New Zealand Handloaders Association Inc., Phone 359-8832 (Clubrooms) McLeans Road, Harewood, Christchurch, Postal Address:P O Box 5497, Papanui, Christchurch 8542

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NZ Handloaders Associaton Inc. monthly newsletter.

March 2011 Greetings too all. The club end of financial year is upon us again. Your annual subscription for membership expires on March 31st. The gate key will be changed on April 30th per usual. Subs have been set by the committee for the financial year 2011-12 at $180.00 inclu-sive of GST. This is an increase on last year made up of two factors. The first is the impact of the change of GST from 12.5% to 15% and the second is a 5% increase to cover the cost of infla-tion. The committee intends to make small annual increases to the subs in line with inflation so to avoid the huge adjustment the NZHA was forced to make two years back after not increasing subs for a decade. This year the club will be conducting a com-plete recoding of all locks as the current sequence of keys is ex-hausted. A one off key fee of $15.00 will be payable also. Please remember that a firearms license MUST be sighted before a key will be issued. NO EXCEPTIONS. Included with the newsletter is a renewal form for each member to com-plete and return with payment. It is essential you complete the form FULLY in order for the NZHA to maintain an accurate membership record data base. Should you choose to post in your payment and do not include a completed form your membership will not be processed. Per rule 7.B.3 on the NZHA charter, any membership not renewed by the last day of May will be struck from the records and said members will be subject reapplying for membership via the usual process.

A HELPING HAND: The NZHA has extended an offer to Richard Wilhelm of Wilhelm Arms and Optics to use the club rooms as a base on a Tuesday evening in view of Richard’s earthquake predicament. Contact Richard directly to make arrangements. wilhelm@actrix.co.nz www.wilhelm.co.nz The NZHA has extended this offer to Talon Arms and Hamills given the horrific events of February 22nd. Now speaking of the earthquake I am pleased to report the club-rooms and facilities have remained undamaged again. The baf-fle beams on the rifle range experienced a small amount of movement which has since been remedied but all other features are fine. TRACER AMMO: Have you all seen that the good old boys at Gun City are presently selling 7.62X39 Czech milsurp tracer ammo for near give away prices? True! So go forth and get yourself some while it lasts………. and go and find somewhere OTHER than the NZHA range to use it. Anyone caught burning tracer at the club will experience the joy that is a life time ban. Tracer has the potential to cause fires, something we don’t need. Keep your powder dry. Jeff.

Range calendar and events. Shotgun (riverside skeet and down the line trap) and rifle ranges open to members and the general public every

Tuesday evening, 7:00-10:00pm Rifle range schedule: Volunteer NZHA range officers.

March 22nd Ruffell, Bellchamber, Kidd March 29th Danrell, Sinclair, Kidd April 5th Barber, Adamson, Terry April 12th Berry, Lane, Vaughan

April 19th Genet, Ogier, Mander April 26th Ruffell, Danrell, Bellchamber May 3rd TBA May 10th TBA May 17th TBA

May 24th TBA

May 31st TBA

Rifle range closures: Antique Arms Canterbury Branch have full use of the shotgun and rifle ranges the Sunday immediately following the last Thursday of the month. Ranges closed to members 9:00-4:30pm January 30th February 27th March 27th May 1st May 29th July 3rd July 31st August 28th October 22nd October 30th November 27th December TBA

Next committee meeting:

April 11th, 7:00pm at the club rooms.

New Zealand Handloaders Association Inc., Phone 359-8832 (Clubrooms) McLeans Road, Harewood, Christchurch, Postal Address:P O Box 5497, Papanui, Christchurch 8542

www.nzha.co.nz

NZ Handloaders Associaton Inc. monthly newsletter.

CLUB ROOM ACCESS: For those that would like access to the clubrooms for the purpose of using the loading room the commit-tee is pleased to inform you that keys will be issued for such ac-cess on request. The conditions of access to the reloading room will be on 1) tenure with the club, 2) reloading experience or 3) completion of the reloading course. For reloading course details contact Mark email: tertle@clear.net.nz BULLETIN BOARD: Now mounted on the back wall of the range covered area. Each month this newsletter will be displayed on it along with any other club material. Feel free to pin up your ‘for sale’ or ‘wanted to buy’ ads where space is free. Something to buy or sell? Email the news-

letter compiler and have it put in this tremendous publication.

RANGE FEE REMINDER!!

All non NZHA members are to pay a $15.00 range fee when using the range as a guest of a member. This applies to those 18 years and over. Children

are free. Money to go in the drop box.

Additional club posts/officers.

CONVENOR (Shotgun) Bruce Adams RANGE OFFICERS (Shotgun) Ivan Baird, Val Adams, John Reilly, Bruce Adams, Simon Glubb, Jeff Cox CONVENOR (Rifle) Reg Kidd RANGE OFFICERS (Rifle) Reg Kidd, Graeme Barber, Darryl Bellchamber, Lake Sinclair, An-thony Danrell, Bill Terry, Paul Mander, Tony Ruffell, Chris Ros-siter, Wayne Genet, Jason Vaughan, Robbie Lane, Craig Ogier, LIBRARY Val Adams CO PATRONS Stan Kerr, Derek Taylor HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS Stan Kerr, Derek Taylor, Barry Ufton, Reg Kidd, Eric Moir, Val Adams, Bruce Adams, Anthony Danrell

Officers of the club 2010 - 2011 COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE President Mark Boddy Email: tertle@clear.net.nz Vice President Ivan Baird 3296647 Secretary/Newsletter compiler Jeff Brown 3421321Email: jeff.brown@clear.net.nz Treasurer Simon Glubb Email simonglubb@hotmail.com Membership Secretary Robbie Lane Email porkpie@slingshot.co.nz Immediate Past President Anthony Danrell 3488321 COMMITTEE: Bruce Adams 3296770 Val Adams 3296770 Jeff Cox 03 3122591 Nicky Hockley 0210 2221558 Reg Kidd 9803872 Bob Kirk 3485576 John Reilly 3523879 Bruce Douglas email: brucedouglasnz@yahoo.com

Regular Events Every Tuesday evening the Shotgun and Rifle Ranges are open to members and to the public. On the second Sunday of the month the Club holds a Shotgun Shoot in the morning commenc-

ing at 9.00am. NZHA Committee Meetings are held on the second Monday of every month in the clubrooms

commencing at 7.00pm. All members are welcome to attend committee meetings. Speaking rights of non committee members are at the discretion of the president.

The Antique Arms Association hire the facilities on the Sunday after the last Thursday in each month from 9.00am to 4.30pm.

New Member(s) Stuart McKinney, Rob Brown, Andy Walker, David Bright, Hugh MacLean, Matthew Allen. “Welcome to the NZHA Inc. Visit often, stay long.” Prospective new member(s) Martin van den Nieuwelaar, James Roberts, Jeff Zhou. NOTE: If anyone has any concerns about these prospective members please contact a committee member.

New Zealand Handloaders Association Inc., Phone 359-8832 (Clubrooms) McLeans Road, Harewood, Christchurch, Postal Address:P O Box 5497, Papanui, Christchurch 8542

www.nzha.co.nz

NZ Handloaders Associaton Inc. monthly newsletter.

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NEW BOUNDARY FENCE: We have received reports of enthusiastic people climbing over the newly completed security fence. This is an unlawful act and an persons caught doing so will be trespassed from the site. In order to discourage such activities the committee will be adding a BARBED feature to the top of the current boundary. We had been planning an electric fence but the electricity supply has been patchy lately…………….which brings me to………….

THE EARTHQUAKE OF FEBRUARY 22ND. Where do I start? A day that not one of us will forget, ever. After our city braved the September 4th quake and heaving a sigh of relief at NOT ONE life being lost, nature pulled the trump card on the 22nd. If anyone had told me 6 months ago that our fair city would be ravaged by an earthquake that would take 200 people from us, I would have laughed. I am pretty sure the scientists would have laughed too. It just goes to show that we all need to be prepared all the time. Being at work an away from my family, the locations of which I was not sure of, was unpleasant at best but that is something most of us will have experience that day. On a personal note, it has been a particularly troublesome three weeks for myself as I have lost a very dear friend who became a victim of the PGC building. Michael and I started school together in 1974 and his death has effected me greatly and more so than that of my own father. To all of our members and their families I want to say please look out for each other at this awful time. Nerves are easily frayed at times like these and emo-tions run close the surface especially if prior the quake you were under a bit of acid to begin with. I appreciate many of our members are most likely still experiencing utility challenges, ie: no water or toilets. Through my work I have been helping unload thousands of chemical toilets from charter flights and never has the Christ-church airport seen so many 747 freighters. Don’t forget the club has a bore of it’s own with good, clean water. If you have containers, don’t be shy about rocking out the NZHA site and filling them with fresh drinking water to save boiling the living daylights out of town supply. Of course to add to the mood of the city today (16th March) we hear the news that was, in real terms inevitable, that the Rugby World Cup will be bypassing Christchurch. I don’t even follow rugby but was still disappointed. Being philosophical about this it’s probably for the best. Our city infrastructure is taxed right now and just imagine the amount of human waste 10000 members of the Barmy Army could produce living exclusively on a diet of meat pies and beer! So good people, chin up and let’s look forward to better days to come and spare a thought for those in Japan right now.

Working bee April 10th. Lots of do before winter sets in.