Nov., 1924 
The Queensland Naturalist. 
103 
spective districts at the Aiiinial Flower Show of the 
Queensland Naturalists’ Club were: — North Coast (Mul- 
let Creek), South Coast (Canungra), the Granite Belt 
(Stanithorpe), and Downs and Inland (Googa Creek, via 
Blackbutt). 
Particularly close runners-up for first prizes were 
Yandina and Brown’s Creek in the Nortli Coast division, 
Beechmont Lower and Runcorn in the South Coast divi- 
sion, and Ballandean and Tliiilimbah in the Granite Belt. 
The schools coming within the Downs and Inland division 
all ran very close to one another, and the prize, 
after due consideration hy the judges. was 
aAvarded to the Googa Creek School near Black- 
butt, an area with a flora midway between the 
coastal and Downs, containing types of both floras. 
Owing to the circular instructions issued schools, and also 
printed in “The Education Office Gazette,” the flowens 
this year arrived from the schools in far better condition 
than last year. There would seem no doubt that the 
State Schools competitions at the Annual Wild Flower 
Shows run under the auspices of the Queensland Natura- 
lists’ Club are of educational value to the children, and 
early teach them powers of observation, inculcating a 
love for Queensland’s beautiful wild flower flora. 
The Committee of the Club desire to thank all 
teachers who encouraged their children to enter for the 
competitions, as quite apart from the competitions the 
State Schools exhibits themiselves, are now always a 
feature of the Wild Flower Shows looked forward to by 
the public and help to make the Shows the decided suc- 
cess they have proved in the past. 
Though held late in the spring, there was a good 
showing of wild flowers frofm! different parts of the 
country. One of the outstanding features of the exhi- 
bition was a beautiful display of wild flowers gathered 
from' places along the Albert River and staged by Mr. and 
Mrs. S. Curtis, This display owed much to the energy 
of Mr. D. Curtis, who spared no pains in getting together 
the very fine collection shown. The flora of Tambourine 
Mountain was again well represented, and the fine col- 
lection of orchids and other flowers staged l)y Miss IT. 
Geissmann was a great attraction to the public. An 
exhibit of great educationalj value staged by Miss Geiss- 
mann Avas a series of photographs illustrative of the 
Tambourine Mountain, “Zamia” (Macrozamia Denisoni). 
