Book review – Gallagher: The Fall and Rise of Oasis, by PJ Harrison

Title: Gallagher: The Fall and Rise of Oasis

Author: PJ Harrison

Publisher: Sphere/Hachette, 2025; RRP: $3499

Review by: Frank Thompson

In the foreword for this book, legendary Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham, through anecdote, tells us to be open to PJ (the author): “You will hit it off and he will be good for you. Just let him in.” A curious comment considering forewords set the tone for a book. It turned out to be good advice.

Ever since hearing Oasis as a teenager, Harrison has been a big fan. These days Harrison is a music industry insider. He has toured with Oasis and their crew. Originally conceived as a dual biography covering the solo careers of the Gallagher brothers, the sudden announcement of a reunion tour prompted a change of direction for the book.

Harrison’s adulation for the brothers and their music shows in his writing style, which I thought verged on the excessive in its use of superlatives. In hindsight his writing serves as a metaphor encapsulating the Oasis sound and energy. Harrison would probably use the word sonic. His track-by-track descriptions of Liam’s and Noel’s solo albums are couched in a “hip” music guru language, which I initially found tiresome. But on reflection, and heeding Oldham’s advice, I just went with the flow. And enjoyed it; after all, what’s wrong with feeling a bit Rock ’n’ Roll. Or perhaps I just need to get out more.

Oasis back on the road

@ ABC

Leaving the music facts and figures aside, the focus shifts to the Gallaghers as people rather than rock stars. These sections make the book interesting and insightful. Harrison’s writing steadies, allowing the reader to gain a better understanding of the brothers and the pressures in their lives. It is likely that Oasis’s success was largely due to the dynamics of the relationship between the brothers, a polite way of saying sibling conflict nurtured in an environment of working-class poverty. These are tough people, clearly talented but also incredibly vulnerable.

As I read this book I wondered how much of it would be a revelation for an Oasis fan. One could be cynical about Harrison’s motivation for authoring this book. But whatever his motives I found this an enjoyable and informative read, and I am glad to have had the opportunity.

Which brings me to one last oddity of this book. The first of the reunion concerts was held as I was editing this review. Indeed, Harrison admits that at the time of finalising the book he could not confirm the lineup of the band for the reunion performances. I can report that the lineup included Gem Archer, Bonehead and Andy Bell, who all previously played in Oasis.

The concert tour is sold out, I believe, but one might still ask, was it brave or optimistic of Harrison to title the book as he did.

Review copy provided by the publisher

Book review – See How They Fall, by Rachel Paris

Title: See How They Fall

Author: Rachel Paris

Publisher: Hachette 2025; RRP: $32.99

Review by: Heather Whitford Roche, Ballarat Writers Inc. Book Review Group

Rachel Paris comes to writing crime from a 20-year career in law. See How They Fall is her debut novel and has all the elements of a good ‘whodunnit.’

It’s written in the voices of Mei, a police detective, and Skye, the wife of an influential and wealthy businessman who is part of a controlling family dynasty. The story proceeds using alternating chapters from the two protagonists, and it unfolds quickly, moving at an engaging pace.

When a family dinner goes awry and results in the death of a family member and Skye’s young child in hospital, the dynamics of the dynasty begin to be in question. It’s at this stage that the credibility of the family starts to unravel. But not quickly due to the wealth and influence used by the family to stall and manipulate. Skye begins to suspect that the family and her husband are hiding something. She is thwarted by not knowing who to believe and/or who to trust.

Mei on the other hand is playing her detective role slightly outside the parameters of the game. She understands the difficulty that police corruption and the influence of wealthy people can cause within the force and has learned how to work around it. When Skye secretly speaks to her about her suspicions regarding some of her family members, Mei knows she is on the right track, but the track is not an easy one, especially when her senior officer wants to close the case.

Here more about See How They Fall at the QBD Book Club

This story has all the hallmarks of the inequalities that can exist between the wealthy and the rest of the population. The issues of family violence, mental health and sexual abuse are managed well within the framework of the story. I liked that the author told the story from a female’s perspective and honoured the way not being believed or listened to can have a devastating impact on individuals and families.

The cover of the book does not represent the strength of this work; it deserved a stronger visual. Rachel Paris (interviewed here at The Spinoff) has produced a novel with a tight plot; it’s well done and holds the tension right until the end. Crime and women’s fiction lovers will really enjoy See How They Fall.

A detective story with a difference.         

Review copy provided by the publisher. 

Book review – One Day I’ll Remember This, by Helen Garner

Title: One Day I’ll Remember This: Diaries Volume II 1987-1995

Author: Helen Garner

Publisher: Text Publishing; 2022  

Review: Frank Thompson, Ballarat Writers Inc. Book Review Group

The name Garner came up recently in relation to a celloist at this year’s CresFest.  A friend suggested the celloist was probably Helen Garner’s daughter. And then went on to reminisce about life in inner Melbourne suburbs in the late sixties and early seventies, suggesting she knew people like the characters in Helen’s debut novel, Monkey Grip.

I vaguely remembered the name and must confess I have not read any of her actual works. With my curiosity piqued, I couldn’t resist the Helen Garner diary I spotted in a favourite bookshop. This review is mostly about that diary, which as it turns out is the middle volume of a three-volume set covering Helen’s life from 1978 to 1998*.

The three diaries are similar in layout, arranged chronologically, though the individual entries are not dated.  Various characters are represented by a single capital letter. A couple of notable people, such as fellow writer Elizabeth Jolley, are mentioned by name – is this name dropping? And some people, such as members of Helen’s family, are referenced by their relationship, e.g., ‘My Sister’ (which is confusing because I believe she has four sisters).  

The diaries are written as a series of slivers of Helen’s life, each presented separately. Not simple jottings or notes but vignettes – dreams observations, anecdotes, meetings and assignations, conversations had and overheard (two young lads talking on a tram) – all very personal and revealing.

At first the entries seem a random selection, with no context. The absence of a timeline accentuates this impression. Some entries are linked, dealing with the same topic and run through the three books – Helen’s relationship with V, for example. This thread goes from early meetings, to growing involvement, to marriage and finally to separation.  It gives the books a story with momentum.

Discussing Monkey Grip

@ The Wheeler Centre

While these diaries are revealing, I would not call them a warts-and-all disclosure, certainly not grubby, no bleeding hearts or character assassinations. One cannot help wondering if much editing and filleting was done to the original handwritten entries.  

I found the writing to be deceptively simple, everyday words exquisitely arranged, affording intimacy and familiarity. Perhaps why I’m using Helen and not Garner.

Diaries contain one’s innermost thoughts and observations, windows to the inner workings of one’s life. Perhaps, reading other people’s stirs the hidden voyeur in us. The opportunity to see what really goes on behind a public image. And these diaries are about Helen’s life, there is not a lot of talk about her writing: a few entries and snippets here and there. I guess writing for a writer is work, not life.

I enjoyed reading these diaries especially the middle one. Not just for what I learned about Helen but for what I learned about myself. And those lessons … well, you will have to wait and see if I publish my diaries.

* The others being Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978-1987 and How to End a Story: Diaries Volume III 1995-1998

Book review — The Secret Year of Zara Holt, by Kimberley Freeman

Title: The Secret Year of Zara Holt

Author: Kimberley Freeman

Publisher: Hachette, 2025; RRP: $32.99

Reviewed by: Jason Nahrung

I haven’t kept up with Kimberley Freeman’s work since her debut, Duet – this is her eighth, falling into the publishing category of ‘women’s fiction’. Which is to say, stories about women making their own way in the world with a good dose of relationship struggle to boot. While Duet was a ripper read, my tastes swing more towards speculative and climate fiction, the former being the oeuvre of Freeman’s alter ego, Kim Wilkins. Wilkins, a powerhouse in the Australian writing scene, is also an accomplished academic based in Brisbane, and one can imagine the fun she had researching the subject matter for Zara Holt (drawing on Zara’s memoir as a key source). There must have been some interesting choices about what to keep, what to leave, what to imagine, what to leave unsaid, given that Dame Zara Bate DBE died in 1989 but has family still, on top of the rich life she led.

Which is the reason this book caught my attention: something of a departure from previous outings, in being an imagined story of real people. Zara Dickins’ second husband, Harold Holt, is perhaps best known for embracing ‘all the way with LBJ’ – which surfaces here – and his death by drowning just shy of two years into his prime ministership, his body never recovered, the enduring mystery of which infuses this novel and inspires its title. But what about Zara?

A quick read of a couple of biographies reveals an accomplished businesswoman and creative talent, an exemplary partner to a government minister and prime minister, and wife who suffered through the serial cheating of her renowned husband.

Freeman centres her fictionalised tale on the Harry-Zara axis, an enduring if turbulent love affair that stretched from first meeting as teenagers to tragic end, with all the travails between. The history is told primarily in the first person, a retrospective with flaws and all. For instance, the attraction with Harry endures through Zara’s first marriage, to English soldier James Fell, with Zara adapting to the role of a colonial wife in India. Then comes the aftermath of her marriage’s explosive end, leaving her essentially a single mother raising three sons.

Learn more about the life of Zara Holt

@ Nightlight, on the ABC

But The Secret Year… is more than a love story. Unfolding between 1927 and 1968, the novel has room to explore the challenges faced by Zara and her best friend, Betty, as they establish their own fashion business as single women (and resurrecting it later), how they navigate the social mores of the times, and how Zara steps out of Harry’s shadow. A highlight is a speech given at a ladies’ charity function in which, after providing encouragement for women to make their own way, she invites the attendees to come chat, but ‘please don’t call me Mrs Holt. I’m Zara.’

Adding dimension to the star pair’s fire-and-ice relationship is a well-drawn supporting cast of family and friends, and the period settings – life in Melbourne, Canberra and India, the various overseas and interstate locations – which offer sufficient details to not only give a feeling for time and place but add to the characters’ stories. Celebrity moments both dull and exhilarating, jet lag, inspiring local fashions, all frame the environment in which the Holts were moving.

As the tragedy of Cheviot Beach looms closer, Freeman picks up the pace, skipping across highlight events. Meeting US President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Birdie; attending the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; hosting the Johnsons amid the tumult of the Vietnam War … touchstones revealing the Holts’ relationship, Zara’s handling of her husband’s career and infidelities, and the impact on her own life and career.

And then, there’s Harry’s disappearance while swimming, one of his flames a witness. The aftermath provides a poignant imagining of Zara’s response, one we won’t reveal here, sufficient to say it captures the heart of the story beautifully.

The strength of The Secret Year… is the ring of honesty in its depictions of these lives writ large yet grounded in very human challenges, a slice of history most assuredly all dressed up with somewhere to go.

>> Jason Nahrung is a Ballarat-based writer and editor. www.jasonnahrung.com

Review copy provided by the publisher

Pamela Miller Annual Flash Fiction Prize 2025

Ballarat Writers are delighted to announce that, once again, the Pamela Miller Prize will be taking place this year:

What is the Pamela Miller Prize? It’s an annual Flash Fiction competition launched in 2015 in memory of the late Pamela Miller, who was a prolific supporter (and winner!) of the flash fiction contest as well as of BWI in general. It’s for BWI members only.

What do I have to do to enter? Send in a short story of maximum 500 words plus title (there is no minimum) on the theme of THE LAST ACT. You can choose any title you like as long as it fits the theme, or you can just use the theme title.

When must I submit? Submissions will be open between 1st and 30th June this year. The deadline for submissions will be midnight (Melbourne Time) on 30th June.

How should I submit? Send in your piece of Flash Fiction to Roland Renyi, this year’s competition co-ordinator, at roland@opencitylimited.com

Are there any rules for submitting? Yes, leave your name off the submitted story when you email it to Roland. Your name should be on the covering email only. Send it in Word or pdf in a 12 point font, single or double spaced as you wish. Oh yes, and don’t write more than 500 words (I already said that). Entries of more than 500 words or with the author’s name in the main document will not be accepted.

Why should I enter? That’s an easy one! The winning entry will receive a prize of $100 and the runner-up will get an honourable mention!

When will the winning entries be announced? At our Ballarat Writers’ get together on 30th July. If you cannot attend, the winner and runner up will be announced on our web site and contacted. The winning entry will be published in our newsletter and on our web site.

In other words, it’s a no-brainer (not the stories, of course). 500 words can easily be written in a day and Flash Fiction is all about quality, not quantity – it’s the love that you put into it that will make it special!

For any enquiries, contact Roland at roland@opencitylimited.com

Book review – Vanish, by Shelley Burr

Title: Vanish
Author: Shelley Burr
Publisher: Hachette, 2025; RRP: $34.99
Review by: Marian Chivers, May, 2025

The author: Shelley Burr grew up on Newcastle’s beaches, her grandparents’ property in Glenrowan and on the road between the two. She is also studying sustainable agriculture and working to establish a small permaculture farm. Her debut novel Wake won the prestigious UK Crime Writers’ Association’s Debut Dagger Award (for unpublished novelists) in 2019. When published in 2023, it was a Top Five bestseller winning Australian crime fiction awards. Her second novel, Ripper, went straight to Number One on the Australian Fiction Bestseller list and was shortlisted for two Australian crime fiction awards. Vanish is Burr’s third book in the Lane Holland series and can be enjoyed as a stand-alone novel.

The book: Lane Holland’s crime-solving career ended the day he went to prison. As his parole hearing approaches, he faces the grim reality that an ex-con can never work as a private investigator. Yet one unsolved case continues to haunt him: the disappearance of Matilda Carver two decades ago.

Lost souls are drawn to the Karpathy farm near Albury Wodonga in the hope of a new life. Some stay. Some leave. Some are never heard from again. Through a series of fortuitous events, Lane is able to get work release at the Karpathy farm, enabling him to investigate Matilda’s last known location. Is the farm a cult, commune or something else? Did those who vanished choose to disappear or did they meet some fatal end? Lane’s time at the farm begins with flood and ends with bushfire; the Australian countryside featuring as another worthy character.

Shelley Burr on the inspiration for Ripper (aka Murder Town)

@ Authors on the Air, Global Radio Network

Vanish is a solid example of Australian noir with enough red herrings and plot twists to keep the reader guessing. Burr’s writing is clean and the story demands the turning of the page to find out what happens next.

I have read all three of Burr’s books and each story can be read alone. The thread of Lane Holland’s tale provides a strong link between them all if read in order. A surprise return of a character from one of the previous novels helps to provide a satisfying ending while providing a hint of future possibilities for Lane’s investigative skills.

Marian Chivers has a lifelong interest in reading and writing with her work and study involving books from children’s literature to post graduate studies.

Review copy provided by the publisher

Book review – Swept Away, by Beth O’Leary

Title: Swept Away

Author: Beth O’Leary

Publisher: Quercus/Hachette, April 2025; RRP: $32.99

Review: Marian Chivers

Author bio: Beth O’Leary is a bestselling author whose novels have been translated into over thirty languages. The Flat Share, her debut novel, sold over a million copies and is now a major TV series. Her subsequent novels The Switch, The Road Trip, The No-Show and The Wake-Up Call were all instant bestsellers. Beth writes in the Hampshire countryside and if she’s not at her desk, she can be found curled up somewhere with a book, a cup of tea and several woolly jumpers (whatever the weather).

Review: Lexi is looking for no-strings-attached fun with a stranger. She deserves one night for herself, doesn’t she? Zeke is looking for love. But for one night with a woman like Lexi, he’ll break his rules…

After meeting and connecting at the pub, they end up stumbling to the marina for a passionate night on a houseboat named The Merry Dormouse. The next morning, hungover and shaken by an amazing night together, Lexi is ready for him to leave. There’s just one problem…the houseboat they stayed on has been swept out to the North Sea.

This is a wonderful plot for a forced-proximity romance and the story is told by a master storyteller. It is narrated by the two main characters in the first person. Their name is given at the beginning of the chapter so that the reader doesn’t get confused. The fact that Lexi is 31 and Zeke is 23 makes it different to many romances but the relationship is believable — unlike some of the plot points concerning the boat, time, and the behaviour of the North Sea which may require some disbelief to be suspended. However, the developing relationship between Lexi and Zeke is beautifully done and they enjoy a happy ending after some dramatic situations that test themselves and their growing relationship.

Beth O’Leary talks Swept Away

@ TWO WOMEN CHATTING

I’ve read another of O’Leary’s books (The No-Show) and she excels at creating characters that the reader cares about and a story that keeps you wondering what happens next. O’Leary’s style is warm and amusing, if not downright funny. She knows how to tug at the heart strings, too. If you need a story that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you feeling happier with the world, then O’Leary is an author to add to your reading list.

Marian Chivers has a lifelong interest in reading and writing with her work and study involving books from children’s literature to post graduate studies. She has also spent many years with an active involvement in romance writers’ associations.

Review copy provided by the publisher

TIME TO GET CREATIVE – THE 2025 PAMELA MILLER PRIZE IS COMING

Ballarat Writers are delighted to announce that, once again, the Pamela Miller Prize will be taking place this year:

What is the Pamela Miller Prize? It’s an annual Flash Fiction competition launched in 2015 in memory of the late Pamela Miller, who was a prolific supporter (and winner!) of the flash fiction contest as well as of BWI in general. It’s for BWI members only.

What do I have to do to enter? Send in a short story of maximum 500 words plus title (there is no minimum) on the theme of THE LAST ACT. You can choose any title you like as long as it fits the theme, or you can just use the theme title.

When must I submit?  Submissions will be open between 1st and 30th June this year. The deadline for submissions will be midnight (Melbourne Time) on 30th June.

How should I submit? Send in your piece of Flash Fiction to Roland Renyi, this year’s competition co-ordinator, at roland@opencitylimited.com

Are there any rules for submitting? Yes, leave your name off the submitted story when you email it to Roland. Your name should be on the covering email only.  Send it in Word or pdf in a 12 point font, single or double spaced as you wish. Oh yes, and don’t write more than 500 words (I already said that). Entries of more than 500 words or with the author’s name in the main document will not be accepted.

Why should I enter? That’s an easy one! The winning entry will receive a prize of $100 and the runner-up will get an honourable mention!

When will the winning entries be announced? At our Ballarat Writers’ get together on 30th July. If you cannot attend, the winner and runner up will be announced on our web site and contacted. The winning entry will be published in our newsletter and on our web site.

In other words, it’s a no-brainer (not the stories, of course). 500 words can easily be written in a day and Flash Fiction is all about quality, not quantity –  it’s the love that you put into it that will make it special!

For any enquiries, contact Roland at roland@opencitylimited.com

Book review – The Writing Class, by Esther Campion

Title: The Writing Class
Author: Esther Campion
Publisher: Hachette Australia, 2024; RRP: $32.99
Review: Rhonda Cotsell, Ballarat Writers Inc. Book Review Group

The Writing Class is a work that succeeds at what its title suggests. It is predominantly light reading but with moving and believable depths. This is possibly because, as a retired librarian, I am convinced of the power of the written word and the act of writing to, if not transform lives, then at least make life significantly easier or less difficult to negotiate. So I was interested in how the author would approach it. Also, as someone with a Ballarat and Creswick writing group history, I was pretty much in just from reading its title.

Irish Australian author Esther Campion has a background which includes a deep respect for the author Maeve Binchy, membership of a Tasmanian writing group, and degrees from the University College Cork and the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. She also worked in adult education and has studied environmental science and zoology. The author has written three other novels and currently lives in Tasmania with family, her beloved chocolate labrador (or in her words, ‘labradorable’), a smoochy cat and several elderly horses.

The Writing Class covers writing from form filling to creative and autobiographical. Within that framework is an exploration of human relationships set within a range of familiar and current issues. Vivian, the class leader to be, is herself struggling to deal with a major life shock: after having accompanied her husband to Tasmania, she is abandoned by him. Her story is where The Writing Class begins, alone and humiliated and preparing reluctantly for an interview with a friend who is also the manager of the local library and who has received funding to establish a writing class.

Esther Campion interviewed about The Writing Class

@ Living Arts Canberra

Vivian has a significant teaching and writing background and it is through her eyes the narrative unfolds, but this soon changes as we are slowly introduced to the people her friend has cajoled or strongly encouraged into joining the class. Among these are people dealing with domestic violence, adult illiteracy, Long COVID, some for whom English is their second language, single parenthood, ageing and, scattered throughout, severe loss of confidence. Outside the writing class sessions, some also face forced labour, sexuality issues, and parenthood trials.

This book covers a lot of ground, creating convincing and engaging characters and managing to interweave all issues within the writing group setting in a matter-of-fact style, neither dramatising nor understating the emotional journeys of each of its characters. It fits the genre of popular literature, and kept me engaged. Particularly because the problems each character dealt with are familiar and current, ones we read about in the news, law reports or case studies.

Vivian is nervous about returning to teaching and not sure she is up to what the manager wants, and her anxiety, and how she organises each class, also plays an important role in the narrative. This is not done in a dry and instructional tone but through Vivian’s calculated strategies to develop students’ confidence as the class moves forward. We see the thinking beforehand, the application and the results. Since part of the task involves the completion of an anthology by the end of the course, a central part of her approach is also the building of a team, despite its being a motley group of people of different ages and histories who have never met before. Friendships form, initial negative reactions – fearful or distracted – are overcome between the walls of the classroom. This the author does expertly, in such a way as to make the reader feel part of the class itself.

I did have one quibble and that is towards the end where Vivian thinks, in relation to the group:

If the last few months had taught her anything, it was that life was better when you said yes.

Given the severity and complexity of the issues each individual member, including Vivian, brought to the class and had to deal with outside it, I found this a bit of a pink and fluffy simplification of what makes life better – overlaying what had been quite moving and informative, and cheapening it.

It also bypasses the fact that positive outcomes were inextricably linked to the high level of support and access to other resources of those within the group, and not just the fact that they said ‘yes’ to the new experience of being in a writing group.

I can hear howls of disapproval re the above as the book does not pretend to be a serious sociological analysis. However, every reader of a particular work is going to have a different response to it and, as one of its readers, I felt suddenly let down and not a little disappointed.

So, a mixed review. I definitely enjoyed it in the lead up to the conclusion, and could not put it down, wanting to know what would happen next with Vivian, how she ran the class, and what would unfold in the lives of her writing class members. It was an easy read and the author’s background in adult education was apparent in the sections where she designed the sessions, particularly where the intention was to create cohesion in the class to make the final step of completing an anthology. Most of all I enjoyed the class as individuals, each with their own particular personalities, life experiences, and approaches. The author created people here that I felt an emotional response to.

Potential readers? It fits the genre of general fiction, i.e., one that does not fit into a specific genre like romance or thriller; suitable for young and older adults. Those who like Australian settings would like it, and also those who like an easy and entertaining read which includes a believable background with relevant, current issues and recognisable characters.

Review copy provided by the publisher

BWI 2025 AGM Information

The Ballarat Writers Inc AGM will be held on Wednesday 12 February 2025 at the Lakeview Hotel from 6.30pm.

Thinking you might like to join the committee? Here’s a brief summary of who does what, but the position descriptions will give you more detailed information:

  • President: Chairs meetings, introduces speakers, welcomes guests.
  • Secretary: Minutes, correspondence & bookings.
  • Treasurer: Manages financial affairs, banking, payments; records memberships.
  • Competitions Officer: coordinate all BWI competitions; appoint and liaise with judges; source and report on possible joint activities.
  • Publicity Officer: Compiles & circulates newsletter; maintains the BWI website; support for technological services to the group; and keeping the Facebook page active.
  • Committee members: Invaluable support people who assist others as required.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS TO BE FILLED:

CHAIRPERSON/PRESIDENT

SECRETARY

COMPETITIONS OFFICER

We offer mentoring for incoming committee members & would really appreciate your support. Nominations are welcome on the night of the AGM.

Position descriptions:

Chairperson PD

Treasurer and membership officer PD

Secretary PD

Competitions officer PD

Publicity Officer PD

General committee member (multiple positions available, no PD)

Reports from the 2024 Commitee

Chairperson

Treasurer

Secretary

Competitions

Publicity Officer

Workshops

Nominations

Nomination and proxy forms will be emailed to all members. These can be returned in advance, or taken on the night.

Voting will take place at the AGM, at the Lakeview Hotel, 22 Wendouree Parade, Lake Wendouree, 3350. Meeting opens at 6.30pm.

The gritty details:

Nominations of candidates for election as Officer Bearers of the Committee must be either:

  • made on the night at the AGM, when nominations are called for; or
  • delivered to the Secretary of BWI not less than 3 days before the date fixed for the holding of the Annual General Meeting, ie 9th February 2025
  • nominations can only be made for paid-up, financial members on the date of nomination.

A candidate for election as Officer Bearer may be nominated prior to or at the Annual General Meeting. If the number of nominations exceeds the number of vacancies to be filled, a ballot must be held.

The ballot for the election of Officer Bearers of the Committee must be conducted at the Annual General Meeting in such manner as the committee may direct.

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