One of our members, Dr Rex Billington, spent eight years as a scientist based in the Geneva Head Office of the World Health Organisation. With monthly meetings being cancelled due to Covid-19 lockdown restrictions, two club speaker talks given by Rex in 2005 and 2007 were used to provide content Read more…
On August 17, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the country would move to alert level 4 at 11:59 pm that night. That decision resulted in the coffee morning at the Sugar Grill café on the Te Atatu peninsula, and the Gold Card Trip on the train to Orakei Bay Village, Read more…
Our guest speaker in July was geologist and author Bruce Haywood. He spoke on the Auckland volcanic field which is centered on Mt Eden and One Tree Hill and has a radius of 20 km. It extends from Rangitoto and Pupuke in the north; to Mt Albert in the west; Read more…
When the guest speaker booked for the June monthly meeting could not speak because of illness, Noel Rose contacted Lisa Truttman from the Avondale-Waterview Historical Society. Lisa stepped in as a last-minute substitute and delivered a riveting address on the life and mysterious death of Dr Walter Granville Carew. A Read more…
In this edition of the newsletter we find out that the Cook Islands are the second home of President Bill Mutch, learn some useful things about computers from May’s guest speaker Grant Stevens, and get to view photos from the coffee morning at Kings Plant Barn in Universal Drive Henderson. Read more…
Two remarkable events are recorded in this newsletter: one being the coffee morning held at The Falls restaurant and the other the Kaipara Harbour cruise. More than 40 people went to the coffee morning, admittedly from both West Auckland Men’s Rebus and Waitakere Combined Rebus, but still an amazing turnout. Read more…
A trip to Auckland Zoo, a coffee morning at Huckleberry Cafe, and the March monthly meeting at the Friendship Hall, all feature in this newsletter. The many photographs from these events resulted in the email file size exceeding the maximum allowed by Sendinblue. Maurice Vickers spoke at the monthly meeting Read more…
We dragged five tables together to create one big enough to accommodate all of us who went to the Swanson Railway Cafe in February. Fortunately for a group of cyclists, suitably attired with fluorescent coloured clothing to make them highly visible to motorists, we left enough tables and chairs for Read more…
For the benefit of those not able to be there, the newsletters always provide a wonderful account of what the speakers talked about at the monthly meeting and this newsletter is no exception. At the January meeting, we had three club speakers: Ian Smith, Barry O’Rourke, and Andrew Geddes. Barry Read more…
President Bill Mutch wrote in his President’s Prattle for this newsletter, “Our Christmas Meeting and Lunch at the Hall was not exciting; our caterer let the team down in a big way. Laurie (Vincent) was so disappointed as the menu was nothing like he arranged.” The photographs in this newsletter Read more…