Frederick Charles Cecil Franz 1890 - 1951 Died "Quieta" 160 Wynnum Road Norman Park
The electoral roll of 1925 has Frederick Charles Franz living at "Quieta" New Cleveland Road. He married Rub Le Goode in 1923. In 1922 he is listed as living with his father (an accountant) at Franz Road, Clayfield. It would appear that "Quieta" is the home that the newly married couple moved into not long after their marriage. at this time Wynnum Road at Galloways Hill was New Cleveland Road. In 1933 there is a reference to "Quieta" where F. C. C. Franz is a Justice of the Peace with the address of "Quieta" New Cleveland Road, Galloway's Hill, Norman Park. When built in 1923 it would have commanded views of the Brisbane River across to New Farm and the city area. The death of F. C. C. Franz was recorded in 1951. Frederick Charles Cecil Franz was the grandson of Frederich Theodor Franz and the son of John Theodore Franz.
Brisbane Telegraph (Qld. : 1948 - 1954), Wednesday 4 July 1951, page 21
E.S.C.A. MANAGING DIRECTOR DEAD
The death occurred in Brisbane this morning, after a long illness, of Mr. F. C. C. Franz, joint managing director of the Engineering Supply Company of Australia. Mr. Franz joined the Engineering Supply Company as a boy shortly after the fo mation of the company. He occupied many positions be fore becoming joint managing director. Mr. Franz was 61. His widow was Miss Ruby Le Goode. In his early years he was a prominent member of the Brisbane Motor Cycling Club.
When researching the house name "Quieta" the path lead me to the connection to the Franz family of 1838 and the first Germain settlement called German Station or Zion Hill.
The First Quieta
Albert Theophilus Franz uncle to Frederick Charles C Franz died in 1927. He had called his home in Best Street, Hendra "Quieta". Albert T. Franz was a prominent citizen of Brisbane having a newsagent business in Fortitude Valley.
Week (Brisbane, Qld. : 1876 - 1934), Friday 30 December 1927, page 28
MR. ALBERT FRANZ
Mr. Albert T. Franz, newsagent of Kent's Building near the Valley Corner, died Tuesday after a short illness. The deceased gentleman was a son of the late Rev. Franz, who was one of the German missionaries stationed at Nundah (then called German Station) in the early days of Brisbane's history. He is survived by his widow, one son, and two daughters. Other relatives live, at Clayfield and Hendra.
Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Wednesday 28 December 1927, page 10
FUNERAL NOTICES.
Franz.-The Funeral of the late Albert Theophilus Franz will leave his resi-dence, Quieta, Best street, Hendra, This (Wednesday) Morning, at 11.30 o'clock, for the Nundah Cemetery. Motor service.
JOHN HISLOP & SONS. Funeral Directors.
The Franz Family of Nundah and Hendra and The Franz Estate
The Franz family name continues today with Franz Road in Clayfield. Today's Franz Road is cut by the Doomben - Pinkenbah train line and is renamed Alexandra Road at the southern end. At one point in time Franz Road ran from what we now know as Toombul Shopping Town through to Lancaster Road.
The first Franz in Brisbane was Frederich Theodor Franz. He arrived in Moreton Bay in March of 1838.
At the turn of the 20th century Berlin and Best Streets Hendra and Franz Road, Clayfield had 13 people with the surname Franz registered on the electoral roll for the parish of Toombul.
Freidrich Theodor Franz 1815 - 1891 Born Prussia
Frederick Franz was appointed to the first School committee of the New Farm State School in 1864. Eagle Farm State School's name was changed to Hendra State School. Frederick Franz's farm appears to have covered a considerable part of the area that we know today as Hendra. From Kedron Brook across to the Eagle Farm Racecourse.
The Franz Estate
The Hendra Railway Station opened on September 3, 1882 had an impact on the area of land that became known as the Franz Estate. The 1901 electoral roll has the Franz family living in Hendra and John Theodre in Franz Road. Advertisements for the land being developed into suburban housing started in 1903. The Franz farm and what was the Franz land holdings were developed over a period of time. The last suburban blocks listed for sale was in 1954 with seven housing blocks being advertised. In August of 1952 seven housing blocks were advertised as a piece of land between Alexandra Road and Chermside Street. The street map show that this would have been one substantial block split into seven pieces of land. Looking at today's streetscape there is a number of houses fronting Chaermside Street that are definitely of the 1950 style in their architecture. The railway line runs behind their back fences.
The other major change to the area in its development was the realignment of Sandgate Road from Albion through the Nundah township. The route that we know today as Sandgate Road was changed in the 1870s from a route to the west of present day Sandgate Road. It originall ran along Bonney Avenue then Junction Road to cross Kedron Brook. The new Sandgate Road when surveyed ran through the land to the west of present day Franz Road at Hendra.
Francisca - Alexandra Road The Home of John Theodore Franz
John Theodore Franz purchased a triangular piece of land containing a little over one acre in April 1885. Charles Gustav Franz, John’s younger brother was placed on the title deed as a nominated trustee for J.T. Franz in August 1886, the month in which John married Maria Sargeant. A Bill of Mortgage was taken out in Charles’ name in 1897 for £400. This is the same year architectural firm Hall & Dods produced a design for JT Franz’s Alexandra Rd home.
John Theodore Franz was the son of one of the Moravian missionaries who came to Moreton Bay in 1838 and established a missionary settlement at Zion Hill. John was born and raised in Brisbane and eventually worked as an accountant with the engineering firm of Evans, Anderson, Phelan and Coy Ltd. There he rose to the position of company secretary. He was interested in politics and held a position on the Toombul Shire Council for a number of years, and was deeply involved with local Masonic clubs. When he died in 1926 the property was transferred to the name of his widow Maria until her death in 1951. It remained with the Franz family for some years, during which time small residential allotments were subdivided from the property.
The Anderson homes of Franz Road which belonged to the Anderson family of Evans, Anderson, Phelan and Co. In the 20th century we know the company as Evans Deakin Ltd. of Brisbane's Story Bridge and shipbuilding fame.
Ferguslea 36 Franz Road, Clayfield
The following is taken from the Brisbane City Council Heritage register.
Available evidence suggests that this house was built by James Anderson, a Brisbane engineer and a founding partner of Evans, Anderson, Phelan and Co. in the 1880s. According to the reminiscences of James’ grandson, Nesbit, as related to the current owner, James Anderson’s own house was nearby at number 42-44 Franz Road.
The house at 36 Franz Road is thought to have been the home of James Anderson’s son and daughter-in-law, Alexander and Emmeline Anderson. According to the present owner the house at 42-44 Franz Road was demolished prior to 1967.
The house was built on land which was originally part of more than 28 acres of land transferred by Deed of Grant from the Crown to Johann Gottfried Wagner in 1858. The area has a rich German heritage because of the establishment of a German Mission in Nundah in 1838. Wagner, a shoemaker, was one of the original Lutheran missionaries who settled in the district and whose families remained in the Nundah/Clayfield area and took up farming after the closing of the mission in the 1840s. Many of the street names in this part of Clayfield reflect this German heritage, although some, for example, Bismarck and Berlin Streets, were altered in the name of patriotism during World War I.
During the second half of the 19th century, the Clayfield area attracted wealthy residents who could afford to establish themselves on large country estates. With the arrival of the railway to Sandgate through the district in 1882 and easier access to the city, Clayfield continued to be a sought after residential suburb. The pattern of building substantial, often architect designed houses, on large allotments continued into the early 20th century as the old country estates were broken up and sold for residential development.
In 1883, Johann Wagner subdivided and sold some of his land, keeping over 16 acres. After his death in 1893, his property was further divided and sold as the Wagner Estate. The advertisement for the estate proclaimed “this land is situated in one of the most healthy and convenient suburbs of Brisbane”….where “about 27 trains pass daily to and from the City”.
Ten of the subdivisions in the Wagner Estate, totalling 1 acre and between Franz Road and Childs Street, were purchased in 1894 by Mary Campbell Anderson, the wife of James Anderson. James Anderson was living in Franz Road by 1897-99, although it is not known if this was at no 36 or no. 42-44. James Anderson established Anderson and Co., a shipbuilding and boiler works at Kangaroo Point in the 1860s. Evans and Phelan later joined the firm and by the 1880s, Evans, Anderson and Phelan had established the Phoenix Foundry at Charlotte and Mary Street in the City and expanded the shipyard at Kangaroo Point, manufacturing boilers, pumps and ornamental railings as well as ships.
Over 120 perches of James Anderson’s land, including the site of the subject house, was transferred to Emmeline Anderson, his daughter–in-law, in 1918. In 1948, it was subdivided and over 17 perches was sold. The remainder of the property remained in the Anderson family until after the death of Emmeline in 1967. In 1968, the property at 36 Franz Road was sold to the present owner. A Brisbane City Council detail plan which probably dates from circa 1930s depicts the house with the name Ferguslea. The house has retained its large grounds of some 50 perches. Ferguslea is significant for the evidence it provides of the history of Clayfield, a prestigious residential suburb that during the 19th and early 20th centuries attracted families from the professional classes such as the family of James Anderson.
Warley 24 Franz Road Clayfield
MISS DORAH FRANZ
Wilhelmina Feodora Ruth (Dora) Franz born in 1858 at Moreton Bay was an aunt to Frederick C. C. Franz. Wilhelmina had her day school at her house "Hermat" in Best Street which is reporte dto be behind her father's house.
The Toombul Croquet Club's clubhouse is the school house built for Dora Franz. It was moved there from Best Street, Hendra in 1928.
Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Monday 17 December 1934, page 10
MISS DORA FRANZ DEAD
Member of a Pioneer Family
Miss Dora Franz, a member of one of the pioneer families of Queensland, died at her home, Hermat, Best Street, Hendra, early yesterday morning.
The late Miss Franz, who was in her 76th year, was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Franz. Her father was a member of the Moravian Mission, one of the first missions to be established. The land on which the present Baptist Church at Hendra now stands was a gift from Mr. Franz and Miss Franz, was the first organist. A brilliant scholar, the late Miss Franz was the first dux of the Brlsbane Girls' Grammar School. She was also a very good linguist, Greek being her special subject. After leaving school Miss Franz accepted a position on the staff of the Brisbane Boys' Grammar School. Miss Franz accompanied her parents on a trip to England and the Continent and on her return in 1893, opened a private school at Hendra. Interested in all charitable works, especially in the Children's Hospital, Miss Franz will be missed by the residents of Hendra and surrounding districts. She is survived by Mr. Charles Franz, (brother) and Miss Gertie Franz (sister).
History Related to the German Station and the Franz Family
1. Hendra State School and the German Community
https://hendrass.eq.edu.au/OurSchool/History
History
In 2014, Hendra State School celebrated the 150th anniversary of our school. The following is an excerpt of the history of Hendra State School that has appeared on previous websites.
The History of Hendra State School
There were fewer than a score of State Schools in operation when, on 1 August 1864, the Eagle Farm School was opened with an enrolment of 47 increasing to 89 by the end of the year, on land given by Mr Westaway.
Several parents had each donated 20 pounds towards the cost of the well-ventilated building which was described by the school inspector as being “one of the handsomest and most commodious schools in the colony.” Gerler Road reminds us of one of the donors, the father of Charles Gerler, the first pupil enrolled. Most of the children were of German descent and spoke English imperfectly, but they soon made satisfactory progress.
The building, costing 600 pounds, a very large amount for those days, must have been constructed of the finest timber for half of the building, not altered greatly during the 60 years it was a school, served the community as the Progress Hall in Banister Park.
Name change for Eagle Farm
After being known as Eagle Farm for forty-four years, the school, early in 1908, was renamed the Hendra State School as a result of an application by the committee.
Apparently some of the school mail was being wrongly forwarded to the Eagle Farm Post Office thus causing inconvenience. Moreover, the parents regarded the name Eagle Farm as a misnomer and claimed it had outlived its usefulness through suburban development, the school being nearer to Hendra than to Eagle Farm. The name Hendra had been in use for the railway station for a generation.
Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Saturday 30 May 1891, page 8
Queensland Churches.
Our Brisbane correspondent writes under date May 25: Mr. Frederick Theodore Franz, one of the few remaining survivors of the little band of missionaries who settled at the German Station about 35 years since, passed away on Friday. Mr. Franz arrived in Moreton Bay in 1838, and with others founded the missionary settlement at what is now called Nundah. He afterwards settled at Hendra, where he brought up a family, and lived until he reached the age of 78, highly respected as one of the fathers of the district by all those with whom he came in contact.
2. The German Mission and Zion Hill
http://missionaries.griffith.edu.au/qld-mission/zion-hill-mission-1838-1848
Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Wednesday 20 April 1938, page 16
Queensland's First Free Settlement - John Dunmore Land and the German Missionaries
By H. von PLOENNIES
Honorary Secretary, Queensland's First Free Settlers' Centenary Committee
Mission Station In Moreton Bay
WHAT has Queensland done for its natives? All sorts of stories, more or less authenticated, are told of the manner in which Queensland faced its responsibilities to its original inhabitants. Facts can be come distorted in a hundred years. For the first time an accurate and comprehensive story of the first mission to the aborigines has been given by the committee which has arranged the commemoration of the arrival in 1838 of the Gozner missionaries in Moreton Bay. Sir George Gipps has been credited for among other things Brisbane's small streets and the loss of a boule-vard along the foreshores of the Brisbane River.
In this authoritative historical account, cited above, justice is at last done to the tremendous service which Sir George Gipps attempted to render to the aboriginal natives of Australia. His predecessor, Sir Thomas Brisbane, tried to make Moreton Bay the site of a mission to the aborigines when it was first formed as a penal settlement in 1824. His attempt to form a mission establishment here sponsored by the London Missionary Society came to naught. Dr. John Dunmore Lang's attempt to form a Scottish mission failed through the more urgent claims on their clergy of the Scottish peasants who, forfeiting ancestral homesteads owing to fore-closure, in ever increasing numbers sought new homelands in Canada. The gallant story of the Goszner mission is brought vividly before the people of Queensland by the very manner in which they honour the missionaries and themselves by observing the centenary of their arrival. It would be ungracious and unjust to differentiate between the various sections of Christendom in allocating credit for the work done on behalf of a backward race. The Roman Catholic Church made an equally gallant contribution to humanitarianism and Queensland when four priests of the Order of the Passion started a mission to the aborigines at Stradbroke Island. When Pere Bucas was forced for health's reason to abandon his mission to the Maoris and came to devote his life to the aborigines of Central Queensland, and Father Duncan McNab began his lifelong labours among the aborigines of Bribie Island and the Mary and Burnett River districts, the Roman Catholic Church made a con-tribution to the civilising of Queensland which will not easily be matched. In 1850 the Moravian Church with its headquarters at Herrnhut, Saxony, sent its first mlssioners, Rev. F. Trager and Rev. W. Spieske, to Victoria. The work the Moravians began was continued by the Presbyterian Synods of Australia and con-jointly the two churches have carried on uninterruptedly mission work
Sir Leslie Wilson, patron of the Queensland's First Free Settlers Cen-tenary Committee, who will unveil aa memorial cairn at Nundah on Saturday to which, beyond all other States, Queensland is indebted. In the story of the various missionary efforts in this part of the world there is hardly an episode which could thus justly stir the pride of Queenslanders more than the story of the Goszner mission in their own State. The missionaries both by precept and example have bequeathed an ideal of service which ev... a more complex society holds Beginnings of Free Settlement.
The history of Queensland's first free settlement may be said to date from December 12, 1836, when six young men in Germany, offered them-selves up for foreign mission work. They had been roused by the fervour of Pastor Goszner, the minister in charge of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Berlin. The academic qualifications insisted upon by the established missionary societies had deflected them into persuading Goszner to add yet another branch to his work of Christian charity which had been growing according to no preconceived scheme. They had been introduced by a certain Mr. Lehmann who was probably a connection by marriage of Gottfried Haussmann, himself the sire of numer-ous Australians. Of course, foreign missionary work as such was not an entirely novel vision to Johannes Goszner considering the fact that he himself had met native races while in charge of the Church of the Knights of Malta, tem-porarily transferred to the Russia of Czar Alexander I. He was then still in Roman Catholic orders. The story of his inner life is bound up with the political changes consequent upon the French Revolution and the warfare in its wake. He originated from Hausen, a secluded township in the Bavarian part of Suabia. The preceptor of Queensland settlers had reached a station of prominence in the Prussian capital by a succession of events which were not of his own choice. A fugitive from his native land and as political suspect also refused shelter in Russia, he had been befriended by the nobility of Silesia, where he ex-perienced his conversion to Protestantism, the Johannes Baptista Goszner henceforth being known as Johannes Evangelista Goszner. Goszner rejected the conception of an academic training as fitting the candidate best for his work among native races. He perceived a dual nature of a missionary's work in that the message of the Gospel was to be implemented by preparing the native to stand the impact of the white man's civilisation as well. Goszner would not have allowed himself to be swayed by the dictum of Carlyle, who had called a missionary "a machine for converting the heathen," even though this Carlylese dismissal of a missionary's calling occurred in a reference to the Bible Society. At a time when he was still of the Roman Catholic faith, the Bible Society had enabled Goszner to pub-lish his translation of Holy Script. It was also his first recorded meeting with Britishers. The course of studies Goszner imposed upon his neophytes took in both artisan's workshop and the study of his own manse. In addition to learn-ing a trade they were enabled to earn their keep by day while devoting themselves to the spiritual side of their course at night, when Goszner drew exclusively on the Bible.
IN July, 1837, Goszner was in a position to respond to a call made by Dr. John Dunmore Lang, the Presby-terian minister and promoter of responsible Government in Queensland, who had specific-ally asked for men suitable for the mission field. Dr. Lang had unwittingly been supply-ing the labourers needed for the build-ing of the city of Petropolis in Brazil, when in the course of his peregrination he had at the behest of his brother, Major Andrew Lang, on the Hunter River, been engaging prospective im-migrants. In the French port of Havre de la Grace he had seen the plight of im-migrants robbed by an unscrupulous agent, the victims in this case being German wintners.
After they had been treacherously baited with America, he offered them an abode in Australia instead. However, Dr. Lang's efforts were frustrated as soon as the immigrants set foot in their first port of call, a Brazilian harbour. The intervention of the Brazilian Government which stood in need of skilled workers was made effective by the pleadings of fellow nationals who de-nounced the distant goal, New South Wales, for being a slave-owner's country. In consequence a metropolis arose on the site of land granted to Dr. Lang's frightened immigrants. But for this interlude in the public life of Dr. Lang, Queensland might not have had cause to commemorate the centenary of the arrival of its first free immigrants. As it happened, Dr. Lang continued on his Continental quest, contacting Goszner. The establishment of a mission station in Moreton Bay is the outcome of an eager solicitude for the welfare of native races guarding against the re-crudescence of slavery. The Victorian age was assiduously cultivating that ab-horrence of slavery which has matured till it evolved the present day conception of trusteeship as regards native races at a backward stage. The missionary party left the Con-tinent in July of 1837 when they took ship from Bremen to Scotland. They departed from Europe on August 13, 1837, their port of embarkation being Greenock, which was also the birthplace of Dr. Lang. They comprised two ordained ministers, Rev. C. Eipper and Rev. K. W. Schmidt, and ten laymen, their names being all recorded on the cairn which the Governor (Sir Leslie Wilson) will unveil at Nundah, near their original settlement, at Zion's Hill. An early authentic record of Queensland history is the baptismal register antedating the introduction of compul-sory registration which is preserved in the Registrar-General's office, pending the establishment of a proper records office. Though pertaining to baptisms performed by the German missionaries at Zion's Hill, it also chronicles an event on the outward voyage when Pastor Eipper was called upon to officiate, a child being born on December 22, 1837, to Scottish emigrants. It was named Minerva from the ship in which they were travelling. In the same month typhus fever broke out which caused many deaths. One of the missionaries, too, died, Moritz Schneider, a native of Leipzig. Conse-quently their arrival in their port of destination, Moreton Bay, was delayed owing to their not being released from quarantine, until February 14, 1838. They had arrived at Sydney on January 23, 1838. They transhipped in two section, the first members of the party arriving in Moreton Bay on March 30, 1838. They were joined by the remainder of the party in June of the same year. Land Taken Up BEFORE the year had expired, two births had occurred. The first child born on Zion's Hill was Johann Augustus Ferdinand Rode, son of Franz Joseph Augustus Rode, and his wife, Juliana, nee Peters. He was born on June 1, 1838, and baptised on the 17th of the same month by Pastor Schmidt. The missionaries hailed chiefly from the Eastern provinces of Prussia, Silesia and Pommerania. They were of German extraction with the exception of one, Peter Niquet who was descended from a Huguenot of Mons. They represent the first organised group of German immi-grants in Queensland. The missionary settlement which was situated seven miles northward from Brisbane, and about two miles north-west from Eagle Farm, lay athwart the routes taken by the natives. The mission as such was a failure. The reasons adduced cannot diminish the meed of praise which must be be-stowed upon unselfish efforts, in the course of which the missionaries did not spare themselves. They even experienced murderous attacks such as befell Gottfried Haussmann near their outstation at Burpengary. One of the principal causes contributing to the abandonment of the original character of the missionary establish-ment was the lack of support forth-coming from an auxiliary which had been formed at Sydney. The site of their labours had been named Zion's Hill, alike for reasons of piety and owing to its resemblance to the original hill in the Holy Land which rises from the valley of Gilhon. The brook, too, was not missing, though it was rather a rivulet than a torrent The change in the character of Moreton Bay itself, the penal settlement fall-ing into desuetude, and the dash of the squatters who were overcoming barriers to the expansion of white settlement communicated itself to the once secluded settlement of missionaries. Some dis-persed, one going as far as Samoa where her pioneered a school for the children of the white residents. Those who stayed on now took up land on the site of the acreage originally allotted to the missionary establishment. Love of home life and ready absorp-tion into the predominant order, a British community, were to hasten on their progress to a final stage of being useful to their country of adoption. Their descendants have become an in-gral part of the Australian nation which has formed since the arrival of the Goszner missionaries. If it be postulated that the crucial test of nationhood was exacted during the Great War, the honour rolls can readily be proffered. Particularly gratifying has been the response which the commemoration of the centenary has been evoking in the homeland of the Goszner missioners. The information supplied forms material for different aspects of research work in Australia.
3. The Founding of Nundah and the German Station
If you are not familiar with Brisbane's early white settlement history this article from the Brisbane Courier of 1926 provides a good recount of the very early days of what we now know as Nundah.
Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Monday 27 September 1926, page 6
Founders of Nundah.
It is many years since German station, or Nundah, as it is called, was founded. Mr. Geo. J. Walker, of Nundah, whose father was tutor to the children of the original settlers, suggests that a memorial ought to be erected in recognition of these fine old pioneers. To that end he has forwarded a petition to the Mayor of Brisbane (Alderman W. A. Jolly), in-viting his consideration of the proposal. In this contribution, Mr. Walker says:— "Eighty-eight years ago, in the late 'thirties of the last century, ten brave men, with their noble wives, and pastor, left their homes of comfort, 16,000 miles away, and settled as a community at German Station (now Nundah), of which they were the founders, building their homes upon a knoll on Kedron Brook, and called it Zion's Hill, being a part of a square mile granted to them by the New South Wales Government in the year 1838. It stands out particularly unique in its relation to Brisbane (which itself then was but a bush town), as being the first suburb of our city at that early period, though five miles of dense bush intervened. It is not easy to conceive the hardships that were en-dured by them to make a livelihood, which could only be achieved by indomitable courage and indefatigable effort; pioneers in the truest sense, subsisting practically on bread, beef, and potatoes, and fish from the Brook, besides having to contend very often with their dusky neighbours, the aborigines, who surrounded them, endangering their lives. These brave mortals came from a land of plenty to our country of bush and blacks, and made good for themselves and their adopted land, under almost impossible conditions, and have given to our State assets of the highest type of character in their offspring, some holding to-day high office in the civic, parliamentary, educational, and spiritual life of our State, and many families of true Christian character. Is not the memory of these men worthy of a civic recognition to-day, by the evidence of a fitting monument in their town? They being some of the earliest history makers of our great State, I think, lays a great claim to our city fathers' action. I was born in the early 'fifties in Brisbane, and taken to German Station before I had an anniver-sary, when my father became tutor to their children; was brought up in their community, and have continued a resident in their district with many of their off-spring to the present time. Though I am making an individual appeal, it is with no motive of notoriety, but prompted by a consciousness of doing my duty; it is not a personal matter with me, for I think, without one dissentient, my appeal will have the backing of our whole townsmen. I here make an appeal to your Council for the erection of a monument to the memory of the 'Founders of Nundah' — this makes it historical in character. Their names can be furnished, and other information neccssary. A prominent and most suitable spot in the centre of Nundah now offers itself at the junction of Old and New Sandgate Roads, opposite Boyd Park, and near the Im-perial Picture Theatre, where a triangular area obtains. 'Never the time and the place and those we love,' quoth the immortal playwriter, William Shakespeare, but here and now we have the time, the place, and those we love (though sleep-ing in their graves close by)! The erection of a memorial, to be consummated by our civic authorities, is surely feasible and warranted."
No comments:
Post a Comment