KARORI
HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
The
Society’s next General Meeting will be held on
Tuesday
3 September 2013
at
St Ninian’s, Newcombe Crescent, Karori
at
7.45 pm.
Members
and friends welcome
Talk:
Our
speaker Tricia Laing will be talking about ‘Karori Bees and Beekeepers’:
where they are
located
in Karori and the importance of backyard beekeeping. She will show photos of
her
hives,
and discuss the life cycle of bees and some of the challenges bees and
beekeepers face in
Karori.
This
promises to be a fascinating talk, and a topic unlike anything we have heard
before, so do
come
along and encourage your friends and neighbours to come with you.
Annual General Meeting June 2013:
About
20 people braved a very stormy Tuesday night to attend the meeting and the
following
members
were elected as officers of the society:
President
– Judith Burch
Vice-Presidents
– Jan Heynes and Peter Anderson
Treasurer
– Valerie Carter
Secretary
– Henry Brittain
Committee
– Elizabeth Bradford, Jeni Bryant, Jo Elworthy, Mike Foster, John Harper,
Margery
Renwick
Hon
Auditor – James
Graham
Annual
subscription – it
was agreed to increase the annual subscription rate from $15 to $20
for
an individual and from $20 to $25 for a family.
Our Last Speaker:
Susan
Price then talked about the childhood of her father Hugh Price who had had a
difficult
childhood
in Masterton because of mobility problems and unsympathetic school teachers.
She
based
her talk around the book she had written ‘A Mind of his Own’ and
illustrated it with
photos
from the book. Hugh became a well know publisher in Wellington in his adult
life.