Bay Harbour: August 03, 2016

Wednesday August 3 2016
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BAY HARBOUR
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Sumner veteran
marks ashion 100 years
• By Caitlin Miles
IT’S BEEN 100 years of
memories for Sumner RSA
member Allan Adams as he
Gardening
celebrated his birthday on
Monday.
Mr Adams is a resident the
Brookhaven Retirement Village
and Christchurch has always
been home.
He was born in Opawa in 1916
and attended primary school
in Opawa before heading to
Christchurch West High School.
He said he
otoring
was a “good kid” and
only got the strap once, which he
“didn’t deserve”.
“A prefect walked past the
door and I waved at him, the
teacher saw me and I got the
strap. I didn’t deserve that,” he
said.
After leaving high school, Mr
Adams worked with his father
asty Bites
for several weeks before getting
two job offers on the same day. BREWS AND BANTER: Allan
“I had wanted to work in Adams had a quiet couple
of beers with his friends to
radio and I got offered a job but
I turned it down for a job at the
Tai Tapu Dairy Company. It was
the height of the depression and
I wanted a job that was going to
celebrate his birthday.
be stable,” he said.
He worked for the dairy company
for 43 years.
He met his wife June in 1943
when he was 26.
“I was in Wellington on
holiday and I was down at the
wharf when I saw her, we went
on a couple of dances and she
worked as an usher at the movie
theatre. I went to the pictures
quite a lot,” he said.
During World War 2 Mr
Adams was a radar technician
in the New Zealand Air Force. It
wasn’t until after basic training
when he was on stand-by that he
realised he was colour-blind.
“They kicked me out after
that,” Mr Adams said.
He has been a member of the
Sumner RSA for 40 years and
is also a member of the New
Brighton Working Men’s Club,
he still goes for a beer with
friends when he can.
There is no secret to longevity
for Mr Adams. He said hitting
the century mark is not that
important and all birthdays get
the same after a while.
“My wife always said, you’re
such an old bugger, you’ll make
100.”
“And now I have.”
IN A DAY’S WORK:
Volunteers putting the
last of the native plants
onto the LPC Rescue
boat. Back from left:
Andrew Luddington
and Tony Giles. Front:
Richard Pickering, Pat
Barry, Linda Pickering.
Ian McLennan, Jason
Butt, Kerry Moore and
Lindsay Daniel. ​
Exhibition, tree-planting
to benefit restoration trust
• By Annabelle Dick
THE QUAIL Island Ecological
Restoration Trust is receiving
support from the Lyttelton
community with help in the
form of tree-planting and an art
exhibition.
An exhibition is being held by
Eco Artists New Zealand which
has created more than 100 pieces
to show at Oxford St Art in
Lyttelton.
Eco Artist NZ key artist Vivienne
Bashford said artists with
an interest in the environment
and conservation have collaborated
to hold a fundraising event
for the trust.
“We choose Quail Island for
this one, they need the support
because they are a volunteer
group doing great things,” Mrs
Bashford said.
Artists have created sculptures,
oil paintings, jewellery and a
double-glazed window to
auction off during the monthlong
exhibition.
The showcase opened on Friday
and will run until August 28 –
some of the proceeds raised will
go towards the restoration trust.
Otamahua/Quail Island Ecological
Restoration Trust chairman
Ian McLennan said the help
was extremely helpful.
“We’re a purely voluntary
organisation that relies on local
funders so anything helps us.
We’re very grateful to Eco Artists
for holding this exhibition.”
Lyttelton Port of Christchurch
also helped in supporting its
conservation efforts by delivering
more than 3000 plants from the
port to Quail Island for their annual
tree-planting.
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