Ernest Beeton Matheson

  Research Notes:

Greg Matheson notes:
Tuesday 19 February 1935 Page 15 The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954) From Trove!
TWELVE GLORIOUS DAYS
Schoolboy Adventurers Fix this text SYDNEY. Februarv 48.
Twelve glorious days of freedom ended to-day for Ernest Matheson (12), of Hurstvllle, when the police at Albion Park stopped a little black
pony as it Jogged along the highway. Twelve days ago, Matheson left his home with Leo Whiteley (14), of Bex ley. Matheson owned a pony, and they hired a sulky. Whiteley obtained a Job on a farm at Robertson, and the boys agreed to separate. Matbeson slept at night under the trees and begged or purchased food. Both boys at now back at school.

  Noted events in his life were:

• connection. ¹⁹

Ernest married Margaret Mary Blum, daughter of Leonard Gottfried Blum and Hilda M. Malone. (Margaret Mary Blum was born in 1928 in Balmain, Sydney, NSW Australia ¹⁹.)