Southern View: October 03, 2017

4 Tuesday October 3 2017
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SOUTHERN VIEW
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St Andrew’s oldest collegian passes away at 102
HISTORY: Naylor Hillary was a
navigator during World War 2.
FLAME FILES
Fire risk management
officer Mark Thomas points
out five kitchen fires which
could have been avoided
I’m often complaining about
cooking fires. I like to think with
good reason as the kitchen is the
most likely room in your house
to have a fire start.
Sometimes this means the
• By Julia Evans
THE OLDEST St Andrew’s
College collegian has passed
away.
Naylor Hillary, 102, was part of
March’s centenary celebration at
the school where he cut the cake.
But it was the beginning of
1929 when Mr Hillary first attended
St Andrew’s. He moved
into the boarding school from
his family home in Opawa.
“I have very pleasant memories
of my time there,” Mr Hillary
told said in March.
In a way it’s like he never left
– his son, grandsons and now
great-grandson have all received
a STAC education.
Rector Christine Leighton
destruction of a home.
Sometimes even worse when
somebody dies. More often, the
result is someone doubled over
with streaming eyes and hacking
up black mucus from their nose.
And simply because they left the
kitchen while an element on the
stove was operating.
Last week, there were five
such fires. One was on Pine Ave,
said Mr Hillary was a “special
person”. She fondly remembers
the whole school singing happy
birthday to him in 2014 for his
100th birthday.
“We are privileged to have had
some special moments with him
over these last few years,” Mrs
Leighton said.
The Papanui resident was also
one of the last living veterans of
the Royal Air Force’s Tempsford
138 Special Duties Squadron,
which he was a navigator for
during World War 2.
Until 1989, the existence of the
squadron was so classified it had
never been acknowledged.
At the end of last year, Mr
Hillary was awarded the French
New Brighton, where smoke
through the house was the result
of a frying pan overheating. The
smoke was removed by the fire
service’s extractor fans but I
bet the smell is still there today.
Probably for months to come.
On the same night, a similar
incident happened on Hendon
St, Edgeware. A similar result
with smoke being cleared.
CELEBRATION:
Naylor Hillary
and greatgrandson
Henry
Bissland cut
the cake with
St Andrew’s
rector Christine
Leighton at
the college’s
centenary
ceremony. ​
Legion d’Honneur medal by
the French ambassador for his
services during the war.
Mr Hillary’s daughter Pam
Bissland said her father didn’t
really talk about that time in
Then on Linwood Ave a
cardboard box of goods was
placed on the stove top while
the people went to the shops.
Somehow the element was
knocked on.
They returned to smoke
everywhere and tried to control
it. The result was the doubledover
condition referred to
above.
his life. Mr Hillary read the
paper every morning, took long
walks in the afternoon, attended
church every Sunday without
fail and was a big Richie McCaw
fan.
Frustration as kitchen fires keep flaring up across the city
Overheated food in a
microwave on Barnes Rd,
Redwood, caused familiar smoke
problems, and a smoke alarm
alerted neighbours to pots on
a stove in a locked and empty
house on Mary St, Papanui.
It’s not hard. If you turn on a
stove element, you don’t leave.
Not for a minute.
Easy really.
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