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The Port Douglas Community Hall houses the Port Douglas Library, 11–29 Mowbray Street, operated by the Douglas Shire Council. [30] The Library opened in 2010. [31] Another branch library is located in Mossman. [32] The Port Douglas branch of the Queensland Country Women's Association meets at the CWA Hall at 8 Blake Street. [33]
The former Mossman Shire Hall and Douglas Shire Council Chambers, constructed 1936–1937, is a substantial civic building that reflects the importance of the sugar industry to north Queensland during the interwar period and is associated with the ascendancy of Mossman as a commercial and administrative centre and the decline of Port Douglas as an early regional centre.
Melvin Prestidge (November 20, 1928 – January 25, 2011) [1] was an American police officer and television actor. [2] [3] He was known for playing the roles of Lt. Danny Quon in the American detective television series Hawaiian Eye and Jackie-Jackie in the syndicated television series Captain David Grief.
The Mossman - Port Douglas parish of the Roman Catholic Vicariate Apostolic of Queensland (now the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cairns) was established in 1877. [12] Mossman River Post Office opened by 1895 (a receiving office had been open from 1883) and was renamed Mossman in 1899. [13] Mossman Central Sugar Mill commenced crushing on 23 August ...
As the Mossman River community consolidated, religious denominations established a presence in the district. Prior to the formation of a separate Port Douglas and Mossman Parish, missionary chaplains from the Church of England's Diocese of North Queensland, based in Townsville, travelled to Port Douglas to conduct services. In 1898 the separate ...
The Belleville News-Democrat has been featured on the television programs 60 Minutes, Dateline and Nightline, as an example of investigative reporting. [3] In 2003, an article in Editor & Publisher called the News-Democrat one of "Ten newspapers that do it right" under the leadership of former publisher, Gary Berkeley, and former editor, Greg Edwards.
The Belleville Intelligencer was founded in 1834 by George Benjamin, who, after just arriving in the city, is said to have stopped in at a hotel and asked to purchase the local newspaper. [1] He was then informed of the young city's lack of a local newspaper, as several attempted newspaper publications turned out to have been short lived and ...
Port Douglas was established in 1877 as an alternative to Cairns as a service port to the Hodgkinson goldfield that had been proclaimed on 15 June 1876, but with the construction of the Cairns-Kuranda railway line 1882–1891, Port Douglas gradually declined as a town and port. The Mossman district, although initially taken up as homestead ...