Firstly, we want to introduce your new Committee: https://wtmc.org.nz/about/committee-and-roles/ We’ve been collectively thinking and working on how best to support members at this challenging time for tramping. For Alert Level 2 we’re planning some day trips that people can get to by private car or public transport, and taking into account physical distancing of at ... Read more
This is my last update as President of WTMC. As you know, I am stepping down at the AGM next week – it is time for the 2020/21 Committee to take the reins. This is also the strangest update I have written….usually these posts are all about encouraging people to get out in the hills, ... Read more
The trip was originally scheduled for October 2019 but postponed due to poor weather. Tash was no longer able to lead the trip so I took over and set a new date, inheriting a group of people who had been wanting to do this trip for a long time. The week before I had been ... Read more
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...
