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By [F J Watson]

[Pialba]. A watering place near [Maryborough].

A aboriginal source shows this name to be derived from
baiyiba meaning "place of fighting" actually a battle field.
from baiyi, to fight , and ba, place of.

[Torquay]. A watering place near [Pialba].

This name is derived from the Kabi words"tukki dalbur"
from tukki , stones ,and dalbur, short; actually, "short place
of stones." It relates to rocky reef running into the sea
on a on a sandy beach some five to seven miles long which
is otherwise quite devoid of stone. The place was generally
known to the blacks a "Tukki"(Tuckee) or The Stones.

Its similarity in sound to [Torquay], a popular watering
place in England,no doubt, inspired the present spelling of the
name.

[Urangan].Now named [Port Maryborough].

Is derived from the native name of the dugong, Yuangan.

[Tin Can Bay].

Is derived from "tinchin" one of the native names of
the mangrove tree.

[Aramara]. A railway station and, one time, a timbergetting
centre,on the Gayndah Railway, sometimes called by old-
timber-getters Yúramára, is derived from the native Kabi worss
"yirra mara"meaning"spotted gumtrees many".

[Goomeri].

A railway station on the Nanango Railway. The
word means a shield. The shield 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 weeapon is kunmarim.