12 October 2022 (Wed) – Lithgow NSW
Preparation for the National Muster and he spent countless hours working of the AGM.
13 October 2022 (Thur) – Lithgow NSW
Another day of preparation for the National Muster and many more hours working of the AGM.
14 October 2022 (Fri) – Lithgow NSW
Our members started to arrive today. She was involved with registrations whilst he continued with work relating to the AGM.
15 October 2022 (Sat) – Lithgow NSW
More members arrived today. She was involved with registrations whilst he continued with work relating to the AGM.
16 October 2022 (Sun) – Lithgow NSW
Today was the opening ceremony of the muster and that was followed by lunch that was catered for by local girl guides. Rod Hannifrey spoke about truck safety during the afternoon and several short films were shown in the evening.
17 October 2022 (Mon) – Lithgow NSW
Members of the local Tourist Information Centre attended and provided informing relating to the Seven Valleys and surrounds.
We also attended a Charity Morning tea and that was followed by a Stitch & Knit session and Boy’s Toys. Both were well attended and enjoyed by all.
18 October 2022 (Tue) – Lithgow NSW
Most of today was occupied with talks from Tow-Ed and Transport NSW.
After the conclusion of these sessions, members were given the opportunity to listen to presentations from a couple id directors and then had the opportunity to ask questions.
In the evening, He played a movie called “Too Long in the Bush” which tells the story of the Australian surveyor and explorer, Len Beadell.
19 October 2022 (Wed) – Lithgow NSW
A quiet day for us with the only muster activity we were involved with being Disc Bowls that was held in the afternoon. With a reduced number of participants, as round robin over several rounds was run and eventfully won. Those who attended had a good time and the weather was kind to us with showers forecast.
20 October 2022 (Thur) – Lithgow NSW
Today was to have been lawn bowls but a large amount of rainfall overnight put a stop to that.
He received the final proxy votes for the AGM and spent many hours completing the final summary.
We had our evening meals at the Chinese restaurant in the Lithgow Bowling Club.
21 October 2022 (Fri) – Lithgow NSW
A quiet day with part of the morning occupied with several members who had agreed to scrutinise the proxy votes.
Another Len Beadell movies was played later in the afternoon during happy hour.
He hosted trivia in the evening and that was enjoyed by everyone.
22 October 2022 (Sat) – Lithgow NSW
The day of our AGM and dinner dance in the evening. The AGM took time to conduct with 5 special resolutions proposed to members. 3 of the 5 were defeated.
The dinner dance was held in the ballroom and whilst the band (The Mud Monkeys) were fantastic, the caterer let us down having underestimated the amount of food required for the number attending. We had paid for 182 persons but approximately 22 people were not provided with food. This was most disappointing.
23 October 2022 (Sun) – Lithgow NSW
We held the closing ceremony and then packed up all the equipment that we had used during the muster.
For lunch we headed to Hungry Jacks (the burgers are supposed to be better) and then did a short drive around Lithgow. This took place in light rain.
That night we had our evening meal in Lithgow Workers Club with the committee members and their partners attending.