RNSNZ 2025 Programme of Events

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 / Organiser and Topic

Wednesday

29 January 7.30 pm

Wellington Club

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

Saturday

22 February 9 am - 4 pm

Table set up: 8 am
Members: 9 am
Public: 1 pm - 4 pm

Vintage Car Club,

14 Tiro Tiro Road, Levin

Levin Combined Societies Meeting for Manawatu Members

Organiser: Graeme Hancock

Wednesday

26 February 7.30 pm

Wellington Club

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

Wednesday

26 March 7.30 pm

Wellington Club

Hamish MacMaster FRNSNZ: "The Length and Breadth of Aotearoa: Toki (Adzes) as a Means of Exchange within the Māori Trade Network, 1350-1800"

Wednesday

30 April 6.30 pm - 8.00 pm

(Note the earlier time)

Wellington Museum,

3 Jervois Quay, Wellington

Te Waka Huia o Ngā Taonga Tuku Iho Wellington Museum Visit

Organiser: Hamish MacMaster FRNSNZ

The Museum has many interesting medals and coins
We have not visited before (formerly the Maritime Museum)

Wednesday

28 May 7.30 pm

Wellington Club

Annual General Meeting

Wednesday

25 June 7.30 pm

Dutch Club,

61 Taita Drive, Avalon

RNSNZ Auction

Organisers: Clint Libby FRNSNZ & Hamish MacMaster FRNSNZ

Wednesday

30 July 7.30 pm

Wellington Club

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

Wednesday

27 August 7.30 pm

Wellington Club

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

Friday

19 September 5.30 pm

West Plaza Hotel,

110 Wakefield Street, Wellington

Annual Society Function

Organiser: Clint Libby FRNSNZ

Wednesday

24 September 7.30 pm

Wellington Club

Members' Talks

Friday 4 October &

Saturday 5 October

Wellington Club

Orders & Medals Research Branch Symposium and Dinner

Organiser: John O'Reilly

Wednesday

29 October 7.30 pm

Wellington Club

88 The Terrace, Wellington

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

Wednesday

26 November 7.00 pm

Venue to be confirmed

End of Year Dinner

No meeting in December