Hunt is on for heir to strange block of land

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Could you be the long-lost owner of a 16m by 60cm strip of land in south-east Queensland, whose last known owner was August Thorsborne, a 19th-century businessman who died more than 100 years ago? The Department of Transport and Main Roads needs to know.

The Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads is looking for the owner of a 10sqm block of land.

The department intends to resume the land as part of upgrades to Holmview Station in Beenleigh.

Local sleuths and state bureaucrats are trying to find the true heir to a strange block of land in Logan, south of Brisbane, with only five days left.

The Department of Transport and Main Roads is looking for anyone who believes they have an interest in the August Thorsborne estate.

That tiny block of land, 16 metres long and 60 centimetres wide, is needed to facilitate upgrades to the Holmview station precinct, which is part of Logan and Gold Coast Faster Rail.

Des Crump is a historian and bottle collector; the reason the latter is important will become clear shortly.

He spoke to Steve Austin about his research into Mr Thorsborne on 612 ABC Brisbane Mornings.

"It's [a] funny little shape, [a] funny little bit of land, but it's surprising that there's no descendants because he (August Thorsborne) had quite a few children," he said.

"It doesn't seem to be specifically connected to where he ran his soft drink business, and he had a brewery, and all those other things that wouldn't fit on that sort of block of land."

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