A QUAINT TOWN
ON QUEENSLAND BORDER. On the Queensland border, near Belalie, 80 miles north of Bourke, is New South Wales’s quaintest township, states the Sydney “Daily Telegraph.. It is half in Queensland and half m New South Wales, and has a population of 15, including six women and one baby. . Only one man is married, and he is the New South Wales policeman. There are two police stations, one conducted by each State. You may offend the New South Wales policeman and step across the street to safety in Queensland. . , z , Aeroplanes land in the mam street and tie up to the horse hitching rail at the hotel The hotel is wholly operated by the Lack brothers, who man the bar, do the housework, and wait at the table. They are young men, and very efficient housekeepers. It is nice to have your morning tea brought in by an efficient young man and meet him again behind the menu and bar counter. The highest temperature this year was 118 degrees. . The town is just a lovely speck m a wilderness of open red and black soil plains, but the hotel has a radio, a billiard room, running water, and a bowser pump.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 April 1933, Page 9
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203A QUAINT TOWN Greymouth Evening Star, 13 April 1933, Page 9
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