Anzac Day 2023: Service schedule for Taranaki stuff.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stuff.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
At the other end of the scale, Murray Chong, Harry Duynhoven, Colin Johnston and Dinnie Moeahu had no conflicts listed as at the end of March.
Tony Bedford: Taranaki Electricity Trust (Trustee), Waitara Services and Citizens Club (Member), Hurricanes Alumni (Member), Hurricanes Schools Council (Life Member), Residential Property Owner, Family Trust, Taranaki Electricity Trust, Hurricanes Alumni (Trustee), Taranaki Elite Athletes Foundation (Council appointee).
Sam Bennett: Speaking Made Easy (Ownership of company and contract with NPDC), Full Circle Bespoke Life Events, Heart of Brooklands, New Plymouth Operatic Society (Sponsorship Manager), Celebrants Association of New Zealand, Residential Property Owner, APJ and DM Bennett and PJ Bennett (Family Trust), Star Gym (Council representative).
Herlihy said there had been a good response from more than 100 people since the idea was put on social media 18 months ago. “If everyone turned up it meant we may not have been able to hold it at the club. “It would be a pity to have got this close and call it all off.” Instead, those coming to the reunion will still be able to walk through town from midday onwards and meet old friends for a coffee, or a doughnut at Nelson’s Bakery, he said. Herlihy had ruled out people from Auckland arriving due to the alert level 3 restricting travel in and out of the city until 6am Sunday morning.
A horn sounded as his coffin was brought to Eagars Te Henui Chapel, in Lemon Street, New Plymouth. His grandchildren packed into the front cab and waved at attendees as it pulled up outside the funeral home, with the words ‘Rest in Peace Trev’ written on the back. Biesiek had been in the industry since 1983, and there was not a local truck driver who would not know of him, the family reckoned. He had grown up in Inglewood and never left.
ANDY JACKSON/Stuff
Trevor had been in the trucking industry since 1983 and worked for J.D Hickman. He started a family with his wife, Janine, and they had four children: Daniel, Amy, Rachael and Stephanie, and nine grandchildren.