Item F2067 - A brief account of the history of each of the sugar mills in the Mackay district

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F2067

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A brief account of the history of each of the sugar mills in the Mackay district

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  • 1975-1978 (Creation)

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17 l. ; 33 cm.

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(1942-2003)

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Historian, statistician and writer. A long-serving Councillor of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland and a founder of the Professional Historians' Association (Queensland). An authority on Australian railways and the sugar industry, he published extensively in the Australian Railway Society's Bulletin, and wrote Triumph of narrow gauge: A history of Queensland railways. In 1959 he began the compilation of an historical database on Queensland railways, a resource which he regularly updated and re-supplied to Australian libraries from 1966 until his death.

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Photocopied newspaper cuttings published in the North Queensland Register between November 1975 and July 1978 in 'Around the campfire'.

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Unrestricted access.

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  • English

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Typescript (photocopy)
Written by John Kerr as 'Megasse".

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Alma MMS ID

991008534569703131

Millennium Local System Number

.b22245121

OCLC Number

62548153

Libraries Australia ID

28642463

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Migrated

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Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.

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