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October 1916, the fledgling brigade had received its first government subsidy and a manual fire engine was purchased the following year. Land for the fire brigade was acquired in New Street (Allot 3 Section 6) in January 1920. It had been originally taken up in 1863 by John Donovan and transferred to local butcher James Ryan in 1885. It is conjectured that the cottage now utilised as the fire station office was built in 1889 when Ryan took out a mortgage on his property. The land was transferred to Ryan's daughter Margaret in 1910, and in 1919, about six years after she had married and moved to
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on the ground floor, and a recreation room, kitchen, bathroom and dormitory space, and accommodation for officers and their families on the first floor. The 1935 Dalby station was smaller than some of the
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James Duncan Morris and Alderman Walter Robertson Hunter, both fire brigade board members. The agreement allowed for the board to build on the site and take out mortgages to finance any improvements. Tenders were called for construction of this first fire station in January 1920 and building
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moth in 1925. The prickly pear had devastated the region from the late 19th century and its destruction led to the recovery of thousands of hectares of agricultural land and the Department of Public Lands reporting rapid expansion of agriculture, grazing and dairying around Dalby,
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376:Chinchilla
291:Queensland
163:Designated
128:Classicism
70:27°10′47″S
54:Queensland
862:18 August
664:fanlights
637:pilasters
590:Gladstone
570:Innisfail
481:in 1935,
311:Toowoomba
182:1935–2010
114:Architect
918:archived
900:archived
834:1 August
696:lighting
692:cornices
572:(1937),
458:Brisbane
195:Builders
41:Location
683:chimney
648:columns
641:balcony
622:parapet
546:Quilpie
538:Warwick
389:of the
305:History
912:under
894:under
675:lintel
671:facade
650:and a
633:facade
594:Cairns
578:Gympie
405:, the
348:Sydney
174:602754
645:ionic
618:gable
432:Oakey
380:Miles
283:Dalby
106:Built
46:Dalby
864:2016
836:2014
596:and
544:and
430:and
378:and
155:Type
109:1935
946::
852:.
824:.
755:^
588:,
584:,
434:.
382:.
289:,
285:,
52:,
48:,
838:.
443:£
419:£
415:£
357:£
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