Janet Holm – 22/12/99 Abridged with permission from the Canterbury Mountaineer 1995 A love of the mountains was only one facet of the long, rich life of Will Kennedy, but giving others the chance to experience being in the mountains was a keen ambition. Will Kennedy Photo source: Will’s niece, Frances French-Wright Will Kennedy was…
Dorothy – 22/12/99 The Mainline Station Restaurant today You’re driving along the main north road between Christchurch and Picton and approaching Domett. You’re growing hungry and thirsty and hoping that soon you will see somewhere to stop for a cuppa or for lunch. Then you see a sign and what, if you are an adult…
Dorothy – 17/12/99 What influences impact powerfully on young people growing up? For Zoe and Alan they were the family, the codes of home discipline, the Church, the school….. Zoe Hepburn (born 1907) looks back. Zoe feels that she had a fortunate upbringing as she had clear guidelines given her about behaviour, but also a…
Combined Authorship – 17/12/99 Nuclear weapons MUST be taken off hair trigger alert over the Y2K period. This letter addressed to Igor Sergeyev, Russian Defence Minister, and to Ivan Ivanov, Russian Foreign Minister, with copies to William S. Cohen, U.S. Secretary for defence, and President Clinton, sums up the alarming situation facing the world. IVAN…
Conrad – 17/12/99 It is often said that a week is a long time in politics and this was certainly true several times over during the three weeks after the 1999 New Zealand Election was held. The political future of the country was somewhat in the balance after the results on the night came through,…
Dorothy – 3/12/99 The journey from Christchurch to Arthur’s Pass is only 154 km (95 miles) but to appreciate what lies along this road much more time is needed than that distance would suggest. The first road from Christchurch to the West Coast through Arthur’s Pass was finished in 1865. It was built to satisfy…
Margaret Clarke – 26/11/99 Tomorrow is polling day and I am still hesitant about which party to vote for. I have made a decision about the vote for a candidate as I attended a meeting at which all the candidates for the electorate gave a five minute prepared presentation and then answered a series of…
Anne Frankland – 26/11/99 I can’t believe that Kim Hill (on Radio New Zealand) in reply to Winston Peters questioning her knowledge of the tax policies of Labour and National does not know what they are. Her reply: ‘Labour up, National down ‘ is biased towards National by implying an equal effect for all tax…
Dorothy – 26/11/99 In the nineteenth century women worked together and in 1893 New Zealand women gained the right to vote. New Zealand was the first country in the world to grant suffrage to all women over twenty one. What has happened to New Zealand women in the political sphere since? Some milestones since 1893…
George Ridley – 19/11/99 What should be the direction and the emphases in the education system as we enter the new millennium? George Ridley Photo source George Ridley Government policy on education at present is giving heavy emphasis to our developing a knowledge based economy as the solution to all our problems. But what use…
