On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 Angela Barnett <barnettnz@gmail.com> asked >Subject: [nz] WW1 horses from Australia > >Hello Lists > >I have a problem trying to find a James ROGERS who sold? horses to the >Australian army? for WW1. Any indexes out there where I might find a >reference to this?( He was living in Australia). > >Thank you all >*A. Barnett NZSG #14998* Hi Angie James ROGERS - WW1 horses from Australia I have just spotted this old query while browsing old messages. Did you get a result for your query? If not, these are probably references to the James Rogers you are looking for: http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/19224911 The Brisbane Courier (Qld. ), Thursday 21 May 1903, page 3 LONGREACH, May 20. <snip> At the Police Court, James Rogers, a << James Rogers, horse buyer well-known horse buyer, was fined £3 and costs for travelling horses without a way- bill, and for refusing to assist the police when inspecting them. ( Note: 'Travelling horses' usually refers to taking a stallion ( somewhere to service mares. My grandfather used to 'travel' a ( draught stallion in the Feilding district in the early 1900s. ( ( Nowadays mares are taken to the stallion. Longreach is directly inland from Emerald on the road between Rockhampton and Mt Cloncurry and Mt Isa. and http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/19998514 The Brisbane Courier (Qld.) Friday 27 November 1914, Page 7 PURCHASE OF HORSES. CROWS NEST, November 26. Mr James Rogers, horse buyer, has << James Rogers, horse buyer purchased two trucks of horses for war << ... for war purposes purposes, and paid on an average of £14, £20 being paid for some. The horses were railed to Pinkenba this morn- ing. Crows Nest is inland from Brisbane and about 30 miles north of Toowoomba. Pinkenba is on the northern bank of the Brisbane River, almost at the mouth of the river, which seems a likely place to ship the horses - or keep them until there were sufficient to ship when a boat became available. This 1896 reference to a James ROGERS who had stables in North Croydon may - or may not - be the same person : http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/79008088 The Northern Miner (Charters Towers, Qld.), Monday 9 November 1896, page 2 QUEENSLAND NEWS. (By Telegraph.) CROYDON. Saturday. A fire was discovered at 11 o'clock last night in the stables of James Rogers, North Croydon. The building, saddles, etc., were destroyed, the four race horses being saved with difficulty. The origin of the fire is a mystery. The only Croydon that I can find in Queensland is located just south of the base of the Gulf of Carpentaria in Far North Queensland. Despite all those clues, I can't definitely find James ROGERS the horse buyer in Queensland Electoral Rolls. Do you have a name for a wife? Hope this helps Graham unless ... 1903 Queensland > Darling Downs > Toowoomba 4203 ROGERS James - M - Hill street - saddler 4211 ROGERS Rose Elizabeth - F - Hill street - domestic duties or 1903 Queensland > Kennedy > Longreach 2117 ROGERS James - Vergemont Station - boundary rider - M