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Set For Record Australia Day

Brisbane’s Australia Day procession tomorrow will be more than a mile in length and promises to be one of the most colourful ever.

The procession has been divided into 11 groups, each led by a band. one feature will be the first appearance in Queensland of the 2/14 Queensland Mounted Infantry Band.

The procession will proceed via George-street, into Queen, Wickham, Brunswick-street, down Gregory-terrace and past the Exhibition grounds.

A sports carnival at the Exhibition grounds will commence at 11 a.m. and continue to 6 p.m.

A 2 p.m. the Attorney-General, Mr. W. Power, will perform the official ceremony of unfurling the Australian flag.

Events include trotting, cycling, dancing, hunts and other horse events, novelties, massed dancing displays, army displays, a baseball carnival and massed band parades.

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Truth, 25 January 1953

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A float is a decorated platform, either built on a vehicle like a truck or towed behind one, which is a component of many festive parades.

Parade floats were first introduced in the Middle Ages when churches used pageant wagons as movable scenery for passion plays. Artisan guilds were responsible for building the pageant wagons for their specified craft.

The wagons were pulled throughout the town, most notable during Corpus Christi in which up to 48 wagons were used, one for each play in the Corpus Christi cycle.

They are so named because the first floats were decorated barges on the River Thames for the Lord Mayor’s Show.

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Traditionally, Kingaroy has always been the centre of Australia’s peanut and navy bean industries but since the early 1990s it has also developed into one of the twin hubs of the South Burnett’s rapidly expanding wine industry. Several wineries are located either in or very close to the town, along with the Booie Range Distillery which opened in 2001 – only the third distillery in Queensland.

Droughts and uncertainty surrounding the region’s annual peanut crop led some farmers to diversify and grow grapes. Rich volcanic soil, hot dry summers and cold winters proved to be ideal conditions for wine growing. Quite a number of vineyards were established in the region, and the success of their wine enables the South Burnett region, which included Kingaroy, to promote the area as a tourist destination. The success of these enterprises has been largely attributed to the scenery of the

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Types of architectural models include:

– Exterior models are models of buildings which usually include some landscaping or civic spaces around the building.

– Interior models are models showing interior space planning, finishes, colours, furniture and beautification.

– Landscaping design models are models of landscape design and development representing features such as walkways, small bridges, pergolas, vegetation patterns and beautification. Landscaping design models usually represent public spaces and may, in some cases, include buildings as well.

– Urban models are models typically built at a much smaller scale, representing several city blocks, even a whole town or village, large resort, campus, industrial facility, military base and so on. Urban models are a vital tool for town/city planning and development.

– Engineering and construction models show isolated buildings/structure elements and components and their interaction.

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The first Kingaroy Post Office opened by 1902 (a receiving office had been open from 1895) and was renamed Taabinga Village in 1905, when Kingaroy Railway Station office opened. This was renamed Kingaroy in 1907. The Taabinga Village office closed in 1929.

The foundation stone of the Kingaroy Soldiers’ Memorial Rotunda was laid on 25 April 1922 (ANZAC Day) by the RSL president Sergeant Norman Booth. It was dedicated on 29 June 1932 by Major-General Sir Thomas William Glasgow.

The Royal Australian Air Force had a significant operational and training presence in the region during the Second World War, the first squadrons deploying to the town’s airport about mid-1942. At least eight squadrons were based at RAAF Kingaroy the, together with No. 3 Initial Training School. Kingaroy R.A.A.F. Post Office was open from 7 August 1942 until 28 February 1946.

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Rural settlement of the area dates back to 1843 when one of the first selections was made at Burrandowan (west of Kingaroy) by squatter and explorer Henry Stuart Russell. Even though Russell was reputedly the first European to realise the potential of the South Burnett, it was Simon Scott of Taromeo (now Blackbutt) and the Haly brothers of Taabinga who brought the first flocks of sheep to the area in the late 1850s.

In 1878 the district where Kingaroy now stands was settled by the Marwell brothers. When the first resumptions were made from the enormous Taabinga holding, the brothers selected two adjoining areas and in 1883 these leases were converted to freehold and became known as the ‘Kingaroy Paddock’. The corner of this paddock was located on what is now known as Haly Street, named after the brothers who settled at Taabinga Station.

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A Brief History of Architectural Model Making – Part 2

This was the same back in the Grecian and Roman empires – two eras categorised by rapid expansion and grand architecture. Materials cost money, and the architects looking to construct buildings in those days are the same as the architects these days.

It is suggested that architectural model making began even before these dominions, but the earliest recorded document relating to architecture comes from the Roman rule in the 1st century AD. Since that point in time architectural model making has continued to thrive, with the materials used to make it becoming increasingly more hi-tech.

Leonardo Da Vinci was a proponent of architectural model making, and in his radical and ingenious ideas lay the foundation for many of the architectural patterns and theories that are in use today.

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A Brief History of Architectural Model Making – Part 1

Model making is a key facet of any successful architectural programme. People may think that architectural model making only began when the technological revolution gave us the ability to build accurate and exact replicas, but actually architectural model making has a rich tradition stretching back through the ages.

Quite simply, where there has been architecture there has been architectural making. Building a scale model of a proposed building is one of the best ways to bring a building to life. The main function that an architectural model serves these days is a selling one – an architectural model is presented to a potential financial backer or client.

The idea behind a model is to further assist the financial backer or client to understand exactly what the building is intended to offer and will therefore enlighten them further as

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Throughout the 20th century Brisbane’s government precinct has been the subject of numerous planning proposals.

In 1961 the State Government’s Works Department made an overall plan for the area, envisaging a series of slab buildings on the site, of which only the Executive Building was realised.

In 1973, the architecture firm Lund Hutton Newell Paulsen was invited to redevelop the area and set up a collaboration with the American architecture firm SOM.

They planned the precinct following SOM’s Field Theory Logic, resulting in the construction of 80 George Street, which was just part of the entire scheme.

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Early Buildings “Cultural Asset”

Brisbane, Nov. 10. – Australian architects will ask the State Government to establish trusts to preserve historical buildings.

This decision was made by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects Federal Council today.

The council, in a special statement, said it regarded early buildings of historical and architectural interest as a cultural asset and a national heritage.

The Federal President (Mr. Cobden Parkes) is understood to have told the council that historians and architects should prepare lists of buildings in Australia considered worthy of preservation at whatever the cost.

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Queensland Times, 11 November 1952

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