To all WACUA Members.

Please find attached proposed changes to the WACUA constitution. These will be discussed at the next general meeting in November.

DRAFT Constitution 2013

The key reasoning behind the change is because of the history that comes with our logo. During the early periods of the 2000’s the logo that the WACUA use today was adopted. From evidence in committee meeting notes during that period and historical investigation we, the committee, found that this logo was never approved, even by the members themselves. It was simple redesign that everyone just accepted…

The WACUA committee are striving to promote the umpiring body in Western Australia to all of cricket, either local, national or international. We feel that time is right to market and advertise ourselves as the leading umpiring association within Australia and one of the leaders throughout the world. To do this, we need a clear distinctive badge to show with pride.

The history of our logo is actually quite simplistic. Every logo since the birth of our first logo has been with the ‘Owl of wisdom’ and ‘Scales of justice’. Variants of colour have come and gone where it was once black and gold and changed to blue and gold, but the traditional fundamentals have never been changed. 

Some key features of the new logo.

• The text WACUA aligns ourselves with the similar font that the WACA have used in their logo redesign. This allows the WACUA to visually create a relationship with the WACA.
• 1908, our founding year is instantly seen on the logo. Showing our proud history and denoting that we are one of the oldest umpiring representative bodies in Australia.
• The black and gold returns in the sense of the cricket ball at the front of the background blue. Giving us a sense of history and representative status of our great state.
• The ‘Owl of wisdom’ is aligned closer to our earliest version of the logo with the high feathered eyes and symmetrical stature.
• The ‘Scales of justice’ also feature in the logo bringing the sense of new tradition and pride with the blending with the richer and more unique blue.

As part of the WACUA committee for 2013/14, I would like to welcome everyone to the season.

It is extremely important that there is an efficient and clear communication between committee and members. Thus, one of our primary tasks this season will be to continue and increase the frequency and efficacy of communications between members and the committee with this website.

The possibilities of media for the benefit of our association and WA cricket are exciting, and I very much look forward to fulfilling my duties as a committee member this season while working with the President and all the membership.

Cheers,

Trent Steenholdt

By Bill Reynolds – Life member of the WACUA

This is a fascinating story of the formation, development and playing of the club cricket competition in Perth, which was the foundation for the creation of the Western Australian Cricket Association in 1885. Through its many trials and tribulations, the competition survived and prospered to become acknowledged as one of the strongest club competitions in the cricket-playing world in the 1960s and 1970s. It tells in great detail the stories of its milestones and of the famous people who played and administered the competition – as well as providing an in-depth history of its constituent clubs throughout a long history plus a retinue of statistics to delight the most avid of cricket enthusiasts.