Bulletin 1975-09-15

President of R.I.:
ERNESTO IMBASSAHY de MELLO

District Governor:
BERT HOLMES

“TO DIGNIFY THE HUMAN BEING”

District 293

ROTARY CLUB of HASTINGS

Service Above Self

The Fruit Bowl of New Zealand

Photo by Lovell-Smith Studio

“WE CARE”

President:
JIM REDGRAVE
Lanes Road, Havelock North
Phone 77 822

Please address all communications to:
Secretary:
FRANK CRIST
P.O. Box 752
Hastings
Phone 83 241

Treasurer:
COLIN YOUNG
P.O. Box 105
Hastings
Phone 85 143

Editor:
MAX LUTTRELL
P.O. Box 66
Hastings
Phone 77 756

Marshall:
IAN HICKMAN
602N Nelson St. Hastings
Phone 86 089

Club Weekly Meeting – Farmers’ Tearooms -Tuesday, 12.30 p.m.

If you are unable to be present to undertake the duty allotted to you please advise Ian Hickman.

TUESDAY, 16th September, 1975:
PROGRAMME:   WORLD UNDERSTANDING WEEK – 14-20 SEPTEMBER, 1975.
Speaker:   Mr. Gordon Black – leader of the recently returned Group Study Exchange Team – will be speaking to the Club of the Team’s experience on their rewarding Trip overseas.
Introduction:  Cliff Cox
Thanks:  Bob Fish
All members are reminded and encouraged to bring us their guest to our Luncheon Meeting people of a different nationality, in support of this occasion of WORLD UNDERSTANDING WEEK.

DUTIES:
Mess:   Charlie Jackson
Paul Jones
Bill Langford
Gordon Lee
Coffee:   Gwyn Lewis
Peter Mills
Sgt-at-Arms:   Pat Stainer
Cpls:   Doug [Dug] Huggett
Noel Lewis
Top Table:   Peter McKeown
Ian McPherson
Emergencies:   Alex Mitchell
Bryan Newport
Club Marshall:   Keith Sands would appreciate your advice if you are unable to undertake your duties – Phone 84-096.

VITAL STATISTICS, 9th September, 1975:
Present   78   Fines   $5.13
Absent   29   Shrapnel   $5.82
Attendance   76%   Total   $10.95

MEET MY FAMILY: My 12 year old daughter Judith doesn’t have any hang ups – she leaves her clothes strewn around the room.

GREETINGS:
International Service: This is my first meeting as your Chairman for this year and I would like all Committee members to come for a Helicopter ride to a Sherpa Village 16,000 ft up in the Himalaya. Meet me at my home (Peter Young, Southland Road, Hastings) – Tuesday, 16th September, at 7.45 p.m. – I look forward to seeing you all.
Vocational Service: In lieu of their usual meeting, this Committee is arranging a visit to Aerial Mapping Ltd on the evening of Monday, 29th September, at 7.30 p.m. All Club members are invited and names will be taken next Tuesday of all attending this exercise. Vocational members are expected to support this project and invite a Club member to join the party.
Community Service meets Tuesday, 16th Sept., at 7.45 p.m., home of Bryan Newport, 814 Maitland Cres., Hastings.
Club Service meets Tuesday, 16th Sept., – venue to be advised.

NOMINATIONS:   The following nominations have been approved by the Directors and the nominees have agreed to their names going forward:-
Furniture Retailing – Brian [Bryan] J. Hutchison [Hutchinson].
Power Distribution – Thomas M. Graham.
If no objections are received by 23rd Sept, 1975, then the proposed members will be considered fully elected.

PRESIDENT’S CORNER:
Rotary’s “lifeblood” is good attendance. Right now our Club is rather anaemic because our attendances for the past four weeks have been very bad! With 15% of our membership on “leave of absence” for such good reasons as extended illness, overseas trips and the exceptional business circumstances, the best possible attendance figure we can reach is 85%. To get us anywhere near this figure, I need your support with concerted efforts to be present each Tuesday or to “make-up”.
Please do your best – I’m a worried man!
Jim.

WORLD UNDERSTANDING WEEK – 14-20 SEPT. 1975:
This is the week Rotarians are invited to personally support Rotary’s effort to foster goodwill among people of all nations. Everyone of us can contribute in some way. It could be making contacts with other Rotarians in other parts of the world; it could even be by taking part in Thanksgiving and prayer for a better world; or simply by a gesture of friendship and hospitality to persons from other countries who are in our community. One year, a Club in Tanzania emphasised World Understanding Week by displaying Club Banners, and postage stamps sent from other clubs, and also by displaying the aims of Rotary. Another Club in Malaysia, conducted an essay contest on thought of World Understanding, for Secondary School Students. One Club held a meeting, and sent greeting cards signed by the members, to 75 Rotary Clubs. At a Club in Honolulu during World Understanding Week, wives of Rotarians prepared a dinner of American, Chinese, and Japanese foods, and then the Club played host to a group of students from Asia, the Pacific, and America. World Understanding Week means what it says – a reminder to us all to make the effort to understand the affairs and problems of other people and nations in other parts of the world, and it is this role played by Rotarians within the framework of Rotary’s ideal of Service, that makes it a vital and essential force to International Understanding. It is our show of concern, “We Care”, that is an encouragement to others to make a contribution to World peace, goodwill, and a creator of World Understanding – essential to us all, if we are to live in this world of today.

STUDENT EXCHANGE – CERTIFICATION WEEKEND,
September – Friday 12 – Saturday 13 – Sunday 14. This is one way our members can recognise World Understanding Week, by being hosts to these Exchange Students. Members of our Club are invited to attend the special briefing session on Sunday morning and learn more about the Student Exchange Scheme.

PERSONALITIES OF THE WEEK:
Sept. 15, Jocelyn & Bryce Jones.
This is the day, the little woman realised her children are at an awkward age – and so is her husband.

A ROTARY THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: “Some people are standing around waiting to start living as though they did not know that life had already begun.”

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POSTAGE PAID
HASTINGS, NZ.
PERMIT No. 19

MEETING TIMES OF LOCAL CLUBS
NAPIER:   War Memorial Hall – Monday 12.15
NAPIER WEST:   Fire Station Hall – Tuesday 6.00
TARADALE:   Town Hall – Thursday 6.00
AHURIRI:   Napier Sailing Club, Ahuriri – Monday 3.30
HAVELOCK NORTH:   St Luke’s Hall – Monday 8.00
STORTFORD LODGE:   D.B. Heretaunga Motor Hotel – Tuesday 6.00.