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1884, the adjoining block (Section 2 Lot 5) had been granted to Lush.<br />
However, in October 1885 Lush transferred Section 2 Lot 5 to W.C.<br />
Palmer (NSWRG1).<br />
<strong>The</strong> above land transfers suggest an ongoing commercial relationship<br />
between Lush, Palmer, and Ottaway. To further support this proposition,<br />
between 1878 and at least 1883 Lush was a storekeeper at Wanaaring<br />
and owner of Beryawynia Station (NAB2). <strong>The</strong> Commercial Banking<br />
Company discounted at least two promissory notes made by Lush to W.C.<br />
Palmer & Company (NAB4, folio 84, 17 October 1882), and as Wanaaring<br />
was on an alternate route to Milparinka Palmer and Lush may have had a<br />
common interest in the store managed by Ottaway at Milparinka.<br />
<strong>The</strong> land transferred from Ottaway to Lush in 1885, together with that<br />
acquired by Lush and subsequently transferred to Palmer has been<br />
indicated as the site of 'Cocky's Store'(Nel Baker, Nel Barlow personal<br />
communication 1988, sketch map attributed to Hugh O'Connor 1985). <strong>The</strong><br />
first block was mortgaged by Lush to the Mercantile Bank of Australia<br />
between December 1887 and March 1899, after which it was transferred to<br />
Robert Blake Whittaker, a gentleman of Brighton, Victoria (NSWRG1). <strong>The</strong><br />
second was mortgaged by Palmer to the City of Melbourne Bank in 1886,<br />
and also subsequently transferred to Whittaker. Both transfers to<br />
Whittaker took place in 1899.<br />
Four months after the transfer of Section 2 Lot 4 to Lush a new<br />
advertisement appeared in the Sturt Recorder:<br />
liTom Gox, Baker, Pastrycook and Confectioner, Milparinka, begs to<br />
announce he has opened his new premises in Loftus Street, next door to<br />
Bigmore's Billiard Saloon and intends to supply the best of bread at five<br />
pence to the two pound loaf.<br />
"His coffee and ham and eggs at 2/6 per meal is a specialty. Also coffee<br />
and cake sixpence. Really Good.<br />
"Sponge Cake, Brandy Snaps, Lemon Cakes, Ginger Bread, Jam Rolls,<br />
Biscuits etc.etc. RegUlar Supplies of Fresh Fruit."<br />
(Sturt Recorder, Friday 31 May 1895:3)<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is no doubt that Tom Gox and 'Cocky the Chinaman' were the same<br />
person, the connection being confirmed by the following item from the Sturt<br />
Recorder:<br />
"<strong>The</strong> Price of Bread. Tom Gox ('Cocky'), baker etc. of Loftus Street,<br />
announces that on and after this day, (Friday), the price per two pound loaf<br />
will be sixpence."<br />
(Sturt Recorder, Friday 20 September, 1895)