National Executive. Minutes etc.. Fastened to folder: Mailing List; copies of Prayer. PART 1., 1977-1982

1977: Minutes (including draft), agenda and notices for meetings 17 March including Primary Produce Assistance Scheme; 29 June, (cancelled);letters from Axe Creek (Asian Aid ball a great success), Horsham; notices, agenda, minutes of meeting 27 Oct., draft and final.

1978: Minutes, agenda and notices for meeting 16 March, with letters from Mack Malcolm, Geelong West, that of 27 March 1978 proposing that the Movement become the “National Catholic Community Movement”; rough and final, and including P.P.A.S.; Minutes, notices, reports for 15 June and 24 August, including copies of financial and membership statements to 30 June 1978. 1979: minutes, agenda and related correspondence for 1 March; notice of meeting (Federated Clerks’ Union to report), letters, minutes, financial statements, 19 September.

1980: agenda, notices, minutes, 27 March; minutes, notices, membership statistics, 22 May. Letter from Noorat, 5 Nov. 1980, enclosing membership cheque (hard to carry on with so few members).

1981 (Meetings at the Bethlehem Home for the Aged, Bendigo): 25 May, notice, agenda, minutes (rough and final); 17 Aug.; agenda, minutes, for 16 Nov. 1981; financial statement, July 1980 – June 1981.

1982: Notice, Minutes, 22 Feb. 1982 (held in Bendigo). Adebit balance is reported; the N.C.C. can no longer continue the subsidy and Rural Life is to cease immediately; Axe Creek to be asked to continue publishing and distributing News and Comments until June 30. Minutes, 12 Aug. 1982; Letters Paul Wild to Paul McGowan, Barnawartha, 5 March 1982, on the abandonment of the school for lack of interest in Bendigo and the state of the Movements’ finances precluding any activity in the near future; to Mrs. D. Carey, Horsham, 24 June 1982, enquiring about Pauline Toner; a school pupil’s enquiry for information; letters of apology. Membership Statistics 1981-1982.

1983: Minutes of meeting at Bendigo, 22 Feb., report from Batman Group, Western Region Meeting, Northern Region, Hotham group, Henty Group, Western Region Executive meeting notice asking Wild to attend; notice of N.C.C. Leaders’ meeting, April; meeting of Western Region, 20 March; list of Metropolitan District Chairmen effective 29 March; Miscellaneous documents for distribution: “The Cost of Protection 1975/1976”; “Notes on Letter Writing for those writing to the Press, and addresses of newspapers, 3 June 1978; Member Statistics 1981-1982”, for all states and New Zealand; minutes of National Executive meeting, Bendigo, 16 Nov. 1981; Receipts July 1980-June 1981;; minutes of National Executive Meeting held Bendigo, 22 Feb. and 12 Aug. 1982;; Attached to cover: N.C.R.M. opening and closing prayer; National Executive mailing list.