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Extracts from Ipswich Municipal Centenary

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Extracts from Ipswich Municipal Centenary by Leslie E. Slaughter, March 1960



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Extracts from Ipswich Municipal Centenary by Leslie E. Slaughter, March 1960


Coal Discove[...]n" is almost in the centre of the present City of Ipswich and is shown on the map on
page 8.
Special instru[...]ays. Nor did he do anything to improve the road.

Ipswich a Customs Port
The port of Moreton Bay was extended up the Brisbane River to Ipswich on October 1,
1860. Dutiable goods could then be[...]South Wales."
Messrs. Gray and Co’s premises in Ipswich, were licensed as a bonded store, for the whare-housing
of dutiable goods. So Ipswich had its Customs House. The steamboats Brisbane, B[...]icensed for the conveyance of goods under bond to Ipswich. Those arrangements
eliminated the delay o[...]stoms purposes. Instead, they went
immediately to Ipswich.
Extracts from Ipswich Municipal Centenary by Leslie E. Slaughter, March 1960


Council Gained Control of Wharves
The few months old Municipal Council did not waste time before claiming it rig[...]overnment was willing
to place all the wharves in Ipswich in the control of the council; but recommended th[...]cently become the
Customs House.
By that time the Municipal council had received many applications for wharf[...]ck it.
The steamboat "Settler: was plying between Ipswich and Brisbane during 1866".
As time passed, some o[...]nt made legal its original agreement, so that the Ipswich
Municipal Council could issue notices for the payment to it[...]amboats, not already mentioned, which were in the Ipswich-Brisbane service throughout
the early years were the "Breadalbane," "Ipswich," "Bremer," "Kate," "Emu," "Enterprise," t[...]1928.
It was the construction of the railway from Ipswich to Brisbane in 1874 which took away the river
tra[...]Lang addressed an equally enthusiastic meeting at Ipswich. Those present
strongly supported the deci[...]against separation, spoke in favour of it at that Ipswich meeting. The meeting was held in
George Wa[...]
Extracts from Ipswich Municipal Centenary by Leslie E. Slaughter, March 1960


It was decid[...]the Moreton Bay District, most of which came
from Ipswich.
The result of the subscriptions in Ipswich was £100.
The advocates of separation nominated[...]n Victoria. A number of those
petitions went from Ipswich. In the same month there was a meeting in[...]ct from the new colony.
That caused the people of Ipswich to send another petition to Queen Victoria. It wa[...]ry would be altered,
so on February 28, 1858, the Ipswich residents sent another petition to the Queen. It[...]granted.
That petition was signed by hundreds of Ipswich people, many of the names of those who were
promi[...]of the town. It is implicit that the residents of Ipswich had sent another
petition to the Queen. A despatc[...]petition from certain inhabitants of the Town of Ipswich that Her Majesty
would cause the necessary steps[...]n
England. The petition was not acknowledged.
The Ipswich petitioners complained to Governor Denison, so he[...]d
from overseas.
Therefore, a meeting was held in Ipswich on November 17, 1858. Those present advoca[...]

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Extracts from Ipswich Municipal Centenary
Ipswich, Queensland
Extracts from Leslie E. Slaughter's 1960 "Ipswich Municipal Centenary", which was published by Ipswich City Council as part of the city's centenary of municipality.
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