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The KANGAROO POINT CYCLING CLUB is the oldest cycling club in Qld. It was established on 14 July 1905 at a meeting at the Pineapple Hotel, Kangaroo Point and is still going strong. ..................................................................................... Although officially affiliated in 1905, the club in fact held its first race meeting in 1903 with three road handicaps. In that year P. Burke (the club’s actual founder) was Captain and Fred. Whimp was secretary. In 1904 R. Peters was Captain and Norman Hetherington was Secretary. Even in the first 15 years, or so, the club supported many State and Australian Champions, with the likes of Joe Bell, Syd Gee, and Jack King. Jack won many state and Australian titles and in 1920, was one of the first-ever two cyclists selected to represent Australia at the Olympics (in Antwerp). He was Queensland’s first-ever Olympic representative. Other club members who almost made it to the Olympics were Harry Clayton, who would have been at the 1940 Olympics, were they not canceled, and Alan Hoger who made it into the final cut before Melbourne in 1956. The twenties was a strong time for cycling in Brisbane, apart from numerous dirt tracks and roads on the city’s outskirts, we also had two velodromes, a concrete circuit around the “Gabba” and a board track at the RNA exhibition grounds. This time saw the rise of many of the club’s most prominent members, these included Bill Muir, Shearer Goubareff (who was also a champion weight lifter) and Tom Wallace (a well-known cycling identity in Brisbane for many years, “Tom Wallace Cycles” at Lutwyche still bears his name). Norm. Gailey M.B.E. was not only our Club president for over 50 years but also president of the Queensland Cyclists Association, Australian Cycling Federation, and many Olympic and Commonwealth games committees. It was Norm. Gailey was responsible for bringing the Commonwealth Games to Brisbane in 1982. Source: kangaroopointhistory.com.au/places/community-clubs/kangar...

There are many versions of how Bundaberg’s main street was named - from Walker’s book to a series of letters written to the Bundaberg Mail in 1895 - each with a different explanation. Writers and historians have chosen which version they believe is correct, and confusion reigns to this day as to the ‘correct’ explanation of the meaning of Bourbong Street. John Young Walker (1890) - History of Bundaberg : Bourbon-street, the main thoroughfare, and the chief business resort have no connection with the ex-Royal family of France, or with that variety of sugar-cane; but is from ‘Boor-bung’ a chain of waterholes between the town and Rubyanna. (p.14) 20 Jan, 1895 - Letter to the Bundaberg Mail: A correspondent writes: - As an old resident of the Wide Bay and Burnett Districts, I was much pleased to find one of your contributors in a recent issue declaiming against the ‘g’ in our main street. To old-fashioned folk, the modern spelling has jarred on our nervous system severely. Someone of an imposing elevation of mind probably thought it did or ought to belong to the aboriginal dialect. As there is no such part of speech as ‘bour’ in the native dialect, the ‘bong’ meaning dead renders the title silly and unintelligible. The main street of Bundaberg was named Bourbon by the surveyor who laid the principal sections of the town out for a well-defined and perfectly understandable reason. The first cane planted at Rubyanna came from Bourbon, an island in the West Indies, and that plant bears its French imperial title even unto this day. Why is the name borne on every title deed in Bourbon-street was ever locally altered to a meaningless farcicality is beyond the ken of people who have endeavored the face the varied conditions of the colony for nearly half a century, long before we aspired to the proud distinction of being dubbed Queensland, which gave entry to those who, ignoring our past records, would box up a French imperial standard with an impossible aboriginal sentence? It is to be hoped that those who feel any pride in the town will in all cases drop the g in Bourbon-street - even as the Real Property. Neville Rackemann (1992) - Bundaberg - from Pioneers to Prosperity The naming of Bundaberg’s main streets was left to the surveyors. It was an assistant surveyor Edwards who preferred Aboriginal names. The main thoroughfare was named Bourbong Street. Many people, especially senior citizens, are under the impression that up until the late 1930s the spelling had always been ‘Bourbon’; this is incorrect… Up until 1940 the (use) of ‘Bourbong’ and ‘Bourbon’ was near enough to equal. From 1941 on, I found no reference to ‘Bourbon’ Street. Regardless of the spelling of Bundaberg’s main street, it is extremely doubtful whether it had anything to do with an old French royal family or a variety of sugarcane. In all probabilities, the name is derived from an aboriginal word boorbung, the name for a chain of waterholes in the Rubyanna area. This is borne out by the fact that Robert Strathdee’s selection in the vicinity of the lagoons was once recorded on a survey map as ‘Boorbung’. (p.48). Source: www.artsbundaberg.com.au/downloads/file/88/bourbong-street

Beautiful 🌟 !!!!!!! how did you capture that from Negative ?

Hi Jorge - the original glass negative has a black painted mask on the glass to eliminate the background. This turns white when inverted. Expanding the exif information (on the right) gives you the digitisation details. Cheers.

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