January 2014 Newsletter

The latest Newsletter - January / February 2014 has been uploaded. Click on the "Latest Newsletters" to read and or download.

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EFT Payments

Events payments  and annual subs can be paid via EFT directly into the ANZA bank .

ANZA’s bank details are as follows:-

Name of Account Holder: ANZA

Standard Bank

Branch Code: 042826

Account Number: 053818415

Please indicate details in the reference field. 

HANGI - Bookings

Directions to Hangi From N2 - 4.2km
1. Take the exit 210 from N2
2. Turn right into Ballito Drive
3. Go 2.4 km straight through 3 roundabouts past the BP garage on your left and
4. Turn right into Avondale Road
5. after 900m turn right into Townsend Road and 270m on the right YOU ARE THERE.

Prefer to use GPS?
try 290 32' 36.95"S
     310 12' 35.23"E

Google street view of location

September /October Newsletter published

The September/October Newsletter is available - select the menu item above "Latest Newsletters".  Some very popular events are listed. 

ANZA Potjie Pot Competition at the Beachwood Mangroves Swamps, KZN Nature Conservation on 18th August.

The Australian and New Zealand Association (A.N.Z.A.) held their annual Potjie pot competition on Sunday at the Beachwood Mangrove Swamps, Umgeni River Mouth for the 19^th year in succession.

It was once again a  glorious day weather wise with lots of comradeship between the teams who contested this well run event. The judges were Steven Crawford (The chief of the Boutique Hotel on the Square) and Scott Shepeard .

The winning team was “The Formidable Four”; Allan and Cheryl Van Dyk, Dave and Eleanor Brosnihan; who cooked a Red Thai Curry of Prawns and Chicken. 

Runners up were Charlie Robinson and Stewart McDonald, Team “Pommie Potjie Perfektors” with an Ox Tongue in white wine sauce. This team represented The British Cultural and Heritage Association.

The enormous Raffle was won by Dominique Thidault. A dinner for two which includes a special wine tasting evening at the Square Boutique Hotel on the 29^th August was won By Lesley Cogan.

All monies raised will go to ANZA 2013 annual charity award.

This was a most enjoyable day, with, according to the judges, very little points separating the teams who participated

Thanks

Yours sincerely,

Eleanor Brosnihan

Chairman A.N.Z.A

E mail: brossies@iactive.co.za

Celphone: 072 1566097 phone: 031 5646632 fax: 086 5057118

Membership Applications

ANZA KZN now has an application form online that can be read and downloaded for completion.

Please go to DOCUMENTS Menu for details

Trivia Question - though not by any means trivial.

Is there any sovereign state landlocked within the boundaries of Australia?  I would guess that the popular answer would be NO.

If there actually is such a state and citizens from that sovereign state are living in KZN then would they be eligible as members of ANZA?

Answers to the above queries might have an answer provided somewhere in the following reference: PHR 

Submitted by Andy Tribe (TIC)

The Latest bi-monthly Newsletters for May and July 2013 may be read and or downloed

Use the menu for Latest Newsletters to see them.

ANZAC Day 26th April 2013

The next function will be ANZAC Day whereby in true ANZA tradition we honour those who died in battle at Gallipoli during World War I.

Cenotaph - Wellington New Zealand

ANZAC Day as an extract from the Wikipedia website follows. (ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzac_Day)

"Anzac Day marks the anniversary of the first campaign that led to major casualties for Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War. The acronym ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, whose soldiers were known as Anzacs. Anzac Day remains one of the most important national occasions of both Australia and New Zealand,[3] a rare instance of two sovereign countries not only sharing the same remembrance day, but making reference to both countries in its name. When war broke out in 1914, Australia and New Zealand had been dominions of the British Empire for thirteen and seven years respectively.
Gallipoli campaign

In 1915, Australian and New Zealand soldiers formed part of an Allied expedition that set out to capture the Gallipoli Peninsula, according to a plan by Winston Churchill to open the way to the Black Sea for the Allied navies. The objective was to capture Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, which was an ally of Germany during the war. The ANZAC force landed at Gallipoli on 25 April, meeting fierce resistance from the Ottoman Army commanded by Mustafa Kemal (later known as Atatürk). What had been planned as a bold strike to knock the Ottomans out of the war quickly became a

Newsletters & Info.

The latest newsletter for March/April is available online and can be found on the "Latest Newsletters" page.

I for one am pleased to see that there is a Hangi scheduled for October as well as other events that have always been popular.

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