Journal Number 88
September 2003

NOTICE

The New Zealand Native Orchid Group should become the
New Zealand Native Orchid Group Incorporated

The Group can become an Incorporated Society on application by fifteen members, along with agreement to hold an annual general meeting, submission of contact details and annual accounts, and paying a once-only registration fee of $100.

The fifteen signatures have to be witnessed, and the rules confirmed by statutory declaration.

All of this can be achieved at a general meeting of the members of the Group - by tradition members are those who pay the annual subscription and Life Members.

I propose that this meeting is held at Iwitahi on Saturday 13 December 2003 at 7 p.m.
All members are invited; signed proxy votes will be accepted from those unable to attend.

What are the advantages? the work will be shared, and the funds will be properly accounted for.
But most importantly, we can apply for grants from charitable bodies. This will be necessary
as we move to publish the descriptions of new native species, and will allow us to seek proper funding to expand our conservation efforts.

Ian St George