We headed North leaving a blustery
Wellington behind to visit the Rotary Club of Marton. Here we looked at a number of projects around town with President
Mark looking at Targa Rally sites where the club marshals (great for a petrolhead
like me), their street numbering project, and park and street beautification
projects. During the meeting we
presented a Centurion certificate to a club member. We stayed the night at Holly Farm. It was great to see the young lambs which made if feel like
spring, however the cold temperatures soon reminded us that winter still has a
bite in its tale. Our thanks to
our wonderful hosts, Maureen and David.

Next day we headed north over Mt Curl in
atrocious weather to Taihape.
There President Brendan showed us some club projects including the train
turntable, development of Mt Stewart, and then he took us on a tour to Mokai
Gravity Canyon and around some of the stunning surrounding farmlands. There was a great turnout with a number
of guests at the club meeting where we presented a Club PHF and Sapphire Pin
and a well deserved Community PHF.
We left the meeting to find snow lightly falling! The Taihape Club are keen to embrace
change and have been looking at different meeting formats to bring about that
change which we discussed at length at the Board meeting.

Wednesday dawned rather cold and
overcast.
As we headed towards
Waiouru the snow became thicker and thicker.
Finally we ended up in Ohakune where we met President Jim
and Margaret for lunch.
Snow
showers continued through the afternoon as we were shown around the District
ending up in Raetihi to meet the Board and for the evening meeting, held in a
lovely old homestead.
We awarded
two further PHFs and inducted a new club member.
The club is very active in youth programmes and they were pleased
to hear that the GSE/VTT programme has be reinstigated as they had been very
active in this programme in the past.
Our thanks to Tiri and Diane for hosting us in their lovely home.
On Thursday we headed to Feilding via the
Wanganui River – a great drive.
We
arrived in Feilding and got the opportunity with President Ngaire to view a number of
projects including support to the new Old Coach House Museum hosting a great
collection of old horse carts and buggies and agricultural equipment.
We had a fun filled meeting where we
'Pushed the Boundaries' and I had a mountain to climb!
This was the culmination of a great week.
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