This meeting on the verandah of AJSmall’s house “Avalon” in Bellevue Avenue was reliably dated 1925. It was convened by him to establish a surf life saving service for Avalon Beach. AJSmall is standing second from the left wearing white slacks and to his left is champion sculler and fisherman Bert Paddon. Small’s son Geoff, who was a successful candidate in the first bronze medallion squad in January 1926, is on the far right of the verandah.