Bullen
15 November 2021
Editors: Nigel Williams
& Marn Hawke
Rotary Club of Kaka
New Zealand
*Duties of the Greeter: (if you cannot attend it is your responsibility to delegate)
1. Put out the Club Equipment*
2. Greet members as they arrive
3. Give the 5 minute talk
4. Assist the Sgt-at-Arms with nes
5. Introduce (& thank?) the speaker
6. Give the “Closing Thought”
7. Put away the Club Equipment*
* name badges, bell, gavel, computer, projector, “bear”
microphone & stand, nes box, rae box.
Programme:
Tues 23 Nov - Combined meeting with Paeroa Club
at Waihi Beach RSA
29 November - to be confirmed
6 December - to be confirmed
Greeter*
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David Owen
Henry Kruger
Club Notes:
1. Since the Special Needs Christmas Party has been cancelled part of the allocated budget will be used
to donate Christmas puddings to those carers that we have details for.
2. David Foris reported that we have been awarded a District Grant of $3,250 towards the fencing pro-
ject at the Victory School in Port Vila, Vanuatu.
3. More helpers would be appreciated for the weekly Community Breakfast and for a Waipuna Hospie
event on December 8th and 9th. Please contact John Bothwell.
4. Toni Millar updated some stascs for the Garden Ramble: cket sales 900, prot $20,000.
5. Laurie Donald reported on recent planngs and ongoing weed maintenance on a local cycleway and
upcoming development of a new walkway on Wharawhara Rd. More helpers would be welcomed.
Members— If you are unable to aend a meeng please
contact Barry Denton by 6pm the previous Sunday night.
Tel : 07 863 4597 Email : barryjoyd@kinect.co.nz
Apology ?
Partner
Night
The Members Five Minute Talk
The intenon of this short talk (included in the dues of the Greeter) is to share with members a personal view
which will enable other members to know them beer. This could be some aspect of their life history, work, a
personal interest or a view they would like to share.
A very important requirement of your talk is that it should not exceed 5-6 minutes. To stay within this limit it is
vital that, as part of your preparaon, you pracce the talk and me it to check that it does not take more than
6 minutes. If you do exceed your me allocaon the President may, at their discreon, interrupt your talk to re-
mind you to nish directly.
A study by the Water Industry Commission for Scotland (WICS) esmates New Zealand will need to in-
vest $120 billion to $185 billion in our three waters infrastructure over the next 30 years to catch up on
historic underinvestment and plan for the future. This is well beyond local government funding capabil-
ity.
The reforms will establish 4 regional enes with the scale, experse, operaonal eciencies and nan-
cial exibility to provide safe water services for New Zealanders.
The reform journey to date has been a long process which included engagement with local government,
Iwi/Māori and industry experts during the Three Waters Review (2017-2020) and the Three Waters Re-
form Programme (2020-2021). Engagement included many series of workshops across the country, webi-
nars, technical reference groups and one on one discussions.
James gave his opinion that it is not possible for more than 2 of 3 core reform outcomes to be delivered,
the outcomes being:
1. Beer water services
2. Local control
3. Fairness
Speaker James Denyer on The Three Waters Reform Programme
James presented a comprehensive overview of this complex, controversial and topical public issue of
long overdue deep reform of local government management of our water resources.
All New Zealanders rely on safe, reliable drinking water, wastewater and stormwater services. We de-
pend on these for the health and wellbeing of our communies and our environment.
Parting Thought from Ian Noble
You can’t do anything properly if you have not got the (right) informaon
Simon Upton
Five Minute Talk Ian Noble gave us his autobiography, including:
Growing up as one of 3 brothers (1 sll market gardening locally), schooling to 5th form
His experience of the evoluon of diary farm technology, land development and management
His long service in Federated Farmers, 24 years local rep. on the Regional Council, arbitrator for tree
and power line disputes
