Secretary’s Scribblings Well, we are now past the shortest day, and believe it or not, the days ARE starting to lengthen out a bit. Not long before it will be warm enough for me to put the hood down on the Model A and get out and about again. The Mystery bus trip a few Sundays ago organised by Cath was well patronised, and having Ron Hebberd with his knowledge of the southern part of our province as commentator on the day was great. Ron’s comments about the area as we drove through was great and the early history was very interesting. Thanks to Cath for organising this, and bus driver extraordinaire, Alan Graham for getting us there and back with no problems.
From our Committee meeting last Wednesday. • There are a number of requests coming into the Branch from people and other like-minded groups asking us to display our vehicles and events. These will be advertised in Vintage viewpoint. • We are running the Biennial Rally in October. The routes have been
chosen and driven to check them out and a bit of final organisation needs to be done before the entry forms are out. Keep the weekend of 14th to 16th October free. • The Targa rally being held in Top of the South have had a date change which now will be the same weekend as our rally, but we hope this will not have a huge effect on us. • As you will see around the grounds, there have been a few straggly trees
and shrubs removed along the compound wall, Cath, John and Roger will be deciding what to replace them with. There was a suggestion that a “Muriel” be painted on the wall!! Where are the artistic people in our membership??
• A document from National Management committee was presented
entitled 5-year Strategic Plan. This was last updated 7 years ago so is somewhat behind the times but will be discussed at the Clubs AGM to be held in Auckland on 12th and 13th August, which I will be attending on your behalf. • As you will be aware, the Vintage Car Club national day, Daffodil day is coming up on 21st August where we will be running our very successful vehicle show and display, as we have in the past years. Organisation for this event is well underway, and we need members, and anyone else with interesting vehicles to put them on display for the day. Also, helpers will be needed, and baking provided to the kitchen to be sold on the day.
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