Bulletin 1978-01-17

TUESDAY, 17th January, 1978:

PROGRAMME:
Speaker:   The Rev. D. McG. Jamieson – Presbyterian Minister from Taradale – has a message for our Club.

DUTIES:
Mess:   Jack Dallimore
Frank Darroch
David Davidson
Neil Donaldson
Coffee:   Ian Featherstone
Bob Fish
Sgt-at-Arms:   Bert Eising
Cpls:   Ted Gallen
Keith Garland
Top Table:   David Fine
Ron Giorgi
Emergencies:   Tom Graham
Jim Harvey
Ron Hendry
Host:   George Pacey

VITAL STATISTICS, 20th December, 1977:
Present   70   Shrapnel   $20.18
Absent   28
Attendance   71%

GOSSIP ROUND OUR OFFICE:   My gorgeous […]iste said she knew what her boy friend wanted for Xmas – so she gave it to him.

WHAT OTHER CLUBS ARE DOING:   In respect of Matched Districts, as part of a promotion of contact between Districts 993 and 930, the Rotary Club of Scottsburgh in Natal – which has 22 members – offers a Rotarian and his wife from our District, to be hosted for a holiday visit. Suggested time is April/June 1978. This is a good example of an exercise in Rotary fellowship in the international field.

CREDITS – November 1977:
Nov. 1,   Des Peryer, Stortford Lodge. Peter Young, San Bernadino East, U.S.A.
2, Graeme Clarke, Kings Cross.
3, Walter Borwick, Karamu.
8, Des Peryer, Stortford Lodge.
10, John McCormick, Karamu. David Davidson, Karamu
14, Peter Young, Havelock North.
Gordon Morley, Havelock North.
Richard Watson, Havelock North.
George Pacey, Havelock North.
Alan Walker, Petone.
15, Des Peryer, Stortford Lodge.
22, Alan Walker, Petone.
29, Bill Pascoe, Whakatane.
I’m not allowed out at night, I’m told to conserve my petrol – or is it my energy?

CLASSIFICATION:   The Directors invite nominations for the following classification – Religion – Any Branch.
Nominations close 24 January, 1978.
Cards available from Secretary Frank.

PERSONALITIES OF THE WEEK:
Wedding Anniversaries:
Jan. 9,   Annette & Don Patterson.
13,   Maureen & Keith Sands.
Birthdays:   Jan. 11, Hans Andersen.
13, David Davidson.
17, Bob Fish.
19, Ian Snadden.
14, Les Snookes.
I managed to get an invite to our Chiropractor’s party – after some manipulating.

PRESIDENT’S CORNER:
Happy New Year, fellows. I hope you all had enjoyable holidays and that you have now recovered from the “back to work blues”. As we enter the second half of this Rotary year, I look forward, with keen anticipation, to a further busy and interesting six months of sharing Rotary with you.
Don.

MEET OUR NEW MEMBER:   We have given ourselves a Xmas present with the induction into our Club of John Kuzmich – club name Joh – with the classification of Police C.I.B. John comes from our satellite city of Napier and went to school at Waipawa. He is engaged in criminal investigation under his classification, went to New Guinea under the Colombo Plan in the year 1974 as a lecturer of criminal law and techniques of crime investigation and returned to N.Z. to take up his duties with the Hastings C.I.B. John is no newcomer to service, he is a past member of the Napier Rotary Club and when he went to New Guinea he joined the Boroko Rotary Club at Port Moresby. John has served on the Onekawa School Committee, Napier, the Executive of the N.Z. Police association, Director of the N.Z. Police Staff Welfare Fund, and for relaxation, enjoys shooting, hunting and fishing. He is married with two children, and we are sure the Ladies will be looking forward to meeting his wife, Joan.
We welcome John Kuzmich, to Hastings Rotary.

THE COUNT-DOWN FOR THE CONFERENCE HAS STARTED:   Those lucky people attending the Combined District Conference 3-4-5 March this year, will appreciate that Rotorua caters for all tastes and moods. Sports facilities of all kinds – thirteen lakes for boating, swimming and picnic activity scenic areas with native bush – N.Z.’s first Recreational Forest Park – thermal activity – trout springs – Kiwi and deer parks – a semi-active volcano to climb – scenic air flights – swimming pools – thermal plunge pools – stock cars, horse and greyhound racing – fishing – visits to centres such as Forest Research Institute etc. etc. It looks like three happy days at the Combined District Conference.

NEW YEAR HONOURS:   It is with pleasure we record Fellow Rotarian Canon Sam Rangiihu awarded the M.B.E. in the New Year Honours List. Congratulations from all members of the Club.

THE GROWTH OF ROTARY:   During the 1976/77 Rotary year, 481 Clubs were admitted to R.I. The number of Clubs admitted, according to region, is as follows – Asia 150, Continental Europe, North Africa and Eastern Mediterranean 108 – South America, Central America, Mexico and the Antilles 91 – U.S.A., Canada, Bermuda and Puerto Rico 80 – Great Britain and Ireland 29 – and Australia, New Zealand, Africa (except those countries and geographical regions bordering the Mediterranean Sea) and other places not included in any groups, 23.
Over the past five years the average number of new Clubs admitted annually is 431.

YOU CAN MAKE ANOTHER CONTRIBUTION TO ROTARY:   Try sitting next to someone you don’t know very well, at one of our Luncheon Meetings. You just might be surprised at the obvious pleasure he shows getting to know you.