6:45
Steward … Peter Edmead
Welcome … Glenn
Cashier … Carroll
Welcome … Glenn
Cashier … Carroll
7:00
Open …. Sergeant Richard
Grace … Edgar
Scribe … Nicola
Grace … Edgar
Scribe … Nicola
7:02
Breakfast:
7.15
7.15
Welcome Visitors – Paul Turner
Apologies … Malcolm, Wayne, Paul E, Shona, Claire, Christine, Maurice, Marc
7.17
Notices:
Lynne – if anyone wants a new name tag please let her know.
Andy – The Wedding Singer, tickets are selling well. Limited to 80 people. Please pay for your tickets.
CYCOS – John is going to be visiting other clubs promoting the cycle shirts and would like a fellow CYCO to go with him. All orders to go to Nicola.
Stortford Lodge Rotary has cancelled their upcoming fundraiser.
Multiple Steps has been cancelled.
Greenmeadows Rotary Club has a speaker on the 27th October about the Youth Suicide programme.
The bench at Te Awa school has now been painted in all the colours of the rainbow.
Peter G – Xmas puddings will be available this year. Lynne to organise.
Graeme – please contact him if you’d like to do the Run the Runway at the Hamilton Airstrip although at this stage it is likely to be cancelled.
Lynne – if anyone wants a new name tag please let her know.
Andy – The Wedding Singer, tickets are selling well. Limited to 80 people. Please pay for your tickets.
CYCOS – John is going to be visiting other clubs promoting the cycle shirts and would like a fellow CYCO to go with him. All orders to go to Nicola.
Stortford Lodge Rotary has cancelled their upcoming fundraiser.
Multiple Steps has been cancelled.
Greenmeadows Rotary Club has a speaker on the 27th October about the Youth Suicide programme.
The bench at Te Awa school has now been painted in all the colours of the rainbow.
Peter G – Xmas puddings will be available this year. Lynne to organise.
Graeme – please contact him if you’d like to do the Run the Runway at the Hamilton Airstrip although at this stage it is likely to be cancelled.
7.20
Apple of friendship: Linda now has this after a lovely meal and a bottle of wine.
7.20
7.20
Sergeant: Richard
Corporal: Ben
This session was all about endorphins and how to get them! People paid up if they had a good attitude, plans for the future, started a new hobby, learned a new language, read a different genre of book etc
This session was all about endorphins and how to get them! People paid up if they had a good attitude, plans for the future, started a new hobby, learned a new language, read a different genre of book etc
7. 23
Raffle: Toby won the raffle
7.24
3 Min: Peter E – Peter was put in the hot spot to deliver his 3 min speech that he had prepared some time ago and didn’t have on him. He talked about Women in the Workplace and how back in the day you drew the short straw if you had to work with a lady. The lady he worked with “after drawing the short straw” was a fantastic engineer and became a senior partner. He then described how women multi task, their brains never stop. Blokes don’t have that kind of brain – they have compartments – one of those compartments is likely to be empty! He then become surrounded by women at work and at home and he wouldn’t have it any other way. He then said blokes can upset the apple cart and it needs to be decided – do women need men?!
7.27
Guest Speaker; Intro Simon – Phil Crombie gave us a very interesting and sobering talk about NZ’s deadliest day on 12 October 1917 at the battle of Passchendaele where there were 848 deaths that day and then a further 137 deaths the following week. This was during 4 hours of complete carnage.
At that time NZ had approx. 1.1m population and we had 22,000 soldiers in uniform and 100,000 throughout the whole war.
During the battle the weather hindered their efforts and soldiers were sinking in the mud making them easy prey. 3 days later the wounded were still being picked up. Because of the incredibly muddy conditions it would take 8 men to carry one wounded. The mud became a silent killer.
Phil visited the monument for Fallen NZ soldiers at the crossroads between Langemark and Passchendaele as well as the Tyne Cot cemetery where 12,000 souls lay at rest. 3800 are known, 8200 are unknown. Surrounding these graves are 35,000 names listed who have no graves. To put things in perspective – over that 4 hours we lost over 1000 people whereas Gallipoli lasted 9 months and we lost 2700. Phil’s grandfather was a machine gunner. (note from Nicola – a lot to cover from this talk so please google it for further information) – thanks Phil for the talk.
7:58
Thank speaker; Edgar
8:00
8:00
Parting thought: Peter E farewelled us by saying that unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change
