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    MISTER FIXIT

    Dec 08, 2021 4 minutes
    Greg Bush writes

    When Darcy Pollard arrived at Centenary Landscaping Supplies at Darra in south-east Queensland just on 32 years ago, it was by all accounts a fairly modest operation. His arrival was only three years after the now managing director Terry O’Shea purchased the company, which itself hadn’t long been in operation. Darcy recalls starting out in a little Centenary Landscaping Supplies’ 2.5 tonne Daihatsu.

    “We had one loader and one forklift when I started, and maybe four little trucks and one big truck,” he says.

    He laughs when he says he would load a little more than the allocated payload on the Daihatsu, adding: “I had long hair and no grey hairs when I started.”

    Darcy, a painter by

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