Flaggy Rock Police Station located 73 kilometres south of Sarina in North Queensland was opened in May 1921 with Constable Oliver Peters in charge. The station was probably opened in response to the building of the coastal railway line and was short lived. It closed in October 1921 because the railway line and railway workers moved on to Sarina and then further north. Flaggy Rock is still a railway station stop for the coastal line.
This is the only Flaggy Rock related image that we have in the Police Museum collection and its shows the caring nature of Constable Oliver Peters who is pictured with an injured kangaroo joey outside a tent that was probably the Police Station and the Constable’s home.
Constable Oliver Peters was sworn in as Constable number 1800 on December 11, 1913. He was transferred to Fortitude Valley, Sarina and Mackay before getting to Flaggy Rock. He was then transferred to Mackay, Baralaba, Rockhampton, Millmerran, Cracow, Rockhampton and ended his career in Ravenshoe as a Sergeant 1/c on February 8, 1946.
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