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The Northern Herald,
7 July 1926

Innisfail Cane.

Mr. H. T. Easterby. Director of Sugar Experiment Stations, who is visiting the Innisfail district, said that this season’s cane crop, whilst good in that district, was somewhat backward as compared with last year’s. it was. therefore, not expected that the mills would cut such large tonnages as on the previous occasion. At the same time the cane was, generally speaking, very healthy, and the growth, whilst not rapid, was sufficient to produce a high’ percentage of c.c.s. ‘One noticeable feature, this year.’ said Mr. Easterby, ‘is the large amount of arrowed cane north of Townsville, which, no doubt, is due to this dry weather which has been experienced. The rains which have recently fallen in the Innisfail district should have a good effect on the young plant cane, and should help along that cane which has not yet flowered.”

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The Brisbane Courier
21 September 1932

VICTORIA POINT ABUNDANT CROPS

One of the most pleasing and productive areas of the South Coast, Victoria Point, in its luxuriance of crops of tropical fruits and vegetables, and its general air of prosperity, is a remarkable . contrast to many areas of the State.

It seems almost unbelievable that this now beautiful, well-improved and richly-productive area was in its early days of settlement a waste of uncleared forest country, its handful of pioneers gaining a precarious livelihood by grazing a few head of cattle, and carrying on a little mixed farming.

To-day Victoria Point is an area of well-tilled farms and comfortable homes, and a source of supply of fruits and vegetables to Brisbane and Southern markets. Farms stretch over a wide expanse of rich chocolate soil, maintaining all the year through an abundance of crops. Victoria Point has an almost inexhaustible supply

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The Brisbane Courier
30 August 1930

SUNNYBANK – FRUIT GROWING AND MARKET GARDENING

Sunnybank, situated about 10 miles from Brisbane, along the Southport railway line, possesses a variety of rich soils, and is notable for its production of tropical fruits – particularly pawpaws – and for market-gardening.

Although the district was settled many years ago, when Brisbane was in its infancy, little had been done up to 20 years ago in the way of extensive development. Since then, however, Sunnybank has become one of the best-developed and prolific agricultural areas around the metropolis. The Sunnybank of these days may be said to comprise two sections – residential, immediately along the railway line, and the other a strip of rich ridgy country back from the line. On this section are several families holding well-improved farms of from 5 to 15 acres in extent.

One of the earliest settlers was the late

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The Brisbane Courier
9 May 1928

A BIG GRANADILLA.

A giant granadilla was brought to the “Courier” office yesterday by Mr. E. A. Aldridge, who grew it at his home at Stanley-terrace, Taringa. It was 1ft. 11½in. long, and 1ft. 7½in round the sides. The granadilla is a tropical fruit, but Mr. Aldridge says he has no difficulty in growing them in Brisbane, even at this time of the year. He has four vines all of which are good bearers, and a visitor from Cooktown, the home of the granadilla, informed him that they bore the best fruit he had ever seen.

Queensland State Archives Item ID 392321, Photographic material

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The Palmwoods-Buderim Tramway was a private industrial tramway on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.

The length of the line was seven miles, fifteen chains (11.5km), which ran from the Queensland Government Railways station at Palmwoods, across undulating country to Forest Glen on the Bruce Highway, and then climbed to the top of Buderim ‘Mountain’.

Maroochy Shire Council established a committee in 1903 to consider the possibility of a tramway to Buderim. An Order in Council for the construction of the line was granted in 1911 and it opened for business of 1 December 1914. Despite initial success, the First World War halted planned expansion and the tramway began to lose money in the 1920s due to lower farm output. The Great Depression finally sealed its fate.

The final run was on 10 August 1935 and it was dismantled soon after. The earthworks are still visible and were listed on the

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From the Queensland Heritage Register

Buderim House was built c1915 for Herbert Victor Fielding, son of pioneer Buderim sugar planter, mill owner and fruit grower John Fielding, who in 1876 selected nearly 49 hectares on the northern slopes of Buderim Mountain.

In the 1880s competition from imported sugar forced Buderim sugar planters into crop diversification, and by the late 1880s, Herbert Fielding was growing bananas on a large scale on the family property. Following John Fielding’s death in 1890, the farm, by then reduced to about 40 hectares, passed to his wife Jane. When Herbert Fielding acquired the property in 1906, it extended from Orme Road to Mill Road and across the present Gloucester Road to the creek. He was a successful farmer, and in the early 1900s attended state-wide agricultural conferences as the representative of the Maroochy Pastoral Agricultural Horticultural and Industrial Association.

He is believed to

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The Queenslander
8 August 1885

The Treatment of Cream

THE milk for butter-making should be poured into enamelled pans, which are easily kept clean; it should be placed in a cool well-ventilated dairy, and in an atmosphere which is quite fresh and sweet; and it should be shaded from draught and strong rays of light, and should not go sour while the cream is rising. Where a separator is used these precautions are unnecessary. But the cream in any case should remain free from acidity, or nearly so, until it is churned, yet should be ripe. Perfectly fresh cream makes perfectly sweet butter, of course, but such butter is insipid when compared with butter made from well-ripened cream. The ripening of milk in cheese-making and the ripening of cream in butter-making provide an analogy which is worth while to remember. Soured cream or milk will produce butter whose

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From the Brisbane Telegraph, Saturday 22 March 1952:

Too many hops!
Roo’s romp in city

A wandering kangaroo with too many hops was arrested in Queen Street this morning.
He was lodged in the City Watchhouse with a number of other temporary residents in the same condition.
Later, he joined the brotherhood at the Botanic Gardens.
Early morning workers blinked when they saw the little fellow hopping briskly along Roma Street toward King George Square.
A policeman on beat whistled, but the ‘roo didn’t fall for that one and promptly hopped it up to Queen Street.
When Joey reached Queen Street, he turned right and hopped up toward the “Brisbane Telegraph” biulding, but he didn’t come in.
Sergeant E. Puddle, who was on beat nearby, decided it was time to do something. He strolled up quietly to Joey, spoke softely to him and grabbed him by the tail.
Joey didn’t want to go at first,

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BRISBANE BOTANIC GARDENS.

TO THE EDITOR.
Sir, –I have visited the Botanic Gardens lately on several occasions, and admire very much the manner in which they are recovering from the disasters of storm and flood. The trees, shrubs, and flowers will shortly be bursting into the fair blossom of spring, when “the airs of heaven” will become more genial to young and old, especially perhaps to those whose wandering feet lead them to discover the lovely “peeps” of scenery which wait for the appreciation of the lovers of Nature, and many who retire with books for companions to seek the pleasures which are included within bright and agreeable surroundings, and those especially, perhaps, who delight in the sports of tennis and cricket.

I wish to say a few more seats would provide great convenience to visitors. The pretty slopes on either side, from the Queensland Club corner to

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Tibberoowuccum Fast Facts:
> 220m or 1179 ft high.
> Tibberoowuccum means flying squirrel (chibur) and hungry (waiarangum).
> A dome-shaped rock, composed of alkali rhyolite.
> Surrounded by eucalypt open forest, as well as complex rainforest.
> A small population of Narrow-leaf bitter-pea present on the southern slope of the mountain, which is rare in Queensland, and the Mount Tibberoowuccum population is the most northerly known.

Backward Glance: The History of the name Glass House Mountains

The Glass House Mountains were named by Lieutenant James Cook, when he was sailing north during his epic journey along Australia’s east coast. He navigated the area on May 17, 1770 in HM Bark Endeavour.

In his journal of the day Cook wrote ‘these hills lie but a little way inland, and not from eaach other: they are remarkable for the singualr form of their elevation, which very much resembles a glass house, and for this

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