News and other stories about real people, places, and events in Fortitude Valley and nearby suburbs.
Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
This photo was taken in 1925 and features QATB Ingham’s first Superintendent, Edward Von Alpen who is posing alongside the first ambulance in the district.
The building is the original Ingham Ambulance Centre that was located in Lannercost Street.
Queensland State Archives Item ID 436385, Photographic material
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Palmwoods-Buderim Tramway.
The tramway between Palmwoods, on the North Coast Line, and Buderim Mountain will be officially opened next Friday by the Minister for Railways at the Buderim Mountain terminus. This connecting link between the main North Coast Line and the important fruit growing district of Buderim Mountain has been about two years in construction, and the chief engineer (Mr. Geo. Phillips, C.E.) has turned out, espicially in that part of the line which marks the ascent to the mountain, a remarkable piece of work, the view from some of the curves, looking down into the gorges, being awe-inspiring.
The ascent is about 600ft. in a distance of two and a half miles. The full length of the line is about seven miles, and the approximate cost has been £35,000. Buderim Mountain, the terminus of the tramway, is one of the show places of Southern Queensland.
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Millmerran is near a lookout commonly used by the local Aboriginal population prior to European settlement and the town’s name is believed to be derived from two words – “meel” meaning “eye” and “merran” meaning “to look out”.
European settlement in the Millmerran area began in 1841 when the Gore brothers established the vast Yandilla station. Yandilla station covered an estimated 1,780 square kilometres (690 sq mi) and hosted its own school with 20 to 30 students, telegraph station and store. Closer settlement began after the passing of the Crown Lands Alienation Act in 1876, which allowed Edward Walpole to select a portion of Yandilla station. In 1881, Walpole established a general store on the site of what was known at the time as Back Creek, and a receiving office was opened with that name on 8 July 1883. It was elevated to the status of
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Daily Standard
Wed 8 April 1914
Serious Accident at Stanthorpe
A serious accident befl Mr. and Mrs. Robert Day just outside Stanthorpe on Saturday afternoon. Particulars of the accident show that Mr. and Mrs. Day who are aged 76 and 74 years respectively, were driving home from Stanthorpe to their home at Smoker’s Gully, a locality about three and a-half miles from the town, when one of the reins became entangled under the horse’s tail resultant upon which the occupants were thrown from the sulky. This is all the available information to hand respecting the accident.
The doctor and ambulance were requisitioned, and the injured aged couple were conveyed to the hospital at Stanthorpe. The doctor subsequently reported that Mr. Day had sustained three broken ribs, cuts on the head and legs, and bruises. One of the ribs was penetrating the lung. Mrs. Day received serious cuts
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Cairns Post
Mon 15 April 1929
Innisfail and District Accidents
Our Innisfail correspondent states that John Liles, aged 19, met with a perculiar accident. He is a labourer out of work and resides at Goondi Bend. Liles was tying up a cow when the animal pulled away from him and he received a lacerated wound on the right hand through being cut with a piece of tin. The ambulance gave first-aid treatment and then conveyed the sufferer to the hospital.
Edward Crampton, aged 45, a butcher working for Trembath Bros. also met with an accident under perculiar circumstances. He was cutting up meat when another employee spoke to him. Crampton turned around and in doing so the knife slipped and severed the radial artery of the left wrist. First aid was given by the Ambulance and the sufferer taken to a doctor, thence to a private hospital.
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Wowan is a small rural township in the Shire of Banana in Central Queensland, Australia. It is named from the Aboriginal word for the Australian brush-turkey.
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The Capricornian
Sat 6 Nov 1897
The Accident at Clermont
Full Details
One of the saddest accidents that has occurred in the history of modern Clermont happened last night at the Town Hall, says the Peak Downs Telegram of the 29th October. The Quadrille Assembly had arranged to hold its last night of the season, which had been a very successful one. Everything was provided, therefore, to make the wind-up of the season a brilliant success.
At half-past eight there was a rush to the gallery; before a quarter to nine that gallery was down on the floor of the hall, its timbers shivered as though it had been built of match-box wood – a very wreck. It was a flimsy structure, to say the least of it, and how it has carried the crowds of people we have seen in it we do not know. But it
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Cairns Post
Friday 31 Dec 1920
Babinda Notes
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Our roads and bridges in particular have been receiving some comment of late, and are (the bridges) being designated as veritable death traps, but all the same, wind explosions, or pen efforts, will not alter the pace of the owners of honk machines who smillingly negotiate the said death traps at racing speed. Posts and wires were securely placed on all these bridges, but had to be removed owing to the formidable amount of debris and logs that are carried along by the flood waters, and find resting places against the many bridges that span those streams.
The Babinda structure receives an unusual amount of timber, and on several occasions the chance of its demolition seemed a sure thing. All measures and precautions may be made for the prevention of accidents, but the fact remains that accidents will occur and at
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The Brisbane Courier
27 Feb 1930
Boonah
Accident – Aubrey Webb (14 years), residing at Dugandan, fell from a tree in the school grounds and fractured his left forearm. The Boonah Amulance rendered first aid and conveyed the patient to Dr. W. A. Fraser’s surgery.
Queensland State Archives Item ID 436385, Photographic material