Holy Ground

In the early days, open-air meetings were a regular event on the corner of Cherry and River Streets (where the Australian Hotel now stands.) A local Salvation Army history book states that when the new street surface was being laid down, the men who were employed by the council digging up the old foundations found the spot where the Army had stood for so long and for so many open airs was the hardest of all to dig. This, they said, was surely holy ground.