 This house today houses the Garden's information centre and administration offices.Mitchell died in 1953 and the position was taken up by Jim Gould until 1966.In 1966 Cairns City Council appointed Vince Winkel as Curator of Parks, Gardens and Reserves, a position he held until 1984, and in March 1967 adopted a five-year plan to develop in the northwest of the Edge Hill reserve as a small botanical gardens.