July 1966 School Magazine

THE MAGAZINE of the

BRISBANE GIRLS' GRAMMAR SCHOOL

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CURRENT EVENTS Firstly we would like to welcome the mistresses who joined the staff this year: Mrs. Kugelman, Mrs. Chowdhury, Mrs. Williams, Miss Cribb, Miss Jacobs, Miss Hardcastle and Miss Horton in a temporary capacity. We also welcome our visitor, Peggy Kratka, an exchange student from America, who has given interesting talks about her different ways of life in America and Australia. We hope Peggy is enjoying our company as much as we are hers. The Second Formers attended the A.B.C. Youth Concerts given by the Queensland Symphony Orchestra during First Term. Gideons International again generously presented new mem- bers of the school with copies of the New Testament. 4th March - This day was a memorable yet sad day for us for we farewelled His Excellency the Governor, Sir Henry Abel Smith and Lady May, both of whom have shown great interest in our school and the Youth of Queensland. 5th March - The first sporting fixtures of the year were played by the Softball Team at Wynnum State High School. 11th March-The success of the new House system was evident at the Inter House Swimming Carnival where competition was keen. 12th March- Our school team was given added practice at a Six-way Swimming Meeting held at our school. Those com- peting besides ourselves were Wavell, Camp Hill, Banyo, Sandgate and Mitchelton State High Schools. The experience gained at this Carnival was of benefit to all tearris. 18th-19th March -The Inter-School Swimming Carnival in which St. Margaret's were again successful, with Brisbane State High School second and the Girls' Grammar School third - a very pleasing result stemming from the excellent example of team spirit shown by our girls under the direction of Mrs . Winter and Miss Hardcastle. 2nd April-Once again we congratulate St. Margaret's who won the A and B divisions of the Inter School Lifesaving com- petition held at Clayfield College. Both our A and B teams came fifth. 18th-22nd April-The Inter House Volley Ball competition was re-introduced as a House Sport in first term and congratulations go to Lilley House who fought very strenuously to win the final. 26th-27th April -The new system for the Inter House Lifesaving competition was introduced this year. Each girl who

enters for an award is given a set number of points for that award. Sixth and Fourth Forms completed their tests in first term· Fifths and Thirds do theirs in third term. 1 1st-11th May - Forty-six Sixth Form girls, in the care of Miss Tuckett Miss Neil and Mr. and Mrs. Winter, spent ten sun-filled and fun-filled days on Heron Island. For the first time, this year the girls went in the May vacation instead of in August. 17th-27th May - Sixth and Fifth Form girls attended the presentation of the set Senior play, "King Lear", at the Av~on Theatre, St. Lucia. The play was performed by Twelfth Night Theatre. 20th May__: This year for the first time the Brisbane Girls' Grammar School acted as host at the Australian Student Christian Movement Conference for which the topic was "Are we free to choose?". Speakers at the Conference were Dr . R. R. Lee, Dr. Murray Williams and Rev. Dr . Keith Rayner. ·All who attended enjoyed the experience and would like more such conference~. 25th May - Once again representatives of the School, Sixth and Fifth Forms this year, gathered in the Botanical Gardens to hear the Queen' s message to the Youth of Queensland and th~ addresses of the Governor, Sir Alan Mansfield, and Mr. Pizze)i' after which they joined the March through the City streets. 26th May -The Head Girls, as guests of His Excellency the Governor, Sir Alan Mansfield, and Lady Mansfield, attended a Garden Party at Government House to celebrate Youth Week, 27th-28th May; 3rd-4th June -A play entitled "Arsenic and Old Lace" was performed in the Gymnasium by members of tb 1•· Boys' and Girls' Grammar Schools. · 28th May -The first Basketball and Tennis matches weri- played at Moreton Bay College resulting in victory for all OU) teams. For the first time the Sixth _Form girls have a badge to distinguish them from other forms . This was found to be neces- sary when Sixth Formers were sometimes mistaken for girls in lower Forms. The size of the girl, and the size of the school were both contributing factors . In the middle of last term we said goodbye to Miss Elliott for a short while. After some weeks in hospital and rest, we welcomed her back at the beginning of Second Term. We hope she is feeling well again. With Second Term Examinations, the Inter House Singing competition and the Inter House and Inter School Athletics soon upon us, this Term promises to be as busy as the last .

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BETTY WOOLCOCK CHALLENGE CUP "What a piece'°of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty!" Hamlet. "So God created man in his own image In the image of God created he him;" Man is God's greatest work, the summit of Creation, And so to man alone is given the gift Of paths of wrong. Through reason he may glean Knowledge sufficient to conquer Satan's demons- Envy, greed, lust, hatred. Reason To dispel the blindness bred in Superstition, Make Faith a clear and honest business. Such faculties has man; they store themselves And then stint not when Man in striving calls Upan them to uplift him to heights hereto unknown. They bear him up that he may ·know the glory Of reason, reason to ennoble him, guide him I n paths of right, remove the dreaded lure Of submission of self and love of fellow. Sight to see another creature troubled, Hearing to hear the call of the distressed fallen, Speech to soothe, to comfort, to right wrong, Touch to do, to make, that all may live A life in freedom and obedience to God. And the greatest of man's faculties is Love- Love to conquer class and skin and god, To see in man the image of his God. For God works his will on man, Moulds and shapes him through turmoil, sorrow, sin That he may find in reason, knowledge; that Through knowledge he may dedicate all his faculties To the restoration of the original God In all mankind.

THE BRUMBIES The Territory with seasons of the wet and dry, Is the home of these horses wild. Some have been tamed by human hands - And the miles of the stations are cover by bands Of the Territory's Brumbie Horses.

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- ROSLYN McNAUGHT

PROXIME ACCESSIT THE WRECKERS

With the sun and the moon as a lamp, We adhered to the rules of our camp, And kept the lonely vigil by the restless, surging sea, As our forefathers bade us do it. Lit by the light from a slit in a shining, gleaming, old bronze lamp, We wend our way to the sullen coast By devious, winding ways, As our forefathers bade us do it. And we wave that enticing light, Red by day and white by night, And the slime-covered rocks below Glimmer and gleam-by the pale moonlight And the glaring light of the sun, As they did when our forefathers lived. The wavering, piercing light that throbs through the mariner's eyes, And we bring him to his destruction, Just as our forefathers did.

-MARILYN DOW

Short Poem in Form II TWILIGHT CALL The light of day is fast disappearing,

While around the earth twilight swiftly is steering A course drenched with shadows, all softly adhering To the night sounds of howls, as they rise and fall, When the dogs give vent to their own Twilight Call.

- ROSLYN McNAUGHT

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SIR SAMUEL WALKER GRIFFITH MEMORIAL PRIZE

1824, the jurisdiction of Calcutta was formally reaffirmed and New South Wales became an archdeaconry, the first Archdeacon being Thomas Hobbes-Scott. Macquarie had felt that wherever there was a settlement, there should be a church and a school. Accordingly, in 1827, the Church and Schools ' Corporation was set up to make provision for "the maintenance of religion and education of Our Youth in the Colony of New South Wales". The Corporation was to be granted one-seventh of the lands in each county and funds from sale, cultivation or mortgage of these lands were to be used for the erection of churches, schools,. farm buildings, fences, roads, and the maintenance of schoolmasters. The govern- ing body consisted of both Church and laymen and provided for the opening of infant, parochial, grammar, orphan, native and evening schools. Financial dif- ficulties were · encountered, but by 1831 , the Corporation maintained forty schools , educating 2,426 children . In 1833, the Corporation was disbanded because of opposition by Irish Roman Catholic and Scottish Presbyterian settlers. This led to the passing of the Church Act of 1836, which gave financial assistance to each of these three major denominations in the colony . In 1828, Broughton succeeded Scott as Archdeacon and undertook many tours which brought him into touch with other parts of his Archdeaconry. Broughton found the clergy living at a subsistence level, the only aid given to chaplains being a grant of 1250 acres given to the daughter of a: chaplain on her marriage. In 1833, there were only fifteen priests to minister to the entire archdeaconry and Broughton realized the inadequacy of the situation. He thus returned to England, appealed to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, and received financial help from these societies. In 1835, the diocese of Calcutta was divided, and New South Wales became part of the Diocese of Madras. Then , in February, 1836, Broughton was con- secrated as Bishop of Australia and enthroned a month later in the church of St. James which then became the pro-cathedral of the new diocese. After 1836 and the formation of new parishes, Broughton appealed to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel for more ministers with the result that , by 1839, there were twice the number of chaplains as in 1832. In 1837, Sydney Cathedral was built and new churches were consecrated in Tasmania, Sydney, Melbourne, Bathurst, Queanbeyan. Canberra, Camden, Ashfield and Watson's Bay. Until now, no provision had been made for the training of clergy in Australia. Broughton felt that a theological college would serve two purposes-allow men to enter orders without leaving the country , and also supply the much-needed clergy . The King's Schools (1832) were established in Sydney and Parramatta (the Sydney school closing after nine mouths) and a Divinity School was opened at St. James' s parsonage (1846) under Canon Allwood and two years later moved to "Lyndhurst" . The Diocese of Australia, by this time, had become extremely unwieldly and subdivision was obviously necessary . Tasmania became an archdeaconry soon after Broughton's consecration , under Hutchins. Settlements had been made at Port Phillip, Moreton Bay and Adelaide . In 1842, the diocese of Tasmania ~as created followed soon after by the dioceses of Newcastle, Melbourne and Adelaide. Broughton then became Bishop of Sydney and Metropolitan of Australia . A Conference of Bishops was called in 1850 and was_ attended by_ t_he Bishops of Australia and New Zealand with Broughton as president and Wilham Tyrell, Bishop of Newcastle, as secretary. The C9nf~rence m~de a number of recom- mendations-that there was a need for provmc1al and d10cesan synods to be held to formulate ecclesiastical law, to subdivide and to elect bishops; that the laity should hold conventions to consult with t he synods and clergy; and that the Australian Board of Missions be set up as the official missionary body of the Church in Australia to be supported by voluntary subscription, and diocesan boards to be established to aid the provincial bishops. It was suggested also that the bishops of Newcastle and New Zealand be missionary bishops to survey the work of the organization. However , the Conference had no lega,l status, and the Bishops no power to call Synods. In an attempt to remedy this, Broughton returned to England in 1852, but died in February, 1853, before much could be_ done. Frederic Barker succeeded Broughton and was consecrated in May, 1855. "Lyndhurst" had been closed through lack of support and Barker desired to open a Theological College to relieve the shortage of clergy. In 1840, Thomas Moore of Moorebank Liverpool, had willed all his property to the Church . In 1856 , therefore, Moore' College was o_peneq t_o provide a colle!,le edu~ati!'.:m for youths between sixteen and twenty-three, with Wilham Hodgson as first prmc1pal . In 1889, the college was transferred from Liverpool to its present situation near Sydney University.

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Barker also hastened the completion of building of St . Andrew's Cathedral whose foundation stone had been laid in 1819 by Macquarie . Bourke had !aid a new foundation stone in 1837 and James Hume was appointed architect using a design based on St. Mary's Church, Oxford, and Magdalen College. 1{, 1842, bmldmg stopped, but was resumed with improved financial conditions under the architect, Blacket. However, the gold rush caused a further cessation of work. Barker recommended the construction and the Cathedral was completed and opened (!n St . Andrew's. Day, 1868 . . Barker also es.tab!ished the Church Society -the chief mstrument m the creat10n of new parishes in the diocese of New South Wales. Synodical Government was finally achieved in 1866, when the Parliament of New South Wales p::,.ssed an act enabling the Church to manage its own property . This was followed m December of the same year by the calling of the Sydney Diocesan . S~nod which has met .annually ever since and from which developed the Provmcial Synod, a body :which legislates .on matters delegated to it by the D10cesan Synod and also receives appeals agamst the vote of the Bishop. The first Provincial Synod met on the 11th May , 1869. 'J'.hroughout the various Australian dioceses , provinces, under the jurisdiction of Bishops, were set up. The province of Newcastle had its humble beginnings m a slab church built in 1812 and replaced in 1818 by Christ Church, which was opened by Macquarie . At first, William Cowper ministered there and it was not until 1821 that Newcastle received its first permanent chaplain, Rev . G. A. Middle- ton. In 1827, Middleton was succeeded by the Rev. F. M. Wilkinson who visited the Hu_nter Valley as well as \)eing Rector of Newcastle. By 1834, increased populat10n necessitated the appomtment of the Rev . G. K . Rusden to Maitland and by 1843, seven new parochial districts had received priests. In 1847, New- castle became a separate diocese with Dr. William Tyrell as Bishop . The words chosen for his vault by those who succeeded him ·-"William Tyrell who gave all he was and all he had to the Diocese of Newcastle"- express eloquently the manner of man Bishop Tyrell was . He took great interest in the children of his diocese, in his clergy and their families and on 9th May , 1873, the anniversary of Tyrell's 25th year in the Diocese , Canon Child, senior clergymen "at the final hour of the Third Session of the Third Synod ... read an Address of Congratu- lation to the Bishop 'from the Clergy and Laity of his Diocese in Synod Assembled' ." William Tyrell died 24th March, 1879, and Archdeacon Child stated -"his giving up all he possessed for the good of our Church in this Diocese, has set before us a noble example which has startled the world". The first Synod met in 1865 by consensual pact (without legislative action) . Christ Church Cathedral was begun in 1884 and finally completed in 1928 when the Nave was raised to its full height . In 1935, Bishop Batty was instrumental in inviting the Church Army to set up its first headquarters and training establishment in Australia, in Newcastle . The Diocese of Newcastle supports several schools , hostels, homes for the aged and children's homes and provides full-time chaplains for the Missions to Seamen Society . The aim of the leaders and the faithful of the Diocese of Newcastle in the 120 years of its existence has been "the realization of a Kingdom, which while in, is not of, this world" . The first church service in the Goulburn area was held in 1820 and in 1827 , the Rev . Thomas Hassall was appointed to the parish of "Australia beyond Liverpool". By 1830, the Rev. Vincent was also making quarterly visits to the Goulburn area and the first resident chaplain, the Rev. William Sowerby, took up his position in 1837. The first Church building was begun two years later and finally consecrated in 1845. In the 18S0's, three· laymen· of the Church, John, Robert and Charles Campbell, were largely responsible for the founding of the See of Goulburn . Charles Campbell felt that episcopal ministrations were too infrequent in the "interior" of the colony and accordingly, in October, 1857, he wrote to the Rev. Ernest Hawkins, honorary secretary to the Colonial Bishopric's Council, suggesting that it was impossible "for the Church in Australia to flourish if one bishop is to have control of so extensive a territory". Thus, after many objections from those who felt the expense unwarranted, the bishopric of Goulburn came into being, and Doctor Mesac Thomas as first Bishop was installed in his Cathedral, St. Saviour 's Church, on the 8th April, 1864. In 1946, the Bishop's residence was moved to Canberra with the formation there of the national capital and in 1949 an Assistant Bishop was appointed to live in Goulburn. In 1950, the Diocese became known as "Canberra and Goulburn" . The discovery of routes on to the Liverpool Plains by Dangar, Richard and Nowland opened the way for settlement in the New England district in 1819. The Australian Agricultural Company was given large tracts of land in 1819, and the resident chaplain at Port Stephens , the Rev. W. M. Cowper, paid visits to New England to hold services. In 1845, Bishop Broughton appointed the Rev.

H. Tingcombe as resident chaplain to Armidale and in 1849 Ed~ard Willia!fiS became chaplain to Tamworth. By 1866, four other areas had r~ce1ved chaplams and the Diocese of Armidale and Grafton was then created with the Rev. W. C. Sawyer as Bishop. Bishop Sawyer was enthusiastic about his work .and won the confidence of his people but his episcopacy was unfortunately termmated by a drowning accident which shocked church people throughout New South Wales and left the newly formed and only partly organized diocese without a bishop until 1869 when James F. Turner arrived, to begin an eposcopate of twenty-three years of extension and consolidation . In 1914, Grafton became a separate See under Cecil Druitt . On 20th April, 1815 the first service beyond the Blue Mountains was held for Macquarie, on his ~ay to found Bathurst, at Cox's River, and on 7th May, the first Divine Service was held in Bathurst. Settlers began to spread to the area and in 1822 Marsden held a service in a public granery. The first regular chaplain,' Thomas' Hassall, was able to serve in the barn with a thatched. roof which had been opened in 1825 . In 1828, the Rev. J . E. Keane was appomt.ed to Kelso (Old Bathurst) and built a church there. By 1840, another chaplam, Rev. Joseph Walpole had been stationed at New Bathurst and her.e a church was completed and consecrated by Bishop Broughton in 1848. When gold was discovered at Summerhill Creek in 1851, population increa~ed by leaps and bo1:1nds , and under the direction of Bishop Broughton , the mmcrs of Sofa!'! bmlt a church-Christ Church. By 1865, Bathurst was ready for the creation of . a Bishopric; All Saints' Church was e,-ilarged and _improved as a pro-Cathedral and the Australian-born son of the pioneer chaplam, Samuel Marsden, ~he Rev . Samuel E . Marsden of Trinity College, Cambridge , was enthroned Bishop of Bathurst on 5th May , 1870. The diocese of Riverina was formed in 1884, to become the fiftl~ and final See in the Province of New South Wales . In 1867, a pioneer. pn~st of the district the Rev. John Gribble the first .resident minister at Jerilderie, opened a settl~ment for aborigines at 'Murrumbidgee , in which project he ':"as. strongly supported by Sir Henry Parkes . Settlement spread and the See of _R1veri,-ia c'!me into being with its Cathedral town of Hay and with Sydney Lmton its first Bishop . In New South Wales , progress has certainly been achieved and the bishops, cathedral, . services and societies of the provi,-ices serve as a monument to all the priests and laymen who have striven to give the colony the Church of her Motherland. The first service held in Tasmania · was a thanksgiving offered by t_he R.ev. Robert Knopwood for the safe arrival .at Hobart Town in 1804 ?f an exJ:)ed1t10,n sent out under Lieutenant-Governor Collms to establish a colony m Van J?1eman s Land . In the same year., a similar expedition arrived at the Tamar River ~ut without a chaplain, so services _here were conducte~ by the !ayma,-i, Edward Mam, until 1819 , when Rev. James You! arnved . Nothmg was done m Hobart. about erecting a permanent church until 19th February, 1817, when the foundation of St. David' s was laid by Lieutenant-Governor Davey "to perpetuate the memo~y of his Honour the late David Collins , Esq. , Lieutenant-qovernor of Van Diemen s Land" . Altho.'.igh the first service was held in 1819, 1t was the 9th February, 1823, before St. David's was consecrated by the Rev. Samuel Marsden, Sem9r Chaplain of the Colonies. St. John's Church in Launceston was opened m December 1825 in the same year as St. Matthew's at New Norfolk . By 1823, four mor~ chaplains had landed in the colony and in 1830, Archdea':on Broughton paid his first visit. In 1832, Lieutenant-Governor Arthur repeated his r eques.t f'!r chaplains and asked for either an Archdea.con or a rural De'!n for, he s'!'d, it is " just as easy for an Archdeacon resident m. Engl'!nd to superintend the spiritual affairs of Gibraltar as for an Archdeacon resident m New. South Wales to . super- intend affairs in Van Diemen's 'Land" . Consequently, m 1836, Tasman1a W'!S granted the status of an archdeaco!lry under Ar~hdeacon Hutchms. Durmg .his time, the population of Launceston mc_reased sufficently. to warrant the establish- ment of a second parish and the Pansh of Holy Tnmty was set up. In June, 1841, Archdeacon Hutchins died. By this time th~ colony had d.eveloped so steadily that church establishment needed strengthemng. No . great 1mprov~n:i~nt could be expected until Tasmania could become a "separate diocese with. fac1ht1es for independent organization". The Home Gov~rnment took . speedy act10n af~er Hutchins ' death and the result was the. creat10n of the d10cese ?f Tasmama. Francis Russell Nixon was consecrated Bishop on S!, Bartholomew s Day, _1842, and was enthroned in June, 1843. By 1845, Tasmama consisted of 27 parishes, most of which conducted well-attended Sunday-schools and . day-schools. In 184'6 Tasmania saw the setting up of two grammar schools and a college -Launcesto'n Church Grammar School , the Hutchins' School ,.. Hobart, . and Chnst's College, whose first warden, Rev. J. P. Gell, was appomted on the recom-

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Bishop Webb er organized the diocese and it was during his episcopacy that the Cathedral neared its completion . In 1905, Brisbane became an archbishopric, St. Clair George Donaldson being the first Archbishop. Archbishop Donaldson brought into being St. Francis' College at Nundah. Under his leadership , Queensland became, perhaps, the most missionary minded of the Australian Provinces. Four dioceses have been created from the original See of Brisbane- North Queensland (1878), Rockhampton (1892), New Guinea (1898) and Carpentaria (1900). The town of Bowen was established in 1861 as a por t for the interior, a church was built, and the Rev . F. C. Grosvenor became the first priest. He also served the port of Townsville tintil the Rev. J . ~dams. cal'!le from Sydney to minister in 1870. The Rev. John Donne became Pansh Pnest m both Ra':'enswood and Charters Towers but it was felt that North Queensland was entirely too distant from episcopal headquarters in Sydney. Finally , in 1878, G~orge Stanton was consecrated first Bishop of North Queensland and enthroned m St. James' Pro-Cathedral , 1879. At the end of 1880's, drought and depression almost led. to the financial ruin of the diocese. After these years, North Queensland's third Bishop, Dr. S. H. Frodsham, a graduate of Durham, determined to restore _the Diocese. However in 1903, a cyclone destroyed much of the town of Townsville , including the Cathedral , whose foundatjon had _been laid in_ 188~. D~- Frodsh"!m crusaded for the establishment of the first medical research mstltute 1n Australia; he founded the Brotherhood of St. Barnabas and was also responsible for the founding, in London, of " The North Queensland Auxiliary" to keep up the flow of young priests from England to "the bush". Bishop Frodsham was followed by John Oliver Feetham , by "whose vision so splendid and whose sanctity so true, he has become one of the legends of the Australian Church". He was appointed head of the Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd and was the first Bush Brother Bishop in Queensland . He es~ab- !ished four boarding schools- All Souls ' School, Charters Towers, St. Gabnel's School, Charters Towers, St . Anne 's School, Townsville, and St. Mary's Sch~ol, Herberton. All Souls' School and St. Barnabas' School , Ravenshoe- se_t up dunng the episcopacy of Bishop Belcher in 1953-are conducted by the teachmi,; Brother- hood of St . Barnabas , and the Girls' Schools by the Community of the Sacred Advent. Mission stations are conducted at Yarrabah and Palm Island for aboriginals, and early developmen; was I_argely the work of the Rev . Joh? Gnbble, who arrived at the Yarrabah Mission m 1892. Under the present Bishop_, Rt. Rev . Ian Shevill, much building of modern and artistic chur_ches _has been achieved, including the completion of St. James ' Cathedral, Townsv1lle, m 1960. The vastness of the Diocese of North Queenslanc\ led to s~bdivision and ~he formation of the Diocese of Rockhampton in 1892 with Nathanial Dawes as first Bishop. The first Bush Brotherhood in Australia , that of St. Andrew, was formed when Bishop Dawes realized that the ordinary parochi"!l system was n?t at all suitable for the distances needed to be covered. The first four AustrahaJl Bush Brothers, committed to at least five years of a life of poverty, chastity and obedience, were Halford, Chapman, Perry and Scott. When New Guinea and Paoua became the responsibility of the Australian Government it was felt that the Australian Church should also be r esponsible for Papua and New Guinea. Progress in New Guinea has largely b~er; due to the work of missionaries associated with the Australian Board of Missions and with the Brotherhood of St . Francis . In 1891, the Rev. Albert Maclan;n and the Rev. Copland King arrived near Wedau in . B_ritish New Guin_ea. Sickness and the tropical climate all but wrecked the mission. Maclaren died and poor health forced Copland King to leave soon after. Three lay workers were left in charge of the mission, led by Mr. and Mrs .. Tomlm~on, so that by 1~92, Copland King, on returning, was able to resume his work '!1 the area . The ~irst baptisms were held on Easter Day , 1896., and iJ'\ 1898 th,; Diocese of 1';lew Gumea was created with John Montagu Stone-Wigg as Bishop . Bishop Stone-Wigg brought with him several additions to his staff including Rev. J. H. Newton . In 1993 , Mr . Tomlinson was ordained. Stationed at Mukawa, he translate~ the entire Bible into the dialect of his people . On 20th September, 1914, the first Papuans , Peter Rautamara and Edwin Nuagoro, were ordained de"!co_ns . Progress w_as made throughout the territory , esoecially with _ regard to rmss1ons to the Highlands, and in 1933, the Cathedral Church of Samts Peter and Paul was conse_crated by th e Archbishop of Brisbane, Doctor Wand. The Cathedral had been bmlt largely by native workmen, relays of them coming to Dogura. voluntanly ur;der the guidance of Robert Jones. During World War II, the d)O~ese . was ~ubiect_eq. to much fighting and many of the Church's workers, rem_ammg m their pos1t10ns, were martyred . Rehabilitation and extension are now m progress, ,and to New

mendation of Dr. Thomas Arnold of Rugby. Both Grammar Schools, under the charge of men in Holy Orders made great progress but the College, after a very chequered career, found itself in financial difficulties and in 1857 it was closed. In 1857, the first official Synod of the Diocese met in Hobart and its principal business was the passing of Acts concerning trial of ecclesiastical offences, patronage of · parishes and finance. . Bishop Nixon brought with him Archdeacon F. A. Marriott, who was able to mcrease the number of chaplams, and he was also given a grant of · money to p_r~vjde for the opening of Christ's College. In 1862, the government ceased subs1d1zmg the work of churches and instead made an annual grant the Church of England receiving £8,770. ' During the 1860's, the Tractarian movement within the church had its effects on . the_ Tasmanian chu_rch in the objections which were lodged against the ordmat1on o_f K . W. Kirkland, _accused of practising rituals, the erection of a stone altar m the church at Tnabunna , and the placing of a cross and candle- sticks on the altar of the cathedral. On . 8!11 January, . 1868, the Duke of Edinburgh, during the episcopacy of Tasmania s second bishop , Charles Henry Bromby, laid the foundation stone of a new cathedral in Hobart which was then first used in December, 1872, and consecrated on 5th February, 1874. The tower, however , was not completed until 1936 . Agam m 1900, the Synod was called upon to discuss certain Tractarian t endencies-auricular confession and prayers for the dead. . The Diocese of Tasmania continued to flourish for a century, and in 1955 1t had reached such proportions that an assistant Bishop was appointed . The Ven . W. R . Barrett, Archdeacon of Hobart , became Assistant Bishop and was consecrated by Bishop Cranswick. In 1824, a convict settlement was set up on the Brisbane River to replace that of Port Macquarie and for eighteen years, the settlement was closed to free settlers. In 1826, the Church and Schools' Corporation opened a school; Mrs. Esther Roberts was appointed teacher at a salary of £20 per annum and sixteen children had been enrolled by the end of the first term. However there was no provision for a church or a chaplain. Archdeacon Hobbes-Scott' visited the settlement in 1828 and authorized the assistant surgeon, Henry Cowper "who reads the prayers on Sunda)'.s , to . take burials if. necessary". A chaplain, the Rev. John Vmcent was appomted m 1829, but owmg to a quarrel with Logan, the commandant, he had returned to Sydney by 1830 . The next appointee was John Christian Handt, a missionary of the Church Missionary Society and, although Handt was a Lutheran, he probably used the Book of Common Prayer and he was a governm<,nt appointee. The first permanent priest, John Gregor, arrived m 1842, by_ which time free settlement was permitted. Gregor's first services were held m the courthouse, but later a church was set up and dedicated to St. John. Services were held in other districts in the area . After his death in a drowning accident in 1847, Bishop Broughton paid tribute to "the laborious zeal with which he devoted himself to convey the glad tidings of redemption to those far separated members of Christ's body" . Gregor was succeeded in 1848 by Benjamin Glennie, a deacon appointed to Brisbane by Bishop Tyrell of New- castle, whose diocese included Brisbane. Glennie, educated at Dulwich Grove and Christ 's College, Cambridge, conducted hi s first service in Brisbane on 26th March, 1~48, the beginning of a fifty-two year ministry in Queensland. He travelled tirelessly to the outlying centres of his parish and established a parish on the Darling Downs on 20th August, 1848, after Revs. Creyke and Mosely arrived to free him from duties in Brisbane. He suffered many hard- ships on his journeys -"Heat, mosquitoes and noise in the 'Clarendon' rendered sleeping very difficult" and " Gatton-noisy and uncomfortable-slept little". He appears to have been favourably , impressed by the Tractarian movement but was cautious in introducing its practices, and even more careful in carrying out the wishes of his Bishop. Archdeacon Glennie, first archdeacon of Brisbane died on 30th April, 1900, after a ministry which earned him the respect and affection of all connected with him. In 1859, Queensland, as far as the 19th parallel, was formed into a diocese , the r emaining area being part of the diocese of Sydney. Brisbane became the See town and Edward Wyndham Tufnell, the first bishop, was enthroned on 4th September, 1869. The first synod met on 6th May, 1868, its constitution having been drawn up by Judge Lutwyche . By 1868, chaplains had been appointed at Mackay and Bowen, where a church had been built in 1865 . In 1875, Tufnell was succeeded by Bishop Hale and he in turn by Bishop Webber in 1885 . Bishop Webber is described as a man of "sound wisdom combined with tireless energy" .

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Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine

July, 1966

and laity in the years 1860-1866 paved the way for the first Synod of _the Diocese in 1872. In 1875, Bishop Hale was transferred to Bnsbane and Bishop. Parry became the new Bishop of Perth in 1878. Under him, the_ Boar~ of Missio~s became stronger, a committee was instituted to promote religious instruction m day and Sunday Schools, a Board of Trustees was s!'t up for a Clergy W~dows and Orphans' Fund and a church newspaper was inaugurated. An aborigmal mission under the Rev. _Gribble was set up and the Cathedr_al was consecrated -the Cathedral Church of St. George-in 1888 on the anniversary of Bishop Parry's consecration. · During the gold discoveries, the See of Perth wa_s served by Bi.shop Riley and the goldfields by men such as Rev. E. M. Collick at Coolgard!e and _th~ Rev. R. H. Moore at Kanowena. The Sisters of the Church established girls, schools in 1901, of which Perth College was the ~ost important, and a boy 7 school, the Guildford Grammar School was opened m 1895, as well. as St . !olm s Theological College and orphanages which to-day care for 250 des!ltute children. The Church in Western Australia represents a middle po_sition in Church- manship and in 1914, Bishop Riley became Perth's first Archbishop. In 1826 a settlement was begun at Albany and Divine Service was taken in this are~ for a number of years by laymen, chief of whom was Tho,:rias B. Sherratt. Perth's Colonial Chaplain visited the settlement m 1835 and m 1848 the first permanent chaplain, the Rev. J. R . Wollaston, was transferred to Albany from Bunbury. He built a permanent church at Albany, and this was con- secrated in 1848 by Bishop Short. The settlement of Bunbury, or Australind, of "".hich Lieut. H .. W. Bunbury had said "I have seen no better place for a dairy . . .. a luxunous meadow country", was established in the early 1840's and. the Rev. _J. R. Wollaston ministered here from 1841 until 1848. He chose Picton as his home and by 1842 had built a church there . Through the efforts of John Ga~rett Bu.s~ell, another church was begun at the Vasse (Bussellton).. In 1870, the first Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society was established at. Bunbury_. · !n 1927, the Order of the Sisters of St. Elizabeth of Hungary established a ipr/s school at Katanning, and cared for 200 children at a F_arm School !'ear PmJarra.. In 1888, the Guild of St . George was instituted by Kmgs!ey Faubridge ',nd cc;msis~ed of Communicants and church workers; in_ the same year a Communicants Union was formed. The development of the area of Bunbur~ owes much to the. efforts of De.an Goldsmith who, in 1904, became Bunbury s first Bishop. Bishop Gol

Britain and the Territory of New Guinea has been added Papua to enlarge the Diocese of New Guinea. In 1936, David Hand was consecrated to supervise this area as Assistant Bishop. The Diocese of Carpentaria covers North Queensland Diocese's northern section and Central Australia. It was created in 1900 and Gilbert White became its first Bishop. The seat of the diocese is on Thursday Island at the Quetta Memorial Church. The Church of England began work in the Diocese, including the Torres Strait Islands, when the London Missionary Society withdrew from the islands. A theological college, St. Paul's at Moa, has been set up to train native clergy. The Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd at Bathurst ministers in Central Australia, while the Brotherhood of St. Barnabas performs similar work in the Gulf Country. In 1829, the first settlers in Western Australia arrived but without a chaplain, the Rev. J. B. Wittenoom being unable to come. Divine Service every Sunday was held by the Commanding Officer of the 63rd Regiment, Captain Frederick Chidley Irwin and with the wreck of H.M.S. "Success" at Fremantle and the consequent landing of Archdeacon Hobbes-Scott, Holy Communion was first celebrated on Christmas Day, 1829. Irwin. built a little mud and thatch church in three weeks on the Swan in 1830. The Rev. Wittenoom arrived in January, 1830, and he then had to minister at Perth, Fremantle and Guildford. As a result of Irwin's efforts, in 1835, the "West Australian Missionary Society", later to become the "Colonial and Continental Church Society", was formed in England. Five churches were established in the area by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge but still there were no resident clergy. In 1836, an Italian convert from Roman Catholicism, Dr. Louis Guistiani, took charge at Guildford but he was extremely unsatisfactory because he "was said to speak four languages fluently of which English was certainly not one". However, he did establish a church at Guildford and also bought 900 acres of land nearby, where the first orohans' home was later begun. . Dr. Guistiani was succeeded by Rev. William Mitchell, a fo-r~er missionary in India. Another layman, John Garrett Bussell, whose greatest desire was to enter the ministry, -had been forced to emigrate from England at the death of his father. Bussell held prayer meetings and was able to build a church. He returned to England in 1838 but was unable to be ordained. In 1830-, Mr. Wittenoom had arrived. He held services at Perth, preached at Fremantle and Guildford and was careful in keeping registers and in advising young couples on marriage. However, Mr. Wittenoom remains first and fore- most, an educationalist -"The Father of Education in Western Australia", and he began a classical and English school in 1838. Churches were built in the Upper and Middle Swan districts and in 1841, four more chaplains '!'rrived and were appointed. to these districts . Be~een 1841 and 1856, two mmisters were lari,:ely responsible for holdmg the _Anglican Communion together-John Ramsden Wollaston and Augustus Short, Bishop of Adelaide including Western Australia. The Rev. Wollaston. although "unceasingly missing 'the comforts of his English home", was a refreshing influence on the clergy of the time, and accepted as their mouthpiece. In his later years, he was apt to be despondent describing the moral state of the colony affectively in "The Sabbath is selected as a rlav for pre-eminent drunkenness and profligacy". He, however, _accomplished the finishini,: of his own church at Picton and the opening of an elaborate stone one at J::remantle . When Au~ustus Sho_rt became Bishop of Adelaide in 1847, the position of the Ch!-'rch m A':1stralia be.came much improved. Churches were consecrated and cluldren confir",'.1ed. 1?ishop Short appointed Wollaston, "respected and beloved by all classes Archaeacon to care for the Diocese in his absence. Even as early as 1847, men were agitating for the formation of a diocese and with t_he advent of Bishop _Short. Western Australia imoroved tremendously. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge did much to liquidate the debts incurred by building the churches and also to pay the stipends of several of the clergy and an A_rchdeacon. In 1848, Governor Charl~s Fitzgerald realized that the colony was dymg from lack of labour and. that, m order to restore prosperity, convict labour was necessar~. The convicts sent out were extraordinarily respectable and a wave of prosperity followed. In 1850, Bishop Broughton . Metropolitan of J).ustralia, called t_oget~er a con- ference of Bishoos and one direct result of this was the cre'!'tion i_n 1856 of the See of Perth. Archdeacon M. B. Hale was chosen as first Bishop and consecrated in 1857. He was able to appoint the first Dean of P_erth, the V~ry Rev. G. P. Pownall, and to open a second~ry school for boys m 1858. which later became known as the Hale School. Conferences of clergy and of clergy

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