Story: Men’s clubs

More links and websites

• Clubs New Zealand Inc

  The site of the organisation which represents over 300 chartered clubs.

• Freemasons New Zealand

  The Freemasons’ site provides an overview of the ideals and activities of the Masonic movement in New Zealand.

• Greymouth beer boycott

  This piece on NZ History discusses the origins of workingmen’s clubs on the West Coast in 1947 as a response to hotels raising the price of beer.

• 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

• 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

• Butterworth, Graham, and Susan Butterworth. Jaycee: developers of people, builders of communities. Wellington: Ngaio Press, 2007.
• Ogilvie, Gordon. The shagroons’ palace: a history of the Christchurch Club, 1856–2006. Christchurch: Henry Elworthy for the Christchurch Club, 2005.
• Parry, Gordon. Tradition and change: the first 150 years of the Dunedin Club. Dunedin: Dunedin Club, 2008.
• Rolfe, Jack. In the club: a history of the chartered club movement in New Zealand. Auckland: Celebrity Books, 2000.