RNSNZ 2025 Meetings Programme

1 January 2025 - 31 December 2025

Normally The Wellington Club, 88 The Terrace, Wellington

Most ordinary meetings of the Society are held in the McCarthy and Featherston Rooms of The Wellington Club on Level 4 at 88 The Terrace, Wellington.

Tea and coffee are provided. Guests and visitors are welcome. For members unable to attend in person, a Zoom link is circulated with the agenda for each meeting.

Please check meeting notices and Newsletters in case any details have changed for meetings as venues and topics may change for reasons beyond our control.

The next meeting is high-lighted.

Date and time

Venue

Speaker and Topic

Wed 29 Jan

7.30 pm

The Wellington Club

88 The Terrace, Wellington

Mark Stocker FRNSNZ: "Reconsidering the 1928 Irish Free State coinage"

Sat 22 Feb

8 am for table set up

All members 9 am - 4 pm

Public at 1 pm - 4 pm

Horowhenua Vintage Car Club

14 Tiro Tiro Road

Levin

Graeme Hancock:

Levin Combined Societies Meeting

Hosts: Manawatu Members

Wed 26 Feb

7.30 pm

The Wellington Club

88 The Terrace, Wellington

Jaymie Orchard (PhD Student, Otago): "Republican and early Imperial coins - tracing the general developments of trophy iconography"

Wed 26 Mar

7.30 pm

The Wellington Club

88 The Terrace, Wellington

Hamish MacMaster FRNSNZ: "The Length and Breadth of Aotearoa - the Māori Trade Network and Means of Exchange, 1350-1800"

Wed 30 Apr

6.30 pm - 8.00 pm

(Note the earlier times)

Wellington Museum

3 Jervois Quay, Queens Wharf, Wellington

The Museum is on Wellington's waterfront

(formerly the Maritime Museum)

Te Waka Huia o Ngā Taonga Tuku Iho | Wellington Museum Visit

It is a special privilege to be able to visit this Museum which has many interesting medals and coins which we have never visited before.

Organiser: Hamish MacMaster FRNSNZ

Contact: Nikolas Brockelhurst

Wed 28 May

7.30 pm

The Wellington Club

88 The Terrace, Wellington

Annual General Meeting

Followed by Talk - Joshua Lee

Wed 25 Jun

7.30 pm

Dutch Club

61 Taita Drive, Avalon

RNSNZ Annual Auction

Organisers: Clint Libby FRNSNZ & Hamish MacMaster FRNSNZ

Wed 30 Jul

7.30 pm

The Wellington Club

88 The Terrace, Wellington

Barry Hancox, Christchurch: “Colonial Ferns and Flowers. New Zealand at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition 1886”

Wed 27 Aug

7.30 pm

The Wellington Club

88 The Terrace, Wellington

Ken Matthew: "Ancestors' Medals - covering military medals over two centuries"

Wed 19 Sep

Time to be confirmed

West Plaza Hotel

110 Wakefield Street, Wellington

Clint Libby FRNSNZ: Annual Society Function

Wed 24 Sep

7.30 pm

The Wellington Club

88 The Terrace, Wellington

Members Talks

Wed ?? Oct

Time to be confirmed

The Wellington Club

88 The Terrace, Wellington

John O'Reilly: OMRS Branch Conference

Wed 29 Oct

7.30 pm

The Wellington Club

88 The Terrace, Wellington

Prof Brett Delahunt ONZM KStJ FRNZNS: "Royal Household Long Service Medals"

Wed 26 Nov

Time to be confirmed

 Venue to be confirmed 

End of Year Dinner