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Cotton growing areas of Queensland, 1956. Based on information supplied by the Cotton Marketing Board, Queensland, Walkabout, July 1956. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, the University of Queensland.

Durundur Estate Map (Durundur and Holmwood), 1902. This estate plan, available free for distribution, advertisers the selection of 74 portions of land in Durundur and Holmwood, to be open for selection at the Woodford Court House on and after Tuesday 21 October 1902 at 11 o’clock. It was printed and published at the Survey Office, Department of Public Lands, Brisbane in September 1902. J.T. Stiles and A. Lymburner, Licensed Surveyors. The map includes a depiction of a dairy farm with men and women at work tending dairy cattle, chickens and pigs. Also included are the terms and conditions of selection, already selected land tinted red, railway and road mileage information, and a detailed list of the schedule of lots available with purchase price and fees. The map itself provides a brief indication of the nature of the land including ‘dense vine scrub’, ‘open swampy flat’, ‘well grassed’. Collection of the Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying, Brisbane