Description: Chapters: Acland, Queensland, Conrad, Alberta, Merricks Beach, Victoria, Koorda, Western Australia, Rjukan, Nungarin, Western Australia, Balnarring Beach, Victoria, Wyalkatchem, Western Australia, Afif, Kavalerovo. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Acland, Queensland is a small town north of Oakey, on the Darling Downs, 160 kilometres (100 mi) west of Queensland's state capital, Brisbane. Originally built to support what would become Queensland's oldest continuously worked coal mine, in 2008 the town was almost all purchased by the new mine operators with the intention that it be demolished as the open cut mine expands into where the town is sited. Acland lies north of Oakey, on the Darling Downs, 160 kilometres (100 mi) west of Queensland's state capital, Brisbane. It lies in pasture country where there has been some dairy farming and coal mining. Rainfall records were collected at the post office between 1912 and 1993, and recorded an average annual rainfall of 690 millimetres. In the 1980s the town was classed as having a population of between 200 and 400, however it reported a population of just 53 in the 2006 census. Acland town developed following the mining of coal in the area by the Acland Coal Company. The town had a post office by 1912, and its own police officer by 1913, at which time there was also a primary school nearby, at a site called Lagoon Creek. The Acland number two colliery opened in 1929, and in the 1940s and 1950s it employed 52 people. In 1952, several buildings in the town were damaged by a tornado; radio broadcaster Alan Jones described it as "Australia's only inland tornado" and that it "flattened" the town, with sufficient strength to lift a farm water tank off its stand. By 1971, with demand for coal for transport ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2452268 We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers. To get started finding Settlements Established in the 1910s: Acland, Queensland, Conrad, Alberta, Merricks Beach, Victoria, Koorda, Western Australia, Rjukan, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.