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INCLUDES ANNUAL REPORT IIrvingrving Cover images courtesy of the Special Collections Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina - Full citation page 5 NEW SOUTH WALES MASONIC CLUB MAGAZINE Club Founded 1893 Print Post Publication PP244187-00007 Issue 37, October 2008 NEW MEMBERS PRESIDENT’S REPORT June 2008 - September 2008 GENERAL MANAGER’S Dear Fellow Members, REPORT NEW SOUTH WALESMASONIC CLUB Mr T. Aikins, Consultant Since my last report, much has been happening in the Club, for the ABN 79 000 003 289 Col Y. Ali, Advocate & Solicitor betterment of yourselves, your guests and our hotel guests. Hello everyone and welcome to this 2009 MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL FORM Mr D. Andrew, Retired The long awaited air conditioning work on floors, 8 to 11 and some Mr M. Barnier, Retired small adjustments to the existing air conditioning on floors 6 & 7 will edition of our October Members’ magazine for 2008. In this edition you will notice a Mr S. Bates, Investment Mgr when you read this have been completed. This work has revealed some Membership subscriptions are now due for renewal Mr R. Bates, Retired full disclosure of our statutory accounts other areas where remedial treatment is necessary and your Board and by 31/12/08. Please fi ll in your membership details Mr G. Bawtree, Communications Consultant Management will deal with these problems both promptly and prudently. signed off and audited by Meagher Howard & Wright on the form below and forward it promptly to the Mr P. Benwell, Co Director As reported by the General Manager in this edition of the magazine, additional work has also our external auditors. Club with cheque or credit card payment. Mr M. Bouvier, Butcher been undertaken to improve our hotel bathrooms. All of these works are vital not only to the This year 2008 has been a difficult year for us all thus Mr C. Bullow, Relations Mgr upkeep and improvement of our most tangible asset, our heritage building, but are equally far with a dramatic slowdown in the economy, high Mrs A. Bussell, Retired vital to our maintaining our vital 4 star hotel rating so important to our room rates. IMPORTANT: if your card has a due date of 2009 interest rates and high fuel costs that have affected us or beyond, your membership for 2009 has al- Mr R. Castle, Retired Our membership now stands at 3000, of which 1049 are mason members. In our last all. That aside, we are able to report a pre tax profit of Mr G. Chapman-Oliver, Correctional Officer magazine I told you about a working party which had been formed to look at ways and means ready been paid and is not due for renewal. Mr R. Clarke, Retired of improving our membership. A report will be before the next monthly Board meeting for our business activities above budgeted expectations Mrs C. Clarke, Retired consideration and decisions about implementation of various proposals. Whilst on the subject for this financial year, a good result considering the ONLINE Mr M. Conlon, Accountant of membership, may I stress upon you the importance of renewing your membership promptly. prevalent economic circumstances. Mr M. Conway, Retired A renewal form has been sent to you with this magazine. For your assistance, you can renew I would like to thank our Club Members for their MEMBERSHIP Mrs J. Darling, Investor now by online payment through our website: www.nswmasonicclub.com.au, by cheque, by continued commitment and patronage. I would also RENEWALS ! Mr S. Darlow, Real Estate Agent phone using your credit card of by calling in person to see Rita on floor 1. like to acknowledge and thank our regular loyal and Miss M. Davies, Welfare Every year we lose membership through failure to renew. You can help to maintain our Membership renewals can supportive hotel guests whose contribution this year is Mrs J. Davis, Retired membership and make more effective our plans for improving our membership and your Club also be made by visiting Mr C. Deakin, Banker by renewing now. clearly identified and appreciated. the club website. For online renewals you will need Mrs J. Dignam, Consultant A few years ago, the members at Annual General Meeting gave your Board power to sell the At the time of writing this report we have all but completed to provide your name, Mr M. Dixon Club’s Heritage Floor Space Entitlement. After some years of patient negotiation, agreement a major upgrade of the air conditioning system and sundry membership number, a Mr R. Dobson, Retired Firefighter has now been reached about that sale which I expect to be completed with all monies paid to building works on Levels 8, 9, 10 & 11. daytime contact telephone, Mr V. Dorrell, Retired Policeman the Club before Christmas. We have also upgraded all eighty three accommodation a valid email address and Mr H. Durrani, Academic Also before Christmas, you can expect that demolition and excavation works will commence hotel bathrooms this year with other noticeable valid credit card details. Mr R. Evans, Company Director to the North and West of our building, to be followed by new buildings facing Castlereagh improvements delivered throughout. Mr R. Farrell, Sales Rep Street and a tall office block facing Pitt Street. www.nswmasonicclub.com.au Your Board will be negotiating with the owner and builders to ensure that inconvenience to We also continue to upgrade the standard of all the members and guests will be kept at an acceptable level. The position of the Club in the centre rooms in the hotel, an ongoing task we pursue with of the CBD affords many advantages. These have to be tempered by some inconvenience great enthusiasm. These works have come at a MEMBERSHIP DETAILS when adjoining sites are redeveloped. sizeable cost to this Club and I am pleased to report Please complete this section and return with payment. Your Our Annual General Meeting will be conducted in Cello’s Restaurant on floor 4 on Monday that all works completed have been funded from Club number and membership type can be found on your card. 24th November commencing at 1pm sharp. Light refreshments will be served after the assets without the need for borrowings. meeting. Your attendance will be warmly welcomed. The facilities throughout this building have been greatly Full Name: Hearty congratulations are due to all those concerned in the Club being named as a finalist in improved and further enhanced during 2008; the the Deluxe Accommodation Section of the 2008 NSW Tourism Awards. Results will be known FINALIST in November. commitment and resolve of the Board of Directors will Due Member Member Amount see this circumstance unchanged during 2009 and With the approach of Christmas, I urge you all to enjoy this all important occasion in a Date Number Type Due in the Deluxe responsible Happy and Holy way. beyond. The Castlereagh Boutique Hotel sits within the four star 31/12/08 Accommodation Category segment of the accommodation market in Sydney. It is Masonic (lodge member) Type 1 $40.00 of the prestigious Graham L. Berry our aim, not only, to remain there, but to further improve NSW Tourism Awards President our business operations for our Members and our Hotel Masonic (unattached) Type 2 $50.00 guests moving through 2009. Associate Type 3 $50.00 There have been countless positive comments recorded about our staff during the last twelve months CREDIT CARD PAYMENT DETAILS OFFICIALS & COMMITTEES OFFICIALS & COMMITTEES CONTACT US and I would like to not only, thank them personally, but to thank them all on your behalf for their loyalty, Cardholder Name: Patron House, Supply & Staff Street Address commitment and sincerity, a difficult job well done by MW Bro AR (Tony) Lauer, APM, JP Lindsay O. Payne (Convenor) 169-171 Castlereagh Street Sydney 2000 all, thank you. Please charge my credit card the sum of: $ President John W. Barron Phone: (02) 9284 1000 This year has certainly flown and with the Melbourne Graham L. Berry Graham Byrne Fax: (02) 9284 1999 Visa Diners Cup now appearing on the horizon it is only a matter of Vice President Frank Deane Reservations: 1800 801 576 Mastercard American Express weeks until we move into summer then into the festive Lindsay O. Payne Finance Bankcard Postal Address season, the New Year then on to 2009, thank you Honorary Treasurer Stephen G. Bates (Convenor) PO Box A1160 Sydney South NSW 1235 everyone for you’re participation during 2008. Stephen G. Bates Ross Delaney Card No. Directors John Moore Websites & Email Addresses John W. Barron Steve Wearne New South Wales Masonic Club Expiry Date: / Graham Byrne Magazine Design Website: www.nswmasonicclub.com.au Frank Deane Signature: Date: Sara Linden Email: [email protected] Ross Delaney Printed by Warren Lewis John Moore The Castlereagh Boutique Hotel Return this form and your payment to: Galloping Press General Manager Steve Wearne Website: www.thecastlereagh.com.au PO Box A1160, Sydney South NSW 1235 NSWMC & Castlereagh Boutique Hotel General Manager Email: [email protected] Ph 02 9284 1000 Fax 02 9284 1999 Warren Lewis 2 NSWMC Magazine October 2008 October 2008 NSWMC Magazine 3 With a life that spanned RECIPROCAL CLUBS more than 100 years and Commercial Club Ulladulla Guest House a catalogue that boasted 618 Dean Street Albury NSW 2640 39 Burrill St, Ulladulla NSW 2539 over 1000 songs, Irving Phone: 02 6021 1133 Fax: 02 6021 4760 Phone: 02 4455 1796 Fax: 02 4454 4660 Email: [email protected] Reservations (Toll Free) 1800 700 905 Irving Berlin 1888 - 1989 Berlin epitomised Jerome Website: www.commclubalbury.com.au Email: [email protected] Website: www.guesthouse.com.au Kern’s famous maxim, Forster-Tuncurry Memorial Services Club Strand St Forster NSW 2428 The Union Club of British Columbia that “Irving Berlin has no Phone: 02 6554 6255 Fax: 02 6554 8069 805 Gordon Street, Victoria, Israel Isidore Baline (or Beilin) was born Mackay, a prominent Roman Catholic Email: [email protected] British Columbia, CANADA, V8W1Z6 May 11, 1888, to a Jewish family and was layman, who disinherited her.
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