Rotary Club of Onehunga - One Tree Hill Inc. PO Box 13271, Onehunga, AUCKLAND 1643 Club meets: Monday 5.30 pm for 6.00 pm at Royal Oaks Bowls Clubrooms at 146 Selwyn Street, Onehunga, Auckland President: Rod Kestle – Ph 09 630 6531 E-Mail rlkestle@gmail.com Secretary: Gwynyth Carr – Ph: 09-5797 426 (h) – E-mail: gwynythcarr@hotmail.com 9910 District Web Page: www.rotary.org.nz/information.cfm?ID=1364 9910 DG’s Newsletter: http://www..rotary.org.nz/newsletter.cfm?District=10

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BULLETIN NO: 181913 Friday 28th September 2018

PROGRAMME

1st October 2018 Attendance: Bruce Clegg Hospitality: Peter Grace Equipment 1: Trevor Mosley Equipment 2: Bruce Murdoch 5 Minute Speaker:Barry Stafford Host: Robin Hulford Speaker : Philippa Price Subject: Cornwall Park Thanks : Quentin Jay Thought for the week Bill Appleton 8th October 2018 Attendance: Peter Mayow Hospitality: Alistair Grundy Equipment 1 : Bruce Murdoch Equipment 2: Bruce Passau 5 Minute Speaker: DeidreShea Host: Quentin Jay Speaker: TBA Subject: TBA Thanks : Paul Jenner Thought for the week Alan Bannin

APOLOGIES: If you can’t make it, or, wish to bring a partner &/or visitor to our meeting, please advise Alan Bannin abannin2013@gmail.com 09 845 0795 before noon of the Friday preceding the meeting so our caterers can provide. Failure may incur a meal cost DUTIES: If you can’t perform your duty, please arrange a substitute & advise Secretary Gwynyth & Sergeant Noel CLUB ALMONER is Bruce Murdoch. Please ring him if any member (past or present) or their families are suffering illness, injury, bereavement or having a happy event

President Rod’s Reminders 23rdOctober District Governors Visit. Another general invite to all Members and Partners. 10th &11th November Art Sale at The Community Centre.

Five Minute Speaker A number of teachers from Royal Oak School, headed by Felicity and a group of a dozen children, attended at the start of our meeting. They were also accompanied by Justine Waters, the parent who originally approached us for assistance to send three teams from the Royal Oak Primary School to the Tournament of Minds in Wellington on the weekend when the All Blacks played Australia at Westpac Stadium. The group had made a special trip to our meeting to say thank you for the $2,100 which the club had provided to them to assist them with their travel costs to Wellington for the weekend. After a brief thank you delivered by Felicity most of the children in the group thanked us in their own way and spoke very well. Responding for the club Bill Grayson said that we had been delighted to help, praised the initiative of Justine in approaching the club and we were pleased to contribute to the school and the children’s success. Ernie Meyer said at the end of each Monday meeting, those members on equipment duty should put the equipment on the trolley and leave the trolley in the Sport’s Bar. The ROB people will move the trolley to the storage room the next day Iain McCrae needs final numbers for the fund raising Trivia evening being organised by Monty Betham at OHS, 24 Pleasant Street on Saturday 6 October at 6pm tickets $25.

LAST MEETING 24th September 2018

Attendance:18

Visitors: Deiter Dyck, Julie Reid, Felicity Boyd

Apologies Rod Kestle, Peter Mayow, Gwynyth Carr, Ian Devereux, Lloyd Albiston, Deidre Shea, Derek Neutze, Al Grundy, Quentin Jay, Peter Grace

Excused: Gerry Beeson

Sgt. Raised: $111.40

October Economic and Community

Development Month

Guest Speaker was Julie Reid And she was a very interesting and informative speaker. She is in charge of 640 volunteers at the Mercy Hospice at 61 College Hill, Ponsonby. She described the Hospice as a wonderful organisation and she loves going to work there every day. In a brief history Julie explained that the Sisters of Mercy was a Catholic order established in 1831 by Catherine McAuley at Baggit Street, Dublin. The original purpose was to take care of marginalised women and children in the Dublin population. Representatives of the order came to New Zealand in 1850.It was an 8 month voyage to New Zealand in those days and the Sisters were strong visionary women. They started several schools for girls, including St Mary’s College for Girls and Carmel College. In 1900 a large house in Mountain Road was acquired and the Mater Misericordiae Hospital was founded. For many years the hospital had a birthing unit.. In 1978 the Government removed subsidies from birth centres and in 1979 they closed the birthing unit and opened one of the first hospices in New Zealand in part of the Mater Hospital. Thirteen or fourteen years ago the Ascot Group acquired the Mercy Hospital as part of their programme of expansion, but they didn’t want to keep the Hospice. The end result was that the Hospice moved from the Mater Hospital across to 81 College Road, College Hill, Ponsonby next to the St Mary‘s College. At any one time there are about 70 to 80 patients at the Hospice. The majority of them are suffering from cancer related diseases, motor neurone disease and HIV Aids and the like. The Hospice’s main function is to provide services when individual patients reach the point where he or she has been advised that there is no cure for his or her condition. There are 16 specialised nurses who cover the Auckland Central area and provide services in patients’ homes. Daily there is a stream of referrals from Auckland health professionals. The Hospice provides a wide range of services, including respite care and symptom control. The majority of patients come from two age bands. Those between 40 and 60 years and those of 60 years plus. There are younger patients but fortunately they are much in the minority. About 300 patients at any one time are being treated out in the community. Julie described the nine hospice shops which operate in the central City area. They provide at least 40% of the funding required to operate the Hospice and its associated services. The balance is provided by the Government. There are usually about 50 volunteers attached to each Hospice shop and a paid manager. One of the benefits of the shops is they give the Hospice a public presence. Julie had no difficulty in conveying the sincere and wonderful services provided by all the volunteers.

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