Evening all! Peter welcomed his good lady Chris Vossen, Charmaine Donaldson QSM, guest speaker Talbert de Jong and members to his fifteenth meeting of this Rotary term as President. He and Chris had a great weekend walking the Karangahake Loop, a walk of about an hour. A revelation find refreshment stop, was the Refinery in Paeroa. A themed 1970's Retro café, vinyl records produced the sounds with décor to match. Peter drew our attention to this month's Rotary Down Under magazine main topic reference slavery. He urged members to read the editorial. Modern day slavery," More slaves today, than at anytime in history". Rotary acknowledges the initiatives of NGO's like 'Walk Free Foundation'. Announced Lyn Dobbe is our Club champion for "Save a Life Capsules", that have been represented for Rotarian promotion which had to be repackaged; to conform with legal minmum consumer information regards the soluble Asprin. This is a Rotary Tauranga Sun Rise project, cost still being finalised at the time of this meeting.
Talbert de Jong, Guest speaker and a on stage thespian interest in his spare time.
Lyn Dobbe, to champion Save a Life capsule.
Our guest speaker Talbert de Jong, one of the principals of Southern Belle Orchard, and a keen thespian in his spare time introduced by David Wheadon. Talbert moved to New Zealand with his parents and sister, from the Friesland geographic area of the Netherlands, in 2003. Along with his partner Emily, have a 10 year take over plan of the orchard from his parents. When his parents purchased the orchard, it had many different types of fruit and vegetable crops, which for best management practice, concentrate on Feijoas, Capsicums and a few Chillies and flowers. Did experiment with runner beans as a winter crop, but the result was not that fruitful! The glass house uses pumice as the growing medium. The irrigation is a total recycle system, meaning all the nutrients and water the plants don’t use will be returned to the main tank to be re-cycled. So no drop of fertilizer and water is wasted and the greenhouse will not pollute any leachate in the soil and aquifers. The crop has a yearly cycle. In August, a selection of the latest varieties is planted. After that the development of the plants is closely monitored. In the meanwhile soil microbes and predator insects are introduced. Daily checks of the technical performance of the greenhouse are performed to obtain optimal growth and fruit development. It also aids the biological ecosystem, which acts as an immune system for the whole greenhouse. The first fruit will usually be harvested late October. After a production period of about 8½ months the plants are removed and used in the compost for the Feijoas and the whole cycle starts again. Feijoa plantation, of early through to late maturing varieties In November/December the Orchard shows an abundance of flowers. The flowers will be pollinated by birds rather than bees. So one can observe a lot of air traffic during this period! In December and January the fruit starts to develop. In the meanwhile biological inoculants and nutrients are introduced to maintain and nourish the soil and its ecosystem. End of March till mid June is the harvest season. his is the time we employ temporary staff to help us during the picking and grading of the Feijoa's. Later on the orchard will be accurately pruned to prepare the trees for the next season and another high yield of good quality fruit. They have to be on top of pests such as Tropical Army Worm, Spider Mite , Aphids and Mealy Bugs. MPI have now agreed Feijoas are not affected by Myrtle Rust, which is so essential in exporting 70% of this fruit by air transport, to get a good shelf life for the product. ‘Farmers Markets’ are the main outlet for retailing their orchard products. The Southern Belle Orchard Ballance Waikato Environmental prestigious award in 2015, certainly gave then positive exposure, and now approved to sell product as an organic endorsed produce. They do use other medium to control pests, due to unavailability of biological control wasps that are the size of a sand fly. Gordon Lukies thanks Talbert for his presentation, before Talbert was off to rehearsals for his next show.
Talbert de Jong in rehearsals for this next Little Theatre presentation. Ideal to see after Club meeting 31st October.
School holiday this week, Dani has just recently been to Wellington. Capital City of New Zealand.
A South Island of New Zealand trip yet to come.
Vacaciones escolares esta semana, Dani acaba de estar en Wellington. Capital de Nueva Zelanda.
Una isla del sur de viaje de Nueva Zelanda todavía por venir.
Walkway progressing to next working bee for members, for that project. Kevin Sing has John Fernyhough with his digger with ground preparation for the metal that will form the path. The working bee will mainly concentrate on the job to rake the metal that will be spread,so to make the path look tidy. Kevin sez he will contact members as to when the raking needs to be done, most likely early next week.
David Wheadon reported on a very successful car parking project for the Matamata Spring Festival A & P show Last Saturday. 15 members participated. It did not go unnoticed that Mike Farrell was on duty from start to finish. David also wishes to acknowledge J Swap Co., Family and staff associated with that company for significant obvious support; that in our opinion was a successful community day. We parked a very good number of patron visitor vehicles, and members who took entrance fees were kept meaningfully engaged with that task most of the morning.
David Hulme reminds members of the Tauranga Te Papa Rotary Club Car Rally, here in Matamata Saturday 28th October. Rally members will be doing , by request 2 hours community work as a group. Ross Bay has that noted.
Owen Farmilo, is asking for scones to be made for this rally for Rotarian type 'smoko'. He will turn the scones into Devonshire jam and cream type delights, for when the 2 hour bit of gardening at Starfish concludes.
Guess who is coming to Dinner, Friday 3rd November. Our RFE guests will be participants. More info will be advised. David Hulme 021 328 746. Please advise if you are able to be Dinner Host. It would be great if hosts of our RFE guests are NOT also hosts for GWCD. Hosts and guests ideal for singles and couples to participate in this very sociable Club event.
Lynette Stanley, Foundation Director. Some Centurion subscriptions have lapsed. Direct Debit forms will be emailed to all, so members can renew and new members subscribe to the tax deductible donation to Rotary Foundation. NZ$100 or US$100 choice of Centurion level. Lynette will follow up.
Spud in the Bucket Lachie Duncan the champion for this project. Shunt sheet now open for buckets to purchase. 100 + buckets sold by us members, attracts a reasonable participation at weigh in next year. Good fun community project.
CLUB DUTY
17TH OCTOBER
24TH OCTOBER
CLUB HOST
JOHN FERNYHOUGH
KRISHAN NARAYANASAMI
RECEPTION
LACHIE DUNCAN
ALICE CLOTHIER
RECEPTION
PETER THISSEN
BRIAN HUNTER
BAR STEWARD
ROBBIE PEARSON
DON STANLEY
BAR STEWARD
MIKE STEINER
OWEN WESTLAKE
SPEAKER INTRO
GLENDA MILLIGAN
DAVID HULME
SPEAKER THANKS
MAZ McIVOR
DAVE JOHNSON
TOP TABLE
GLENDA MILLIGAN
DAVID HULME
TOP TABLE
TBA
DAVE JOHNSON
PARTING THOUGHT
BRYCE SCOTT
SHERYL ERTEL
DANIELLA HOST
MERV KING
REXINE HAWES
KITCHEN
ROSS BAY
GRAEME GUILDFORD
KITCHEN
WADE LINELL
HENRY CLOTHIER
Robert Stuart...Programme
October 17 Glenys Parton..................ROMAC
October 24 Pru Etcheverry.................... Leukaemia and Blood Cancer NZ
October 31 TBC
November 7 Earlier start-Melbourne Cup and fundraiser Soup Night
November 14 Christmas Function: Dinner & show Matamata Musical Theatre
November 21 Half year Annual General meeting
November 28 District Governor 9930 Leonie’s official visit
December 5 TBC
December 12 Last Club meeting of 2017
2018
January 16 First Meeting of 2018. BBQ at David and Cath Gascoigne’s
Concert by the Lake . Sunday 4th March 2018.
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL : DISTRICT 9930 : NEW ZEALAND
ROTARYFRIENDSHIP EXCHANGE
Chairman: Ken Collier, 5 Portobello Way, Huntington, Hamilton.
If there are costs involved for entry fees, cafes etc, please give a per person estimate of each. Also give times at meeting places.
Note: It is necessary to arrange to pick up the visitors from the “halfway point” from last club and deliver them to the halfway point to the next club.
Day 1: DATE Thurs 2nd NovVisitors meet hosts at – Podium Café, Karapiro, at 12.30 for lunch.
(Podium Café is over the Karapiro Dam, adjacent to Rowing Centre).
Visit Boltholder, an award-winning enterprise, Matamata.
Evening with hosts.
Day 2: 10.00 am Visit to Waikato Thoroughbred Stud.
12.30 pm Lunch at Robert Harris, Matamata.
2.30 pm Visit to local dairy farm and milking shed.
6.00 pm Guests will join Matamata Rotary’s “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”.
Day 3: 9.30 am Visit to Hobbiton. Cost NZ$75.00 pp.
12.00 Lunch Matamata ?
2.00 pm Visit Sanctuary Mountain, Maungatautiri -- world renowned ecological restoration project.NZ$20.00 pp.
5.30 onwards; Pot luck dinner at Fred and Cec Barrett’s home for guests and Matamata Rotarians
Opportunity for presentation by guests.
Day 4: Deliver guests to “halfway point” with next club at 11.30 for lunch later at:
24a Victoria Rd,
Mount Maunganui.
New Orient Express , Tivolicinema theatre, Cambridge Polio Plus Fund Raiser. early November, actual date to be confirmed by Michelle. Good film, good cause. Await date confirmation, but editor thinks its on 8th November
Inventory form 'A' needs to be filled in by members, who may have some Rotary Matamata gear or chattels at home. Contact Mike Farrell for clarification, etcetera.
Bridge Club offered their car park for our use for Rotary Meetings at St John hall. So that the road intersection is not congested with parked cars, when no room left at St John car park members use. So please use the offer to park your vehicles at the Bridge Club.
Spreading the word of our guest speakers, that would be of interest for people is to be publicly gazetted in social media and other avenues to attend our meetings.
Melbourne Cup night, is a no meal refund meeting. Homemade soup and bread buns being provided. All proceeds of that evening going to Polio Plus. End Polio Now. Always good fun. Dress Code.is Dress form the Races. Sweepstake and also a raffle. Members are asked to bring a plate of cake slices or the like please.
No wonder we have a 'What you Smiling about' from members. We must have the most happiest , smiliest Club in the Rotary world. Natalie van der Goes on bar duty with fellow Rotarian Murray Wills.
Another unsung duty prior to our meeting start, Wade Linnell setting things up technical wise for Power point presentation,and sound.Nice one Wade.
Guest speakers do bring along visual and sound support material. It certainly is appreciated by speakers, to be able to supplement their presentation on screen.
What are you smiling about, Lyn Dobbe.
Well, that could be anything. Generally I am a happy smiling person. I have everything to smile about, good friends and family. A wicked sense of humour helps! I quote Mother Theresa " Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love". Plus remember:-
Children learn to smile from their parents
Wear a smile and have friends, wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
" Proboscis-an elongated sucking mouthpart that is typically tubular and flexible, until Talbert de Jong has to use an insecticide medium called Chess in his glasshouse. Works like Viagra! makes the proboscis stand up, so it cannot attack plants for nutrients and damage the fruit"
Interesting fact form guest speaker, Talbert de Jong.
Christmas function November 14th.
Dinner and Show , Matamata Musical Theatre. 'Rome Sweet Rome'.
Dinner and Show exclusive to Rotary Matamata that night, Max 95 people. Non Members $50 Members $32.Cash bar. Shunt sheet to be organised for next club meeting.
Spud in the Bucket community involvement project underway for order's. As we know, official planting day this year ,is 23rd October Labour weekend. If each member take three to on sell, 170 bucket sales will be a club record. We get well supported by sponsors, for this annual fund raiser family and business house fun project. Lachie D. has started the shunt sheet. Weighin possibly first week of March 2018 , always a fun evening and of course bragging rights wether the least or heaviest bucket crop.
(L) Lyn Dobbe and Charmaine Donaldson QSM look 'happy as larry' for our meeting.
Below with our consumate Club host David Hulme is Chris Vossen, while Peter is busy with club affairs before meeting start.
Spud in the Bucket organiser Lachie Duncan.
Has members buckets for picking up at our meeting. They will also be available at members business house around town. This fun community project starts officially Labour Weekend 23rd October, when the spud is planted into the growing medium.
Die Rotarierinnen Sheryl von Ertel und Glenda von Milligan waren letzte Woche in der Bar Pflicht, um Mitglieder der berühmten deutschen Weltfeier für gutes Essen und Trinken zu erinnern. Wie Sie die Wahl des Kleides sehen können, gut oder vielleicht zum Nachdenken anregen; aber anders !!!
Rotarian Ladies Sheryl von Ertel and Glenda von Milligan were on bar duty last week, to remind members of that famous German world wide celebration of fine food and drink.
As you can see choice of dress, well sort of or maybe thought provoking; but different !!!
Apologies / Dinner guest(s) booking.
Please phone 083 299 789.
Do so by 9am on the Tuesday morning of the club Meeting.
Talbert de Jong, Guest speaker and a on stage thespian interest in his spare time.
Talbert de Jong in rehearsals for this next Little Theatre presentation. Ideal to see after Club meeting 31st October.
School holiday this week, Dani has just recently been to Wellington. Capital City of New Zealand.
No wonder we have a 'What you Smiling about' from members. We must have the most happiest , smiliest Club in the Rotary world. Natalie van der Goes on bar duty with fellow Rotarian Murray Wills.
(L) Lyn Dobbe and Charmaine Donaldson QSM look 'happy as larry' for our meeting.
Spud in the Bucket organiser Lachie Duncan.
