Toastmaster award
PA Hastings Les Hewitt, a trade-union organiser, of Napier, has won the “Toastmaster of the year” award, at the Toastmasters’ annual convention in Hastings. He is senior rehabilitation officer for the rehabilitation league in Napier. Mr Hewitt, aged 46, with Colin McNee, of Timaru, were presented with the organisation’s highest award, the Distinguished Toastmasters Award. The “club of the year” award went to Timaru, one of whose members, Derek Waite, won the prepared speech contest. He will go to Australia to compete against Australian finalists to find the Australian and New Zealand representative for the world contest. Cedric Heard, of Karamu, Hawke’s Bay, was second. The next convention will be held in Christchurch when it is expected that the world president of Toastmasters, Mr Robert Steullmeyer, of Canada, will attend.
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Press, 14 May 1979, Page 6
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