In an interview, Mrs Reg Evans told of the progress made over the years from the days of kneading dough by hand, to becoming a fully mechanised baker.

Evans’ Bakery is an enterprise which has reached its pinnacle of success through development, quality and courteous and friendly service over the years.

The famous “Evanly Pies” are machine made, producing 1400 per hour, untouched by hand. 

Refrigeration caters for the 3750 pies and sausage rolls produced daily.

Modern cake machines produce the cakes people like and only the very best of ingredients go into producing food at Evans’ Bakery.

Reg Evans is a perfectionist; he has achieved honors in Diplomas and Medals in the NSW Master Pastrycooks Exhibition with over 4000 entries from 1000 master pastrycooks.

Reg personally supervises all orders for top quality. Niece Fay Jordan attends to the administrative duties.

The firm now has a staff of 14, including eight permanent staff and six casual.

Sir – The naming of Mr Vaggelas’ bridge across the Kooloonbung, by council, should stir people of Port Macquarie to be more aware of their local history, for it took the article: “Who is Allman?” to bring to our door the fact that we know little of this man.

Few of us had heard of him before, and I am certain that few of us are moved by the desires, problems and anxieties that confronted him, or the task he was committed to perform 148 years ago.

He could rightly accept the title of being our first tourist promotion officer, for it was he who said in a letter to his friend, Captain Piper: “We are all delighted in this place, and hope in a very few months to see any of our friends in Sydney who might feel inclined to venture.

“It is a most delightful country and ought to make a respectable settlement; I should have no objection, from what I have seen, to put off the red coat and remain”.

Today, we can get to Sydney in one and a half hours by air, and six to seven hours by road or rail, so we have no appreciation for Allman’s anxieties for himself, his wife and children, his officers and men, and those others under his charge, during that memorable journey of seven hundred and twenty hours endured in those three small sailing vessels.

Allman has been a forgotten personality in the history of this town and features named by Governor Macquarie in this man’s honour –Allman Hill and Allman Plains – are known only to a few.

We are all aware that council passed a resolution last week to perpetuate his name in the Allman Bridge.

I hope Mr Vaggelas will concur, for I am sure that when he built his bridge he hoped that all men would cross.

Ron Howell, Hastings District Historical Society.

[The point raised was that there is already an Allman obelisk and an Allman Park – Ed.]