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Historical Society Books and Bulletins Print E-mail
Prices current for 2007 and include GST. (Also available from the Cairns Museum Gift Shop)

Books

Rapkins, Denise

A Remarkable Achievement, the Cairns-Mulgrave Tramway 1897-1911. 1997. pp 44., ill .   $14.50
Broughton, AD & Stephens, SE (Eds)

Establishment Trinity Bay, a collection of historical episodes. 1984. 69 pp., ill.   $15.50   [A series of essays relating to the establishment of Cairns]
Broughton, AD

A pictoral history of the Construction of the Cairns Range Railway, 1886-1891. 1991. 32 pp., ill.   $12.00

Bulletins by theme

Booklets consisting of 15 to 20 stapled pages; cost $7.70 each.

  • History of Cairns, reminiscences, Part I $7.70
  • History of Cairns, reminiscences, Part II $6.60
  • History of Cairns, reminiscences, Part III $6.60
  • Palmer Goldfield by SE Stephens $5.50
  • Palmer Goldfield (by various authors) $5.00
  • Historical Cooktown by SE Stephens $5.50
  • The Aborigines in North Qld, No. 1 $5.00
  • The Aborigines in North Qld, No. 2 $5.00
  • Cyclones in North Queensland $5.50
  • Ships and Shipwrecks in North Queensland History, Part I by A McInnes $6.60
  • Ships and Shipwrecks in North Queensland History, Part II (various authors) $7.70
  • The Hodgkinson Goldfield $5.50
  • Cairns at War, 1939-1945 (various authors) $7.70
Occasional papers
  • A Short History of Cairns by G Jennex   $4.40
  • Battle of the Coral Sea by AD Broughton   $4.00
  • Australian Aborigines: Their Probable Origins by G Grimwade   $4.00
  • Chinese Religious Practices in Cairns, North Queensland by G Grimwade   $6.00
  • Pearl shells & Pearls, 1862-1972, mainly in the Torres Strait, a date outline by G Jennex   $6.00
  • Booby Island   $4.00
  • Malaytown by J Hodes   $6.00
  • Cairns Building Boom 1907-1914 by Dr D May   $6.00
  • Development of Pearl Cultivation in Australia by C Denis George   $6.60
  • A W Jones Pioneer Aviator by A D Broughton $7.70
The Cairns Historical Society publishes a monthly bulletin for its members and has been doing so since 1958. These two page bulletins contain information on a wide range of historical topics researched and written by interested members of the Society. Bulletins can be purchased at 50c each.

INDEX: A Cairns Historical Society Bulletins Index (with list of bulletins) can be purchased for $4.00


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