GSA Otago
Members are invited to participate in activities planned for members in the Otago Branch. You may also wish to propose additional activities and other possible venues.
AGM 2025
The AGM was held and a new committee was elected. Most of last year's committee stood again with the exception of William Burnett, Lyn Halapua and Robin Gledhill. We welcomed John Beckham onto the committee. John is a Board member who has recently transferred from Southland to Otago.
Chairperson is Bill Price, Vice Chairperson is Max Kennelly, Secretary / Treasurer is Robert Morey. Other committee members are Geraldine Cooke, Ian Winter, Ralph Harrison, David Mellish, Charlie Gilligan.
We had 2 guest speakers, Anne Gover, our Board Liason who gave us updates on several topics and our second speaker was Kate Tanner from City Sanctuary who gave a very interesting talk of what the organisation is doing to make Dunedin preditor free.
Returned no forwarding address:
If anyone knows of the present whereabouts of these members, please let me know at otago@gsa.org.nz or phone 0800 888472 Thank you.
Mrs M Wardle, Mrs D Flett, Mr P Stock, Mr E and Mrs L White, Ms L Hocking, Mr B Wotton, Mr G K Harris,
Mr R Ferguson, Mr C Rickard, Mr P Armfelt
CHRISTMAS FUNCTION 2025
This will be our next function. The venue and date to be confirmed
Booking form will be in the October newsletter.
33 people attended this function on 4th December 2024 and enjoyed a lovely meal. This is a slight increase on last year. Thank you to all who attended.
February 2025 Bus trip was on Wednesday February 19th 2025 leaving the Shore St car park at 9am to the limestone quarry at Weston then on to Oamaru for lunch and wander around the heritage area. We had an interesting tour of the limeworks and quarry and 4 people from Oamaru joined us for lunch.
Click on this link to view the latest newsletter April 2025 Newsletter
BUS TRIP 2023
22 members joined the bus at 9:15 on 8th February for the run to Ettrick in the Teviot valley to visit the Wynyard Estate Saffron farm where the proprietor, Wendy, gave a run down of how the saffron is grown and harvested. there followed a short stroll around her gardens and shop. At 12:45 we arrived in Roxburgh at the 103 Store for a nice buffet lunch. After lunch we had a ride around the Roxburgh dam and village where Ralph Harrison gave an interesting commentary on the area's history. We then travelled back along the Eastern side of the Clutha River to Millers Flat and then back home through the many areas of road works arriving finally at 5:10pm after a 30 minute holdup at the detour through Mosgiel due to major reconstruction on SH 1. The trip was thoroughly enjoyed by everyone.