At Wellington Bridge Club Apologies and Guests to Maurice Scott th [email protected] Thursday 18 June Noon for 12.30 Monday 22nd June 7pm Warren Young Automat, 7 Burma Road Cannabis Reform Khandallah DUTIES Greeter Peter Shanahan Host Speaker David Young Attendance Roy Ferguson Reflection Paul Tipping Happy Dollars Maurice Scott Thank Speaker Ross George Parting Thought Brian Poole

nd Thursday 2 July We shall be having our first meeting (in Steve Brazier person) with our new members from Rotary Kaukau Spouses are most welcome. This will Pandemic Management be a get-to-know you meeting mainly social, DUTIES To be advised with just a few short interventions on Rotary Greeter generally, the Club and planned projects Host Speaker Attendance Cost $25 for meal (drinks extra). RSVP Reflection please, with any dietary restrictions, so we Happy Dollars can advise numbers for catering to - th Thank Speaker [email protected] by Thursday 18 Parting Thought June . 1 Thursday 9th July 6pm Sunday June 28th Evening Changeover at the District Changeover Khandallah Bowling Club John Mohi to Gillian Jones Woodmancote Road, Khandallah

Welcome to Kaukau members Transfer of Chain of Office from Lionel Lansdowne House, 15 Keir Crescent, Nunns to David Young Masterton 11.30 for 12.30 lunch Speaker: Sir David Carruthers, former Chief $60 per head with cash bar District Court Judge, former Chairman, Independent Police Conduct Authority OR Two-course meal and table wine – there will Free from your home by - also be a cash bar for pre-dinner drinks Cost: $45 per person Payment: Direct credit to WNRC 03 0518 0023645 00 RSVP: Steve Spence, Ph. 970 7158 or 021

2278099 or [email protected] Registration via District 9940 web site By Thursday 2nd July

NEXT SPEAKER THE LAST BY ZOOM Warren Young QSO is The end of Lockdown Zoom was celebrated with General Manager of two speakers, David Bennett and David Moore. the Independent Police Conduct David Bennett referred to the increase in Authority. Before his Foodbank customers, many of them first timers current role, he who had lost their jobs and were having focused throughout difficulty with applications for WINZ assistance. Supplies for food parcels were dependant on his career on criminal food rescue charities such as KCA and Kaibosh. justice issues – first as

Director of the David Moore spoke of his role as an intellectual Institute of Criminology and Professor of Law at property lawyer and the effects of working from Victoria University of Wellington, and then as home during lockdown along with his wife, a Deputy Secretary for Justice and Deputy speech therapist and a 10-year old child. This President of the Law Commission. sometimes meant getting out and exploring their

home suburb of Johnsonville. He went on to He has worked on a variety of issues relating to the legal framework governing drugs and alcohol speak about some of the global companies he – as a researcher, a policy adviser and a represented. Last, but not least, was his manager. Most significantly, in his role as a Law membership of a Celtic band, whose music can Commissioner, he led the Commission’s report often be heard wafting over Ngaio. on its review of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975. David King gave the vote of thanks. 2 CONVENTION OPPORTUNITY PARTING THOUGHT From David Pickering

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the rights of others.

I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because the law is often With the cancellation of the 2020 Convention, RI but the tyrant's will, and always so when it has set up a free on-line Convention from its violates the rights of the individual. Chicago HQ. The event runs from 19 – 25 June NZ time with plenary sessions starting at 1pm NZ Thomas Jefferson Time. For details of the programme and breakout sessions, go to www.riconvention.org STEP DOWN Note the times shown in the programme are During Lockdown, the Bulletin was produced Chicago time. on a weekly basis. From this issue, it has now reverted to twice per month. Editor KIWI COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE

Rescued food bagged up at the Soup Kitchen

KCA is a distribution hub to 72 local foodbanks, CLUB CONTACTS schools and community organisations. Last President - Lionel Nunns Phone 938 0730 financial year it rescued and redistributed nearly Email: [email protected] 200 tons of food and nearly 3,500 banana boxes Secretary - Stephen Spence full of clothing, schools supplies to its partner PO Box 22368 Khandallah 6441 agencies. All stock is distributed to our partner Email: [email protected] agencies with whom it has a service contract to Phone 970 7158 assist their clients. KCA currently has 1 paid staff Newsletter Editor - Morris Robertson member – Michele, the General Manager and 92 volunteers. 6 Trelissick Crescent, Ngaio 6035 Email: [email protected] With the growing size of the operation, KCA is Phone 479 2436 021 02522033 consolidating activities and moving on 10/12 July to a larger warehouse in the same industrial WEB SITES complex. www.wellingtonnorth.org.nz www.healthyheroes.org.nz/ Some assistance with the move will be sought from Club members in July.

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