Sunday April 21st:
Brisbane has given me a very moist reception as it has rained steadily all day and heavily too.
Monday April 22nd:
Rain appears to have completely disappeared and the day is bright and warm. .........arranged then to stay in Brisbane until Wednesday then go on to Townsville put a day in there and go to Charters Towers on Saturday and on Sunday night pick up the Cloncurry train there.
In 1914 my mother was born in Charters Towers. Her father worked for Borthwick Meats, but he was offered the position of manager on MacArthur River Station in Borooloola, NT. He moved his family there and so my mother left Charters Towers. This would have been about the time my father was traveling to Charters Towers en route to Camooweal. So I do not have definite information as to whether she and her family were still residing in Charters at the time my father briefly stayed there. At that time he would have been 28 years old and she a 15 year old teenager. He was a Methodist clergyman and she attended the local Anglican Church. At least they were both heading in the same direction so the chance of meeting was now more likely.
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