ROSLYN PTA TREASURER UNCOVERS $3.50 DISCREPANCY, CALLS EMERGENCY MEETING
The shortfall is roughly one sausage and a juice box. The principle, treasurer says, is the principle.
A Roslyn Primary PTA treasurer has called an emergency meeting after finding a $3.50 hole in the term-three sausage sizzle float. She described the amount as "not the point".
Treasurer Lorraine Beddoes spent Sunday afternoon recounting a margarine container of gold coins on her dining table. She counted three times. Each count came back $3.50 short of the spreadsheet.
"I'm not accusing anyone," Beddoes told The Daily Yarn, while clearly accusing someone. "But Helmsley's was on the eftpos. And Helmsley's said the machine was 'being funny'. Machines aren't funny."
Fellow committee member Gavin Trundle said the PTA had already split into "the sausage faction and the onion faction". Someone had printed an agenda with item four listed as "trust". Gavin reckons it was worse in 1974, when the Roslyn gala lost a whole chocolate wheel and nobody said a word.
The principal's office declined to comment, noting only that the PTA was "an autonomous body" and that staff would not be attending Tuesday's meeting "under any circumstances".
Beddoes has since found 50 cents behind the margarine container. The meeting is going ahead anyway.
Treasurer Lorraine Beddoes spent Sunday afternoon recounting a margarine container of gold coins on her dining table. She counted three times. Each count came back $3.50 short of the spreadsheet.
"I'm not accusing anyone," Beddoes told The Daily Yarn, while clearly accusing someone. "But Helmsley's was on the eftpos. And Helmsley's said the machine was 'being funny'. Machines aren't funny."
Fellow committee member Gavin Trundle said the PTA had already split into "the sausage faction and the onion faction". Someone had printed an agenda with item four listed as "trust". Gavin reckons it was worse in 1974, when the Roslyn gala lost a whole chocolate wheel and nobody said a word.
The principal's office declined to comment, noting only that the PTA was "an autonomous body" and that staff would not be attending Tuesday's meeting "under any circumstances".
Beddoes has since found 50 cents behind the margarine container. The meeting is going ahead anyway.