Donald WRIGHT Obituary

Very Early Customer @ Akaroa Bakery Great Sense of Humour-Best Lawn in Akaroa-Straight Talker/Supporter of people starting business that got on to help others in the Community. RIP

Memories of a hot to trot Humber 80 hooning around Akaroa on a Saturday night. RIP Don.

The name "Sawdust" says it all! That was how he always introduced himself. My earliest memories are of a tall teenager in the late 1950s employed by my Dad to help build our boatshed in Duvauchelle. And a confident young MC at the News Years eve dance in the Akaroa Boatclub. Fast forward to the 1990's when Charlie and I moved to Duvauchelle and he milled macrocarpa off our farm block for our new home, Veterinary clinic, and to help rebuild the wharf washed away in the 1992 storm. A friendship flourished between us so he could usually be found on our deck at lunchtime or included on our many trips to the coast either searching out historic old bits and pieces for his beloved sawmill in Barrys Bay or whitebaiting. In the mid 1990s he also accompanied us on several overseas trips which were always made more hilarious by his knack of attracting the unexpected or downright scary - like taking us to buy a paddle boat on the Murray River or down a coal mine in Reefton! I wish I could add all the wonderful pictures that are still in my head of the happy times I shared with Sawdust and my beloved Charlie.(AKA Chas.) but is is lovely to know that Jacqui and Nat are passing on his unique gene pool !!!! My love to all his family.

To Jacqui and the Wright family, please accept our sincerest sympathy.
Our thought are with you at this sad time.
From: Max Blomquist, Diana, Maxine, Angela, Annette, Lisa and families.

To the Wright Family, our deepest sympathy for the passing of Donald, he certainly turned many logs to sawdust, that I carted to the mill,in the 1960s.
Always a worker, with a great personality. Another part of Peninsula history, departed. Dick WAkelin,