WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2018 Connecting Your Community www.star.kiwi Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays British Hotel stories Former punters share their fond memories Sprinkler foils final Heathcote forced to abandon match after irrigation issue List your property NOW for 2019 Alison Carter P 384 7950 M 0274 318 960 E alison.carter@harcourts.co.nz Pages 4-6 Page 25 Fallen but never forgotten Licensed Sales Consultant reaa 2008 Lucky escape from blaze FAMILY CONNECTION: Annette Sowman will claim a cross from the Sumner Redcliffs RSA honouring her great uncle, Private Richard Stevens. PHOTO: MATT SLAUGHTER • By Georgia O’Connor-Harding RICHARD STEVENS was in his mid-30s and working for Sumner Quarries Christchurch when World War 1 broke out. Real Estate Know How • Multi-award winning team • Area Expertise • Proven Success On January 7, 1915, he enlisted to join thousands of other New Zealanders who were making their way to the other side of the world to fight. But he would never return Jan Edlin 0274 338 025 Patricia van de Bent 0272 961 408 21 Humphreys Drive, Ferrymead Prier Manson Real Estate Ltd Licensed (REAA 2008) home. Instead, he would die in Egypt away from his family, from a wound he sustained during the 10-month Gallipoli campaign, in which 2779 New Zealanders died. fOR SAlE Your Charming Cottage awaits 1/140 Hastings Street, Sydenham Joy Butel AREINZ - Dip.R.E. Mobile: 021 353 280 Email: joy.butel@harcourts.co.nz Alistair Hazeldine Mobile: 027 572 1555 Pvt Stevens was wounded during the Battle of Chunuk Bair on August 8, and died from his injuries on September 12. •Turn to page 6 Email: alistair.hazeldine@harcourts.co.nz www.harcourtsferrymead.co.nz Merry Christmas Joy & Alistair are available over the Holiday period TEAM BUTEL QUALITY REAL ESTATE MARKETING Four Grenadier Seasons Ferrymead Realty • By Sophie Cornish A LYTTELTON man had a lucky escape after a fire started in the ceiling of his home early yesterday morning. Lyttelton chief fire officer Mark Buckley said working smoke alarms saved the man’s life. St John spokeswoman Chrissy Hamilton said the man was taken to hospital with minor injuries and was treated for smoke inhalation. Fire and Emergency New Zealand attended the Ticehurst Rd fire around 2.45am. It took an hour and a half to put the fire out, which started when a ceiling cavity caught fire in the roof. Mr Buckley said the kitchen and lounge area had “quite a bit of damage” and the ceiling cavity was 80 to 90 per cent burnt. He said it would be “hard to say” what the outcome might have been if the man didn’t have working smoke alarms. “It certainly wouldn’t have been as good as what it is.” Mr Buckley said he believed the man hadn’t owned the house for very long before the fire. Quality Home, Reserve Outlook 230 Wilsons Road, Waltham Grenadier Real Estate Ltd MREINZ is a Licensed Agent Under the Real Estate Agents Act 2008
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