Southern View: August 02, 2016

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Tuesday August 2 2016
SOUTHERN VIEW
News
Veteran marks
100 years
Fashion
• By Caitlin Miles
ALLAN ADAMS’ wife, June,
always said that he would make
100 years.
Yesterday the Woolston
Gardening
resident did just that. He
celebrated his 100th birthday
with a few beer and a party
at Brookhaven Retirement
Village.
“My wife always said you’re
such an old bugger you’ll
make 100 – and now I have,”
he said.
Mr Adams was born in
Opawa in 1916 and attended
primary school in Opawa before
Motoring
heading Christchurch West
High School. He said he 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
Tasty
saw me and I got the strap. I
Bites
didn’t deserve that,” he said.
After leaving high school Mr
Adams worked with his dad for
several weeks before getting two
jobs offers on the same day.
“I had always wanted to work
in radio and I got offered a job
CHEERS: Allan Adams
didn’t want to make a fuss
for his birthday when he
celebrated his 100 years
with a beer at the New
Brighton Club. ​
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 be stable,” he said.
He worked for the dairy company
for 43 years.
He met June in 1943 when he
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 standby that he
realised he was colour-blind.
“They kicked me out after
that,” Mr Adams said.
Mr Adams has been a member
of the Sumner RSA for 40 years
and he 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, all birthdays get the
same after a while.
Mrs Adams passed away in
the mid-1990s.
RURAL RETURNS: Scotty Bamford (left) returns for a brand
new season of Rural New Zealand tomorrow night.
Scotty’s back on Rural NZ
HE’S BACK! Scotty Bamford
returns to the screen tomorrow
night on CTV, in an all new
season of Rural New Zealand.
Mr Bamford will return to the
screen for the first time in nearly
12 months. He had a near-fatal
truck crash over the Christmas
period last year.
The Rural New Zealand team
have been hard at work following
the end of season two, earlier
this year with filming for season
three beginning in July.
“We’ve had some absolutely
cracking days filming over the
winter, the weather has really
played ball. We’ve been travelling
far and wide, leaving our gummy
marks right across Canterbury,”
said Mr Bamford.
Mr Bamford is excited to show
off what he and the team have
been working on when episode
one airs this week.
“We catch up with two girls
that are riding horse back,
circumnavigating New Zealand.
We met them in Kaikoura,
3000km into their journey,” he
said.
This week’s episode sees Mr
Bamford meet Carrfields founding
director Greg Carr.
“Over the next 16 weeks
we’ll be learning more about
the Carr family and how the
Ashburton-based agricultural
business has grown into a diverse
international operation,” he said.
Mr Bamford said that one of his
highlights this season was a recent
trip to Omarama, to meet the
2015 South Island Farmer of the
Year co-winner Richard Subtil.
Later in the season Mr Subtil
will explain the effort that
went into recognition in the
competition and his plans to
future-proof the family farm for
generations to come.
Episode one will air at 8pm
tomorrow on CTV, Freeview
channel 40.
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