More links and websites
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Clubs New Zealand Inc
The site of the organisation which represents over 300 chartered clubs.
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Freemasons New Zealand
The Freemasons’ site provides an overview of the ideals and activities of the Masonic movement in New Zealand.
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Greymouth beer boycott
This piece on NZHistory.net.nz discusses the origins of workingmen’s clubs on the West Coast in 1947 as a response to hotels raising the price of beer.
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MENZSHED New Zealand
MENZSHED New Zealand was registered as a charity in 2013. Its locally based ‘sheds’ act as friendship hubs where men share practical skills and take on community projects
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Report of the Registrar of Friendly Societies and Credit Unions, 2009
The registrar’s report gives good background on the role and scale of friendly-society activity in the 2000s (PDF, 87 KB).
More suggestions and sources
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Butterworth, Graham, and Susan Butterworth. Jaycee: developers of people, builders of communities. Wellington: Ngaio Press, 2007.
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Ogilvie, Gordon. The shagroons’ palace: a history of the Christchurch Club, 1856–2006. Christchurch: Henry Elworthy for the Christchurch Club, 2005.
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Parry, Gordon. Tradition and change: the first 150 years of the Dunedin Club. Dunedin: Dunedin Club, 2008.
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Rolfe, Jack. In the club: a history of the chartered club movement in New Zealand. Auckland: Celebrity Books, 2000.