Ideraway Explained

Type:town
Ideraway
State:qld
Coordinates:-25.5788°N 151.6183°W
Pop:31
Postcode:4625
Area:35.5
Timezone:AEST
Utc:+10:00
Dist1:5.5
Dir1:NNE
Location1:Gayndah
Dist2:153
Dir2:W
Location2:Maryborough
Dist3:152
Dir3:SW
Location3:Bundaberg
Dist4:331
Dir4:NNW
Location4:Brisbane
Lga:North Burnett Region
Stategov:Callide
Fedgov:Flynn
Near-N:Yenda
Near-Ne:Mount Lawless
Near-E:Bon Accord
Near-Se:Bon Accord
Near-S:Gayndah
Near-Sw:Dirnbir
Near-W:Reids Creek
Near-Nw:Reids Creek

Ideraway is a rural town and locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia.[1] [2] In the, the locality of Ideraway had a population of 31 people.

Geography

The Burnett River forms the south-eastern boundary, while Reid Creek forms the western boundary. The Burnett Highway passes through the south-western corner.

The town is located in the south-east of the locality and most of the housing is within the town. The predominant land use is grazing on native vegetation in the south of the locality with crop growing more in the north of the locality.

History

The town's name was derived from the name of a pastoral run, leased from 1848 by James Blair (or Blain) Reid J.P.[3] [4] Reid acquired the leases of the six stations of sheep country which comprised Ideraway over a period of ten years.[5] [6] [7] [8] The stations were called Tanjour, Binjour, Branch Creek No. 1, Jonday, Penang, and Nour-Nour.[9] [10] In 1869 the leases on Penang and Nour-Nour, at the northern end of the run, were excised from Ideraway and sold as the cattle property of Mungy.[11]

In the 1850s and 1860s the run was the scene of several incidents of colonial frontier conflict.[12] Several children from Ideraway Station with Chinese laborer fathers and First Nation mothers were baptised into the Anglican faith in the early 1870s.[13] The Ideraway Homestead has been relocated to Gayndah Museum's historical precinct.[14]

On 18 December 1905 the Queensland Government legislated An Act to Make Provision for the Purchase of the Ideraway Estate, in the Burnett District, for Settlement under "The Agricultural. Lands Purchase Acts, 1894 to 1901." The land was purchased from Mr James John Cadell. Concurrently, An Act to Provide a Means of Assisting certain Persons to Settle upon the Agricultural Lands of the State was passed. This scheme was different to the earlier failed communal/utopian schemes at nearby Byrnestown, Resolute, and Bon Accord in that land was selected by individuals. The Ideraway Estate scheme was eventually liquidated by the Queensland Agricultural Bank at much loss.[15]

From that time onwards the area became densely infected with the prickly pear . Prior to the release of the cactoblastis cactorum moth in Queensland, arsenic pentoxide was the most effective poison of the plant.[16] P. H. Gerhardt of Ideraway, a prolific inventor, invented the Gerhardt Injector, for injection of the poison.[17] [18] [19] The moth was liberated into the field in 1926, and between then and 1939 butter production in the Gayndah district increased five-fold.[16] Cream from Ideraway was sent to the Maryborough butter factory, and then to the Gayndah butter factory when it opened in 1911, and the district was well-known for its butter production in the 1930s.[20] [21]

The Mungar Junction to Monto railway line opened between Wetheron and Gayndah on 16 December 1907 with the town being served by the Ideraway railway station (-25.577°N 151.6181°W).[22] Increasing competition from road freight resulted in railway services on the line being reduced over the years. In 2015, the Queensland Government decided it no longer wanted to maintain the railway and in 2017 the tracks were removed and the stations abandoned.[23]

Ideraway State School opened in 1909 and closed circa 1952. It was on the south-east corner of Tanjour Street and Bonny Street .[24]

Ideraway Post Office opened by December 1909 (a receiving office had been open from 1908) and closed in 1957.[25]

Demographics

In the, the locality of Ideraway had a population of 225 people.

In the, the locality of Ideraway had a population of 38 people.

In the, the locality of Ideraway had a population of 31 people.

Heritage listings

Ideraway Creek has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

These bridges were also listed by Engineers Australia in October 2016. The Official Register of Engineering Heritage Markers listed

Economy

There are a number of homesteads in the locality:[31]

Education

There are no schools in Ideraway. The nearest primary school is Gayndah State School in neighbouring Gayndah to the south. The nearest secondary school is Burnett State College also in Gayndah.

External links

Notes and References

  1. 28 December 2020.
  2. 28 December 2020.
  3. News: 15 June 1847 . Government Gazette Appointments and Employment . 650 . . 52 . New South Wales, Australia . 17 August 2023 . National Library of Australia.
  4. News: 22 June 1847 . PUBLIC EDUCATION. . 670 . . 54 . New South Wales, Australia . 17 August 2023 . National Library of Australia.
  5. News: 26 July 1851 . OROWN LANDS BEYOND THE SETTLED DISTRICTS. . 1190 . . 84 . New South Wales, Australia . 21 October 2022 . National Library of Australia . 18 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230118025952/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/230770387 . live .
  6. News: 26 July 1851 . OROWN LANDS BEYOND THE SETTLED DISTRICTS. . 1191 . . 84 . New South Wales, Australia . 21 October 2022 . National Library of Australia . 18 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230118025952/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/230770387 . live .
  7. News: 1 October 1852 . Government Gazette Tenders and Contracts . 1448 . . 95 . New South Wales, Australia . 21 October 2022 . National Library of Australia . 18 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230118030030/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/230052616 . live .
  8. News: 5 May 1858 . ACCEPTED TENDERS FOR RUNS. . XII . 2 . . 647 . Queensland, Australia . 21 October 2022 . National Library of Australia . 18 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230118025952/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3725594 . live .
  9. News: 26 March 1864 . Classified Advertising . XVIII . 5 . . 1898 . Queensland, Australia . 21 October 2022 . National Library of Australia . 18 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230118025952/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3169313 . live .
  10. Web site: Queensland State Archives . 26 September 1878 . Tracing shewing proposed resumptions from the Ideraway, Yenda, Penang, Nour Nour, Land of Promise, Branch Ck. No. 1, Prazier, Upper Chin Chin, Lower Chin Chin . 2022-10-22 . . 22 October 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221022081929/https://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/items/ITM3575811 . live .
  11. News: 11 January 1869 . Classified Advertising . XXIII . 4 . . 3,517 . Queensland, Australia . 21 October 2022 . National Library of Australia.
  12. Web site: Search results for 'ideraway'. registration. 2021-10-16. database.frontierconflict.org. 25 October 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211025190246/https://database.frontierconflict.org/search/results.aspx?st=ideraway. live.
  13. Web site: 15 February 2021 . Diocesan Records Archives – Gayndah Baptisms 1860–1877, 1891–1894 . 1 August 2022 . . . 23 April 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220423072300/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d0b6225d1f5490001c5c757/t/6029cf26642c4f320c65e644/1613352748326/Gayndah+Baptisms+15Feb2021.pdf . live .
  14. Web site: Ideraway Homestead c 1870–79 Capper St, Gayndah, QLD. POI Australia. 21 June 2022. 22 March 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220322065944/https://poi-australia.com.au/points-of-interest/australia/queensland-1/gayndah/ideraway-homestead-c-1870-79-capper-st-gayndah-qld/#post_content. live.
  15. News: 2 September 1931. Sall Plots. 13. The Brisbane Courier. 22,962. Queensland, Australia. National Library of Australia. 15 October 2021. 21 June 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220621094837/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/21767865. live.
  16. Davies. Hilary J. 2015. Chinchilla Field Station Insect-rearing Shed: the last relic of a major scientific project. Queensland History Journal. 22. 10. 719. 1836-5477. 9 February 2023. 9 February 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230209033052/https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.379036031750035. live.
  17. News: 20 January 1925. Prickly Pear. 3. The Dalby Herald. Queensland, Australia. National Library of Australia. 11 November 2021. 21 June 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220621094840/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/215501281. live.
  18. News: 25 August 1926. Advertising. 20. The Daily Mail. 7640. Queensland, Australia. National Library of Australia. 11 November 2021. 21 June 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220621094837/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/218348149. live.
  19. News: 4 October 1923. Commonwealth Patents. 19. Daily Commercial News And Shipping List. 10,998. New South Wales, Australia. National Library of Australia. 12 November 2021. 21 June 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220621094840/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/159927872. live.
  20. News: 18 May 1911. Ideraway. 6. Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser. 11,877. Queensland, Australia. National Library of Australia. 12 November 2021. 21 June 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220621094841/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/151530798. live.
  21. News: 3 January 1931. News and Notes of General Interest for the Man on the Land. 10. The Brisbane Courier. 22,756. Queensland, Australia. National Library of Australia. 15 October 2021. 21 June 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220621094840/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/21656688. live.
  22. Web site: 2 October 2020. Railway stations and sidings – Queensland. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20201005070354/https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/transport-features-queensland-series/resource/84fff9a0-e315-4844-9c4d-63934562a9bd. 5 October 2020. 5 October 2020. Queensland Open Data. Queensland Government.
  23. Web site: Shipton. David. 2018-10-27. How bridges helped build regional Queensland. live. 2021-02-19. ABC News. en-AU. 9 November 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201109023732/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-28/historic-queensland-bridges-that-connected-regional-communities/10390486.
  24. Web site: 1944. Gayndah. live. 19 February 2021. Queensland Government. Map. 19 February 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210219064828/https://gisservices.information.qld.gov.au/arcgis/rest/directories/historicalscans/topo_scans/topo-map-1mile-military-line-colour-gayndah-emergency-ed-1944.jpg.
  25. Web site: Premier Postal History . Post Office List . Premier Postal Auctions . 10 May 2014 . 15 May 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140515223132/http://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=QLD&country= . live.
  26. 12 July 2013.
  27. Web site: North Burnett Local Heritage Register. North Burnett Regional Council. https://web.archive.org/web/20190816031644/https://www.northburnett.qld.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Local-Heritage-Register2.pdf. 16 August 2019. live. 16 August 2019.
  28. 12 July 2013.
  29. Web site: McLachlan . Mark . 2018-06-06 . Degilbo to Mundubbera Railway Bridges, 1905 to 1914 . 2022-09-25 . Boyne Burnett Inland Rail Trail Blog . en-AU . 29 September 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220929143304/https://www.boyneburnettinlandrailtrail.org.au/blog/degilbo-to-mundubbera-railway-bridges-1905-to-1914/ . live .
  30. Web site: McGrath, PSM . B. L. . Churchward . Alan . October 2015 . Nomination of the Gayndah Rail Bridges, Queensland for ENGINEERING HERITAGE RECOGNITION under Engineering Heritage Australia’s Engineering Heritage Recognition Program . 26 September 2022 . . 25 September 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220925171553/https://portal.engineersaustralia.org.au/system/files/engineering-heritage-australia/nomination-title/HRP.Degilbo-Mundubbera%20Railway%20Bridges.Nomination.V10.Changes%20by%20AC.October%202016.pdf . live .
  31. Web site: 18 November 2020. Homesteads – Queensland. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20201124212526/https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/built-features-queensland-series/resource/b27874c1-ccb9-463d-a26f-706abcc0ab79. 24 November 2020. 24 November 2020. Queensland Open Data. Queensland Government.

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