September 2010 A monthly sitrep. for the Rhodesian Services Association Incorporated Registered under the 2005 Charities Act in New Zealand number CC25203 Registered as an Incorporated Society in New Zealand number 2055431 PO Box 13003, Tauranga 3141, New Zealand. Web: www.rhodesianservices.org E-mail
[email protected] Phone +64 7 576 9500 Cell +64 27 545 8069 Fax +64 7 576 9501 Please Note that all previous publications are available on line at www.rhodesianservices.org/Newsletters.htm Greetings, Another month has flashed by in which we have been kept occupied on all fronts. It was with some amusement that I heard the following conversation on Radio Sport on the Monday morning that followed the All Black vs Boks test in South Africa during Brendan Telfer's show. The other commentator was the former All Black selector Peter Thorburn: Telfer "That was a brave call by the South African TMO to award McCaw that try Peter" Thorburn "Yes indeed, I think he has gone to live in Rhodesia now" Rhodesia may have existed for less than 100 years but it certainly made a mark in history and it is about this that I am commenting on this month. After the memorial to Gen. Walls in Tauranga a few weeks ago I overheard two New Zealanders talking – both had been to Rhodesia and they commented on what kindly, hospitable and easy going people we were and how like ‘the old New Zealand’ we were. It is good to know that we were held in high regard and that people remember us for what we were.