Ashburton Courier: August 06, 2020
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Burnetts work stories wanted<br />
TONI.WILLIAMS<br />
@ashburtoncourier.co.nz<br />
Former staff of Burnetts<br />
transport and motor company,<br />
their partnersand clientsare<br />
beingurged to registerfor a<br />
Burnetts Catch Up laterthis<br />
year.<br />
Thecatch up, at the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Racecourse on<br />
September 5, is being<br />
organised by ahandfulof<br />
peoplekeen to hear, and<br />
share,the workers’stories. It<br />
is aBYO event,which costs $5,<br />
with afternoon tea supplied.<br />
Jane Naish, Maurice Wotton<br />
and Carol Muckle say it’s a<br />
reunion that has been talked<br />
about and neededtohappen<br />
while peoplewere still around<br />
who could remember the days<br />
working at the old Burnetts<br />
yards.<br />
They want to hearfrom<br />
peoplewho worked at the<br />
company, started by Bob<br />
Burnett in 1927, andwas one of<br />
Mid Canterbury’s biggest<br />
employers in its time; in its<br />
heyday nearly 300staffwere<br />
employed and thecompany<br />
had morethan100 vehicles.<br />
Thecompanyoffered arange<br />
of transport services including<br />
carting of goods, aworkshop<br />
and transport depot,petrol<br />
pumps, earthmoving with<br />
bulldozers, scrapers, loaders<br />
and other heavymachinery.<br />
In his time owner Bob<br />
Burnett also owned acoal<br />
mine andahighcountry<br />
Arestored International 3070 Burnetts Motors cattle truck and trailer on show at the <strong>Ashburton</strong> A&P<br />
Showgrounds last year.<br />
station. He remained a<br />
company director during<br />
severalownership changes<br />
until his retirementin1981, at<br />
age 72.<br />
Mrs Naish said morethan<br />
100 people had already<br />
registeredincludingAdrienne<br />
Francis, the daughter of Bob<br />
Burnett.<br />
However, she thought it was<br />
unlikely the 20orso people<br />
who had registered from<br />
Australia would be able to<br />
attenddue to Covid19.<br />
Thepandemic had already<br />
caused the date to be<br />
rescheduled from midJuly<br />
andorganisers were keen for it<br />
to go ahead as there were afew<br />
older crew looking forward to<br />
it.<br />
Thetrio have spent the past<br />
fewmonthstrying to track<br />
people downand collate<br />
photographs of the time to<br />
show at the catch up.They are<br />
also collecting stories–no<br />
matter how small and are<br />
keentohear from people<br />
working in any of theyardsand<br />
who they workedwithand<br />
whatthey did at the time.<br />
We want the workers’<br />
stories, Mrs Naish said.<br />
Anyone wanting to register,<br />
or who has astory to tell, or<br />
photographs from any of the<br />
Burnetts operations in any of<br />
the yards,orsocialevents,that<br />
can be loaned for copyingorbe<br />
emailed can contact Mrs Naish<br />
via tonyjanenaish@gmail.com<br />
or by phone on 3082272 and<br />
leave amessage.<br />
NEWS<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> <strong>Courier</strong>, <strong>August</strong> 6, <strong>2020</strong><br />
3<br />
Pushfor<br />
tracer app<br />
posters<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> businesses will be<br />
among thousands around the<br />
country tobeurged to put up<br />
scanandtrace posters forthe<br />
Government’s Covid19 tracer<br />
app.<br />
Health minister Chris<br />
Hipkinsiswriting to all local<br />
authorities, including the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> District Council and<br />
mayor Neil Brown, asking them<br />
to makesuretheir own<br />
facilities haveposters.State<br />
services are expected to have<br />
the posters and business<br />
leaders will also be contacted.<br />
The uptake on <strong>Ashburton</strong>’s<br />
EastStreet is currently low,<br />
withjust threebusinesses in<br />
one block displayingposters<br />
with QR codes that people<br />
using theapp can scan with<br />
their phone. The app helps<br />
peoplekeep adigital record of<br />
their movements in the event<br />
contacttracing is needed.<br />
Mr Hipkinssaid Kiwis could<br />
not afford to have covid fatigue<br />
and constant vigilance was<br />
needed.<br />
‘‘Displaying and scanning the<br />
QR codes is asmall act in the<br />
fight againstcovid,’’ he said.<br />
He said councils should make<br />
suretheir economic<br />
developmentpeople were<br />
activelyencouragingtheir local<br />
businesses to have QR codes.<br />
At Tuesday, there werejust<br />
627,900registered app users.<br />
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