Bathroom in dwelling erected by Queensland Housing Commission, 1949

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Cairns Post
25 November 1949

Housing Commission Works

Three timber houses are to be built lor the Queensland Housing Commission at Main-street and Herberton Road, Atherton. The contract price is £4332/10/-. It includes, baths, chip heaters, fuel stoves and coppers. Five rental houses of timber construction are to be built for the commission at Troughton and Abbott-streets, Mareeba. The contract price is £6740. It includes fencing, drainage, fuel stoves and coppers.

Queensland State Archives Item ID392367, Photographic material

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Testing a surveyor's tape, Lands Administration Building, Brisbane, 1949

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Maryborough Chromicle
14 November 1949

Surveyor Shortage

The soldier settlement programme has been delayed by a shortage of surveyors, the Lands Minister, Mr Foley, said in a broadcast to-night. The Government was making strenuous efforts to secure experienced surveyors and to attract and train new men. Available surveyors would take years to catch up with arrears of work and current jobs. In addition to staff surveyors the Government was offering scholarships in surveying and cadet surveyors were being appointed under the Public Services Act thereby ensuring their employment after qualification.

Queensland State Archives Item ID435649, Photographic material

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Townsville railway station, 1952

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From the Queensland Heritage Register.

The first railway station, built in 1880, was located in Flinders Street near the corner of Jones Street, about three blocks west of the present station building. The original plan during the construction of the Townsville Railway was to locate the station near Magazine Island at the mouth of Ross Creek. The idea was revived when plans were being drawn up for a new station in 1910. Commercial interests backed the Mayor who argued that Ross Creek would cut off the railway terminus from the city centre. The community successfully partitioned the government to have the building located in Flinders Street between the town centre along Flinders Street and the busy business district at West End.

Construction of the new terminus for the Great Northern Railway commenced in 1910 and the building opened on 24 December 1913. Vincent Price, an architectural draftsman

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