ABOVE: The National Hotel, at the corner of Queen and Adelaide Streets, in inner-city Brisbane, as it looked to a photographer, probably from “The Courier-Mail”, in about 1939. The hotel’s ultra-secluded Rooftop Garden venue was booked for a private dinner party on 28 February 1935 attended by the-then Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Justice of Read more…
CANON GARLAND’S 70TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTES TO WORK FOR CHURCH AND PEOPLE. CANON D.J. Garland [ David John Garland ], one of the most active figures in the Church of England and public affairs in Brisbane, celebrated his 70th birthday last week, and he received congratulations and acknowledgments of his work Read more…
CANON D.J. GARLAND Canon David John Garland, to whom the title of O.B.E. (Order of the British Empire) has been awarded, is known throughout the whole of Queensland and also in the other States of the Commonwealth. He was born in Dublin just 70 years ago, but came to Australia Read more…
By former First AIF Chaplain Captain, the Reverend Ernest George Petherick ON board a transport, we asked the C.O. for permission to hold a “sing-song service” on the Sunday afternoons. He turned down the proposal, giving the reason that the decks were so crowded that there could be no privacy, Read more…
CANON GARLAND’S LECTURE. CANON Garland [ David John Garland ], who is spending this weekend in Mackay, will lecture in the Parish Hall tonight at 8 on the Church Revival Centenary. Canon Garland is one of the leading church men of Brisbane and is very well known in North Queensland. He Read more…
FELL DOWN HOLD. MR. G.F. WEATHERLAKE KILLED. MANAGER OF ORIENT LINE. Mr. G.F. Weatherlake [ George Frederick Bailey Weatherlake ] Brisbane branch manager of the Orient line, was seriously injured when he fell down a hold on the Orient liner, “Orontes”, about 2 p.m. yesterday [ 1 November 1932 ], and he died in hospital Read more…