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Picking Grapes Ballandean, Stanthorpe, 1924
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
The Brisbane Courier
22 February 1927
BALLANDEAN
The Grape Crop – Much relief is felt at the lifting of the restrictive regulations concerning the sale of grapes in Brisbane. The low prices and lack of demand consequent on the prosecution of grape vendors in Brisbane for not conforming to the regulation caused consternation amongst growers, many of whom ceased marketing their crop until better prices obtained. Practically no grapes have gone forward to Brisbane for some days.
Queensland State Archives Item ID 392321, Photographic material
Fruit Groves, Buderim House, 1931
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
From the Queensland Heritage Register
Buderim House was built c1915 for Herbert Victor Fielding, son of pioneer Buderim sugar planter, mill owner and fruit grower John Fielding, who in 1876 selected nearly 49 hectares on the northern slopes of Buderim Mountain.
In the 1880s competition from imported sugar forced Buderim sugar planters into crop diversification, and by the late 1880s, Herbert Fielding was growing bananas on a large scale on the family property. Following John Fielding’s death in 1890, the farm, by then reduced to about 40 hectares, passed to his wife Jane. When Herbert Fielding acquired the property in 1906, it extended from Orme Road to Mill Road and across the present Gloucester Road to the creek. He was a successful farmer, and in the early 1900s attended state-wide agricultural conferences as the representative of the Maroochy Pastoral Agricultural Horticultural and Industrial Association.
He is believed to
Tramway, Buderim Mountain, 1931
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The Palmwoods-Buderim Tramway was a private industrial tramway on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.
The length of the line was seven miles, fifteen chains (11.5km), which ran from the Queensland Government Railways station at Palmwoods, across undulating country to Forest Glen on the Bruce Highway, and then climbed to the top of Buderim ‘Mountain’.
Maroochy Shire Council established a committee in 1903 to consider the possibility of a tramway to Buderim. An Order in Council for the construction of the line was granted in 1911 and it opened for business of 1 December 1914. Despite initial success, the First World War halted planned expansion and the tramway began to lose money in the 1920s due to lower farm output. The Great Depression finally sealed its fate.
The final run was on 10 August 1935 and it was dismantled soon after. The earthworks are still visible and were listed on the