Category: Queensland State Archives’ Photostream About Fortitude Valley

Dairy Science School, Brisbane, 19 July 1937

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The Telegraph
10 July 1937

Dairy Science School Completes First Week Of Instruction

The School of Advanced Dairy Science which is being conducted at the Department of Agriculture and Stock, has now completed a week full of activities. It will be continued until the end of the month.

During the first week the students, under the direction of the Chief Research Officer of the Dairy Research Laboratory (Mr. O. Kent) and other officers of the department concentrated on dairying bacteriology and attended both lectures and practical demonstrations in the laboratory. The lectures on this subject were interspersed with lectures of general agricultural Interest which included one on pastoral pests which was given by Mr. Weddell (entomologist).

The programme for the school includes visits to industrial places of interest, to tho students, and so far they have visited the abattoir and Gill’s model dairy at Eagle Farm, On Monday the students

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Petition from residents of Dalby protesting the declaration of an open season on koalas, 21 July 1927

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The BRisbane Courier
27 July 1927

NOT YET! FATE OF THE KOALA.

The fate of the harmless native bear, the gentle koala, nu open season of four weeks’ slaughter of which has been decreed by the Queensland Government, has not yet been finally decided.

The Acting Premier (Mr. W. Forgan Smith) in Sydney, and the Acting Deputy Premier (Mr. A. J. Jones) to the deputation of protest in Brisbane on Monday, promised that the Cabinet would review its decision, but at yesterday’s meeting the Ministers, did not settle the matter, though it was considered in much detail. They want more information.

Apparently the Cabinet wa6 divided into two sections-one strongly urging a reprieve; the other emphatically holding that the open season should stand.

Finally, the settlement, of the question was deferred until to-day.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 2907

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HM Prison Boggo Road, August 1965

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From the Queensland Heritage Register.

Boggo Road Gaol No 2 Division was opened in 1903 as the State Prison for Women at Boggo Road South Brisbane.

It was built adjacent to a male prison, which was established on the site in 1883. The male prison was later to become No 1 Division. The female prison was constructed in response to a 1887 Parliamentary Inquiry, which recommended that the “separate system” be introduced, that is a separate cell for each prisoner. The Inquiry also recommended that a female section be established within the Brisbane Gaol. Although in a diluted form, the design was based on ideas of prison planning and reform that were current in England in the nineteenth century.

The State Prison for Women, with 80 cells was designed by the Department of Public Works, during an era when it was producing a large number of high quality

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