Eastern Southland- AGM
Eastern Southland members elect new committee
The Year six Eastern Southland Committee election and networking night was held at the Hokonui Moonshine Museum in Gore on Thursday February 2nd.
It was attended by 20 members and guests Tatiana Secombe and Lachlan Elliot from Gore’s sister city Tamworth.
Nick Jeffery of Hokonui Radio, was elected unopposed for his 3rd year as Chairperson, Ewen Whitefield (Clive Wilson) remained imt past Chair and the 2005/2006 committee retained
Rosemarie Inder (Inders Marineland) John Wilson (ABN AMRO Craigs)
Nigel More ( CRT ) Melissa King GDC)
who were joined by Justine Abernethy (DB Breweries) Robyn Perkins (Perkins Dentist)
Pauline Adams (Malloch McClean) and Tony Shallard (Gore Security Services) |  |
The Chair’s report highlighted the commissioning of the Chambers Gore website project gorenz.com which is filling the sizable gap in promoting the district on the Internet. This $11.7k project from grants raised through the Chamber and from a marathon work load by the project committee lead by Ewen Whitefield will be handed over to the Gore District Council in March as a community asset. The CBD Camera project was another highlighted project which has seen 2 security cameras installed in the shopping precinct with a further 2 to be installed on the fringe shortly.
The meeting time went over the record 7 minutes but did not encroach into the networking evening which started with an update from Melissa King on the forthcoming Moonshiners Festival on February 25th.
 | Melissa also produced a sample 750mil bottle of special brew ‘Hokonui Moonshine’ which was put on the bar and later formed a queue behind it.
Justine Abernethy, DB Breweries, gave a talk on the production and history of Monteiths West Coast Brewery at which she passed around samples of the various hops that are used for the different labels.
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Pictured
Nigel More smelling the hops.After her informative talk she asked a quiz question with the winner Lachlan Elliot,one of the Tamworh visitors, being the 3rd to answer, and by answering correctly, winning a Monteith 6 pack selection. |  |
The attendees then got serious in adjourning to the Moonshine Museum bar, to undertake the obligatory Monteith beer tasting with a little moonshine chasing, all the while also enjoying a generous well laid out supper.
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