Next Meeting
Date: Monday 8th December at 10:00am
Location: The next meeting will be held at St Chad’s Church & Community centre, 38 St John’s Rd Meadowbank. Please join us for our next meeting when we will hear from the speaker below.
Principal Speaker -James Duncan
James Duncan grew up in Auckland during the 1960s and 1970s when Auckland was served by a large and extensive electric trolley bus system. These vehicles fascinated him as a child and thus began a passion for electric street transport. At age 15 he joined the Tramway Division at MOTAT and has now been an active volunteer member of the tramway for 49 years. He’s packed a lot into his 49 years at MOTAT – he’s been a tram conductor, managed MOTAT’s tram system for many years, he’s a motor examiner, issuing tram drivers’ licences, and even wrote the guide by which all MOTAT tram drivers are trained.
Most of his working life was spent in retail, but in 2011 he was asked to take on managing the operation of the new tramway down in Wynyard Quarter.
Today, together with this role, and a full-time position at MOTAT looking after the infrastructure for the MOTAT Tramway, he says he is now like a pig in mud!
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Principal Speaker -James Duncan
Troy Churton, “The Pathway to a Fairer Retirement Village Regime.”
Michael Littlewood will speak about his new book, “William & Tiraha: A Biographical Novel.” A first-person story inside a nineteenth-century memoir, constructed as a novel.
Michele Leggott, New Zealand Poet Laureate 2007 – 2009. Emeritus Professor of English, University of Auckland.
Wendy Hampton, BA LLB. Lawyer, Speaker and Author – “Don’t Leave a Mess – Leave a Legacy”