Court House, Cloncurry
The Cloncurry Court House in ca. 1939 [John Oxley Library neg. 186905]
The early law enforcement buildings in Cloncurry were extremely primitive:
"There were no police quarters, the lock-up was constructed of slab walls with an earth floor and a bark roof which invariably leaked, and troublesome prisoners were restrained in an example of outback improvisation, by handcuffing to a solid log."
The Cloncurry Story, Perry Hardy, Cloncurry Shire Council, 1983
In 1883 the Public Works Department called for tenders for a Court House, police quarters, and lock-up; however the Court House was not finished until July 1898. During the year in which this panorama was taken there were additions to the Court House, including: use of the old Court House for Petty Sessions, the Mining Registrar, and the Land Agent, while erecting a new Court House for the judge, jury wardens and barristers.
Queensland Parliamentary Papers, 1908, vol. 3, p.404
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