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Auckland Branch Christmas Celebration – Wednesday 4th December 2024
All members, please join your GSA Committee for a festive morning tea. Bring your spouse or a guest.
Speaker: Professor Rod Jackson – UOA Epidemiologist “You are What You Eat”. See introduction below.
Venue: Western Springs Garden Community Hall 2, 956 Great North Road, Western Springs (ample parking)
Time: 10.30pm – 12pm
RSVP: Please pay $15 per person into our account 38 9010 0813532 00 and use your name as a reference.
Then register your attendance by 27 November by emailing Andrea on auckland@gsa.org.nz or call her on 0800 888 472. Your RSVP is required for catering purposes.
Some background about our speaker........
Rod Jackson is a 70-year-old professor of epidemiology at the University of Auckland, who after training and practicing in clinical medicine in the 1970s, has spent almost 45 years has been an academic epidemiologist working in the field of preventing and managing heart disease and stroke events. He attempts to practice what he preaches and his research has convinced him that our cardiovascular health is largely determined by what we put in our mouths (and our lungs!). In this session he will describe some of the major changes that have occurred in heart disease and stroke rates, obesity prevalence and the diet of New Zealanders over his lifetime. He will comment on recent fads like the paleo and keto diets and will quiz you on the most poisonous food in New Zealand. Come prepared with your questions as Rod likes to be interrupted. While he recently spent several years dedicated to getting every eligible New Zealander vaccinated against Covid-19, he has returned to his main day job of preventing and managing cardiovascular diseases, so is no longer up-to-date on issues related to Covid-19. However he continues to learn new things about cardiovascular disease epidemiology almost every day and will share this new information with you, like the benefits of eating potatoes and the likely importance of the microbiome in preventing obesity.
Auckland Branch 2025 Branch Meeting dates
Here are the details we have so far of the branch meetings which have been organised for our Auckland members for 2025. We have some interesting speakers booked so please put the dates in your diary. More details will be published on the website and in the newsletter closer to the function date. In each case the venue is the Western Springs Community Hall 2 and start time is 10.30am. There is a large car park at the venue where you can park for free. A morning tea is provided. Apart from the Christmas function these events are free to our members and their guests. We would love to see some new faces !
· Tuesday, 25 March 2025
· Tuesday, 10 June 2025 (AGM) We have Tammy McLeod from Davenports Law speaking on Wills, POA’s and Trusts.
· Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Introducing your current Auckland Branch Committee members:
| Chairman | Sandie Gusscott | Education | 021 806 973 | |||
| Vice Chairman | Craig Jensen | Crown Research | 09 378 4054 | |||
| Secretary | Andrea Beechey | 0800 888 472 | ||||
| Committee: | ||||||
| Murray McElwain (80+) | Railways | 09 266 9959 | ||||
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Defence | 09 8385575 | ||||
| Eric Bowater | Education | 09 482 0250 | ||||
| Neil Carey | Railways | 09 625 4058 | ||||
| Keith Rawlings | Defence | 021 882 959 | ||||
| Claire Couch | Education | 09 420 8216 | ||||
| Max Thomson | Post Office | 09 479 1681 | ||||
| Denise Greenwood | Education | 027 621 4840 | ||||
| Philippa Stevens | Education | 021 226 8233 | ||||
Annuity News and Auckland Branch Newsletter
If you currently receive your six monthly Annuity News and Auckland Branch Newsletters by post but are willing to receive them by email please contact the Auckland Secretary on 0800 888 472. This will assist the GSA to keep the rising publishing and postage costs of our newsletters down.
Have you moved house recently?
If you have moved house in the last six months and have forgotten to let us know, please phone the Auckland Secretary on 0800 888 472. Datacom, the administrators of your Annuity would also need to be advised. Please contact them per below.
Datacom (GSF): phone 0800 654 731 or email gsf@datacom.co.nz
Datacom (NPF): phone 0800 628 776 or email npfenquiries@datacom.co.nz
Have you heard any interesting speakers lately ?
Auckland Branch is always looking for new speakers for our meetings. As our membership is far reaching and many of our members belong to other groups who have speakers at their meetings, we ask that if you hear someone speak whom you think would be good to have at an Auckland Branch meeting, please pass their contact details on to the Branch Secretary, Andrea at auckland@gsa.org.nz or phone her on 0800 888 472.
To find out more about activities planned for members, or to suggest other activities or venues, contact:
Branch Secretary
Andrea Beechey
0800 888 472
auckland@gsa.org.nz