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The version of Queensland that the Brisbane Exhibition presented so consistently year after year, including during 1909, was a story of unrelenting certitude in the righteousness of colonisation and utter confidence that ongoing cultural, educational, and above all material progress was Queensland’s birthright and destiny. Queensland, according to this account, was a land of unlimited productive capacities, and Queenslanders, as proud members of the British Empire, were the people who could release those capacities. It was a demanding endeavor, as demonstrated by the rigors endured by the ‘pioneers’ whose achievements were praised at the Jubilee Carnival’s opening ceremony, but it was also an enterprise that promised economic rewards and moral fulfillment. This was a society, the story claimed, that reveled in competition, as exemplified in the contests of the Brisbane Exhibition and Jubilee Carnival, but was united in its determination to improve itself. The narrative of Queensland relied on and glorified the ideal of progress. Source: Celebrating Her First Half-Century: Queensland’s Jubilee Carnival Joanne Scott and Ross Laurie espace.library.uq.edu.au/data/UQ_203075/UQ203075_OA.pdf?

The University of Queensland Gatton Campus was established in 1897 at Gatton as the Queensland Agricultural College. The College initially operated as a tertiary agricultural institution offering a basic practical and theoretical agricultural education for young men and short courses for farmers on specific topics, but from its inception, there was also an expectation that the College would be involved in agricultural research and experimentation. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Queensland_Gatton_Campus

12 June 1911 was a Monday ...

Orient Line to Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand poster bottom right.

Previously, in 1907:

Joseph Knox in the 1911 census. Knox Joseph 37 Male Head of Family Catholic County Kilkenny Ironmonger Read and write - Single

**TITANIC ALERT** Olympic Titanic White Star Line Poster next to the Australia one bottom right Edit - like this via Antoon Kuper