Feluga, Queensland

Geography

Feluga is in the valley of the Tully River with a high rainfall. The locality grows sugarcane.[2]

The Bruce Highway is the eastern boundary of the locality. The North Coast railway line runs parallel and immediately west of the highway but there are no railway stations serving the locality. There is a network of cane tramways to deliver sugarcane to the sugar mill in Tully.[3]

History

The locality takes its name from a railway station which was established as the North Coast Railway Line was being built in the 1920s[4] which was named by the Queensland Railways Department on 25 November 1921, although rails were not actually laid to the station location until late 1922.[5] The name is believed to be corrupted version of a Palestinian place name El Faluje, a town which was occupied by Australian Light Horse troops (4th Brigade) on 10 November 1917.[1]

In mid-1923 an honorary Queensland Ambulance Transport Brigade centre was established at Feluga,[6] and by October 1923 the railway station itself and a stationmaster's residence were still under construction with the surrounding area consisting of thick undeveloped scrub.[7] In December 1923 the railway line up to Feluga was officially opened,[8] and by January 1924 there was significant passenger traffic between Feluga and Innisfail.[9]

Feluga Provisional School opened on 7 February 1927, becoming Feluga State School c. 1934.[10]

Education

Feluga State School is a government co-educational primary (P-6) school in Feluga Road. In 2016, the school had an enrolment of 32 students with 3 teachers (2 full-time equivalent) and 6 non-teaching staff (3 full-time equivalent).[11]

Cutting sugarcane, Feluga, 2007

References
  1. "Feluga - locality in Cassowary Coast Region (entry 45673)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  2. "Feluga State School". Archived from the original on 22 September 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  3. "Queensland Globe". State of Queensland. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  4. "North Coast Railway". Cairns Post. Cairns, Qld. 17 November 1922. p. 5. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  5. "North Coast Line - Innisfail-Tully River Section". The Telegraph. Brisbane, Qld. 11 December 1922. p. 2. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  6. "Innisfail Notes". The Northern Miner. Charters Towers, Qld. 23 June 1923. p. 7. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  7. "Innisfail Notes". The Northern Miner. Charters Towers, Qld. 17 October 1923. p. 4. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  8. "Innisfail Items". The Northern Herald. Cairns, Qld. 12 December 1923. p. 45. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  9. "North Coast Line - The Innisfail Section". The Brisbane Courier. Brisbane, Qld. 19 January 1924. p. 10. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  10. Queensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN 978-1-921171-26-0
  11. "Annual Report 2016" (PDF). Feluga State School. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 September 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2017.

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