Waggamba Shire story : a history of the Waggamba Shire / written by G.O. Armstrong
- Bib ID:
- 215358
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Armstrong, Geoffrey Owen
- Description:
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- Brisbane : Waggamba Shire Council, 1973
- 216p. : ill. ; 23cm.
- ISBN:
- 0959877002
- Summary:
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Pastoral stations; leases; settlement; pioneers; brief mention of Aboriginal people -Carbucky Station near Boobera Lagoon p. 23-24; plate of Aboriginal carvings on a tree at Wondoogle p. 144-145; account of attacks by Aborigines on a station on the Moonie River and the Weir River p. 183-184; Chapter 44 is titled 'Aboriginal Parliaments' (and written by Donald Gunn)and describes what happens at a Boro, the last of which was held at Talwood in 1894, p. 186-188; Goondiwindi a meeting place for Aboriginal people.
- Notes:
- Available from The Shire Clerk, Waggamba Shire Council P.O. Box 212, Goondiwindi, Q. 4390.
- Subject:
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- Queensland. Waggamba Shire, to 1972
- Settlement and contacts - Settlers
- Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture - Pastoral industry
- Gender relations - Marriage
- Art - Sculpture - Tree carving
- Law - Indigenous
- Trade and exchange
- Waggamba (Qld.) -- History
- Goondiwindi (SE Qld SH56-01)
- Boobera Lagoon (N NSW SH56-01)
- Waggamba (Qld SH56-01)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Waggamba Shire Council, Queensland
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1973
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