A Walk Down Memory Lane
A very successful Seniors gathering
was held at the Tiaro RSL and Memorial Hall on Wednesday 14th
November, named “A Walk Down Memory Lane”.
40 of the Shires Seniors were invited
to an inaugural gathering for the start of the making of a CD and DVD of
some of the tales and memories of the past.
The reason that
the Tiaro Shire
Promotions decided to go down this track was, it was felt that with the
forthcoming Council amalgamation could cause the loss of some of the
Shires history, as the big picture sometimes does not allow the small
picture to be seen.
Trevor Keightley the MC of the day
went around to each person to have them tell us their name where they were
born and or moved to the Shire and a summary of their life.
Then to start
the stories rolling the MC read out some of Keith Hoffman’s letters that
he had written of his
childhood and his younger days, Wil Nahrung told a tale of the days he
used to run the shop at Miva and the delivery run where if the customer
was not home he would go into the house and put the butter in the pantry,
bread in the bin and chook food in the shed, slightly different today. Len
Dakin told of the days that when they used to go to the dances at Gundiah
they would wait for the train to slow down at Theebine and jump on and
jump of at Gundiah but sometimes the timing was not right so they had to
walk home. Lilian Coyne told of the days when the night cart was used as
the only mode of transport to the dance on a Saturday night, they had to clean
it out first and it had a bad problem of backfiring and catching alight so
they all had to abandon the cart and put out the fire before they
proceeded. Ken Stratford told of the trips to the dances on Saturday night
where they had to drive the truck up the cutting at Gootchie in reverse
with all the boys pushing, guess the girls stayed on the truck and the
stories went on and on and we all had a great day.
The Gootchie QCWA provided morning
and afternoon tea and a great lunch of which we thank them, also our
thanks to the RSL for providing their facility and equipment.
So where do we go from here.
Well it
was agreed that we will meet again in February next year to continue gathering
of stories and the copying of old photos, in the meantime we will apply for a RADF grant to help offset some of the costs in producing the CD & DVD,
additional invites will go out for the next gathering and if any person
knows of somebody that would like to attend please contact either:
Tiaro Shire
Promotions & Development Assoc. Inc.
Trevor
Keightley President 41292504
or
Josie Roe
Secretary 41293227
