Key Stanthorpe events in 1930:
January 10: OUR MAIN STREET: THE QUESTION OF A BETTER SURFACE
A report on the bitumen surfacing of the main street is presented to Council.
“The cost of maintaining the existing roads is increasing at a rapid rate owing to the continual development of the district and the constantly increasing volume and weight of traffic, and the day is rapidly approaching that the material we now use will fail to stand up to the wear and tear imposed on it.”
January 17: SUMMIT COMMUNITY PACKING SHED – OFFICIAL OPENING
“The day will come surely,” said an experienced fruit grower of The Summit on Friday night, “when the great majority of the growers of the Granite Belt will have nothing to do with the packing of fruit. They will simple pick it up and cart it to the community packing house, which will do the rest. The great benefit of this will like in the better attention the orchardists will be able to give their orchards, and generally to the production of better fruit.”
This is the seventh or eighth attempt to establish community packing houses in the Granite Belt and while all previous efforts in this direction have failed, there is an optimistic feeling amongst growers that the present effort is going to succeed.
The COD is responsible for the present effort, as some months ago, the manager, Mr. Ranger, made an offer to the DSGC that if growers would guarantee 10,000 cases of apples, the COD would finance the community packing house as an experiment.
Fruit was guaranteed by W. Hickmore, Nott & Wright, Fry Bros, W. Maggs, A. Simpson, H. Lincker, T. Mansell, A.D. Philp, Mrs. Coomber, R. Wells, R. Letters, G. Heeschen, G. Ross, Bayley Mr. J. Gregory, State Government & Brown, A. Abrahams, F.R. Jones, J.P. Parry, H.L. Goulter.
Inspector of Fruit Packing has held classes at Thulimbah.
• Fire destroys school teacher’s residence at Sugarloaf.
January 14 (Friday)
The inaugural meeting of Stanthorpe Turf Club took pace on Saturday under favourable conditions.
January 31
• The Country Club Hotel is open to visitors, erected for the Misses Sheahan.
The hotel is erected on 2.5 acres of ground and from both front and back delightful mountain views can be obtained. This hotel is erected on the site where the
Sheahan Bros began business in 1872.
February 5:
• A.H. Paget sends 100 cases of Presidents Plums to Java to “test the market”, a further 150 to go later.
February 14:
Stanthorpe Hospital has no money to pay accounts – £1219 deficit.
The Hospital Committee meets with Council to discuss bringing the Hospital under the Act.
• 200 cases of King David apples have been shipped to Colombo; 1100 cases of apples from The Summit consigned to the East.
Mr. Radium, owned by Dunn & Jarvis, Lismore, sets a new record of 6ft 9.5 inches at the Stanthorpe Show.
“On Thursday, 6th instant, a Civic welcome was tendered to the Premier A.E. Moore. serious drop in the price of wool was a blow to the district, low price of tin was a drawback to the development of mining, but the fruit growers had a good season and would be able to pull through well. Stanthorpe possesses all the advantages required for a great educational centre and he looked forward to a time when there would be in Stanthorpe some of the finest schools in Queensland, where children could be educated in a wonderful climate.”
The Rabbit Industry: New company operating at Texas. £200 a week being paid to trappers.
