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Newsletter: March 2012 (Note: all external links open in a new window) Home


Next Meeting: Tuesday 3 April 2012, 7:30 pm - 11 Mawson St, Waiwhetu, Lower Hutt:  http://tinyurl.com/11-Mawson-St

Minutes: 11 October 2011 AGM and club meeting

Colin Iles
Colin passed away on 4 March.  A number of club members attended
his funeral in Motueka.  An obituary that appearred in the Dominion Post.

There will be a celebration of Colin Iles's life at Quaker House in
Wellington at 6:30pm on Saturday April 14 for a pot luck meal and
some music.  Directions: Quaker House is at the very end of Moncrieff Street – which is a little street off Elizabeth Street in Mt Victoria: Google map

Baring Head
Greater Wellington Regional Council is calling for submissions on a new section to the Regional Parks Plan for Baring Head.  Submissions close on 18 May.  It is crucial that as many club members make individual submissions on this matter!  Details.

WHGPC submission on the East Harbour Park Plan back in September 2006.

History of flying at Baring Head:  Grant Firth and Cooper Gyles.

Google map of Baring Head.

Facebook
The club's Facebook page is getting lots of use.  Join up if you haven't already!

NZHGPA SGM
The NZHGPA's SGM is going to be held in Wellington on 14 April.  Here is the agenda.  We can send two delegates to this meeting - anyone keen to go along other than me??

Billets for SGM
A couple of people usually want billets while here for the SGM - anyone keen to offer a bed or two?  Please contact me on the address below.


Email Kris at skf@paradise.net.nz with any news you may have!

Once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned forever skyward, for there you have been, and there you long to return" Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)