Southern Free Times - 23rd March 2017

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Nathan Horne

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Week commencing Thursday, 23 March | 2017 | Edition 868

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Region’s vice regal visit

Big 2017 for Horse Trials

Water Rats Women’s debut

Casey’s Spin

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Great gate debate By Jeremy Sollars Debate is raging over calls to move a set of historic gates from Warwick’s Leslie Park back to their original home at Glengallan Homestead to coincide with the homestead’s 150th anniversary this year. Dozens of readers have contacted the Free Times over the last week to point out that the gates - which the Glengallan Homestead Trust refers to as the Glengallan Gates - are, in fact, officially known as the Leslie Memorial Gates. The four sandstone pillars and the iron gates - which stand in the south-west corner of Leslie Park opposite the Warwick Courthouse - were gifted to the Warwick council in 1940 by the then owner of Glengallan Homestead, Oswald Slade, to mark the centenary of the Leslie brothers settling in the Warwick district. At that time the homestead, which is now a restored and notable tourist destination, was in disrepair and the gates were clearly not missed at the time of their donation by the Slade family. When they were installed in Leslie Park, the council heritage listed gates were mounted with commemorative insets recognising the Leslie brothers, which remain in place today. A special council meeting on Monday 13 March considered a formal request from the Glengallan Homestead Trust to have the gates shifted back to the homestead - at the trust’s expense - with the council deciding to put the issue out for public comment. Last week Glengallan Homestead Trust chairwoman Donna Fraser announced that a Toowoomba businessman with family links to Glengallan, Warwick and Allora had donated $10,000 to Glengallan’s 150th anniversary projects, including return of the gates. Continued on page 3

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150 YEARS The Warwick Show and Rodeo Society and its band of tireless volunteers have been working behind the scenes to bring you the 2017 Warwick Show. It's time to celebrate 150 years of showcasing everything the region has to offer. Full show program on page 10.

From left: show chairman John Wilson, assistant secretary Sarah Bourke, secretary Clancy McGahan, show office volunteers Liz Hawthorne and Faye Brearley (holding ‘security co-ordinator’ Georgie Hawthorne) and Show Society treasurer Beck Thornton.

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