Books By Noel Tunny - Author

Noel Tunny, a retired consulting engineer, was born in Mareeba in 1930 and educated at Mount Carmel College, Charters Towers, and the University of Queensland (B.E. Civil). His father, William Henry "Harry" Tunny, a railway station master, died in 1936. Harry's father was Patrick "Paddy" Tunny from Roscommon, Ireland, who started work in Australia as a labourer on the railway line west of Charters Towers and retired as a publican with the Mansfield hotel in Townsville. Noel's mother was Gladys Mather, the granddaughter of Thomas Close, the son of a soldier from Wisconsin, USA. Tom Close came to Australia as a gymnast in an equestrian circus. He worked as a miner at Eureka and drove Cobb and Co coaches before settling in Mitchell as a publican. He retired after operating a mine and crushing plant at Woolgar, 80 miles north of Richmond. Gladys' father was Thomas Mather, in 1891 a shearer and later a dam sinker, fencer and wool carrying contractor with two German wagons. His grandfathe