Interesting that a National Rep for NZ is advertised when one for Australia was deemed not needed. Jennie Fairs -----Original Message----- From: Debbie Kennett [mailto:debbiekennett@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 10 February 2015 2:16 AM To: 'mingay'; goons@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [G] Chairmans News Flash Tony I've just discovered that the minutes of the last Committee meeting are up on the website: http://www.one-name.org/members/minutes.html There is a list of situations vacant here: http://www.one-name.org/cgi-bin/members/sitsvac.cgi The minutes do not seem to reveal the names of the people who are standing down from Committee at the AGM or the names of the people who have indicated that they are willing to stand for Committee in 2015. I have a feeling it's something to do with the Constitution and they're not allowed to reveal the names, which is yet another reason to get the Constitution updated as soon as possible. Debbie -----Original Message----- From: goons-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:goons-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of mingay via Sent: 05 February 2015 23:40 To: GOONS Forum Subject: [G] Chairmans News Flash Hi All, Is there anywhere where there is a list of prospective committee members or at least who is still 'standing/willing' to stand. As indicated by the recent News Flash that several of the 'old' committee are no longer able/willing to serve next year. I have tried the Minutes of the 31 Jan 2015 meeting but as of yet they are not available, even in draft form. Regards Tony Anthony John MINGAY, now in NZ once of Kent & Suffolk, England but still researching Worldwide the surname MINGAY & its variants. http://www.mingayhistory.co.uk.

Jennie New Zealand only has one rep to cover the whole country unlike Australia which has regional reps to cover all the different states. I understood that the reps in Australia didn't want a national rep. The reps in Australia already do a fantastic job. We don't have national reps for England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland either. It seems to me that we probably have too many regional reps and I'm sure the system could be streamlined to reduce the workload. Debbie -----Original Message----- From: goons-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:goons-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jennie Fairs via Sent: 09 February 2015 21:50 To: goons@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [G] Chairmans News Flash Interesting that a National Rep for NZ is advertised when one for Australia was deemed not needed. Jennie Fairs

Hi, I have reason to suspect that the reason for there being a New Zealand national Rep is that the country is not divided up into States like Australia is for example, plus also the population is not the same size either. However I would have thought that there would have been two reps one for the North Island and one for the South Island for New Zealand due to the geography of the country. On 10/02/2015 10:49 a.m., Jennie Fairs via wrote: > Interesting that a National Rep for NZ is advertised when one for Australia > was deemed not needed. > > Jennie Fairs > > Snip