Taranaki Club
Production date
1892-1990
1890-1899
1990-1999
Description
For many years the Taranaki Club was the elite gentleman's club for New Plymouth and surrounding district. Declining membership and financial problems saw the membership criteria was change and in 1990, membership was opened to women.
The Taranaki Club amalgamated with the Commercial Traveller's Club and became known as the Combined Taranaki Club. The collection includes an almost full run of minutes 1903 - 1990 (the first volume is missing). Also financial records and correspondence much of which reflects membership and issues relating to the conduct of members.
Object detail
1890-1899
1990-1999
Box 1
1. Minute Book no. 1 dated 4 Aug. 1892 - 11 Sept. 1903 (acq.5688)
1a. Minute Book no.2 dated 26 Sept. 1903 - 20 Jan. 1915
2. Minute Book no.3 dated 2 Feb. 1915 - 10 Oct. 1922
3. Minute Book no.4 dated 8 Nov. 1922 - 12 July 1933
4. Minute Book no.5 dated 9 Aug. 1933 - 14 Aug. 1940
5. Minute Book no.6 dated 11 Sept. 1940 - 21 Feb. 1946
6. Minute Book no.7 dated 14 Mar. 1946 - 20 May 1954
6a. Minute Book no.8 dated 17June 1954 - 24 Sept. 1964 (acq.5688)
7. Minute Book no.9 dated 22 Oct. 1964 - 15 Jan. 1970
Box 2
8. Minute Book dated 12 Feb. 1970 - 14 Oct. 1977
9. Minute Book dated 24 Nov. 1982 - 21 Nov. 1990
10. Cash Book dated 1 Sept. 1899-6 Oct. 1902
11. Cash Book dated 8 Sept. 1902 - 3 Nov. 1913
12. Cash Book dated 1 Sept. 1920 - 24 June 1949
13. Journal dated 1926-1954
14. Ledger dated 1 Sept. 1902 - 31 Aug. 1929
15. Ledger dated 1 Sept. 1935 - 31 Oct. 1939
16. Ledger dated 1 Sept. 1944 - 31 Aug. 1952
17. Ledger dated 31 Aug. 1952 -31 Aug. 1966
18. Bar stock book dated 7June 1972 - 4 July 1974
19. Record of billards breaks dated 1909-1974
20. Suggestion book dated 1895 -1959
Box 3
21. Honorary Members dated 1904 -1909
22. Honorary Members dated 1922 -1932
Box 4
23. Members book dated 1892-1932
24. Members list at 1990
25. Visitors book dated 1970-78
26. Visitors book dated 1978-1987
27. Members nomination book dated 1895-1968
28. Photo of members
29. Poster of Dene Okane playing at club August 1984
30. History of Taranaki Club
31. Miscellaneous papers dating from 1920
32. Miscellaneous papers 1980-
33. Miscellaneous papers relating to Taranaki Club
34. Copies of Minute Books
35. Miscellaneous undated minutes and papers
36. Reports of Annual General Meetings
37. Minutes and meeting papers 1979
38. Minutes and meeting papers 1980
39. Minutes and meeting papers 1981
Box 5
40. Minutes and meeting papers 1982
41. Minutes and meeting papers 1983
42. Minutes and meeting papers 1984
43. Minutes and meeting papers 1985
44. Minutes and meeting papers 1986
45. Minutes and meeting papers 1987
46. Minutes and meeting papers 1988
47. Minutes and meeting papers 1989
Box 6
Correspondence. Restrictions on access apply.
48. Correspondence 1917
49. Correspondence 1918
50. Correspondence 1919
51. Correspondence 1920
52. Correspondence 1923
53. Correspondence 1940
54. Correspondence 1941
55. Correspondence 1942
56. Correspondence 1943
57. Correspondence 1944
58. Correspondence 1945
59. Correspondence 1946
60. Correspondence 1947
61. Correspondence 1948
62. Correspondence 1949
63. Correspondence 1950
64. Correspondence 1951
65. Correspondence 1952
66. Correspondence 1953
67. Correspondence 1954
68. Correspondence 1955
69. Leases mortgages agreements
70. Memos
71. Notices to members 1940/45
72. Correspondence 1983
Box 7
Correspondence. Restrictions on access apply.
73.Correspondence 1984
74. Correspondence 1985
75. Correspondence 1986
76. Correspondence 1987
77. Correspondence 1988
78. Correspondence 1989
79. Correspondence 1990
80. Correspondence 1991
81. Correspondence undated
82. Miscellaneous notices
83. Club rules various clubs
84. Club rules various Taranaki clubs
85. Club rules
86. Club rules Taranaki club
87. Club rules overseas clubs
88. Taranaki Club menus
89. Union & employment
90. Building alteration kitchen 1984-1985
91. Property maintenance etc
92. Newsletters
93. Miscellaneous
94. Comedy sketches
Box 8
Folder A. (Documents found in an office in the former Taranaki Club premises during renovations 2006)
Rules of the Taranaki Club. 1892Copy of Charter of the Taranaki Club. 28 September 1893
Certificate of Incorporation. Taranaki Club. 9 April 1918
Rules of the Taranaki Club. 9 April 1918
Booklet. Rules of the Taranaki Club. 1918
Letter. J.B. Roy, President from Oliver Samuel, regarding the original minutes of the New Plymouth Club. 5 March 1919
Letter. J.B. Roy to C.H. Weston, President, regarding the importance of the records outlined in the earlier letter. 6 Feb. 1922
Deed of Trust for the Taranaki Club. 9 August 1922
Souvenir. Opening of the new club buildings New Plymouth. 17 August 1922
Folder B. Applications for the position of Junior Steward. January 1932
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