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Bowning Public School (song for the 175th anniversary)

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First published at 23:23 UTC on January 16th, 2024.

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Barry O'Mara from Yass asked if I would write something to commemorate 175 years of the Bowning Public School.

Alexander Mackay and his Inn are mentioned in this Dec 1850 edition of the NSW People's Advocate, on the occasion of a visit b…

Barry O'Mara from Yass asked if I would write something to commemorate 175 years of the Bowning Public School.

Alexander Mackay and his Inn are mentioned in this Dec 1850 edition of the NSW People's Advocate, on the occasion of a visit by the Governor:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/251539670

The school had only be open for less than a year and Alexander's seven year old daughter is reciting for the Governor.

This might be the same Mackay having a run-in with Ben Hall's gang in 1865:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/60568232

This 1850 article mentions the establishment of the school in October 1849, and the use of Mackay's building:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/101730867

Thanks to Barry for the lend of the 125th Anniversary book:
https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/1253267

#Bowning #Yass

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