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OPEN HOME Join us for a no-obligation viewing

We have a modern three bedroom cot- nd tage available now and options for up- Monday 22 June coming 2 bedroom cottages.

10am-7pm We invite you to view this lovely property, located in the heart of . No ap- Ruatara Drive, Kerikeri pointment necessary, just visit reception and we’ll arrange a tour. For more information call 09 407 0070 www.kerikerivillage.co.nz PAGE 2 | JUNE 2015

Rather more than “just a birthday”

Story and photo by Peter de Graaf of the Northern Advocate.

▲ Selwyn and Lois Thompson, who have been married for 73 years, share a chuckle on his 100th birthday.

Selwyn isn’t too quick on his feet these days but he still gets around. And he’s sharp as a tack with a wry, self-effacing sense of humour. He’s just not convinced about this birth- day fuss.

“I’ve never had so much fuss in all Selwyn Thompson isn’t sure what Born in Motueka in 1915, his work- my life as these last two or three all the fuss is about. It is, after all, ing life began at the age of 14 days,” he said. just a birthday. He wasn’t too keen when the Depression set in. He on a story in the paper either. Well, earned the princely sum of 12 shil- Sorry Selwyn, that was a bit more maybe a paragraph. That would lings 6 pence working for a whole- than a paragraph. We hope you do it, he said. saler in Auckland. had a happy birthday anyway.

Selwyn celebrated his 100th birth- Later he landed a job with his day in low-key fashion with an in- grandfather’s firm, Thompson and vitation for friends to pop around Hills, which produced Oak canned to his place at Kerikeri Retirement fruits, jams and marmalades. Welcome to… Village, where he lives indepen- dently with his wife of 73 years, In 1941 he enlisted in the Army, Lois. married his sweetheart with four days’ notice to their parents, and He also headed to Rotorua over was sent to Egypt with the 24th the weekend for “a bit of a fam- Battalion. As a reconnaissance of- ily bash”. He and Lois were joined ficer in the Signal Corps his job there by their five daughters, eight was to go ahead of the troops to grandchildren and 13 great-grand- set up radio communications. children. He fought at El Alamein and later, Bruce and Freda Small. Selwyn’s tips for a long and healthy with the 21st Battalion, helped life are simple. “Plenty of plain lead the charge up through Italy. food and not too much grog. And He got home to Lois five years you’ve got to have something to later. do and keep you occupied, that’s what keeps you alive.” Selwyn He returned to the family firm, knows about keeping occupied. setting up a factory in Napier and After his first retirement at the age later, after the Watties takeover, of 60 he and Lois moved to Keri­ running factories in Christchurch, keri, where he worked on his son- Nelson and Dunedin. Somehow in-law’s orchard until he retired for he also found time for sailing, Ro- the second time at the age of 98. tary, the RSA and Probus. Ian and Eunice Faulkner. Times

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Meet our new Board Members

VICKI DOUGLAS in 1982 and have spent the last 33 Waipapa. My forte is in systems, years in retail pharmacy. management and human resourc- es so you will often find me “out I have two beautiful girls - Kath- the back” rather than on the dis- erine, now 25, is off to Melbourne pensary floor. to study for a Masters in Enterprise. Elizabeth is 23 and has a business I serve on the Rural SLAT commit- and tourism degree. She works tee which deals with the DHB rural in the marketing arm of the Depart- funding for health services. ment of Conservation in Wellington. In the early years I was a stay- My spare time is taken up with at-home mum, on a 10 acre prop- Rotary and I have held many posi- I lived and started school in Kerik- erty raising miniature Hereford tions within the Kerikeri Club. eri so I have always viewed Kerikeri cattle, doing volunteer work and as my home town. the occasional pharmacy job to My involvement in the Kerikeri keep current. I returned to fulltime Village Trust came about from My family moved to Auckland so work in 2003. providing medication services for that my four sisters and I had op- the residents at the Village. I was portunities when we left school. My post-divorce move to Kerikeri proud to be asked to be a member For me, it was moving to Upper in 2008 was about reinventing of the Board and I look forward to Hutt to attend the School of Phar- myself. I bought into a pharmacy working towards a good future for macy. I qualified as a pharmacist business and later expanded into the Village Trust.

SUZANNE BROCX standards for palliative care and My name is Suzanne Brocx. I am Fundamentals of Palliative Care married to Terence and we have Education) and contract to Pal- two stunning adult children, Rach- Care Pty Ltd (an online patient ell (aged 22 yrs) and Daniel (aged management application) as a 20 yrs). Terence and I run a 2 dairy Clinical Consultant. farming enterprise employing 4 full time staff in Northland. My posi- I have close links to Kerikeri tion as director undertakes the role Village. Leading the Hospice, I of governance and administration. was part of the team that moved to the purpose built Hospice when I am a registered nurse by trade it opened. and a palliative nurse at heart. at Greenlane Hospital, Auckland as manager of the Ear Nose and My father spent the last 17 months I gained my Masters in Nursing Throat Department for (1989 – of his life in Kerikeri Village Trust (Clinical) in 2008. I worked as a 1990) and was Manager at Hospice and my mother volunteered at clinical nurse until 2008 when I Mid-Northland for 10 ½ years until the social centre until her death in joined the North Haven Team as my departure in 2008. 2011. My cousin Robyn is the smil- a regional educator/advisor where ing face you see at the reception. I set up a palliative care educa- Currently, I am a contractor to tion service within Northland. I left Hospice manag- It is a privilege for me to give back this role in December 2013. I have ing two Ministry of Health funded to this organisation and to share also held management positions projects (Hospice New Zealand my clinical and business skills. Times

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Remember when… WILLIAM WITSTIJN REMEMBERS HIS LIFE.

I was born on the 21st December ganisation. I joined the resistance 1916 in The Hague, in the middle and we carried out many daring of World War I. As The Nether- raids. I was captured and escaped lands was neutral territory, any seven times until I was put in soli- soldiers that strayed over our bor- tary confinement in a maximum ders were interned with our civil- security prison. After some very ians. The 5 officers of the British rough treatment I was set free in Grenadier Guards so enjoyed liv- 1944. The allies were advancing ing with us that they had a military and I decided to join them. Un- tailor make a replica uniform for der a rain of bullets I managed me, complete with cap and swag- to cross over enemy lines and ger stick. joined a Canadian outfit 9th bat- tery “Toronto” of 11th artillery regi- Later my family emigrated to Paris ment. When I eventually returned where my parents worked in the home mother was surprised to theatre. see me as she thought I had been killed. 2 My sister and I hung about there and were entranced by the shows, I later joined the British army to especially the English “Tiller girls” help liberate the Dutch East Indies fare we sailed to NZ in April 1952 high kicking and tap dancing. and received specialist training on MV “Fairsea” and landed in They taught us how to dance and in booby traps, mine laying and Wellington in May. We adapted we were onstage from age 11 and clearing. well, had work and had two chil- 9. We practised balance on top of When I demobbed in April 1950 dren John and Betty (now Betty a house boat and I lifted weights I was too damaged to dance but Petrie – Manager at Kerikeri Re- to be able to lift her in the dances. met and maried Willy. With a free tirement Village). In time we become professional. I also sang and did impersonations.

In 1939 when war broke out again we were sent home and were in- vaded by the Germans in 1940. We were unable to dance any more unless we signed up to a Nazi or-

1 I was the youngest officer in the British Army and the King did not know anything about it.

2 This is me, very thin, in my Canadian uniform).

3 Dancing the Adagio, my sister would slide down head first in front of me and only 5 inches from the floor. If I did not hold her she would have broken her neck. 1 The dance was a show stopper. 3 A better lifestyle

Cottage 51 3 2 1 113a Kerikeri Road Kerikeri

This 142m2 stand alone modern home, with an in- ternal access garage, has a lovely sunny aspect and plenty of privacy.

• Large kitchen with oven, hob, rangehood, and double dish drawer • Spacious lounge with Heat /Cooling Pump • Sunny, generous sized conservatory • Master bedroom has ensuite and walk-in wardrobe • Pedestrian access to the Village facilities • Bathrooms have walk in shower, extractor fan and heater, vanity unit with mirror and heated heated towel rail • Internal garage with laundry • External washing line

Price $430,000

To view or for more information call Frances Shaw 09 929 5836 or [email protected] PAGE 6 | JUNE 2015

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What’s in a name? In recent newsletters we have been By hosting the first Christian mis- goods and knowledge increased his sharing the origins of the various sion station to be established in mana (power, influence, prestige). place names of buildings and New Zealand, Chief Ruatara was streets throughout the Village. one of the first Nga¯puhi leaders He was a man with considerable to become closely associated with business acumen and by 1815 Ruatara Drive was named after a Europeans. were left in no Chief Ruatara had laid the foun- local Maori Chief. For most of doubt about who really ran the new dations of a flourishing wheat in- his life Chief Ruatara lived in the mission station and who was the dustry, however his plans to set vicinity of Te Puna. On 25 Decem- rising star of the Bay of Islands. up a steady export industry were ber 1814, he and his uncle Hongi cut short by his death. He died on Hika welcomed Through the mission, Chief Ruatara 3 March 1815, following a month- and onto Nga¯puhi obtained European plants, tools long raging fever. land. and pistols. Distributing European

Quiz Nite Diary Dates Friday 26th June ⎢4pm Quiz Nite in the Social Centre. Art Gallery Tour & Lunch Winter Warmer Wine Trail Friday 12th June ⎢ 10.00am Friday 3rd July 1pm Art Gallery Tour and lunch at the Rusty Tractor. ⎢ Afternoon Movie Community Dinner th Wednesday 17th June ⎢ 2.30pm Tuesday 7 July ⎢5.30pm Afternoon Movie in the Social Centre. Community dinner in the Social Centre.