News & Events

On Sunday 6^th October,  55 members boarded the coach for the very scenic drive out into the Kahuranaki and Elsthorpe areas east of Havelock North to Waipawa. Our lunch venue was the Historic Waipawa Municipal Theatre.

Branch President Paddy Bayley warmly welcomed the 60 people attending the August lunch meeting at the Taradale RSA. 

A large banner, featuring a photograph of a wartime hero, with a British fighter plane on fire in the background, with the words:

168 Condemned Allied Airmen
A Nazi firing squad
Three days to execution

greeted 67 members of our Branch as they arrived at the historic Cheval Rooms, Hastings Racecourse for our annual mid-winter lunch. 

On a beautiful sunny autumn morning,  46 members enthusiastically boarded the coach,  for their annual Mystery trip.  

The Hawke's Bay branch committee extended the invitation to present and previous committee members to attend a special “thank you lunch” for Merv at the Clifton Beach Cafe Hygge (pronounced Hoo-ga).  A cafe looking out to a beach and sparkling sea, on a perfect autumn day.