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Who wore what on Melbourne Cup in Warwick?
Warwick successful Engines are firing for in the Mitchell Shield! Heritage Weekend
Centenary of Warwick Chamber of Commerce Gordon Bratby Publisher, The Town & Country Journal
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ast Friday night, 4th November, Kings Theatre in Warwick was the venue for a dinner to celebrate 100 Years of the Warwick Chamber of Commerce with special guests including the Hon David
Littleproud MP, Federal Member for Maranoa and Leader of the National Party. Mr Littleproud was said to make a rushed trip to Warwick from Victoria to attend this special night. As a past president of the Warwick Chamber of Commerce, he was the first of the evening’s guest speakers and addressed the audience for 20 minutes. Continued on page 15...
Michael Jones, General Manager of Warwick RSL David Littleproud, a Past President of the Warwick with Marco Gliori (on the right), MC for the night. Chamber of Commerce, addresses guests of the 100 Years celebration.
Stumps for a cause Selina Venier stanthorperecord@gmail.com
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here were 5,000 reasons to come to the Stanthorpe Heritage Railway precinct on Davadi St, last Saturday, 5th November. Michael Bednarz, on behalf of Nutrien-Harcourts and the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR) presented Artworks Granite Belt with as many dollars towards the restoration of the Queensland Fruitgrowers’ Society (QFS) building. Barbara Bowyer excitedly told The Stanthorpe Record
that while the fundraising will continue, the recent dollars will help with the restumping of the structure that has been unused since 1995. “Five thousand dollars is a start,” she said. “It is for the restumping but just to do the building, we need 120 (stumps) and the loading dock is 35 (stumps). It’s not easy, it’s a lot of steel.” While their “first task” is the removal of asbestos, which Barbara said will happen soon, the committee behind the venture are asking locals if they’d consider donating funds to assist with the purchase of a stump, or even dollars towards half a stump, the average cost of
one in the vicinity of $600. then the Southern Qld “We are calling it, ‘Stump Fruitgrowers’ Society (SQFS) up for QFS’,” she continued, and finally the Queensland then explaining what their Fruitgrowers’ Society Ltd. By hopes are for the restoration. 1929, ... “When the building is Continued on page 11... restumped, it will have multi-purpose spaces which could be used for performances, events or functions. The other side will have memorabilia to highlight the history of the building and its relationship to the railway,fruit growing, and the co-operative movement.” The Cooperative movement began in Woombye in E warwick@rfsteelbuildings.com.au 1890 as the Woombye Fruit Growers’ Association. Later becoming the North Coast Fruit Growers’ Association,
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