Hume Herald September 2017

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FIELD DAYS —
Issue 3, Volume 4

Diversity –
Our Stories Come to Life
DIVERSITY uses digital media and augmented reality to tell the story
of an object through our volunteers and community members
across the region’s museums and collections.
The technology allows museums to speak directly to their audience
via conversation on a personal level. Stories are presented in
a variety of digital mediums, but the project backbone involves a
holographic trail transcending opening hours and although linked
to place by the objects home (ie the museum’s four walls), the virtue
of the technology is that it is easily transportable - offering the
capacity to share the collection’s stories within the museums and
much more broadly.
Diversity:
• Creates a trail of digital stories across the region designed to engage
with new markets, and to work collaboratively with tourism
providers and regional cultural organisations.
• Builds capacity for collection access outside of museum walls
and builds connections with broader audience segments by using
the same product (AR Application).
• Allows new stories to be portable- via the development of a pop-up
museum (for use at community events such as Henty Machinery
Field Days and schools etc).
• Creates connections between museums and local history and local
education providers via the development of a simple educational
resource to accompany the exhibition.
Diversity has linked collections at Jindera Pioneer Museum, Holbrook
Submarine Museum, Woolpack Inn Museum in Holbrook,
Wymah Museum, Fruit Fly’s Circus Collection, Hothouse
Theatre Collection, Albury LibraryMuseum, Culcairn Stationmaster’s
Residence Museum and Headlie Taylor Header Museum at
Henty.
Diversity is supported by the NSW Government through Create
NSW and is an initiative of the Albury City and Greater Hume Shire
Regional Museums Advisor Program.
Kim Biggs, Museums Adviser said, ‘I am very excited about Diversity
– it ensures that the custodians of the nine collections I work
with across the region can convey their stories in a new way that
allows them to establish a very personal link with their visitors….
it’s like having a one on one conversation with your visitors.. The
passion and vibrance with which the museums staff and volunteers
embrace projects like this is so refreshing- it makes them a
joy to work with and ensures that their message is always relevant
to their communities.”
Cathy Mann from Submarine Museum in Holbrook said ‘This is an
amazing project and great opportunity to allow us to highlight our
unique objects. I welcome everyone to follow the Diversity trail.’
The Diversity Pop Up Museum will be unveiled during the afternoon
session of Keeping It Real 2017 Conference at Retro Lane Café,
Albury on Tuesday 1 August 2017.
For more information on Diversity go to:
visitgreaterhume.com.au/explore/toursandtrails/diversitytrail
Rainfall readings
2008 Total 384.20 mm
2009 Total 448.90 mm
2010 Total 679.50 mm
2011 Total 787.50 mm
2012 Total 709.45 mm
2013 Total 474.61 mm
2014 Total 519.077 mm
2015 Total 770.385 mm
January 2016 — 113.06 mm
February — 5.00 mm
March — 56.55 mm
April — 15.56 mm
May — 151.71 mm
June — 105.93 mm
July — 83.45 mm
August — 76.14 mm
September — 135.55 mm
October — 60.75 mm
November — 42.6 mm
December — 20.62 mm
— 866.92 mm
January 2017 — 37.77 mm
February — 12.40 mm
March — 38.95 mm
April — 51.80 mm
May — 54.85 mm
June — 3.55 mm
July 3 — 69.82 mm
August 3
August 4
August 6
August 7
August 15
August 16
August 17
August 18
August 27
— 16.50 mm
— 5.00 mm
— 8.00 mm
— 10.75 mm
— 27.00 mm
— 4.25 mm
— 5.50 mm
— 2.50 mm
— 1.50 mm
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BAPTIST
Church service times
UNITING
anglican
PRESBYTERIAN
Walla Walla - 1st, 2nd, 3rd
4th Sunday. The Churches
Community Services
- 9.30 am Kids’ Program
- Every Sunday - 9.30 am.
Corowa Baptist Church
Sunday at 10.00 am.
Our Lady of Sorrows
Albury Street Holbrook
Saturday Vigil 1st Sunday
- 6.30 pm 2nd Sunday
- 8.00 am Saturday Vigil
3rd Sunday - 6.30 pm 4th
Sunday - 10.00 am.
5th Sunday - 10.00 am
Corowa ST MARY’S and
ST PIUS X, Coreen Mass:
Saturday 6.30 pm Sunday
9.00 am Weekdays Always
check.
St Pius X, Coreen 10.45
am 1st and 3rd Sundays
of month.
Howlong - 1st, 3rd, 5th,
Saturday - 6.00 pm Vigil
- 9.00 am - 2nd and 4th
Sunday.
Walbundrie - 1st, 3rd, 5th
Sunday - 9.00 am.
Rand - 2nd and 4th Saturday
- 6.00 pm Vigil (7.00
pm Daylight Savings
time).
Walla Walla - 1st, 4th Sundays
6.00 pm.
Culcairn - 1st, 4th Sunday
8.00 am 2nd, 3rd, 5th Sunday
10.00 am.
Jindera - Mass times Sunday
9.00 am Confessions
Sunday 8.30 am.
Henty - 2nd, 4th Saturday
Vigil - 6.30 pm 1st Sunday
- 10.00 am 3rd, 5th Sunday
8.00 am.
1st, 3rd & 5th Sunday
Lockhart Sat., Vigil Mass
6.00 pm
Urana Sunday 8.00 am
Oaklands Sunday 10.00
am
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CATHOLIC
Calvary Uniting Church
Corowa 9.30 am Sunday.
Rutherglen 9.30 am Sunday.
Howlong 9.00 am Sunday.
Chiltern 2nd and 4th Sunday
11.00 am.
Culcairn 3rd, 4th, 5th Sunday
9.30 am.
Henty 1st, 2nd Sunday
9.30 am
Holbrook Sunday 9.30
am.
Urana 022 6920 8047
LUTHERAN
Burrumbuttock - 2nd Sunday
9.00 am - 4th Sunday
11.00 am.
Walla Walla 1st, 3rd, 5th
Sunday 9.00 am 2nd, 4th
Sunday 10.30 am.
Alma Park 1st, 3rd, 5th
Sunday 10.30 am 2nd, 4th
Sunday 9.00 am.
Jindera - Bethlehem
Church 9.00 am. Adams
Street Jindera.
St Johns Chapel Sunday
10.30 am.
Culcairn 1st, 2nd, 4th
Sunday 8.30 am 3rd Sunday
10.30 am 5th Sunday
is usually a Parish Service
check for time and location.
Gerogery West -
Corowa - St Andrew’s 2nd,
4th, 5th Sunday 9.00 am.
Saturday winter 5.00 pm
Saturday summer 7.00
pm.
Holbrook - St Paul’s Sunday
9.30 am Wednesday
9.30 am.
Woomargama St Marks
2nd Sunday 11.15 am.
Holbrook Village Hostel
1st, 3rd Monday 10.30
am.
Holbrook Hospital, Harry
Jarvis Wing 2nd, 4th Monday
10.30 am.
Corowa - St Johns Sunday
9.30 am Holy Communion
2nd Sunday morning
prayer.
Karinya Aged Care 3rd Friday
10.00 am.
Bungowannah St Marks
2nd Sunday 10.00 am.
Buraja All Saints Frequent
celebrations.
Rand St Matthews 2nd
Sunday 8.00 am.
Morven St Peters 5th
Sunday 11.00 am.
Culcairn 1st Sunday Eucharist
9.30 am 2nd, 3rd,
4th Sunday 9.30 am MP
(LLM).
Jindera St Pauls Sunday
10.30 am.
St Marks 2nd Sunday
10.00 am.
Childrens Church 1st Sunday.
Howlong St Thomas 1st,
2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th Sundays
8.00 am.
Lockhart St Aidan’s Sunday
9.00 am
Boree Creek St Oswald’s
02 6920 5549
Corowa Sunday 9.30 am
includes childrens church
and morning tea afterwards.
Coreen 1st Sunday 5.00
pm.
Balldale 3rd Sunday 5.00
pm.
OTHER
Culcairn - Harvestlands
Church Sunday 10.00 am.
The Living Word Fellowship,
Sportsground Pavilion
Sunday 5.00 pm winter,
6.00 pm summer.
Corowa Riverlife Church
Sunday 10.00 am Corowa
Public School.

Greater Hume Shire
SEPTEMBER 2017
01 Tax Help 2017
06 Digital Marketing and Solar PV Business Forum,
Jindera
07 Walla Walla Buy, Swap & Sell
08 Tax Help 2017
15 Tax Help 2017
16 Hume Football and Netball League Grandfinal
Walbundrie
19 Henty Machinery Field Days
21 Culcairn Red Cross Craft Shop Market Day
21 Nature Playtime in Holbrook
22 Free Hearing Checks, Culcairn Library
22 Tax Help 2017
23 Holbrook Markets by the Sub
29 Pop The Top Festival
29 Tax Help 2017
30 Culcairn Agricultural Show and Sheep Shearing
Competition
Lester & Son
Funeral Directors
A tradition of personal, professional care since 1907
Andrew Harbick & Darren Eddy
359 Wantigong St 49 Thomas Mitchell Dr
Albury
Wodonga
6040 5066 6056 1700
www.lesterandson.com.au
All Hours • All Areas • Pre-planned Funerals Available
Federation Council
SEPTEMBER 2017
Saturday 5 August to Saturday 7 April 2018, Music
on the Murray at St Leonards Vineyard
Sunday 4 June to Sunday 3 December 2017
Corowa Rotary Federation Farmers and Variety
Market
Sunday 13 August to Sunday 10 June 2018,
Corowa Rutherglen Farmers Market
Friday 1 September to Saturday 30 September
2017, Corowa Maree Castles Limestone Sculpture
Exhibition
3 Father’s Day at St Leonards Vineyard, Steak on
a Plate
3 Father’s Day Lunch Jones Winery restaurant
8 to 9 Corowa RSL Rock ‘n’ Roll Festival
9 Federation Council elections
15 Oranges & Lemons Cooking Class Corowa
Pickled Sisters
23 Pfeiffer Wines Rutherglen Spring Farmers
Market
28 September to 1 October Rutherglen Wine
Show Corowa
30 September to 1 October Pfeiffer Wines
Rutherglen Scarecrows Sausages and Shiraz
Festival Corowa
Federation Council news
Federation Council would like to congratulate
the following winners of the 2017 Tourism Treasure
Trail:
- Urana Aquatic Centre Stay and Ski Package*:
2 nights’ accommodation in a family cabin at the
Urana Aquatic Centre, kayak and bike hire, food
hamper and an activity pack: Tamara Nixon.
- A round for 2 at the Howlong Golf Resort*: 9
holes for 2 people with car t plus $100 restaurant
voucher: Joe Brooks.
- Family Movie Package at the Yarrawonga*:
Mulwala Golf Resort* - 5 movie tickets plus $100
food and drink voucher: Megan Dunn.
- 3x Local Produce Hampers: Produce including
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Federation Council news
Burrumbuttock Public School
Paradise Pickles from Morundah, Lou Mars Produce
Wahgunyah, Beechworth Honey, Murray
River Salt,
Corowa Chocolate Factory Freckles and more:
Rebecca Wignall, Shannon Le Lievre and Catherine
Quonoey.
Council would also like to thank everyone who
participated in this year’s Tourism Treasure Trail
event.
Brocklesby Public School
THE next P&C meeting
will be held on Tuesday
12th September at
6.30pm. All invited to
attend.
IN celebration of education week the Waratah
room students demonstrated their persuasive
writing skills and passed the knowledge onto
their families.
Culcairn Public School
A big thank you to everyone who attended our
Education Week Open Classroom and activities
afternoon. We enjoyed having you join us for our
Team Building project, where students had to
use their engineering skills to build the strongest
bridge from only fifty straws and some masking
tape. This was a lot of fun and we had three
groups build particularly strong designs.
We have continued our learning on the Australian
Government. Please look out for related pieces on
the news that you can discuss with your child at
home to further their knowledge.
THANK You So Much
WE had art and I had fun. We had a video and got
a sticker. We did some planting and had lunch.
We looked for puppets.
They were in the trees and on the ground.
by Harry
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A big thank you to the P&C for their recent donation
to our school. The funds will be used to
purchase 10 more laptops. We now have a large
number of laptops and desktop computers in the
school, which greatly benefits our students.

Business Forum
Want to grow your business digitally?
Learn about Solar PV for business or farm
including Henty Electrician and IGA
Jindera case studies
Akash Malik
Digital expert
Event
Program
Wednesday, 6 September 2017 4pm to 7.30pm
Jindera Community Hub, 83 Urana Street. Supper and drinks provided
Session One: Digital Marketing 4.00pm to 6.00pm
Explore digital marketing in non-technical terms and learn skills to develop an e-commerce strategy
Supper 6.00 pm to 6.15pm. Light supper and drinks provided
Session Two: Solar PV for business 6.15pm to 7.00pm
Find out how your business can benefit from solar at a free information session presented by NSW
Office of Environment & Heritage
Cost / RSVP
Cost Free, but RSVP preferred by 5pm Tuesday, 5 September 2017 to:
Marg Killalea T: 6036 0100 E: mkillalea@greaterhume.nsw.gov.au
Phoebe Gulliver T: 6036 3181 E: phoebegulliver@holbrooklandcare.org.au
Learn about installing solar to reduce your operating costs
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Billabong High School
YEAR 12 Graduation Dinner: 9th November
On Thursday the 9th of November, Year 12 and
invited guests will celebrate the completion of 13
years of schooling at the Commercial Club Albury.
A note has been handed out to Year 12 students
and they are reminded that the reply and payment
is due by Monday the 4th of September.
Save the Date: Year 12 Graduation Assembly on
Friday 22nd September at 10.15am. All parents/
caregivers are welcome to attend this special occasion.
Morning tea will be provided after the assembly.
Corowa Public School
1 September Riverina Athletics
5 Little Learners 12:30-3pm
11 Mufti Day
12 School Photos Little Learners 12:30-3pm
19 Little Learners 12:30-3pm
20 Science Expo
Corowa South Public School
KINDERGARTEN Celebrates 100 Days of Learning!
Gerogery Public School
1 September Mobile Library Visit – 3pm – 3:45pm.
5 Vicarious Trauma In Service –Mr B attending.
6 L3 training @ Lavington P.S. 12:30pm – 3:30pm.
Mr B attending.
12 Sept – 19 Oct Mrs Giese on Long Service
Leave.
13 – 15 Small Schools’ Conference – Mr B attending.
15 Mobile Library Visit – 3pm – 3:45pm.
15 Full Day @ Billabong High school?
19 International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Dress Up.
22 Last Day Term 3.
9 First day of Term 4 for staff and students.
13 Super 8’s Cricket @ Culcairn.
NAIDOC Public Speaking
On Thursday 10th August Charlotte Colman, Orion
Whittaker, Oliver Bates and Benji Hanrahan
participated in the NAIDOC Public Speaking Competition
at James Fallon High School.
The students discussed the matter of “Our Learning
Matters”. Each participant spoke to the best
of their ability and they are commended on their
efforts.
All students were presented with a participation
award and a NAIDOC badge that they wore proudly.
Congratulations to everyone!
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JAXON, displaying maturity in his willingness to
catch up on work in his own time

History gem in the Riverina
RECENTLY Tim Fischer
AC visited the Urana
Court House Museum,
deposited a collection
of historic maps and
gave a framed photo of
a famous rail meeting
held in Oaklands..
He also met with Jenny
Hearn and saw the displays.
Mr Fischer said the
Urana Court House Museum
has greatly expanded
and improved
with a touch of polish
in the last decade and
deserves full support.
“This is the building
where Australia’s greatest
citizen General,
John Monash appeared
in Land Board proceedings
in 1897, the only
time he led a case of
this kind, the following
caption gives the background,
could I suggest
to be placed near his
portrait in due course”.
Mr Fischer said.
“In 1897, Sir John
Monash having graduated
from Melbourne
University with degrees
in law, arts and engineering
returned to
Jerilderie to gather evidence
to represent the
Billabong Creek downstream
water users.
“‘Monash had grown up
in Jerilderie and armed
with three degrees soon
became sought after
as an expert witness in
water matters and as a
legal advocate”.
Mr Fischer said ‘Jerilderie
water users
were objecting to the
large weirs at Coonong
Station that the Mc-
Caughey family had established.
“The case went initially
to the Land Board
sitting at Urana Court
House, a loaded compromise
was ordered
by the Land Board that
Monash said would
still be injurious to the
downstream water users,
so he led an appeal
to the NSW Supreme
Court in Sydney.”. he
said.
“The court ruled in
December 1897 outright
against the Mc-
Caugheys and for those
downstream. Monash
was a hero as a result
downstream, even
the McCaugheys had
both sides out to their
Sydney residence for
a drink after the decision
but later took their
big irrigation plans to
Tralee on the Darling
River.
“Long serving Mayor of
Urana, Councillor Ian
Coghill maintained that
this decision was a major
blow for Urana’s economic
development at
that time, indeed it was
but it was also a gain
for those downstream
and for the growing reputation
of the capabilities
of Sir John Monash
who 20 years later
greatly helped turn the
tide to victory on the
Western Front’’.
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fathers day feast
HUGE SMORGASBOARD LUNCH
LIVE MUSIC WITH GROOVEYARD HAMMOND COMBO
12.30PM START - BOOKING REQUIRED
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02 6036 5211

Henty Public School
Holbrook Public School
COMMANDER HOLBROOK SCHOLARSHIP
Entry forms for the Commander Holbrook Scholarship
are due in by Friday, 1 September 2017.
Fri 1 Sep • Riverina Athletics Carnival • Assembly
at 12:40 pm run by the Kindergarten class.
Tues 5th 9.45 - 10.45 am Kindergarten orientation
day, treasure hunt.
Thursday 14th Sept., 1.00 pm and 7.00 pm and
Friday 15th Sept at 7.00 pm Holbrook this is your
life; a very loose history. Whole school performance.
Tickets $5 each.
September
Wed 6th: P&C Meeting - 5.30pm
Mon 11th: Full Gala Dress Rehearsal
Tue 12th: Gala Night
19th - 21st: HMFD
Holbrook Public School
Holbrook
01 Doodle Cooma Swamp Open Day
01 Tax Help 2017
05 Meet Scott Whitaker, author Railway Hotels
of Australia
06 Digital Marketing and Solar PV Business
Forum, Jindera
07 Walla Walla Buy, Swap & Sell
08 Ageing With Grace
08 Tax Help 2017
13 Gum Swamp Adventure - Walla Walla Public
School Community Event
15 Tax Help 2017
16 Hume Football and Netball League Grandfinal
Walbundrie
19 Henty Machinery Field Days
21 Culcairn Red Cross Craft Shop Market Day
21 Nature Playtime in Holbrook
22 Free Hearing Checks, Culcairn Library
22 Tax Help 2017
23 Holbrook Markets by the Sub
25 Youth Holiday Event @ Holbrook Sporting
Ground
29 Pop The Top Festival
29 Tax Help 2017
30 Culcairn Agricultural Show and Sheep Shearing
Competition
Howlong Public School
KINDERGARTEN Tic Tac Toe with hoops and bean
bags.
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Howlong Public School
St. John’s Lutheran School
FRIDAY 1 September
Father’s Day Breakfast Fathers/Grandfathers/
Special Friend welcome from 6.30am for breakfast.
Bacon and egg sandwiches with juice/tea/
coffee.
Friday 1 September
1/2C Oolong Students walk to Oolong Hostel to
share stories with the residents.
Book Week Celebrations at HPS
Book Fair Open Monday 4 September
- 8.30am - 11.00am & 2.00pm - 4.30pm
Book Week Parade Thursday 7th September
9.30am under the COLA
- Students can come dressed up as their favourite
book character.
Friday 8 September KN Assembly 1.15pm
Seedlings Taster Session
Thurs 14 - Fri 15 September Year3/4 Excursion
Friday 15 September KN Oolong
Friday 22 September Footy Colours Day
1/2C Assembly 2.25pm
MICHAEL SALMON
Last Monday we were entertained with author,
illustrator and entertainer Michael Salmon who
shared with us his creativity. He certainly inspired
us and some children who went home
that night and created their own bunyips. Thank
you Harry and Toby Phegan.
Thank you to all the children who completed the
colouring competition. Everyone received a prize
for their effort.
The visit by author Michael Salmon deserves a
big thank you to Mrs Fiona Schulz, our Librarian
for organising this. It was a great opportunity for
our students to interact with a practising author
and illustrator.
1 Sept., Friday Father’s Day stall - $4
6-7.30pm little saints concert
4 9.15am Father’s Day Chapel All welcome
5 9.15am Rhythm & Rhyme
7 9.30am Storytime
10 School Sunday Chapel
11 9.15am All welcome
12 9.15am Rhythm & Rhyme
14 9.30am Storytime
17 1.00pm Year 1 Family day in the Albury Bo
tanic gardens
18 9.15am All welcome
19 9.15am Rhythm &Rhyme
21 9.30am Storytime
Premier’s reading challenge party in library
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Walla Walla
FRIDAY 1 Community Gardens at SPC 8.30am
2nd Lions newspaper pickup
3rd Father’s Day
4th Mobile library 9 am
- Mainly Music 10 am
-Carers Carelink meeting 10 am Jindera Hub
5th Social Tennis 9.30 am
6th Ladies social bowls
7th Buy, swap, sell Town hall 5-7 pm
8th Community Gardens SPC 8.30 am
- Goods & Services Auction at SPC
10th Community movie afternoon 3.30 pm at
SPC Chapel
11th Mobile library 9 am
12th Social tennis 9.30 am
Walla Walla
Seniors trip Bowling Club 9 am
13th Walla PS Gum Swamp event 4.30 pm
15th Community Gardens at SPC 8.30am
18th Mobile library 9 am
- Mainly Music 10 am
19th-Social tennis 9.30 am
20th Ladies social bowls
- Newsletter deadline
22nd Community Gardens at SPC 8.30 am
25th Mobile library 9 am
26th-Social tennis 9.30 am
- Friends of Bi-Cent Park 11.30 am
27th Red Cross meeting 2 pm Baptist Hall
29th Community Gardens at SPC 8.30 am
30th Trivia night 7.30 pm Walla Hall
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Jindera
JINDERA Tennis Club 2017/18
Jindera Tennis Club is looking for players of all
levels and ages
Jindera Tennis Club is the largest tennis club
within the Hume Tennis Association with teams
in all grades allowing players to play at a level
that suits their ability whilst having fun within a
great social and family atmosphere.
We are looking to hear from students and parents
that are interested in playing, whether you’re just
starting out or a seasoned tennis player we would
love to have you join our club.
If you are interested in playing Saturday tennis
this coming season, please give us a call on 0424
179 051 or email jasnar007@gmail.com .
Jason Steinke – Jindera Tennis Club
“Boys from the Bush” is a camp designed to
give boys the opportunity to experience life in
the “Bush”. The camp is run by Adam DeMamiel,
Richard Leahy and Tim Sanson. The 5 day camp
gives only 10 boys the opportunity to do a variety
of tasks/activities that are unique to living in the
country. Our core camp values are ‘engagement,
resilience & community”.
Camp Dates –September 25th—29th
Contact details 0414 404 250/0405 111 884
www.boystothebush.com.au
Jindera Public School
Morven
HEAD along to Round Hill Hotel on Sunday 3rd
September, Father’s Day Feast 12.30 pm start.
Live music, Smorgasboard Lunch. Bookings essential,
contact Jo 02 6036 5211
MORVEN is a tiny hamlet which sits beside the
Billabong Creek providing a vegetated wildlife
corridor and pleasant outlook from the historic
Morven Hotel.
Morven was one of the oldest licensed Cobb &
Co coach stations in NSW and was a stopping
place for the changing and resting of the horses
before crossing the Billabong Creek on the
journey between Wagga Wagga and Albury. The
remains of the old stables can still be seen next
to the Hotel.
Culcairn Public School
SEPTEMBER 1 Dad’s Day breakfast 8.30am in
the school hall. All dads, granddads, uncles etc.,
are invited to join us for this special breakfast.
4-7TH SEPTEMBER
THEME: Escape to Everywhere (with books)
Book Week is celebrated nationwide. It is organised
by The Children’s Council of Australia to
Celebrate Australian Children’s literature. There
are five categories in the CBCA Book of the Year
awards and in each category; there are six short
listed books. In Book Week, one book is selected
as the winner from each category. Jindera Public
School will be celebrating Book Week between
the 4- 7 th September.(WK 8)
On the 6th September, a local author Susan Berran
is coming to conduct workshops with the students
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Culcairn Public School P&C Association Twilight
markets Friday 10th November 2017
5:00pm - 8:00pm.
Class 5-6
Our first session of the Shine and Strength Program
has commenced with two more sessions to
go. Students have been enjoying our Netball sessions
and are learning the latest rules and skills
for their game. Many students are playing Netball
or Football at the Bernie O’Connor Carnival at
Yerong Creek.

Mulwala Public School
Savernake Public School
1 Footy colours day Father’s day stall
2/3 Father’s Day
6 9 – 11 Future Buddies
8 2 pm assembly
11 Student lead interviews
12 Student lead interviews
13 Student lead interviews 9-11 future Buddies
14 Student lead interviews
18 Student lead interview
19 Student lead interviews
20 School photos Student lead interviews
9-11 future Buddies
21 Student lead interviews
22 Blue Light disco
ON Friday the 11th August 22 students went to
the Finley Zone athletics carnival in Jerilderie. Everyone
participated in the events they made it in.
All the children gave it their best shot. There were
some fast people there. They were very tough to
beat.
The fastest 100m time was 14 seconds, which
was run by Lenny from Finley.
IN the classroom - Science: Looking at Animal
Hairs and Plants under the microscope.
Finley Zone PSSA Athletics Carnival:
Last Friday we had 6 of our primary students representing
our school and the Small Schools at the
Finley Zone PSSA Athletics Carnival at Jerilderie.
The children had a very successful day with many
improving their times and distances from the previous
carnival.
As yet we are not sure if any of our students will
be eligible for the Riverina Carnival which is to be
held in Albury on 2nd September.
Walla Walla Public School
INTER School -Tony Locke Shield
Bailey Watkins and James Heir represented Walla
Walla PS in the Walbundrie Small Schools’ AFL
team for the Tony Lockett Shield.
The competition was very tough on the day, but
Mr Scott reported that the boys played well as a
team and showed determination throughout.
Congratulations boys, we are proud of your efforts.
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Woomargama
Woomargama’s local community members have
undertaken a ‘re-birding’ project to revegetate
parts of the creek and common for nature conservation.
The Woomargama National Park is located close
to the town and is the largest protected area
west of the Great Dividing Range in south-eastern
NSW. The park contains the largest remnants
of box woodlands on the South-West Slopes and
is a haven for a large number of threatened and
endangered flora and fauna such as the Regent
Honeyeater, Swift Parrot, Powerful Owl, Brown
Toad and Carpet Python. It’s also home to the
very rare Acacia Phasmoides Wattle. The park is
open to visitors and offers walking trails and lookouts.
The Woomargama National Park Volunteer Working
Group works with Ranger Dave Pearce to implement
some of the strategies outlined in the
“Woomargama National Park and Reserve Management
Plan”. Some of these activities include
surveying and monitoring threatened species,
control of introduced plants; bush restoration &
planting, educational walk and talks on wildflower
and bird identification.
18/02/2017 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM PLEASANT HILLS
Patch Workers Group meet at the Pleasant Hills
Hall - 9:30 - 3:30.
BOWNA, CARABOST, COOKARDINIA, LANKEYS
CREEK, MULLENGANDRA, TALMALMO, and
WYMAH offer small communities with their own
unique characteristics and history and are supported
by active rural communities.
Major new measures to help combat
rare cancers
THE Turnbull Government
is supporting major
new initiatives that will
improve access to clinical
trials, particularly for
people with rare cancers
including children.
AIM BRAIN is new genetic
testing that aims to
transform brain tumour
classification, treatment
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and ultimately the survival
of children with brain
cancer.
I am delighted to announce
that Australian
kids will have access
to this from 31 October
2017.
Through AIM BRAIN, Australian
children will have
access to international
Major new measures to help combat
rare cancers
research collaborations
of paediatric brain cancer
led by the Australian New
Zealand Children’s Haematology
and Oncology
Group.
We’re building technical
and research capacity in
Australia to undertake
molecular diagnostic
profiling of children with
brain cancer to refine diagnosis
of a tumour and
tailor personal treatment.
This helps provide kids
with better and targeted
treatments for cancer,
and helps avoid unnecessary
treatments that
won’t work for a particular
patient.
Cancer represents Australia’s
largest burden of
disease and is the leading
cause of death from
disease in Australian children.
Brain cancer disproportionally
affects young
people, killing more people
under 25 years in
Australia than any other
cancer and the five year
relative survival rate is
low, at around 22 per cent.
The AIM BRAIN fouryear
study will be funded
as part of $79 million
for cancer research announced
in the Budget
and will also be co-funded
by the Robert Connor
Dawes Foundation.
Today we’re also announcing
that funding of
$13 million is now available
for competitive research
grants from the
Medical Research Future
Fund.
The new research grant
program is designed to
boost clinical trial and
registry activity with priority
given to under-researched
health priorities,
such as rare cancers and
rare diseases.
Brain cancer research is
critical to improving survival
rates and outcomes
for those kids and adults
suffering from brain cancer,
their carers, families
and communities.
Clinical trials benefit patients,
improve health outcomes
and advance medical
knowledge.
Our $20 billion Medical
Research Future Fund
is a clear demonstration
of our commitment to
supporting Australian researchers
in their quest to
make the next major medical
breakthrough.
These two major announcements
come
ahead of a Brain Cancer
Research Roundtable
which I am hosting in Melbourne
today.
I am looking forward to
meeting with individuals
and families impacted
by brain cancer and their
advocates, leading researchers
and clinicians
and potential funders.
This is an important discussion
that will identify
further research investment
opportunities that
can make an immediate
and lasting impact
on brain cancer survival
rates.

Red Meat Advisory Council pushes back against ACCC
recommendations for reform in livestock saleyards
THE Senate Rural Affairs Committee
is investigating claims
of anti-competitive behaviour in
livestock saleyards.
The Red Meat Advisory Council
(RMAC) has pushed back
against sweeping recommendations
designed to improved
transparency and accountability
in the livestock industry, and
says it is not the right organisation
to drive that change.
The Australian Competition and
Consumer Commission (ACCC)
handed down recommendations
for the red meat industry
five months ago, and tasked the
council with overseeing the implementation
of those reforms.
RMAC’s members are the peak
bodies representing each
branch of the red meat industry,
from producers and processors,
to lot feeders and live exporters.
But its chairman Don Mackay
told the Senate red meat inquiry
that the ACCC did not consult
his organisation before giving
it responsibility for implementing
the reforms, and that RMAC
disd not want the job.
“That’s not the role we see ourselves
doing,” he said.
“We will have a role from an industry
perspective, but … I don’t
think we’re the correct organisation
[to implement the ACCC
reforms].”
But despite his concerned, Mr
Mackay told the Senate he never
raised those concerns directly
with the ACCC in the five
months since its report was
handed down.
“No. They have not contacted
us either. There has been no
contact,” he told Victorian Senator
Bridget McKenzie, who later
said she was “gobsmacked” by
the exchange.
Industry says dispute resolution
options exist
The ACCC and RMAC will meet
next week for the first time since
the report was handed down, to
discuss progress.
Mr Mackay also pushed back
against the need for reforms
proposed by the ACCC, particularly
around the creation of a
clear dispute resolution mechanism
for disgruntled buyers and
sellers.
He told senators that those
mechanisms already existed,
but conceded those were not
well known among the producers
who might otherwise want
to use them.
In inquiry hearings that began
more than two years ago, senators
on the Rural Affairs Committee
have frequently been visibly
frustrated by what they have
called out as a lack of progress
and an unwillingness of industry
leaders to acknowledge there is
a problem.
Senator O’Sullivan calls for
changes
Queensland Senator Barry O’Sullivan
warned that the committee
may consider recommending a
mandatory code of conduct for
buyers and sellers, if industry
could not get its own house in
order, although he said that was
not his preference.
Senator O’Sullivan warned the
RMAC representatives that the
committee was not prepared to
back down.
“There needs to be significant
changes,” he told Wednesday
night’s hearing.
“We think there is behaviour
there that is completely inappropriate,
bordering on collusion,
certainly anti-competitive.
“Something has to happen.”The
grown-ups in the industry can
create a regulatory environment,
a cultural environment, to fix the
problems where we think, ok,
those mechanisms will work. Or,
we’ll do it. We’ll recommend that
government do it.”
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Cashless kids: Is tap-and-go technology
promoting financial illiteracy?
IT is a tap-and-go generation,
where school
tuckshops even accept
plastic cards, fuelling
financial illiteracy in
kids, with some already
clueless of the perils of
credit card debt.
“It’s buy now, pay later,
it’s interest-free terms,”
chief executive of notfor-profit
Financial Basics
Foundation Katrina
Birch said.
“The fact that credit is
so readily available to
young people, there’s a
huge risk for the level of
debt they could get into
early on in their life.”
The organisation provides
free programs
and resources for
teachers, to help make
teenagers more money
savvy.
Ms Birch said a new survey
of 1,100 students
from high schools
around the country,
who have participated
in their programs,
suggested most were
confused about credit
cards.
It found more than half
the students believed
it would take less than
three years to pay off a
$2,000 credit card debt
at an 18 per cent interest
rate, the minimum
repayment.
Ms McClatchey incorporates financial literacy into
her classes.
It would actually take
more than 15 years.
When asked about interest-free
loans, just
under one in five students
thought there
was no advantage in
making any repayments
until the end
of the interest-free
period, and one-third
of students thought
there was no interest
charged on outstanding
balances at the
end of the interest-free
period.
Even more concerning,
85 per cent of students
thought they had a reasonable
understanding
of how credit worked.
“There was a huge difference
between their
confidence around
what they thought they
knew and the reality of
what they did know,”
Ms Birch said.
She said in a cashless
world, with online shopping
on the rise, young
people were increasingly
at risk of financial
failure.
“There are so few barriers
to spending, we’re
opening up young people
to the possibility of
getting into quite difficult
financial situations
down the track,” she
said.
The Australian Securities
and Investments
Commission’s Laura
Higgins heads financial
literacy programs,
including a roll-out into
schools and its Money
Smart website.
She said money had become
invisible as internet
banking and credit
and debit card use increased,
but teaching
moments where parents
could discuss
money with their children
had decreased.
“You miss those conversations
that you
might have had in the
past around kids, seeing
money passing
hands and understanding
what 50 cents might
have bought,” she adds.
Natalie McClatchey
teaches financial literacy
to her business
studies students at
Mansfield State High
School on Brisbane’s
south-east.
“With my own children,
I see that there’s this
concept that groceries
are free — you tap and
go you walk away with
a load full and you haven’t
paid a cent for it,”
she said.
“It’s really important to
give kids that knowledge
and understanding
of money isn’t free,
it doesn’t really grow
on trees.”
Her students are preparing
to take part in a
national online competition
run by the Financial
Basics Foundation
that uses a game called

Lankeys Creek hall
Jayden Liu-Batista and James Dunlop enjoy lunch
together at Mansfield State High School.
ESSI Money Challenge
to simulate real-life financial
decisions.
They are learning that
wise financial choices
can set them up for life,
and bad choices can
send them broke.
Ms McClatchey said it
was a fun program that
was paying dividends
for students.
“You see in their assessments,
where
they’re making these
quite astute decisions
and choosing not to
use a credit card or
making recommendations
to different shoppers
and spenders,” she
said.
Jayden Liu-Batista, 14,
said he was already
ahead.
“Budgeting is probably
the key thing we’ve
learned, so you don’t
fall in debt,” he said.
Year nine classmate
James Dunlop agreed:
“I’m earning as well
from a job that I’ve
got and this has really
helped with managing
what goes out and
comes in.”
Suncorp’s David Carter
said his organisation
supported the program
because improvements
in financial literacy
were critical to wellbeing.
“Being wealthy financially
is not the end
game in life,” he said.
“Understanding money
and making sure
you can control money,
rather than have money
control you, is really
important to people’s
lives.”
Katrina Birch said financial
literacy lessons
should be mandatory
for all students and reminded
parents to ensure
they regularly talked
to their kids about
finance and money.
HAS very recently undergone a bit of an internal
face-lift. With some grant money, council funds
and contributions from money raised by locals,
the main part of the hall has been relined and
insulated. The difference to the hall at this early
stage is amazing and once painted it will be even
better.
Since the start of the monthly happy hours at the
Lankeys Creek hall, the community has become
more engaged in using and now improving the facilities.
Thanks to Trevor Bagley, tradesmen and
local helpers for a job well done. Next happy hour
will be on Friday the first of September at 6.30
pm.
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New electronic NVD system delivers
supply chain benefits
• Producers can transfer
LPA NVDs, Meat Standards
Australia declarations, animal
health declarations and National
Feedlot Accreditation Scheme
documents electronically
• Producers can access
LPA eNVDs for free
• The eNVD system will
save time and improve the accuracy
of information
• It ensures the latest versions
of declarations are always
being used
Producers now have a cutting-edge
electronic platform for
the transfer of national livestock
declarations at their finger-tips.
Launched this week by the Integrity
Systems Company (a
wholly-owned subsidiary of
Meat & Livestock Australia),
the electronic National Vendor
Declaration (eNVD) will transfer
Livestock Production Assurance
(LPA) information, as well as animal
health declarations, Meat
Standards Australia (MSA) declarations
and National Feedlot
Accreditation Scheme (NFAS)
delivery documentation.
The eNVD system is a significant
step forward for the red
meat and livestock industry and
underpins Australian red meat’s
enviable reputation worldwide.
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Dr Jane Weatherley, Integrity
Systems Company Chief Executive
Officer, said the introduction
of the eNVD is a major development
in a broad program
to utilise more digital tools and
technologies in the red meat industry.
“Australian producers have a
strong reputation for delivering
quality red meat into more
than 100 international markets
backed up by food safety,
product integrity and traceability.
This is enhanced by our
world-leading systems including
the NVD,” Dr Weatherley said.
“A fully functional eNVD platform
will make life simpler for
producers. It will reduce time
spent completing livestock assurance
and health declarations
and managing historical
NVDs for auditing, reporting and
administrative purposes. It will
also ensure the latest NVD is
being used.”
The eNVD system can be used
to submit and retrieve eNVDs
for property to property movements,
or movements to feedlots,
saleyards and abattoirs.
The LPA eNVD is free and available
from the LPA Service Centre
website at https://lpa.nlis.
com.au/. For individual supply
chains that do not yet accept
eNVDs, it can just be printed
out. Its use is not compulsory
and producers can continue
to use paper NVDs which cost
$40 (GST inclusive) per book or
eDecs.
“In choosing to use it, producers
will ensure they are providing information
that meets the latest
market requirements,” Dr Weatherley
said.
“It’s not just on-farm where we’ll
see the benefits. For feedlots,
saleyards and processors, it reduces
the likelihood of inaccuracies
in information received
from producers, and makes the
information easier to store and
retrieve. Most importantly, it
provides greater visibility of the
incoming livestock’s details before
the stock arrive, enabling
more efficient management.
“Overall, it will make the sharing
of critical information simpler,
quicker and more accurate for
the entire supply chain. This
supports the promise we’re
making to our customers – and
means that we can stand by
what we sell.”
Since early 2017, producers
in specific supply chains have
been able to access the Aglive
licensed commercial software
versions of the eNVD that adheres
to the national eNVD Standards
endorsed by SAFEMEAT.
A list of licensed software providers
is available at www.mla.
com.au/envd.

$199,500 in local restoration
grant funding
Elders prepared
for opening
ALBURY City Council and Murray
Local Land Services will receive
$199,500 in NSW Government
Grants for the Wagirra Trail
Murray River Restoration Project
and habitat enhancement
for threatened squirrel gliders
in Burrumbuttock respectively,
Member for Albury, Greg Aplin
announced today.
The funding grant is part of the
NSW Government’s Restoration
and Rehabilitation Grant Program,
which encourages and
enables organisations to protect,
conserve and restore the
state’s environment.
“These grants will help protect
and preserve our local environment
for future generations,” Mr
Aplin said.
“Funding of the Wagirra Trail
Murray River Restoration Project
will assist construction of
the 14 kilometre Wagirra Trail
(a walking and cycling trail) to
coincide with exclusion of livestock
for 12 kilometres of Murray
River frontage. Weed control
and re-vegetation activities will
provide major improvement to
water quality in the Murray River.
This work will be conducted
by the Wagirra Trail Team
who are an all Aboriginal land
management and construction
team.”
“Murray Local Land Services is
delivering the Burrumbuttock
Squirrel Glider Local Area Management
Plan (LAMP) in collaboration
with agency and
community partners, to secure
the long-term viability of the
vulnerable squirrel gilder population.
This proposal adds value
to the LAMP, aiming to enhance
grassy box woodland habitat
patches to improve suitability
for squirrel gliders and other
woodland fauna by installing
nest boxes, planting and/or installation
of tree guards to protect
paddock trees, pruning and
ecological thinning of historical
revegetation sites and selective
introduction of individual food
resource trees to existing remnants
or revegetation sites.”
More than 50 grants were awarded
across NSW with 25 going
to community groups and 27
to state and local government
agencies for a range of habitat
and ecosystem restoration projects.
NSW Environment Minister Gabrielle
Upton said this year’s
grants enabled local groups to
undertake important conservation
work to improve the health
of the state’s rivers and wetlands,
control invasive species
and conserve our threatened
native plants and animals.
“The NSW Government has been
supporting local organisations
conserve the state’s diverse
bushland, wildlife and heritage
for more than two decades
through this program,” Ms Upton
said.
For more details visit: http://
www.environment.nsw.gov.au/
grants/restoration.htm
ELDERS store signage was installed
at its Walla outlet recently
in preparation for their
big opening which took place
on August 23rd.
Matt Hicks and his team were
happy with the crowd at the
meet and greet barbecue for
clients and future clients and is
looking forward to meeting the
needs of the surrounding community.
The stores opening hours are;
Monday to Friday 8.30am --
5.00pm.
Matt. m. 0409 867 574
email. matt.hicks@elders.com.
au
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Strong third quarter
Landmark wool talk
AFTER a solid run of positive
sales in the first half
of the year it was the wool
growers who took the
strong lead into the second
half of the year. After a
Blistering start to the opening
of the third quarter the
Exporters seemed to peg
back the lead but only to
the level that was opened
up by the woolgrowers earlier
in the quarter. With only
a limited bench the stockpile
seems to of ran out of
leg which can only be described
as a positive for the
woolgrowers but we still
have a long way to go as we
are only at the start of the
premiership quarter.
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The spike in the market
seems to of been contributed
to exporters been
caught short which pushed
the wool market to new historical
highs at the start of
August, once they had purchased
what they needed
the steam went out of the
market and the spirited bidding
came to an abrupt end.
With gains of over 100c one
week to losses of up to 80c
the following week it shows
us just how fickle things
are at these historical high
levels. Could it be the start
of the big push to either
drive prices back to levels
accepted by the consumer
or with a smaller than normal
offering and a very limited
supply of greasy stock
mean that this is the level
we will see until later in the
last quarter of the year?
With all merino indicators
increasing their value, it
was the super fine and the
strong merino sectors that
fared best. 17 micron and
finer are still seeing plenty
of support with most fleece
lines achieving above 2280
clean or the 98th percentile,
the 18 micron indicator
increasing to 2160c +600c
on the same period as last
year. 19 micron fleece is
still maintaining its level
above the 1850c level, just
above the 10 year average.
The broader micron fleece
21 and 22micron remain
very strong trading around
the 1630 and 1530ac mark;
these levels are still above
the 100th percentile and
both up close to 100 cents
on the July level. Meri-

no skirtings continue to
maintaining the high levels
achieved over the past
couple of months almost
achieving near fleece prices.
Cardings have started
to ease, sliding 60c but still
are holding onto the high
levels achieved over the
past 6 months.
The Crossbred fleece indicators
continue to increase
their value. The crossbred
fleece 25 and 26 micron
indicators are still holding
onto historical high levels
with prices maintaining
above the 95th percentile.
The opening sales in August
saw the broader fleece
indicators 28 and 30 micron
pushing back above 880
and 660 clean +110c on
the July level. Still worthy
to note that at these levels
these types remain above
the 90th percentile +270c
on the 10 year average.
Whether you have one
sheep or a thousand, Please
feel free to give me a call if
you would like some advice
on wool preparation
to maximise your profit,
general breeding and
classing needs or just
want to tidy up your wool
shed and sell those few
odds and ends. Until next
month, Your Local Wool
Area Manager, Landmark
Albury, Holbrook and
Corowa.
David Johnson, 0429339373
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Nissan X-Trail ST CVT
WHAT were we driving?
A Nissan X-Trail ST
CVT courtesy Nissan
Australia
How much was it?
Darryl Starr
$30,490 plus on-road
costs
Why were we driving it?
Early this year Nissan
updated its big-selling
X-Trail range, boosting
technology and safety,
adding a new 2-litre
turbo-diesel engine and
additional equipment,
and reviving its exterior
and interior styling.
Now looking more like
a Pathfinder mini-me
in more ways than one
- including the duplication
of model grades
- the changes are typically
Nissan-minor and
should be enough to
keep the X-Trail firmly
planted in the top five
of the SUV Medium
segment.
Or are they?
Mazda CX-3 heads
the bunch, followed
by Hyundai Tucson
and Toyota RAV4, with
X-Trail and Mitsubishi
Outlander making up
the top five.
CX-3 definitely has the
wood on the competition,
but the X-Trail remains
a firm favourite
and its avid followers
will be more than impressed
with the changes.
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Just as we were and
it was nice to spend a
week behind the wheel
of a 2.5-litre two-wheeldrive
ST five-seat variant
which is one of 10
models available, with
the choice of two and
four-wheel-drive, petrol
and diesel, and five or
seven seat configuration.
X-Trail Series II retains
all of the features that
has made it a hit with
families and empty
nesters, retirees and
fleet buyers, including
the innovative EZ Flex
Seating system and nifty
Divide-N-Hide cargo
system.
Adding Nissan’s Intelligent
Mobility technologies,
including
Intelligent Emergency
Braking with Pedestrian
Detection and Intelligent
Cruise Control,
and a motion-activated
tailgate on top-range
variants, further improves
X-Trail’s appeal.
The 106kW 2-litre four
cylinder petrol engine
and 126kW 2.5-litre
four cylinder petrol engine
are carried over,
but X-Trail gets a new
front mask with LED
daytime running lights,
new rear-end styling,
new 17 and 19-inch alloy
wheels, a flat-bottomed
steering wheel,
and a revised centre
console.
All variants except the
2-litre ST five seater are
fitted with an Xtronic
CVT (Continuously Variable
Transmission).
Available grades are
ST, ST-L and Ti, with TS
and TL grades reserved
for 2litre all-wheel-drive
diesel variants.
Where did we drive it?
Suburban streets of
Melbourne, the Hume
Freeway, our usual

hamper our search for a
look into Beechworth’s
famous - and infamous
- past.
But we were glad to get
back to town ourselves
and enjoy a hearty
home-made meal and a
steaming hot coffee at
the Beechworth Pantry
in Ford Street.
test route, and various
tracks around historic
Beechworth in North-
East Victoria
What was to see and do
along the way?
Once clear of the snarling,
crawling traffic of
the eastern suburbs
of Melbourne and with
the four-and-a-halfhour
drive from Nissan’s
Dandenong South
headquarters along
the Hume Freeway to
Albury-Wodonga behind
us, it was time
to explore roads and
tracks in our own backyard,
concentrating
mostly on the Wodonga-Beechworth
Road
and in and around the
historic gold-mining
town of Beechworth itself.
This beautifully-preserved
North-East
Victoria township became
famous during
the 1850s for one thing
- and one thing only.
Gold.
From 1852 until 1857
thousands of miners
flocked to the region
in search of a fortune
We liked the fresher styling, packaging, cabin
space, fuel economy, pricing
- and some succeeded
- and during its boom
times the town boasted
a tannery, jewellers,
boot makers, a brewery,
blacksmiths, sale
yards, hotels, schools,
a courthouse, police
barracks, stage coach
companies, a powder
magazine - and an imposing
stone-walled
prison which stands to
this day.
It is the same prison
which housed
bushranger Ned Kelly,
his mother Ellen,;
brother Dan, Steve Hart
and Joe Byrne (Kelly
gang members), and
bushranger Harry Power.
Eight executions were
carried out at the prison
between 1865 and
1881.
Robert O’Hara Burke,
leader of the ill-fated
Burke and Wills expedition,
was the town’s
Senior Inspector of Police
(the Burke Museum
in Loch Street is a must
visit), Sir Isaac Isaacs,
Australia’s first native-born
Governor-General
was schooled in
Beechworth, and resident
George B. Kerferd
became a Premier of
Victoria.
The town’s historic
precinct includes the
courthouse were Ned
Kelly was committed
to stand trial for murder,
and a telegraph
office, plus other well
preserved government
buildings of the time.
While the town itself is
full of interesting places
to see and visit, you
are also able to drive
(or walk) to most of the
old digging sites, such
as Woolshed Creek.
You can also drive
along the Gorge Road,
or creep along some of
the bush tracks which
no doubt were used as
short-cuts by miners
‘going into Beechworth
for a night out’.
With the name X-Trail
on its rump, these were
just the places we
sought out to put this
family-favourite medium
SUV through its
paces.
Wet, foggy and freezing
cold conditions did not
A separate day was
spent with the X-Trail
on our usual test
loop which passes
through other historic
gold-mining villages
and towns such as
Wooragee, Stanley and
Yackandandah.
This particular part
of North-East Victoria
oozes with history and
is well worth spending
some time seeking out
its many attractions.
Pricing/features
Our test ST 2WD 2.5-litre
petrol automatic
wore a showroom
sticker price of $30,490
(plus on-road costs)
and while the ST sits
just above the entry
2-litre ST, our Gun Metallic
X-Trail came with
a lot of standard gear.
These included 17-inch
alloy wheels, LED Daytime
Running Lights,
pushbutton ignition
and push-button lock/
unlock.
There are 10 X-Trail variants
- five two-wheeldrive
petrol, three
all-wheeldrive petrol,
and two all-wheel-drive
diesel, in ST, ST-L, Ti, TS
and TL grades.
The 2.5 ST 2WD and 2.5
ST-L two-wheel-drive
can also be had with
seven seats.
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Pricing starts from
$27,990 for the 2.0 ST
2WD five-seater, climbing
to $47,290 for the
2.0 TL AWD five-seater
diesel (all plus on-road
costs)
Other goodies fitted to
our ST included a fully-adjustable
steering
wheel with remotes for
audio, Bluetooth and
cruise control, a reversing
camera, manual
aircon, cloth seating,
leather armrests for the
doors, power windows
and exterior mirrors,
soft and hard plastic
trim, and a quality CD
AM/FM sound system,
Outside, our ST wore
Nissan’s signature
V-motion front mask, as
featured on big brother
Pathfinder.
An Advanced Driver Assist
Display between
the main instrument
dials allowed us to call
up real-time information
such as fuel economy,
distance to empty,
audio information and
navigation direction.
Engine/transmission
Our ST X-Trail was powered
by Nissan’s carry-over
2.5-litre petrol
engine that delivered
126kW/226Nm, or an
additional 20kW/26Nm
over the base 2-litre engine.
Bolted behind was a
Next Generation Xtronic
CVT, or Continuously
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Variable Transmission.
Drive was to the front
wheels.
There was also an Eco
mode which, as the
name suggests, allowed
for more frugal
motoring.
Fuel consumption
At the time of writing
the cost of a litre
of 91RON petrol in
Albury-Wodonga, which
was the X-Trail’s diet
of choice, was $1.26c/
litre.
Nissan claims an average
fuel consumption
for the ST of
7.9L/100km.
Fuel tank capacity is 60
litres.
After a week of testing
we were spot-on
with Nissan’s claim -
7.9L/100km. The two
runs along the Hume
Freeway helped out
there.
Styling/practicality
Like the Pathfinder
there is a lot to like
about the X-Trail’s
chunky styling which
has been tizzied up
ever so slightly to keep
it fresh and ever-so Nissan,
thanks to its corporate
heavy chrome
grille.
As its name suggests
there is a sense of adventure
about the masculine
styling, something
Nissan does very
well with its SUVs and
light commercials.
Our ST sat on a set of
smart-looking 17-inch
alloy wheels shod with
225/65R17 Goodyear
Assurance tyres, its
exterior door mirrors
housed additional indicators,
and the dark
of night was lit by halogen,
rather than LED,
bulbs.
The freshened interior’s
colour-co-ordination
was pleasant to the
eye, the main instruments
were big and
clear, switchgear fell
easily to reach, and the
central touch screen
was easy to navigate
around, despite only
having the basics.
We liked the start/stop
ignition button and fully-adjustable
steering
column, sunglasses
holder, soft leather door
armrests, and the centre
console cup holders
that could be chilled or
warmed depending on
the setting of the manual
airconditioning.
We easily dialled up an
agreeable driving position,
we sat on big,
comfy seats, and there
was good all-round vision
thanks to deep
windows, big exterior
mirrors, and the reversing
camera.
Unfortunately, X-Trail
makes do with an archaic
foot-operated
park brake.
There were no gripes
in the amount of cabin
space given over to
passengers and their
luggage. There was
heaps.
The second row EZ Flex
Seating system meant
the seats (ISOFIX
mountings for window
seats) could be slid forward
and their backs
lowered almost flat, allowing
for a cavernous
amount of cargo area
(an added bonus from
the seven-seat variants).
Nissan’s Divide-N-Hide
cargo system allowed
us to vary the height
of the luggage floor,
construct various partitions,
and hide items
beneath. A retractable
cargo blind covered the
lot.
The luggage area also
had four tie-down
hooks and a 12-volt
power outlet.
Under the luggage floor
unfortunately resided
a space-saver spare
wheel.
Standard cabin kit included
cup and bottle
holders for all, two 12-
volt power outlets, an
AUX outlet and USB
port, a large glove box
and lidded centre storage
box, an AM/FM radio
with CD player, and
rear ventilation outlets.
Driving
Nissan hasn’t made any
changes to the X-Trail’s
drivetrain or running
gear, therefore our ST
drove like it did before,
and that was very well.
Our drive through Melbourne’s
outer eastern
suburbs and along the
Hume Freeway was
smooth, quiet, comfortable
and without incident.

The volume-selling
2.5-litre normally-aspired
four cylinder engine
had plenty of low
to mid-range punch
and worked well with
the refined CVT auto
which, apart from a
background drone, did
not display any flaring,
particularly when we
aimed it at the Rising
Sun, a steep climb from
the rural community of
Wooragee into
Beechworth.
There was ample power
in reserve to keep
up a constant speed all
the way and the handy
amount of torque came
into its own when we
tackled some of the
steeper tracks in the
area.
Our usual test loop
from Albury-Wodonga
to Beechworth, through
Stanley, Yackandandah
and Kiewa-Tangambalanga
and return was
done in an effortless
manner, with plenty
of stability and grip
across the twisty bits,
and with no noticeable
body roll.
Even when punted
across our favourite
gravel sections the
X-Trail always felt confident,
despite our test
ST not having the luxury
of all-wheel-drive.
Its steering was well
weighted and responsive,
and the strong,
quick-acting fourwheel
disc brakes were
backed by a plethora of
driver safety aids.
The 4WD X-Trail has
a certain amount of
bush-bashing ability,
the 2WD not quite so,
but our ST had no difficulty
in scouting the
well-worn, easily identifiable
tracks of those
who descended on
Beechworth over 150
years ago to seek their
fortune.
Back from the bush
tracks and mixing it
with the hustle and
bustle of city traffic, the
ST was at home moving
off, and keeping
up with, the rest of the
traffic from the lights.
Although classed a Medium
SUV, the X-Trail’s
compact dimensions,
reasonably tight turning
circle and good allround
vision, meant it
could be easily parked
without too much hassle.
There was little to dislike
in the way it handled
itself both on the
freeway and in city traffic.
Safety
The X-Trail came with
a full complement of
driver and safety aids,
including ABS, Electronic
Brake Force Distribution,
Brake Assist,
Active Trace Control,
Active Ride Control and
Hill Start Assist, plus
front, side and curtain
airbags.
You have to step up to
the Ti to get ‘the works’,
such as Blind Spot
Warning and Lane Departure
Warning.
Ownership
X-Trail is covered by a
three-year/100,000-kilometre
warranty.
It also comes with
a three-year 24-hour
roadside assistance
program and capped
price servicing.
Will it fit in my garage?
The X-Trail could fit
in a single garage but
it would feel more at
home in a double garage
or under a double
carport.
It measured in at
4640mm in length,
1820mm in width, and
stood 1710mm tall.
Other vital statistics
Our ST boasted a
wheelbase of 2705mm,
had a turning circle
of 11.3m, a minimum
ground clearance of
210mm, and it offered a
braked towing capacity
of 1500kg.
Where do I test drive/
buy?
Albury-Wodonga:
McRae Nissan, Melbourne
Road, Wodonga
Mansfield: Martin’s Garage,
Chenery Street
Shepparton: Shepparton
Nissan, Midland
Highway
Wagga: Riverina Nissan,
Dobney Avenue
Walla Walla: Lieschke
Nissan, Commercial
Street
Wangaratta: Wangaratta
Nissan, Tone Road
Verdict
The Series II facelift
can do X-Trail no harm
and standardising autonomous
emergency
braking and keeping
prices pretty much on
hold are real winners.
Our ST looked smart,
it didn’t pretend to be
something it wasn’t,
and it had a big heart
when asked to give that
little extra.
The cabin was roomy
and flexible, it handled
and drove easily and
even in almost base ST
form came with a fair
bit of standard kit.
It is the stalwart of the
Nissan fleet and as long
as Nissan continues to
chip away improving its
X-Trail bit by bit rather
than make wholesale
changes for change
sake, it will remain in
the top five as a family
favourite.
There were a few grey
areas we discovered
but overall the X-Trail is
a vehicle hard to fault.
It is little wonder it is
Nissan’s number one
seller.
We liked the fresher
styling, packaging, cabin
space, fuel economy,
pricing
We didn’t like the
foot-operated foot
brake, some rough finishes
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Crab Stick $1.50
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Chiko Roll $2.50
Spring Roll $2.50
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(Minimum order
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