Nor'West News: October 29, 2019
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4 Tuesday <strong>October</strong> <strong>29</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
<strong>News</strong><br />
LINED UP: Former<br />
CBHS students at<br />
the annual old boys<br />
luncheon. PHOTO:<br />
GEOFF SLOAN<br />
Old boys celebrate at CBHS<br />
•From page 1<br />
The fundraiser is held each year<br />
for ex-students who started at<br />
the school 60 years ago or more,<br />
and old boys committee<br />
treasurer Trevor Hayes<br />
said the event was a<br />
“huge success.”<br />
It raised $3600 to<br />
support students’ mental<br />
health, and $1250 for the<br />
school’s PTA.<br />
Mr Hayes said Mr<br />
Gray was one of the first<br />
to accept the invitation<br />
when they were sent out<br />
last month.<br />
“[Mr Gray] sat at the top<br />
table with other 90-year-olds,<br />
headmaster Nic Hill, guest<br />
speaker Anton Matthews, head<br />
Trevor<br />
Hayes<br />
monitor Fergus Kilpatrick, and<br />
MC Terry Donaldson,” Mr Hayes<br />
said.<br />
The committee set an initial<br />
limit of 150 attendees.<br />
Within a week this was<br />
extended to 170 when<br />
invites closed and a waiting<br />
list was established.<br />
Guest speaker Mr<br />
Matthews owns the<br />
Fush fish and chip shop<br />
in Wigram, and is well<br />
known for his passionate<br />
talks about te reo Maori. He<br />
is also a former student and<br />
teacher of CBHS.<br />
“His [Mr Matthews] talk was<br />
about te reo and the benefits to<br />
New Zealanders to learn as much<br />
as we can of the Maori language<br />
for the future benefit of our<br />
children and grandchildren,” Mr<br />
Hayes said.<br />
Before the luncheon began,<br />
the past pupils were invited to<br />
walk around the corridors and<br />
main block of the school and<br />
reminisce about their time at<br />
CBHS.<br />
They were also given a tour of<br />
the school grounds, including the<br />
reconstructed Deans buildings,<br />
the work being done to restore<br />
the former Caddick and Caldwell<br />
blocks, the Big Room and the<br />
classroom block along Te Kura St.<br />
“We are not sure whether [Mr<br />
Gray] will return next year but<br />
welcome other old boys to reunite<br />
with their old school,” Mr Hayes<br />
said.<br />
Kitten cuteness at SPCA<br />
NOR’WEST NEWS<br />
KITTEN SEASON has begun at<br />
the SPCA’s Christchurch centre.<br />
The centre has 68 kittens in<br />
its care, either at the centre in<br />
intensive care or with foster<br />
families.<br />
This number will continue to<br />
rise in the coming weeks.<br />
The summer months are<br />
often nicknamed kitten season<br />
because of the high number<br />
of kittens that are born at this<br />
time.<br />
However, an SPCA spokeswoman<br />
said it typically finds<br />
that kitten season starts as early<br />
as September and the Christchurch<br />
centre is already gearing<br />
up for one busy summer.<br />
She said some of the most recent<br />
kittens in the Christchurch<br />
centre’s care came from the<br />
SPCA’s Ashburton branch and<br />
two had their lives saved when<br />
they were rescued.<br />
“A member of the public<br />
called our team and staff went<br />
out to help after the lady heard<br />
cries coming from under the spa<br />
pool in her garden.<br />
“The gap between the ground<br />
at the spa pool was so small<br />
that staff had to get a spade to<br />
dig a hole to get to the kittens.<br />
They were both tiny, and one<br />
was cold and appeared lifeless.<br />
Fortunately, they were rushed<br />
to the centre for intensive care<br />
and both are now doing well,”<br />
she said.<br />
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