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 BULLETIN NO: 181941 Friday 14th June 2019
PROGRAM LAST MEETING 10h June 2019
June Rotarian Visitors: Neil Reid (PDG) Colin Tea 17th June 2019 .Attendance: 20
Visitors Val Payne (Speaker), Julia Watson Attendance 1 Bill Appleton Rotary Fellowship
Attendance 2 Bede Brittenden Apologies: John Tapu, Deidre Shea, Peter Grace, Month
Hospitality 1 Robin Hulford Fatu & Parehuia Enari, Rex & Chalita Wood, Hospitality 2 Ernie Meyer Duncan McDonald, Derek Neutze, Gwynyth Carr, Equipment : Chalita Wood Peter Mayoe, Alistair Grundy
5 Minute Speaker: Shirley Grayson Sgt. Raised This Week $122.50 Host:: Parehuia Enari Speaker : Kaiora Tipene 107
Subject: The Casketeers Thanks: Diane McCrae President’s Announcements Thought for the Week Jenny Carey Sergeant: Penny Kestle
(a) District changeover: This is taking place at the Pt 24th June 2019 Chevalier Bowling Club and about six members of the club will be attending that. Attendance: Paul Jenner Hospitality: Equipment : (b) Upcoming events: The Ladies Night is now being held next 5 Minute Speaker: Monday 17 June. This is followed by one of our visits to the Host Deidre Shea Onehunga High School on 24 June and our own changeover Subject : Onehunga High School on 1 July. Thanks : Peter Mayow (c) District Governor visit next week: The District Governor is visiting the club next week and the Board will be
If you can’t make it, or, wish to bring a presenting him with a cheque for $12,000 for Rotary partner &/or visitor to our meeting, Foundation. please advise
Alan Bannin [email protected] (d) In the recent past the club has sent flowers to Bev Stafford 09 845 0795 and also Margaret Neutze. Margaret is now receiving hospice care and Derek will be away for a while. Before Noon of the Friday preceding the meeting so our caterers can provide. (e) Our secretary Gwyneth is very tired and her mother died last week. Iain McCrae will look after Gwyneth’s tasks for the Failure Will Incur a Meal Cost!!! time being. DUTIES: If you can’t perform your duty, please arrange a substitute & (f) President elect 2020-2021: Bruce Murdoch has a list of advise Secretary Gwynyth & current jobs which need to be reallocated. Members are Sergeant Noel encouraged to talk to Bruce to see what they can do to CLUB ALMONER is Robin Hulford. reduce his load before the start of his presidential year. Please ring him if any member (past or present) or their families are suffering illness, injury, bereavement or having a happy event
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One Minute Spots
1. Iain McCrae advised that we received a request to help with an Arts Festival being held in the former Hard to Find Bookshop in The Mall from 22-27 June from 9 am until 7 pm. Anyone able to help should contact Iain.
2. Iain underlined that we needed to know how many visitors would be coming next Monday so that we can cater properly for the night.
3. Bill Appleton reported that Lex Moodie, our former member who is now tetraplegic due to a car accident, had a successful hand operation recently which has given him some more use of his thumbs. This has given Lex a lot of hope.
4. Bill Grayson confirmed that he, Neil Reid and the District Governor will visit Kaitaia next week to do some more research on the propose project up there for the Club in the coming year.
Five Minute Speaker was Quentin Jay
• Quentin talked about Panuku, the property arm of the Auckland Council. He had a meeting with a representative from there recently about what Panuku is Planning or working on for the area. Some of it appears to be exciting and others things haven’t changed since 2017.
• Onehunga is regarded by Panuku as a vibrant place and any work there is intended to build on its special character. Planning includes more density in the town centre, including more high density housing and establishing a connection to the wharf area from the lower end of the shopping part of The Mall.
• Goals for Panuku for Onehunga are as follows:
• To build on its existing strengths;
• To do what the community wants;
• To make strategic purchases in the area to help achieve (a) and (b);
• Look at expanding Dress Mart with an opening into The Mall itself;
• Relocate the bus station closer to the railway station;
• Onehunga wharf. The NZTA sees this area as a “great connector”. In Quenton’s view this is a terrible idea and would make it difficult to do anything appealing in that area;
• There is still a wish to push for locating the overhead power lines underground; and
• There is also a Laneways project for the centre of the town
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Our Guest Speaker tonight was Val Payne • Val has been a resident of Mangere and Mangere Bridge for at least 50 years. For 20 years she and her husband ran the florist shop in Coronation Road at Mangere Bridge. She is the secretary of the Mangere Historical Society, on the Methodist Church Board and a life member of the Mangere Soccer Club.
• Val has written four books about the area. In her life and her business she has picked up a lot of information about various parts of the district. Val said that one of her father’s sayings was “Know a man who Knows a man”. In practice she said this is how she got to know more about the locality.
• She then concentrated on the Favona District which originally comprised farmlands and then gradually changed its character as it became intensely settled. Part of her book called Favona has a chapter about the number of different churches that exist in the area, several of them with Pacific Island origins.
• Val’s talk featured many personal anecdotes about places and people who have lived in the area.
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