Heritage steps into the old council chambers
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.
Source: citynews.com.au
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Twitter Revives Eerie 111-Year-Old Warning About Burning Fossil Fuels
"The effect may be considerable in a few centuries," it prophesied.
Source: huffingtonpost.co.uk
The New Zealand news nugget circling the globe 110 years after publication
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?
Source: thespinoff.co.nz
When a shout could only be heard in Queanbeyan
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 resident Phill Hawke, who is researching O’Malley’s “flamboyant” life, says that at the time it w...
Source: citynews.com.au