Era Decade General

General

1. The Era Decade Branch concentrates on the five year Era each Sapper joined the RNZE. The aim is to provide low key social functions that members may be tempted to attend considering long travel distances to see their old mates, knowing that there is a strong chance of talking to someone they know. This is in the form of Decade Do social functions at a Returned Services Association [RSA] club in mid New Zealand location, Wellington or Picton.

2.  Upon joining the Sappers Association [NZ] Inc, each member can tick the five year Era that they joined the RNZE on their account Profile. This in turn puts them into email Smart Groups that are used for login to web pages that are not public. See Menu > Sappers > Members for how to login.

3. The Era Decade Branch has it's own bank account as a suffix in the main Association bank account. Each Era fund raising is intended to be 'ring fenced' on a separate line in the Era Decade financials.

Venues and Accomodation

4.  The RSA of choice is the Porirua RSA in Wellington. Picton RSA is also considered. Login pages show photos of the Porirua RSA lounge bar area, restaurant. carpark [for motor homes & campervans] etc.

5.  Army Leave Centres [ALC] are in the Wellington CBD and Waikanae. Login pages show photos of both ALCs bedrooms and lounges with prices to hire.

Eras

6.  The five year Eras are the years first joined the RNZE are below followed by some RNZE overseas deployments that some members were on. Member's account Profile has a tick box for each Era and a tick box for each RNZE sponsored Overseas Deployment on a more extensive list.

(a) 2025 - 29.

(b) 2020 - 24.

(c) 2015 - 19. Vanuatu, Fiji.

(d) 2010 - 14. Afghanistan.

(e) 2005 - 09. Afghanistan.

(f) 2000 - 04. Iraq.

(g) 1995 - 99. East Timor.

(h) 1990 - 94.

(i)  1985 - 89. Cook Is.

(j)  1980 - 84. Solomon Is, Queensland.

(k)  1975 - 79. Antartica, Moscow.

(l)  1970 - 74. Thailand, Fiji, Atiu.

(m) 1965 - 69. Vietnam, Tokelau.

(n)  1960 - 64. Thailand.

(o)  1955 - 59. Antartica.

(p)  1950 - 54. Korea.

(q)  1945 - 49.

7.  Each of the Eras above has two login web pages: News and Members.

(a)  The 'News' login web page shows future activities, name and contact details of the Era Moderator [EM] and past activities with names of who attended and photos attached.

(b)  The 'Members' login web page shows names and post codes of that Era. It also shows a number for each person that members can use in their own Profile to allow contact details to that person and special notification if that person goes into hospital etc.

Decade Do Social Functions

8.  Now and then, two Eras can get together to initiate a Decade Do with a 10-year name covering the two Eras. The prospective date and venue is diplayed months in advance in each Era News login web page [see para 7(a)]. It's existance is known by looking at public web page Menu > Login Pages Updated > Regions Eras...> Table > Eras on a monthly basis.

9. An Event is raised about a month in advance. The Eras either side of the Decade Do name are invited also to cover a 20-year joined RNZE span.

9 May 2025 last updated.