Third time is a charm!! With extensive experience in both private and foreign affairs, Colin has had roles in the private sector in strategic planning and management, diplomatic roles as private secretary and has worked in conflict zones and crisis response with postings to Abu Dhabi, Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Baghdad. We look forward to hearing from the British High Commission's Head of Trade Policy this week.
For the meeting at The Wellington Club at 7am on 1 December:
Desk -- David B Opening Thought -- Richard
Greeting -- Darryl Introduction -- Joy
Buy the Box -- Heather Thanking -- Howard
Club Reporter -- John B Parting Thought -- Kamini
Please contact Brent to arrange a replacement if you are unable to complete your duty this week
Member Profile: Raymond Faulkner
Kia ora o tatou hāpori, I joined Port Nicholson in May, having been a past member and Past President of Rotary Club of Hangzhou for 3 years. I joined the projects committee in the hopes of burning all the good will I have with fellow hoteliers and hospitality friends on “doing good” through our club. My wife and I have settled in Karori, and look forward to visits from my 3 adult children and their families who all reside in Australia. I have gone back to school to learn Te Reo Maori, Im into my third semester. Its helping me remember my third form Te Reo classes !!!. I love Rugby Union, my wife reluctantly follows my passion from sitting atop Scotts College brickwall to watch First XV, to stopping randomly along Curtis street to watch kids run around on a Saturday morning (which in hindsight sounds a bit dodgy), to a growing passion for our mighty Canes and Lions. Whanau is everything to me, as it should be. Toku kaha, aku whanau, my strength, my family.
Nga mihi nui, Raymond
Notices
Goal Setter Awards 2022
Applications are open! Please encourage any deserving people you know, or other contacts to put forward nominations as soon as possible.
Save the Date!
Our annual charty Auction will be held on May 13, 2022. We anticipate an exciting and successful evening, as we have enjoyed in the past. Thanks to the team who are working hard to arrange an excellent evening for everyone.
RDU November 2021
The November edition of Rotary Down Under hopefully should be with you by now. If not, please get in touch and we will arrange it for you. In the meantime, click here to see what's going on in NZ, Australia, and Oceania.
Support Lionel's "Fair Replacement Fun Run"
This will help the Wellington North Rotary Club recover income they might have earnt at the Khandallah Fair.
We are raising funds as a Christmas Gift to the House of Grace for the purchase of household items for the young mothers when they go flatting or to live elsewhere in the community.
The Charitable Trust will match the cumulative member donations
You can support this by depositing your donation to The Port Nicholson Charitable Trust bank Account 03-0502-0407484-00 with your name and HOG in reference.
Please make your donation by 30 November.
From the President
New Zealand’s Rotary Centenary year: News item from New Zealand 100 years ago:
Waikato times, 25 November 1921: Exterminating the Kea. Mr McCallum’s Protest. “The Harmless N.Z. Eagle”. Pronounced a Killer of Sheep. The old question of whether or not the kea kills sheep was before the House to-day. Mr McCallum (Wairau) asked why the Government was wasting money buying keas’ heads at 5s each when really this New Zealand eagle did no harm at all? The Minister for Agriculture retorted that the alleged eagle was a mountain parrot, and that his own experience as a Canterbury farmer had proved to him that the kea did kill sheep. Mr T.D.Burnett (Temuka) assured the House that his flock of 6000 sheep was reduced by 500 yearly by keas. He had seen the snow-fields stained with blood in high country owing to attacks by the birds.
Please text Fraser Ebbett (WCC) 021 765 694 when you arrive and leave the site.
Date
Trappers
13 Nov
Howard Tong
Jenny Flannaghan Tong
27 Nov
Eden Skipper
Steve Lawton
11 Dec
Paula McKnight
Dennis Small
25 Dec
Brent Gerrard
James & Twyla Moran
08 Jan
David Shackleton
Ross Buxton
22 Jan
Peter Whittington
Rick Hughes
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nd hospitality friends on “doing good” through our club. My wife and I have settled in Karori, and look forward to visits from my 3 adult children and their families who all reside in Australia. I have gone back to school to learn Te Reo Maori, Im into my third semester. Its helping me remember my third form Te Reo classes !!!. I love Rugby Union, my wife reluctantly follows my passion from sitting atop Scotts College brickwall to watch First XV, to stopping randomly along Curtis street to watch kids run around on a Saturday morning (which in hindsight sounds a bit dodgy), to a growing passion for our mighty Canes and Lions. Whanau is everything to me, as it should be. Toku kaha, aku whanau, my strength, my family.
