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Proston
Proston is a rural town and locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. Geography The town is located north-west of the state capital, Brisbane northwest of the South Burnett regions commercial centre, Kingaroy and south of Lake Boondooma. It is the closest supporting township to Lake Boondooma and has a variety of shops including post office, grocery store (SPAR), pub (Golden Spurs), chemist, medical centre, hardware, cafe, and clothing store. The area around Proston is hilly, grassland, grazing country, most of it cleared from the original brigalow scrub that once covered the immediate vicinity. History The town's name is taken from a pastoral run name, which in turn was a corruption of an Aboriginal word (possibly from the Waka language) meaning '' kurrajong tree''. The surrounding rural area was settled in 1910 with a land ballot that attracted a group of settlers from England. With little access to water, early settlers struggled to maintain a livi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shepherd Memorial Church Of St Peter, Proston
Shepherd Memorial Church of St Peter is a heritage-listed Anglican church at the corner of Drake Street and Wondai Road, Proston, South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Fowell, McConnel and Mansfield and built from 1937 to 1939 by Lesleigh George Windmell Smith. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 9 November 2012. History The Shepherd Memorial Church of St Peter (St Peter's Church), on the corner of Drake Street and Wondai Road, Proston was designed by architects, Fowell, McConnel and Mansfield, supervised by Brisbane architects Lucas and Cummings, and built between December 1937 and July 1939 by LGW Smith, using local bricks. This Scandinavian-influenced church was funded by a bequest from grazier Charles Shepherd of "Aston" near Proston. The town of Proston is sited on land that was originally part of the pastoral lease Wigton, which dated from 1850. In 1910 the Queensland Government opened the land for closer settlement and offer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proston Railway Line
The Proston railway line is a branch railway from Murgon to Proston in south-east Queensland, Australia. History On 7 December 1914 Queensland Parliament approved a branch line to run west from Murgon to Proston in south-east Queensland. Although construction began in late 1915, a shortage of rails and the impact of the war impeded progress and, after suspending work in 1920 for some two years, the line opened on 24 February 1923.Kerr, J. 'Triumph of Narrow Gauge' Boolarong Press 1990 Stops were established at Barlil, Byee, Gueena, Mondure, Kawl Kawl, Hivesville and Kinleymore en route to Proston. The villages of Byee and Mondure can attribute their existence to the establishment of the line, however Hivesville was already an established centre by the time of construction, predating it by at least a decade and it subsequently became a thriving service centre for the district in the immediate years after the line's opening. Proston township developed around the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speedwell, Queensland
Speedwell is a rural locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , establishe ..., Australia. In the , Speedwell had a population of 28 people. History Speedwell Provisional School operated from 12 August 1912 to July 1913 as a half-time provisional school with Abbeywood Provisional School (meaning they shared a single teacher between them). It then became a full-time provisional school (having its own teacher). On 1 January 1915, it became Speedwell State School. It closed in 1962. It was at the kink in Speedwell School Road (). Speedwell Baptist Church opened on Sunday 16 April 1916. In 1967, the church building and congregation relocated to Proston. In the , Speedwell had a population of 28 people. References Further reading * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinleymore, Queensland
Kinleymore is a rural locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the Kinleymore had a population of 93 people. Geography The Proston railway line enters the locality from the east ( Hivesville), passes through Kinleymore railway station () in the centre of the locality, and then exits to the west (Proston). The line no longer operates and the station is abandoned. History The locality was named after three of the original settlers in the area by combining parts of their surnames (Kinnear, Leys, Morey), and also used this as the railway station name from 2 March 1923. Previously the railway station was called ''Mobill'' (reported as a Waka language Waka is an Adamawa language of Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated betw ... word meaning ''stony country''). Kinleymore Provisional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stalworth, Queensland
Stalworth is a locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Stalworth had a population of 33 people. History The locality was officially named and bounded by government on 16 October 1998, although the locality name has been used since the earliest days of settlement. A hall was built at Stalworth which hosted dances and social events for many years. It opened on Saturday 21 September 1929 and was later extended with significant alternations and improvements which were opened on Saturday 3 March 1934. Church services and activities were also held in the hall regularly. A Stalworth branch society within the Christian Endeavour movement met in the hall and they hosted the Weinholt Christian Endeavour Union rally there in 1937. Other social activities in the district included the formation of a Stalworth local soccer team. There was also a cheese factory at Stalworth for a short time. Newspaper articles from 1925 report that it was destroyed by fire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okeden, Queensland
Okeden is a rural locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the Okeden had a population of 26 people. Geography The Boondooma Dam and its associated lake is on north-western boundary between Okeden and Boondooma. History The locality shares its name with the parish, which in turn was named after pastoralist and public servant David Parry-Okeden who managed the Burrandowan pastoral run in the 1850s. In the Okeden had a population of 26 people. Amenities There is a boat ramp and pontoon at the eastern side of dam on Boondooma Dam Road (). It is managed by the South Burnett Regional Council. Education There are no schools in Okeden. The nearest school, Proston State School in neighbouring Proston Proston is a rural town and locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. Geography The town is located north-west of the state capital, Brisbane northwest of the South Burnett regions commercial centre, Kingaroy and south ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boondooma Dam
Boondooma Dam is a dam on the Boyne River on the boundary of Boondooma and Proston in the South Burnett Region of Queensland, Australia. In 1983, the dam was constructed across the Boyne River below its confluence with the Stuart River, creating Lake Boondooma. It has a capacity of 204 200 ML under the of surface area and has an average depth of . The dam forms a narrow and deep lake, designed to avoid evaporation, with one fork containing much standing timber and another having many submerged rocky outcrops. The dam overflowed for the first time in May 1983. It reached a low of 0% capacity in October 2015, after having reached a maximum of 173.8% (6.17m over the spillway) in January 2013 as a result of heavy rain from ex Tropical Cyclone Oswald. Water supply It was built to supply water to the Tarong Power Station and as is the case at so many impoundments, takes its name from the original property in the area. The dam also supplies water to irrigate agricultural prope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Burnett Region
The South Burnett Region is a local government area in the South Burnett district of Queensland, Australia. Origins This Local Government was created in March 2008 as a result of the report of the Local Government Reform Commission released in July 2007. Prior to the 2008 amalgamation, the South Burnett Region, located in the southern catchment of the Burnett River, existed as four distinct local government areas: * the Shire of Kingaroy; * the Shire of Nanango; * the Shire of Murgon; * and the Shire of Wondai. The report recommended the new local government area should not be divided into wards and should elect six councilors and a mayor however the Interim Steering Committee applied to the State Government for four wards based on the old shire boundaries. As the total population is just a few hundred short of the level set in the report for eight councilors and a mayor, application for this was also made. Area and size The South Burnett Region covers an area , containin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tingoora, Queensland
Tingoora is a rural town and a locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. Geography The town is on the Bunya Highway, north west of the state capital, Brisbane. The Chinchilla – Wondai Road ( State Route 82) enters from the west and terminates in a T-intersection with the Bunya Highway. History Charlestown Provisional School opened circa 1894 and closed circa 1894. The Kilkvan to Goomeri section of the Nanango railway line opened in December 1904, with Tingoora served by the now-abandoned Tingoora railway station (). The town takes its name from the railway station which was named for the local Indigenous Australian word in the Waka language for the wattle tree. The Tingoora railway bridge is the longest surviving wooden railway bridge in the South Burnett. The Theebine to Kingaroy line was officially closed in early 2010. The restored curved railway bridge is now part of the Kingaroy-Kilkivan Rail trail. The Tingoora Hotel, established in 1900, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boyne River (Wide Bay–Burnett)
The Boyne River is a river located in the Wide Bay–Burnett region of Queensland, Australia. Course and features The Boyne River rises in the Stuart Range, part of the Great Dividing Range, south of Boyneside near Haly Mountain which is at the northwest extent of the Bunya Mountains and within the Bunya Mountains National Park. The river flows generally north joined by twenty tributaries, crossed by the Bunya Highway, and impounded near the town of Proston to form Lake Boondooma where the Boyne is joined by the Stuart River before reaching its confluence with the Burnett River upstream from Mundubbera at Boynewood. The river descends over its course. The river was named in 1843 by Henry Stuart Russell under the mistaken impression the river was the same watercourse as the Boyne River located in Central Queensland Central Queensland is an ambiguous geographical division of Queensland ( a state in Australia) that centres on the eastern coast, around the Tropic of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melrose, Queensland
Melrose is a rural locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the Melrose had a population of 0 people. Geography The Cushnie State Forest is in the north-east of the locality. Apart from that, the land use is grazing In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to roam around and consume wild vegetations in order to convert the otherwise indigestible (by human gut) cellulose within grass and other ... on native vegetation. History In the Melrose had a population of 0 people. References South Burnett Region Localities in Queensland {{SouthBurnett-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wondai, Queensland
Wondai is a rural town and locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Wondai had a population of 1,975 people. Geography Wondai is located to the south of the Bunya Highway, north west of the state capital, Brisbane. History The name ''Wondai'' is believed to be an aboriginal word from the Wakawaka language derived from either meaning '' dingo'' (a native dog) or meaning ''nape of the neck''. Wondai was first settled in the 1850s and closer settlement took place in the early 1900s. Wondai Provisional School opened on 2 May 1905. On 1 January 1909 it became Wondai State School. A secondary department was added in 1964. Wondai Methodist Church opened on Sunday 4 October 1908, being replaced by the current church building on 9 August 1914. When the Methodist Church amalgamated into the Uniting Church in Australia in 1977, it became Wondai Uniting Church. In December 1912, a Baptist church opened in Wondai. St Mary's Anglican Church was dedic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
