This Wandering Explorers segment provides ANARE Club Members with some information of the current exploits of other members, prepared by Mrs Rob and Doug Twigg.
People wishing to submit information for publication here can contact Mrs Rob at Room 135, Moubray House, Royal Freemasons Homes, 45 Moubray Street, Melbourne 3004, phone 03 9529 5990, or Doug Twigg by email drtwigg@melbpc.org.au (It is assumed that any information submitted is intended for publication in this segment.)
Andrew Goode (C.76) wrote last April from Ghana and gave his address. With Scott Anglesey (D.95) he was organising a midwinter dinner in the jungle. Sadly there was no wandering explorers column in the June newsletter so his invitation could not be passed on. Andrew was opening up another gold mine in Ghana. The address for contact: Wexford Goldfields Ltd. Wassa Mine, Western Region, Ghana, 32 Akosombo Road. Airport Residential Area Accra P.O. Box 16075 Airport P.O. Accra. Ghana. Telephone mine site 233 (0) 362-20469. Although coping with knee problems and about to have a second knee operation Ralph "Noddy" Fletcher sent news of a Chief Telegraph Office reunion held in Melbourne last march. Some of the old ANARE "salts" who attended were: Allan Moore (M.63, 65), Ted Giles (M.72, 74), Bruce "Gangles" Neilson (W.66, Q.69), Ron "Rita" Hayward (C.76), Frank "Narra" Johnston (M.68, 70, 74, Q.75), Peter McGrath (Q.63, M.65, W.67), Gordon Jones (C.74) and Geoff Butterworth (W.63, M.66). A very active ‘76 man John Gough came south to Geelong from Sydney for the Ulysses Motorcycle National Convention when over 5,500 motorcyclists attended. Their Club slogan - “Grow old disgracefully”. The editor John Gillies (M.67, C.69) has reported back for duty preparing this edition of the Aurora before sorting out the 1800 digital photos he took on a three and a half month trip around the world. He started off in the U.S.A. visiting Steve Kuhn (C.69) in San Francisco, seeing one of his sons in London, staying in the Lake District in the U.K. where he met John Illingworth (M.67) for a days rambling around Derwent Water then after a week in Cornwall had dinner with Ian Thomas (M.67). After that he went to France and spent two weeks on a canal boat with Phillip Johnstone (C.69) and Quentin Blades (C.69). Unfortunately his wife Maria sprained her ankle the second last day on the boat. After a bus tour through Spain Portugal and Morocco, they went by train to Holland to visit Maria’s relatives. Another bus tour for a week through Hungary, the Czech Republic and Austria, then flying via Frankfurt to St Petersburg to catch the Trans-Mongolian Railway through Russia, Mongolia, China to Beijing and finally home. Always looking forward to news so that Wandering Explorers can continue. WYLLA Mrs Rob.
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