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After our last meeting of the year, members of Photography 1 had lunch at ‘The Atrium’ café.
During the year, members voted for their favourite photos in both the set subject and open section. The ‘Photo of the year’ with the most votes was Pam Henderson’s ‘On a wing and a prayer’ from the October meeting. Pam was presented with a calendar displaying her winning photo.
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The photographer with the most accumulated points over the whole year was a tie between Glenne Findon and Cliff Freer. All members received a small gift as a thank you for their participation in what has been a very full-on year.
The diversity of New Zealand in 2019 is a major theme in the Tauranga Arts Festival programme, launched last night at Baycourt. Running from October 24 to November 3, the festival includes major home-grown talent, as well as performers from the United States, Germany, Scotland, Canada and Australia. Tauranga’s Arts Festival features including international circus-cabaret LIMBO (Fri 25 October and Saturday 26 October, 2pm/8pm), Kiwi drama-comedy Cellfish (Monday 28 Oct/Tuesday 29 Oct), John Wright and The Sou’Westers (Wednesday 30 Oct), acclaimed singer-songwriters Nadia Reid (Thursday 31 Oct) and Milly Tabak (Friday 1 Nov) and Pasifika-Kiwi play Wild Dogs Under my Skirt (Friday 1 Nov/Saturday 2 Nov), soon to transfer to New York. For families there’s Splash Test Dummies (Friday 25 October), Fringe Village and free central city exhibitions, as well as ‘A Call to Dance’ at Tauranga Art Gallery (free, but bookings essential). And don’t miss the exciting Speaker programme over the weekend of 2/3 November – Marilyn Waring, Richard O’Brien, Mary Holm, Emily Writes and Professor James Renwick.
Tauranga Arts Festival ends Sunday, November 3. Programme and tickets at taurangafestival.co.nz Student prices to many shows.
Head to https://www.taurangafestival.co.nz/ for tickets and more information.
Report from July General Meeting
Guest Speaker: Bronwyn Groot, Manager Fraud Education, Commission for Financial Capability.
Bronwyn talked about the latest frauds and scams targeting New Zealanders of all ages, and how they are becoming increasingly sophisticated as they grow in number globally.
She distributed copies of her "The Little Black Book of Scams" and identified a number of useful websites:
The Commission for Financial Capability: CFFC ,
Scamwatch: Scamwatch
Financial Markets Authority: FMA
CERT NZ: Cert
Netsafe: Netsafe
Garden Ramblers 1 visited the extensive Color Worx nursery in September
The new Apple Mac Users Group had its second meeting in Maungatapu on Tuesday 2nd July (10-12 noon).
President's Message 16th March 2019
tu tahi tatou Christchurch – in our thoughts
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THE CAUSE OF OCEAN TIDES ON EARTH
The direct forces felt by Earth’s oceans due to the Moon’s gravitational field is extremely small, at about one nine millionth of the force they feel from Earth’s own gravitational field. Therefore our ocean tides are not caused by the simple lifting of the oceans due to the direct pull from the Moon.
Photography Group 1 wound up a successful year with a Christmas lunch at the Kaimai Café. The group has very enthusiastic members, who are keen to learn more about photography and the editing of their photos.
Writers' Inc was born out of Chris Parkes' Memoir Writing group from 2014. When Chris moved away from Tauranga some of us wanted to continue writing in a group and I took on the convenor's role. Since then one member has died and two others have left, having completed all they wanted to write.
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