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The Kedron Park Teachers’ College was established in 1961 on new premises at what had previously been the Kedron Park Racecourse. In 1975 it was incorporated into the new North Brisbane College of Advanced Education. This was in turn incorporated into the Brisbane College of Advanced Education in 1982, which was abolished when it amalgamated into the Queensland University of Technology on 1 May 1990.

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De Havilland Australia DH-82A Tiger Moth VH-APH was built in Mascot, NSW in September 1940 for the Royal Australian Air Force and carried RAAF serial 17-116. It served with No.7 Elementary Flying Training School in Tasmania and went into storage at the end of WW2. It was sold to a private buyer in 1946 and registered as VH-APH with Queensland Flying Services in 1957. It was sold to Airplanters of Bundaberg and operated in that region performing aerial seeding and other agricultural work until retirement in 1966. It was restored in 1989 and is still flyable today.

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The tiny township of Serviceton was selected in 1946 by the Serviceton Co-operative Society for development to help meet the shortage of post-war housing. The Society purchased 850 acres of land which was taken over by the Queensland Housing Commission in 1950, to which it added another 200 acres. The area was renamed Inala in 1953 to avoid confusion with the town of Serviceton in South Australia.

Inala was planned as a satellite town of Brisbane and houses were largely Modernist Revival style with elements of Art Deco.

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The site for a hospital in Southport was selected in 1921 but construction did not start until 1949. The 18 bed maternity hospital opened in 1952 but did not become a general hospital until 1960. It was incorporated into the Gold Coast Hospital and closed in 2013 with all services transferred to the new Gold Coast University Hospital.

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St George Fire Brigade’s Car 1 converted from a Willys Jeep Truck. The Queensland Government supplied these units to small rural towns in 1961. The chassis were built by Willys Motors Australia Pty in Brisbane and the bodies by Enoggera Motor Body Works.

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The Agriculture and Stock Department Experiment Farm was opened at Indooroopilly in 1909. The Entomology Branch was established in 1961 and was based in a refitted laboratory until a new Entomology Building was approved in 1974.

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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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The Courier-Mail
8 April 1954

INDUSTRIAL SITES DEMAND. Southern firms set up offices and factories

A BIG demand for industrial sites in and around Brisbane has been made in recent weeks by large southern industries and manufacturing firms.

Sydney and Melbourne firms which formerly had only a representative in Brisbane are now setting up branch offices, storage rooms, and, in some cases, factories. Real estate agents reported yesterday that already several sales of
small sites had been made, while other firms had placed orders for suitable sites.

Mr. Alan White, of Ray White Pty Ltd, said yesterday: ‘This is one of the most; remarkable trends in real estate we have seen in Brisbane in recent years.’ Other agents said the demand was mostly for 24 perch or 32-perch sites in the city for branch offices and despatch and show rooms, and for larger blocks of land or buildings in the outer

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Queensland Times
10 June 1952

£2M. Hospital For South Brisbane

The new 720-bed South Brisbane auxiliary hospital will be the
most modern of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. the Health Minister (Mr. W. Moore) said .tonight. He said that top building priority had been given the new hospital, which should be completed in about 20 months at a cost of nearly £2,000,000.

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From the Queensland Heritage Register.

The Commissariat Store was constructed of local stone in 1828-9 by Moreton Bay penal settlement convicts as a two-storey provisions store near the Brisbane River and what was to become Queen’s Wharf. A third storey of rendered brick was added in 1913 to accommodate its continuing use as a government store and providing an address to William Street.

In 1860, following the creation of the colony of Queensland, the store was renamed the Colonial Store. It was repaired and the upper floor was converted for use as police barracks. Eighteen new hardwood sash windows were added. Internally, six pine batten doors and a partition were constructed to provide married men’s quarters and single men’s barracks on the first floor. At this time a fireplace, new ironbark shingle roof, wall, window and door were added to the kitchen building in the yard (constructed

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