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Heritage listing for Kingaroy peanut silos
Three peanut silos located in Haly St, Kingaroy, are the newest entries in the Queensland Heritage Register.
Queensland Heritage Council Chair (QHC), David Eades, said the Kingaroy Peanut Silos demonstrated the large-scale development of the peanut industry in Queensland.
"The Kingaroy Peanut Silos is a group of three remaining concrete silos - numbers 2, 3 and 4 - that were constructed by the Queensland Peanut Marketing Board to store peanuts before their processing and marketing. Silo 1 was destroyed by fire in 1951," Mr Eades said.
"Since the 1920s the South Burnett district has been the headquarters of the Queensland peanut industry, a major agricultural industry for the State.
"The silos were built in 1938, 1948 and 1951 respectively and reflect the constant growth of the peanut industry during that period."
Mr Eades said the Kingaroy Peanut Silos were a striking physical manifestation of the Peanut Company of Australia (PCA) and its precursor organisations.
"These organisations have been at the heart of the peanut industry in Queensland and Australia since its inception. The company's headquarters has been located in Kingaroy since 1927," Mr Eades said.
PCA Director Supply and Operations, John Howard, said the 42-metre high silos were visual and historical markers of Kingaroy telling an important story about the town's development.
"It's hard to miss the history and significance of the silos standing tall above the skyline when you drive into town," Mr Howard said.
"They dominate the townscape and the landscape of the South Burnett and can be seen from great distances away."
Mr Eades said recognition of the silos as a landmark for the region can be seen by the use of artistic images of the silos for tourism promotional purposes.
"The Kingaroy peanut silos are important for their symbolic quality and aesthetic contribution to the South Burnett landscape," Mr Eades said.
"The silos are a long-standing and an easily recognised symbol for locals and have value to the people of south-east Queensland as a distinctive symbol of Kingaroy, the headquarters of the Australian peanut industry.
"Lit by the rising and setting sun the silos glow dramatically at dawn and dusk transforming their appearance from functional structure to monumental sculpture."
The Kingaroy peanut silos were identified as part of the statewide heritage survey, being carried out by the Department of Environment and Resource Management's (DERM) Heritage Branch.
Mr Howard said PCA was supportive of the heritage listing despite the company's initial concerns.
"Contrary to our initial concerns about the heritage listing, it has been a pleasure dealing with the DERM Heritage Branch officers during this process," Mr Howard said.
"We realised that by working together and establishing the correct application parameters and exception certificates that heritage listing would not be an encumbrance on our operations, efficiency and stakeholders."
The Queensland Heritage Council is the state's independent peak body and advisor on heritage matters and determines what places are entered in the Queensland Heritage Register.
Places that are entered in the Heritage Register are considered of importance to Queensland's history and are protected under heritage legislation.
Fast facts
- Storage was one of the main needs of the South Burnett peanut growers.
- Silos were necessary to hold the nuts in dry storage, treat them if affected by damp, protect them from pests and allow controlled distribution so that the market was not flooded one year and short the next.
- Initially, the Peanut Board leased local barns and nuts were treated in the Railway's Grain Shed in the Railway Yard at Kingaroy.
- Realising that more permanent arrangements were required it was decided to build a block of silos, complete with treatment plant and machinery. The Board imposed a levy of ¼ pence/pound on peanuts delivered to the Board to cover the cost.
- In order to build the silos the growers formed the Queensland Peanut Growers' Cooperative Association Ltd. The Association issued shares to the growers in lieu of the levy received from the Board. In this way the growers themselves became the owners of any assets bought or built with the proceeds of their levy.
- Between 1959 and 1980 Queensland produced almost the entire Australian peanut crop with the South Burnett producing just over half the State's production in 1979-80.
- In 1992 major changes took place in the peanut industry. The marketing of peanuts in Queensland was de-regulated and the Peanut Marketing Board, which was a statutory marketing authority, was wound up on 27 May 1992. At that time the Board transferred all its assets, property and liabilities to the Queensland Peanut Growers' Co-operative Association Ltd. The Peanut Marketing Board became PMB Australia Ltd and later, in 1997, became the Peanut Company of Australia (PCA).
- Since then, the PCA has remained the leading supplier of peanuts in Australia, engaged in researching, growing, storing, processing, value-adding and marketing the product.