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Bungundarra battlers married for 60 years • By QWIV principal John Ryan SOMEBODY SAID you can count yourself lucky if you make one genuine friend in your life-time. If that genuine friend is your wife, or your husband, you are a very lucky person. And if you can stick together for 60 years of marriage, the first 18 years in a tent, you must have something special. Ella and Tom Ingrey of Bungundarra have been there, done that. Ella May, 79, and Thomas Henry, 87, next Wednesday celebrate their 60 years of marriage. And it's going to be a big day out on their little farm at Bungundarra. Since they started buying it in 1953, they've reduced it from 165 hectares (400 acres) to only one hectare (just over two acres), but it's home — the first they've ever really had. They have seven grand-children and six greatt grandchildren, and they're all expected on Wednesday - and again on Saturday next week when the whole family and friends — about 100 people, says Ella — will be arriving for "a big spread." Tom Ingrey, how did you make a living? "I dunno, really. I think I'm a bit of a Licorice Allsort. Done lots of things in my time. My dad got some government bush land (a selection) near Mackay-in 1914 to try sugar farming. In 1919 I got my first job as a cook for a bloke at Mirani. Then, lots of other jobs, although I've always liked working with timber." What's the best way of making a living? b. "There's no easy way - unless you can get into Parliament! I can't say anything good about Members of Parliament - so I'm not gonna run them down." World War I? "Bad times, starting in 1914. A lot of our young blokes got killed. We had a young apprentice surveyor helping an older bloke mark out our father's selection (government land) of 66 hectares (160 acres) near Mackay in 1914, and I remember (I was nine) he raced off to volunteer for the Army. "Wasn't too much later when we read in the (..„ paper that he was among the first of the Australians killed by the Turks at Gallipoli. Did your father, Elliott Ingrey, have any war service? "No — only his wife and us kids! He was no giant, but he was a 'big' man to us. He worked 12 hours a day, did a lot of jobs. Butcher at Lakes Creek meat works, Rockhampton, a boiler-down in the mutton works at Broadsound, cane farmer near Mackay, went bust in 1933 when the bottom dropped out of sugar prices. "He was a Pom from Cambridge Wells, and came out on a sailing ship in the 1882 when he was 18. He got into construction work, worked on the western railway to Longreach, did some work round Mackay and came back to Rockhampton in 1937. Life was real hard in those days. "The blokes would get a few bob together, and quite go off to the nearest pub. It was usually made of bags. Not like pubs today. He was 89 when he died in 1953. Had seven kids, six of them lived — including me!"
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NEXT week's edition of the Capricorn Coast Mirror will be delivered on Thursday, December 17, rather than the usual Friday. To bring out this edition earlier than usual will require early copy from both advertisers and news contributors. All advertising and news copy must be at the Mirror office (30 Arthur Street, Yeppoon) by noon, Tuesday. December 15. This will allow the paper to be produced throughout Tuesday night foe printing on Wednesday. Also, the Christmas edition will be delivered on Wednesday. December 23, so that readers will have two days of shopping before Christmas using the Mirror as a guide. To produce the Christmas edition, all copy must be supplied by Friday, December 18, at 5pm. That means all advertising and news must be at the Mirror office by late Friday so that the paper can be produced throughout the weekend. In addition, the New Year edition will be delivered on Wednesday evening, December 30. All copy for this newspaper, both advertising and news, must be at the Mirror office by Monday, December 21, at 5pm.
i City back-up for Coast ambulance • ABOVE: Sixty years of marriage: Ella, 79, and Tom Ingrey, 87. They say they'd do it again ... despite the tough times and 18 years in a tent. Aborigines: "In the real hard times of the 1920s and 1930s I can remember them coming round begging for something to eat. The whites had knocked off all the local wallabies for food and skins, and there was nothing left for them. "You know, the Aborigines were very good with children. But the Australians of those days used to ignore the Aborigines. Of course, the socalled Australians then were really Poms, Scotsmen and Irishmen— and they were always fighting each other and ignoring everybody else." Unemployment: "The Gre at Depression started in 1929, but I can remember blokes coming round looking for work in 1927-28. But they were pretty decent sort of people. They'd ask for a feed or a smoke. Some were pretty smart. They'd 'palm' half your tobacco while they were rolling themselves a smoke. Pretty clever, really. "The big unemployment started in the southern States, as usual. Up north around Mackay, and
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YEPPOON people ring ing for a local ambulance will now get automatic telephone back-up from the Queensland Ambulance Service at Rockhampton. Central region assistant commissioner Gerald Lawler said the new system came into force last Monday. Mr Lawler says the new service means if there is an emergency in the Yeppoon area the Rockhampton ambulance operator handling the 39 1211 call will be able to send out the Yeppoon ambulance while continuing the conversation with the Yeppoon caller. Other refinements ensured that anybody calling 000 for a Yeppoon area ambulance would be switched immediately to Rockhampton, which could send out the Yeppoon ambulance. Mr Lawler said a new vandal-proof telephone had just been installed on the wall of the Yeppoon ambulance station. Anybody arriving for help and finding an ambulance away would now be able to call for help - without having to rely on nearby public telephones which might be out of action.
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