!!! 1922
29 July 1922
Along the road many farms are passed, a couple especially I noticed on the bank of a running stream, but there seemed to be very little doing on them, except pigs, which were having a great time wallowing in the limpid water of the creek. On my right hand are high mountains and the road is hewn out of the rock that runs along the Creek. The road is very good and shows considerable work on the part of the engineer who designed and got the grade of it. But I soon found to get to my destination I had yet to climb a mountain whose grade was very steep indeed and from the point where it begins until the top is reached must be between two or three miles. It must be a pretty stiff pull for a car. My horse heaved a sigh of relief when the top was reached. A great view is had from the top of this mountain, one cannot call it a hill. For miles both ways green bush could be seen with an occasional patch of grey showing where the ring barkers axe had been at work, and a few farm houses at long intervals. The country is very heavily timbered with a good deal of useless timber. From here the land falls toward Ilford and good flats, some grey, with here and there blacksoil. There are several Diggers just starting to make good, with a bit of luck they should pull through as they are toilers. Ilford is on the Cudgegong-Mudgee road1
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1924
6 June 1924
At Ilford, we get upon a by-road just as darkness sets in, and for sixteen miles down the heavy cuttings the pace is slow to Kandos, a growing industrial centre, where cement and coal are produced - a hive of industry even now, and with greater prospects ahead; and four miles ahead, along a decent thoroughfare, brings us to good old Rylstone2
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