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Cool looking motorhome

I like the canvas awnings. That is real class.

This picture makes me incredibly happy - both to live in Brisbane and just to look at.

That is cool!

Wonderful. Wish I had one !

St Andrews church was built in Bundaberg in 1932 by the Presbyterian church. Architect Lange Powell designed the church in broad free gothic style, reminiscent of the 14th century. “The carillon tower was dedicated as a World War 1 memorial and houses a peal of bells manufactured in Maryborough, England,” Doug said. “During the 1970s the building came under the auspices of the Uniting Church in Australia and was purchased by the Seventh-day Adventist church in June 2004. “The site is listed in the Queensland Heritage Register as a place of cultural heritage significance.” Source: www.bundabergnow.com/2021/05/25/st-andrews-church-undergo...

MESSRS. ALEXANDER AND MUNRO. The business establishment par excellence of Toowoomba is that of Messrs. Alexander and Munro, whose large operations are conducted in the most elegant premises on the Darling Downs—in point of fact, the beat appointed and largest soft goods stores in any provincial town in the colony. The building is two stories In height, with a frontage of 114 ft. to Ruthven-street, the central thoroughfare of Toowoomba, and with a depth of 125 ft. The proprietors believe in an abundance of light and air, and they have carried their idea into practical effect, special provision having been made for this in the construction of the premises. Handsome plate-glass fronts run the whole length of the building, and the interior of the store is brilliantly lit. The upstairs portion of establishment 1b is also replete with every convenience for the sections located in this part of the establishment. The departments are many and varied, and each is in charge of an expert. They comprise drapery, millinery. Manchester goods, dressmaking, tailoring, clothing, mantles, boots, glassware, crockery, floorcloths, linoleums, furnishings, fancy goods, hollowware. It is therefore abundantly evident that Messrs. Alexander and Munro are in a position to supply the modest wants of the farmer, or the more pretentious requirements of the householder and to a man of unlimited means. The business conducted by this firm covers a great extent of the country—not only the Darling Downs district, of which Toowoomba is the chief commercial center, but away out among the cattle runs of the distant North and the sheep stations of the remote West; indeed, it Is a well-known fact that no retail house in Southern Queensland can boast of more extensive ramifications. Businessmen from all parts of the world who have visited Toowoomba have found their way into Messrs. Alexander and Munro's extensive repository and expressed their astonishment at seeing everything so complete. The cash railway, for instance, is fitted up all through the establishment, and the comfort of the employees, coupled with the rapid and economical despatch of business,- has received the best consideration. 'As a thoroughly complete -emporium, Messrs. Alexander and Munro's establishment Is certainly on \ par with the best-known houses of the metropolis, while they have the reputation of selling at prices such as many of the leading city houses even can not touch. The business was started in a small way in 1871, and some years after Mr. Alexander retired, and Mr. Munro took the burden of affairs on his own shoulders. He steadily forged ahead and kept pace with all the modern methods that competition had compelled commercial men to adopt. A big staff of assistants is of course employed, and Messrs. Alexander and Munro are now doing one of the largest businesses outside Brisbane. Mr. Munro, the managing partner, is a Scotchman, a shrewd, far-seeing businessman, and a very hard worker. He stands high in the estimation of his fellow townsmen and has on several occasions been asked to allow himself to be nominated for public honors, but his business is too exacting to allow him to do so just yet. Source: "The Queenslander" 20Nov. 1897 trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/24471944