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    REMINISCENCES - JAMES AINSWORTH

    Seventy-Five Years on the Richmond. 1847-1922. James Ainsworth's Reminiscences. Originally published in the Ballina North Coast Beacon. There are seven articles. Available for free download through Trove. Click on the image below to download the article. 

    1. Introduction - My first voyage - East Ballina - Community law - West Ballina - Emigrant Creek

    2. Bullinah - The first uplift and aftermath - Recreation - First cattle - First roads - First squatters - Original squatters - Original selections - First saw mill

    3. Pioneer cemetery - Other notable firsts - Concerning ships and shipping - William Yeager - The Masters of the bar - The first tug

    4. Some shipping disasters - The tragedy of Tallow Beach - Another Cape Byron Tragedy - The wreck of the Peony - Three months overdue - A race for tallow - The advent of steam

    5. The old skippers - The Aborigines - An East Ballina massacre

    6. Casino in the fifties - An unrehearsed incident - The Bully Blues ball - The first police

    7. The first cedar licences - The genesis of Lismore - The biggest cedar tree - Brunswick cedar - Record floods - The old hands - The romance of red cedar

    The Genesis of Lismore from Part 7.

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