George LAUNDER (1838-1914) - Warren and Ford Family History

Six of us went up in a bullock wagon and it took us a fortnight to go there.  On the way up we met returning parties who said, “Don’t go up, it’s a duffer.”

The narrowness of Oxley Road was not really due to the subdivider, in this case, probably John Collings, who allowed for a road to reach large proportions of his subdivision of Crown portion 64 from about 1854.

In January 1861, there was a complaint that because George Launder (who lived on the north side) would not double the width of Oxley Road, Robert Hepburn refused to dedicate land to become a public Highway at all.

And so Oxley Road stayed narrow until his property at the east end was subdivided and a new wide Oxley Road provided access to the new houses.

“What May Happen to a Man in Queensland”

Sir, as no doubt the case of Callcott versus Launder will appear in your issue of tomorrow, I crave your indulgence of a small space in your valuable column to make a few remarks upon it.  The prosecutor brought forward a great deal of one-sided evidence.  But with all this and what words his lawyer managed to place in the mouths of his witnesses, he was unable to prove his case.

On my witness being called (a voluntary one) he swore distinctly that Callcott struck the first blow and also that he saw the whole of the squabble.  On the magistrates giving their decision, I was astonished – as were most of the people in court – to find that the magistrates so far forget their position (namely, to administer even-handed justice between all parties coming before them) as to lean to the side of the prosecutor and inflict a fine.

I have no doubt that such cases as the above will be common as long as we have such class of honorary J.P.’s on the roll, whose qualifications consist in the amount of political services rendered.  If such a case is allowed to pass into law, none will be safe from the attacks of any blackguard.  Till such times as we have a regular staff of paid magistrates – men of honour, ability and standing, also well versed in the laws – such cases will not be uncommon, and the liberty of any British subject will not be worth an hour’s purchase.  If justice is to be had in Queensland, I will not allow the matter to drop.

Expressing my regret at having to trouble on such a subject, I leg leave to subscribe myself,

Yours obediently, George Launder.

RIFLE MATCH

A match took place at the Rifle Butts on Saturday last between ten members of the Volunteer Artillery and the same number of the Volunteer Rifles.  The weather was everything that could be wished and there cannot be the slightest doubt but that the members of the rival corps, animated by a very laudable esprit de corps shot their best.

There were more spectators present than perhaps might have been expected from the somewhat private nature of the match.  Sergeant-Major Hawkes officiated as referee and umpire, the scorers being Lieutenant Fewings for the Rifles and Gunner Geary for the Artillery.  From the subjoined score it will be perceived that Rifles beat their opponents by 52 points.

The Rifles scored as follows –

200           300           400           Total

Yards        Yards       Yards

Captain Drury                            13              4                9               26

Lieutenant Petrie                       10              6                3               19

Sergeant Munce                         8               9                8               25

Sergeant Stack                           8               6                3              17

Corporal Wright                         10              8                5               23

Private Smith                             14             11              10              35

Private Hall                                 9               8               10              27

Private Launder                          2               5                2                 9

Private Towel                             10              7               11              18

Private Payton                          12              8               12              32

                                                96             72              73             241

“The Courier” newspaper, Brisbane, Monday, November 1863

LAUNDER – WALKER

On the 30th September at St. John’s Church by the Rev. John Tomlinson, by special licence, George, the second son of the late George Launder, Esq., of Melbourne, Victoria, builder, to Jane, the third daughter of Captain James Walker, county of Donegal.

“The Brisbane Courier”, October 5, 1864

“That the tender of George Launder for £321/3/-d.  be not accepted, on the grounds, firstly, that there is no urgent necessity for a Shire Hall at present.  Secondly, that the crossroads require the immediate attention of the Council in constructing and repairing same and various works in channelling of an expensive nature also require urgent attention, which, if neglected now, will entail additional expense hereafter upon the shire.  Thirdly, that funds are not now available for the erection of the hall.  And, fourthly, that the plans have not been properly examined and approved by this Council”.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31

VALUABLE FREEHOLD PROPERTIES IN HAWTHORN

In the Insolvent Estate of George Launder, of Hawthorn

For Positive and Unreserved Sale by Order of the Official Assignee

Comprising –

Magnificent Block of Business and Villa Building Ground at Hawthorn on Burwood or Min Road Near the Town Hall, etc.

Having a frontage of 878 ft by a depth of 495 ft,

Being in the estate of Mr. George Launder

Terms - Cash

“The Governor on advice of the Executive Council has dispensed with the services of Corporal George Launder, Corps of Volunteer Engineers. "

Bairnsdale

February 17th, 1879

Captain Standish,

Dear Sir

As I believe that should the Kelly’s succeed in returning to their old haunts, the next raid they would make would be in this direction, I would suggest that a few breech-loading rifles, etc. be sent here for distribution amongst those who would volunteer to use them.  

Should occasion arise to do so, having served in the Volunteers for about Seventeen years and being a fair marksman, coupled with some experience in tracking bushrangers in Queensland, I would be happy to place my services at your disposal in teaching the Police or others in the use of the rifle, etc.

I trust that the capture of the ruffians will soon be accomplished at the same time believing that no steps should be left untried for so desirable an end, I trust will be a sufficient excuse for thus troubling you on the subject

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Yours truly,

George Launder

“……….. at a recent Intercolonial Exhibition in Melbourne, Mr. George Launder exhibited a hop plant in full bloom, the same being highly spoken of by the Melbourne press as an interesting exhibit…..”

BAIRNSDALE RIFLE CLUB

Yesterday the new range of this club, situate on a reserve granted them by the Government at Picnic Point, was opened, there being a very good attendance of members on the occasion.  Mr. J. Calvern, the President of the Shire, opened the range at 200 yards and the first shot he fired being a bull’s eye, he was generally applauded and complimented on the success of his first effort.

The range had been prepared by Mr. George Launder and it is evident that gentleman has been very hard at work indeed.  He has had formed a footpath along the bank leading to the range and has displayed great tact and judgement in lying out the ground.  There are two targets fixed, both being regulation targets, the one for the long range being iron and the other a novelty in its way, being a wooden framework covered with canvas.  It affords the greatest facilities for marking, for after a shot has been fired, by pullies the target draws down and the scoring board descends, the score being displayed by a large figure recording the value of the shot, and when the target is again placed in position there is a small disc indicating the exact place where the bullet hit the target.

The various ranges are also well arranged, firing taking place at one point, but at separate targets for the 200 and 500 yards and likewise the same arrangement for 300 and 600 yards.

The greatest credit is due to Mr. Launder and we feel sure his services to the club will be fully appreciated.

“The Bairnsdale Advertiser & Tambo & Omeo Chronicle” newspaper, October 30, 1884

THE WILD DEER PEST

TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE

Sir, — Many thanks for your kind notice of my letter to the Custom House authorities. I trust that the commissioner will at once take action in the matter. Let him send an officer up to report, or, what would be better, let him leave his beloved Fitzroy one of these fine autumn mornings, walk down Johnston Street, cross the bridge, thence through Kew, Doncaster and Warrandyte, passing Parson's Gully, then over Jumping Creek, and l mile due east from that water-course be will arrive at Mr. Hartley's newly formed orchard. He will then be able to form some idea of the destruction deer has made. A glance around will show him 300 standard fruit trees destroyed, besides over 500 young bedded stock for next season's planting, and not a green leaf to be seen.

After his inspection, if he does not take steps to destroy the pest and compensate the owner, he will deserve to walk back again, footsore and hungry, a sadder and, let us hope, a wiser man.

Mr. Best is the bead of two departments. Lands and Customs. While the officers of the former have worked earnestly and energetically to place the people on the lands, the latter have been protecting animals to destroy the fruits of the settlers' labour. The Custom House authorities say they sympathise with you, but if you hint at taking steps to protect yourself you are told the law will not allow you.

Yours, George Launder, Croydon, 27th March.

In the olden times it was a terrible crime to kill a deer belonging to the lord of the manor, but it is a little astonishing to find that in this democratic colony of Victoria (writes the Age of Monday) we have a law preserving deer from destruction, and that no matter what damage they do to crops and gardens not a hair of their sacred bodies may be touched.   We have also reversed the conditions of the old country, for whereas men were done to death for killing a stag which was private property, here it is permitted to hunt or shoot private deer, but deer which run wild in the country are protected by the law of the land.

This grievance has been again brought under the notice of the Customs authorities. About two years ago complaints were made as to the damage done by deer at Phillip Island, and it was the intention of the then Minister to introduce a Bill amending the Game and Fisheries Act, as required, to permit the killing of these animals, but it has never got any farther.

Mr George Launder, of Croydon, has now written drawing attention to the destruction caused by a herd of deer running wild in that district, and he asks that steps be taken to get rid of them.  He has lost nearly 200 apple trees, while other losses have been experienced by his neighbours. Mr. Launder forcibly comments on the hardship of losing the orchards, after the people have, at great labour and expense, provided fencing against hares and rabbits, and then to have the orchards ruined by the law-protected deer, which jump the fences and nibble at the branches and strip off the bark.  It is certainly a senseless state of the Jaw that while the fish and game fowl and native birds are all too insufficiently protected on the one hand, and settlers are compelled to destroy rabbits and wallaby on the other, the deer may raid a man's garden and he dare not protect himself.

South Australian Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1895), Saturday 6 April 1895, page 15

THE PROPOSED NEW TOWN HALL AT HAWTHORN

Sir,

We are really to have a new town hall in our picturesque and salubrious suburb.  Various drawings have been submitted at the invitation of the town council and three prizes awarded according to the private tastes and inclinations of that august body, and ratepayers at large are now graciously permitted to view their selections and are as a matter of course, expected to approve and in due time will most assuredly be called upon to pay the piper.

Assuming however, that these three designs are open to impartial criticism on their merits, it appears to me that as far as a town hall is concerned, the third design should have been placed first, being within the pecuniary limit.  No doubt, the prize design may be suitable enough for many purposes.  As a penitentiary, a jam factory, a steam laundry, a blind asylum, or a temperance hotel, its cold solidity and plain outline would be eminently in keeping, but as a town hall I should say the third design is infinitely superior in its conception, with beauty of outline and graceful proportions at once apparent.  Building confraternities in town and borough councils may be experienced in the simple architecture necessary for the erection of a dozen cottages upon a piece of ground large enough to hold two, but as town halls are not built every day in the week, would it not be more desirable to submit the designs to a committee of ratepayers and thus obtain a more general expression of opinion.

Yours, etc. GEORGE S. PRESSEY, Hawthorn, July 30

“The Argus” newspaper, August 3, 1887

Supreme Court of Colony of Victoria – Notice is hereby given by the Sheriff of the Central Bailiwick requiring him to levy certain monies of the real and personal estate of George Launder will cause at the Four Courts Hotel, William Street, Melbourne.

Wednesday, October 8

In the Supreme Court of the Colony of Victoria

NOTICE is hereby given, that under and by virtue of certain process issued out of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Victoria, and directed by the sheriff of the Central Bailiwick, requiring him to levy certain moneys on the real and personal estate of George Launder, the said sheriff will on Wednesday, the 8th day of October, 1890, at the hour of eleven o’clock in the forenoon, CAUSE TO BE SOLD, at the Four Courts Hotel in William Street Melbourne (unless the said process shall have been previously satisfied, or the sheriff be otherwise stayed) -

All the right, title and interest (if any) of the said George Launder in and to all that piece of land delineated and coloured red on the map in the margin, being part of Crown Portion 71 at Gardiner, parish of Prahran, county of Bourke, together with a right of carriage-way over Childers and Victoria roads, shown on the plan of sub-division, numbered 712, lodged in the Office of Titles and particularly described in certificate of title entered in the register book, volume 1801, folio 360177.

N.B. – Terms, Cash on fall of the hammer.   No cheques taken.

EIGHT HOUR PIONEERS V. POLITICAL AGITATORS

Fellow Electors –

Many of the aspirants, under the assumed title of Workingmen’s representatives, are falsely posing as benefactors to the cause of labour, and by the sheet force of presumption and impudence, are striving to gull those for whose welfare they are so very solicitous.

George continued in this vein, systematically arguing his points strongly and effectively and concluded –

This institution was founded for the social and intellectual advancement of the industrial classes but is now diverted into a hotbed of socialism and anarchy.

Under these circumstances, we ask – Will the electors trust their sacred rights in the hands of a band of vandals, whose only object is to divert the Government of this country into ruin and chaos?

We earnestly advise every elector who has the welfare of his family and home at heart to give such verdict at the ballot box as shall scatter these knaves and restore peace, progress, and prosperity in the end.

The Governor in Council, with the advice of the Executive Council, has granted the Lilydale Shire Council a loan of £98/10s/-d. tor the purpose of supplying wire netting to a number of selectors in the parish of Warrandyte.

The list of applicants, together with the areas and amounts required is as follows:—George Launder, 52 acres, £15 ; Thomas Hewish, 14 acres, £10; William Martin, 10 acres, £5 10s; John W. Allen 26 acres, £5; Alfred M. Upton, 47 acres! £10; Jacob Tooley, 21 acres, £4; George Pickup, 42 acres' £10; Thompson B. Baishont, 33 acres, £8 ; John Hartley, 27 acres, £8 ; Frederick A. Topping, 45 acres, £8; G. H. Smith, 35 acres. £15. The loan extends over a period of ten years, and bears interest at the rate of 3 per cent per annum.

“Lilydale Express” newspaper, Friday 26 June 1896

SOME MISUNDERSTANDINGS

Mr George Launder, architect, of Stawell Chambers, city, reported at Russell Street last night that during the last two months a cedar box, which contained water colours and mathematical Instruments: another box, containing a brass protractor and four works on architecture and civil engineering, valued £16, were stolen from an office at the corner of Spring and Gipps Streets.

Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), Wednesday 17 February 1897, page 2

DEATH – LAUNDER

On the 8th instant, at Wandin, Parry Street, Perth, JANE, the beloved wife of George Launder, late of St. Kilda, Melbourne; aged 51 years.

FUNERAL NOTICES

The Friends of Mr. WALTER LAUNDER are respectfully invited to follow the remains of his late beloved mother, JANE LAUNDER, to the place of interment, the Church of England Cemetery, Perth. The funeral is appointed to leave his residence. Wandin, Parry Street, East Perth, at 4 o'clock TO-MORROW (Sunday) AFTERNOON.

The Members of the Bohemian Club are respectfully invited to attend the funeral of the late Mrs. Launder (mother of our Hon. Secretary) TOMORROW (Sunday). Meet at club rooms at 3.20 sharp.

West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Saturday 9 July 1898, page 4

1898 Death Certificate – Jane Launder, nee Walker

Transcription of Jane’s Death Certificate –

When and where died                                 1898, 8th July, Wandin, Parry Street, Perth

Name, Surname, Rank                                Jane Launder, Wife of George Launder

Cause of Death                                            Probably malignant disease of some internal organ as the spleen

Duration of Last Illness                                11 months

Name of Father, Rank                                  John Walker, Unknown

Informant, Description                                  Donald Chipper, Undertaker, Perth

When, Where Buried                                    1898, 10 July Church of England Cemetery, Perth

Where Born                                                   Ireland

How Long in Australian Colonies, Which      Victoria, 26 years, Western Australia, 11 months

Where, Age, To Whom Married                    Brisbane, Queensland, 19 years, George Launder

Issue, Names,         Ages

Thomas,                 27 years

Walter,                    25 years

Septimus,               22 years

George,                  20 years

Frederick,               19 years

4 children deceased

1887   Marriages. TOPPING—HOARE - On the 18th, by the Rev. J. G. Armstrong, of St. Luke's, Fitzroy, Thomas Topping, formerly inspector of the Public Works, but now of the Postal and Telegraph department, to Alice Louise Hoare, daughter of the late Mathew Henry Hoare, of Doncaster.

Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thursday 20 October 1887, page 1

1892  TOPPING. —On the 16th January, at 56 Alexandra-parade, Fitzroy, Evelyn Alice, the second dearly loved infant daughter of Thos. and Alice Topping, aged 1 year and 7 months.

Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Saturday 23 January 1892, page 5

1895  TOPPING.— On the 2nd December, at 56 Alexandra-parade. Fitzroy, Thomas Topping, beloved husband or Alice Topping, late secretary Light Hours Pioneers' Association. Deeply regretted by large circle relatives and friends

Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tuesday 3 December 1895, page 1

Name: Geo Launder

Gender: Male

Marriage Registration Year: 1899

Marriage Registration Place: Victoria, Australia

Spouse: Alice Louisa Topping

Reference Number: 4435

The Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths, and Marriages; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

EIGHT HOURS' PIONEERS - AN HISTORICAL GATHERING

The forty-fourth anniversary of the first Eight Hours Movement in Melbourne was celebrated this afternoon by the pioneers of the Eight hours movement and members of the Trades Hall Council.

There were present at the gathering seventeen of the original pioneers, namely - Messrs Thomas Smith (in the chair), William Watson, Thomas Emmanuel, George Launder, A. Sturrock, R. Miller, T. Gamon, J. Senche, T. Cochrane, J. Dalgety, J. Ford, T. Holmes, C. Butler, J. Watson, J. McKay, J. Rentend, and T. Emmett.

Herald (Melbourne, Vic: 1861 - 1954), Saturday 12 May 1900

Post and rail and wire fencing                                                £ 80

Buildings – 1 5-room building of wood 30ft X 24ft                 £100 (weatherboard & iron)

- 1 e-room building of wood 24ft X 12 ft                       £ 40 (brick & bark)

- Stable, fowl house                                                     £ 30 (weatherboard & iron)

- Other out buildings (brick, tin, wood, bark, and split stuff)

2 Dams 16ft X 16ft                                                                 £  8

Cleared 10 acres                                                                   £ 60

Planted 7 acres – 5 acres fruit trees

- 2 acres ornamental trees, shrubs & willows               £35          £353 total

Mr. Launder is at present working in Melbourne and his sister, Mrs. Wills, is looking after his land for him. He has made considerable improvements of a permanent character on this holding.  

A Mr. William Webb is in occupation of 13 acres of land.  I do not know what arrangements Launder and Webb have come to in respect to this matter, but I believe the department is aware of the fact and circumstances.  I have therefore set a valuation of all improvements effected on the holding irrespective of who paid for them –

Buildings attached to the soil                                £140

Fencing                                                                 £100

Water storage                                                        £  3

Clearing, grubbing and planting                           £ 60           £303 total

TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION - INAUGURATION OF CAMPERDOWN SCHOOL

The technical instruction classes which Mr. J.B. Robertson, with commendable zeal, has instituted in Camperdown, were inaugurated on Friday evening, when a number of students and others interested assembled at the Mechanics’ Hall to hear a lecturette by Mr. George Launder, one of the founders of the Workingmen’ College in Melbourne, on the subject of Practical Geometry.

Mr Launder expressed himself as highly pleased at being able to assist in the establishment of the technical school.

Mr. Launder referred to the advantages of the Workingman’s College as the medium for imparting instruction, thousands of young men having gone through that institution ready to take their places in the battle of life.  Geometry, Mr. Launder explained, was much too comprehensive to dea with in one evening, and he would therefore himself to a few problems.

With the aid of a black board, the lecturer gave illustrations of the three angles – right, obtuse, and acute – and pointed out the uses of each.  The square, the rectangle and the circle were gone into and explained in detail, Mr. Launder giving examples of the ease with which the capacity of a tank and the area of land can be computed by a person possessing a practical knowledge of geometry.

He said that if Australians liked to put their shoulders to the wheel, they could excel.  They had excelled in the cricket field, in rowing and other sports.  The Queen of Song was a native of Australia.  Australia’s sons had stood side by side with Great Britain’s soldiers in the South African war, earning for themselves a world-wide reputation for their valour and horsemanship.

It seems from the newspaper article that George continued for a long time before his captive audience.  He was given a hearty vote of thanks as the school was indebted to him in assisting in the formation of the school.  The Chairman said he regarded the gathering as one of the most important that had been held in Camperdown.

1904 - Fire Brigade for Lilydale

Lilydale Express and Yarra Glen, Wandin Yallock, Upper Yarra, Healesville and Ringwood Chronicle  Friday 22 January 1904

1906, November – Clerk of Works, M.C.C.

Another letter to the editor, this time in relation to work on the Melbourne Cricket Ground, with George Launder signing himself, Clerk of Works, M.C.C. Ground.

1906 – New Insolvent

George Launder of Flinders Street, Northcote, contractor and builder.

Causes: Loss on contracts and by fire.

Debts, £535/17/11d.   Assets, £507.   Deficiency £28/17/11d.

Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), Monday 9 July 1906,

1906 – Mediator

Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Wednesday 31 October 1906,

1907, March – Insolvency

The Victoria Government Gazette reported –

Court of Insolvency – A first dividend declared in the matter of

George Launder of Northcote, builder, whose estate was sequestrated on 9 July 1906.

Court of Insolvency – A supplementary dividend in the matter of George Launder of Northcote, Builder, dated May 13, 1911.

Labor Call (Melbourne, Vic. : 1906 - 1953), Thursday 16 November 1911

1911, May – Pioneers’ Jubilee

It was reported in “The Portland Guardian” newspaper on May 26, in 1911 that a number of old colonists are endeavouring to arrange a reunion of pioneer colonists – that is those who were living in the State on July 1, 1851 or before that date.

Mr. George Launder of Wallace Street, Preston is provisional secretary of the movement.  The date fixed for the meeting is July 1 which will be the sixtieth anniversary of the separation of Victoria from New South Wales.  

1913, April – Pioneer’s Reminiscences

Reported in “The Argus” newspaper on April 19, 1913 –

INCEPTION OF MOVEMENT

Fifty-seven years is a long way to look back in the history of a movement with which one has been connected from its inception.

Mr. George Launder, one of the two remaining members of the Eight Hours Pioneers’ Association took such a review yesterday, when he met a number of visitors from others States who are in Melbourne to attend this year’s Eight Hour Day demonstration.

Though he is 77 years of age, Mr. Launder’s recollection of the stirring times when the contest for an eight-hours working day was in progress is extremely clear.  He was among those who attended the meeting at the Queen’s Theatre, Queen Street, on March 26, 1856, when it was decided that eight hours should constitute a day’s work.

At that time, the practice was to work ten hours on the first five days of the working week, and eight hours on Saturday.  Between March 26 and April 21 when the first Eight Hours Day procession was held, fierce conflicts raged in regard to the proposed shortening of the working hours and at times blows were struck.

The celebration on April 21 was a great success.  Mr. Launder was one of those who marched with the Carpenters’ Society on that occasion.  He may be the only survivor of the Pioneers’ Association who will take part in the procession on Monday.  The association has dwindled in numbers until now only Mr. Launder and Mr. John McKay are left.  Mr. McKay is in the Eye and Ear Hospital owing to an affection of the eyes, thought he may be able to join Mr. Launder in the motor car which will be provided for the pioneers.

Mr. Launder is a well-preserved man for his years.  Only lately he acted as foreman in the construction of a building in Swanston Street.  “We men of Kent”, he said yesterday with pride, “are long livers.  Why, Tom Burt, who was member of Parliament at one time for North Melbourne lived till he was 93 years.  So, there is no reason why I may not remain for a long period yet a member – the only member – of the Pioneers’ Association.”   Mr. Launder claims to be the pioneer of the Eight Hours movement in Queensland.  This year he will be one of the representatives of the Melbourne Eight Hours Committee at the annual demonstration in Brisbane.

“I am a pioneer of Ballarat and Castlemaine, too,” said Mr. Launder, as he reflected on 1851.  He arrived in Melbourne in the month of March and was allured to Ballarat by the report of the gold discoveries.  “Six of us went up in a bullock wagon,” he remarked, “and it took us a fortnight to go there.  On the way up we met returning parties who said, ‘Don’t go up, it’s a duffer.’  And so it was to us, as we did not make 10/0 a week.  I was then 16 years of age.  Our party shoved across to Mount Alexander after having been six weeks at Ballarat.  We struck it all right there.”

Reverting to his Eight Hours memories, Mr. Launder stated that the late Mr. George Coppin subscribed £50 to build the Old Trades Hall.

The progression in Melbourne on April 21 to celebrate the Eight Hours Day was the largest on record with about 22,000 unionists taking part.  All traffic was suspended for the three hours during the proceedings.   Mr. George Launder, a pioneer of the Eight Hours movement, rode in a motor car in the procession.  Many thousands of spectators lined the streets watching the procession.

EIGHT HOURS PIONEERS ASSOCIATION INTERESTING HISTORY

GEORGE LAUNDER.

Mr G. Launder was Born At Seven-oaks. Kent, England, on July 5, 1S36. He left London in the barque Pestona Bomange and after calling at Adelaide he arrived In Melbourne In March 1851. He Is a carpenter, and he joined his father In the building and contracting line. When the gold diggings started, he made one of a party of six who set out for the fields, arriving in Ballarat In 1851. They did not have much success, and the first six weeks' work of the party resulted In only eight ounces of gold being won.

When the rush to Mount Alexander took place In October, they shifted camp and arrived there In November. Here fortune smiled on them, and In three weeks they secured 200 ounces of gold.

Mr Launder took an active Interest In the eight hours movement from its Inception, and he attended most of the early meetings. He was one of the foundation members of the Melbourne Progressive Society of Carpenters and Joiners.

In 1861 he left Melbourne for Queensland. He was the foreman carpenter on the erection of the Town Hall at Brisbane, and afterwards was appointed town clerk and surveyor in Roma. In 1862 he founded the first trades union of carpenters in Queensland, and the organisation, which waa an Immediate success, is now one of the most powerful trade societies In the northern State.

While in Queensland, Mr Launder, at the request of the Now South Wales officers of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows, opened the first lodge of the Order established In the State.

He remained at Roma until 1869, when he returned to Melbourne and re-joined his old. Society. He was a member of the first committee appointed in 1885 to establish the Eight Hours Pioneers' Association. and in 18S6 he was elected secretary In succession to Mr Henry Topping. This office he has held, with the exception of two, short Intervals, ever since.

In addition, owing to the gaps that have been made in the ranks of the pioneers by death, Mr. Launder now holds the offices of president and treasurer.

Mr Launder has not confined his attentions purely to the Industrial movement. In 1851 he played cricket with the Melbourne Cricket Club, and he has been an enthusiastic rifle shot for many years. He was a marksman in 1839 and attended the first military camp at Werribee in 1861. He won the National Rifle Association's medal in Brisbane in 1863, and during a long career as a rifle shot he carried off many prizes. In 1869 he Joined the Volunteer Engineers, and 10 years later was awarded the Parnell medal for military engineering.

As recently as 18 months ago he fired In a match at Williamstown, in which the members of the "old brigade" made a very good showing against the present Engineers' Corps. Although he Is now nearly 77 years of age, Mr Launder enjoys excellent health and lives a very active life. He does a great deal of work In the way of preparing plans, and he acts as clerk of works on buildings In course of erection for various contractors. He finished an engagement of this kind on a big Swanston street building as late as last Friday.

Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), Wednesday 9 April 1913

1913, December – How the Banks Made Money

Labor Call (Melbourne, Vic. : 1906 - 1953), Thursday 11 December 1913

1914, April – Mr. Launder’s Recollections

Written in “The Leader Age” newspaper on April 25, 1914 –

A representative of this paper called upon Mr. Launder at his home in Preston.  The veteran has been bed-ridden for some weeks past, but his eye is bright, and his conversation is cheerful, though his frame is wasted.  Twelve months ago, being then in excellent health, he had talked freely and light-heartedly of the days of ’56.  He mentioned at that time that the resolution to hold the first procession had been passed at a meeting held in the old Queen’s Theatre on 26th March 1856.   There were only five unions then represented – the marine, the bricklayers, the carpenters, the plasterers and the plumbers.  The starting point was the site of the present Carlton Gardens and the route taken was in a southerly direction along what is now Spring Street and towards the river.  As the procession wound its way a fairly large number of casual labourers joined in, swelling the total at the maximum to about 600.  The destination was a place near the Yarra, between Church Street and the present site of the Richmond railway station.  There was only one bridge over the Yarra in those days and that was where Princess Bridge now stands.

Mr. Launder, despite his physical disabilities, appears to find pleasure in recalling scenes in which he took part.  He mentioned in the course of the conversation in his sick room, that he came out to Melbourne in 1851.  His father had then been out two years.  The father was a pioneer of 1849, so pioneering evidently runs in the blood.

George Launder, then a boy of 15 – he was born in Kent in 1836 – came out with his mother and brothers and sisters to join his father.  Building and contracting was the occupation of both father and son.

After playing an active part in organising the first Eight Hours procession, Mr. George Launder walked in all the previous processions until 1861 when he went to Queensland.  He remained in that State ten years.  Part of the time he spent at Roma, in the interior.  He mentioned last week, as an interesting fact, that he recollected seeing the tree on which the lost explorer Leichhardt had carved his name.  This, according to the date, is the latest message of Leichhardt’s that ever came to light.  Mr. Launder saw it in the early sixties, and it had been carved in 1818.

In 1871 he returned to Melbourne and again took up the profession of a builder.  On occasions he was an employer of labour, and on other occasions he worked as an employee.

As his work in favour of the eight hours principle shows, he has always been a champion of the rights of workers.  He is a worker himself – a man who has worked with his hands, as well as with his head, through a long, useful and industrious life.  “This house where I am living now”, he remarked with pardonable pride, raising himself on his bed, “is about my last job.  I built it myself.  I have lived in a good many of the Melbourne suburbs, particularly North Melbourne and Hawthorn.  I have seen Hawthorn grow up.  Just before I was taken with this illness, I had got to work on some memorials of Hawthorn, in the form of a history.  I have had to give that up, I am sorry.  It looks as if I had come to anchor here.”

Mrs. Launder who was present, mentioned that her husband’s internal complaint had for some weeks caused him severe pain.  He bore it, however, with great fortitude, and latterly the doctors had been able to ease it for him.

The sympathies of all friends of labour in Australia will go out to this septuagenarian, who has watched the city of Melbourne grow up, and whose name will always be associated with the first organised movement south of the line for obtaining for labour properly limited working day on the grounds of equity and justice.

Name: Geo Launder

Birth Year: abt 1839

Age: 75

Death Place: Preston, Victoria

Father's Name: Launder Geo

Registration Year: 1914

Registration Place: Victoria

Registration Number: 7214

Ancestry.com. Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985

Name: George Launder

Birth Date: 5 Jul 1838

Birth Place: Sevenoaks, Sevenoaks District, Kent, England

Death Date: 26 May 1914

Death Place: Preston, Darebin City, Victoria, Australia

Cemetery: Coburg Pine Ridge Cemetery

Burial or Cremation Place: Coburg, Moreland City, Victoria, Australia

Spouse: Jane Launder

Children: Thomas James Launder

Septimus Archibald Launder

George Octavius Launder

Frederick Aubrey Launder

Ancestry.com. Australia and New Zealand, Find a Grave Index, 1800s-Current

Last Resting Place for George Launder

In Memoriam - GEORGE LAUNDER

When the future historian of Australia is engrossed in the scientific and social data relating to the rise and progress of our economic institutions, and the sources from which, those institutions sprang, the will — if guided by strict impartiality, and without which history is valueless — recount the story of some of the men whose share in the formation of Australian democratic sentiment has compelled the admiration — if not the envy — of millions of toilers beyond our 12,000 miles of coast line. In this connection the founders of our grand eight hours system will doubtless take a prominent place, and amongst those dear departed will appear the name of George Launder, the carpenter, almost the last of that little band who, nearly three score years ago, with British pluck and British foresight, won for us the guerdon we then sought, and which has become an object lesson, to the world to-day.

In his enumeration of the principal incidents in which those pioneers took part, he will recall the arrival of the ships, 'John Wickliffe'' and the 'Peter Lang,' from Scotland, with the early settlers at Port Chalmers, in New Zealand, in 1848, where the first movement for the establishment of the Eight Hours principle was enacted. With this he will associate the names of the veteran organisers, led by D. S. Parnell, with his companions, Samuel Shaw, John McIndoe, William Martin, John Hill, and others, who first proclaimed the assault on old world enervated slavery and the dawn of the Eight Hours system beneath the skies of the Southern main. He will then follow the movement as it was wafted over to Sydney in 1855, when Hughie Laundry — a mason— in that year drove the first picket of the principle in Australian soil at a meeting held at the Parramatta Hotel, in the month of September of that memorable year, which succeeded the Eureka in Victoria.

Here however, "vested interests" - the 'Sassiety'* name for Capital, Trusts, Combines, Rings, etc. — having previously struck the movement down in New Zealand, now followed it with dogged pertinacity to the Mother State, entailing for a time disastrous results to the workers, until its resuscitation and final achievement by them in later years.

Crossing the Murray River into Australia Felix, the literary explorer on this subject of the Eight Hours Movement, will find his rest, and may in his wanderings perchance behold on some bright April morning the imposing Eight Hours' procession, as it wends its way through the beautiful streets of our metropolis. Here George Launder laboured; here this old man from Kent, with his devoted confreres sleep in their silent graves.

Let me recall some of them— Stephen, the founder: Galloway, the dashing young pilot of the movement; Forsyth, the treasurer; Vine, the first president;  together with others who justly claim an equal share in the triumph ; Douglas Grigg; Miller; the brothers Topping, O'Brien. Lambert, Dalgety, burly and bluff but good-hearted Jack Gration, Hayden, Seccombe, Harry Emslie, the mason, whose son George rose to the position of Premier of his native state; crotchety, but honest old Sam Lemmon, one of whose sons also achieved to the honour of Ministerial dignity; and many others whom, in a hasty obituary notice, it is difficult to remember, but who in their day were the heroes of that serious, though bloodless, revolution, which was consummated in the memorable year of 1856.

George Launder, like his friend Douglas, was born away among the wealds of Kent, England, between 70 and 80 years ago. At an early age he emigrated to Australia, where on his arrival, he followed his trade —that of a carpenter. He was one of that old school of mechanics whose technical tuition during the long seven years of apprenticeship grounded him in the mysteries of the craft, embracing as it did a thorough training in building lore, which fitted him for the advanced positions he afterwards attained to. Launder was an excellent mechanical draughtsman, with a good knowledge of mathematics, and an accurate quantity surveyor, while his skill, urbanity and general efficiency in the several capacities of builder, clerk of works and foreman over many of our large public structures won for him the confidence of proprietors and architects together with the general respect of workmen engaged under his supervision. In the early seventies he joined the corps of Victorian military engineers, then under the command of the late Colonel E. Parnell, father of the present commandant of our local forces.

In this early branch of our defence system, Launder served for a period of eight years, attaining the rank of N. C.O. It is, however, as a trades unionist he was better known to the pioneers and their followers of our industrial associations.

Subsequent to the acquisition of the Eight Hours, Launder, then in his prime, left Victoria to fulfil an engagement in Queensland, where he soon became deservedly popular with all classes. One incident which occurred in the course of his adventures in the wild interior of the great Northern State, is perhaps worth relating. The notorious bushranger, McPherson, was in the early sixties, a roving terror over that part of the country between the Condamine and Roma. Although an unwelcome visitor to many stations in that district, he enjoyed for a long time a complete immunity from arrest or the death which threatened him at sight. It occurred, however, to an energetic sub-inspector of police, named Elliot, to act promptly on certain information, and organising a small party of settlers, in which Launder joined, the desperado was surprised and captured at the 'Myles Station,' of which he had taken possession, on the Condamine. For this action the thanks of the Government was awarded to the party, added to a monetary reward, and in which Launder shared.

Returning from this exploit to the city of Brisbane, our wanderer founded the original Queensland Society of Carpenters and Joiners, in 1862, and the following year we find him busily engaged in the organisation of the first Eight Hours procession that took place through the streets of Brisbane. In this State the quondam policeman was held in much esteem by the workers, a large number of whom fare welled him on his departure for the south, when, amongst the other souvenirs he received on that occasion, was a special gold foundation medal, which he showed me on his deathbed, while a teardrop stood in the veteran’s eye, as no doubt he recalled the memory of those long-past days of his early manhood.

In connection with the Eight Hours Pioneers' Association of Victoria, Launder succeeded to the position of secretary on the death of that staunch old unionist, Tom Topping. This, however, occurred at a period when there was yet a master-roll of the old members equal to the capacity of two large drags, drawn by four horses on each recurring Eight Hours festival. Alas, the secretary saw them, one by one, fall by the way. His melancholy duty of covering their honoured remains with the old flag under which those brave old scions of a hardy race had so often and so proudly marched now served as their pall. The reaper was abroad. Henceforth scarcely an anniversary day was celebrated unaccompanied by the emblems of mourning, being intertwined with the standards of their victories. The tottering but fearless few still clung to their old Kentish comrade, doubtless regarding him as the successor of Galloway and Charles Vine.

Launder's bright, genial disposition was for a long time proof against the warnings of the 'Gristly Monarch,' which are the forerunners of his certain visitation. The time at last arrived, and Launder now sleeps with his comrades "amongst the loved, the lost, the distant, and the dead." Oh! trades unionists of to-day, how have those fathers and founders of your young Democracy been requited for the inestimable boon they won for you long years ago? Do you recognise that the Eight Hours achievement was, and is, the corner stone of your powerful industrial and political unions? Their names are seldom mentioned in the corridors or through the halls their patriotism reared for you. . . Their obsequies are scantily attended. The beautiful monument in the Melbourne Cemetery, placed there by the pioneers, over the grave of young Galloway, and which they once tended with loving care, is weed grown dilapidated, and its site almost unknown. Their memories are fast passing into oblivion, or remembered only by that structure called "the Eight Hours Column" in Spring street, while that chaste, artistic model, (the design of the late Percival Ball, the gifted sculptor) lies hidden away in some cellar, instead of its magnificent proportions setting forth the Goddess of Liberty, raising Her torch towards the setting sun, being feared in the front of the Trades Hall, emblematic of that advancement which Federated Australian Labour has heralded forth to the world.

W. E. MURPHY.

Labour Call (Melbourne, Vic. : 1906 - 1953), Thursday 25 June 1914, page 2

Labor Call (Melbourne, Vic. : 1906 - 1953), Thursday 11 December 1913

1914, April – Mr. Launder’s Recollections

Written in “The Leader Age” newspaper on April 25, 1914 –

A representative of this paper called upon Mr. Launder at his home in Preston.  The veteran has been bed-ridden for some weeks past, but his eye is bright, and his conversation is cheerful, though his frame is wasted.  Twelve months ago, being then in excellent health, he had talked freely and light-heartedly of the days of ’56.  He mentioned at that time that the resolution to hold the first procession had been passed at a meeting held in the old Queen’s Theatre on 26th March 1856.   There were only five unions then represented – the marine, the bricklayers, the carpenters, the plasterers and the plumbers.  The starting point was the site of the present Carlton Gardens and the route taken was in a southerly direction along what is now Spring Street and towards the river.  As the procession wound its way a fairly large number of casual labourers joined in, swelling the total at the maximum to about 600.  The destination was a place near the Yarra, between Church Street and the present site of the Richmond railway station.  There was only one bridge over the Yarra in those days and that was where Princess Bridge now stands.

Mr. Launder, despite his physical disabilities, appears to find pleasure in recalling scenes in which he took part.  He mentioned in the course of the conversation in his sick room, that he came out to Melbourne in 1851.  His father had then been out two years.  The father was a pioneer of 1849, so pioneering evidently runs in the blood.

George Launder, then a boy of 15 – he was born in Kent in 1836 – came out with his mother and brothers and sisters to join his father.  Building and contracting was the occupation of both father and son.

After playing an active part in organising the first Eight Hours procession, Mr. George Launder walked in all the previous processions until 1861 when he went to Queensland.  He remained in that State ten years.  Part of the time he spent at Roma, in the interior.  He mentioned last week, as an interesting fact, that he recollected seeing the tree on which the lost explorer Leichhardt had carved his name.  This, according to the date, is the latest message of Leichhardt’s that ever came to light.  Mr. Launder saw it in the early sixties, and it had been carved in 1818.

In 1871 he returned to Melbourne and again took up the profession of a builder.  On occasions he was an employer of labour, and on other occasions he worked as an employee.

As his work in favour of the eight hours principle shows, he has always been a champion of the rights of workers.  He is a worker himself – a man who has worked with his hands, as well as with his head, through a long, useful and industrious life.  “This house where I am living now”, he remarked with pardonable pride, raising himself on his bed, “is about my last job.  I built it myself.  I have lived in a good many of the Melbourne suburbs, particularly North Melbourne and Hawthorn.  I have seen Hawthorn grow up.  Just before I was taken with this illness, I had got to work on some memorials of Hawthorn, in the form of a history.  I have had to give that up, I am sorry.  It looks as if I had come to anchor here.”

Mrs. Launder who was present, mentioned that her husband’s internal complaint had for some weeks caused him severe pain.  He bore it, however, with great fortitude, and latterly the doctors had been able to ease it for him.

The sympathies of all friends of labour in Australia will go out to this septuagenarian, who has watched the city of Melbourne grow up, and whose name will always be associated with the first organised movement south of the line for obtaining for labour properly limited working day on the grounds of equity and justice.

Name: Geo Launder

Birth Year: abt 1839

Age: 75

Death Place: Preston, Victoria

Father's Name: Launder Geo

Registration Year: 1914

Registration Place: Victoria

Registration Number: 7214

Ancestry.com. Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985

Name: George Launder

Birth Date: 5 Jul 1838

Birth Place: Sevenoaks, Sevenoaks District, Kent, England

Death Date: 26 May 1914

Death Place: Preston, Darebin City, Victoria, Australia

Cemetery: Coburg Pine Ridge Cemetery

Burial or Cremation Place: Coburg, Moreland City, Victoria, Australia

Spouse: Jane Launder

Children: Thomas James Launder

Septimus Archibald Launder

George Octavius Launder

Frederick Aubrey Launder

Ancestry.com. Australia and New Zealand, Find a Grave Index, 1800s-Current

Last Resting Place for George Launder

In Memoriam - GEORGE LAUNDER

When the future historian of Australia is engrossed in the scientific and social data relating to the rise and progress of our economic institutions, and the sources from which, those institutions sprang, the will — if guided by strict impartiality, and without which history is valueless — recount the story of some of the men whose share in the formation of Australian democratic sentiment has compelled the admiration — if not the envy — of millions of toilers beyond our 12,000 miles of coast line. In this connection the founders of our grand eight hours system will doubtless take a prominent place, and amongst those dear departed will appear the name of George Launder, the carpenter, almost the last of that little band who, nearly three score years ago, with British pluck and British foresight, won for us the guerdon we then sought, and which has become an object lesson, to the world to-day.

In his enumeration of the principal incidents in which those pioneers took part, he will recall the arrival of the ships, 'John Wickliffe'' and the 'Peter Lang,' from Scotland, with the early settlers at Port Chalmers, in New Zealand, in 1848, where the first movement for the establishment of the Eight Hours principle was enacted. With this he will associate the names of the veteran organisers, led by D. S. Parnell, with his companions, Samuel Shaw, John McIndoe, William Martin, John Hill, and others, who first proclaimed the assault on old world enervated slavery and the dawn of the Eight Hours system beneath the skies of the Southern main. He will then follow the movement as it was wafted over to Sydney in 1855, when Hughie Laundry — a mason— in that year drove the first picket of the principle in Australian soil at a meeting held at the Parramatta Hotel, in the month of September of that memorable year, which succeeded the Eureka in Victoria.

Here however, "vested interests" - the 'Sassiety'* name for Capital, Trusts, Combines, Rings, etc. — having previously struck the movement down in New Zealand, now followed it with dogged pertinacity to the Mother State, entailing for a time disastrous results to the workers, until its resuscitation and final achievement by them in later years.

Crossing the Murray River into Australia Felix, the literary explorer on this subject of the Eight Hours Movement, will find his rest, and may in his wanderings perchance behold on some bright April morning the imposing Eight Hours' procession, as it wends its way through the beautiful streets of our metropolis. Here George Launder laboured; here this old man from Kent, with his devoted confreres sleep in their silent graves.

Let me recall some of them— Stephen, the founder: Galloway, the dashing young pilot of the movement; Forsyth, the treasurer; Vine, the first president;  together with others who justly claim an equal share in the triumph ; Douglas Grigg; Miller; the brothers Topping, O'Brien. Lambert, Dalgety, burly and bluff but good-hearted Jack Gration, Hayden, Seccombe, Harry Emslie, the mason, whose son George rose to the position of Premier of his native state; crotchety, but honest old Sam Lemmon, one of whose sons also achieved to the honour of Ministerial dignity; and many others whom, in a hasty obituary notice, it is difficult to remember, but who in their day were the heroes of that serious, though bloodless, revolution, which was consummated in the memorable year of 1856.

George Launder, like his friend Douglas, was born away among the wealds of Kent, England, between 70 and 80 years ago. At an early age he emigrated to Australia, where on his arrival, he followed his trade —that of a carpenter. He was one of that old school of mechanics whose technical tuition during the long seven years of apprenticeship grounded him in the mysteries of the craft, embracing as it did a thorough training in building lore, which fitted him for the advanced positions he afterwards attained to. Launder was an excellent mechanical draughtsman, with a good knowledge of mathematics, and an accurate quantity surveyor, while his skill, urbanity and general efficiency in the several capacities of builder, clerk of works and foreman over many of our large public structures won for him the confidence of proprietors and architects together with the general respect of workmen engaged under his supervision. In the early seventies he joined the corps of Victorian military engineers, then under the command of the late Colonel E. Parnell, father of the present commandant of our local forces.

In this early branch of our defence system, Launder served for a period of eight years, attaining the rank of N. C.O. It is, however, as a trades unionist he was better known to the pioneers and their followers of our industrial associations.

Subsequent to the acquisition of the Eight Hours, Launder, then in his prime, left Victoria to fulfil an engagement in Queensland, where he soon became deservedly popular with all classes. One incident which occurred in the course of his adventures in the wild interior of the great Northern State, is perhaps worth relating. The notorious bushranger, McPherson, was in the early sixties, a roving terror over that part of the country between the Condamine and Roma. Although an unwelcome visitor to many stations in that district, he enjoyed for a long time a complete immunity from arrest or the death which threatened him at sight. It occurred, however, to an energetic sub-inspector of police, named Elliot, to act promptly on certain information, and organising a small party of settlers, in which Launder joined, the desperado was surprised and captured at the 'Myles Station,' of which he had taken possession, on the Condamine. For this action the thanks of the Government was awarded to the party, added to a monetary reward, and in which Launder shared.

Returning from this exploit to the city of Brisbane, our wanderer founded the original Queensland Society of Carpenters and Joiners, in 1862, and the following year we find him busily engaged in the organisation of the first Eight Hours procession that took place through the streets of Brisbane. In this State the quondam policeman was held in much esteem by the workers, a large number of whom fare welled him on his departure for the south, when, amongst the other souvenirs he received on that occasion, was a special gold foundation medal, which he showed me on his deathbed, while a teardrop stood in the veteran’s eye, as no doubt he recalled the memory of those long-past days of his early manhood.

In connection with the Eight Hours Pioneers' Association of Victoria, Launder succeeded to the position of secretary on the death of that staunch old unionist, Tom Topping. This, however, occurred at a period when there was yet a master-roll of the old members equal to the capacity of two large drags, drawn by four horses on each recurring Eight Hours festival. Alas, the secretary saw them, one by one, fall by the way. His melancholy duty of covering their honoured remains with the old flag under which those brave old scions of a hardy race had so often and so proudly marched now served as their pall. The reaper was abroad. Henceforth scarcely an anniversary day was celebrated unaccompanied by the emblems of mourning, being intertwined with the standards of their victories. The tottering but fearless few still clung to their old Kentish comrade, doubtless regarding him as the successor of Galloway and Charles Vine.

Launder's bright, genial disposition was for a long time proof against the warnings of the 'Gristly Monarch,' which are the forerunners of his certain visitation. The time at last arrived, and Launder now sleeps with his comrades "amongst the loved, the lost, the distant, and the dead." Oh! trades unionists of to-day, how have those fathers and founders of your young Democracy been requited for the inestimable boon they won for you long years ago? Do you recognise that the Eight Hours achievement was, and is, the corner stone of your powerful industrial and political unions? Their names are seldom mentioned in the corridors or through the halls their patriotism reared for you. . . Their obsequies are scantily attended. The beautiful monument in the Melbourne Cemetery, placed there by the pioneers, over the grave of young Galloway, and which they once tended with loving care, is weed grown dilapidated, and its site almost unknown. Their memories are fast passing into oblivion, or remembered only by that structure called "the Eight Hours Column" in Spring street, while that chaste, artistic model, (the design of the late Percival Ball, the gifted sculptor) lies hidden away in some cellar, instead of its magnificent proportions setting forth the Goddess of Liberty, raising Her torch towards the setting sun, being feared in the front of the Trades Hall, emblematic of that advancement which Federated Australian Labour has heralded forth to the world.

W. E. MURPHY.

Labour Call (Melbourne, Vic. : 1906 - 1953), Thursday 25 June 1914, page 2