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In the photograph is from left committee member Don Walker, historian Hensley, Don Rennie and committee member Barry Keate.
Beyond the Battlefield by Gerald Hensley is the hitherto little known story of New Zealand's high level diplomatic involvement in World War II . Something of an insider himself the Mandarin Hensley is a former head of the Prime Minister's Department. The book released at a National Press Club event details the interrelationship of Savage, Nash, Fraser, Freyberg, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Menzies, during the Second World War. |
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Mark Bryant the Westminster and Commonwealth sphere's authority on the cartoon was the centrepiece of a reception held by the National Press Club at Wellington's Capital Books. Bryant was for many years the secretary manager of the London Press Club. From this base he went out of his way to help the New Zealand club, especially in its international affiliations. He is the author of works on Vicky, Searle, and David Low, the New Zealander whose output fell into Bryant's area of specialisation which is war cartoons. |
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Ian Lackey, often considered Wellington's most enduring club man has gone to live on his farm in the South Island. The former secretary of the National Press Club and perennial host at the Wellington Club will retain his membership though of these two organisations.
The well-connected Lackey, holder of the club's first Life Membership awarded to a non journalist (see main story) is pictured here with speaker Richard Woods the Asia Hand and former head of the Security Intelligence Service. |
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Seafarer, soldier, social commentator, viceroy of Rugger Royalty, National Press Club vice president Peter Bush is quite simply New Zealand's most famous working journalist. In addition to launching his autobiography, Bush this year re-created himself yet again. This time into a major arts figure as he toured the nation's municipal galleries with his collection of some of the photographs he has taken from the touchline in a career that started soon after World War 2. |
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Former National Press Club treasurer John Abbott took up a new duty at the club's agm. It is that of leading and coordinating the club's promotion and marketing. His administrative role now becomes part of Bryan Weyburne's dual portfolio as the new secretary/treasurer. Barry Keate takes over Weyburne's old slot of floor manager. In the photograph Abbott looks apprehensive as he readies to give the vote of thanks to speaker Andrew Little, president of the New Zealand Labour Party. |
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The death of former secretary Geoff Fuller deprived the club and the community of a meticulous and scholarly lawyer of principle. Fuller had publicly resigned as secretary because of a belief that the club was becoming over-involved in religion, in this case platforming Dr Patrick Sookhdeo the West's leading campaigner on the threat to the globe posed by Islamic fundamentalism. Having resigned from the committee, Fuller remained as an enthusiastic member launching under the club's auspices his Handy Guide to New Zealand Law. Just prior to his unexpected death he had been delighted to learn that sales of the book had been such as to recoup his outlay in publishing it. |
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