IN PICTURES: Built on cane - When sugar was king in Mossman

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Shaun Hollis

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Canecutters at Bonnie Doon including A.R McGregor, Mick Kilgour, Eric May, C.D. Jack and Charlie Christensen.

To commemorate the official end of the Mossman sugarcane industry, Newsport celebrates more than 130 years of cane in pictures.

Pictures: Douglas Shire Historical Society, Bryan Littlely, Shaun Hollis

 

The locomotive Pioneer some time before 1923.
Monty Johnson, the only woman steam engine driver of the time Jenny Watson, and Kevin Jarrard.
Journalist Bryan Littlely with the old cane train carriages on Captain Cook Highway earlier this year.
Mossman cane grower Peter Verri in January.
David Burke cutting cane in 1959.
A group of cane cutters in the early days.
Mossman Mill in 1988.
Farmers who ran the mill during the 1915 strike.

 

 

Current Mossman Canegrowers association chair Matt Watson.
The shut down Mossman Mill earlier this year.
Mossman Mill in 1970.
Miallo locomotive hauling a load of cane.
Mossman Mill after 1910 with two stacks.
Les Pringle at Julatten in 1982.

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