This Committee was formed to commemorate the life of Austrian-born Gustav Weindorfer (1874 - 1932) the naturalist, mountaineer and conservationist of Waldheim Chalet, Cradle Mountain and perpetuate his memory by organising the Weindorfer Memorial Service each New Year's day at his gravesite. ;;Gustav Weindorfer was buried at Waldheim in 1932. In November 1932 Gustav's sister sent a bunch of everlasting flowers and four candles to Tasmania, asking that they be placed on his grave on New Year's Day, as was the custom in their Austrian province of Carinthia. In following years this became a trandition with Austrian relatives from Gustav's birthplace at Spittal an der Drau, Karten, an alpine province of Austria, also sending candles and Eidelweiss flowers each New Year's day to Waldheim. A granite cairn was created over his grave in 1938, making a more prominent site for a memorial. The simple flower and candle laying ceremony was continued until the outbreak of World War 2. While the ceremony was revived in 1954, it was expanded in the 1970s by the North West Walking Club with local flowers and candles that were still sent from Austria. ;;To ensure the tradition of a New Year's day service did not lapse, the 'Weindorfer Memorial Service Committee' was formed by a small dedicated group of about ten from the Walking Club. Their inaugural meeting was held 30/9/1975. Since the 1980's the Committee has also screened on that day a film and slide show for people attending the memorial service. The 1928 film by H J King, 'Weekend at Cradle Mountain', depicts the lifestyle and activities of visitors to Cradle mountain during Weindorfer's time. The original is held by the National Film and Sound Archive. ;;Prominent members of the committee have been Dr John Pickford, Mr Alan Richmond (Devonport), Miss Ann Stocks (Devonport), Mr Merv Summers (Burnie), Mr Arnold Rowlands (Burnie), and Mrs Jenny Pearce (Leith).