July 1966 School Magazine

July, 1966

July, 1966

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine

Brisbane· Girls' Grammar School Magazine

the Cathedral Parish. the Vien. P. H. Dicker, did much to beautify the Cathedral grounds by the laying out of the Cathedral close with hostels for secondary school children grouped around the Cathedral. In 1958, he launched a campaign to complete the Cathedral . and it is now nearing completion . Gippsland, although µrimarily a dairying district and thus perhaps not able to support the full machinery of a diocesan organization, was created a diocese m 1901. With the opening up of Yallourn Brown Coal Open Cut, and its power house and briquette works, the development of the State Coal Mine at Won- thaggi and other similar enterprises, Population growth has been steady. Gold mines at places like Valhalla had failed and therefore gold rushes had little adverse effect on the life of the district, allowing church life to develop steadily. The first Bishop, Arthur Wellesley Pain, was enthroned in St. Paul's Pro- Cathedral, Sale, on 10th July, 1902, and diocesan work began. The first Assembly of Clergy and Laity was convened in 1902, and this became a Diocesan Synod in 1905. The present Bishop is the fifth occupant of the See, Sale. A Girls' Grammar School, and hostel§ for secondary school boys and girls was established at Sale, and the Dean of Sale. Dr. Alexander, has the distinction of being one of the few men to have gained the degree of Doctor of Theology. The developmental work of Bishops Green and Maxwell-Gumbleton of Ballarat, in tl1e Mallee district, prepared the area for the creation of a new diocese. Irrigation on the Murray produced large fruit-growing areas and the rise of Mildura drew many settlers to the area . Thus. in 1926, further subdivisions of the Dioceses of Ballarat and Bendigo were joined to form the Diocese of St. Arnaud. Other Victorian ,dioceses offered financial help and under Rt . Rev. Melville Charles James, formerly Archdeacon of Ballarat, the diocese was estab- lished. Bishop James took ·varticular interest in providing clergy to minister to returned soldiers in the orchard settlement along the Murray but he took care not to neglect the rest of his diocese. Bv 1950, and his retirement, there were 63 churchs in the diocese staffed by 21 clergy, assisted by 41 lay readers . The second Bishop, Rt. Rev. Allan Ernest Winter, is still in office. The Anglican Church in Australia was begun by the early Chaplains, working under great hardships , and with true pioneer spirit. Long distances , primitive conditio1;1s and absence of clerical companionshio did not daunt them . "We who have followed them have much to thank God for, and a church begun in such a spirit ·must not be allowed to fail in its tasks in the twentieth century. "May God grant that , as we move forward into the atomic age, the Church · in Australia will play its part in snreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ and may its motto be 'We will maintain unflinching, one Church, one faith , one Lord'."

Original Contributions

THE CITY MOUSE ! What a vast chasm lies between the anticipation of an event and the realization of it ! This I learnt when I visited a small station property in the west. For weeks I had lain in bed imagining my arrival at the homestead along a large circular driveway surrounded by ga:dens, to the front of the beautiful old home with pillars and formidable verandahs. My imagination took me into a large entrance hall in which hung portraits of pioneer ancestors. Somehow I. expect~d to sleep in a room with a four poster bed and he~vy period furmture. The kitchen I visualised as tremendous, with a long, narrow table in the centre. This is where I dreamed of the wholesome smell of food that permeated the kitchen. Then there was the riding I had so looked forward to . Even the thought of it exhilarated me. Dropping into the saddle -:- a slight touch with my knee and away - away over the hills, cleverly clearing loos and bending to miss tree branches. Then on my return to b; 'congratulated on my splendid horsemanship. "A natural horsewoman you are," the host would say, "you're just wasted in the city." No doubt he had his eye on me for one of his five sons. At the Royal National Show I had seen these h~nds~me, tanned wide-brimmed hatted country boys. Now my girl friend who h~d invited me to the property had five older brothers and I pictured them as being as tall and good-looking as she was. Pigs have always fascinated me at the show, shiny pink pigs with shiny pink snouts. And dogs - I love dogs. Food, too, I enjoy, something different from city food like first break ?f the fresh wheat covered with cream and followed by a newly-laid eog or two. Country- killed meat with fresh garden vegetables ~ oh yes, the thought of it excited my eager gastric juices. Alas ! my dream bubble burst. At twelve noon on a January day I was called for at a country station. In a Land Rover we drove for miles and miles and miles over a straight road with flat red plains each side. Seldom did we see a tree.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Australian Encyclopaedia, Volume 2. A Short History of the Australian Church-E. C. Rowland. The Diocese of Newcastle-A. P. Elkin. The Founding of the See of Goulburn-J. T. R. Border.

A Century of the English Church in New South Wales-E. C. Rowland. History of the Church of England in Tasmania-W. R . Barrett. The Church Chronicle, 1st February, 1955 . A Historical Sketch of the Diocese of North Queensland-Edited by Ross Fraser. The Availing Struggle-A Record of the planting and development of the Church of England in Western Australia , 1829 to 1947-C. L. M. Hawtry. A Statement of the Progress, Condition and Prospects of the Church, being the Substance of an Address of tile Bishop of Melbourne, 1855-Charles Perry . . Historical Studies of Australia and New Zealand, Volume 5, November, 1951- May, 1953.

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