sugar

There had been an enormous loss of sugar in the mills and on the wharves. The association estimated the loss at over 12,000 tons and the damage to the mills and buildings al over £26,000. The details of the loss and damage to the mills were : —Plane Creek. 1500 tons of sugar. £2500 damage: Homebush. 1400 tons of sugar, £1000 damage: Fairleigh. 1500 tons of sugar, £7500 damage; Racecourse, 1000 tons of sugar. £3000 damage ; Palms. 1500 tons of sugar. £5000 damage: Pleystowe. 1500 tons of sugar, £2000 damage: Marian, 1800 tons of sugar, £5000 damage: North Eton, 1000 tons of sugar, £1000 damage: Cattle Creek, 500 tons of sugar. £1000 damage: town wharves. I500 tons of sugar, £900 damage. Mr. Peele personally estimated the loss at slightly less. The report of the appalling disaster and flight of the residents was confirmed. There was ruin over a thirty miles radius of Mackay, he said, and the damage was estimated at £1,500,000. Everything possible was being done by the Police Magistrate and officials to relieve the situation. Yesterday was the first fine day after ten days of continuous rain. Mr. Peele, who resides twenty-two miles from Mackay, in a further interview, stated that the cyclone commenced between eight and nine o'clock on the night of Sunday, the 20th instant, and it increased until it attained its maximum force at daylight on Monday. The wind roared like a furnace, and the rain swept across like steam. The barometer dropped to the lowest level known. The hurricane's velocity was easily 100 miles per hour. Buildings commenced to go about half-past two o'clock on Monday morning, and at daylight, the long series of men's barracks was stripped instantly. Source: Morning Bulletin 31 Jan 1918 trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/53836149#

Probably were under instruction to keep still for a minute or so.

Now those two ladies look suspiciously like mother and daughter, so could this be the propietor's family posing for an all-important publicity post-card? Sunday clothes, mother to anwer to if they don't get it right..... it's no wonder the poor things look wooden. And, Oh I do hope father didn't step on his nice new billy-cock hat when he got up!

Well, I guess Michiel2005 is right, posing for a while didn't exactly make for spontaneous snapshots, but maybe you're right too Jack Falstaff. Maybe they weren't resting tourists! And thanks for billycock! Didn't know that was what these hats were called. Apparently also bombín in Spanish speaking parts...

You're welcome, Carol. It was also known as a Derby in the USA, but more generally in the UK (when Jack was a lad, which is a long time ago) as a Bowler (after the name of the original makers) and,much more rarely if memory serves, as a Coke Hat (because it was created in the mid-nineteenth century for Edward Coke, brother of the Earl of Leicester).

Charming scene would be great foe a publicity shot.

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