The Dunoon and District Gazette

When the parish of Dunoon was first divided into portions, a long straight roadway was drawn running east west to cross the main road.

I recall those days (about 1990) when the Dunoon Club had no premises of its own and the hall was used as a venue for a number of memorable dinner dances.

The Crown Lands Alienation Acts (1861) must have made a tremendous difference to the development of this State.

Dunoon Post Office (building on right) 1926

I think I can understand how the Dunoon telephone exchange came to occupy an otherwise empty residential block

Map of the end of Fraser Road Dunoon
Modified by DB Matthews 24/8/04 from an old parish map. Property boundaries show magnetic North.

I like the system whereby properties along country roads are numbered. It seems so sensible.

The following is offered as a contribution towards a history of St Dympna’s Catholic Church in Dunoon. All of the information below has been published previously in the Dunoon Gazette but it has been reproduced at the request of Mrs Veronica Shelton.

A. Friedman’s Post Office Store, James Street Dunoon. Circa 1900

In my most recent contribution on the history of North Dunoon I began by quoting from the declaration of reserve 308 on 9 December 1878 before the parish of Dunoon even had a name. That original reserve included 400 acres at the top of the rise where the Uniting Church stands and where the district water tanks are now located. I quoted the additional comment “that the land described lies partly within Forest Reserve 249 notified 15 Sep 1871”