Western News: September 26, 2017

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World cup Fever
about to hit hornby
Volunteer tradesmen spent many hours getting
the clubrooms ready for the visitors.
There are exciting times ahead for the Hornby Rugby League
Club. Shortly they will host The Kiwis Rugby League Team for
training sessions ahead of their World Cup match against Scotland
at AMI Stadium on November 4, 2017.
“In April this year we offered to host the Kiwis for their training
sessions,” club president Brent Tomlinson says.
“The Rugby League World Cup organisers, New Zealand Rugby
League, Canterbury Rugby League, our own club and the Christchurch
City Council all got on board.”
A lot of work needed to be done to prepare the club’s facilities
for the visitors, Brent says.
“The council was responsible for preparing the grounds, and the
club’s role was to upgrade the clubrooms. Our changing rooms
needed a complete makeover to bring them up to international
standards.
“The changing rooms have been relined and repainted and the
showers have been completely refurbished. This has involved
hours and hours of work by volunteer tradesmen to get it all
done.
“It was also an expensive project, and funds have come from
fundraising, grants, a number of sponsors and local club supporters,”
Brent says.
“We would like to thank Keith Burgess, Peter Lawrie, Ho
Hogg, Kent Ramsay, Craig Dunn, Mike Dormer, Mark Allison of
Independent Fisheries, Jason Hatton of Hatton Plastering, Dean
Brewster of Brewster Building, Air Rescue and CERT for their
support.”
The project has also required sacrifices from the Hornby Rugby
League members themselves.
“We haven’t been able to play games at our home field all
season, but that’s how committed we are to having the Kiwis at
Hornby. Kiwis’ coach David Kidwell is a Hornby Rugby League
Junior and we are proud that he is bringing the Kiwis to his
home club.”
Work on the clubrooms started in early April, with the finishing
touches being put on the facilities just last week.
expertise built on family heritage
For Christchurch real estate agent Pip Sutton,
real estate is a family heritage spanning
four generations over approximately 93
years.
It all started with her great-grandfather Frederick
in 1924, out of Lyttelton. Her grandfather,
Fred, continued working in Lyttelton,
setting up an office in London Street, which
still stands today.
Pip’s father Dave became a partner in Simes
real estate in Christchurch in the early 1970s
until 2005 when it was sold for retirement
purposes. From the age of just 18 months Pip
became part of it, with many early memories
of attending property auctions, visiting building
sites and regular office visits where the
auction gavel and lectern were often used as
play toys.
“I grew up in the business,” she says. “During
school holidays I worked in Dad’s office. I
spent a lot of time relieving as receptionist,
in accounts and assisting putting marketing
packages and the likes together, oh and lots
of Sunday drives around new developments
within the city and Lyttelton Harbour with
the family.”
On leaving school Pip gained a Bachelor of
Commerce & Management degree with a
marketing major. She gained valuable experience
and skills working as a top sales and
marketer for multi-national market leaders
within New Zealand and the UK.
In 2005, Pip returned to Christchurch to
commence her real estate career under the
guidance and wisdom of her father.
“This involved long hours of intensive learning.
He passed on an in-depth understanding
of Christchurch’s land and development right
through from the early Lyttelton days. This
included understanding district plans, zoning,
the development process. How to research
properties deeply to uncover potentials for
new owners. How to listen to people and
respond to their needs.
“He passed on that little bit of magic, which
had been handed down from three previous
generations of learnings from great depressions,
World Wars and within my career, the
Global Financial Crisis and pre and postearthquake
environments.”
In 2014, Pip joined Ray White Real Estate,
because she liked their in-depth attention
to real estate law and management style
at the Cashmere office, plus being a family
brand itself spanning back to the early1900s,
she recognised the more caring nature of
the brand, perhaps due to over 100 years of
learnings being passed down too.
“you are working with people during a milestone
time in their life, they are often already
under stress. A real estate agent’s job is to
assist in relieving the stress, not adding to it.”
Pip has become a successful and highly
regarded real estate salesperson across
the city. For her, the most enjoyable and
important part of the process is to spend
time with both buyers and sellers, using her
in-depth knowledge of the Canterbury property
environment to assist in achieving the
best possible outcome for her clients.
As she puts it: “My measure of success is the
quality of the results I achieve for my clients,
not the number of houses I sell. I would
rather take more time getting my client into
a better position than collecting listings and
making quick sales.”
Your best choice
in the West
Pip Sutton BCM (Marketing)
Residential Sales & Development
Specialist - Licensee Salesperson
Next Step Realty Limited
Licensed (REAA 2008)
Mobile: 027 224 9524
DDI: 03 421 8417
Email: pip.sutton@raywhite.com
Sutton
Family