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From The Secretary
by Dennis Whimp
By the time you read this, the $300 replacement sign for the clubhouse will be up. Roy Burrows, an old time 80 year old signwriter has made an excellent job using brushes and enamel paints. He still regularly does truck doors etc. Our old sign had badly degraded and delaminated. The crisp replacement now shows up the old chalky paintwork on the clubhouse exterior. An exterior repaint will be the next clubhouse project. Vero Insurance offer VCCNZ members discounted premiums on vehicles, houses and contents. An agent’s commission on each premium is also paid to both the branch and the national organisation. Last year, Rotorua received over $1,600 and the National organisation over $35,000. I haven’t checked recently, but in the past, Vero’s premiums without the discount were cheaper than all the others. The only downside on vehicle cover is that they no longer have free cover for windscreen breakage. It is treated as for any other damage claim. I regularly receive entry forms for other branches main rallies. These go on the clubhouse noticeboard. They are also available on the Vintage Car Club of NZ website, as are all the branch magazines. We were all new members once and some of us older members have poor memories. Please wear your name badges so we all get a reminder of who you are. If you need a replacement badge, see me. The cost is $15. If you would like a hardcopy of the magazine posted out, the cost is $30 per annum. Let me know. Lastly, at the AGM there was a discussion about the framed prints of members cars on the club room walls. Doug Green advised that if you would like a photo of your car on the wall, provide him with an A4 landscape colour photo of the front three quarters and no people in the photo. We need to replace many of the existing photos on the wall.
