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The Aboriginal population is believed to have entered Australia at least 60,000 years ago. Current opinion favors migration through various parts of northern Australia including Cape York Peninsula.[1] Traditional local Aboriginal stories recall hunting and fishing on land that once extended past Green Island during a time of lower sea levels.[2] Archaeological evidence shows Aboriginal peoples living in rainforest in the Cairns area for at least 5,100 years, and possibly for much of the often suggested 40,000-year period.[3] The first recorded human occupants of the Cairns area were Australian Aboriginal peoples. Tribal groups speaking the Gimuy Walubara Yidinji language were generally on the south side of the Barron River. On the northern side, particularly in the coastal area from the Barron to Port Douglas, Yirrganydji groups generally spoke dialects of the Djabugay language.[4] Yidinji (also known as Yidinj, Yidiny, and Idindji) is an Australian Aboriginal language. Its traditional language region is within the local government areas of Cairns Region and Tablelands Region, in such localities as Cairns, Gordonvale, the southern part of the Atherton Tableland including Atherton and Kairi. The area is known in the local Yidiny language as Gimuy. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Cairns#:~:text=Archaeolo...

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

Crikey. I didn't realise it took so long to build the Civic Centre. I can't see Jim Merrington sat in his Tyne Brewery office.

Power station beside the brewery? Or could it simply be a large boiler house for the brewing process??

If your talking the building with the two chimneys on Corporation Street, I think it was something to do with the brewing. You Could look in the windows as you walked past.