NEWSLETTER - OCTOBER 2022
RUMINATING REMINDERS
OCTOBER
• Bull Assessments take place this month • Don’t forget to send in your transfers! • Have you posted to the Facebook page this month? (Listed as New Zealand Highland Cattle Society) • Buy your NZHCS Calendar • Hawkes Bay A & P Show, 19 – 21 October • Rangiora A & P Show, 21 – 22 October • Waikato A & P Show, 28-29 October
NOVEMBER • Keep calving and mating records up to date and accurate • Show Season is coming up! Have you applied for your animal passports? Contact The Registrar, registrar@highlandcattle.org.nz • Manawatu A & P Show, 5-6 November • Clevedon A & P Show, 5 – 6 November • Canterbury A & P Show, 9 – 11 November • Central Hawkes Bay A & P Show, 10 – 12 November • Stratford A & P Show, 25 – 27 November
DECEMBER • Celebrate Christmas at your NZHCS branch Christmas function • Have a safe and happy holiday season • Fielding A & P Show, 2 – 4 Dec • Whangarei A & P Show, 3 – 4 December
On yonder hill there stood a coo, Helen Sullivan
COUNCIL CORNER
So, the cliché “it never rains, it pours!!,” has certainly proved true this winter. Like many of you across the entire Country, we have been awash here in Tauranga for countless days and weeks, to the extent that I began to wonder whether a modern-day Noah might consider building an arc for Highlands, Orpingtons and 1, 3-legged cat! Calving in torrential rain is never desirable, nor for the faint hearted, particularly when a calving does not go according to plan!!, so I’m hoping that your calving has been both straight forward and joyful. As you will all be aware, as of the highly successful A.G.M held in Palmerston North in late May of this year, the Council elected Tony Wright as President of the Society, with James Brown and myself co Vice Presidents. Very regretfully, ¹ūŠNj IJūƭŠē ĺĿŞƙĚŕIJ ƭŠîċŕĚ ƥū IJƭŕǶ ŕŕ ƥĺĿƙ ƑūŕĚ îŠē ƥĺĚ ūƭŠČĿŕ accepted his resignation at its meeting of 9th August, a decision that neither Tony nor the Council took lightly. Following the acceptance of Tony’s resignation, the Council held a new election and I now care-take the role of President until the 2023 A.G.M, with James as your very willing Vice President. We thank Tony very, very much for his service to the Society, his work and calm voice of reason on Council. Judging by applications for membership of the Society and
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