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30 by 20 metres (98 ft × 66 ft) with two small projections remaining from the wings, one of which contains toilets and a tea room. The rear block is 30 by 10 metres (98 ft × 33 ft) with part of one wing still attached. Most rooms in both blocks have high ceilings and good natural light from windows and roof lights. They are plainly but robustly detailed. Unsympathetic metal security
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In 1904, McLeod, having set the curriculum, left to become manager of the
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Minister and was given considerable freedom to formulate policy. A firm believer in giving working men an opportunity to advance in their industry, he had lectures repeated in the evening which allowed working miners to attend the School.
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Council of the Institute. Although there was an enrolment of between sixty and seventy students, attendance fell away as the year progressed and by the end of the year only two students remained. Although the experiment had failed, the need for technical instruction remained
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Department of Education. By this time the building had more than doubled its original size and formed a complex around a courtyard. In 1964, the connection between the front half of the building and the rear were severed.
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Charters Towers field was in decline, having reached its peak in 1899. By 1912 many people were leaving the town and in 1916 the field closed. The school continued to produce a small, but highly regarded, stream of graduates who were to distinguish
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Charters Towers was established as a gold field in 1872. The gold was not alluvial, but in the form of downward sloping reefs of gold bearing ore. As time went on it became necessary to dig deeper and deeper shafts to extract the gold which required the formation of companies to provide sufficient
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Manager's Association was formed. Meetings were held monthly at the old Town Hall where papers on subjects connected with mining were presented and discussed. It soon became apparent that few members of the association, most of whom had practical rather than theoretical
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Australia's most productive gold fields and reflects the importance of the mining industry to the development of north Queensland. It demonstrates the role of the Government in mining education at the turn of the century by its location on a
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The former school is now used by Towers Arts, the city's largest artists' community, for making and displaying paintings, pastels, photos, quilling, ceramics, jewellery, clothing, quilts, dolls and other artworks. Its rooms house
Charters Towers' most extensive art galleries.
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700 and were carried out by local builder, B.Toll. The
Director also appointed staff and purchased the necessary equipment to create an up-to-date technical school. Classes began in 1901, although work on the building was not quite complete. The school had lecture rooms for
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planned to remove the main portion of the building retaining only the rear portion as a manual training section for the High School. After strong reaction by the residents of Charters Towers, the department leased the building to the
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knowledge, could understand the more technical papers. This gave impetus to a renewed interest in establishing a technical school to teach subjects related to mining along the lines of the noted School of Mines in
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government reserve and its adaptation by the Department of Works. Its success in the early years of the twentieth century is shown by the series of extensions to the building and its facilities.
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became an exact science. Towards the end of the century, there was considerable interest in improving methods in what had become a very important industry in Queensland.
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in January 1907. These included a drawing office, lecture preparation room and new laboratory. The existing assay laboratory was also extended with balance rooms.
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