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 TABO
VILLAGE
Nymbool
Rd
600 metres from Kennedy Hwy
Tabo is short for Tableland Tin
(Tableland Tin Dredging N.L.), name of a company set up by James Malcolm Newman, a mining engineer who was born in Caboolture, Queensland in
1880. According to a document from the
 Cairns Historical Society
written by H.V. Weston in 1928, Poole and Steel of Melbourne set up
their office in 1927, about 1600 metres north-west of Mount Garnet on
the left bank of Return Creek. This company built the first tin-dredge
in Queensland or possibly in Australia for Tableland Tin, which was
launched on Saturday 25th February 1928.
It worked non-stop for several
years until one night there was a breakdown and
Tabo Village was created to
provide housing to mine workers and its landscape shows various relics
of the tin mining era such as rusting boilers and other steel pieces of
machinery, the
workshop buildings, power house, community hall, Bush
Fire Brigade shed, tennis court and ‘Little Toot’, an old
steam engine.
Many old houses have been
restored and new ones built along Lucey St, where a peaceful and
friendly neighbourhood enjoys these days the beauty of an unpolluted
and relaxed life-style.
 
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