Flashback To 1961

2004 was a significant year for both the Peanut Company of Australia and for Kingaroy, the town which PCA calls home.

PCA celebrated its 80th Anniversary while Kingaroy celebrated 100 years since the railway came through and the first town blocks were sold.

Back in 1961, PCA (then the Peanut Marketing Board) was helping Kingaroy celebrate another milestone, the 50th Anniversary of the founding of Kingaroy Shire Council ... and of course there was a parade ...

Peanut Marketing Board truck
PMB Peanut Float
A "Perpel Peenut Eeter"
The photographs on this page have been reproduced with the permission of the
South Burnett Visitor Information Centre
in Kingaroy.

They were loaned to the centre by Scott Jones-Christ of Toowoomba and were taken by his father Phillip Christ in 1961 (Scott is the grandson of former Tingoora peanut farmer Harry Bird).

PCA's offices (then PMB) in 1961
 
Stacked bags of peanuts at the PMB

 

Other Historic Articles Of Interest

 


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