GUFFAWE is published by the Australian GUFF administrator Irwin Hirsh, at 2/416 Dandenong Road, Caulfield North, Victoria 3161, Australia; phone: (03) 527-2402. For details about the new European administrator, see below.
AND THE WINNER IS... The 1988-9 GUFF race is over, and the winner is Roelof Goudriaan. Roelof will attend the 1989 National Con, Swancon 14, in Perth, Western Australia. So, if you are attending Swancon do the right thing and buy Roelof a drink and/or a meal. Okay?
THE VOTES A total of 95 votes were received by the two administrators. And the vote count went like this:
AUS EUR TOTAL Roelof Goudriaan 34 16 50 Linda Pickersgill 11 31 42 no preference 3 - 3 Total 48 47 95 There are a couple of things to note about the vote. First off, none of the three No Preference votes were intended to be that way. One person didn't include the minimum voting fee with his vote, so I downgraded the vote to NP. The other two came about when Justin Ackroyd lost three votes which he collected at Conviction, in June. I wrote to the three people asking them to send in replacement votes; only one did so. With one of those votes we don't actually know who voted, all we know is who gave the vote to Justin.
In addition, Eve Harvey moved house about three weeks prior to the voting deadline. In that three weeks Eve noted that it takes two days for mail to be re-directed from her old Carshalton address, so we decided to delay counting the votes for two days, to see what mail was re-directed from Carshalton.
THE VOTERS The following people sent their votes to the Australian administrator:
Justin Ackroyd – James Allen – Geogre Bondar – Stephen Boucher – Andrew Brown – Peter Burns – Jackie Causgrove – Shelley Dutton Berry – Roy Ferguson – John Foyster – Jeanne Gomoll – Michael Hailstone – Carey Handfield – JHerman – Greg Hills – Mathias Hofmann – Andrew Hooper – Richard Hryckiewicz – Lucy Huntzinger – Robin Johnson – Jerry Kaufman – Cathy Kerrigan – Eric Lindsay – Gordon Lingard – Dave Locke – Mark Loney – LynC – Kevin MacLean – Lyn McConchie – Mark Manning – Perry Middlemiss – Robyn Mills – Michelle Muijsert – Janice Murray – Clive Newall – Cath Ortlieb – Marc Ortlieb – Marilyn Pride – Yvonne Rousseau – Steve Roylance – Gerald Smith – Alan Stewart – Lucy Sussex – unknown – Phil Ware – Jean Weber – Roger Weddall – Judy Wilson.
In addition, Sean McMullen sent in a non-voting contribution and late votes were received from Garry Dalrymple, Dick Smith and Leah Zeldes Smith. Roger Weddall tells me he collected two late votes but he hasn't yet passed them on to me.
A geographical breakdown of the voters is as follows: NSW – 8, SA – 2, Tas – 1, Victoria – 25, USA – 11, West Germany – 1, United Kingdom – 1, New Zealand – 1.
Of interest is the fact that more votes came from the US city of Seattle than came from six of Australia's states and territories. Questions along the lines of "Why?" should be directed to the business meeting of the Australian Natcon.
GUFF, always on the lookout of ways to add to its coffers, will happily release a list of people who didn't vote, for the right price. Let's see, I could start with a list of still active, past fan fund winners and candidates who didn't vote....
THANKS GO TO
- ...the two candidates and their nominators.
- ...outgoing European administrator, Eve Harvey.
- ...Greg Hills, Jean Weber, Janice Murray, Perry Middlemiss, Martin Tudor, John Harvey, Mark Manning, Matthias Hofmann, LynC, the Swancon 14 committee and the Melbourne Science Fiction Club, for distributing GUFF ballots.
- ...Justin Ackroyd for donating more fanzines and books for auction/sale.
- ...the Kinkon 3 committee for their donation of $100 to GUFF.
- ...the Zencon 2 committee for scheduling an auction at their convention. $61.80 was raised for GUFF.
TRIP REPORT NEWS Another chapter of my trip report has been published. It appeared in the 19th issue of LARRIKIN, the fanzine I publish with Perry Middlemiss. Copies are available from me for $1.00 (plus 50¢ for postage.)
GUFF FINANCIAL REPORT, 1988
Passed on from Justin Ackroyd $1634.97 Add: Voting fees 221.90 Donations 159.00 Auction income 566.80 Fanzine sales 30.00 Bank interest 158.08 1135.78 2770.75 Less: Postage 80.04 Sundry expenses 43.39 123.43 Balance, December 1988: 2647.32 Notes on above:
(1) Included under Voting Fees are the fees from the No Preference votes and the late votes. The average voting fee was just under $4.50. 22 people gave the minimum voting fee of $3, while 5 people gave a voting fee of $10.
(2) The Sundry Expenses include such things as telephone calls, postpacks, the government's Financial Institutes Duty, etc. The Postage is for the posting out of letters I write on GUFF's behalf and the posting out of GUFFAWE.
THE BY-MAIL AUCTIONS Below are two lists. The first list contains the final results of the first by-mail auction. The second list is a progress report of the second auction, which had a deadline of the 15th of April, I989. The first list has the name of the item in capitol letters, which is followed by a full list of voters and their bids. The winner of the bid for each item is underlined, as is their winning bid. In the case of ties, the winner is the one who entered their bid first. Following this list is the amount that each bidder owes to GUFF.
The second list contains all bids entered so far in the auction. Bids can be made anytime until the auction deadline. Please make all bids in Australian dollars (on current rates of exchange, an A$ is equal to US84.78, NE81.35 and UK46.92p.) If the total of your winning bids per auction is less than #20 I'll be asking you to contribute a dollar or two towards postage. No bids can be entered with conditions attached – for instance, you can't raise your current high bids conditional on a rival bid being entered. On the other hand, I am willing to answer any query about the status of a bid, provided you include return postage or a couple of IRCs, so that I can respond to your letter.
AUCTION 1 Results: HYPHEN #25: Owen Whiteoak $30 / HYPHEN #26: Owen Whiteoak $30 / HYPHEN #34: Joyce Scrivner $20, Owen Whiteoak $30, Joyce Scrivner $50, Owen Whiteoak $75, Joyce Scrivner $80 / SLANT #3: Richard Brandt $25, Moshe Feder $30 / IRISH FANDOM CHRISTMAS CARD 1955: Janice Murray $10, Owen Whiteoak $12, Janice Murray $20, Owen Whiteoak $20 (Murray was first) / ASFR #8: Joseph Nicholas $15 / ASFR #9: Joseph Nicholas $15 / SCYTHROP #22: Joseph Nicholas $15 / ANZAPA mailing 5: Marc Ortlieb $7.50, Joyce Scrivner $10 / HELL #1: Richard Brandt $4 / STILL IT MOVES #2: Joyce Scrivner $6, Janice Murray $10 / SF COMMENTARY #24: Joseph Nicholas #15 / SF COMMENTARY #32 & 43: Joseph Nicholas $15 / SUPERSONIC SNAIL #4: Joyce Scrivner $5 / FUTURIST #1: Jerry Kaufman $8, Richard Brandt $8 (Kaufman was first)
No bids were entered on the following items: ASFR #19, JOHN W. CAMPBELL – AN AUSTRALIAN TRIBUTE, TAPPENs #3, 4, 5, and THE OMPA COMBOZINE.
The totals owed to GUFF are Owen Whiteoak $60 (£28.15), Joseph Nicholas: $75 (£35.2O), Joyce Scrivner: $95, Janice Murray: $30, Richard Brandt: $8, Moshe Feder: $30, and Jerry Kaufman: $9. I've added an extra dollar to Jerry and Richard's totals, to cover postage. Please pay in Australian dollars, making cheques payable to GUFF, not to Irwin Hirsh. Joseph and Owen: the amount in parenthesis is what you should send to Eve Harvey, making the . cheque payable to Eve Harvey. Items will be sent, via seamail, upon receipt of your money. Thanks go to all bidders, and John Foyster, David Grigg, and Walt Willis, who donated some of the items placed in the auction. Congrats to all winners, particularly Joyce Scrivner, who now has a complete set of HYPHENs.
AUCTION 2 Progess Report (Bidding deadline: 15 April 1989):
- 22. HYPHEN #20 (Walt Willis, 1958) Richard Brandt $10 / Owen Whiteoak $30 Top so bid far $30
- 23. HYPHEN #36 (Walt & Madeleine Willis, 1965) Richard Brandt $10 / Owen Whiteoak $10 30 [sic]
- 24. DIASPAR #22 (Terry Carr, 1981) Richard Brandt $3 / Owen Whiteoak $10 10
- 25. SPACE JUNK #5 (Rich Coad, 1981?) Richard Brandt $3 3
- 26. SCYTHROP #26 (John Bangsund, 1972) Richard Brandt $5 / Joseph Nicholas $15 15
- 27. SF COMMENTARY #35/36/37 (Bruce Gillespie, 1973) Richard Brandt $6 / Joseph Nicholas $15 15
- 28. ANZAPA mailing 6 (1969) Richard Brandt $5 / Joyce Scrivner $10 10
- 29. GIANT WOMBO #3 (Leigh Edmonds & Valma Brown, 1980) Richard Brandt $3 3
- 30. NORSTRILIAN NEWS, 21 issues (John Foyster, Leigh Edmonds & Bruce Gillsspie) Richard Brandt $3 / Joyce Scrivner $5 5
- 31. Q36 #G (Marc Ortlieb, 1982) Richard Brandt $3 / Owen Whiteoak $10 10
FANZINES FOR SALE:
- FANFOODERY. A Conspiracy publication, edited by Eve & John Harvey and illustrated by ATom. 58 pages of fannish food and drink recipes. Available for $5. Add an extra dollar if return by post is required.
- WESTERCON 37 program book. Designed to look like a copy of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. There are biographies of the GoHs: Harlan Ellison, Alex Schomburg, Elinor & F.M.Busby and Ed Bryant. In addition, there are articles by Ellison and Elinor Busby, and fiction by Vonda McIntyre, F.M. Busby, Edward Bryant, John Varley, and Susan Petrey. $12 a copy. Add an extra dollar if return by postage is required.
In addition, the following fanzines are available:
- RATAPLAN (edited by Leigh Edmonds): 21, 22, 28, 29, 30 and 31.
- WAHFFULL (Jack R Herman): 8, 11, 13, 14, 15.5 and 16.
- SIKANDER (Irwin Hirsh): 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 14.
- SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW (Richard Geis): 42, 45, 52, 58 and 59.
- WEBERWOMAN'S WREVENGE (Jean Weber): 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 31.
- AUSTRALIAN SF NEWS (Merv Binns): 5, 6, 7, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 39.
- THE DIAGONAL RELATIONSHIP (Arthur Hlavaty): 9, 11, 13, 14 , 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20.
The price of each of these fanzines is $2. While multiple copies of some fanzines are available, you should specify alternate selections. Make cheques payable to GUFF, and include money for postage on the following basis: 1 or 2 fanzines: $1, 3-5 fanzines: $2, more than 6 fanzines: $3. Thanks.
With Roelof Goudriaan taking over the job of European administrator of GUFF, GUFF (Europe) moves to Caan van Necklaan 63, 2218 BB. Rijswijk (ZH), The Netherlands.
And Eve & John Harvey's new address is: 8 The Orchard, Tonwell, Herts, SG12 OHR, UK
And, while I'm at it, in mid-Feb. Wendy and I will be moving to: 26 Jessamine Ave, East Prahran, Victoria 3181, Australia
Another by-mail auction will begin in the next issue of GUFFAWE. Till then...
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If undeliverable, please return to:
Irwin Hirsh, 2/416 Dandenong Rd,
Caulfield North, Victoria 3161,
AUSTRALIA.