| TREASURER S REPORT | For the Month ending 31 March 2024 | ||
| GENERAL ACCOUNT | |||
| Opening cash balance | 1 March 2024 | $466.25 | |
| Interest | $0.00 | ||
| Deposits | 900 | Annual dues and joining fees received | |
| $900.00 | |||
| Expenses | 0 | PSPL Capitation fees / Fair Trading | |
| $(190.00) | Admin costs / Website Fees | ||
| $0.00 | Speaker Costs / Welfare | ||
| $(139.25) | Hornsby Council venue hire | ||
| $(15.85) | Morning teas | ||
| $0.00 | Transfers to / (from) Activity A/c | ||
| $0.00 | New member costs | ||
| $(345.10) | |||
| Closing cash balance | 31 March 2024 | $1,021.15 | |
| ACTIVITIES ACCOUNT | |||
| Opening cash balance | 1 March 2024 | $29,199.70 | |
| Interest | $32.38 | ||
| Deposits | 0.00 | Ettalong | |
| 2850 | Scenic Rim | ||
| $0.00 | Norfolk Island | ||
| $0.00 | Cards 500 | ||
| $0.00 | Brooklyn Postie cruise | ||
| $54.00 | PHIVE | ||
| $725.00 | & Juliet | ||
| $520.00 | Jersey Boys | ||
| $784.00 | $4,933.00 | School of Rock | |
| Deposits to be identified | $72.00 | ||
| Payments | $(11,778.00) | Ettalong | |
| $0.00 | Scenic Rim | ||
| $0.00 | Norfolk Island | ||
| $0.00 | Cards 500 | ||
| $0.00 | Brooklyn Postie cruise | ||
| $(198.00) | PHIVE | ||
| $(5,539.80) | & Juliet | ||
| $0.00 | Jersey Boys | ||
| $(1,176.00) | School of Rock | ||
| $0.00 | $(18,691.80) | ||
| Closing cash balance | 31 March 2024 | $15,545.28 | |
| Open Activities | Balance | ||
| Ettalong | $0.00 | ||
| Scenic Rim | $13,584.00 | ||
| Norfolk Island | $0.00 | ||
| Cards 500 | $190.00 | ||
| Brooklyn Postie cruise | $2,255.00 | ||
| PHIVE | $18.00 | ||
| & Juliet | $(2,059.80) | ||
| Jersey Boys | $975.00 | ||
| School of Rock | $0.00 | ||
| Total | $14,962.20 | ||
| Add: | |||
| Activities surplus | $439.08 | ||
| Unresolved fixes | $72.00 | ||
| Bank balance | $15,473.28 | ||
| TERM DEPOSIT | |||
| The Term Deposit was rolled over in July at a value of $5,000.00, and has earned $78.73 this year, | |||
| at current interest rate of 4.75% p.a. | |||
| INTEREST | |||
| For this year, $71.20 has been received as interest General Account $0.02, Activities Account $71.18. | |||
| ACTIVITY SURPLUS | |||
| The Activity Surplus currently stands at $439.08. | |||
| Michael Stinson | |||
| Treasurer | 31 March 2024 | ||
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Peter was formerly a lecturer on cruise ships and built up a wide selection of talks, one of which we heard last year (The First Troop Convoy From Australia In WW1). Australia Under Attack, is perhaps an appropriate talk just before Anzac Day. It is an illustrated presentation that describes the period from February 1942 to March 1943, including the bombing of Darwin and Broome, the Battle of the Coral Sea, the midget submarine attack on Sydney Harbour, the many ships sunk off the coast of NSW by Japanese submarines, finishing with the Battle of the Bismarck Sea and the sinking of the Australian hospital ship Centaur. |
| Activity Group | Leaders |
| Book Challenge | Sue Calabrese |
| Book Club | Bev Davison |
| Cards | David Turner, Ray Heaton |
| Cycling | Gerard Siddle, Tony Coote |
| Day Trips (Bus/Train/Ferry) | Helen Games |
| Dining Out | Looking For Monthly Leaders |
| Domestic Travel | Max Henderson |
| Gardening | Julie Stinson, Sue Small, Lorenza Powyer |
| Golf | Terry Ridge, Jeff Swan |
| Mens Club | Rene Beutler |
| Mixed Social Group | Helen Beulter, Hilda Somerfield |
| Movies | John Cauchi, Donna Fraser |
| Overseas Travel | Looking For Leader |
| Photography | Rob Clarke, Bain Shenstone |
| Ten Pin Bowling | Douglas Matthews, Paul Day |
| Tennis | Bob Davison |
| Theatre and Musicals | Bruce Bartle, Robyn Bartle |
| Walking Group | Enio Dona, Lynne Henderson |
| Wine & Cheese | Julie Shenstone, Susan Antonjuk |
| For an activity group to start, a member needs to step forward to lead the group | |
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This book traces the creative vocations of four notable Australian women writers of the mid-20th century, hinging on the notion of writing as an urgent, privately held imperative. Ann-Marie Priest’s subjects are Gwen Harwood, whose writing practice was curtailed by her inability to reject the demands of motherhood; Dorothy Hewett, who was haunted by the apparent incompatibility of a fully realised artistic practice with a well-lived life; Christina Stead, who feared that an unlovely and unloved woman could not be taken seriously as a writer; and Ruth Park, who was hampered by financial and domestic burdens, and whose pragmatic freelance career was sometimes at odds with her creative passion. Through close readings of these women’s diaries, letters, poetry and fiction, Priest explores the pressures and challenges they faced, and shows how they ‘were able to authorise themselves to become artists at a time when “woman” and “artist” were generally considered to be mutually exclusive terms’ |
Terry & Jeff
Grandad
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Newsletter Editor: Enio Dona
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