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The heritage-listed, former council chambers in Crawford Street Queanbeyan have taken on a new life as the Queanbeyan-Palerang Heritage Library, reports HELEN MUSA.

"The effect may be considerable in a few centuries," it prophesied.

A 1912 report in the Rodney & Otamatea Times is being shared everywhere. Is it real, where did it come from, and why is it proving so popular?

ONCE upon a time, if you wanted a beer you went to Queanbeyan, simple. Thanks to King O’Malley, the federal Minister for Home Affairs of the day, Canberra was a dry town from 1911 to 1929.  King O’Malley… a fierce teetotaller, who called grog “stagger-juice”. O’Malley, a fierce teetotaller, who called grog “stagger-juice” and abstained from it, persuaded his cabinet colleagues to ban, in 1911, the granting of liquor licences in the Federal Capital Territory.  Queanbeyan resid...