Month: August 2010

Annual Report 2010

TAIERI RECREATIONAL TRAMPING CLUB
ANNUAL REPORT
FOR YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2010
This is my first annual report (for what I have been informed is a two year term !!).
Sadly the year was marred by the deaths of two members, Mgaire Moir in March and Peg Allison in May.
Otherwise, and apart from adverse weather from time to time, causing two cancellations, I found the past year has been a good one and I trust most active members will agree with me that sharing together the same walking experiences continues to be an enjoyable pastime.
Total membership at end of 30 June was 72.
Compiled from weekly attendance records, the following stats. reveal no surprises but confirm impressions gained in noting the number of cars and passengers in each group as they leave the car park Wednesday mornings:

 

Yrs: 2008 – 9 2009 – 10
Average Number of Trampers 7 5
Average Number of Hikers 12 14
Average Number of Ramblers 3 3

 

Activity during the year included:
  • Day bus trip for 34 members to Gabriel’s Gully/Otago Dam in October 2009.
  • Albert Town Camp in April with 25 participants. I believe that there are still a number of good walks in that area should be consider it again in the future – always provided we can muster a sufficient number of members.
  • A unforgettable rail trail t ralmp for 24 members: Millers Flat/Horseshoe Bend to Beaumont. Again, numbers were borderline for the (increasing) cost of bus charter, but I fell that should not stop us at least discussing another day trip.
  • The Christmas lunch and walk at Aramoana. 23 members turned out. The walk was somewhat spoilt by the bad weather, but the day was saved by the lunch and Bruce Spittle’s excellent entertainment.
  • Mid Winters lunch at Logie’s Restaurant/Royal Tavern, Grn. Is. for 49. And again popular entertainment, preceded by a walk to Tunnel Beach.
  • Two ‘resurrected’ tramps from earlier programmes – Government Track, returning Kowhai Spur, last tramped 1991, and Green Point, last tramped 1995.
  • And a first, the exploration of new DCC routes around Harbour Cone.

 

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Annual General Meeting Minutes 27/8/10

Minutes of the 23rd Annual  General  Meeting  of  Taieri  Recreational  Club held in the   Mosgiel Presbyterian Church Halls Sinclair Room on 27 August  2010 at  1.30 p.m.

ATTENDANCE.
P Bathgate, W Bathgate, D Bennett, F Deans, I Fleming, G Haggie, B Harvey, C Hughes, R Lippers, R Madill,  P McLean, W McLean, K McVie, D Moir, D Pearce, J Shaw, L Smith, M Smith, B Spittle, T Stratton, M Vaughan, L Weedon, M Young.

APOLOGIES.
E Blackburn, N Buckley, A Carian, E Day, L Donaldson, L Gowan, A Heenan, A Landrebe, H Leslie, B McIntosh, K and G Newton,  M Spittle, L Staple ton, G Such, F Weedon. I Fleming moved that the apologies be accepted, seconded K McVie. Carried.

MINUTES.
Ian Fleming moved that the minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 22 August 2009, having be circulated, be taken as read and confirmed. Seconded B Harvey. Carried.

CORRESPONDENCE.
There was no correspondence.

PRESIDENT’S  REPORT.
President W McLean presented his report which had also been circulated. I Fleming moved that it be adopted, seconded by L Smith. Carried.

FINANCIAL  REPORT.
Treasurer I Fleming presented the audited Statement of Accounts, which had also been circulated, and moved that it be adopted. Seconded by W McLean. Carried.

ELECTION  OF  OFFICE BEARERS.

PRESIDENT.
Past President P Bathgate took the chairman called for nominations.
L Smith nominated W McLean, seconded by M Smith.
There were no further nominations.

P Bathgate declared W McLean elected as President.

VICE PRESIDENT.
C Hughes nominated B Harvey, seconded by I Fleming.
There were no other nominations.

W McLean declared B Harvey elected as Vice President.

SECRETARY-TREASURER.
B Harvey nominated I Fleming, seconded by M Vaughan.
There were no other nominations.

W McLean declared I Fleming elected as Secretary-Treasurer.

Honorary Auditor.
I Fleming nominated T Stratton, seconded by P Bathgate.
There were no other nominations.

W McLean declared T Stratton elected as Honorary Auditor.

COMMITTEE.
B Harvey nominated the existing committee, viz. D Bennett, L Gowans, C Hughes, A Landrebe, K McVie, and F Weedon, ‘en bloc’.
There were no other nominations.

W McLean declared the existing committee re-elected.

GIFTS.
A gift was presented to H Leslie in absentia for the preparation and sending of her hand-crafted greeting cards.

A gift was presented to B Harvey for her preparation and copying of the Tramping Programmes.

GENERAL  BUSINESS.
B Spittle expressed thanks to the committee for its services during the year.

MEETING CLOSURE.
W McLean declared the meeting closed.

SPEAKERS.
W McLean welcomed and introduced DCC speakers Paul Coffey and Scott MacLean and invited them to address the meeting on the Council’s care and oversight of the city’s tramping tracks.
In their address, the speakers invited club members to report back on their experience of tracking conditions they encountered, and took questions at the end.

P Bathgate thanked the speakers on behalf of the Club.

W McLean invited the speakers to remain and enjoy the afternoon tea that had been prepared.

SUBSCRIPTIONS.
P and W Bathgate took 29 Club subscriptions for the ensuing year.

 

 

 

 

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