James Nash Memorial, Gympie, 1962

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

The Queenslander
13 March 1915

THE NASH MEMORIAL

The ceremony of unveiling the memorial recently erected in the Gympie Town Hall reserve to the memory of the late Mr. James Nash, who discovered the Gympie goldfield on October 16, 1867, was performed this afternoon by Alderman A. G. Ramsey in the presence of a large gathering of Gympie residents and representatives of the local and district councils. Those present included the mayor (Alderman P. H. Green) and the city aldermen, Councillors Betts (chairman of the Widgee Shire Council) and R. Dunmall (Widgee Shire), Councillor A. J. M. Chapman (Noosa Shire Council, Messrs. A. L. Petrie, R. Trout, G. H. Mackay, and H. F. Walker, M.L.A, J.
Stumm, M.H.R., Mesdames C and A. Nash, J.Moore (nee Nash), and Messrs. Mark and Bert Nash: also the members of the Nash Memorial Committee. The Mayor presided, and in a brief speech announced

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