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Qld: Queensland Police [18] [91] 1144117: ANDREN, David Paul: 21 March 2011: NSW: Sawtell: On the night of 24 September 2009, Mr Andren saved a number of people following the capsizing of a three-storey cruising vessel at Halong Bay, North Vietnam. [10] [92] 1057462: ANDREW, Brett Douglas: 12 August 2004: Vic: Eltham [93] 1058363: ANDREW ...
The Nerang Branch Library is located on the corner of White & Price Streets. [29] The Nerang Branch Library also holds the Special Needs Library Collection which contains specialist materials for developmental and disability needs. [30] The Nerang branch of the Queensland Country Women's Association meets at the Girl Guide Hut at 40 Ferry ...
On 11 November 1879, the Nerang Division was created as one of 74 divisions within Queensland under the Divisional Boards Act 1879 with a population of 652. [1] [2]On 6 July 1883, Southport Division was formed from part of subdivision No. 1 of Nerang Division and part of subdivision No. 1 of Coomera Division.
Andrews was born in Brisbane.He attended Taringa State primary school and St Joseph's College, Nudgee before enrolling at the University of Queensland in 1939. In 1940, he enlisted in the Royal Air Force, first in No. 61 OTU in Britain and then in No. 127 Squadron in the Western Desert. [1]
Andrews was created as a suburb in 1981 and named after a family who owned a large amount of the land in the area. [2] In 2002, Andrews was merged with Stephens and a portion of Robina, to form the new suburb of Varsity Lakes and the West Burleigh part of Burleigh Heads. [1] Andrews is no longer an official placename.
Nerang was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1986 to 2001. [ 1 ] The district was based in the southern part of the Gold Coast and named for the suburb of Nerang .
In 1922 the Queensland State Government purchased a Nerang Street site for £1737 and opened the Gold Coast Hospital shortly after. [2] On 28 November 1925, the township of Southport had existed for 50 years. The day was declared a public holiday as the town began jubilee celebrations.
John Gladstone Steele states that the Nerang river tribe was known as the Ngarangbal-speaking Nerang-ballun, and adds that the toponym nerang has several etymologies: ngarang has been taken to mean "little stream"; as a language name it might suggest that the Ngaranbal were a people who used the word ngaraa for the idea of "what"; alternatively ...