YOUR MONTHLY NEWSLETTER

In future, The Lizards will have their own monthly newsletter.  From next month it will appear in semi-printed form, and will be of four pages.  There wasn’t time to print Issue No. 1 but the Committee hopes you will like this roneo version.  The aim of FLAT OUT LIKE is to inform members of the work of their Committee and of other member's doings.  The newsletter will be posted to members who are unable to attend an Avalon meeting.


SO WE HAVE A CONSTITUTION AFTER ALL!

COMMITTEE DECIDES TO ACT ON IT!

The Club’s Management Committee is now working under the rules of its original constitution.  At the last annual meeting, Past President Lance Try produced two tattered sheets of paper, which represent one of the two copies of the constitution known to exist.  This explodes the myth of our unwritten constitution.

The new Committee decided to abide by the original rules - and immediately ran into trouble.

The general meeting passed a resolution providing that the Caterer should have an assistant of his own choice and that this Assistant Caterer be a member of the Management Committee. Tom Beer was the happy choice as A.C. Unfortunately, the constitution does not provide for an Assistant Caterer but calls for a Transport Officer.  It was decided to redesignate Tan as Transport Officer and he is now a member of your Committee.

Under the constitution, the Committee has been enlarged by the inclusion of the Immediate Past President (George Russell) and the creation of a Vice-President Wally Reynolds).

Other Committee members are
President (Bill Sheehan)
Secretary-Treasurer (Chas. Hellier)
Captain-Handicapper (Alistair Campbell)
Caterer (Ken Foster)
Baggage Man (Eric MacMeechan)
Assistant Baggage Man (Lance Try)
Lance is virtually the Club’s plant engineer.


JUST HOW GOOD WERE “THE GOOD OLD DAYS”

The previous Committee rushed to its records when the suggestion was made at the last annual meeting that present-day committees are not as active as former ones. The records show not only that attendances have increased but also that costs to members have decreased.

As recently as three years ago, attendances as low as 12 were recorded and the cost of the day was £2. In the last year alone, attendances have gone up to 38 and day-costs have never exceeded 30/-, despite the increase in overheads. The 1964-65 attendances were 18 per cent higher than the previous year.

The 1965-66 Committee is determined to continue the good work and has fixed the third Wednesday of each month for its meetings.


AN OLD MEMBER IS RE-ADMITTED

Des McGuire, who resigned from The Lizards a year ago, has been readmitted to the Club.  Des spent his leisure in the past year trying to achieve a respectable handicap at long Reef.

After the year of striving, he reports, his handicap is a not-very-respectable 26!  His last Lizards’ handicap was 8.


LADIES’ NIGHT

A night for Lizards' Ladies’ will be held, probably in November.


REST OF THE NEWS IN BRIEF

Because August 1 is a Sunday, the next golf day is early in the month - the 15th.

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A sub-committee - Bill Sheehan Lance Try and Wally Reynolds will select the new monthly trophies. Again, drinking vessels.

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In future, special trophies, such as those donated by members, will not be presented on the day they are won but at the annual meeting.  This applies in particular to our important new trophy - the one to be donated annually by the Manly Civic Club.