NSW CAT FANCIERS ASSOCIATION
The NSW CFA is the largest and most active Feline Registering Body in the Southern Hemisphere with in excess of 40 affiliated Clubs and kindred societies, which conduct 45 shows each year under the Rules and Regulations of the NSW CFA. In excess of 3,000 individual registrations are processed by the NSW CFA each year.
The NSW CFA is a founding member of the Co-Ordinating Cat Council of Australia, one of the two umbrella national organisations of Cat Control Councils in Australia. More than 80% of the entire Australian Cat Fancy belongs to member bodies of the Co-Ordinating Cat Council of Australia.
The Beginning
Prior to 1948 in the State of New South Wales there were three individual registering bodies, The Cat Fanciers Association, The Federal Cat Club and The St. George District Cat Club, each doing its own thing. This situation was obviously untenable and in order to bring about some semblance of unity, the following letter was sent to those three organisations by the Secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales, Colonel G.C. Sommerville.
"Dear Sirs,
With the idea of gaining the co-operation of all members of existing clubs in relation to this Society's RAS Cat Club, which has been formed for the purpose of bringing about one unified cat government in NSW and which would include the registering of cats, my Dog Section Committee invites your association to send three (3) delegates to a meeting on Wednesday, 28th January, 1948, at the Showground."
