Issue 39    2008-9

Inside this issue:

Club News: 
Special ANZAC Day
 
Next Week`s Speaker is:
Lala Gittoes

President's corner
  
Jug Information

Club Birthdays and
Anniversaries

Dates for the Diary
      
Sunday on the River 

Club members duties

Rotary International Channel on Youtube:
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IT'S ENTERTAINMENT BOOK TIME!
The books are still only $55 and offer excellent value. 
For any further information Please contact:
Brian Smellie
566 7722
or email him HERE
Find out everything you ever wanted to know at:
www.entertainmentbook.co.nz

Movie: Plots with a View
Join the Youth Committee in a great night out!
Where:
Harbour City Funeral Home
665 High Street
Lower Hutt 
Monday 20 April 2009 
Time: 6:30pm  

The latest District 9940
April Newsletter   
View by clicking
HERE

Calling all past Exchange Students!
The 50th anniversary of Rotary Youth Exchange for District 9940 is next year and a Reunion is being held from 21-23 August 2009. If you were, or know any past exchange students please urge them to contact: rye9940_reunion@xtra.co.nz
for more info.

2011 RWC Home Hosting
Anyone interested in hosting International Rotarians during the Rugby World Cup, September - October 2011,  please contact Howard Tong.
Ph 3848507 or 027 2012400,
email howard.tong@xtra.co.nz or send your Name, Address, Email and Club to
P O Box 11-835, Wellington. See the attached flyer for more details by
CLICKING HERE

Dates for the Diary:

Monday 20th April
6:30pm,  Movie:
Plots with a view.
Harbour City Funeral Home, High St, Lower Hutt

Wednesday 22nd April
No Lunch Meeting

Saturday 25th April
ANZAC Day Ceremony
9:30am War Memorial Library

21st-24th June
100th Rotary International Convention, Birmingham, England

Tuesday 30th June
Starlight Express show

Special ANZAC Day Ceremony

At 9:30am Saturday 25th April, representatives of our club will lay a wreath during the Hutt City RSA  ANZAC Day Ceremony.
Norman Carter, our Club's last remaining WW2 veteran will be part of our Club delegation on this day. 
Everyone is welcome to attend the ceremony at the War Memorial Library and support Norman and President Linton on Saturday 25th.

It would be fantastic to get a large Club turnout this Saturday.

Next week`s speaker is Lala Gittoes

Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae. It affects the peripheral nerves and the skin. It does not affect the spinal cord or the brain. Leprosy has a long incubation period, on average 5-7 years, and is the most complex and the most chronic of all human bacterial diseases.

Leprosy continues to be a serious challenge in most developing countries, contributing significantly to the physical and social disability of the patients afflicted. It remains a social and medical problem in the Pacific countries.

President Linton`s Corner

Kia Ora,  
Last Wednesday we toasted in Saki the 40th Anniversary of the Rotary Club of Mino-o and PP Alan Brown took the opportunity to present me with the "Mino-o Ceremonial Plate" as well as the Rotary Silver Jubilee Water Jug.

This jug was designed and produced by Gray`s Pottery, Hanley, England and is one of a numbered limited edition released in 1930. 
Our Jug is No.144 and is signed by A E Gray the founder of the Pottery and founder  member of the Stoke on Trent Rotary Club. 
Reference to The Rotary International Archive History reveals that The Paul Harris Museum (Chicago) has one on display numbered 98 and twelve others around the World ranging in numbers from No.12 to No.233 including the Rotary Club of Taradale, NZ (No.205) - it also appears that the Rotary Club of Invercargill has a similar jug but the jug number is not known.

It's not known how many were produced but  speaking statistically, it would appear to be no more than 300 and  maybe as few as 250. The Rotary Archive  has no record of our jug No.144 and it seems that NZ has three of only fourteen known Rotary Silver Jubilee Water Jugs left in the World !!!    
So how did our Club acquire such an iconic piece of Rotary History ?  
Club Minutes dated the 11th February, 1985 state: "Letter to be sent to Earle Cunningham re donation of Paul Harris mug."
Our long-serving former Secretary Les Pearce advises that Earle and his wife Valda operated an antique shop in the State Fire building in Andrews Avenue for many years and it came into the shop one day. 
The Jug was then supposed to have been passed on to each new Club President but it has gone "walk about " from time to time over the years.  
Our Club is very privileged to own such a priceless rarity.

 Linton Adams

The Hutt City Rotary Clubs' Rare Jubilee Jug!

 
 The Water Jug #98 on the desk of Paul Harris, in the Paul Harris Gallery, RI Center, Evanston, Chicago, USA.

AE Gray (1871-1959), designer and producer of the limited edition Silver Jubilee water pitcher. (note the Rotary Pin)

To celebrate Rotary's Silver Jubilee in 1930, Edward Gray designed and produced this commemorative water jug. Printed in silver on a cream base. The Jug features the portrait of Rotary's founder Paul Harris and landmarks in Rotary on one side. Six flags and a list of the countries in which Rotary Clubs had been established on the other. Edward Gray had been a founding member of the Stoke on Trent Rotary Club in 1927 and was managing director of the pottery company bearing his name.

Link to the Rotary Global History website, featuring the Paul Harris desk HERE

Link to the Gray's Pottery website HERE

If you have any more to contribute to the story of our Rotary Jubilee Jug please send a note to President Linton HERE.

Club Birthdays and Anniversaries

Club Birthdays : 
22nd April Glen Evans 
22nd April Pat Prescott 

Famous Birthdays: 
20th April 1949
Jessica Lange
20th April 1889
Adolf Hitler

Club Anniversaries :
22nd April Dave Belcher

Sunday walk on the River Trail

There was another great turnout for the Rivertrail walk on Sunday. Here are some photos.

Robin Maud hears the story of "Robin's Way"

Afternoon Tea

Charles Peterson "Tidy Kiwi"

Susan Boyle on the Net:
Tens of millions of people have downloaded her clip "I Dreamed A Dream" from Britans Got Talent on Youtube but have you heard her singing "Cry Me A River" from a 1999 Scottish charity CD? It's just been re-discovered. You can be the first to hear it!
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Websites to keep an eye on

Rotary NZ
www.rotary.org.nz

Our district site
www.rotary9940.org.nz

Rotary Down Under
www.rotarydownunder.com.au

Website for Shapeshifter
www.shapeshifter.org.nz

Official Great Harbour Way site
www.greatharbourway.org.nz

The Blog for the Outgoing GSE team to Denver, USA.
http://gse9940to5450.blogspot.com/

Angie, our Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholars Blog
www.cousinsnz.blogspot.com

The official ROMAC website
www.romac.org.au

Rotary International
www.rotary.org

Shelterbox International
www.shelterbox.org

Rotary International on youtube
http://www.youtube.com
/user/RotaryInternational