Thanks to the Special Collections department of the Eddie Koiki Mabo Library at James Cook University , Townsville , this 1930s advertisement for the Day Dawn Hotel , Ingham , managed by Syd Ramage , was found in the cellar . Little Darwin recently told how the pub ran out of beer during WWll and caused Irish cane farmer Dan Sheahan to write the poem The Pub Without Beer , later to inspire the famous song The Pub With No Beer, sung by Slim Dusty .
In the advertisement friendly Syd Ramage invites visitors to North Queensland to inspect his collection of mineral specimens, curios , shells and coral at Tattersall's Hotel, Townsville, now Molly Malone's Irish Pub , above, opposite the former Burns Philp building . Rum and milk were popular at Tattersall's where characters included Mickey The Goose and Annie Bags.
The Ramage family ran Tattersall's from 1921 to 1951, Syd senior having earlier run the nearby Criterion Hotel, above , which closed last year .
