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Wednesday 8 November 2017
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Bank staff in shock after tragic accident A “terrible tragedy” has devastated staff at ANZ Bank in Richmond after one of their colleagues died and five others were injured in a horrific car crash when their minivan hit a truck on SH65 near Maruia on Friday night. The woman, who was a business banking manager at the Richmond branch but has not yet been named, died at the scene of the crash which occurred just after 9pm. Five other ANZ staff members from the Nelson-Tasman region were also in the van and two of them were taken by rescue helicopter to Christchurch Hospital with serious injuries, while three were taken to Nelson Hospital with moderate to minor injuries. ANZ spokesman Peter Parussini says a group of six staff from the Nelson-Tasman area, driving in a minivan, were involved in the crash. They were on their way to Hanmer Springs for their annual social occasion with other staff from Christchurch. “The accident was a terrible tragedy that took the life of a long-standing and wellliked colleague who was a business banking manager in our Richmond branch,” Peter says. “ANZ is a close knit company so many staff around the country are
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Christopher gets the right genes Simon Bloomberg Gina Gray reckons her son Christopher has “a combination of his father’s brains and his mother’s work ethic,” and that proved to be a winning formula after the year 13 Waimea College student was named Dux at the school’s senior prizegiving on Tuesday. Christopher had earlier received Year 13 excellence
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Waimea College Dux Chris Gray and Proxime Accessit Tayla Macbeth after the school’s senior academic prizegiving on Tuesday. Photo: Simon Bloomberg.
awards for physics and statistics. Although he has obviously inherited some of his talents from his father John, who writes computer software, and mother Gina, Christopher credited his academic success to Waimea’s “teaching staff who work really hard to help everyone succeed.” Christopher plans to study engineering at Canterbury University next year “because
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I really enjoy maths and it’s a practical application of maths.” He says the best thing about being at Waimea has been “going through here with my friends”. Christopher was joined by Proxime Accessit, Tayla Macbeth, 17, and winner of the Principal’s Award for Academic Excellence Hannah Moreton. Olivia Mark won the General Excellence Award for Girls, the Janet Hunt Cup, while the
General Excellence Award for Boys, the K Anderson Cup went to Josh McPherson. Tayla says she will be studying law and business at Otago University next because “she likes both subjects and couldn’t decide which one to take”. She says this year has been the highlight of her time at Waimea “because we knew it was our last year together so we all made it really special.”
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