quilpie

Simple and modest beginnings for the great cause.

Adavale District Hospital, Queensland, ca. 1921. This hospital, established in 1902 had accommodation from five patients. It finally closed around 1968. Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StateLibQld_2_52032_Adava...

WATER FOR TOWN. BORE AT QUILPIE. 1,000,000 GALLONS DAILY. It was officially stated on Saturday that the Quilpie bore from which there was a flow of 200,000 gallons a day at the 235ft. level, would, in all probability, yield between 900,000 and 1,000,000 gallons daily when a depth of 3000ft. was reached. Two years ago the Irrigation and Water Supply Commission put down a test bore on Whynot station, a few miles from Quilpie, which was giving a yield of almost 1,000,000 gallons a day. As the town bore was on the same strata, it is estimated that its output would eventually be about the same. This will be Qullpie's first bore water supply, and it is stated officially that from a health point of view, it will be a boon to the townspeople. Hitherto the town had to rely on a waterhole in the Warrego River for its supply, and from this water had to be carted to consumers. Source: The Courier-Mail, 25 Sep 1933 trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/1122995

The killing of kangaroos by Europeans began at exactly the same time that the species was first identified. Shooting, naming, describing, scientifically classifying, sketching, dissecting, eating: these things all played out simultaneously as soon as Cook’s Endeavour got stranded on a reef in far north Queensland in June and July 1770. Many notable visitors participated in organized kangaroo hunts: Charles Darwin in 1836 (“my usual ill-fortune in sporting followed us”), Britain’s Admiral of the Fleet Henry Keppel in 1850, and the novelist Anthony Trollope in 1871. The Duke of Edinburgh came to the colonies in 1867 – the first royal visit – hunting kangaroo in South Australia and then traveling out to Victoria’s western district for more sport. Organized hunts could kill any number of kangaroos; alongside hunting meets that pursued individual roos as game, squatters also organized large-scale drives or battues, which could see thousands of kangaroos rounded up, slaughtered, and left to rot. Source: theconversation.com/friday-essay-the-art-of-the-colonial-...