Information on the 2025 Club AGM and Tour
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Accommodation - recommended options below, please make your own arrangements directly.
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Tauranga on the Waterfront - 1 Second Avenue Tauranga, 27 rooms
www.thetauranga.co.nz, ph 07 578 7079, email: stay@thetauranga.co.nz
or at
Cityside Hotel - 16 First Avenue Tauranga, 13 rooms
citysidehotel.co.nz, ph 07 578 1235, email info@citysidehotel.co.nz
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There will be tours before the AGM from each region, and a tour south after the AGM. If you are interested in details on the tours to the AGM, let us know where you will be starting your journey from and we will send details of that tour.
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If you are attending without a vehicle, there are a limited number of club members cars available to use during the AGM weekend, or we can collect you/deliver you to the airport. Again, let us know on the registration form.
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AGM PROGRAM for 2025
All registrants will receive a colour booklet detailing the AGM program, event venues and other important information when they arrive, and this booklet will also be sent out as a PDF prior to the event.
The program below details the daily program from Thursday, 24 April through to Sunday, 26 April.
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Thursday, 24 April, 2025
There will be an informal lunch gathering option for those arriving early in Tauranga around midday at a central city location.
There will also be an optional visit between 1.30pm and 3pm to a nearby historic homestead, cost is $20 pp payable on entry, with a discount available with a gold card.
For those settled in on Thursday, there will be a casual dinner gathering near the motel. The cost for the meal is $60pp, with a cash bar. If you wish to attend the dinner please indicate the number of people attending, and the total amount payable on your registration form.
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Friday, 25 April, 2025
The morning will be free of any planned activities, you can arrange your own breakfast at a number of nearby eateries, and there will be an Anzac Day service nearby at Memorial Park around 9am.
Midday
There will be a picturesque drive around the Bay Of Plenty region, with a lunch stop early on at a cost of $30 per person, excluding drinks.
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There will be some optional stops along the way which may include entry fees, and there will be options for afternoon tea, petrol stops and other amenities.
Evening
There will be a casual dinner gathering near the motel. The cost for the meal is $60pp, with a cash bar. If you wish to attend the dinner please indicate the number of people attending, and the total amount payable on your registration form.
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Saturday, 26 April, 2025
Morning
A number of breakfast options are nearby to make your own arrangements. We will then leave at 10.30am to visit a nearby shed to view a Phantom II restoration project, and a road legal car with a 27 litre Rolls-Royce Meteor engine.
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Midday
After the shed visit, lunch will be by your own arrangements, we will recommend options back near our accommodation.
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Afternoon
After lunch we will have our annual Concours at the local VCC clubrooms on their front lawn. There club rooms will be open and they will have tea, coffee, sandwiches, scones and cakes for us. We hope to arrange a couple of car cleaning areas on an asphalt car park adjoining their properties for those who wish to tidy their cars. We will also be having local people with Bentleys and Rolls-Royces park their cars on the lawn too so we can have a look at their cars while the judges are working hard.
AGM and Formal Dinner
The AGM will start at 5.30pm at the Tauranga Club, which is very near our accommodation, followed by fellowship in the bar, and our annual formal dinner around 7pm. This will include our annual prizegiving, and possibly a guest speaker. Cost for the formal dinner, excluding drinks is $79pp.
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Sunday, 27 April, 2025
Morning
After checking out of our accommodation, we will head to the Classic Flyers museum in Mt Maunganui, where we will park our cars inside their complex on the apron in front of their main hangar. They have set aside seating in their café for us to enjoy brunch, and we may also have a short guided tour of a couple of special areas of the museum not usually open to the public.
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This will be the conclusion of the main AGM weekend activities
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Post AGM Tour South
After the Classic Flyers visit a group of cars will be slowly heading south on a leisurely tour, with overnight stops planned at Opotiki, Gisborne and Napier before all dispersing home. If you are interested in this tour, please indicate the number of people for each night below. You will be contacted about the tour so that motel bookings can be made at each point along the way.
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There is no registration fee payable, and all activities are to be self-funded except for the four meal options detailed above.
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Payment for these items should paid to the Northern Region bank account by 18 April 2025.
Account - NZRRBC Northern Region - 02-0168-0155671-00 Please add your name as the reference.
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Additional Information
Please note that there are two toll roads in the Tauranga area, one from the Tauriko roundabout into the city, and the other to the east of Tauranga heading to Te Puke. They are both well sign posted. It is important to pay any tolls promptly if you use these roads and don’t have your car on a toll road account. If you need any assistance with this during the AGM weekend let David Tomlinson know.
If you are needing assistance getting to or from the AGM, or interested in the cars that will be made available please put your request on the registration form.
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All cars will be entered in our Concours by default, if you do not want your car judged, please note this on your registration form.
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Any other inquiries can be placed in the box below too, or emailed to David Tomlinson at davetnz@gmail.com or by phoning David on 027 412 8227
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Please send your registration in promptly, it will help organisers with arrangements of the weekend.
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To complete the online registration form click HERE
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Or you can down load a PDF form to print off HERE