Annual General Meeting 1997

MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Held at La Trobe University
Wednesday 6th August 1997, commencing 5.15 pm

1. Present

J. Morrison, T. McAllister, J. Rowe, R. Morrison, D. McGilvery, R. Rothwell, P. Thomas, A. D'Agostino, B. Mulroney, G. Khairallah, V. Borrett, E. Mattsson, P. Mayer, S. Duck, F. Shanks, J. Traeger, P. Cullis, T. Gan, E. Bieske, R. O'Hair, J. Christie


2. Apologies

John MacLeod, Bill Henderson, Michael Knowles, John Bowie, Gary Willett, Thomas Frey, Stewart Walker, Noel Davies, Margaret Sheil, Gary Franklin, Stewart Marshall


3. Minutes of the Previous Meeting

The minutes of the previous General Meeting, held at The University of Tasmania, Tuesday 4th February 1997 at 5.30 pm have been circulated. P. Cullis/T. McAllister moved that the minutes be accepted as a true and correct record of the meeting.


4. Election of Central Committee

The following nominations were received by the Secretary prior to the meeting:
John MacLeod for President
Michael Guilhaus for Vice-President
Richard O'Hair for Secretary
Karina Watkins for Treasurer
John Traeger for the Committee
Roger Summons for the Committee
Kevin Shaw for the Committee


There being no further nominations all of the above were elected unopposed.

The Convenor of ANZSMS-17, Margaret Sheil is an ex-officio member of the Central Committee.


5. Society Reports
1. President's Report
   
   The President's Report was circulated.

2. ANZSMS-16 Convenor's Report
   
   Noel Davies' report on the 16th ANZSMS Conference was tabled.

3. Treasurer's Report
   
   John Traeger presented an audited financial report to the meeting on behalf of the Treasurer (Karina Watkins). This was received by the meeting and R.Morrison/E.Mattsson moved that the report be adopted.

6. Other Business

A question was raised concerning the status of the Public Officer. John Traeger responded that Roger Summons is the Public Officer based in Canberra.


There being no further business the meeting closed at 5.30 pm.


Richard O'Hair
Secretary