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James Stewart & Co., known locally as Stewarts, is a department store operating at the same location in Rockhampton since 1864. James Stewart started as a draper in 1862 before expanding the business. The current building opened in December 1928.
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Quad-trailer road train at Quilpie saleyards. The prime mover is a modified Leyland Beaver.
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Quilpie takes it name from quilpeta, the local Indigenous word for stone curlew.
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The Courier-Mail
17 September 1954
Brisbane town plan report
A “very lengthy report” had been received on the Brisbane City town plan, the Treasurer (Mr. Walsh) told Mr. Kerr (Lib, Sherwood) in Parliament yesterday.
It would be examined in due course and, after study of the submissions, recommendations would be submitted to the Governor-in-Council. It was not customary to table such report in Parliament.
Mr. Kerr had asked whether the report would be made available to members.
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Bretts Wharf was opened by Brett’s Wharves and Stevedoring Co. Ltd. in 1929 and extended in 1937. Between 1942 and 1946 it was used by the United States Army. It closed to commercial shipping in 1993 and the Brisbane River ferry service was withdrawn in 1998. The current Bretts Wharf ferry terminal is around 200m east of the original wharf.
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SS Dorset was a 10,108t freighter built in 1949 for the Federal Steam Navigation Co. She was sold to P&O in 1971 and scrapped in 1972. Federal Steam Navigation Co operated a service between the UK, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand from 1895 to 1973.
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Cotton was first grown in Queensland in 1857. The Queensland Cotton Marketing Board was established in 1926 and the Queensland Government introduced incentives to promote production in central Queensland.
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Eungella National Park is in the Clarke Range, 80 km west of Mackay. 49,610 hectares was declared a national park in 1941. Eungella means “land of the clouds”.
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From the Queensland Heritage Register.
The Burnett Bridge is a metal truss bridge spanning the Burnett River at Bundaberg, linking the two sections of the city. It was constructed in 1900 to the design of A.B. Brady.
The Burnett area was first settled by Europeans in the 1840s and 50s as a series of pastoral runs. In the late 1860s, as good agricultural land around Maryborough began to be scarce, agriculturalists and timbergetters became interested in land on the navigable Burnett River to the north. The foundation settlers of Bundaberg selected land in 1867-68 under the ‘Sugar and Coffee Regulations’ stemming from the Crown Lands Alienation Act of 1860s which aimed to promote agriculture and closer settlement. The site of Bundaberg was officially surveyed in 1869. Coastal traffic grew, and copper was first mined at Mt Perry in 1871, which enabled Bundaberg to develop as a port
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The Matthew Flinders Memorial was opened by David Nicholson, Member for Murrumba and Speaker the Queensland Legislative Assembly, on 27 July 1963.
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