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Auckland Branch 2025 - Meeting dates
Here are the details for our 2025 branch meetings. We have some interesting speakers booked so please put the dates in your diary. More details will be published on the website and in the newsletter, closer to the function date. It would be lovely to see some new faces at our branch meetings this year!
Auckland Branch AGM – Tuesday, 10 June 2025
We have invited Tammy McLeod to talk to members about:
Trusts and Enduring Powers of Attorney
Tammy McLeod is the Managing Director of Davenports Law. Her topic will be ‘Reasons for and against Trusts, Recent Changes to Trust Laws, and why we all need Enduring Powers of Attorney.’
Tammy McLeod leads the Trust Law and Wealth Protection team at Davenports Law. A trust and asset structuring specialist with over 25 years legal experience, Tammy specialises in the areas of personal asset planning, trust law and the Property (Relationships) Act.
At the time we published the newsletter the venue was the Fickling Centre, 546 Mt Albert Road, Three Kings ,1042. However we now realise that finding a car park is difficult there. So we are holding it in the AHC rooms back at the Western Springs Garden Community Hall, 956 Great North Road. These are the AHC rooms only and not Hall 2. Hall 1 and 2 are being re-furbished and are not available until July.
There is free parking outside. A catered morning tea will be provided at 10.30am. Please bring your spouse or a guest along and register attendees/apologies with our Secretary, Andrea by calling 0800 888 472 or emailing auckland@gsa.org.nz
Auckland Branch Meeting – Tuesday 23 September 2025
Please come along and hear Jude Dobson speak about her book:
THE LAST SECRET AGENT
Jude Dobson has been researching/writing, producing and directing WWI and WWII content for nearly 10 years. She won the New York Radio Awards Bronze Award in 2023 in the historical documentary category, for an Anzac Day audio documentary about WWII aviators telling their stories. Join us as Jude talks about writing Pippa Latour’s account of her courageous role as a special agent, working behind enemy lines in Normandy in the month leading up to D Day. Following the war, Pippa settled in New Zealand where she raised four children. For decades, Pippa told no one - not even her family - of her incredible feats during WWII. Pippa finally chose Jude to tell her story and they formed a close bond before Pippa's death in 2023, at the age of 102.
We return to the refurbished Western Springs Garden Community Hall 2, 956 Great North Road, Western Springs,1022 for this meeting and commence at 10.30am with morning tea. There is free parking at this venue. Please bring your spouse or a guest along and register attendees with our Secretary, Andrea by calling 0800 888 472 or emailing auckland@gsa.org.nz
Introducing your current Auckland Branch Committee members:
| Chairman | Sandie Gusscott | Education | ||||
| Vice Chairman | Craig Jensen | Crown Research | ||||
| Secretary/Treasurer | Andrea Beechey | |||||
| Committee: | ||||||
| Murray McElwain (80+) | Railways | |||||
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Defence | |||||
| Eric Bowater | Education | |||||
| Neil Carey | Railways | |||||
| Keith Rawlings | Defence | |||||
| Claire Couch | Education | |||||
| Max Thomson | Post Office | |||||
| Denise Greenwood | Education | |||||
| Philippa Stevens | Crown Research | |||||
Annuity News and Auckland Branch Newsletter
If you currently receive your six monthly Annuity News and Auckland Branch Newsletters by post but are willing to receive them by email please contact the Auckland Secretary on 0800 888 472. This will assist the GSA to keep the rising publishing and postage costs of our newsletters down.
Have you moved house recently?
If you have moved house in the last six months and have forgotten to let us know, please phone the Auckland Secretary on 0800 888 472. Datacom, the administrators of your Annuity would also need to be advised. Please contact them per below.
Datacom (GSF): phone 0800 654 731 or email gsf@fundadmin.nz
Datacom (NPF): phone 0800 628 776 or email npfenquiries@fundadmin.nz
Have you heard any interesting speakers lately ?
Auckland Branch is always looking for new speakers for our meetings. As our membership is far reaching and many of our members belong to other groups who have speakers at their meetings, we ask that if you hear someone speak whom you think would be good to have at an Auckland Branch meeting, please pass their contact details on to the Branch Secretary, Andrea at auckland@gsa.org.nz or phone her on 0800 888 472.
To find out more about activities planned for members, or to suggest other activities or venues, contact:
Branch Secretary
Andrea Beechey
0800 888 472
auckland@gsa.org.nz