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• Committee Meeting

  • Start
    9 Oct 2025
  •  
  • End
    13 Aug 2026
  •  
  • Schedule
    11 sessions
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Our committee meetings are open to all members, and we encourage anyone interested in helping to organise and support the club to come along.  

  These meetings are where we plan upcoming events, discuss conservation projects, and make decisions that keep the branch running smoothly.

  Members are encouraged to contribute ideas or propose events for the committee to consider. To keep meetings efficient, we ask that any proposals be submitted by email 7 days in advance so they can be circulated to the committee before the meeting.

  For more information or to submit a proposal please email info@southernlakesnzda.org.nz.

  Voting on decisions remains the role of committee members.
  
  When: 2nd Thursday of every month, 7:30pm
  Where: Online via Zoom
  How to join: A Zoom link will be shared with members on registration

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• Goat Shoot - Coronet Peak Station, Macetown

  • Start
    21 Nov 2025
  •  
    5:00 PM
  • End
    23 Nov 2025
  •  
    4:00 PM
  • Location
    Coronet Peak Station

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  Join the annual "Coronet Peak Station Goat Shoot"

  When

  21st, 22nd & 23rd November
  Registrations Close Wednesday 19th November
  

  Where
  We have permission from Coronet Peak Station to shoot goats further into the station this year.

  (If you are not familiar with the station, it extends right from Skippers Canyon to Arrowtown, Macetown, over the Mototapu and the back of Wanaka.)

  This year, weather permitting we are looking to drive in via Macetown and stay and camp around Macetown overnight on the Friday and Saturday night. 

  This is a family friendly trip.

  We plan to have a zoom briefing session on the Wed before - the link will be emailed to you the day before. (It is always the same one as the meeting links)

  
  

  

  Transport
  If you have not been to Macetown before, the track is rough, there are some river crossings (and big holes in the river) so a snorkel and 4WD experience is required. 
  
  This is a video of the Macetown track - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCTx2_mt4Ns
  
  We are looking to arrange for experienced 4WD drivers to take members that don't have suitable vehicles. And if there are not enough drivers, we can charter Nomads 4WD company to take us in.
  
  Leaving when?
  There is an option to head in Friday or Saturday,  so please complete the questions in the registration so we can organise lifts and transport if needed, and a convoy if you are not familiar with the river

  The plan is to leave Sunday afternoon 

  Cost?

  $15 for a NZDA member ($100 for a non member), this covers club costs* and rental of safety equipment etc
  * Club costs include paying for the registration software, the credit card fees and website hosting fees, as well as printing costs for H&S,  maps, signage etc  

  What to take
  You will need to be self sufficient. Take your food, a tent and camping gear. And plenty of ammo, in the past, members have run out when they have come across a large mob of goats.
  
  New members

  If you are still waiting on your licence, we can put you with other members, all members and levels of experience welcome

  Health and Safety
  There will be a health and safety plan which everyone will need to read and sign before we head in.
  Due to insurance, you need to be a current paid up member. 
  
  REGISTER HERE 
  

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• November Monthly Club Night

  • When
    27 Nov 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM - 10:30 PM
  • Location
    Arrowtown Bowling Club

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  WHEN
  

  Last Thursday of the Month
  Bar opens at 6.30pm for social catch up
  Meeting starts at 7.30pm.

  WHERE

  Arrowtown Bowling Club, 6 Hertford St, Arrowtown (next to the Arrowtown Fire station) 

  THEME OF MEETING

  
  

  Dick Deaker and Jeff Carter flying into a high pass to prepare deer for transporting with others to a waiting truck to take them to Te Anau.
  

  This month we’re joined by Dick Deaker, one of the true pioneers of New Zealand’s deer recovery industry.

  Dick first set foot in Fiordland as a schoolboy in 1960 and went on to become a government culler in the Takitimus and Murchison Mountains. By 1965, with help from Tim Wallis and Doug Jones, he earned his pilot’s licence and began flying a Piper Super Cub. Ferrying up to eight deer carcasses at a time from the remote valleys of Fiordland.

  When helicopters arrived on the scene, Dick was among the first to make the leap. Under the guidance of Don Spary, he learned to fly the Hughes 300 for Luggate Game Packers / Alpine Helicopters, launching a career that would span more than fifty years. From early aerial culling through to live capture operations in the Fiordland wapiti blocks, Dick witnessed and helped shape one of the most dramatic eras in New Zealand hunting history.

  Come along for an evening of incredible stories from the air and the mountains straight from a man who lived it all.

  
  

  NEW MEMBER?

  
  Come join us for social drinks before the club meeting and meet the members. New faces always welcome.

  ZOOM

  Alternatively join us via zoom (same link every meeting)

  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82994024744?pwd=U2xObThpUVdkRjhQTUxTd3MyL0RPQT09

  
  

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• 2025 Xmas BBQ & family event

  • When
    14 Dec 2025
  •  
    2:00 PM
  • Location
    Lake Hayes Estate

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  Christmas BBQ event & Goat Competition Prize Giving

  Sunday 14th Dec
  We are holding the Xmas function and prize giving for the Goat Competition at  Lake Hayes Estate.
  (Sharon and flatmates have offered their house and garden again)
  
  We've also invited members from Upper Clutha and Central Otago as we are neighbouring clubs.

  Those that have been before,  know there is plenty of room in the garden so bring the kids & dogs (bouncy castle planned) and the house is large enough if the weather turns out unfavourable.

  We will have a BBQ available to cook on 
  
  What to bring:

  There will be some meat and hopefully goat but if you require more and salads or vegetarian items to go with the meat, please bring your own.

  There are some beers and soft drinks provided but always good to bring more. There should be plenty of seating and hopefully weather warm enough to sit in the garden

  Time: 2pm onwards, Food served from 4pm (for the kids) and adults after 5pm
  
  Goat Competition Prize Giving at 6pm 

  Everyone welcome - family and partners (great chance to meet other members) .

  Where:

  24 Herries Lane, Lake Hayes Estate.
  Please do NOT use Google maps - it will take you down a footpath and wrong. It is the road off Onslow Road - see below

  RSVP: Please as it helps to make sure we have enough food and plates

  Members can register on the link below - or non members can just send an email info@southernlakesnzda.org.nz  
  
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