Speaker for this week: 

Grainne Moss

CEO Ministry of Regulation and Ocean Swimmer

Born in Northern Ireland and now living in New Zealand, Gráinne Moss captured the attention of the world in 1987, becoming the first Irish woman to swim the English Channel, at just 17 years of age. Moss’s story is one of resilience, endurance, and achievement, both as a swimmer and in public life.

Since calling New Zealand home, Moss has built a career as one of the country’s most senior public servants. The same qualities that carry her through bitterly cold seas have shaped her leadership on land: endurance, clarity of purpose and a willingness to take on challenges.

President Nicole

It has been a great week with the conference in Napier and the Goal Setters breakfast. At the conference we had some excellent speakers including Sir Anand Satyanand, Sam Johnston from the Student Army, our own David Shackleton spoke powerfully on Lifting the Lid and Brad Olsen. It was a weekend of learning, catching up with rotary friends and socialising. Thank you everyone who attended and made it an enjoyable experience. 

Welcome to Charles Little 

It was lovely to welcome Charles Little to our club as a new member. Charles is transferring from Palmerston North Rotary Club and is our 4th new member for 2026. 

A huge shout out to Richard Brodie who is doing an excellent job recruiting new members to our club. 

35th Goal setters breakfast

Tara, Yobithan, Rose and Marcus inspired us with what they are achieving and contributing to at this years Goal Setters breakfast. Bill English was the key note speaker and it was wonderful to have Chris Kirk-Burnnand give the parting thought. This is the 4th year Chris has sponsored a Goal Setters scholarship. There was a full house of 190 people at Te Papa. Congratulations to the Goal Setters team of Mike, Heather, Jeff, Hayley and Nicole. A special thank you to Julian who prints the programmes and certificates, and to Nick and Marc who did the thanking and opened the breakfast. 

New Duties at our morning meetings

From April we would like to introduce a couple new duties at our morning meetings. 
We have got very reliant on a few members quietly doing these things for us every week, and when they are away these duties don't get done. They are small jobs that make the world of difference. 

Setup/ packup - This duty will set up the laptop and the microphone for the speaker   (Coaching will be available). At the end of the meeting collect the badges from members and pack up the box. Put the box and the laptop (and it's remote mouse) into the suitcase. 

Guardian angel- Look after new people at our meetings. Welcome them, offer them tea and coffee, chat and introduce them to other members and sit with them at breakfast.

Photographer- Take photos of our speakers and presentations and send the photos to the RCPN bulletin 

Please let me know if you have any questions about this. We will also have a short discussion at our meetings in March about this. Thank you as always for your support in making  Port Nic a great club.

Life Flight Trust

Sunday 22^nd March was a extremely busy for the Open Day for Life Flight Trust. Thanks to Yon Yi and Mike for helping out on the day.  Together with myself and volunteers from the Rotary Clubs of Tawa and Mt Victoria, we helped to ensure the day ran smoothly.  I am sure we will have managed to raise lots for Life Flight. Joy Durrant