Editing Bundaberg (section)

=== Further progress ===
[[File:StateLibQld 1 392105 Buss Park, Bundaberg, 1946.jpg|thumb|right|Buss Park vista, the Church of England to the left, and the Presbyterian Church and the Ambulance Building in the background, 1946]]
[[File:StateLibQld 1 393477 Bundaberg Post Office, 1948.jpg|thumb|Bundaberg War Memorial in front of the Bundaberg Post Office, 1948]]
St Joseph's School opened in June 1876.<ref name="qfhs">{{Citation|author1=Queensland Family History Society|title=Queensland schools past and present|date=2010|edition=Version 1.01|publisher=[[Queensland Family History Society]]|isbn=978-1-921171-26-0}}</ref>

With the passage of the ''Local Authorities Act 1902'', Barolin Division became the [[Shire of Barolin]] and the Borough of Bundaberg became the [[Town of Bundaberg]] on 31 March 1903. On 22 November 1913, Bundaberg was proclaimed a City.<ref>''Queensland Government Gazette'', Vol. CL, 22 November 1913, p.1422.</ref>

In 1912 Bundaberg pioneering aviator [[Bert Hinkler]] built and successfully flew his own glider on [[Mon Repos, Queensland|Mon Repos]] beach. He also completed a noteworthy non-stop flight from London to Turin in 1920. The following year in 1921 Hinkler flew from [[Sydney]] to Bundaberg, non-stop, in a record breaking flight of 8 and a half hours, in the process beating a telegram he had sent to his mother, to warn her of his arrival.<ref>O'Connor, T. (1996). A Pictorial History Of Queensland. Brisbane: Robert Brown & Associates (Qld) Pty Limited, pp.271–272.</ref>

The [[Bundaberg War Memorial]] commemorating those who died in the [[Anglo-Boer War]] and World War I was unveiled by [[Charles Brand (general)|Major-General Charles Brand]] on 30 July 1921.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article109988047 |title=Bundaberg Soldiers' Memorial. |newspaper=[[The Queensland Times]] |location=Ipswich, Qld. |date=1 August 1921 |access-date=6 April 2014 |page=6 |edition=DAILY |via=National Library of Australia |archive-date=18 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718064440/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/109988047 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bundaberg War Memorial|url=http://monumentaustralia.org.au/display/90901-bundaberg-war-memorial|publisher=Monument Australia|access-date=6 April 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407142009/http://monumentaustralia.org.au/display/90901-bundaberg-war-memorial|archive-date=7 April 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The Bundaberg digger was imported from Italy and is constructed of Italian marble. The completed memorial, at a cost of £1,650, was the third most costly to be erected in Queensland. It is a major regional memorial and one of the two most intact digger memorials that remain in their original settings of intersections.

The [[Bundaberg tragedy]] of 1928 resulted in the deaths of 12 children in a 24-hour period after they were administered a contaminated [[diphtheria vaccine]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Bundaberg's Gethsemane: the tragedy of the inoculated children|first1=Harry|last1=Akers|first2=Suzette|
last2=Porter|journal=Royal Historical Society of Queensland Journal|volume=20|number=7|year=2008|pages=261–278|url=https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:152716/UQ_PV_152716.pdf}}</ref>

In 1941 the [[Sisters of Mercy]] purchased the house ''Brabourne'' (originally owned by prominent citizen Frederick Buss) and established St Mary's Hostel, for women and girls working in or visiting Bundaberg. After [[World War II]], doctors were calling for modern hospital facilities in Bundaberg, so the Sisters converted the hostel into the Mater Private Hospital, a 24-bed hospital with an operating theatre, chapel, and accommodation for the nurses and maids, officially opening on 28 July 1946. The nurses were initially all nuns, but they established a training school for other women to become nurses. The hospital expanded over the years with additional beds, operating theatres, X-ray, pathology and a dedicated children's ward. It was the first hospital in Queensland to use the Zeiss ophthalmic microscope, the first regional hospital in Queensland to have a [[Lymphedema|lymphoedema]] clinic, and to use [[Facial-recognition technology|facial recognition technology]] for [[endoscopic sinus surgery]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Whittington|first=Dorothy|title=18 July 2021|page=72|work=[[The Sunday Mail (Brisbane)|The Sunday Mail]]}}</ref>

In the 1960s the township was completely flooded by the Burnett river. In 1967 Bundaberg celebrated its centenary by producing a coin and opening [[The Bundaberg and District Historical Museum]] in the [[Bundaberg Botanical Gardens]] in [[Bundaberg North]].