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The Savoy, located on Plumb Street was constructed in the early days of the township. It may have originally been the home of the Greek Club. The Irish Club met here in the 1930s, and it also provided accommodation for canecutters and itinerant workers

Photograph of the Savoy, a boarding house on Plumb Street, Tully. Originally built to house itinerant workers such as canecutters

Photograph of “Sea Mist”, a pleasure boat owned by Whitings, taken in the 1930s on the southern bank of the Hull River mouth

The Maria Creek wharf was located about 2 miles upstream from the river mouth. A sawmill tramway from the wharf to Japoonvale was also used by Chinese growers to transport their bananas to the wharf as seen on this image, where "S.S. Seymour" is loading. The Adelaide Steamship Company shed can be seen to the left centre

Black and white photograph of the Olympic Torch on its way from Cairns to Melbourne. Ned Mollenhagen carried the torch for the last mile to Ingham. It was received by the Hinchinbrook Shire Chairman

Sepia copy of a photograph of the home of the Skardon family on Mission Beach Road, built in 1916. The first Skardons came to Cardwell in the 1880s. Fiddes and John Skardon had erected slaughteryards and a butchery on this property at Midgenoo by 1920

George Morris ran a small resort on Orpheus Island (in the Palm Island group) before he was hired by Hugo Brassey to go to Dunk Island to run the resort there

The Dunk Island resort staff, photographed in the 1930s, seated outside the kitchen at the resort

Photograph of Superintendent John Kenny's house built at the Hull River Settlement. The quarters were completed by the end of 1914. Aboriginal people continued to be moved to the settlement from 1914 until March 1918, when a devastating cyclone destroyed the settlement. It was not re-established