The following article from the Canberra Times reports on the John Howard Lidgett Cumpston (1880-1954)(bio), first director-general of the Australian Department of Health, administrator, reformer, analyst and historian's address to the Canberra and District Historical Society in 1954. He discusses the explorations that touched the land's of the Goulburn, Yass and Limestone Plains (present day Canberra). He discusses famous explorers such as:
- John Oxley (bio),
- Charles Sturt (bio),
- John Eyre (bio),
- Hamilton Hume (bio),
- Charles Throsby (bio)
- and (possibly) Thomas Mitchell (bio).

1820's Sydney Town
The Canberra Times - 19 July 1954





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