About SCSBTS & Our Committee
Our Club
In 1956 the Southern Cross Staffordshire Bull Terrier Society (Inc) was formed in NZ by a dedicated group of Stafford enthusiasts. It is the oldest Stafford Club outside the United Kingdom.
Since that time the Society has gone from strength to strength, with its headquarters in Wellington and members throughout NZ and overseas.
It is our aim to:
- promote the welfare, well-being and image of the Staffordshire Bull Terrier;
- to encourage the breeding and exhibiting of the Staffordshire Bull Terrier that conforms to the standard of the breed, as adopted by Dogs NZ; and
- to hold shows, ribbon parades and fun days.
The Society is affiliated to Dogs NZ and through membership of the Society, we can endorse applications to join Dogs NZ should you wish to exhibit your Stafford at Specialist, All Breeds, Agility, and Obedience Shows held throughout the country.
Our Logo
The Badge of the Southern Cross Staffordshire Bull Terrier Society (Inc.) was adopted by the Society in 1956 upon affiliation with The New Zealand Kennel Club as an associated Specialist Breed Club and is, in fact, the Badge of the Southern Counties SBT Club in the United Kingdom. The Southern Counties Club was gracious to allow the Southern Cross Society to use this Badge as the first overseas SBT Club to be formed outside the United Kingdom.
The motto on the Badge Nemo Me Impune Lacessit translates as No-one provokes me with impunity or perhaps more literally as No-one challenges me with impunity
The dog depicted on the badge is that of MILKERN GUARDSMAN owned by the late Fred and Olive Gill originally of the Southern Counties Club who brought him to New Zealand when they emigrated from the UK in 1952. F.L. (Fred) Gill was a long-time Honorary Vice President of the Southern Cross SBT Society and associated closely with the Society from its foundation.
MILKERN GUARDSMAN
Meet the faces behind the Southern Cross Staffordshire Bull Terrier Society (Inc)!
Our Committee 2025/2026
President - Natalie Valentic
Vice-President - Darren Slade
Secretary - Sonia Harvey
Treasurer - Gay Meredith
Officers
Tania Slade
Melissa Berkers
Eamonn Pearless
Patron - Stephen Meredith