Undated, February 1979
Produced by Leigh Edmonds, PO Box 103, Brunswick, Victoria 3056 every six or so weeks to publicise the notion of GUFF. Distributed by John Foyster with CHUNDER.
THE STATE OF THE FUND:
Things are going better than I could have guessed at the time the previous newsletter was issued. Now the total GUFFund in Australia stands at the grand sum of $647.85. Thanks go to the SSFF for $20, the WASFAssociation for $30, the organisers of CarrCon for $40, the organisers of UNICON for $50, Space Age Books for $20 and all the other people who voted and made donations. With more fund raising events still to take place we can now begin to look forward to a very healthy GUFF kitty for the winner.
The votes have been pouring in too over the past month and a half with 62 people now having recorded their preferences in Australia. That figure reflects, to a large extent, the work of Adelaide fans who sent me a whole thick envelope full of votes (I went weak at the knees when I opened it). I guess that some of you would like to know how the voting is going, but you'll have to wait until May to find out the result. In the meantime there are still a lot of names of people that I can think of who haven't voted. I'm not going to print a list of the people who have voted but if you haven't voted yet you'll have a fair idea and I hope that you will do something to rectify your error - that is if you are eligible to vote. I do not know all the people who have voted personally, in some cases people give the name of a club as their reference and I will be chasing up those in due course. In the meantime I'd appreciate it if people trying to get others to vote made sure that those they are trying to convince do meet the voting requirements as stipulated on the form.
MAKING MORE MONEY:
Next weekend Peter and Elizabeth Darling are hosting a miniconvention to raise money for GUFF, a notice of this will be in the issue of CHUNDER which you will find in the mail along with this piece of paper.
Mervyn Binns is muttering about the prospect of holding another small event at his place in Glen Eira Road Ripponlea also to raise money for GUFF. More on this when Mervyn has firmed up his plans.
At WAYCON there will be some small fund raising attempted by the Guest of Honour (that's me in case you didn't know by now). I have a couple of interesting things promised and one or two unusual things set aside to take over and it will be interesting to see what WA fans think.
At EasterCon in Melbourne part of the auction will be given over to the sale of items with the profits going to GUFF. I already have some quite interesting material to hand which I will try to write about in the next issue, and I hope that some other interesting and rare material will come from overseas before the time of the convention.
Thanks for putting up with me for another issue, don't forget to vote and there'll be another issue of this with the issue after next of CHUNDER!