‘Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired’
Jules Renard 1864-1910 via David H
Quotes
"If I had known I was going to live so long i would have taken better care of myself"
Graham's corner
Our Annual Auction
Remember
Quality items raise more funds.
Club Notices
President Sue welcomed Duncan McDonald our speaker, Gary Williams PDG, Julie, Sandy's friend, Robyn Chirnside (who is to be inducted tonight) and Wendy M our Rangiora member, and although Peter Sincalir had been at last week's meeting he was welcomed back from his UK 'stint'.
Bob C informed the meeting the Pieter van de K was in hospital with a fractured tail bone and will be weeks of bed rest. (He did a Bob C - fell off a wall)
The World Polio Day Raffle tickets were all in and the prizes were drawn. See below for details.
Please order your tickets for the Rotary movie night (Murder on the Orient Express’) with out delay. It is on the 8th November for End Polio Now. Tickets are $20 for members. Friends, guests and family are all welcome! Derek has sent you all the link to make up for the BE's lack of IT knowledge. See note below for more details.
We are still looking for hosts for 2 RYE students. We had PDG Gary Williams assist us to become involved. See the summary of Gary's talk below.
Ah-Lek summarised the book sale. we raised approximately $4,000. he presented a book that he considedered appropriate to David H and one to Murray about how to start an art gallery.
Pres Sue mentioned that she was going to Brockville School to present 12 dictionaries to the Syrian refugees and the rest would be taken to the Lanuage Laboritory.
Remamber to get/acquire your auction items for the 21st Auction night. This night goes a long way to our club meeting its Foundation commitments.
We need your input next week at our AGM. There willl be committee meetings after the AGM.
Next Week's
Speaker
AGM & Club night
End Polio Now Raffle
The cards were all in and the stage was set for the dispersal of the prize pool.
Beth did a great job of ensuring that the draw was all legal and above board. (there will be some dispute about this given the very narrow group of recipients.
The first card drawn was Dave Macleod's and the 1st prize of two lovely cushions was won by Jan Macleod.
The second card drawn was that of David Black and the 2nd prize of a cook book (published by Sue's daughter) was Alana Black.
The third card drawn was that of Andrew Hamilton and the 3rd prize of a pack of car cleaning products was Andrew Hamilton.
The BE would not be so insensitive to suggest that there could possibly be any collusion - "never, I here you all say."
President Sue says;
"Many thanks to Beth for helping me with the organisation of the raffle. We are ‘Making a Difference’!
Kind Regards
Sue
What a great way to raise funds for such a worthy cause. With Bill G's contribution approximately $3,000 raised.
Great stuff - congratulations to all.
Last week's speaker
Duncan McDonald
Duncan was introduced by Dave Macleod who gave a brief history of Duncan's rise to 'power'. Duncan has 5 children (one of whom lives in Scotland) and 6 grand children.
Duncan has worked for Wormalds, where he managed the compliance section, and with Opus. He estabilished his own compliance business 3 years ago.
Duncan gave a concise history of the regulatory requirements from when the local authoritories used Chapter5 of 1900 standard to measure the adequacy of fire protection and buildings justvrequired the 'sign-off' by the Building Inspectors. In the 1991 act it made building owners responsible for the safety of thier buildings. This required that some inspection service was necessary and the result was that the 'private' operators need to be registered and the IQP (Independant Registered Person) system was established. Local councils were all left to do this for themselve but in the South Island there was consenus that it would be better to get all councils action together so Timaru was chosen to be the operational centre for the IQP panel that registered qualified persons. This did away with 'fly-by nighters'. The BWOF (Building Warrant of Fitness) Form 12 is a sworn legal document. a Code Compliance Certificate was worked out for eaach building and from this the local council developed a Compliance Schedule whic governs what checks must be carried out and how often they must vbe carried out. These must be done by the building owner or an IQP. Owners may prefer to have their checks carried out by the IQP.
in 2004 the Act got rewritten and now there are 16systems not 17 as previously.Means of Escape is now split into many parts. Failure to comply with the Compliance Schedule and the Notice to Fix that can be issued by the Local Authority can be subject to a fine of $20,000.00. A range of fines can be applied such as an offence to use or permit the use of a building which is dangerous or insanitary, or if it has inadequate means of escape from fire. This offence carries a fine of up to $100,000. So it is not a system to be treated in a cavalier way.
Because the consequeces of mistakes etc the insurances that IQPs have are very high; Duncan has $10mil and $100mil on the use of his car and $100,000 for Health and Safety.
from the Shelter Box Auction
Andrew H auctioned a rather nice single malt that 'came back' with Andrew H.
Ah-Lek T was very determined to win.
Well done Ah-Lek
Gary Williams
Past District Governor
Gary explained that the Youth Programmes covered a wide variety of local, national and international activities from student exchanges such as that between Australia and NZ, RYE, RYPENS, RYLA, Rotoract, Interact, CureKids and many more run by or initiated by Rotary.
The RYE programme gives students a wonderful one year opportunity to experience life in another country hosted by three or four Rotarian families overseas. In the past we have exchanged with countries where students would have the least challenges 'fitting' in such as the UK, USA, South Africa etc where language was not a problem However we are now looking at other countries such as Taiwan, Chile, Brazil, France, Germany, Switzerland Sweden and Austria.
Our out-going student do face an additional problem that streaches thier resolve in that they arrive iin the middle of the host counties school year.
RYE is a once in a lifetime opportunity for uour students to experience oan other culture and 3 or 4 host families They learn to intergrate into these families and cultures and come back 'worldly wise'.
Melboune Cup Day / Movie Night
There will be no Dunedin Central Rotary meeting on November 7th as it is Melbourne Cup Day.
All members, partners, friends and family are invited to attend a private/preview showing of:
“Murder on the Orient Express”
Rialto Cinema, 6pm, Wednesday November 8th
$20 per head with $10 going directly to Polio Plus
Theatre of 160 seats booked – we must fill all of the seats, as we have to pay for all of them upfront at $10 each
Please use the clubs Apologies system to say if bringing guests or apologising
All of the Dunedin areas 9 clubs will be asked to come along – if we need more seats there is a 140 seater cinema also available
Derek will need to know numbers by
Friday October the 28th
as we need to pre-pay for the theatre then.
Duty
31st Oct
(please note some names may have changed)
14th Nov
21st Nov
Duty One
Neville H
Stephen G
Derek K
Duty Two
Beth S
Andrew H
David H
Pres Guest
Beth S
Andrew H
David H
Grace
Andrew H
Heather McL
Stephen G
Thort 4 Week
Andrew H
Heather McL
Stephen G
Guest Intro
Graham S
Andrew M
Andrew H
Guest Thanks
Graham S
Beth S
Heather McL
Sergeant
Ah-Lek T
Pieter van de K
Andrew M
What’s New
Beth S
Don A
Beth S
Heads & Tails
Graham S
Bob C
Pieter van de K
Hospitality
Graham S
Bob C
Pieter van de K
Another successful distribution of Dictionaries.
President Sue at Brockville School and Syrian refugees
Presi Sue standing in for Bob S
From book sale to gifting Dictionaries for refugees
we have plenty to spare - are there any here that the refugees woud benefit from???
Is it wonderful that we can help these people settle into our city. To be greated by a friendly face must help enormously.
A NOTE FROMN STEVE A
Hi DC Rotary and those with neoliberalism or tax law interests, et al,
As advertised, we have attracted to Dunedin a researcher of taxation and well-being, from a Denmark university (Dr. Valdemar Stilling). Please join us in Otago Poly’s main lunch-time venue for a brown-bag presentation of international import. See you, hopefully, on 30 Oct, in OP’s main building and meeting room, Puna Kawa, 12-noon, on 30 Oct. Also see: https://www.op.ac.nz/about-us/news-and-events/item/2168 per Rotarian Lesley Brook’s forum. Do feel free to bring your lunch in a bag that is brown or of any color of our rainbow. And do, of course, feel free to forward this email to other Rotarians (beyond DC Rotary et cetera) who might have interest in taxes, or death, or both. Obviously, nothing is as sure as……Cheers/Gidday, Steve A.
AND A NOTE FROM ROB JEFFERIES
Hey all - not news but if anyone knows of someone that has a new scooter via not so honest means, my 10 year old would like it back - his name is on the handlebars, stem and bottom. Details below. Cheers Rob