I was wrong. Please note that it won't be said too often. I have for some years been under a false impression that a man J.B.Atkins was an agent bringing Germanic migrants to Queensland. I have even said so publicly. I was wrong. James Atkins was a selector or pastoralist who had a property at Koowona or named Koowona. He actually employed a number of migrants including Fred Kummerow. The employment agent was Heussler and Francksen. Apparently the constancy team had set up business in either Toowoomba or Brisbane in the 1850s or earlier. Apparently settled German families would comes to them and pay them a fee to organise for family members from Germany or Poland to join them. There would be a fee plus fares and migration expenses paid to Heussler and Francksen who would then go to Germany and organise the migration. Likewise selectors or pastoralists and even business people in Toowoomba and I assume Brisbane would approach these two blokes for labourers. He would get the details of their needs and travel to Germany where he would seek out suitable migrants and entice them to migrate. Sounds like 'people smuggling' to me. I always thought that Atkins and Lloyd were agents doing this work but have made this discovery. Hope I haven't told you something you already know but it has taken me three years to find out this. Any thoughts on this great revelation? Am I correct? Albert Grulke