Category: Meetings
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Last meeting for 2025 – 16 December 2025
Our last public meeting for 2025 will be held on Tuesday 16 December 2025 at St Ninian’s, Newcombe Crescent, Karori at 7.30 pm. Members and friends welcome. South with Shackleton and Endurance, 1914-1917 Join us for a talk by Graeme Jupp who is sharing his deep knowledge of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial…
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Our next meeting – 9 September 2025
Our next public meeting will be held on Tuesday 9 September 2025 at St Ninian’s, Newcombe Crescent, Karori at 7.30 pm. Members and friends welcome. The Great Karori ‘Spring into Spring’ Quiz How much do you really know about the history of Karori? Do you know where the original stockade was in Karori? Do…
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2025 AGM and speaker David Watt – 3 June 2025
Our Annual General Meeting will be held on Tuesday 3 June 2025 at St Ninian’s, Newcombe Crescent, Karori at 7.30 pm. Members and friends welcome. Business Supper will be served after the meeting. If you are keen to help run the Society and plan future activities and events, so are willing to join…
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Our next meeting – 4 March 2025
Our next public meeting will be held on Tuesday 4 March 2025 at St Ninian’s, Newcombe Crescent, Karori at 7.30 pm. Members and friends welcome! Clare Gleeson – Alfred Buxton and His Gardens Alfred Buxton is the father of landscaping in New Zealand. From 1900 to the mid-1940s, his company…
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Our next meeting – 10 December 2024
Our next meeting will be held on Tuesday 10 December 2024 at St Ninian’s, Newcombe Crescent, Karori at 7.30pm. Members and friends welcome. “There’s gold in them thar hills: the archaeology of Wellington’s gold rush and the Albion Battery” Michael Grace and Mary O’Keeffe will tell the fascinating story of…
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Our next meeting – 10 September 2024
Our next meeting will be held on Tuesday 10 September 2024 at St Ninian’s, Newcombe Crescent, Karori at 7.30pm. Members and friends welcome. Join us to hear Gábor Tóth, Local & NZ History Specialist at Wellington City Libraries, present Future Plans: Wellington subdivision advertising bills from the early 20th century.…
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Join us for our 2024 AGM
Our Annual General Meeting will be held on Tuesday 4 June 2024 at St Ninian’s, Newcombe Crescent, Karori at 7.30 pm. Members and friends welcome. Business After the AGM we are lucky to have Elizabeth Cox as our speaker, who will be talking about her book Making Space, and in particular…
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Our next meeting – 5 March 2024
Our next public meeting will be held on Tuesday 5 March 2024 at St Ninian’s, Newcombe Crescent, Karori at 7.30 pm. Members and friends welcome. Wartime Secrets from the Family Home Please join us on Tuesday 5th March to hear Tom McGrath talk about his new book. Tom has a…
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Our next meeting – 5 Sep 2023
Our next Meeting will be held on Tuesday 5 September 2023 at St Ninian’s, Newcombe Crescent, Karori at 7.30 pm. Members and friends welcome. Katherine Mansfield’s Europe Please join us to hear Redmer Yska talk about his more recent book, Katherine Mansfield’s Europe, Station to Station. Part travelogue, part literary biography,…
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A summary of past meetings 2010-2023
December 2023 We had a great crowd turn out in December to hear Robin Skinner talk through his detailed research to trace a Māori pathway from Te Aro to the Kaiwharawhara Stream at Te Māra a Tāne / Zealandia. This once much-used thoroughfare passed through the present site of the…
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