VOLUME 27 ISSUE 3 June 2020 love in the time Hallof Weddingscoronavirus

Will and Isabella

As we entered our period of lockdown in Hall, some of our local sons celebrated the joy of marriage with two weddings of former Hall Primary School students Will Brydie-Watson and Ross Corrigan. Three former Hall Primary School students were part of the bridal party for the wedding of Will Brydie-Watson to Isabella Swift in early March. Their families are still residents in the Hall district. Will and Isabella met in Rome where Will is a Senior Lawyer with the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (Unidroit) and Isabella was Second Secretary with the Australian Embassy. Another former Hall primary student Ross Corrigan married Alex Will Brydie-Watson, Jack Williams, Cameron in a reduced-sized ceremony on the shores of Yerrabi Pond on Glen Purdam and Andrew Brydie-Watson. 4 April. Full celebrations are planned for next year. Ross, son of Peter of Cooee in Hall and Lee, is a Network Engineer, and Alex, from Queensland, Of course the rainbow shone on the happy couple. an Intensive Care Paramedic. Lee Corrigan (former Rural Fringe editor), marriage celebrant, Alex, Michael Lange and Ross. Out and aboutout . . . about Out and aboutout . . . At home about during lockdown St Michael’s and All Angels Anglican Church While all at home during Corner of Loftus and Victoria St the lockdown, Sophie Porteous did a master- piece challenge. To celebrate World Bee Day and The original is: promote awareness of our efforts Portrait of Marie a special video featuring Hall was Antoinettte at the commissioned by the organising Harpsichord in Schonbrünn committee for World Bee Day by Franz Xaver Wagenschön It is now possible every day Monday to Friday to connect, pray and ACT, the Capital Region Farmers (now at Kunsthistorisches worship with St Michael and All Angels and St Barnabas Anglican Parish. Museum, Vienna Austria). Market and the Rotary Club of 10am Monday to Friday Hall. You can see it at: And Sophie’s more You can connect by phone on 02 8015 6011 or by Zoom vimeo.com/420594537 humorous version is with meeting ID and password 9551044551. ‘Wild wigged at Piano’. Saturday at 10am is cafe connect when you can also join by phone on Floriade comes to Hall 02 8015 6011 or by Zoom with meeting ID and password 9551044551 for a chat. With the cancellation of the usual Floriade event in Commonwealth Park Sunday worship services continue at 10am that you can join due to COVID-19 restrictions, the ACT by phone on 02 8015 6011 or by Zoom with meeting Government is reimagining Floriade 2020 ID and password 9551044551. with the one million blooms of Floriade For further information, you can contact: planted in communities and town centres Katrina Morton on 02 6258 6088 or 0427 609 838 around Canberra. Reverend Emma Street on 0411 150 841 The Floriade horticultural team will bring some 15 half-barrels and possibly some wheelbarrows planted with bulbs to Hall Hall Rocket reaches 625m! Village shortly before they begin to flower by Ken Heffernan in September/October. Floriade will also WHOLESALE AND RETAIL provide 2000 bulbs and 2000 annuals to On 24 April 2020 at 11:00 hours, an PRODUCE MERCHANTS the Hall Men’s Shed who have constructed Anti-COVID-1 9 rocket was sighted 80 one metre square garden beds at 625m above sea level in the lower FOR ALL YOUR PRODUCE NEEDS temporarily placed along Victoria Street atmosphere of a chook yard in Hall. All Animal and Birdseed and the Jim Rochford Memorial Grove. The sighting may reflect the long and Together these plantings will provide a fruitful collaboration between chooks Fencing Materials spectacular Spring display in Hall Village. and humans. Indeed, the domestication Irrigation Equipment Over 50 volunteers planting bulbs and annuals in the of Gallus gallus by people goes back temporary garden beds on 24 May. Special thanks to over five millennia in Asia. Chooks Cements Hall Volunteer Rural Fire Brigade for watering the beds. even appear to have been taken to South America by the great Polynesian Drenching & Vaccines seafarers of later prehistory and they Poultry were an important food source in the early European colonisation of New South Wales. The First Fleet set off with 122 fowls and 87 chickens. Gardening Clearly Hall is a fowl-friendly place and my chooks would recognise the And lots more! importance of the current safety messaging for humans. I understand 8:00am -­‐ 5:30pm weekdays that this is in part because they enjoy the company of people, especially if the chooks are digging and expose worms, and also in deference to 8:00am – 3:00pm Saturday their need for regular top ups with scratch mix and pellets easily found nearby at Hall Farm Supplies. While Goldilocks and the rest of the flock 6170 4278 consider themselves to be an essential service, my family has refrained Gladstone Street, Hall ACT 2618 from advising them that Farmer Brown’s local eggs are also free range, but bigger and of more dependable supply.

2 Rural Fringe June 2020 June 2020 Rural Fringe 3 In early October, the VHDPA submitted a grant As reported during the VHDPA General Meeting President’s pagepresident Peter Toet President application to the Australian Government presidentlast November, a plan for upgrade of the Hall Communities Environment Program for funding Park on Gladstone Street was developed for ACT It is surely timely to reflect on the activities of the Success can bring its own challenges, like for Bee-Friendly Hall Village – an engaged community Transport Canberra and City Services by landscape Village of Hall and District Progress Association in the 100 or so cars parked along streets promoting bee health. The application is for a architect Anna Chauvel and shared in a number 2020, despite bushfire threats, a damaging hailstorm adjacent to the start of the walking $15,000 government grant supported by the of community consultation pop-ups last May, June around us and a current pandemic. The VHDPA is trail during some pandemic exercise equivalent of $45,000 in community contributions and July. The concepts for improved play space were the Hall and District elected incorporated body that times. The ACT Government is considering options through voluntary labour and in-kind materials. strongly supported throughout the consultations. The provides the financial and legal management of many to manage this in consultation with the VHDPA. The Communities Environment Program grant was plan was then submitted by ACT TCCS to the ACT endeavours in the community. Due to government Proposals by the ACT Government will be shared approved in December and work is beginning towards Heritage Council for approval. The Heritage Council restrictions, we have had to postpone our plan with Hall, Hoskins and Palmer Street residents and establishing attractive bee-friendly gardens and signage response requires that the proposed trail element of to have a general meeting of the VHDPA around other Hall Village residents. If asked, don’t forget to to improve habitat for pollinators in Hall Village and the playground be a raised trail with mesh underlay. The this time. Nevertheless, the VHDPA Committee mention that there is parking around the school site promote the health of bees in the community and to amount subsequently estimated for such construction continues to meet regularly and advance and near the pavilion. I imagine that anyone ready to visitors. Details of the grant application are available at by Makin’ Trax, a regular ACT Government contractor, various activities. walk the Centenary Trail www.hall.act.au/documents.html. significantly exceeded available funds. should not mind walking an The Centenary Trail extra few hundred metres. Project Managers, Jonathan In April, the VHDPA extension into Hall, and Palmer and Leigh Crocker submitted a grant the bridge on the Creek, I was pleased to meet His have met with staff members application for $15,000 were completed in time to Excellency the Governor from the ACT TCCS City to the ACT Government allow use by those seeking General the honourable Presentation section and Nature Play grants to recreational freedom David Hurley at both the have developed a project contribute to the Hall during times of social Canberra Show at EPIC brief in order to engage Park Upgrade with a distancing. This has been a and the very successful and a landscape designer. The revised plan excluding collaborative endeavour of popular National Sheep landscape designer will seek the trail element. If the VHDPA and the ACT Dog Trials at Hall in March, input from Victoria Street the grant application Government, and I know (super efforts from Sarah residents, traders and other is successful, the Peter Howard worked especially hard on it as a Sydrych, Jonathan Palmer et al), and especially pleased stakeholders prior to developing a draft design. Once VHDPA will provide $10,000 towards the Park member of the committee. It is a now a well-used, to address the extremely well-attended National a draft design is developed, consultations will be held Upgrade in addition to $10,000 from the proceeds safe and low-impact community facility on and Sheep Dog Trials Dinner. These gatherings remind with all interested Hall Village and district stakeholders of the Hall Ball, $12,000 from the Rotary Club of beside the existing road corridor. I’ve heard many me of an altogether different world. Committee prior to finalisation of the plan and the beginning of Hall, and $10,000 of materials, equipment and labour favourable reports of its value to both bicycle members got hands-on moving additional seating for work. The VHDPA will organise consultation with being donated by Hall residents. The application riders and pedestrians. visitors from Sunny Corner down to the Trials show interested Hall Village and district stakeholders. can be seen at www.hall.act.au/documents.html. ground (a special thanks to John Starr). At the time of writing, we are waiting to be advised Jonathan Palmer and Leigh Croker are doing a sterling of the outcome of the grant application by the ACT The current times of isolation and temporary closure job in advancing efforts in making Hall Australia’s first Government. provide a chance for some useful investment of time. designated bee-friendly village. The VHDPA Committee has been working with the I think of this as I look at many As reported by Rhondda ACT Government on upgrading the Hall Museum, beautiful gardens around Hall Dickson and Judy Roberts M School, Men’s Shed and Cottage security systems. getting special attention as in the February edition of C C The heritage-listed Hall School Precinct is a jewel, a more of us spend more time the Rural Fringe, there is an EXCAVATIONS central community hub for the Hall School Museum at home. Some of the bee- increasing population of the Owner operator, based in Hall and Heritage Centre, Hall Rotary and the Hall Men’s friendly native plants left over invasive Indian Myna pest Shed among other groups. The Rural Fringe is also from the Rotary donation in the Hall district. To assist We do: We also have: essential in preserving the fabric integrity of the Hall last year are being planted residents, the VHDPA has • Soil excavation and removal • 5.5 tonne excavator Community during these difficult times. • Green waste and stump removal near the cottage at the school purchased five Indian Myna • 12 tonne tipper (thanks especially Greg traps that can be borrowed • Rural driveways The first stage of the ACT Government Flowers, Dennis Greenwood by Hall district residents and • Site cuts and clearing Bobcat attachments: refurbishment of buildings at the school site has • Post holes 200mm – 600mm • Trencher and Bill Pearson). Tony Morris and I were privileged to members of the VHDPA. The loan of these Indian been completed at a cost of around $250,000, and • Landscape preparation • Pallet/brick forks have the opportunity to remove bitumen from the old Myna traps is being managed by the Hall Men’s Shed. a second stage is now under way for a similar • Star picket & rural fence removal • Hay bale spears Tharwa bridge timbers (salvaged by Bob Richardson) For information, contact Men’s Shed foreman Doug amount, hopefully to start in June. After a gutter • Water tank sites being used as garden sleepers for a raised bed. Anstess . collapse at Building ‘D’, additional emergency [email protected] upgrade funding was made available. It is heartening You will also see in this Rural Fringe information about Stay Safe and remain mindful of how important it Call Craig to quote on all your Bobcat and Excavation needs. that the wider community is supportive of the Floriade in Hall with the ACT Government bringing is to help your friends and neighbours during this school site through this type of funding, no doubt floral displays in September/ October and supplying the pandemic. Please also support your local Hall traders, 0428 751 023 a reflection of what Hall contributes back to the Men’s Shed with 2000 bulbs and 2000 annuals that have services and businesses. You can find information on community through organisations like Rotary and been planted in 80 temporary one square metre beds local businesses in the Rural Fringe and at: www.cmcbobcat.com.au the museum. in Victoria Street and Jim Rochford Memorial Grove. www.hall.act.au/business-directory.html

4 Rural Fringe June 2020 June 2020 Rural Fringe 5 Bay leaf treesgardening by Lisa Walmsley Pandemic of kindness and caringat home by Kevin Stone As we watch our trees defoliating rapidly, early this You can harvest the leaves any time you need them and they Have you noticed since we started the COVID-19 As things progressively return to what we consider as year, I thought it would be a great time to have a look do not need to be dried although some folk think the flavour ‘lockdown’ that the material things are missed less than ‘normal’, it would be a good time to tell our younger at one of my favourite evergreen trees. is better. the company of others, the face-to-faceconversations, generation that this is their history. Will they, and indeed all of us, be able to look back in years to come Bay Leaf Tree (Laurus To dry the leaves, place them the hugs? I read that somewhere and when I thought and say that we showed compassion, nobilis) has been used in individually on a tray in a warm spot, about it, quickly realised how true it is. our cooking for centuries once dry store them in an airtight kindness, caring and empathy during But I’m very fortunate in having a and is a holy tree for the container. Small branches can also be COVID-19? Did we do the right thing Greeks and Romans. When tied together and hung in a dry spot. close family and live amongst good by following rules to stop the spread you look up the description neighbours, many I consider friends. I of the virus? And did we also spread a The Bay Tree is of Mediterranean origin of this tree, it says it is a take my dog for two walks a day and little joy into people’s lives? and likes well drained soil and although small tree, but considering people I speak to (following social very adaptable to most situations it So I think that yes, we’re going through it is a herb, it grows to distancing guidelines) always seem to does better if out of exposed cold and some relatively hard times, but when 10 metres (plus – in the have a positive outlook and appreciate drying winds. this is over, hopefully we’ll appreciate perfect conditions which what we’re doing is necessary. our lives more. Things may never exist here) and can be as Bay trees are hardy to minus10 degrees And I’ve seen kindness and caring be quite the same again, but I’m wide as six metres. This for short periods of time – so they are displayed in various and wonderful confident that people will be more is not a small tree, unless mostly fine in our climate. They don’t ways over the past couple of months. This beautiful note came with thoughtful and tolerant towards of course you buy it as a mind full sun or part shade. delicious goodies. As I live alone, people have checked on ‘standard’ – this is grafted at the top of the trunk at others. Once again, not a bad thing. They grow happily in a pot, for years and years although never me, whether by email, phone call or knock around 1.8 high (this can vary from one metre to let your plant get too dry for a prolonged time, waering twice on the door. And I was pleasantly surprised recently I recently found something my wife copied down two metres), and looks like a lolly pop – shaped like a a week is ideal, perhaps more when very dry and hot. many years ago and I think it’s still relevant today: topiary and stays at a reasonable size. Recently, a new when a mother and her 8-year-old daughter from the smaller variety has been developed. As mentioned above Bay trees can be shaped easily, late next street rang my doorbell and presented me with The true power is endurance. some delicious choc chip and shortbread cookies, summer pruning is optimum but really they can be pruned The true wisdom is generosity. They are traditionally shaped like a topiary, pyramids, at any time and you have the added bonus of storing the chocolates, treats for my pup and a handwritten note. balls and standards are usual shapes and they are clippings for cooking later. This showed not only a material generosity but one in The true compassion is tolerance. really happy in a pot. spirit and it filled me with happiness. And the true wealth is contentment. When bays are young, you should leave them alone to get Bay trees produce an insignificant creamy white established before trimming or using leaves as disturbing the A friend told me that he set up a Facebook page with Endurance, generosity, tolerance and contentment scented flowers in the spring followed by a green plant too early can stunt the growth and create slow growth. his neighbours and has also had some video hook-ups are the four treasures of life. berry that then becomes a fragrant black berry, which with them. What a great, caring way to stay in touch are not used in cooking, although they are given by Scale insects and white fly can both be pests on bay trees. 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6 Rural Fringe June 2020 June 2020 Rural Fringe 7 PA announcements reminding customers to keep • Have hand washing facilities at your stall and rotary Barbara Baikie rotary Rotary Club of Hall their 1.5m social distance. sanitise your hands regularly. It has been a difficult and challenging time for the Heard the buzz? • We will be marking 1.5m intervals in front of • If you or your staff are feeling unwell or Rotary Club of Hall (RCH) as it has been for everyone On 1 May local urban beekeeper and RCHH member stalls to guide people on how to keep their showing any symptoms, please do not attend during the pandemic time of COVID-19. This has come Jonathan Palmer spoke on Behind The Lines, Canberra distance when selecting and paying for food. the market. COVID-19 symptoms include (but Community Radio 2XX 98.3 FM about creating bee are not limited to) fever, cough, sore throat, on top of the difficult start to 2020 with the bushfires, • Removing food court seating to discourage friendly communities modeled on the bee-friendly fatigue and shortness of breath. COVID-19 most drought and hailstorm, where many of our Capital close proximate and ‘gathering’. Region Farmers Market (CRFM) stallholders, members charter which is being used to transform Hall Village into often begins with a temperature of 37.3 degrees of our club, CRFM shoppers and the general public the ACT’s first officially designated Bee-Friendly Village. • Providing additional signage advising people of hand centigrade (99 F) or more and is contagious were affected by these events. However, the RCH washing facilities and ACT Health recommendations. from the first sign of illness. and the CRFM have continued, albeit in different ways. • Asking customers not to bring their own ‘keep cups’. What we ask of our customers: The club ceased face-to-face meetings to abide • ATMs will be sanitised on a regular basis. • To adhere to 1.5m social distancing while in with the restriction imposed by the Federal and the farmers market. ACT governments and to keep our members safe. • Bathrooms and hand washing facilities to be Our regular meetings have been replaced by Zoom monitored and sanitised on a regular basis. • To wash hands when they enter or exit the meetings. This has enabled members to check and market. support each other, as well as continuing with • To SHOP and GO. our regular meeting format with guest speakers and reports from the committees and board. • To not attend if they feel unwell, are high risk or have recently returned from overseas. • Do not bring their own ‘keep cups’ or other Here he is pictured with fellow RCH members Bill refillable vessels. Pearson, and Dennis Greenwood. This photo was • To not stockpile food and to be considerate taken pre social distancing time! of other shoppers. The Capital Region Farmers Market • Practise good hygiene following ACT Health The operation of the markets has changed dramatically recommendations. and has been closely monitored by the market manager The Rotary year 2019 -2020 is drawing to a close Sarah Power, the CRFM committee and the Board. The and with it is bringing about more than the usual Visitors are very welcome to attend our meetings markets have continued as they were considered as changes. Our District 9710 will be combining with and go to our website for details or contact an essential service, however the attendance of both What we ask the stallholders to do: 9710 and to create a new Rotary District 9705 on President Fiona Hamer 0450 754 309. Stall holders and the public attending has been affected. 1 July 2020. This district covers a considerable area Social distancing was essential. Sarah Power outlines • We ask that you pre-package produce as much The RCH has provided support and food to a across NSW. It is divided into six areas. District what has been done to keep the markets stall holders as possible. This will encourage shoppers to grab project for Congolese refugees in Nairobi so Governor Elect Michael Moore will take over the and members of the public safe, while allowing access what they need, pay and go. they can self-isolate. This support was by way of reins of the New District 9705. He has done a to fresh food from authentic producers. a donation of $5000 from the RCH International • Remove self-select boxes and baskets for fresh considerable amount of work assisted by the Committee. This project included refugee camps What we’ll be doing: produce. Please select produce on behalf of your district committees to ensure a smooth transition. customer and have additional signage on stalls elsewhere with help from other sources. The • Hand sanitiser will be available at entrances to the Stay safe in these uncertain times. asking customers to limit the handling of food. Pendo Dorcas tailoring school is currently closed market. We will be asking customers to sanitise as the school is being used as a food bank. Jerome, their hands upon entry and exit. • Ready to Eat meals are to be packaged for a Congolese refugee now living in Australia wrote takeaway. Meals are not to be eaten at the market. ‘your support changed lives’. • We will perform a click count of customer numbers entering the market and will make regular • Please be set up and remove vehicles by 6.30am The RCH has slowed community activities and due to early crowds. spending during this time but these activities are intended to resume when the restrictions relax. • Ensure foodstuffs are appropriately packaged and covered – including produce not on display. ANZAC Day this year was very subdued. At BEAUTIFUL GARDENS • Do not offer samples or tastings. our Zoom meeting prior to ANZAC Day, Vic Gibbons recited the ODE. On ANZAC Dday a by DOG TRAP DESIGN • Have additional signage on stalls asking number of members stood at their driveways at garden design consultant & horticulturist customers to limit handling of food dawn. President Fiona had a drive-by ceremony. (ie selecting fruit and vegetables). Bill Pearson and Dennis Greenwood held a very • Advise customers to wash produce small flag raising ceremony at the Hall Cenotaph, LISA WALMSLEY where appropriate prior to eating. with social distancing. This recognised the courage, mateship, skill, and perseverance of those who • Provide hand sanitiser at your stall (if possible) email: [email protected] served, fought, and gave their lives in the military to for your customers and sanitise all touch points web: www.dogtrapdesign.com.au 0428 275 701 enable freedom for people all over the world. and surfaces on a regular basis.

8 Rural Fringe June 2020 June 2020 Rural Fringe 9 Feeling stressed? by Robyn Monteleone New owners of Capital Wines and Cellar Door

Hypnotherapy can help. Events and situations are The new owners of Capital Wines If you found it difficult to adjust to being in isolation stressful because of the which has a Cellar Door, Gallery and as COVID-19’s presence transformed our way of way we think about them new Wine Lounge in the Hall Village living, you’re not alone. Whilst in Australia, we are (at and represent them in are Bill and Maria Mason and Colin the time of writing), cautiously easing restrictions, our our mind. If our thoughts and Kay Andrews. lives and freedoms as we knew them, have shifted. whirl in an unending flurry of ’What is going to Bill Mason has extensive experience As people flocked to buy toilet paper, pasta and tinned happen? I’m going to catch in the wine industry and owns tomatoes, I was reminded of a human behaviour this. What am I going to Regional Wine and Beverage motivation theory – Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. do? How am I going to Merchants, a Canberra based Maslow describes five levels of human need: cope? The world is awful distribution business that services • Physiological at the moment.’ Our bodies tighten, we feel our stress the National Capital and Southern • Safety getting worse and it creates more negative thought. NSW. Bill and Maria and their family also owns Kosciuszko Wines • Social Whilst this is entirely understandable given the circumstances, the quicker we take control of these from Tumbarumba. Colin and Kay • Esteem thoughts, the easier it is to move beyond them. Andrews own Jeir Station, a historic • Self-actualisation. property half-way between Hall Sometimes taking control of our thoughts is easier On a day-to-day basis in Australia, most people have said than done. If you are having trouble keeping your and Murrumbateman, with an excellent vineyard shelter, food and water, so our physiological needs thoughts on an even keel in these uncertain times, located in the heart of the Canberra Wine District. are met. And for the most part, most have income hypnotherapy can help you can relax. It can also help Colin and Kay also own the Jirra wine range. security and physically feel safe. And our democratic you discover new resources within yourself to move The Gallery has a new lighting system with lounge country allows us freedoms to socialise and belong forward with renewed perspective. Hypnosis feels style furniture. The Wine Lounge encourages as we choose. similar to listening to a guided meditation and the guests to enjoy the works the Gallery has on client always, always, has full control over whether Then COVID-19 spread across the world and we exhibition in a relaxed setting. went into isolation, jobs and industries shut down they will accept or reject any suggestions given to in a matter of days and supermarket shelves were them. The residents of Hall are particularly being empty. As a society, many were fighting for basic Online sessions available. For more information go to: welcomed and it is hoped the locals will visit and needs and we became concerned about our physical robynm.com.au 62309340 or 0401 050 195 enjoy their local Cellar Door, Gallery and now health and safety. Wine Lounge.

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10 Rural Fringe June 2020 June 2020 RuralRural Fringe Fringe 1111 While there have been many changes in the village since The significance of this 1903- Museummuseum Musings Alastair Crombie museum its establishment in 1882, Hall has retained its village 1910 application-refusal-approval Honorary Curator character over time. It has managed to do this in spite process lies in the detailed reports and petitions that The museum remains closed to the public, although volunteer workers are continuing their endeavours. of development within the village and the suburban have been preserved in toto, the information embodied All public events, including the launch of our latest exhibition, have been cancelled. IT will be a busy sprint! development which has come close to its perimeters about the inhabitants and children, the attitudes of the as a result of the growth of the National Capital. This parents to public school education at the turn of the Charles Scrivener was on a significant mission in It was a typical village in which most of the residents is mainly due to the spacious, semi-rural setting of the century, and the governmental procedures involved. 1909. He had the task of determining a site for the were involved in the surrounding pastoral and village which accords with its original planned layout, and Copies of all documents have been carefully preserved future national capital city of Australia within the Yass- agricultural pursuits of rural New South Wales. The its surrounding rural landscape which has allowed it to and are available in the museum collection. Canberra region. As he and his small party rode across population had gradually increased since its foundation remain visually isolated from any other development. Hall the Limestone Plains exploring the likely locations in 1882 and had reached 179 at the 1911 census. The demonstrates a village lifestyle which, with its historic After seven years of constant agitation, the Inspector of Bungendore-Lake George, Canberra, Gundaroo Cricketers Arms Hotel, situated across the creek, associations, is rare in the ACT. Hence, time has brought was given approval to call tenders for a school at Hall and Yass, he rode into was the centre of social recognition to the village. and the approval was gazetted on 31 January 1910. another prospective site, life, entertainment and Difficulties with the first contract and the transfer of the district of Hall. recreation (and a visiting the site from the NSW Government to the Federal dentist!) and also provided jurisdiction were overcome and a small wooden After watering his for travellers between Yass structure measuring 20 feet by 20 feet (6.1m x 6.1m) horses at the local creek, and Queanbeyan. Opposite was constructed in December at a cost of £165. he walked along the the hotel was the somewhat dusty road that trailed rough cricket pitch, the During the Christmas vacation the teacher-in-charge through the village and scene of numerous cricket of Ginninderra School, Mr Charles Thompson, was noted the 35-40 houses matches, and the site of informed of his transfer to Hall where he opened the scattered in the vicinity. the regular ploughing new school on 30 January 1911. As the Federal Capital Near the bottom of competitions. It was Territory had been created on 1 January 1911, 29 days the main street, loyally confidently expected that earlier, Hall became the first new public school (and named after Queen the village would grow. the first new public building) in the Territory. Victoria, was Southwell and Brown’s general Hall General Store Growth was not sustained, however, after store and post office, one of two shops the village was incorporated into the new Could school be so much fun!? that serviced the population of almost 170. Federal Capital Territory, when freehold The village precinct was entered on the Interim Heritage Straddling the wide water ditch, he crossed over the land were resumed by the government, and Canberra Places Register of the ACT in 2001 and achieved a secure street to George Kinlyside’s blacksmithing business, began its tortuous evolution. Only14 kilometres from listing on the ACT Heritage Register in 2004. surrounded by coach parts and half-constructed drays. the centre of the new capital, Hall became cocooned George’s friend, Henry Stear operated a saddle and from some of the major changes wrought by the For almost 100 years Hall public school was the harness business out of his small home nearby. Further 20th Century. The hotel was closed in 1918 because centre of the Hall community. Between 1903 and 1910, up the road, William Morris had a small building where of the Federal Territory’s prohibition laws, major the local community, led by James Kilby, campaigned his many skills extended to boot making, boot repairs, shopping was available in Canberra from 1925, strongly for a school at Hall. They were thwarted mending bicycles, banking and haircutting. electricity was not available until 1948, and water was initially by the presence of an existing school just over not connected until 1967. When the main road from two miles away at Ginninderra, ‘a fine stone building’ Scrivener referred to the 1881 survey map of Hall and Yass to Canberra was diverted and by-passed the area opened in 1884 and surrounded by trees and shrubs. An early sketch of the new school at Hall located the relatively large tracts of land that had been in 1980, Hall became unique within the ACT, ‘a village set aside for public recreation purposes. Then he was The school inspector argued that another school was within a rural setting’, abutting the National Capital Today, both the site of the school and the village that advised by local residents like James Kilby, the butcher, not required but the people of Hall were insistent but retaining the pace and charm of previous years. it has served retain much of their original character, that the four acres of sloping land bounded by Victoria, and, starting in 1906, launched into a courteous but These qualities were summarised in the citation of relics of times gone by and significantly cloaked in Loftus, Palmer and Hoskins Streets had been reserved incessant series of meetings, letters, and petitions that Hall Village in the National Trust Register: history and heritage value. The cloud of closure of the for public use, probably a school. involved the school inspector, the chief inspector in ‘The Village of Hall is important for its historic and Sydney, two members of the NSW House of Assembly, school in 2006, despite protracted resistance by the social associations with the early pioneers of the and the Minister for Public Instruction. The residents community, has gradually given way to the silver lining Ginninderra-Hall district. The properties of these offered more than once to construct a schoolhouse at of a vibrant district museum and heritage centre, with pioneer land holders were not of sufficient size their own expense if the government would provide, a fine and growing collection of documentation about to support their descendants, who had to rely on and pay the salary of, a teacher. local families, properties, events and organsations. their own industry and resourcefulness to establish Today it offers regular exhibitions, a schools program, businesses in the Village. The significance of Hall lies Persistence was eventually rewarded in 1910 when it Hall’s one-teacher bush school, the Gillespie • Asphalt Placement Specialists www.capitalasphalt.com.au • Hot Bitumen Sealing in its physical representation of this history and its was conceded that half the 45 pupils at Ginninderra Collection, ‘Memory Lane’, a local and family history • Asphalt Profiling demonstration of an early pattern of settlement in were drawn from Hall, that the privately owned area unit, and a serious on-line offering ‘rediscovering A Wide Range of Asphalt Placement, the district. Descendants of the early settlers of the of Ginninderra was surrounded by large holdings with Ginninderra’ and ‘Bush schools of the Capital Territory Bitumen Sealing and Profiling Services region’. The old bush school remains the cornerstone Your Projects. 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1212 Rural Fringe JuneJune 20202020 June 2020 Rural Fringe 13 FRINGE FOLK by Jenny Morris Saving the World Oneplanetary Brussels sprout at a time! by diet Rhiân Williams poetry A food column based on The Planetary Diet On the map of New South Wales Seemingly there’s not enough Either side a fire’s a fire – a simple way to combat climate change, preserve biodiversity and improve our health. there sits a strange outline that’s returned by their State the line is burned aside a sort of bird-like elephant to balance Canberra’s budget no demarcation on a map For more info on the Planetary Diet visit www.thelancet.com/commissions/EAT a hard shape to define. and so expunge the slate. fire sees no marked divide. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a diet A Territory within a State The critter guards its border rich in fruit and vegetables is good for us and it’s called the A.C.T. is vocal in defence Perhaps we’re only stale mates? good for the planet. Whatever fruit or vegetable with Canberra as it’s beating heart it tweets and trumpets loudly I’d argue that’s not so we are likely to find it available almost all year bush capital city. yes capital offence! round. But in order for them to be available year- we’re not too close for comfort round fruits and vegetables are often subject to Who lives outside this quirky sketch The rim folk caught ‘twixt in between insisting quid pro quo. ripening agents including chemicals and gases, along this oddly surveyed scrawl are slipping through the cracks The line’s schismatic incline with heat processes. While this allow foods to be that’s squiggled on a map of Aus they find they are invisible implies we are divided produced in mass quantities by slowing or speeding beyond an urban sprawl? despite their paying tax but we are all Canberrans up the maturation and ripening process it can also significantly reduce taste and nutritional value. It is the home of Fringe Folk in trust that the A.C.T. with needs that aren’t one sided. who chose to cross this line and State of New South Wales Our cartographic closeness There are some tremendous advantages to eating to settle on an acreage acknowledge their disparities should be of fundamental what is in season. And it isn’t just in the taste – So, what is in season in June and July? although who doesn’t love a home-grown tomato? thinking the line benign. and make sure sense prevails. benefit to all of us Studies have shown that foods that are grown and Fruits Vegetables and not be detrimental consumed during their appropriate seasons are apple brussels sprouts mushrooms Most Fringe Folk were suburbanites So is it only Fringe Folk to frank and friendly discourse. more nutritionally dense. For example broccoli avocado cabbage okra onion not born of farming stock who cross from side to side? Ignore the politics grown during its peak season has a higher vitamin C cumquat capsicum parsnip potato they dreamed of rustic ventures No! City goes to country stir give and take with compromise content than broccoli grown during the spring. custard apple carrot pumpkin so bought a rural block. across this great divide. cauliflower radish shallot into the region’s mix. Buying seasonally is also better for the environment. feijoa celeriac silverbeet They thought themselves Canberrans The Fringe Folk are so sick and tired A typical selection of the foods bought in Victoria grapefruit asian greens spinach escaping the rat race find hard to disregard All for one and one for all showed it had travelled an estimated 21,073 km. kiwi fruit broccoli spring onion That’s almost the same distance as travelling the lemon to pursue endeavours for the Canberra trucks filled up with waste is apropos advice. broccolini swede whole coastline of Australia. Travel uses lots of lime which they needed space. that’s dumped in their backyard. This lineation on a map broad beans sweet potato energy which generates lots of greenhouse gases mandarin celery turnip Obviously so innocent A backyard that grows beef and lamb should not come at a price. as does all the refrigeration required along the way, nashi chokos of what this would entail and olives for their oil To bring about consensus along with the energy that goes into packaging the orange cucumbers nuts, eggs and fruit and vegetables food for the journey and storing it when it arrives. pear Herbs thought Canberra was there for them discard the yours and mine eggplants ginger Fruit and vegetables, which are in season tend to persimmon and that they could avail on land with fragile soil. we need to meld our border. pineapple fennel coriander be local food, which means a much lower carbon themselves of all its services And famous are the vineyards Don’t let the line define. quince horseradish dill mint footprint. Best of all buying in season will save you ©Jenny Morris 2017 kale oregano like schools police and health. that make cool climate wine money because what’s in season tends to be the less rhubarb kohlrabi parsley This friendly close proximity that Canberra likes to call its own expensive option as well as the most nutritious and tamarillo leek rosemary the best tasting! tangelo would share its common wealth. though they’re across the line. Then off to farmers’ markets If you want to a handy free guide to seasonal produce visit: These bush folk thought that years of toil for all of us to savour sustainabletable.org.au/all-things-ethical-eating/seasonal-produce-guide/ within the A.C.T. the produce with few food miles and doing all their business there so fresh and full of flavour. Property Image Consultant would surely guarantee • Maintenance them access to these services Taught salutary lesson once • Roo ng we had to both liaise and fatten Canberra’s purse • Gardening with reciprocal cash payments when devastating bushfire set • Carpentry/Joinery, Tiling, ‘Team Southwell’ are locals that their State would reimburse. scrub and house ablaze. Painting, Plastering selling local real estate. These poor misguided bush folk thought For grasslands blur the border • Kitchens, Bathrooms, Simon Southwell George Southwell Clare Southwell Wardrobes & Laundries 0427 755 997 0429 838 345 0428 796 284 this would then erase merge Territory with State Stuart Hensley the avian-like pachyderm and fires will rage both back and forth Ray White Rural Canberra / Yass mobile 0418 449 781 02 6226 4400 but this is not the case. they’ll not discriminate. raywhiteruralyasscanberra.com.au email [email protected]

1414 RuralRural Fringe Fringe JuneJune 20202020 June 2020 Rural Fringe 15 poachers pantry Vale Margaret Klaver (née Kimber) News from Poachers At the end of March 2020 due to 11 December 1928 – 10 May 2020 In 1991 Poachers Pantry was built to Government regulations regarding supply hotels and restaurants with a COVID-19 we have had to range of smoked meats that would unfortunately temporarily close Margaret was the first child of building a new house at the impress chefs and foodies. We didn’t our restaurant. Les Kimber, a WWI veteran and farm, just in time for a visit open to the public until 2001, firstly This does not mean that you can not land surveyor born at Balranald, by Robert’s mother and Aunt just out of the back of the factory and still purchase our artisan smoked and Margaret Charters of from Amsterdam. Margaret’s then in 2002 we converted the old meats and fine Wily Trout and Tibereenah Station, Narrabri. parents lived with them at cottage into the Smokehouse Cafe. Poachers wines. We are continuing to supply our Margaret Kimber was born and Coleambally. From there our retail following grew, goods to retailers in and around the local Canberra raised in Sydney, and became and our retail range was started. Retiring from rice farming, region and we are now providing FREE local home an Australian champion athlete, and with a view to Jan’s The fires of 2019/2020 have destroyed our grape deliveries. Please call or hop on our website to competing in fencing at the interest in university studies, crops with smoke taint which in turn gives us no order your Poachers goods or have a beautiful 1954 Commonwealth Games the family moved to a small wine for the 2020 year release. hamper delivered to someone you care for. in Vancouver. Famously, she was farm, Jomarin (number 3) challenged by a British male on Kaveneys Road at Jeir fencer, and promptly won the in 1984. They bred Murray buttons off his jacket! Grey cattle there until 2005 Caramelised Pear and As a very independent person, and Margaret became a Poachers prosciutto pizza Margaret worked as a travel agent in Sydney renowned and respected breeder of fine Burmese during the 1950s. Here she met Robert Klaver of Cats until very recent years. She and her friend Pizza dough: Amsterdam. They married at St Mary’s Cathedral, Doris Leetham often drove off at the crack of dawn 2 tsps. (7g sachet) dried yeast Sydney on 19 November 1956 and shared life to take their champions to regional and national 1 cup (250 ml) lukewarm water together for the next 64 years. Uncommon for shows. Margaret had also always loved horses and 2 2/3 cups (400g) plain flour, plus extra to dust the times, Margaret was allowed to keep her job often drove a trap with her pony Gypsy around 2 tsps. salt Caramelised pear: after marrying, and the couple even got a trip to the property. India, gifted from Robert’s employer, Air India, as a 3 tbsps. (1/4 cup) olive oil To prepare the pears, wash, core and peel. Cut During the Melbourne Commonwealth Games of wedding present Topping: each pear into eight even-sized wedges. Set aside in 2006, Margaret was chosen to run the Queen’s acidulated water (lemon juice and water) enough to Pizza sauce (store bought recommended for Around 1960 Margaret’s parents sold up in Sydney Baton Relay into the town of Yass. She assured her cover. and purchased a sheep property at Nullamanna, family that, at 77 years old, she would take it easy. convenience) near Inverell, called Jomarin. While not their Her daily training, jogging up and down the farm 2 firm pears, e.g. Corella or Packham variety Heat a large, stainless-steel pan over high heat. original plan, Margaret and Robert left their city driveway, indicated otherwise. Naturally, given her 1/4 cup castor sugar While the pan is heating, place the sugar into a determined spirit, she ran the whole way. jobs in 1962 to commence a new career farming 1 x pkt 70g Poachers classic pork prosciutto flat bowl (or plate). Lightly coat the pears with the land. Then, with support from Les, they won the sugar. Margaret and Robert’s granddaughter, Kate, moved 120g Gorgonzola a ballot to obtain a property at the new rice- to the farm to help out in November 2015. In 2018, Once the pan is hot, place the pears, flat-side-down, growing irrigation area at Coleambally, NSW. This 40 ml balsamic reduction Margaret and Robert moved in with their daughter into the pan. Let cook until the bottom begins to meant starting from scratch, and a lot of hard 30g wild roquette and son in law at Alexandra Street in Hall. They caramelise and brown. Swirl the pan a bit to slide work pretty much in the middle of nowhere. They occupied their sunny modern extension there in the pears around. The juices from the pears will help began at Jomarin (number 2) by living in a shed. In 2019. Margaret loved to talk of the great friends Pizza dough: prevent the sugar from overheating and burning. 1964, Robert and Margaret celebrated the birth she made during her time in the country, especially Whisk yeast and water in a heatproof jug. of a daughter, Jan Maria. By 1968 they had finished Note: If you are using a gas stove, just make sure the at Coleambally and the district of Hall. Stand for 5 minutes or until bubbly. flame isn’t coming up the sides of the pan, or the sugar Place flour and salt in a large bowl. Make a well in can burn and make bitter taste. the centre. Pour in the yeast mixture and oil. - creating- creating delicious delicious stories stories - - Once the first side is golden and caramelised gently Using your hands, mix the dough until it comes turn each wedge over. 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16 Rural Fringe June 2020 June 2020 Rural Fringe 17 SUNDEE DOWN THE WIGGER by Shaun Anthony Robson poetry Expect to sympathisepoetry with purges Expect delusionary clients Of sadistic dramaturges It takes an element of rigour Expect hebdomadal surprises Lacking expertise in science Imparting atavistic, scrivo-trismic dross Setting vessels down the Wigger From accomplished improvisers Propounding nihilistic, sciolistic fears Replacing histrionic scourges A certain esoteric, mondo-cleric nerve Adept at merry feckless, circumspectless sprees Professing conjugal alliance With declamatory splurges Because no ordinary swigger Appending all their broad surmises To anachronistic giants By celebrities that seldom give a toss Parks their parcels by their trigger With requests for breathalysers Irrespective of their less opaque ideas Not unless they’re packing mad Socratic verve Once attorneys stopped deferrals on their fees Expect obligatory exposure To invidious symposia Expect a cavalcade of whoopings Debating Dostoevsky, Stanislavski, Proust From a panoply of groupings Arresting connoisseurs’ composure Awash in après-prudent, blasé student glee Wresting compost from ambrosia Unfussed by notice that their troopings Just as long as girls are easily seduced Featured a capella loopings And a disregard for volume, pitch, or key Expect evangelistic choirs Of guerrilla-gram messiahs Expect to supervise the benders Exalting Bolshevistic, sloganistic tomes Of cosmopolite pretenders Subjecting languorous defiers Affecting unironic, faux-Byronic airs To their sans-culotte desires Engaging gleeful condescenders Then adjourning to their architectured homes To inebrious agendas In persistent hope of dissolute affairs Expect advances of positions From demountable musicians Expect politicised depictions Expect to revel in detections Rehearsing retro-ghetto con affetto tracks Of tyrannical restrictions Of amore’s first confections Equipped with spicier renditions Replete with a priori, statutory sprays Awaft in serotonal, pheromonal flows Of their feistier petitions Alerts to wholesale contradictions Propelling tentative connections Should consensus deem them unmelodic hacks Interspersed with maledictions Through illecebrous trajections Then surrenders to veisalgia for days To departures frisky right before the close Expect occasional igniters Of department store detritus Expect occasional invokers Expect to mollify regretters It takes exuberance and vigor Espousing underglutenned, low falutin swill Of loquacious hocus-pocus Of defamatory letters Working Sundees down the Wigger Berating corporate underwriters Exchanging catachrestic, calque-infested jabs Imbrued with intermural, quaqua-feudal bile Endowed with venerated, compotative sway As abortion expediters Parades of gongoristic jokers Renouncing serial abettors Salute that unassuming figure And apocalyptic harbingers of ill Sparring monologues their focus For professional vendettas Pulling schooners, pints or bigger Their besotted fans attending to their tabs Til retrenchment threats necessitate denial Who’d refuse to have it any other way

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18 Rural Fringe June 2020 June 2020 Rural Fringe 19 Building immune strength and resilience Anita Kilby health • Drink plenty of water everydayhealth – to help naturopath soft drink a day for three weeks has been shown to flush out the rubbish have at least 1.5 to 2 litres There’s nothing like a pandemic to bring your focus to straight (ideally filtered) water, plus two glasses increase inflammation markers in healthy young men Harvard Medical the health of your immune system. Is yours ready to of water for each coffee, tea or alcoholic drink. see you safely through to when a vaccine is available – so what effect could that have on the unhealthy? School (www.health. for COVID-19? How can you tell? What can you do • Chronic health conditions like high blood pressure • Move – if it’s been a while then start gently, harvard.edu) has a now to help your immune system cope with this and and type 2 diabetes can be improved, even build up gradually, get your heart rate up wide range of very any other virus or infection? reversed, with the right diet and lifestyle changes. (aerobic/cardio) and work your muscles wholistic articles about (resistance exercises). antioxidants, reducing We know that chronic health conditions like high • Gut health and its balance of bacteria directly inflammation, anti- blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular and affects immune and overall health – most of the • Manage stress – everybody is under some sort of stress, it’s a part of life, how you manage or inflammatory diets and improving immune health. lung disease make someone more susceptible to poor immune system is located around the gut. I tend to differ a little from their advice on what outcomes of a coronavirus infection. Why? What do adapt to it will determine if it adversely affects Sure, you can support your immune system with ‘healthy’ fats are and puzzle over the apparent ‘lack these conditions have in common? Inflammation! Any your health. Have some fun, laugh, move – it specific supplements/vitamins, but it’s what you do of evidence’ regarding the effectiveness of herbal type of inflammation in the body activates the immune helps lower stress. every day that has the biggest long-term impact. To and other supplements (there are actually thousands system. Chronic conditions like type 2 diabetes can support your immune health: • Stop smoking – it’s a no-brainer. Quitting is by of supportive studies which are somehow invisible reduce or alter immune responses. is by far the best thing you can do to improve to mainstream medicine/media), but overall I’m • Get enough sleep – if you need an alarm to wake your health, even if you do absolutely nothing thrilled with their dietary and lifestyle advice. If you’ve read some of my other articles over the you in the morning, you’re probably not getting else (but please do). years you may have noticed some common themes enough sleep – try going to bed earlier for a couple Basic blood tests including white blood cell • Get some sun – Low vitamin D levels make throughout, and I really haven’t got any great new of weeks and see how you feel. Healing and repair (WBC) markers, ESR, CRP and Albumin/Globulin you more susceptible to infections, ideally your revelations for you now: take place mostly when you sleep. reflect the health of the immune system and levels would be 75-100 mmol/L. Get it checked. levels of inflammation. Total WBC, neutrophils • You need to find and treat the cause of • Get good quality sleep – if you sleep for about A healthy diet can provide the key nutrients and and lymphocytes should be around mid-normal inflammation – taking medications/supplements eightnhours but still feel tired, you need to find antioxidants your immune system needs to function range, with about twice as many neutrophils as to reduce the symptoms doesn’t fix the problem, out what is disturbing your sleep (eg sleep apnoea, well. Antioxidants can help reduce inflammatory lymphocytes. Albumin to Globulin ratio should be inflammation is always there for a reason, a lack of pain, poor blood sugar regulation, poor sleep responses and viral replication. Find out which >1.5. If any of these markers are out of normal ibuprofen didn’t cause it. environment). foods provide good sources of vitamins C, A, D, and range, you need to find out why so you can do • Your diet and lifestyle choices have a huge impact on • Follow an anti-inflammatory diet – find out what E, O mega-3 fats, selenium and zinc. You also need what’s needed to help your immune system do its your health – consistently poor choices sooner or that means, hint . . . high in Omega-3 fats from oily to know which foods increase inflammation, so you job to protect you. later lead to poor health, consistently better choices fish, and lots of fresh veg and fruit, with lots of don’t keep driving it up. lead to better health. For example, just two cans of colours and variety.

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Out and aboutout . . . From theeditorial Editor about Amidst the many jokes about cancelling 2020, as, seemed somehow more concerned and respectful after the long drought, bushfires, hailstorm and now of everybody else. With more smiles and friendly COVID-19, it has all been a bit too much, there are greetings among strangers it really did feel we were in both heartening and sad stories arising from Hall this together. We looked out for each other in Hall as in lockdown over the last couple of months. Just we would expect, and much activity continued, even if as we were going to press with the Rural Fringe in done in isolation, as you’ll read in this edition. I like to April events were getting cancelled - the Stations think we managed a very tough time rather well. of the Cross procession down Victoria Street on Good Friday, the annual Brass Band concert, museum Through some miraculous good management, it looks exhibitions and so on. The Sheepdog Trials, with His like Australia has been saved from the full horror of Excellency the Governor-General the Honourable the pandemic that has hit so many other countries. David Hurley shaking hands with the prize winners As I am writing this, the restrictions are being slowly Porteous Paul photos: marked the last occasion when shaking hands was eased and while I think our collective caution will last okay. That very evening the Prime Minister advised us a while, it will be a joy to see our local businesses to stop shaking hands and to stay home. Many of us pick up the pieces and rebuild. I can only hope to cancelled international and interstate travel and tried encourage all of us through the pages of the Rural to adjust to our new normal of staying home, home Fringe to support them. Some of our newer businesses schooling, working from home and trying to stay sane. in particular must have found this a testing time – Bob Mason has just taken ownership of Capital Wines and Our local businesses had to adapt quickly to the Robyn Monteleone has just started a hypnotherapy restrictions. Daughters at Hall and 1882 moved to business. We wish them the best of luck. takeaway only. Hall veterinary surgery split into two teams each for Hall and for Vets at Amaroo, And with all the rain, the threat of fires feels like a introduced contactless consultations, and found safe distant memory. Our gardens have returned to life, ways of not getting too close to anyone while taking weeds and all, with spectacular displays of fungi this blood from a dog or putting in a drip, or lifting a 70kg year (see back page). The birds are singing and there hall night sky mastiff. . . The Shearing Shed needed to keep everyone is hope in the air. safe and adapt to no more than one person for every Until next time, 4 square metres of space. Poachers Pantry had already Jo Hall had a terrible season after losing its grape crop to smoke. Miss U Motel for Moggies had to close down for The Rural Fringe – ISSN: 1329-3893 COMING SOON the duration. The list goes on and on. The Rural Fringe is a community newspaper published in 700 copies every When you need water, choose second month by the Village of Hall and District Progress AssociationInc (VHDPA) We watched countries across the world suffering and distributed free to mailboxes of the 2618 postcode. It is also available online at www.hall.act.au This publication is funded by the advertisements so huge losses of life and imagined it was just a matter readers are encouraged to support the businesses advertised. Southwell of time before Australia succumbed to the pandemic Contributions in the same way. 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