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In Gear R O T A R Y C L U B O F B E A U M A R I S W E E K L Y B U L L E T I N Number 30 25 February 2019

Next Meetings

THURSDAY 28 FEBRUARY SPEAKER: TAYLAH BLITHE TOPIC: KIDS UNDER COVER CHAIR: MARY CUNNINGTON

AV: KEN MIRAMS CASH DESK: CHARMAINE JANSZ & ROBERT MCARTHUR

THURSDAY 7 MARCH

FELLOWSHIP @ BLACK ROCK TRUE SOUTH 5:30 TO 6:30

SAZIO 6:30 FOR 7:00 FULL DETAILS NEXT PAGE

THURSDAY 14 MARCH

SPEAKER: TREVOR MCCANN TOPIC; CENTURY 21

CHAIR: MEGAN GLENWRIGHT AV: JAMES GLENWRIGHT

CASH DESK: TONY PHILLIPS & DAVID RUSHWORTH

THURSDAY 21 MARCH SPEAKER: DEBBY CHAVES

TOPIC; BEAUMARIS HIGH SCHOOL CHAIR: VIVIENNE ZOPPOLATO

AV: ADRIAN CULSHAW CASH DESK: RICHARD JONES & JAMES GLENWRIGHT

2018—2019

Serving the Community since 1985

President’s Report

David Hone’s presented us with a most informative history lesson about our convict past last Thursday night. David’s presentation can be found on a following page.

I am delighted with Chris D’Arcy’s unforgettable gift. The glass on a lanyard will be a constant reminder to forgettable me to have my glass close at hand for the toast at our meetings in future. Thanks Chris.

The Sandy Beach Garden reconstruction project is almost complete. The area has been cleared, levelled and the new raised beds are being in-stalled. Bunnings at Mentone have been wonderful in donating material, staff time and plants. These will be progressively delivered to site from mid-February. Bunnings have invited the students from the various programs that will use the garden to visit the store and choose the plants they would like. The students will also receive coaching on care and cultivation. The garden will become the focus for a number of exciting integrated learning and development opportunities for our students. Thanks to Chris D’Arcy for taking on this important project, the garden will give students and visitors will many hours of pleasure. Beaumaris Rotary is proud to be a sponsor.

Some of the presentations at the President’s Meeting on Friday night may be of interest to members. Please let me know if you would like more infor-mation on any of the following topics.

2021-22 Governor Selection Process. District Social Media Policy. 2018-19 District Awards. RICON23 video. Brand news. Membership Minute. RAWCS Volunteering Opportunity.

I took a field trip to Echuca and Moama on the weekend, to have a look around town, chat to the locals check out the Dungula Function Centre, the venue for the 2020 District 9810 Conference, and find some accommoda-tion for our members and partners next March. I’m happy to say that I ticked all the boxes. DGE Shia has made an excellent choice of venue for her Conference 2020. https://www.dungula.com

We will begin next Thursday’s meeting with the induction of a new member. I hope you will be come along to welcome Gail. Taylah Blithe will be our guest speaker. Taylah is Vice President of the Monash Rotaract Club and she will be talking about Kids Under Cover, and their various programs to prevent youth homelessness.

Contents

1 Presidents Report 2 /4 Notices 5 Club Sponsors 6/8 This Week’s Speaker 9 Club Structure / Photo of Week

Unless stated otherwise venue is Victoria Golf Club 6.30 for 7.00

R O T A R Y C L U B O F B E A U M A R I S B U L L E T I N – S E R V I N G T H E C O M M U N I T Y S I N C E 1 9 8 5

As you may know the Australian Rotary program known as the Centurion Club has been discontinued and Rotarians are being asked to donate $100 every year to the Foundation through the Every Rotari-an Every Year program.

This is an international program for all Rotary Clubs worldwide.

Our Rotary Club has some 20 members who were Centurion Club members in 2018. I hope they will want to continue to sup-port the Foundation through the Every Rotarian Every Year scheme from 2019 -2020 and onwards.

Additionally, other Rotarians may like to join the program.

All donations to the Foundation through the Every Rotarian Every Year Scheme are returned to Rotary Districts and Clubs to fund Global, District and Club community projects

In order to provide a seamless method of collecting member donations the following system has been approved by our Club Board and by Rotary International South Pacific & Philippines Office.

1) When the 2019 - 2020 annual subscriptions invoice is sent to members by the Club Treasurer in June/July 2109 there will be an optional entry on the invoice allowing members to donate $100 in addition to their annual fee as a donation to The Rotary Foundation. Those not donating just delete the entry, no further action required

2) The total amount donated will be paid by the Club Treasurer to The Rotary International South Pacific & Philippines Of-fice together with a list of the individual Rotarians who have donated $100.

3) Rotary International will send individual tax receipts to the club for distribution to donating members

If any members have questions or suggestions about this matter, please contact me on 0400 988 208.

John Beaty

Fellowship 7 March We will start at True South, 298 Beach Road, Black Rock, at 5.30 pm to try the Craft Beer they have on tap.

At approximately 6.30 pm we will move on down to Sazio 41B Bluff Road, Black Rock.

For those who haven’t been there before Sazio is a modern Italian Restaurant. The booking is 6.30 for 7.00 pm.

Thanks to the Glenwright aura the deal negotiated is:

Corkage included, BYO Wine, shared entree plates and individual choice from a selected menu. $30 per head.

David Hone will be sending around the attendance email as usual so that we know how many are coming to Sazio. The True South part is just turn up.

Partners event

Trish Smyth 0407 820 552 for any inquiries.


1.5% of any travel bookings from Beaumaris Rotary Club Members, family and friends at Destination HQ Beaumaris will be returned to the

Beaumaris Rotary Club at the end of the year.

PLEASE make the consultant aware that you’re from the Rotary Club at the beginning of the booking. This ensures that the booking is tracked

and reported back to their admin at the time.

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Speaker: David Hone

Topic: Early Convict Society 1788 - 1822

These are notes from David’s excellent and informative talk.

The work of historians to reveal true nature of our convict past has mostly been in vain. The Convict era is still seen by most as a terrible time of savage cruelty, drunkenness, the lash and vice. The convicts seen as slaves in chains and driven by the lash.

Most people seem to have read Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore. But but not who gave a more balanced view, includ-ing

AGL Shaw, Convicts and the Colonies 1966

John Hirst, Convict Society and Its Enemies 1983

James Boyce, Van Diemen's Land (2008)

Grace Karskens, The Colony (2009)

John Ritchie’s biographies of D’Arcy Wentworth and Mac-quarie as well as his Punishment and Profit

Dictionary of Biography online

To mention only a few.

All of which give a very different picture of our convict era.

Fatal Shore unfortunately reinforces the myths surrounding the early years of European settlement by devoting the greater part of the book to the Convict settlements estab-lished as places of secondary punishment

Norfolk Island in its second occupation

Macquarie Harbour,

Moreton Bay

Port Arthur

These were horrible places, but they were a tiny part of the whole system experienced by a small minority of the con-victs – you had to offend again and be tried in court before you were sent to one of these.

Myth - Most Convicts were minor offenders

Who were the convicts?

Probably two-thirds had formerly been punished by public justice, generally for forms of larceny.

The prisoners transported for life formed approximately a quarter of these convicts

It was far more common for a felon to receive a seven-year sentence, and every second convict was transported for that minimum period.

The Myth of how many convicts died on their way to Botany Bay in 1787 and thereafter.

The First Fleet, which sailed in May 1787, death rate re-markably low given the scale of the operation

736 Convicts

14,000 miles.

voyage lasted 252 days,

23 Convicts died on the voyage a great result by late-eighteenth century standards.

The death rate on the Second Fleet (1790), was much higher than that of its predecessor 266 - out of 1244. The survivors were landed in a very weakened condition and a further 16 per cent died shortly after disembarkation.

Second Fleet prompted greater government regulation. A na-val trained surgeon was appointed to ‘superintend’ every transport vessel. Bonus payments for number of convicts landed in good health. After 1815 surgeons were given au-thority over all disciplinary and medical matters, including the ventilation and cleaning of the vessel.

Following the introduction of the tightened ‘surgeon superinten-dent system’ monthly death rates fell decisively, averaging just 2.4 per thousand in the period 1815-1868. The equivalent rate for males aged between 15 and 44 on emigrant ships sail-ing from Europe to the United States between 1836 and 1853 was 4.4 per 1,000.

Convicts were less likely to die on the way out than free settlers!

The myth of the long and harsh struggle to establish a colony in a hostile environment

A Direct North General View of Sydney Cove, by convict art-ist Thomas Watling in 1794 is seen above.

Phillip arrives in Jan 1788

5 Years of real hardship

By 1800 Sydney a trade port – 12 years after foundation

Comparative growth rates of new British settlement colonies in America and Australia (see top of next page)


Hostile Environment

The diaries, letters, water colours of flora and fauna of offic-ers reveal a fascination and appreciation of the new environ-ment

Many Officers returned after their first tour.

Van Diemen's Land seen as a fertile paradise

Water colours below by Midshipman George Raper (1769–1797) and Captain John Hunter both on Sirius)

The myth that Phillip set up a Penal Settlement

Why no Penal Settlement? British Government never in-tended to set one up. No such concept existed in govern-ment thinking about punishment

Flogged

Hanged

Or sent to America

With NSW government more involved

Governor

Marines

Establishment expenses

But from day one NSW came to look like a republic of Con-victs. Marines go on Strike refusing to supervise convicts even in the construction of their own barracks. Governor Phillip appoints convicts as overseers whose pay was not to work

The Convict working day

Meant to work from dawn to dusk

Convict overseers quickly adopted the system of daily task

work which when finished left the convicts free to leave. If convicts applied themselves, they could be finished by midday. Convicts thus developed the concept of their ‘own time’ which they defended vigorously. Convicts provided for their own lodgings and cooked their own meals

It took years for Governors to claim back some of the after-noon. Final rule was that the convicts were to work for their private master or the government until 3.00 in the afternoon

Gov Macquarie in 1814 enforced a full day’s work for private masters but the masters had to pay for the work they did after 3.00. This became known as their wage

Police Constables

Set up by Governor Phillip in 1789 to guard stores. Staffed by convicts. Authority over freemen and marines when on duty.

Major Ross, in charge of the marines, has a fit

Then

Lawyers

Architects

Surveyors

Doctors

Teachers

Artists (two had been forgers)

Government clerks

It was hard to get Free people to come to the colony to do these tasks

The Costumes of the Australasians: watercolour by Edward Charles Close shows the co-existence of con-victs, their military gaolers, and free settlers.

Female Convicts

Although always a minority the British Government wanted the settlement to have women. Even thought of having them im-ported from Pacific Islands. No sleeping quarters provided

Free from official work after 3.00 pm and had to take extra


work to support themselves. Samuel Marsden reported most survived on prostitution

In fact, many shared a man’s bed on a semi-permanent ba-sis in return for shelter – Karskans writes of women home builders. Many officers had children by convict mistresses in long term relationships

Hirst points out that a penal colony would not have

English evangelicals, Samuel Marsden and visitors were shocked by the easy-going sexual arrangements they ob-served.

But many former prostitutes from London became success-ful founders of families. In 1810 Macquarie started encour-aging the transformation of these relationships into formal marriages

The myth that emancipist convicts were a hopeless drunken lot who died out without issue

Three main issues:

Economic fate? - majority were better off in NSW or VDL some became the equivalent of Billionaires

Reform? – Great majority

Residence? – Australia 10% went home up to 1820 after this much less

Fate of Emancipists

Lloyd Robson The Convict Settlers of Australia 1965

Men transported prior to 1820

50% did well according to 1828 Census

Landholders

Merchants

Tradesmen

“Once a man had secured land, it was rare indeed, if had been granted at or after 1806, that he was not still a land-holder in 1821 or 1828”

Fate of Emancipists

Roe studied 1,000 arrivals 1800 -1806

1814 Muster and 1828 census showed

Fewer than 200 had become merely labourers or servants bereft of property

100 had become landless tradesmen

Great majority owned something (even if only 15 acres and 2 Cattle)

Norm was 50 acres and 10 - 20 cattle

Convicts and the Courts

Convicts could not receive any further punishment except by Court Order

Before the Court they appeared in the usual way as innocents until proven guilty

Could not be referred to as convicts or ex-convicts

Masters had to take Convicts to Magistrates Court for offences against labour Code

Being lazy

Running away

Getting drunk

Abuse

Unlikely to get off but masters could not punish them them-selves

Since most people in NSW were convicts, they had to be al-lowed to give evidence in court. They therefore could give evidence against their masters. Convicts had to be considered as owners of property so they could be charged with pinching it. First case of the criminal court concerned a convict who had stolen another's bread ration. Convicts could protect their property by bringing action in court

Flogging

1835 a typical year 7103 floggings in a convict pop of 27,340 = ~ 25%

Only occurred after taking the offender to court

Flogger a convict

Master could be an ex-convict

Magistrate could be an ex-convict

12 to 50 lashes the norm

Convict preferred flogging to extension of sentence. Gover-nors progressively restricted the number of lashes to be given by magistrates. After c 1817 flogging females was prohibited but had never been prevalent.

Must be viewed in its social context as Whipping and Flogging were common in 19th Century English Society.


RCOB Club Structure 2018 – 2019 RCOB Board Club Service & Administration President Heather Chisholm Almoners Jan Cooper/Roy Downes Secretary Roy Seager Archivist TBA Treasurer Lynda Doutch Arts Community Liaison Max Darby President Elect David Hone Assistant Treasurer James Glenwright Past President Chris D’Arcy Attendance & Dining David Hone Community Chris Werner Auditor Tony Phillips International John Sime Club Photographer Max Darby Youth Chris Martin Club Protection Officer Ken Mirams

Communications David Lea/Adrian Culshaw

Community – Chris Werner Chair Fellowship & Vocational Trish/Kerrie/Mary Cunnington John Beaty Adrian Culshaw Foundation John Beaty Mary Cunnington Max Darby Light Bulb Moment Martin Fothergill Roy Downes Martin Fothergill Marketing & PR Peter Flude/Greg Every Kerrie Geard Chris Mara Membership Tony Phillips/Megan Glenwright Tony Phillips Mary Sealy On to Conference Chris D’Arcy Program Kerrie Geard/Adrian Culshaw

International – John Sime Chair Social Media Adrian Culshaw/Mary Sealy Fred Hofmann John Manks

Ken Mirams Robert McArthur Bayside Charity Golf Day - Martin Fothergill Chair Ross Phillips Clem Quick Peter Flude James Glenwright Richard Potter Richard Jones Jim O’Brien

Youth – Chris Martin Chair Tony Phillips Lynda Doutch Jan Cooper Bridget Hage

Lois Lindsay Tony McKenna District Service – Trish Smyth Chair Antony Nixon David Rushworth District Compliance Officer Ken Mirams Malcolm Sawle Vivienne Zoppolato District Membership Trish Smyth

Indigenous – David Hone Chair Farmers Market – Bridget Hage Co-ordinator Adrian Culshaw Lynda Doutch Greg Every Peter Flude Martin Fothergill Chris Mara Wolf Fritze Charmaine Jansz Robert McArthur (Trachoma) Chris Mara Ken Mirams Geoff Stringer Vivienne Zoppolato

Blood Moon The moon rises over the Parthe-non on the an-cient Acropolis Hill in Athens, Greece, on Feb-ruary 19, 2019. This full moon, or supermoon, ap-peared brighter and bigger than other full moons because it was close to its peri-gee, the closest point in its orbit to the center of Earth. Petros Gianna-kouris / AP

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