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Brisbane’s Progress Impresses Queen
“We wish our visit could be a longer one,” the Queen said in thanking Brisbane’s Lord Mayor “for your expressions of loyalty and for the generous welcome you have given my husband and myself.”
The progress achieved since Brisbane was proclaimed a municipality in 1859 testified to the energy and pride of the citizens, Her Majesty added.
“Brisbane has grown from small and humble beginnings to the proud position of third metropolis of Australia and capital of a great and ever growing State,” she continued.
“We must salute the spirit and enterprise which have brought this to pass.
“The past 10 years have been a great period in the history of the British peoples. Citizens of Brisbane have shared in the triumphs and miseries of war and of its aftermath, but they have gone forward with steady confidence in their city and their State.
“Many unsettled problems