Contents

1. Front matter Dedication 51 words
2. Front matter Acknowledgements 109 words
3. Front matter Foreword 316 words
4. Front matter PrefaceParts 1, 3, 4 and 5 2,587 words
5. Front matter PrefaceParts 2 and 6 408 words
6. Part One The Early Bundaberg Pioneers and Their Plantations With special reference to Walter Adams of Sommerville
7. Chapter 1 A Brief History of Sugar Cane 2,360 words
8. Chapter 2 The Road(s) to BundabergThe explorers 1,134 words
9. Chapter 3 The Very Early Planters and Pioneers 5,068 words
10. Chapter 4 The Establishment of a New Town 3,217 words
11. Chapter 5 Walter AdamsHis career as a plantation owner 1,930 words
12. Chapter 6 Significant MillsTheir owners in the Bundaberg area 2,742 words
13. Chapter 7 The Royal Commission of 1889 1,733 words
14. Chapter 8 Agricultural Labour and its Problems 5,370 words
15. Chapter 9 A Walk Through the Woongarra 3,713 words
16. Part Two “Farm Labourer 18 Read and Write” Walter Adams of BundabergThe title in italics above is the Sydney Immigration Office’s dockside description of Walter on his disembarkation from the emigrant ship Victoria.
17. Chapter 10 A New Life in an Old Land 11,471 words
18. Part Three The Involvement of Walter Adams in Church Affairs
19. Chapter 11 The Establishment of the Catholic ChurchAnd the Convent of the Sisters of St. Joseph 7,416 words
20. Part Four The Involvement of Walter Adams in Affairs of State
21. Chapter 12 Walter Adams in ParliamentPolitical ideals 1,161 words
22. Chapter 13 Walter's First Year SpeechesTo the Queensland Legislative Assembly 10,731 words
23. Part Five Around the World in a Rather Short Time Or, a visit to England, Ireland, Scotland, Oceania and others in the years leading up to the establishment of Bundaberg
24. Chapter 14 Introduction to Around the World 364 words
25. Chapter 15 Continental EuropeThe song has ended but the melody lingers on 370 words
26. Chapter 16 EnglandNot so merry 6,710 words
27. Chapter 17 IrelandFor you must go and I must bide 6,340 words
28. Chapter 18 ScotlandWill ye no come back again 1,652 words
29. Chapter 19 The United States of AmericaYankee Doodle not so dandy 604 words
30. Chapter 20 OceaniaWe were the first that ever burst into that silent sea 3,532 words
31. Part Six Descendants of Walter and Mary Adams of Bundaberg J. K. Connor, 2004
32. Back matter The Family ChartThe descendants of Walter and Mary Adams 0 words
33. Chapter 21 An Heir, a Tragedy and a Resolute Lady 2,552 words
34. Chapter 22 Workers of Wood, Soil and Stone 2,662 words
35. Chapter 23 A French Connection 1,052 words
36. Chapter 24 A Wild Colonial Boy 960 words
37. Chapter 25 The Challenge of a Cultured Lady 1,186 words
38. Chapter 26 The Homemaker 269 words
39. Chapter 27 The Passage of the Innocents 129 words
40. Chapter 28 A Family Arrangement 1,186 words
41. Back matter Closing Notes 347 words
42. Back matter Note on the Text 0 words

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