Pioneering days of Miriam Vale and district', Queensland by W. G. Blomfield, 1946-1947 - Page 132

 imported from England called a Merle. When it was time to feed the poddies DODGE would go down the paddock, & drive them all quietly up to the milking yard. Dodge had more spots & less blue & black than the Australian blue. The silent working & the prick ears, the blue dog got from the Dingo. A lot of them had a wall eye, & you still see a lot of them with the wall eye (white eye). My Father E. C. Blomfeld took the Blue Cattle Dog to Miriam Vale. That was 80 years ago, & they were known up to 50 years ago in the Gulf Country as the MIRIAM VALE BLUES, confirmed by a friend of mine at Australia House in London, where he saw it in print.

Mr T. Hall took up NORINDOO in Qld about 80 years ago, & is sure to have taken the Blue Cattle Dog there. Never asked my father when he took the first Blue dogs to Miriam Vale, but an old half caste who would be 83 if still alive said, he did not remember when there were  no blue dogs at Miriam Vale.

Saw some very nice Blue Cattle Dogs at a show at INNISFAIL, NORTH QUEENSLAND, in 1940 when judging horses at the show. They called them the QUEENSLAND HEELERS, & would not believe me when told that Mr Thomas Hall of ABERDEEN on the HUNTER RIVER NSW, was the first man to