Proserpine Guardian on January 15, 1981:
Planned excavation of the cliff face at Shute Harbour This will push the levelled area back, making room for 300 parking bays and a ledge area below the upper road on which to position fuel tanks for servicing boats.
Vietnamese to arrive on Sunday Two Vietnamese refugee families will arrive for settlement in the district this week. A meeting recently led to the formation of PRAC, the Proserpine Refugee Committee, which would meet the families and settle them in a house. Both families were quite well educated and spoke English well.
New Uniting Church Minister Pastor Boyd Matthews arrived as the new Minister with his wife Elizabeth.