| From: Margret | Sent: 8/04/2004 4:48 p.m. |
| 8 April 2004
Send them your best wishes for their birthdays. Danny and Richard met each other when they visited Brenda during their lunchtime break on Tuesday. Danny's photo shows met Jackie at the Waitakere 'swimming pool' tomorrow night where she will be in attendance at the Nationals. I visited her on Friday as well and chatted with my old swimming coach, Duncan Laing, ex-Waitara, ex-freezingworks employee iu the carpenter's shop; ex- Clifton rower, ex-employee of Kawaroa swimming pool during 1960's, a job undertaken by Uncle Ike when he left. Jackie also shared swimming interests with Duncan and Clifton Rowing Club membership. Jackie's daughter, Sarah-Jane is a national-ranked swimmer. You can search the Internet for details of her times. Living it up in Christchurch Darryn is a member of the team working on the Project Aqua. As a Civil Engineer employed by Beca he travels to and from Waitara whenever time allows. Meridian Energy has decided not to go ahead with the project. A Manaki Tauira scheme interested him and he enrolled at Carrington Technical Institute (later Unitech) in Auckland for a three year course for the Certificate in Civil Engineering. An advertisement sighted during his final year alerted him to the prestigious comany called Beca, Carter, Hollings and Ferner and he was employed for several years.
Very keen to become a Graduate Engineer, Darryn undertook the Degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Canterbury and was employed at Beca's Head Office based in Vincent Street, in Auckland's CBD. His graduation was enjoyed by Mum, Roger (travelled from California), Val and Malcolm, Kingston Aynsley, Margret and Richard,.during Easter 2001. It was sad that Dad was not well enough to sustain such a long journey to Christchurch. Last year, 2003, as a twice-winner of the Charles Bailey Scholarship awarded by the Parininihi-ki-Waitotara Incorporation, he gave an address at the Annual General Meeting in New Plymouth. The photographs allude to Darryn's interests as a member of the Auckland-Northland Regiment where he serves as a gunner in the Teritorials and his surveying experience has him as an range finder by line-of-sight as well as confirming the distance with technological aids. One of his hobbies and riding pleasures is trials riding and he gained success in the Auckland trials during his years before he went to Christchurch to university. Now he is on the mainland, having built a gate in a nightschool class, to take back to his Waitara home. I do wonder how he will get it back there. The Grafton Gully project was a 'biggie for him as he was employed as a Utilities Engineer. The Mangere sewerage ponds had a different issue as he worked for Fletcher Construction when on holiay from Christchurch. He told the audience at the PKW AGM, he painted the words HMS Tutae on the side of one of the boats that he was in command of and only Maori staff enjoyed the significance of the word and the situation. |
APRIL BIRTHDAYS AND we are showered with birthdays - The cousins who are gaining another year with their birthdays are:
BRENDA AND 
Congratulations to Vanessa upon her graduation last week. Aunty Ruby travelled up, post haste, to share in this momentous occasion and shared it with the family. Gloria shared, with Brenda and Paul, in the success of their daughter's educational achievement. Well done, Vanessa. 
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