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THE SUGAR CANE INDUSTRY

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Barges being loaded with cane

Barges being loaded with cane

Cane cutters. Empire Vale. 1958

Cane cutters. Empire Vale 1958

Sugar cane fields. Ballina

Cane cutter gang. Empire Vale.

Cutting cane

Cane cutting. Empire Vale. 1960s. Note the style of cutting: one stalk at a time. This changed to Bundaberg style, laying all cane on ground, then mass beheading.

Cane cutting. Empire Vale. 1960s

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Cane harvesting. Boundary Creek. Using a hand winch to derrick sugar cane into cane barges on Garrett's Wharf in mid 1950s. The loaded cane was towed on teh Richmond River to the sugar mill at Broadwater.

Mechanical loading of cane.

3 ton lorry

Bob and Ernie Perry stumping

Brushing lantana

Cane cutters camp. North Creek.

Cane cutters tents

Cane cutting in Dave Rodger's cane fields, Perry's Lane, Pimlico., 1946.

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