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University of Queensland Kings College construction, St Lucia – Brisbane

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Gifts to University College

The fund for the new buildings of King’s College, in the University of Queensland, has benefited to date by £427 in responses from Warwick and Allora districts.

The Rev. H. H. Triggs while here recently also presented to firms the joint appeal of the six long established Colleges. A sum of £300 was contributed by the Toomaroo Pastoral Pty. Ltd.

King’s College now has £60,000 in hand or promised towards the £200,000 required. The Government is giving a £ for £ subsidy.

A recent donation to the college was a bale of inferior wool which realised £228.

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Warwick Daily News, 19 March 1951

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University of Queensland Medical School, Herston, Brisbane

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University of Queensland Mayne Medical School is a heritage-listed university building at Herston, Brisbane. It was designed by Raymond Clare Nowland and built from 1938 to 1939.

The establishment of the Mayne Medical School was a significant moment for the State of Queensland and for the medical profession. The importance of medical research, particularly into tropical medicine, was a significant impetus for the establishment of the Medical School.

Since 1939, all medical students at the University of Queensland have passed beneath the decorative elliptical arch between main entrance hall and the rear corridor which bears the inscription articulating the philosophy upon which the School was established, translated as: “May all members of the general community profit by the art and skill of those who learn, with deference and respect, their profession in this place.”

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University of Queensland new School of Veterinary Science building at St Lucia – Brisbane

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Veterinary Education

A committee representative of the University, Agriculture Department, Education Department and the Public Service has been set up by the State Government to report on the faculties of agriculture and veterinary science at the University.

Its terms of reference include: The desirability of re-opening the Veterinary Science School on a full operative basis, a partly operative basis, or any other basis; the future use of the veterinary science buildings and equipment at Yeerongpilly; the desirability and practicability of establishing close relationship and active co-operation between the University departments of agriculture and veterinary science; the possibility and practicability of establishing a National University College in agriculture and veterinary science on the site of the Queensland Agricultural High School and College.

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Queensland Country life, 15 March 1945

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