I'm very happy to welcome the public of the ITU telecom world in Busan for visiting the joint ITUR and ITUD pavilion. Concerning the ITUR pavilion, I mean the part of this pavilion which relates to ITUR activities, this exhibition shows the role of the ITUR sector in shaping the global ecosystem for regular communications which includes mobile broadband, satellites, television broadcasting and many other services which make our life easier and more pleasant and more efficient as well and the role of the radio sector of the ITU, the ITUR is to develop international regulations and global standards which enable huge economies of scale and worldwide interoperability and roaming of equipment. So we are this year celebrating the 90th anniversary of the ITUR study groups which started their work in 1927 contributing by their studies to enable new technologies as they were appearing in radio communications to be implemented in networks and equipment so that we have built over these 90 years a globally harmonized ecosystem which is sustainable and I think the longevity of the system is also highlighting the sustainability of what is produced by the ITUR process So today we are working on 5G, we are working on many new technologies in satellites and balloons and drones and if you visit this joint pavilion of ITUR and ITUD you will be able to see how in the last 90 years the ITU has been shaping the global ecosystem for regular communications The public at ITU Telecom World will also see this joint pavilion exhibition of members of the ITUR and ITUD sector to present their realizations, their achievements in past years as members of ITU


Well good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome here to the memorial service for the 80th anniversary of the Tarawingee fire. My name's Gary Nash and I'll be your master of ceremonies here this morning and I feel very honoured and privileged to conduct this service with you. Firstly I'd like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we've gathered and pay my respects to their elders past and present. Everyone welcome to our dignitaries. We have CFA CEO Natalia McDonald, our Chief Officer Jason Heffernan, CFA Board Member Ross Coyle, CFA Deputy Chief Officer Ross Sullivan, CFA AFCO in Steve Contessa, our CFA Chaplain in David Poole, CFBV Executive in Mr Adam Barnett, CFBV State President Samantha Collins, FRV Acting Deputy Commissioner Gary Mann, Red Cross State Manager of Emergency Services Fiona Norton, State Member of Parliament Mr Tim McCurdy and the Federal Independent Member for Indy, Helen Haynes and we have our Rural City of Wangerata Mayor, Councillor Dean Reece and Deputy Mayor, Councillor Harvey Benton. A very welcome to you all to this service. I have an apology also from Deputy Chief Officer in Gary Cook, known to many of us here and it's very rare for Gary to miss this service, he is State Duty Officer acting today. So ladies and gentlemen as we go through this service today, I'd ask you to cast your minds back to what it was like 80 years ago. Extreme weather conditions, hot dry winds and many of us have experienced this when you turn and face these winds, they're that hot, they almost list to your skin. The pastures similar to this but maybe a lot drier and 100% cured that as you walk across it, the grass fibres go into little microbes and that is really a massive thing to combat in a fire. The road bitumen out here, the reports say that it was bubbling so hot. So as we hear from our presenters today, just cast your mind back to those conditions that the community and firefighters have to contend with. So just remember what it may have been like. On remembrance, I'd like to call Mr David Gillard, the captain of the Tarroinji Fire Brigade, to do a reading on the call of remembrance. David. Friends, firefighters, we are gathered here in the sight of God as loyal citizens of Australia to honour the memory of those who dived in service, the CFA and our state. We have gathered at this time to let us thank God for the remembrance and sacrifice made for those members, some we know to us and some not known to us. We give thanks to their devotion of duty and will pray for those still mourning their sad loss. We ask we continue to do our duty and honourably walk in the service of the CFA and our community. Thank you David. Our next presenter is our Chief Fire Officer, Mr Jason Hevenin, who has a wealth of experience in firefighting and leads a great spirited organisation of volunteers in CFA. So I'd like to welcome Jason to a lectern. Good morning. Greater love has no man than this that he giveth his life for his friend. Today we come together to remember those brave and selfless firefighters who lost their lives while protecting the Tarroinji community 80 years ago. We honour the sacrifice and the memory of the 10 firefighters, eight men, two schoolboys, 14-year-old who lost their lives in service to their communities in fighting this devastating fire. Today we stop, reflect and acknowledge the family members, the mothers, the fathers, the sons, daughters, uncles, brothers and relatives who were all touched by this tragedy on this day 80 years ago. We acknowledge them, those that are with us here today and those that have passed before, in the sadness that they must have experienced at that time, but also the great pride that they may have had and must have had that their family members gave of themselves in protection for the district. What occurred on this day 80 years ago was the largest loss of emergency service personnel in Victoria's history at that time. And we must pause to remember the sacrifice that our emergency service personnel give and when they put their lives on the line on a daily basis to protect our communities. The Tarroinji fire, 1943, is a poignant reminder of the sacrifice that our members make and the danger that they face when they go out and protect their local communities. I pause right now. Some of you may not know that as I speak and as we sit here, the New South Files Fire Brigade and New South Files Royal Fire Service are putting to rest firefighter Michael Kidd who was killed only a few weeks ago during internal firefight. Again, a poignant reminder of the dangers that all our members not only hear in Victoria face, but also across the country. Regardless of the passing of the years, the shadow of the tragedy that stays with us, it will stay with the families, it will stay with the brigade members, it will stay with the community and it will stay with the CFA. However, the CFA must always honour and remember these fallen heroes. We must honour them by continuing our vital work and protection of communities. We must honour them by ensuring that we provide the best training, the best equipment, the best PPC to allow them to go out and do their vital work. We honour them by learning from these fires. We honour them by learning of the tragedies of the past so that we may improve things that that not be repeated into the future. And we come together and honour them by coming together today at this monument to pause and reflect on what occurred 80 years ago. In doing so, we will ensure that their lives live on in spirit and that they will never be forgotten. Thank you. Thank you, Jason, for that touching speech there about protection of our community and done by volunteers as well as many first responders in other emergency services as well as we go forward. The next is a reading, The Spirit of CFA, in which I mentioned before, we have an outstanding spirit within the volunteer organisation of CFA. And I can think of none better to perhaps come and do this reading, is a local Tarrawinji firefighter, recognised as firefighter of the year in Charlie McGrath. Thank you for all walks of life.  You help and protect us without wanting of recognition or reward. In our time of need, you are there, your courage and compassion are inspiring, your loyalty unquestionable.  You are the essence of the true meaning of community. You epitomise the Australian spirit, the spirit of CFA. Thank you Charlie, very poignant words, particularly when you think what we're celebrating or putting in memory today over this great sacrifice of these people here. Our next presenter, ladies and gentlemen, probably from a local perspective leads no introduction to us. He's a stalwart CFA volunteer of some 60 plus years, always with the Tarrawinji Brigade and has helped so much in always putting on this memorial service here for us to recognise the sacrifices of these wonderful people. I'd like to invite to the podium Mr Graeme Norman, extraordinary firefighter and a great proponent of CFA Graeme. Thanks Gary, I'm not as good as what he just told you so don't take that as gospel. It's great to see the turnout we've got here today, it's fantastic and I can imagine those 10 men, okay two of the boys, but 14 years old you were a man in those days. They're probably up there looking down on us and saying, well for us this by the look of it and I can just imagine them saying, you know if the fire didn't happen we wouldn't be here and there'd be no service. Well as we know the fire happened. Started down at Bowser about 4.30 in the afternoon, an open finding on how it started. We won't argue over that one. The local station master at Bowser Railway station rang Wenger Atta and set the alarm going and get wheels rolling and the Shire Wenger Atta municipal fire officer that's Bill Richardson was notified and they had to find a driver for this new elite firefighting unit. Probably wasn't brand new but it was pretty new. Way above anything else around the district. Anyway George McLaughlin was working in the menswear and Reed Street was the man they contacted. George made a dash down to where the truck was kept. It was kept at Dr Henderson's house. It's just on the first little bend on Rowan Street. I can remember the house there with a big hedge in front of it. They kept the fire truck there. When George got there Bill was already there and they got and sped out the fire. Meanwhile out on the fire ground a young fellow by the name of Ron Morrison was probably the first person to be there. Ron was about six days off, been 16 years old. He went with his knapsack, he got up the road and the car came along and said jump on the running board. Ron and I'll get you up to the corner, the Coleman's corner as we called it in those days where the Elgarado Road crosses the freeway. Anyway that was alright, he hung on the side of the car and got through up there. Meanwhile there was the odd farmer's truck turned up. One of them was a Wally Swan from over here in Laundragon. He had a 100 gallon square tank on his truck which the Tarrawidgy Brigade owned three of them and he had one of them and they had a hand pump. No motorer, just a hand pump on it. So of course he had to find somebody that was game enough to get up on that truck and work that hand pump. And that particular person happened to be a Dave Norman that had ridden his bike down and got on the truck and he worked the pump and he told me years later he said I went home that night, I never slept, my arm was that sore and my shoulders were no good and he said I never want to see another hand pump again in my lifetime. Anyway between them all there was some come from Bourham and Dockers Plains, McDonald's Ute and Laurie O'Keefe turned up in his truck with a couple of 44 gallon drums of water on board and he had nobody on the back but at that particular time young Kevin Dunkley, he was still home, his father had gone out to hunt the sheep in the yards to get them out of the case of fire come their way, the neighbour said oh you want to come Kevin, yep I'll come, Kevin finished up on the back of Laurie O'Keefe's truck so they tried to stop at the Eldrade Road, it just beat him when inter-Claude Yaimans and then inter Tom Norman's place and the owners were trying to get the livestock to the sheep out of the road, it crossed the what we call Croce's Lane, the elite fire truck run out of water so Bill Richardson told George get back to Wankerator and get it filled up and get back out here quick so away he went, anyway it was heading towards Jack Bell's house, a no-weatherboard house down there next to the reedy creek and at McDonald's you went down there they had 20 gallons of water on board which is not even a hundred litres, no doubt there would have been a tank full of water around the house somewhere but they saved that house and that house is still still been used this day right up the now and it will be in the future, meanwhile the the Bell told him Wankerator and there was a lot of people volunteers that decided well we've got to go out and help, there's a lot of people away at war so they organise themselves to get out there to help, the fire crossed the reedy creek it was only a cricket pitch in length when it crossed the reedy creek and at that particular time the captain of the Tarawindu Fire Brigade Arthur Stewart and his two nephews Ken and Harold Stewart they arrived there they had one knapsack which Harold had and one beater if you know what a beater is a strip of leather strips tied to a stick anyway they tried to light a burner break off a sheep track and the sheep track of course only about eight inches or 200 millimeters wide but anyway it beat them in the finish they couldn't hold it there was no they thought they had a sort of truck coming to help them but never turned up and I was always told by Ken Ellis from out of Greeter he was on his way out to help Ken Ken eventually finished up the group officer the Wankerator group in later years but there was petrol rationing in those days if you had any know anything about wartime and his his vehicle run out of petrol on this side of Wankerator on that one's highway so he said oh if I got there I would have had a water we would have stopped it but anyway didn't happen so it beat them at over that break meanwhile George McLaughlin come back with the Loot Fire Truck the volunteers from Wankerator I think some got on in Wang and the rest of them got on there at the Detour Road but it was about that time that Laurie O'Keefe they'd to get around on this side of the Breedy Creek and they had to go down the Croucher Lane and get on the Detour Road and it's just at that particular point is where young Claude Hill and his family lived and Claude and his mother were sitting out the front watching because it could have gone down that way too and because Claude would have seen young Kevin on the back and thought oh dear I wonder can I get on there and Laurie pulled up and yelled out you're coming with us Claude and Claude's mother said no too dangerous you know like that anyway Laurie said no we'll look after him we'll look after him they'll be that's a stop on the back they'll just soak the bags in the in the drums and give it to the men on the ground anyway she relented and let him go she found a pair of shoes for him and a hashing bag to take with him so he was on there with young Kevin so back on the fire front the decision was made to to leave there and come up and do a break on Whiten's Road just back down here he jumped the Crabhole Creek as we call it and also Brussels Road I think ducklings old house down there they had a bit of fun saving it but they did hit headed up this way them Bill and Arthur and the fire lighters were in front they got up the pedigree up to Whiten's Road down here and so we're going to burn a break here well the wind and the ash and the smoke was already coming over the top of them and they sort of said the fire lighters said oh we can't we can't see what we're doing we're going to get smothered and smoke and ash and and that and Bill says look get your hand here wet it and they said but we got no water with us how are we going to wet it his reply was oh P on it well you imagine how that would have went down plus the fact they would have all been dehydrated and they wouldn't have had any moisture in their bladder anyway so it was abandoned no we'll make we'll come up to Pettigate Lake we'll get up here quick and then we had the lake come up in front and the elite fire truck was traveling behind back a bit plus Bill Richardson's own fire truck which is son Wallace was driving Laurie O'Keefe with the two boys on the back were in that convoy here like the they come up down here fire was going that fast so I was struggling to keep in front of it that's how strong the wind that Gary referred to earlier they got around those two little bends up here and all of a sudden mother nature turned against them the fire actually split into two fronts one kept going through to Pettigate Lane and the other one just turned and come straight across here the they didn't have much time to think that hit them that quick and the ash and the smoke George thought he'd try to turn the truck around and go back well it wasn't quite righty it's a little bit further up there actually where where that happened but he couldn't see the table drain which you can see the table don't even there nowadays front wheel when in the table drain belly to chassis on the side of the road wouldn't move an inch if it wasn't for you know didn't have four wheel drives in those days so it's stuck so you can imagine the fire hit him you can imagine the confusion the panic and you know and they would have been all scared out of their wits what was going to happen some of them head behind trees some of some of the head behind trees did eventually survive some didn't some of them made a run for the river apparently the driver had got burnt on the way through but they would have had to get over the fence here probably might have been a person rough ends in those days I wouldn't know hit the place yeah they've copped it left right and center burnt the truck you've seen the failure of the truck and meanwhile there was some up here and had come over from Markwood there was John Marks and Arthur Wellings in and and the news agent from Wenger out of Vic Edgar he he was on board with them they got off their tractor grabbed some leaves off branches off trees the truck went off and left them behind Arthur got in a culvert John tried to make a run for the river didn't even make the fence and Vic got in a stationary car there and he always had a story that car apparently got a light he got out eventually he got very badly burned but the bitchman was boiling to him now if you know what degrees you've got to boil the bitchman out to get it to boil it's got to be at least 150 degrees Celsius so you'd imagine we'd rumble about been 40 degrees matter what those men went through that day it would have been horrific anyway back here on the local police officer he collected a few of them to take them in the hospital the another farmer from Upspringers come down here and his little truck said Humphrey he picked up well we've pretty sure it's three men we're pretty sure of the three PMG Leinsman he took them in on the back of his truck in the Wang he went down Templeton Street and for those and they wanker at it there's a row a hotel down there and they demanded that he pull up so they could get a whiskey at the pub which he truly did and they took him down the hospital one of two makes he walked in they wouldn't go in wheelchairs but but said didn't know who they were and what happened to him and he to our knowledge the whole three of them passed away which he didn't know until I told him one day the as far as the the other men went with a lot of it wasn't such a thing as an ambulance much in those days well there was one but it was the local funeral undertaker they used to use his hearth as a as an ambulance but a lot of people had to sort of as sort of said yeah we're in the back going to hospital two weeks later we were lower in the back in a coffin down to the cemetery so it was a long got carted in by just individuals and police officer along the line with a pretty a riffy scene that would have been here at the time the for you know after that the two boys they they got down got behind a log they both perished behind the log unfortunately and this the two up here that I mentioned before from Markwood but it was a you know just one of those things it was a frequent so do what it did that day I think if it happened this day and age I could hear some experts saying oh climate change caused that well so we had climate change back in 1943 at that rate but they it's it was a pretty you know traumatic they didn't pull fire up until they got to the way up here past over the ground with our wedgie road right up to Hodgson's Creek up there I know Harold Stewart that had the had the knapsack he went all walked all the way from down there ready creek right through to the end helping out the various landowners on the way through is it's just one of those I don't know how you know the ones who went to hospital I know in some cases I know I think this story is true like a doctor made him drink a hot long neck of beer straight down for you imagine what happened after that but those two survived they were pretty pretty good but but the story goes that they never drank another beer for the rest of their life the and of course they the doctors in the hospital wanted blood serum so a call went out to Melbourne to the Red Cross we've got a lady from the Red Cross here today there's gonna so few words but the clear call went out and they said oh we haven't got much and the doctor said look I want whatever you got anyway two ladies just transferred it from Melbourne to Wenger at her in a car on the here highway and the police the police commissioner given the okay to travel at whatever speed they were comfortable so you'd imagine the police probably sent messages through to each had to go through every little town on the way through in those days and they divided right and they they would have probably phoned through and said look trying to give them a right away through the town as I had to cross the line about four times by my calculations I don't think the trains we're going to pull up from but I made them three hours okay it might and sound real quick but in those days it would have been very quick and you can imagine driving up the road and no divided road so you had to be very careful if you're going to pass somebody not there would have been a lot of traffic on the road but a fair bit but they say oh it saved two people I reckon it would have saved more out of that tragedy the the funerals you know some of them died that day some died the next day and funerals were one after the other and the two boys were buried on Christmas Day well you'd imagine those families every Christmas day after that what they would have been thinking hit the premier of the state visited at the time he guaranteed that they would get a new fire truck and also some of the local brigades would get a fire truck as well the governor actually visited he apparently went around every family and said and paid his condolences to him and he actually donated a fair lump out of his own pocket towards the relief fund the relief fund I know got up to about 18 and a half thousand pound in those days and that was wartime and money was pretty tight along the line and this monument here in front the locals donated that the money to build that monument it cost a hundred and sixty pound in those days which is three hundred and twenty dollars imagine we wouldn't get much for three hundred and twenty dollars nowadays and probably wouldn't even get the bottom cement base on it but it was a great great thing for the locals to remember those men that come out to help the I know I haven't covered a lot of it but there's an information board up in the hall that's going to going to give you a little bit of a clue of what some people said that it's not all there but but you can have a look at that up in the hall but the other thing is the rule of the way we're at a group of published a book make tankers 10 now it does cover this fire it covers a lot of fires covers a history of all the brigades in this group and that's it there and they'll be for sale up at the at the hall and it's a great book you won't regret buying it got a good heart cover it'll last a lot of generations now I would say to the descendants of the deceased fire fighters I know you're probably the ones that were alive at the time when that happened and probably pretty young probably you would have been probably I found it very hard to you know the memories would be terrible but the next generation down and the generation after that we've had a generation you could have three generations of what I say to them stand tall and be proud of what your ancestors did that day they come out here to help the to protect us citizens and the landowners of this district no main feet and they sacrifice their life doing it now what we've got what I hope you can do is continue that story you know all that's are going to be dead and drawn is shortly and we've got to have people that continue on with that story and keep so I'm I'm asking all you younger ones descendants of these fire 10 deceased firefighters make sure that it gets in front of the media every year make sure that that monument there is there for a purpose we said to play respect to the those 10 men so I'm asking you and I know you can do it is to continue with the stories of this tragic fire you probably heard enough and Gary's probably wouldn't chuck me off here but I'll finish on this note and to the 10 men who lost their lives in that fire so the firefighters that survived that day that we're fighting a fire who have all passed away since may they continue to rest in internal peace and as it says on the front duty nobly done thank you very much Graham for that summary and of what the horrendous conditions that were out there and mother nature hasn't changed continues to throw up massive conditions for us in rural and regional Australia for firefighters and for citizens and out of that also the equipment that we really need to in which we still continue today to have on our tankers is that wonderful knapsack so that's a really integral part of our our equipment as we go forward and also it was very interesting with Graham mentioning a number of those names in his early part of his presentation I have had back many years ago the privilege of meeting some of those people and listening to the stories that they could talk about that fire and as with any situation with the emergency services there's an organization that we continue to rely on and have for many many many years in both nationally and internationally and that's the Red Cross and Graham alluded to that the support and the effort that they had in helping bring I suppose some of our people that were needing assistance and Red Cross stood up and was very tall so I'd like to call to the podium Fiona Norton on their Victorian State Manager for emergency services of Red Cross ladies and gentlemen colleagues and honored guests I acknowledge the traditional owners on the lands on which we meet and I pay my respects to elders past present and emerging today we gather to commemorate the lives of those affected by the devastating bushfires that swept through this region in 1943 in recognition of their unimaginable loss we come together to remember honor and celebrate those involved as we stand together and reflect on the fierce and unpredictable nature of disasters in this country we pay tribute to the spirit that defines us in the face of adversity and of the grit of those who responded and to those who step and stepped up to support them in reviewing the Red Cross archives in preparation for today's memorial I found that the terror wingy bushfires of 1943 stand as an indelible chapter in our shared history that galvanized our collective strength and established a legacy of collaboration that has carried forward to the present day it was compelling yet humbling experience to read about the contribution of Red Cross for those impacted by the bushfires at the time Australian Red Cross was actively feeding clothing and caring for those impacted by World War two this preparation and dedication paid off when Victorians needed at most stockpiled supplies were dispatched to devastated areas along with volunteers offering solace and support to families and communities grappling with the aftermath while understanding the solemnity I couldn't help but smile when reading about the plucky Red Cross girls and could vividly picture them driving at speed through winding roads and smoke to get blood serum to those who were injured some of whom were undoubtedly saved by that pluck the courage and resilience demonstrated in 1943 is just as evident and strong in those who respond to disasters today as we reflect on the significance of the terror wingy bushfires we pay tribute to the spirit of those affected and involved in closing let us remember that while disasters can shape us they don't define us rather we are defined by the legacy of compassion community and shared humanity that we have all built together and will continue to nurture into the future thank you Fiona Graham's presentation mentioned calling on our younger generation to continue on with the cause and the and the quest of what these this sacrifice meant and I guess our next speaker Mara Spencer from across right across the ditch not just across from Tasmania but from New Zealand is a great granddaughter of Godfrey Spencer I'd now like to ask her to come forward and present her speech my name is Maya Spencer and I am the great granddaughter of Godfrey Spencer to Graham's point it is an honor and a privilege to be here today Pericles once wrote you leave behind not what is engraved in stone monuments but what is woven into the lives of others and I think we are all living proof that that statement is true I never knew my great grandfather however like many of you here I have grown up with the stories of their heroic fight in this very spot 80 years ago even though I was born and raised in New Zealand my Victorian heart still beats strong kept alive by regular visits to Wangerata which has always included a compulsory visit to this monument and also the Beechworth lolly shop thanks to my late uncle Jim Gregory and his meticulous record keeping I have at least had an insight into Godfrey's life like many others of his time he was a world war one veteran joining the 38th battalion in the Australian imperial force fortunately he survived this war and was awarded the military bravery medal for his courage in the battle of Mercedes in Belgium however on this day in 1943 that bravery we put him on the truck to Tarawindy with such tragic consequences for eight men and two boys we remember here today little did he know that for generations afterwards his memory and legacy in our family became far-reaching and in each generation we have paid our part to serve the communities all in the same way his own daughters one in the Australian Army Medical Woman service served in Japan the other a king community advocate until her 90s in Wangerata his nephew in the Royal British Navy and his grandsons New Zealand Coast Guard and the other in the Kabago CFA and finally to me a volunteer firefighter in New Zealand we're all proud and privileged to keep serving our communities in the same way that he did however I'm sure our family is not alone in this with multiple generations involved in the CFA all with the same common purpose. According to Jim's records I found a newspaper clipping from the Wangerata Chronicle Dispatch in 1944 that states this monument will be a lasting tribute to the future generations of men who have given their lives while helping others looking at you all here today with a descendant CFA or part of the wider community I am sure you will all agree that this has certainly achieved this so to my great-grandfather Godfrey Spencer and the nine others who courageously fought this fire 80 years ago to the past to the current community members of the CFA thank you for your service your legacy will live in the hearts and minds of everyone for generations to come. Thank you for those very kind words and so I think Graham things will continue along exceptionally well for us there. So next stage of our service the ladies and gentlemen is the wreath laying and these will be taken around and laid at front of the memorial stone our first wreath party will be our CFA board member Mr Ross Coyle and a junior member from the Ororado Brigade in Rachel McKenzie our second will be CFA Chief Officer Jason Heffernan accompanied by Springhurst Brigade junior member Emily Lewis thank you followed with our CFA Chief Executive Officer Natalie McDonald and junior Springhurst Fire Brigade member in Matilda Lewis thank you next we have our VFBV Chief Executive Officer Adam Barnett and VFBV State President Samantha Collins thank you to Tara Wingy District Fire Brigade with Charlie McGrath and junior member from the Wangerator Urban Scarlett McAndrew thank you Libby next our Wangerator Group represented by Group Officer Lachlan Giles and a junior member from the Wangerator Urban Kayla Joss we have the Victorian State Manager Emergency Services Red Cross Fiona Norton and junior member from the Wangerator Urban Brigade Emma Joss representing the Ural City of Wangerator is Deputy Mayor Harvey Benton and accompanied by junior member from Wangerator Urban Brigade Jack Ambrose following next we have Mr Tim McCurdy State Member thank you Tim and I'd like to invite any other members of the community here today that if you'd have anything a wreath or flowers well thank you very much well done everybody apologies beautifully done thank you anyone else has something thank you well the next part of our service is the Roll of Honour and this will be read out by Tara Wingy Captain David Gilbert and the bell told by Lieutenant Jameen Google Honor Roll Godfrey Spencer 53 School Teacher Wangerator Andrew Joseph Godfrey 45 Farm Manager Tara Wingy John Walson Home Mark 29 Farmer Markwood Arthur Lizzie Wellington 46 Farmer Markwood Theodore Luke Leah 32 Foreman Huntons but Bacon Factory Wangerator Postal Linesman Wangerator Lawrence Seymour 33 Telephone Linesman Wangerator Norman Johnson Robinson 49 Postal Linesman Wangerator Kevin Dunkley 14 Schoolboy Longwigan Henry Claude Hill 14 Schoolboy East Wangerator thank you final part of our service is coming up here ladies and gentlemen and that's the reading of the fireman's prayer and I'd like to welcome to the podium Deputy Chief Officer Ross Sullivan when I'm called to duty god wherever flames may rage grant us the strength to save lives whatever be their age help us embrace a little child before it's too late we'll save an older person from a horror of that fate enable us to be alert and hear the weakest shout to quickly and efficiently put the fires out we want to fulfill our calling and be the best we can in guarding our every neighbour and protecting their property and if it be while on the job I should lose my life please bless with your sustaining hand all those I've loved in life amen thank you Ross and that comes to the conclusion ladies and gentlemen of our service and obviously none of these things occur without a great deal of work both from the Tarrawinji local brigade and the district 23 and then moving further fulfilled to our CFA headquarters in in Melbourne so thank you and congratulations to everybody that put this service together it's very very fitting and very very well done also thank you for coming out yourselves and recognizing the great sacrifices the family and community have done here over the over the 80 years ago and they continue to do in in the northeast here of Victoria so thank you very much we look forward to getting you back to the Tarrawinji Hall where there's some light refreshments there for you and also we wish you a very happy and safe Christmas there and talking of Christmas if you're looking for a great gift to give to family you could not go past mate tankers 10 we've actually went to the extent to have our authors sign them so there's quite a few copies up there with the authors signature and for $40 I would suggest it's a $50 to $60 book so it's a great great investment for the future so thank you very much and we'll make arrangements to get you back to Tarrawinji good good morning


If you're looking to start selling online, but you're not entirely sure how to start or what to start, then you stumbled across the right video. In today's video, we're gonna be talking about six different e-commerce examples that you can start right now. Now, I'm pretty sure everyone knows that nowadays absolutely everything is online, from ordering different services to ordering pretty much any product that you can, all the way to ordering even groceries. If you're looking for it, you can find it online. These six different business examples that I'm about to give you are probably some of the easier ones to start. And best of all, there's some of the easier ones to scale. So if you're looking to start a business from the ground up and actually put in work to be able to scale it and ultimately make some pretty good money off of it, then make sure you watch this video all the way through. Now, the first e-commerce business that we're gonna talk about is gonna be wholesaling and warehousing. Now, this is actually probably one of the easier ones because all you need is a little bit of space in your house or wherever it is that you're living. What this business model consists of is ordering products in bulk and keeping them stored away for whenever you get an order. Now, you can choose to sell directly to customers or you can even sell them at wholesale prices to retailers around your area or throughout the country or wherever it is that you're selling in. Now, some of the good things about this is the fact that one, you can pretty much choose absolutely any product that you want. As long as there's demand for that product, people are gonna be ordering it and stores are gonna be ordering it. Two, you can save a lot of money by simply buying in bulk. When you purchase one item, it's probably gonna be marked up almost double, triple or even four times the price. When purchasing in bulk, you will be getting some pretty deep wholesale discounts. Now, another awesome thing about being able to carry your own inventory is the fact that you can easily access and you can easily control all of your inventory. So, you know how much you have on hand. So whenever your inventory reaches zero, you know to stop selling them.  Storing your own inventory can really help avoid that. Now, while wholesaling and warehousing is a great business model to start, it also means you need to make sure that you need to order some so that way you don't run out.  So when you decide to purchase 30 of a particular product, you're gonna have to pay for all 30 of those products and on top of that, you might also have to pay for shipping, which when you ship in bulk, it can get pretty pricey. Now, at the same time, you also do need to figure out your own logistics and your own shipping system.   Quite some time ago, I started to sell some phone cases and I ordered a lot of them. And when I say a lot, I mean I ordered a lot. I accidentally ended up ordering too many and I stayed with more than half of the inventory. That was all dead inventory that is no longer gonna move because those phone models are old. They're history at this point. So I'm stuck with dead products that I'm never gonna sell and I lost that money. Now, of course, with a proper inventory management system and being aware of how much you're actually selling and how much you're purchasing, you can avoid these different problems. But it's always worth mentioning both the advantages and the disadvantages because at the end of the day, it's very possible to go down the wrong route and go through the wrong business model and get discouraged because of how many problems you face. So it's good to know what you could potentially go through before you actually go through it. Next up, we have manufacturing and white labeling. And this is actually one of my favorites because I think this is an absolutely awesome way to be able to brand yourself and brand your products.  So they can customize it with your colors, your brand name, they can customize the packaging, and they can even customize the item itself. One awesome thing about being able to brand your own products is the fact that you can sell them at higher marked up prices. People are gonna be paying more for brand name products rather than generic products, even if they don't know that brand all that well. Now, when you are creating your own brand and when you're customizing your items, that of course is gonna end up coming with a higher price tag. While you can't sell them at higher prices, they're also gonna be a bit more expensive for you to manufacture. But just like with any customized good, that's just gonna be the norm. It's normal to pay extra for customized or personalized goods.  So when you're working with some manufacturers, a lot of the times, some people like to give them way too many specs and too many details on how they want a product to be. And when they receive it back, it's not gonna be what they expect. While yes, you should always have high expectations for your products, especially if you're making your own brand. You also have to be realistic about things. Don't overly complicate your design. Don't overly complicate the instructions that you're giving these manufacturers because a lot of the times these manufacturers are gonna be located overseas, typically for the most part in China, which that in itself can create some sort of a language barrier. So try to keep it simple. Of course, keep it the way that you want it, but keep the instructions simple, keep them clear and try not to overcomplicate it. Now, with that being said, the production process can potentially be a little bit longer. But of course, since we are customizing our products, that is to be expected. Now, when it comes time to actually fulfilling orders and sending out these products, you are gonna have two different options. Sometimes you can have them drop shipped.  But you also have the option to be able to keep inventory in-house. Now, really quick before we continue, if you're finding this information helpful, if you're finding it useful, if you like it, please make sure you hit that like button and also make sure you hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on any future videos. Next up at number three, we have one of my favorite business models and that is drop shipping. Now, of course, most of us are gonna know, but for those of you that don't drop shipping is simply a fulfillment business model. You're simply just rerouting orders.  Whenever you receive an order, you're gonna go ahead and reroute that order directly to your supplier. So you're gonna be placing the order with your supplier. They're gonna take care of the shipping handling and they're gonna update you with the tracking number once that's all done. At that point, it's up to you to notify your customer and the platform that you're selling on what that tracking number is and you're pretty much done. It's all there is to it. You sell the product for $100 and you're sourcing it for $50. The remaining balance of $50 is your profit. That's so easy. Now with drop shipping, you do have quite a few different advantages. For one, it has a very low entry barrier. It's something that's extremely easy to get started in and it's fairly easy to scale. As long as you do the proper research, put in the proper work and don't give up. It's something that's gonna take some testing, but at the end of the day, it's worth it because it's something that you can really scale to end up becoming some sort of passive income. Aside from that, you don't have to worry about inventory.  You're not gonna be stuck with any dead products and you can do this from pretty much anywhere. As long as you have a laptop or even just a phone, you can get started drop shipping. Let's get started.  But let's be realistic. In my opinion, it's totally worth it for the simple fact that at the end of the day, you're not really doing much. You're just rerouting orders.  So always make sure to order a sample, read reviews on the seller and on the item itself. Make sure that people are happy with that particular product so that way you can make sure that your customers are gonna be receiving high quality products because if they don't, more than likely you're gonna get chargebacks, returns and people are just not gonna purchase at your store anymore. Another quick thing that I wanna note about drop shipping is the fact that there's a lot of competition. But just like in any other business, there is gonna be a lot of competition. The difference with drop shipping is the fact that it's so easy to actually get started. Everyone wants a piece of it. In order to be able to succeed in drop shipping, one of my personal recommendations is work on your marketing. Make sure you learn how to stand out and how to get noticed. Be unique and try hitting your marketing from different angles. Once people start to notice you, then it's just gonna be all downhill from there. Now, one really big thing I do wanna mention about drop shipping that I absolutely love is the fact that if you have a drop shipping business, you can benefit from automation. So take, for example, using AutoDS. Whenever we're in AutoDS, we have the option to automatically import any product that we want. And whenever we get an order, we can automatically fulfill that order as well. If our suppliers are running out of a particular item, AutoDS can detect that and adjust our inventory accordingly. Also, if you don't exactly know what to sell, AutoDS also offers a winning product section. On here, you're gonna have tons of different items that are currently trending, have a proven track record, and it's all backed by data. So take, for example, this really cool lighter right here. So this is a little oil tank lighter. And let me show you something extra that AutoDS offers you. So in the winning product section, you get a little bit of extra analytics to be able to help you actually market your product. And it can give you more or less of an idea of how much you can make. So you get a profit analysis for one. So you can see that it's being sold for about $36.98. And you can source it for a measly $7.88. That gives you a profit potential of about 25 bucks. That's not bad. You also get an example of Facebook ad over here. This Facebook ad is actually currently running for this particular product. As you can see, the interactions are pretty good. 6.4,228 comments and over 500 shares. Now, if you wanna get similar results to this Facebook ad, we also give you a target demographic example. So let's say in this case, it's geared towards both males and females between the ages of 25 and 50 with interests in vintage and retro aesthetics, collectibles, smoking enthusiasts, outdoor activities and a few more. Not only that, but if you wanna learn how to be able to structure your own website, to be able to sell this item, we also give you the link to a website that actually sells it. So as you can see, by using AutoDS, you can really start to learn how to get started in drop shipping. And you can use all of these different tools to your advantage to help you succeed. So let's say I actually want to import this product into my store. All I have to do is click on import draft. From there, it's gonna go to my draft section where I can make any necessary adjustments. I can change the title. I can go ahead and add it to any collections if I'm selling it on Shopify. I can add any tags to it. I can change the shipping method and I can also change the description. Now, one cool thing is the description and the product title, you can optimize them with AI directly on the platform itself. Aside from that, you can also change the variance, which right on here, you can also go ahead and change the prices based on a few different factors. And you can add, edit, or delete any images as well. All of this from one single screen. Now, as you can see with drop shipping, automation can really help you out. It can really help you start to be hands off with your business. So that way you can start reinvesting your time into different aspects of this same business. Now, if you do wanna check out AutoDS, you can get started right now for the trial period for just $1. Now, also, if you want everything that I'm talking about in a quick and easy to reference written format, I'm gonna have a cheat sheet to go along with this video. If you want access to that, just go ahead and comment down below, hashtag e-commerce, and let me know which one of these e-commerce business models is your favorite. Once I see that you went ahead and did that, I'll go ahead and reply back with a link to the cheat sheet. Up next, we have print on demand. Now, print on demand consists of being able to customize a lot of different products with your own designs. Personally, I absolutely love print on demand. I think it's a really cool service. Basically, what it does is it gives you the option to be able to design your own products. So you can put your own designs on cups, mugs, mouse pads, shower curtains, shirts, shorts, hoodies, skateboards, posters, pretty much anything that you can think of, you can print on. Now, when it comes to print on demand, you, of course, don't have to take care of any inventory. Just like dropshipping, all you do is you place the order with your service provider and they take care of the rest. It also has very low startup costs. Really, all you have to do is pay for the item itself whenever you get an order. Now, with print on demand, I do suggest that you test out different print on demand providers. Some might have better printing processes than others. So some products might have more vibrant colors. Some others might end up being a little bit blurry because of the printing process. So it's always best to check out the different printing services that you have, order a sample or two, and just see how it comes out. Now, just like dropshipping, print on demand also has some pretty high competition. So try to stand out with your designs. Get unique designs. Don't try to sell designs that everyone is selling. Try to be unique, come up with your own. And again, try to stand out with your marketing. Up next in our number fifth spot, we have subscription services. Now, a subscription service is not a one-time purchase.  Now, the cool thing about this is that you can offer either a subscription service so you can offer a service or you can offer something like a monthly product. Now, when somebody signs up for your subscription, you can easily start to calculate or predict how much you're gonna be making afterwards. As long as this customer stays subscribed to your service or your product, you're gonna keep getting every single month or every single week that same amount of money. Now, if you provide an amazing service or an amazing product that people absolutely love and keep coming back for, you can be set for life with four-life customers. There can be customers that are willing to pay years on end for whatever it is you're offering. But with that being said, at the same time, you also have to remember that if you're offering, let's say, a product, you are gonna have to be coming up with something new every single month, whether it be a new product or a new theme, whenever it comes time to offer that service or product, you have to make sure that you send them something different or something unique. Also, you have to be on top of your quality because your customers are gonna expect the same quality, if not better, each and every time. So if you send out a great product one time and then the next time you send out a product that is either cracked or scratched or just doesn't really work, they're gonna be pretty upset and they're probably gonna end up emailing you, maybe asking for a refund or just asking for a replacement. And honestly, at that point, it's best to avoid all that. So just make sure you stay on top of your quality. And last but not least, you can start selling on online marketplaces such as Amazon or eBay. Now, when it comes to these two different marketplaces, you can very well just go ahead and go to a store, purchase a bunch of inventory and sell it on those two marketplaces. The same way that you do that, you can also go to a garage sale, find some pretty valuable antiques and sell them on eBay. Selling on a marketplace gives you access to a huge demographic of people, pretty much anybody and everybody, especially if you're selling on eBay or Amazon. Everyone buys on those two platforms. Now, one great thing about selling on a marketplace is the fact that you have organic traffic.  You can if you wanna reach a wider audience. But realistically speaking, you don't have to actually spend any money to be able to market your products. As long as you're selling something that's trending, something that's unique and something that offers some sort of value to your customers, people are gonna be searching for it and people are gonna be making the purchases. Also, people trust these marketplaces. Whenever somebody goes to Amazon or to eBay, they trust making their purchase because it's such a widely known platform. But because of that, there's also gonna be a lot of competition. So again, as I keep mentioning, make sure you offer great products, take good pictures, present it well whenever you're showing it off in any pictures and make sure you stand out with your marketing. Now, when you are selling on these types of platforms, one thing that you really do need to watch out for is gonna be the different types of fees. Always research the different types of fees that they have and make sure you're not underpricing your items. So that way you're not losing a lot of money. Now, those are six different e-commerce business examples that you can get started in right now. Hopefully you found this video enjoyable. I know it was a pretty quick one, but this is something to really help you just get started in the e-commerce world. Remember that if you want everything that I talked about here, it's all gonna be readily available to you in the form of a cheat sheet. And if you want access to that, just go ahead and comment down below, hashtag e-commerce and let me know which one of these was your favorite. Huge thank you to all of you for watching, especially if you made it all the way to the end. Please make sure you hit that subscribe button and you hit that like button if you enjoyed this video. So that way you don't miss out on any future videos. Once again, my name is Mario with AutoDS and I'll catch you guys next time.


Hello, and welcome once again to the rugged rockhound. It's been a couple of busy weeks. I've had some pretty long business trips I'm so glad they're over. I don't care much for business trips, but it's part of the job Anyway, I haven't really responded to comments for a few weeks, too So I'm sorry about that. I know maybe some of you have been like, oh, where did he go? Just haven't been able to get around to responding to comments So hopefully today I'll get some comments responded to and throughout next week Also while I was out, I did manage to get to Utah and went out rockhounding with Tim And we went down to the agates near Eureka and we found some pretty sweet stuff. So Stay tuned for that video. I just haven't had time to put it together because I've had to I've got to cut everything I've got to take a lot of footage and go through it So I'll get through that next week. So you'll see that video next week But I wanted something today at least I know it's Saturday, but I wanted to do something So I just quickly went and cut some things We're gonna show you what I cut and Yeah, hopefully that'll be a lot of fun And moving forward just a little bit. Uh moving forward. We are I'm going to be trying to just do one video week It's really difficult for me to try and also do a video like Monday Tuesday Even if it's just a rockhounding video, it's just that busy right now for me So I'm just gonna do one video every week. I'm gonna try and get it back to Friday at 4 p.m Mountain time because that's the traditional So I'm gonna try and get back to that and I'll get out as many rockhounding videos as I can and then when I just can't I'll just do a cutting video. So that's what it's gonna be like for at least probably at least a couple months And maybe things will get better after that. Maybe I'll have more time and I can go back to doing two videos a week That would be cool Anyway, that's just where things are at right now. Okay, let's get into the cutting and see what we found today No cut open today For the first one today, I decided to start with some red agate that I think was from the drum mountains And at this side shattered but this side's pretty nice This might also have been from that other spot Up by the little moab area chimney rock Here's this kind of jasper agate thing that was just sitting around in my stuff Let's see what's in it Okay, interesting little yellow line there. Yeah, it's not that great. It's really dark.  Those have got some nice lines in it Nice banding Cool Here's some of that purple jasper that I found out near enterprise reservoir Oh nice Nice and purple inside Cool Some more vernin wonder stone. I went ahead and cut it twice. Here we go Very nice And the next one Oh even better beautiful stuff Some more petrified wood from Nevada looked really nice right there. Let's see Oh, where'd the color go? Turned all brown Oh, well, it's still pretty Here's a nice little jasper nodule from out by yellow cat It's very red. I like the circle in it though a little bit of yellow Not bad Here's another dugway geode. It's a triple and then it shot it broke when I tried to cut into it See if I can hold it that piece fell, but yeah, that's a nice one still look at that really clear Agate inside of this one Or calcini That's a little banded we can call it agate. Yeah That's a nice one Here's a nice little Kind of agate something going on here Let's take a look Okay Very interesting stuff I wonder if maybe Along there if I cut it differently it might look really cool. It's cool.  That one's mostly Agate calcini quartz Look at all that That's a really cool one Very nice Here's a little bit more of that Jasper From out by enterprise this one really shattered But these were the two nice nicer pieces that came from it some yellow in there And last for today. I've got a little bit of wonder stone from selina Let's see how it turned out Okay, no black in this one, but it's got some of those purple bands in it And there we go. That looks really cool Hold it like that Nice There you have it some really nice stuff as always the cutting is just kind of fun Sometimes, you know exactly what you're going to get and sometimes you just don't know and it can be a lot of fun and Yeah, I hope you enjoyed it so Next week Stay tuned gonna have a good rock hounding video with tim going out collecting some of those agates near ureka Pretty sweet stuff And also just so you know, I am looking into maybe starting to sell things get a business license Set up maybe an online shop and start selling things. So I am looking into that But it'll probably take a couple months before anything will actually happen with it So anyway, those of you who might be interested in purchasing some stuff Hopefully that'll happen in the near future until next time. Remember there is treasure everywhere