FMD, University of Waikato
Issue No: 47 – January/February 2007
The Rev Team – written by Clive - (left to right in picture on the right are):
Clive Hobson, Michelle-Jordan Tong, Mary Jane Waddington & Tony Dicks
It was a great day and a great race (which we won by the way!!) not that winning
makes it a great day, mind you it helps. I reckon that more people should give it a go
but try to steer clear of French pass. Its as tough as people say and when you get to
my age its worse!
The girls did great and both took at least 10 mins off their allotted times, but what did
impress me was the poise of balance of our illustrious leader, Tony (Lance Armstrong)
Dicks. I tried riding with him to assist on his leg of the race but I kept falling off my bike.
Many thanks to all our sponsors and support team – well done Laurie Drummond!!
Parking Attendant
Neil Hindman
Name:
Paanui Tuna
(Paki or Mr. Fish)
DOB:
Not yet
Kaumatua Status
Address:
Te Awamutu
Welcome to FMD’s newest occupant of the corridors of power: Neil
Hindman joins Trevor Harris’ Buildings Maintenance Team as a
Project Supervisor, as replacement for Mua Taito. Neil, of course,
has been a familiar face in FMD for a couple of years as a
carpenter within Pieter Koer’s team. We congratulate Neil on his
promotion and wish him well in his new position. ---- Trevor Harris
Martial Status: Married to Kris
Children:
2 x boys; Matt is
25 and PJ is 23
Likes:
Going out for
dinner with my wife, golf, time with my sons,
Van Morrison music and overseas travel.
Liars, Bullies and control freaks.
Dislikes:
Hobbies:
ƒ Currently the Event Organiser for the Great NZ Trail Ride
Inc., an Annual 7 day Horse Trekking Event that raises
funds for different Charities.
ƒ March 2007, our event will take place here in the Waikato
raising funds for The WAIKATO BREAST CANCER
TRUST.
7 days of horse trekking from Te Pahu across to Waingaro
Hot Springs and back to Te Pahu.
My Work:
Although just new to this job; (Parking Attendant) I feel this
job was made specifically for me. I have never really worked
in an environment that was not positive in every aspect. This
is great. Who knows, this job may see me through to
retirement? That’s if I don’t kick the bucket first!
Super 14 Rugby competition:
-------------A change of title and
perspective from mid
January from
maintenance carpenter to
projects supervisor.
No stranger to FMD or the
University after nearly two
years in the previous
position, it is great to still
be part of the same team
and to try and continue the good work being done around the
campus.
Away from work I live in Morrinsville with my wife Sue and our
adult son Chris, our daughter Elizabeth lives in Hamilton with her
partner Damian. I, like most males, have lots of interests and not
enough time to fit them all in. Most days I ride my motorbike to
work, sometimes I cycle.
Sue and I try to walk together everyday either morning or evening
or both. Golf once or twice a year and fishing a few times a year
are slotted in with gardening, developing a new home section and
riding/driving around the country.
I belong to the Morrinsville Rotary club and, along Sue, the
Hamilton Ulysses motorcycle club.
We are now into our fifth week of the Super 14 rugby
competition. This is proving to be a lot harder this year with no Work offers the challenge of dealing with many and people and
certainties. Don’t forget to get your entry fees in, and keep situations which I find to be mainly enjoyable and stimulating.
--- Neil Hindman
those selections coming in!!
Santa was a popular visitor to the Grounds 2006 Christmas Party!
Santa and Mark Thompson
Santa and Faye Kett
Balloons Over Waikato!!
Language Institute - Auckland
Wednesday before Christmas 2006 is not the ideal time to move 85cubic metres of
furniture from Auckland to our storage space at RS1. Complications arose with short
notification of the move, and an already busy time for furniture moving companies.
Crown Relocations stepped up to the plate by
providing (at short notice) a brand new truck
built especially for business relocations. Any
move out of premises situated in the Auckland
Central Business district can be complicated.
Luckily Crown was able to organise parking for
the trucks outside the front door of the premises
and the move commenced at 8.00am. At
6.00pm the lifts in the building could only be
activated by using a security key (of which
we had only one) sometimes stopping completely, for no apparent reason. Further
complications arose when (at 7.00pm) it became clear; there was not enough space
on the truck to take everything to be moved.
Crown managed to locate a truck and driver
returning from Wellington staff). After unloading
that truck elsewhere, the driver and 2 other
staff members returned and assisted with
loading the remainder of the furniture, finishing
at 10.30 at night.
I suppose we should get used to this site.
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On the morning of 31 January, as I arrived
at work this balloon was below the tree line
below B Block.
Ray Hayward
Unloading the next morning Thursday)
commenced at 9.00am with the furniture now
nearly filling our storage at RS1. An
interesting move made much easier by a committed team of professional movers
and the staff of the Language Institute in Auckland.
Laurie Drummond
Refrigerant gas - Type R22
FMD SOCIAL CLUB UPDATE
By 2010 it will be illegal in Europe to use
newly manufactured (so-called virgin)
HCFCs to recharge air conditioning and
refrigeration equipment.
Although
recycled fluids will be allowed, the supply
of these will be shrinking and their use
banned altogether by 2015 – possibly
even earlier under growing pressure form
environmental groups.
RAFFLES: Please support the raffles – without them there would be no social club.
Money is to be paid in each week. The $2 man this year is Phil Whyte so please give your
raffle money to him. As there have been some people pull out of the raffles we have some
numbers available in both the Lotto and Raffle for anyone wanting a regular weekly number.
It saves the raffle seller lots of time if people have a regular number and pay weekly for
these numbers. If you have a regular number and are planning to be away from work,
please pay in advance for the weeks you will not be here. Its only $2 a week!!!!!
SOCIAL CLUB COACH TRIP TO ROTORUA: There will be a bus trip to Rotorua, plus a
th
Drop in replacement gases may become Boat Trip (lunch time meal on board) on 12 May. If you are interested put your names on
available but the price may be prohibitive the sheet in the FMD tearoom. The costs of this trip will be provided closer to the time.
and the performance of equipment will
suffer.
The dirty little secret about hybrids is that their batteries and extensive use of aluminium
If you are considering buying a new
refrigerator, or air conditioner, especially
form the discount retailers such as the
warehouse, be aware of these factors
prior to completing your purchase.
Ensure you ask.
parts make them costly to build in energy terms as well as financial terms.
One life-cycle assessment claims that, from factory floor to scrap heap, a Prius consumes
more energy even than a Hummer III. Diesels are unlikely to consume anything like as
much over their lifetime. That could change, of course, if some bright spark decides to
replace a hybrid's petrol engine with a diesel--to launch a family car capable of 100mpg.
Now there's a thought.
Robin Dunmall
Robin Dunmall
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