He Became A Cobber
N 1931 and 1932 Dr. Wood was examiner in Australia for an English music college. From town to town his work took him, but he does not record his work, but his periods of play in between. Never a moment’s idleness. Whatever was to be learned in Australia, he learnt; whatever was to be seen, he saw. And such descriptions of it all in " Cobbers"!, His book must have made their great Australia better known to Britishers than ever before. Every back-block within foot reach he visited. And those two years made him sure that worth-while Colonials are just transplanted British men. He could see their types again in Suffolk when. he reached his home again. If ever a man bred in the professional circles of England became a cobber, he did. Whatever company he found himself in, he got the best from it and gave back of ‘his best. Dawn, and camp fires, bush men, the songs of old England and Waltzing Matilda to finish with-these things made an Australian of him and forged a strong link of
1 Empire.-
-(Book Review by Miss
G. M.
Glan
ville
3YA, February 11.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 89, 7 March 1941, Page 5
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196He Became A Cobber New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 89, 7 March 1941, Page 5
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