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Grosvenor Street,
[Toowong],S.W.1.
24th, January, 1939.

Dear Sir,

In response to your request of 12th instant I
am sending to you enclosed herewith, on the form with
which you provided me, the origin and meanings of two
of the place names you emntioned, i.e. [Goolman] and
[Kulgun]. I have at hand aboriginal vocabularies
countaining the words mutdheripilly (which I take to be
identical with Mutdapilly), woogaroo and moogera with
their meanings, but as I have no direct evidence of
their application to the places in question I do not feel
justified in submitting them formally. with regards to
the name [Kalbar], this place name was changed from
[Engelsberg] during the Great War ,so its origin shoul be
obtainable from the Local Austhority of its locality.

There is a holding on the [Burnett River] of this name
on which sugarcane used to be grown,but although in the language of the
Wide Bay aborigines [Kalbar] means a star, I do not think
this definition is applicable to either place.

Should I at any time be able to definitely ascertain
the origin and meanings of the other names I shall be
very pleased to do so.

Yours faithfully
F.JWatson

Mr.[Sydney May],
Hon. Secretary,
Queensland Place Names Committee,
University of Queensland
Brisbane.

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