Junior farmers of Mount Mee, 1947. They showed intelligent interest in both the lecture and the practical demonstration. Queensland agricultural journal, 1947. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Local farmers and others present at the McCormick-Deering Tractor School, held recently at Millmerran. Queensland agricultural journal, 1927. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Junior farmer visit to Cherbourg, c1957. Slide by John Thun, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © John Thun and Centre for the Government of Queensland

John Nicholson's daughter with part of their pineapple crop at Grovely, Brisbane, Queensland, 1864. 'Grovely is situated in the valley between the Taylor Range and Arana Hills.

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 189935

Mrs E Buikstra checks slices of pineapple for faults, Northgate cannery, 1959. 'Immigrants, particularly married women, rush the huge Northgate pineapple cannery, Brisbane, QLD, for seasonal work at the height of the summer pineapple crop. They work long hours but each week collect pay envelops fattened by penalty rates. Unskilled men get up to £31  a week and unskilled women, up to £21. The cannery processes up to 600 000 pineapples a day and employs up to 1600 workers. Last year more than half the 64 million cans processed were exported to Europe.

Collection of the National Archives of Australia

Two children seated at the end of a row of plants at Atthow’s pineapple farm, Lindum, Brisbane, 1914.

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 43569

Pineapple farms, Beerwah, 1903

Beerwah, QLD
Australia
1 January 1903
4 October 2010
4 October 2010

Location

Beerwah, QLD
Australia
Brisbane
Survey Office, Department of Public Lands
6 chains to an inch

Pineapple farms, Beerwah. To be sold by auction at the Land Office, Brisbane on Wednesday 28 October 1903 at 11 o'clock. Queensland State Archives

Sometime in 1924 in London, a little girl, of no more than five years old, I fancy, sat down in a crate of Queensland pineapples and smiled.

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