Summer is coming to an end, and you know what that means… the VURC 2016 season is rapidly approaching! We are starting to get very excited as we finalise a few details, and we hope you are too! Whether you’re a returning member, or a new recruit planning on joining us in 2016, we’ve put together a few memories from the 2015 season to get you (back) in the rowing mood.
Kia ora, The office will be closed from 1 pm on 19 December until Monday 12 January 2025 when it will reopen at 9 am. Emails and voicemails will not […]
‘Mrs Martin was one of the oldest residents in Wellington, and was highly esteemed for her plain unostentatious kindness of disposition’. Marion Baird was born in Fountainhall, a hamlet southeast...
Jacob was the sixth child of James ‘Worser’ Heberley and his wife Te Wai (also known as Māta Te Naihi), of the Puketapu people of Te Āti Awa. James and...
Thomas was born in Oxford, England and trained as an engineer, working on the Great Northern Railway and at University College, London. He came to New Zealand in 1873 and...