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Inaugural races a success – apart from the deaths

1900 – The Mount Garnet races were held on Saturday, last, and proved a great success in every way, begins a newspaper report on the first ever such event at the Far North Queensland mining town. It’s not until the end of the story that the story mentions two deaths and one serious injury. GrantedContinue reading “Inaugural races a success – apart from the deaths”