‘St Lucia will be no Pandora’s Box where students lift the lid and each takes what he or she requires’, declared J.J.C.

The Great Depression of the 1930s, when economies crashed world-wide, had a devastating effect on people.

Interior and exterior images of the Walter Reid Cultural Centre, 2010. Photographs by Ana Stevenson, 2010

Collection of Ana Stevenson

Both Walter Reid warehouses were affected by fires in 1912 and 1918. These newspaper reports describe the damage and the importance of the business nationally. The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 October 1912, The Mercury, Hobart, 14 October 1912, The Northern Territory Times and Gazette, 14 September 1918, The Argus, 12 September 1918, The Mercury, Hobart, 12 September 1928.

The laboratory is moved to a new location at the Pioneer Sugar Mill, Brandon, 70 kilometres south-east of Townsville, 1965. Sugar train engines in the foreground. Slide by Beth Snewin, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

Copyright Beth Snewin and Centre for the Government of Queensland

Queensland's wooden buildings are transportable. One truck moves the old laboratory at the Pioneer Sugar Mill in Brandon, 70 kilometres south-east of Townsville, 1965. Slide by Beth Snewin, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

Copyright Beth Snewin and Centre for the Government of Queensland

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