Thank you to everyone concerned with the unveiling and book launch all of which went so well on Saturday and drew a really good audience. I won’t start on too many individual thanks but we must acknowledge the excellent job done by Turk and his builders under Barry Magnus’s watch for MVC. I enjoyed the speakers and hope you found them nice and varied. Although no Reibeys were present that I know of, I found it exhilarating to bring together the other two families of descendants of the Fields and J. O. Inglis. They hadn’t met before and yet they all have a huge interest in Malua (pronounced either way). 

            
Geoff

We already have a sort of Malua Club and it can loosely continue as things of common interest occur. There have been other donations and/or offers arising from Saturday and I think this will occur for a while now, although our best money raiser will be the book and we want more people selling for a while during its freshness. The Visitor Centre will be our main one but I have put some copies at Pam Tankard’s Artist’s Garrett, which will be sold free of c’ssion for us during our needy days. If you think of other friendly outlets please let me know. I will ask Regal Press about some nice little stands to better present the book to the buyer as it sits on a shelf or counter.

The video we were taking was beautiful visually but ruined by the roar of the wind in the camera’s microphone, so I would love a copy of any other video available – even snippets

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I would like to thank the recent donors who have been coming in this week. They are getting us closer to our target. If we can raise more we can DO more towards our goal of completing the memorial and continuing to make more people aware of the Malua story.
 
 

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