Auckland Polish Association (Polish House) - Morningside
About Auckland Polish Association (Polish House)
Input from readers is something website creators welcome, and we are no different. It means people are reading our stories—and let us know where we may have got it wrong.
In my original story about the history of Poles in Auckland, which is under the About Us drop-down menu, I mistakenly used an incorrect date for the official opening of the Dom Polski. I apologise for this. The date of the opening of the hall was 8 February 1976.
I have since updated the story to include that information, found the original plaque, photographed it, and discovered, too, that the hall was officially opened by the then Mayor of Mt Albert, Frank Ryan.
I was also chastised for not paying more attention to the past presidents of the Auckland Polish Association (APA). I know that I took a risk in mentioning names that I had gathered from various sources, and the easy solution would have been to delete them rather than include someone who was not a president. I chose instead to retain them, because a name can trigger a memory, and there is already a dearth of definitive historical records for the APA.
I still want to fulfil the request for a list of past presidents, and the years they served. Any information is helpful: it will either confirm or query a supposition. If anyone would like to help compile this list, please contact me by emailing [email protected], and put “past presidents” in the subject line.
Some of the original members of the Auckland Polish Association, outside the old house. What I will defend is the way I structured the history in a way that put the current Dom Polski, and the members of the APA who were integral in building it, into the context of the entirety of Poles in New Zealand. As the editor of the website Polish History New Zealand, I am aware that Auckland’s Polish community established itself many decades after others. The Poles in Auckland who built our Dom Polski were made up from “Pahiatua children” and those who arrived in New Zealand soon after WW2. They sit squarely in the middle of the trickle of Poles who arrived in Auckland before WW2, and the increasing numbers who arrived afterwards, and who continue to arrive.
I am aware that there are still several unidentified people in the piece. I encourage anyone who can rectify this to come forward with the information, including anyone who can recognise people in the photograph here, or who knows who took it.
—Basia Scrivens
Contact Auckland Polish Association (Polish House)
| Address : | Auckland Polish Association (Polish House) 1 McDonald Street, Morningside, Auckland 1025, New Zealand |
| Phone : | π +9898 |
| Postal code : | 1025 |
| Website : | http://www.poloniaauckland.co.nz/ |
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Agnes Marek on Google
β β β β β Great place, little Poland in New Zealand .Polish shool is awesome.
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Jarinda Engelbrecht on Google
β β β β β Loved going to the Polish day. Always good to experience different communities.
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Elizabeth Hall on Google
β β β β β Community facility in transitional area (industrial to housing) volunteers manage the facility and they are most helpful.
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Krzysztof Maliszewski on Google
β β β β β Nice Polish place also for people from other countries where occasionally you can buy Polish delicates and other kinds of food!
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Tadeusz Pelczar on Google
β β β β β They refused to make their premises available for the meeting of Polish journalist StanisΕaw Michalkiewicz. Shame on you!
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genegirl on Google
β β β β β Went here to participate in the Polish Christmas market as a stall holder. Had a good atmosphere and most were friendly.
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Gabriel G on Google
β β β β β Very friendly place where you can have a taste of European food an culture. Great polish sausage , great polish beer and other polish products.
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Rob Finn on Google
β β β β β We enjoyed the Polish Market Day on 15 Dec 19. The stall holders were friendly and welcoming. We bought a very tasty sourdough loaf of bread and some beautiful handcrafts. We will be keeping an eye open for any events that they may run in the future. We hope to see some performing arts (singing and dancing) at some future date.
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