A successful farmer with a wooden leg
After losing a leg due to an accident with a cricket ball, Royden Robert Newell made use of a wooden replacement…
After losing a leg due to an accident with a cricket ball, Royden Robert Newell made use of a wooden replacement…
Most days I drive past the site where a magnificent butter factory once stood tall. The Purfleet Butter Factory was opened on 14 December 1897 by the Australian Dairying Company…
Christian Sander, his wife and three daughters, arrived in Brisbane aboard the Japanese steamer “Aki Maru” in December 1923. Sander, an Estonian national, told of colourful adventures in escaping from the Bolshevik regime in Russia. Circa 1926 Sander commenced the production and sale of ice-cream in a small premises in Victoria Street, Taree. The success…
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