Rotorua Grey Power February 2017

Time for a Digital Will?
WIELAND HARTWIG
Grey Power Rotorua,
Committee Me mber
Many of us have a lot
of personal digital data
such as photos, letters,
video, audio, etc.
I was lucky. When the time
came, I had access to my parents'
and grandparents' data
because everything was stored
on paper.
Nowadays many of us –
including me – have much of
our legacy stored electronically.
Some of it is in the 'cloud' (i.e.
letters and photos) and some of
it on our personal computers.
What will happen to all this
information when we are no
more?
Who will have access to it?
Do we want others to read
about our indiscretions, our
most intimate letters?
Our children presumably
want to have access to their
history, trace their ancestry,
and wallow in a digital treasure
trove of photos they never
First winners of Grey
Power’s $100 cash prize
In our November 2016 issue,
we announced that commencing
February 2017,
Grey Power Rotorua would
award a cash prize each quarter
in conjunction with the
publication of its magazine.
Our first winners, drawn
at random from all members
financial at the time of the
draw, are
MURRAY AND WILMA HALL.
knew existed. They will want to
read about our past and how
we became the people we are
now.
How can you ensure your
heirs get copies of your favourite
family photos and the few
key documents?
Do you want to catalogue
and keep hundreds of digital
items?
What strategies will you use
for sorting and preserving letters
and emails?
How can you ensure your
email and/or bank account will
be available to those wrapping
up your estate?
Which digital data should be
destroyed when you die?
What should you do with
the huge photo collection (both
digital and paper)?
What should happen to
your Facebook account when
you are no longer around?
What choices are available
for keeping your digital archives
available and backed up?
Hmm….plenty of food for
thought.
President Russell Hallam and
committee member [and photographer]
Wieland Hartwig
were delighted to pass on the
modest prize.
To be in the draw you
need to make sure you are a
financial member. Grey Power
Rotorua accepts members
who are in the 50+ age group.
The winner/s of our next
draw will be announced in our
May 2017 issue…good luck!
Half an inch, half an inch
Half an inch shorter,
Whether the skirts are for
Mother or daughter.
Briefer the dresses grow,
Fuller the ripples now,
While whisking glimpses
show,
More than they oughter.
Forward the dress parade,
Is there a man dismayed?
No—from the sight
displayed
None could be sundered.
Theirs not to make remark,
Clergyman, clubman, clerk,
Gaping from noon till dark
At the Four Hundred.
Short skirts to right of
them—
Shorter to left of them,
Shortest in front of them,
Flaunted and flirted —
In hose of stripe and plaid,
Hued most exceeding glad,
Sporting in spats run mad,
Came the short-skirted.
Flashed all their ankles
there,
Flashed as they turned in
POEM
Charge of the limb brigade
air—
What will not women dare?
(Though the exhibits show
Some of them, blundered)
All sorts and shapes of pegs,
Broomsticks, piano legs;
Here and there fairy shapes;
Just built to walk on eggs,–
Came by the hundred —
When can their glory fade? ,
Oh, the wild show they
made,
All the world wondered,
Grande dame and
demoiselle,
Shop girl and "Smart Set"
belle
Four hundred—H'm—oh,
well,
Any old hundred.
Ellis Burnett
Montgomery Advertiser
Freelance, Volume XVII,
Issue 901, 19 October 1917
- What would Ellis Burnett
think of the hemlines today?
Submitted and researched
by Grey Power member Allan
MacKenzie
From the National
President’s desk: Issues
and options for 2017
From page 4
years residency, was generous
and basically sound
but there were a few anomalies
which needed to be
addressed, he said.
“We have a firm policy
to retain a state-funded,
universal, non-means tested
pension payable at age 65
years and that is our bottom
line. If politicians want
to use superannuation as a
political football they need
to remember that we can
field a formidable team and
there could be free kicks
and penalties aplenty.”
It was a proposal to apply
surtax to national superannuation
which gave rise to
Grey Power more than 30
years ago and O’Connor
said his national membership
of between 65,000 and
70,000 would not tolerate
another attempt to dilute
what was already a meagre
pension.
“We would rather
not get into a fight with
Government as we achieve
much more by working with
them on many important
issues but there are limits to
what we will tolerate.”
We hope the new Prime
Minster will discuss any proposed
changes to the system
with us before finalising
policies, he said.
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