Tauranga City

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U3A Group Report Summary – November 2024

Groups who would welcome more members:

  • Acoustic Music Group
  • Apple Mac Support
  • Ballet Appreciation,
  • Buildings & Cities
  • Camera Club
  • Current Events D
  • Dining Group 5
  • Hikers 1.
  • Hikers 2 Now out of recessions. First hike 14th
  • Scrabble
  • Movies Lux Papamoa

Groups with change of Convener:

  • History B: Murray Armstrong has taken over from Carol Chetwyn
  • Dining Group 3: Pam Hansen is now Convener.
  • Global Issues: Alison Hulme is now Convener.

Thank you to Carol Chetwyn, Ray Goldfinch and Bill Frayling for your work keeping these groups going.

Groups with other Changes:

Photo Enhancing: closing after November meeting

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U3A General Meetings

Katikati:

The next Katikati U3A Monthly meeting will be held next Wednesday [13th October] at the Community Hub (the Centre - Patuki Manawa) next to the Library, from 10:00am - 12:00 noon.

The meeting starts with general business for a few minutes. Our ‘short talk’ will be a debate using the moot ”Is Santa Claus Real?’ This will be a joint presentation demonstrating the skills of both the Philosophy group and the Wordsters.

Morning tea will be as close to 10:30 as possible, and will be followed at 11:00am by our guest speaker for this month who is Rochelle Lockley, General Manager Communications from Port of Tauranga who will give us an overview of the development of the port and plans for the future. This should be illuminating as Port of Tauranga has such an impact on the commercial welfare of the Bay of Plenty.

 

Click here for a report from the May meeting with Carole Parker from Katikati Abbeyfields Trust and Don Allan-Gordon from Graeme Dingle Foundation

Tauranga:

The next members' meeting for U3A Tauranga Inc is Friday 15 November.  Normal Tauranga Yacht Club Venue, 90 Keith Allen Drive, Sulphur Point.  Time: 9.45am for 10.00 start through to 12.00 Noon.
 
REMINDER: THIS MEETING IS ALSO THE ELECTION GENERAL MEETING OF U3A TAURANGA INC.
 
Main Speaker:  Kit Wilson     Kit Wilson2
 
Topic: 
 
'My journey from local activist to 'corporate apologist for a sunset industry’
 
Kit says where his talk goes will depend partly on what we are interested in and the questions we ask. What he will cover, is his journey from local activist to Corporate Communications Manager for a mining multinational. Recently he was asked how he sleeps at night. He will cover that too, as well as pondering on the problems we have in our society with communicating effectively, and in particular in listening. He expects to be challenged. 
 
Kit has an M.Ed (Hons) Dip.T. and taught at Katikati College for 20 years where he became Head of Media Studies. He says 'it was an exciting time, with video just arriving and visual literacy becoming part of the curriculum. For a time, he was an Education Department Advisor and regularly contributed at conferences and workshops. Just as video was arriving in classrooms, in Katikati gold miners were showing an interest in the local area. Kit became chairperson of the newly established Kaimai Action Group which had the aim of opposing gold mining in the Western Bay of Plenty. Now he works for a gold miner with two large mines in New Zealand, a headquarters in Canada, and operations in the Philippines and South Carolina. He clearly either has no moral centre,  or a lot of explaining to do ...'
 
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Contact us by e-mail The Secretary;  or write to; U3A Tauranga, PO Box 14453, Tauranga 3141.

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