WELSH TV FOOD EXPERT MEETS CLUB

Elin Wyn Jones, a science instructor at Ysgo Aberconwy in North Wales is also one of Wales' chief commentators on natural foodstuffs and their preparation. She appears regularly on the Welsh language channel Sianel Pedwar Cymru, known as SC4. She visited New Zealand to study artisan cheese production. Her visit was sponsored by the Nuffield Farming Scholarship Trust. The Nuffield Trust is based on a bequest by William Morris, the pioneering British auto manufacturer who, like his US counterpart Henry Ford, was determined to introduce automation into farming. Elin is pictured here with National Press Club president Peter Isaac, a founding member here of the Guild of Agricultural Journalists

John Roy with National Press Club secretary/treasurer Bryan Weyburne who organized the event. With them is club stalwart Krystine Tomaszyk also one of the Pahiatua children and chronicler of the odyssey in her book Essence (Dunmore Press.)

The reporter who announced the start of World War 2 has turned 100. Clare Hollingworth was stationed near the border of Germany and Poland and observed the build up of armour on the German side and was on-site when it started moving and smashing into Poland.

At the Territorial Forces Employer Support Council awards were National Press Club's Peter Isaac with Bob Fulton the Christchurch-based chief operating officer of Fulton Hogan and Julian Smith proprietor of the Otago Daily Times. Mr Fulton's firm is a leading sponsor of the scheme and Julian Smith OBE is the regional representative for Otago and Southland on the council. The awards ceremony was held in Parliament's Grand Hall. Speakers noted the benefit to participants of the applied technical and managerial skills transfer derived from active service at home and abroad with the Territorial Forces, The Territorial Forces Employer Support Council is the Minister of Defence's advisory agency on reserve forces.

National Press Club president Peter Isaac on what was covered and what was left uncovered during the General Election and in the course of this he invokes Lord Scarman (pictured.) Story inside.

Sir Christopher Harris in introducing ACT Party leader and former governor of the Reserve Bank Don Brash noted that The Economist had once described Brash as the "world's best central banker." As he eased into his briefing, leaning only lightly against the historic oaken bar of the Wellesley, smilingly parrying interjectors, his admirers must have wished that this seemingly effortless urbanity might find its way too onto the broadcast media from which they so often see him emerging with all the panache of a starchy school master.