Tom Petrie's daughter, Constance Campbell Petrie of Murrumba North Pine, claims she "determined as far as lay in my power to save from oblivion by resenting in book form, the vast body of information garnered in the perishable storehouse of one man's- my father's - memory" (Petrie, 1904,Preface).
The book she wrote is called Tom Petrie's reminiscences and is part of the Queensland Archives Copyright Free Collection. The information in the book dates from 1837. A summary of a journal of an expedition to the Wide Bay River in 1842 is the topic of Chapter VI found on page 258.
Petrie concluded that the "Wide Bay River is navigable for a vessel drawing 9 ft of water for about forty miles up." (Petrie,1904 p.258)
This and many other notes appeared in the Queenslander in the form of articles before being published in this book. His daughter claims in Petrie, 1904, Preface her father's "association with the Queensland Aborigines from early boyhood was so intimate and extended" and this is reflected in much of this content.
Even in 1950 this was thought to be an important book about the early days as stated in an article from the Maryborough Chronicle Tuesday November 21st, 1950
Fraser Coast Libraries also has a later Edition in the Local History Collection.
References:
Petrie, Tom & Petrie, Constance Campbell, 1873-1926 (2013). Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland : (dating from 1837) (Queensland classic edition). Salisbury, Brisbane Watson Ferguson & Company
Newspapers Home - Trove. (2016). Trove. Retrieved 13.3.2018,from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/?q=
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