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OCTOBER 2001

·  President’s Report to 2001
Annual General Meeting

AUGUST 2001

·  E-mail reply on behalf of Premier of Victoria to BCS
Inc. President’s letter expressing concern at omission of Ricketts Point
Marine Sanctuary from Bill

·  Letter expressing concern at Government’s withdrawal
of Marine National Parks Bill and omission of recommended Ricketts Point
Marine Sanctuary: To Premier of Victoria from President of Beaumaris
Conservation Society Inc.

JULY 2001

·  Developer of 17-19 Mary Street, Beaumaris, which has
barely been started, seeks extension of 1997 four-year permit, for the 1:348
square metre 4-dwelling proposal. It is now inconsistent with Bayside’s 1:400
sq.metre goal. Objection needed before noon
on 30 July.

·  Bayside Council still taking a Hard Line: Motion by
Moysey Ward councillor to refuse application to build 2 dwellings at 11 Anita Street, Beaumaris, on grounds of clash with Neighbourhood
Character, lost

·  E-mail if you have seen any
flocks of Pardalotes of late, please. A flock of about 20 were sighted
feeding at the top of a 12 metre high River Red Gum in Anita Street this
month. It was not the first sighting in Anita Street – it still has some of
its once numerous Red Gums. 

JUNE 2001

·  Support for Inclusion of Ricketts Point Marine
Sanctuary in a re-presented National Parks (Marine National Parks and Marine Sanctuaries) Bill 2001

·  Call on Victorian Government by PPCC Inc., putting
BCS Inc. view, to include the Ricketts Point Marine Sanctuary proposed
by the Environment Conservation Council, in the tabled National Parks (Marine National Parks and Marine Sanctuaries) Bill 2001

·  Call on Opposition by PPCC Inc., putting BCS Inc.
view, to move amendments to the National Parks (Marine National Parks and Marine Sanctuaries) Bill 2001 to include Ricketts Point Marine Sanctuary, and to
promise to include it in Bill when in Government

MAY 2001

·  Minister’s Second Reading Speech to Marine Parks
Bill on 17th May 2001 admitting deliberate omission of Ricketts Point
Sanctuary

·  Bayside Council asked to modify access at former
Keefer’s site to protect fossil beds, and large sea-birds’ shallow sheltering
area

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of Port Phillip Conservation Council Inc., of which Beaumaris Conservation Society
Inc. has been a Member Organization since 1970