Bundaberg's Beginnings

Contents

1. Front Dedication
2. Front Acknowledgements
3. Front Foreword
4. Front PrefaceParts 1, 3, 4 and 5
5. Front PrefaceParts 2 and 6
6. Chapter 1 A Brief History of Sugar Cane
7. Chapter 2 The Road(s) to BundabergThe explorers
8. Chapter 3 The Very Early Planters and Pioneers
9. Chapter 4 The Establishment of a New Town
10. Chapter 5 Walter AdamsHis career as a plantation owner
11. Chapter 6 Significant MillsTheir owners in the Bundaberg area
12. Chapter 7 The Royal Commission of 1889
13. Chapter 8 Agricultural Labour and its Problems
14. Chapter 9 A Walk Through the Woongarra
15. Chapter 10 A New Life in an Old Land
16. Chapter 11 The Establishment of the Catholic ChurchAnd the Convent of the Sisters of St. Joseph
17. Chapter 12 Walter Adams in ParliamentPolitical ideals
18. Chapter 13 Walter's First Year SpeechesTo the Queensland Legislative Assembly
19. Chapter 14 Introduction to Around the World
20. Chapter 15 Continental EuropeThe song has ended but the melody lingers on
21. Chapter 16 EnglandNot so merry
22. Chapter 17 IrelandFor you must go and I must bide
23. Chapter 18 ScotlandWill ye no come back again
24. Chapter 19 The United States of AmericaYankee Doodle not so dandy
25. Chapter 20 OceaniaWe were the first that ever burst into that silent sea
26. Back The Family ChartThe descendants of Walter and Mary Adams
27. Chapter 21 An Heir, a Tragedy and a Resolute Lady
28. Chapter 22 Workers of Wood, Soil and Stone
29. Chapter 23 A French Connection
30. Chapter 24 A Wild Colonial Boy
31. Chapter 25 The Challenge of a Cultured Lady
32. Chapter 26 The Homemaker
33. Chapter 27 The Passage of the Innocents
34. Chapter 28 A Family Arrangement
35. Back Closing Notes
36. Back Note on the Text

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