"LIVING WILLS"

Another hot day.

Thank goodness for air conditioning while we found out all about 'Living Wills'.

The Toastmaster , Barbara , opened the meeting and welcomed members and visitor Ian (from Hastings Club). He gave as good a rendition of the Mission Statement as heard for a long time.

Jen gave a presentation on “Living Wills” using the “written Speech” project..There was much of interest to learn from this talk. Her advice was that it is essential if you wanted to make sure your wishes are respected. She also mentioned in passing a useful treatment, buscopan, should you be emmitting a death rattle. That's your reporter's word of the day. Graeme  evaluated the speech and suggested Jen use pauses more emphatically. Buscopan could do it?

Our esteemed President Helen ,gave a presentation on the Speech Contest coming up next week. She covered the various activities involved and the judging sheet. She summarised and took questions from the floor. Graeme then encouraged us all to enter. Hey Graeme,we've only got 50 minutes!

Noel  conducted Table Topics based on clippings from recent newspapers. Linda Elliott spoke on old houses, Wendy  talked about the Earthquake, Ian  thought Brendon McCallum had made a significant contribution to cricket and Mike  launched into song about healthy food. Carol  had to evaluate them and although generally positive pointed out that no one greeted the chair or audience.

In the business session the raffle was drawn by our visitor and won by Jen. Members should note that it is intended to discontinue the raffle from the end of March. The plan is that the subs will rise by $10 instead. This will work out less costly for members and save them having to find a prize, find coins and take time running the raffle.

David  was General Evaluator and Ian, Time Keeper.