Avē,
Me again - it's cos I get lumped with all the werk !
This is Not to wish you a Merry Xmas but so that when you sober up from the
parties and look at next year's diary you'll be able to mark in it that the
AMSANZ conference next year is in AUGUST -
So - AMSANZ conference - Queenstown - August 15th - 19th 2007
The reason for this is so that we can combine again with NZ ANZSOM who are
hosting the Australian branch of ANZSOM also, so it promises to be a bigger
hooley than ever.
For those AMSANZ scrooges who can only take 3 days off, we'll have all the
AMSANZ stuff, including CAA day, on the Friday 17th, Saturday & Sunday morning.
This might well include Friday dinner at Skyline restaurant, Saturday AGM &
combined societies dinner at the Millennium Hotel Queenstown, finish with lunch
on Sunday and flights out begin at 2pm. We have a cunning plan to prevent either
Bill Daniels or Edwin Whiteside from speaking at the dinner !
All registration and hotel bookings will be made online from the AMSANZ website
this year and this should be available from March 2007.
However, travel will be your own responsibility.
For those who want more excitement we're planning a trip to the Manapouri power
station on the Wednesday & on the Thursday there'll be a full range of trips
including practising skiing accidents, an Earnslaw trip to the Walter Peak
Station, a golf tournament at Millbrook, wine tasting & maybe the odd impromptu
lecture over lunch or dinner.
Queenstown is bone-chillingly cold at that time of year so don't feel guilty
about taking in a few extra calories this Xmas.
In other news for Xmas -
A small (optimistic) society delegation attended another of Rob Griffiths'
weddings on December 9th - this one to blond bombshell Judge Carrie Wainwright
from the Maori Land Court. All their children behaved themselves very well on
the marae at Turangi !
Our congratulations to Tim Rumball (Gold Medal), Sara Souter & Pooshan Navathe
who all passed the FAFOM exams in September. Sara is due to produce another
child just after Xmas so best wishes to her & Tim that all goes well.
And a welcome to Russell Kilvington, the new Director at CAA.
And - don't miss Casino Royale - even if the weather comes right !
OK - NOW you can have a Happy Xmas & get into those gift bottles of wine & sort
through the free calendars.
See you next year & best wishes to all.
Brian Spackman
Copyright AMSANZ 2006.