Bay Harbour: August 31, 2016

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Wednesday August 31 2016
News
Lady McCombs passion remembered
• By Annabelle Dick
LADY CHRISTINA McCombs
has passed away just short of her
100th birthday.
Lady McCombs was a wellknown
figure for her contributions
to education and the southeast
community.
She died on August 13, more
than 100 people turned out to
her farewell on August 20.
Lady McCombs grew up on
Panorama Rd on the top of Clifton
Hill which is where she spent
most of her life.
In 1955, she married former
Lyttelton MP Sir Terence
McCombs and took in his four
children Elizabeth, David, Peter
and Patrick and gave birth
to their youngest child John.
Sir Terence was also the first
principal of Cashmere High
School.
Peter McCombs remembers
his mother as a passionate
woman.
“She was very caring and
interested on all sorts of levels
about the community and the
organisations in it. It was a
strong passion of hers,” said Mr
McCombs.
Lady McCombs was involved
with Sumner School, Cashmere
High School, joined in and supported
many local groups and
served on committees.
She was also a patron with
Plunket and worked with mothers
through branches in Redcliffs,
Heathcote, Ferrymead and
Woolston
When her husband took up a
position at the then brand-new
Cashmere High School in 1956,
LONG LEGACY:
From the early days
of spending time
with her favourite
house cow Peggy
to standing on the
New Zealand High
Commission balcony
in London, Lady
McCombs led a long
and interesting life.
she helped establish it, said Mr
McCombs.
“Together they shaped Cashmere
and in turn Cashmere
shaped them both. There was
considerable pride and satisfaction
in doing what he loved and
with Christina alongside him
in every step of the way – from
helping with the original colours
and the uniform, through to
helping dig the original swimming
pool,” he said.
Another moment Mr
McCombs recalls is when his
mother went to the United
Kingdom in 1974 to support her
husband as the appointed New
Zealand High Commissioner in
London.
The Queen, the Duke of
Edinburgh and other dignitaries
came to New Zealand House
in London to attend an official
dinner which featured whitebait.
“She found herself in the
position of having to roll up her
sleeves and help with cooking
and serving of the fresh whitebait.
The hired professional chefs
found themselves completely
mystified when 5kg of fresh
whitebait arrived having just
been flown in from New Zealand,”
he said.
“She also gave cooking lessons
on the radio. She was a competent
seamstress and a very good
knitter. Her jerseys and scarves
were very impressive, perhaps
again reflecting the heritage that
her parents had brought from the
Shetland Islands,” Mr McCombs
said.
Lady McCombs hailed from
the Shetland Islands, in Scotland,
and was the only child of Gilbert
and Margaret Tulloch.
She attended Christchurch
Girls’ High School before she
trained in home science and
taught at the then Christchurch
Technical College.
In the final years of her life she
moved into an apartment within
the Ilam Life Care facility in Riccarton.
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