ACT Heritage Library Manuscript Collections
HMSS 0371 Canberra South Bowling Club Records
Scope and Content Notes
Call Number | HMSS 0371 |
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Collection | Canberra South Bowling Club Records |
Date Range | 1948-2006 |
Quantity | 2.6 m (14 manuscript boxes and 4 binders) |
Access Conditions | open |
Copying Conditions | with attribution |
Related Collections | HMSS 0001 Canberra Womens Bowling Club; HMSS 0206 North Canberra Bowling Club |
The inaugural meeting to form a third bowling club in Canberra was held at the Hockey Pavilion, Manuka on 20 July 1948, followed on 18 October by the first General Meeting of the Canberra South Bowling Club. At this meeting it was announced that a site had been approved near the intersection of Flinders Way and La Perouse Street, Forrest for three greens and a clubhouse, which the Club occupied in 1951. A permanent clubhouse was designed by Harry Seidler and opened in May 1959. Meanwhile, the first Club match was held on 6 March 1949 on the green at Parliament House.
There have been several changes to the Club’s structure. The Club was incorporated in 1955. Membership was exclusively male until the establishment of the Canberra South Women’s Bowling Club in 1981. In 1997 the Canberra South Bowling Club ceased to exist when members approved new constitutions for Canberra South Bowling & Recreation Club and its constituent men’s and women’s clubs. In August 2004 the existing constitution of the Canberra South Men’s Bowling Club Inc was replaced with a new constitution in the name of Canberra South Bowling Club, which amalgamated the men’s and women’s clubs with equal rights for all members.
Early in 1998 ACT Rugby Union Ltd proposed a joint agreement that would enable it to build its headquarters and a gymnasium for its Super 12 players on the Bowling Club’s site and to become a partner in the operation of the clubhouse. This agreement allowed Canberra Royals Rugby Union Club, trading as Brumbies Sports and Social Club, to lease the Bowling Club premises. Royals went into administration in December 2003 and the lease and management of the Bowling Club premises was subsequently reassigned to Eastern Suburbs Rugby and Amateur Sports Club Inc (Easts).
In 2008 Canberra South transferred the lease on its premises in Griffith to ACT Brumbies Rugby Union and began using West Deakin Hellenic Bowling Club as its base of operations, pending amalgamation with West Deakin Hellenic.
The increased activity in the years 1996-1998 is reflected in the arrangement of parts of the collection. The minutes of the general meetings during this time are not only within the general run of minutes in boxes 10 and 11 but also in three separate folders with related papers at the end of the sequence. In addition, a separate collection of papers and supporting documents is collated under the heading Restructuring. This has created some unavoidable duplication.
There have been several Club newsletters, beginning in 1952 with In the South. From 1958 into the early 1960s it was Canberra South Chatter, revived in March 1965 as Chatter in the South. The early newsletters were irregular, but from November 1991 to about April 1999 The Canberra South was published monthly. In 2000 the title was South’s Bowlers Newsletter.
The Club’s history, Fifty Years at Souths, was launched in January 1999. [ACT Heritage Library H 794.315099471 FIFT]
Box List
BOX |
DESCRIPTION |
QUANTITY |
DATE RANGE |
1 |
CONSTITUTION AND RULES |
|
1987 – 1998 |
1 |
- Canberra South Bowling Club constitutions 26 June 1997 – 19 July 1998 |
1 folder |
26 June 1997 – 19 July 1998 |
1 |
Canberra South Women’s Bowling Club constitutions |
1 folder |
1987 – 1997 |
1 |
Canberra South Bowling Club rules, including proposed changes to the By-laws 13 May 1991 |
2 folders |
1982 – 14 August 1995 |
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|
|
1-11 |
MINUTES |
|
1948 – 2001 |
1 |
Canberra South Bowling Club inaugural, general, annual general, and committee meetings, and the first annual report 20 September 1949 |
1 folder |
20 July 1948 – 3 December 1952 |
1 |
Canberra South Bowling Club general, annual general, and committee meetings; includes some loose pages, a photograph of club members 6 March 1949 pasted inside the front cover, and an invitation to President’s Day 19 January 1964 loose in the back |
1 minute book |
26 May 1952 – 14 October 1958 |
2 |
Canberra South Bowling Club committee and monthly meetings |
1 minute book |
10 May 1957 – 3 July 1962 |
2 |
Canberra South Bowling Club general, annual general, and committee meetings; from 1960-1961 to 1982/1983 published annual general meeting agendas and reports are included |
2 minute books |
11 November 1958 – 13 December 1967 |
3 |
Canberra South Bowling Club general, annual general, and committee meetings |
4 minute books |
1967/1968 – 1970/1971 |
4 |
Canberra South Bowling Club general, annual general, and committee meetings |
4 minute books |
1971/1972 – 1974/1975 |
5 |
Canberra South Bowling Club general, annual general, and committee meetings |
4 minute books |
1975/1976 – 1978/1979 |
6 |
Canberra South Bowling Club general, annual general, and committee meetings |
4 minute books |
1979/1980 – 1982/1983 |
7 |
Canberra South Bowling Club general, annual general, and committee meetings |
3 minute books |
1976 – 1984/1985 |
8 |
Canberra South Bowling Club general, annual general, and committee meetings |
3 minute books |
1985/1987 – 1988/1989 |
9 |
Canberra South Bowling Club general, annual general, and committee meetings |
5 minute books |
1989/1990 – 1993/1994 |
10 |
Canberra South Bowling Club general, annual general, and committee meetings |
3 minute books, 2 exercise books |
1994/1995 – 1995/1996 |
11 |
Canberra South Bowling Club general, annual general, and committee meetings |
1 minute book |
1996/1997 |
11 |
Canberra South Bowling Club annual general meeting |
1 folder |
1996 |
11 |
Canberra South Bowling Club special general meeting |
1 folder |
1997 |
11 |
Canberra South Men’s Bowling Club special and annual general meetings |
1 folder |
1998 |
11 |
Canberra South Bowling and Recreation Club annual general meeting |
1 sleeve |
2000/2001 |
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|
11-15 |
MEMBERSHIP |
|
1959 – 2001 |
11 |
Canberra South Women’s Bowling Club membership register |
1 binder |
1981 – 1997 |
11 |
Membership variations |
1 file |
2000 – 2001 |
12-15 |
Membership registers – 3 volumes A – Z, 1 volume A – K (teal cover) |
4 binders |
1959 – 1990s |
|
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|
|
16 |
ANNUAL REPORTS |
|
1949 – 2006 |
16 |
Canberra South Bowling Club reports 1-49 |
|
September 1949 – May 1997 |
16 |
Canberra South Bowling and Recreation Club annual report and financial statements, and Canberra South Men’s Bowling Club annual reports, numbers 1-6 |
|
May 1998 – May 2003 |
16 |
Canberra South Bowling and Recreation Club annual report and financial statements |
|
May 2004 – May 2006 |
16 |
Canberra South Bowling Club |
|
September 2004 – August 2006 |
16 |
Report by ad-hoc committee on club activities |
1 sleeve |
1981 |
|
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|
16 |
NEWSLETTERS |
|
1965 – 2000 |
|
Chatter in the South, 3 issues |
|
1965 – 1966 |
|
The Canberra South, incomplete |
|
November 1991 – April 1999 |
|
South’s Bowlers Newsletter, 2 issues |
|
2000 |
|
|
|
|
17 |
RESTRUCTURING |
4 folders |
1997 – 2004 |
|
|
|
|
17 |
CORRESPONDENCE |
|
1982 – 2002 |
|
Visits to and from other clubs |
1 folder |
1992 – 2002 |
|
Thank you letters |
1 folder |
1987 – 2000 |
|
|
|
|
17 |
SECRETARY’S FILE |
1 folder |
1982 – 1985 |
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|
|
17 |
NEWSCUTTINGS |
2 folders |
1962 – 1965; 1993 – 1994 |
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17 |
REMINISCENCES |
1 folder |
Ca 1998 |