The Mount Morgan Argus, Volume 15, Issue 2

VOLUME 15, ISSUE 2

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19 FEBRUARY - 4 MARCH 2020

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STORY PAGE 2 Pictured: Alexis Kajewski and Nicholas Van Dreumel

HIGH SCHOOL INDUCTS 2020 LEADERSHIP TEAM

High School inducts leaders from Page 1 February of every school year usually means two things Mount Morgan State High School inducts it School Leadership team and the oldest State High School in Queensland celebrates another birthday.

This year was no different with the School Captains, Vice Captains, House Captains and Student Representative Council Leadership and members being inducted in front of their fellow students, teachers and family members.

The High School celebrated its 100th Birthday in 2012 and this year it has reached 108 years.

Following the presentation of leadership certificates and badges and the Oath of Leadership, newly sworn-in

School Captains - Alexis Kajewski and Nicholas Van Dreumel cut the School’s birthday cake.

The Seniors of 2020 were also presented with their badges. This year there are 24 Senior Students.

Seniors of 2020: Karri AndersonRoss, Lachlan Mackay, Sheryl Banner, Jaiden Roadfeldt, Tom Barlow, Kyou Ross, Taleah Betts, Michael Schneider, Jordan Brown, Teagan Seppings, Jarhlym Dans, Dylan Stewart, Harrison Donald, Vanessa Tull, Tahlia Eames, Jaqwui Tyne, Alexis Kajewski, Nicholas Van Dreumel, Chloe Kerwitz, Rylee Wanchap, Shelby Kiernan, Jackie Wilson, Kye-Juan Leisha and Frances Woodward.

School Captains – Alexis Kajewski and Nicholas Van Dreumel and School Vice-Captain – Dylan

Stewart. House captains – Kendall – Nicholas Van Dreumel and Jarhlym Dans and ViceCaptains – Alexis Kajewski, Paterson – Tanika Hockings and Dylan Stewart and Gordon – Kye-Juan Leisha and Layne Gibson and Vice-Captains – Tom Barlow.

Senior Leadership Jaiden Roadfeldt, Student Rep. Council Leadership – President – Dylan Stewart, Secretary – Jordan Brown and Treasurer- Tom Barlow; Student Representative Council members – Year 11 – Brooke Passmore and Laine Martin, Year 10 – Luken McFarlane and Daniel Dans, Year 9 – Chloe Forbes and Rachael Banner, Year 8 – Axle Royes and Serenity Anderson and Year 7 – Scarlett Jensen and Julian Oram.

Best of luck to all.

STAIR CUPBOARD HELD HALF CENTURY OLD DINOSAUR FOOTPRINT SECRET The mystery surrounding dinosaur footprints on a cave ceiling in Central Queensland has been solved after more than a half a century.

University of Queensland palaeontologist Dr Anthony Romilio discovered pieces to a decades-old puzzle in an unusual place – a cupboard under the stairs of a suburban Sydney home.

“The town of Mount Morgan near Rockhampton has hundreds of fossil footprints and has the highest dinosaur track diversity for the entire eastern half of Australia,” Dr Romilio said.

“Earlier examinations of the ceiling

footprints suggested some very curious dinosaur behaviour; that a carnivorous theropod walked on all four legs.

“You don’t assume T. rex used its arms to walk, and we didn’t expect one of its earlier predatory relatives of 200 million years ago did either.”

Researchers wanted to determine if this dinosaur did move using its feet and arms, but found accessing research material was difficult.

“For a decade the Mount Morgan track site has been closed, and the published 1950s photographs don’t show all the five tracks,” Dr Romilio said.

However, Dr Romilio had a chance meeting with local dentist Dr Roslyn Dick, whose father found many dinosaur fossils over the years.

“I’m sure Anthony didn’t believe me until I mentioned my father’s name – Ross Staines,” Ms Dick said.

“Our father was a geologist and reported on the Mount Morgan caves containing the dinosaur tracks in 1954.

“Besides his published account, he had high-resolution photographs and detailed notebooks, and my sisters and I had kept it all.

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Footprints... from Page 2 “We even have his dinosaur footprint plaster cast stored under my sister’s Harry Potter cupboard in Sydney.”

Dr Romilio said the wealth and condition of ‘dinosaur information’ archived by Ms Dick and her sisters Heather Skinner and Janice Millar was amazing.

“I’ve digitised the analogue photos and made a virtual 3D model of the dinosaur footprint, and left the material back to the family’s care,” he said.

“In combination with our current understanding of dinosaurs, it told a pretty clear-cut story.”

Above: 200-million-year-old dinosaur trackway on the ceiling of Mount Morgan. Photograph taken 1953. Photo copyright Staines.

The team firstly concluded that all five tracks were foot impressions – that none were dinosaur handprints.

Also the splayed toes and moderately long middle digit of the footprints resembled two-legged herbivorous dinosaur tracks, differing from prints made by theropods.

“Rather than one dinosaur walking on four legs, it seems as though we got two dinosaurs for the price of one – both plant-eaters that walked bipedally along the shore of an ancient lake,” Dr Romilio said.

Above: Life-reconstruction of one of the bipedal herbivorous dinosaur that registered footprints when Mount Morgan was a lake shoreline 200-million-years ago. Below left: False-colour image of 200-millionyear-old dinosaur footprint found in Sydney home.

“The tracks lining the cave-ceiling were not made by dinosaurs hanging up-side-down, instead the dinosaurs walked on the lake sediment and these imprints were covered in sand.

The CQ CRANE HIRE Gold Rush Hillsprint will return for its third year in 2020. Racing will be held on the 11- 12 July. According to Brendon Wrigley the organisers are expecting a field of 150 cars with a massive increase of interstate competitors.

“In the Mount Morgan caves, the softer lake sediment eroded away and left the harder sandstone infills.”

HILL SPRINT RETURNS TO THE MOUNTAIN

As the event is on the side of the hill, safe spectator areas are very limited, so this year the event will be televised on Facebook and Youtube via BLENDLINE TV. This will be a bonus for those who are unable to attend and will show coverage of the entire track over the two days.Local community groups will provide the catering for the event in the pit area, start line and corporate sponsor areas. The range will be closed from Thursday, 9 July until Monday, 13 July to allow for the set up and pack of the event.

The club is looking at the possibility of providing buses from Mount Morgan at specific times in the morning and afternoon, depending on demand. Contact Eve-lyn at the Mount Morgan Visitor Information Centre on 07 49 382 312 or email mmpad@bigpond.com to register interest. Alternatively Parking is available at Bouldercombe with buses running from there to the event regularly For more information, see https://www.facebook.com/ goldrushhillsprint/ or contact events@cqmsc.asn.au.

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HAVEN FOR HUB BUBS It was a cloudy, humid day, but this did not deter the excitement at the Mount Morgan Hub as representatives from Relationships Australia unveiled and officially opened their new play area. “Gandu Haven� (Child Haven) provides a safe place for children to play. The Rotary Club of Mount Morgan also contributed towards the establishment of the play area by donating $500.00 towards play equipment. The playground was funded by the Department of Education.

Right: Leonie Wovat (Hub Coordinator), with Tammy Alden (Family Facilitato) and Jackson Kupke: Below left: Helen Poynten (CQ Regional Manager, Relationship Australia Queensland) and Tammy Alden and below right: Skyla Jamieson and Levi Kupke.

Above: Tammy Alden, Colleen Anderson-Ross, Rosemary Izzard, Del Rowley (Mount Morgan Rotary), Leonie Wovat, Helen Poynten, Katie Jamieson, Brailynn Passmore-Donald, Harlan Kupke, Skyla Jamieson and Zamira Andreassen.

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ROTARY NEWS The Rotary Club of Mount Morgan sponsored by the Rockhampton Regional Council celebrated Australia Day at the Dam enjoying a free day of rides, face painting, and free food and drinks. The weather was excellent.

Although our numbers were down from previous years we had a couple from Canada enjoying the day thanks to Dianne from MMPAD who had advised them of our event. They are also staying a few days in Mount Morgan.

We were very fortunate this year to have officers from QAS onsite demonstrating bandaging for snake bite.

They also had snake bite kits and other important information. Thanks to Hope’s idea. Thank you to all the musicians who attended this year we appreciate your attendance every year and also our resident poetry presenter, Alma who attends each year.

Funtime rides and face painting who always have us booked a year ahead.

Thank you also to Debbie Daley from the Rotary Club of Fitzroy who came up to help on the day.

Last but not least to all the members and Noelene who worked to bring Australia Day celebrations to Mount Morgan.

Captain Murphy and the Mount Morgan High School Cadets attended and did the flag raising which was really appreciated. A very special flag was raisedit had been flown at Camp Baker, Kandarah in Afghanistan.

Book clubs set to serve up some great reads Literature lovers can look forward to some great reads and compelling conversation this year, with book clubs starting up again at the Southside Library and the Mount Morgan Library.

Chair of Community Services Committee Councillor Rose Swadling said the book clubs are open to anyone.

“Book clubs are a fantastic thing to be part of,” said Cr Swadling.

“They’re a great way to meet new people, discover new authors, and hear different perspectives that might surprise you.

“The Southside Library has adopted a decidedly gastronomical theme this year, with titles like The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Pomegranate Soup, and An Appetite for Violets up for discussion.

“In Mount Morgan the Silver Wattle book club met on Monday 17 February and discussed the novel Cloudstreet, written by acclaimed Australian author Tim Winton. Their book list this year includes a range of titles from classics to modern thrillers.

“Many of the books are also available to listen to or read digitally via Borrowbox.

“Anybody is welcome at either book club, just read the book that is scheduled to be discussed and come along for a great chat with other keen booklovers!”

Both groups meet once a month. To find out more, get in touch with the Mount Morgan Library on 4936 8169.

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THE ORANGE DOT

By Larry at Fox Video

Movie Review RIDE LIKE A GIRL “It was very much a father/ daughter story when we conceived the film... Then in the course of making it - it became a brother/ sister thing.” Rachel Griffiths, Australian international movie star & Golden Globe winner was referring to the movie that saw her triumphant debut as a Director, the true story of Michelle Payne; the first and so far the only female jockey ever to win the toughest two-mile horse race in the world, The Melbourne Cup. The reason that the movie morphed from one to the other was Stevie Payne, Michelle’s brother and strapper in real life. A glowing ball of energy notorious in his own right and with a special gift for horses, Stevie is completely unhindered by his diagnosis, by what is expected to be his “handicap”. In fact, no quarter is given to him by his nine siblings either, and his Dad Paddy expects Stevie to make his own way in the world with a career of his own choosing, just the same as all of Paddy’s other kids. Neither

gender nor perceived ‘limitations’ come into it...

world, but gradually her tenacity, strength and skill see her climbing the ladder. It all suddenly comes crashing down when family tragedy and then a near-fatal fall all but ends her racing career. It should all be over - but Michelle will not quit. With the love of Dad, Stevie and her siblings, against all medical advice she rides on and then... Michelle meets and develops a special connection to a beautiful horse with as tough a history and a strength of will to match her own - The Prince of Penzance.

Rachel had in mind an extremely talented Sydney actor with Downs Syndrome to play Michelle’s brother. He might not have had Stevie’s amazing horse skills but he was and is a professional. But then she heard that Stevie wanted to play himself. “How could I tell Stevie that someone else could do a better job than him of playing himself?” They called Stevie in for “an acting workshop”, basically an audition. Surprise surprise... He blew everyone away! Stevie was so good in fact that several more I thought, we all thought we knew scenes were written into the script the whole story...Not even close. just for him. Stevie was gold!

RIDE LIKE A GIRL stars wonderful And that’s just a part of Stevie’s Aussie Teresa Palmer and story. Michelle’s story is even incredible kiwi/Honorary Aussie more amazing. The youngest Sam Neill as well as Stevie. of ten children, Michelle grows up dreaming of the impossible - If you’re an Aussie (or even if winning The Melbourne Cup, one you’re just human) - you have of the, if not THE most prestigious to watch RIDE LIKE A GIRL; it’s and toughest race in the world. an hour and a half of inspiration, Raised by her single dad and her truth, joy and excitement, rated siblings, Michelle leaves school PG for “mild themes and some at fifteen to become a jockey. It coarse language”. It’s pretty-much was a tough slog, especially for for the whole family. a mere slip of a girl in a tough RIDE LIKE A GIRL... Loved it!

DEE RIVER OLDIES

The next meeting is on Tuesday, 17 March at 2.00 pm. Come along and put your ideas forward.

Members are looking forward to Doug's Mystery Bus Trip on Saturday, 7 March 2020.

See 'Save the Date' on the last page of the Argus for upcoming dates for morning tea and meeting dates.

The cost is $50 which includes morning tea and lunch and must be paid to one of the committee members

by Saturday, 29 February to secure your seat.

We are thankful for the rain that we have had, but we still need a lot more to fill the dam.

We leave the bus stop in Morgan Street at 9.00 am.

Hope to see you there.

Submitted by the Steering Committee

The monthly morning tea is on Wednesday, 26 February with a guest speaker from the Wowan/ Dululu Multi Purpose Centre.

Until next time, stay happy and healthy.

Carol Glover 4938 1995, Melray McNamara 0411 144 316, Colleen Constable 0427 161 131

Come along and catch up with friends and enjoy a cuppa.

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Pride in Your Town We are well into 2020 but having just received this item we thought we must share it with you; better late than not at all.

The Boarding Flight of 2020 has been announced………

Tea was made in a teapot using tea leaves and never green.

Sugar enjoyed a good press in those days, and was regarded as being white gold. Cubed sugar was regarded as posh.

Your luggage should only contain the best souvenirs from 2019. The not so good and sad moments should be left in the garbage.

Fish didn’t have fingers in those days.

The duration of the flight will be 12 months. The next stop overs of the flight will be: Health, Love, Joy, Harmony, Well-being and Peace.

None of us had ever heard of yoghurt.

The Captain offers you the following menu which will be served during the flight: A cocktail of Friendship, A Supreme dose of Good Health, A Gratin of Prosperity, A bowl of Excellent news, A salad of Success, A cake of Happiness, all accompanied by bursts of laughter.

Wishing you an enjoyable trip on board flight 2020.

How to be on flight 2020!

People who did not peel potatoes were regarded as lazy.

Now we look at some of the dishes we now enjoy but were not head of in the Fifties and Sixties;

“Kebab” was not even a word, let mind a food.

Pasta was not eaten in Australia or NZ.

Eating raw fish was called poverty, not sushi.

Healthy food consisted of anything edible.

Indian restaurants were only found in India.

Cooking outside was called camping.

Seaweed was not a recognized food.

Prunes were medicinal.

Surprisingly, muesli was readily available, it was called cattle feed.

Curry was a surname.

A takeaway was a mathematical problem.

A pizza was something to do with the leaning tower.

Water came out of the tap. If someone had suggested bottling it and charging more than petrol for it, they would have become a laughing stock.

All potato chips were plain, the only choice we had was whether to put the salt on or not.

But the two things that we never ever had on our tables in the sixties….. “Elbows or Phones”.

Rice was only eaten as a milk pudding.

The bougainvillea climbing up the Centre archers in Morgan Street is now a pleasant attraction, for both visitors and locals.

Calamari was called squid and we used it as fish bait.

A Big Mac was what we wore when it was raining.

Brown bread was something only poor people ate.

The dry season has not hampered it at all.

Think clean and be Tidy.

Oil was for lubricating, fat was for cooking.

RODEO NEWS It is with a heavy heart that the Mount Morgan Rodeo Association Inc. would like to officially farewell committee member Debra Alley, who has had to step away from the Rodeo due to family commitments.

Debra has been a valuable member of the association and her fundraising efforts selling tickets has been outstanding. We look forward to her return in the future if at all possible.

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Very best of luck Debra from everyone on the Committee.

The committee is currently busy planning for this year’s Rodeo which promises to be bigger and better with some surprises along the way.

This year Mount Morgan Rodeo will affiliate with the National Rodeo Association (NRA) which runs Miriam Vale and Calliope Rodeo.

Marie Maroney Secretary

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KINDY CARE NEWS

common interests, understanding, hobbies, cookery, talking about family, helping others and much more.

This year we have several functions planned. To start the year off we will be having an open day and we will be establishing a mum and bubs club.

The doors will be open for all mums to come along.

This will start at a date to be advised .On the 29th of February the branch will hold the first branch Centsale for 2020.

In March the branch will be hosting a mini Health Expo and we will be celebrating the branch’s 70th Birthday.

Yes we have been a part of this community for 70 years and had a membership of over 30 people.

Please keep an eye out for further details. With more members come more fun and friendship.

On 18 April the branch will hold a Baby Show/Fun Day. Yes that is correct, we are taking a step back in time and embracing the past, present and future in one.

Yes we are going to have a fun day with a bouncing castle, face painting, displays, a sausage sizzle and even more. This will be held at the Mount Morgan School of Arts hall.

The children have been reading ‘Wombat Stew’ and loving it so much they wanted to make a stew.

We all decided to make two, one outside using feathers, gum nuts, plastic flies and bugs, wet sand (mud) which the children helped gather and mix together.

For the second one we used mince for flies, gravy for mud, celery for feathers, corn and capsicum for bugs and grubs and peas for gum nuts. The children all helped to mix the ingredients together when it was cold and while it was cooking. At lunch time we all ate it on a lettuce cup, with all the children saying it was yummy.

We also have some new instruments for the children to enjoy and explore such as a rain and thunder sticks, beautiful chimes and cow bells.

Submitted by Kindy Care

QCWA NEWS Hello Ladies Well another New Year is here and we all have a lot of things to do. It is amazing we live such busy lives yet we can be surrounded by people and still feel lonely.

Well ladies you do have the Q.C.W.A. Each year ladies make friends and enjoy the friendship through Page 8

Members throughout the state have joined for many different reasons. Some to do crafts and some ladies just want to help other people. Some of these ladies have been members for many, many years and some members in our branch are the same .We enjoy what we can do to help, and what we can learn .This then allows us to share our skills with others.

The branch still holds a regular Hoy morning ever Wednesday commencing at 10 am. This is open to everyone, so feel free to go along and have a fun morning.

I would like to see many ladies become members and I mean it when I say, ’’You can learn a lot when you join Q.C.W.A.’’ If you would like to find out more about the Q.C.W.A. Mount Morgan Branch or about any of the functions planned please call Mrs Arlene Roberts Q.C.W.A. Mount Morgan Branch President on 0428 457 461.

Arlene Roberts - President DID YOU KNOW: Recently, Gordon House won the annual Mount Morgan State High School Swimming Carnival. All of the school houses are named after Australian poets. Adam LindsayGordon’s most famous quote from O Ye Weary Wayfarer provides a good life lesson: “Life is mostly froth and bubble, two things stand like stone, kindness in another’s trouble, courage in your own!”

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OUR SCHOOL LEADERS PROMINENT ON DISTRICT STAGE

Rockhampton District Leaders Ceremony Principals and Student Leaders from across all schools in the Rockhampton area attended a service at TCC on Thursday afternoon.

The Principals introduced the leaders from each school and explained the school's motto's.

The service finished with the students making a commitment to leadership and working together for the benefits of their respective communities.

Above Top: Mount Morgan State High School Captains - Nicholas Van Dreumel, Alexis Kajewski and Dylan Stewart at the District Leaders Ceremony; Above: school leaders from the Rockhampton district and right Mount Morgan State High School leaders with Principal Dan Petersen.

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GOLFING NEWS Yeppoon’s Isaak Jensen is off to a good start this

year after scoring three wins in the Keppel Zone Men’s Pennants has gone on to win the 2020 Mount Morgan Junior Open with a 4-under par score of 66.

Last year Isaak was runner up with a par round of 70, losing by just one shot from Ben Scott. Runner up to Isaak went to Lincoln Beckett with a 79-gross score.

Rockhampton’s Caitlyn Cox shot an impressive 3 over 73 to take out the girls’ event. Mackay’s Tim Herman shot 76 to win the boys B grade from Gracemere’s Jonathon Kapernick on 84 with Gracemere’s Makayla Fraser 80 winning the girls from Rockhampton Taylar Rideout 91.

In the boys C grade Wowan’s Daley Mallett 80 won from Yeppoon’s Reid Beckett 87. Wowan’s Nathan Vickers won the boys 13-hole division, with Gracemere’s Billie Hodgson 76 winning the girls from Gracemere’s Ammeliah Means 79, Boyne Island’s Timur Fattahow 56, won the boys 9 hole division on a play off from Miriam Vale’s David Coyne 56.

Baralaba’s Brodie Lee Lang won the girls event. Town of 1770’s Param Ahah 35 won the boys 6-hole division with Boyne Island’s Chelsey Delaney 42 winning the girls event from Mackay’s Emily Gallagher 47 Biloela’s Adam Mollis is carrying on from his success at major tournaments and has started his campaign in 2020 by winning the first men’s open in C Q at the 2020 Biloela’s men’s open. Adam shot a 3 under the card 109, but he had to survive a sudden death playoff to claim the title against fellow Biloela member Steve Dietrich who also carded a 109 gross score.

Blackwater’s Sean Delahunty won the B grade with a 129 gross score winning the event from Biloela’s Raymond Plisch on 131. Biloela Ron Oliger finishing on 136 took out the C grade from fellow Biloela member Gary Kopittke 139.

Submitted by Gurney T. Clamp - CQ Golf

Mount Morgan Golf News The Wally Hall Memorial Golf Day will be held on Saturday, 21 March. Wally’s family will again be providing trophies. Proceeds from the raffles will be going to the Qld Cancer Council as usual Submitted by R. Brewster, Mount Morgan Golf Club

Welfare Bowls Club

Bowling recommenced on for 2020 on Sunday, 16 February with a Bowls and Breakfast day which was very much enjoyed by all.

Bowling will now continue on with Night Bowling on Friday nights, starting at 6.30 pm and Sundays at 9 am.

Names are needed 30 minutes before start time as the selectors have to make up the teams.

We would love to see some new faces down here, old or young, new or old for 2020.

There are plenty of sets of bowls for you to try free of charge and all that you need is a pair of flat soled shoes to avoid damaging the turf.

Social Membership is $20 and Full Membership is $85. Being a full member means you are affiliated with Bowls Australia and entitles you to play at any Bowls Club Australia-wide.

If you are interested in learning to play tuition can be arranged anytime, just ring the club on 4991 7644 and leave a message or just turn up on a play day.

For further information phone Mount Morgan Welfare Bowls Club. We are situated at 28 Thompson Avenue.

Sandra Edwards - 4991 7644 or 0428 828 830.

MMSHS CARNIVAL To kick off the 2020 Sporting year Mount Morgan State High School had a fantastic turn out for the Swimming Carnival. It was excellent to see that students were competing, swimming for fun and having a lot of fun supporting their house!

We had a Best Dressed Competition for each house with the winners being awarded for their effort with a prize.

The winners were: Kendall – Axle Royes; Paterson – Tanika Hockings; and Gordon – Kahlen Garrett. We also had the annual year 12’s vs Teachers relay swim, where it was a close race but the Teachers won.

The overall winners were Gordon on 427 points, second place went to Paterson on 336 points and Kendall came in third with 270 points.

Thank you to all of the supporters who braved the rain and came to the Swimming Carnival. This year we had some students break the school swimming records, which is fantastic to see.

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High School Swimming Carnival...From Page 12 Records 100 yards Freestyle – Open Boys – Lachlan Mackay – 46.00, 100 yards Freestyle – 14 Girls – Chloe Forbes – 1.03.00, 100 yards Freestyle – 15 Girls La’ Karna Hayden – 1.02.00. 33 yards Freestyle – 12 Boys – Pearce Donald – 27.97, 33 yards Freestyle – 15 Boys – Brandyn McDougall – 21.97 33 yards Freestyle – 12 Girls – Destiny Veber – 27.31, 33 yards Backstroke – 12 Boys – Noah Bortic – 30.28, 33 yards Freestyle – 15 Boys – Daniel Dans – 29.56.

The 2020 Swimming Age Champions: 12 years boys Age Champion: Douglas Forbes Runners up: Dawson Morley, 12 years girls Age Champion: Destiny Veber Runners up: Dakota Bergin, 13 years boys Age Champion: Noah Bortic Runners up: Kyran Brady, 13 years girls Age Champion: Laicey Gibson Runners up: Madison Clancy, 14 years boys Age Champion: Thomas Tull Runners up: Zayveon Leisha, 14 years girls Age Champion: Chloe Forbes Runners up: Rachael Bannah, 15 years boys Age Champion: Daniel Dans Runners up: Brandyn McDougall, 15 years girls Age Champion: La’ Karna Hayden Runners up: Alula Camm, 16 years boys Age Champion: Layne Gibson Runners up: Ernie Tull, 16 years girls Age Champion: Alkira Oram, 17 years boys Age Champion: Kye-Juan Leisha Runners up: Lachlan Mackay, 17 years girls Age Champion: Emily Robinson Runners up: Tanika Hockings, Open boys Age Champion: Bailey Catlin Runners up: Nicholas Van-Druemel and Open girls Age Champion: Alexis Kajewski Runners up: Tahlia Eames

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FROM THE ARCHIVES Letter written by Edwin Francis Morgan and published in the Bulletin on 6th May 1893

How I discovered Mount Morgan (From Last Issue) Next morning (Sunday) everything was in such a sodden condition we thought it wisest to pack up and clear home. This was easier said than done with the river and all the blind gullies running a banker.

However we packed up and left camp at 8:00 am.

Before leaving I cut my initials In a big gum tree. We swam a number of blind gullies and at length arrived at the junction of Dairy Creek and the Dee. There was drizzling rain all the time. Sandy Gordon told us there was an old hut on the opposite side of the Creek, and directed us to it. It was the hut yeah of a Chinaman who kept some sheep. I was riding a little chestnut pony named Bravo. I swam across to the other side, and was followed by my brother and Sandy.

We eventually got everything landed by means of the pack-horses. This was about 1 pm on Sunday. It was bitterly cold and still raining. We got some dinner as well as we could, and making a big fire dried out our clothes. After we had finished dinner I said to Tom ‘what do you say if we take a dish and go up to the head of the gullies just to put in the evening?’ He was not strong or feeling very well, and therefore seemed disinclined to join me. So I said ‘well, If you are not coming, Sandy and I will go up to the head of those gullies and see what we can do there.’ We travelled 2 miles north of the hut, fossicking as we went along in the gullies and ravines. After prospecting several places, we got over on to the range, which we crossed In a westerly direction. we then came down the gully neither of us at the time knowing exactly where we were.

About a quarter of a mile along the gully I saw a big black boulder. Sandy Gordon was then 20 or 30 yards away from me. Having a pick, I knocked a piece of stone off. I saw there was something in it and put it in my pocket. Going on a little further I noticed some similar stone and took a piece of it as well.

I saw numbers of these black boulders, which appeared to had come from the mountain, but mentioned nothing of my discovery to Sandy Gordon, who was completely unaware of it. I now suggested that we should endeavour to gain the high ground, so as to discover the position of our camp.

The whole of the mountain was covered with dense scrub-Dogwood wattles and ironbark.

When we arrived at the top we were no better off, as we could not see our camp owing to the fog and mist.

Before starting down for the river, which was just discernible, I picked up some of the black stone’s on the top of the mountain. After making in various Page 14

directions to find the whereabouts of the camp, I came in sight of it from the top of a ridge and cooeed to Gordon, who then joined me, and we returned to the hut together.

When I had had a talk with my brother, we took a pick, shovel and dish, together with some of the stone, down to the creek where, after crushing it on a shovel, we washed it. We were still doubtful what it was. In panning off there was apparently more gold than stone- if gold indeed it was.

We said nothing to Sandy Gordon about it. my brother was a bit excited over the matter and suggested returning at once to town to have the stone tested. As it was late in the evening however ,I counselled waiting until morning and then going over the mountain and thoroughly prospecting the place, which course we adopted.

At about 6:00 o’clock on Monday morning we shifted their camp to the Mountain. We could not well find the place owing to the dense undergrowth. We went to the north side where I had been the day before, thinking the stuff might have come down the gully as it was there below us all the time.

We went all around the place and sunk few potholes, getting colours now and again. We worked up the gullies on the north of the mountain until dinner time, reserving an inspection of the southside until the afternoon When we followed up one of the gullies from the south as far as we could. We had to cut away the grass trees and Dogwood to pitch our tent on what is now the south claim. Next morning we went over the mountain prospecting, finding any amount of good stone, some of which we took to the creek and tried in the dish.

On Wednesday, we again prospected and on Thursday we sent Sandy to Mount Wheeler to my brother Fred with a sample for him to test , this was with the idea that we would all meet in Rockhampton on Saturday, when we could learn the results. Sandy accordingly started out with some stone in a bag. I afterwards heard he never went to Mount Wheeler at all ,and that instead of doing so he stopped at Wyatt’s hotel about half-way, on the drink.

My brother Fred was surprised on Saturday night when we told him.

On Sunday we set to work and crushed every sample we had brought from the mountain .Just as formally we discovered that each sample was literally charged with gold. There was so much that we actually had doubts weather really was gold.

On Monday, we went out again taking rations etc with us and continued the work of prospecting until Wednesday night . On Thursday we took up as much of the ground as we could .we continued to camp in the same spot for several months, no one outside ourselves knowing we were there .Everything was carried on in the name of ‘Morgan Brothers’.

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forward from time to time.

The next trip from Rockhampton my brother Fred came with us. We rented a buggy and horses Rutherford’s. The journey up razorback was ,at that time no light undertaking.

Doubtless many people know the Mount well enough and some might have been aware that it contained gold, though the latter is open to question. But the mere fact of possessing such knowledge and not putting it to any practical use no more entitled them to the name than the Indigenous People who wandered over the mountain before them in search of game .

Our horses were fairly exhausted when we arrived at the top .We did some more prospecting and took back samples from all places known to us. My brother, I believe, gave a couple of pieces of stone to T.S Hall, then manager of the Queensland National Bank, who tested them.

A few days after T.S Hall and W.K D’Arcy came out to the Mount and stopped there a night or two in tents.

All were perfectly satisfied with what they saw some stone was sent for assay by Hall to Gympie and other places, the return being about 3700 ounces to the ton. Arrangements were then entered into to go halves ie the Morgans on one side and Hall, Darcy and Pattison on the other.

Following this, definite steps were taken to get machinery on the ground, Burns and Twig of Rckhampton , receiving the order to supply a battery (No1).In the mean time men were engaged and mining operations entered upon.

The results were, for obvious reasons, kept as what secret as possible. With regard to a statement that has been made to the effect that Sandy Gordon sold the place for a bottle of grog, I may remark that he never had anything to do with it.

To Edwin Morgan in particular and his two brothers is the credit alone for discovering end commencing to develop the greatest goldmine of the age

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Donald Gordon was out somewhere near Normanton at the time of the discovery. When he came back he was camped at Jones’s ‘ Table Mountain’.

He used to beg and pray us to buy his selection, which for some time we refused to do .Only was it when we wanted right of way, I marked off ten acres and asked him to sell that. We got Surveyor Byerly to mark it and then he again asked us to buy the whole freehold, which we did shortly after .We never wanted the selection for gold.

When Donald Gordon came out to the Mount, he did not think there was much prospect from a mining point of view, but seeing us working there, he imagined it was a first-rate opportunity to dispose of his selection on the quiet as it had been abandoned for about 6 years.

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We never on any occasion ask him for his selection and when we eventually bought it we paid him in cash add the right of £1 per acre .The only arrangement ever made with Sandy Gordon was on setting out in July when it was understood that if his silver load was any good we would give him £20 equal to 1/3 interest with ourselves .

Signed by EDWIN FRANCIS MORGAN Several claimants to the honourable distinction of being the discoverer of Mount Morgan have come 19 February - 4 March 2020

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Feb 26: Dee River Oldies Group morning tea - Guest Speaker. Starts at 10 am at St Mary’s Church Hall, Gordon Street. (Behind Anglican Church) Feb 29: QCWA Cent Sale. CWA Hall.

Mar 1: Clean Up Australia Day. Mar 7: Dee River Oldies Group- Doug’s Mystery Bus Trip with morning tea and lunch included. Cost is $50 and must be paid by 29 February to secure your seat.

Bus leaves bus stop in Morgan Street at 9.00 am.

Mar 7: Baree Markets. Baree School of Arts. Starts 8.30 am.

Mar 7: Blue Care Trash and Treasure. 8 am - 12 noon.

Mar 17: Dee River Oldies Group Monthly Meeting.

Starts at 2.00 pm at St. Mary’s Hall (Behind the Anglican Church).

Apr 10: Good Friday - Mount Morgan VIC and Railway Museum closed.

May 2-3: Golden Mount Festival Weekend.

May 3: Mount Morgan Rodeo at Mount Morgan Showgrounds.

May 9: St. Mary’s Cent Sale. Church Hall 2 pm.

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