecting people, according to the ACCC’s latest Targeting Scams report released in June.

The report compiles data from Scamwatch, ReportCyber, other government agencies and 10 banks and financial intermediaries, and is based on more than 444,000 reports.

Investment scams accounted for the biggest losses, with $328 million, and made up more than a third of total losses. Romance scams were the next biggest category, costing Australians $131 million, while payment redirection scams resulted in $128 million of losses.

“Last year, scam victims reported the biggest losses we have seen, but worse, we expect the real losses will be even higher, as many people don’t report these scams,” ACCC Deputy Chair Delia Rickard said.

“Unfortunately scammers continue to become more sophisticated and last year used the COVID-19 pandemic to scam and take advantage of people from all walks of life during this crisis.”

Of the $851 million in combined losses, $176 million were reported to Scamwatch alone. (All losses described below are from Scamwatch data only).

“Victoria, which was significantly impacted by the second wave of the virus, recorded the highest losses nationwide for the first time and Victorians reported $49 million in losses to Scamwatch, more than double those in 2019.”

Ms Rickard said.

“We saw scammers claiming the government restrictions meant people could not see items in person before purchase. This was a common ruse in vehicle sale and puppy scams, which both had higher reports and losses.”

As people spent more time online during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, reports and losses for some scams also increased.

Health and medical scams increased more than 20 fold compared to 2019, accounting for over $3.9 million in losses. Losses to threat based scams increased by 178 per cent to $11.8 million, and there were more than $8.4 million in losses to remote access scams, an increase of over 74 per cent.

Phishing activity also thrived during the pandemic, especially through government impersonation scams. There were over 44,000 reports of phishing scams, representing a 75 per cent increase.

People who detect a scam, whether or not they have lost money to it, can report scams and learn more about how to get help on the Scamwatch website at scamwatch.gov.au.

They can also follow @scamwatch_gov on Twitter and subscribe to Scamwatch radar alerts to keep up to date with advice for avoiding the latest scams affecting the community.

Missed delivery, call or voicemail scams

Since August, many have been getting scam text messages about missed calls, voicemails or deliveries. In the first month after this scam was first reported, Scamwatch received over 9500 reports of these scams. These scams have also already been a problem overseas in 2021.

The text messages ask you to tap on a link to download an app to track or organise a time for a delivery, or hear a voicemail message However, the message is fake, there is no delivery or voicemail, and the app is actually malicious software called Flubot.

Android phones and iPhones can both receive texts from the Flubot.

If you receive one of these messages, do not click or tap on the link. Delete the message immediately.

What the scam messages look like Starting in September 2021, many Flubot messages now talk about a delivery. They often refer to DHL and always ask you to take some form of action in relation to the ‘delivery’. This can include: scheduling a delivery time, tracking a delivery, managing a delivery that is ‘in transit’ or will be ‘delivered soon’ telling you it’s your last chance to arrange pick up/delivery of a parcel.

Unlike earlier Flubot messages (which are also still circulating), the new text messages usually don’t contain spelling mistakes, so they can be harder to spot. However, they do contain a website link followed by 6-8 random letters and numbers.

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Not a day (or night) goes by when the Express gets a call from obvious scammers. Our phone and email address is public - but even if yours is not, you are a target

Scammers pretend to be the Australian Federal Police to target vulnerable people

Police have received reports of scams involving fake Australian Federal Police (AFP) representatives targeting vulnerable members of the community.

Some scammers are falsely identifying themselves as a Federal Agent and telling victims they have identified suspicious activity linked to their bank accounts.

They then request personal details, including a Medicare number, address, and bank details. The fake representatives ask their victim to deposit money into an AFP account.

Scammers are also targeting people using email and social media with fake arrest warrants.

The offenders then call their victims and demand payments ordering them to deposit money into a nominated bank account, transfer crypto currency, or purchase online vouchers.

Some scammers ask their victim to meet in public to hand over money, or ask them to withdraw funds from their account and deposit into an AFP account.

A number of people have been manipulated by these offenders. In some cases, people have deposited thousands of dollars into a scam bank account. In other cases, people have withdrawn money from their account but fortunately, have spoken to family or friends and realised they are being

scammed before handing over any funds.

Phone calls from scammers may appear to come from a legitimate AFP number. In some reports, the scammers have managed to mimic an AFP number to disguise their identity. Police suspect these calls are actually coming from overseas.

What you need to know If you are contacted by someone you suspect is a scammer, end the call immediately. Do not call them back on the number they called you on.

The AFP will never ask you to pay a fine with cash, crypto currency such as Bitcoin, gift cards such as iTunes or Google Play, and will never call you to ask to you transfer funds into a bank account.

The AFP will never call, email or contact you via social media to threaten to arrest you, demand you withdraw money or ask you to confirm personal details over the phone.

The AFP (and the Australian Government) will never seek payment for fines or other matters over the phone.

If you are in any doubt, you should look up the number of the AFP switchboard in your capital city. Call and speak with a genuine AFP employee to be sure such a call demanding payment was not real.

Magazine Gardening in Cabonne

September in your garden Still a bit cold ... and frosty!!

It was cold earlier this week .. and the jack frosts are still around. But, overall the good news for local gardeners is that the local weather is improving and the sun has started to warm up the soil. Our eyes turn to the range of delicious foods that can now grow from the seeds of the soul and what else we can proudly start planting in our gardens.

Most of us have our gardens prepared for this special month after spending time in the winter (and lockdowns) digging over our gardens, making new garden beds, mulching and preparing soils for food growing.

Question is? When do we start planting?

There’s an old local saying:

“if you can drop your pants and sit on the ground, comfortably in the Spring months that’s a good time to plant your seeds and seedlings”.

That’s basic information - but a tried and true method in local gardens for Spring plantings.

Now’s the time for planting from the berry family: Strawberries, Raspberries, Blackberries, Tay Berries (this new berry has emerged after crossing with raspberry).

Tip: European plant descendants, like strawberries, love being mulched with dry pine needles to improve their flavour. It works!

Tip: Rule of Thumb - avoid planting tomatoes in gardens until Melbourne Cup Day (early November for better growth and more delicious fruits).

A weekly column by Sue and Rozzi

Companion Planting : Plants that love growing together Companion planting is merely growing two or more plants, next to each other, for mutual benefits. It’s a wonderful gardening strategy and improves fertility, protects from pests, and fosters pollination for optimum growth.

Some of the companion planting examples are ... Carrots & Rosemary, Lettuce & Chives, Tomatoes & Basil, Melon & Radishes, Peas & Fruit Trees, Nasturtiums, and Cucumbers.

9. Thyme 10. Marigolds 11. Rhubarb 12. Lettuce 13. Chives 14. Dill, fennel, coriander, and mint 15. Garlic 16. Catnip Courtesy of Balcony Garden Web

Best Strawberry Companion Plants Complement planting enhances not only the looks but also aids in yield. Here are some of the Best Strawberry Companion Plants you can use!

1. Bush Beans 2. Borage 3. Caraway 4. Lupin 5. Asparagus 6. Spinach 7. Sage 8. Onions

Check your photos for George

The Express is on the lookout for photos taken by early Molong professional photographer George Tilbrook (late 1800’s early 1900’s).

“We don’t know too much about George” said Rozzi of the Express. “I have come across a photo of him in the Molong Museum. A nice looking young man - dressed in avant-garde clothing.”

“He must have been a creative man of his time given the fabulous photos he took - like these two below provided

by Christine Riding from her family collection for the

local facebook site ‘Memories of Molong’.

“Given the restrictions of the equipment available at the time - George had an obvious style where he created interesting backdrops both indoors and in the outdoors in challenging landscapes. “Made more difficult by having to carry the weight of a glass plate camera and additional heavy tripods etc of the time.

“Still, he was able to provide the best photos by using his creativity to enhance the limitations of his photographic equipment. No digital photography back then or Photoshop to enhance, change or highlight!

Why George? “I reckon there is a good story to be told of early Molong, the people, the places through George Tilbrook’s images” said Rozzi. “If we can bring his photos together - the story will come”.

“What I find sad in researching Molong’s history is not being able to access family photo collections” said Rozzi.

“I know there are important photos relating to early Molong history which often today’s generations will not make available to anyone to copy. The problem is quite often these collections are eventually lost to the tip - or

held by a new generation who are not keen to keep them - or sometimes may not recognise the valuable social, cultural history that needs to be documented to retain the Molong Story.”

What do we know about George? “More information is being researched as I write ...” said Rozzi. “George was the brother of a famous Australian photographer Henry Tilbrook (more of that story later). “Question is - Was George a member of the Tilbrook family of which there is a heritage homestead of the same name in Molong Street - and the family of that name who once ran a hardware// stock feed etc. business from a vast tin building on the corner of Gidley and Riddell Street (now the site of the Molong RSL?)” “Please check your family photo collection and see if you have any of G.Tilbrook Molong marked photos. Rozzi 0490734650 or rozzismith@bigpond.com or molongex@ bigppond.net.au. In the meantime - take a look and join in the fun of local and district memories on facebook ‘Memories of Molong’ site. It’s a ‘cracker’!

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The Hypnotized Township

by Henry Lawson

Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson is even now hailed as ‘Australia’s Greatest Writer’ and is well-known for his short stories and poems depicting Australian rural life. His short story, ‘The Drover’s Wife,’ and the poem, ‘Past Carin’ are very famous.

Though he was honoured with a state funeral after his death, he died a poor man.

THEY said that Harry Chatswood, the there was a lecture on, or an exhibition mail contractor would do anything for of hypnotism or mesmerism—“a blanky Cobb & Co., even to stretching fencing- spirit rappin’ fake,” they called it, run wire across the road in a likely place: by “some blanker” in “the hall;” and but I don’t believe that—Harry was too when old Mac had seen to his horses, he good-hearted to risk injuring innocent thought he might as well drop in for half passengers, and he had a fellow feeling an hour and see what was going on. Being for drivers, being an old coach driver on a Mac, he was, of course, theological, rought out-back tracks himself. But he scientific, and argumentative. He did rig up fencing-wire for old Mac, the saw some things which woke him up, carrier, one night, though not across the challenged the performer to hypnotize road. Harry, by the way, was a city-born him, was “operated” on or “fooled with” bushman, who had been everything for a bit, had a “numb sorter light-headed some years. Anything from six-foot-six feelin’,” and was told by a voice from the to six-foot-nine, fourteen stone, and back of the hall that his “leg was being a hard case. He is a very successful pulled, Mac,” and by another buzzin’ coach-builder now, for he knows the far-away kind of “ventrillick” voice that wood, the roads, and the weak parts he would make a good subject, and in a coach. It was in the good seasons that, if he only had the will power and when competition was keen and men’s knew how (which he would learn from hearts were hard—not as it is in times of a book the professor had to sell for five drought, when there is no competition, shillings) he would be able to drive his and men’s hearts are soft, and there van without horses or anything, save the is all kindness and goodwill between pole sticking straight out in front. These them. He had had much opposition in weren’t the professor’s exact words— fighting Cobb & Co., and his coaches had But, anyway, Mac came to himself with won through on the outer tracks. There a sudden jerk, left with a great Scottish was little malice in his composition, but snort of disgust when old Mac, the teamster, turned his and the sound of teams over to his sons and started a light heavy boots along van for parcels and passengers from the floor; and Cunnamulla—that place which always after a resentful sounds to me suggestive of pumpkin whisky at the pies—out in seeming opposition to Royal, where they Harry Chatswood, Harry was annoyed. laughed at his Perhaps Mac only wished to end his scrooging bushy days on the road with parcels that were eyebrows, fierce light and easy to handle (not like loads black eyes and his of fencing wire) and passengers that deadlyin-earnest were sociable; but he had been doing denunciation of well with his teams, and, besides, Harry all humbugs and thought he was after the mail contract: imposters, he returned to the aforesaid so Harry was annoyed more than he was van, let down the flaps, buttoned the daft injured. Mac was mean with the money and “feekle” world out, and himself in, he had—not because of the money he and then retired some more and slept, had a chance of getting; and he mostly as I have said, rolled in his blankets slept in his van, in all weathers, when and overcoats on a bed of cushions and away from home which was kept by his chaff-bag. wife about half-way between the halfHarry Chatswood got down from his way house and the next “township.” empty coach, and was helping the yard One dark, gusty evening, Harry boy take out the horses, when his eye Chatswood’s coach dragged, heavily fell on the remnant of a roll of fencing though passengerless, into Cunnamulla, wire standing by the stable wall in the and, as he turned into the yard of the light of the lantern. Then an idea struck local “Royal,” he saw Mac’s tilted four- him unexpectedly, and his mind became wheeler (which he called his “van”) luminous. He unhooked the swinglebar, drawn up opposite by the kerbing swung it up over his “leader’s” rump (he round the post office. Mac always was driving only three horses that trip), chose a central position—with a vague and hooked it on to the horns of the idea of advertisement perhaps. But the hames. Then he went inside (there was nearness to the P.O. reminded Harry another light there) and brought out a of the mail contracts, and he knew bridle and an old pair of spurs that were that Mac had taken up a passenger or hanging on the wall. He buckled on the two and some parcels in front of him spurs at the chopping block, slipped the (Harry) on the trip in. And something winkers off the leader and the bridle told Harry that Mac was asleep inside on, and took up the fencing-wire, and his van. It was a windy night; with signs started out the gate with the horse. The of rain, and the curtains were drawn boy gaped after him once, and then close. hurried to put up the other two horses.

Old Mac was there all right, and He knew Harry Chatswood, and was in sleeping the sleep of a tired driver after a hurry to see what he would be up to. a long drowsy day on a hard box-seat, There was a good crowd in town for with little or no back railing to it. But the show, or the races, or a stock sale, 10 MOLONG EXPRESS, Thursday 23 September 2021

or land ballot, or something; but most of them were tired, or at tea—or in the pubs—and the corners were deserted.

Observe how fate makes time and things fit when she wants to do a good turn—or play a practical joke. Harry Chatswood, for instance, didn’t know anything about the hypnotic business.

It was the corners of the main street or road and the principal short cross street, and the van was opposite the pub stables in the main street. Harry crossed the streets diagonally to the opposite corner, in a line with the van. There he slipped the bar down over the horse’s rump, and fastened one end of the wire on to the ring of it. Then he walked back to the van, carrying the wire and letting the coils go wide, and, as noiselessly as possible, made a loop in the loose end and slipped it over the hooks on the end of the pole. (”Unnecessary detail!” my contemporaries will moan, “Overloaded with uninteresting details!” But that’s because they haven’t got the details— and it’s the details that go.) Then Harry skipped back to his horse, jumped on, gathered up the bridle reins, and used his spurs. There was a swish and a clang, a scrunch and a clock-clock and rattle of wheels, and a surprised human sound; then a bump and a shout—for there was no underground drainage, and the gutters belonged to the Stone Age. There was a swift clocking and rattle, more shouts, another bump, and a yell. And so on down the longish main street.

The stable-boy, who had left the horses in his excitement, burst into the bar, shouting, “The Hypnertism’s on, the Mesmerism’s on! Ole Mac’s van’s runnin’ away with him without no horses all right!” The crowd scuffled out into the street; there were some unfortunate horses hanging up of course at the panel by the pub trough, and the first to get to them jumped on and rode; the rest ran. The hall—where they were clearing the willing professor out in favour of a “darnce”—and the other pubs decanted their contents, and chance souls skipped for the verandas of weather-board shanties out of which other souls popped to see the runaway.

They saw a weird horseman, or rather, something like a camel (for Harry rode low, like Tod Sloan with his long back humped—for effect)—apparently fleeing for its life in a veil of dust, along the long white road, and some forty rods behind, an unaccountable tilted coach careered in its own separate cloud of dust. And from it came the shouts and yells. Men shouted and swore, women screamed for their children, and kids whimpered.

Some of the men turned with an oath and stayed the panic with: “It’s only one of them flamin’ motorcars, you fools.”

It might have been, and the yells the

warning howls of a motorist who had burst or lost his honk-konk and his head.

“It’s runnin’ away!” or “The toff’s mad or drunk!” shouted others. “It’ll break its crimson back over the bridge.”

“Let it!” was the verdict of some. “It’s all the crimson carnal things are good for.”

But the riders still rode and the footmen ran. There was a clatter of hoofs on the short white bridge looming ghostly ahead, and then, at a weird interval, the rattle and rumble of wheels, with no hoof-beats accompanying.

The yells grew fainter. Harry’s leader was a good horse, of the rather heavy coachhorse breed, with a little of the racing blood in her, but she was tired to start with, and only excitement and fright at the feel of the “pull” of the twisting wire kept her up to that speed; and now she was getting winded, so half a mile or so beyond the bridge Harry thought it had gone far enough, and he stopped and got down. The van ran on a bit, of course, and the loop of the wire slipped off the hooks of the pole. The wire recoiled itself roughly along the dust nearly to the heels of Harry’s horse.

Harry grabbed up as much of the wire as he could claw for, took the mare by the neck with the other hand, and vanished through the dense fringe of scrub off the road, till the wire caught and pulled him up; he stood still for a moment, in the black shadow on the edge of a little clearing, to listen. Then he fumbled with the wire until he got it untwisted, cast it off, and moved off silently with the mare across the soft rotten ground, and left her in a handy bush stockyard, to be brought back to the stables at a late hour that night—or rather an early hour next morning—by a jackeroo stable-boy who would have two half-crowns in his pocket and afterthought instructions to look out for that wire and hide it if possible.

Then Harry Chatswood got back quickly, by a roundabout way, and walked into the bar of the Royal, through the back entrance from the stables, and stared, and wanted to know where all the chaps had gone to, and what the noise was about, and whose trap had run away, and if anybody was hurt.

The growing crowd gathered round the van, silent and awestruck, and some of them threw off their hats, and lost them, in their anxiety to show respect for the dead, or render assistance to the hurt, as men do, round a bad accident in the bush. They got the old man out, and two of them helped him back along the road, with great solicitude, while some walked round the van, and swore beneath their breaths, or stared at it with open mouths, or examined it curiously, with their eyes only, and in breathless silence.

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REG’S BENCH My husband purchased a world map and then gave me a dart and said, “Throw this and wherever it lands—that’s where I’m taking you when this pandemic ends. ” Turns out, we’re spending two weeks behind the fridge.

asked.

“I thought I heard an intruder. I came down to scare him.”

Scanning the contours of my doughy, naked body, she mumbled, “You didn’t need the gun.”

Took the horse medicine Ivermectin. I’m not saddled with side effects. I did have the trots earlier. Right now I’m in stable condition.

Men in Heaven When everybody on earth was dead and waiting to enter Heaven, God appeared and said, "I want the men to make two lines. One line for the men who were true heads of their household, and the other line for the men who were dominated by their women. I want all the women to report to St. Peter."

Soon, the women were gone, and there were two lines of men.

The line of the men who were dominated by their wives was 100 miles long, and in the line of men who truly were heads of their household, there was only one man.

God said to the long line, "You men should be ashamed of yourselves; I created you to be the head of your household! You have been disobedient and have not fulfilled your purpose! Of all of you, only one obeyed. Learn from him."

God turned to the one man, "How did you manage to be the only one in this line?"

The man replied, "My wife told me to stand here."

What if the inventor of the Walkie Talkie could name other things too?

I'll start: postage stamp - Licky Sticky What do you say to comfort a friend, who’s struggling with grammar?

There, their, they’re.

A grasshopper walks into a bar. The bartender says, "Hey, we have a drink named after you!"

The grasshopper says, "You've got a drink named Bob??"

As I stepped out of the shower, I heard someone in my kitchen downstairs.

Knowing that my wife was out, I grabbed my 1903 heirloom rifle—which no longer works—and crept downstairs, forgetting the fact that I was in my birthday suit.

I came around the corner with the gun raised, only to find my wife loading the dishwasher. “What are you doing?” she

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Across 1 Sailor (7) 5 Slender graceful female (5) 8 Scrub (5) 9 Large house (7) 10 Female warriors (7) 11 Crude (5) 12 Loathe (6) 14 Current (6) 18 Black and white beast (5) 20 Experienced person (3,4) 22 Synthetic material (7) 23 Musical drama (5) 24 Bart's father (5) 25 What is left (7)

Down 1 Pungent condiment (7) 2 Spanish wine (5) 3 Jittery (7) 4 Negligent (6) 5 Underwater detection system (5) 6 Spare time (7)

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(2,3,3) 19 Sticks around looking complacent (4) 21 This old novel is stupid (7) 22 Golf course connections (5) 23 Starshine somehow loses its shine (9)

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The Hypnotized Township

by Henry Lawson

Continued They muttered, and agreed, in the pale moonlight now showing, that the sounds of the horses’ hoofs had only been “spiritrappin’ sounds;” and, after some more muttering, two of the stoutest, with subdued oaths, laid hold of the pole and drew the van to the side of the road, where it would be out of the way of chance night traffic. But they stretched and rubbed their arms afterwards, and then, and on the way back, they swore to admiring acquaintances that they felt the “blanky ’lectricity” runnin’ all up their arms and “elbers” while they were holding the pole, which, doubtless, they did—in imagination.

They got old Mac back to the Royal, with sundry hasty whiskies on the way. He was badly shaken, both physically, mentally, and in his convictions, and, when he’d pulled himself together, he had little to add to what they already knew. But he confessed that, when he got under his possum rug in the van, he couldn’t help thinking of the professor and his creepy (it was “creepy,” or “uncanny,” or “awful,” or “rum” with ’em now)—his blanky creepy hypnotism; and he (old Mac) had just laid on his back comfortable, and stretched his legs out straight, and his arms down straight by his sides, and drew long, slow breaths, and tried to fix his mind on nothing—as the professor had told him when he was “operatin’ on him” in the hall.

Then he began to feel a strange sort of numbness coming over him, and his limbs went heavy as lead, and he seemed to be gettin’ light-headed. Then, all on a sudden, his arms seemed to begin to lift, and just when he was goin’ to pull ’em down the van started as they had heard and seen it. After a while he got on to his knees and managed to wrench a corner of the front curtain clear of the button and get his head out. And there was the van going helter-skelter, and feeling like Tam o’Shanter’s mare (the old man said), and he on her barebacked. And there was no horses, but a cloud of dust—or a spook—on ahead, and the bare pole steering straight for it, just as the professor had said it would be.

The old man thought he was going to be taken clear across the Never-Never country and left to roast on a sandhill, hundreds of miles from anywhere, for his sins, and he said he was trying to think of a prayer or two all the time he was yelling. They handed him more whisky from the publican’s own bottle. Hushed and cautious inquiries for the Professor (with a big P now) elicited the hushed and cautious fact that he had gone to bed. But old Mac caught the awesome name and glared round, so they hurriedly filled out another for him, from the boss’s bottle. Then there was a slight commotion. The housemaid hurried scaredly in to the bar behind and whispered to the boss.

She had been startled nearly out of her wits by the Professor suddenly appearing at his bedroom door and calling upon her to have a stiff nobbler of whisky hot sent up to his room.

The jackeroo yard-boy, aforesaid, volunteered to take it up, and while he was gone there were hints of hysterics from the kitchen, and the boss whispered in his turn to the crowd over the bar. The jackeroo just handed the tray and glass in through the partly opened door, had a glimpse of pyjamas, and, after what seemed an interminable wait, he came tiptoeing into the bar amongst its awe-struck haunters with an air of great mystery, and no news whatever.

They fixed old Mac on a shake-down in the Commercial Room, where he’d have light and some overflow guests on the sofas for company. With a last whisky in the bar, and a stiff whisky by his side on the floor, he was

understood to chuckle to the effect that he knew he was all right when he’d won “the keystone o’ the brig.” Though how a wooden bridge with a level plank floor could have a keystone I don’t know—and they were too much impressed by the event of the evening to inquire. And so, with a few cases of hysterics to occupy the attention of the younger women, some whimpering of frightened children and comforting or chastened nagging by mothers, some unwonted prayers muttered secretly and forgettingly, and a good deal of subdued blasphemy, Cunnamulla sank to its troubled slumbers—some of the sleepers in the commercial and billiard-rooms and parlours at the Royal, to start up in a cold sweat, out of their beery and hypnotic nightmares, to find Harry Chatswood making elaborate and fearsome passes over them with his long, gaunt arms and hands, and a flaming red table-cloth tied round his neck.

To be done with old Mac, for the present.

He made one or two more trips, but always by daylight, taking care to pick up a swagman or a tramp when he had no passenger; but his “conveections” had had too much of a shaking, so he sold his turnout (privately and at a distance, for it was beginning to be called “the haunted van”) and returned to his teams—always keeping one of the lads with him for company. He reckoned it would take the devil’s own hypnotism to move a load of fencing-wire, or pull a wool-team of bullocks out of a bog; and before he invoked the ungodly power, which he let them believe he could—he’d stick there and starve till he and his bullocks died a “natural” death. (He was a bit Irish—as all Scots are—back on one side.)

But the strangest is to come. The Professor, next morning, proved uncomfortably unsociable, and though he could have done a roaring business that night—and for a week of nights after, for that matter—and though he was approached several times, he, for some mysterious reason known only to himself, flatly refused to give one more performance, and said he was leaving the town that day. He couldn’t get a vehicle of any kind, for fear, love, or money, until Harry Chatswood, who took a day off, volunteered, for a stiff consideration, to borrow a buggy and drive him (the Professor) to the next town towards the then railway terminus, in which town the Professor’s fame was not so awesome, and where he might get a lift to the railway. Harry ventured to remark to the Professor once or twice during the drive that “there was a rum business with old Mac’s van last night,” but he could get nothing out of him, so gave it best, and finished the journey in contemplative silence.

Now, the fact was that the Professor had been the most surprised and startled man in Cunnamulla that night; and he brooded over the thing till he came to the conclusion that hypnotism was a dangerous power to meddle with unless a man was physically and financially strong and carefree—which he wasn’t. So he threw it up.

He learnt the truth, some years later, from a brother of Harry Chatswood, in a Home or Retreat for Geniuses, where “friends were paying,” and his recovery was so sudden that it surprised and disappointed the doctor and his friend, the manager of the home. As it was, the Professor had some difficulty in getting out of it.

Molong Golf Sunday Golf Royal Molong golf course is looking magnificent at the moment due to the amazing work of Scott Oates who has mowed the course.

It’s a big job mowing the eighteen fairways and those of us who play golf are most grateful.

Anyone who is interested in helping is most welcome.

Also a big thank you to Kerry Oates for mowing the rough.

No wonder our course has “Royal “status.

We had twenty players for golf on Sunday where we again played a two person ambrose. We welcomed back Matt Earle and Balley who haven’t played with us for a while and it was good to see club treasurer John Wright having a hit.

After using his special formulations of addition, division, differential equation and abstract algebra Bro determined the winners were Ged and Bell with the runners

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It was a pretty good quality yarding with some good runs of ideal feeder cattle along with odd lots to suit the processors. There was a very good selection of grown steers and heifers and there were almost 200 cows penned which were mostly prime heavy weights. There were also odd pens of steer and heifer weaners to suit the restockers. A full field of buyers were in attendance and operating.

Young cattle to the trade were 3c to 5c dearer with prime vealers selling to 568c/kg. Prime steer yearlings sold from 470c to 552c, while the prime heifer yearlings sold from 465c to 555c/kg. Feeder steers and heifers were firm to 6c dearer, with the feeder steers selling from 460c to 580c/kg. Feeder heifers sold from 499c to 534c/kg. Young cattle to the restockers remain strong with the young steers selling from 560c to 714c, while the young heifers sold from 520c to 635c/kg.

Grown steers were 10c dearer while the grown heifers were 8c/kg

up being Jye and Darren. I think they may be losing strokes off their handicaps for Sunday’s game.

Bro needs to change his formulation because I think he and the Ghost Walker came last. Bro also copped some stick regarding his moustache with some asking him to come into the sunlight so they could see it.

We were also able to have a bbq and many thanks to Bell for her homemade rissoles. I’m not sure who cooked the barbie but thank you also.

This Sunday we are playing a special eighteen hole individual stableford with the winner receiving a carton of beer and a half carton of beer for the runner up. I’m sure non beer drinkers (there’s not many of them playing golf) can swap for soft drink. This event also has a one off $10 entry fee and anyone and everyone is welcome to play.

As usual on Sunday, 8.30am for 9am. Please note Matt E. cheaper. Prime grown steers sold from 420c to 486c, while the prime grown heifers sold from 410c to 470c/kg. Cows were 4c dearer with the 2 and 3 scores selling from 250c to 395c/kg. Prime heavy weight cows sold from 395c to 425c to average 416c/kg. Heavy bulls were dearer selling to 355c/kg.

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It was a mixed yarding with a fair selection of new season lambs to suit both the processors and restockers. There were very limited numbers of heavy weight lambs and the quality of old trade lambs was only fair. There were a few pens of Merino lambs yarded. Not all the regular buyers were operating in an erratic market.

Trade weight new season lambs were $7 dearer selling from $198 to $233/head to average between 930c and 940c/kg cwt. Trade weight old lambs were up to $15 cheaper with quality being a factor, returning from $160 to $248/head. The few heavy weight lambs were also cheaper with those over 24kg selling from $224 to $270/head. A single pen of heavy weight new season lambs sold for $260/head to average 960c/kg cwt.

Merino lambs were $5 cheaper with trade weights selling from $150 to $208/head. Lambs to the restockers were dearer and sold from $120 to $188 while young first cross ewe lambs sold to the restockers for $121 and $196/head. Hoggets sold to $230/head.

It was a mostly good quality yarding of mutton where most grades were $6 to $11/head dearer.

Merino ewes sold from $70 to $210 while crossbred ewes sold from $130 to $220/head. Merino wethers sold from $146 to $200/head. The restockers paid from $100 to $158 for Merino ewes and from $154 to $176/head for crossbred ewes.

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• 16.70ha (41 acres), north facing 4 bedroom home, wood fireplace and R/C air conditioning • Secure water from bore, 15m x 15m shed, sheep yards and horse round yard Here is an opportunity to purchase a very profitable small farm. “Featherstone” offers peace and privacy with some amazing views to watch the setting sun.

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“Kenso Park” is ideally located just 3.5 hours West of Sydney, in the flourishing town of Orange, a city of distinction constantly evolving & rich in heritage with beautiful historic buildings.

• 5 bedroom homestead, open kitchen & entertainment area, 2 bathrooms • 2 separate titles, building entitlement (STCA), sand arena and round yard, plus horse stables

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