01 Jan 01 | 1901:
Population: 400
Industries: Centre for largely rural production including wheat, sheep and cattle.
Amenities: School established in 1821.
12 Dec 00 | Industries: Waverley Woollen Mills, shipbuilding, brickworks, port, Salisbury's Foundry (boilermakers, iron and brass founders), Ritchie's flour mill, Coogan & Co.
12 Dec 00 | Population: 63,237.
Industries: Woollen mills, J. Boag & Son brewery, Tamar Knitting Mills, port, shipbuilders and repairers, ACL Bearing Co., meatworks, major timber and construction merchants, fibre packaging, engineering works, call centres, railway, rural merchandisers.
12 Dec 00 | 1901 - Population: Fewer than 100.
Industries: Farming, timber.
Amenities: State school, post and telegraph office with savings bank, railway, four churches.
12 Dec 00 | THEN - Population: Fewer than 100.
Industries: Farming, sawmilling.
Amenities: School, community hall.
NOW - Population: Fewer than 200.
Amenities: Community hall, fire station, shop and post office.
12 Dec 00 | THEN:
Population: 283.
Industries: Mining.
Amenities: State school, visiting magistrate, two churches, post office with savings bank, one hotel, government office, coach communication to St Helens and St Marys.
12 Dec 00 | Federation was a long battle to convince the colonies to unite - in Tasmania it was hard enough getting both ends of the island to agree.
12 Dec 00 | An intense, earnest man with a long, well-cultivated beard, Sir Philip Oakley Fysh, had an extraordinary record as two-time Tasmanian Premier and a father of Federation.
12 Dec 00 | From part 3 His fellow Tasmanian delegate John Henry also contributed the apparently unimportant Section 96, first omitted and then reinstalled, which empowered the Commonwealth to make grants to the states on terms it saw fit.
12 Dec 00 | Betty Frankcomb will never forget coming down from the mountain behind Huonville in springtime to see the whole valley below looking like a "sea of blossom".
12 Dec 00 | The birth of the Commonwealth was celebrated at 10 o'clock on New Year's Day.
The children formed a procession, carrying flags and banners bearing the words "One people, one empire, one destiny" followed by a good number of adults.
12 Dec 00 | Two local bands, Ulverstone and Porter's, paraded the town on New Year's Eve and played selections at various places.
12 Dec 00 | The smallest cheddar cheese that Kevin Heres' grandparents made in their Marrawah factory was about 4.5kg and the largest was 18.
12 Dec 00 | Friday night was the big night in Mathinna early this century and no wonder - you could buy a billycan of beer for sixpence.
12 Dec 00 | Some rural communities simply fade away, others are pushed. The Legerwood community could be classed as the latter.
The tiny rural hamlet seems doomed since its 92-year-old butter factory fell victim to economic rationalism and closed its doors in July with the loss of 35 jobs.
12 Dec 00 | When John Clark's father, Tasman Peninsula orchardist Claude, bought land at Rowella in 1933, orcharding was well established in the area.
12 Dec 00 | The fact that Scamander at one time had two hotels but has never had a church should not be considered a reflection on the area.
12 Dec 00 | From part 1.Tasmania's biggest concerns were equal representation with other states and loss of revenue from customs duties as well as control over immigration, postal services, defence and even lighthouses.
12 Dec 00 | By now most people will have seen that television advertisement with the young boy asking his father the name of Australia's first Prime Minister.
12 Dec 00 | From farming, fishing and wattle bark to woodchips and scallop aquaculture, Triabunna is a regional community that keeps its head above water by reinventing itself.
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