GUFF Funndies Six

May 1979

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FINAL ISSUE – SPECIAL COLLECTORS ISSUE
From Leigh Edmonds, PO Box 103, Brunswick, Victoria 3056. Produced every few weeks to publicize the notion of GUFF. Distributed by John Foyster with CHUNDER!

Saturday – 5th May 1979 – a Big Week for elections. In the last few days they've had an election in the UK and tonight the Labor Party in Victoria is doing better but still not good enough. And talking about elections the winner of the first GUFF contest is John Foyster.

One hundred and twenty-eight people voted in GUFF and John Foyster was the favourite by a small but clear majority so that preferences were not counted. The results of voting are as follows.

UK AUSTRALIA TOTAL
John Alderson 6 38 44
John Foyster 8 57 65
Eric Lindsay 9 9 18
nobody - 1 1
Total 23 105 128

The next most important thing after finding out who won the contest is to find out how much lovely money they get with their victory to help them on their way. At the close of voting the total amount raised in Australia was $1086.39. In the last month the major fund raising event was the auction at EasterCon which raised $207.50 – thanks to Keith Curtiss, Justin Ackroyd and Paul Stokes who worked on the auction and Lee Harding and Harry Andruschak who supplied most of the material which was auctioned for GUFF.

So far as I know there will be no more GUFF fund raising activities until such time as another GUFF race takes place. If anybody still feels as though they would like to put in then they should send their money directly to John Foyster who will be spending it on all our behalves.

The final sum raised overall was in the region of $1,600 with just over Three Hundred Pounds being collected in the UK.

Any future correspondence about GUFF should be sent to either John Foyster in Australia or Dave Langford in England. Dave's address you already know (but it might not hurt to repeat it) and some of you might not know John's....

Dave Langford
22 Northumberland Avenue
Reading
Berkshire RG2 7PW
United Kingdom		 John Foyster
GPO Box 4039
Melbourne
Victoria 3001
Australia

With just a few lines to the bottom of the page I'd like to thank all the people who have hepled to make this GUEF contest a success, in particular Dave Langford who has looked after the English end so well and, of course, the three people who stood. Thanks also to Chris Priest who originated the idea and got Dave and I moving and to the people who have given support all along the line.

This fund has run over the last year and, to be honest, I'll be just a little relieved to be rid of it. John and Dave will have to worry about it in future and decide what follow-on action is going to happen; I would like to see a fund running to Australia,in '83, but we've yet to see if there will be a WorldCon here to make it worth the trouble. Let's hope...

Following is a list of all the people who voted for or made donations to GUFF in Australia.

(*) tells you that the person has voted (one vote arrived late and was not counted).

Geographic Breakup

And that's about all there is –

Thank you linesmen, Thank you ballboys.

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Published by Leigh Edmonds, May 1979