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Mango Trees, c 1930

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Mackay Daily Mercury
1 March 1930

WHAT IS A MANGO ?

Stories of Queenslanders visiting Sydney and Melbourne and causing profound astonishment amongst shop keepers by asking for mangoes or papaws, are not new (says a writer in the ‘Daily ‘Mail’), but this one from considerably nearer, Newcastle, is certainly no chestnut. A friend of mine, whose business necessitated a sojourn of several months in Newcastle, was grateful for a present of a case of choice mangoes from thoughtful relatives in Brisbane. His land lady was asked to try one, and, expressing delight at the flavor, a number of seeds were collected and sent to some friends of hers on an orchard outside the city for planting purposes. Having neither seen nor heard of the fruit, information was solicited from a seedsman in Newcastle. His reply was responsible for no little amusement and indignation to the patriotic Queenslander.

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Power transformer under construction, Rocklea, 1963

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The English Electric Company of Australia Pty Ltd established a factory in the Brisbane suburb of Rocklea in 1956 to build locomotives for Queensland and other states. It also built a large amount of electrical equipment for Queensland electricity generation. In 1970 it became the General Electric Company of Australia.

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Coolangatta Airport, Gold Coast, c 1963

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Coolangatta Airport opened in 1936 with three grass strips intended as an emergency landing ground between Brisbane and Sydney. Occasional passenger flights commenced in 1939.

Queensland Airlines and Butler Air Transport commenced regular services after WW2. Ansett-ANA started flying to Coolangatta in 1950 and Trans Australia Airlines in 1954. The runway and taxiways were paved in 1958 to allow the operation of larger aircraft and jet operations.

In 1988 it was transferred to the Federal Airports Corporation and in 1999 was renamed Gold Coast Airport.

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New Brisbane Produce Markets, Rocklea, August 1964

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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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Premier Frank Nicklin opening the Brisbane Produce Markets, Rocklea, 24 August 1964

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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, and they were opened by Premier Frank Nicklin on 24 August.

Queensland State Archives Item ID436307, Photographic material

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