Key Stanthorpe events in 1948:
January 1
• Electricity Supply for Wallangarra: “Negotiations have been successfully finalised for electricity supply to Wallangarra by means of a transmission line from Tenterfield Shire Council has received approval from the New South Wales Government. Authorities hope to raise a loan of £22,000 to finance the purchase of the plant and carrying out the necessary extensions.”
January 23
• Mineral Survey to be conducted at Silverspur for Silver, lead, zinc and copper.
• Local Industry: Iona Packing House & Cold Stores at Applethorpe
January 27
• New School Opened at Bapaume (building removed from Glenlyon)
February 10
• The Railway Strike: 420 tons of fruit carried by road
February 13
• Stanthorpe to have water supply Council unanimously decides to proceed. Cost up to £145,000 since report submitted by Jack Mulholland in April last the rise in the basic wage and 40 hours week had increased cost from £131,000. Maximum government subsidy of 33 1/3 (loan 30-40 years).
• Wallangarra Water Supply May be Completed in a Year
February 24
• Back Pages of Stanthorpe Fruit Industry Mr A. Baker
February 27
• Work Commenced on bituminising. O’Mara Terrace also to be sealed: Railway, Farley, Marsh, Corundum, Locke, Stannum, Folkestone to follow.
March 19
• Memorial Recreation Park for Applethorpe to provide a playing area for cricket, tennis, bowls, basketball and athletic sports.
March 30
• Back to Stanthorpe Gathering at Brunswick Street Methodist Hall
April 13
• Total valuation of Shire up 23.3 per cent
April 20
• The Church of England Eisteddfod
• Donations Received for Equipping a Pipe Band
May 4
• DSGC to establish a nursery for propagating rootstocks.
May 11
• Obituary Frank Fearnside
• Cr Hawker suggests a new Recreation Ground Meeting to Form Town Band
• Disorderly conduct near Dance Hall
• Wallangarra Water: “Preliminary investigations for installation of water supply for military dam underway.”
• Council to erect a plaque for WWII fallen at Soldiers Memorial
June 11
• Kiwis Pass Through Stanthorpe (Rugby League)
June 22
• Clothes & Meat Rationing Off Today
July 6
• Total Rateable value £539,136
July 2
• Sunday Sydney – Wallangarra Mail Service ends. Mail Train from Wallangarra on Monday will also be discontinued.
• Mt. Tully Residents to Repair Road
August 3
• Stanthorpe Shire Council decreased the general rate to 10d; an additional rate of 3.5 d for Stanthorpe Improvement Scheme Telegraphic Systems
August 20
• Telegraphic systems will replace manual morse machines at Stanthorpe Exchange. Teletype machine for Brisbane to Sydney messages.
• Cattle yards to be erected at Showgrounds
September 19
• Exhibition Golf by Jim Ferrier in Stanthorpe
September 21
• Plans for a Memorial Hall Abandoned. Money raised is handed to the RSL for a memorial club.
• Cr F.A. Rogers New Shire Chairman, following resignation of N. E. Crisp.
October 5
• Tourist Development League for Stanthorpe
