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Yours forever: William Trickey Woods was blinded in Gallipoli during World War I. That didn t stop him from writing letters on a typewriter and signing them by hand.
Hundreds of letters and pocket diaries – some perfectly intact, some falling apart – are stored away in shoe-boxes and folders across Marlborough.
Maia Hart speaks to their safe-keepers to commemorate this year’s Anzac Day.
William Trickey Woods, World War I
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William Trickey Woods and Leila Ethel May Woods (nee Mills) pictured on their wedding day. When William Woods was blinded at Gallipoli during World War I, he was pulled from the front line and sent home to New Zealand.
“Anecdotally, you’ll talk to old timers who will say they used to catch snapper way out in the Mahakipawa Arm.” Kepes thinks the cause of that is from nearby forestry blocks that often have “steep unstable hill sides” and were subject to silt run off in heavy rain. About 20-years ago, Kepes purchased a forestry block in Rai Valley. The 14-hectare block had mixed forestry species and about five acres of regenerative native bush, which Kepes did not harvest. In order to mitigate the risk of any silt run off, he only harvested a small amount at a time.
When she returned to Blenheim in 2012, she said she did not want to work for anyone in New Zealand that used products tested on animals or with chemicals. “I wanted to use products that I agreed with and have my own niche market really,” she said.
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Cresswell said when she moved back to Blenheim in 2011, she didn’t want to work for a salon that used products that were tested on animals. Cresswell said a lot of her clients were vegans or wanted to steer away from toxins or chemical use in their hair. “When I first thought about doing it, it took me a year from the training to decide, because I thought Blenheim would be a little too conservative to change over to it,” she said.
Dr George Cleghorn moved to Marlborough in 1876. The talented surgeon left a long-standing impression.
Dr George Cleghorn was instrumental in setting up a fever ward at Wairau Hospital. Yet, even as people were dying from typhoid in the 1890s, he was reprimanded for treating Māori there. Maia Hart reports. When Dr George Cleghorn moved to Marlborough in 1876, he was a fresh-faced 26-year-old. But it didn t take him long to get to work at a general practice in Blenheim. And by 1878, he was appointed surgeon of the newly opened Wairau Hospital. It was a position he would hold for two decades, during which time his “fame as a brilliant surgeon” spread across New Zealand.