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Gate’s fate on hold By Jeremy Sollars
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End of an era: Robyn, Anthony and John Rye of Eagle Boys Warwick will call it a day this Sunday. Story inside on page 4.
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A council decision on whether or not to shift the Leslie Park Memorial Gate to Glengallan Homestead has been held up after a local resident applied to the State Government to have the gate State-heritage listed. Debate has been raging over calls by the Glengallan Homestead Trust to move the set of historic gates from Warwick’s Leslie Park back to their original home at the Homestead, to coincide with the its 150th anniversary this year. 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. Community consultation carried out by the council in recent months appeared to reach a consensus that the majority of Warwick people who responded think the gate should stay where it is. Southern Downs councillors at their April meeting in Warwick yesterday had been expected to make a final decision on the matter but are understood to have been advised at the last minute that a local person had applied in recent days to the Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage to have the gate State-heritage listed. Leslie Park is State-heritage listed but the gate itself is not, causing a potential grey area for the department. What is certain is that the gate will stay right where it is for at least the time being, with councillors deciding yesterday to defer their final decision until a decision on the heritage listing application is made. The gate is on the council’s own Local Heritage List which carries only minimal legal weight. When they were installed in Leslie Park the gates were mounted with commemorative insets recognising the Leslie Brothers, which remain in place today. Continued page 3
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