Monkey Jones Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 3/3/2011
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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While Powerplayx2 and I were on a recent caching expedition we thought that Moss Vale needs a few more caches, Powerplay had just the spot in mind and what better than one dedicated
to a infamous mayor.
There are no flowers in the garden bed right now but when there is, maybe you need to take a closer look at the ones at the back.
At times this park is wall to wall muggles, stealth will be required to avoid detection and make sure you bring a pen
The Urban Myth of Monkey Jones

Dr Henry Leighton Jones

much more than a once Moss Vale mayor!

 This park was commisioned by him in 1905 and is named in his honour. Click here for an interesting article about a man who was yet another Australian pioneer we don't ever hear much about. Its a little lengthy but well worth the time.


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The urban myth goes something like this mad scientist "Monkey Jones", obsessed with finding the secret of eternal youth, had spent the wild years between the wars transplanting monkey testicles into the scrotums of aging male human beings, thus transforming the isolated Lake Macquarie hamlet of Dora Creek into a kind of sexual Shan-gri-la, where old men at the end of their days matched sexual vigour with fresh young women.

The truth is that Leighton-Jones discovered the 'Rhesus factor' in blood agglutination years before the Rh factor was discovered and published by Landsteiner and Wiener in 1941.

Henry Leighton Jones was born in Cardiff, N.S.W. in November 1868
Died in Newcastle, N.S.W. in October 1943.

He worked as a dentist, pharmacist, physician and surgeon.

In 1916 he became a part-time Government Medical Officer as well as Chief Health Officer and Quarantine Officer in the Northern Territory. He was also Consulting Medical Officer to the Inland Mission hospitals at Pine Crek, Maranboy and Victoria River Downs

After retiring from dentistry he became very interested in the work of Russian-born Dr Serge Voronoff who was in the 1920's transplanting "monkey glands" into men at his French clinic in a bid to improve virility and longevity. Dr Jones was a what you could call a disciple of his.

Some think he was a pioneer in medicine, tissue typing, gland grafting and the first endocrinologist in Australia and some think he was a mad unethical scientist.
Read the article, do some research and I will let you decide. :)

Either way he was a mayor of Moss Vale and has a beautiful little park named in his honour.

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Decryption Key

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