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The Garland Collection

📍 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia https://garlandmemorial.com

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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

70th birthday gathering

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

Honoured by the King

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

The Padre looks at the Digger

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

Lecturing in Mackay

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

Lavender Day treasurer tragedy

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

ANZAC Day No.16

‘THIS HOLY SPOT’ Cross of Sacrifice THEY came from all suburbs to The Cross of Sacrifice in the Toowong Cemetery. There were men with medals and ribbons, wives and mothers, and other women in black, and the little ones who know naught of war except what it had graved in

Work for unemployed

Work for Unemployed Placing Men on the Land “Although I hope that unemployment will not increase in Queensland, I fear that it will. Various schemes have been suggested to relieve the position in this State, but as yet none seem to have been successful. We must do something to help

Enoggera to Maleny

Chapel Dedicated. KITCHENER MEMORIAL. Parish Church at Maleny. SUNDAY, 6 September [ 1931 ], marked a new era in the life of the Church of England community in Maleny. A new church has been built and on Sunday was dedicated under the name of “St. George” although the building will more usually

Eleventh time at Toowong

AT TOOWONG Ceremony at Cross of Sacrifice. PAYING eleven tributes of flowers, the newly-cleaned Cross of Sacrifice and Stone of Remembrance in the Toowong Cemetery had an outer frame of reverent men, women and children who had come to honour The Fallen at a memorial service conducted by Canon D.