Cairns Historical Society

As this Society is not having monthly meeting at the moment, I called into their new centre at the old Grafton Street Post Office building to pay my membership and catch up with happenings.  It was good to see this temporary centre now up and running although due to staffing problems, the centre is not open on Saturdays which makes it difficult for some members to access the Society.  It is hoped that it will be opened for at least one weekend a month next year.  Sadly, the Annual General Meeting was held at the ridiculous time of nine o'clock on a Friday morning which made it almost impossible for many members to attend.  I hope there was little business to attend to at this year's meeting as this attitude will make finding new people to sit on the committee difficult.  This years Society Christmas party is also a little different as it is a cruise about the inlet on the Sunset Harbour Cruise boat, although I hope the limited number of seats will not be a problem.  I look forward to a better year in 2014 with some normality returning to the groups operations.