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A0034887B VICTORIA ABN 82 104 322 096 |
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Beaumaris Conservation
Society Inc. |
P.O. Box 7016 BEAUMARIS VIC 3193 |
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info@beaumarisconservation.net |
Tel 0395891802, 0429176725 Fax 0395891680 |
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Beaumaris Bay Fossil Site and the BMYS Ltd. Enclave within it |
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Views, at various times, of the Beaumaris Bay Fossil Site at the centre of Melways Reference 86F8. Click on the pictures above for a larger image, and click here for the Wikimapia view of Beaumaris Bay. |
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2008: 116-BERTH MARINA FOR BEAUMARIS BAY: Marina & more Bay filling on the Beaumaris Bay Fossil Site, & more works on its leased, filled site is sought by Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron Ltd, but such intrusion into Beaumaris Bay is opposed by BCS Inc. |
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2005 coup chose to allow the excavator in the photo above to permanently deface the Beaumaris cliff rather than cordon off a safe zone below for inevitable odd rock falls. |
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2001: Action 11K of Bayside City Council’s 2001 Black Rock - Beaumaris Foreshore Master Plan gives as a Priority 1 “re-inforce and encourage public access to the area surrounding the BMYS compound and associated jetty”, which has never been implemented, contrasts with the reality of the notice in the photo just above. |
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1999 inscription of the Foreshore Reserve and the seabed out to 250 metres on the Register of the National Estate as the Beaumaris Bay Fossil Site (Identifier 18053) |
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Bayside Planning Scheme: Zoning of the Beaumaris Bay Fossil Site is PPRZ (Public Park & Recreation Zone) with Schedule 1 to the Environmental Significance Overlay ‘Beaumaris Bay Fossil Site’ and Schedule 1 to Vegetation Protection Overlay ‘Coastal Areas’. See example of a Beaumaris sea urchin fossil on Museum Victoria Web site. ESO Schedule 1 cites the fossil of the extinct penguin species Pseudaptenodytes macraei, named after its finder, Colin Macrae, the second President of BCS. |
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Geological map showing the Beaumaris Monocline, which runs straight inland, via the intersections of Warrigal and Centre Dandenong Roads, and Clayton and Centre Roads, as far as Glen Waverley (the second page, from the Atlas of Victoria, shows the 1891 population distribution and municipal boundaries in Melbourne and environs) |
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Entries at Victorian Resources Online and Google on Beaumaris Bay Fossil Site, Google entries on Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron Ltd. and the Wikimapia view. |
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1999 sequence of aerial photographs of the Beaumaris Bay Fossil Site from it south-west limit of Sparks Street to its north-east limit of Cliff Grove |
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1998 Bay Filling at the Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron Ltd. site (opposite 3 Beach Rd.) & 1998 aerial photograph of the BMYS Ltd. filled leased site |
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1997 lease by BMYS Ltd. of seabed site under Section 134 of Victoria's Land Act 1958 is for 21 years from 1997-07-01 to 2018-06-30, and replaced the first (1981-2002) lease. The rental for this current lease is $13,000 per year. |
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1994 legislation altered the 1906 Order-in-Council that created Moorabbin Beach Park as a Permanent Public Recreation Reserve, by reducing the Reserve’s area by 2,000 square metres to ostensibly redress the original impropriety of leasing that part to BMYS Ltd. A BCS letter explained why that cheap, one-sided expediency was opposed. |
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1986: Paper on Significant Geological Features along the Coast in the City of Sandringham (R.L. King, R.M. Cochrane and A.M. Cooney) by Geological Society of Australia |
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1985: Letter sought Government consent to fill 6,000 square metres more of Beaumaris Bay to extend north-east end of the BMYS Ltd. area. The fill occurred in 1998. |
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Wording in Lease of the Seabed by the Crown to BMYS Co-op. Ltd. that requires RED AREAS to be kept open at all times to full public access on foot: No public notice there tells the public that. Instead, a questionable gate - usually unlocked - exists across the access path, near the controversial notice pictured above. |
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Official Government Ground Plan of the BMYS Co-op. Ltd. 21-year lease: RED AREAS must stay open at all times to full public access on foot. |
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1981: Excerpts from the proposed Lease of Seabed by the Crown to BMYS Co-op. Ltd. This first lease, at $500 per year for the first 10 years, began on 1st July 1981. |
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1978 Hansard on proposed 21-year lease to BMYS to supersede its permissive occupancy. This first lease, at $500 per year for the first 10 years, began in July 1981. |
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1970: Paper, in National Museum of Victoria Memoirs, on the Miocene penguin fossil found by Colin Macrae. Named Pseudaptenodytes macraei after Mr Macrae. |
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1969: -
Letter from Professor George
Gaylord Simpson, Professor
of Paleontology at Harvard University, on the scientific importance of the Beaumaris Bay Fossil Site Paper on an Upper Miocene Albatross fossil, and a paper on a Zygomaturus gilli fossil, each found at the Beaumaris site, in National Museum of Victoria Memoirs. |
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1965: Late Miocene fossil found at Beaumaris cliff by Colin Macrae - New Record of a Fossil Penguin in Australia - SIMPSON G. G., 1965. Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict. 79: 91-93 |
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1963: Framework of the BMYS Co-op. Ltd. clubhouse being erected on its permissive occupancy filled seabed, with the then Keefers boatshed in background at right |
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1962 Annual Report to members of Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron Co-op Ltd. by its inaugural Commodore, Sir Lawrence Wackett |
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1961 report in The Age newspaper of alleged unauthorized removal of foreshore vegetation by Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron Co-op. Ltd. |
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1960: BMYS began in February 1959, became Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron Co-op Ltd. on 1960-01-28, and changed to a company limited by guarantee on 2004-12-23. |
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1955: Paper, in National Museum of Victoria Memoirs, on the Stratigraphical Occurrence and Palaeoecology of some Australian Tertiary Marsupials, by Edmund Gill |
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1910 photograph of the Beaumaris cliff showing the rocky beach north-east of the former Keefer's boat shed, which was first granted a licence for a jetty in 1905. |
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1887 famous painting 'Slumbering Sea, Mentone' by Tom Roberts, with the present site of the filled seabed leased to the BMYS Ltd. in the foreground |
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