Hello Everybody,
Our AGM was a great success, lots of people, and lots of enthusiasm. Thank you all for coming, especially those who came from as far afield as Herekino, Napier, and Taranaki. It was good to have you with us. We thank those who offered their hospitality to our visitors. Country members are welcome to come along any time to our sauna evenings or beach outings. If you need a billet, just let us know.
The Waiwera trip also went off well, with about sixty of us enjoying a really good evening. Good food, good wine, and great company!
WELLINGTON SWIM NIGHT
CANNONS CREEK POOL PORIRUA, SUNDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 6 - 8 P.M. ADULTS $3 FAMILY $6
Members in the lower North Island are invited to a swim and barbecue night arranged by the Wellington Sun Club, and. we urge you all to attend. Barbecues will be supplied. Our support of these functions is vital to make them viable, and our co-operation with sun clubs is essential.
Hopefully, Wellington swim nights will become a regular event, so go along, enjoy yourselves, and invite your friends!
PHOTO COMPETITION
We had 36 entries in our Photo Competition, and all the entrants won prizes. Photos of Ngatuhoa really showed off its charms. My favourite was a misty shot of the waterfall in the rain. I must apologise for forgetting to send, out the entry forms. It is not difficult to win a prize, as you can see, so keep it in mind over the coming summer.
Colour Photos - First Prize of $20 to Roger Thompson
- Second Prizes of $15 each to Carol Bowers and. Evan Chugg
- Third Prize of $10 to Frank Bowers
Black and white Photos - First Prize of $15 to Adrianne Caldwell
- Second Prize of $10 to Brian van Cuylenburg
- Third. Prizes of $5 each to Brian van Cuylenburg.
WEDNESDAY 24 JANUARY TO TUESDAY 30 JANUARY 1990
Get away from it all and come with us to Ngatuhoa this summer. Almost a week to enjoy a holiday deep in the bush of the Kaimais, sunbathing, swimming, bush walks, waterfalls, river rafting, canoe races, flying fox, rifle shooting, abseiling, or just relaxing.
Come to our Fancy Undress Ball, and spend a day at Papamoa. Come for the week, or come for the weekend, there is something here for everyone. Full details and. your booking slip will be given in our next newsletter.
Would it be possible for any South Island (sorry, 'mainland') members to come? Or would you be interested in a gathering of your own - we have the venue. How about it? Let me know.
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There are now 72 children in the group, and we would like to improve contacts between families with children of similar ages. It makes such a difference if the kids have someone to play with at our outings, and gives them a chance to form their own friendships. This year we ask you to give the ages of your children for including in our directory, and any input from the kids themselves would be welcome.
PLEASE SEND IN YOUR YELLOW FORM PROMPTLY, before you lose it!
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The 1988 Beach List ran out, and some new members received 1986 beach lists. Our 1989 Beach List is now ready and is available free of charge on request. Sun club members wanting a copy of our beach list must order it through their club secretary, and pay $3.50 per copy.
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The only price which has changed this year is for name tags, which have gone up one dollar, to $7 each. We have children's tee-shirts in all sizes from 2 years upwards, at $5 each - an ideal Christmas present Just add your order on to your Yellow Form.
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Enclosed with this newsletter is one of our FBG posters, which you can order on your Yellow Form. We are hoping everyone will give out lots of these posters this summer. They can be put on notice boards anywhere and everywhere, or stick them in shop windows, or get them printed in other club newsletters, or give them to your friends, or hand them out on the beach. There are lots of people out there who would love to join us. All they need is an invitation.
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Our new sauna is becoming very popular, and we invite you to come along and try it. It is clean, warm and cosy, and the cost is very reasonable at $6.50 each. We are holding our plate-and-bottle nights on the second Sunday of each month. There is plenty of parking. Coffee, tea and fruit drinks are available free. The place: Alladin's Bathhouse, 433 Richmond Road, Grey Lynn The time: EVERY SUNDAY from 5 p.m. onwards Social nights: 10 September, 8 October - BYO and a plate of goodies.
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Do come along to these swim nights, we need your support. Members, friends and sun club members are assured of a warm welcome.
Please note:- the October date has been brought forward to avoid clashing with Labour Weekend.
The place: Swimarama Pool, Lagoon Drive, Panmure
The time: Saturday 6.30 - 8.30 p.m.
The cost: Adults $2.50, children 50 cents
The dates: 16 September and 14 October.
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The Hibiscus Coast Sun Club invite us to their swim nights at the Parakai Tourist Complex on Fridays 29 September and. 27 October, from 6 - 10 p.m. Adults $4.50, children $2.80. This is the last pool complex on the left as you go through Parakai. Restaurant and takeaways available on the premises.
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We open the summer season with a weekend camp at the Uretiti Beach Recreation Reserve, 6 km north of Waipu on State Highway 1, opposite Mountfield. Road. Acres of camping ground among pine trees in the sandhills behind the beach. City water, flush toilets, cold showers, fireplaces. No dogs. Supplies at Ruakaka, 3 km further north. Good. swimming, miles of beach, and good fishing, too: We hope to have lots of northern members call in and sunbathe or camp with us. Contact: John or Fran Riggir 565-219.
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: Some of you may like to pop out to Tinopai on your way to Uretiti, and look over a new camping site we have been offered on the northern side of the Kaipara Harbour. It is a beautiful spot, secluded, with magnificent views. The area is about 2- acres bounded by a bush reserve, with a beach, a boat ramp, excellent fishing (usually!), water laid on and a store/garage handy. Plenty of space for tents and a bunk-house. To get there, turn off at the Brynderwyn Junction and head out through Maungataroto to Matakohe, then follow the signs 20 km to Tinopai. Turn left into Ngatoto Road, go 1 km to a letterbox marked 'Williams', then turn right and go about 1 km through two gates to the end of the road. Tar-sealed almost all the way. The name of the landowner is Don Ovens. Please phone him on 089-37-195 to let him know you're coming. Contact: Adrianne 881-601.
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Summer is a-comin' in, and until your local organiser can arrange a more varied diary, I suggest that you meet at the following beaches, every Sunday. Take your flag, and also a bundle of posters, to hand out to other nudists as you walk along the beach. Quite a few people join FBG when approached in this way. I keep my posters in a plastic clip bag and carry them about with me. The first person to arrive should choose a suitable spot and set up a flag for those coming later. These places are suggested:-
| Northland - Uretiti | Auckland - St. Leonards | South Auckland - Mellon's Bay | |||
| Tauranga - Papamoa | Hawkes Bay - Ocean Beach | New Plymouth - Back Beach | |||
| Wellington/Palmerston North - Pekapeka | Christchurch - Waikuku Beach | ||||
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Remember your own swim nights at the Fernland Hot Pools on the first Friday of every month, from 10 p.m. onwards. The pools are well signposted, about halfway along Cambridge Road, down a steep driveway.
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We are pleased to announce that Doug and Peggy Ball have offered to act as local organisers for the New Plymouth area. They may be contacted at NU 067-33-393. Starting with a nucleus of eight people, this promises to be quite a challenge. We wish you well.
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We could do with an extra contact for the lower North Island, and I would especially like a lady member to offer to do this for us. All we ask of local organisers is that they maintain regular contact with the group in Auckland, so that we can include news of your activities in the newsletter. Can anyone give it a go?
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I guess you are all hibernating down there in the Deep South, but there are signs of a thaw, and I hope to have lots of news from you for our next newsletter. And don't be surprised if you see lots of our posters stuck up around the city! We are expecting a heap of new members from Christchurch this summer. Best wishes.
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We offer our condolences to John and Judy Miller, who have lost their only son in a motorcycle accident. John Junior spent many happy days of his childhood with the Free Beach Group, and is sadly missed.
COMMITTEE: We give a special welcome to two new committee members, both ladies.
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President - John Riggir 565-219 |
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Secretary - Adrianne Caldwell 881-601 |
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Public Relations - Tony Wilson 627-9726 |
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Committee - Fran Riggir 565-219 |
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Tom Lewis 418-1890 |
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Gwen Annabell 833-8066* (volunteered) |
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3 October, 1989. Your November-December newsletter is due out about Labour Weekend.
I lie on the beach in the warm sun, listening to the sound of the waves. Fred Bear sags a little between his two sticks. Will anybody from FBG come here today? Good grief, someone is out there swimming! In the middle of August! The water is like ice, he tells me later.
I begin to wonder if Fred Bear is affording me some protection. Having him there gives the impression that I am expecting company, even if none has arrived.
I lie here in the warm sun, watching all the guys go by. Roll on summer!
P.S. NOW FILL IN YOUR YELLOW FORM AND SEND IT OFF
NUDITY AND THE LAW
The only law concerned with public nudity is the Summary Offences Act 1981.
Section 4 states (in part):-
"Offensive behaviour or language - (1) Every person is liable to a fine not exceeding $500 who, -
(a) In or within view of any public place, behaves in an offensive or disorderly manner".
Section 27 states:-
"Indecent exposure - (1) Every person is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding $1,000 who, in or within view of any public place, intentionally and obscenely exposes any part of his or her genitals. It is a defence in a prosecution under this section if the defendant proves that he or she had reasonable grounds for believing that he or she would not be observed".
Prior to the enactment of this Act, the Free Beach Group made submissions, and we were more than happy with the wording of Section 27. While nude bathing is intentional, it is certainly not obscene, and it has been the attitude of the group for many years that mere nudity does not constitute indecent exposure.
Incidentally, it was the wording of this section that by implication, sanctioned topless bathing. Interestingly, the police made no submissions when the law was being drawn up. Their main concern is with exhibitionism, streaking, and so on, for which they apparently have some quite detailed guidelines, describing manifestations of both male and female exhibitionism.
The Act in no way prohibits public nudity, nor does it permit it, but what it does make illegal is offensive, disorderly, or obscene behaviour.
Just what is, or is not offensive, cannot be laid down by law, and for this reason the Act adopted the grounds on which the Palm Beach conviction was overturned, and ruled that in determining offensiveness, time, place, and circumstances must be considered.
Therefore, the proper standard of dress for any beach is whatever the public, that is, the regular users, accept in respect of that beach. So long as we continue to bathe on beaches where nude bathing is accepted, we are totally within the law.
The only shadow on our sunny horizon is the bogey of THE BYLAW. Standard By-law 1902.7 requires people on a beach to be properly and sufficiently clad. Nudists believe they are, otherwise they could not be nudists.
To give an example, the Wanganui City By-law Number 5, Part VIII, states: "No person shall bathe on any beach within the view of any person or persons passing along any of the streets, thoroughfares, roads or public places of the City ... unless such person shall wear a neck to knee bathing costume with the addition of trunks to be worn under the costume in the case of males." This by-law, passed in 1918, has never been updated. Little wonder that we have not one single FBG member in Wanganui.
We have written to the Standards Association of New Zealand, suggesting that the nudity by-law discriminates against nudists, and is a direct challenge to our legal rights. We have recommended that it be removed entirely from the Model General By-laws.
It is our opinion that the Summary Offences Act is quite sufficient by itself for dealing with offensive and/or obscene behaviour, and offers a broader and more flexible approach than the by-law.
It is not normal procedure for the police to enforce by-laws. If you are approached on a beach and asked to 'cover up', ask what offence you are committing, which station the police officer comes from, and what action will be taken if you refuse to comply. Get it in writing if you can, and note the time and date.
But don't be surprised if you find instead that the police are acting to remove the voyeurs who hassle us!
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P.O. BOX 41-171 ST. LUKES AUCKLAND 3 |
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ASSOCIATE MEMBER OF NEW ZEALAND NUDIST FEDERATION INC. |
SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 1989
CLUB SHOP ORDER FORM
PLEASE NOTE: Packing and postage charges are already added to the
prices of the things we sell through our club shop, except for overseas members.
For USA and Canada, towels are $NZ16 and tee shirts $NZ20. For Australia, towels are $NZ12 and tee shirts $NZ16. All other prices are the same as for New Zealand.
| ______ | Towels @ $10 | $ |
| ______ | Tee shirts @ $11 (Sizes ________________________ ) | $ |
| ______ | Children's tee shirts @ $5 (Sizes ______________ ) | $ |
| ______ | Fred Bear flags @ $4 | $ |
| ______ | Name tags @ $7 (Names __________________________ ) | $ |
| ______ | Sew-on badges 50 cents | $ |
| ______ | Car stickers @ 50 cents | $ |
| ______ | 'I'm a bareskin' bumper stickers @ $2.50 | $ |
| ______ | FBG Publicity posters (free) | |
| 1990 Beach List $3.50 | $ | |
| 'Adopt-a-beach' application form (YES/N0) | ||
| Total enclosed: | $________ |
Please CROSS your cheque and make it payable to: Free Beach Group Inc. Post to: Free Beach Group, P.O. Box 41-171, St. Lukes, Auckland 3.
NAME ___________________________________ TELEPHONE ___________________
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