Mar2015_LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Dear Editor,
I was interested to read the article in the Grapevine about New Zealand war hero Cyril Basset, and the general lack of recognition of New Zealanders in WW1.
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Category Archives: General
Mar2015_NETWORK TOPIC
February proved a hectic month, finishing off with my son’s wedding (see page 29).
Having said that, is it any wonder that I didn’t have my eye on the approach of Easter. Talk about being caught “on the hop” . . It has only just ‘clicked’ that Easter will have been and gone before the next edition is out!
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COMMUNITY CONTACTS
We are happy to include details of your non-profit group’s meeting dates and contact details in “Your Community Contact List”. The idea is that it serves as a ‘memory jogger’ – a follow up to reading your article and/or advertisement of the regular activity or meeting.
AMBULANCE BOWLS DAY on 8th March
Dayboro ‘Local Ambulance Committee’ Bowls Day
Sunday 8th March 2015. 10am Start. Tell your friends!
Sausage sizzle provided . . . $10 per person.
Feb2015_THANK YOU
Just a note to thank you for the fabulous coverage you gave us in the September edition prior to the Benefit Concert for Sarah McGuiness on the 4th of October 2014. I know the article sparked a lot of interest and donations from the generous people in and around Dayboro.
Feb2015_LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Dear Editor,
So much for requesting from UnityWater that a firefighting water main be installed in the Dayboro Showgrounds (see November 2014 edition of the Dayboro Grapevine).
Feb2015_NETWORK TOPIC
Our State Government election will have been held whilst this edition was being printed, hence no election coverage at all!!
What a launch for 2015! . . . . Have you made, any New Year resolutions? I would really like time to go a tad slower!
Feb2015_OUTSIDE in your garden
Using Mature Shade Trees
Many property owners are lucky to have large shade trees that can provide excellent cover for designing a tropical garden.
Feb2015_MT MEE RAMBLINGS
by Ian Wells
The festive season has come and gone and we are all licking our financial wounds as we face up to another year of stress and toil. Your writer experienced his first Christmas at sea – of which more later, perhaps.
Feb2015_A New Zealand VC Story
At “Anzac:, the Australians were greatly praised and rewarded for their actions at Lone Pine and other places however, those other Anzacs, the New Zealanders, felt unnoticed.
Captain Aubrey Herbert, an Englishman and Intelligence Officer with the New Zealand and Australian Division, wrote of this New Zealand sense of invisibility at Gallipoli as he spoke with the survivors of a NZ infantry battalion after the great battles of the ‘August Offensive’:
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