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Enoggera, Brisbane water supply. No 369, c.1894

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STATE FOREST AT ENOGGERA

No Pollution Of Water Supply

The City Council proposes to agree to the request of the Queensland Forest Service to gazette the Enoggera water reserve as a State forest.

Departmental officers have advised the Lord Mayor (Alderman Jones) that no disabilities would result from the proposal, as, whatever forestry operations were carried out, steps would be taken to ensure that there would be no pollution of the water supply. The council will retain its rights over the reserve.

The Forest Service has now notified the council that it is proposed to gazette the area shortly as a State forest, with the exception of the lake and a fringe of country two chains wide surrounding it, which will be retained as a water reserve.

The water and sewerage committee decided on Saturday to recommend that the area round the water reserve should be increased from two to

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Toowoomba at the time of the opening of the railway from Ipswich, c1865

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Rail in Queensland

Rail transport has been very important to the economic development of Queensland.

The first section of railway opened between Ipswich and Bigge’s Camp on 31 July 1865. A railway gauge of 3 feet 6 inches was chosen. This was one of the earliest uses of such a narrow gauge for a public railway. It was cheaper to build and the government had little financial resources.

The railways in Queensland stretched from coastal ports inland. This allowed the transport of farming produce for export. These goods were important for our economy. In 1865 it took a dray load of wool about seven days to travel from Toowoomba to Ipswich. When the railway reached Toowoomba in 1867 it reduced the same journey to only five hours.

Queensland State Archives Image ID 3387

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