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Volume 24 No. 12 May 2017 Cowra Crankhandle Page 2
COWRA ANTIQUE VEHICLE CLUB INC. POSTAL ADDRESS: PO BOX 731 COWRA NSW 2794 ABN: 95 035 591 220 Public Liability Insurance No. AS A172000 PLB Fair Trading Registration No. Y1784746 Shannon’s web page http://carclubs.shannons.com.au/cavc Facebook web page http://www.facebook.com/CowraAntiqueVehicleClub?ref=hl Name: Cowra Antique Vehicle Club BSB: 032820 Acc. 283380
PATRON: MAURICE RANDELL Molonglo' Woodstock 2793 Ph. 6345 0283 [email protected]
PRESIDENT: MR RUSSELL DENNING – 39 Dawson Drive Cowra 2794 Ph. (02)6342 3117 Email: [email protected] Mob. 0402078142
VICE-PRESIDENT: MR. WAYNE REEKS - 170 Seymour St Bathurst 2795 Ph. 02 6331 1553 Email: [email protected]
SECRETARY/ CMC DELEGATE: KATHY DENNING – 39 Dawson Drive Cowra 2794 (02) 6342 3117 Email: [email protected]
TREASURER/PUBLIC OFFICER: IAN REID -19 Gower Hardy Circuit Cowra 2794 Ph. 6342 1699
PLATES REGISTRAR/EDITOR: MR RUSSELL DENNING – 39 Dawson Drive Cowra 2794 Ph. (02)6342 3117 Email: [email protected] Mob. 0402078142
SCRUTINEERS: MR. KEN MASTERS MR. STEVEN BARKER MR. JIM FAZZARI MR. RUSSELL DENNING MR. IAN REID MR. VIC BOWER
PROPERTY OFFICER: VIC BOWER - 17 Whitby St Cowra 2794 Ph. 0448079490 [email protected] 14051
EVENTS / FUND RAISING COMMITTEE: All Financial Members
The Cowra Antique Vehicle club meetings are held on the 3rd Monday of each month at 7:30 pm at the Cowra Railway Station Clubroom Opinions expressed in this magazine/newsletter are not necessarily those of the club or the committee. Information supplied to the editor for inclusion is published in good faith; therefore responsibility for its accuracy cannot be accepted by the club, its members or the editor. Materials are invited for inclusion in the magazine and should be forwarded to the editor bearing the name of the author. Materials submitted may be edited to improve clarity or for space purposes.
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Editor’s/Plates Notes
As most know that my poor little Renault is no more, it was T boned at an unmarked intersection at Yoogali just out of Griffith. Kathy spent 6 days in Griffith Hospital with 3 broken ribs, a punctured and collapsed lung and air in her chest cavity. It took an hour to get Kathy out of the car. Both of us were bruised all over and pretty sore. Kathy is getting better, but it will be a long slow road to full recovery.
Fees Now Due $25
Hugh Victor McKay 1865 – 1926
Hugh Victor McKay was born 21 August 1865, and grew up on a farm in Drummartin near Elmore, Victoria. Driven by frustration with the slow and laborious nature of farm work, and fuelled by a persistent and inventive mind, McKay searched for a better and more efficient way of harvesting wheat. At the age of 18 he developed the Sunshine stripper harvester, a machine which revolutionized farming.
This interactive collection of photographs and moving footage illustrates the activities and impact of the agricultural enterprise created by HV McKay from 1900 to the late 1960s.
History of Tractors in Modern Agriculture of Australia
Tractors have a rich history all over the world among the most effective and most good-used tools of modern man. In this informative article, we delve into a few of the early tools and the history of farming the way they immediately revolutionized agriculture and afterward get into the source of tractors.
There is a good deal to it that most folks might not understand. Sure, a lot people have played tractors as children and we all know they’re used in farming. But if you did not grow up in a rural setting, you mightn’t be comfortable with how significant so many of us are in growing most of the food.
Early on in colonial times the most significant matters to a farmer in the United States of America, was his oxen and horses. Oxen were pretty much the first tractors. Farmers have consistently wanted to till the earth to sow seeds and make sure it stays productive. The most effective instrument for this occupation was a beast of burden like a horse or an oxen. Thus, until tractors were invented, animals were the primary tool for farming.
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Oxen will pull more weight and are more powerful than horses. Horses do a great job but occasionally can founder should ploughs get worked too difficult after an extended layoff, a bit. Oxen can pretty much only get up and go.
As procedures and trains of steam technology grew, we started to devise machines that could do the job of our beasts of burden. These were exceptionally heavy steam powered machines that went slowly. The traction was also called road locomotives. A number of traction were not even self-propelled but rather were transported to a place (occasionally by oxen or horse).
However, these traction engines were clunky, slow, and due to their weight did not work very well on, tilled farm land that is rich. Traction engines did not continue long.
Fortunately technology continued to improve and we got what’s known now as the modern day tractor. Steam power immediately gave way to the internal combustion engine that was strong. Although some used horses and oxen alongside their tractors. tractors may be turned into considerably lighter when compared to a traction engine and rapidly gained acceptance among farmers everywhere. Slowly, the cost of tractors fell as well as the quantity of hp whatever could output continued to increase. This along with the large quantity of hp they could output made horses and oxen basically out-of-date – at least with regard to pulling things like ploughs around a farm.
Farm equipment dealers shortly appeared and tractor sales rapidly rose. Shortly the tractor became an essential element of life that was agricultural. Maybe this is the reason why so a lot people have a powerful affinity for classic tractors and gather things like toy John Deere tractors. Surely the John Deere brand carries weight with several folks because of this.
Tractors have turned into an essential element of contemporary agriculture. Farmers cut a swath in complex designs and may also plot out things like a corn maze. Farmers illuminate whole fields with their enormous halogen lights and are even able to farm all night long. We have definitely come quite a distance from miniature hand ploughs. For every morsel of farm-grown food we have to give thanks to the modest modern marvel called the tractor!
Tractors have become an indispensable part of modern agriculture. Today they have GPS guidance and using things like AutoTrac guidance technology can have crops in almost perfectly straight lines. Farmers can even plot out things like a corn maze and expertly cut a swath in intricate patterns. They can even farm all night long and illuminate entire fields with their huge halogen lights. We’ve certainly come a long way from tiny hand ploughs. So for every bite of farm-grown food we take, we should give thanks to the humble modern marvel known as the tractor!
Early Innovations in Agriculture The first problems to overcome in the harsh new land was the provision of adequate food and shelter. Not surprisingly therefore, many of the country’s early innovations were to do with agriculture and food processing. Although many ideas, processes and tools were originally imported and adapted to local conditions and requirements, a good number were world first innovations that made significant impact on agricultural practices globally. English flour miller John Ridley arrived in Adelaide in 1839 with a James Watt steam engine and milling machinery, and set up South Australia’s first steam-driven flour mill. In 1843, the shortage of labour and a bumper wheat harvest led him, and a local farmer named John Bull, to develop the grain stripper that cut the crop, removed and placed the grain into bins. Ridley followed Bull’s unsuccessful first attempt at a working model two months later with a similar design that worked. The stripper was a major advance on the laborious harvesting of wheat by hand. It meant that four men could strip as much wheat grain from straw in one day as they used to in a whole harvest season. Ridley returned to England in 1853 to adapt the stripper to local conditions. Born in Renton, on Loch Leven in Scotland in 1815, James Harrison came to Australia in 1837, and became the editor of the Port Phillip Patriot in 1838. Eventually he established the Geelong Advertiser and prospered in his new land as a newspaper proprietor. While cleaning type with ether, he noticed that the metal became cold as the ether evaporated, and realised that this could be used to make ice. He built the world’s first mechanical
Cowra Crankhandle Page 5 refrigeration plant, installed in a brewery in Geelong, Victoria. By 1857 his patented machine could produce 3 tonnes of ice a day, but people claimed they preferred ‘natural’ ice imported from the United States. The venture failed, as did his subsequent attempt to export surplus Australian beef to England aboard the sailing ship Norfolk, fitted with his cooling system. Now regarded as the father of refrigeration, Harrison returned penniless to Britain in 1873 to work as a journalist. Among the many expatriates who contributed much to the history of Australia was Scotsman William Arnott, who arrived in Sydney in 1848. A baker and pastry cook in Maitland, New South Wales, he eventually set up William Arnott Limited, a company which became synonymous with Australian biscuits. Frederick York Wolseley, who had arrived in Melbourne in 1854, began working on a practical hand piece for a shearing machine in 1868 – the same year that James Higham of Melbourne patented ‘a new apparatus for shearing and clipping wool for sheep and other animals’. Seventeen years later in 1885, Wolseley demonstrated his shearing machine and started manufacturing it with his foreman Herbert Austin. In 1888, Wolseley returned to England and set up the Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine Co Ltd in Birmingham, and was joined by Austin soon after. The pair became famous when in 1895 Austin designed and made the first Wolseley motor car. While ploughing his land, agricultural equipment maker Robert Bowyer Smith made a fortunate discovery. His plough hit an obstacle and a bolt holding a ploughshare broke. Surprisingly, the plough not only continued to work, it also jumped over stumps and stones. Together with his brother Clarence Herbert Smith, he developed a plough with a pivoting blade that slid over obstacles and was pulled back into the furrow by a weight. The prototype of his Vixen three-furrow stump-jump plough was exhibited and won first prize at the Moonta Show in 1876. Among the most important agricultural inventions of the nineteenth century, the plough revolutionised global farming practices by allowing the cultivation of newly-cleared land before all the stumps and rocks were removed. Unfortunately, Robert could not afford to extend his patents and his brother Clarence and others started making their own version of the plough, and ploughing in the profits. The first stripper-harvester, the forerunner of the combine harvester, was conceived by 17 year old Hugh Victor McKay in 1882. He built the prototype with his brothers from scrapped farm machinery and kerosene cans, and successfully trialled it on the family’s farm in Drummartin, Victoria in 1884. The machine could strip, thresh, winnow and bag grain in a single operation. The same year James Morrow patented a successful stripper- harvester for his farm machinery firm Nicholson & Morrow. McKay’s unlikely looking contraption worked well and by 1885, his patented ‘Sunshine Harvester’ was in full production in Ballarat. Another farmer’s son, Headlie Shipard Taylor from Henty in New South Wales, perfected and patented a machine that could remove grain from crops tangled and flattened by bad weather in 1813. Hugh McKay attended one of the trials and was so impressed that he bought the rights to the ‘header’ and manufactured the ‘Sunshine Header Harvester’ in 1916. Taylor also produced the first motorised harvester in 1924. In 1886, American born A F Spawn launched his Climax fruit evaporator. Sliced apples were spread on trays, which were suspended and rotated in a chamber heated by a flow of hot air. This imaginative world first was the beginning of mechanical dehydration. Other American expatriates were the Foster brothers who came from New York in 1888, with an American brewing plant and a German-American brewer to set up the famous Fosters brewery. Although it was E C Hansen at Carlsberg in Denmark who developed the technique for producing pure yeast strains for brewing, it was Belgian born brewer and chemist Auguste de Bavay who arrived in Melbourne in 1884, that developed the first pure yeast culture to be used commercially in top fermentation in 1888 at Terry’s West End brewery in Melbourne. Bavay eventually became head brewer at Fosters. The son of a small landowner, Cambridge University graduate William James Farrer was unable to pursue a career in medicine due to ill health, and came to Australia in 1870 to become a sheep farmer. Instead, he became a surveyor in country New South Wales, where he saw the effects of disease on wheat crops. The devastation of wheat crops was so bad, that Australia was hard pressed to produce surplus wheat for export. In 1886, he took over the management of a small farm near Queanbeyan and began collecting strains of wheat from around the world. His 20 years of cross-breeding wheats began in earnest in 1889 in an effort to produce a naturally rust resistant high yielding wheat variety that had good milling qualities. Among the many disease- and drought- resistant varieties he produced was the famous Federation variety, which by 1920 accounted for 80 per cent of Australia’s wheat crop. Sixteen year old farmer’s son Arthur Cliff Howard built the world’s first rotary hoe in a blacksmith’s shop at Gilgandra, New South Wales in 1912. Howard saw how his father’s tractor wasted power by turning its wheels
Cowra Crankhandle Page 6 and just pulling the plough. He wanted to put the power of the tractor directly into ploughing, and through trial and error, he designed the rotary plough. There was little interest in his first version powered by a motorcycle engine. After World War I he tried again and in 1921 raised sufficient finance to start manufacturing the present rotary hoe. A year before his death in 1971, Howard was awarded the Order of the British Empire. His equipment had been exported to more than 120 countries and had revolutionised agriculture globally. Even the humble crumpet was not overlooked. In 1947, Sydney engineer R J Hastings patented a machine for the continuous and automatic production of crumpets. Scientists at Cambridge University in 1932 showed that the storage life of chilled beef could be doubled by increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the refrigeration chamber. Subsequently, a group led by J R Vickery at Australia’s foremost research body, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) were the first to develop the idea commercially. Established in 1926, CSIR’s first patent application was in 1938 for Dr M Lipson’s new shrink-proofing treatment using caustic soda dissolved in methylated spirits. In 1949, the CSIR was renamed the Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). The organisation has played a vital role in the development of much of Australia’s science and technology contributions in recent history. Until the mid-1970s, wool was the main source of Australia’s wealth for more than 140 years. At its peak in 1951, wool represented 65% of the nation’s total exports. Not surprisingly, there has been a great deal of time, money and effort spent on research and development, and a significant number of major innovations have been made relating to the growing, treating and manufacturing of wool into textiles and garments. Many of these inventions were the work of scientists at the CSIRO. Up until the 1950s, the wool industry lost a great deal of money every year from the use of henna, tars and paints used to brand sheep. These brands could not be removed by washing the raw wool, known as scouring, and had to be removed by hand before further processing the fleece. The invention of Siro-mark by the CSIRO, a new sheep branding product that could be removed from raw wool, was released in 1954. Siro-mark is a branding fluid consisting of selected pigments in a stabilised emulsion of lanolin which is easy to remove during scouring. 1957 saw the introduction of the world’s first trousers with permanent creases, produced by the patented Si-ro- set process invented by Dr Arthur Farnworth at the CSIRO. A special resin was added to the wool fibres to temporarily change their chemical structure. When cloth woven from this wool was steam-pressed, the chemical evaporated and left a permanent crease in the garment. In 1960, the self-twist yarn system, which was more than 10 times faster than previous spinning systems, was invented by David Hanshaw at the CSIRO and commercialised by Repco Ltd. The spinner worked by producing two-ply woollen yarn by twisting each strand individually and allowing them to untwist around each other. In 1977, scientists at the CSIRO developed the water-soluble polyurethane pre-polymer, from which they developed the Sirolan-BAP wool fabric shrink-proofing process. This is still the main method of shrink-proofing wool textiles.
Joke When you are 70…...... or even 80, who cares.
I was standing at the bar at the VFW one night minding my own business. This FAT ugly chick came up behind me, grabbed my behind and said, “You’re kinda cute. You gotta phone number?” I said, “Yeah, you gotta pen?” She said, “Yeah, I got a pen”. I said, “You better get back in it before the farmer misses you.” Cost me 6 stitches…but, When you’re seventy…...... who cares?
I went to the drug store and told the clerk “Give me 3 packets of condoms, please.” Lady Clerk: “Do you need a paper bag with that, sir?” I said “Nah… She’s purty good lookin’…..” When you’re seventy…...... who cares? I was talking to a young woman in the VFW last night. She said, “If you lost a few pounds, had a shave and got your hair cut, you’d look all right.”; I said, “If I did that, I’d be talking to your friends over there instead of you.”; Cost me a fat lip, but…
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When you’re seventy…...... who cares?
I was telling a woman in the Club about my ability to guess what day a woman was born just by feeling her breasts. “Really” she said, “Go on then… try.” After about thirty seconds of fondling she began to lose patience and said, “Come on, what day was I born?” I said, “Yesterday.” Cost me a kick in the nuts, but… When you’re seventy…...... who cares?
I got caught taking a pee in the swimming pool today. The lifeguard shouted at me so loud, I nearly fell in. When you’re seventy…...... who cares?
I went to our VFW last night and saw a BIG woman dancing on a table. I said, “Good legs.” The girl giggled and said, “Do you really think so?” I said, “Definitely! Most tables would have collapsed by now.” Cost me 6 more stitches, but… When you’re seventy…...... who cares?
Submitted by Colleen Sydenham
Driver Reviver Canowindra 16th April Alan Shepherd VB Commodore Charlie & Sharon Thompson Volvo 144 Bernie Rutter Holden HR Dave Beeken International C-30 Brian Willis Holden Monaro Bob Grimshaw Ford F-700
17th April Alan Shepherd VB Commodore Bernie Rutter Modern Dave Beeken International C-30 Bob Grimshaw Modern Rodney Bowd Ford Fairmont Larry Nunn MKII Jaguar
Driver Reviver Cowra 16th April Kevin Thrupp Modern Vic Bower Ford F 100 Ian Reid Modern
Young Car Show & Boot Sale 30th April Both Carmel & Wendy won a lucky door prize of a bottle of wine. People’s choice was an immaculate EH Holden, 2nd prize went to a FJ Holden. Ben Denning Honda CB 750 Laurie & Carmel Trethewey VW Beetle Charlie & Sharon Thompson Vanguard Evan Dawe Falcon Futura Sedan Larry Nunn XJ6
Young PCYC – Not many cars there and not much of a boot sale, fairly mediocre overall. Larry Nunn
Open Day Railway Station A Merv Seymour “Feel Good Day”. It was just that, a day to enjoy conversation with fellow members. The subjects were many and varied, talked about everything from hospitals, cars, reliving club memories including the run to the Adelaide “Bay to Birdwood” and many other memories of club runs. Listening to John talking about the
Cowra Crankhandle Page 8 lousy weather experienced on his great ocean road trek, his $5 new overalls. It was a truly pleasant day, with a few visitors to break up the day. There was even a couple of prospective new members from Turramurra who are building locally. They have a Mercedes which they hope to bring up shortly. Vic was coming for a couple of hours – stayed all day.
John Mooney HK Holden Warren Kinney Austin Healey Sprite Ian Reid Austin Healey 100/4 Ron Fazzari Standard John Toohey & Collen Sydenham VW Kombi Camper Vic Bower Ford F100 Dean Angrave JPS BMW Alan Shepherd VB Commodore Peter & Margaret O’Sullivan & Granddaughter ’27 Chevrolet Russell Denning J1 Bedford Wayne Reeks & George Smith Peugeot 404
Movie Night 2nd May Hunt for the Wilderpeople is a great but unusual movie, very different from what I would normally watch. Thanks to Colleen for the movie. Basically the story of an unwanted rather large boy, very sad in some spots, but full of laughter in other parts of the movie, a fantastic story with a huge amount of very funny one-liners.
John Toohey & Colleen Sydenham Modern Vic Bower Ford F100 Russell Denning Alfetta GTV
Moyne Fete 6th May This fete is a worthwhile day for Moyne the Salvation Army home in Canowindra, a once a year Fete fundraiser.
Charlie's Volvo 144 looked spectacular after a polish. All the cars looked spectacular, parked together amongst the trees. Ben made one residents day by starting the bike. The elderly gentleman commented on the noisy motor. It’s a CB750, the rattle is standard from the clutch was the comment.
It was also great also to catch up with members from the Midwest Historic Motor Club, with all the cars together it made a really great show and attracted a great deal of attention.
Charlie & Sharon Thompson Volvo 144 Laurie & Carmel Trethewey VW Beetle Bob Grimshaw F100 Dave Beeken F350 Brian & Janelle Willis HT Monaro Norm & Betty Dennis VW Beetle Ian Reid E Type Jaguar Geoff and Elva Arrow Smith Morris 1100
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Ben Denning Honda CB750 Bernie Rutter HR Premier John Toohey & Colleen Sydenham VW Kombi Russell & Kathy Denning Alfetta GTV
Midwest Historic Motor Club Members and a few of their cars
24th Annual Christmas Party 7th May Disappointing numbers at the Christmas Party, but I guess it is a sign of the times. Over the last few years attendance has been dropping off.
I believe that this is due to the lack of significance to newer members.
The party is not really the clubs birthday, it is in April, but it was decided by the club in 1994 to celebrate the first official club run as the clubs birthday. The previous months were when the club was still establishing itself with Fair Trading and the RTA and the club did not have its own plates.
Still, this was a great day, fantastic drive prior to lunch and a birthday card to the club from John & Sandra Hill.
Cake was supplied by Shaun from the Ostomy Group free but Kathy who normally buys the cake made a donation to the Ostomy Group. The cake was more than sensational, magnificent to say the least not only in looks but in taste.
Ray Heilman Mitsubishi Magna Kevin Broad Porsche 928 Peter & Margaret O’Sullivan ’27 Chev Vic Bower Ford F100 Ron & Judy Fazzari Standard 8 Ben Denning Honda CB750 Wendy & Beau Denning Modern John Toohey & Colleen Sydenham VW Kombi Joyce Reid Modern Ian Reid E Type Jaguar Russell & Kathy Denning Alfetta GTV
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Joke This is my new neighbour...
She's single...She lives right across the road. I can see her place from my deck. I watched as she got home from work this evening. I was surprised when she walked across the street and up my driveway and knocked on my door. I rushed to open it, she looks at me and says, "I just got home, and I am so horny! I have this strong urge to have a good time, get drunk, and make love all night long! Are you busy tonight?" I quickly replied, "Nope, I'm free, I have no plans at all!" She said, "Great! Could you watch my dog?" Being a senior citizen really sucks!
Submitted by Graham Dunn
Joke Ode to the Spell Checker!
Eye halve a spelling checker It came with my pea sea It plainly marcs four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word And weight four it two say Weather eye am wrong oar write It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid It nose bee fore two long And eye can put the error rite Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it I am shore your pleased two no Its letter perfect awl the weigh My checker tolled me sew.
John Toohey
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Joke Truism on committees
Quotations about Committees & Meetings To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent. ~Robert Copeland A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. ~Milton Berle To kill time, a committee meeting is the perfect weapon. ~Author Unknown If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings." ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn" If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in. ~Author Unknown Our age will be known as the age of committees. ~Ernest Benn A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. ~Barnett Cocks, attributed If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock. ~Arthur Goldberg A committee is an animal with four back legs. ~John le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. ~H.L. Mencken A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty colour and it comes out grey." ~Alan Sherman Football is a mistake. It combines two of the worst things about American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ~George Will A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. ~Elbert Hubbard A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee. ~Author Unknown A committee is a group of the unwilling chosen form the unfit, to do the unnecessary. ~Author Unknown If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee. ~Author Unknown Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club?... Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam. ~Alfred Whitney Griswold We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. ~Frank Moore Colby I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book. ~Arnold Toynbee There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee. ~Lester J. Pourciau Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to. ~Katharine Whitehorn Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. ~John Kenneth Galbraith People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. ~Thomas Sowel
Happy Birthday June
2nd Cindy Langfield 6th Colleen Sydenham 6th Tess Dunne 12th Sonja Hollier 15th Bob Grimshaw 25th Geoffrey Arrow 25th Dave Beeken 29th Irene Fazzari
Happy Wedding Anniversary June
12th John & Therese Mooney 22nd Laurie & Carmel Trethewey 29th Bob & Mary Gittoes
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C.A.V.C. Annual Fee $25:00 Family Membership - Constitution is available in the Library Club members list is no longer available due to misuse by a member a few years ago.
Club Merchandise Car Badge $21:00 Winter Vest $26:00 Lapel Badge $5:00 Small Sticker “inside window” $5:00 Caps $15:00 Name – model – year plate (CAVC) $13:00 Dark Blue Polo Shirts $15:00 C.A.V.C. old number plates – offers Light Blue Shirt $27:00 Cloth Patches $10:00 New Light Blue Shirt $36:00 Sticker Outside Window $5:00 Sloppy Joes $18:00 NEW Windscreen Banner $15:00 For Sale
FOR SALE MAZDA 626 – Auto, on rust is cosmetic in boot lid – currently on Historic Plates – not Transferrable $ 800 Phone Dennis 02 6342 4860
Joke A Scot was drinking in a bar in London when he gets a call on his cell phone. He orders drinks for everybody in the bar as he announces, his wife has just produced a typical Scottish baby boy, weighing 25 pounds Nobody can believe that any new baby can weigh in at 25 pounds, but the man just shrugs, "That's about average up our way, folks...like I said - my boy's a typical Highland baby boy." Two weeks later the man returns to the bar. The bartender says, "Say, you're the father of that typical Scottish baby That weighed 25 pounds at birth, aren't you? Everybody's been making' bets about how big he'd be in two weeks. So how much does he weigh now? The proud father answers, "Seventeen pounds." The bartender is puzzled and concerned. "What Happened? He was 25 pounds the day he was born." The father takes a slow swig from his Johnny Walker whisky, wipes his lips on his shirt sleeve, leans into the bartender and proudly says, "Had him circumcised." God Bless The Scots!
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