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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
David Seymour MP
 
Our guest on Tuesday 22 November was ACT Leader and MP for the Epsom Electorate David Seymour.
 
President Simon welcomed members and welcomed guest speaker, David Seymour, our local MP for Epsom and leader of the ACT part. David also serves as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Educations and Regulatory Reform in the National lead government.
 
David’s presentation focused on New Zealand’s immigration policy which he believes will be the decisive issue in next year’s general election. Net permanent long term migrants are now 70,300 in the year ended October 2016 adding to pressure on housing, employment, healthcare and infrastructure. Total net immigration in the last 5 years is 190,000, which compares to the mid- seventies and early eighties where New Zealand had a net outflow of 155,000 over a five year period. From the mid eighties New Zealand has followed a skills based test for new immigrants which has seen a far broader racial and cultural mix of new arrivals.
 
David was introduced by Patrick Learmonth and thanks offered by Michelle Smith
  
ERKS
Posted on Nov 25, 2016
Last Saturday 20 members and partners lead ably by Michelle Smith packed ERKs or emergency response kits for disaster relief. 
 
Michelle reports that the team apparently beat all records for speed in packing our 100 ERK allocation in under two hours and then we really showed our
Stamina by re-stocking the production line.
 
The  organiser, Don Benson was really impressed and appreciative of our efforts.
Well done team.
Visit to Auckland University
Posted by Brian McMath

Our meeting on Tuesday 29th November will be at the University of Auckland, Newmarket Campus on Khyber Pass. The visit to the University is now become an annual event.

 

Lunch Cost will be $20  which will go to our Helping Hands Build project next year with St Cuthberts & Habitat for Humanity.

 

We will not be doing a tour of the campus as we had one last year. However we have scheduled an interesting programme which includes a robot and we will be presenting the first Rotary Newmarket Technology Translation Award and having a presentation from the winner.

 

We need to know numbers for catering and as we are being hosted.  You can bring a guest but all attendees MUST be registered.

 

We have space for a very limited number so if you need to register quickly or you will miss out.

 

Details of the time and parking will be issued to those registered to attend.