Bay Harbour: June 29, 2016

Wednesday June 29 2016
BAY HARBOUR
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All Blacks jersey for
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LYTTELTON’S Maurie
Alderslade has repaid his
Welsh friends who supported
Canterbury following the
February 2011 earthquake in
true Kiwi fashion.
Mr Alderslade was in Dunedin
to watch the All Blacks beat
Wales 46-6 on Saturday.
During the pre-match celebra-
Gardening
tions, he gifted a signed All
Blacks jersey to a group of Welsh
visitors, from where he used to
play rugby in Cardiff.
It was Mr Alderslade’s way of
returning the support his old
teammates gave to his province
after the earthquake.
Following the earthquake, The
Cardiff Blues Supporters Club
otoring
raised £10,000 (NZ$19,153) for
the earthquake recovery.
The New Zealand Red Cross
received 70 per cent of the funds
and the rest went to earthquake
survivor Stacey Herbert, who
had both legs amputated above
the knee after she was crushed
in The Press building.
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The friendship goes back 36
years, to Mr Alderslade’s decision
to follow the All Blacks on
the Welsh centenary tour in
1980. He went from London,
where he had a job lined up,
to Cardiff for the test match
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PAYING IT BACK: Lyttelton’s Maurie Alderslade (sitting,
second from left) with his Cardiff friends (from left) Kevin
McLean, Gareth Thomas, Sue Thomas, Sharon McLean,
Rita Bagshaw, Brian Wade and Ken Bagshaw in Dunedin on
Saturday.
against Wales.
He soon fell in with some
Welsh fans who “adopted’’
him and he never went back to
London, instead staying on in
Cardiff for a year playing rugby
and working.
“I was treated like a king
and they were fantastic. After
36 years, we’ve always kept in
touch,’’ Mr Alderslade said.
The All Blacks jersey will be
auctioned off to raise money
for former Welsh centre Owen
PHOTO: ODT/STEPHEN JAQUIERY ​
Williams, who suffered a
serious spinal injury at the 2014
Singapore 10s tournament.
“When the earthquakes happened,
they were there for us,’’
Mr Alderslade said.
“Even though they’re 12,000
miles away, they’re my brothers
– and sisters – from another
mother.
“The New Zealanders and
the Welsh are just interlinked
between the sheep, the beer and
the rugby.’’
CELEBRATION: Local
representatives and
community members
went along to the sod
turning to commence
construction on the
new Heathcote Valley
library and community
centre. ​
Work under way for library,
community centre
• By Bridget Rutherford
HEATHCOTE Valley is another
step closer to having its library
and community centre back.
Construction of the new
$912,000 facility, which will
combine the two, got under way
on Friday with a sod turning
event.
Local representatives and residents
gathered at the Bridle Path
Rd site so it could be blessed by
Kaumatua James Robinson, and
the first sod turned.
Heathcote Valley School pupils
also sung Te Aroha.
The original Heathcote Valley
Community Library on Martindales
Rd and the community
centre on Bridle Path Rd were
both demolished following the
earthquakes.
The new combined facility
will have several meeting areas,
a kitchen, bathroom facilities
along with a large deck.
It is due to be completed by the
end of the year.
Three-year-old Joachim
Foulkes stole the show at the sod
turning event, as he was eager to
get construction under way, leading
the charge with his yellow
digger.
Hagley-Ferrymead Community
Board chairwoman Sara
Templeton said everyone was
pleased to have the builders on
site.
“I’m looking forward to later in
the year when the centre is open
and I can sit on the deck, with a
book in my hands, reading and
looking at the view down the
valley towards the city. A group
of committed locals have worked
really hard to bring the project
to this stage and the community
really appreciate it.”
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