Executive for 2015

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The Annual General Meeting on Friday night delivered a return of the existing members of the board, and filling the one vacant position of Social Coordinator by Liz Hydesmith.

DUCW Board members for 2015

DUCW Board members for 2015

All the best for the holiday season from your new DUCW Board.

  • BACK ROW
    • Secretary:Margaret Munn
    • Newsletter Editor: Charlie Powell
    • Social Coordinator:  Liz Hydesmith
    • Past President: Terry Roberts
  • FRONT ROW
    • President: Peter Munn
    • Treasurer:  Peter Debenham
    • Membership: Norm Griffiths
  • NOT PICTURED
    • Vice President: Catherine Bowering

Southern Yarn December 2014

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2014-12-YarnThe final issue of The Southern Yarn for 2014 is available for you to download now!

Inside (page 6) you will find

  • an invite from the Premier to visit the Legislative Buildings open house on December 6th
  • the new DUCW executive for the upcoming year
  • gold rush history from NZ – who knew?
  • Holiday deals from Downunder Travel
  • elation in rugby and tragedy in cricket
  • and much more!

(Apologies to the links on this post previously going to the Dec. 2013 issue of the Yarn, rather than the 2014 issue. All fixed.)

Remembrance poppies in Australia

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Poppies on the Roll of Honour. Photograph taken by Kerry Alchin. PAIU2014/128.14

[Read the original of this text at: https://www.awm.gov.au/commemoration/customs/poppies/]

The Flanders poppy has long been a part of Remembrance Day, the ritual that marks the Armistice of 11 November 1918, and is also increasingly being used as part of Anzac Day observances. During the First World War, red poppies were among the first plants to spring up in the devastated battlefields of northern France and Belgium. In soldiers’ folklore, the vivid red of the poppy came from the blood of their comrades soaking the ground. Continue reading →

Matthew Flinders (1774-1814)

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We’ve had many ‘Getting to Know’ interviews with our club members, so we are also featuring some brief biographies of notable Australians and New Zealanders from history. – Ed.

Raised in Lincolnshire, where men usually turned to agriculture for a livelihood, Matthew Flinders showed originality by choosing the sea. Flinders was born on 16 March 1774 at Donington, Lincolnshire. From a family of doctors, Flinders was expected to take up the same profession, but inspired by reports of Cook’s discoveries, and the reading of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, he decided to go to sea. Continue reading →

The Southern Yarn – November 2014

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Yarn2014-NovThe November issue of The Southern Yarn is now online for your download pleasure. Please note that the print edition was mailed out with a small error:

The annual Christmas Party is on Sunday, December 7th. The print edition erroneously said Saturday. Please update your calendar and we’ll be sure to ensure Santa is also using the 2014 calendar as well.

Also note that the online edition is in colour and has an extra page of news items that would not fit into our six page print edition.