Northern Suburbs Branch AGM 2017 and Photo Competition

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The NSB conducted its Annual General Meeting in place of a speaker for the last meeting of the year and then held a digital photo competition.

Chairperson, Don Poynton reported:

  • Attendance at meetings had fluctuated throughout the year between 13 and 27 with an aggregate of 235 compared with 302 in 2016.
  • Golly Walk attendance had ranged between 5 and 18 and had resulted in several visitors joining the branch.
  • The two talks which tied in with GOLLY Walks –Bush Regeneration after fire/Warwick Bush Reserve and Taxidermy/Visit to WA Museum Collection -were a new initiative which worked well with high attendance at all four events.

Treasurer, Bob Ruscoe reported:

  • Income exceeded expenditure by approximately $507 for the year; this was due mainly to both the 2016 and 2017 member subsidies from the Club being received in the same calendar year
  • The branch had a bank balance of $3,927 at the end of November.

Terry Houston filled the role of Returning Officer for the election of office bearers for 2018. The elected office bearers for 2018 were: Chairperson: Don Poynton, Secretary: Graham Ezzy, Treasurer: Bob Ruscoe, Committee: Barbara Baxendale, Jenny Cunningham, Christine Curry, and Wilhelmina (Willy) Dadour.

The winners of the photo competition were decided by popular vote. The results were:

First
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Bob Ruscoe, Sand monitor

Second
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Don Poynton, Two orchids

Third
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Jenny Cunningham, Katydid

The evening concluded with show-and-tell style presentations from members. Don Poynton spoke about Christmas beetles; Jenny Cunningham showed photos of a leucistic magpie (below) she had observed in her local park;

RIMG3346.JPG Jack Moore showed photos of cormorants he had seen in Chile and Graham Ezzy concluded the evening with some photos of his trip along the west coast of Borneo where he and Marianne visited the orangutan sanctuary at Tanjung Puting National Park, located in the southeast part of West Kotawaringin Regency in the Indonesian province of Central Kalimantan.

An early Christmas was celebrated with a supper of Christmas cake and fruit mince pies topped with double Bailey’s Irish Cream-flavoured cream.

Don Poynton

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