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I recall my father buying a Farmers Boy rotary hoe from Buzacotts in the 1950s. Probably bought other items there too, but I got to use the rotary hoe as a little bloke, it was more interesting.

Lutheran involvement in the Cooktown area began in 1885 when missionary Johann Flierl stopped off at Cooktown on his way to New Guinea. He later received government permission to start a mission station. The original mission sites were at Elim and Cape Bedford. Elim became known as Hope Valley, and later Hope Vale. The Immanuel Lutheran Synod in South Australia supported work amongst the Gungu Yimidhirr people by sending missionaries C.A. Meyer, George Schwarz and Wilhelm Poland. At the outbreak of the Second World War the people, along with missionary Schwartz, were interned at Woorabinda, near Rockhampton, in Queensland. In just one month twenty eight people lost their lives with nearly a quarter of the people dying over the next eight years. In 1986 the community became the first to receive a Deed of Grant in Trust (DOGIT) and formed the Hope Vale Aboriginal Council. In 1997 a Native Title determination was made concerning the lands of the Hope Vale. Source: aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/files/catalogue_resources/MS...

The Guugu Yimithirr people like all Aborigines in Australia have been here for approximately 100,000 years. The Guugu Yimithirr first came to prominence in 1770 when they engaged with Captain James Cook and his crew on the good ship Endeavour. As is well known in history the Guugu Yimithirr hosted Captain Cook at present day Cooktown (Gungarr) for 7 weeks. During this time he not only had to repair the Endeavour he also met the Guugu Yimithirr people and engaged in dialogue along with Joseph Banks and Sydney Parkinson. They gathered a word list of the Guugu Yimithirr language and from this encounter the Guugu Yimithirr have been immortalised in the English language by giving the name to that giant hopping marsupial-Gangurru-Kangaroo. Hope Valley Mission was founded in January of 1886 by the Lutheran Missionary John Flierl. He was on his way to establish a mission in New Guinea but was held up in Cooktown and during the idle time he began work amongst the Guugu Yimithirr clans in Cooktown. He established himself as missionary on the Cape Bedford Aboriginal Reserve, choosing a spot on the bay north of Cape Bedford which he called Elim. Source: www.hopevale.qld.gov.au/history

This pic was taken during the King's Birthday holiday weekend in early June 1935, when a group of some 15 climbers from the National Parks Association's camp at Mt Ernest climbed the nearby Mt Lindesay. This photo shows the group on the open Northen slopes of Mt Lindesay... This pic is from one of Ken Rogers' photo albums which were at one point held at the National Parks Association of Queensland archive...I gather the albums are now held at the SLQ. Ken Rogers was one of a group of more adventurous hikers and climbers who were active in SE Queensland from the later 1920s and thru the 1930s...his photo albums include a number of photos taken by other photographers...he and his friends appear to have shared their photos...and prints of many of the photos that appear in Ken's albums also appear collections compiled by Bert Salmon, Cliff Wilson and Nora Dimes...the accompanying note indicates this particular pic was taken by 'R.W.B.' (ie. Reg Booth)... All up Ken Rogers' albums provide a fascinating insight into leisure and recreation in 1930s Queensland...Ken worked in the Queensland Public Service...as did many of the people who appear in the various photos...Bert Salmon worked as a photographer with the Department of Agriculture and Stock...Muriel Patten worked at the Department of Agriculture and Stock...Doris Goy worked at the Queensland Herbarium, Irene Booth and her brother Reg worked at the PMG's Department, etc... Unfortunately, one of Ken Rogers' albums...covering the period 1932-33...appears not to have made its way to the SLQ...either that or it hasn't been scanned yet...this 'missing' album contains some particularly significant photos that don't appear in the various other collections... For what it's worth, Bert Salmon (seen here 1st left) was one of the preeminent Australian climbers of the earlier 20th century...he was also probably the most prolific Mt Lindesay climber until relatively recent times…Bert’s log of his Mt Lindesay ascents indicates that he made 27 ascents between 1928 and 1964…this 1935 King's Birthday holiday weekend ascent was evidently his 10th...

Bert Salmon's pic of the same group on the summit tier...another print of this pic also appears in Ken Rogers' album... www.flickr.com/photos/193158484@N02/53470545687/ Fox Movietone News cameraman George Burne filming the climbers...this pic might have been taken on the afternoon of 2nd June, after the group had returned from climbing Mt Lindesay... www.flickr.com/photos/193158484@N02/53471787731/