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Out of the past
July 2, 1986
The commissioners let the contract to construct a new iron bridge over the C.H. & D. railroad on Michigan street this week. The bridge is to have a 20-foot roadway and a six-foot walk on each side. The contract was let to the Bellefontaine Bridge and Iron Co. for $975. The old bridge will be removed to another point. -
Louis Kah, Jr. has purchased the club house and fixtures of the Tawawa Fishing and Boating Club. He intends leasing it to picnic parties.
John Patterson has sold the Wagner House barber shop to Charles Hans, who has been employed in the shop for over a year past.
Powerco CEO Nigel Barbour will move to Christchurch to take up the Orion role on July 1.
Thu, 11 Mar 2021 Nigel Barbour
The Orion board today announced the appointment of Nigel Barbour as the company’s new group chief executive.
Nigel is currently chief executive of Powerco and will move to Christchurch and take up the role on July 1, 2021.
As group chief executive, Barbour will lead the Orion Group, which comprises the central Canterbury electricity distribution business, Orion, and its wholly owned subsidiary, Connetics, which provides design, construction, and maintenance services to the electricity distribution industry in New Zealand.
Barbour will be responsible for a combined asset base of $1.2 billion and more than 600 staff.
About 125,000 homes and businesses are connected to Enable’s fibre broadband network. Enable is a $600m strategic asset owned by the people of Christchurch, generating more than $75m in annual revenue, and it is preparing to pay its first dividend to the city. During the last financial year it achieved net profit before tax of $15m, up from $4m the previous year. Enable chairman Mark Bowman said Fuller’s contribution to the community as chief executive was immeasurable. “He’s led a mass infrastructure roll-out the likes of which Christchurch has not seen before and grown a business that will serve future generations.”