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The Courier-Mail
16 November 1933

BEERBURRUM.

Pineapple Crop.-The pineapple growers of the Beerburrum district have completed the harvesting of their winter crop of pineapples, amounting to 15,000 cases.

Tobacco Settlement.-Mr. L. Woods has taken control of the Beerburrum tobacco settlement from Mr. J. M’Aulay, who was transferred to Burleigh. The settlement at present is receiving too much rain.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 178

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A de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth owned by Brown Williams Aviation Ltd was used for aerial seed sowing of the Fitzroy Basin scheme in the early 1960s.

This aircraft started life in the Royal Australian Air Force in 1942. It still flies today with the Royal Aero Club of Western Australia.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 16998

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From the Queensland Heritage Register.

The former Department of Primary Industries building, finished in unpainted render and painted brickwork, is built on a steeply sloping site with two storeys and basement fronting William Street and a lower three-storeyed wing at the rear fronting Queen’s Wharf Road. with a hipped rib and pan galvanised iron roof.

The building was originally built as an Immigration Depot, and construction began in 1865 and completed in 1866.

The building was constructed on part of the former Commandant’s Garden. The garden had been part of an attempt to establish some principles of behaviour at Penal Settlements throughout the Colony of New South Wales by the introduction of a Code of Regulations by Governor Darling which, amongst other things, entitled the Commandant to four acres of garden to be tended by up to three gardeners.

A wharf had been constructed c.1825 in front of the

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The Courier-Mail
2 October 1934

THE JOB OF BEING SPEAKER – IT USED TO BE A DANGEROUS OCCUPATION

By the HON. GEORGE POLLOCK, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly

YES! Anything to oblige!

The title ‘Mr. Speaker’- is very bewildering to the man who casually visits Parliament to learn at first hand what his local political hero Is doing to earn his salary.

A precocious schoolboy once said to me, ‘Why do they call you Mr. Speaker? You’re the only bloke who doesn’t speak.’ But the historian Knows!

The appellation originated with the first House of Commons. In those days Kings had the happy (?) knack of calling Parliament together only when they ran short of money. The supply may have been needed to pay the King’s Army and Navy, or per chance to buy a pair of fancied emerald and diamond earrings — with brooch and solitaire to match — for his

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Daily Standard
11 April 1934

AERIAL SURVEY OF BRISBANE

Acting on a suggestion by the city engineer (Mr. E. F. GIlchrist), following a request from the Commonwealth Government, the civic executive reommended that a photographic aerial survey, covering 20 square miles of the central portion of Brisbane be secured at a cost of 25s per square mile.

The Lord Mayor moved that the recommendation be adopted.

Alderman Warmington (Labor) said this was a wonderful gift to the Federal Government. He did not think they should spend a lot of money to please Joe Lyons. He could not see the need of this aerial survey.

The motion was carried.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 193

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