President Jill Elias opened the meeting at 6.30 pm.
Welcome to our guest speaker, Dr David Haig, and guest Isaias Santos Barros.
John Thornton led the meeting in singing the National Anthem.
BARBARA CHANDLER:
We paused and reflected upon our member and friend, Barbara Chandler, who passed away last week. Her service to Rotary and this Club and her support, kindness and friendship to many people here were much appreciated.
QUESTION OF THE WEEK:
What is the Charter date of the Rotary Club of Le Havre Océane in France?
Answer: 7 June 2002
Correctly answered by Kim Smith, bien sûr.
BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES:
Susan Watson announced this week’s birthdaysand anniversaries:
Partner birthdays:
Shelley Smith 15 November 2023.
Colette James 19 November 2023.
Anniversaries:
John and Beth MacKinnon, 53 years, on 14 November 2023.
CLUB AND COMMITTEE REPORTS:
Anthony McGrath spoke about the Cans for Christmas collection, which will be taking place on Sunday 3 December. The flyers are only to be delivered on Wednesday, 29 or Thursday, 30 November, but the flyers and bags can be made up now in preparation. Jill has the last remaining bags to be collected. Thank you to Anthony for once again organising such a huge project.
Hugh Stowell has asked all members to put the date of Monday, 11 December 2023, into their diaries for the Christmas party, which will be a sit-down dinner at the Weld Club. Members are encouraged to invite their partners, guests, friends, past and potential members. The cost is $60 per head. Please book by using the link or cutting and pasting on Trybooking: https://www.trybooking.com/CNIIJ. shortly.
Win Jones thanked all those who took part in the Melbourne Cup sweep, which raised $160 for the Club. Thank you to Win and Bruce Fiegert for conducting the sweep.
Richard Ranshaw asked Club members to order fruit cakes as soon as possible in order for them to arrive in time for Christmas.
ROTARY MOMENTS:
We are starting a toy drive for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren. Please bring in new toys by Monday, 4 December, which will be delivered to Warwick the following week. Ages 0 to 16. Also, any new presents or gift cards for grandparents would be lovely. An email about the toy drive has been sent out to all members.
Many thanks to Richard Ranshaw for organising a discount for our Members to purchase from Toyworld Claremont. Please see below for details of the offer.
Hi Richard
The Team at Toyworld Claremont would be willing to offer the discount off full priced items of 25%, excluding Lego, to Members of Dalkeith Rotary
Identification will be required and purchased items will be left at store for delivery by ourselves or an appointed member of Rotary,
Offer valid till 3/12/23
A letter of thanks to the Charitable Trust:
Dear Tony,
I wanted to personally thank you and the Management Committee for your very kind donation of $8,000.
This will enable us to purchase an autoclave machine for our very busy clinic in Highgate and help us continue supporting some of Perth’s most vulnerable.
It’s wonderful to have the support of your Club.
Best regards
Alison
ALISON SAYER
Chief Executive Officer
Homeless Healthcarre
SERGEANT SESSION: Jason van Straalen. Fines were dispensed as follows:
The Sergeant said he’d pay dollar for dollar for anyone who wanted to contribute to the box for no reason. Some members have not run that fast for years. Thank you for your contributions, Sergeant!
Kevin Jackson and Richard Ranshaw for a loud shirt tax;
Kent Warburton for an arrival tax;
Kevin again for coming up to John Bolto to ask if John Bolto was attending tonight;
A tithe scheme was introduced by the Sergeant for all the Melbourne Cup sweep winners, including Jonas Edner, John MacKinnon, David Ellis, John Martin, Leon Lorenzen, Ken Ilett and John Lindquist.
GUEST SPEAKER: Dr David Haig ‘7 centimetres per annum’ - Introduced by Kevin Jackson
David Haig studies ancient seas from approximately 350 million years ago.
Through his research, he has been able to map the course of the continents over the years and the collision zones past, present and future. Each year, the continent of Australia moves seven centimetres north, and Sundaland moves three centimetres eastwards, putting both areas on a collision course.
One way to determine the age is to look at olistoliths, deposited deep-sea ooze.
David mentors many young geologists, including Isaias Santos Barros, also a guest at dinner. Isaias won an international competition for the best 2021/2022 paper on the collision path of Timor. Isaias was also part of David’s team, which worked out that the age of the Matebian range was not 16 million years old but, in fact, up to 200 million years old.
David told us that change is continual and that in the twenty minutes he spoke, we had moved 0.0000022 millimetres to the north.
Thanks to David for a fascinating talk on an interesting topic.
David Haig Isaias Santos Barros, Kevin Jackson, David Haig
REMINDER OF NEXT ROSTER:
Monday 20 November 2023
Win Jones Welcoming members and guests.
Peter Marfleet Table duty.
John Lindquist Registrar 1.
Jock Laurie Registrar 2.
Bruce Fiegert Pass the microphone.
REMINDER OF COMING EVENTS:
Monday 20 November District Governor visit with Freshwater Bay, West Perth, Western Endeavour, Mosman Park-Cottesloe Clubs
Monday 27 November Jennifer Turner and Susan Morrow, Ronald McDonald House
Monday 4 December Jim Mellor, Brollie Brigade.
THANKS:
Thank you to the Staff of the Nedlands Golf Club, Essie and Luca,, for their service and
Chef Zamry for dinner.
RECOGNISE OUR VERY GENEROUS SPONSORS:
Lizzi Bee - supplier of flowers
Dry Kirkness Chartered Accountants (Butler Settineri) – Hon Club Auditors
Accura Accounting & Advisory Services for providing Xero Accounting software and
Sharesight Portfolio reporting software to the Charitable Trust.
Dirk van der Struyf from Euroz Hartley’s.
MEETING CLOSE:
Recognise RI President Gordon McInally's Presidential theme for the year: Create Hope in the World.
