Category: Queensland State Archives’ Photostream About Fortitude Valley

Meringa Sugar Experiment Station, North Queensland, c 1935

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The Australian Bureau of Sugar Experimental Stations imported approximately 100 cane toads from Hawaii to the Meringa Experimental Station near Cairns and more than 3000 were released in the sugar cane plantations of North Queensland in July 1935.

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Tobacco growing at Beerburrum, log barn, 1933

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The Brisbane Courier
6 April 1933

Berburrum Tobacco.

“Profress at the family group tobacco settlement at Beerburrum has been such that leaf curing has commences,” Said the Minister for Agriculture and Stock (Mr. F. W. Bulcock) yesterday.

Mr. Bulcock, who initiated the Beerburrum scheme last year for the purpose of getting unemployed families out of the city and on to the land, added that it was the biggest undertaking of its kind in Australia, and he was satisfied with the headway that was being made. About 90 families were in residence on separate areas, and many of the men had gained valuable experience in tobacco growing.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 4318

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Bauhinia Tree, George Street, Brisbane City, 1949

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The Brisbane Courier
22 March 1930

BRISBANE’S FLOWER.

Named after John and Caspar Bauhin, twin brothers, and famous botanists of the 17th century, the Bauhinia are very showy flowering trees, and climbers, native in India, Mexico, Jamaica, South Africa, South America, and our own State. They are hardy, free flowering, and easily propagated from seed. Those usually seen about Brisbane are Bauhinia varlegata, with purplish flowers, and B. candida with white flowers, both of which flower after leaves have fallen off. They are good subjects for street planting. Other kinds grown are Bauhinia purpurea, that flowers with the tree in foliage, and Bauhinia Galplni. the coral red flowering rambling shrub from Nalal, Bauhinia hookeri the Queensland Ebony, is a beautiful
small leaved tree, slow in growth, but flowers profusely.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 4221

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