Maurice Downing

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MAURICE GEORGE DOWNING WAS BORN IN 1916 IN NORTH QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA.

📰28 MARCH 1931.

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MISSED THE TRAIN.

MAN INJURED AT MOURILYAN.

STRUCK RUNNING BOARD--INNISFAIL, March 21. Charles Carpenter, attempting to board a train at Mourilyan this after noon, slipped and fell and, it is thought, was struck by the running board. He sustained two lacerated wounds across the right knee and injuries to the left shin. The ambulance went out from Innisfail, rendered first aid and conveyed the sufferer to hospital.

ATTACKED BY A DOG TO-DAY, MAURICE DOWNING, RESIDING at WANGAN, was bitten on both thumbs. The Ambulance bearers rendered first aid and advised the sufferer to see a doctor.

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📰3 JULY, 1936.

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MRS F. ATKINSON.

MRS MARY ALLEN ATKINSON, A MEMBER OF A WELL KNOWN AND HIGHLY RESPECTED INNISFAIL FAMILY PASSED AWAY AT THE BABINDA HOSPITAL YESTERDAY MORNING. MRS ATKINSON, before her marriage to Mr. FREDERICK ATKINSON, a farmer of BARTLE FRERE, was MISS DOWNING, eldest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. JAMES ROBERT DOWNING, early day residents of the district. AGED 36, MRS. ATKINSON was married some 12 years ago. In addition to her HUSBAND, she is survived by two children, AGNES, aged nine, and and GEORGE, aged six.

Members of her family are: Messrs. J. R. DOWNING, E. J. DOWNING, J. F. DOWNNIG, T.. DOWNING, MAURICE DOWNING. Mesdames R. H. WILES (Innisfail), S. MCKIHNON (Cairns), Miss AGNES DOWNING (Innisfail).

The funeral took place yesterday afternoon, the Rev. Father Larkin officiating.

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📰28 OCTOBER 1938 - CAIRNS POST.

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CUT WITH CANE KNIFE

WHEN USING A CANE KNIFE of man named; MAURICE DOWNING LABOURER, working in the Goondi district, near INNISFAIL; suffered an incised; wóund to the left leg. Ambulance bearers, who gave first-aid treatment, conveyed the patient, to the hospital.

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📰13 AUGUST, 1940.

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MR. J. R. DOWNING.

JOHN ROBERT DOWNING, who died at INNISFAIL on Saturday morning, was born in the district 43 years ago, his parents being engaged in CANE GROWING in the early days of the district.

DECEASED, WHO WAS FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HIS FATHER, and had property at DARADGEE, contracted tetanus, the result of standing on a nail that penetrated his foot. He entered hospital last week, but medical skill could not overcome the grip of the dread disease, and he gradually sank, to pass away at early morning.

DECEASED WAS A SON OF THE LATE MR. AND MRS. JAMES ROBERT DOWNING, EARLY PIONEERS, WHO ESTABLISHED PROPERTIES IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE SHIRE. His early education was received at the Sacred Heart Convent, and later he attended Nudgee. On completing his education, he returned to Innisfail to become associated with his father on the land. Public matters interested deceased, and he was closely connected with Catholic Church affairs.

AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH, HE WAS PRESIDENT OF THE ST. VINCENT DE PAUL. Society AND HOLY NAME SOCIETY. AT ONE TIME Mr. DOWNING WAS A MEMBER of the COMMITTEE of the INNISFAIL TURF CLUB, and he also HELD OFFICE ON THE EXECUTIVE OF THE N.D.R.A. He was a FOUNDATION MEMBER and a member of the INNISFAIL GOLF CLUB, and he also acted as a member. of the GOONDI MILL SUPPLIERS' COMMITTEE.

DECEASED IS SURVIVED BY A WIFE and SIX CHILDREN, to whom deepest sympathy is extended. Other members of the family reside in the district.

THE FUNERAL LEFT OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL CHURCH on Sunday afternoon, and it was very largely attended, testifying to the esteem in which the DOWNING FAMILY is held by a large circle of friends. REV. FATHER HICKEY OFFICIATED, AND PALLBEARERS WERE MESSRS. G. SWARBRICK, P. HOGAN J. CLOARY, J. FRASER, J. TURLEY and W.KING. '

TOKENS WERE PLACED ON THE GRAVE BY:

💐DOMES:- Members of the BABINDA HOLY NAME Society, Mr. and Mrs. STOTTER and family, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. MCROBBIE 8nd family, Mr. and Mrs. G. J. SELBY and family, the LARSEN family. Mr. and Mrs. SWENDSON (Babinda), P. Hogan and staff, Mr. and Mrs. Bob TODD, Les and Mary, Mr. and Mrs. AH SHAY and family, SEE POY and Sons Pty. Ltd., Mr and Mrs. JIM DOWNING and Mr. and Mrs. MAURICE DOWNING.

🌷FLORAL:- Mr. and Mrs. E. VENABLES and family, Air. and Mrs. H. WRIGHT. Mary and George, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. GRAHAM, Mr. and Mrs. L. MARTINUZZI and family, SEE POY and Sons Pty. Ltd.. Mr. ATKINSON, Agnes and George, Mother and sisters, Mr. and Mrs. T. G. WILLIAMS and friends, Mr. and Mre. R. W. JONES (Japoon), Mr. I and MvS. B. A. MAHONEY (Mouriliyan), Bob and Mary Davis, Ted and Irene, Mrs. B. FITZGERALD and family (East Innisfail), Mr. and Mrs. F. j. MCAVOY, May and Guy Jones. Mrs. O'HANLON and family, Arnold HOLM, the, Women's Emergency War Service Committee. J. R. BOYETT, Mr.and Mrs. H. O'BRIEN; Mr. and Mrs. I JACOB, Mr. and Mrs. Jim MCAVOY, I COFFEY, the DEDOW family, ESME and Edwin SHAW, Mr. and Mrs.I WALTON and girls, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. DAVIES and Dawn. Mr. and Mrs. BRIMM and Letty, . Lizzie, Tom and Bobbie DILLON, Loving wife and children, Mr. and Mrs. S. R. KENNEDY, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. DUNCAN, KLUVER family. Mary COSTELLO and boys, Mr. and Mrs. John ATHERTON, Jon and Jim, Mr. and Mrs. Sam WILLIAMS, Ron and EDE, Mr. and Mrs. D. C. DILLON, Mrs. M. MCCOOMBE and family, members of the C.D.A., Mr. and Mis. Warren SHAW, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. STITT and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jack: CUNNINGHAM, Mr. and Mrs. F..TRELOAR and family, Mr. and Mrs. T. M. CHESHIRE, Mr. and Mrs. J J. COOK, Mr. and. Mrs. James O'BRIEN, Councillor and Mrs. S. K. PAGE and family, Mr. and Mrs. John SMITH.

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Sources

• NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA

• QLD BDM -- BIRTH 1916/C/4636. DEATH 1975/C/2050.