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THE JOURNEY

A collection of 120 issues

Anzac Day: 20

ANZAC DAY IN 1937. Sunday Will Be No Obstacle. THE joint honorary secretaries of the Anzac Day Commemoration Committee, Canon Garland and Captain E.R.B. Pike [Eustace Royston Baum Pike] referring to published statements as to the observance of Anzac Day in 1937, which that year falls upon a

Anzac Day: 20

‘No Desire of People that this Day Should Become Another Holiday’ Canon Garland’s Statement THE Stone of Remembrance and The Cross of Remembrance within the gates of the Toowong Cemetery were heaped high with wreaths when the service conducted by Canon D. Garland [ David John Garland ] was held there

Chaplain retires

New Settlers League

“REDEEM BROKEN PROMISE” Assisted Nominations for Immigrants New Settlers’ League Council Meeting “The time has come when the promise should no longer be broken that was made to immigrants before they left home that they would receive assistance to nominate their parents and family to follow them out here. While

Anzac Day: 19

HEROISM. ENDURANCE. SACRIFICE. Stone and Cross of Remembrance. National Holy Day. Heroism, endurance, sacrifice – these were the Anzac qualities which Canon D.J. Garland stressed in his address to the large gathering which assembled around The Stone of Remembrance and The Cross of Remembrance at Toowong Cemetery this morning. THE

Anzac Day 1935

CEREMONY AT TOOWONG. FOR OUR DEAD. Hear us, Son of God, O hear! We approach thee for our dead: Lead them in the vale of fear, By Thy wings around them spread. AN impressive not was lent at the Remembrance service at The Cross of Sacrifice and Stone of Remembrance,

Esteemed company

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