April 2009 (pdf) - Port Nelson
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<strong>Port</strong> <strong>Nelson</strong> Limited report. <strong>April</strong> <strong>2009</strong>. Page 3<br />
Boost for Seafarers’ Mission<br />
<strong>Port</strong> <strong>Nelson</strong>’s Seafarers’ Mission has a reputation to<br />
maintain as the best in New Zealand and one of the<br />
busiest, so a steady income is a must. The mission trust<br />
had a major boost at the end of last year when PNL<br />
Chief Executive Martin Byrne handed over a cheque for<br />
$12,000 dollars, the proceeds of the November <strong>Nelson</strong><br />
<strong>Port</strong> and Transport Industry Charity Golf Tournament.<br />
There are plenty of ways the money could be spent,<br />
including carpet and tables to complete the upgrade of the<br />
centre, but manager Milo Coldren has other plans.<br />
“We’re putting this cheque straight in the bank,” he said.<br />
“We are very grateful for the generosity and support we<br />
have from the port company – they’ve got the Seafarers’<br />
Mission as the charity for next year’s tournament as well,<br />
which will give us a tidy capital sum that we will keep<br />
intact while using the interest for our everyday running<br />
costs.”<br />
Martin Byrne, Dean Charles Tyrrell, Milo Coldren and his admin assistant Rebekah<br />
Smith and Charles Hufflett from the Seafarers' Trust.<br />
Forklift Honour Guard<br />
A very unusual site in the Container Yard on March 18,<br />
with the drive past of Johnny Pav (Ivan Pavlinic), who<br />
had worked in the stevedoring division for just over seven<br />
years as a casual, then as a part-timer from 2006.<br />
Container Operations Supervisor Mark Smith shepherded<br />
the forklifts (that been working just minutes before) into<br />
two lines and Financial Accountant Mason Robinson<br />
played the Last Post in a moving tribute to a valued<br />
workmate.<br />
Martin, decorated for a colour festival, with local school children.<br />
Report from Nepal<br />
CEO Martin Byrne is just back from a leadership and<br />
development course that was a long way from the<br />
usual meeting rooms and white boards - literally.<br />
The course, offered by Kiwi run company Second Base,<br />
was held in Nepal, which put a whole new angle on the<br />
term ‘taking participants outside their comfort zones’.<br />
“The focus of the course was very much around<br />
values-based leadership. There was the traditional<br />
classroom environment type workshopping, but we<br />
also spent five days in Chitwan province in a small<br />
village, working on improvements to a school for<br />
disabled kids while living with local families and<br />
sharing their conditions,” Martin says. “This meant<br />
using outdoor squat toilets, making the most of the<br />
power when it was on for two four hour bursts a day ,<br />
and eating twice daily meals of dhal bhat - rice, lentils<br />
and curried vegetables.”<br />
The six course members shook this experience down<br />
in further workshop sessions in Pokhara and then did<br />
a four day trek on the Annapurna loop. Martin says the<br />
course was a 'life-changer' from a personal perspective:<br />
“When you’re put into conditions you’re not used to it’s<br />
quite a learning experience to see how you react,” he said.<br />
“There was also a strong team building aspect.”<br />
Overall he expects the course to have long<br />
term impacts on areas such as self-awareness,<br />
effectiveness, motivation and the ability to empower<br />
and lead effective teams.<br />
Navigation Chart<br />
An old harbour chart was found rolled up, water stained<br />
and barely legible during a recent workshop office clean<br />
out. It was on a direct trajectory to the bin when Workshop<br />
Supervisor Craig Terris gave it a closer look and found it<br />
was an original ink on paper and fabric chart of <strong>Nelson</strong><br />
Harbour from 1882. The chart, prepared by Captain<br />
Johnson, is an update of the 1850 Stokes chart. Craig<br />
googled ‘document repair’ and<br />
sent it off to Marion Mehrtens,<br />
a Wellington document conservator.<br />
Framed by Dickson<br />
Marine, using timber from the<br />
recent Main Wharf upgrade, it is<br />
now looking very handsome on<br />
the boardroom wall.<br />
Craig Terris and Murray McGuire admire<br />
the chart.<br />
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