East Feluga, Queensland
locality in Queensland, Australia
East Feluga is a rural locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, East Feluga had a population of 266 people.
Geography
The locality is bounded to the east by the Walter Hall Range, to the south by the Tully Mission Beach Road, and to the north-west by the North Coast railway line and Bruce Highway which run immediately parallel from Midgenoo to Djarawong.
The land use is predominantly growing sugarcane and there is a cane tramway network to transport the harvested sugarcane to the Tully sugar mill for processing. There is some rural residential housing, mostly at the base of the Walter Hall Range.
History
As of mid-1926, there were several farmers living to the east of the Feluga railway station who decided to band together to have a tram line constructed to transport their produce to the station rather than continuing to use trucks, and by September that year the "East Feluga tramline" had been completed.
In August 1928, a tennis team which described itself as representing East Feluga played a team from El Arish, and in early 1929 a report described East Feluga as being a district three miles east of the Feluga railway station on the slopes of Walter Hill Range with about a dozen settlers mostly growing bananas, with some growing mixed fruits, and struggling to clear their blocks of land. It had one major road leading to Feluga but it was noted that this road was often in a very poor state and unusable during the wet season and it was hoped the Cardwell Shire Council could improve it. As of February there was a Progress Association of East Feluga which was advocating for improvement of the road and promoting the welfare of East Feluga and its residents by raising publicity of the settlement.
In November 1930, repairs to East Feluga road conducted by the Shire Council were completed and much of the area had been cleared of scrub leaving it looking like farmland.
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