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From the Archives - Minutes of General Meetings, from 26th June 1957 to August 1970 - Part 1, 1957-1959.
From the Archives - Minutes of General Meetings, from 26th June 1957 from August 1970 - Part 2, 1960 - 1962
In our Archives we have two minutes books, the first starts with the minutes of the initial meeting held on the 14th October 1954 & ends with minutes of the meeting held 11th March 1955.
The second (the red book) is missing pages from the front, with the first dated page from the minutes of the 26th April 1957 General meeting, & the final minutes in the book are from the 1978 Annual General Meeting. Later minutes are in 2 red books & 2 blue folders.
Minutes of the Bush Music Club, 14th October 1954 to 11th March, 1955 The minutes of the first 5 months of the Club are in a cheap school exercise book, written in pencil and pen and ink (ballpoint pens were new & expensive!) Alan Scott was elected as Secretary/Treasurer so probably wrote them up. They finish with the Minutes for 11th March, the date of the next meeting is written in, but the following pages have been torn out.
Red covered Minutes books have been used for a long time to keep Minutes safe & accessible, so our Red book probably continued on from the first Minutes book (a logical reason for not filling up the exercise book), but as the earliest pages are missing we'll never know. As some of the loose pages were out of order, I numbered every page.
The Red book includes General meetings from April 1957 to August 1970, and Annual General meetings from 1958 to 1978. Annual General Meetings were normally held in February or March.
The incomplete Minutes of the Conference held on the 9th of February (1957), at the Esperanto Hall, Milson's Pt., Sydney were included in front of the Red Minutes book, although they had never been pasted in. Perhaps the last page had been pasted in & the weight of these minutes tore them from the page????? (another supposition, not a fact.)
Neither the missing page/s from the Conference Minutes, nor the missing pages from the Red Minutes book have been found in Archives, so we have no record of meetings between 11th March 1955 and the incomplete minutes of the General Meeting on 26th April 1957.
Note - Minutes of meetings between 11 March 1955 & June 1957 appear not to have been taken - see From the Archives - Minutes of General Meeting from 26th June 1957 to august 1970 - Part 1, 1957-1959 Minutes of the General Meeting of The Bush Music Club Friday 26th June, 1957, p. 003. General Business - Mr Harry Kay moved that minutes be taken at General Meetings. Seconded Mr Alex Hood, Carried. (unfortunately Alex Hood does not remember this motion - phone call Jan 2021)
Dale Dengate has mentioned that in the early 60s the men often played music while the women conducted business - if it wasn't for the women, the club might have had no-where to meet, or even collapsed!
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| 1 - 114 General Meeting 9-1-68 Chairman - Frank Maher. Present
: Thirty members. Minutes of previous meeting were read
& received. Motion H.Glendinning/J.Carlin - Carried. The
Executive Report was read & received. Motion
J.Wakefield/J.Carlin - Carried. No business arising. No General
business. Farewell to Chris Woodland. MC of 1967. The
President spoke on behalf of the Club praising th4ee work done by
Chris and M.C.; in particular his good work in developing
attendance at Tuesday night Club Meetings. A pewter mug
(inscribed) was presented to Chris by the President. Chris thanked
the Club & said he would never forget the friends he had made
through his association with the B.M.C. signatures F.Maher & D.Dengate |
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| 2. 114A - Report to General Meeting from Executive Jan 68. The Executive set about planning another active year for the Bush Music Club. Dates decided upon will be found in a Newsletter now being printed. Three "Singabout"evenings are planned on Saturday 23rd March with an Irish theme, Sat 15th June with a Lawson theme and Sat 12th October to celebrate our 14th Anniversary. Beer and Cheese nights have been planned each month to celebrate famous Australians or Australian events, the first being on Tuesday 23rd January for the Australia Day commemorations. A picnic is to be held on Sunday 18th February, 1968 with an evening campfire to follow if there are not fire restrictions. The Secretary reported difficulty in |
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| 3. 114B - contacting Mr. R. Robinson so that the National Song Competition could be finalised. The Treasurer reported that during Nov-Dec the Expenses were $69.92. (printing of "Singabout" not yet paid for) Credit was $215.68 and the Bank Balance stood at $615.68. It was moved that we adopt the practice of not sending a receipt for bills paid by cheque unless asked for, Membership fee to pay for subscriptions excepted. The Editor reported that "Singabout" Vol 2, no. 6 is out, and two are planned for this year. The Editors are compiling material but need more., especially serious articles. The Concert Party leader reported continued activity and the acceptance of invitations to functions at Gulgong & Tuena. |
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| 4. 114C - The resignation of Chris Woodland from the position of MC was regretfully received. It was moved that the rotating M.C. system be adopted till the Annual General Meeting. The Annual General Meeting and election of 1968 officers is to be held Tuesday 20th February, 1968. |
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| 5. 116 - Minutes of General Meeting 13-2-68 Chairman : H. Glendinning. Present : 20 members. Minutes of previous meeting read & received. Motion - Wendy Brooks/Caroline Purser Carried. Motion - Lindsay Thompkins/Brenda O'Connor - Carried. No general business or business arising from the previous reports, so meeting closed 8.30pm. Typed report is 2nd page of AGM minutes on pp.117 & 118, p.119 newsletter |
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| 6. 120 - General Meeting 11-3-68 & General Meeting 2-4-68 - |
General Business 2/4/68 General Meeting 7-5-68
General Business 2/4/68 - Motion J.Meredith/L. Abb -
Carried that raffles be held on beer & cheese nights, and that the
article raffled (book, record etc) be relevant to the event or person
being celebrated. Discussion on publications followed,
Meeting closed
8.45pm. D.Dengate signature .
General Meeting 7-5-68 - Chairman : H. Glendinning. Present : 20 members. Minutes of previous meeting seen & received. Motion - Merro/Wendy Brookes - Carried. The Executive's report was read and received - Motion - Caroline Purser/Ken Greenhalgh - Carried. There was no business arising from this report. General Business.
John Meredith spoke on the next "Singabout"magazine. Although it has
been billed as a quarterly magazine in most years it has only been
possible to get out 2 copies. Distribution has been the main problem -
there are insufficient subscribers. He suggested that a much bigger
magazine be brought out once a year only (say a 50 page journal selling
at about 50cents.) The Newsletter could be used to cover topical news
and "Singabout" used exclusively for material for performers. John
Meredith said there was nothing against this idea in the Constitution.
Harry Glendinning said this might react against topical songs which
would be out of date by the time the annual magazine came out.
Broadside or utilisation of the Newsletter were suggested as a way out.
These songs are very ephemeral. Publications Manager Caroline Purser
expressed approval of Merro's idea. Merro closed with the opinion that
if it were necessary to change the constitution this should be seen to.
Meeting closed 8.30pm.
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| 7. 121 - General Business 2/4/68 General Meeting 7-5-68, General Meeting 7-5-68
General Business 2/4/68 - Motion J.Meredith/L. Abb -
Carried that raffles be held on beer & cheese nights, and that the
article raffled (book, record etc) be relevant to the event or person
being celebrated. Discussion on publications followed, |
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| 8. 123 - General Meeting 18th June, 1968 General Meeting 13/8/68 - General Meeting 18th June, 1968 - Chairman Eric Bolton. Present : 24. Minutes of previous general meeting were read & received. Motion - C.Purser/W.Brookes - Carried. The Report from the Executive was read and received - Motion - P.Loughlin/John Robertson - Carried. There was no business arising from this report. Janet Wakefield referred to a mention of the Bush Music Club from "The Sydney Morning Herald" in connection with the Dubliners. John Mredith read a paragraph from the "Telegraph" mentioning the club in connection with the Fred Lowrie ballad - probably sent by Jack Davenport. Alex Bowker spoke on the 200th Anniversary of Cook's landing. He felt the Bush Music Club should be included in any celebration. Merro spoke in favour of the resolution. Alec also mentioned the Australian Christmas Carols and expressed the opinion that they be should be sung more often. Meeting closed 8.30pm. Dale Dengate signature General Meeting 13/8/68 - Chairman
- Frank Maher. Present : 30. Minutes of previous general meeting were
read & received. Motion - Eric Bolton/Caroline Purser - Carried.
Business arising - none. Minutes of the Executive Meeting were read
& received. Motion - Jamie Carlin/Garry - Carried. Business arising
- none. General business - Janet Wakefield informed the meeting that a
caravan would be touring country towns over the school holidays with
the purpose of promoting peace through singing of folk songs. |
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| 9. 123A 16/7/68 - 23A - General Meeting minutes - 16/7/68 Chairman Eric Bolton. Present 25. Minutes of previous general meeting were read & received. Motion Lindsay Thompson/ John Meredith - Carried. Executive's Report was read & received. There was no discussion arising from the report. General Business - Election of Vice President - Maurice Matthias was elected unopposed. Lindsay spoke on the matter of opening times - he felt that the Club should begin at 8.0PM. John Meredith felt that the club should begin at 7.0PM. As we have no access to the hall before 7.45PM John Meredith moved that the Fellowship of Aust. Writers be approached again telling them that we cannot function under present circumstances. Sec. Lindsay - Carried. Meeting closed 8.30. signature D.Dengate 124 - Newsletter August 1968 |
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| 10. 125 - General Meeting September - November 68 General Meeting September - Chairman - Eric Bolton. Present
- 20. Minutes of previous general meeting and executive meeting read
and received. Motion - W.Brookes/J.Carlin - Carried. There being no
discussion arising from the reports. Meeting closed 8.30PM signature
W.Brookes November 68 General
Meeting Nov '68. Mins of last meeting rec'd & read. Motion
G.Hill/J.Dengate Mins from Exec meeting read & recd, Treasurers
report $810.10 in Bank. Suggestion : That a comm. be formed to organise
suitable functions to celebrate 15th Anniversary. Discussion on Hon Life
Membership. It was suggested that J.Barry and J.Carlin be made Life
Members. Motion that J. Barry be made hon. Life Member - Mov'd J.Hill
J.Dengate. Jamie Carlin Life Membership, Mov |
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