Queensland Times,
Ipswich Herald and General Advertiser, Thursday 27 October 1904, p. 12
PROPOSED MEMORIAL TO
THE HON. JOHN DOUGLAS
The following letter forwarded by the Anglican Bishop of Carpentaria is
self-explanatory:-
"Sir,-At a meeting of the conference of the clergy and laity of the
Diocese of Carpentaria, held on the 28th of July, 1904, it was moved, seconded,
and carried unanimously, 'That the Hon. J. Douglas's long and valuable services
to the Church should be commemorated by a permanent memorial in the Cathedral,
the foundation stone of which lie laid, and where he received the holy
communion on the Sunday before his fatal illness. The Diocesan Council have
carefully considered the best and most permanent way of commemorating one so
universally respected and so deeply loved, and have resolved to attempt to
complete the south aisle of the Cathedral, and to fit it as a side chapel, to
be known as the Douglas Chapel, such a chapel being urgently needed for the
daily services, at which Mr. Douglas was a not infrequent attendant. It is
estimated' that the erection of a permanent concrete wall, in place of the
present temporary wooden structure, and other necessary alterations, including
a memorial tablet, will cost not less than £300. The council feel that to
attempt anything less would be unworthy of the memory of a man so widely known
and so unfeignedly honoured both in England and throughout Australia."
