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 was Archdeacon of North Queensland for some years, and was Rector of Charters Towers from 1902 to 1907. He is the first Anglican priest to 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 two hours later. Mr. Weatherlake boarded the R.M.S. [ Royal Mail Ship ] “Orontes” soon after it berthed at the Hamilton Cold stores Wharf, about 1 Read more…
‘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 the characters of their elders. They brought marguerites, while daisies, roses, chrysanthemums and dahlias to lay at a common symbol for men who had been burled thousands of miles away. The flowers would die quickly but for the moment Read more…
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 the young men, who are, in many cases, almost destitute. They have no interest or leaning whatever to Communism in any form, but in their despair they Read more…
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 be known as the “Kitchener Memorial Chapel”. The occasion is not only notable for the Church of England congregation, but is of interest and importance to the whole district. The history Read more…
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.J. Garland [ David John Garland ]. In his address, Canon Garland emphasised the qualities of sacrifice, heroism and endurance displayed by the Anzacs and said Read more…