DEDICATION. 



To the memory of De Ouiros, Tasman, Dampier, Cook, Bass, 

 Flinders and all those brave mariners who discovered our 

 country ; 



To the memory of Hume and Hovell, Sturt, Mitchell, Leichhardt, 

 Cunningham, Oxley, Burke and Wills, Kennedy. McKinlay, 

 Stuart and all those self-sacrificing pioneers who crossed and 

 recrossed our Continent and undeterred by privation and all 

 manner of hardship made known to us its resources ; 



To the memory of Wentworth, and all those public-spirited men 

 who fought for and won our constitutional rights and liberties; 



To the settler, the miner, the farnrer, the artisan ; to the muscle 

 and brain and enterprise which has given a new common- 

 wealth to the world ; 



To the youth to whom we look to maintain and defend it, 



his $oak is Dedicated. 



