Our Society was formed by a group of Karori residents in 1973 for the purpose of promoting the history of Karori and its people. We welcome new members, no matter where they live.
Contact us at infokarorihistory@gmail.com
Current office-holders (elected at the June 2025 AGM) are:
President – Adrian Humphris
Vice-President – No nominations were received, and an appointment was held over
Hon. Secretary – Chris Rabey
Hon. Treasurer – Liz Newport
Committee – Peter Anderson, Jo Elworthy, Kristin Gibson, Brigette Holland
What we do
- Research and study of people and places associated with Karori.
- The preservation of archival items of historical importance.
- Draw attention to important historical features in and around Karori.
- Support historical projects by individual members.
- Maintain links with regional and national historical societies.
- We meet four times a year and invite guest speakers.
- We arrange outings to places of historical interest.
- We publish a newsletter four times a year.
- We publish an annual journal The Stockade, which is free to members (back copies are available). All archived copies to 2018 are available to be read online at WCC Archives 2019 but later editions are only available to paid up members of the KHS. The 2022 edition is in preparation.
- We are working on digitising our archival collection.
- As a voluntary organisation with limited resources, we regret we are unable to undertake research on request. However, you are welcome to use our archives.
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