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APOLOGIES: Mrs (Anne)
Forbes, Mr (Michael)
& Mrs (Gabrielle)
Johnstone, Mr (John) Iggulden 

BUSINESS ARISING FROM
PREVIOUS MINUTES:  

1. Signs on the Beach Park area
were
discussed. 

2. The status of boneseed and
other
noxious weeds
in the City of Sandringham was reported by Mr (Geoffrey)
Goode as being left by the Lands Department to the
discretion of
councils
if they were metropolitan ones. 

3. Mr (John)
Carroll advised that he had had his letter, written
as promised,
published
in the Beaumaris Newsletter. 

It was MOVED by Mr (William)
Ridland SECONDED Mr (Alfred)
Gilford that minutes be accepted. Carried
unanimously. 

TREASURER’S REPORT:
Mr (Alfred)
Gilford reported that the current balance was 191-43
dollars. 
It was MOVED Mrs (Sue) McDougall
and
SECONDED Mr (William) Ridland
that
the
report should be accepted and that any two of the
Secretary,
Treasurer
or President be able to issue a cheque for BTPS and
that Mr (Alfred) Gilford
should arrange this. CARRIED
unanimously. 

CORRESPONDENCE: 

IN       
–
From Vice-President, Mordialloc-Beaumaris
Coastline
Conservation League giving further details of
proposal to
form a Conservation 

Council
for
Port Phillip
Bay 
           
–
From Town Clerk, Sandringham, advising that eucalypts
and other
natural
species will be planted in Donald MacDonald
Reserve 
 
OUT   
– To
Editor, Sandringham Advertiser, giving copy
advertising this
General Meeting 
           
–
To Treasurer, BTPS, requesting reimbursement of 1-62
dollars 

MOVED by Mrs (Sheila)
Ridland SECONDED
by Mrs (Bea)
Hosking that
correspondence
be accepted. CARRIED unanimously. 

BUSINESS ARISING FROM
MINUTES:
This
was considered to be covered adequately by the
headings under General
Business
on the agenda. 

REPORTS 
(a) In the absence of the chairman of the Public Areas
Sub-Committee,
Mr (Colin)
Macrae, the only member
present, Mr (William)
Leech,
reported
that he knew of no action being taken since the last
General
Meeting. 

(b) Donald MacDonald Reserve Inspection
Sub-committee: 
Chairman, Mrs (Bea)
Hosking
reported
that some blackberries and other noxious weeds were
being removed but
she
had not yet investigated the unlocked gate and damaged
fountain. She
said
that the sub-committee would continue its
investigations. 

(c) Following discussion it was MOVED Mr (Geoffrey) Goode and
SECONDED by Mr (Alfred)
Gilford that our subscription to the National Trust
should not be
renewed.
CARRIED unanimously. 

(d) Mr (Keith)
Tarrant
from BRASCA
(Black Rock and Sandringham
Conservation
Association)
reported on its activities particularly its opposition
to the Harold
Street
Tip (Municipal Rubbish Tip
on the Foreshore
Reserve
at Harold Street). Helped by his wife
he reported that the
tea
tree in the area was planted in 1931 by the Field
Naturalists Club of
Victoria
co-operating with the Sandringham City Council. The
late Cr. Steele was
interested. Present delay in work at the tip is caused
by a dispute
between
Council and the Health Department according to Mr (William) Ridland. 

GENERAL
BUSINESS: 

1. Mr (William)
Ridland
reported
on Port
Phillip
Conservation
Council. MOVED by Mr (William)
Ridland
and SECONDED by Mr (Geoffrey)
Goode
that BTPS should agree to join the PPCC as an
effective member. CARRIED
unanimously. 

2. Donald MacDonald Reserve: 
MOVED by Mr (William) Ridland
and
SECONDED by Mrs (Bea)
Hosking that
permission to view the plan be requested. CARRIED
unanimously. 

3. Mrs (Sheila)
Ridland
suggested
that the Secretary should write to the Education
Department reminding
them
of the report they had promised on the High School
Wildflower
Sanctuary. 

4. Members felt that the question of winding up of
the Black
Rock Foreshore
Protection Committee should be left in abeyance for
some 2
months. 

5. Mr (Geoffrey)
Goode
reported
on the Inaugural Meeting of the Conservation Council
of Victoria. 

6. The letter which the Secretary proposes to write
on the
Beach Park
Banksia replanting was endorsed by the meeting. 

UNLISTED BUSINESS 

1. Gramatan Avenue Heathland Sanctuary: 
Mrs (Bea) Hosking
reported on the
unsatisfactory state of this Reserve. The Treasurer
agreed to buy and
fit
a new lock. It was decided to hold a working bee there
on Saturday 4th
April 1970 at 2 P.M. Mesdames Sinclair, Synnot, (Sue)
McDougall, (Bea) Hosking,
(Sheila)
Ridland, and Pearce volunteered to attend. Mr (Geoffrey)
Goode apologized for not being able to attend. 

DATES & PLACE OF NEXT
MEETING: 

A Committee Meeting, to be held at 18 Anita Street at
8 P.M.
on Monday
4th May 1970 

Next General Meeting to be after 26th May preferably
not on a
Friday.
The meeting closed at 10:35. 

Geoffrey Goode,
Secretary