Category: Queensland State Archives’ Photostream About Fortitude Valley

Tobacco growing at Beerburrum, log barn, 1933

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

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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Coomera River, June 1952

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

South Coast Bulletin
10 September 1952

THEY’RE BITING

September is usually a quiet month for the angler, a between seasons period, but In spite of this a few creeks have been well filled. Good catches of up to 80 bream have been reported from Hollyweli most of which have been caught on or near the oyster banks on mullet gut.

Bream and whiting are also being taken in the Nerang River. Mr. Jackson and a friend landed 55 good fish of these varieties at the weekend near Surfers Paradise.

Other good class whiting have been taken from near Meyers Ferry and from near the Bamboos.

A Brisbane visitor, Mr. Stevens, spent a couple of profitable hours fishing at the Nerang bar the other day. He went home with 8 flathead ranging from 1lb 7 oz s to 81bs 2ozs. Another fisherman was seen with a 11½lb flathead landed near Jubilee Bridge.

There

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