KOWANYAMA PROJECT NEWS ISSUE 4 - Honouring Our Youth, May 2020 - Winter Edition

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MAINTAINING THE HERITAGE OF OUR ANCESTORS

Farthings and Half Pennies English money for the colonies

1885 Queen Victoria United Kingdom One Half Penny and farthing A farthing is one half of a Half penny.

The significance of the year 1885 is that this was the year the Cairo Lagoon Native Police Camp was established on the Mitchell River near present day Highbury Station

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