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A Club Comes into Being 
By Bill (Tara's Halls) Cahill


The weather on that very propitious day, 3 June 1947, was cold and clear.
However, the atmosphere at 8pm inside Kent Hall, an old Navy weatherboard
building, renovated and re-opened in 1937 by the then Duke of Kent, was
warm, smoke filled and occupied to the point of 'standing room only' by
noisy and enthusiastic service personnel. So packed was the Hall, that Paul
Cullen was heard to remark, "This is the first time the white ants in the place
have been outnumbered!"

The meeting was called to order, the wooden shutters of the Bar, cut in
the south wall, dropped loudly, the last bottles of the weekly ration of beer
were hastily consumed and the members of 'The Tuesday Night Club' - an
auxiliary of the Rose Bay/Double Bay RSL Sub-Branch - gradually settled
down to the business of the evening.


On the rostrum were Dave Stuart, Ernie Hagan, Clarrie Pyke and, later in
the evening, Arthur Griffith.

The first item on the Agenda, 'The winding up of the Tuesday Night
Club' was duly presented and comparative peace reigned until it came to the
Financial Report regarding the disposal and transfer of funds.


Motions, amendments and amendments to amendments were
submitted with heat and vigour and many interjections of a personal
nature being thrown in for good measure. To refer to meetings in those days
as being 'wild and woolly' would be the understatement of the year!

The disposal of the funds was centred on who was to be the recipient -(1)
Individual members on a pro-rata basis; (2) The Rose Bay Sub-Branch; (3)
The newly to be formed seven day-a-week club.

Discussion became so heated and confused that at one point Ernie Hagan
left the rostrum to argue his point from the floor and entered into hotly
contested debate with Athol Morrison and 'Wingy' Turner (triple amputee and
treasurer of the Limbless Soldiers' Association) both as usual and, on
principle, being in volatile disagreement! Eventually, the motion 'that funds
be transferred to the new organisation' was presented and duly carried. The
second item on the Agenda was 'The formation of a seven day-a-week club to
be called 'The Kent Hall Memorial Club' (renamed the Rose Bay RSL Club,
as constituted in 1951). This encompassed constitution, finance procedure,
rules and by laws to be formulated in accordance with the then very questionable
Liquor Act. All motions were put and passed with acclamation.

      Thus the Club came into being.

SELF EXCLUSION

Anyone wanting to exclude themselves from Club Rose Bay or a nominated area of the Club,
can approach the venue about making such arrangements knowing that this venue is under
a statutory obligation to respond.

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