Re: [SANS] Wellington Branch Anniversary


At 08:28 PM 12/3/98 +1300, Frances and Ted Verrity wrote:
>The following is an extract from the NZ Cactus and Succulent Journal, No.
>13, Vol. 1 of November 20, 1948:
>
>"Wellington District ... Mr Hodges has sent out a circular letter covering
>the aims and objects of a Branch Society - a very full list of all the
>interesting possibilities of a local Branch. Mr and Mrs  Hodges have very
>kindly offered their home for the first meeting - Saturday, 4th November
>[1948] at 3 pm, .... Highland Park."
>
>In 1956 the Journal reported that this was indeed the inaugural meeting of
>the Wellington Branch.
>
>So we would ask all of our friends in New Zealand and around the world to
>charge your glasses and help us celebrate the magnificent past and ongoing
>future of the Branch. 3 pm on a Friday is NOT a convenient time, so we will
>wait until 7 pm, but hope that wherever you are in the world you will
>choose an appropriate time.
>
>Ted and Frances Verrity, Wellington, New Zealand

I am now having a modest Gewurtztraminer, drunk out of a Pyrex measuring cup, and i hoist it high!

hermine


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