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Collapse Issue 408 - 12 Dec 2016Issue 408 - 12 Dec 2016
Collapse  NEWS NEWS
Council refuses Patonga Hotel proposal
Dot celebrates 103 years
Campaign to eliminate plastics bags and water bottles
Bank branch reports sixth consecutive profit
Properties top $1 million in the past month
Peninsula fares well in planning backlog
Sewerage completed at Empire Bay
Four people washed off rocks
Three marine rescues
Time to investigate best solar power deals
Jenna to depart on Rotary exchange
Residents to have say on project priority
Monitoring requested for tennis courts
Five residential units approved for Ettalong
Shops converted to restaurant
President receives certificate
Action group calls for safer roads
PCYC buys archery gear
Marine Rescue life membership granted
Mary Mac's plans Christmas lunch
Christmas activities at shopping centre
Donations accepted for 'giving tree'
Christmas gifts wanted
Collapse  FORUM FORUM
Money under the mattress?
It just keeps on getting worse
Hazardous tree needs immediate removal
Replace bureaucrats with workers, or forget the charade
No footpath
Stop bickering and get on with the job
Opportunity to focus on regional plan
Motorway project caused rail underpass canning
Is this what we call democracy?
Donald and Daffy turning in their graves
Vote for fresh ideas for the whole Coast
It don't seem much like Christmas
Same predicament as 12 years ago
Collapse  ARTS ARTS
Launch attracts 200 people
Carols at Hardys Bay
Wagstaffe hosts Australia Day events
Four works chosen for Little Theatre season
Award for distinguished service
Raffle raises money for brigade
Collapse  EDUCATION EDUCATION
Students may miss out if absent on first day
School wins prize for champion steer
School releases second cookbook
Funds for pedestrian safety
Class celebrates disability day
PCYC hosts Year 2 students
Stage 2 students' Christmas party
Students perform two plays
New sunshade for Pretty Beach
Collapse  SPORT SPORT
Liesl Tesch wins Paralympic accolades
Trent Buhagiar extends his contract
Jemma is junior sports person of the year
Regional swim championship held at Woy Woy
Old surf club seeks new members
Age group winners in Sydney
Surf club has charity golf day
Jingle to be played at Peninsula pool
Volunteer of the month
Collapse  HISTORY HISTORY
Surf club numbers were boosted by league players

It don't seem much like Christmas

My brothers Charles and Alan knew Tip Kelaher.

Charles served in the AIF in New Guinea.

Tip Kelaher was killed in action in the Middle East in 1941.

He was born in Sydney in December 1914, educated at Clovelly, Moree and Sydney High.

Tip enlisted in the AIF and in 1940 he was sent to the Middle East.

He wrote poems in the style of Henry Lawson.

This one is called Christmas '41

Well, it don't seem much like Christmas

Nations at each other's throats,

A-fighting one another

Like a lot of billy goats.

While we polish up the Vickers

Or are doing bayonet drill,

It hardly seems the season

To be talking of goodwill.

But there's one who came from Nazareth

I guess he ought to know-

He knocked ubout and summed things up

Two thousand years ago.

And though new gods have come and gone

And years have passed away

The things he taught his followers

Are just as clear today.

He taught them love and friendship,

To be tolerant and straight,

That each might do the decent thing

And try to help his mate.

Told of the good Samaritan,

Who helped the traveller bloke

Gave him a swig of Fosters

And offered him a smoke.

Taught each not to fight his neighbour,

Kill his calves or steal his wheat,

Or broadcast lies about him

On the corner street,

Till people learned his creed was right

And gave the sword a rest

They sat bside their fires and smoked

And found that peace was best.





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