FROM PRESIDENT NEV
The meeting on June 4 had good attendance. Following Rotary Grace, the Rotary International Toast was to The Rotary Club of Singapore, Singapore. This was due to Australia’s Defence Minister, Richard Marles, in Singapore on Mission, stating that the newest battlefields for world security are the underwater seabeds, which carry the “arteries of civilisation”  in our cables & pipelines. The AUKUS pact cites that attempts by Russia & China to infiltrate this area of dominance has resulted in unmanned undersea defence vehicles being developed to secure these vital links. These vehicles are said to have the capacity to destroy both undersea & waterline targets that pose a threat to the international cable network. 

 FUN TIMES
Heads & Tails was won by Jack Hayhurst. The Card Draw was won by David Boardman who drew the Ten of Spades. The Jackpot stands at $159.

SERGEANTS SESSION
Lester Marquet gave another fantastic Session featuring the “on this day” theme. From 781BC when the first citing of a Solar Eclipse was recorded by the Chinese, to 1070 when Roquefort Cheese was first discovered in a cave near Roquefort, France, to 1561 when the Steeple of London’s St Paul's Cathedral was struck & destroyed by lightning, 1629 when the Dutch East India Ship, Batavia, was wrecked on Morning Reefs off the Western Australian Coast with only 70 of the over 300 passengers & crew eventually surviving, 1824 when the first free press was founded in Australia (Hobart Town Gazette by Ex Convict, Andrew Bent), 1896 when Henry Ford drove his first Ford Car through the streets of Detroit, & finally 1940 when the “miracle of Dunkirk” was completed as the British somehow evacuated 338,226 Troops from France via a flotilla of over 800 ships, including Navy Destroyers, Merchant Marine Boats, Fishing Boats, Pleasure Craft & even Life Boats!

CLUB ASSEMBLY
Most of the time for Club Assembly was taken up in finalising plans for last Monday’s Harvest Festival BBQ at Goodmayes Orchard Somersby. The end result was an amazing net profit of just over $2000. What a sterling effort. On behalf of the Club I’d like to thank all who were in attendance helping with our works. Special mention must go to Jim & Belinda Katrakilis for allowing us to use their home for storage & car parking, & Geoff Vincent for his heavy workload that went a long way to ensuring that we achieved this outstanding result! If anyone had time to take Pics, could they please send them to me so that we can record them in the Bulletin.

Red Shield Appeal Pictures

UPCOMING EVENTS

11 JUNE 2026 
David Hall Para-Olympian & Author
13-15 JUNE 2026 
Rotary International Convention
16-17 JUNE 2026 
Science & Engineering Challenge
25 JUNE 2026 
Changeover Dinner