Governor of Queensland Colonel Sir Henry Abel Smith greeting Governor-General of Australia William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle, Brisbane Airport, 1962

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Colonel Sir Henry Abel Smith was the 17th Governor of Queensland from 1958 to 1966.

William Sidney served in France and Italy during WW2 and was awarded the Victoria Cross for action during the Battle of Anzio. He was the 15th Governor-General of Australia and the last non-Australian to hold the office.

Standing to the left of the fence is Premier of Queensland Frank Nicklin.

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Town map, Blair Athol, 1953

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Early settler James MacLaren took up a pastoral run in the area in 1863 and named it after the town in Perthshire, Scotland. He discovered coal while digging a well in 1864. Australia’s first open cut coal mine opened at Blair Athol on 18 May 1922. Now only the cemetery remains.

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City Council Chambers and Civic Centre, Bundaberg, 1962

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The Bundaberg Division was created in 1879. The urban area became the Borough of Bundaberg in 1881 and the Town of Bundaberg in 1903. Bundaberg was proclaimed as a city in 1913. It merged into the Bundaberg Region in 2008.

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Municipal Markats, Brisbane, 1962

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Brisbane’s first Central Market began in 1868 in a Brisbane Municipal Council built shed on the corner of Charlotte and Eagle Streets. It closed in 1881 due to poor patronage.

In 1885, the Council opened the purpose-built Municipal Market in Roma Street, beside the railway station.

Due to increasing congestion, the State Government agreed to move the Central Market to Rocklea in 1964, were the Brisbane Markets are located today.

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