Durundur Estate Map (Durundur and Holmwood), 1902

Durundur, QLD
Australia
1 January 1902
26 October 2010
26 October 2010

Location

Durundur, QLD
Australia
Brisbane
Survey Office, Department of Public Lands

Collection of the Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying, Brisbane

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

By the 1890s there was a demand for good agricultural land in parts of southeast Queensland. This shortage was mainly due to previous ambiguous land regulations.

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 farmers seminar at Condy Park, Pialba, c1960. Slide by John Thun, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © John Thun and Centre for the Government 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

Contour farming, Durong, 1958. Slide by John Thun, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © John Thun and Centre for the Government of Queensland

DPI officers surveying contour bank, Murgon District, 1958. Slides by John Thun, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © John Thun and Centre for the Government of Queensland

I used to put my dairy herd in that paddock, and if all of the cows stood in the bottom of a gully at the same time, you couldn’t see a beast in the paddock!

Prickly pear jelly

Recipe for Prickly pear jelly

Pick prickly pears when deep purple. Use LONG BBQ tongs to pick and long sleeves to protect against cactus thorns. Half of a large grocery bag is enough to start with. Wash pears well - hold each pear with tongs (NOT fingers). Cut in half with sharp scissors. Fill a large pan no more than half full. Cover with water and boil until pears are soft and mushy. Run the pears through a ricer, food mill or force them through a sieve. Strain juice through cheesecloth.

25 October 2010
25 October 2010
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