September 2021 Newsletter

Welcome to the OGHT September Newsletter Click here for a printable PDF version. Crazy times we live in. Hope you are all hanging in there! Bit of a bugger trying to organise gatherings with such uncertainty hanging over us but I guess we just have to get on and do what we can. Hope for…

May 2021 Newsletter

Things are busy as ever in the Otago Goldfields Heritage Trust office. There was quite a bit of ‘tidying up’ post Cavalcade to do. A massive THANK YOU from Twizel to all you Cavalcaders who volunteered to donate your dinner, hoedown and breakfast tickets. Thanks to all your generosity the Twizel Cavalcade Committee was still…

June 2020 Newsletter

Otago Goldfields Heritage Trust Newsletter – June 2020      (Click here for a text only printable PDF) Welcome to this June 2020 Otago Goldfields Heritage Trust (OGHT) newsletter where we update members about past events and share our goals for the way ahead. Membership for the 2020/2021 season is now due. Please follow this…

Pre Christmas Newsletter

OGHT Newsletter November 2019 (Click here to view or print a PDF) Welcome to our pre-Christmas newsletter! December is just around the corner and many of you will have had a few pre-Christmas bashes already!  Waipori Expedition – Monday 9 December 2019: The OGHT is having a special and quite possibly a one-off opportunity on…

January 2018 Newsletter

Seasons greetings, salutations and all that stuff. I hope you have been able to keep cool and the garden watered! The Cavalcade to Owaka is shaping up to be another grand affair! Entries are slightly up on last year at the same time so thanks very much if you’ve already put your entry in. If…

May 2015 newsletter

I hope you’re all keeping warm and dry! Please click here to update your Otago Goldfields Heritage Trust membership. Membership goes from May – May so we are already in the membership period (May 2015- May 2016) See below for where your money get’s spent. Field trips: We had hoped to work in with DoC…

2010 September newsletter

Things have been all go here at the Otago Goldfields Heritage Trust. New signage erected in the Lindis Pass to show the area of the first gold found in Otago, a stone wall repaired by the Come-in –Time Battery in Thompsons gorge, and new Pinders Pond interpretation panels are complete and will be erected in…

March 2010 Newsletter

Christchurch A&P Show It seems such a long time ago and a lot of water under the bridge since we went on our Field Weekend to Mt Somers. We have since attended the Christchurch show, drumming up prospective members and talking to current ones. During this time I had a very quick ride (in my…

August Newsletter

NEWSLETTER-AUGUST 2009 Greetings Everyone, It was lovely to meet so many of you at the AGM in Dunedin. Well what a great weekend it was too. The AGM went well, followed by a lovely lunch which included a huge crayfish, courtesy of Fleur Sullivan, then onto the Otago Settlers Museum where we went on a…