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Executives & Directors
President
Simon Dalton
 
Secretary
Kevin Peacock
 
Treasurer
Ric Buchanan
 
President Elect
Michelle Smith
 
Immediate Past President
Patrick Learmonth
 
Rotary Foundation
Jeff Smith
 
Membership
Elvira Abdrazakova
 
Public Relations
Colin Lucas
 
Youth
Ron McPherson
 
World Community Service
Jeff Smith
 
Bulletin Editor
Colin Lucas
 
Executive Secretary
Kevin Peacock
 
Special Services
Tom Speed
 
Administration
Alan Wootton
 
Community & Environment
David Bradshaw
 
Fundraising & Events
Neil Swanney
 
President's Message
Simon Dalton
Members are reminded by President Simon that our meetings on 7 and 14 February 2017 are cancelled due to their proximity to Auckland Anniversary Waitangi Day's respectively.
 
Our next meeting is 21 February 2017.  
 
Details of duties will be circulated closer to the 21st.
Stories
Nathan Saminathan
Posted by Neil Shah
Vocational - Nathan Saminathan
 
We were taken on a journey by Nathan through his life.  Originally from Malaysia, his parents were rubber plantation workers from India.  He remembers a very basic but happy childhood with lots of outdoor activities. 
 
His parents moved back to India to farm and Nathan made a decision that he was meant for a different life.  He went to university and did his BS in Chemistry.  He didn’t enjoy the field however and settled on a role as a bank officer in Malaysia. 
 
In 1979, he moved to New Zealand with $900 and did his MBA  He has had a few businesses and continually educated himself.  He did a diploma in insurance services and became a certified financial planner.   In 1997, he started mortgage brokering.
 
He has also been a valued member and president of Toastmasters.  He joined Rotary to be able to contribute back to society and has been a leader in several cultural organisations.  
 
His hobbies are sharemarket and property investment. 
NRCF
Newmark Rotary Charitable Foundation (NCRF)
 
Brian McMath gave the club an overview of the NRCF.  Its purpose is to assist the club in providing stability to the club’s charitable contributions. 
 
It was formed in 2002 and now has $1.3 million in assets.  The average return has been 6% over the past two years.  The NRCF supports activities in the areas of education, health and community support. 
 
Contributors may specify areas in which they would like their bequest to be applied.  The Burton family, for example, has specified that its contributions go to activities around disabilities.  It has distributed $300,000 since 2004.  It has a signature program that supports research grants around oncology.
ERKS

We still require 9 volunteers to pack Emergency Response Kits (ERKS) from 1pm to no later than 4pm on Saturday 19th November at 15 Gabador Place, Mt Wellington.

ERKs are vital for Cyclone and other disaster relief in the Pacific Islands and the 2 to 3 hours involved in packing ERKs is small way that our club can contribute to this worthy ongoing Rotary initiative.

Currently only 3 club members plus their partners have put their names forward so we only have 6 volunteers at this stage where we require a minimum of 15.

Please email Michelle Smith Michelle.Smith@jacobsens.co.nz if you can be there. Family members and friends are also welcome to help.
Conference 2017
Posted on Nov 04, 2016

As members will be aware we are hosting next year's District conference and we need a big turnout as the host club demonstrating our support for DG Roger.

Early bird registrations close at the end of November so we want you to register now.

We have secured some great speakers like Nigel Latta, Guy Ryan Young New Zealander of the Year, Sir Ray Avery & Nanogirl Dr Michelle Dickinson plus a few a few surprise ones.

Details are attached.

We would like you to respond now via Club Runner to confirm your attendance and then go to the website (link below) to register.

If you are registering for your partner or guest you will need to do a separate registration.

http://www.d9920conference2017.com/ 

If you have not yet been to a District conference this is the one you should attend.

Many thanks

 Brian McMath on behalf of the Organising Committee
Christmas Trees
 
 
 
Why buy someone a goat in Africa for Christmas? Try buying them trees in New Zealand – after all, goats eat trees!
 
This year one of our Trees for Survival schools planted a wetland site in Taupaki with 300 native trees. We’d like to invite you to sponsor some of these trees as your environmental gift to a loved one this year.
Sponsor 10 trees at $50 / Sponsor 20 trees at $100
 
We will send you a magnificent handmade card with Christmas decoration outlining this sponsorship, for you to gift to someone.
To participate in this fundraiser, please visit https://trees-for-survival-christmas-fundraiser.myshopify.com/