Welcome back we hope you had a great Xmas & New Year, as far as I know everyone stayed safe and there were no offs. Some of us went on Trevor Birchall’s New Year’s Day ride, unfortunately it started to rain heavily as we left McDonald’s and by the time we arrived at the first stop some of us pulled the plug and went home to dry out while the rest went straight to Mercer for Brunch. 

We had a great turnout of members, partners and visitors from other branches for our Xmas Dinner & Dance, the meal was fantastic and the band was excellent, along with the band followers we had a great evening. I think every-one must have eaten too much as most of the dancing was done by the visitors. Our branch funds accumulated by gear sales, raffles and the Sheriff’s fines paid for the band and subsidised the cost of member’s meals, so keep on buying those raffle tickets, being disgraceful and buy club regalia through our quartermaster. 

IMPORTANT NOTICE

The Cossie Club is closing down due to lack of “Bums on Seats” so is no longer available for our club night, we have negotiated with the Pupuke Golf Club, 231 East Coast Road (opp Sunnynook Rd) Campbells Bay to use their clubrooms for our meetings which will start there on Thursday February 4th,  unfortunately they have a previous booking for the March 3rd club night so we will shift to Thursday 10th March but will switch back to the 1st Thursday of the month with the AGM night Thursday 7th April. Hours will be 5.30pm start with last drinks being called for at 8.30 and closing at 9.00pm, we will have the club house to ourselves, they will provide a professional chef and Bar Manager and the outlook is fantastic. Unfortunately we have to pay for the cleaners at a cost of $75.00 so a gold coin donation would be appreciated when you sign in. As with the Cossie Club non Golf Club members will have to sign in. 

Social membership is available for $25.00 a year, they have a members dinner night and raffles every Friday and in the non daylight saving period they do a Friday Night members draw increasing by $100 if not won, you have to be present to win. Some of us have already joined and tried the Friday Night meals, delicious!.  If you come on a Friday night the dress standard is collared shirts and no “T” shirts or Club vests. 

Is YOUR membership number here?  If so and you haven’t already paid, your subs are overdue.
9293 Shane, 8729 Graeme, 6960 Shane, 9064 Sue, 9065 Rob, 8908 Jim, 5167 Maureen, 8560 Sue, 9203 Vicki, 7618 Brian, 9249 Jeremy, 6293 Hans, 9000 Eugene, 9157 David, 9202 Craig, 6998 David, 9301 Mike, 7917 Phil, 7918 Anne, 8782 Jason, 9150 Gareth, 6589 Stephen, 8694 Bruce, 9156 Patrick, 1805 David.
We have renewal forms at club night and you can get a joint discount for partners who live at the same address. This is a great club to belong to and the success of our branch depends on your participation, please don’t let your membership lapse, if you don’t renew before 31st January ’16 you will have to pay another joining fee. 

Our Branch AGM will be held 7th April at the Pupuke Golf Club, Lounge opens at 5.30pm for meals & drinks.  AGM meeting will be at 7.30pm you will need to show your membership card if you wish to speak or vote.  All committee positions are open for nominations as well as non-committee positions Runs Coordinator, Quartermaster, Sheriff and Newsletter Editor. Nomination forms are available at Club Night, on our North Harbour Ulysses website  or by contacting our secretary or print a copy as attached below. 

Nominations will close on March 8th, if you need to do a postal vote contact the Secretary on the above email. 

The National bike raffle tickets will be available at club night @ $10.00 per ticket, the winning number will be drawn at the National AGM. (You don’t have to be there and you will be phoned straight after the draw)

As many of you know our Branch Vice President Vaughan Nankivell is seriously sick with cancer and his medication/treatment is extremely expensive, we have a Give-a-Little page called “49 is Too Young” to raise some money to help him out with this. Every donation goes to a special account and no amount is too small, please help out.  You can get to the link through North Harbour Ulysses website.

Long Service (Membership) badges.
Badges are available for 10, 15, 20 & 25 year continuous membership on request for a small charge,  see Dale or myself to arrange one, you will need to produce your current membership card, badge cost is for 10, 15. 20 year badge is $10.00, the branch pays for your 25 year badge.

Important Dates to remember:

Thursday 4rd February, 1st 2016 Club Night. NOTE NEW VENUE,  PUPUKE GOLF CLUB, 231 East Coast Rd. (opp Sunnynook Road)

Sunday February 14th, Auckland Rescue Helicopter Charity Ride, all members should support this event.

Sunday February 21st, Red Knights Burns Run, 

Sunday March 6th,  30th Waikato CCF Toyrun, starts in Cambridge finishes at Frankton Village,

March 10th, Club Night, Pupuke Golf Club, East Coast Road, Campbells Bay. (opp Sunnynook Rd) 

March 11th – 13th  Do the Guss Rally in Nelson on the way to the AGM, details in NatMag. 

March 18th - 20th National AGM in Westport. Entry form & details in December Natmag.

April 7th Club Night & Branch AGM at 7.30, Pupuke Golf Club, East Coast Rd,  (opp Sunnynook Rd)
 

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