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SLM/PMc.

Queensland Place Names Committee,
c/- The University,
George Street,
BRISBANE.

23rd January, 1941.

Mr. F.J. Watson,
"Nylita",
Union Street,
TOOWONG. S.W.1.

Dear Sir,

In your letter of the 9th May, 1939, you have
the following notes on "Goomeri" —

'A Railway station on the Nanango Railway. The
words means a shield. The shielf was the narrow
one used in hand to hand fighting with nulla or dhaberi.
The word which is of Wakka origin was sometimes
pronounced gudmeri. The Kabi word for this weapon
is kunmarim.'

I was under the impression that you had said that
"Goomburra" had the same meaning.

Yours faithfully,

HON. SECRETARY.