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Chairman’s Report
- June 2022
by David Tomlinson As I finalise the copy for this month’s Side Curtains to send to the printer, I am stuffed up with Covid-19, which has finally caught up with me. I went to the Maori All Blacks vs Ireland last week, and suspect that’s where it finally got me. The only good news is that I am allowed out and about again the day before the Swap Meet. Now I just have to cross fingers that Fleur and the kids don’t get it during the week.
Not many pics were received for this month’s edition so I padded the back pages out with some photos from the Tauriko car meet last month. Fleur and I had planned to take two cars to the Hamilton Diner meet just before our club night but that couldn’t happen in view of my contracting the “Rona”.
Our club night for July is a week early so we can finalise our needs for the Swap Meet. I cannot attend but the Swap Meet organisers will be there. If you have not put your name forward to help and are able to do so it would be very helpful if you could be there on Wednesday night. We will also have Joelene Hossack’s 1938 Morris Eight as the car in the room.
Our August club event is the Sulphur City Rally at the end of that month. The prize giving dinner will also double up as a celebration of the branch turning 50 years old. The national VCC President Dianne Quarrie will be in attendance to hand out 50 year and 35 year badges. All members past and present are welcome to attend the dinner, you do not have to take
part in the rally to be there (but it would be nice to see you at both events!). We will make sure there is a registration form available soon just for the dinner for those not wanting to take part in the rally.
There is a slightly compressed entry form for the Sulphur City Rally in this issue, but you can also download an entry form and print it from the branch website. You only have to complete the section on the right of the front page and send it in to enter.
As you will see in the Secretary’s column, we have found a new treasurer, that is very much appreciated as it is a very important role to manage our branch’s funds.
Let’s hope the Swap Meet is a big success. A week out the long range weather forecast looks good. A successful Swap Meet is very important for the long term good of the branch.
There will be a midweekers event at the end of July, hopefully members can be given some detail at club night, but the regular crowd will be contacted with details as they emerge.
We are looking for a couple of people to run the August and September midweekers, if you would like to do that please let Dennis Whimp know.
The VCC holds its AGM the weekend after our August club night, and I will drive up and attend the meetings over the weekend. It is being held in Karaka, South Auckland. Hopefully we might find out more about the possibility of extended periods between WoF checks for our older cars.
