Maryborough

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WILSON, HART , AND Co., LTD ., to THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC LANDS.

Maryborough, 12th July, 1907. Dear Sir,-We enclose a newspaper cutting referring to a suggested undertaking in connection with fish-canning and sisal culture at Fraser Island.
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Maryborough Chronicle, 4th July, 1907.

FISH-CANNING AND SISAL CULTURE-INTRODUCTION OF PEARL OYSTER. Captain H . C. Kent, R.N.R., who some time ago was locally well known as the superintendent of the Fraser Island Aboriginal Mission Settlement, has arrived in Maryborough again from the South, accompanied by his wife, and tbey intend to take up their residence in our midst again.

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Maryborough 10·50 am. 23 Sept. 1907 . We note from newspaper paragraph that application is being made to secure timber on Fraser Island for export Maryborough timber merchants trust you will safeguard their interests as whole of timber needed for local requirements

On behalf Maryborough millers HYNE AND SON
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I would call the attention of the Hon. Minister for Lands to the fact that it is generally understood that timber which is over 10 miles from a railway is unworkable, and all timber procured from this island will have to be drawn some miles across soft sand and then punted to Maryborough, a distance of 40 miles, unless a large sum is expended in building wharves and deepening two creeks, which can only be done in the case of obtaining most liberal concessions of royalties.

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While Capt. Kent was in Maryborough last month, numerous deputations of natives - many coming from the far North - waited on him, and begged him to use his influence with the Government to have them returned under him (Capt. Kent) to Fraser Island.

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MINUTE BY THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC LANDS. MARYBOROUGH LAND AGENT'S DISTRICT. CAPTAIN KENT AND FRASER ISLAND.

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Maryborough 12 July 1907, J . Green, manager for Wilson, Hart &Co. Ltd. wrote to the Under Secretary for Public Lands enclosing a cutting from the Maryborough Chronicle of 4 July 1907, which read: FRASER IS. ENTERPRISE FISH CANNING AND SISAL CULTURE - INTRODUCTION OF PEARL OYSTERS.

"Captain H.C. Kent, R.N.R., who some time ago was locally well known as the Superintendent of the Fraser Is. Aboriginal Settlement, has arrived in Maryborough again from the South, accompanied by his wife, and they intend to take up their residence in our midst again.

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The career of the company will be watched with keen and sympathetic interest." Wilson and Hart and also Hyne & Son, timber merchants of Maryborough both with leases on Fraser ls. lobbied the Government for the protection of their interests.

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"While Capt. Kent was in Maryborough last month, numerous deputations of natives, many coming from the Far North, waited on him and begged him to use his influence with the Government to have them returned under him (Capt. Kent) to Fraser Is.

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A firm of Maryborough sawmillers have leased a timber area, and are constructing a tramway for "Yeerine" Creek to the big scrub.

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I am indebted to many source for data for these notes, including Captain Cook's and Matthew Flinder's journals, "Tom Petrie's Reminiscenes" by Constance Petrie (1904), "Genesis of Queensland" by John Stuart Russell (1888), the Oxley Library and that at Newstead House, Dr. J. H. Bendich, Foresters Allom, Markwell and Whale and others, including that grand old nona genarian pioneer, the late Captain Ned Armitage of Maryborough and his son, Norman.

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was founded in 1848 near Baddow. In 1862, when Maryborough consisted of a few houses, Tom Petrie successfully explored Fraser Island, Tin Can Bay area and the Susan River, seeking timber with Pettigrew, who, with Sims, established the Dundathu Mill that year and by about 1863 started to raft kauri logs from Fraser Island.

It seems certain that Yankee Jack and his mates cut and despatched timber to Maryborough in 1863, but how it was loaded is not clear as it seems fairly certain that Seery was the first to take bullocks over in 1868 and raft logs to Dundanthu (now non-existant) in 1869.

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Fish abound in the sheltered straits and continuous waters, and the devotees of Isaac Walton in Maryborough and near districts are probably far higher in proportion than in any other similar sized community in Australia.

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This quantity would only properly whet the palate of Maryborough's two huge saw-mills, which cut approximately 15 milliom superficial feet per year and whose mainland reserves of pine and mature hardwood are fast being consumed under the present utilisation and price standards.

Andrew Petrie's first report of 1842 probably helped to inspire his enterprising son, Tom Petire, 20 years later to accompany Pettigrew to Maryborough (only a few houses then) exploring for timber to Fraser Island, "Tinkun" Bay and Susan River.
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Red Cedar was shipped to Maryborough from Bundaberg in 1867 by the first steamer to use the Burnett River.

In 1869, Kauri logs were cut on Fraser Island by Pat Seary and Brislow, near the present Forestry Station on Woongoolba Creek, hauled to the beach by bullocks, and rafted to Maryborough.

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The old tramway steam engine about the associations of which a whole book could be written, is sti11 doing the hauling of logs and timber within the yards of Hyne & Son's vast Maryborough mill.

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...superseded by teleradio, Forestry having an excellent radio station at its headquarters, which communicates direct with Maryborough.

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The voluntary conservation groups from Maryborough, Hervey Bay and Bundaberg formed a subsidiary group -the Fraser Island Defence Committee in January 1971.

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[start underline] STATEMENT OF MR. SIDNEY GRANVILLE JARVIS, 563 Kent Street, MARYBOROUGH [ end underline

[start cross out] My full name is Sidney Granville Jarvis. I reside at 563 Kent Steet, Maryborough. [end cross out] I was born at Granville, a suburb of Maryborough, on the 13th March, 1898.

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I can recall too, some of the early history, regarding the demise of the McKenzies sawmill on Fraser Island. Of course there was a yarn that these mills in Maryborough didn't help the operation survive, but I wouldn't know about that yarn. The trouble arose with the wharf labourers who had to go down to load the timber, and I think that's what broke it, because they's all require houses and other facilities and amenities.
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The Maryborough mills, at that stage wouldn't take turpentine. [end cross out section]

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INTERVIEW WITH MR.JARVIS, 563 Kent St., MARYBOROUGH. 17.7.75
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J.S. You went to school here in Maryborough?
S.J. Granville school

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Ferry Service and Tours:
Gordon Elmer Rainbow Beach
Dick Elmer Maryborough - Phone 4310
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GEORGE EARLE ...PROPRIETOR
BOOKINGS
EARLES 274 ADELAIDE ST. MARYBOROUGH 21.3798

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FOR ALL MARINE REQUIREMENTS
SEE:
CASWELL & CO. PTY. LTD.
CNR. TORQUAY RD. & ZEPHYR ETS., SCARNESS
and 276 - 278 KENT ST., MARYBOROUGH
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The timber is hauled to the tidal creeks south of Moon Point, and loaded onto barges to be punted up the Mary River to the Maryborough sawmills. Gone are the exciting days of the log crafts, the bullock teams, Mackenzie's Sawmill, the tram- lines with their steam locos, and timber getters' skirmishes with the aboriginals.

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MOONBI -
A JOURNAL OF
FRASER ISLAND
Subscription $5.00 p.a.
Available from FIDO
Ltd P.O.Box 420
Maryborough 4650

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ANOTHER MARYBOROUGH The MARYBOROUGH CHRONICLE needs little excuse for editorials on the subject of resuming Fraser Island sandmining. The recent visit of the City fathers of MARYBOROUGH Victoria was reason for yet another echo.

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One of the exploits of Z Force related by Mr Allen Russell, former manager of Dillingham Mining Company, who had trained on Fraser Island, was that a unit had to leave the camp, sneak into Maryborough by canoe and mark the shipping in the Mary River with a cross where they could have planted and detonated explosive charges.

This very successful raid was carried out despite the security surrounding the shipboard installation of Maryborough and aroused at first incredulity and finally a furore, when the exploit was revealed to the Maryborough authorities.
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MOONBI 40 continues the series of reminiscences of Fraser Island's veterans. In this paper Sidney Granville Jarvis ex bullocky of Maryborough recalls his memories of the bullocky days.

[left column] I was born at Granville, a suburb of Maryborough, on the 13th March 1898. I attended the Granville State School, together with two of the Owens.

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Of course there was a yarn that these mills [print missing] Maryborough didn't help the operation survive, but I would [??] know about that yarn.

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Alf Jarvis had the only motor boat at that time and he was in the habit of going up to Maryborough on weekends.

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In 1864 (then 16) he followed his brother to Maryborough "where there were 200-300 people comprising timbergetters."

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The quick tempered Skipper grabbed an axe, called Jarvis to steady down, climbed up on the tender and made a swipe at the branch. However he lost his footing and he speared head-first over the side, hitting his head on the end of a railway sleeper. He had another trip to Maryborough Hospital, stll unconscious, with some people worried that the old warrior might never recover.
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Another time in Maryborough, while Skipper was walking down the street, he heard yells - looked back to see a horse in sulky bolting down the street, a woman and baby aboard.

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To obtain a copy of the issues paper contact the
Department of Envoronment
PO Box 10 MARYBOROUGH
QLD 45650 (071) 23 7100
fax(071) 23 150

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Pettigrew formed a partnership with the Sims family and established a sawmill at Dundathu, about 10 kilometres downstream from the wharf at Maryborough . The first kauri logs from Fraser Island arrived in 1863.

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The Aboriginal mission at North White Cliffs was closed in 1872 so that the land could be established as a ' quarantine station' to handle the large number of immigrants arriving at Maryborough and Gympie.
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Other sawmills developed to exploit the rich timber resources of Fraser Island,most notably Wilson Hart & Co . Ltd. (formerly Wilson, Hart and Bartholomew based at Granville and beginning operations in 1866) and Hyne & Son, whose first mill was established in Kent Street, Maryborough in 1879.
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380 Karen Townrow (with Leo Cao and John Langford), Postan's Logging Camp. Fraser Island. a cultural heritage assessment, Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage, Maryborough , September. 1993, p. 11.

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After working for Andy for two and a half years, he worked for Lawrie, hauling and snigging. They worked for ten days and came back to Maryborough for four.

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As a result, Pettigrew lost no time in starting a sawmill back on the mainland at Maryborough with the Sims family as business associates.
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The building, which is considered the most important lighthouse on Australia's eastern seaboard, was built by I. and I. Rooney of Maryborough.
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The brumbies which roam on Fraser Island have an interesting history. They are a legacy from 1879 when Harry Aldridge, son of Maryborough's first resident, sent a herd of Arab greys over to the island to breed horses for the Indian army.

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[map annotation]
1863 Pettigrew and Sims mill began operation on mainland at Maryborough.; First Kauri logs were punted from Fraser to mill.

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A firm of Maryborough sawmillers have leased a timber area, and are constructing a tramway from ' Yeerine" Creek to the big scrub.

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ON Thursday morning, the captain of the "Golden Land," arrived in Maryborough by the" Leichardt," with the intelligence that a 1arge party of blacks had attacked the sick camp on Woody Island, and after driving off the attendants, had plundered the camp of everything moveable.
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No traces of the blacks were to be found, and the "Leichardt" coming in sight, the captain judged it prudent to leave the island to report in Maryborough what had taken place.
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It was his own discovery, and he put a price upon it; but the town of Maryborough either did not believe in it, or did not regard it as a matter of sufficient public importance to treat with him about it-- otherwise the Burrum coal would doubtless long before this have been put on board the steamers, not by the brave, industrious, and energetic Miller, but by a local company formed to turn the discovery to account.

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(2) Certificates of Application have not been issued in respect of Mining Lease Applications Nos. 126 to 130 (inclusive), Maryborough as I had ordered the applicant company to carry out an environmental impact study.

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21 April, 2002
Senior Conservation Officer
Natural Resource Management
Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service
PO Box 101 MARYBOROUGH QLD 4650
Dear Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service,