Place: Port Douglas
Summary
Collection of correspondence, typescript papers, a speech and newspaper extracts. Including:
Typescript, 'Port Douglas on Cape York Peninsula north Queensland. Some notes of historical interest', presented by Horace Evelyn Flower to the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, November 1951, foolscap, pp.3, with covering letter to A.A. Morrison.
Paper, 'Douglas Shire Tramways. History of the Port Douglas Tramway', by C. McColvin, foolscap, pp.3.
Two letters to Captain W.C. Thomson, one from J.F. Turner, [no details], another from S.B. Andreassen, March 1913[?], regarding the recovery of naval cannon from the Great Barrier Reef.
Copy of a speech by Glenville Pike, on the occasion of the opening of the road known as The Bump, in the Port Douglas hinterland, 10 June 1977, p.1. DISTRICT FILE.