Paul Harris Tree Memorial - Brisbane, Australia (LEGACY)
S 27° 32.627 E 152° 58.597
56J E 497691 N 6953333
A portion of the original American pine tree brought to Brisbane, Australia, by Rotary's founder Paul Harris is now located at new location of the Montrose Home for Crippled Children in Corinda.
Waymark Code: WM5XGP
Location: Queensland, Australia
Date Posted: 02/25/2009
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From the
RGHF Rotary Global History website:
On Paul Harris' first visit to Brisbane, in 1935, he planted an American pine tree in the grounds of the Montrose Home for Crippled Children at Taringa. The tree died, but this portion of it is enshrined at the Montrose home.
Addition information from the RGHF Rotary Global History website about Friendship Trees:
Paul Harris' First Vist to Austalia in 1935
On his visit to Brisbane in 1935, Rotary's founder, Paul Harris, planted an American pine tree in the grounds of the Montrose Home for Crippled Children at Taringa. The home moved to Corinda in March 1938; and the Rotary Club of Brisbane West used the trunk of this tree for the making of Rotary ornaments (1970-71), and they placed the bole of the tree with a suitable message in the entrance of the new Montrose Home.
Arnold Bennett's book "Rotary in Queensland" (1980) on page 129