Harold and Beryl Moss
Helen Trustum Harold was born at Murwillumbah on 17th April 1936 to parents Herb (Pat) and Doris Moss. The family lived at Wyrallah first then to Cougal and Grady’s Creek where Pat was working a bullock team around the area. It was here they lived in a tent. The family are; Audrey, Jean, Harold, Margaret, Dorothy, Earl, Norman and Peter. The Moss Family were originally from Wyrallah. An Uncle, Les Moss started the butcher shop in Wyrallah. After a few years Les left and moved to Stanthorpe. He delivered vegetables and fruit as far as Bonalbo, Woodenbong and Urbenville. The Family moved around quite a bit in fact 13 times in a few years. Each time they moved, the piano which was purchased from Sydney and delivered to Murwillumbah when they were living there, moved with them by bullock team. Doris loved the piano and her daughter Jean, can still see her playing, even when living in the tent. That piano is still in the family and with daughter, Dorothy.
Harold taken in Casino - Dec 2019
From they
Cougal,
Pat with his bullock team 10
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moved to Wilsons Creek – Huonbrook, Meeshaum Vale and Tullera (these last two were on a dairy farm’s) then on to Busby’s Flat. The children attended Busby’s Flat School which wasn’t far from the property. This is where Harold met up with the Baldwin Family. The boys Ernie, Bill, David and Norman became Harold coming onto Cleveland Crossing good friends. From there they moved to Old Bonalbo where Harold’s father Pat was still hauling timber with his bullocks. They also lived at Lower Duck Creek. Jean remembers her mother hitching up the draught horse to the spring cart and taking the children up Haystack Mountain to have lunch with him in between his log loads. Early forties the family left the Bonalbo area and moved to Tullymorgan where Pat was a cream carrier. He would also carry cane across a punt in his truck to meet the boat to be taken down the river to Harwood Sugar Mill. This spot was near the now Police Station which was getting built at the time. Situated right next to the Moss Family home was a trotting track. This was owned by Lindsay Sutherland. Every chance Harold got he was watching the training of these horses. He remembers one horse “Andy’s Quest”. One particular day when he was watching, the dogs started fighting and one of the horses kicked out and Harold received a blow to the head. He was taken to Maclean Hospital where he didn’t know anything for 3 weeks. His mother Doris sat with him all the time. While he was in hospital for over a month, he made friends with Nurse Sutherland, Lindsay’s sister, also Doctor Willard. Both were very good to him. They then moved up to Repentance Creek where Pat teamed up with his Uncle Victor and went hauling timber using a bullock team. The children attended
