Chas Townsing is an enthusiast. For many years the 69-year-old baker had a dream of running a cattle station. He’d had a few head on a small hobby farm in Maryborough, Vic, but he really wanted to try his hand at the real thing.
So, after a highly successful career as a baker, he and his wife Fay sold up and bought Cawkers Well, a 75,000 acre property just west of Wilcannia in the far west of NSW, and they’re now running more than 600 Herefords.
Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) program makes a huge difference in the lives of young people. Graduates aspire to become future leaders in Rotary clubs and communities.
Telstra Pacific Events Centre at Manukau in Auckland, New Zealand, was the perfect venue for the Rotary Club of Papakura’s inaugural National Classic Motorcycle Show of bikes from vintage to 1992. On August 4-5 over 250 bikes, 12 motorcycle clubs and 27 trade exhibitors were exposed to 3200 visitors.
The Rotary Club of New Lynn recently inducted their newest and youngest member, 18-year-old Collette Lochore who is Miss World NZ 2012. After being crowned the winner of this year’s pageant, Collette then represented New Zealand in the 62nd Miss World Grand Final on August 18 in China.
Rosies is a highly respected not-for-profit organisation dedicated to servicing their “Friends on the Street”. To ensure the continuation of their wonderful work assisting the homeless and underprivileged of the Gold Coast community, the Rotary Club of Southport, Qld, raised $35,000 to enable the purchase of a desperately needed replacement van.
Rotarians are always willing to get their hands dirty to help a good cause, but this year two New Zealand clubs decided to take it to the extreme!
Strong support from hundreds of volunteers and the removal of thousands of square metres of graffiti from 110 sites on or around September 23 provided proof of the success of yet another graffiti removal day in New South Wales.
We now have more than 1500 subscribers receiving the electronic edition of Rotary Down Under and the list continues to grow every day.
Chumkriel is a seasonal rice and salt farming community of 1800 people on the edge of the Gulf of Thailand, south west of Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh.