Welcome to the latest edition of our Club Runner sent bulletin. Our Club President Cameron is still away in Europe, but will return shortly.
We welcome contributions of course, so if you have anything please send to Richard Nabarro at nabbo_123@hotmail.com.
And if you have any comments on the layout, content and information provided, let us know, because the Newsletter is yours.
Rotary Hutt City breakfast meetings
Meetings held 7am to 8.30 am on the first and third Wednesday of the month at Boulcotts Farm Heritage Golf Club, Military Road, Lower Hutt.
Breakfast cost $25 per person payable on arrival. Please RSVP to annagy91@gmail.com
Look forward to seeing you there.
Members, do check the Duties Roster (Management Responsibilities) below for your nominated duty for our next meeting on 18 September.
Meeting Responsibilities
Greeter
Harding, Katrina
Reception Desk
Colville, Sue
Reception Desk
Gibbens, Richard
Opening thought
Braniff, Judy
5 min What is my Business?
3 Minute Who Am I?
Avison, Sue
Intro to Speaker
Hughes, Gaylene
Thanks to Speaker
Ngan Kee, Mark
Quizlett
Tuisano, Hana
Closing thought
Brockelsby, Murray
Next week's speakers 18 September
Our speakers next week will be Sue Pattinson and Mid Thomas Savelio from Women of Worth (WOW).
Andy Soper writes:
I’ve known Sue for 25 years, starting with her role as a Centre Support Person for the Hutt Playcentre Association. She then co-founded and for many years was a major driver of “Supporting Parents Alongside Children’s Education (SPACE), running programs for first time parents around New Zealand. Over the last decade Sue has created WOW and built a wonderful team, initially running programs in the Hutt Valley but now branching out to Auckland and elsewhere.
Mid Thomas Savelio is a past-President of Hutt Valley Rotary and has achieved so much it’s hard to do her justice in this. She leads the WOW Advisory Board that I’m part of. I first met Mid through Business Network International, where for many years she managed Les Mills Lower Hutt. In no particular order, she has an MBA, owns a gym in Stokes Valley, runs a business consultancy “Be Suite”, is Maori Learning Lead for the Ministry of Business Innovation & Employment, and co-director of TurfNow with her husband Pete. Dave Appleyard (Past President of Hutt Valley Rotary) and I have enormous respect for Mid and consulted her last year about how to make our Rotary Clubs more ethnically inclusive.
Women Of Worth exists to support, train and mentor women of all ages and diverse ethnic backgrounds who are disadvantaged, vulnerable in their circumstances and often caring for ''at risk'' tamariki and whanau. WOW’s work is all about collaboration, alongside other community based organisations supporting their work and together achieving the best outcomes.
The programs help women to realise their inherent worth, discover their strengths and potential and clarify their purpose and vision. This leads to designing strategies for creating change and growth in their lives and connecting with other women for mutual support. It also enhancies their employability and gives them more options in their lives.
Mid Thomas Savellio WOW Chair, Managing-Director, Be-Suite Ltd
Women of Worth
We help women to understand their inherent worth and to identify their strengths and abilities.
Today's Date 13 September
Keeping to the women of worth theme, the Labour Party’s Elizabeth McCombs became New Zealand’s first female Member of Parliament, winning a by-election in the Lyttelton seat caused by the death of her husband, James McCombs (one of the first Labour MPs, he had held Lyttelton since 1913).
Although New Zealand women had famously won the right to vote in 1893, they were not allowed to stand for Parliament until 1919. A handful of women had contested elections, including Ellen Melville in Auckland, and McCombs herself in 1928 and 1931. Although husband James had won Lyttelton by just 32 votes in 1931, Elizabeth achieved a majority of 2600. Sadly, she died less than two years later.
The McCombs family tradition continued after Elizabeth’s death: she was succeeded by her and James’ son Terence, who was MP for Lyttelton until 1951, and minister of education from 1947 to 1949. His defeat in the 1951 election ended the family’s 38-year hold on the seat.
New Zealand’s second woman MP was Labour’s Catherine Stewart, elected for Wellington West in 1938.
Looking Back.....4 September
Brent Kibblewhite, Stu Hurst and Gina Ewington gave a wide ranging presentation on the current employment market, utilising a wealth of very clear graphs and figures from professional sources. The message is clear: job numbers are down, with rising unemployment across the country. In terms of jobs advertised, numbers were down with a huge increase in applications per job. For the first time since January, the number of job advertisements was up, but numbers applying were rising faster.
There are green shoots however, with the major banks for example predicting a fall in unemployment over the next two years.
There was time to run through the comprehensive permanent recruitment journey slides and some interesting questions were raised from the floor about the confidentiality of job references under the Privacy Act.
If anyone would like a copy of EQUIP's presentation, please message Richard Nabarro at: nabbo_123@hotmail.com
Stu is happy to talk to anyone about Temporary recruitment too, the key area that there was no time for. Please contact Stu direct at: stuart@equiprecruitment.co.nz
In his Who Am I address, Rob Cranna stepped in for Brian Ross and talked about his life in printing. Rob was born into a printing family in South Africa and managed his own digital printing firm for 14 years. Eight years ago, however, he left South Africa for New Zealand and he is now Product Solutions Manager for Blue Star, based in Petone.
Richard Nabarro's Quizlet featured all things Waterloo, whether it be history, geography, travel, film or song.
Stu Hurst, Gina Ewington and Brent Kibblewhite of EQUIP
Looking Back.....
Hutt River Trail Planting 7 September
A message from Linton Adams:
The weather was overcast, good for planting and rain arrived in the evening which was a bonus for the young Kakabeak plants.
A small group of Rotarians successfully planted 33 Kakabeak plants along with some other natives supplied by the Manor Park Golf Club.
Many thanks to Richard I and his wife Karen, Murray Brockelsby,Wayne Wilmshurst and special thanks to Merv Robertson who harvested seeds last year from a Kakabeak shrub growing on Mt Victoria and then applied his special knowledge of NZ native plants, to germinate and grow them in pots.
Only about one third (🌳🙁) of the clematis paniculta planted last year have survived so we used nitrogen pellets and compost for the Kakabeak plants to help them get established.
I will have a new animal theme next time, but I thought this lot were very cute.🐶
Closing Thoughts (Two!) 4 September
Presented by Bob Rowell
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all - Sam Ewing
The author of this quote, Sam Ewing was a former baseball player for the Chicago White Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays. Perhaps surprisingly, his record is fairly mediocre to poor.
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad - Miles Kington
A well known English humorist, Miles died in 2008 and is commemorated by a memorial bench alongside the Kennet and Avon Canal, near Bath in England. It bears a plaque, with the inscription:
In Memoriam In fond memory of Miles Kington, who hated this spot, because there was never anywhere to sit down and enjoy it from. Miles Kington, humorist. 1941–2008
I’m reaching out again because our Annual Street Appeal for the Children's Hospital is on Saturday 5 October, and with collectors needed across the Hutt and Petone, we’d gratefully appreciate the assistance of Hutt City Rotary!
Please note, a prospective member is entitled to one breakfast funded by the club. Subsequent visits will need to be paid for either by the individual or their host.
All attendees at a breakfast meetings must pay for breakfast whether they eat or not, as a portion of the cost goes towards the venue we utilise.
Loose change and Buying the Box
Remember to bring some loose change along to the meeting so you can contribute if you answer a Quizlett question incorrectly. :)
If you should have any interesting stories about fellow Rotarians then please pass them onto Craig so he can share them at the meeting. Email: craig@packprod.co.nz
Payment is now available by Eftpos onsite - no excuses!
Incidentally, a new member has asked why the slot named "Buying the Box" is so called? A robust search of the 'Net has turned up very little, but I have it on good authority that the "Box" in question used to be retained by an army's Quartermaster, who in many cases might turn out to be the Sergeant Major. In order for someone to be called out for poor behaviour simply on the say so of fellow soldiers, contributions were put in the Box.
What I want to know is what evidence if any was provided about the indiscretion? Did the Sergeant Major make a huge profit?
As I haven't had any responses yet, I shall leave this up for another couple of weeks.
That's still terrible, Muriel........
A reminder of Club Meeting Duties: (Reception Desk)
The Reception Desk is normally positioned just inside the entry door to our meeting room. There is quite a lot to do which is why we have two people looking after the desk.
Start early (Suggest be there by 6.50am at the latest)
• retrieve our ''stuff'' from the first cupboard in the rear meeting room
• put the President’s brass bell and gavel at the front
• set out the name tag box on the desk for members to pick up their own tag
• there is a second smaller box for our member partners
• place a small cup on each table for the Quizlet money later in the meeting
• greet members as they arrive and help them find their name tag
• while you write their name tag, ask visitors and guests to add their details to the Guests and Visitors form and give them one of our blue Club pamphlets
• of course, be enthusiastic and give any other help you can!
As the meeting starts
• give the Guests and Visitors form to the President for them to be included in our welcome.
After the meeting
• collect and organize the name tags ready to be put away. Chase up as needed
• collect the Quizlet cups - pass any cash on to Linton Adams or our President to be banked
• collect the bell and gavel
• put everything back where you found it.
2 October
Our speaker will be our own Kevin Grimes, who will be giving a presentation on Electric Unicycles - The new way to get around. Come and hear Kevin speak about how he got this business up and running.
Finally, I asked you last time what do the Rotary clubs of Quito, Ecuador, Libreville, Gabon, Singapore, and Kampala, Uganda, have in common? There was a clue of course; they are all situated on the Equator.
This week's question (and yes deliberately emancipation linked). In what year did the Rotary Council of Legislation remove the provision that Rotary was for males only?
