Parnell Rotary Club
 

Volume 28 | Issue 3

21st July Year of our Lord 2021
Speakers
Jul 28, 2021
Concerts at Eden Park
Aug 04, 2021
Speak Confidently
Aug 11, 2021
Epsom Lodge
Aug 18, 2021
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Duties
July 28
 
Door
Fleming, Stephen
 
3 Minute speaker
Morris, Max
 
Host / Introduce speaker
Simons, Don
 
4th August
 
Door
Cowie, Don
 
Three minute speaker
Don, Peter
 
Host / Introduce speaker
Fleming, Stephen
 
11th August
 
Door
Ford, Henry
 
3 Minute speaker
Hamilton, Nick
 
Speaker host
Hogan, David
 
18th August
 
Door
Jones, David
 
3 Minute speaker
MacDonald, Rory
 
Host / Introduce speaker
Morris, Max
 
25th August
 
Door
Nelson, Avis
 
3 Minute speaker
Pitcher, Phillippa
 
Host / Introduce speaker
Rowe, Dorothy
 
President Phill started the meeting by confessing that he's left his glasses at home so his announcements would be brief!
Present: 19 members
Apologies: Lots, actually surprising  considering the speaker but they were: Don S, Phillippa, Sue, Avis and Barry .
Guests: Numerous including (only first names because that's all Your Humble Correspondent (YHC)  heard) Jo, Anne, Craig, Peter, and Roland
Welcome to yet another issue of our weekly bulletin! Below you will find out about future events, our weekly speaker and upcoming duties. The last one was brilliantly written, edited, many of the spelling mistakes corrected and - not sent out! Dumb, So you got one yesterday and, contain your excitement, another one today! eh? Not only that but in that list of Rotarians who'd been members for over 25 years our good friend Peter Don had been missed out.  
Duties
Duties are allocated to members in a, by and large, alphabetical basis. From time to time you will be allocated a duty that either you can't do or you're not that enthusiastic about. It's your responsibility to arrange for a replacement and tel the president. 
Upcoming Events
Guess who's coming to dinner
Sep 11, 2021 7:00 PM
 
Epsom Lodge Breakfast
Sep 18, 2021
7:00 AM – 8:30 AM
 
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President's Announcements
ERKS will be filled next Thursday 29th. Details  to follow.
RYLA students will deliver a presentation to the club in early September. 
Kepa Rd - Henry reported that he was working on making arrangements. 
Three Minute Speaker 
Peter B told us of his son Paul who works in a school in Hobart, Tas. Paul has focussed on aboriginals at his school to give them a chance in life. Aboriginals in Australia, and especially in Tasmania, were treated very badly and this has left scars in the community with tribal elders being reluctant to pass on tribal knowledge to the younger community members. It sounded as though he was doing very worthwhile work. 
Sargent's session 
All and sundry were fined for various alleged misdemeanours; and everybody was able to laugh at everybody else's expense - and to the benefit of the Sunshine Fund!  
Last Weeks' Speaker
The speaker
David Seymour, MP for Epsom, leader of the ACT party spoke, mainly about the proposed Erebus Memorial to be placed in Dove Myer Robison Park, Parnell and briefly about the current political climate.
The Erebus Memorial:
Forty years ago 257 people died when an Air NZ plane crashed into Mt Erebus in the Antarctic. This is the largest peacetime loss of life in NewZealand.  The Ministry of Arts Culture and Heritage decided on the design and siting of the memorial, and after much debate the local council approved their proposal. Seymour agreed that it was a 'rubbish process' that approved 'a questionable design'. However if there is to be a memorial it needs to be completed now as all ten people  directly affected by the disaster are ageing. A proposal for an alternative design or site would become stuck in the same quagmire of consultation, objection, planning approvals and so on so it would takes too long to be appropriate. In these circumstances  he supported its erection.  There were issues raised by the audience, why any memorial, why there, why that design, etc. which Seymour spoke to. Naturally some attendees were still not satisfied but it was a logically presented alternative point of view.  
Politics generally:
New Zealand has had the advantage of geographical isolation in defeating Covid but this advantage is now being squandered by the government's inaction. ACT believes that the private sector should be able to create their own MIQ facilities t allow more people into the country. "We need to be a lot more aggressive about reopening". Seymour referred to what he called 'ethno- nationalism' where citizens were unequal with their ethnicity being the deciding factor in their rights and responsibilities. 
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