A Recitation by Roy Irwin Alchin – Gunning 1907 by Garry Norman Smith The Goulburn Evening Penny Post (Saturday 28 December 1907, 6) reported on the annual Methodist Sunday School service at the Gunning Methodist Church. The newspaper described the church as “nicely decorated with greenery”. Among the names mentioned by the newspaper were Plumb, Wheatley, Alchin, Gazzard, Rudd and Timms. Methodist (Uniting) Church, Gunning The children’s program on this occasion was well-attended by children and their parents and “afforded a treat to the listener”. Among the children to present an item at the service was Roy Irwin Alchin, grandfather of the author. Eleven-year-old Roy joined his older sister Myra as part of the children’s participation. Myra gave a recitation of an anonymous poem “Papa’s Letter” while Roy recited the lyrics of a song “In the House of Too Much Trouble” (words and music by Will A. Heelan and J. Fred Helf). The words of Roy’s recitation were appropriate...
Upper Lachlan Shire, Southern Tablelands, New South Wales