Tocal History Notes

Tocal History Notes are a collection of press clippings, interviews and other material that record the history of the Tocal property and the people associated with it. The series is published occasionally as material becomes available, and only a small number of printed copies is produced. Selected volumes in the series are gradually being placed on-line, beginning with the recent issues.

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Volume XV February 2005

The Name Tocal (page 3)
Biography of William Hardy Wilson (page 5)
Hog Island (page 8)
Excursion to the Paterson (page 9)
Meeting of the Jockey Club (page 9)
Reserve for a camping ground between Paterson and Maitland (page 10)
District news (page 11)
The Paterson Bench of Magistrates (page 11)
Chinese gardeners (page 14)
Chinese industry (page 14)
Our Chinese gardeners (page 15)
Prosecuting Society (page 15)
District news (page 16)
Guygallon (page 17)
District news (page 17)

Builders (page 19)
"Peeping Tom" at Tocal (page 20)
Sales by auction (page 23)
Stock for Tocal (page 24)
The Thoroughbred Horses Goldsbrough and The Drummer (page 25)
The Harvest (page 26)
Maitland Mercury article - July 3, 1900 (page 26)
Stealing a working bullock (page 27)
Season of 1889 (page 27)
Maitland Mercury article November 6, 1905 (page 28)
Maitland Mercury article November 20, 1905 (page 28)
Among the Pastoralists and Producers (page 29)
Personalities in the Law - E A Hunt (page 33)
Ralph Mills Clarke (page 35)

St Ann's Church (page 37)
Prime Colonial Tobacco (page 37)
Hunter's River Tobacco (page 38)
Colonial Tobacco (page 38)
Imported Hereford Bulls (page 39)
The Late Mr. Charles Reynolds (page 40)
Peaceful, Pretty Paterson (page 45)
The Tocal Yearlings (page 52)
Lots 1 to 5 of the Bona Vista Estate, now part of Kalimna (page 54)

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