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The tiny township of Serviceton was selected in 1946 by the Serviceton Co-operative Society for development to help meet the shortage of post-war housing. The Society purchased 850 acres of land which was taken over by the Queensland Housing Commission in 1950, to which it added another 200 acres. The area was renamed Inala in 1953 to avoid confusion with the town of Serviceton in South Australia.

Inala was planned as a satellite town of Brisbane and houses were largely Modernist Revival style with elements of Art Deco.

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The Courier-Mail
16 March 1951

700 State homes

A new State Housing Commission estate will be established south-west of Kuraby and north of Compton Road. The Housing Minister (Mr. Hilton) said last night that more than 175 acres was being resumed. Erection of at least 700 houses was planned.

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The Telegraph
11 July 1946

State Has 1,333 Building Blocks

Up to June 30 last the Queensland Housing Commission had acquired land totalling 1,333 building allotments in Brisbane, the Minister for Works and Housing (Mr Bruce) announced today.

The lands were located as follows: Ashgrove, 99 allotments; Banyo, 11; Camp Hill, 17; Cannon Hill, 11; Chermside-Wavell Heights, 261; Coorparoo, 187; Corinda-Graceville, 20; Enoggera-Gaythorne-Mitchelton, 228; Fairfield-Yeronga, 25, Indooroopilly-Taringa, 22; Kedron, 20; Wynnum-Manly. 11; Moorooka-Rocklea-Salisbury, 41; Morningside, 17; Mt. Gravatt, 2; Nundah, 29; Stafford, 161; Tarragindi, 171; total, 1,333.

On the north side, 831 allotments had been acquired, and on the south side, 502.

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The Telegraph
11 July 1946

State Has 1,333 Building Blocks

Up to June 30 last the Queensland Housing Commission had acquired land totalling 1,333 building allotments in Brisbane, the Minister for Works and Housing (Mr Bruce) announced today.

The lands were located as follows: Ashgrove, 99 allotments; Banyo, 11; Camp Hill, 17; Cannon Hill, 11; Chermside-Wavell Heights, 261; Coorparoo, 187; Corinda-Graceville, 20; Enoggera-Gaythorne-Mitchelton, 228; Fairfield-Yeronga, 25, Indooroopilly-Taringa, 22; Kedron, 20; Wynnum-Manly. 11; Moorooka-Rocklea-Salisbury, 41; Morningside, 17; Mt. Gravatt, 2; Nundah, 29; Stafford, 161; Tarragindi, 171; total, 1,333.

On the north side, 831 allotments had been acquired, and on the south side, 502.

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The Telegraph
11 July 1946

State Has 1,333 Building Blocks

Up to June 30 last the Queensland Housing Commission had acquired land totalling 1,333 building allotments in Brisbane, the Minister for Works and Housing (Mr Bruce) announced today.

The lands were located as follows: Ashgrove, 99 allotments; Banyo, 11; Camp Hill, 17; Cannon Hill, 11; Chermside-Wavell Heights, 261; Coorparoo, 187; Corinda-Graceville, 20; Enoggera-Gaythorne-Mitchelton, 228; Fairfield-Yeronga, 25, Indooroopilly-Taringa, 22; Kedron, 20; Wynnum-Manly. 11; Moorooka-Rocklea-Salisbury, 41; Morningside, 17; Mt. Gravatt, 2; Nundah, 29; Stafford, 161; Tarragindi, 171; total, 1,333.

On the north side, 831 allotments had been acquired, and on the south side, 502.

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The Telegraph
11 July 1946

State Has 1,333 Building Blocks

Up to June 30 last the Queensland Housing Commission had acquired land totalling 1,333 building allotments in Brisbane, the Minister for Works and Housing (Mr Bruce) announced today.

The lands were located as follows: Ashgrove, 99 allotments; Banyo, 11; Camp Hill, 17; Cannon Hill, 11; Chermside-Wavell Heights, 261; Coorparoo, 187; Corinda-Graceville, 20; Enoggera-Gaythorne-Mitchelton, 228; Fairfield-Yeronga, 25, Indooroopilly-Taringa, 22; Kedron, 20; Wynnum-Manly. 11; Moorooka-Rocklea-Salisbury, 41; Morningside, 17; Mt. Gravatt, 2; Nundah, 29; Stafford, 161; Tarragindi, 171; total, 1,333.

On the north side, 831 allotments had been acquired, and on the south side, 502.

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Burleigh State School opened on 19 March 1917. It was renamed Burleigh Heads State School in 1927.

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Brisbane Telegraph
29 November 1951

Chermside and Murarrie houses

The homes ot Murarrie will be at Wynnum Road and an unnamed street, and those at Chermside will be at an unnamed street off Hamilton Road.

Expenditure of £2,000 on a subdivisionai survey of the commission’s estate at Creek and Cavendish Roads, Mt. Gravatt, to provide for 640 home sites also was approved by the Executive Council today.

Approval was. given for 7 7. homes at Maryborough at a total cost of £20,929 and nine at Cairns at a cost of £1 6,558.

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The Telegraph
11 July 1946

State Has 1,333 Building Blocks

Up to June 30 last the Queensland Housing Commission had acquired land totalling 1,333 building allotments in Brisbane, the Minister for Works and Housing (Mr Bruce) announced today.

The lands were located as follows: Ashgrove, 99 allotments; Banyo, 11; Camp Hill, 17; Cannon Hill, 11; Chermside-Wavell Heights, 261; Coorparoo, 187; Corinda-Graceville, 20; Enoggera-Gaythorne-Mitchelton, 228; Fairfield-Yeronga, 25, Indooroopilly-Taringa, 22; Kedron, 20; Wynnum-Manly. 11; Moorooka-Rocklea-Salisbury, 41; Morningside, 17; Mt. Gravatt, 2; Nundah, 29; Stafford, 161; Tarragindi, 171; total, 1,333.

On the north side, 831 allotments had been acquired, and on the south side, 502.

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