NZCFS National Executive

Eric Livingstone Eric was elected National President in May 2008. Prior to that he was National South Island Vice President for six years. He has been a member, and on the executive of the Christchurch Branch since 1986.Eric led the Prominent Persons and Leaders delegation in 2008 and the Society’s Silk Road Tour in 2000 and was deputy leader of the Society’s Footsteps of Rewi Alley Tour of China in 1997. He is a member of the International Committee of Chinese Industrial Co-operatives … [Read more...]

Dave Bromwich has had active involvement in China since 1990, with almost 4 years total over 18 visits spent in China exploring different pursuits. He spent one year with his family in Napier’s sister city Lianyungang teaching English, and has travelled widely. Since 2002, main work activity has been in rural poverty reduction development projects, both in a private capacity in Guangxi and Guizhou provinces, and extensively in representing NZCFS in its project work, especially in NW … [Read more...]

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Member of the Nelson Branch of NZCFS since 1993. Member of Nelson Branch Executive Committee since 2000 and Treasurer since 2002. Assistant Editor and Publisher of the Nelson Branch Newsletter since 2001. Private trips to China 1977, 1997, 2008 and 2010. Member of Prominent Persons and Leaders Tour 2000. Deputy Tour Leader NZCFS Silk Road Tour 2002. Tour Leader NZCFS Silk Road Tour 2005. Member of Rewi Alley Memorial Tour 2007. Acting Treasurer NZCFS National from 1 January 2008 - AGM … [Read more...]

Heiko Lade was appointed the national secretary of the NZCFS at the May 2011 AGM and has been on the executive of the Hawkes Bay branch since 2010. In 1984 he lived and studied in Hangzhou, China where he was an intern at the Red Cross TCM hospital. This was quite a pivotal visit as he was part of the first foreign student groups ever allowed into China to study in a Chinese institution after founding of the People’s Republic of China. His travels to China have included Guangzhou, Hangzhou and … [Read more...]

Margaret Cooper JP was National President from 2003 to 2008, and was awarded Life Membership in 2009. She is a member and Past President of Tauranga Branch. Margaret is also: Managing Director, Odyssey Group Ltd, Tauranga; Executive member – New Zealand China Trade; Chairman, Tauranga-China Friendship Charitable Trust; and Former International Co-ordinator Tauranga City Council. She organised trade and goodwill visit for Chinese delegations, and travelled frequently to … [Read more...]

I have been a member of the New Zealand China Friendship Society since 1978.My first visit to China was in 1979 and since then have been on several delegations, one representing the society at the Rewi Alley commemoration celebrations and several times representing thee Hamilton branch of the society travelling to Wuxi , Hamilton’s sister city.I have also been a Tour Guide taking a group of 16 to China and Tibet.Due to my interest in wishing to live in China, I studied at Wintec in … [Read more...]

Born in Christchurch 12 January 1947Brought up on a sheep farm in SouthlandEducated at Te Tipua Primary School, Southland Girls’ High School, Otago University, University of Canterbury BA in Religious Studies.Lived in Christchurch since 1968, married to Prof. Bill Willmott with two daughters.Counsellor, social worker and teacher for 15 years.Recognised garden writer, with some fifty articles about Canterbury gardens in the NZ Gardener, regular articles in The Gardener’s … [Read more...]

Membership of the New Zealand China Friendship SocietyJoined the New Zealand China Friendship Society in 1993.Have attended meetings regularly from 1993 to the present time.2003 became a Committee Member of the Wellington Branch.Assisted with National Conference held in Wellington taking responsibility for the Information Desk and arranging transport.2004 Became Wellington Branch Vice-President2006 Became Wellington Branch President and continue in that role at the … [Read more...]

I’m Sally Russell, elected onto National Executive and also Hawke’s Bay Branch President. As Chair of the Projects Sub-committee I convene an active group. Have a look at projects on other parts of this website to see what we do. Hastings and Guilin were the first sister city relationship between a New Zealand and Chinese city signed in 1981 and I’m the Deputy Chair of the Hastings Guilin Sister City Board of Directors, a Hastings District Council/Community Board which oversees the … [Read more...]

Born in Chengdu, China, in 1932, where his parents were United Church of Canada educational missionaries. Bill grew up and finished high school level there before going to Oberlin College in Ohio. He completed a BA in Sociology and then an MA in Anthropology at McGill University, Montreal, based on research on the Eskimo community at Inukjuak in Northern Quebec. His PhD in Social Anthropology was completed in 1964 at the London School of Economics based on research among the Chinese in … [Read more...]