16 Sep 1916 - THE GRAND OLD MAN OF GAYNDAH. - Trove

Contents:

• SEVEN THGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT GAYNDAH, QUEENSLAND'S OLST TOWN
• AUDIO: FORMER GAYNDAH MAYOR PETER HUTH TELLS THE STORY OF THE GAYNDAH BEAR
• GAYNDAH, QLD
• MAYOR OF GAYNDAH A SENTENCE
• TOWN OF GAYNDAH

SEVEN THGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT GAYNDAH, QUEENSLAND'S OLST TOWN

A proud ‘Gaynre’ and often spotted snappg selfi wh a mandar affectnately named ‘Miss Mandy’ whilst spikg her passn for her hometown wherever she go, Cr Dael Gidds is proud to be Divisn 4 Councillor of the North Burt.

Cr Gidds is very active muny sport and has spent untls hours volunteerg for anisatns and currently holds executive posns wh the Gayndah Rotary Club, Central Regnal Ltle Athletics and Gayndah Orange Ftival Commtee, while beg an active member of the Gayndah CWA, Gunther Op Shop and Gayndah District Netball Associatn. On the outskirts of the quiet Queensland town of Gayndah, about four hours north-wt of Brisbane, stands a stone monument embossed wh the name Anna Kathera Krieger.

"It's a sad story and 's one that's trigued always, " said Gayndah and District Historil Society print, Cynthia crimeIn the early afternoon of March 20, 1859 Krieger was walkg to the town of Gayndah along Old Mundubbera Road when she than a week later her body was found by passg drovers, about 4.

AUDIO: FORMER GAYNDAH MAYOR PETER HUTH TELLS THE STORY OF THE GAYNDAH BEAR

7 kilometr outsi Gayndah, on April 1. (Supplied: Tom F Hampstead, thor of A life cut short: the story of Anna Kathera Krieger and the early days of the Krieger fay Gayndah)The victimKrieger was born Nothfeln, Germany on July 4, 1836 and emigrated to Queensland wh her hband time Atralia was arrivg Brisbane's Moreton Bay aboard the ship Ple, she lived on Brovia Statn near Bundaberg wh her hband and parents, before movg alone a few towns away to Gayndah to learn drsmakg on Febary 23, has been suggted she was leavg her hband as she may have tried to do once then got a job at Mount Debatable sheep statn workg as a hoemaid on March 13, 1859 jt one week before she was killed. A photo of the origal Brovia Homtead, taken om the book A life cut short: the story of Anna Kathera Krieger and the early days of the Krieger fay Gayndah.

GAYNDAH, QLD

(Supplied: Tom F Hampstead)The spectsThe hband: Krieger was married to Frerick Lueckel before emigratg to had left him once for a few days earlier 1859, but he had brought her back home to Brovia told police he last saw his wife on Febary 23 when she left Brovia for Gayndah to learn Berthelsen said others who had rearched the se found suggtns her hband had been abive.

"The traveller: William Reichnacker had stopped at Brovia Statn for about a day and a half sometime the month before Krieger had left for Gayndah. A bootmaker Gayndah is also reported to have told the urt he met wh Mr Reichnacker and he spoke "disparaggly" of Krieger. "I thk would still be advisable to send an experienced officer to Gayndah to enavour to disver if possible the perpetrator of this most foul murr, and also to track and disver the man Reichnacker, " the attorney-general wrote Augt 1859.

Gayndah Historil Society print Cynthia Berthelsen says Krieger's parents ntued to live the town after the murr. (ABC Wi Bay: Js Lodge)The quiryMs Berthelsen said the vtigatn Krieger's murr had been "very lackadaisil" April 1859, a magisterial quiry was held to terme why more had not been done to fd her Berthelsen said at the time of her ath Gayndah was a small town wh a populatn of about 600, and wh a number of Che and German immigrants there was a clear racial divi.

MAYOR OF GAYNDAH A SENTENCE

A few years later, June 1861, Gayndah's police magistrate wrote to the lonial secretary Brisbane regardg the failure of the lol police regardg the vtigatn to Krieger's murr. "The moursKrieger left behd no children, but her parents and sister stayed Gayndah and their direct scendants still live the town.

A poem taken om the book A life cut short: the story of Anna Kathera Krieger and the early days of the Krieger fay Gayndah.

TOWN OF GAYNDAH

Apparently someone may have nfsed to on their athbed Wtern Atralia, " Ms Robson story has been passed down through the generatns wh some tails lost, changed or exaggerated over the Robson said the story she had been told was that "she was found a bag a gum tree, chopped up to bs" Gayndah mayor Peter Huth said there were some thoughts had been a stockman who ro across om Mount Perry and "by the time they found her body he'd already had time to ri back home" stori have also been told over the s of people seeg ghosts, near her grave, the area subsequently named Graveyard of the rmatn for this story was taken om rearch rried out by Nancy Roberts and fay members Bill Davis and Ruby Stevens. More rmatn n be found through the Gayndah Historil 20 Jul 2018Fri 20 Jul 2018 at 8:03pm, updated 20 Jul 2018Fri 20 Jul 2018 at 10:05pm. The town of Gayndah is about four hours north-wt of Brisbane, Queensland's North Burt populatn of about 2, 000 people has barely fluctuated the past few s and is one of those plac where everyone knows area around the town is a te experience of ral Atralia and is only a uple of hours om regnal ci like Bundaberg and Hervey Bay.

Gayndah is quiet and unshed, but there is a lot more to this old town than meets the eye.

Gayndah is more than 160 years old Gayndah is the olst town Queensland, officially gazetted 1852. (ABC Wi Bay: Js Lodge)Gayndah was the first town Queensland to be formally gazetted, Brisbane and Ipswich are olr, they are fed as ci, not town has prerved a lot of s history and has a number of herage-listed s cludg the town hall, built 1934, and s origal urt hoe which was built 1928. Produc a huge amount of Queensland's csGayndah is the self-proclaimed cs pal of Queensland, although this is disputed by the neighbourg town of Mundubbera, which also mak a claim for the tle.

Mandars, maly Imperials and Murtts, are the ma cs u grown the regn wh smaller growg areas of orang, lemons, lim, lemonas and town is home to the Big Orange where you will also fd the town's mast, Gay Dan the Orange Man.

Hosts the biennial Gayndah Orange FtivalGayndah tak s cs very serly and celebrat the u wh a week-long orange ftival every two years.

The street signs are vertil Gayndah's uncil has changed the town's street signs om horizontal to vertil after ongog issu wh vandalism. (ABC Wi Bay)When drivg through Gayndah, people may notice that the street rners are marked a ltle differently than other towns and is thought to be the only town Queensland wh vertilly-orientated street lol uncil changed the signs about 20 years ago after havg a lot of trouble wh vandalism and people bendg the signs.

Home to the legend of the Gayndah bear You may have heard of the abomable snowman, the yowie, the Loch Ns monster … but have you ever heard of the Gayndah bear? Sightgs of a bear were reported many years after, wh some believg a pair of bears bred and their offsprg lived 18 years ago the Gayndah bear ma headl around the world when there was another alleged sightg of a bear-like creature and a $10, 000 reward was offered to seek out s n. Julian Nott stalks the Gayndah Bear Febary 2000.

You n buy lemonas here — the u not the drkOn roadsi u stands throughout Gayndah you n fd a u many people have not heard some people grew up wh lemona tre their backyards, many people have never tasted a lemona do not see them big supermarkets and growers say this is bee people are turned off as they look too much like a fact, they are a cross between a lemon and a mandar. Has a 159-year-old murr mysteryOn the outskirts of Gayndah stands a stone monument embossed wh the name Anna Kathera Krieger, who was murred was 22 years old and her killer was never found.

"It's a sad story and 's one that's trigued always, " Gayndah and District Historil Society print, Cynthia Berthelsen said.

He later beme a storekeeper, publin and sat on the Gayndah municipal uncil.