Queen's Birthday Hours Monday 9th June 1pm to 5pm

Princess Elizabeth aged two, in 1928.© Marcus Adams, Camera Press

Our English heritage and connection to our sovereign the Queen of our Commonwealth of Australia will be commemorated in Queensland the state named after the role this Monday 9th of June 2014.

The library  in Cairns and Townsville will be open for a half day.

MONDAY 9th of June 2014        1.00pm to 5.00pm

The Queensland Government website for public holidays 2012 to 2016 states: "On Tuesday, 30 October 2012, amendments to the Holidays Act 1983 were passed by Parliament prescribing that from 2013, the Birthday of the Sovereign (Queen’s Birthday) public holiday is to be observed on the second Monday in June and the Labour Day public holiday is to be observed on the first Monday in October."