Chairman’s Report

Another month has rolled by, with the weather warming and the weekends filling up with things to do. After an interesting start to the week the rain and snow cleared in time for a good weekend of weather for the swap meet, which was well attended by people both buying and selling. Many thanks to Colin Hey for another year of successfully gathering together all the moving parts to make it happen, and thanks also to all who volunteered their time to one of the numerous tasks that keep things going over the weekend. As the swap meet is effectively the only fund raising event for the year, the contribution to keeping the branch running for another year is greatly appreciated. Once again there was a good turnout for OCBC, as well as being the start point for the All British day (once again organised by Colin Hey), and although there was a range of vehicles represented anything not of English heritage was well and truly outnumbered. I’m thinking there must be a collective noun for that large a group of Mini’s. A thought when looking over the Japanese car and motorcycle swap meet display is that this is probably the future of the club, particularly when considering that it all started with young people with cars of a similar age to the 80’s and 90’s ones on display. Looking at the predominant vehicles in the different age ranges, we’ve gone from a mixture of British and American, to predominantly British, slowly drifting into mostly Japanese as the newly eligible vehicles. There has of course always been a good sprinkling of Europeans, and looking at what some of the younger people (and some older ones who should probably know better) are driving, we can probably expect to see more of these turning up as time goes on. The challenge is to make sure we also evolve to keep up. Looking forward, there’s plenty coming up to keep you entertained, so get your entries in and I look forward to seeing you out and about. Neil

SECRETARY’S REPORT

SUBSCRIPTIONS are due NOW not in six months, if you haven’t paid or received your account by now then you need to contact National Office now, not tomorrow phone 03 366 4461 between 9.30am and 1.30pm or email admin@vcc.org.nz . If you are unsure then send me an email at canterbury@vcc.org.nz or give me a call on 03 338 2320 / 021 126 3529 and I can check if you are still listed in the data base.

I need to remind you that if you are not paid by March you will have broken service which affects long service badges. Remember if you are not financial as at March 2023 you are five months overdue and your copy of April 2023 issue of Beaded Wheels will not be sent and for those who subscribe to the printed/posted version of the Hub Canterbury Branch magazine , your copy will cease as of December 2022. Your subscription for this was added to your National Club Invoice as of Nov 2021 and 2022 and now runs from November to October each year. As at mid October we have had fourteen resignations to date. Please, if you intend resigning from the club this year, would you let me or National office know as soon as possible. If you could include reasons for your resignation this would be greatly appreciated, as this helps with the direction of the Club’s future. Happy and safe summer motoring, Regards Rod

A Reminder

Payment Details: Don’t forget that when making payments to the Branch you can do this by direct credit to our account 03 1594 0096832 00. Please put your the name in the particulars field and the name of the event eg, rally name in the reference field.