Identifier: IpswichAndBundamba (find matches)
Title: Ipswich And Bundamba
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Queensland Government Intelligence and Tourist Bureau
Subjects: Queensland West Moreton South East Queensland coal mining Ipswich Bundamba tourist guide State Library of Queensland
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fod movement, has made hisname an honoured one throughout Queensland. About 2,000 miners are now employed in the coal trade around Ipswichand Bundanba. Queensland Woollen Company. The Queensland Woollen Company, which is favourably known throughoutthe State, was founded in 1877. Its inception was due to the enterprise ofseveral prominent Ipswich business men, most of whom have now passed away.When one realises the tremendous ramifications of this industry in GreatBritain, the army of workpeople to whom it gives employment, and the hugeamount of capital invested, it is patent that the encouragement of similar indus-tries here must tend to benefit Queensland, and to promote general prosperity.At present the wool we grow is exported to England and the Continent, andreturned to us in the shape of goods that could equally well be manufacturedhere. The custom of wearing clothing of Australian manufacture, which hasbeen coming into favour of recent years, will probably obtain a greater vogue
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