About The Maltese
Guild of South Australia
We invite you to find out more
about The Maltese Guild of South Australia. At present, our association
has currently has approximately 250 members.
- Object
and Purpose
- Eligibility
for Membership
- Associate
Members
- Administration
- Annual
General Meeting
OBJECT AND PURPOSE
- To institute and
conduct activities for promotion of spiritual, intellectual, social
and general advancement of members.
- To attend to the
interests of the Maltese Community in South Australia and enhance the
good name of Malta and its people.
- To foster and maintain
the spirit of co-operation between the Maltese and Australian people
with the view of early integration.
- To afford opportunities
to discuss matters affecting good relations between Maltese and Australians.
- To represent the
Maltese Community in South Australia in all matters, and to obtain official
recognition by both the Federal and State Governments in Australia,
and by the Government of Malta.
- To secure representations
on conventions and other bodies calculated to achieve, or to assist
in achieving these objects and purposes.
- To obtain official
contact and maintain cordial relations with organisations whose aims
to foster integration of, and amongst migrants with view of becoming
worthy citizens of the commonwealth of Australia.
- To foster migration
from Malta to Australia, and to assist in every possible way these migrants,
as well as Maltese from other countries arriving in Australia.
- To establish A
CODE OF ETHICS for members.
- To publish a periodical
to be known as 'NEWSLETTER'. Issues to be made monthly and copies posted
to subscribers and contributors regularly. The price of 'Thirty cents'
per issue is to be included in the annual subscription or contribution.
'Three dollars' per annum from each member's annual subscription or
contribution shall be set apart for the periodical and be separately
accounted for in the balance sheet and be duly audited. In the case
where husband and wife are members of the Maltese Guild one copy shall
be sent to the household.
- The Guild consists
of a patron, Spiritual Director, Hon: President, Executive committee,
Coordinating Officer (appointed by the Executive committee from the
elected members), Standing Committees and ordinary members.
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ELIGIBILITY FOR MEMBERSHIP
Members of The Maltese Guild of South Australia Inc. must be:-
- Any person
of Maltese ethnicity residing in South Australia.
- Wives and/or husbands
of Maltese ethnicity residents in South Australia.
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ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
- Any person of
non-Maltese ethnicity may become an associate member of The Guild provided
no such associate member shall be eligible to be elected as a member
of The Executive Committee nor vote at any general meeting, but will
have the right to speak at a General Meeting.
- Any member of The
Guild may be awarded Honorary Membership if he/she has provided service
of any exceptional or sterling character to the benefit of The Guild
as a whole, and been a member of The Guild for not less than a continuous
period of ten years, and further that such honorary member shall be
entitled to all privileges of any ordinary member and shall be presented
with a Certificate of Merit at such function of The Guild as the Executive
Committee shall decide. No more than five such members be appointed
in any financial year.
- A member may upon
payment of a 'one only' subscription of $100.00 become a life member
of The Guild entitled to all the privileges of any ordinary member.
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ADMINISTRATION
The Executive Committee
of The Maltese Guild of South Australia Inc., consists of the following:
President
Immediate Past President
Vice-President
Honourable General Secretary
Assistant Secretary
Honourable General Treasurer
Assistant Treasurer, and
Four Councillors
And a Co-ordinating
Officer appointed from the above Elected Committee.
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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
- (a) An Annual General
Meeting shall be held at any Sunday in December of each year as decided
by the Executive Committee to declare the election of Officers for a
period of two (2) years.
- For the
purpose of this clause only half of the Committee will be elected for
the period of two (2) years as stated in Clause 14/Sub Clause (c).
- The Secretary
shall give Members at least four (4) weeks notice by means of 'NEWSLETTER'.
- (b) The Secretary
shall submit a report of the activities of The Guild and the Treasurer
shall submit a Financial report.
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