U3A Browns Bay NZ New Zealand

Welcome to U3A Browns Bay

Retired or near retirement.

This website opens up a new world for retirees

with retirement options.

Are you in need of mental stimulation and want to have fun and keep the grey matter working?

Then U3A Browns Bay could be for you.

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This is the Archaeology Group about to trek up Mangere Mountain.

Mangere Mountain-1

Mangere Mountain-2

Each member makes a contribution in keeping with

their particular skills, ability and knowledge.

The Walking Group on the last walk of the year, comes across the Naval Marae at Devonport.

Peter Laslett who founded U3A in UK in 1981 said

Those who teach shall also learn and

those who learn shall also teach.

U3A Browns Bay Inc.

PO Box 35 851

Browns Bay

North Shore

www.u3abb.net.nz

www.brownsbay.u3a.org.nz

About to retire? With U3A you can plan to work at living, rather than living to work!

GUEST SPEAKER UPDATES

Dave'Veart,s book Digging up the Past: Archaeology for the Young and Curious (AUP, 2011) is shortlisted for the NZ Post Childrens' Book Awards in the non-fiction category, winners to be announced on May 16.

Digging up the past

COMPUTER GENEALOGY

Using a computer for researching and drawing up family trees can make the process very fast these days. Here is useful information from notes taken of a talk given by Boyd Miller of North Shore Computer Genealogists

INTEREST GROUP NEWS

The newsletter reports from the groups are seen here. Several groups have started creating their own web pages.

Inventions and Inventors have visited two sites to see WWII Mosquito Aircraft being restored in Auckland. Other visits have been to see 3D Printing in action and Flat diaphram Speaker technology.

MEMBERSHIP AREA

U3A Browns Bay Inc North Shore members come from Okura, Glenfield, Wairau, Torbay, Murrays Bay, Mairangi Bay, Takapuna, Hibiscus Coast, Devonport Northcoate and Birkenhead

PREVIOUS SPEAKERS

Our previous Guest Speakers for this year are listed here

The May Guest speaker ~

Steve Corbett

Our May speaker, Steve Corbett was from the ecentre. [http://www.ecentre.org.nz/ ] The ecentre’s aim is to take a garage project and to enable it to become a global business. Anyone with an original idea for a new product which has definite potential customers may get assistance from this centre. The examples he gave us were

A machine which accurately maps the shape of sewer pipes, looking for deformation and cracking - now being sold worldwide.
An online site [Story Mint] which enables budding authors to have their style evaluated and refined went live on line on Friday 4^th May. [http://www.ecentre.org.nz/blog/2012/02/29/the-story-mint/]

The future of our country looks quite a lot brighter with this going on

Our Special Interest speaker was John Weatherly who used a power point containing photographs taken by the Geology Group to describe their recent trip to explore the geology of the Rotorua area. This gave a comprehensive overview of the vulcanism of the region. This was very interesting and a credit to all concerned.

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