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The contract for the new Central station building was let in May 1899 and opened on 26 July 1901.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436318, Photographic material
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Testing milk samples at Gatton Agricultural College, July 1959
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Queensland Times
17 May 1950
GATTON COLLEGE MILKING WINS
Gatton College had outstanding success in the milking and butter fat competitions. It took major ribbons with eight prizes in all – two championships, two firsts, and two seconds. A college bred cow – Thorn 6th – won a treble. There were 37 entrants in the various milking classes.
Queensland State Archives Item ID1052783, Photographic material
Boonah Butter Factory, 1959
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The Boonah Butter Factory opened in 1916 and was the largest butter factory in the Southern Hemisphere. It closed in 1974 due to declining production and is now occupied by a shop. The building is on the Scenic Rim Regional Council Local Heritage Register.
Queensland State Archives Item ID1052782, Photographic material
Barge "Cementco" in Moreton Bay, 1959
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Cementco started life as the Australian Army amphibious operations support ship Crusader (AV 2767) in 1945 and carried equipment between New Guinea and Australia. In 1947 she was sold to the Queensland Cement and Lime Company. Renamed Cementco, she carried dredged coral from Moreton Bay to the company’s cement factory at Darra. After retirement in 1984 a buyer could not be found, so the hulk was sunk as a dive wreck at Flinders Reef off Cape Moreton in 1986.
Queensland State Archives Item ID1052782, Photographic material
Sugar cane train near Nambour, September 1958
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Nambour Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser
14 August 1953
SUGAR CRUSHING RATE ALMOST DOUBLED
Compared with the same time last year, the Moreton Central Mill crushing tonnage has almost doubled and both harvesting and crushing are very satisfactory, said Mr. Val Thorp (general manager) yesterday.
Up to yesterday morning cane crushed totalled to 28,887 tons. Last vteek’s crushing was 7,200 ions, and it is expected that this figure will be increased by about 400 tons this week.
Average c.c.s. is 12.97. which is regarded as particularly good.
Queensland State Archives Item ID1052781, Photographic material
The Proclamation of Queensland document, 10 December 1859
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The original Proclamation publicly read by Sir George Ferguson Bowen’s acting private secretary Abram Moriarty at Government House in Adelaide Street, officially proclaiming Queensland as a separate colony from New South Wales. It was co-signed by Sir Robert Herbert, Bowen’s colonial secretary who became the the first Premier of Queensland in 1860.
It reads:
Proclamation
By His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight,
Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael
and St. George, Captain-General and Governor-in-chief of
the Colony of Queensland and its Dependencies, and
Vice-Admiral of the Same.
etc etc etc
Whereas Her Majesty has been graciously pleased, by
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster,
the Sixth day of June, in the twenty-second year of
Her Majesty’s Reign, to separate from the Colony of
New South Wales, the Territory described in the said
Letters Patent, and to erect the same into a separate Colony
to
Koala in the Blackall Range, Montville, c 1931
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The Brisbane Courier
7 December 1931
Re-establishing the Koala.
One of the difficulties to the re-establishment of the native bear (the Koala), throughout the States of Australia matter in which the Wild Life Preservation Society takes the keenest interest-is the misapprehension, which is widespread, that there are only one or two kinds of eucalyptus or gum tree suited to its palate, it is true that the Koala is far more restricted in its dietary scale than the possum, for instance, and that in a patch of forest there may be only two or three varieties of gum that suit it.
In its native condition, however, as known originally in Eastern Australia, the native bear was. distributed over a very large area in parts affected by very many distinct species of eucalypts.
The Wild Life Preservation Society has been trying to secure small supplies of wild Koala for liberation in suitable
Ducks at Gatton Agricultural College, 1928
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The Telegraph
30 March 1928
Money in Ducks
There is nothing In the poultry world so noticeable at the moment as the in creasing attention that Is being given to ducks. Unfortunately, however, the “duckers” are putting all their eggs into one basket, or in other words, they seem to have caught from some of the utility hen men the Idea, that all that matters In poultrydom is eggs (writes “G.IH.”. In the Auckland . “Weekly News”.)
We hear people talking about utility ducks, as others do about utility poultry, and all they mean In either case Is tho laying of eggs, or the capacity for so doing.- This Is wrong. We all know that there is money in eggs, but eggs are not, and should not he allowed to rend utility every time and all the time. Eggs have their place, and so has meat, and the bird
Pope John Paul II addressing the public, Brisbane City Hall, 25 November 1986
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Pope John Paul II first visited Brisbane in November 1986. Official functions were held at the QEII Stadium and Brisbane City Hall, as well as a meeting with the media.
Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 17107
Pope John Paul II holding a koala, Brisbane, 25 November 1986
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Pope John Paul II first visited Brisbane in November 1986. Official functions were held at the QEII Stadium and Brisbane City Hall, as well as a meeting with the media.
Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 17100