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GUNNING  

"1974 marks the 150th anniversary of the epic Journey by Hum  

and Hovoll from Sydney to Port Phillip in 1824. Their great feat of  

exploration began where the road from Sydney ended, not far from  

Gunning. The trail they Mrked from there is not that followed  

in NSW by the present Hum Highway.  

Both Gunning and Albury have organized festivities to celebrate  

the Joprney, and hone to attract visitors and forMr residents back  

to the areas to Join the celebrations.  

Gunning, 60 miles from Canberra, has planned number of activitiea,  

culminating in procession, barbecue and dance on 19 October. Other  

attractions organized by the townspeople include variety of sporting  

activities...••  

October will see the 150th anniversary of an eoic Journey of  

discovery from what was then the farthesdt point of civilisation in  

the young colony of NSW through completely unknown territory to the  

southern coast...  

In 1821 Alexander Hamilton Hume discovered ths rich Yass Plains  

nnd took up land there..•  

Hum and Hovell's party left from Appin on October 1824, and  

followed the track from Sydney as far as Hum's property at Collingwood,  

north-east of the present township of Gunning, where the road ended.  

Today's occupants of Collingwood, Mr and Mrs Dohn EMry, are descendants  

of Hums younger brother, Dohn Kennedy Hum, who was shot dead in  

Gunning by bushrangers. The family believe the expedition left the  

property froe spot which is now imMdiately outside the rear courtyard  

of the existing Hom stead.  

Leaving Collingwood on 17 October, they followed south-easterly  

lino, crossing the Mundoonen range between Gunning and Yass, and  

reaching the banks of the Murrumbidgee close to Goodhope, about 25th  

October 1824...  

The expedition's link with our local ares has been reinforced  

lately with the proposed building of new section of highway between  

Collector and Tueut. If this coms about, the eein road could then  

follow alaoat identically the route taken by Hum and Howell on their  

historic Journey 150 years ego."  

(Extract free Dan Hodgkinson, "An Expedition South 150 vaars tgo"  

in Canberra District Historical Society Newsletter, No 158,  

November 1974, 11-14.)  

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