1990

Burdekin based Coutts retail conglomerate, dating from the Federal Store and Federal Hall, failed, with the failure stemming from unwise expansion rather than retail competition. 

Clermont High School opened.

Cattle Creek Co-operative sugar mill at Finch Hatton closed.

Reefview Hotel opens on Hamilton Island. 

Lyrin Downs, on the eastern boundary of Canobie, was added to the property.

Adult secondary campus attached to Heatley High School.

August

Mackay's Theatre Royal next to Taylor's Hotel demolished having been built in 1912 and remodelled in 1936.


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