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The Abt Railway Society News Inc.
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A Note from the Secretary
Members male and female we need your help, we have been discussing the making of a society quilt. The quilt would need to be railway and wilderness ( bush )related it will measure 60 inches square and be made up of 10 inch X 10 inch blocks and boarders. The quilt once finished will be come part of the societies collection and be housed at the Queenstown station along with our other bits and pieces, So this is where we need your help and input can you make a 10 x 10 square or two or do a train related cross stitch a tree a Tasmanian animal, bird train or carriage, Or do you have a metal buckle, a mans metal fly zip, buttons railway, army air force. All these things are railway related and we can use them to make this project, So please give it some thought and become part of this project and send any thing to the Secretary
M L A R S Po Box 278 Queenstown 7467
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Child upset by 'Santa' sin - binning
Speaker David Hawker has been accused of upsetting a child by kicking Lyons
M H R Dick Adams out of Federal Parliament, The kid was upset according to Mr Adams because he was mistaken for Santa Claus. If any one could get away with the Santa defence it would be Mr Adams. The
labour M P has a magnificent white beard above Parliament's most generous girth. Mr Hawker on
Monday threw Mr Adams our for an hour. Yesterday Mr Adams rose in all
apparent seriousness and reminded Mr Hawker of this "very rare" sin binning.
" I have been informed by an attendant that we upset one of the children who was viewing Parliament who thought that you had asked Santa Claus to leave"
Mr Adams then asked if the speaker could consider this before passing future judgment. Mr Hawker was
unimpressed.
From the Advocate news paper 16th August 2006
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As the collection has started to grow items where needed from the Tasmanian Archives in Hobart to help tell the story of the line, Our main concern was how we were going to get them, after a chat with long time member Pat Hull saying that she would be in Hobart for a few days the question was asked yes was the answer so armed with notes and numbers Pat paid the archives a visit, A little bird did tell me that she arrived at 10 am and was seen being removed on closing time at 5 pm Thank you Pat for a job well done
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The annual raffle was draw at the annual general meeting on the 15th October and the winners are
M Steinkamp Kayena Tasmania, J Duncan Burnie Tasmania, and R Grey George town Tasmania, we thank the general manager of W C W R Mr Eamonn Seddon for the donation of the prizes and you the members for your on going support.
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