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The school's name "Centenary" comes from the Centenary suburbs in which it is located. In 1960, a year after the celebrations of the Centenary of Queensland, LJ Hooker announced POG that it was to create "a major satellite residential development covering 1,295 hectares and a bridge linking ... the new development with the western suburbs of Brisbane". [4]
LJ Hooker is one of Australia's largest real estate groups, with 600 franchise offices and 6,000 people engaged in residential ... a city agency. [7] [8] In 1946, LJ ...
The school opened in 1884 but closed in 1891 and was not reopened until 1925. Sylvania Heights Public School opened in 1955. Sylvania Waters Estate was developed by LJ Hooker in the 1960s, with much of the land reclaimed from the bay, effectively destroying the mangrove ecosystem to provide water frontages with boating facilities.
Sir Leslie Joseph Hooker (18 August 1903 – 29 April 1976) [1] (born Leslie Joseph Tingyou) was an Australian property entrepreneur, businessman and philanthropist.From humble beginnings he created the LJ Hooker empire and was at one time Australia's largest landholder and the world's largest cattle owner. [2]
Hooker's grandfather Leslie Joseph Hooker ("LJ") was born in Canterbury, Sydney and was of Chinese heritage. [citation needed] He started a real estate business in Maroubra, New South Wales in 1928 which by his retirement in 1974, had grown into the LJ Hooker national real estate network with more than 2300 staff and assets of almost $200 million.
The leader of a Texas middle school has addressed a September incident in which a teacher asked students to pose as seducing “hookers” during a classroom game.
The suburb east of Starkey Street became the site of considerable development by LJ Hooker in the early 1960s prior to the completion of the second Roseville Bridge in 1966. West of Starkey Street was Crown land. Killarney Heights Post Office opened on 1 December 1965 and closed in 1987. [7]
An auction brochure by LJ Hooker Real Estate firm (Heritage Office 2008B), perhaps at the time the Roach's purchased Llanarth, shows photographs of the house with the driveway looping to the front door, low brick wall on front verandah, and lean-to on the western side of the coach house and southern end of the kitchen and laundry. The hand pump ...