Joss Houses, random

Joss House placemarker

Image Courtesy of: CAHS

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/107279526 - North Willoughby

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/192530644 - Southern Districts

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71732001 - Adelaide St New Farm (QLD)

"In the early days of the tin mines, Stanthorpe had its Chinatown, with its joss house, disreputable opium haunts, gambling dens, and the like,"

Warwick Daily News, 18 September 1934, p.3. 

Burketown

May Colless (1909 – 1995) described Burketown during WWII in Blake, Bronwyn (ed.) Gulf Women: Voices from Remote North West Queensland, Inverloch, Victoria, B. Blake, 2017. pp105-6

It seemed impossible to grow vegetables in the salty soil and sultry climate, but a couple of elderly Chinese men, from the gold rush days, managed to supply the few local people with freshly picked vegetables at most times of the year. They lived down on the bore drain near their Joss House and very close to Mr Suter’s [Sewter] Sanitary Depot.

"A picture was shown of a beautifully furnished joss house, or Buddhist temple which Mr. Needham said, existed in the Diocese of Carpentaria."

Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs Gazette, 1 December 1926, p.10.