A successful farmer with a wooden leg
After losing a leg due to an accident with a cricket ball, Royden Robert Newell made use of a wooden replacement…
Taree’s first town clerk
Born and raised in London, Horace Beeton trained as a draper’s assistant and at the age of 21 decided to try his luck in New Zealand…
A new road for Strathcedar and Mooral Creek
During the late 1800s, access to Strathcedar and Mooral Creek was along a road carved out by early Mooral Creek settlers, the Fords…
Taree Hospital Christmas Tree
For over 32 years the pine tree at the Manning Base Hospital was lit up as a Christmas tree for everyone to enjoy…
One of the first trucks and mail run in Strathcedar
One of the first trucks in Strathcedar was a 1926 Chevrolet with a wooden cab. It was purchased by Royden Robert Newell and wife Florence, and was used to take their cream cans to the Wingham Factory…
A Chevrolet truck, a fence and a way to the Wingham Show
In the early 1900s the owners of one of the first trucks in Strathcedar, was Royden and Florence Newell. This truck was used for the mail run…
The old red shed and a tornado
One of the few buildings that survived the march of time on the Strathcedar property that had been owned by Royden and Florence Newell in the 1900s was the house and the old red shed…
A sawmiller and beef farmer
When Trevor Newell inherited 160 acres in 1974 from his parents Royden and Florence Newell, at Strathcedar on the Mooral Creek Road, it was going back to tea tree scrub and weeds…
Vincenzo Fazio (1865-1962)
Driving around Tuncurry, you may notice iconic sites such as The Great Lakes Cinema, the abandoned BI-LO, and the Rockpool. But one lesser known locale is Fazio’s Transport and Bricks…
Young boy mauled by shark at Forster
A real case of jaws in our very own small town? One Friday afternoon in January 1944, a 14 year old boy named Keith Weir was out with his friends surfing at Main Beach, Forster…