Beetson

USC295_0009
A nursery was formed and built with a slab roof of split Piccabeen Palm hauled down from Eurong Scrub. Numerous men were employed. Harry Walker and family, Eltie Sharmon and Beetson were at Walkers Camp at Central Station, and clearing and felling scrub. Sharmon was foreman and had others whose names I can't recall. Later there were Wiers, McLean and Stoddarts. Bill McLean was a chemist by trade. Beetson a copperplate signwriter. By this time there were several Forestry employees - Chris Dam and family, George Holmes, Ben Harrop, Freddy Wondunna, Ken Webber, Frank Simpson, Jerry Jerome and of course Fred Epps. (Buck Geoghan had gone to War and was subsequently killed). No grog was permitted on Forestry premises in those days and it was a good place for drying out as it could be 6 - 12 months between visits to mainland. Beetson and McLean were two such.