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August 1957

AA Around the World

From Melbourne, Australia - News, comments and letters from and about AA's worldwide outposts and centers--gleaned from letters to the Grapevine and General Service Headquarters, and from the "AA Exchange Bulletin," published monthly by GSH. <emphasis typ

FRON MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA TO GSH. . . Enclosed please find a registration card for a recently formed new group. You will notice that it is named the G.P.O. (or General Post Office) Group and that we meet in a cafeteria situated in the General Post Office, Melbourne--rather an unusual meeting place! Briefly the story is that having had to vacate our usual place I began a search for alternate premises--a long, fairly hopeless one, too, in a rapidly growing city of about two million people. However, one day whilst having a cup of coffee in the canteen at the G.P.O. (where, incidentally, I am employed), it occurred to me that the welfare and training people of the Post Master General's branch should most certainly be interested in AA and its activities.

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