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<blockquote data-quote="NickWallingford" data-source="post: 9582" data-attributes="member: 44"><p>Part 2...</p><p></p><p><strong>A different opinion on that rule</strong></p><p></p><p>At the 1997 Nelson conference President Nick Wallingford indicated he would not accept nomination for President for the coming year, and that he would be resigning from the Executive at the end of the Annual Meeting. That’s a whole other story… Russell Berry was elected President…</p><p></p><p>As the next year’s 1998 Conference Waitangi conference drew nearer, the makeup of the incoming Executive was made known: Lin McKenzie and Bruce Stephenson were elected as ‘new Executive’, to join the existing Executive - Russell Berry, Terry Gavin and Tony Taiaroa and Keith Herron. </p><p></p><p>President Russell Berry made it clear that he would not be accepting a nomination for President or VP for either Lin or Bruce, deeming them not to be strictly and officially members of the Executive until after the AGM!</p><p></p><p>During his year as NBA President Russell Berry insisted his interpretation of the rules was correct, in spite of several legal opinions to the contrary. The issue was ‘fixed’ at the 1999 conference with a rule change to confirm that President and VP are to be selected from the 6 Executive members for the coming year..</p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>That opinion applied to 1976?</strong></p><p></p><p>Let’s go back to that 1976 transition when all the Exec had to resign…</p><p></p><p>‘Strictly and officially’, if President Russell Berry’s opinion in 1999 on the rules was applied to 1976 - there would have been no Executive members to choose between for nominations for President and VP!</p><p></p><p>Ivan Dickinson had initially indicated that for family reasons he would not be standing, but did in fact accept nomination for one of the 3 South Island Executive positions. The other 5 Executive for 1975 were Percy Berry, Mike Stuckey, Gavin McKenzie, Ray Robinson and Tony Clissold. All accepted nomination. Keith Herron was nominated for a South Island position, but lost the election to Ivan Dickinson, Tony Clissold and Gavin McKenzie. </p><p></p><p>(Both Keith Herron and Robert Davidson wrote to complain that they were required to vote for 3 of the 4 nominees - ‘But what if I only want to vote for one?’. The voting was weighted on hive numbers, and Ivan Dickinson explained concepts of splitting and weighting votes. I believe the system may have been modified for future elections.)</p><p></p><p>When it came time to elect a President and VP in Taupo in 1976, Ivan Dickinson refused nomination, and Percy Berry was elected President unopposed. Ivan remained on the Executive for a few more years, beginning his formal involvement with the HMA at that time. Mike Stuckey became VP, taking over from Percy Berry.</p><p></p><p>And the postal votes for NBA Executive began a pattern that would continue nearly 30 years, until a ward system changed things up again. </p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A postal vote in the early winter months,</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">alternating elections for 2 NI/ 1 SI, then 2 SI/ 1 NI, and</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">two years in office. </li> </ul><p>But each NBA AGM, an annual election for President and VP. In person. Every year…</p><p></p><p>And one last application of the newly refined rule?</p><p></p><p>President Terry Gavin did not accept re-nomination as President at the NBA Conference in Auckland in 2000, but he was, in this case, willing to accept a nomination for a newly elected in-coming Executive member - Richard Hatfield.</p><p></p><p></p><p>–end–</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NickWallingford, post: 9582, member: 44"] Part 2... [B]A different opinion on that rule[/B] At the 1997 Nelson conference President Nick Wallingford indicated he would not accept nomination for President for the coming year, and that he would be resigning from the Executive at the end of the Annual Meeting. That’s a whole other story… Russell Berry was elected President… As the next year’s 1998 Conference Waitangi conference drew nearer, the makeup of the incoming Executive was made known: Lin McKenzie and Bruce Stephenson were elected as ‘new Executive’, to join the existing Executive - Russell Berry, Terry Gavin and Tony Taiaroa and Keith Herron. President Russell Berry made it clear that he would not be accepting a nomination for President or VP for either Lin or Bruce, deeming them not to be strictly and officially members of the Executive until after the AGM! During his year as NBA President Russell Berry insisted his interpretation of the rules was correct, in spite of several legal opinions to the contrary. The issue was ‘fixed’ at the 1999 conference with a rule change to confirm that President and VP are to be selected from the 6 Executive members for the coming year.. [B] That opinion applied to 1976?[/B] Let’s go back to that 1976 transition when all the Exec had to resign… ‘Strictly and officially’, if President Russell Berry’s opinion in 1999 on the rules was applied to 1976 - there would have been no Executive members to choose between for nominations for President and VP! Ivan Dickinson had initially indicated that for family reasons he would not be standing, but did in fact accept nomination for one of the 3 South Island Executive positions. The other 5 Executive for 1975 were Percy Berry, Mike Stuckey, Gavin McKenzie, Ray Robinson and Tony Clissold. All accepted nomination. Keith Herron was nominated for a South Island position, but lost the election to Ivan Dickinson, Tony Clissold and Gavin McKenzie. (Both Keith Herron and Robert Davidson wrote to complain that they were required to vote for 3 of the 4 nominees - ‘But what if I only want to vote for one?’. The voting was weighted on hive numbers, and Ivan Dickinson explained concepts of splitting and weighting votes. I believe the system may have been modified for future elections.) When it came time to elect a President and VP in Taupo in 1976, Ivan Dickinson refused nomination, and Percy Berry was elected President unopposed. Ivan remained on the Executive for a few more years, beginning his formal involvement with the HMA at that time. Mike Stuckey became VP, taking over from Percy Berry. And the postal votes for NBA Executive began a pattern that would continue nearly 30 years, until a ward system changed things up again. [LIST] [*]A postal vote in the early winter months, [*]alternating elections for 2 NI/ 1 SI, then 2 SI/ 1 NI, and [*]two years in office. [/LIST] But each NBA AGM, an annual election for President and VP. In person. Every year… And one last application of the newly refined rule? President Terry Gavin did not accept re-nomination as President at the NBA Conference in Auckland in 2000, but he was, in this case, willing to accept a nomination for a newly elected in-coming Executive member - Richard Hatfield. –end– [/QUOTE]
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