1989, Yepoon, Queensland

The year was 1989, and it was the first time The Championships are held outside a major city.  North and Central Queensland host The Championships. The Iwasaki resort at Yepoon and this proved to be an outstanding success. ANBC meeting of Delegates made some important decisions:

  1. Final acceptance by all Member bodies of the National Show Cage and Final specifications were distributed to all delegates to take back to their home state.
  2. Adoption of separate standards for the Australian Pied and The Variegated Pied.
  3. Two Classes for Dominant Pied’s to be used at the 1990 Championship.
  4. The Council was presented with a Model of The Standard for approval. This model had been organised by Brian West using a TAFE Teacher from Townsville.  The Delegates asked for the Models to be painted as a normal green.  This then to be used for photographs in the ANBC Standard of Perfection.
  5. Acceptance of the Accreditation Scheme for National Judges to be in place by 1990.  The Steering Committee met on the Monday evening.
    The Steering Committee consisted of:
  • Brian West               Chairing The Meeting.
  • Alastair Home          To record The Minutes.
  • Harry Eady              Victoria
  • Ron Hunt                 New South Wales
  • Henry George          South Queensland
  • Gordon Lowe           South Australia
  • Carol Pearce             Western Australia
  • Alastair Home          To represent Tasmania
  • Brian West               To represent North Queensland

1989 Guidelines Put In Place

The following Guidelines were set out and put into place.

  1. Selection of the Examining Panel.
    Each state to submit the name of a judge who has been involved in Testing Judges in his/her home state.  Five Examiners are required to form this panel: The names put forward by each member body would be balloted at the BCA executive meeting to reduce the number to five.  These five people would be The First examining panel for the ANBC, and their names would be notified to the ANBC Secretary by the 1st of November 1989.
  2. First Exam to be set in 1990 when Victoria will be the host.
  3. Each member body to be responsible for the Training of judges prior to being nominated to sit for the ANBC judge’s exam.
  4. Candidates must be currently active judges in their home state.
  5. Candidates to be nominated by their home state body prior to the 1st of March each year.
  6. All judges to be financial members of their home state body.
  7. The number of candidates to be drawn from the following list five from Victoria, the home state in 1990, two from New South Wales, the 1991 host and one from every other state/zone. These formulae to be used for future exams.
  8. ANBC shows to be judged only by Qualified ANBC judges after 1991.
  9. The initial panel to stand down one each year after the first two years and be replaced by ANBC Qualified judges.

Note    November the 1st 1989.  The following names were given to the ANBC Secretary Brian West as the Initial Examining Panel for ANBC judges.

  •  Harry Eady, Victoria
  •  Ron Hunt, New South Wales
  • Harold Cooper, Tasmania
  • Brian West, Northern/Central Queensland
  • Barney Hackney, South Queensland

1989 Judges & Show Results

The show this year was again judged by a panel of four, two home state and two from other states and again proved successful.  This year’s panel was: –

  • Alastair Home from Tasmania, with
  • Brian West of North Queensland, and;
  • Neville Seage, New South Wales with
  • Mick Vagg, North Queensland.

Final results were:

  • South Queensland             304
  • Victoria                              287
  • New South Wales              252
  • Tasmania                            225
  • North Queensland             203
  • South Australia                  175
  • Western Australia              129

First ever win by South Queensland.

 

Ron Hunt, 1989
ANBC Historian