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Val and Graeme Wicks were being kept busy signing copies of their book, “Properly Long Way”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

April 20, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

Val was born in Buenos Aires and always dreamed of riding horses on a big cattle cattle property.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

But the Wicks’ story doesn’t end there …\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

They bought a property at Proston where they launched “Hillsborough Limousins” and then seven years later, in 1988, bought their 111ha Tingoora property.<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

Val and Graeme were kept busy on Saturday morning signing autographed copies of their book.<\/p>\n

“Properly Long Way” can be ordered by phoning 0439-716-889 (leave a message). Cost is $30 plus postage.<\/p>\n

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Retired politician Dorothy Pratt, from Kingaroy, with Kelly and Jason Fleischfresser, from North Lakes … Val Wicks worked for Dorothy from 1999 to 2012 while she was the local State MP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bob Clarke, from Kingaroy, was chatting with another visitor, Jocelyn Doran, Toowoomba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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David Kerr, from Kingaroy, and Scott Stoll, Crawford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Annie Stoll, Crawford, with John and Joan Wicks, Morayfield, and Liz Wessling, Proston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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