This newspaper advertisement shows that Eug and Dulcie sold all their household furniture and all their farm equipment and stock. No doubt it would have cost a fortune to take with them all the belongings that people moving interstate would pack into a removalist's truck in later decades. Fancy arriving in Macksville NSW with only your clothes and personal treasures, probably some precious cutlery and pots and pans, and having to start all over again buying all the household necessaries.
It also makes me wonder what things on offer at the clearance sale were bought by my grandfather Jim - he ended up with a small Jersey cow herd and I remember a draught horse called Doll. Jim and his son (our father) Pat certainly bought Eug's property on the river flats and hills which belongs now to Pat's grandson, Rick Mahnken and his family.
And now, I am so missing my late aunt Lorna's feedback on this. Maybe it will stir memories for Eugene and Dulcie's family in Sydney. Just reading through the list of sale items demonstrates the changes in technology in the home and on the farm. Draught horses gave way to tractors swiftly and almost completely in the 1950s and 1960s. The stock listed here perfectly embodies that old label "mixed farming".
CLEARING SALE, NORTH LILYDALE. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18 (1946)
ALLAN STEWART PTY. LTD. have been favoured with instructions from Mr. E. P. Mahnken, of North Lilydale, who is leaving the state, to sell by public auction on above date, at 1 p.m. sharp
7 Jersey cross cows, in milk and due early spring
1 Jersey cross heifer, due June
3 Jersey cross heifers, due spring
1 draught mare, 8yrs., good worker
1 draught gelding, 3yrs., good worker
1 Berkshire sow due February
50 fowls and pullets
IMPLEMENTS
6 horse-power I.H.C. petrol engine, saw bench, 2 circular saws, 75 gallon Dahlia separator, 401b. concussion churn, cream cans, buckets, tandem disc, two sets harrows, S.F. plough, scarifier, chaffcutter, sledge, wheelbarrow, harness, farm tools.
FURNITURE
3-piece L.C. lounge suite, black wood oval table, sideboard, 3 blackwood chairs (dining), oak double bedstead and mattress, large wardrobe (with mirror), two dressing tables, pedestal, oak dropside cot and mattress, double iron bedstead and mattress, stretchers, wash stand, quantity good linos, hall carpet, blinds and curtains, kitchen cabinet and chairs, child's chair, two kitchen tables, couch, battery wireless set, Singer sewing machine, iron kettles, copper and stand, wash tubs, meat safe, flour, bin, and sundries.
ALSO
80 sheep, to be classed.
Advertising (1946, February 13). Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), p. 2. Retrieved July 9, 2018, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article92680710