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Competitive cotton exhibit, RNA Exhibition, Brisbane, August 1963
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Cotton was first grown in Queensland in 1857. The Queensland Cotton Marketing Board was established in 1926 and the Queensland Government introduced incentives to promote production in central Queensland.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436303, Photographic material
Eungella National Park, c 1963
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Eungella National Park is in the Clarke Range, 80 km west of Mackay. 49,610 hectares was declared a national park in 1941. Eungella means “land of the clouds”.
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Burnett Bridge, Bundaberg, 1963
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From the Queensland Heritage Register.
The Burnett Bridge is a metal truss bridge spanning the Burnett River at Bundaberg, linking the two sections of the city. It was constructed in 1900 to the design of A.B. Brady.
The Burnett area was first settled by Europeans in the 1840s and 50s as a series of pastoral runs. In the late 1860s, as good agricultural land around Maryborough began to be scarce, agriculturalists and timbergetters became interested in land on the navigable Burnett River to the north. The foundation settlers of Bundaberg selected land in 1867-68 under the ‘Sugar and Coffee Regulations’ stemming from the Crown Lands Alienation Act of 1860s which aimed to promote agriculture and closer settlement. The site of Bundaberg was officially surveyed in 1869. Coastal traffic grew, and copper was first mined at Mt Perry in 1871, which enabled Bundaberg to develop as a port
Opening of memorial at Matthew Flinders Park, Beerburrum, 27 July 1963
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
The Matthew Flinders Memorial was opened by David Nicholson, Member for Murrumba and Speaker the Queensland Legislative Assembly, on 27 July 1963.
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Brisbane City from the air, 1963
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The Courier-Mail
17 September 1954
Brisbane town plan report
A “very lengthy report” had been received on the Brisbane City town plan, the Treasurer (Mr. Walsh) told Mr. Kerr (Lib, Sherwood) in Parliament yesterday.
It would be examined in due course and, after study of the submissions, recommendations would be submitted to the Governor-in-Council. It was not customary to table such report in Parliament.
Mr. Kerr had asked whether the report would be made available to members.
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Bretts Wharf, Brisbane, 1963
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Bretts Wharf was opened by Brett’s Wharves and Stevedoring Co. Ltd. in 1929 and extended in 1937. Between 1942 and 1946 it was used by the United States Army. It closed to commercial shipping in 1993 and the Brisbane River ferry service was withdrawn in 1998. The current Bretts Wharf ferry terminal is around 200m east of the original wharf.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436304, Photographic material
SS Dorset, Townsville, 1963
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SS Dorset was a 10,108t freighter built in 1949 for the Federal Steam Navigation Co. She was sold to P&O in 1971 and scrapped in 1972. Federal Steam Navigation Co operated a service between the UK, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand from 1895 to 1973.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436304, Photographic material
Land Administration Building, Brisbane, 1963
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
From the Queensland Heritage Register.
This four-storeyed masonry government office building was erected between 1901 and 1905. Initially intended as offices for the Lands and Survey Departments, it was finished and occupied in 1905 as the Executive Building, accommodating both the Lands and Survey Departments and offices of the Premier and Executive Council. It is the most prominent Brisbane example of state building activity associated with the economic recovery of the late 1890s, and with the colony’s newly federated status.
In 1898-99 plans were prepared under the supervision of chief architect Thomas Pye of the government architect’s office. Special provisions for the Lands Department included Minister’s offices, drafting rooms, photographic and heliographic rooms, and a Land Court. With the inclusion of offices for the Executive Council and Cabinet, a separate entrance in George Street was designed for ministerial access.
A £2,900 contract for site preparation and foundations was
SS Galileo Galilei, Brisbane River, 31 July 1963
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SS Galileo Galilei was an 27,888 t ocean liner. On her maiden voyage in 1963 from Genoa, Italy she visited Fremantle, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. She continued to operate the Italy-Australia run until April 1977. In 1983 she was sold and renamed simply Galileo. In 1990 she was sold again and renamed SS Meridian, operating cruises between the eastern United States and Bermuda. Finally in 1997 she was sold for the last time and renamed SS Sun Vista. She sank in the in the Strait of Malacca on 21 May 1999.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436302, Photographic material