Aliens of the Tweed and Brunswick

Murwillumbah

Tweed Times and Brunswick Advocate

1Feb1899: C. Lean takes over paper from W.R. Baker + Job Printing business.
12Apr1899: Catholic Press reckon W.R. Baker is the best journalist on the Northern Rivers.
5Jul1899: E. Luney, ex-school teacher Byron Bay, now partner in paper.
23Apr02: W.T. Rice opens hairdressing business next Higgin's Imperial Hotel
31Dec03: E. Comino, Fish and Oyster Merchant (Late Freligo Bros) , Begs to to intimate to the public of the Tweed.... Premier Oyster saloon, George Street, Brisbane, Four Doors from Queen Street...
3Aug04: Mrs M. O'Shea, Refreshment Rooms, Brisbane St near Council Chambers. Fruiterer etc. Hot Pies, Coffee, Oysters, Crabs, Pigs Trotters
14Dec04: Paper sued by solicitor Ambrose Pratt of Murbah for £2000 for alleged libel. Action against Peter Street, Ralph Thornton, Mr Chambers and 11 other directors/shareholders. Editor Coxon, ex-Truth, sacked. Mr H.E.P. McDonald, manager of Tweed Advocate.
28Jan05: Mrs M. O'Shea, meals all hours, next Council Chambers.
3Jun05: Editor Macdonald says owners of paper selling to P.W. Tarlington, late editor and part owner of the Southern Star Bega.
16Aug05: Messrs Samio and Andronico were offered a good price for their business by a Sydney firm the other day…
18Oct05: First motor car arrives Murbah
1Nov05: New papers at Lismore and Mullumbimby. The Northern Rivers are over-pressed. +Land Molesworth St Lismore recently realised 60 quid per foot.
14Feb06: Municipal elections. The number of votes recorded this year was 187, as against 241 during the previous election. This is accounted for by the fact that this year property-holders paid the rates in their own name, thus depriving the votes of the tenants who voted last year. 195 on roll and 115 voted.
7Apr06: Dagoes are in the habit of boiling crabs alive. Where is the Cruelty to Animals Society.
3Nov06:  Ballina. Fine of 4 quid for illegally removing oysters.
7Nov06: The Catholic Press takes exception to the elevation of Ewing to Min Home Affairs
24Nov06: Samio & Andronico adverts back as Sydney Oyster Saloon. Next P.Smith, Auction Mart. +Frank Grace. Large Dining Room at the Central Coffee Palace. +Claude Mann of Lismore joins Tweed Times as sub-editor, reporter and canvasser.
28Nov06: Ewing in town. Small gathering. I am a Protectionist still, a Preferential Trader, and an opponent of land taxation.
29Dec06: Messrs Comino & Co’s well-known Pitt St, Sydney Oyster Saloon was gutted by fire on Boxing Day… Employees escaped by the roof.
5Jan07: Six mths to 31Dec06, 3643 bags of oysters exported from North Coast + 49,779 lobsters. including Clarence
7Jan07: Naturalization Stats
30Jan07: Sister S.M. Stanislaus cancels subscription to paper. ...your Leader was written by an ignorant Catholic.
11Mar07: The Bulletin quote. The Dubious Variety of Immigration. In Northern Australia, where a much better brown man than the Abyssinian may happen along any day, the Dago appears a dubious reed to depend upon… Just at present the Dago is the prospective standby of the Queensland sugar industry…
13Mar07: Fire Woodlark St Lismore. Ivelli’s Oyster Saloon destroyed.
6Apr07: The Bulletin’s Easter article was headed ‘How Pontius Pilate, the Dago, washed his hands.’
18May07: W.T. Rice established The Grand Central Refreshment Rooms and Ham and Beef Shop next to the E.S.&A. Bank. ‘I went to the White Shop and had three pies; no need to go further, Rice’s White Labour Pies Can’t B Beat. Why don’t you support White Australia?’ Go to Rice’s and get clean food, civility and good attention. Inspection invited. Alien competition at this time was the restaurant of Andronico & Samio, plus Fruiterers Chow Kum and Emily (and Prose?) Deen who probably sold pies and the range of other café food/confectionery from their boarding house.
Plus ‘You talk about hot pies’ said second gourmand to first gourmand; ‘I went to the White Shop and had three pies; no need to go further; Rice’s White Labor Pies Can’t B beat. Why don’t you support White Australia’…
1Jun07 : Cottages springing up like mushrooms Murbah.
26Jun07: G. F. Niklin of Tweed Herald and Brunswick Chronicle purchases Bangalow Herald from Mr Vincent.
14Aug07: P. Sheehan, assaults Antasia Aloez of Sydney Oyster Saloon
31Aug07: Small Debts Court. John Ostrom v. Samio & Andronico
4Sep07: Samio & Andronico move shop +Sutcliffs Refreshment Rooms opened with free concert
7Sep07: Joe Dunn’s popular dining and oyster saloon… now wears a garb of immaculate whiteness
18Sep07: Fire. 65 buildings. Starts in Dainer’s bake house. Both Greek cafes destroyed
2Oct07: Samio & Andronico reopen opposite Railway station. Food for the multitudes. Breakfast, Dinner and Tea +W.T. Rice saved his horse and cart and will be found supplying…
30Oct07: A fight between a Greek and another man on the South side on Monday vastly amused the on-lookers. The Greek proved himself a good wrestler, and gave his opponents a few falls that shook the fight out of him.
30Oct07: Building boom Murbah. Land prices near boom prices on South side
23Nov07: Samio & Andronico flying Greek flag to advertise new shop on old spot main street
27Nov07: Gustav and Ann Augusta Kukulies, cane farmers Terranora.
John Ostrom, fisherman of Tumbulgum, v. Samio and Andronico who acted as agents for Comino and Patras of Kyogle

Tweed Herald and Brunswick Chronicle
23Mar00: P. Burke, Murbah Fish and Oyster saloon, previously premises auctioneers C.F. Ross and Co opp Roads Office. Oysters and Crabs...
14Jun01: Mrs J. Dunn. New Ref Rms next Club House Hotel... Support White Australia... Mrs Dunn's cart travels the district regularly with fruit, small goods, pig's heads, bacon, jams...
3Dec01: Miss M. Greer New Refreshment Rooms, opposite Proudfoot's Store, Murbah, Meals all Hours. Ice creams...
8Apr02: Mrs J. Christopher. Next Skinner's Court House Hotel, Oyster Crabs, fried fish, coffee, ice cream...
16May02: W.T. Rice, Hairdresser moved to shop next Imperial Hotel. (opp post office)
3Oct02: Have you seen the fountain play in Mr Joe Dunn's refreshment room?
21Nov02: Dunn's Up-to-date soda fountain. Makes the purest soda you could wish to drink. Wide variety of cordial additives.
20May03: Tweed River Dining Rooms. Mrs Byron, proprietress, next Roads Office.
22Apr04: Mr T.T. Byrne, Fruit Exchange, Murwillumbah, has added catering to his fruit business.
26Apr04: T.F. Byrne, Fruit Exchange, 2 doors from Post Office
13May04: Mrs Gottle opens Railway Refreshment Rooms and Boarding House, South Murbah
23Dec04: Joe Dunn's Excelsior Dining Rooms. Wines, Fruit, Confectionery, crabs, prawns, oysters, lobsters...
14Mar05: Comino of Lismore scouting out site for Murbah Refreshment Rooms.
2Jun05: Mrs Eva Arnold, late of Eungella, opens New Ref Rms in Main St, ex-T. Hircock, adjoining E. Dainer's bakery.
15Dec05: Joe Dunn's Crystal Palace and Famous Marble Bar, close to wharf.
5Jan06: Mrs J. Saddick's fruit and confectionery shop near Finucane's Hotel, Sth Murbah
30Oct06: Samio & Andronico, next P. Smith & Sons auction mart, Main St, Murbah
10Sep07: Messrs Samio & Andronico open Sat nite next to Jays. Day’s takings donated to hospital
17Sep07: Fire Murbah. Samio and Andronico and Chow Kum’s shops destroyed with heap of others. + Northern Star same day.
30Jun09: Andronico & Aroney. Next Skinners Hotel and next Finney, Isles & Co. Ph 31. Harry Morimoto, Ref Rms
18Sep09: Tweed Herald 1400 readership.
20Sep09: Harry Morimoto. Ref Rms Wardrop’s Blg
24Sep09: C. S. Brazill in firewood business Murbah
4Feb10: Record price for North Coast land. Murbah. ‘The Corner’, home of Tweed Herald, sold for £2000 cash.
19Jan10: James Aroney fined for food in unclean room
2Mar10: Harry Morimoto – opposite Dainer’s Ref Rms

Last existing edition Tweed Times and Brunswick Advocate Dec07. [Richmond Tweed Library Lismore holds Six Reels covering Nov1890 to Dec1907 with various missing editions. Four Reels held University.]
Tweed Herald and Brunswick Chronicle nil editions 2Oct07 - 30Jun09. Last existing edition Mar1910. [Five Reels covering Jan1898 to Mar1910 with various missing editions held Richmond Tweed Library. Nil Uni.]
Tweed Daily: 16 Reels covering Jan1914 to Apr 1923 at Richmond Tweed Library. Uni has 1953 onwards.]
Murbah Library holds complete set of all reels to 1949 plus some hard copy.
12Jan1910: Nicklin sold Tweed Herald and Bruns Chronicle to A.L. Strumm.
Phil Tarlington of the Tweed Times and Brunswick Advocate took over the Tweed Herald and Brunswick Chronicle in 1913.  Combined the two into one to become The Tweed Daily in 1914.

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Tweed Daily
10Mar14: Football club meets ‘Aroney’s Café’
23Jul14: E. Aroney donates to Piggott Fund.
25Sep14: Olympic Pictures Sth Murbah now has Refreshment Rooms.
2Nov14: John Aroney charged Thomas Hutchinson with use of Insulting Words (called a dago) and cross charge against Aroney for assault. Insult words guilty, assault dismissed.
9May16: Mr T. Brewer has disposed of his refreshment business at Coolangatta.
11May16: Friends of Mrs Andrew Vellas of Dunbible…. (28Mar = Vellos)
16May16: Café Majestic. W.H. Turner Tweed Heads
16Aug15: William Baker of Tweed Daily leaves for Wondai.
17Nov15: The Greek population in Australia is a worried lot of people just now…
23Nov15: Krauth refreshment rooms Burringbar and 6 other buildings destroyed fire.
24Nov15: Greek shop Manly wrecked by 20 soldiers.
1Dec15: Greek shops Liverpool wrecked by 1000 rampaging soldiers
13Dec15: All Greek shops Newcastle closed due ‘anti-Greek feeling’. Barricaded after last nights destruction
24Jan16: Allies Day Handicap. Aroney, Antonarius etc.
4Apr16: Exodus from Dairying – on a scale hitherto unknown… On the Tweed alone last month 40 dairymen have sold their herds and gone into other occupations…. Due price fixing of butter.
29Jul16: Jack Aroney best man Cordatos wedding Casino
1Feb17: Rosa café Coolangatta run by Miss Z. Theodore.
29Jun20: E. Haropoulos and E. Mabris take over Jack Aroney's business.
7May23: Luncheon A La Carte Belle-Vue Café Murbah and Tweed Heads
9May23: K. Nichles & Co sell Murbah to T. Copland.
14Nov23: Paul Coronakes opens branch of the Lismore Fruit Exchange opposite the Police Station

6Apr25: Editorial The Foreign Influx.The continued influx of Southern Europeans into this country is causing some concern. Labor sees in the coming of so many unskilled migrants a menace to its own prosperity and the privileges it has won. Another section of the community, more far seeing, is alarmed lest the racial purity of the race should be endangered unless restrictions are imposed upon the numbers of foreigners allowed entry into Australia. The Labor point of view is plain, and the prophecies that the coming of these migrants would result in a lowering of wages in the unskilled occupations have already been fulfilled, in part at least….
 A worse aspect of the case, however, is that these same low-grade foreigners are taking possession of the sugar plantations in Northern Queensland. Working inordinately long hours for a pittance, they secure employment in preference to the Australian workmen. Gangs working together, living on the smell of the proverbial oily rag, save their money, and at length purchase properties of their own… and the North becomes a Mediterranean colony.
 Such a state of affairs is a distinct menace to the White Australia policy. Australia, to such people as this, is merely a country where they hope to make as much money as possible in the shortest space of time, and so return home to their beloved homeland. The White Australia policy is as nothing to them. They would not fire a shot in its defense, and even if they would be willing to do so their help would be of no value whatever, inasmuch as their fighting qualities are at the lowest possible ebb, as was demonstrated in the Great War.
 Certainly the most insidious, and probably the greatest, danger involved in the unrestricted flow of foreigners into Australia is the menace to the purity of the race. America, striving for an abundance of cheap labour, encouraged the migration of low grade Europeans… but… has now realized its mistake, and has banged and bolted the door against the further entry of this class of people. But it is too late. The purely Nordic population is being swamped by the lower races. Millions of the latter are now scattered over the land, and they are increasing at a faster rate than the superior races. America would give all her millions to be free of what greed had saddled her with, the hordes from the Mediterranean, but she cannot do so.
 Australia, instead of profiting by the lessons that America provides, is following suit, committing the same irreparable errors.
16Apr25: The Foreign Influx. Mr Charlton Speaks. Leader of Federal Opposition
18Apr25: The Foreign Influx. Meeting School of Arts. Yugoslavs on Ballina-Booyong railway.
20Apr25: The Foreign Influx. Whalan and Formation of Anti Foreign League
21Apr25: Labour’s opening Campaign Murbah. Govt falling back on Southern Europeans…
24Apr25: The Foreign Influx. Restrictions on aliens. Plus Whalan.
25Apr25: Italianoland.
18May25: The Foreign Influx. Mr Ellems of Australian Anti-Foreigners League speaks Murbah.
26May1925: Opening of Samios Bros new building Bangalow. Restaurant and Tailors shop.
28May25: Councillor J.H. McCollum speaks on foreigners
30May25: The Alien Influx. Whalan speaks
5Jun25: State Election results
10Jun25: Greeks in the North (Qld) are an undesirable type.
13Jun25: Aliens in the North. Rev Daniel Maravelis response to Ferry Report
5Nov25: Paul Czaranda Vlanders, born Syrizo, resided Aust 13yrs, now Tweed Heads.
20Nov25: Paramount Café.
23Dec25: Kemp’s Café. Under British-Australian Management

29Jan26: Southern Europeans to be admitted to AWU
27Mar26: S. Karpouzis agent for Peter’s Ice Cream
3May26: £12/ft for 50ft frontage Main St.
2Aug26: Canberra Café, aka The Capitol café. Eat more fruit, Take less dope.
6Sep26: Mauve Cafe opposite Post Office. Mrs Stella Smith proprietress.
11Oct26: Bathurst Conference. Dairying.
13Oct26: Editorial The Itinerant Retailer. Murbah Chamber of Commerce move to ban hawkers.
26Oct26: Producing at a Loss. Position of Dairy Farmers. Meeting Mullum.

11May27: Copeland of Paris Café Tweed Heads. Late of Bellvue Murbah
14May27: Alefonsos takes over Canberra Café & Sundae Shop.
6Sep27: Canberra Café fire. Gumbleton's tailoring business next door in same wooden building undamaged.
1Dec27: Murbah rates reduced  to 5d in £

13Mar29: Louisos Papadopoulos ‘residing’ Belle Vue Café.
20Mar29: Article Oyster Leases - Brunswick Proposals. Plus editorial ‘Fingal Oyster Wall.’
21Mar29: Oysters, Fishing, Tweed Heads. Fisheries Dept meeting Tweed Heads. Limiting net fishing at mouth of river. Protection of spawning grounds.  Tourists. ‘Public oyster reserves brought about destruction… 
14May1929: Editorial Race, Pride or Prejudice? A more friendly attitude towards alien immigrants in this country might well be adopted by Australians generally. Snobbishness seems to be an essential element in nationality as it is known today, and although race prejudice, which is only another form of snobbishness, may have served some useful ends, it has many disadvantages….. There are many grounds for restricting immigration in Australia. But there is a weakness in the attitude of hostility which is taken on the ground that the Italians and other Southern Europeans live under a lower standard of conditions than Australians should accept. There is a great deal of evidence to show that aliens become thoroughly good unionists; and that many of the Southern Europeans who come to Australia are a fine type of man….
15May29: George Pappas late of Mullum now in business Kingaroy.
30Jul29: Vlismas Bros of Bellevue and Paramount Cafes
1Jul30: H.L. Anthony, Auctioneer in Phoenix Building. F.W. Stuart & Co - real estate.
5Jul30: Budd MLA advises work relief grant of £250 for retaining wall Tweed Heads. (17Jul30: 42 men engaged in batches of 10 and paid 1/10d per hr.) + Work rationing. Council Employees to now work 44hrs but paid on 48hr week = one twelfth reduction wages.
11/14/15Jul30: Tweed Daily scathing of Scullin Govt.

7Jul31: White & Co soon to start work Whian Whian forest cutting railway sleepers for China. 100 men to get ~4yrs work.
27Aug31: Reeve’s Café next E.S.&A bank remodelled.
9Feb32: Vlismas Bros 2 separate licenses for Sunday trading
15Mar32: Nickies Koocoles (sic) trading after midnight Prospero St, Sth Murbah
22Apr32: G.F.R. Nicklin of Palmwoods, son of former proprietor of the Tweed daily, selected for the seat of Murrumba. Age 37. Began fruit growing at Palmwoods 20yrs ago.
26Oct32: Unemployed riot Cessnock
23Dec32: Tweed Shire valuations. Still trending down.
27/30Sep33: Con Vlismas plantation Main Arm

6Jun34: Mini building boom Murbah + Jack Cedric Price still managing editor Tweed Daily.
14Sep34: Public oyster leases Fingal
13Nov34: Topless bathing suits for men
14Feb35: Angelos Continental Café and American Café. We deliver at once.
16Feb35: K. Nickles American Café.
10Jun35: Paramount Café destroyed by fire. John Vlismas
19Jul35: Bellevue Café remodelled
23Aug35: Last shop fitted out new Austral Building.
20Sep35: California Milkbar opens. J.R. Lovich proprietor

30Jan36: Tweed Fruit Exchange opens in Australian Hotel building.
7Feb36: Blue Room Cafe Wharf St gutted in fire. Plus office of New England Motor Co next door.
3Mar36: Victoria Café next Capitol Theatre Coolangatta
25Mar36: Nickles Café. Turtle soup and Turtle steak.
10Jun36: Great Northern Hotel fire Byron Bay. Tony Feros
24Jul36: Peter Cooley’s café and buildings of Harry Lakis and Athena Lakis Woodburn destroyed fire
17Sep36: Nearly all cafes Murbah paying under-award wages
2Oct/12Nov36: Work relief scheme Burringbar range still on-going.
19Dec36: Building Stats Murbah

7Apr37: Happy Days are here again. Renwick café.
3Jun37: NSW now producing 80% of bananas sold southern market
7Jul37: Murbah building stats. + NSW Govt surplus first time in 10yrs
24Aug37: Murbah and Tweed Shire stats.
23Aug37: Editorial European Migrants … Plus shop locally article and Murbah progress. Again 25 and 26 Aug
26Aug37. Editorial Why Come to Australia…. 198 Southern Europeans on Otranto
2Dec37: Bruns objects to male bathers rolling down tops.

3Jul38: Murbah building stats 1923 to 1936
16Aug38: Skirtless trunks banned Coolangatta.1Dec39: Comino, late K. Nichles, ….
22Dec39: Angus Bros. 3 shops, wholesale and retail

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Murwillumbah Police District

(Pop Municip Dec1927 = 3754. Dec1936 = 4545
Pop Excluding Municip 1927 = 4115. 1936 = 4700
Total Occ Dwell 1927 = 1536. 1936 = 1676)

9Jan40: The New Continental Café, Cudgen Headland
20Mar40: Roxy Café, 3 course meals 1/6d
25Apr40 : Austral, Belle Vue and Comino’s all fined for under-award wages
9Aug40: Raftopoulos v. Lakis
24Sep40: Australian Fish Shop, Sth Murbah. W.F. Anderson proprietor. Ray Williams manager
19Oct40: Official opening of Civic Café.
29Oct40: Greek Celebrations Sydney.
8Nov40: Editorial Praise for Greeks.
19Nov40: Lismore Fund to Aid Greeks. + Lismore Café for sale
18Dec40: Article on The Civic Café

20Feb41: Miss Kardamis of Tweed Heads and Greek War Relief Fund
2Apr41: Lismore. Sidney & Hacking site sold for £4750 = £197/foot = 24ft x 130ft to Carrington Lane record for Keen St.
12/14May41: State Election. Budd leads Stuart, but Stuart wins Murbah
28Jul41: Obit R.T. Gillies, former Labor MLA for Byron. Tweed Heads/Coolangatta representative for the Tweed Daily prior to becoming Tweed Shire President in 1925.

1/10Jan42: Murbah building stats last 3yrs.
30Jan42: Police census figures. +stock and people evacuation scheme.
4Mar42: Message to Greeks in Australia. A request that Greeks in Australia should gather round the Australian flag and give their adopted country all she asks of them is contained in a message from the Greek Government in London to the Greek consulate, Melbourne
The message states that the announcement by the Prime Minister (Mr Curtain) concerning a general mobilization of manpower and wealth had been received with great satisfaction in all Allied countries….
3Jul42: Phil Tarlington dies. Big Obit. Founder of Tweed Daily.

21/22Jan43: Victor Angelo dies Vlismas plantation Main Arm. Wife Katie Kiprios.
25Jan43: Eric Diamond of Hollywood Café + Denis Kardamis.
25Mar43: Murbah court. Caponas threatened with guns.
26Mar43: Elias Cox of Paris Café in appeal for money for RSL club
5Apr43: USA and Greek nationals living Aust now exempt from restrictions placed on aliens
20Apr43: Vlismas Bros of Belle Vue Café subscribe £500 to the Third Liberty Loan. Largest contributors
27Apr43: Joe and John Vlismas fined for not keeping plantation free of weeds. Had large plantation including 7 acres of old plantation gradually being destroyed. About 2 acres of the balance of the undestroyed plantation was handed over to a man named Flood, who was responsible, but Vlismas had to wear it
29Apr43: Archie Caponas v. Jarman. Known each other 10-12yrs and had been friendly until conviction of Jarman’s son-in-law 12mths ago for stealing bananas. Alfred Albert Baker’s plantation surrounded Jarman
4May43: Civil Alien Corps formed

7Jan44: Curtailment of Café Hours. Owing to shortage of labor and materials…. Austral, Belle Vue and Civic now open 12 to 8pm.
21Jan44: Sands Café now closed every Wed due ‘war exigencies’
21Feb44: Butter ration to cafes cut 50% to increase supplies to Britain.
25Jun44: This year 1 house was built Murbah. Two in previous 18mths.
11Jul44: Christos Dimitrios Loisidis suicide Moree. Manager Capitol Theatre.
11Oct44: Anonymous Greek-Australian of Murbah subscribed £400 to 2^nd Victory loan. His parents, brothers and sisters were residents of the district just invaded by British, and three long years have gone by without any word. Possibly Kytherian or Ithacan.
23Nov44: H.T. Cox opens The New Paris Cafe

3Feb45: 10% cut in meat rations
3Mar45: Child endowment now 7/6d per week and old age pension 32/6d.
13/21Apr45: Shops closed 12.30-1.30pm causing riots at cafes. + Murbah Council gives shop owners 3yrs to remove verandah posts. (Byron Bay similar café angst 11Oct)
21/22Jun45: Stavritis car crash Dunbible
23Jun45: Funeral of Angelo Stavritis. Cof E Murbah. Pallbearers: Messrs S. Comino, M. Velevich, N. Velevich, G. Duros, J. Tanas, W. Geles. J. Vane wreathlayer.
5Jul45: Car Crash inquest
6Jul45: Series ‘Tweedside in the Eighties’ by Mackinnon.  In Aug1888 W.R. Baker turned up on horseback and started the first paper with a 16yr old apprentice named Norman J. MacKinnon…. (Baker dubbed the unofficial mayor…couldn’t meet costs of a libel action and landed in Casino jail… In 1888 there was only one building in Coolangatta – Queensland Hotel.) (F. Mc Kinnon, editor of the Lismore Chronicle for 12mths to late 1906, maybe connected? – ‘his writings rang with a true moral and patriotic ring’)
29Jun45: Nikolas Dimitrakakis of Alophori, Tripolis, resident 7yrs Aust. Naturalized.
Lance Corporal Reg Gardiner assaulted by John Vlismas in Belle Vue Café. He and 8 mates put sauce in sugar bowls. Magistrate rules Vlismas was provoked.
30Jun45: Con Karajeris café Mullum broken into by 3 men and 2 x 16yr old boys. Cash and goods stolen. Arrested banana plantation 10 miles from Mullum
Digger Nelson’s California Café, Commercial Rd
4Jul45: Westies’ Hamburger Joint on South Side in premises of Australian Fruit Supply.
1Aug45: Anderson loots café of Cockinos
10Oct45/22Oct46: Coolangatta and bikinis

8Jan46: Theo Condoleon sells Popular Fruit Mart to Larkin
11Jan46: Larkin sells Populat to Higginbottom.
21Feb46: Tweed Shire building stats.
19Feb46: Mr Chifley gets cable from Greeks thanking Aust for aid for 2,000,000 destitute.
28Oct46: Marina Diamond’s 4^th birthday Coolangatta celebrated in typical Greek fashion.
2Jan47: Christy Freeleagus wins Tweed Heads bowls
22Feb47: Milkbars becoming big business
3Mar47: Coast road Pottsville to Cudgen Headland proposed
13Jun47: Tweed population stats. Big increase
14Jun47: Footballers riot over closed cafes Murbah + ‘reclamation’ of 144 acres Tweed where town fronts Greenbank Island. (and 24Aug51)
14Feb48: Tweed Heads Chamber of Commerce wants town merger with Coolangatta.
21Mar48: Restaurant employees award. 2 full days/wk off
13May48: Tweed building stats
23May48: Overwhelming no vote in referendum to allow Feds to continue price controls.
11Jun48: Clothes and meat rationing lifted
5Aug48: Waitresses at a premium Murbah
11Aug48: Murbah sewerage scheme to start
27Oct48: 100 apply for 10 housing commission houses Murbah
2Dec48: Increase in Café Meal Prices.  Huge jumps by 40 and 50%. Three course meal 2/6d to 3/6d.

 7Jan49: Tweed building stats. 300 houses 1948 and 477 in 1947.
19Jan49: Building Stats Mullum. 60 new houses Dec1945-Dec48 + 47 under construction.
2Aug49: Coolangatta is the ‘Building Cinderella’ of the South Coast. Overshadowed by Southport and Surfers
6Aug49: Reviewer of new book on the Tweed mentioned that on visit to Murwillumbah 1940 he saw Chinese, a Jap, countless aborigines, Greeks, and Indians in white turbans….
17Aug49: Victorian visitor to Brisbane in milk/ice cream business rates Murbah first among NSW cafes…
26Oct49: Full employment Murbah. Cafes have greatest turnover in staff.

 9Jan53: Building stats Tweed
21Jul53: Greek cane cutters
15Oct53: Tweed Shire goes completely mechanical and gets rid of draught horses
31Oct53: Eric Diamond pres Twin Towns Rotary
26Jun54: Angus Bros and macadamias
1Jul54: 70 Greek cane cutters Richmond
24Sep54: Tweed/Murbah building stats
8Oct54: ABC new regional station 2ML opens Murbah
25Jan56: Two thirds Murbah sewerage complete
1May56: Sugar cane stats over 20yrs

7Oct57: Thea Andronico of Southport. Miss Australia Contest.
25Oct57: Tweed Ag Show opened by Frank Nicklin, Premier of QLD. Son of ex proprietor Chronicle.
20Nov57: New Austral Café £50,000 + Varella Fruit Exchange £7000
17Jan58: Original Aroney building developed by Varella Bros (and 8Aug)
12Feb58: John Vlandis dies Upper Burringbar.
12Jul58: New Austral Café and New Fruit Exchange.
12Aug58: Mick Theodore pres Southport Rotary welcomes first migrants Bring out a Brit scheme
21Aug58: Chrisanthy Comino with record bunch bananas
15Sep58: Jubilee celebrations. Les Black
12Nov58: Publicity for mass Greek baptisms Murbah. Photo Fr Sakelariou with baby Leigha Boutsis
1Jan59: Past year of spectacular progress Murbah
21Jan59: 34 business houses have to 14Jul to remove awning posts.
30Jan59: Big increases school enrollments.
19Jun59: Tweed Shire rejects pensioner concession
15Aug59: Tweed primary industry stats.
19/27/28Aug59: Archbishop Iezekiel
17Sep59: Milkbars picking-up places for hoodlums

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Selected Economic/Population References

Murbah Com Elec roll 1903:1025 people
4Nov16: Tweed Shire valuations. Total unimproved = £1,035,721. Improved = £2,944,503. Unimproved values up £159,116 due mainly to banana industry – mainly A riding (£114,237). C = £47,919. B = £16,860. Banana land valued at average £11/acre (A), Dairying £11 (Mainly B) and Cane land £10/10/- (mainly C)
6Jun34: Murbah boom in home building. 18 new cottages in 5 months, valued at £15,861 Testimony of towns progress. 19 new cottages erected 1933
(£15896). 1932 = £13,163
17Dec36/7Jul37: New buildings Murbah.
1931= £12,088
1932= £13,162/10/-
1933= £16,166/10/-
1934= £32,258
1935 =£62,524 (includes school)
1936= £70,500 [£56,500 +£14,000 for 2 Govt buildings (includes 45 cottages at £26,500)].
1937 (to 30Jun) = £16,199 (includes 15 new structures at £10,672)
13Jul38: Houses still scarce Murbah. Since 1923, 380 residences built and several blocks of flats. Value since 31Jan23= £221,534. Average cottage value = £600.
1923 = £27,422
1924 = £27,628
1926 = £5,350
1927 = £6,922
1928 = £6,710
1929 = £10,106
1930 = £2,465
1931 = £5,415
1932 = £2,807
1933 = £7,753
1934 = £17,174
1935 = £34,265
1936 = £26,762
1937 = £17,079
1938 (to 30Jun) = £8,196
23Aug37. 510 dairies in Murbah police district. 2500 in Tweed-Byron District.
25Aug37: 154 premises Murbah, including professional occupations, but excluding butter factories, public services, building employees and all rural businesses. Employ 600 seniors and 338 juniors. Weekly wages = £3,520 shared by 1,230 dependents. Three main primary industries receive on an average a total income of upwards of three quarters of a million pounds per annum.
26Aug37: Murbah icv in 1931=£877,263. 1934=£740,061. 1936=£855,791 

30Jan42: Despite enlistees only a loss of 120 in Tweed district 1941 (accounted for by increase of 236 births over deaths)
Total of 12,780 in Murbah Police District. 1941 = 12900.  2352 occupied dwellings and 11 unoccupied. 1941 = 2326/5
Municipal area = 5196 in 943 occupied dwellings. 8 unoccupied. 1941 = 5286/926/5.

29Jan41: 345 students enrol Murbah Primary school. 174 in infants. 397 start High school.
5Mar42: 386 start High School. Earlier 16 of 750 parents attend P and C meeting
16Dec42: Enrollment Upper School same as 1941. 53 sit Intermediate and 17 Leaving.
28Jan45: Enrollment Murbah Primary School = 550. Increase on last year.
3Dec48: 178 High school students to start Murbah next year.
14Nov49: Sharp decline Leaving candidates Murbah High.
14Dec49: 29 staff Murbah High. 1949 enrollment = 485, an increase of 22 on 1948 – being more than record year of 1946. 12 sitting Leaving. 29 last year. 76 sitting Intermediate. (26Jan50 – 71 pass)
30Jan59: Murbah High enrolment = 700 students. 34 in 5^th class, 46 in 4^th class, 165 in 3^rd class, 197 in 2^nd class and 300 new enrolments 1^st class. More than 1000 children in 3 Murbah Primary schools (1958: 2131 children all Murbah schools)
Tweed Heads: 130 1^st year students, 10 in 5^th year, 12 in 4^th, 42 in 3^rd, 70 in 2^nd. Primary School = 211, same as last yr. Convent School = 195 in Primary and secondary. South Tweed Heads public school = 125, with 24 to go to the High school. 340 at Coolangatta State school. Slight increase on 1958. 34 new pupils. Coolangatta Convent = 160, increase of 40.
At Southport, pupils of many nationalities highlighted. 1200 at Southport State primary, 200 more than 1958.
2Feb60: Teachers expect 2500 children in Murbah Schools – 500 more than last year. 800 Murbah High, 620 Murbah Primary, 1000 East Murbah including Mt St Pats
1Apr60: £210,000 High School for Tweed Heads.

1Jan42: Murbah building which slumped in 1940 to about 2/3 of the value of 1939 made a substantial recovery in 1941. 55 building applications = £14,437. Includes 20 cottages + 1 factory. Majority fall between £600 and £700. 1939 = £17,886. 1940 = £11,855.
21Jan41: 56,329 on Richmond Elec Roll. May39= 55,308
19Mar43: Murbah RSL up to 99 members.
7Jun43: 5532 ration books issued Murbah 1943, compared to 5593 in 1942.
9Dec46: 6798 ration books issued Murbah, 827 more than last year. 6100 adults and 698 children.
1Dec47: 7161 ration books issued Murbah (6300 adults and 861 children. Increase of 200 and 163.
3Feb44: Outbreak of scarlet fever and health inspector does census of municipality: 1067 premises. Total population 3996 (1697males and 2299 females)
30Mar44: Move to increase size of Municipality to cope with demand from returned soldiers. 520 vacant building blocks but half unsuitable due flood prone. 120 new houses required to house present population and 200 more required at end of war. Present area 786acres. 4600people in 925 dwellings (maybe includes CBD?). 52 brick and 873 timber. 10 should be demolished. 200 sub-standard. 102 families sharing. Nil unoccupied houses.
17May44: Murbah RSL moves to have the £400 value limit on new houses raised to at least £750….
16Jun44: Murbah RSL = 278 membership. Largest on North Coast.
26Sep45: Murbah RSL = 594
24Feb47: Murbah RSL almost 1000.
21Jun44: Cost of a 7 room wooden house Murbah =£1100 in 1940. Now £1500. Pop of Murbah now less than before war but still need 120 houses. New buildings + repairs = £40,617 in 1937. £1402 in 1943. 1 new dwelling in 1943 and 2 in 1942. 31 in 1937.

1Mar46: Many so-called flats that had come into existence in Murbah as a result of housing shortage provided crude facilities… Many boarding houses and accommodation houses, also private homes, were overcrowded… Most of the boarders were returned men and their dependents…
11Feb47: Great apathy Murbah Chamber of Commerce. Chamber reformed 1936.
13Mar48: Municipality of Murbah = 706 acres at time of merger?
24Jul48: Housing commission to build another 11 houses Murbah. Total of 21 alloted to Murbah.
27Oct48: 100 apply for 10 housing commission house Murbah. Ballot.
28Feb49: £25,000 loan approved for sewerage Murbah.
14May49: Young people leaving Murbah – no opportunities or social life.
1Feb50: New ALP branch formed Murbah. Old one declared defunct and decided to form new branch. Attendance at meetings very poor. Only minute books attest to its existence. No auditors. No funds to meet bills owing.
12Apr50: new 2 storey PO for Murbah. Frontage to Brisbane St.
4Jul50: Murbah Chamber of Commerce reformed with 60 members. Went defunct 1948.
7Jul50: Kunghur = Australia’s largest flying fox. 1 mile for hauling logs.
1Feb51: Valuations: Overall increase of 43% but Uki and Tyalgum drop. Largest increase Kingscliff (up 276%) Rates increase of 1d in £.
5Feb51: Murbah Main Street values rise 100%, to £300 per foot. Wharf St up 167% since 1947. Kingscliff up 267% (to ~£7 per foot. Tweed Heads 62% (Wharf Street now £38 per foot.) Rural areas not so great - ~ 10% rise. Tyalgum and Uki fell.
6Mar51: £90,000 paid out to 950 ex servicemen Murbah. £50,000 Southport.
10Mar51: Construction of Murbah sewerage underway.
6Dec51: Sewerage quarter complete. 2yrs to go.
11Jun52: £55,000 Tweed Arcade on corner of Wharf, Main and Queen St completed. Building operations worth £654,000 approved on Tweed in last 17mths. 501 buildings from beginning of 1951. (295 dwellings at £425,000)
10Oct52: Murbah Infants School = enrolment of 340.
16Jan54: 1400 people signed on as unionists Murbah. Compulsory unionism introduced 17Dec53.
24Sep54: 440 new houses Murbah since 1947. Total 1700 dwellings
12Dec58: House in town, 3bed and on 2 allotments = £1650. Beach resort house = £2500.

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Tweed Shire

22Feb1923: Valuations: A Riding ucv = £954,484. icv = £1,675,231. rates 2d in £. B Riding = £777,998/£1,462,856. C Riding = £752,713/£1,357,167. Total = £2,485,195/£4,475,254. Rates to bring in £20,712/19/6. Tweed Heads Town Improvement local rate = £148,244/£279,004. rate 1d in £.
1Dec27: General rate reduced by ½ d in £ to return to 1926 level of 5d in £. During 1928 rate payers will pay additional 1d compared to this year. With electricity rate = total of 7 and 3/4d in £ = sewerage charge of £1/19/- and garbage 13/-
25Jun30 Northern Star: The banana industry on the Lower Tweed is forging ahead and each month sees a marked increase....
11Mar31: Complete stoppage of work Tweed Shire. 40 staff laid off. Only work still going on is meeting Main Roads Board contracts, which had been reduced anyway. Also big reduction in Local Govt Dept endowment
20Mar31: Budd MLA makes appeal in parliament for help for Tweed Shire. Local Govt subsidy reduced to  £2000 and Main Roads Board contributions reduced. £400, a jump of 101 and £100 on February, but Tweed Daily branded the Tweed Shire 'apathetic' in rejecting Lismore petition to call for dissolution of State and Federal Parliaments. Tweed Shire has 250-300 unemployed, and council staff reduced to 25 (originally 40-50) and asks for £5000 grant from Dept of Labour and Industry to relieve local unemployment.
23Dec32: Tweed Shire valuations for 1933: A riding ucv = £529,770, icv = £1,197,903, aau=£65,209. Tweed Heads Urban area = £87,478/£260116/£16,050. B riding = 554,739/1,325,929/74,717. C riding = 551,778/1,283,245/71,341. Slightly less than last year.
27Oct33: Building figures show substantial recovery . figures given
14Jan38: Tweed Heads Urban Committee likely to raise rates from 5.75d in £ to 12.025d in £ due to various schemes including water.18Jan41: 16 buildings erected Tweed Shire 1940, valued at £5044
20Dec41: Tweed Valuations: £1,615,386 – above last valuations.
10Jan42: Tweed Shire building activity 1941 more than double 1940. 1941 = 39 buildings at £12,595. (includes 11 dwellings at £8139 and 9 weekend cottages at £1347 and 19 other buildings at £3109.  1940 = 16 building apps at £5044
Tweed Shire raise rates to 10 and 3/4d in £ at Tweed Heads and 2 and ½ elsewhere in shire.
Big decline holiday makers Tweed Heads and Bruns.11May44: Building applications now were being prepared to an extent he had not known for several years………

22Jan48: Tweed Shire rates general increase 3 to 3½ d in £. New valuations to apply 1948. UCV increased from £1,956,326 to £2,234,275. ICV £5,045,509 to £6,696,634. Assessed Annual Value from £320,575 to £438,588. Murbah town UCV from £398,236 to £454,768. Tweed Heads Urban area from £71,390 to £89,571. = 14% increase overall with Murbah on 37%, Tweed Heads on 26% and rural 9%
23Jan48: Building boom Tweed Shire. 475 building applications 1947 = £252,671. + 10 cottages by housing commission = £16,180. Grand total = £268,851. excluding commission total cottages = 248 = £208,289. 64 of these were small cottages with a value of £500 or less. Other stats given.
13Feb48: Banana growers appeal valuation increases. T. Cranney of Tumbulgum increase of £8/14/8 per acre to £14/14/8. Dairying land valued at £12/12/- per acre and banana land at £25/6/- per acre.
19Mar48: Tweed Shire in financial trouble. £21000 overdrawn. Expenditure = £600 a week.
13May48: 142 homes built Tweed Shire in last 2yrs (?). 429 building apps 1946 and 47, with 142 of them for ‘cottages’. 103 separate buildings known to have been completed.
16Jul48: £250,000 worth of building approvals Tweed Shire during past year. Coolangatta only £83,708/8/6 (decrease of £28,000) due removal of councils power to grant permits. Buildings approved included 87 dwellings (£75,001). Move to increase camping fee from 10/- to 12/6 per week.
16Dec48: Tweed Shire general rates ~30% increase from 3.5d to 4.5d in £
6Jan49: 300 houses started Tweed Shire in 1948. 477 approvals in 1947. Record crowd Kingscliff for hols – 160 tents.
11May49: Between 1937 – 47 land values increased on Tweed by 20%. 1937-43 = 5 –10%. 1943-47 = 10-15%.
5Aug49: Tweed Shire council issued 100 fewer building permits for first half of 1949 than for first half of 1948. Value 1949 = £125,531 (92 dwellings = £100,392. + 2 combined shops and dwellings = £2800. + 5 flats and cottage to flat conversions = £21,652 + other stuff = £20,854) 1948 equivalent period = £273,530.

26Jan50: Tweed Shire adopts max rate allowed by law - 4½d in £ - same as last year.
4Feb50: 30 case mills scattered around Tweed district – greatest number ever operating.
6Feb50: Rural production Tweed = £3million for 1949. Wages paid in district = £1.3mil. Dairying Tweed-Bruns = £1,223,241 (reverse of war years). Pigs = £316,920. Tweed Banana industry = £787,564. Cane = £240,000. Cattle for slaughter = £150,000. Timber milled locally = £100,000 (2.8million super feet produced of which 0.75 left district). Small crops = £92,000 (includes beans and peas worth £33,000. Fishing = £45,000. Spring potatoes = £30,000 (20,000 bags) (double previous year). Half million cases of bananas transported to southern markets by BGF.
1949-50 cane crop = £250,000. 100 employed in Tweed Heads fishing industry. 876,649lb of fish sold to Coolangatta Fish Depot.
14Feb5O: Spirit of Despair in Dairying.
17Feb50: £217,994 worth of new cottages and flats approved Tweed shire 1949. 1948= £273,430 = 204 permits to build.
21Feb50: Drift of young to cities.
25Feb50: £290,000 from beach mining Tweed Heads to Byron Bay. 5 mining companies, 4 of which are around Cudgen. £160,000 = 8816tons of rutile. £100,000 = 14,788 tons of zircon. £9225 = 615 tons of monazite. £16,526 from 1652 tons of Ilmenite. £1192 from 391 tons of silicon. £40 from 4 tons of manganese. 163 men employed.
26Feb50: Drift from dairying QLD. Decline of 3000 from level of 25,000 1945/46.
4Mar50: Proposal to shut Tweed Heads NORCO factory.
29Nov50: Map of Tweed ridings. Crabbes Creek, Burringbar and Condong in D.
18Mar50: Record payout Norco. £1.5 mil
19May50: Tweed Shire council approved 1002 cottages since beginning of 1946.
9Aug50: History of Education on Tweed
13Sep50: Free transport scheme for school children implemented.
10Oct50: Tweed Presbyterian History

1Feb51: Tweed Shire value up £3,227,923 from £2,248,000 in 1947. Stats for all towns. Revenue from rates 1950 = £58,510. Rates increase to 5½d. in the £. Will give ~  £85,000.
9Mar51: Tweed Shire – biggest building boom since war. Approval for erection of 26 houses last month valued at £44,225.
3Aug51: World’s largest flying fox, Blue Knob, saved from fire.
16Nov51: Worst drought for 20yrs Tweed. 100 men fight bushfire Uki. (Drought also hit Norco: 15Mar52: loss of £1mil.)
6Dec51: Tweed Shire finances desperate. Bills total £17,000. Wages bill = £3000 per fortnight.
2Dec52: Tweed Shire rates go to 6½d. 
9Jan53: Drop in building permits Tweed. 1952 = 295 permits at £306,290. 1951 = 381 permits at £467,234
13May53: Clouds on Dairy Industry Horizon
30Nov53: Tweed Shire valuations. Up on 1950. ‘A’ riding biggest gain at 100%
17Dec53: Tweed building = £306,000 so far this year. 2888 building apps (154 new buildings)
17Feb54 : Police District of Murbah = 17,800. Total Tweed Shire = 28,000. Other stats.
12Oct54: Tweed Shire population = 21,129 (Murbah 5,127. Tweed Heads 2452. Rest 13,550) Boundary disputes
21Apr55: Population of the north coast of NSW, the 40 mile strip between Port Mac and the border, increased by 11,000 1947-54.
May55: Murbah pop amended to 6748 in Jun 54. – shire = 21,142. Tweed Heads = 2459. Shire Dwellings = 5422 (Murbah = 1688, TH = 693)
10Dec54: Town building may revive. But figures probably for shire:
             1947 = 477 building applications
             1948 = 538
             1949 = 380
             1950 = 388
             1951 = 382
             1952 = 395
             1953 = 293
             1954 = 295 so far
1May56: Sugar cane stats over 20yrs

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Kingscliff
23Jan24: Gaggin and 49 lot Kingscliff Estate at Cudgen Headland.
27Apr25: Cudgen Beach Estate. 450 acres. Lots £5 deposit and £1/mth for 6yrs.
17Dec36: Cudgen Headland. 18 elevated blocks Hungerford  subdivision. Auction Boxing day. Terms 2/6 in £ and balance in 7 half yearly payments at 5%.
24Dec37: Hungerford Sub division. 16 elevated blocks. Dress circle of Cudgen Headland.
21Mar45: Continental Café Kingscliff.
16Dec53: Kingscliff history
11Jan50: Kingscliff being considered for designation as an Urban Area.
17Feb54 : Kingscliff pop = 1200.
15Aug59: 1200 acre farm of seaside and lake frontage land Bogangar, south of Kingscliff, sold for development. To be called Paradise Beach Estate. £12500 hotel planned. ‘Choice seaside and lake frontage.’
4Sep59: Kingscliff Heights Estate first release. Blocks from £450.
Elanora Estate Pottsville opened with blocks at £300 each or £275 for cash.
16Oct59: Kingscliff Heights blocks now from £385
14Jan60: Kingscliff Heights Estate, on The Diamond Coast, blocks from £350.
23Jan60: Kingscliff Heights Estate, blocks from £400 on £40 deposit. 5yr terms on 4% interest.
29Jan60: Currumbin Hgts and Kingscliff Hgts from £350 deposit for house and land package. £4/9/6 weekly for 20-25yrs.
25Feb60: Kingscliff valued at £21,798 in 1950 and £263,047 for Urban area in 1959. Kingscliff Heights valued at £2226 in 1950 and £29000 in 1959. Blocks on Marine Parade going for £800.
19Mar60: New release of Kingscliff Heights Estate with blocks from £850.
1Apr60: Kingscliff Hgts new release now £800 with 10% off for cash. Further 10% off if buyer builds within 6mths.

Gold Coast:

13Nov34: Southport leads the way in topless bathing for men, at least for lifesavers.
5Nov36: Tender by K. D. Morris of Brisbane for £2314/10/- accepted for erection of bathing pavilion Greenmount.
14Mar49: Surfers Paradise Land Boom. Blocks for £10 in 1939 now £120.
25Mar49:Permanent population of Surfers + Broadbeach = 1500. over 200 school children.
18Apr49: 71 blocks sold Burleigh by Nerang Shire Council. £38 average. £2700 total. 100 bidders. Highest was £150 for 2 allotments on Pacific Hwy.
22Apr49: South Coast Municipality: Div1 = Southport. 2= Surfers Paradise. 3 = Broadbeach to Tallebugera. 4 = Palm Beach to Currumbin. 5 = Coolangatta.
3May49: Coastal Hwy extended from Southport to Burleigh 1930s. In last 17yrs Burleigh grown from a camping township to town of over 1700 permanent pop. Tallebudgera became Booningbar, then Burleigh then West Burleigh. First store 1912 = The Golden Bell.
14May49: Total valuation of new Town of the South Coast = £1,347,500. Southport = £710,000. Coolangatta = £275,000. Former 4^th div of Nerang Shire (includes Burleigh) = £162,500
25May49: 3yrs prior to 1939 Southport building approvals = £300,000 = £100,000/yr. Total val of new area = £1,147,500?. Albert Shire = all rural arrears of Nerang Shire + whole of Coomera and Benleigh + portion of Waterford and Tingalpa. Div 3 = Nerang less Burleigh.
Article on history of Coolangatta.
22Jun49: Within 18mths 300 people will be able to build on land which less than a year ago was swamp at Southport. River side of Main Beach 600,000 cubic yards of sand being pumped. Being developed by ‘Lucky’ Bill Rankin, aka the Casket King. £70,000 being spent to create 320 lots.
9Aug49: Land worth £64,000 and producing £800 a year in rates will be created Southport…when area between Nerang River and Main Beach is reclaimed.
12Aug49: £6000 paid for Tongy House Labradore on Marine Parade. Another Southport record.
5Sep49: Albert Shire strikes general rate at 1/3 ¼ d. in £
9Nov49: Albert shire rates goes from 1/11 to 3/4d in  £ ?
21Nov49: £12000 worth of buildings approved in a fortnight by South Coast Town Council. Includes 3 dwellings at £2750 for Coolangatta and Burleigh.
17Dec49: Southport’s biggest auction for 10yrs was a flop.
6Apr50: Easter rush. 8 trains carrying 4000 will arrive Southport tonight. Other trains expected to bring 5000.
10Apr50: Biggest day in history Coolangatta. Australian Surf Championships. 50,000 people. 5000 cars. Twin Towns record Easter.
15Jul50: Budget of £584,025 for 1950-51 makes South Coast Council 3^rd largest of Queensland’s governing bodies outside Greater Brisbane.
29Sep51: Life or death for South Coast – building restrictions.
15May53: South Coast population now 18,000. [15,250 in 1949] Burleigh = 27.53% growth. Southport = 13.11% &. Coolangatta = 10.67%. £1.5mil spent on buildings last 10mths.
29Aug60: Albert Shire valuation = £2,895,998. 1955 (?) = £1,172,843. 60.7% increase (?). rates reduced to 8 and a half d. in £ to compensate. Biggest % increase in Merrimac sub divisional area adjacent to Surfers and Broadbeach.  1950(?) to 1956 jump was £645,774 to £1,172,845.
18Oct63: Site of old garage near intersection of Cavil Ave and Pacific Hwy sold for £60,000 – Gold Coast record = £1500/perch. Valuer General’s assessment =£35,000. 92ft frontage and 159ft deep.

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Diamond Coast/Gold Coast:
6Apr34: Building renewal Coolangatta – Confidence in future. Old Diggers Theatre purchased by R.T.B. Peak, proprietor of Beach House. Plans to build modern set of flats and renovate residential section of theatre to flats.
(Prices: 13Apr40: Four cottages permanently let and showing 21% interest - £1100. Tweed Heads. Brand new residence in dress circle position, small deposit and balance in rent - £750. Cottage on 2acres Chindera - £300.)
15Oct34: History of Coolangatta and bit on Tweed Heads. Fifty yrs ago 284 blocks from 32 perches to 48 perches offered for £14 each. Today Colangatta has unimproved rateable value of £215,000 and capital value of improved properties of £900,000. In 1915 urv was £53,000.
11Jun41: 9acre Tweed Heads banana farm £185.
(~ mid 1945 there was a boom in land sales at Coolangatta and Palm Beach while Tweed Heads remained as ‘Sleepy Hollow’.)
4Sep46: Proposal for giant reclamation works – particularly 100 acres on southern side of Crane Wharf Road, separated from main town area by the Back Channel.
10Oct45: The new French bathing costume for women consisted of two ladies hankerchiefs and one mans hankerchief and is just plain vulgar said the Mayor of Coolangatta Town Council…… He said council had a duty to protect people against themselves ….beach inspectors be instructed to enforce the by-laws.
14Dec46: Tweed Heads residents vote 276 to 153 to keep shops open on Saturday arvo to stop trade going to Coolangatta.

21Jan47: Tweed Shire Council owned camping grounds: Total 467 tents (408 last year). Tweed Heads 202(175), Fingal 37(25), Kingscliff 166(162), Barneys Point 5(7), Cudgera Headland 40(27), Pottsville 17(12). Far more at privately owned caravan parks and camping grounds.
30Jan47: 6mths to 30Dec46 Coolangatta approves 59 new dwellings, 46 other buildings, 21 septics and additions to 47 existing buildings = £54,000. Four times greater than Mullum.
30Jan47: Burleigh Heads had 1000 camps, 749 on Nerang Shire Council Reserves and 250 on private land.
3Mar47: Coast road linking Pottsville and Cudgen proposed.
14Jun47: Reclamation work approved TH by Dept of Lands to create 144acre Greenbank Island fronting the town.
18Aug47: 846 electors on roll at Tweed Heads eligible to vote for Urban Committee.
18Aug47: Tweed Heads Urban Committee shows 846 electors on roll. 229 persons had left the district or changed names by marriage; 91 electors could not be located; 14 names duplicated; 11 deceased.
26Aug47: Coolangatta smallest municipality in QLD at 6½ sq miles. 346 building applications (including 143 dwellings) valued at £118,658 for year ending 30Jun47. [16Jul48: Coolangatta building apps only £83,708/8/6 (decrease of £28,000) due removal of councils power to grant permits. Buildings approved included 87 dwellings (£75,001).]
10Dec47: Booming sales QLD South Coast. 5 acre lagoon at Palm Beach donated to Coolangatta Council by Palm Beach Mining Co on-sold by council for £480. Buyers plan to fill it in and subdivide for allotments and roads. 

22Jan48: Tweed Heads unimproved valuation increase from £71,390 to £89,571 = 26%. (Murbah 37%)
16Mar48: 28 allotments created from subdivision of Ursuline Convent property Tweed Heads - having mains water connected.
8May48: Coolangatta and South QLD Coast 5^th ranked tourist resort in QLD
27Apr48: Nerang Shire 41% increase in valuations. £240,294 to £339,118. The coastal strip showing biggest increase of 73% (£94,085 to £162,853)
11Aug48: Coolangatta general rates increase 1/1 to 1/4d in £. General rates income = £36,720. Sanitation = £5945.
12Aug48: Big Coolangatta merger article.
1Sep48: Nerang shire rates breakdown. 4 divisons. Div 4 gets 6d in £, reduction of 3d, but Burleigh sanctuary gets special rate of 7d in £, reduction of 3d. Div 3, Currumbin 8d in £, unchanged
3Sep48: Stats on amalgamation of Gold Coast + Nerang etc.
15Oct48: Coolangatta council elections of 1946 = 1347 electors on roll. 22Sep48 = 2109 on roll. Of these 1232 reside Pt Danger to Coolangatta and remaining 871 between that point and boundary with Tallebugera Creek. Burleigh Heads 1946 = 505 and 1948 = 1948. Southport 1946 over 4000.
16Oct48: £800 grant for reclamation of crown land at Tweed heads
23Dec48: New South Coast Municipality: Southport has 64% of electors, 65% of rateable land and 49% of ratepayers. Coolangatta 25/27/27. Burleigh 10/10/24.

28Jan49: New Albert Shire to be re-valued. Includes rural areas of old Nerang Shire.
28Jan49: Southport valuations increase 51.5%, from £469,735 to £710,000.
2Feb49: 5200 electors on roll at Southport = 64.5% of total of new municipality. Burleigh Heads = 797/9.4. Coolangatta 2109/26.1
18Apr49: Co-op formed to acquire and develop Greenbank Island, 144 acres of ‘waste land’ fronting Tweed Heads.
14May49: Total valuation of new Town of the South Coast = £1,347,500. Southport = £710,000. Coolangatta = £275,000. Former 4^th div of Nerang Shire (includes Burleigh) = £162,500.
2Aug49: Coolangatta is ‘Building’ Cinderella of the South Coast. No new structures of any importance erected in last 10yrs….in striking contrast to the area around Surfers Paradise and Main Beach (Southport)
9Aug49: Reclamation Tweed Heads. 4acres of sand waste on northern side of river entrance between rocket shed and Duranbah beach.
20Aug49: Disappointing attendance Coolangatta Chamber of Commerce.
12Nov49: Block of 4 cottages sold Tweed St for £3625.
14Nov49: Govt and Tweed Shire now to share cost of reclamation of Greenbank Island.
22Dec49: 1000 tents Coolangatta and Tweed Heads. 18000 at Bruns for Boxing day. 

2Jan50: 10000 to 12000 at Twin Towns yesterday.
3Jan50: Most successful season ever.
18Jan50: Pacific Café Burleigh Heads. Michael Magerof proprietor.
23May50: Raid on Windjammer Restaurant Surfers Paradise. Proprietress Sophie Graves and waiter Anthony Buhaglar charged with serving booze.
30Jun50: Surfers Paradise Estates. River frontage = £500. Ferney Ave = £350. Others £225. £100 deposit. Reclamation on the South Coast goes on. 40acres of swamp on Nerang River at Surfers. Rankin Estate South Beach.
12Jul50: Several important property sales Coolangatta. 2 blocks of flats Kirra.
28Sep50: Coolangatta may lose Jazzland Dance hall – and transfer social activities of 1000s of young people to Tweed Heads.
9Nov50: All time property boom South Coast.
18Apr51: Surfers Paradise Progress Association writes to Governor General to have the Town of the South Coast incorporated into NSW. Due QLD building controls mainly.
15May51: South Coast United Council of Progress Associations prepares to secede from QLD. 

1Mar52: Tweed Heads and Coolangatta history.
8Oct52 and 29Dec52: Boom on South Coast. £65,000 spent since building restrictions lifted. In same 4mth period last year £13,000 spent
30Dec52: New Chinese Café Surfers Paradise.
9Jan52: 25 Currumbin and Bilinga crown land blocks offered.
29May53: Development at Tweed Heads. At present rate TH will be bigger than Murbah by 1955.
2Sep53: Bikini clad lady arrested Surfers Paradise.
12Sep53: Tweed Heads to secede to QLD. TH and Coolangatta not expected to get sewerage for 10 to 15yrs?
17Sep53: Australia’s first ‘American style’ motel to be built at TweedHeads by Dick Yates.
17Nov53: £40,000 movie theatre for Coolangatta. By C.E.Cox, Pres of Tweed Shire and licensee of Hotel Wells. On mini golf site Griffith St
16Dec53: Lift out souvenir edition.
7Jul55: Gold Coast Valuations up average 250%. Some 1500%.

In mid 1957 the Border Snack Bar at Coolangatta, proprietor Robert Brodie, was given notice that he was to be shut down in 6mths and that his application for an extension of the license to conduct a bar was rejected.
10Jun58: Stein Lundbery and Maria Patricia Hare proprietors of the Honolulu Café at Surfers.
11Dec58 Flamingo Restaurant Surfers Paradise run by Marny de Vries.
21Jan59: Can Can Café Mermaid Beach.
12Jun59: Headlines on first ‘skyscrapers’ on Gold Coast. Chevron Hotel.
10Jul59: 25 perch property ‘Yoomart’ on corner of Marine Parade and Clark St Coolangatta overlooking Greenmount Beach passed in at £20,500. Greenmount beach described as ‘highest value halfmile surf beach frontage in Queensland.’
25Jul59: Building boom Gold Coast into 6^th successive year. £150,898 worth of building approvals in last 3 weeks.
30Jul59: James Patrick Bibo and Cyril James Hawthorne, proprietors Ferns Restaurant Burleigh Heads. Theo Theelan, 38yr old Dutchman, head chef at Lennons Broadbeach Hotel.
1Aug59: £2mil worth of buildings will be underway at Surfers Paradise before end of year. Includes 14 storey Chevron Hotel worth £1mil.
5Aug59: 3^rd stage release of Terranora Lakes Country Club Estate opens Tweed Heads. Lots from £395 on £45 deposit
21 blocks of freehold Crown Land released Broadbeach. Govt valuation = £27,100. Achieved £45,175.
6Aug59: Successful TV test pattern Coolangatta. Boom in TV set sales.
8Aug59: Terranora blocks back to £325.
15Aug59: Biggest property deal in current season Surfers. £55,000 paid for ‘Tahiti’, serviced apartments.
19Aug59: Broadbeach valuations skyrocket. Residents who took out leaseholds 15yrs ago paid £400 up front and £1/11/- yearly rental. Now valued at £2500 and rental at £75/year.
29Aug59: £92,000 refused for 4 properties Coolangatta.
4Sep59: Approval for £40,000 guesthouse Coolangatta.
14 more blocks of Crown Land to be released between airport and Coolangatta Rd. Adjoins 37 blocks recently released which went for average of £850 per allotment.
Canal subdivisions exciting interest around Surfers.
11Aug59: Empire Theatre and Dance Palais in Tweed St, Tweed Heads to be sold. ‘If successful it will be the largest single real estate transaction at Tweed Heads in recent years’. Service station approved for site by Council.
Rush of sale for sites for Motels. Mainly southern investors. ‘Coolangatta and TH were coming into their own as areas of investment’.
17Oct59: Maranga House, housing the Red Rose Café (previously Sands & Gill?) and 4 other shops in Bay St Tweed Heads opposite PO sold for £25000. 110ft frontage Bay St. Top floor = Private Hotel.
31Oct59: £20,000 addition to ‘Danceland’ Griffith St Coolangatta approved. 66ft frontage. Owned by Conaghan Investments who also own the Capitol Theatre
70 lot Koala Park Estate Tallebudgera released. The Koala Beach development at Tallebudgera involved the pumping of 500,000 cubic yards of sand.
12Nov59: £200,000 hotel planned for Terranora, TH. Claimed to be ’more attractive than anything on Gold Coast and better than anything in NSW from a tourist point of view’. 34 beds. License transferred from Court House Hotel, Corowa.
8Jan60: Tallebudgera Gardens Estate on market at £75 deposit with 4yrs to pay at 6% quarterly rate.
9Jan60: Currumbin Heights Estate on market at £350 deposit for house and land package. Balance over 20-25yrs at £4/9/6 per week.
21Jan60: Bruce Small's canal developments Surfers Paradise. Three million cubic yards of sand were dredged to create the Isle of Capri, et al.
13Feb60: 3^rd release of Currumbin Hgts. 80-100 blocks available ‘off the plan’. £25 deposit. Flogged as The Dress Circle of the Gold Coast and the Most rapidly developing area of the Gold Coast.
20Aug60: Border Heights Estate at Kirra. 21 already sold from £600 to £1200. 25% deposit.

7Oct1957: 20yr old Thea Andronico, teacher at Southport State High School, contestant in Miss Aust Quest.
21Apr59: Mr T. Magnus was President of the Gold Coast Café proprietors Association. L. Jacobson was Coolangatta representative.
10Mar60: The Gold Coast Café and Restaurant Owners’ Association amalgamates with the Queensland Café and Caterers’ Association, president of which is Mr G. Glytsos. Gold Coast organization figured it would place them in a stronger position in their campaign for the right to serve liquor with meals.
17Jan61: Crowded Hotels. AHA calls for Govt investment tourism

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Cafes Tweed Heads:
Mrs Straughair Railway Refresh Rms Tweed Heads from ~1905.
The Tweed Heads Oyster Saloon was in the hands of F. Boston in 1912.
Mr T. Brewer disposed of refreshment room business Coolangatta 9May1916.
31Mar1915: Café Majestic up for sale. …best of its kind on the North Coast. …Splendidly fitted out, beautifully furnished…marble topped tables, marble counter, soda arm, 70 chairs….Two shops adjoining. 4.5yr lease and rent £2/week. Price £450.
30Mar16: Hotel Pacifique + T. Ninnis Saloon one side and M.S. Stanley’s residence other, totally destroyed in fire. One Wall Wells Hotel partially damaged.   A.H.A. Frazer rebuilds – 1Jul16.
W.H. Turner had Café Majestic Tweed Heads 1916.
1923: E. Bramble had The Sunshine Café next door to the Post Office. Ev. Smith in 1924.
1924: Snowden’s café was in Stuart Street. Kemp’s Café was in Bay Street and also providing board and residence. ‘Central to everything and under British Australian Management’.
9Mar26: Fire destroys the Sunshine Cafe of Mr E.V. Smith - along with Morleys.
12Dec31: Kia-Ora Guest House opposite Tweed Heads Railway Station. Fine accommodation and cuisine 24/- a week and 8/- a day. A. Cusack and S. O’Sullivan Ph 259.
23Dec32: Bamberry’s Kiosk, Fingal.
11Oct33: Kirra Kiosk Lease. Mrs A.M. Wilson, wife of the Coolangatta mayor, Ald Wilson, applies to lease part of Kirra beach to build new kiosk on site of old kiosk.
31Jan35: Terranora Kiosk opens each afternoon except Tue and Thur by Mrs Hungerford.
£1200 fire damage to Snowdens Café Stuart St TH. James Clare Snowden. Had an attached house. 

23Dec40: Cox’s Café Tweed heads. E. Cox proprietor. Plus A.H. Lattimore. And Sands and Gill.

26Mar43: Elias Cox of Paris cafe

4May44: Café Imperial in McLeod St Coolangatta burnt out. Owned by Mr B.E. Salter of Brisbane and run by Mr R. Ivey.

1Mar46: Imperial Café and Guest House up and running again.

23Nov44: Mrs E. Richardson of Imperial Café Coolangatta.

24Mar45: Albert Moore’s fruit and refreshment rooms Griffith St Coolangatta. Sprung for charging for fruit above fixed price. Supplied black market stuff by Feros & Feros and Angouras Bros.

13Sep46: Miss H.P. Belsen applies to Coolangatta Town Council to open a café on Kirra side of skating ring, behind monument. Consists of a caravan with tables and chairs in front. Refused on grounds that it was setting up in opposition to businesses which had been operating in the area for years.

17Oct45: Movie Café at Kirra.

3Jun46: Charles Holt, café proprietor of Tweed Heads, Fruit and confectionery business. Income nil 1936 to 41 and not in business on his own account pre 1944.

10Aug46: Miss Rosa Whalan purchases Movie Café, Griffith St Coolangatta, from L.A. Brody.

25Feb47: Coolangatta Milk Bar for sale. Rent £2/5/- per week. + dwelling £3500. [Milk Bars becoming very popular. One in Sydney changed hands for £19,000 and one at £1950, taking £140/week giving a nett profit of £40]

12Apr47: Imperial café, McLean St Coolangatta opposite the Kirrabelle Hotel.

22Apr47: Markwells Café McLean St Coolangatta. ‘Famous for Fish Meals and tasty Grills.’

1May47: Kirra Store Milk Bar opposite beach operated by A.P.W. Oehlman

3Jun47: Ross’s Fruit Mart & Milk Bar, Bay St, Tweed Heads

29Oct47: Oehlman’s Kirra Beach Store and Milk Bar opposite beach. A.P.W. Oehlman. (Gustav Theo Arnold Oehlmann naturalized 1921)

21Jan48: Café Imperial at Coolangatta being run by Mrs E. Williams.

27May48: M.S. Williams takes over Classic Café next to Morleys. Open Sundays.

1Mar49: Sands & Gill changes hands after 27yrs. Tim J. Donnelly of Woolongong new owner. Leased business but family retained freehold. In 1953 Timothy James Donnelly had the Sands café in Tweed Street (?) Back in family hands as ‘Cakeland’ in the 50s.

6Jun49: Sommerville Café McLeod St Coolangatta. Proprietor Jean Sommerville, aka Mrs J. Campbell.

12Aug49: Timothy James Donnelly of Sands café granted liquour licence.

24Aug49 and 10Nov49: Ethel Louisa Wells fails to sell Milkbar to George Prestwick for £2000.  Real Estate agent says demand for that type of business was slipping. Peak for this type business was 1946/47. The shop was next door to the theatre.  This is Empire but Preswicks had the Classic? Maybe later?

23Jun56: Fred John Peter Poland, café proprietor, Wharf St.

4Dec58: Poinciana Coffee Lounge opens Kirra in ‘New Coral Corner’ block of shops.

Plus LAZY J BARBECUE opposite border gates Coolangatta.

6Aug59: J. Eaton of BBQue Café Coolangatta installs TV in café.

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31Jan/1Feb34: Kalgoorlie riots over foreigners. £32,000 damage. 2 dead. Foreigner's houses and businesses destroyed. Damage now £70,000. All Greek's leave for Perth.
27Jan34: Almost £100,000 being spent Tweed-Brunswick on bridges and roads. Boyd's Bay (£13,807), Barney's Point and Bruns bridges, all replacing punts.
10Nov34: Four bridges to replace punts on Pacific Hwy between Kempsey and Tweed Heads almost complete. Boyd's Bay (£14,000) most advanced. Chinderah (£42,000) still ongoing. + Raleigh (£19,000) and Mororo (£25,000)
17Nov34: J. Price, editor Tweed Daily, at Mullum show with other heavies.

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