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First Ship Uses New B.H.P. Steel Wharf

Magnet cranes do quick job

Two mobile magnetic cranes each unloaded nearly a ton of pig iron every 70 seconds from the freighter Balarr in Brisbane yesterday.

The cranes, at the B.H.P.’s new Hamilton steel wharf, were having their first run, and the Balarr was the first ship to use the wharf.

The 108ft. cranes lowered big magnets into the Balarr on 63ft. jibs.

Mounted on steel rails running the length of the wharf, they worked the forward hold (570 tons of pig-iron) and the after hold (800 tons).

Sixty watersiders were assigned to the two intermediate holds, containing 2400 tons.

More powerful magnets would be used later, the B.H.P. Queensland manager (Mr. R. S. Colquhoun) said yesterday.

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The Courier-Mail, 20 October 1950

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Want River Mouth Swamps Reclaimed

The adoption of a mosquito prevention scheme by the reclamation of large areas of swampy land between the mouth of the Brisbane River and Sandgate was urged today by a deputation from the Cribb Island ALP, which saw the Minister for Health (Mr Foley).

It was suggested that if the areas were filled with material dredged from the creeks they would not only be effectively eliminated as mosquito breeding grounds, but made suitable as building sites, thus creating a big asset.

The Minister said it was a matter for the Co-ordinator-General of Works, to whom a report of the representations would be sent for consideration.

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The Telegraph, 26 July 1946

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