The Aborigines of Mackay

Roth, Henry Ling

doi:10.1017/cbo9781139107761.012

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“…Besides Ducks and Geese, there were numbers of other birds, i.e., Snipe, Plover, Egrets, Spoonbill Cranes, Giant Cranes, Native Companions and Pelicans, and many of the smaller birds, the Sandpiper in particular. 28 Another early resident, Hon. Henry Finch-Hatton, later Lord Winchelsea, provided Roth with a long description of his shooting expeditions when two or three shooters could bag 50 to 120 birds in one day.…”

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“…Henry Finch-Hatton, later Lord Winchelsea, provided Roth with a long description of his shooting expeditions when two or three shooters could bag 50 to 120 birds in one day. 29 Hon. Harold Finch-Hatton, brother of Henry, lived at Mt Spencer in the 1880s and also knew the Pioneer River well:…”

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“…33 John Spiller remembered shooting nine crocodiles but did not think they were 'much sport', while Charles Romilly of Pleystowe informed Roth that he had shot twentyseven crocodiles in the Pioneer River. 34 The flora and fauna of the Pioneer Valley was changed drastically by settlement from the 1860s onwards, cleared away to make space for sugar cane. When canes were grown on virgin soil, the results were spectacular: early photographs show canes far taller than a horse and rider.…”

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Sugar and Ecological Imperialism

Moore

2013

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The Pioneer Valley at Mackay is the centre of a thriving sugar industry that supports 120,000 people and brings millions of dollars into the Australian economy through milling sugar cane. The valley presents a vista of kilometre after kilometre of flat green and brown symmetrical patterns. In the growing season, rectangles striped with furrows carry on as far as the eye can see, blending into green blocks as the cane grows, with the pattern broken only by natural topographic features such as creeks, the Pioneer River, occasional hills and small towns. Cane totally dominates the flat land, but at the edges of the valley it is gradually overshadowed by the brown and grey of the higher untamed areas. Within this green, brown and grey picture is another pattern, the imposed logistics of roads, railways, and glistening galvanised roofs on the houses and sheds, softened by the dark green of mango and other fruit trees, stately hoop pines, fig and shade trees. On the edges of the valley floor, the hills become more numerous, feeding into the surrounding mountain ranges. The visual pattern partly relates to topography, but includes elements dating back to the shapes of the first land selections and subsequent surveying from the 1860s onwards, as well as the need for road and rail links between early settlements, and more recently by the needs of modern mechanical farming.

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Section: Environmental Changementioning

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