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Identifier: ThePocketBrisbane1915 (find matches)
Title: The Pocket Brisbane 1915
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: P.J Nally Queensland Government Intelligence and Tourist Bureau.
Subjects: State Library of Queensland Queensland Brisbane City of Brisbane travel tourist guide handbook
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mos-phere refreshing and exhilarating, and one calculated to bringthe bloom of health to the cheeks of the invalid. Brisbane is the starting point for all the trains to the FarSouth-Western districts, North Coast and Central districts, andthe Southern districts on the New South Wales border at Wallan-garra and Tweed Heads. When the Great Western and GreatNorth Coast railway schemes are consummated, through com-munication will be opened up with Camooweal in the FarNorth-West and Cairns in the Far North. Fifty years ago the population only numbered about 1,000;at the end of December, 1914, it was 154,011, within a 10-mile 8 THE POCKET BRISBANE radius. The population of the whole State of Queensland is676,707. The salubrity of the climate is emphasised by the lownessof the death-rate, and satisfactory condition of the birth-rate.The former in 1914 was only 12.67 per 1,000 inhabitants, andthe latter 34.37 per 1,000. The mean summer temperature is76.7, and the mean winter temperature 59.4.
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QUEEN STREET, LOOKING SOUTH. PLACES OF INTEREST. In the heart of the city there are two very imposingCathedrals—Anglican and Roman Catholic. All the otherreligious denominations have fine churches, the Baptist Taber-nacle, Wickham terrace; St. Andrews Presbyterian Church,Creek and Ann streets; and St. Pauls Presbyterian Church,Leichhardt street, being particularly prominent. Other buildings which attract notice are:—The TreasuryBuildings, Executive Buildings, Parliament House, QueenslandUniversity, Central Technical College Buildings, General PostOffice, Public Library, Museum, Exhibition Hall, Supreme Court,Central Railway Station Buildings, South Brisbane Town HallCustoms House, the Hospitals, Colleges, &c. The Botanic Gardens, comprising 42 acres, and situate on thebank of the Brisbane River, is admirably laid out with innumer- THE POCKET BRISBANE. 9 able flower beds, and there is at all times a wealth of colourand fragrance, which are charming to the eye and pleasing tothe

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