Ross & Co. sawmill at Goomeri, 1911
Image credit: Goomeri History Qld
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Shops in Jones Street, Goomeri - opposite the Railway Station 1919
Shops in Jones Street, Goomeri - opposite the Railway Station 1919
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First stand-alone Post Office Goomeri
First stand-alone Post Office Goomeri
Image credit: Goomeri History Qld
Image credit: Goomeri History Qld
Goomeri Post Office - Miss Hall telephonist
[Item undated - date is an estimate only]
[Item undated - date is an estimate only]
Date range 1890 - 1978
Image credit: National Archives of Australia
New Post Office Goomeri 1980
New Post Office Goomeri
Image credit: National Archives of Australia Date range 1940 - 1960
Looking back at the Goomeri Post office
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Street view of the new Post Office
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Image credit: Goomeri History Qld
Ref Link: https://trove.nla.gov.au/
Goomeri Post Office & phone exchange Vada Perrett
wearing operators headphone in the 1940's
Image credit: Goomeri History Qld
Image credit: Goomeri History Qld
Goomeri Post Office Boxes
Image credit: National Archives of Australia Date range 1940 - 1960
Back of Goomeri's new post office.
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Goomeri postmaster's residence
Date range 1960 - 1970
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Goomeri Post Office and quarters
Date range 1940 - 1960
Image credit: National Archives of Australia
Goomeri Post Office and quarters
Date range 1940 - 1960
Image credit: National Archives of Australia
Goomeri Light Horse contingent 1935
Governor of Queensland inspects the Goomeri Light Horse contingent 1935
Image sourced from Picture Queensland, State Library of Queensland
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Newspaper: Goomeri Kiddies Turned It On 1961
Newspaper: Goomeri Kiddies Turned It On 1961
PROUD of the fact that the sports were being staged in their own town for the first time, pupils of the Goomeri State School gave a great exhibition of marching at the Sports on July 27. This Des Wieland picture shows a section of kiddies who marched, drawn up at attention after the march past.
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Opening of Goomeri State School, 1912
Image State Library of Queensland
Opening of Goomeri State School, 1912
From “Schooling After the Land Sale”
By Jean Davis as told to Margaret Greer
Mr Joe Heath was the first teacher appointed to Goomeri School, arriving on 2 March 1914. Mr Heath was always interested in agriculture and it was not long before cotton crops were earning the school thirty pounds per annum.
The recently levelled oval, adjacent to the Highway 17 and Munro Street, was a large horse paddock and the school’s entrance was through a double gate shaded by a huge pepperoni tree near the town’s tennis courts. There were saddle rails and a horse trough for the convenience of the young rider and their Horses. One family came by sulky and another by horse and cart. A very good well had been sunk on the grounds and during the wet seasons, it overflowed. Experimental plots of grasses and other fodder crops, vegetable gardens, fragrant roses and other flowers grew in profusion, Herd testing played a large part in the student education in the 1920s.
School slates were in use and many a slate pencil was sharpened on any available cement. A huge box under the school stored all the sporting equipment required for cricket vigero, tennis and basketball.
During the Second World War, the school was used as Army Headquarters for officers to plan the New Guinea campaign which was put into effect many months later. No one was allowed near the school at night and Mr Health had to give the correct password to identify himself to guards before he could enter his own school.
Bird day at Goomeri State School, 1920s
Image State Library of Queensland
Bird day at Goomeri State School, 1920s
WW2 in the 'Hall Of Memory' Goomeri Military Ball
Annual MILITARY BALL poster framed and hanging
in the 'Hall Of Memory', Goomeri.
WW2 in the 'Hall Of Memory' Goomeri Military Ball
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A sample story of events held at the 'Hall Of Memory'
GOOMERI, August 30 1937
Military Ball— The second annual military ball which was held in the Hall of Memory on Friday evening was easily the most outstanding and successful ball held in Goomeri for many years. The ball was conducted by the Goomeri Troop of the 5th Light Horse who also celebrated their recent success at the Brisbane Show. The door receipts amounted to over £50, and the hall was well packed with a happy crowd of dancers. A large number of visitors were present from as far as Gympie. Cooroy. Maryborough Kilkivan, Murgon, Wondai and Kingaroy. Visiting military officers who were present were Regimental Sergeant-Major Peters (Gympie. Captain Batts (Kilkivan) Lieut Melane (Murgon), and Sergeant Cant (Kingaroy).The grand march was led by Captain Batts and partner and Lieut. Anderson (Goomeri)and partner. The march was a most imposing spectacle end several hundred couples participated.
Mr. Kerlin (Gympie) officiated as M.C. and the music was provided by an orchestra of six instruments led by Mrs. Bonney (Gympie). The hall decorations were most imposing. The main feature of the decorations were the 300 flags of all nations with which the hall was draped, whilst hundreds of balloons swayed gently to and fro in the nights breeze. The supper arrangements were supervised by Mrs.F. Schellbach.
Source: Newspapers: Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser QLD Fri 3 Sep 1937
Wood waiting for transport Goomeri
Wood waiting for transport Goomeri
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The First W McIvor Store 1916
The First W McIvor Store 1916
Image Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
Person standing outside Cafe Goomeri
An unknown person standing outside Cafe Goomeri.
Image credit: Goomeri History Qld
Image credit: Goomeri History Qld
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