Mackay as a Frontier Town
No-one looking at Mackay today could have possibly imagined the description applied to it in the 1870s by Harold Finch-Hatton.
‘The streets are very broad, and almost all the houses built entirely of wood, with verandahs in front of them, extending over the pavement. There is not a green thing to be seen anywhere. Dust is everywhere, inches deep in the streets that are not macadamised, and trees, bushes, houses, and everything is powdered over with it. In summer it is sweltering hot, the glare is frightful, and before I had been half an hour in Mackay, I began to understand why my brother was in such a hurry to get out of it.’
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Last updated: 10th January 2008
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