Celebrating 40 + Years with the CMAA
We would like to acknowledge a few members with over 40 years of CMAA membership under their belt . That ’ s quite a time frame and we are sure they have some great stories to tell about the club Industry and at the CMAA AGM being held on Tuesday 28th March CMAA President David Hiscox formerly acknowledged them .
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SPOTLIGHT ON GERARD McMILLIAN General Manager of Singleton Diggers | 41 years with the CMAA .
I believe that if one derives an income from an industry we should give back to that industry in some way .
Serving the industry on many committees and boards has been a wonderful , yet challenging experience .
I was zone president of the CMA for five years during which time
I served one year as president of the RCA zone and five years on the examination committee of FICA . I was also the first non-return man on the former RSL Clubs Association State Council and many years later becoming state president for five years . I was also a former judge on the Club of the Year Awards and part of the Club Industry Advisory Council and Northern Vice President of the RCA now called ClubsNSW . Some of my career highlights include encouraging Woonona Bulli RSL to purchase the Sub-Branch property as the State Branch was about to change the rules . I asked the Minister Richard Face to change the way clubs with multi premises were taxed on poker machine revenue and was supported by the late Bernard Harley as he too wrote to the Minister .
In 1982 , I was instrumental in purchasing the club property from the RSL Sub-Branch . The same year we introduced the Club ’ s Community Chest whereby a percentage of the club ’ s profits are distributed to community groups . I have correspondence from the former