genlle manoers of lhose days . Ai a general meeting of members held on 13 November 1919 it was resolved Iha !
this meeting of members would esteem it a favour if the Committee would afford the members some definite infonnation as to the presen1 positjon of affairs regarding the Green Point estate purchase at thejr earliest convenience .
Atameetingheldon2December 1919W . M . Marks , SM . Dempster and A . J . Langat1 were appointed trustees of Green Point Land Purchase . On 17 December 19 19 it was resolved that
balance of purchase for Green Poinc be paid £ 600 and lhat a temporary overdraft be arranged with lhe Union Bank for £ 500 . lodging War Bonds as securiry . As the purchase for Green Point is now complete notice be placed on the club noticeboard notifying members lhat grounds can be used for camping purposes .
Green Point , in those days was very bare of trees . It was not completely forgotten , but other lhan by sea it was very remote . Accol ' ding 10 lhe minutes little happened concerning rhe Green Point site in l 920 apan from the Secre1ary being instrttcted to write to the trustees of Warringah Chase regarding purling down piles and the possible use of their pile driver .
On 22 May 1922 J . S . Palmer ' s resignation from the club was accepted with regreL He very generously donated the season ' s prize money won by his yachtAoma to the club for the development of Green PoinL
On 23 September 1923 S . M . Dempster submitted plaos for the development of Green Point . Things were slowly gaining momentum , but in 1924 tl1e members started LO gel cold feet about the Pinwater development . At a monthly meeting of members held on 24 April 1924 ii was resolved tlrnt ' it be a recommendation of this General Committee 10 consider lhe advisability of selling a portion of the property held by the club at Newport '.
On 29 May 1924 the Chairman reported tl1at the Committee had decided to reconunend to members 1ha1 the Newport property be retained in its entirety . The meeting resolved to accept the Committee ' s reco1nmendatjon .
G . R . Jackson was to be the first staff member at Newport . He was appointed caretaker of the property and was paid £ 2 2s Od per annum . He was empowered 10 make application on behalf of the club for securing approvals for the moorings and was instructed to fly the club burgee on all Public Holidays from25 Decemberto I JanuaryandonEasterFriday , Easter Monday and Pittwater Regatta Day . lt was decided 10 instaU a gate ( where our present entrance is now ) at a cost of £ 21 and to build a jetty which would cost £ 60-this amount being provided privately by members . On 7 August 1924 , it was resolved lhat ' a brass plate with the name of the club be aflixed to the new gate , and that Oscar Curtis '
offer of Bona ' s mast be accepted with thanks '.
The earliest picture we can find of Crystal Bay . lt is difficult to set a date . The caption reads : Towards Bushrangers Hill-Newport . In bis effons to find food for the starving colony , Governor Phillip is reported to have climbed a hill from where he could see the southern end of lhe Pittwater . This would certainly have been what was later called Bushrangers Hill . Scou ' s Boarrung House ( to lhe left of the picture ) was opened in 1888 . To tl1e right is the Newport Hotel , built as a one-storey building in 1880 . The picrorc does , however , reveal a two-storey building with two chimneys which would set the photograph as llaving been taken after 1913 when the 1wo-storey hotel was built . Crystal Bay and Green Point would have looked very much like this photograph when the club purchased the sire in 1919 .
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