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Minutes of the Sydney / Portsmouth Sister City Committee, 1984-1996

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Unique IDAS-0977DateBetween 14th June 1984 and 1st January 1996Date qualifiercircaFormatVolume - HardcoverDescriptionThis series contains the signed minutes of meetings of the Sydney/Portsmouth Sister City Committee.

On 27 February 1984 Council approved and adopted a recommendation from Lord Mayor Doug Sutherland that a Sister City link should be established between Sydney and Portsmouth.

On 11 April 1984 the Director of Civic Affairs, Ron Stringer, wrote to the Town Clerk recommending that a Sister City Committee be established to advance the proposal. The Town Clerk endorsed this proposal on 12 April 1984.

The first meeting was held on the 14 June 1984, chaired by the Lord Mayor, Doug Sutherland.

At this meeting Doug Sutherland was elected President; Air Vice-Marshall W Townsend was elected Chairman; and R D Stringer, Director of Civic and Public Affairs, Sydney City Council, was elected Secretary.

The Committee's main activity in the beginning was the organisation of celebrations to commemorate the Bicentennial of Australia in 1988, in particular the re-enactment of the sailing of the First Fleet from Portsmouth.

From 1994 copies of the minutes were also placed on files in CRS 326.

(Sources: CRS 116, 34.15.0043 and the Minutes of Council)Relationship summaryCREATED BY: Sydney/Portsmouth Sister City Committee AG-0180 (01/01/1984)
RELATED TO: Sister City relationships AY-80 (01/01/1984) LanguageEnglish (eng)

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Sydney/Portsmouth (UK) Sister City Committee Minutes of Meetings

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Sister City Proclamations, 1981-1993

General Correspondence and Subject Files, 1979-1997

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