CANEGROWERS Centenary year celebrated

IT STARTED HERE: Mackay Canegrowers celebrates 100 seasons of the Queensland Cane Growers Organisation: “I often say, Mackay is the centre of the sugar industry, and our Centenary, which begins today, really drives that point home. Our State organisation put down its roots right here in Mackay,” said Mackay Canegrowers Chairman Joseph Borg. On January 21, 1926, the Queensland Cane Growers Association first met, at Mackay Boys School. Mia Mia grower George Johnson became the first Chairman at that 1926, and was a titan of the organisation for the decades to come. Read more