Jean Devanny, Sugar heaven, 1936

Queensland sugarcane fields were riven with ethnic divisions between Anglo-Celts and migrants with non-English speaking backgrounds from southern Europe.

Proposed Queensland sugar mill locations, 1923

QLD
Australia
1 January 1923
14 April 2011
14 April 2011

Location

QLD
Australia
Brisbane
Government Printer

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Proposed Queensland sugar mill locations, 1923. In 1922, the Queensland Government appointed William Harris to chair a Royal Commission into the most suitable locations for future sugar mills. From 10 October to 13 December the Royal Commission inspected and listened to the testimony of witnesses at many of these proposed locations. Together with the evidence of interested people, the commission heard from master mariners, Crowns Lands Rangers, officers of the Public Estate Improvement Branch, and other departments of the Public Service. The product of the Royal Commission was a report presented to the parliament which included this map. Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the most suitable locations for sugar mills which may be erected in the near future, Brisbane, Government Printer, 1923

Proposed sugar mill sites, Tully and Banyan area, 1923

Tully, QLD
Australia
17° 55' 58.3284" S, 145° 55' 24.8016" E
1 January 1923
13 April 2011
13 April 2011

Location

Tully, QLD
Australia
17° 55' 58.3284" S, 145° 55' 24.8016" E
Brisbane
Government Printer

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Proposed sugar mill sites, Tully and Banyan area, 1923. This detailed map of the Tully River and Banyan area was included as an appendix to the 1923 report by the Royal Commission into the most suitable locations for sugar mills in Queensland. The members of the commission were quite taken with the Tully site, noting: ‘These lands are the most suitable for cane growing that we inspected, and stand out on their own in comparison with other areas brought under our notice’. Proposed sugar mill sites are shown with a red mark. Notably, each of these marks are located in, or adjacent to ‘forest lands’. ‘Smyth’s site’ (Portion 16, and the second mark from the top of the map), appeared to the commission as the most suitable for a sugar mill in the district. The commission reported, ‘The question of a mill and township site, however, including a scheme for drainage, would require to be very carefully investigated by expert surveyors and engineers in order that the most suitable site may be secured.’ With the sympathies of the then Queensland Premier, and North Queenslander, Edward Theodore, this site was later chosen as the location of the Tully Mill and an adjoining township. Tully Mill would become the largest sugar mill in Australia. Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the most suitable locations for sugar mills which may be erected in the near future, Brisbane, Government Printer, 1923

White children and their Pacific Islander attendants at the Hambledon Sugar Plantation outside Cairns, c1891.

Collection of the John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 172486

Sugar cane train, 1948

Sugar cane train, 1948

Location

Australia
H20890
Queensland Museum
South Australia
1 January 1947
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
Dimensions
3150mm
2080mm
7100mm

South Sea Islander cane knife

South Sea Islander cane knife

Location

Erakala Mackay, QLD
Australia
21° 8' 28.356" S, 149° 11' 8.25" E
E16946
Queensland Museum
Mackay
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Erakala Mackay, QLD
Australia
21° 8' 28.356" S, 149° 11' 8.25" E
Dimensions
651mm
157mm

Unloading bulk sugar rail trucks, Mackay, 1958. Slide by Richard Hopkins, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © Richard Hopkins and the Centre for the Government of Queensland 

Burning sugar cane near Cairns, area is now a Cairns suburb, 1965. Slide by Rex Grattidge, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © Rex Grattidge and the Centre for the Government of Queensland 

Mechanical harvest of sugar-cane, Kingaroy Shire, 1956. Slide by John Thun, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © John Thun and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

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