Book written about progress association

A book on the history of the progress association at Wagstaffe and Pretty Beach by association member Ms Robyn Warburton is due for release soon.

Ms Warburton has been an active member of the Association for 15 years, having served as president for some of them and currently serving as vice-president.

"I wrote quite a few stories for the Bouddi Stories, Bouddi Bios, Bouddi Artists CD and some were used in the book, Bouddi Peninsula, A Very Special Place.

"One did not make the deadline.

"That was The Story of Progress, the story of the local Progress Association, but I decided to keep going."

Some years ago, Ms Warburton rescued a number of boxes from being thrown out that were filled with archival material about the association.

"I set to work and painstakingly extracted all the relevant information from the minutes and correspondence files to tell the chronological story of the area from the perspective of the association.

"Three years later it is finished.

"The story begins in November 1947, with the nomination of the trustees and the committee, important local men, who began to plan the building of Wagstaffe Hall.

"Information has been sorted and sifted, to tell the Bouddi Peninsula's story, the story of its progress towards having modern amenity.

"It amounts to the bricks and mortar of the place.

"There have always been people interested in the betterment of the place for its people and this is the story of those volunteers and the effort they put in to see progress made.

"Wagstaffe Hall is an integral part of the story.

"The detailed story ends in 2010 with some mention of developments attributed to 2011," said Ms Warburton.

Email, 6 Jan 2013

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