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Cook Islands - Rarotonga

Meeting Day: 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the Month
Meeting Time: 5.30pm
Meeting Venue: The Local RSA Club (Avarua) Raratonga, Cook Islands

Fiji - Apia

Meeting Day: Every 2nd Week
Meeting Time: 5.30pm - 7.30pm
Meeting Venue: TJ's seafood restaurant, Matautu, APIA

Fiji - Lautoka

Meeting Day: TBA
Meeting Time: TBA
Meeting Venue: TBA

Fiji - Nadi

Meeting Day: 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the Month
Meeting Time: 6.30pm
Meeting Venue: McDonald's (Kennedy Avenue) Nadi

Fiji - Suva

Meeting Day: 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the Month
Meeting Time: 5.45pm for 6pm start
Meeting Venue: The Levuka Room, Fiji Club (1 Selbourne Street) Suva

NZ - Auckland - Auckland City

Meeting Day: 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the Month
Meeting Time: 5.45pm for a 6:00pm start
Meeting Venue: Pioneer Women?s Hall, CBD, Auckland

NZ - Auckland - Pakuranga

Meeting Day: 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month
Meeting Time: 7:15pm for a 7:30pm start
Meeting Venue: Pakuranga Youth Centre ? (On Reeves Road opposite Westfields Shopping Centre) Pakuranga, Auckland

Website: http://www.pakuranga.rotaract.rotary.org.nz

NZ - Auckland - Pupuke (North Shore)

Meeting Day: Every 2nd and 4th Monday
Meeting Time: 7.30pm
Meeting Venue: North Shore YMCA, Akoranga drive

Website: http://rotaractpupuke.pbwiki.com

NZ - Auckland - Somerville-Newmarket

Meeting Day: 1st and 3rd Monday of the month
Meeting Time: 7:15pm for a 7:30pm start
Meeting Venue: Penny Black Pub (Formerly the Carlton) Cnr Broadway & Kyber Pass, Newmarket, Auckland

Website:http://www.rotaract.org.nz/somerville

NZ - Auckland - University of Auckland

Meeting Day: Fortnightly on Thursdays
Meeting Time: 6:00pm for a 6:15pm start
Meeting Venue: Floor 5, ALRC 6 (Architecture Building on Symonds Street) The University of Auckland, Auckland

Website:http://www.rotaract.org.nz/university

NZ - Christchurch - Christchurch Central

Meeting Day: 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month
Meeting Time: 7:00pm for a 7:30pm start
Meeting Venue: Robbies Restaurant and Bar (201 Clarence Street, Riccarton) Christchurch

NZ - Hamilton - Frankton

Meeting Day: 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month
Meeting Time: 7:30pm (start time)
Meeting Venue: Giles Tool Shed (9 Norton Road) Hamilton

NZ - Wellington - Wellington Central

Meeting Day: once a month, no set day, please contact club for details
Meeting Time: 7:45pm (start)
Meeting Venue: The Malthouse (Willis Street, Wellington Central)

Tahiti - Tahiti

Meeting Day: 2nd & 4th Wednesday of the month
Meeting Time:6:30pm (start time)
Meeting Venue: Papeete town council
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF ROTARACT IN NEW ZEALAND AND SOUTH PACIFIC

The first officially chartered Rotaract Club was in North Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1968. The first Rotaract Club chartered in New Zealand was The Rotaract Club of Mount Albert in Auckland on 19 February 1969. Charter President Graham Allan encapsulated why many young people join Rotaract - “Youth has always dreamed of bettering the society in which it lives. We view our present society with a harshly critical eye, dissatisfied with its tendency towards selfishness. We can now do something about it!”

Rotaract programme spread rapidly throughout New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. In 1970, just two years after the programme started, there were 50 clubs and by 1982, approximately 80 clubs. Unfortunately in the late 1980s and early 1990s Rotaract entered a phase of decline in New Zealand with most clubs terminating. That is until 1998 when the Rotaract Club of Somerville in Auckland was chartered with many of its members coming from another Rotary youth programme, RYLA. This club serviced the whole of the Auckland region until early 2003 when the Rotaract clubs of Pakuranga and The University of Auckland were chartered. Pakuranga Rotaract is predominately made up of past Interactors (school based 14-18 year old Rotarians).

In addition, the Pacific Island Rotaract Clubs of Suva, Nadi, Lautoka, Apia and Rarotonga were rediscovered. Many of these clubs were chartered in the early 1970s. The Rotaract Club of The Fiji Institute of Technology was chartered in 2003.

The “Rotaract Revival” has continued with the charter in mid 2004 of the Rotaract Clubs of Frankton (Hamilton) and Christchurch Central. Rotaract Clubs planned in the immediate future include clubs in Helensville, Auckland CBD, Tauranga, and Lower Hutt. Anyone interested in starting a new Rotaract club in their area should contact their local District Rotaract Representative.

Today, there are some 165,000 members in more than 7,500 Rotaract Clubs in 161 countries. Most clubs are either community or university based.