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Rotary Club of Onehunga One Tree Hill Inc. PO Box 13271, Onehunga, AUCKLAND 1643 Club meets: Monday 5.30 pm for 6.00 pm at Royal Oaks Bowls Clubrooms at 146 Selwyn Street, Onehunga, Auckland President: Rod Kestle – Ph 09 630 6531 E-Mail [email protected] Secretary: Gwynyth Carr – Ph: 09-5797 426 (h) – E-mail: [email protected] 9910 District Web Page: www.rotary.org.nz/information.cfm?ID=1364 9910 DG’s Newsletter: http://www..rotary.org.nz/newsletter.cfm?District=10 Club Website: https://www.rotaryonehungaonetreehill.co.nz/ PARTNERS, FRIENDS & VISITORS ALWAYS WELCOME
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BULLETIN NO: 181940 Friday 7th June 2019
PROGRAM 10th June 2019 Attendance: Barry Stafford Hospitality: Trevor Mosley Equipment : Rex Wood 5 Minute Speaker: Quentin Jay Host Duncan McDonald Speaker : Kaiora Tipene Subject : The Casketeers Thanks : Parehuia Enari Thought for the week: Paul Jenner 17th June 2019 Attendance John Tapu Hospitality : Bruce Murdoch Equipment : Chalita Wood 5 Minute Speaker: Host:: Ernie Meyer Speaker : Val Payne Subject: Favona Thanks: Alistair Grundy Thought for the Week Peter Mayow
If you can’t make it, or, wish to bring a partner &/or visitor to our meeting, please advise Alan Bannin [email protected] 09 845 0795 Before Noon of the Friday preceding the meeting so our caterers can provide. Failure Will Incur a Meal Cost!!!
DUTIES: If you can’t perform your duty, please arrange a substitute & advise Secretary Gwynyth & Sergeant Noel CLUB ALMONER is Robin Hulford. Please ring him if any member (past or present) or their families are suffering illness, injury, bereavement or having a happy event
President’s Announcements Bruce Murdoch, who is the nominee for President for the year 2020 to 2021, has about ten current responsibilities. He needs some help with transferring these off to other club members. Bruce’s responsibilities include:
i. Accounting records for the club’s charitable trust; ii. The 70s fund raising activity; iii. Collection of bottle tops; iv. The Dictionaries in Schools project; v. Liaison with the local schools; and vi. The club’s Polio Plus contributions.
The Board has decided that until there is a financial analysis provided in respect of the Art Fair held last year there will not be a commitment to one later this year.
(a) There are three meetings in June for the following functions to which all spouses and partners are invited. i. The meeting on 10 June is a Ladies Night where the
speaker will be Kaiora Tipene Iain McCrae asked that each member confirm their attendance or apology for this night and including any additional attendees;
ii. Meeting at Onehunga High School on 24 June; iii. Changeover on 1 July 2019.
(b) Global Grants – Rod indicated that over the next 18 months the club will be involved in five global grants as follows: i. Clean up of the hospital at Ambae; ii. A special project in partnership with Te Whaka Hora
(“saving the people”); iii. Two water harvesting projects in Vanuatu where the
club has access to a special donation of $21,000 to assist; and
iv. A cross involvement with a North Shore Club.
LAST MEETING 27h May 2019
Rotarian Visitors:
.Attendance: 21
Visitors : Lua Keresoma (Ryla) Hifo Taione (Ryla) Fia Fetu Apologies: Ant Martin, Paul Jenner, John Tapu, Paul Jenner, Deidre Shea, Bede Brittenden , Peter Grace, Parehuia Enari, Bruce Passau Robin Hulford
Sgt. Raised This Week $133.11 107
June
Rotary Fellowship Month
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Seventies Club Draw. The winners were as follows: i. Third prize – Rod Kestle - $50; ii. Second prize – Paul Jenner - $100; iii. First prize – Diane McCrae - $150.
The main draw for the Seventies Club will be held on changeover night on 1 July.
Notice from Bruce Murdoch Bruce advised that so far the club members had contributed $817 via Rotary Boxes donations for Polio Plus. Bruce needs all donations by Friday 7 June 2019. As members will be aware, Ian Devereux has offered to match each dollar donated with a further $4. Members are asked to liaise directly with Bruce about this. Five Minute Speakers Lua and Hilo reported on their experience at the RYLA week this year. Lua is a Samoan young woman whose parents came to New Zealand to give her and her sibliings the opportunity of a better life. Hilo is of Tongan and Maori descent. They were both very enthusiastic about their experience.
They gave a visual presentation with commentary. They saw the purpose of the week for themselves as providing an opportunity to:
• Gain more confidence in themselves; • Find out their strengths; • Get pushed out of their comfort zone;
and • Gain new friends.
The presentation gave detailed accounts of their individual experiences and their conclusions were that each of them:
• Had a lifetime experience which had both physical and mental challenges;
• Want to see more Maori and Pacific Island people participating in the week;
• Was motivated to attain further personal goals; and
• They both developed an increased confidence in their own abilities. Courageous Leadership – Presentation by Iain McCrae Iain reported on a Worldwide Webinar in which he had participated with other Rotary members around the world. The two major concerns were the decline in membership and the demography of most clubs, i.e. more older members. The most glaring local example is the fact that our district 9910 will need to amalgamate with the adjoining district 9120 because of a fall in membership. Situational leadership – one of the conclusions was that the Rotary organisation worldwide needed to consider a team approach to everything they engaged in rather than an hierarchical structure as now.
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The outcome of a poll that was conducted during the course of the webinar on attendees’ views about the current state of Rotary showed the following.
o 24% considered there was a loss of enthusiasm in current members; o 21% considered there was a lack of commitment on the part of some members; o 16% considered that it was difficult to get people to step forward to do things, whether existing
members or new prospects; o 16% thought that no change was necessary.
The overall outcome was that Rotary needed a different model to use in the future. The conclusions were as follows, with the first question being, “Is our club sustainable with its current membership?”
o There is a need to attract new younger members. o We must engender enthusiasm amongst existing members. o Total involvement from members to be encouraged. o Existing members need to be willing to accept change. o We should start by asking what talents we have in our club and build on them.
Some suggestions made by Iain were as follows: We could start an Interact Club in association with Onehunga High School and PASS school either individually or on a joint basis. This is aimed at young people in the 12-18 year bracket. We could encourage the establishment of a Rotoract Club which is aimed at the 18-30 age group. We revisit starting a satellite club for other people who do not have sufficient time to take part in traditional club activities. Iain’s address was followed by a particularly lively and useful discussion broadly spread across the members present. The emerging consensus was that while the club was doing well it needed to continue to look at ways of changing to adapt for the future. The session ended with a thank you from Fatu Enari who led a beautiful short song of thanks in Samoan from himself and the RYLA attendees.
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