Brisbane Centenary Official Historical Souvenir: 1823 - 1923, Victoria Bridge, Watercolour, p. 64

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The founding in 1824 of a settlement on the river discovered by Oxley in the previous year is about to be fittingly celebrated by the merging into one great government of the administrations of the cities and towns that sprang up on and near the river's banks and through healthy expansion have come together. This should make for further growth not less steady but more ordered than in the past. We, who know Brisbane, are not only hopeful. but confident, that this development will be accompanied by increase in civic spirit and in desire that full advantage be taken of her wonderful hill-embosomed position, her golden atmosphere and her noble river and of the free, full natures of her citizens to make her no pale copy of other cities in Australia or elsewhere but a capital renowned more than any other for the general well-being of the people, a centre of world-wide commerce still busier than it is now, and the enchanted home of a learning common to and influencing the lives of all who grow up within her wide boundaries. She has reached the age when, maidenlike, she recognises her own beauty and in time should rival in loveliness the cities of the storied past. 29th July, 1924. (p. 10)