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Earlier Hall of Fame awards |
The New Zealand Road Transport Hall of Fame’s second annual awards ceremony has been brought forward a month – to avoid a clash with the Road Transport Forum 2013 annual conference in Wellington. |
The New Zealand Road Transport Hall of Fame’s second annual awards ceremony has been brought forward a month – to avoid a clash with the Road Transport Forum 2013 annual conference in Wellington. The gala dinner and awards function is now set for Friday August 30 – avoiding the September 27-29 conference dates. The Hall of Fame, the brainchild of HW Richardson Group managing director Scott O’Donnell and his wife Jocelyn, was launched with the inaugural awards dinner at the Bill Richardson Truck Museum in Invercargill. In front of 450 guests the first eight inductees were announced – an elite group including the late Bill Richardson and Owens Group founder Sir Bob Owens, plus six living recipients: TR Group founder Ron Carpenter, Freight Lines Group founder Jim Barker, longtime Road Transport Forum CEO Tony Friedlander, Provincial Transport’s Neil Clarke, Emmerson Transport’s John Emmerson and the so-called “Mayor of Governors Bay,” Lachie Griffen. |