RECIPIENTS RECOMMEND SCHOLARSHIP

19 October 2011 (download)

Two recent recipients of the Rotorua Trust JWJ Lepper Memorial Scholarship for Apprentices thoroughly recommend applying for the annual award.

Rhys Calcutt recently completed his mechanical engineering apprenticeship with Rotorua Mitsubishi said being awarded the scholarship really helped him out a lot.  “The scholarship covered all my fees for my advanced training.  I certainly would not have been able to pay all my fees as quickly as I did if I hadn’t been awarded this scholarship,” he said.

Mr Calcutt is currently completing his Atech advanced technician level five mechanical engineering training.  “It wasn’t difficult to apply for the scholarship.  My MITO (motor industry training organisation) rep gave me the details and I found the rest of the information, including the application form, on the Trust’s website.  The Trust’s interview process was good and I really enjoyed the award ceremony,” he said.

Daniel Dufty, who has a couple of months left of his carpentry apprenticeship with Pope Homes said the award went towards buying new tools.  “I definitely recommend applying for the scholarship.  My mum told me about it because one of the apprentices she works with had been awarded a scholarship the previous year plus other builders encouraged me to do it.  I would do it again,” he said.

More than $50,000 has been awarded in scholarships to local apprentices since the JWJ Lepper Memorial Apprenticeship Scholarships were introduced in 2004. 

Rotorua Trust education spokesperson, Lyall Thurston said the scholarships were named in honour of the Trust’s first chairman, the late Johnny Lepper.  “Johnny was passionate about the Trust and his deep feeling and understanding for all people in the Rotorua District was legendary.  Trustees at the time felt it only fitting that Johnny’s enormous contribution to our local community be honoured with an award benefiting young people who had the initiative, attitude and motivation to succeed in their chosen profession or trade - and that sentiment remains today,” he said.

Mr Thurston said apprentices, both male and female, from a wide range of professions and trades have benefitted from the scholarships since they were first launched.  “Trustees would like to see even more applications from local apprentices this year.”

Recipients of the .JWJ Lepper Memorial Apprenticeship Scholarship receive $1,000 each.  Full details and application forms can be found on the Trust’s website www.rotoruatrust.org.nz   Applications close at 5 pm on Friday, 18 November 2011.

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For more information please contact:
Lyall Thurston
Rotorua Trust Education Spokesperson
Telephone 07 348 6768 or 0274 966 499
Web www.rotoruatrust.org.nz

Notification of intention by Trustees or the Rotorua Energy Charitable Trust to alter the district  boundaries of the Trust

Dated at Rotorua, September 2011 (download RDC Boundaries)

Notice is hereby given that at the Meeting of Trustees of the RotoruaEnergy Charitable Trust to be held on Thursday 20th October, 2011, and pursuant to the powers vested in the Trustees by clause 12.1(a) of the Trust Deed, Trustees will consider varying the Trust Deed by deleting clause 6.1 of the Trust Deed and substituting the following clause 6:

"For the purposes of this Deed, "District" means

• the territory over which the Rotorua Area Electricity Authority was authorised to supply electricity as at 31 March 1993 pursuant to the Rotorua Area Electricity Supply Licence 1985; and
• to the extent not within the territory contemplated by  paragraph (a) of this clause 6, the area of the Rotorua District Council (being the area delineated on S.O. Plan No. 58044 deposited with the Chief Surveyor of the South Auckland Land District as constituted by the Local Government (Bay of Plenty Region) Reorganisation Order 1989, Gazette 1989, p.2275)."
  

The result of this variation will be to expand the District so that it embraces all land within the district of the Rotorua District Council, together with other land that is already within the Rotorua Trust District under the Trust Deed. 

Trustees are not considering and do not propose the narrowing of boundaries such that any land that is presently within the District under the Trust Deed might cease to be within that District.

Further information concerning this matter can be obtained from the trust website www.rotoruatrust.org.nz and any submissions should be addressed by mail to the Rotorua Energy Charitable Trust, PO Box 1418, Rotorua 3040 or by email to admin@rotoruatrust.org.nz before 15th October 2011.

By order of the Trustees

Stuart B Burns
Chief Executive
Rotorua, 16thSeptember 2011

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