Category: Queensland State Archives’ Photostream About Fortitude Valley

Wharves and shipping, Gladstone, 1927

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The Telegraph
22 August 1927

Improving Harbours – Gladstone and Townsville

Mr George Carger, M.L.A., accompanied by Mr L.S. Crow (Chairman of the Gladstone Harbour Board), interviewed the Acting Treasurer (Mr. J. Mullan), and asked that permission be granted to the Gladstone Harbour Board to borrow £4,000 to reclaim certain land for harbour purposes, in which connection it was explained that the board proposed to lease the land at a rental sufficient to cover the interest and redemption payments on the loan.

A request was also made that a loan of approximately £4,000 be granted to defray the cost of an extension of about 200 feet to the existing wharf, outside the railway approach.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 120

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Specimen collector on reef with young Turtle, Capricorn Group, Great Barrier Reef, c 1931

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The Brisbane Courier
21 July 1931

BARRIER REEF BIOLOGICAL EXPEDITION.

An expedition of particular Interest to biological students and naturalists, generally will start from Sydney and Brisbane in December next for several of the Barrier Reef islands and atolls between Mackay and Bundaberg. Some of the islets to be explored, such as Penrith, Redbill. Bushy, and Tern islands, have rarely been landed on. The Percy group will also be camped on. and the more important islands in the Capricorn and Bunker groups will be visited. The arrangements and organisation are in the hands of Mr. K. F. Pollock. F.R.G.S., of Strathfield, New South Wales, a councillor and former hon. secretary of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, and a corresponding member of the Royal Australian Ornithologists’ Union.

Mr. Pollock has already conducted three parties of scientists and others to Queensland islands-in 1925, 1927, and 1928-and on this

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Resume of Investigations and Tests, for Gases at Townsville Bulk Sugar Terminal, 28 May 1963

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Following the disastrous fire at Townsville Bulk Sugar Terminal in May 1963, small explosions were felt by the crews cleaning up the damage. The Inspector of Coal Mines at Rockhampton, Charles McPherson, was rushed to Townsville to investigate and compiled this report.

Queensland State Archives Item ID2583755, Correspondence, mines

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Train crossing the flooded Burdekin River, March 1949

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Cairns Post
10 March 1949

TRAINS RACE AGAINST FLOOD WATERS IN BURDEKIN RIVER

Goods and mail trains in North Queensland to-day raced flood waters, which are expected to cover the Burdekin River bridge to-night. Falls of up to three inches have been registered in the Burdekin catchment areas. Two mail trains from Townsville were dispatched several yours earlier than their normal times. Goods train schedules between Bowen and Townsville were arranged to enable as many trains as possible to cross the bridge before nightfall. Five goods trains from Bowen to Townsville and seven from Townsville crossed the bridge to-day.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 27058

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