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THE JOURNEY

A collection of 119 issues

Christmas puddings in camp

CORRESPONDENCE: CHRISTMAS PUDDINGS FOR SOLDIERS IN CAMP. (To the Editor). Sir,— WOULD you be good enough to allow me room in your paper to say that I have just received a letter from Canon Garland (Lieut. Colonel) [ David John Garland ] stating that the [ Soldiers’ ] Church of England Help Society has

Recruiting campaign progress

RECRUITING CAMPAIGN. WORK IN QUEENSLAND. A MEETING of the Queensland Recruiting Executive was held in the City Council Chambers yesterday [ 8 October 1915 ]. Hon. A.J. Thynne [ Andrew Joseph Thynne ] presided, and there were also present: Mr. P.B. Macgregor (hon. secretary) [ Peter Balderston McGregor ], Lieutenant-Colonel Canon Garland (hon. organising

For The Fallen

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN. SOLEMN CELEBRATION OF THE EUCHARIST. SERVICE IN ST. JOHN’S CATHEDRAL. SINCE St John’s Cathedral has been erected there has perhaps been no other occasion on which so solemn a service has taken place within its walls, or one which will be so much

Abstinence pledge

ABOVE: Some of the estimated 3,000 troops – including men from the Queensland-raised 26th Infantry Battalion, 11th Australian Light Horse regiment and other elements of the 7th Infantry Brigade – paraded through the streets of inner Brisbane on Saturday morning, 29 May 1915. The following Monday evening more than 700 Brisbane

Too few enlisting

– from page 8, “The Brisbane Courier”, 24 May 1915

Follow England

‘FOLLOW ENGLAND AND INTERN ENEMY ALIENS’ The excerpt below appeared in a lengthy article in Sydney’s “The Sunday Times” in its 16 May 1915 edition on page 14.The story reported statements of Australian business, community and political identities under the headings: ‘Follow England and Intern Enemy Aliens’/‘Sunday

Four days of questions

FOUR DAYS OF QUESTIONS CANON GARLAND'S ORDEAL. By Telegraph. Special to “Argus”. Wellington, Last night. Rarely does a witness have to submit to such a long and trying ordeal of cross-examinations as was experienced by Canon Garland following his evidence in favour of the Bible-in-Schools Referendum Bill before

Rewreathed

ABOVE: An amateur poet penned this ode to the unsuccessful Bibles-in-State-School League campaigner from across the Tasman. It appeared on page five of New Zealand's “Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette”, on 12 August 1914. A GARLAND RE-WREATHED. [By ’Arry Stottle.] There came a man from a land

Bound for New Zealand

CANON GARLAND FAREWELL GATHERINGS. CANON Garland [ David John Garland ], who during his residence in Queensland has made his influence felt in the public life of Brisbane, and the State beyond, was tendered a civic farewell yesterday [ 31 July 1912 ], when a member of representative men met in the Town Hall.

Northern missions

ABOVE: Canon Garland, the former Church of England Archdeacon for North Queensland and Rector of Charters Towers Parish, visited the Presbyterian Church-run mission at Mapoon between 29 April and mid-May, 1911. This image depicts the main street of Mapoon, south of the J.G. Ward Memorial Church, as it looked