Issue 100 - Nasho Front Page

PINE RIVERS (Meeting: 3r d
Tuesday of the Month. V enue: Pine
Rivers Pigeon Club Hall) : The Mayor
of Senlis le sec, on the Somme,
Madame Genevieve Lebailley, holds a
framed letter from the Australian
Minister for Veterans Affairs, the
Hon.Alan Griffin, thanking her and her
Council for taking part in the schools
wreath exchange program organised by
Pine Rivers Branch. It and another to a
school in Ypres were carried by
Mr.Peter Mathews (at right).
INNISFAIL (Meeting: 4th T uesday
each month 1800 hours. V enue
–Innisfail Cultural Complex)
Anzac Day Celebrations at our local
College. The Principal is on the right,
The Mayor on the left, with our Padre
Glen Louttit next to the Mayor . The
Member for Mulgrave Curtis Pitt,
Local RSL Member, Ed Golledge and
Phil Peirce representing NSAA with a
member of the college school
committee.
REDLANDS (Meeting: 1st
Sunday each month 1000 hours.
Venue: Redland RSL, Cleveland)
A tour of duty was or ganised by
the Redlands Branch and with a
few members from other branches
we were the first Australians to
join with the French forces and
march with them in their Bastille
Day celebrations in Noumea,
French New Caledonia. This
event was so well received that
we were invited to return for the
next Bastille Day celebration.
Head Of fice Qld. of fered to
organise the tour the next year but
it was handed back to us which we did. Unfortunately this was not carried on and this was a pity as we had
made good relations between Noumea and Australia.
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