Heritage North

The recent meeting of the Heritage North Association which was held at Millaa Millaa turned out to be a quite a disappointing affair with just three member groups sending delegates.  With such a poor attendance, it was questioned if the group's activities should be discontinued and it was decided to bring this issue up at the Annual General Meeting at the end of the year.  The meeting continued with several Societies reporting dissatisfaction with the information written for their group's entry in the proposed promotional brochure.  It was not understood where the information was obtained and many mistakes needed to be corrected.  A discussion was held on problems concerning a failed grant application by the Innisfail Society and on the recent successful grant application by the Eacham Society.  The ongoing problem of attracting new and active members to the local historical societies was also discussed with many of the ideas on this issue having the basic problem of finding the volunteers within those groups to implement any plans.  The possibility of a shared field trip to visit the sites of all the closed sugar mills was brought up and tentative plans for the tour were made for about August or September.  Eacham is to contact the Mulgrave and Innisfail societies with details closer to the trip date.  The next meeting is to be held in Gordonvale in late August.