Category: General Meeting Tauranga

  • Tauranga: 17th April 2026

    Main Speaker: Ian HowellTopic: The City Rail Link: More Than Just a TunnelShort Speaker: Liz Stewart U3A Health and Safety OfficerTopic: Our Updated Health and Safety Procedure About main speakers talk The City Rail Link (CRL) is the largest infrastructure project in New Zealand’s history, but behind the orange cones and massive cranes, what is really…

  • Tauranga: 20th March 2026

    Main Speaker: Gillian Marks. Topic: ‘Gill’s Activities in the Karakoram, Northern Pakistan’ – Confirmed.Short Speaker: Bruce Farthing, Chair of Taonga Tu Heritage Trust BOP – Confirmed.

  • Tauranga: Annual General Meeting 20th February 2026

    Guest Speaker: Graham Dainty Topic: “Highlights, anecdotes and the humorous side of a lifetime in aviation“. Graham gave a talk to U3A about the first part of his flying career, in the military, earlier last year and is now back to present his civil experience. He left the RAF and joined Bristow Helicopters Ltd. in 1982, based…

  • U3A Extra-ordinary EGM

    January 16th 2026 Meeting: EGM: It has come to the Executive’s attention that the Election General Meeting held on Friday November 21st 2025 was invalid, as written notice to members was not sent out 20 working days prior to the election meeting date. This requires that a new election will take place on the date stated above, January…

  • Tauranga: November 21st

    EGM: Our final monthly meeting for the year on November 21st will be the U3A Tauranga Inc. E.G.M. (Election General Meeting). From nominations received, elections will be held to determine the 2026 Executive.  We will have a speaker  following morning tea. Normal Tauranga Yacht Club Venue, 90 Keith Allen Drive, Sulphur Point. Time: 9.45am for 10.00…

  • Tauranga 17th October

    The next members’ meeting for U3A Tauranga Inc is Friday 17th October.  Normal Tauranga Yacht Club Venue, 90 Keith Allen Drive, Sulphur Point.  Time: 9:45am for 10:00am start through to 12:00 Noon. Entry Fee: $5.00, to cover morning-tea and Venue. Main Speaker:Simon Keable-Elliot Topic: Robert Keable, utterly immoral WW1 chaplain? Outline: Simon is a writer, lecturer and speaker visiting…

  • Tauranga: 19th September

    Main Speaker:Chris Archer and Warren DawsonTopic: “Recovering a New Zealand ANZAC Legacy -The story of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles’ Brigade in Egypt and Palestine (1916 to1919)”.Short Speaker:Phil HansenTopic: ‘EVs need a new mindset.’

  • Tauranga: 15th August 2025

    The next members’ meeting for U3A Tauranga Inc is Friday 15th August.  Tauranga Yacht Club Venue, 90 Keith Allen Drive, Sulphur Point.  Time: 9:45am for 10:00am start through to 12:00 Noon.Speaker: Peter Nixon on ‘The Geological History of Tauranga’‘Short Speakers: Natasha Rallia Ram & Sarah DaleFrom real estate and will to speak to us about…