AGM FOR OPAL ASSOCIATION MEETING
7 STAG HORN AV
SURFERS PARADISE
8 AM in FOYER
Same building the opal show is held in!
OPEN MEETING 8 am
APOLOGIES
TREASURES REPORT
2017/2018 UN AUDITED
ELECTION OF OFFICE BEARERS
I am pleased to report that all the office bearers have nominated for the same positions.
PRESIDENT Paul Sedawie
VICE PRESIDENT Yanni Athanasiadis
SECRETARY George Christianous
TREASURE Sally Patel
PUBLICITY OFFICER Edmond Lahoud
GENERAL BUSINESS
OPAL SYMPOSIUM
The opal symposium was a great success with some interesting speakers. The changes to the Nomenclature were presented and well received. Suggestions for the next
SYNTHETIC OPAL BEADS
We have received reports of synthetic/fake beads being sold to the inbound Chinese tourist market as “Pandora beads”. These beads cost app 20$ and are being sold between $ 600 to $ 700 and reports are thousands are being sold and they are the best sellers.Commission of over 60% is then paid to the tour company. A discussion on how to respond is planned as the response we got from the ACCC ,Qld fair trading the even the meeting with Steven Ciobo the trade minister didn’t amount to much.
OPAL CERTIFICATES
There is a lot of demand from members to issue certificates through the opal association. There are some legal issues about a disclaimer for the opal association with the member taking the responsibility for the certificate to be finalized.
It has been discussed that members would need to sit a test before being approved to issue certiicates from the opal association web site.
A sub committee was formed to present to members for there consideration a practical/written test
Yanni Athanasiadis representing Coober pedy opal.
Eric Madsen representing boulder opal
Paul Sedawie representing Lightning ridge opal.
It is not intended for this to be compulsory for members and it is still open to dicussion.
MEETING TO CLOSE NO LATER THAN 9 DUE TO MEMBERS SETTING UP BOOTHS.
Kind Regards
Paul Sedawie
President of the Opal Association