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"This book is basically a collection of extracts from reports which the various Portmasters, Chief Engineers and Directors prepared annually for submission to Parliament, and other official documents. In many cases the wording is as used by the writers, with the tense changed for ease of reading. The spelling, too, has been adopted as written, eg, Goode Island is now Goods Island, Peel's Island is, today, Peel Island. For the period 1861 to 1876 the word harbour was spelt without the 'u', thus the Department was the Harbors and Rivers Department. Problems of nomenclature have occurred but the descriptions given at the time have been retained. For example, when referring to the delivery to Moreton Island of the lantern for the lighthouse reports referred to the "Schooner" Spitfire whereas later reports referred to her as a "Ketch". The book is structured chronologically. What has been achieved over the years is set out in periods of development; that is to say from the first settlement of Moreton Bay as a penal colony in 1824, through the commencement of control of the ports by the Queensland Government at Separation in 1859, to the present day administration. The years 1842, 1859, 1873, 1893, 1929, and 1960, which mark the period divisions, were chosen because those years appear as significant milestones in the State's development, particularly with respect to ports and harbours. Finally, it must be pointed out, that it was not the intention in this book to draw conclusions from events but simply to record and relate the events themselves.

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