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National Treasurer’s Report – secure hard copy for branch people to peruse at meetings or
Riding On No. 153 Summer 2021 VRFLDO JDWKHULQJV :H KDYH LGHQWL¿HG WKRVH ZKR DUH PLVVLQJ
copies and additional copies will be produced and distributed
The end of year 2021 is rapidly with this edition of Riding On.
approaching and I am sure every
member will remember the year We are hopeful of still being able to run the 2022 Rally
for the COVID disruptions and in Warwick, Qld. Clearly with the Omicron variant just
lockdowns as well as one or two emerging at end November we will be watching government
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the lockdowns and movement rules for Warwick is that we will run a COVID safe Rally obeying
restrictions the activities of the ALL the government health orders in place at the time. I
Club and its Branches have been think at the very least, these will involve limitations regarding
severely compromised. Getting unvaccinated people attending. I can only implore those
away for a ‘decent ride’ has been members wishing to attend Warwick to get fully vaccinated as
a challenge with changing COVID soon as possible.
rules meaning lots of last minute cancellations. I am hoping to
ride to the NatCom meeting scheduled in Great Western, Vic. Notwithstanding my statement in the last edition of Riding On
early February 2022 and then meander around the Grampians. not to continue on NatCom I have decided to fall back from the
Treasurer’s role but continue as an ordinary committee person
Our trading position has been hit by the cancellation of the (if elected). Further comments on this matter appear elsewhere
2021 Rally scheduled for Mandurah, WA. This resulted in in this magazine.
additional costs in staging the Orange Odyssey and AGM in
early May. I have now wound all associated costs into the Finally, best wishes to all members and readers of Riding On
Club’s accounts and this shows we lost $20,263 in respect of for a happy and safe Christmas and New Year. Also I should
Mandurah/Orange events. The one excellent thing associated UHPLQG PHPEHUV WKDW WKH 1DWLRQDO 2໥FH ZLOO EH FORVHG IURP
with Mandurah is that Dave Wright, #51871 has secured COB Wednesday 22nd December until 8:30a.m. Wednesday 5th
$12,000 (part of WA Police sponsorship) to be used to produce January 2022.
road safety videos. With the Rally losses now included in our
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we should make surpluses in Nov-Dec21 and it appears our John Osborne
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loss the net worth of the Club will still exceed $0.5mil. #41785
National Treasurer
This edition of Riding On will be the second ‘on-line’
distribution. The distribution of the Spring edition went
relatively smoothly although there was one glitch in our order
system - we did not recognise multiple copy orders in our mail
out list. These multiples were from Branches which wanted to

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