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Nambour Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser
12 December 1947
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE IN PRACTICE – Author of State Rural Schools Recounts First Opening at Nambour
Particularly opportune was the visit among other University College and Education Department officials, of Mr. J. D. Story (former Public Service Commissioner) and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Queensland to Nambour on Friday last on the occasion of the Second Field Day of the Agricultural Junior Section of the Nambour Rural and High School. Mr. Story was Under-Secretary for Education in 1917 when the first rural school in Queensland as an experiment at Nambour was established. The project was regarded as something entirely new, an innovation, an experiment received coldly in various quarters, but the Government of the day saw in it possibilities, and Mr. Story was given the order to carry on. This was unfolded by the speaker in the course of an