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Lockyer Creek is named after Edmund Lockyer, a soldier and explorer who headed an expedition to explore the upper reaches of the Brisbane River in 1825.
The Bremer River was first named Bremer’s Creek in 1824 by John Oxley, after James Bremer who was the captain of HMS Tamar.
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John Clements Wickham was a Scottish naval officer, magistrate and administrator. It was first officer on the second voyage of HMS Beagle which carried a young Charles Darwin.
After retiring from the Royal Navy, he became a Police Magistrate of the Moreton Bay District in 1843. He retired in 1859 when Queensland separated form New South Wales and moved to France.
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Ipswich Technical College opened in 1891. IN 1951, Ipswich State High School opened and it was called Ipswich High and Technical College. The High School was separated from the Technical College section in 1963 and the name reverted to Ipswich Technical College. In 1977 it became part of Ipswich College of Technical and Further Education (TAFE), later merged into Bremer Institute of TAFE and now part of TAFE Queensland South West.
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Prince George, Duke of Cornwall and York (later King George V), and his wife Mary visited Queensland from 20 to 25 May 1901.
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Morning Bulletin
24 May 1946
Improvements To Biloela Hospital
BRISBANE, May 23. – An order-in-council was issued today authorising the Banana Hospital Board to borrow £3500 by the sale of debentures to the State insurance Commissioner. The board is obtaining the loan to proceed with the erection of a matron’s quarters and additional bedrooms and living room, laundries, kitchenettes, and a lavatory and bathroom at the nurses’ quarters at the Biloela Hospital.
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The Longreach Leader
4 December 1953
Barcaldine New Hospital Officially Opened
On Saturday afternoon the Barcaldine General and Maternity Hospital was officially opened by the Hon. W. M. Moore, Minster for Health and Home Affairs. A fair crowd of residents of Barcaldine and District was present in the vicinity of the main entrance to the building, at which point the opening ceremony and accompanying speeches were made.
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Geraldton was renamed Innisfail in 1910 to avoid confusion with Geraldton, Western Australia.
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The Telegraph
11 July 1946
State Has 1,333 Building Blocks
Up to June 30 last the Queensland Housing Commission had acquired land totalling 1,333 building allotments in Brisbane, the Minister for Works and Housing (Mr Bruce) announced today.
The lands were located as follows: Ashgrove, 99 allotments; Banyo, 11; Camp Hill, 17; Cannon Hill, 11; Chermside-Wavell Heights, 261; Coorparoo, 187; Corinda-Graceville, 20; Enoggera-Gaythorne-Mitchelton, 228; Fairfield-Yeronga, 25, Indooroopilly-Taringa, 22; Kedron, 20; Wynnum-Manly. 11; Moorooka-Rocklea-Salisbury, 41; Morningside, 17; Mt. Gravatt, 2; Nundah, 29; Stafford, 161; Tarragindi, 171; total, 1,333.
On the north side, 831 allotments had been acquired, and on the south side, 502.
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From the Queensland Heritage Register.
The former Cooktown Hospital was erected in 1879-81 to the design of Queensland colonial architect FDG Stanley, replacing an earlier temporary hospital building erected in 1874.
Cooktown was established in October 1873 as the Endeavour River port, supply and administrative centre for the Palmer River goldfields. In the earliest days of Cooktown settlement [the summer of 1873-74], new arrivals to the Endeavour River district faced food shortages, floods and fever, and the establishment of a hospital at Cooktown became urgent. In March 1874 a committee was formed to raise local subscriptions for a temporary hospital building, and the first Cook District Hospital, a small timber structure situated on the ridge above Charlotte Street [between Banks and Green Streets], was erected in April 1874. In the same month a Government Medical Officer was appointed, and the colonial government promised £300 for a permanent
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Although originally captioned as “c 1870”, the Lady Lamington Hospital opened in 1900.
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