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WESTERN NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>January</strong> <strong>30</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 3<br />
<strong>News</strong><br />
Chapel surprise for St Margaret’s<br />
• By Julia Evans<br />
AFTER 20 years without, St<br />
Margaret’s College has a new<br />
chapel.<br />
And the building’s<br />
connection to the school is<br />
almost 90-years-old.<br />
Waiau’s Satterthwaite family<br />
moved a chapel from their farm<br />
to the Merivale college grounds<br />
in the early hours of Wednesday<br />
morning, as a gift to departing<br />
executive principal Gillian<br />
Simpson.<br />
“My mother-in-law, Diana<br />
Satterthwaite, went to St<br />
Margaret’s and she’s 90 now<br />
. . . there’s a lot of history,”<br />
chapel owner Gina<br />
Satterthwaite (nee Gough) said.<br />
Before the chapel was moved<br />
to Waiau, it was the local<br />
church in Rotherham, where<br />
Diana Satterthwaite grew up,<br />
she said.<br />
Mrs Satterthwaite said there<br />
had been a girl from her family,<br />
or her husband’s family, at St<br />
Margaret’s every decade since<br />
her mother-in-law began.<br />
“Literally, people in the<br />
family from five-years-old to<br />
90-years-old have been a part<br />
of the school,” she said. That<br />
included herself, her daughters,<br />
her mother and aunts.<br />
The Waiau chapel was also<br />
where she and her husband<br />
were married.<br />
“But the main reason is that<br />
it’s just nice to know that it’s<br />
going to be enjoyed<br />
. . . it’s so important to me<br />
that St Margaret’s gave me the<br />
opportunity to help like this,”<br />
she said.<br />
The college has been without<br />
a chapel for more than 20 years.<br />
One of Mrs Simpson’s goals was<br />
to get a chapel back on school<br />
grounds before she left at the<br />
end of term two.<br />
“I have been looking for a<br />
small chapel for 10 years and<br />
since the major rebuild we had<br />
put the project on the backburner,”<br />
she said.<br />
But the school organised the<br />
chapel to be moved without<br />
Mrs Simpson’s knowledge; she<br />
didn’t know until it arrived.<br />
“This was a complete surprise<br />
RELOCATION:<br />
The chapel<br />
spent more<br />
than an hour<br />
on the back<br />
of two trucks<br />
driving from<br />
Waiau to St<br />
Margaret’s<br />
College on<br />
Papanui Rd. <br />
and presented to me as a fait<br />
accompli,” Mrs Simpson said.<br />
The building had to be split<br />
in half and loaded onto two<br />
separate trucks before being<br />
reassembled on site.<br />
She said it was an “immense<br />
honour” to see her dream<br />
become a reality right at the end<br />
of her tenure.<br />
It will be renamed Te Whare<br />
Hauora (The House of Wellbeing).<br />
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A new swing set and slide<br />
will be installed in Picton<br />
Reserve, Riccarton, next<br />
week. The playground<br />
equipment was approved by the<br />
Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton<br />
Community Board last year<br />
after a deputation by the<br />
Central Riccarton Residents<br />
Association. City Care is due to<br />
complete the work by February<br />
28.<br />
CEMETERY EXPANSION<br />
The Fendalton-Waimairi-<br />
Harewood Community Board<br />
has had a response to its<br />
request that the expansion of<br />
Avonhead Park Cemetery be<br />
investigated. City council staff<br />
carried out the investigation,<br />
but due to a number of factors,<br />
including the land being<br />
above unconfined aquifers,<br />
the expansion would not be<br />
feasible.<br />
GARDENS JUDGED<br />
Judging has started on the<br />
Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood<br />
garden awards. The judges<br />
take into account effort,<br />
overall tidiness and the impact<br />
of the garden on the street.<br />
Certificates and trophies to<br />
the winning gardens will<br />
be presented at an award<br />
ceremony in March.<br />
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Murray Aynsley Lawn, Botanic Gardens<br />
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