History....page 2

prior to his taking up residence in Australia, by Mrs Doris Stokes, also a Teacher and respected Adjudicator and by Maree Allen (neeFairfield) Dancer and Competitor and an Assistant Teacher, later Teacher with Mr John Cousins.
The first meetings were held at the Railways Institute at Central Station with Mr Cousins chairing the first meetings and Maree Allen as Secretary taking the minutes.
The need to establish a standard of dance was of paramount importance in all minds. A constitution had to be drawn up. This took a great deal of time and discussion and many meetings. These meetings finally approved the constitution of the Scottish Dancing Association of New

Each competition organiser had their own interpretation of “Restricted.” There was no conformity. Travel and the means of travel in Australia in the late forties usually restricted one to one’s own State with not many venturing past the borders of that State to compete. By the late l940’s it became evident that there had to be a change to try and standardise the dancing in some way.
A meeting of known Teachers, Adjudicators, Dancers and interested persons was called by Mr John Cousins, a respected Adjudicator and Teacher who was a Scot having danced and competed in Scotland