Fatal crash west of Westbrook

A motorcyclist died following a collision with a vehicle on the Gore Highway at Umbiram last Sunday.

Preliminary inquiries indicate that around 3.30pm a yellow Triumph Daytona motorbike and white Subaru Forester were travelling northeast along the Gore Highway between Southbrook and Westbrook when the collision occurred.

Subsequently, a grey Mazda CX-3 travelling in the opposite direction, was struck by the motorcycle.

An off duty nurse provided immediate assistance ahead of the emergency response, however the rider, a 24-years-old Pittsworth man died at the scene.

The highway was closed for several hours with local diversions before re-opening around 7.30pm.

The drivers and passenger of the two vehicles were not physically injured.

Police have appealed for witnesses who may have observed the motorcyclist riding in the area around 3pm to come forward.

The Forensic Crash Unit’s investigation continues.

Foggy? Slow down!

In light of recent foggy conditions in the Darling Downs, police have issued a timely reminder for all road users to drive to the conditions.

Senior Constable

(pictured) said you must have your headlights, taillights and number plate lights on when you drive at night or in bad weather which causes reduced visibility.

“Ensure your vehicle is visible by using your fitted specialised fog lights or lowbeam when it is difficult to see other vehicles or objects, due to poor weather conditions such as heavy rain or fog,” Senior Constable Elks said.

“Fog lights should not be used in clear weather conditions, whether it is day or night.

“Remember to drive safely and drive to the conditions of the road.”

Toowoomba R.L. results

Round 8 of the Hutchinson Builders Toowoomba Rugby League competition was played last weekend.

On Saturday, Warwick Cowboys defeated Pittsworth Danes 34 to 24, Toowoomba Valleys Roosters defeated Brothers Leprechauns 62 to 12 and Oakey Bears had their first win of the season, beating Newtown Lions 54 to 6.

On Sunday, Dalby Diehards defeated Goondiwindi Boars 36 to 26, Gatton Hawks defeated Southern Suburbs Tigers 38 to 14 and Wattles Warriors beat Highfields Eagles 44 to 20. Valleys, Warwick and Gatton sit atop the ladder with seven wins apiece.

Rev. Rick Gummow shares a brief history of All Saints’ Anglican Church in Cambooya and its important role in the surrounding district.

“Why!” wrote a perplexed Patrick Leslie in his diary in 1848 regarding the choice to base a new settlement at Drayton.

“It has only the Public House, (first called The Fiver, then the Bull’s head), two shanties and just one well!”

This is a direct quote with Leslie’s exclamation marks used.

By 1840, land for “free settlers” [sic] was made available on the Darling Downs and Drayton was the first village.

This lack of water meant that, some years later, the new settlement moved a few kilometres north and east to what we now know as Toowoomba.

In that same year, The Rev. Benjamin Glennie, who had only been in Australia for seven months, came from Moreton Bay.

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He held the first public church service on the Downs at the public house in Drayton, which according to (historian) Kathleen Simmons was “certainly the smallest and possibly the least civilised that he had visited.”

Drayton was then part of the Diocese of Newcastle, which stretched from the Hawkesbury all the way to Cape York and had a population of just 40,000.

Glennie travelled first, however, to the little town of Cambooya, the name of the residence of the Commissioner for Crown Lands, Christopher Rolleston.

Glennie lived in Cambooya for the first six months of his 40 or so years in Drayton and the Downs.

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The little township of Cambooya, about 20 kilometres out on the Downs from Drayton, has always been an integral part of The Parish of Drayton.

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In 1904 the first All Saints’ Anglican Church was built in Cambooya. It was paid for by 1905, but was destroyed in a tornado in 1914.

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Work started on the new All Saints’ soon afterwards and is the one we still use every Sunday at 10am.

It is a beautiful example of an early 20th century Queensland timber church, and is the largest in the parish.

It is quite a bit bigger than the beautiful stone church of St Matthew’s, Drayton.

It was built by Patrick Doyle for £798 and paid for by local parishioners with donations of between “sixpence and 100 pounds.”

The new All Saints’ was dedicated by the Archbishop, The Most Rev. St Clair Donaldson, on November 7, 1915.

Commenting on its destruction and rebuilding, he said: “the result is the parish is ten thousand times better off than it would have been had the old building not been blown away.”

The only material change to the building since has been the relocation of the pulpit.

The old one was found to be a “rather imposing structure that acts to hide the Lord from the congregation on the north side of the church.”