This week’s historic image of Bathurst is a hand-tinted postcard posted on January 2, 1923 showing the Royal and Grand hotels as well as the Boer War Memorial. I have looked up the newspaper on the day this postcard was posted to see what was reported on that day – as it turned out, there was quite a lot.
The news of the day informed Bathurst residents that New Year’s Day had passed over quietly in Bathurst.
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A good number of Bathurstians visited the Orange races, though Bathurst punters generally did not fare too well, while others enjoyed the swimming carnival in the town baths off Bentinck Street.
Others spent their time in the country picnicking, the weather being delightful on that day for an outing, though some Bathurst householders had to put in the day squaring up things after Saturday’s cyclone.
Almost every public vehicle was brought into requisition yesterday, so keen was the demand as a result of picnic parties.
While turning the corner of William and Piper streets yesterday morning a cart drawn by a horse and driven by Mr Milliard, dairyman of Dunkeld, capsized.
The driver pluckily held on to the reins and beyond a splintered shaft, no other damage was done. Cream cans were scattered in all directions.
Mr J. H. Partridge yesterday entered upon his duties as gravedigger to the whole of the Bathurst General Cemetery in succession of the England family, the members of which had performed the duties for over 10 years.
Improvements are being made to the Church of England portion of the Bathurst General Cemetery. A number of the old and unsightly pine trees have been uprooted. These were planted by the late Rev. Canon Smith some 40 odd years ago.
There is still room for improvement in other portions of the cemetery.
Mr and Mrs Frank Blomfield of Keppel Street, who motored to Sydney last week, had a most unenviable experience while returning as a result of the mountain fires.
The cold snap during Saturday and Sunday nights did not prove of much benefit to the ice-cream vendors and early yesterday morning it was almost cold enough for a frost.
A special meeting of the subscribers to the School of Arts on the corner of William and Howick streets will take place tonight.
The Bathurst bowlers rolled up in good force at the green in Russell Street yesterday and indulged in a great amount of most necessary practice.
They need it too if they are ever going to win a match. Bowlers will hold their monthly meeting at the club rooms tonight.
The Bathurst City Council will meet again after the holidays tomorrow night with no extraordinary business listed.
Complaints are being made with regard to the offensive matter which is being dumped at the Council’s rubbish area at the lower end of Hope Street, off Durham Street.
The Council will certainly have to take steps to prevent the nuisance which is a menace to the health of those living in the vicinity.
Certainly there can be no objection to dry rubbish being dumped at the spot.
Immediately on the stroke of midnight on Tuesday night, Mr J. H. Evans, who up to a few months ago was a well-known resident of Bathurst, rang up his old friend Mr A. G. Ambrose of the Bathurst Council’s gasworks to wish him the compliments of the season.
At the time Mr Ambrose was engaged in his usual New Year’s Eve night.
The Council’s park gardeners have just completed the much-needed pruning of the wattle trees along Memory Drive on Orange Road.
There is no accounting for what some people will do. At Memory Drive one of the seats erected in memory of a fallen soldier has been wilfully and maliciously destroyed.
What a pity it is that the person or persons guilty of such an act of wanton vandalism could not be brought to book.
