• On 28 February 1913, the works of removing the Stanthorpe Railway Station to the town side of the line are being carried out.
The new platform is somewhat longer than the old one, but it is evident that it is far too short to cope with local traffic and once the station is in use, there will arise an agitation to lengthen it.
The present verandah will be over the platform back and the side will consequently be bare, affording no shelter to those whose duties will complete them to wait for the train.
The Border Post claims that reports of a typhoid epidemic in Brisbane papers have been exaggerated and have discouraged visitors, “a heavy loss to people in its midst who had laid themselves out to entertain people for summer”.
Convalescents coming to a health resort in the form of the carrier of the disease, certainly those cases if typhoid were so introduced.
• 28 March: 17 cases of typhoid since November.
Drains are flushed daily and disinfected.
Bi-weekly inspections of the town water closets and back yards are being made.
Closets are being made fly-proof and supplied with sawdust and disinfectant.
Scarlet fever and typhoid regulations with special reference to food contamination of food supply by typhoid.
The large ward of the general hospital was converted to an isolation ward.
School of Arts Hall, Wallangarra, under construction.
• 21 March: Average of 30,000 to 40,000 trees are planted each year.
This year a start will be made to lay down what should prove the largest orchard or group of orchards in the district, which will be situated at Four Mile, close to Roessler siding (Applethorpe).
A feature of Rover Orchards will be the complete irrigation laid down.
• 18 April: Stanthorpe’s new hospital, the official function, opened by Sir William McGregor.
Finest assemblage in Stanthorpe for too many years.
The previous hospital had become so dilapidated that the committee had passed a motion that windows be replaced so that they could be opened and so the doors would shut.
• 9 May: Railway proposed from Stanthorpe to Kyoomba and onto Paddock Swamp.
• 27 June: The Rabbit Question, Public Meeting in Stanthorpe.
In the past 20 years, stock owners in Stanthorpe district have been paying rates to the Carnarvon Rabbit Board.
Calls for rabbit fence to be built along the border.
Fence along border would only mean fencing in rabbits to us – only way to keep rabbits back was to fence every property.
• 4 July: Progress of fruit growing: Australian Nurseries, Hurstville, reports that 45,000 trees apples and peaches are on the way to Stanthorpe, an additional area of 450 acres of trees.
