40-501: The Burrowa News and Marengo, Binalong, Murrumburrah and Cootamundra Reporter (also published as the Burrowa News ) was a weekly English language newspaper published in Boorowa, New South Wales , Australia . First published 1873 by George Eason, the Burrowa News and Marengo, Binalong, Murrumburrah and Cootamundra Reporter was published until 26 January 1951. The paper was continued by
80-775: A federal level, Yass is in the electorate of Eden-Monaro represented by Kristy McBain . The Yass Show is held in March, the Turning Wave Festival from 2012 to 2017 in September, and the Yass Arts-and-Crafts Festival in November, along with numerous other festivals and events throughout the year. In 2021 the Yass Show was scheduled for 20 March. Usually a two-day event, it was reduced to one day to allow volunteers to handle
120-511: A firm called Henry Simon & Co & the steam power was replaced by suction gas made from charcoal. We bought a lot of our charcoal from the Jerrawa area when small farmers added to their income & trucked it by rail to Yass." and "The Crago Brothers were very proud of winning a bronze medal at the Wembley Exhibition in the early 1900s for flour made at Yass". In the aerial photograph of
160-483: A new land grab where large numbers of settlers, particularly ' ticket of leave ' men, applied for a ' selection ' of land with low cost land parcels available. The district was given over to farming, although it received a push along when gold was found at Carcoar , Browns Creek and Kings Plains . Gold mines were established although copper and iron were also extracted. Samuel Marsden 's copper mine operated until 1900. The town's rugby league team competed for
200-747: A new mill between the White Horse Inn and Barber's Mill. The mill was called the Commercial Mill and from newspaper reports was operating from 1882. According to Ralph Crago (letter 1970) the decision to erect the new mill was because the machinery in the old Mill (presumably the Union Steam Mill) was worn out. The Barbers declared bankruptcy in October 1889, and in December 1889 there was a meeting in Yass to discuss
240-578: A population of 274 by 1848. On 13 March 1873, the Municipal District of Yass was created, and James Cottrell was subsequently elected as the first Mayor of Yass. One of Australia's best-known poets, A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson arrived in the district in 1871, aged seven, passed his childhood there, and later bought a property in the Wee Jasper area so that his children could experience country life. Poet and priest Patrick Hartigan (pen name: John O'Brien)
280-560: A siding to be constructed from Yass Station across Lead Street to the mill. Triggs opened the "new" mill in March 1898, but later that year in August sold the mill to Crago. This is the mill now standing in Yass. According to information from Ralph Crago (letters written in 1955 and 1970) "Around – once more it is only a guess - the turn of the century or early in the new one – the stones [in the Commercial Mill] were replaced by steel rollers by
320-531: A wider seasonal range and notably wetter winters relative to other seasons, though not quite to the extent as those of Bookham . Yass has a relatively dry climate owing to its rainshadow from the southwest (being east of Conroys Gap), however is exposed to the west and northwest. Snow falls occasionally but is usually light and rarely settles, though heavy snowfalls do occur on the hills to the southwest (around Wee Jasper ). Yass receives five free-to-air television networks relayed from Canberra that broadcast from
360-522: Is a town on the periphery of the Southern Tablelands and South West Slopes of New South Wales , Australia . The name appears to have been derived from an Aboriginal word, "Yarrh" (or "Yharr"), said to mean 'running water'. Yass is located 280 km south-west of Sydney , on the Hume Highway , and is 59 km from Canberra . It lies at an elevation of 505 metres. The Yass River , which
400-542: Is a tributary of the Murrumbidgee River , flows through the town. Yass has a historic high street , with well-preserved 19th-century verandah post pubs (mostly converted to other uses). It is popular with tourists, some from Canberra and others taking a break from the Hume Highway . The area around Yass was occupied by the Ngunawal tribe. They knew the area as yarrh , which means "running water." The final "rr" sound
440-463: Is argued, is the existing brick structure known as "Crago's Flour Mill". The mill was operated by Barber until 1876 when he handed over his business interests to his sons Earnest and John, who traded under the name Barber Brothers. Meanwhile, another steam mill – the Union Steam Mill – had been established and, by 1881, was owned by Petherick Tamblyn Crago. In around 1881 Crago purchased a site for
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#1733085512676480-555: Is listed on the NSW Heritage register and is managed by the National Trust (NSW). St Augustine's Parish Yass began in 1838 with the laying of the foundation stone of the church now called the chapel. A striking modernist new building (the 'big' church) was begun in 1954 under the eye of the then Bishop Young, later Archbishop of Hobart. The architect for the church was architects Fowell Mansfield and Maclurcan of Sydney. The builder
520-600: Is located in a valley 340 kilometres (210 mi) southwest of Sydney around 490 metres (1,610 ft) above sea-level. The town is in Hilltops Council local government area . Before the arrival of Europeans, the area was part of the lands occupied by the Wiradjuri Nation with the Gandangara Aboriginal Australians . It is believed that the name 'Burrowa', the original spelling, derives from
560-583: The Black Mountain . The town is served by these local radio stations: The local newspaper is the Yass Tribune . A locally run independent newspaper, the Yass Valley Times, distributes weekly editions through Yass businesses and its website. Yass is in the local government area of Yass Valley Council . At a state level, Yass is in the electorate of Goulburn represented by Wendy Tuckerman . At
600-719: The Boorowa News . The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia in cooperation with the State Library of New South Wales . Boorowa, New South Wales Boorowa ( / b uː r oʊ w ə / ) is a farming village in the Hilltops Region in the south west slopes of New South Wales , Australia . It
640-591: The Lachlan River . The Murrumbidgee River drains the southern portion of the Boorowa district. The soil in the area is rich volcanic soil washed down over millennia from an extinct volcano known as Mount Canemumbola. Boorowa experiences an oceanic climate ( Köppen: Cfb, Trewartha: Cfbk ), with warm summers and cool winters. [REDACTED] Media related to Boorowa, New South Wales at Wikimedia Commons Yass, New South Wales Yass ( / j æ s / )
680-514: The Maher Cup during the 20th century. At the 2011 census , Boorowa had a population of 1,211 people which had grown to 1,641 in the 2016 census and 1,888 in the 2021 census . Boorowa residents and the local member of parliament lobbied the Government to direct the new southern main line progressing towards Goulburn to pass through the town. However the towns of Yass and Murrumburrah won
720-566: The 180 years that connected Boorowa to the rest of the Colony included the first Post Office and mail service in 1835, the electric telegraph in 1866, voice telephone in 1906, electric street lighting in the 1920s by the towns own generator, later the town and consumers were connected to the Burrinjuck Hydro electricity system in 1938. The town is located on the Boorowa River , a tributary of
760-469: The Commercial Mill were excavated by an archaeological team. A freezing works were established by Winchombe Carson at the site of Barber's Mill and numerous galvanised iron buildings were erected mainly to store bagged wheat for the Commercial Mill. After the Commercial Mill was demolished the Crago Mill (as Barber's Mill is now known) was used for storage and remains the only surviving above-ground remains of
800-495: The century a butter factory and freezing works were major employers in the town. Passenger trains ceased in 1980 and the Boorowa railway line from Galong to Boorowa closed in 1987. The post office was ordered to discontinue use of the name "Burrowa" in 1914, but the two spellings were used interchangeably throughout the area for many years and the town's newspaper stubbornly retained the old spelling on its masthead until January 1951 . The main infrastructure achievements over
840-402: The debate. The next best option was a branch line to the town and this lobbying lasted 40 years before the line was eventually constructed, opening for traffic on 10 October 1914. The arrival of the railway spurred development. Burrowa's name was then changed to "Boorowa". Boorowa replaced Carcoar as the major service centre to local farmlands. It became a municipality in 1888. By the turn of
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#1733085512676880-475: The district is well known for the production of fine merino fleece. Linge notes that many "flour mills" were set up for the personal convenience of settlers rather than commercial operations (Linge 1979:108) and it may be that the mills were set up to grind locally produced grain for largely domestic consumption. Bayley in his history of Yass records that, in March 1842, it was reported that the Yass Steam Mill
920-504: The district saw lawlessness and mayhem as a result of long running boundary disputes, theft of livestock and arson, even murders; the cause being remoteness and lack of law and order. Bushrangers roamed the surrounding unsettled wild mountainous land, making raids into the town and stations of the district. Squatters took up large tracts of land in the Boorowa area but the introduction of the Robertson Land Acts in 1861 resulted in
960-659: The four Flour Mills in Yass. Both the standing mill building - Crago Mill and the archaeological remains of the Commercial Mill - were listed on the Register of the National Trust of Australia (NSW) in March 2014. Yass was a battleground between the town and the Sydney to Melbourne railway ; because of the topography, the New South Wales Government Railways wanted to bypass the town by a few kilometres. Naturally,
1000-458: The general area was issued to Thomas Icely in 1829. A mill was operating on the future town site of Boorowa by 1837, along with an inn and several houses. Governor Gipps proposed the creation of a village named 'Burrowa' in 1842, to be located 9 km north-east of the present site at Kings Plains which had been surveyed in 1828. However, that spot proved unsuitable and the village was established on its present site in 1843. The early years in
1040-522: The line. The Yass Railway Heritage Centre uses the Yass Town station precinct as a museum. Yass had the nearest railway station on the Sydney Melbourne railway to serve the national capital at Canberra. When the uniform gauge railway between Sydney and Melbourne opened in 1961, the parliamentarian deserving most of the credit - William Charles Wentworth - was unable to leave parliament since his vote
1080-456: The local Aboriginal language and refers to a native bird, the plains turkey Australian bustard . The first European to travel through what is now Boorowa Shire was surveyor George Evans in 1815. Unofficial occupation of the district began in 1821 with Irishmen Rodger Corcoran and Ned Ryan, both former convicts who had received their ' ticket of leave ' from the Governor. The first land grant in
1120-601: The mill. The meeting was told that the machinery was 50 years old, the foundations of the mill were 4 1 ⁄ 2 feet deep and that a new mill would take 12 months to construct while the existing mill could be made operational in the New Year. The mill recommenced trading in January 1891. A notable event occurred in 1892 when Yass was finally connected to the New South Wales Government Railways ' Main Southern railway line . However, by
1160-531: The people of the town wished the railway to pass closer or through it. In 1892 a light railway or tram was built to connect Yass Junction on the main line and Yass Town. The railway bridge across the Yass River was the first lightweight, steel Pratt-truss bridge in the NSW railway network. The last trains operated on the line on 29 October 1988 when steam locomotives 1210 and 3112 operated three final journeys on
1200-522: The site of the two mills taken in 1927 the chimneys of both mills have been removed suggesting that their steam engines were non-operational from at least that time. However, the Commercial Mill continued working until 1953. Ralph Crago, who was manager from 1947 onwards, noted that the Mill bought wheat locally but also from the surrounding district and harder wheat from the Gunnedah district was imported to blend with
1240-606: The softer "southern" wheat. All this wheat was bagged wheat but in 1953 the Wheat Board decided to cease the use of bagged wheat. Faced with the cost of erecting bulk handling facilities, the Crago family sold the Commercial Mill to the stock and station agents Winchombe Carson. Winchombe Carson demolished the Commercial Mill in 1953 and erected a number of buildings on the site which were in turn demolished in July 2009, during which time remains of
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1280-427: The time the tramway reached the mills Barber's Mill was only operating intermittently. It is not clear from newspaper reports but it seems Barber tried to sell the mill in 1895 but was unsuccessful and eventually the mill was purchased from an Ann Ross by Arthur Bryant Triggs , a prominent local businessman, in September 1897. Triggs began rebuilding the old Barber's mill, presumably as a roller mill. He also arranged for
1320-557: The time. The Yass & District Museum represents Yass from the 1820s. Exhibitions pay tribute to the life and work of explorer and grazier Hamilton Hume , Yass soldiers and nurses who served in 20th-century wars, the Inns of Yass, Burrinjuck Dam; and illustrate a 19th-century shop, parlour and kitchen, rural life and work in a woolshed. The climate in Yass is intermediate between the Southern Tablelands and South West Slopes , having characteristics of both zones. Compared to Goulburn , it has
1360-478: Was James Wallace of 123 Sussex Street, Sydney . There are important works of art by renowned Australian sculptor Tom Bass in the Church: The foundation stone of the new church was laid on 11 April 1954 by Archbishop Eris O'Brien and the church was opened on 29 April 1956, by Archbishop Guilford Young. Fifty-year celebrations were organised on 29 April 2006 by Father Laurie Bent, who was Parish Priest in Yass at
1400-510: Was also Hume's nephew. These connections no doubt lead to the choice of the site of Barber's next mill as the land was originally owned by Hume. Barber constructed a new steam mill and, by May 1870, steam was raised and the mill itself opened in June 1870 (Bayley 1973:46). According to Armes et al. , the Barber family "occupied surviving housing on the corner of Comur and Adele Street" (2003:9). This mill, it
1440-500: Was born near Yass in 1878, and studied at the local convent school as a youth. Sir Walter Merriman established 'Merryville', one of the country's most famous sheep studs, and arguably its leading fine-wool establishment, in 1903. Yass is a prominent area for raising sheep which produces very fine wool due to the soil and climatic conditions. Yass was one of the sites proposed for the Federal Capital after 1901, before Canberra
1480-459: Was in operation (1973:24). This mill was located by the Yass River and was owned by the partnership of Hamilton Hume and John Watson. The mill was known as Watson's Mill. This mill seems to have operated until it was destroyed in a flood in 1870. At that time it was owned by Thomas Andrew Barber (Ames et al. 2001:9). Barber was the son of the George Barber (who, with Hume, first explored Yass) and
1520-490: Was needed in an almost hung parliament . Instead of catching the inaugural train at Sydney, he had to catch it at Yass Junction, where it made a special stop. Yass has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: Cooma Cottage is one of the oldest surviving rural houses in New South Wales. It has historic significance as a relatively intact complex of rural buildings and links to explorer and grazier Hamilton Hume . It
1560-533: Was spelled in English with a double-S, apparently after being misheard as such due to its "sharp and forcible" quality. The Yass area was first seen by Europeans in 1821, during an expedition led by Hamilton Hume . By 1830, settlement had begun where the nascent Sydney to Melbourne road crossed the Yass River . The site for the town was gazetted in 1837. Yass was incorporated as a District Council in 1843, and boasted
1600-435: Was ultimately chosen. The proposed site would have been slightly west of the township of Yass, which would have been included in the surrounding federal territory. In 1956, Yass became the first town in New South Wales to have a fluoridated water supply. The Hume Highway passed through the town until a bypass opened in July 1994. It has never been explained why Yass was the home to a number of flour mills, especially as
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