Congratulations NZ Post Book Award Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the NZ Post Book Awards
Winners on the Booksellers Site
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2012
The committee invites all Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection to 2012 AGM.
When? Wednesday 23 May 2012
Where? Training Room (Poutama Ruma), Archives NZ
Ground Floor, 10 Mulgrave Street, Wellington
Time? Drinks & nibbles from 5.30
Most of the serving committee members are available again for 2012-2013. However, our President, David Retter, is stepping down after three years in the chair.
We seek nominations for this role.
The current Committee is:
Patron: Margaret Mahy
President: David Retter
Treasurer: Janet Blake
Membership Secretary: Trevor Mowbray
Minutes Secretary: Lynne Jackett
Newsletter: Joan McCracken
Committee: Audrey Cooper, Alison Grant, Emma MacDonald, Mary Hutton, Barbara Robertson
Mary Skarott.
Please let David know if you are interested in standing for the President’s position, becoming a member of the committee or have items for the agenda. dcretter@clear.net.nz or phone 384 9311 Copies of the full minutes of the 2011 AGM are available here
We are delighted to announce that after the AGM the award-winning local author Fleur Beale (right) will address the meeting.
Fleur Beale has written over twenty novels for teenagers. She won the 2007 Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award for her first children’s novel, Slide the corner. She has been shortlisted several times in the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards (including this year), and in 2011 her novel Fierce September was the Young Adult Fiction Category Award Winner. Fleur Beale won the 2012 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal.
Photograph of Fleur Beale from the Random House website http://www.randomhouse.com.au/authors/fleur-beale.aspx
