Access to cheap land assisted the harvesting of kauri, cedar, hoop pine and beech, and hastened closer settlement.

Before Pomona was surveyed in 1900, the bend where settlers hailed the train to send their goods to market was called the "Pinbarren siding".

In 1907 the Cooroy estate was resumed from a sawmiller, enabling close settlement by New South Wales dairy farmers, and fruit, sugar cane, and maize was also grown.

In February of that year, the manager of the Commercial Bank of Australia at Pomona wrote to the Home Secretary complaining that the nearest police officer was in Tewantin.

Also in February 1910, Eugene Von Blanckensee, a carpenter and local Justice of the Peace, wrote that Pomona needed a police station.

Marrett had recommended a police station in Cooroy in December 1909, giving as a reason the rapid development of the area in the preceding two years.

Curran, J.W Napier, and J.J. Wilkinson travelled to Brisbane to see John Appel, the Home Secretary, to press their case for a police station.

On 22 April 1927 Constable Howie from Cooran reported that a Mr Blanckensee was willing to build a house for the police in return for a 3-year lease.

Blanckensee built a four-room house with kitchen, bathroom and front and back verandas, along with a stable and feed-room, on his 34.6 perches (880 m2) of land at Sub 32 of allotments 1 and 2, Section 3.

[1] On 27 May 1927, the Noosa Advocate reported a visit to the area by Attorney General John Mullan and Undersecretary to the Department of Justice, G. Carter.

They were deciding on a site for a Court of Petty Sessions in the Noosa Shire, and local businessmen promoted Pomona as a central location in the butter, timber and banana producing area.

A removable single-cell lock-up and an earth closet were built by the Department of Public Works on Blanckensee's property by 9 September 1928.

Brown argued that since the Blanckensee lease would expire in October 1933, a new police station and court house, a second cell, a stable and an earth closet should be built.

With regard to his current Court of Petty Sessions office, he stated he had "put up with" a lot of interruptions in the previous 5 years, because of the use of School of Arts hall by community groups during the day.

The memorandum stated that the Police Reserve on the South West of Pomona was 20 chains (1,300 ft; 400 m) from the business centre, which could be a problem when moving "obstreperous" prisoners.

[1] On 13 June 1934 the Department of Public Works commenced construction of a police station/residence, two-cell lock-up, court house and stable.

In the end, work was completed by 31 August 1934, and Blanckensee's house was vacated on 1 September the new police station being occupied the same day.

In October 1934 the Department of Public Works gave Police Commissioner Carroll official notice that Job £37537, ordered on 3 April 1934, had been completed at a cost of £1030.

[1] In July 1932 Assistant Supervising Architect of the Department of Public Works, Harold James Parr had designed the plans for the police station, Type Two, erected at Pomona.

The bottom portion of the wall at the rear of the stable would have to be removed, a double door erected, and a concrete floor laid.

[1] In 1965 and 1967 Senior Constable Alan Walker (1964–67) requested a septic system, and in 1968 this request was repeated by Senior Constable Luis Olsen (1968–73), who also asked that the back entrance landing be enclosed, as well as part of east veranda, where rain was beating against the doors into the main bedroom and the lounge.

[1] The Pomona Police and Court House precinct, Lot 4, P50113, covers 3297 square metres and currently contains ten structures and an impound yard.

Its interior is clad in vertical board, and the courtroom contains the original wooden magistrates bench, witness stand and dock.

The original design contained three bedrooms and a living room, and an enclosed veranda with sliding sashes between the kitchen and bathroom at the rear of the house, but we were unable to inspect the current interior.

Externally, apart from the enclosed verandas, the removal of the 1000-gallon water tanks, and the angle of the stairs to the office, it closely resembles the original 1932 architect's plans.

A tubular pipe fence with wire mesh runs around the property, although sections have been removed from in front of the new station building, and a construction entrance off Rectory Street.

[1] The new concrete block police station, the concrete block toilets behind the court house, the old chicken-pen of recycled timber and corrugated iron (1980s) to the east of the impound yard, the new aluminium shed to the west of the lock-up, and the small garage facing Rectory Street, south of weatherboarded shed mentioned above, are not of cultural heritage significance.

[1] The Pomona Police residence (& former station), lock-up and court house were listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 27 May 2005 having satisfied the following criteria.

This grouping of three government buildings, built in the same year, on the same site, is important in demonstrating the principle characteristics of, and is a substantially intact example of, a small town police station / court house group, and the work of the Department of Public Works, including the development of various building "types".

As a substantially intact 1930s police station / court house group, the site is evocative of a past era of law enforcement in a small country town.