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The Telegraph
30 March 1928

Money in Ducks

There is nothing In the poultry world so noticeable at the moment as the in creasing attention that Is being given to ducks. Unfortunately, however, the “duckers” are putting all their eggs into one basket, or in other words, they seem to have caught from some of the utility hen men the Idea, that all that matters In poultrydom is eggs (writes “G.IH.”. In the Auckland . “Weekly News”.)

We hear people talking about utility ducks, as others do about utility poultry, and all they mean In either case Is tho laying of eggs, or the capacity for so doing.- This Is wrong. We all know that there is money in eggs, but eggs are not, and should not he allowed to rend utility every time and all the time. Eggs have their place, and so has meat, and the bird

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Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

The original Proclamation publicly read by Sir George Ferguson Bowen’s acting private secretary Abram Moriarty at Government House in Adelaide Street, officially proclaiming Queensland as a separate colony from New South Wales. It was co-signed by Sir Robert Herbert, Bowen’s colonial secretary who became the the first Premier of Queensland in 1860.

It reads:

Proclamation

By His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight,
Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael
and St. George, Captain-General and Governor-in-chief of
the Colony of Queensland and its Dependencies, and
Vice-Admiral of the Same.

etc etc etc

Whereas Her Majesty has been graciously pleased, by
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster,
the Sixth day of June, in the twenty-second year of
Her Majesty’s Reign, to separate from the Colony of
New South Wales, the Territory described in the said
Letters Patent, and to erect the same into a separate Colony
to

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Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

Pope John Paul II first visited Brisbane in November 1986. Official functions were held at the QEII Stadium and Brisbane City Hall, as well as a meeting with the media.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 17107

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Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

Pope John Paul II first visited Brisbane in November 1986. Official functions were held at the QEII Stadium and Brisbane City Hall, as well as a meeting with the media.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 17100

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