April 20, 2023
Friends and family members of Val and Graeme Wicks gathered at their Tingoora property last Saturday for a morning tea to launch a special book.
“Properly Long Way” tells the individual stories of the Wicks before they became the successful cattle producers so well-known in rural circles for their Hillsborough Limousins.
Val was born in Buenos Aires and always dreamed of riding horses on a big cattle cattle property.
After Argentina, she spent some years in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) before coming to Australia in 1972, where she met and ultimately fell for Graeme, a young outback stockman.
The couple worked on properties and ended up bull-catching in the Kimberleys to raise enough to buy their own cattle property … which is where this book ends.
But the Wicks’ story doesn’t end there …
They bought a property at Proston where they launched “Hillsborough Limousins” and then seven years later, in 1988, bought their 111ha Tingoora property.
The rest of their story – including Val’s dozen years working in the electorate office for then-local MP Dorothy Pratt – is South Burnett history!
Val and Graeme were kept busy on Saturday morning signing autographed copies of their book.
“Properly Long Way” can be ordered by phoning 0439-716-889 (leave a message). Cost is $30 plus postage.
