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Arthur Wallace
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Also Known AsWilliam WallaceWilliam Arthur WallaceAdditional InformationWilliam was born in Mackay on 17th September 1876. Both his parents were drowned in the big cyclone of Feb 1887, when Arthur was 10. The five children were sent to different relatives to live, the three youngest were sent to relatives in England. Arthur, the eldest and Fred the next eldest stayed in Australia.
Arthur left school in Mackay to live with his Uncle Thornhill Wallace on his 22,000 hectare cattle station “Killarney” 150 Km south of Mackay, where he had lessons from a tutor hired as a teacher for his cousins.
In 1901 he married Alice Dimmock, a school teacher and the daughter of the former Mayor of Mackay.
Arthur gained top marks among the first four candidates to pass the Queensland Surveyors examination. He joined the British Government Colonial Service in 1904 and was posted to the Malay States.
Their daughter Jean was born in Brisbane shortly after Arthur left. A second daughter Barbara was born in Kuala Lumpur in 1905. In 1929, Arthur was passed over for promotion as Head of Survey for a younger man. He saw this decision as being based on cronyism rather than merit. He had sufficient service to qualify for his pension, and, with no further prospects of advancement he decided to retire from the Colonial Service at the early age of 53.
He and Alice made a search of the coast from Mackay to Brisbane for a retirement property.
In 1930, Arthur Wallace bought a 32 hectare parcel of land from Robert Adams known as Portion 151, Parish of Tewantin. This land, was originally selected by Walter B Hay. Arthur had the house designed by R.M. Wilson and it was built by Dick Cadell of Cooroy. Reminders of the Colonial Service lifestyle of the Wallaces are seen in the inclusion of the wash basins in the bedrooms and a separate Maids Wing. The Wallaces had two local girls helping them in the house and two yard boys whose quarters were under the house. He also had an allotment on the river front on Hilton Terrace and had a jetty built through the mangroves to a boat house at the end, near where Cayman Quays is today.
The family was reasonably self-sufficient with a large vegetable garden, fowl house, ducks, a dairy and a windmill. Macadamias had also been planted along with various fruit trees. A share farmer ran the farm taking care of the horses, dairy cows and crops.
Arthur died in 1974 a week before his 98th birthday.
Arthur left school in Mackay to live with his Uncle Thornhill Wallace on his 22,000 hectare cattle station “Killarney” 150 Km south of Mackay, where he had lessons from a tutor hired as a teacher for his cousins.
In 1901 he married Alice Dimmock, a school teacher and the daughter of the former Mayor of Mackay.
Arthur gained top marks among the first four candidates to pass the Queensland Surveyors examination. He joined the British Government Colonial Service in 1904 and was posted to the Malay States.
Their daughter Jean was born in Brisbane shortly after Arthur left. A second daughter Barbara was born in Kuala Lumpur in 1905. In 1929, Arthur was passed over for promotion as Head of Survey for a younger man. He saw this decision as being based on cronyism rather than merit. He had sufficient service to qualify for his pension, and, with no further prospects of advancement he decided to retire from the Colonial Service at the early age of 53.
He and Alice made a search of the coast from Mackay to Brisbane for a retirement property.
In 1930, Arthur Wallace bought a 32 hectare parcel of land from Robert Adams known as Portion 151, Parish of Tewantin. This land, was originally selected by Walter B Hay. Arthur had the house designed by R.M. Wilson and it was built by Dick Cadell of Cooroy. Reminders of the Colonial Service lifestyle of the Wallaces are seen in the inclusion of the wash basins in the bedrooms and a separate Maids Wing. The Wallaces had two local girls helping them in the house and two yard boys whose quarters were under the house. He also had an allotment on the river front on Hilton Terrace and had a jetty built through the mangroves to a boat house at the end, near where Cayman Quays is today.
The family was reasonably self-sufficient with a large vegetable garden, fowl house, ducks, a dairy and a windmill. Macadamias had also been planted along with various fruit trees. A share farmer ran the farm taking care of the horses, dairy cows and crops.
Arthur died in 1974 a week before his 98th birthday.
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Arthur Wallace. Heritage Noosa, accessed 08/02/2025, https://heritage.noosa.qld.gov.au/nodes/view/11691