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East Trinity Sugar Zone

Name
East Trinity Sugar Zone
Type of carceral site
Plantation
Dates of use
1867 – 1991
Quote
Even before his luggage was in the rack he had asked Emery where he was bound for, mate, had approved, and made it known he was going to a beaut of a cut near Cairns.
Novel, Historical Fiction.
Naish, John. The Cruel Field. Hutchinson, 1962, p. 39.
They'd had their own way too long, it was time the growers chartered a ship of their own and dumped ten thousand Napoli unemployed on the canefields: the Minister for Immigration was too slow, too slow.
Novel, Historical Fiction.
Naish, John. The Cruel Field. Hutchinson, 1962, p. 155.
Authority
Private investment; CSR Sugar
location
Cairns, Gimuy
Contact
Dashiell
identifier
SITE-CAIPLAN
Item sets
Carceral Sites