LOCAL NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) brigades burnt down a derelict house at Oakwood on June 25 as a training exercise involving 42 firefighters and eight tanker units.
THE annual service of commemoration of the Myall Creek massacre took place on Saturday at the Myall Creek Memorial about halfway between Bingara and Delungra.
Hundreds of people gathered near Delungra on Saturday to commemorate the Myall Creek Massacre in which 28 Aboriginal people were slaughtered by white stockmen in 1838.
Each year upwards of 400 people from across the country gather on the June long weekend to commemorate the unprovoked massacre of 28 Wirrayaraay women, children and old men by a group of stockmen in 1838.