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"Nyleta"
Union Street,
Toowong. S.W.I
November 24th, 1942.

Mr. Sydney May,
University of Queensland.

Dear Sir,

I have to hand your letter of 20th instant relative
to the place names Mt. Beppo, and Tin Can Bay.

I know of no authority as to the application of the
name Beppo to the mountain in question, but I have little doubt
that it is derived from the Yugarabul (Brisbane River language)
word "bippo" which itself means "mountain".

Re - Tin Can Bay.

Tin Can is a conversion, by "folk etymology" of the
word "tintchin" --- approximate spelling --- an aboriginal name
for a species of mangrove, Bruguiera Rheedii. The meaning of
the name was given to me, from a now forgotten source, some 55
years ago. Its earliest known history is connected with the
early sawn timber industry of Maryborough, when Messrs.
Pettigrew and Sim of Dundathu Sawmill expoited it for soft
timbers, chiefly kauri pine from which a local creek -- Kauri
Creek -- was named. Much of this timber was rafted and towed
by tugboats to Maryborough.

With the "cutting out" of the pine forests and the
consequent waning of the timber industry at Maryborough the
bay has become a station for fishermen, professional and
amateur.

The shores of Tin Can Bay are swampy and the mangroves
which abound therein doubtlessly inspired the name.

Yours faighfully,
(signed) F. J. Watson
Associate Member Q.P.N.C