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ISSUE 4

Crossword:

Across:

1. MITCHELL
6. EIDSVOLD
7. TJBYRNES
9. BRISBANE
11. TIN
13. ALPHA
15. EMERALD
16. GYMPIE

Down:

2. CLONCURRY
3. OBSERVER
4. MOOGERAH
5. BEDFORD
8. WAIBEN
10. STANLEY
12. PERCY
14. PRAED

In What Year:
1. Roma became a town?-1862.
2. Was Brisbane amalgamated into the one Council?- 1923
3. Gold was discovered in ChartersTowers? – 1870
4. Was Malanda, in North Queensland, settled? – 1908
5. Did the Fitzgerald Inquiry start? – 1987

What is it?

Butter churner
ISSUE 3

The answers are as follows:

If you didn’t get the tangled town congratulations as there was an error. The small ‘n’ was an upside u and an ‘l’ was left out. It was supposed to be Mungallala near Mitchell. We will get it right next time.

What Year:

  1. John Campbell Miles discovered lead ore in 1923 while travelling through the region now known as MountIsa
  2. Jackie Howe shore 321 sheep in 7 hours and 40 minutes in 1892.
  3. The Fitzgerald enquiry commenced in 1987.
  4. Robert Herbert became Queensland’s first Premier in 1860.
  5. Grasshopper owned by Robert Herbert, won the Corinthian Handicap for gentlemen riders at Eagle Farm racecourse in 1865.

Where it is?

Ross Creek was the Port of Townsville.

ISSUE 2

The answers are as follows:

Tangled Town is Atherton

What Year?

1. In 1606, the Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon landed near the site of the modern-day town of Weipa on the western shore of Cape York.

2. Rockhampton was declared a town in 1860.

3. The great shearer’s strike was in 1891.

4. Qantas first schedule flight was in 1922 from Charleville to Cloncurry.

5. Cairns was established in 1876.

Where is it?

Lyceum Theatre, George Street, Brisbane, circa 1965

 

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