I BROUGHT THIS book to the December 2008 Show & Tell Meeting and I could have spoken longer had time permitted. I once possessed several original accounts of voyages and travels around earlier Australia and its interior but have downsized my collection in recent times though I still have this item. This edition, titled Journals … Continue reading John Oxley, Journals of Two Expeditions
Category: John R Newland
AT THE SYDNEY Show & Tell meeting of December 2007 I showed a collection of C J Dennis books and some rather unique items in my possession. I am not all that much of a poet, but I do have a fascination for some of the earlier Australian poets who, in these current times, do not seem to be so well known as Henry Lawson, ‘Banjo’ Patterson and C J Dennis. This is a pity, that our early Australian poets have been overlooked; my English study curriculum for the 1951 Leaving Certificate course was restricted to English poets and essayists of the 19th century and, of course, a Shakespeare play.
The traditonal end-of-year Show & Tell meeting held at the Turramurra Uniting Church was the Society’s last meeting to be held in that venue before its move in 2007 to a central one in the premises of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, at 145 Macquarie Street, Sydney. Members present at the meeting expressed their thanks to Immediate Past President Janet Robinson and her husband Gordon (winner of last year’s Show & Tell) for making the Turramurra venue available so readily and for so long, when the venue organised by Betty and Jeff Bidgood in Ryde became, after some years, no longer available.As Acting President, Brian Taylor chaired the meeting and provided the traditional prize. Ten of the members present “showed & told”.
The traditonal end-of-year Show & Tell meeting held at the Turramurra Uniting Church was the Society’s last meeting to be held in that venue before its move in 2007 to a central one in the premises of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, at 145 Macquarie Street, Sydney. Members present at the meeting expressed their thanks to Immediate Past President Janet Robinson and her husband Gordon (winner of last year’s Show & Tell) for making the Turramurra venue available so readily and for so long, when the venue organised by Betty and Jeff Bidgood in Ryde became, after some years, no longer available.As Acting President, Brian Taylor chaired the meeting and provided the traditional prize. Ten of the members present “showed & told”.