Gundagai is a curious place, with that cafe/shrine to Curtin; its marble
palace at the info centre; and that forlorn bronze dog waiting on its
eternal bronze tuckerbox.
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Off the Hume Highway, safe from
> its heavy Melbourne-Sydney
> hard drivers, I recommend
> on your way to Canberra
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> you pause at Gundagai -
> bypassed by the highway,
> money and progress - here
> fall for the Niagara Cafe.
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> Here in 1942
> Chifley and Curtin and two
> lesser statesmen lingered
> over country food considering
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> the almost inevitable
> Japanese invasion. General
> MacArthur, had he been on hand -
> would he have thought Australia
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> worth defending? Yet back home
> in his own country, doubtless
> places like Gundagai, remote
> negligible and forlorn,
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> also had their moments
> when the traffic of armies
> and destruction echoed
> suddenly close and loud.
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> Cafe Niagara, indeed.
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> Max Richards (now back home)
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