TREE PRESERVATION SOCIETY ON 28TH JANUARY 1953

MINUTES OF
THE INAUGURAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE BEAUMARIS

TREE
PRESERVATION SOCIETY ON 28TH JANUARY 1953

A
meeting was convened by Mrs Hosking and Mr
Andrews to establish a Tree Preservation and
Street Beautification Group.

PRESENT: Mr
Holmes, Mr Andrews, Mr and Mrs Carroll,
Mr and Mrs Hosking, Mr and Mrs P. Hutchison, Mr
and Mrs Hay, Mrs Sticklam, Mrs Jenkins, Mrs
Bowman, Mrs

Ridland & Mrs McDougall.

Mrs

Hosking was elected as President
and Mrs McDougall
as Secretary. All others present with the
exception of Messrs Carroll, Holmes and
Hutchison were appointed to the Committee with
power to co-opt any other interested persons.

Mr Holmes offered
technical assistance.

Mr Hutchison
offered the assistance of the P & C
Association.

Mr Carroll will
write to the Council to preserve the nature
strips in Haldane, Scott, Bodley & Gibbs
Streets and Dalgetty Road
when bulldozing for the roads.

Click here to see
a copy of those original handwritten
minutes.

The original
Constitution of the
Beaumaris Tree Preservation Society was
adopted at its next

General Meeting, on 16th March 1953.

The
Beaumaris Tree Preservation Society changed its
name to Beaumaris Conservation Society at its

1970

Annual General Meeting.

Beaumaris

Conservation Society became Beaumaris
Conservation Society Inc. as a result of a

General

Meeting in April 1997.

Mrs

Cath Carroll, listed above, is the woman seated

and with white hair, who was the Guest
of Honour at the 50th Anniversary
Celebration in 2003.

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