HALSWELL MARKET
Dates for this year:
| Sun 25 March |
Sun 26 Aug |
| Sun 22 Apr |
Sun 23 Sept |
| Sun 27 May |
Sun 28 Oct |
| Sun 24 Jun |
Sun 25 Nov |
| Sun 22 Jul |
Sun 16 Dec |
Get a stall – find out more at
www.halswellcommunity.net.nz
027 370 0344
Communitymarket.halswell@gmail.com
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HALSWELL INDOOR BOWLS
Come along and join our small friendly club. Opening night March 5th 7.30pm Halswell Hall. Don't worry if you have never played bowls we will teach you. Enjoy a few games followed by supper. Further details please contact Neil or Audrey on 9800460 or 0212594638, All very welcome, we do not play competitively but do visit other clubs who return to play us.
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HALSWELL FRIENDSHIP CLUB
Halswell Friendship Club (formerly Probus) a Club for Active Retirees
We meet on the first Thursday of the month at 1.30 pm in the Mohoao Room, Te Hapua Halswell Centre, Halswell Road.Our next meeting is 1st March which is our AGM and the Speaker is Craig Harris who is talking about Honey.
Phone Robyn 322 8288 for further information.
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HALSWELL PONY CLUB
The pony club has returned to its grounds at the A & P Show grounds after a year without any access while work was started on the Nga Punawai sports grounds.
They are taking enrolments for new members and can be contacted through
suzie.doncliff@gmail.com . Rallies are held on the 2
nd Sunday of each month on the Common just past the stables.
Members do need access to their own pony or horse.
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HALSWELL COMMUNITY CRAFT GROUP
ALL WELCOME
Where: Halswell Community HUB (corner Sparks and Halswell Rd)
When: Every Wednesday morning (during School terms) 9.15am to 12 noon.
Term 1 2018 31 January 2018 - 11 April 2018
Entry $3.00 includes morning tea.
Come join us to learn new crafts or just have a social outing.
Knitting, Crocheting, Embroidery, Cross Stitch, Card making, Painting, Patch work, or anything else you are doing or wish to share with others.
For more information please contact Marion 3228996 or Trudy 3228178
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HALSWELL POTTERY GROUP
We are delighted to tell you that Gaye Morton's work will now feature in our Gallery. Gaye's work reflects her sense of kinship with the natural world. Pleasing forms are enhanced with delicate colours.
Our Gallery is open at the week-ends from 10 - 4.
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HALSWELL FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS GROUP
The Halswell Friends and Neighbours Group meet on the second, third, fourth Tuesday afternoons of each month.
Where? St. Mary's Church Hall. 329 Halswell Road.
What time? 1.00pm till about 3.00pm.
Cost? $2 per day for 2 raffle tickets. A cup of tea or coffee and a biscuit is provided.
Activities? Varied activities, Housie, Scrabble, Cards, Sales Tables, Film afternoon, and more.
We are a friendly group and invite anyone who wants to get out and meet others who are retired and maybe a bit lonely.
Need more info? Phone Judy Palmer 4200923
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WORLD DAY OF PRAYER 2018
Friday 2 March 7pm
St Peter & Paul Church 56 Nicholls Rd Halswell
All Welcome.
Service written by the country Suriname.
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GET CREATIVE CRAFT GROUP meets every Thursday during school term time from 9.30am to 11.30am at South West Baptist Church Halswell site in Balcairn Street.
Bring along your own craft or join in a craft someone else is doing or simply come for a chat and cuppa. We have people knitting for the Paediatric department of the public hospital, knitting beanies for cancer children or neonatal babies and making toy bags for the Paediatric ward. We also teach card making and associated crafts.
Gold coin donation for morning tea and a charge for any materials used for various crafts. Most cards cost $2.50 to make
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TAI TAPU VILLAGE FAIR
SATURDAY 03 MARCH 2018 10am-2pm
Enjoy a family day out at Tai Tapu’s annual Country Village Fair at Historic Library and St Paul's Church grounds, Old Tai Tapu Road.
Great stalls with quality local produce, hand-made crafts, speciality food, wine tasting and live music including bouncy castle and ponies to keep the kids entertained. This year don't miss out on the amazing raffle ticket prizes to win, drawn on the day - see you there.
Follow us on Tai Tapu Village Fair Facebook Page.
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HALSWELL HERITAGE STORIES
Frederick and Sophia Humm
Frederick Humm aged 21 arrived in Lyttleton in 1875. On board the ship he met up with a young lady, Sophia March aged 16. They kept in contact and eventually married in Prebbleton in August 1880. Frederick found work as a ploughman on the Sunnyside farm.
They then moved to an old sod floored cottage in Days Rd, off Nash Rd near Mt Magdala, where he lived all his life. (Freds house was shifted to Halswell from Sunnyside. It still had barbed wire marks on the corners and is still standing today)
Fred and Sophia had a family of eight - 4 girls and4 boys. The youngest girl Winifred died at a very young age. The remaining girls all married and raised families living their married lives within a 5km radius of the family home in Days Rd. The four boys also married and, with the exception of Percy, also resided and raised families within a 5km radius of the family home.
Jack Humm, a renowned horticulturalist, managed Nairns nursery for many years and propogated the flowering apple that carries his name. Len was employed as a steam roller driver for the Christchurch Tramway Board for most of his working life. Percy Humm was employed as a groom at Kinlock, Little River before farming at Kaikoura for many years. Albert created some of the leading gardens in the city between 1920 and 1945 as a landscape gardener/designer.
Frederick Humm the Roadman
When Frederick moved to Days Road, he gained work as a ploughman at Gaithfield farm, now known as Spreydon Lodge, starting at 5am to feed horses then go home for his breakfast. He eventually took up employment as a roadman for the Halswell County Council. His transport was his bicycle on which he carries the tools of his trade, a shovel strapped to the top bar. Weather did not in any way hinder his activities and he could be seen draining water off the road shoulders with his trl while he was dressed in his oilskin coat. Over the period before he retired in his late seventies, he was foreman in charge of roading maintenance, still using his cycle to cover the area controlled by the Halswell County.
Fred could neither read nor write or drive a motor car so his daughter Gladys would take him on a tour of the county roads at least once a month on a Saturday so he could plan the next months work.
Albert (Abb) Humm Cyclist and Gardener 
Albert (Abb) Humm,as well as being a noted landscape gardener, still had time for his hobby as a cyclist. He excelled at the Halswell sports days that were held on the Domain in all the cycling events.
He is also noted as a long distance cyclist. The photo below shows Abb in a long overcoat and his cycle accompanied by supporters on a wet morning in Cathedral Square before his record un-paced ride to Dunedin on Feb 17th 1909 in a time of 14 hours 1 minute. A good time in those days from Christchurch to Dunedin by a single cyclist.
Thanks to local historian John Moore for these biographies.
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KENNEDYS BUSH TRACK UPDATE
Kennedys Bush Track from Halswell the Summit Rd remains closed but the Halswell Newsletter is pleased to report that the dangerous trees that have kept the road closed since the fires have largely been cleared. We are hopeful that the track will re-open on 1
st April this year. For further information and ongoing updates as they come to hand, check out the Kennedys Bush Track Network group at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/KBTrackNetwork/
CLASSES
ENGLISH CLASSES
Wigram
Harvard Community Lounge, Corsair Drive
Thursdays 9am – 11am
Contact: Maewyn 338-8078
Halswell
Te Hapua – Halswell Library (Hao Room)
341 Halswell Road
Wednesdays 9am – 11am
Contact: Helen 322-8843
Put our next market into your diary and plan to come along and support the amazing community of people who give up their time and effort to make this monthly event what it is right here in our own back yards! 
Medal of Merit presented to Phil Strangman, Phil has given more than 11yrs service to the Halswell Scout Group, starting as a Kea Leader then moving on to Cubs and Scout as a Leader and the on to where he is now. These awards are not just for tuning up, Phil has project managed our kitchen trailer, scout Hall kitchen fit out and helped with additions to the scout hall. Phil has been on Jamboree as a leader and has run a number of top rate camps, just to name a few reasons he has deservedly received this Award.
e straight drain on Hendersons Road into winding watercourse with new trees.
