25 000 Hospital Appeal Planned For Nurses Quarters
Preparations are complete for a £25,000 hospital appeal to fund nurses quarters and renovations at Burrs Hospital. The plan includes a nurses home as part of a future block and essential patient facilities improvements. Donations may be sent to the Secretary at Box 39 BurrA. funds already in hand and advance donations encouraged to use tax concessions this year.
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Burrs Hospital
Iast
Appesis
Tsend
Burra
Queensland Students Exchange Burra History Notes
Queensland students study Burra history as Ms Worship and the mayor Mr W Carpenter receive a letter from Mr Ken Gilbert of Buranda. A copy of the 1952 Burra Jubilee Convenor is shared to aid classroom study and a potential notes exchange is proposed.
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Queensland
Burra
W. Carpenter
Ken Gilbert
Buranda
Brisbane
Carpenter
Kangaroo and Four Foxes Found Dead in Tank
A caretaker named Gast found the bodies of a kangaroo and four foxes in an old underground water tank about nine to ten feet deep. The kangaroo likely fell in at night while in a paddock near a taxi, and the foxes then entered the tank seeking an easy meal but perished after failing to escape.
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Gast
Ron
Guest Speaker At Methodist Church Kooringa
A visitor Miss Ratimi from Suva spoke at the Kooringa Methodist Church on Sunday about the island hurricane and efforts to help. Nurse Rantinji training at Memorial Hospital in Adelaide plans to return to Suva to continue work with her people and life on the islands.
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Suva
Contractor For School Yard Lets Committees Down Again
Arrangements were to have contractor G Stevens inspect Burra School Yard for safety yesterday, but a breakdown delayed him. He had missed earlier inspections, with new plans set for Wednesday June 18. The contract, let December 1949, has led to repeated delays and local government scrutiny.
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G. Stevens
Burra
Stevens
Tne
Bravern
Pioneers and Waste in Queensland Coast
The report describes hardships in central northern Queensland near Rockhampton with farmers living in poor shacks and losing land to jungle. A breadwinner injured on a hillside plot, six children to feed, and the family struggling to survive while locals pursue timber and farming. The piece notes tropical crops, coffee growing wild, and a cave-like bridge near a lake, with locals collecting fish by netting and recounting prewar Japanese fishing.
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Australia
Queensland
Bour- Ishing
Rockhampton
Burra
Ute Exsler
Tar
Ur Nia
Uy Snides
Bani
Orat
Jake
Amell
C W A Avenue Completed Amid Town Planting Drive
The remaining works for CWA Avenue were completed with new trees planted from Hanson turn-off to town. The avenue began in 1951 at Burra CWA Branch request funded by CWA. Burra Town Council replaced trees last year after sheep damage and renewed three. Town Council also planted about 150 trees this year including 50 along Memorial Oval and replacements for natural losses.
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CWA
Mirance
Hanson
Burra Cwa
Burra
Hse
Memorial Oval
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Ds.q. Fdr
Methodist Church
Kooringa
Burrs
Education Department
MLC
Ane Cem
Nate
Pioneers
Eas
C.W.A. Avenue
THE
BANK
Voy
Reme Ecialiats
Commonwealth Bank
Cade
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