Pages tagged “SouthlandNCWNZ”

  • Update from NCWNZ Southland Branch

    Interacting with younger persons evokes feelings of amazement at their enterprise, wonder at their ability to absorb new ideas and pride in their achievements while working in challenging situations. NCWNZ Southland Branch has four activities which allow members to revel in these feelings while celebrating the value these young people bring to members’ lives. Southland Social Science Fair In the first instance the branch sponsors two prizes in the Southland Social Science Fair. It is open to students from year...

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    25 October 2025

  • Celebrating Suffrage in Southland 2025

    Southland Branch celebrated Suffrage Day in two parts this year. The first was our traditional breakfast on 19 September at the Ascot Park Hotel where more than fifty persons mixed, mingled and chatted. They included students from local secondary schools who always respond very positively to the occasion. This year we especially welcomed Josh, Josh and Tom from Southland Boy’s High School, a first for that school. When asked, they said they enjoyed the breakfast, and the speakers and, yes,...

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    25 October 2025

  • NCW Southland hosts speakers from local agencies

    NCW Southland recently has been privileged to hear speakers from two local agencies. At the Annual General Meeting in May, Donagh Booth from Age Concern spoke of her role in Elder Abuse Response. Her work in Invercargill has been an eye opener for her. She did not realise the spread of elder abuse within her home town. Examples she gave listed sons who have never left home, sons with issues who returned home, mothers who have become isolated because friends...

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    27 June 2025

  • Presentation by Trish Lindsay ONZM for Suffrage Day

    “Where you are is where you are meant to be,” is the encouragement given by Mordecai to his cousin Queen Esther, wife of King Xerxes during a crisis in Persia around the year 750 BCE. Those words seemed to epitomise the various stages in the life of Trish Lindsay ONZM, as she related them to a gathering of around fifty women, including a group of secondary students, as the NCWNZ Southland Branch celebrated 131 years of women’s suffrage. Trish said,...

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    9 October 2024