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Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

Taken from Cairns Post, Tuesday 6 September 1932:

TULLY COLLISION.

LOCO. AND TRUCK.

IN MAIN STREET.

TULLY, September 5.
Mr. John Maher, cane farmer, of Euramo, and Mr. D. Jorgenson, one of the principals of Scholss and Co., general merchants, Tully, had a miraculous escape from seroius injury when a sugar mill loco crashed into a motor truck in which they were riding, in the main street early this morning.

“DID NOT OBSERVE.”

Jorgenson did not observe the oncoming loco until the vehicle was just astride the line. The impact carried the truck within a few yards of the catte grid before the engine was brought to a standstill. Jorgenson was taken to hospital by the ambulance, having sustained facial lacerations and injuries to the left hand. Maher, who was nearest the engine, escaped with minor injuries.

“VERY WARM.”

This is the fourth accident of a similar nature, and the danger of the tramline

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Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

Taken from the Daily Telegraph, January 6 1917:

QUEENSLAND’S TINY GUESTS.

Yesterday, at the Guildhall, for the twenty-fourth successive year, 1,300 children brought together by the Shaftesbury Society and the Ragged School Union were entertained to a children’s banquet and entertainment, and the happy proceedings were rendered ever memorable for the little guests by the presence in full state of the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress with the Mace Bearer and Sword Bearer, the Sherriffs, and members of the Corporation of the City. The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress and their retinue, amid tumultuous cheering, walked around the tables to see and to be seen by every child. The houseful of enchanted little ones were the guests of the people of Queensland. Last year, also, the same great daughter Colony, through the kind offices of Major Sir Thomas B. Robinson, the Agent-General, and Lady Robinson were the

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Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

Taken from The Star, January 7 1916:

A GUILDHALL PARTY.

Queensland’s Gift to Poor Children of London.

There were great doings at the Guildhall this afternoon, when 1,300 children of the Shaftesbury Society and Ragged School Union were entertained by friends in Queensland, Australia.
The children came from the poorest parts of Bermondsey, Clerkenwell, Hoxton, Islington, St. Luke’s Southwark, and Whitechapel and had the honour of a civic welcome from the Lord Mayor, Sherriffs, and members of the Corporation. Sir Thomas B. Robinson (Agent-General for Queensland) and Lady Robinson represented the givers of the feast, and were met at the door of the hall by a guard of honour of the Tower Hamlets Cadets.
Over 1,000lb. of roast beef and nearly 750lb. of plum pudding, not to mention piles of fruit and sweets, were provided for the children’s feast. Queensland sent large quantities of frozen meats and other foodstuffs,

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Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

Taken from The Telegraph, Friday 24 September 1880:

GORED BY A BULLOCK.

A remarkable accident of a serious nature occurred in Queen-street yesterday afternoon. Mr. Hutchinson, an operator at Matthewson’s photographic gallery, was crossing Queen-street, when he passed close to the head pair of a team of bullocks standing, we understand, quite unattended in from of Messrs. Tait and Co.’s store ; as Mr. Hutchinson was in the act of passing the near side leading bullock, the off side leader charged him, and the animal’s horn entered the fleshy part of the left arm, which was ripped open down to the elbow joint, and nearly passing completely through the arm.

The bullock then turned and tossed the injured man over his back, and carrying him along some feet, with the horn continuing to tear his flesh badly. Hutchinson had sufficient presence of mind to lay his other hand

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Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

Taken from the Daily Mercury, Saturday 26 October 1935:

SEAFORTH

(Contributed).
What’s in a name? Yet one must wonder why Seafoth was so called. Was it that we Australians, afraid of being thought sentimentalists, just tack on the first mundane name that comes to our minds; or was there hidden behind it the thought of future generations going forth to find the sea – in search of that perfect tonic which only the sea can give? Be that as it may, to the uninitiated the name means nothing; to the initiated, it matters not at all.

We residents of Mackay, so well served with beautiful beaches, so satiated with the beauty of our own immediate surroundings, seem to give but little thought to the glorious vista which lies just a little further along the road. Not the little extra petrol, nor the little extra time spent in getting there,

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