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Joseph Laurie
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- 2025-03-28 12:53:30
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- Joseph Laurie
- addressPostalCode:
- 2443
- cityName:
- Laurieton
- addressLine1:
- Camden Haven Museum
- addressLine2:
- School of Arts Buiding, 58 Bold Street
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- Business and industry
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- traditionalName:
- Laurieton is on the lands of the Birpai people
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- <p>Joseph Laurie was a 19th century pioneer of the New South Wales timber industry. One of the first Europeans to settle permanently on the mid-north coast, he opened a sawmill on the banks of the Camden Haven Inlet with his brothers in 1876. Joseph travelled to the United Kingdom and Europe, working to transform perceptions about the quality of Australian processed timber and establish an overseas market for it. The town of Laurieton is named in recognition of Joseph and his family.</p>
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- Joseph Laurie (1832–1904) was one of the first Europeans to settle permanently on the mid-north coast and a pioneer of the New South Wales timber industry.
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Arthur Bryant Triggs
https://blueplaques.nsw.gov.au/_designs/integrations/funnelback-integration/blue-plaque-indexers/blue-plaque-xml-indexer/_nocache?asset=517708- icon:
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- 2024-09-13 12:55:37
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- Arthur Bryant Triggs
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- Yass
- addressLine1:
- Old Linton
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- 22 Glebe Street
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- Agriculture, Business and industry
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- Yass is on the land of the Ngunnawal people
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- <p>Arthur Bryant Triggs was a successful Australian pastoralist. He was also a man of learned tastes, a student of literature and a passionate collector during a rich and remarkable life.</p><p>Arthur bought and leased many remote station properties in Old Linton (then simply ‘Linton’) in the town of Yass, having up to 500,000 sheep under his watch at a time. A generous benefactor to Yass Hospital and other local community organisations, it was said that 'when Mr Triggs was prosperous, Yass was prosperous'.</p>
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- Arthur Bryant Triggs (1868–1936) was a successful Australian pastoralist and collector who lived in Yass.
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Ioannis (Jack) and Antonios (Tony) Notaras
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- 2025-03-28 12:18:26
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- Ioannis (Jack) and Antonios (Tony) Notaras
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- 2460
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- Grafton
- addressLine1:
- The Saraton Theatre
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- 99 Prince Street
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- Business and industry, Performing arts
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- The Clarence Valley is on the land of the Bundjalung, Gumbaynggirr and Yaegl nations.
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- <p>Ioannis (Jack) (1892-1962) and Antonios (Tony) Notaras (1895-1991) were Greek migrants who became highly successful restaurateurs and theatre owners in the Clarence River region. The brothers owned a series of successful cafes and built Grafton’s best-known theatre and cinema, the Saraton.</p>
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- Ioannis (Jack) (1892-1962) and Antonios (Tony) Notaras (1895-1991) were Greek migrants who became highly successful restaurateurs and theatre owners in Grafton.
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- <p>Successful businessmen who established the heritage-listed Saraton Theatre</p>
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Elizabeth Jane (Bessie) Robinson
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- Elizabeth Jane (Bessie) Robinson
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- 2804
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- The Old Vic Inn 56 Gaskill St, Canowindra
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- Business and industry, Education
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- Canowindra is on the lands of the Wiradjuri people
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- <p>Elizabeth Jane (‘Bessie’) Robinson was a businesswoman who drove the development of the central west town of Canowindra and advocated for quality public education.</p><p>Bessie’s land stretched from present-day Gaskill Street to Clyburn Street. The Old Vic Inn now stands on the site of The Victoria Hotel built on Bessie’s land, which she ran from 1868 until the early 1900s.</p><p>In the early 1870s Bessie began campaigning for better education in Canowindra, following which, in 1875, the government agreed to set up a state school. Bessie was also instrumental in building modern-day Canowindra, developing her land for residential and commercial purposes.</p>
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- Elizabeth Jane (‘Bessie’) Robinson was a businesswoman who drove the development of the central west town of Canowindra and advocated for quality public education.
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Betro Abicare (Abikhair)
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- 2025-03-28 11:40:01
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- 2640
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- 453 Dean St, Albury
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- Business and industry
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- Albury is on the lands of the Wiradjuri people
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- <p>Betro Abicare (sometimes spelt Abikhair) was a Lebanese immigrant, builder and entrepreneur who made a major contribution to the development of Albury’s commercial centre.</p><p>He came to Australia in 1889, during a wave of migration from Lebanon that started in the 1870s. Betro began by hawking goods between farms but by 1898 had settled in Albury, where he established a successful draper’s business.</p><p>He erected a building known both as ‘The Big Store’ and ‘The Australian Building’ in 1912, and the magnificent Regent Theatre on the opposite corner in 1927. Both buildings remain as notable Albury landmarks to this day.</p>
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- Betro Abicare (C1870–1938) was a Lebanese immigrant, builder and entrepreneur who made a major contribution to the development of Albury’s commercial centre.
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Professor Thomas Leech
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- SMEC Fluid Mechanics Laboratory 220-226 Sharp St Cooma
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- Science and technology, Business and industry
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- Cooma is on the lands of the Ngarigo, Walgalu, Southern Ngunnawal and Bidawal peoples.
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- <p>Thomas Leech was a renowned professor and head of the Scientific Services Division of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme.</p><p>One of the largest engineering projects in the world at the time, it harnessed the waters of the Snowy River to produce electricity and irrigate large areas west of the mountains. Thomas led a team that tested whether the project’s designs would work in real-world conditions, and developed techniques to improve construction and workers’ safety.</p><p>Endlessly inventive and deeply concerned for the welfare of others, he also helped develop one of the twentieth century’s most important safety devices: the black box flight recorder.</p>
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Daniel Gowing
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- Tathra
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- 2 Wharf Rd
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- Tathra is on the land of the Yuin people.
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- <p>Daniel Gowing was an English farmer who was instrumental in the development of Bega and surrounding towns in the far southeast of New South Wales.</p><p>In the 1860s, he initiated the development of a jetty at Tathra to serve as a shipping outlet, allowing farmers to transport their produce more easily to Sydney and Melbourne. Shortly after, the jetty was replaced by a wharf, which provided vital impetus for Tathra’s rise as the region’s main port.</p><p>Daniel went on to build Tathra’s first store and post office and maintained a lifelong interest in the area’s advancement.</p>
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Quong Tart 梅光達
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