Twin Hill Views Traditional Cache
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Black with a screw top is what you seek. Roof or seat, tank or fence its not where you think.
Cootharaba is the Gubbi Gubbi word for the hard timber they used to make waddies or nulla-nullas.
The first 227 acres of "Willow Grove" (the property directly in front of you), was selected by Joseph William Napier in 1905, with 262 adjoining acres being selected later, and another 160 acres (look left) opposite Kinmond Creek Road.
His daughter, Pansy, told of their arrival at the property in a dray and of living in a tent whilst their house was being built. Being a child, she was frightened at night for there were many dingoes in the district that would howl all night.
Other early families who settled in this immediate area were J. Tomkinson, W.H. Gray, H. Petersen, R.E. Owen, J. Heimer, D. Hartley & Nils Stjernquist.
In the summer of 1936/7, the Cootharaba area had no rain for nine months - an unusual occurrence in this coastal country. A disastrous fire in 1937 burnt many properties including Napier "s first house, and Bird"s pigs and pigsties.
The fire sounded the death knell for Henderson"s sawmill at the corner of Kinmond Creek Road, and burnt out Tom Davis"s "Bellwood" case mill, sheds, dairy and cow bales.
Both Mr and Mrs Napier were active socially, with Mr Napier being involved in many associations, including local council and the show society. On his death in 1945, a bursary was left in his memory to be awarded annually to a schoolchild at Pomona School.
Mrs Germaine Napier was instrumental in forming early Country Women"s Association branches in the shire. "Willow Grove" the first branch, met at her home which burnt down in 1937 (the house you can just see on your left is her replacement home), and the Kareewa Branch was formed soon after. Kareewa CWA had their first meeting at the home of Mrs Percy Stjernqvist about 1926.
Mr Napier objected to a proposed closure of Eastern Branch Road, so every New Year"s day until his death, he would ride his horse down the road, as it was customary that a regularly used road could not be closed to the public and fenced off.
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