Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
THE MONUMENT OF GEORGE ESSEX EVANS.
(For the “Post” and “Herald.”)
It is a moot question whether the people of Toowoomba in particular, and those of Queensland and Australia generally, have yet realise, and as an outcome of this realisation, appreciated the greatness of the man, George Essex Evans, and his works.
During many years he was one of Toowoomba’s own people, and from his mountain home there was sent forth from time to time flashes of that poetic genius that dwelt within the man. We read his lilting lines which carried our thoughts onward and upward to those higher realms of fancy where was wont to dwell. But the day came when the lute no longer gave forth its sweet strains – the hand that swept its strings lay for ever silent. The spirit of George Essex Evans had passed to the “Great Beyond”. Then only did