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70 years of marriage despite bad
BY JOHN COSGROVE
Sid and Jan Dyer celebrated 70 years of marriage last week.
PHOTO: JOHN COSGROVE
As Sid and Jan Dyer celebrated
their platinum 70th wedding
anniversary last week, Jan
recalls driving with her father
to the ceremony and noticing
a large cloud high in the sky,
looming ominously over the
horizon.
​"It was huge, it filled the
sky, so I asked dad if it was an
A-bomb mushroom cloud,” Jan
said.
"He just laughed and said I
shouldn’t be thinking about
things like that on my wedding
day."
It turned out to be smoke –
and lots of it.
On Saturday, November 26,
1955, as Jan made her way to
the Kaiapoi Methodist Church,
gale-force nor-westers had
spread the embers of a small
fire overnight in the Balmoral
Forest, south of Culverden.
It was the most disastrous
exotic forest fire ever to occur
within a New Zealand State
Forest, with 3152ha of trees
destroyed.
Those same nor’westers
howled through Kaiapoi, and
Sid remembers it was a job
holding on to his new bride
and stopping her bridal veil
from lashing his face while
the photographer snapped
their wedding photos at the
church. Fire would again touch
The fire at Addington Raceway on Show Day in 1961 broke out in the south-west
corner of the stand.
the couples lives when on
November 10, 1961, they joined
20,000 others to watch harness
racer Cardigan Bay, the first
standard-bred horse to win
$1 million, take to the track
– all while the main public
grandstand was on fire.
‘‘Amazingly, no one was
injured or killed that day. We
initially saw a little smoke,
then they asked everyone over
the PA to move to the middle of
the racecourse and from there
we watched it burn down,’’ Jan
said. When the couple met, Sid
was a mechanic in
Rangiora, and Jan was
employed as a dressmaker
for an exclusive frock shop in
Christchurch.
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in the Clarkville hall.
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girlfriends when Sid walked in.
‘‘I pointed him out to my
girlfriend as I thought I
recognised him.
‘‘She said she knew him
because he had been to dinner
at her place a couple of times,
so I thought he was coming
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wedding omens
The fire, which completely destroyed the stand, was caused by the fusing of an
electric cable in the building.
over to ask her to dance.’’
Sid recalled Jan looking
"pretty tidy" so he decided to
ask her for a dance.
Jan later wrote in her
diary: ‘‘I met this wonderful
guy, he was such a lovely
dancer.
"It was like being in heaven
dancing there in his arms."
That fact would have
remained private, but when
Sid was later invited by Jan’s
mother to dinner, her younger
brother sneaked a peek at her
diary and then blurted out her
private thoughts about Sid for
all to hear. After two years,
the couple were married and
headed to Timaru for their
honeymoon.
“I hired a rental truck to tow
a caravan to Timaru, where it
poured down.
“The caravan leaked badly
and we got soaked inside and
out, so we packed up and drove
north to Rakaia, where we
spent the next couple of days
drying out everything."
Later on, with two of their
eventual three children in tow,
the couple moved to Cheviot,
where Sid worked in a
garage owned by a former
boss.
He later moved the family
to Amberley for 12 years to be
a service manager at a garage
there, before he and three
partners bought the Herron’s
Motors garage on High St in
Rangiora when it came up for
sale.
The couple worked together
at the garage, eventually
buying the other partners out.
The lease on the garage ran
out after 20 years, and they
moved their operation to Cone
Street in Rangiora, working
there until they retired nearly
30 years ago.
Keen golfers, Jan says Sid will
be 92 next year, and he still
plays four days a week in the
senior competitions.
"I love the challenge of it
and I’ve had many memorable
days on courses all over
Canterbury," Sid said.
Last Wednesday, Sid and
Jan’s daughter flew out from
Australia to spend the day with
her mum and dad to celebrate
their platinum anniversary,
a remarkable milestone that
symbolises the rarity and
significance of seven decades of
love and commitment.
When asked what the secret
to their long partnership, both
agreed it was "tolerance".
New community centre
opens at Lancaster Park
The redevelopment of
Lancaster Park is a step
closer to completion after the
new community centre and
changing rooms were opened.
​The facilities in the park’s
north-east corner were
officially opened on Friday.
Said city council citizens
and community general
manager Andrew Rutledge: "We
know sports clubs have been
excitedly waiting for work to be
completed.
"While they have already
been utilising the sports
grounds, having the community
centre and changing facilities
will cement Lancaster Park’s
ongoing position as a central
sporting, community and
recreational resource in the
city."
The community centre
includes a multi-use function
space for about 100 people, a
kitchen, a small meeting room
and three externally accessed
public toilets.
The centre will be available
for hire for a range of events,
including prize-givings,
fundraisers, community
activities and sporting events.
The changing rooms have
toilets and showers for teams
and referees to use.
Lancaster Park was first
opened in 1881. It has a rich
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After being damaged in the
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Christmas is just a few weeks away, so if you haven’t
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Giving presents to your nearest and dearest is a
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REAL ESTATE
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16 Heathglen Avenue, Parklands 3 1 2 2 4
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Before Christmas!
Imagine arriving at a home that instantly feels
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Putting Things into Perspective:
The Art of the Annual Review
It’s November as I pen this and we all know
it’s not long till Christmas trees go up,
carols feature on repeat in shopping malls
and people turn their minds to the holidays
ahead.
But it’s also a time when our leadership team
starts one of the year’s most vital processes;
that being the task – and it’s often a big one –
of reviewing… everything!!
Put simply, we look at both the calendar and financial
year, casting a discerning and curious eye over our
journey. We measure our goals and intentions, and
their achievement or otherwise, our timeframes and
accountability, mindsets and wellbeing, for ourselves
and our teams.
It’s a big team and a big undertaking that takes time,
perseverance and self-awareness, as well as considerable
quantities of analytical data. Some people love data and
are particularly good at analysing it, and I’ve been told on
numerous occasions that ‘data doesn’t lie’, but neither do
people's faces or actions when they are travelling through
a very difficult or successful period.
I tend to focus on people first. It’s a value we hold
ourselves to and focussing on this gives us the chance to
see if the direction we’ve determined at the beginning of
the year is resonating with the team we're leading and
the clients we are representing.
It allows us to consider what the next steps are because it’s
easy to be different, but much more difficult to be better.
So, how have we done?
From a sales and recognition perspective, it’s been a
strong year, reflecting the hard work of a world-class team
and first-class leadership. Our Papanui office has been
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big office across all brands in New Zealand. We also
have the number-one franchise for productivity, which is
measured in the industry as ‘income per sales consultant’
and I like to think it’s the sharing that occurs within the
company that allows everyone to flourish, not just a few.
All of this culminates in what I know to be true: 95% of
success is hard work, often it’s not much fun, it's hard
and challenging but that creates growth, and that, after
all, is the purpose of this annual review. How do we get
better, growing our teams and our market share, whilst
not losing touch with the people that matter the most
to us?
The strategies and work required are immense and as
with anyone in business, there have also been some lows.
For me personally, I have the first anniversary of losing
my mother coming up very shortly.
That loss and my desire to live life with care and intention
sit at the heart of my own personal review. To find out
more about our business review, join me in the months
ahead.
Meanwhile, enjoy December, when it comes. After all, as
entrepreneur Chris Grosser says: “Opportunities don’t
happen, you create them.”
Lynette McFadden
Harcourts gold Business Owner
027 432 0447
lynette.mcfadden@harcourtsgold.co.nz
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