August 2014

August 2014
Dinner Meeting
Greetings,
Wow we have definitely been though a
range of extreme weather situations in
the last month and I am looking forward
to something a bit more settled as we go
forward. Unfortunately that meant the
cancellation of our last meeting but luckily
our guest speaker Heather Brew was
happy to transfer to this month.
Thank you to all that were able to help out
with our quiz evening, as you will see it
was a successful night and will enable us
to work towards another Second Chance
Award.
Please remember to get your registration
forms in for the Regional meeting on the
16/17 August. We are delighted that
Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year,
Doctor Lance O’Sullivan will be available
to speak with us on the Saturday
afternoon, while Sunday will see us hear
from a number of local women who are
involved with sustainable community
ideas. It will also be a great opportunity
for us all to meet and network with others
from the BPW community.
Christine
When …………….Thursday 14th
Where……………… Reia Taipa Resort
Time………………… 6.00– 6.30pm
Speaker………………Heather Brew – Childhood
in the Sudan before and during the end of
the British Raj.
PLEASE NOTE THE NEW TIME. IN THE WINTER
MONTHS WE WILL MEET AT 6PM- 6.30PM
AND IN THE SUMMER 6.30 – 7PM.
DUTIES
The Commitee has decided that only one
member undertake ALL the duties on the
night. This means that you only get a turn
once a year if that, and you are not always
having a duty to perform on a regular basis.
Duties for August will be Patsy.
President
Past President
Christine Berridge
Leslie Whitehorn
Secretary
Lynn Dow
Treasurer
Melva Saxton
Committee
Patsy Thornton
Claire Lee
The committee meets on the Tuesday two
weeks after the Dinner meeting at Patsy’s
home.
Next committee meeting will be held on the
26th August. Members are welcome to
attend.
Advise Patsy if attending.
Notice Board
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DINNER MEETING COSTS – The cost of
dinner is $25 Not including raffle which is
$2.00
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DINNER APOLOGIES - Members are reminded
that Apologies must be made in good time
(and by lunchtime three days before at the
latest).If you are unable to attend the dinner
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meeting please
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contact Claire at 40
62181 .You will be asked to pay for the
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dinner if no apology is made. Some discretion
will be made in the event of emergencies
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Quiz Night – all under control. Approx. 40
attendees.
10th Birthday – L. Dow to forward address list
to P. Thornton. C. Berridge still to contact John
Carter.
Regional Day – L. Dow to send out registration
form to all our members.
Publicity – photo has been taken. L. Dow to
write article for the Age. Flyers are ready for
printing.
Guest Speaker – Heather Brew to be August
speaker.
Suffrage Day – Morning Tea at Reia Taipa Bay
Resort 21st September. Speaker required.
Regional Meeting
Any members willing to host the visiting
club members please advise Christine.
Correspondence:
Inwards:
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There is something about Mary
Mary's mum has four children.
The first child is called April.
The second May.
The third June.
What is the name of the fourth child?
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Gail Litten – BPWNZ Newsletter
Gail Litten – New Horizons, Mana BPW
Candle Lighting, BPW Australia e-Bulletin,
Cartwright Anniversary Seminar, National
Council of Women.
Gail Litten – Regional Meeting
Gail Litten – Diversity Workshop
Gail Litten – NZFGW Newsletter, Advert for
“That Woman”, Auckland University Seminar,
Cartwright Anniversary Seminar, Woman
Filmmakers.
Lisa Kidwell – Sustainable Funding
Jenny Brittain – Combined candle Lighting
Outwards: Nil
Correspondence read and confirmed. L. Dow/C. Lee
Committee Meeting
Treasurer’s Report:
Committee meeting held on 21st June 2014 at Cable
Bay.
That the Treasurer’s Report be accepted M. Saxton/C.
Berridge.
Present: C. Berridge, L. Dow, P. Thornton, C. Lee andGeneral Business:
M. Saxton.
 L. Dow to contact the Te Ahu Centre to get us
Apologies: L. Whitehorn.
P. Thornton/C. Lee
on their email list.
CARRIED.
The meeting closed at 6.10pm
Minutes: The minutes of the previous meeting were
read and confirmed.
P. Thornton/C. Berridge CARRIED.
Matters Arising:
July Dinner Meeting
Due to the storm the meeting was
cancelled.
Quiz Night July 2014
Thirty nine people turned out for the BPW
Doubtless Bay Quiz Night held last Thursday
at the Reia Taipa Beach Resort. Quizmaster
Christine Berridge was assisted by Jan
McLean as marker. The rest of us split into 8
teams to fight it out over 10 rounds. Rounds
ranged from General Knowledge, Sporting
Knowledge and Musical Knowledge to Flag
Knowledge, Picture Puzzles and History. The
light banter around the tables indicated there
was a lot of hilarity going into the answers.
After five rounds coffee and dessert were
served and Gary Steed took over the floor to
auction 13 bottles that had been provided by
members. Gary proved an excellent auctioneer
with many tricks to extract money. Including a
few donations the bottle auction raised $519.
Further rounds of the Quiz were played before
the final counting with Christine declaring a
six-person team from Kaitaia BPW the winner.
They each received a gourmet gift basket.
Second prize went to La Triviata, a team made
up of Alan Dow and his friends and family.
They received a bottle of wine each. Third
prize, a jar of sweets, was awarded to a 4person team from Kaitaia BPW. A chocolate
fish was given to each member of the last team
which was hosted by Claire Lee. It does
however need to be said that there were two
teams only one point ahead of Claire’s team.
Our club should be grateful to President
Christine who put all the prizes together
herself.
In total we raised $909. This is in part thanks
to the generosity of the Reia Taipa Beach
Resort who only charged us for the number
actually attending, and for the excellent job
done by Gary Steed.
In my opinion this could be an annual event as
with just a few more people in attendance we
would have reached the $1000 required for the
Second Chance Award. Most people said, as
they were leaving, they would do it again.
And for a final piece of trivia remember a
hippologist studies horses – a fact I should
have known as horse racing courses are called
hippodromes in France.
Lynn Dow
A PIECE OF LOCAL HISTORY
Pacific Cable Station, Doubtless Bay,
30th August
Central Regional Meeting
hosted by BPW Mana
18th-19th October Leadership Forum to be held
in Pukekohe,
BPW Franklin where possible will billet as many
as possible, please advise numbers as soon as
possible so we can make arrangements.
Club Events
Regional Meeting
16th – 17th
Suffrage Day
21st
10th Birthday Dinner
21st
In 1902 the Pacific cable linked British
Columbia by telegraph with New Zealand. A
small station at Doubtless Bay, Northland,
marked the New Zealand terminus of the
cable. Improved communications contributed
to an increased flow of ideas and people
between New Zealand and North America in
August
September
October
Please remember to register for the
Regional meeting. Forms have been
sent out and numbers are needed for
catering purposes. Please return
these with your payment to
Christine. Also please advise if you
are able to assist with billets.
the early 20th century.
Please note the following dates for your BPW
Club calendars.
It is hoped that with plenty of notice Clubs will
be able to send as many members as possible to
these events.
9th August
Midland Regional meeting in
Rotorua –Times to be confirmed
16th-17th August Northern Regional Meeting in
Taipa Northland –Times to be confirmed
We have been asked to provide a raffle
for Regional Day We have a few things
left from Quiz Night so it would be
easiest to make up a Gourmet Basket.
Could you please bring an item for the
basket to the next dinner meeting – not
perishables please and we already have
wine and chocolates so maybe olives or
relishes etc.
Suffrage Day
We will be celebrating this day on
Sunday 21st September with a morning
tea at the Reia Taipa Resort. A guest
speaker still to be advised.
then be written on thin pieces of Perspex and
layered to build into a statue of Ms Sheppard.
"Hopefully by the end of the month we'll have
a full figure and we'll be taking that into
Parliament," says Ms Henare.
The project has the backing of the National
Council of Women, which believes if Ms
Sheppard were alive she would back it too.
"Kate Shepherd saw that getting women the
vote was just the first step, a gigantic step but
a first step, and I'm sure she'd think that more
steps still need to be taken," says National
Council of Women chief executive Sue
McCabe.
"I think it's an amazing way of honouring her
and what she did, and as a country we need
to continue to honour women like her
throughout our history," says Ms Henare.
The "bring back Kate" site was launched today
and it's hoped there will be enough messages
for the statue to reach 3 metres.
Bring Back Kate Campaign
Resources
New Zealand’s greatest warrior for
women’s rights returns to call for
action on domestic
violence #BringBackKate
Women's Refuge has launched a new
campaign against the abuse of women and
children.
It is doing it with the help of one of the
greatest champions of New Zealand women,
Kate Sheppard.
She was New Zealand's most prominent
suffragette. Now 132 years on, Women's
Refuge hopes Ms Sheppard's image will help
reduce domestic abuse against women and
children.
"We need to all stand up and we need to call
for action, and so 'bring back Kate' is about
calling for action as she did," says Women's
Refuge chief executive Heather Henare.
The campaign encourages people to send in
messages against domestic violence. They will
Angela McLeod receives the
International President’s
Award
Angela reported that;
"It was an absolute honour to be
recognised by the BPW International
President, Freda Miriklis at our Congress in
Jeju. I was presented with the President's
Award at the Opening Ceremony in
recognition of Outstanding Service as
Executive Manager.
I have an absolute passion for empowering
women and the work that BPW
International and its members do and have
the potential to do, in this space. This
award is about that; it's about being
recognised for that work and as I said when
I received it, I couldn't have done it without
you - the members. Especially my BPW
Customer: Waiter, this soup tastes funny.
sisters in New Zealand."
Waiter: Funny? But then why aren’t you
Congratulations Angela!
laughing?
Customer: Waiter, there’s a fly swimming
Solution to Brain Teaser
in my soup.
Waiter: So what do you expect me to do,
Solution: Mary.
Mary's mothers fourth child was Mary
herself.
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10 Birthday Dinner
Can anyone help with the addresses of the
following foundation members whom we
wish to invite. Please contact Lynn.
Bridget Brannigan, Robyn Corrigan, Chris
Dorman, Diane Fox Jo Dean,, Debbie
Mcfarlane, Jane Moodie, Diana Murray,
Lorraine Murray Bridget Ogle, Sue Otto,
Pam Thompson, June Rau,
Olive Fox, Judith Haig, Lisa Hill, Toni
McMahon,
call a lifeguard?
Customer: Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup.
Waiter: That’s all right sir, he won’t drink
much.
Customer: Waiter, there’s a dead beetle in
my soup.
Waiter: Yes sir, they are not very good
swimmers
The Federation of Business and Professional
Women New Zealand Inc. Leadership
Forum 18 & 19 October 2014 at Pukekohe.
Using our voice
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To negotiate
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To run meetings
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To advocate
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To challenge
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To promote
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To persuade
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To facilitate
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To inform
This is for you! And your community!
All members are invited. Any club
which has two or more paying attendees
may sponsor someone from their
community who they are working with
or mentoring to attend this event free of
charge. We do give a damn!
Skill building
To empower ourselves and our
organisation
Join us for two days of sharing knowledge
and experiences, exchanging ideas,
gaining new tools and fostering and/or
renewing fellowships and networking.
“An organisation is only as good as its
membership.
Leaders may emerge with vision, creativity
and direction but it is the quality of the
supporting members, the width of the
expertise they contribute, the depth of their
interest and the determination they bring,
that allows an organisation to fulfil its aims
and become the powerhouse for the
members’ own development”
Dr Lena Madesin Phillips, BPWI
Founding President (1930 – 1947)
Let us be done with fault-finding and
leave off self-seeking .May we put
away all pretence and meet each
other face to face without self pity
and without prejudice. May we never
be hasty in judgment and always
generous. Let us take time for all
things: Make us grow calm, serene,
gentle. Teach us to put into actio our
better impulses straightforward and
unafraid. Grant that we may realize
that it is the little things that create
differences: that in the big things of
life we are one. And may we strive to
touch and know the great human
heart common to us all, and Oh Lord
God, do not let us forget to be kind..
We ask that we meet together as
women,
not allowing beliefs, religion,
nationality, ethnicity or language to
come between us.
That these meetings enable us to
move forward and advance the status
of women throughout the world.
That the value of women be
recognized
In our families, our communities, our
workplaces, our country and the
world.
That we use our good ideas, our
knowledge,
Our experience to promote the worth
of women.
That we combine our strengths to
move forward
In peace, in serenity and in love.
That women of all generations will do
Their part to achieve harmony and
Equality among all human beings.
Work for women’s: economic
independence, equal opportunity and
representation in economic civil and
political life
Encourage and support women and
girls to: develop their professional and
leadership potential, undertake lifelong
education and training, use their
abilities for the benefit of others,
locally, nationally and internationally
Advocate for the elimination of all
discrimination against women, for
human rights and the use of gendersensitive perspectives
Underake world-wide networking and
co-operation between business and
professional women, non profit
projects that help women gain
economic independence,
To present the views of business and
professional women to international
organisations and agencies and to
business, governments and civil society
Introduction
f you are unable to undertake your duty and
cannot find a substitute, please let Patsy
know.
The President will introduce the Speaker
as this makes for a smoother transition
between the two parts of the meeting
Doorkeeper
Set up and ‘man’ the table by the door by
6.00pm
Have a list of members to mark off
attendance
Thanks
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Note any non-attendees who have not
apologised in advance
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Hostess
Take dinner money and give it to the
treasurer
Ensure guests sign the Visitors Book
Return Meeting Pack to the President
At present because of our low membership
the door keeper is also doing the raffle and
we are not utilising a hostess.
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Arrive by 6.00pm to greet members and
guests
Greet unaccompanied guests and arrange
for a member to accompany them
throughout the evening
Direct guests to the treasurer’s table to
pay for their meal
Raffle
Collect raffle prize from the donor. { the
person who won the raffle at the last
meeting}
Sell tickets to members and guests at the
door table. Invite the guest speaker to
draw the raffle at the conclusion of their
programme. Hand proceeds of tickets to
the treasurer.
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Greet the guest speaker and
accompany them throughout the
evening.
Use your initiative to decide when to
stand and conclude the programme
by thanking the speaker. Keep the
thanks short and recall something of
special value or interest he or she has
mentioned.
Speak appropriately
Thought for the Day
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Have a copy of your Thought available
to give the Bulletin Editor,(Patsy) or
email it to her.
Read the Collect
Read the Collect at the conclusion of the
programme from the laminated card which
the President will give you.