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In the late nineteenth century the Chinese held a significant part of the local market vegetable supply across the old South Brisbane district, such that in 1887 a branch of the Queensland Anti-Chinese League was formed on the Thompson Estate. Dr Thomas Stephens recalled in 1988 that in his childhood at the Junction Park rifle range, cadets would fire at targets at Stephens Mountain on the other side of the Norman Creek valley, and that bullets whistling over their heads of Chinese market gardeners below. [Note that the location is an approximation]

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Anti-Chinese Meeting. The Brisbane Courier. Friday 7 January 1887, p. 5; Erica Ferroff (Edited). A Century of Achievement. A History of The Centenary Committee of the Junction Park State School. Junction Park State School and the Annerley District. The Centenary Committee of the Junction Park State School. 1988. p. 61.

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QSA. QSA Series ID 2043 City of Brisbane and Suburbs Maps – A1A Series. 40 chains to 1 inch. Brisbane area including the Brisbane River and tributaries, Pine River, and creeks showing entrances to Moreton Bay, adjacent islands, land subdivisions with names of owners and lessees, railways, roads. 40 chains to the inch. Brisbane, Survey Office.. 634763