Celebrating 90 Years North Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club Affiliated with Surf Life Saving Sydney Inc and Surf Life Saving Australia Limited 90TH ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT Celebrating 90 Years A Celebrating 90 Years 90TH ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT 90th Annual General Meeting 2 March Past Section Report 52 Club Sponsors 3 Masters Section Report 54 2014 -2015: A season to remember 4 R&R Section Report 55 SECTION 1: ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE 17 Ski Section Report 59 Board of Directors Attendance 17 Swim Section Report 60 Patron’s Foreword 18 Surfboat Section Report 61 President’s Report 20 North Cronulla Touring Team 2015 65 Deputy President’s Report 24 Competition Lifesaving Report 65 Finance Director’s Report 25 North Cronulla Christmas Carnival 2014 66 Acknowledgements 25 Coolangatta Gold 2014 - 30th Anniversary 66 Secretary’s Report 26 Surfsports Officials Coordinators Report 67 Club Management Plan (CMP) 28 Club Championships Results 68 Club Captain’s Report 30 Surf Sports Awards 70 Club Vice Captain’s Report 31 Senior Competition Results 71 SECTION 2: COMMUNITY 32 SECTION 6: YOUTH DEVELOPMENT 78 “Roll Up Your Sleeves” 32 Youth Development Director’s Report 79 Media Coverage 33 Sydney Branch Delegate’s Report 80 Ice Bucket Challenge 34 JAG Director’s Report 81 Cook Community Classic 34 JAG Secretary’s Report 82 SECTION 3: EDUCATION & TRAINING 35 Nipper Team Manager’s Report 83 Education and Training Report 35 Junior Club Captain Reports 84 SECTION 4: LIFESAVING & PATROL 38 Water Safety Hours 86 Patrol Statistics 38 Nipper Awards 87 Lifesaving Director’s Report 40 Nipper Competition Results 90 Patrol Awards 42 SECTION 7: MEMBER SERVICES 94 SECTION 5: SURF SPORTS – COMPETITION 43 Ladies Committee Report 94 Competition Report 44 Harry Brown Room Upgrade 95 Head Coach’s Report 45 Project Phoenix 96 Beach Section Report 46 Club Historian’s Report 97 Board Riding Report 48 Vales 98 IRB Section Report 49 Membership 2014-2015 99 Board Section Report 50 SECTION 8: FINANCIAL REPORT 109 1 Celebrating 90 Years 90th Annual General Meeting Club Sponsors North Cronulla SLSC and Surf Life Saving at all levels appreciates the 10AM SUNDAY 12TH JULY 2015, HARRY BROWN ROOM ongoing support of our sponsors. These photographs are just a small 2 Barrows sample of the many ways we benefit from your generosity. Please make Blue Waste Paper an effort to support our sponsors in way you can. Alan Freeman AGENDA 1.11: NOTICES Allianz Australia AMP Foundation 1. Welcome to Guests, Visitors and Members Notices may be given to any person entitled under this Constitution to receive any notice by sending the notice AR Rennie Pty Ltd 2. Apologies by post or facsimile transmission or other electronic mail Attwells Kitchens 3. Surf Life Savers’ Prayer transmission where available, to the Member’s registered Austbrokers Holdings address or facsimile number or electronic mail address. Austbrokers Spt 4. To confirm and adopt Minutes of the 89th Annual General Bofelectrix Meeting, held on 13th July, 2014 Where a notice is sent by post, service of the notice By The Sea Catering service of the notice shall be deemed to be effected at the 2 BARROWS, MEL MAC & 5. Business arising from the Minutes time the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary STREATER PLUMBING BOFELECTRIX CALTEX Caltex Refineries (NSW) Pty Ltd 6. Presentation of Long Service Awards and Patron’s Award course of post. Canterbury Leagues Caringbah Inn a) 25 Year Badge to: Where a notice is sent by facsimile, service of the Carlton and United Breweries David Boggiss, Kristine Whitford, Adam Purdie notice shall be deemed to be effected upon receipt of a (SLSA only) confirmation report confirming the facsimile was sent to or CGU Insurance received at the facsimile number to which it was sent. Channel 9 b) 50 Year Badge to: Clubs NSW Edward (Ted) Brooker OAM, Barry Fretten, Where a notice is sent by electronic mail, service of the Coca-Cola Amatil (Aust) Pty Ltd Gregory Fretten, Robert G Hanson, Robert G Voigt notice shall be deemed to be effected upon production of a and Brian Ferguson (50 SLSA Only) confirmation report confirming the electronic mail message CHANNEL 9 CRONULLA RSL DHL Cronulla Smash Repairs was sent to the electronic mail address recorded. Cronulla RSL Memorial Club Ltd c) 60 Year Badge to: DHL International John S (Jack) Kirkland, O.E (Ted) Larsen OAM, Moved Tracey McKinniery and Seconded by Brian ElCapitan Surf Boards Neil D Oliver Ferguson Gibson Howlin Lawyers 7. Submission and adoption of the 90th Annual report of the 9. Motion of which due notice has been given: Guzman 4 Gomez Board of Directors and Financial Statements and Balance Hogs Breath Café Cronulla Sheet for Season 2014-2015 a) Nomination of Frank Schreuder to be elected to the status of Life Membership of North Cronulla Surf Life Holt Group 8. Motion of which due notice has been given: Saving Club Inc. HOLT GROUP HOGS BREATH CAFE Jeff Bell & Co Pty Ltd Maher Partners That by way of Special Resolution the members of Nominated by Martin Dillon and seconded by Ron North Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club Incorporated Hammond MelMac Interior Joinery endorse that Section 1.9 ( C ) and 1.11 of the MJB Waterways Constitution –General Meetings be amended as b) Nomination of Ben Dillon to be elected to the status Northies Hotel follows: of Life Membership of North Cronulla Surf Life Saving Paragon Plumbing Club Inc. Delete Pioneer Waste Nominated by Allan Cameron BEM and seconded by Pracey Plumbing (C) Written notice of all General Meetings shall be given Martin Dillon NORTH CRONULLA BEACH KIOSK RIPCURL QBE Australia either personally or by post. 10. To elect the Patron and Board of Directors for the 2015- RipCurl and 2016 Season and elect one Trustee for a three year term. Ron Hammond Service Engineering 1.11: NOTICES - Notices sent by post shall be deemed to 11. To determine the date of the first Board of Directors Southern Fasteners have been received two days after the date of posting. Meeting. Stapleton’s Quality Meats Sutherland Replace with 12. General Business (urgent matters only) Stewart Toyota 1.9 (C) 13. President’s Address Stramit Building Products TRADIES SOUTHERN FASTENERS PARAGON PLUMBING Streater Plumbing A notice of a general meeting shall be in writing and shall specify the time, date and place of the meeting and shall Surfing Cronulla Surf School state the business to be transacted at the meeting. Notice For and on behalf of the Board of Directors Telstra may be given in any form as listed: The Tradies Tracey McKinniery, Toll Transport Secretary / Public Officer Total Finish Vero Insurance Ltd Zurich Financial Services Aust Pty Ltd TOLL THE CARINGBAH INN 2 3 Celebrating 90 Years 2014 -2015: A season to remember STEVE WARREN, POSSIBLY NORTH CRONULLA CLUB’S EMILY MAYTHERS, NORTH CRONULLA’S NIPPER CLUB CAPTAIN AND GREATEST COMPETITOR AND MULTIPLE AUSTRALIAN HARRY BROWN, THE DOYEN JIM PERYMAN- TRAGICALLY STEVE SWANE – NATIONAL CHAMPION ONE OF THE YOUNGEST PATROL MEMBERS WITH JOHN MYERS, 91, BOARD CHAMPION. OF CLUB ADMINISTRATORS DROWNED WHILE SAVING A LIFE. AND GREAT CLUB BOAT SWEEP CLUB PATRON – WARREN RENNIE THE OLDEST LIVING CLUB MEMBER, IN FRONT OF THE CLUBHOUSE. North Cronulla Celebrates 90 years First patrol Army constructions himself in the big seas. His body was found under water, his line and belt entangled in seaweed – and all attempts to The first patrol was on duty in December 1925 and consisted The early part of World War 11 saw the Army undertake resuscitate failed. of a small team of volunteers armed with a reel, line and belt a number of defensive constructions around Bate Bay, as their only rescue equipment, and they performed over 25 including old tram rails supporting barbed wire and tank “After his death they created a safety release pin, so a rescues in their first season of patrols. traps built into the sand in front of the stepped walls and the beltman could, at any time, pull the pin to release himself,” North Cronulla clubhouse. explained Rennie. “Unfortunately his brother died 10 years The first North Cronulla clubhouse, a small weatherboard later, on the same day, in a motor accident.” By Brad Forrest job, was erected in 1926 to the north of Cronulla SLSC It proved to be the club’s undoing. (Wanda and Elouera didn’t exist then). By October 1942, seas and erosion had resulted in Remembered But North Cronulla SLSC – which finished 11th and highest- 23-metres of the wall collapsing. On the eve of the 90th anniversary of North Cronulla Surf Life Jim Peryman’s death saw a fund of 2,000 pounds raised, placed of the four clubs at last week’s national championships Saving Club – and 50 years of club Nippers – and with the Worse was to come three years later when the clubhouse with an ambulance room and a radio communications room – could easily have faded from existence after World War II flags having come down on another surf season, there’s a was directly threatened when tons of sand disappeared furnished and decorated in his memory. His picture adorns except for the determination of those early club members. new appreciation of our lifesaving warriors. and the concrete paving in front of the club washed away, the club’s stairway, and the club’s pool carries his name – the resulting in the club hanging over a sheer drop … James Peryman memorial pool. Talking this week to the esteemed North Cronulla club Early years patron and decorated life member, Warren Rennie, gave us The same year, 1968, North Cronulla staged its first The early years and the Depression saw reasonably quiet an even stronger appreciation of surf lifesaving, both past Collapse under big seas Australian Surf Lifesaving Championships on a beach seasons.