KARORI
HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
The
Society’s next General Meeting will be held on
Tuesday
4 June 2013
at
St Ninian’s, Newcombe Crescent, Karori
at
7.45 pm.
Members
and friends welcome
Annual
report and accounts
Election
of officers:
President, Vice-President, Hon. Secretary, Hon. Treasurer
Election
of committee
Election
of Hon. Auditor
General business
Elizabeth
Bradford last year indicated she would not be standing for re-election.
However, her replacement will not be available immediately and therefore
Elizabeth has agreed to remain a member of the committee in the meantime. All
the other members have agreed to stand for re-election – they are:
President
– Judith Burch
Vice-President
– Jan Heynes
Secretary
– Henry Brittain
Treasurer
– Valerie Carter
Hon.
Auditor
– James Graham
Committee
– Peter Anderson, Jeni Bryant, Jo Elworthy, Mike Foster, John Harper,
Margery Renwick
We
do need new people who will bring a different perspective into our
discussions. Please consider standing for election and provide the Society
with your energy, passion, and enthusiasm for history, and all that entails.
Talk:
Our
speaker is Susan Price - historian, author, conservationist and collector of
twentieth century children’s books. She will talk about ‘A Mind of His Own
- The Childhood of Hugh Price’
Susan
is the daughter of Beverley Randell and Hugh Price. Hugh,
together with Jim Milburn founded a successful publishing company in 1957 and
Beverley was one of the authors who worked for the company.
March
meeting:
Joanna
Newman from the Mt Victoria Historical Society gave an illustrated talk about
aspects of Mt Victoria’s history and its importance to Wellington. The main
focus of the talk was on the Basin Reserve Heritage and the values of this
iconic area of Wellington.
Several
members have already supplied us with their contact details, but we still have
some gaps in our database. This information will make it much easier for us to
arrange trips or respond to activities which are offered at short notice. If
you are willing to provide your email address please notify vecarternz@paradise.net.nz
then you will receive your Newsletter and invoices by email. However, if
you would like to continue to receive your Newsletter and invoices please
advise Valerie Carter at vecarternz@paradise.net.nz
Subscriptions:
We
attach an invoice for your subscription and urge members to use the internet
banking facility we offer.
The
committee agreed at its last meeting to recommend that annual subscriptions be
increased to $20 for an individual and $25 for a family to take effect from
April 2014.
This
is necessary because of increasing administration costs – for example post
office box rental, production of The Stockade, postage and lower
interest rates. Our subscriptions were last increased at the AGM on 6 June
2000, and while we regret having to do so, we believe members will acknowledge
the necessity. A donation with this year’s subscription would be gratefully
received.
The
Stockade:
Our
editor, Jo Elworthy, is currently preparing material for
Issue 45 and needs more copy, if you can help talk to her at the meeting, ring
934 7608, or email joelworthy@paradise.net.nz
Seventeen
members and friends visited this historical building on Sunday 14 April. After
afternoon tea our host Susan Price spoke briefly about the building and her
family’s involvement in its restoration. We then watched a comprehensive
video, which detailed the building’s early ownership, its history and
restoration. We were also lucky enough to have Susan give us a guided tour of
one of the unoccupied flats. It was a very satisfying and interesting
afternoon and everyone appreciated the dedication of the Price family in
rescuing the building.
A
busload of members from the Association visited some of the sights of Karori
on Thursday 18 April. The president and secretary met them at Zealandia and we
then visited St Mary’s church in Fancourt Street and admired the stained
glass windows, then to Wright’s Hill to the lookout before going to Futuna
chapel where one of the Trustees, Bernadine Pool, pointed out some of the
outstanding features of the chapel and the newly restored Cross. The final
stop was a brief visit to the cemetery.