Visitors: Nick and Maria Dangerfield – Rotary Royalty. Kat McMillan, guest of Dan’s
Welcome From President Lynda Burch.
Birthdays– Dan Allen-Gordon, Pat Taylor and Brett Hobson.
Max Whitehead – is an ex-member of the Club and well worth a google. More than just a google though,
Max is a leading employment relations practitioner
based in Auckland, who used to be a club member. This will be an interesting topic for local business owners. If you would like to invite guests please contact Ray Scott or Mary O’Sullivan to register numbers by JULY 18 for catering purposes. Max’s address will cover the following:
The revolutionary change to work as we knew it.
Two years of Covid has and is accelerating the change to work dynamics exponentially.
Technology has and is, changing the concept of work. (IT Robotics drones)
Fair Pay: How our Governments laws are taking us back into the dark ages.
What the future of work will look like. (Elon Musk)
Collections – The Club was lauded for cobbling together a team of collectors for Alzheimer’s at the last minute. We raised the princely sum of $294.80, which from all accounts exceeded expectations. A plea from Wendy: “If you do put your name down, please remember to turn up!” Fair enough.
Guest Speaker
Nick Dangerfield Rotary District Regionalisation. Les introduced Nick with “Everyone knows Nick”, and then sat down. Nick’s message was about the impending Regionalisation initiative for Zone 8 (that’s us). This will test the efficaciousness of the proposed new structure against a plethora of criteria to be discovered, explored, tested and developed. We will have to vote “Yay” or “Nay” when the time comes, although as is traditional with democratic solutions, not everyone will know what they are voting for. There were all sorts of rules too: abstaining is a “No” vote, one vote per club, regardless of club size, and no vote for the youngsters in Rotoract, who clearly have no stake in the future of Rotary. It is hoped that the new structure might arrest the ageing process. Pretty cool if it could.
Barry did the thanking and we were grateful for his tip about Rotary being an engine. Wankel he says.
The link for the regionalisation project
https://creatingtomorrowrotary.org/
Shorts – There was a definite shortage of people in shorts this morning. Most members failed to recall it was Shorts 4 Hospice day, or maybe they just thought it was too cold!
K Valley was postponed last week due to weather conditions and is now this coming Saturday 16th same place, same time.
Sergeant Session: Andy Cameron, told us that you should have a plan for invading Russia before it invades you, and that you should always keep a sense of humour, German or not. ”Metallurgical” is too hard to spell, and difficult to fit on a small badge and that drinking and philandering are generally frowned upon on the home front, if not outright verboten . He then ran through some favourite quotes and predictions:
- The fact that there are warnings like "Do not drink" on bottles of bleach makes me realise that Donald Trump can become president.
- It’s Difficult to Make Predictions, Especially About the Future
- The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.
- remote shopping, while possible, would never become popular because "women like to get out of the house, like to handle the merchandise, like to be able to change their minds."
High risk material.
Raffle: Indeever Duhan with Blue 37
Parting Thought:
“Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.”
— Nicky Gumbel
