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From The Secretary
by Dennis Whimp
It has been wonderful vintage motoring weather over summer, but once again the branches emails are full of event cancellations. Fortunately, the Vero Rally at New Plymouth escaped the red traffic light setting. David and Jill Philps in their 1978 XC Falcon plus Andrew Thomson in his 1963 Humber Super Snipe represented our club at the event. Both said it was a most enjoyable and very well organised week. We won’t get a chance to hear from David and Jill in the near future as the weekend after the rally they moved to their new home in Matamata.
It is with sadness that I report the recent death of John Kirkland. John has been an active member of the branch, been on the committee, club captain and used to have an informative chatty column in the magazine. He joined the branch 25 years ago with a mid-30’s Ford V8 and over the years, has had a number of Fords of all sorts, the last being a 1930 Ford Model A. John was also an active member of the tractor and machinery club. Up until recent years he could be seen “exercising” an old tractor around the local streets. Our sympathies go out to his family.
Does anyone know who replaced the padlock on the gate to the ramp at the clubrooms? The replacement master keyed one that we recently installed has been removed and we would like it back. Please let me know if you can shed any light on this as we have the entire padlocks master keyed and this one is not. No one except me and the person who installed the padlock can get through. (A key was left in the padlock which I now have.)
It is time to start thinking about how you can extend your enjoyment of the branch by lending a hand to the various tasks that keep us running so smoothly. There will be a number of vacancies on the committee to be filled at the coming AGM in May. Let me know if you would like to be a part of the team.
