To
The Southland Times
is turning 150
on 12 November!
celebrate this grand occasion The Southland Times is hosting a staff
reunion weekend for existing and ex staff, starting on Friday 9 November with
an informal drinks and registration evening. On Saturday 10 November there’s
a formal dinner and dance with the evening beginning at 6pm.
Many ex staff have registered their interest and we can now provide the full details
and ask that you confirm your attendance using the attached booking form before
24 October.
Registration Evening
Friday 9 November, Invercargill Working Men’s Club, 7-9pm.
Doors open from 6.30pm, ticket price $15 per person.
This will be a smart casual affair with a welcome drink on arrival and canapés during the evening, plus a cash bar
will be operating. Guests will be able to register their arrival, collect their registration pack and then catch up with
other Southland Times staff, both ex and present. If you’ve pre ordered and paid for a copy of our new 150 year
commemorative book, this will be included in your registration pack. Books will be available for purchase
during the evening, but this is subject to availability, so to guarantee your copy we do recommend that you
pre order. You’ll also save $5!
Formal Dinner & Dance
Saturday 10 November, Invercargill Working Men’s Club, 6pm - Midnight
Dress Code: Cocktail or Business Attire. Ticket price: $80 per person
Includes: Welcome drink, 2 course dinner, wine and beer during the meal, live music.
A cash bar will operate after the meal.
Our formal dinner and dance will be an evening to remember, with welcome drink
on arrival, a 2 course dinner, wine and beer during dinner and then dancing to
popular local band, ‘Impakt’. To capture this special occasion, once all guests have
arrived at 6pm, we’ll be taking a series of group photographs. These will capture
The Southland Times staff from each decade. Our photographer will also take
photographs whilst guests are arriving and mingling, so we’ll have lots of
keepsakes of the occasion.
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We Ne ed Your Help!
You will all have many shared memories of working at the Times and we would love to see your photographs
from over the years, showing you at work and enjoying yourselves at work functions and annual parties.
If you have photographs you would like to share, please send them to us along with details of who is in the
photograph, the year it was taken and any other information you would like to share. Please e-mail them to
[email protected] (either a file or scanned copy) or mail a copy to us at:
Attention Michelle Frisby
The Southland Times
PO Box 805
Invercargill
9840
We’ll put them all on a display wall at our reunion functions so everybody can enjoy these shared memories.
Please send these to us by 31 October so we have time to organise the display and do them justice.
Original photographs are precious so please DO NOT send us your originals as we will not be able to return
these items once they are part of a display. Thank you.
Times of our Lives
150 years of The Southland Times
To commemorate our anniversary the Southland Museum and Art Gallery will be hosting a special exhibition.
This will encompass 150 years of our history within six sections; each covering 25 years. The exhibition will be
open to the public from Thursday 8 November so ex staff visiting Invercargill especially for our reunion will be
able to visit over the weekend. Southland Museum and Art Gallery is located beside Queens Park on Gala Street,
Invercargill.
Opening hours:
Weekdays: 9am – 5pm
Weekends: 10am – 5pm
Enquiries: 03 219 9069
150 Year Book
Author and Southland Times senior writer Michael Fallow describes this new book as
“a scamper through 15 decades to show at least a little of how The Southland Times has
drawn from, and contributed to, the lives of its readers and the times in which they lived.
The book seeks to show how attitudes of the day, and the personalities of the Times’ own personnel,
were reflected in the coverage of stories large and small. It features journalistic successes, failures and eccentricities.
It tells how the paper’s owners and management, particularly three generations of
the Gilmour family, steered a steady corporate course through good times and
bad; how advertisers at times showed breathtaking cheek, and how a paper boy
became a lifelong friend of Field Marshal Montgomery.”
A 176 page full colour book published to celebrate 150 years of The Southland
Times.
Price: $25 when pre ordered, $30 at the registration evening on 9 November.
The print run is limited so we recommend pre ordering to avoid disappointment.
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‘150 year 5km Recreational Walk/ Run’
Sunday 11 November
To commemorate our 150 years we are sponsoring the 5km recreational walk/run
which is part of the 2012 Southland Festival of Running on Sunday 11 November.
Starting from Feldwick Gates, Gala Street at 10.15 am and finishing at Stadium Southland. You decide whether
to walk or run, or a combination of both, but what a great way to finish off the weekend with a group of friends!
To enter you need to register with Sport Southland and online entries can be made until 5pm on Wednesday
7 November. Entries can also be made in person at the Sport Southland office, Stadium Southland,
Isabella Street, Invercargill up to 1pm on Saturday 10 November.
Registration packs can be collected from Sport Southland on Friday 9 November,
8.30am - 6pm, and on Saturday 10 November, 10am - 1pm.
Entry is $10 per adult, $5 per child (under 16 yrs) and $20 per family (2 adults and 3 children, aged under 16 yrs).
Your entry fee includes bus transport from Stadium Southland to Feldwick Gates, departing from the stadium car
park at 9.50am if required, but you will need to indicate this at the time of registering with Sport Southland.
Visit www.sportsouthland.co.nz and click on Southland Festival of Running and then Run/Walk (5km) for full details.
To register your entry, click the Entry tab at the top of the Southland Festival of Running page.
Sport Southland can be contacted directly on 0800 228 483 if you have any specific questions about the event.
Southland Times Contacts
For any enquiries call Michelle Frisby on 03 211 1096 or e-mail [email protected].
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Reunion Booking Form
Name: ____________________________________________________________________________
Address: __________________________________________________________________________
Daytime Ph#: ______________________________________________________________________
Email: ____________________________________________________________________________
Yes, I worked at The Southland Times from __________ to __________. (Please tell us the
years you worked at
The Southland Times.)
- Friday Registration Evening
Yes, I will be attending
Number attending - 1 @ $15
Number attending - 2 @ $30
Total $____________
No, I won’t be attending
- Saturday Dinner & Dance
Please indicate whether you will be attending alone or with a partner.
1 Adult @ $80
2 Adults @ $160
Total $____________
- 150 Years Book
I would like to order
copies @ $25 per book
Total $____________
To be collected at the Reunion Weekend Registration Evening.
- Payment Method
*Booking form & payment must be received by 24 October 2012.
1) Online Banking
A/C# 02-0924-0107174-66
Please use your initials & surname as a reference.
2) Cheque enclosed
3) Credit Card
Visa
Cheques payable to ‘The Southland
Times - 150 Year Anniversary’
Mastercard
Card Holders name: _____________________________________
Card #
Expiry
Signature: ______________________________________________
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