Southern View: February 12, 2019

8 Tuesday February 12 2019
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Community action on climate
change can make a difference
Fire rages, homes at risk
LEST WE FORGET: Gareth Wright, great nephew of Lieutenant
Corporal Henry Wright, Annette Sowman, great-niece of Private
Richard Stevens, Harry Marquet and his son Michael Marquet,
who are the nephew and great-nephew of Private Albert
Marquet, stand in front of the memorial gates on Wakefield Ave.
Three commemorative
crosses claimed
• By Louis Day
THE FAMILIES of three Sumner
servicemen who died during
World War 1 have claimed their
commemorative crosses.
RSAs across the country
commemorated Armistice
Day last year by displaying
crosses which commemorated
servicemen who gave their lives
during the conflict.
The Sumner Redcliffs RSA
made a cross for each of the 21
casualties from Sumner and
displayed them at the memorial
gates on Wakefield Ave.
The families of Lieutenant
Corporal Henry Wright, Private
Albert Marquet and Private
Richard Stevens claimed their
crosses.
The families shared their
thoughts and experiences,
swapping tales and showing each
other memorabilia, speculating
that their predecessors may have
met all those years ago.
However, Sumner Redcliffs
RSA president Pat Boland said
there was still work to do.
“Ideally we would like all
21 crosses reunited with their
families.”
The remaining crosses will
continue to be displayed on
Wakefield Ave and may still be
claimed by relatives.
•Phone RSA president
Pat Boland 027 333 2189.
The crosses still to be claimed:
•Trooper George Wyse Smith
•Private Robert Ash
•Private Albert Walker
Richardson
•Lieutenant
George SissmoreLavie
•Corporal Frederick William
Pilcher
•Private Roland Dalton
•Bombardier Harry Brian
Fletcher
•D’Arcy Street
•George Stringfellow
•Private Geoffrey Vincent Hill
•Trooper Montagu Clayton
•Private Alfred Victor Fitchett
•Trooper Edwin Hugh Senior
•Acting Sergeant Frank
Pardoe Hibell
•Corporal Felix H.C. Preston
•Private Charles Horace Maffey
D.O.S.
•Lieutenant Lloyd Phipps Black
•Private Albert Oliver
•Private George Gordon Hibell
Linwood-
Central-
Heathcote
Community
Board
member
and city
councillor
Sara
Templeton
talks about how important
community action is in
fighting climate change
I attended a thought-provoking
meeting in Redcliffs recently
where residents have started
the year talking about climate
change.
While some in the media see
no point in individual action and
call on regulation from above,
these residents have recognised
that individuals acting together
can make a real difference.
Organised by Dave Bryce, we
heard from Dr John Hunt about
the science and Shannon Ball
about measuring our individual
and community actions. The
information was really useful
and the discussions generated
afterwards were positive, with
residents sharing ideas and
knowledge.
Individual action matters for
many reasons – the first of which
is that it makes a difference in our
own lives, gives us hope and motivation
for the future. The next is
that our actions inspire others.
This was a key message at the
meeting – let us inspire change
in each other and make a collective
difference, not just as a
small coastal community, but let
us challenge our neighbouring
communities to do the same.
Then there’s the moral mandate
– how can we ask change of
others if we are not prepared to
do it ourselves?
This works both at a personal
level, a city level and a national
one. How can New Zealand
insist that other countries cut
their emissions when we produce
more per capita than most of
ACTION REQUIRED: The
effects of climate change are
wide-ranging.
them? While we are small, we
know that we can make a difference
in the world when we lead
the way.
If all the small nations in the
world whose emissions are under
one per cent of global emissions
simply threw their hands up and
said ‘we’re too small to make
a difference’ then 24 per cent
of the world’s emissions would
go untouched and continue to
increase.
However, the reality is that
there needs to be large scale
changes to our transport and
agricultural systems, to how we
manage water and our energy
supply – things that individuals
have no direct power to change.
Yet we can make a difference
as our leaders need a mandate to
make this change. Without the
grassroots demanding action our
councils and our Government
struggle to get changes through
against a vocal opposition. It is
here that I believe that individuals
can make the most difference
– by calling for change from
those in power and holding them
to account.
“Never doubt that a small
group of thoughtful committed
citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that
ever has.” – Margaret Mead
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