Tuesday, September 1, 2020

BATTERED STATE BORDER MARKER


 The 1943 cover photograph on the latest edition of the above interesting  magazine shows the well worn  piece of" historic wood", Poeppel's Peg ,which  marked  the spot where the Northern Territory ,Queensland and South Australia met. Each side  on the triangular  peg,   about four feet in height ,represented  the name of   the state  it faced  . It was erected in 1879 by Augustus J. Poeppel, a South Australian government surveyor.More items of note from the journal upcoming .