This week in history: December 19, 1924
A hospital matron extends a Christmas invitation, Mannum prepares for New Year's Day sport and GR Handley overhears a conversation.
From the archives of the River Murray Advocate, December 19, 1924...
Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital
The matron of the Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital wishes us to say that the building will put on festive attire on Christmas Day, and those in the wards made to feel the spirit of the season.
She gives a cordial invitation to any who would care to pay a visit to the hospital.
Gifts of old linen are always most acceptable.
New Year’s Day sports
The old established Mannum New Year’s Day sports will be held on January 1 as usual, but under the management of a property constituted club which is affiliated with the SA Athletic League.
A good program of athletic and aquatic events has been issued, the principal of which are a £20 Sheffield, £5 5/ hurdles and a £5 5/ 75 yards handicap, nominations for which are due with the honourable secretary – Mr JW Rawnsley – tomorrow.
This meeting by the riverside is always popular and draws a big crowd.
As in previous years, the profits of this sports gathering will be devoted to reducing the debt on the recreation ground.
The things that we see and the things that we hear in and around the town
“The Barwell boys are a useless lot, like all the Pommies,” was a remark that caught my ear in Bridge Street on Monday.
Two local men were talking, and one ventured the remark, “The Pommies took good care not to enlist when the war was on.”
I felt inclined to give that gentlemen the lie direct.
As a fact, he was one of the eligibles who asserted loudly that Australia had done enough and he was not going to enlist.
He was entitled to his opinion, but there were others who thought different at the time.
It was a hard time for some of us who held different opinions.
We were subjected to much abuse, but not from the genuine anti-conscriptionist.
The abuse came chiefly from the eligible shirker.
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