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Spring 2024 - Autumn 2025



Field Trip to Heritage Sites near Lake Hayes


Sunday 13 October. 40 members attended. It was a successful afternoon with members having the opportunity to view three interesting sites.


























The History of Tourism in this District

This was held on Sunday the 15th September 2024 at 2pm at St John’s Presbyterian Church Hall, Arrowtown. 35 people attended.   



                          












 Annual General Meeting - Sunday 24 November 2024, 2pm at St Margaret’s Church,   Frankton.

  









Presented by Amanda Viana from the Education Unit at the Lakes District Museum we learned about the geography that first attracted tourists to our

‘Switzerland of the South’, and the forces that have propelled tourism from 1870s until now.


Image TSS Earnslaw delivers tourists to the Bryants' buses in the 1940s.

There will be a distribution of Queenstown Courier Issue 112 and a 1950s Baking Challenge.


Are you keen for a nostalgic baking challenge? This fundraising recipe book from 1956 is tattered, splashed and annotated e.g. ‘failure’!

If you’d like to receive a recipe from it to make, email Monika monksfry@gmail.com.

We’d love to have some samples for afternoon tea to ‘taste us back’ to the 1950s.