Primex Field Days 2018 Kwong Sings Helen Trustum, Motoring, Let's Cook & much, much more May edition Issue 17 2018 Another big month completed and we're starting on our Issue 18. Seems to be a rumour Heartland Magazine is closing down! Well you heard it here from the horses mouth, we are not closing down, we plan on being around for a long time. I hate rumours and the best way is to squash them first hand. I wonder why rumours start sometimes and can only say maybe we are a threat to some other media in the area. We are also pleased to announce that our website www.heartlandmagazine.com.au is now a great source for local and national news as it breaks. Previous to this news section we have been publishing media releases from local councils and this has been a massive hit with our online readers, so much so our website peaked last month with 380,000 views for the month. 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Don't forget to add Beef meets Reef to your calendar for May 20th (Sunday) at Evans Head, we hope you can get to town and support what should be a great day out. Once again, thanks for your support and take care. Sharon & Jeff www.heartlandmagazine.com.au The NSW Northern Rivers Heartland Magazine 3 Inside this month 6 The Drovers Story. 8-9 Kwong Sings in profile 14 Do you remember? 18-19 Meet the team at Schriveners 20 Going to school at Greenridge 26-27 Helen Trustum - Keith Nelson final 31 A Tale of our Fishing History 32-33 Early Days of Tatham Cricket 34-45 Primex Field Days 2018 Heartland Media welcomes stories that are submitted via writing however we will publish them in their entirety and will not edit them in any way...some stories have tried to recreate events, locales and conversations from personal memories of 47 The Tractor Treck them. 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Independently owned and operated. 4 The NSW Northern Rivers Heartland Magazine www.heartlandmagazine.com.au www.heartlandmagazine.com.au The NSW Northern Rivers Heartland Magazine 5 to Silverton only to be The Drovers Story rushed back to hospital Calling for Crochet Octopuses Ron and Mavis Kerr 5 days later to have the ‘Quick,Treasures over here, I’ve found one’, called Lance as he crouched beside Recently there has been some articles placenta removed before the culvert. We raced to his side as he removed an egg from the newly Ronald’s childhood popping up on social media about it caused an infection. discovered bird’s nest. ‘Look, crocheting baby octopus. Heartland is Ronald John Kerr was born these have spotted shells. Once Mavis and John We haven’t found any like this calling on the readers of publication that on the 20th of August 1936, were well enough to before. They’ll be great in can crochet to help us come on board in Gunnedah NSW. His travel, Mavis returned to my collection.’ Four pairs of and support this wonderful cause. Crochet a baby octopus to father Roy Joseph Kerr and Johnny at Ray Station Ron on the droving plant eyes focused on the plover’s help premature babies. his partner Jean Angelina along with Baby John, Ruben, Daisy, Beryl (Ron’s Sister), and egg cupped in Lance’s hands. Faint Coady had seven ‘It’s a real beauty, and bigger There is a worldwide movement that is run by volunteers called Mavis’ brothers. The droving trip consisted of 3700 head of Marino children, three boys and four than our other ones too!’ we Octopus for a Preemie. The team at Heartland will be collecting sheep which had to be taken from Tibooburra to Coonamble girls. As a young boy Ron all agreed. ‘Are there any your crochet octopus and donating them to the local area hospitals NSW. It was on this trip that Jeff Carter caught up with the family and his family moved around more? Let’s see the nest’. for the premature babies. For in the and travelled with them for months documenting their life on the a lot, his father was a drover words of Denzel Washington “At the plant. Jeff had seen a photo in a magazine of Ron and Ruben As the others bent with Lance and during the years of end of the day its not about what Stevenson on horseback to examine the nest’s three World War II they would remaining eggs, I looked you have or even what you have and was intrigued. This is get work by droving stock around and saw an agitated, accomplished, its about who you where the photo of Ron, into the slaughter houses adult Plover, hover near, watching our every move. Suddenly feeling have lifted, who have made better. Mavis and John came so that they could be uncomfortable at the bird’s obvious distress, I cautioned, trying to Its about what you have given back.” about. processed into supplies for the Australian Army. As far as minimise the harm, ‘Only take one, or the mother bird will attack us!’ We cannot wait to see your creations! I wondered too if our parents would approve of this latest childhood schooling Ron attended many different schools, with some Mavis and Daisy only ‘craze’. Bianca Green who is a co-founder of of them being a 10mile horse ride every day to attend. As stayed a few months with Octopus for a Preemie in Tasmania he grew older he wanted to play football for the school team, the droving team before The next year, a representative from the Gould League of Bird Lovers spoke with John from ABC Radio in however with the war years came rationing, his mother Jean returning to Broken hill. came to our school, soliciting us to sign a pledge to protect, not harm, our incredible native birds. We did.