The Inlander – a quarterly magazine
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The Inlanders – a documentary film

The Inlander - a quarterly magazine
The Inlander was the name of a quarterly magazine, first issued in December 1913, published by the Presbyterian Home Mission Board, with many issues were edited personally by John Flynn.

The Inlander : a quarterly magazine dealing with national interests from the outbacker’s point of view / edited by John Flynn.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/15782178?q&versionId=18527852

also refer to further links to The Inlander
John Flynn’s associates
http://atributetoaustralianchristians.wordpress.com/2010/10/31/john-flynns-associates/
and
John Clifford Peel (1894 – 1918) aviator, visionary   
http://atributetoaustralianchristians.wordpress.com/2013/02/10/john-clifford-peel/
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Kingsley ‘Skipper’ Partridge (1892 – 1976) patrol padre, outback worker
http://atributetoaustralianchristians.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/kingsley-skipper-partridge/
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Australian Inland Mission
http://atributetoaustralianchristians.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/australian-inland-mission/
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Queensland Rail – The Inlander
http://www.queenslandrail.com.au/RailServices/Travelnetwork/Pages/TheInlander.aspx
and
John Flynn Place Museum and Art Gallery in Cloncurry
http://atributetoaustralianchristians.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/frederick-heriot/

The Inlanders – the documentary film
The Inlanders was the name of a documentary made in 1949 by John Kingsford Smith for the Australian Inland Mission, follows patrolling minister Reverend KF ‘Skipper’ Partridge on his 8,690 kilometre journey into Australia’s remote communities to tend to the physical, spiritual and intellectual needs of the people.
http://aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/the-inlanders/clip1/
http://aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/the-inlanders/clip2/
http://aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/the-inlanders/clip3/

John Flynn (1880 – 1951) Presbyterian minister
http://atributetoaustralianchristians.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/john-flynn/

Other publications by John Flynn
Northern Territory and Central Australia: A call to the church
http://atributetoaustralianchristians.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/northern-territory-and-central-australia-a-call-to-the-church/
and
The Bushman’s Companion
http://atributetoaustralianchristians.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/the-bushmans-companion/

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In February 1823 William Ullathorne entered the English Benedictine school at Downside, where John Bede Polding was then headmaster. Next year, when Ullathorne sought to become a Benedictine, Polding was his novice-master and continued to dominate his spiritual and intellectual formation. Much under the influence of St Bernard of Clairvaux, Ullathorne wished to become a Trappist, but Polding held him to the English Benedictine Congregation, and after his ordination in 1831 turned his thoughts to the Australian mission in which Polding had long been interested, the English Benedictines having had responsibility for it on paper since June 1818. Opportunity for action came with the appointment of the liberal (Sir) Richard Bourke as governor of New South Wales in 1831 and the consecration in 1832 of W. P. Morris as vicar-apostolic of Mauritius, a mission embracing Australia. On 16 September 1832 Ullathorne sailed for Sydney, empowered to act there as Morris’s vicar-general. At 26 he had received under Polding and Browne the best education that the Catholic world could then give, a unique blend of patristic, scholastic and modern learning, which he never ceased to improve on. When equipping himself for Sydney his first concern had been to amass a library of five hundred volumes.

He looked even younger than he was. When he landed in Hobart Town the vicar-general, Philip Conolly, learnt of his appointment and petitioned the bishop for its revocation. Likewise in Sydney, where he arrived in February 1833, John Joseph Therry was at first patronizing. Ullathorne, however, took control without any hesitation, leaning much on the advice of John McEncroe, for Therry commanded a party at odds both with other priests in the colony and with the government. Governor Bourke, McEncroe and the leading Catholic laymen were all relieved to have Ullathorne’s clear business head in charge. By July the Legislative Council made grants for the appointment of four new chaplains, the completion of three unfinished churches, and £800 a year for schools and schoolteachers. By Christmas St Mary’s was in use and Ullathorne had visited the Hunter River and Bathurst; next year he visited Norfolk Island and the Illawarra district. Meanwhile Bourke had drafted proposals for the complete equality in the colony of the Anglican, Presbyterian and Catholic churches, and had also recommended that Ullathorne’s stipend be doubled, enabling the vicar-general to rent a large house near the city.

Encouraged by such progress, Ullathorne followed Commissioner Roger Therry and McEncroe in strongly urging the appointment of a bishop resident in Sydney, and in May 1834 Propaganda issued the brief of Polding’s appointment as vicar-apostolic for New South Wales. Polding arrived in Sydney in September 1835 with one priest, three ecclesiastical students and a catechist, all paid by the government. Ullathorne, who had suspended the Windsor priest and was serving both Windsor and Parramatta himself from Sydney, now became parish priest of Parramatta, but rode to Sydney twice a week to conduct the bishop’s business with the government. Thus he freed Polding for an extraordinarily intense mission among the incoming convicts, which provided a powerful case for further government support of Catholic chaplains to work in the interior and on Norfolk Island. During the controversy over the 1836 Church Act and Bourke’s education proposals, Ullathorne found himself with McEncroe in opposition to the governor, Polding and John Hubert Plunkett, who all favoured the introduction of Stanley’s Irish school system to the colony. However, Polding expressed his unqualified confidence in Ullathorne and decided to send him to Europe for more priests and schoolteachers and more money. Ullathorne accompanied Polding to Hobart and sailed thence to England, after another visit to Norfolk Island.

He was away for over two years entirely in the service of the Australian mission. In England he could recruit only one priest, C. Lovat, whose arrival in 1837 encouraged Polding to open a seminary. Ullathorne was summoned by Cardinal Weld to Rome, where he arrived in March, just before the cardinal’s death. In Rome, without patronage and conspicuously young, he spent his best energies on preparing a report for the Sacred Congregation De Propaganda Fide, which won him the warm approval of Gregory XVI and a doctorate of divinity. He recruited James Goold, O.S.A., later bishop of Melbourne, and in June obtained a rescript authorizing the establishment of an independent Benedictine monastery in New South Wales.

Returning to England, he persuaded the Colonial Office to allow passage money of £40 each for ten schoolteachers, whom he recruited from all parts of the British Isles. He published a substantial pamphlet, The Catholic Mission in Australasia (London, 1837), and by preaching throughout Lancashire raised £1500 for the mission. The pamphlet quickly ran into six editions, and 80,000 copies were distributed in French, German, Dutch and Italian. In Liverpool he recruited an Irish priest, Francis Murphy, later bishop of Adelaide, and with his help proceeded to recruit seven priests, two ecclesiastical students and five Sisters of Charity in Ireland; all except the nuns reached Sydney before Ullathorne. A benefactor in Vienna gave £1250 and the Lyons Society 16,000 francs toward their passages and the government gave £150 each for the priests, though the nuns refused all government assistance. On 8 and 12 February 1838 Ullathorne gave evidence to the Molesworth committee on transportation to the effect that the system had failed altogether as a means of reformation of convicts. The Molesworth evidence was a special ordeal for him, because of his fear of accidentally revealing confessional secrets; he brushed with the chairman in private and spoke to the committee with nervous rapidity; only his concern for the mission carried him through. To convey his convictions about transportation at a popular level he had, while in Ireland for a fortnight during 1837, undertaken to write a pamphlet on The Horrors of Transportation Briefly Unfolded to the People; it was published next year in Dublin and Birmingham. He embarked on 17 August with three priests, four students and five nuns, and the party arrived in Sydney on 31 December 1838. He had now added fifteen clergy to the mission.

Ullathorne resumed his duties in Parramatta, but now he had the nuns to assist him in the Orphan School and the Female Factory, which were the most arduous parts of his work. As before, he became responsible for the bishop’s business with government but he had returned from Europe very weary and now had to face abuse from all who favoured the continuance of transportation and those who were alarmed at the sudden emergence of Catholicism as a power in the colony. Even Plunkett, the only Catholic on the Legislative Council, disowned Ullathorne’s vehemence on the convict question; his fellow clergy did not defend him for fear of drawing the fire on themselves and some of them, notably F. Murphy, joined Ullathorne’s critics. For six months he was subjected almost daily to abuse in the press but was content thus to draw fire from the bishop. The campaign led immediately to the launching of a Catholic newspaper, the Australasian Chronicle, in August 1839, under one of Ullathorne’s schoolmaster recruits, William Duncan.

By this time Ullathorne had determined to leave Australia. His failure to enlist English priests in 1837-38, his success in Ireland, and the warm friendships he then formed wlth several Irish prelates convinced him that ecclesiastically Australia must become a colony of Ireland, and could never be, as he said, ‘Benedictinized’. When he first proposed to leave Polding countered by giving him charge of the infant seminary at Sydney and of the entire administration of the diocese. Nevertheless on 3 December 1839 Ullathorne sent in his formal resignation to Polding and Governor Sir George Gipps. Then all parties temporized; 1840 was to be Ullathorne’s most active year in Australia, teaching at the seminary, lecturing publicly on the Catholic religion, and administering the diocese while the bishop travelled its length and breadth founding a dozen new churches and schools. In May Ullathorne went to Adelaide, interviewed the governor and assembled the Catholics. On 25 August at the laying of the foundation stone of St Patrick’s Church, Sydney, Ullathorne organized a procession, the largest public demonstration the city had witnessed, in order to show the governor the numbers and unity of the Catholic body, and to protest against Gipps’s education proposals. But in the long address he had to discourage his flock, which was mainly Irish, from giving the demonstration a nationalistic character. Later that year he published his most substantial and strongly worded colonial publication, A Reply to Judge Burton, of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, on ‘The State of Religion’ in the Colony (Sydney, 1840). In it he denounced the judge’s attack on Catholic motives and practices, and gave a fine tribute to C. Lovat, a priest with whom he had had serious personal differences.

Since Polding was sailing for Europe in the mission’s interest Ullathorne accompanied him on 15 November 1840 chiefly, he declared, to ensure that further sees were set up in Australia and that he himself should not occupy any of them. The government declined to pay his salary during a second long absence, so in 1841 Polding terminated his appointment to Sydney without giving him any personal explanation. Ullathorne took over the parish of Coventry, and published his colonial sermons.
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ullathorne-william-bernard-2750

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bernard_Ullathorne

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Jeremiah O’Flynn sailed in the Duke of Wellington and arrived at Sydney on 9 November 1817. He told Governor Lachlan Macquarie (pictured) that he had permission to
serve as a priest in the colony, but since he had no proof Macquarie ordered him to leave in the same ship, feeling that he might incite the lower orders of Catholics to resist the government.

By promising not to carry out his functions as a priest O’Flynn persuaded the governor to allow him to remain until he heard from London. He may have genuinely believed that his mission would be officially sanctioned, but meanwhile he did not keep his pledge, for he performed many baptisms and marriages as well as celebrating Mass secretly in private homes.

Macquarie had suspected O’Flynn’s story, and when he began to hear of many converts being made to Catholicism and when the Catholic soldiers of the 48th Regiment petitioned that O’Flynn be allowed to stay, Macquarie again ordered him to leave, arrested him and placed him forcibly in the David Shaw. He sailed on 20 May 1818, though four hundred free Catholics and some leading Protestants petitioned Macquarie to allow O’Flynn to remain. When he reached London in November he again appealed to Bathurst for permission to go to New South Wales, but was again refused.

Simple but impulsive, Jeremiah O’Flynn managed to conflict with authority wherever he went, yet his clash with the Colonial Office helped to publicize the needs of Catholics in New South Wales and to influence the British government in 1820 in allowing the first official Roman Catholic missionaries to be sent to Australia.
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/oflynn-jeremiah-francis-2521

http://www.catholicenquiry.com/about-cec-items/the-journey-of-the-catholic-church-in-australia.html

Reverend Jeremiah O’Flynn and Governor Macquarie
http://www.historyservices.com.au/resource_material_Roman_Catholic_Church_OFlynn.htm

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In 1908 James McColl was a senator in the Federal Parliament when in October and November first the House of Representatives and then the Senate voted on where the federal capital city should be built. In the House Yass/Canberra won by a wombat’s whisker from Dalgety. Then this decision went to the Senate for ratification or for ambush.

There were several days of hyperbole-packed debate. Colourful things were said for and against Canberra and Dalgety.

In his speech Senator McColl, as a Victorian senator expected to be robotically pro-Dalgety, scoffed at it. He thought the best possible site was Tumut but that Canberra, too, would be terrific.

“I took a trip last week and had an opportunity of seeing the Dalgety and Canberra sites. At Dalgety I learnt that winter there lasts more than six months … But we want an Australian, not a Siberian capital. I believe that the selection of Dalgety for the federal capital of Australia would be a blunder that would be worse than a crime … I say this with regret, because, as a Victorian, I should like to vote for Dalgety. It would be in my political interest to do so. But I cannot conscientiously do so and consider myself an honest man.

James McColl’s daughter, Sadie Hogg remembers her father as ”quite a quiet man, but pretty strict”. She remembers his ”soft voice”, with which he loved to sing. He was a cricket fanatic and used to take her Test matches (to all five days!) at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with Sadie’s mum showing up every day with their lunch. He was a Presbyterian and taught Sunday school at St Andrew’s in Bendigo (pictured) for 55 years. He’d been a strong federationist and a member of Federal Parliament from the very start until his defeat at the federal election of 1914 and it’s Sadie Hogg’s belief that his defeat was because he wasn’t forgiven in Victoria for voting for Canberra.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/vote-that-saved-canberra-20130303-2fegi.html

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The aircraft was used for general aviation until 1928 when it was refurbished for use as the first air ambulance for the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) – as can be seen by the small Maltese Cross under the pilot’s cockpit. Upon starting service under contract for the AIM, The Rev John Flynn, the famous Flying Doctor, renamed it ‘Victory’.
http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac1/austu/VH-UER.html

The Royal Flying doctor history
In 1917, John Flynn received an inspirational letter from Lieutenant Clifford Peel, a Victorian medical student with an interest in aviation. The young airman and war hero suggested the use of aviation to bring medical help to the Outback. Shot down in France, he died at just 24 years of age and never knew that his letter became a blueprint for the creation of the Flying Doctor Service.

For the next ten years, Flynn campaigned for an aerial medical service. His vision was to provide a ‘mantle of safety’ for the people of the bush, and his vision became a reality when his long time supporter, H V McKay, left a large bequest for ‘an aerial experiment’ which enabled Flynn to get the Flying Doctor Service airborne.

At this time, Flynn also met Hudson Fysh, a founder of QANTAS. In 1927, QANTAS and the Aerial Medical Service signed an agreement to operate an aerial ambulance from Cloncurry, Queensland.

When the first pilot took off from Cloncurry on 17 May 1928, he was flying a single engine, timber and fabric bi-plane named ‘Victory’ (leased by QANTAS for two shillings per mile flown). He had with him the very first of our flying doctors, Dr Kenyon St Vincent Welch.

This DeHavilland could carry a pilot and four passengers at a cruising speed of eighty miles per hour for a range of 500 to 600 miles. In those days, not much territory was charted, and so pilots were forced to navigate by river beds, fences, telegraph lines and other familiar landmarks. Despite these obstacles, in its inaugural year, the Aerial Medical Service (which changed its name to the Flying Doctor Service in 1942 and the Royal Flying Doctor Service in 1955) flew 50 flights to 26 destinations and treated 225 patients. Flynn’s dream had become a reality.
http://www.flyingdoctor.org.au/About-Us/Our-History/The-John-Flynn-Story/


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People involved with this aircraft VH-UER

John Flynn (1880 – 1951) Presbyterian minister
http://atributetoaustralianchristians.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/john-flynn/

Hugh Victor (HV) McKay (1865 – 1926) manufacturer  
http://atributetoaustralianchristians.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/hugh-victor-mckay/

John Clifford Peel (1894 – 1918) aviator, visionary  http://atributetoaustralianchristians.wordpress.com/2013/02/10/john-clifford-peel/

J Atcheson Spalding ( – 1970) flying doctor
http://atributetoaustralianchristians.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/j-atcheson-spalding/

Kenyon St. Vincent Welch (1884 – 1942) first flying doctor
http://atributetoaustralianchristians.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/kenyon-st-vincent-welch/

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Robert Bruce Plowman was born in Melbourne in 1886. He was educated at the South Melbourne State School until the age of 12 and later at Scotch College. His first job was with Patterson, Laing and Bruce in Melbourne.

Between 1912 and 1917 he worked as a volunteer for John Flynn of the Australian Inland Mission. He was ordained for the purposes of the Presbyterian Church and licensed to baptise, marry and bury. Plowman worked as itinerant minister in South Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory, including Beltana, Birdsville and Oodnadatta.

In 1918, following his return to Melbourne, Plowman married Jean Lillian Sinclair. They first lived in Queenstown, Tasmania, and in 1922 returned to Victoria. They lived in Bendigo for many years, where Plowman worked for a newsagent, a real estate business and an architect. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church. After the death of his wife in 1961, he lived with family members. He died in Melbourne in 1966.

Plowman was in poor health for much of his life and it was while recovering from illness that he started to write novels based on his experiences in Central Australia. His published works include The man from Oodnadata (1933), Camel pads (1933), The boundary rider (1935) and Larapinta (1939).
http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms1941

Image source :  http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/153922704?q&versionId=167828242

Refer also:
http://atributetoaustralianchristians.wordpress.com/2010/10/31/john-flynns-associates/

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John Flynn (1880-1951) was born at Moliagul, Victoria, and was educated at government primary schools and the University High School in Melbourne. He became a pupil-teacher in the Education Department and developed a strong interest in photography. In 1903 he became a home missionary of the Presbyterian Church and served at Beech Forest in the Otway Ranges and Buchan in Gippsland. In 1907 he began studies at the Presbyterian Theological Hall in Melbourne and he was ordained as a minister in Adelaide in 1911. In the same year he joined the Smith of Dunesk Mission in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. In 1912 he compiled a detailed report on the spiritual condition of the people, both Indigenous and European, of the Northern Territory and Central Australia. The General Assembly of Australia responded by establishing the Australian Inland Mission, with Flynn as Superintendent.

The Australian Inland Mission, which was responsible for the Northern Territory and the remote parts of South Australia, Western Australia and Queensland, began with one padre (Bruce Plowman), a nursing sister and a nursing hostel at Oodnadatta. In 1913 Flynn launched the illustrated magazine The Inlander. By 1918 he had established patrols at Oodnadatta, Port Hedland, Broome, Pine Creek and Cloncurry and nursing sisters at Oodnadatta, Port Hedland, Halls Creek, Maranboy and Alice Springs. In 1926 he persuaded Alfred Traeger to come to Alice Springs and develop the pedal radio. A radio station was installed at the Presbyterian Church at Cloncurry and pedal sets placed at homesteads and missions. In 1929 the Aerial Medical Service was established, operating from Cloncurry, and it was an instant success. It was transferred to the Australian Aerial Medical Service (later the Flying Doctor Service) in 1933.

In 1933 Flynn was made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) and he was Moderator-General of the Presbyterian Church in 1939-42. He remained Superintendent of the AIM and in his last years he established a retirement home in Alice Springs and a holiday camp for Outback children in Adelaide. Following Flynn’s death in 1951, Fred McKay, who had been a patrol padre in the 1930s, was appointed Superintendent. Under his leadership, the AIM became a very large organisation, its influence extending to the new mining regions in the far north and west and even to Papua New Guinea. The John Flynn Memorial Church was opened in Alice Springs in 1956. McKay retired in 1974 and was succeeded by Max Griffiths.
http://www.nla.gov.au/selected-library-collections/australian-inland-mission

Reverend John Flynn and the Australian Inland Mission
http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/fact-sheets/fs159.aspx

John Flynn
http://atributetoaustralianchristians.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/john-flynn/

John Flynn’s associates
http://atributetoaustralianchristians.wordpress.com/2010/10/31/john-flynns-associates/

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As the introduction Flynn wrote:

Complete document
http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/doview/nla.aus-vn4927916-p.pdf  (20 MBs)

When Flynn’s report, entitled Northern Territory and Central Australia – A Call to the Church, was presented to the Presbyterian Church, it responded promptly by announcing the formation of the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) and appointing Flynn as superintendent.
http://www.outbackmag.com.au/stories/article-view?950

refer also
http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/fact-sheets/fs159.aspx

Another ‘Flynn document’, The Bushman’s Companion, published in 1910
http://atributetoaustralianchristians.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/the-bushmans-companion/

Australian Inland Mission http://atributetoaustralianchristians.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/australian-inland-mission/
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Heroism may he donned as enthusiasm sufficient in its intensity to impel man or woman to an extraordinary effort in tho accomplishment of a great purpose.

The Rev. F. L. Heriot, of the Australian Inland Mission, may therefore bo fairly described as a hero, and by his side thcro stands another, Mb wife, who specially desirves the designation. This pair ot pillant young Victorians and their in- fant have just arrived In Brisbane on route to Cloncurry, where Mr. Heriot will take over the spiritual charge of the Gulf country, with the copper centre as his headquarters, the area constituting a ¡parish greater in extent than the .whole I of too Southern State wherein both were I bom. There must have been something .very fascinating to the young clergyman and his wife In the thought of stepping from a small Melbourne suburban charge into this vast and wondcrlul territory, but the compelling factor, no doubt, was a realisation of the great field It ottered to- God’s work, and this eiulto overcame any consideration of tho personal dis- comforts and social deprivations which two years in tho Gulf might mean.

Mr. Heriot) bns tlio right meaBuro of enthusiasm without doubt; it flashes from his dark eyes and lights up his interest-ing face Bs ho talkB of the work of tho Inland Mission. “Seo here,” he said, tak-ing out a small map of the continent of , Australia. “Here aro the portions of the States of Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland which aro under the caro ot tho Presbyterian Churches of each respective State. Hero is what the Australian Inland Mission bas to look after.” With a comprehensive swcop of the hand Mr. Heriot Indicated what probably amounts to 95 per cent, of Western Australia, the whole of tho Northern Territory, and the l great west and north of Quinnsland, taking in all tho Diamantina, Gulf, and Capo York country. Continuing, ho said: “The
Australian Inland Mission is aiming at placing l8 ordained ministers in various parta of tho great territory which is let to their care, besides establishing medical hostels at points where they seem most urgentlv nefdod. We have ministers at Port Darwin, Broome, and Port Hedland in Western Australia, two of them married men, accompanied by their wives.

Wo havo a layman working at Alice Springs, the centre of Australia, and with the Congrogationalists and Methodists we share In the maintenance of a man on the Transcontinental railway ‘ino. We have medical hostels at Port Hedland and Oodnadatta, and another is being opened at Alice Springs, each under the caro of a deaconess, who is a nurse qualified in all kinds of nursing.

“Mv appointment to Cloncurry was the noxt step,” Mr. Heriot continued in response to further eiucstions, “but there arc many other steps to take, There are a number of places of importance through- out the A.I.M. territory that want our attootion as soon as possible. There aro already preaching places at Cloncurry and Friezland, where I will operate. Consideration is boing given to the matter of working the outlying stations from these points by motor car. Later there will bo a man nPPolnW to take churgo of tho contre of population about Cloncurry, leaving me free to work the outlying nrea up to tho Gulf. It is hoped subsequently to havo two of us working this outlying area.”

In the establiFhmcnt of medical hostels Mr. Heriot thinks the Presbyterian Church is doing a national work, relieving sickness and stress in districts where tho Governments have not as yet established proper hospitals, and where the population has not warranted medicalmon entering into practice. It is, Indeed, pioneering work amongst the pioneers, and work of a splendid character. When Mr. Heriot volunlecrcd for the work at Cloncurry he was in charge of tile parish of Thornbury, near Northcote. Ho was bom at Caulfic’el, and lind completed 10 years service ,’or the Church when he volunteered for inland mission work. Last night, in St. Andrew’s Church, Creek street, he was given a public welcome, and to-day he will leave by the steamer Cooma for Townsville, on route to Cloncurry.

Source : http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/20064458  National Library of Australia Trove digitised Newspaper  - further editing of the scanned document is required.
also
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/20076044

John Flynn’s associates
Fredrick Heriot – First Minister to be appointed by Reverend John Flynn to Cloncurry area, 1915; first Member of Australian Inland Mission to use car for patrol work; set foundations for Australian Inland Mission work in Gulf in far western areas of Queensland where later the original experiment of flying doctor work and pedal radio communication were carried out.
http://atributetoaustralianchristians.wordpress.com/2010/10/31/john-flynns-associates/

Above image  John Flynn Place Museum and Art Gallery in Cloncurry
http://australia.shopsafe.com.au/queensland_attractions/cloncurry_area_attractions/cloncurry/john_flynn_place_museum_and_art_gallery-galleries_museums_collections.htm

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James Dixon (1758-1840), Roman Catholic priest, was born at Castlebridge, County Wexford, Ireland, into a family in comfortable circumstances. He was educated by a neighbouring parish priest and later at Salamanca and Louvain, where he completed his course in 1784 and became curate at Crossabeg parish, near Wexford. There he was arrested in 1798 under suspicion of taking part in the Irish rebellion and of having commanded a company of rebels at Tubberneering. He was tried by court martial and convicted on shaky evidence. According to Dr Caulfield, bishop of Ferns, he was probably mistaken for his brother Nicholas, who took an active part in the rebellion. He was found guilty and sentenced to death, but was reprieved conditional on his being transported for life.

Dixon arrived in New South Wales in the Friendship on 16 January 1800. He remained in Sydney, where his conduct satisfied the authorities. On 19 April 1803 Governor Philip Gidley King, influenced by the uneasiness of the Irish at not being able to practise their religion, granted him conditional emancipation and permission to exercise his duties as a priest, as the secretary of state, probably on the representation of the former governor, John Hunter, had suggested. Dixon was obliged to take the oaths of allegiance and abjuration, but was allowed to minister as priest as long as he and his congregation strictly obeyed the governor’s orders. The Holy See recognized the advantage to the Catholic convicts of this permission. At the petition of Father James McCormack, guardian of St Isidore’s in Rome, Propaganda forwarded a faculty to him, as well as to Fathers Peter O’Neil and James Harold, neither of whom was in New South Wales when it arrived, and made him prefect apostolic of New Holland, the first Catholic ecclesiastical appointment in Australia.
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dixon-james-1980
also
http://www.catholicweekly.com.au/03/may/11/03.html

Reverend James Dixon
Reverend James Dixon was tried and sentenced to death for suspected complicity in the Irish rebellion. The sentence was commuted to transportation for life. He arrived at Sydney on the Friendship on 16 January 1800. In a Despatch dated 29 August 1802, Lord Hobart in England authorised Governor King to employ Dixon in the exercise of his clerical duties, provided his conduct in the Colony had been satisfactory. On 19 April 1803 he was granted a Conditional Pardon.
http://www.historyservices.com.au/resource_material_Roman_Catholic_Church_Convict_Priests.htm

Australia’s first Catholic Mass, 15 May 1803
http://atributetoaustralianchristians.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/australias-first-catholic-mass-15-may-1803/

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