Watson Archer was a tower of strength in Rugby. - Obituary.
"A devastating tackler"......."Strong reliable attacker"......"Afraid of nothing"........" Tremendous under pressure"........"A wonderful team man"......were a few of the many tributes paid yesterday by Southland's leading Rugby players of recent years to the memory of Watson (Wattie) Archer, who passed away last week after a long illness.
In Rugby Circles, "Watties" name became a household word in Southland from 1957 to 1963, and it was not surprising that visitors from all parts of the country paid tribute to him at the grave side last Saturday.
"Wattie" Archer was one of the two Archer brothers - the other being All Black, Robin who dominated Southland Rugby in the late 1950's and early 1960's. The two brothers formed the provinces inside back, with Robin mostly playing first five eight with "Wattie" outside him. They developed a combination which had few peers in any opposing team in the country.
Watson Archer could correctly be termed an aggressive player whether on attack or defence, and his indomitable courage made him a great favourite with local fans.
His major asset was the crash tackle, there would be very few players who came up against him who could say that they escaped without feeling the effects of the "Archer Special". No matter how big or how small the opposition "Wattie" always went in hard and low and his defensive work made him one of the most respected players in the country.
Ack Soper also pointed out one of "Wattie" Archer's and that was the ability to pass the ball to his outsides at exactly the right moment. He was a fine feeder of the ball and wholly reliable he reported.
"Wattie" Archer never made the ultimate for any New Zealand rugby player, All Black selection but he must have come close to it on a number of occasions. A noted rugby correspondent wrote in one book that Watson Archer was on the very edge of selection for the New Zealand team that toured South Africa in 1960.
Watson Archer's club affiliations were with Pioneer and Eastern Southland and it said a lot for him that he put every bit as much into club rugby as he did to that at provincial level
He had a tremendous will to win and this determination led to Pioneer winning several narrow victories. As one team said "when we were down one or two points, with only minutes to go, as long as "Wattie" was in the team we always knew there was a chance that we could scrap out of it".
The courage and determination that Watson Archer showed on the rugby field stayed with him right up until the time of his death. Ill health severely restricted his activities over the last few years, but he remained an enthusiastic follower of all sports, taking a particular interest in horse racing.
Watson Archer was the son of two of Gore's best-known residents, particularly in sporting circles, Mr and Mrs Bill Archer. He is survived by his wife, Evelyn, three sons Bill, John and Michael and one daughter, Jan. To them goes the deepest sympathy of all sports followers in the Southland province and further afield. "Watties" death has taken from us one of the province's truly great sportsmen.
VALE WATSON ARCHER!
In Rugby Circles, "Watties" name became a household word in Southland from 1957 to 1963, and it was not surprising that visitors from all parts of the country paid tribute to him at the grave side last Saturday.
"Wattie" Archer was one of the two Archer brothers - the other being All Black, Robin who dominated Southland Rugby in the late 1950's and early 1960's. The two brothers formed the provinces inside back, with Robin mostly playing first five eight with "Wattie" outside him. They developed a combination which had few peers in any opposing team in the country.
Watson Archer could correctly be termed an aggressive player whether on attack or defence, and his indomitable courage made him a great favourite with local fans.
His major asset was the crash tackle, there would be very few players who came up against him who could say that they escaped without feeling the effects of the "Archer Special". No matter how big or how small the opposition "Wattie" always went in hard and low and his defensive work made him one of the most respected players in the country.
Ack Soper also pointed out one of "Wattie" Archer's and that was the ability to pass the ball to his outsides at exactly the right moment. He was a fine feeder of the ball and wholly reliable he reported.
"Wattie" Archer never made the ultimate for any New Zealand rugby player, All Black selection but he must have come close to it on a number of occasions. A noted rugby correspondent wrote in one book that Watson Archer was on the very edge of selection for the New Zealand team that toured South Africa in 1960.
Watson Archer's club affiliations were with Pioneer and Eastern Southland and it said a lot for him that he put every bit as much into club rugby as he did to that at provincial level
He had a tremendous will to win and this determination led to Pioneer winning several narrow victories. As one team said "when we were down one or two points, with only minutes to go, as long as "Wattie" was in the team we always knew there was a chance that we could scrap out of it".
The courage and determination that Watson Archer showed on the rugby field stayed with him right up until the time of his death. Ill health severely restricted his activities over the last few years, but he remained an enthusiastic follower of all sports, taking a particular interest in horse racing.
Watson Archer was the son of two of Gore's best-known residents, particularly in sporting circles, Mr and Mrs Bill Archer. He is survived by his wife, Evelyn, three sons Bill, John and Michael and one daughter, Jan. To them goes the deepest sympathy of all sports followers in the Southland province and further afield. "Watties" death has taken from us one of the province's truly great sportsmen.
VALE WATSON ARCHER!
William Arthur (Toby) Archer dies in his 89th year. (Chas's Uncle)
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Toby Archer was a veteran of the South African war and died at Peacehaven in Invercargill at the age of 88. Toby had a life long association with the fronzen meat industry and most of his years was spent at the Southland Frozen Meat Company, which he joined just after the turn of the century. He worked as a butcher at the old Lorneville works.
Although he worked at intervals with various other frozen meat companies in other parts of New Zealand, most of his life was spent in the Southland works, and for many years he was the foreman of the slaughter board at Makarewa. He always turned out with the South African veterans on Anzac Day. |
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Gore Racing Club in good hands with new president-elect Robin Archer.
Thomas Roberts (Stud)
Archer Family photo that Jill Milne posted on facebook. I think everyone will remember it - what a beautiful bunch.
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Rayna Telfer Watson Archer, Linley McMeeken, Hilary Mortimer, Jill Milne, Robin Archer, Nancy Somerville. Aylwyn Adamson. |
Hilary Mortimer (nee Archer's) memories of
22 William Street, Gore
This is the home my father built, William Charles Archer, in 1937. Mum, Alice Louisa Archer, (nee Roberts) and I was approximately three months old when we moved into the new home. I shared a room with Nancy Somerville, Jill Milne and Alwyn Adamson. Jill and I had to sleep in a single bed together for about three years. Linley McMeeken and Rayna Telfer shared the front room and Robyn Archer and Watson Archer had the other front room. Due to the expanding family Dad built a hut in the backyard for the boys. There were usually half a dozen slept there in the weekend. I actually slept there the night before I got married. We all walked school together along with the neighbours. We always walked home for lunch where we had the main meal of the day, meat and three veges. Robyn went off to Otago University, Linley to teachers training college in Dunedin. Rayna went nursing and in those days you had to stay at the nursing home, regardless of where you lived. Nancy, Jill and I all followed in Rayna’s step and went nursing. Alwyn worked in Brownlee’s crockery shop.
I remember always having lots of people at 22 William Street and having a water fight one Sunday when everyone was going to church. We did not get into trouble as Mum was the ringleader. Because Dad was the President of the Gore Amateur Athletic Association, we always bulleted Yvette and Roy Williams when they were competing in Southland. (Hence one of my daughters is named after her). Yvette Williams was my idol as she always treated us just like a sister.
Mum coached netball for the girls from the McKenzie’s department store. They went to practice that night laughing their heads off as they had just seen the 4 older Archer’s taking a wheel barrow load of empty bottles to sell so they could go to the Gore A & P Show. Mum also coached Louis Muir and was on the programme “This is your life” for Louis.
I remember always having lots of people at 22 William Street and having a water fight one Sunday when everyone was going to church. We did not get into trouble as Mum was the ringleader. Because Dad was the President of the Gore Amateur Athletic Association, we always bulleted Yvette and Roy Williams when they were competing in Southland. (Hence one of my daughters is named after her). Yvette Williams was my idol as she always treated us just like a sister.
Mum coached netball for the girls from the McKenzie’s department store. They went to practice that night laughing their heads off as they had just seen the 4 older Archer’s taking a wheel barrow load of empty bottles to sell so they could go to the Gore A & P Show. Mum also coached Louis Muir and was on the programme “This is your life” for Louis.
Robyn Archer's memories of his childhood.
I was born in Gore in 1930 but my earliest recollection of my mother and father was when we lived in 20 Nelson Street, Invercargill. I was probably 4 years old and I remember going out to the footpath to watch my father going off to work on a motorbike.
I think my father was a keen 'bikie' riding an Indian model with wide handle-bars. One Easter before they were married they went to the Riverton Races on the motorbike - in those days to have car was quite something. The roads were all gravel in the late 1920's.
One of the big competition was the race of motor cars to see who could get back to the Wallacetown Hotel first after the races were over.
Chas and Alice joined the race on the Indian motor bike. They went famously and eventually the only two cars ahead of them were racing side-by-side on the gravel, so somewhere about Makarewa they took to the grass with Alice on the back screaming for Chas to go faster - so that they won a notable victory. I next remember living in Robertson Street, Invercargill and I remember Rayna (Telfer) and Linley (McMeeken) as babies. I went to Middle School but cant remember my father there because I think he was busy working building houses. He built 13 houses in 13 months with a partner, a Mr Calder. When they split up Chas had 36 pounds for all the work, so he decided to go out on his own.
I believe he was very well known through his athletic ability and he also played rugby for every sub-union at that time because he worked all over Southland trying to keep earning money as a carpenter.
Pioneer - He played for Pioneer in the 1929-30 as he worked on the Regent Theatre. He played for Ohai when they won the Western competition , telling me the team were still in their rugby togs in the hotel bar at 10'oclock that night.
Balfour - He played for Balfour when he worked on the Plains Station Homestead, and of course he played for Pirates in Invercargill. So he played for Eastern, Northern, Western and Town.
There were two other sub-unions on those days Southern and Wakatipu. I think he must have played for Southern because he worked in the Dairy Factory at Seaward Downs, becoming Factory Manager at a pretty young age.
His first house on his own was for a Mr Richardson in Mataura, and he used to travel to Mataura on the Exxpress train on Sunday night and back to Invercargill by train on a Friday evening. I remember my father well at this time, because he took me up to stay with him for one week in my school holidays. His next house was in Gore built for Mr Jim Windle, a son of Harvy Windle of Preece & Windle, menswear retailers in the Main Street. Jim Windle was a member of the Pioneer Athletic Club for professional athletics and his father was one of it's main supporters, so that was probably the connection that gave my father his first home to build in Gore. At that time we were living in Invercargill in Robertson Street, however soon after my father started the house for the Windles in 1936 he rented a house in Frank Street at the end of Elizabeth Street, and my mother moved to Gore.
I still remember the day we arrived in Gore as it was a sad day leaving Invercargill and my Grandparents who had been very supportive while Mrs A. had her first four children.
We spent most of our school holidays at 11 Gordon Street, Invercargill and many weekends as well right through until our Uncle returned from the war in 1945.
Our mother must have been a very busy woman indeed in those years in Frank Street. She had a young and growing family to look after as well as carpenters and sub-contractors to feed and clean up for. It was an old house and the water tank was often frozen up in the winter, and I remember our father going out with a bucket and a tomahawk to bring back a bucket of ice to melt on the coal range.
I think my father was a keen 'bikie' riding an Indian model with wide handle-bars. One Easter before they were married they went to the Riverton Races on the motorbike - in those days to have car was quite something. The roads were all gravel in the late 1920's.
One of the big competition was the race of motor cars to see who could get back to the Wallacetown Hotel first after the races were over.
Chas and Alice joined the race on the Indian motor bike. They went famously and eventually the only two cars ahead of them were racing side-by-side on the gravel, so somewhere about Makarewa they took to the grass with Alice on the back screaming for Chas to go faster - so that they won a notable victory. I next remember living in Robertson Street, Invercargill and I remember Rayna (Telfer) and Linley (McMeeken) as babies. I went to Middle School but cant remember my father there because I think he was busy working building houses. He built 13 houses in 13 months with a partner, a Mr Calder. When they split up Chas had 36 pounds for all the work, so he decided to go out on his own.
I believe he was very well known through his athletic ability and he also played rugby for every sub-union at that time because he worked all over Southland trying to keep earning money as a carpenter.
Pioneer - He played for Pioneer in the 1929-30 as he worked on the Regent Theatre. He played for Ohai when they won the Western competition , telling me the team were still in their rugby togs in the hotel bar at 10'oclock that night.
Balfour - He played for Balfour when he worked on the Plains Station Homestead, and of course he played for Pirates in Invercargill. So he played for Eastern, Northern, Western and Town.
There were two other sub-unions on those days Southern and Wakatipu. I think he must have played for Southern because he worked in the Dairy Factory at Seaward Downs, becoming Factory Manager at a pretty young age.
His first house on his own was for a Mr Richardson in Mataura, and he used to travel to Mataura on the Exxpress train on Sunday night and back to Invercargill by train on a Friday evening. I remember my father well at this time, because he took me up to stay with him for one week in my school holidays. His next house was in Gore built for Mr Jim Windle, a son of Harvy Windle of Preece & Windle, menswear retailers in the Main Street. Jim Windle was a member of the Pioneer Athletic Club for professional athletics and his father was one of it's main supporters, so that was probably the connection that gave my father his first home to build in Gore. At that time we were living in Invercargill in Robertson Street, however soon after my father started the house for the Windles in 1936 he rented a house in Frank Street at the end of Elizabeth Street, and my mother moved to Gore.
I still remember the day we arrived in Gore as it was a sad day leaving Invercargill and my Grandparents who had been very supportive while Mrs A. had her first four children.
We spent most of our school holidays at 11 Gordon Street, Invercargill and many weekends as well right through until our Uncle returned from the war in 1945.
Our mother must have been a very busy woman indeed in those years in Frank Street. She had a young and growing family to look after as well as carpenters and sub-contractors to feed and clean up for. It was an old house and the water tank was often frozen up in the winter, and I remember our father going out with a bucket and a tomahawk to bring back a bucket of ice to melt on the coal range.
Lynley McMeeken home from Olympic Games in Australia.....
Linely McMeeken (nee Archer) a well known Eastern Southland sports woman, has arrived home from the 1956 Olympic Games in Australia. She said the games in Melbourne were well organised and nothing was forgotten. Linley described the opening ceremony as a riot of colour with the sun shining down on the flags of the competing nations. Her favourite uniforms were that of the Canandian Girls who had red pleated skirts, white hats and white gloves with reefer jackets finished with gold buttons.
Linley spent one day at every event and saw the Australian power-house swimmers win in record times. She was impressed with the Japanese girls at the gymnastics who she described as 'lithe as cats'.
The closing ceremony was as spectacular as the opening and the athletes exchanged hats, sometimes with amusing results. One Australian girl was sporting an astraghan fez, formerly belonging to a member of the Afghanistan team.
With a tinge of sadness and the Olympic flame dying the crowd led by a choir of 1500 sang 'the song of farewell' specially composed for the occasion to the tune of 'Walzing Matilda'. And then the flags representing each nation were carried out by the flag bearers.
Afterwards Lynley spent some time in Melbourne sight seeing and saw a show in which former Invercargill girl, Alwyn Leckie, had a starring role. She later joined Alwyn in her dressing room and said she was charming and fitting ambassador for New Zealand.
Alwyn Leckie has achieved fame by becoming Australia's first woman television star.
Linley spent a few days in Sydney and said she noticed that the fashions was the wearing of the skirt just an inch or two below the knee. Separates are worn a lot and extremely high heels are popular as well. She was taken by the far greater variety of accessories and shoes all in wide range of colour and materials.
This trip gave inspiration to Lynley to try and compete in the Rome Olympics in 1960.
Linley spent one day at every event and saw the Australian power-house swimmers win in record times. She was impressed with the Japanese girls at the gymnastics who she described as 'lithe as cats'.
The closing ceremony was as spectacular as the opening and the athletes exchanged hats, sometimes with amusing results. One Australian girl was sporting an astraghan fez, formerly belonging to a member of the Afghanistan team.
With a tinge of sadness and the Olympic flame dying the crowd led by a choir of 1500 sang 'the song of farewell' specially composed for the occasion to the tune of 'Walzing Matilda'. And then the flags representing each nation were carried out by the flag bearers.
Afterwards Lynley spent some time in Melbourne sight seeing and saw a show in which former Invercargill girl, Alwyn Leckie, had a starring role. She later joined Alwyn in her dressing room and said she was charming and fitting ambassador for New Zealand.
Alwyn Leckie has achieved fame by becoming Australia's first woman television star.
Linley spent a few days in Sydney and said she noticed that the fashions was the wearing of the skirt just an inch or two below the knee. Separates are worn a lot and extremely high heels are popular as well. She was taken by the far greater variety of accessories and shoes all in wide range of colour and materials.
This trip gave inspiration to Lynley to try and compete in the Rome Olympics in 1960.
A Memory from Nichol Macdonald on the death of Watson Archer...
Dear Bill and Mrs Archer,
We all know the wonderful qualities of Watson and I greatly admired him. This illness was one of these things no one can explain, but there it is!
Both of you must be very proud of your family's record in sport and life generally. I shall never see anything so courageous as Robin's tackle of Rosenburg at Lancaster Park when Rosenburg had the New Zealand (1956) team completely beaten. Robin had nto long come back on the field after having his shoulder dislocated - that alone showed his 'guts', but to tackle a man and save a try, well, that was courage of the highest order. Don Clarke had no hope of stopping the Springbok. I was on the bank that day, right opposite the tackle.
How is Jim?
Those old days come back in memory. Re: Robins tackle as I have a very full appreciation of that because i have had my shoulder dislocated more than once and know just what that means.
Next time I come to Gore, I will come round. Am not often there, all the same. Again expressing my sympathy with you all.
Martin Mason - new director of Racing in Tasmania - 1990
Tasmania's new Director of Racing, Michael Martin, has no intention of becoming desk bound in his job as the state's chief racing boss. He says he has come from a racing family, and been bought up around horses and regards himself as a 'hands on horseman"and was hoping to spend as much time as possible in the field.
Michael had worked in Auckland for the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders' Association as their marketing and promotions director. He guesses he spent over 100 nights in Australia in the past year, talking to owners and trainers, syndicates and journalists.
Michael spent nine years running the Fencourt Stud - a farm he purchased from the family of famous breeder, Mr Patrick Hogan.
As a stud farm, Fencourt stood stallions including Blueskin 11, Hermes and Philoctetes.
In 1984 he set us his own bloodstock partnership to buy good quality mares.
Although thoroughbreds have been the bulk of his life he has also been involved in the other two racing codes, greyhounds and harness racing.
Michael is married to Susan Archer who is a journalist and also worked as a promotions officer for the Cambridge Harness Racing Club, and wrote for the Bloodhorse magazine and the Victoria Racing Calender
They have bred and raced several horses with family members over the years and their latest hopeful, a two year old filly called Be Tempted, which was worked by Ashburton trainer Mrs Jan Hay.
Michael had worked in Auckland for the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders' Association as their marketing and promotions director. He guesses he spent over 100 nights in Australia in the past year, talking to owners and trainers, syndicates and journalists.
Michael spent nine years running the Fencourt Stud - a farm he purchased from the family of famous breeder, Mr Patrick Hogan.
As a stud farm, Fencourt stood stallions including Blueskin 11, Hermes and Philoctetes.
In 1984 he set us his own bloodstock partnership to buy good quality mares.
Although thoroughbreds have been the bulk of his life he has also been involved in the other two racing codes, greyhounds and harness racing.
Michael is married to Susan Archer who is a journalist and also worked as a promotions officer for the Cambridge Harness Racing Club, and wrote for the Bloodhorse magazine and the Victoria Racing Calender
They have bred and raced several horses with family members over the years and their latest hopeful, a two year old filly called Be Tempted, which was worked by Ashburton trainer Mrs Jan Hay.
Jane McMeeken - Basketball was right choice
The decision of which sport to specialise in is often a difficult one for Jane McMeeken the choice was quite simple - and the right on. Jane is an off-spring of the very talented Archer sporting family and her father, Arthur McMeeken. Her mother, Linley, was not only a New Zealand netballer but very talented at athletics. Arthur was a gifted sportsman too, representing, Pioneer, Southland, and other provinces and Eastern. He was also a natural athlete.
Jane graduated from Gore High with a fine acdemic and sporting record and went on to study at Otago University. She chose her basketball because she loved the freedom of being able to shoot goals as well as defend, and plus it is very cold playing netball outside in Dunedin.
Being selected for Otago she out five nights a week at practice and had to work hard to fit it round her study. She was selected for the New Zealand netball universities team that toured Australia.
Jane transferred to Canterbury University for her final two years of law where her workload increased and her partner, Matthew Ruscoe, gave up his committments including playing basketball for New Zealand to take care of their two children and generally make life easier for Jane.
In 1983 the family moved to Welling so Jane could take up a good job offer. Netball was put on the back burner, as she captained the New Zealand basketball team. The commonwealth games were held in New Zealand that year and they came third behind England and Australia.
Her work load was mainly criminal work and she was thankful for her supportive bosses and maintains that the excellent exposure she got through sports enhanced the practice.
Jane, Matthew and their children moved back to Gore at the beginning of 1985 for family reasons. She played for Southland but because of a philosophical difference of opinion with the Southland coach went north to play for Otago that season.
In 1985 she lead her team in the final of the league competition against Auckland and Wellington.
She trains at the Gore stadium every lunch-hour with Matthew and said as her coach she could not have achieved all this without him,
Jane goes on to say that she had achieved everything she wanted to and plays because she loves the game. ......
Jane graduated from Gore High with a fine acdemic and sporting record and went on to study at Otago University. She chose her basketball because she loved the freedom of being able to shoot goals as well as defend, and plus it is very cold playing netball outside in Dunedin.
Being selected for Otago she out five nights a week at practice and had to work hard to fit it round her study. She was selected for the New Zealand netball universities team that toured Australia.
Jane transferred to Canterbury University for her final two years of law where her workload increased and her partner, Matthew Ruscoe, gave up his committments including playing basketball for New Zealand to take care of their two children and generally make life easier for Jane.
In 1983 the family moved to Welling so Jane could take up a good job offer. Netball was put on the back burner, as she captained the New Zealand basketball team. The commonwealth games were held in New Zealand that year and they came third behind England and Australia.
Her work load was mainly criminal work and she was thankful for her supportive bosses and maintains that the excellent exposure she got through sports enhanced the practice.
Jane, Matthew and their children moved back to Gore at the beginning of 1985 for family reasons. She played for Southland but because of a philosophical difference of opinion with the Southland coach went north to play for Otago that season.
In 1985 she lead her team in the final of the league competition against Auckland and Wellington.
She trains at the Gore stadium every lunch-hour with Matthew and said as her coach she could not have achieved all this without him,
Jane goes on to say that she had achieved everything she wanted to and plays because she loves the game. ......
Rayna Telfer leaves Lorne Hospital after thirty years............
Its not the fast turnover of actue care but in the slow developing of bonds over years come real relationships not easy to sever.
With her husband retirned, with eight grandchildren, a dickey hip and a feeling that it is time for a break, with all that Rayna Telfer is still just a little sad.
Thirty years is a long time: goodbyes are never easy.
Joan Campbell says from her point of view only one thing may make them easier and that is the whole changing pattern of nursing now.
She has been through a few changes herself, spending the last five years desk bound, wearing civvies, feeling less a nurse than a manager and that is odd.
But were she to stay on the next vie might bring greater changes still.
Joan Campbell applauds moves towards a developing quality assurance, a must for any branch of a caring profession where accountability's hard won, but for nurses like herself changes come thick and fast.
More hours are now spent in professional care and assessment, more thought is now given to personal and professional development, more time is spent and will be spent in considering how effective and efficient every job is.
Rayna Telfer came to Lorne part-time after losing a three year old daughter, and stayed on because she loved it - her role has also changed.
"But as I leave and look around, I see no-one's here who was here when I came - which surely says it is time I went.
In those days qualified and experienced nurses like she, had little help beyond that of male orderlies and domestics and the worklaod was hard and heavy.
For Rayna Telfer is was a life time commitment and for Joan Campbell a total refreshing change after acute nursing.
Lorne is a great and loving hospital-home well staffed with 67 full time jobs for 87 residential fold, and through its all sorts of Southlanders have passed.
Leaving is sad.
With her husband retirned, with eight grandchildren, a dickey hip and a feeling that it is time for a break, with all that Rayna Telfer is still just a little sad.
Thirty years is a long time: goodbyes are never easy.
Joan Campbell says from her point of view only one thing may make them easier and that is the whole changing pattern of nursing now.
She has been through a few changes herself, spending the last five years desk bound, wearing civvies, feeling less a nurse than a manager and that is odd.
But were she to stay on the next vie might bring greater changes still.
Joan Campbell applauds moves towards a developing quality assurance, a must for any branch of a caring profession where accountability's hard won, but for nurses like herself changes come thick and fast.
More hours are now spent in professional care and assessment, more thought is now given to personal and professional development, more time is spent and will be spent in considering how effective and efficient every job is.
Rayna Telfer came to Lorne part-time after losing a three year old daughter, and stayed on because she loved it - her role has also changed.
"But as I leave and look around, I see no-one's here who was here when I came - which surely says it is time I went.
In those days qualified and experienced nurses like she, had little help beyond that of male orderlies and domestics and the worklaod was hard and heavy.
For Rayna Telfer is was a life time commitment and for Joan Campbell a total refreshing change after acute nursing.
Lorne is a great and loving hospital-home well staffed with 67 full time jobs for 87 residential fold, and through its all sorts of Southlanders have passed.
Leaving is sad.
Linley Archer had firm views on family and sport.
Linley a Silver Fern netballer and a top athlete in the 1950's says that sport has a positive influence on children as long as they have the right attitude towards it.
Linley confirms that many friendships are made through sports and they are very lasting one. You realise that you have friends wherever you go in the world. The following newspaer report tells her life of sports and what it meant to her:
Linley confirms that many friendships are made through sports and they are very lasting one. You realise that you have friends wherever you go in the world. The following newspaer report tells her life of sports and what it meant to her:
Reference: Lianne Mackay. The Southland Times. Success Just a Bonus. May 1992
Nancy Somerville opens "Nancy's Collectables" in Pahiatua
Snapped at the races in 1959 or was it earlier. The pic shows Hilary Archer, Jill Archer (Gore), Wendy Ballantyne, Eunice McDonald (Edendale), Joan Pope and Margaret Pope (Gore).
Thanks Karen. This photo was in the Southland Saturday night sports paper. Cannot remember the year - between 1954/55 I think xx
