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Immediate Past President's Message

Posted by Glenda Barratt

Well, I'm writing this on Wednesday, and what a cracker of a day it is – almost feels like Summer. Almost I say! Perhaps I should have whispered that to ensure I didn’t ‘jinx’ things.

A few things for your memory banks.

Tawa Rotary club is hosting an Oktoberfest celebration at the Bowling Club in Tawa on 22/9/26. Tickets are $35.00 which includes a meal for two. Time is 5.45pm. RSVP is required by 18^th Sept to the Tawa Rotary Club.
Rotary Hutt City and IYM are having a quiz night fundraiser including auction at Boulcott Farm Golf Club on 1^st October at 6pm. Ticket costs are $30.00
Remember we are only looking at 50 tickets sold for our own Quiz night on 25^th September at 7pm. To make this really viable as far as fundraising is concerned, we need more people. Please can everyone start a phone tree dialogue to pull out all the stops for at least another 30 or so.
Next week our speaker is Kenny Mills. To jog your memory, he was our Elvis impersonator for our Christmas dinner. I think we all agree he was wonderful.

The Power of Positivity

Quote of the Week

“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier sometimes to be cheated than not to trust.”

- Samuel Johnson

Today in NZ History - 11 September

1880 - Four children were killed and 13 adults injured when two rail carriages were blown off the tracks by severe winds on the Remutaka incline railway.

1909 - NZ’s heaviest gold nugget on record was found at Ross on the West Coast, weighing 3.09 kg.

1928 - Australian pilots Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm achieve the first trans-Tasman flight in a Fokker tri-motor named the Southern Cross, covering 2670 km in 14 hours 25 minutes.