Highlights from the Last 40 Years from 1976

Our Clubs beginnings

1976 – 1979

June 1976 – The first Tea Meeting was also a Ladies Night and fully supported by sponsoring Ngongotaha Club. Twelve members were involved in the first activity of establishing the grounds of the new Mokoia Intermediate School.
July 1976 – Pruning of fruit trees for local widow; 25 members were involved in collecting for Braille.
August 1976 – First Charter Night for the Club
September 1976 – Te Puke Club was raided and our Charter Night gift of two guinea pigs were passed on; First members lost and first new members inducted
1976 – Projects included a working bee at a local kindergarten where a sandpit was installed; a collaboration with a bottling firm where Lions earned two cents from each bottle collected
1977 – Along with the Geyserland Club ran a very successful fundraising activity – DIG IN – many hundreds of participants with digging licenses sold – this became an annual project going forward; building jetties at Hannah’s Bay & Lake Tarawera
February 1977 – Assisted local angling club to build a jetty at Hannah’s Bay
April 1977 – A feature of the Ladies Night was a rolling fine instead of the usual tail twister with an extra heavy purse resulting
February 1978 -20 crippled children taken for a picnic to Lake Tarawera; IHC door to door collection; sponsored children to Waiotapu Camp
April 1978 – Rotorua’s Fletcher Marathon saw twelve members manning two special drink stations – this became an annual project going forward
September 1978 – Held disco at Mokoia Intermediate; 12 members worked all day cutting and delivering pungas with $500 profit – one of many such drives in the future
1979 – Projects included sheep manure sales, punga drives, bottle drives, painting buildings, and carpark lines, firewood cutting and storing

Our Clubs beginnings

1976 – 1979

June 1976 – The first Tea Meeting was also a Ladies Night and fully supported by sponsoring Ngongotaha Club. Twelve members were involved in the first activity of establishing the grounds of the new Mokoia Intermediate School.

July 1976 – Pruning of fruit trees for local widow; 25 members were involved in collecting for Braille.

August 1976 – First Charter Night for the Club

September 1976 – Te Puke Club was raided and our Charter Night gift of two guinea pigs were passed on; First members lost and first new members inducted

1976 – Projects included a working bee at a local kindergarten where a sandpit was installed; a collaboration with a bottling firm where Lions earned two cents from each bottle collected

1977 – Along with the Geyserland Club ran a very successful fundraising activity – DIG IN – many hundreds of participants with digging licenses sold – this became an annual project going forward; building jetties at Hannah’s Bay & Lake Tarawera

February 1977 – Assisted local angling club to build a jetty at Hannah’s Bay

April 1977 – A feature of the Ladies Night was a rolling fine instead of the usual tail twister with an extra heavy purse resulting

February 1978 -20 crippled children taken for a picnic to Lake Tarawera; IHC door to door collection; sponsored children to Waiotapu Camp

April 1978 – Rotorua’s Fletcher Marathon saw twelve members manning two special drink stations – this became an annual project going forward

September 1978 – Held disco at Mokoia Intermediate; 12 members worked all day cutting and delivering pungas with $500 profit – one of many such drives in the future

1979 – Projects included sheep manure sales, punga drives, bottle drives, painting buildings, and carpark lines, firewood cutting and storing

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