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Bourbong Street with Post Office in the distance, Bundaberg, c 1897
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
BOURBON OR BOURBONG STREET
A correspondent writing in the “Mail” on January 18th 1895 declaims against the “g” in the spelling of the name of the main street. He says: To old fashioned folk the modern spelling has jarred on our nervous system severely. Someone of an omposing elevation of mind probably thought it did or ought to belong to the aboriginal dialect. As there is not such aprt of speech as “bour” in native dialect, the “bong” meaning dead, renders the title silly and unintelligible. The main street of Bundaberg was named Bourbon by the surveyor who laid the principal sections of the town out for a well defined and perfectly understandable reason. The first cane planted at Rubyanna came from Bourbon, an island in the East Indies, and that plant bears its French imperial title even to this day. It is difficult to understand