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of the scrub iron-wood (Myrtus Hillii), and suggested that it
might be the origin of the place name Kulara. but having looked
up a list of names of fauna and flora of the locality, compiled,
I think, by S.W. Jackson, a naturalist whose calling has lead him
to journey far and wide in Queensland, I find that Kulara is the
"gigantic parasitical figtree". This has reminded me that close
to Kulara Railway station, at a crossing of the Barron River,
there was and, I hope, still is, an immense fig-tree which was
a land mark of the locality. It was so large that a good sized
picnicking party, including my wife and self, en route to Lake
Barrine, sheltered from a rain shower and lunched within its
hollow bole. I have little doubt that the railway station
Kulara was named from this tree.

Yungaburra.

A station on the Tolga-Millaa Millaa Branch Railway.
I do not think that I ever put it into writing, but I may have
told you that a local resident told me that the name meant "Fox
camp", but the alternative spelling or pronunciation, Tchankaburra
given by Mr. O'Leary, gives, after a short study of the word, the
reason why the white men adopted the above meanning of the name,
which, of course, in incorrect. The name is probably derived
from tuangun, which, according to Mr. Jackson means a native's
hut. In accordance with aboriginal orthoepy this word may be
pronounced alternately tchuangun or dyuangan. The affix
would be equvalent to "place of", make it "place of natives'
huts or a camp".

Yours sincerely,
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(F.J. Watson).