Picking Tomatoes at Victoria Pt, 1937

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

The Brisbane Courier
21 September 1932

VICTORIA POINT ABUNDANT CROPS

One of the most pleasing and productive areas of the South Coast, Victoria Point, in its luxuriance of crops of tropical fruits and vegetables, and its general air of prosperity, is a remarkable . contrast to many areas of the State.

It seems almost unbelievable that this now beautiful, well-improved and richly-productive area was in its early days of settlement a waste of uncleared forest country, its handful of pioneers gaining a precarious livelihood by grazing a few head of cattle, and carrying on a little mixed farming.

To-day Victoria Point is an area of well-tilled farms and comfortable homes, and a source of supply of fruits and vegetables to Brisbane and Southern markets. Farms stretch over a wide expanse of rich chocolate soil, maintaining all the year through an abundance of crops. Victoria Point has an almost inexhaustible supply

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