“Dripfeed” NEWSLETTER OF THE BANKS PENINSULA BRANCH OF THE VINTAGE CAR CLUB OF New Zealand (INC) VOLUME 44, No 7 august 2021. Editor: Michael Williams 10 Selwyn Parade Lyttelton Ph 328 8043, email mimiandmichael@yahoo.co.nz
Chairman: Secretary:
Club Officers: Craig Keenan 322 1006 Ron Hasell 942 1105
Branch Address: 27 Showgate Ave, ChCh 8042 E-mail: bankspeninsula@vcc.org.nz Noggin & Natter: 2nd Thursday of the Month • Noggin 7.30 pm at the Papanui RSA. Upham Room – enter either from 55 Bellvue Ave or the first entrance on the left on Harewood Road (Papanui / Main North Road) • Thursday 12th of August • We look forward to seeing you there. Supper is provided.
From the Editor: A new logo for the VCC has been proposed by the National Executive, and the Management Committee were delegated the task of informing members about the rationale behind the decision. Seven of the twenty eight VCC branches took up the offer of a presentation from a Membership Committee member, and I attended our branch presentation from George Kear. The VCC paid a consultant $4000 to come up with some alternatives, and these were presented to the meeting. Lively discussion followed. You all received the proposal with the alternative designs. The decision making process is based around each branch surveying its members to find out if they supported a change or not. Each branch delegate then takes that result to the AGM this week, and a majority vote decides the outcome. The reason for a possible change in the logo is motivated by the nature of VCC membership. At the moment VCC membership is about 9,000, and 6,000 are aged between 73 and 85. In ten years time the membership might well have slipped to 3,000, so a new logo is supposedly going to halt that decline. Our branch voting was interesting. Out of a membership of 210, 10 said they didn’t mind either way, 10 voted to change the logo, and 59 voted for no change. The approx two thirds who didn’t vote clearly don’t see the logo as a major issue. However, many members do and a letter from Thomas Palmer below summarises the feelings of many members. Interesting to see that Phil “Digger” Mauger is intending to be a mayoral candidate next year. He clearly has Garry Moore as a role model, an act of desperation in itself, and we can only hope that he doesn’t borrow Garry’s Austin 7 as a promotional vehicle, a tactic that Garry used throughout his