Category: Queensland State Archives’ Photostream About Fortitude Valley

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The Telegraph
26 August 1915

COLLECTIONS ON SATURDAY. Queensland’s Patriotic Day.

Collectors for Patriotic Day are notified that the collection boxes will be available for distribution from the committee’s room in the Town Hall to-morrow, Friday, from 2 p.m., unless other arrangements have already been made. Each of the boxes bears the official stamp of tho Queensland patriotic fund, or Red Cross Society, and the number of the box, and is sealed.

Collectors will also be supplied with an official badge, and a card ol authority to collect , on behalf of the Queensland patriotic fund; this must .be handed back with the. box before the close of Saturday.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 26074

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The digital image for this map was cut into two parts due to the size of the original map. They have been reassembled for ease of viewing online.

Part 1: Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 6315
Part 2: Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 6316

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Townsville Daily Bulletin
28 June 1945

NEW COURTHOUSE FOR HUGHENDEN.

The Department of Public Works is preparing plans for n new court house at Hughenden, and the project 1ms liven referred to the Co-ordinator of Public Works for inclusion In the draft programme of loan building works to be carried out during the financial year, 1945-46. Writing to Mr. R. Jones. M.L.A. who had approached the Minister on behalf of the Hughenden branch of the A.L.P.. Mr. H. A. Bruce stated that it bad been stressed lo the Co-ordinator General that the work was a matter of urgency as the present building wag not only beyond use. but was in a dangerous condition

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 5565

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A State Government Insurance Office plan of the Royal National Agricultural and Industrial Association Show Grounds and buildings, Brisbane, November 1936.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 5498

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The name Mareebs is thought to be derived from an Aboriginal word referring to the meeting of waters.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 5344

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Rockhampton was named by Lands Commissioner Henry Wiseman, derived from the rocky bar upstream from the wharf.

Queensland State Archives Item ID435793, Photographic material

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Rockhampton was named by Lands Commissioner Henry Wiseman, derived from the rocky bar upstream from the wharf.

Queensland State Archives Item ID435793, Photographic material

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The Sunlander was a long distance passenger train that operated between Brisbane and Cairns from 1953 to 2014.

Queensland State Archives Item ID435793, Photographic material

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John Murtagh Macrossan was the 16th Chief Justice of Queensland from 1989 to 1998. He was also Chancellor of Griffith University from 1988 to 2000.

His uncles Hugh Denis Macrossan and Neal William Macrossan were also Chief Justices of Queensland.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 5643

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Margaret McMurdo was the first woman to be appointed to the bench of the District Court of Queensland in 1991. She was appointed president of the Queensland Court of Appeal in 1998 and retired in 2016.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 5633

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