Cooran to the seaside for Christmas 1901

Cooran -December 9, 1901.

Mr. Chares Crank, a well known and respected resident of Tewantin for the past twenty years, intends running a passenger coach from Cooran to the seaside during the Christmas and New Year holidays, having just purchased a splendid turnout for the purpose. 

The genial Charlie was a well known whip on the Cooroy-Tewantin road, also on the Cooran Gympie road in the old coaching days, and the travelling public could not do better than to place themselves under his guidance. Due notice will be given through the local press as to date of commencement of running and the fares are to be very reasonable. 

Mr. D. Martin's new hotel at Tewantin is now finished and is a credit to the builders so I am told, but unfortunately for Dan he has been refused a license for this month which means a big loss financially to him. Mr. Alf Lister has his store stocked now with goods fresh, cheap, and up to date and no doubt he will hold his own during the coming Christmas. December 9, 1901.

1901 'Cooran.', Gympie Times and Mary River Mining Gazette (Qld. : 1868 - 1919),
12 December, p. 3.  http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article171002031

Christmas Holiday by Rail 1905

 QUEENSLAND RAILWAYS.

WHERE SHALL WE SPEND THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS?
Here is a Choice Collection of Trips on the Railways

NORTH COAST LINE.

This line offers a variety of River, Mountain, and Scrub Scenery that would be hard to beat, passing as it does, through the Pine, Caboolture, Maroochie, and Mooloolah River Districts ; the Rich Tropical Jungle of the Palmwoods and Blackall Range, and in close proximity to the Glass House Mountains, which stand like Sentinels overlooking the country side. Branching off from the Main Line the visitor can pay visits to many interesting spots, among them being the following :—

CALOUNDRA HEADS

Eight miles from Landsborough Railway Station. This is a favourite seaside re sort well worthy a visit, facing the Pacific Ocean, in the immediate vicinity of Bribie Island, with Pumice Stone Chan nel intervening, making an ideally quiet spot in which to spend a holiday. There is plenty of good fishing, and boating may be safely engaged in.

RAZOR BACK AND MONTVILLE,

Seven miles from Palm woods Station, is on the top of the Blackall Range, and is the centre of Strawberry Cultivation.

BUDERIM MOUNTAIN

Is ten miles from Woombye Station, near the mouth of the Mooloolah River. The mountain is of volcanic formation, and is the centre of banana and coffee cultivation

NOOSA AND TEWATIN. [ed.Tewantin]

Twelve miles from Cooroy or Cooran, from both of which Stations there is a daily coach service. As a seaside resort Noosa ranks high, there is splendid fishing and boating on the River and Lakes, whilst the Coolum Beach stretches for miles along the coast.

THE GLASSHOUSE MOUNTAINS.

Tibrogargan, one of the Glasshouse Mountains, is one of the most prominent, 2 mil3S from Glass Mt. Station, 44 miles from Brisbane, on the North Coast Line. In the same locality are Ngumgum, miles, Coonowrin (Crook Neck), 3 miles, and Beerwah, 5 miles.

NAMBOUR.

There is a large and up-to-date Government Sugar mill alongside the Station and to any one interested in our staple product a visit will be of interest, as here the whole process, including cultivation of the cane, and its conversion into the finished article, may be witnessed.

1905 'QUEENSLAND RAILWAYS.', Queensland Country Life (Qld. : 1900 - 1954), 1 December, p. 13. , viewed 02 Nov 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article97517312

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