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he had in many cases added delight of watching his foals turn into winners. Between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s he enjoyed much success with horses such as Miss Shona, Kerry Dawn, Marandellas and
Mikasha. Nipawin, winner of many races including the Parliamentary Handicap in 1969; Sheralee, the top two-year-old for her year and winner of many races as a three-year-old contributed by more than half to make Sir William 4th leading stakes owner in New Zealand for the season ending July 1971. Moonmist (the only horse mentioned here not bred from his own mares) was winner of eight races and gave Brian Andrews his 100th win in the 1971 season, making him only the 4th jockey at that time to enjoy such success. Probably Sir William's favourite was the filly Jandell, a grand mare winner of many classic races and cups, culminating in her victory over Leilani, the top Australian mare, in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Sydney in April 1975. Jandell was named by sports writers as "Australasian Filly of the Year", which gave Sir William much pride and satisfaction. Jandell has progeny from champion sires such as Balmerino and Sir Tristram, and Sir William was elated when she produced a filly from the top sire Sovereign Edition in 1981. The filly was named Janzome and was shaping up to be as outstanding as her mother. She won her first race in the two-year-old trials, by 10 lengths, but then tragedy struck. While on a training run she broke her leg so severely that it was doubtful if she would live. Sir William sought expert advice and with a remarkable piece of veterinary skill, she was saved as a brood mare. In the early 1980s, Sir William ventured into standardbred racing, having dabbled a little with Red Slipper back in the 1950s and was successful with Debbie Direct and his pacer Never Bend, who won six races before going to the US. His last purchase was a yearling named Empire Lobell now rated as an open class trotter and since Sir William's death in 1983 had been raced by Bill, Jack and Ross Stevenson with moderate success.
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Australia and the Hawaiian Islands to the freezing North Atlantic waters off Canada's New Brunswick and caught almost every game fish there is to catch. The mark of a true sportsmran was left on many a fin, when, having fought and won the battle with the greats of the ocean, they were tagged and released to freedom. Despite this he had several game fishing records to his credit. The most meritorious being the "Big Three". 55 While fishing off Cairns in October 1970 during a particularly good game fishing season, Sir William broke World Record of five years with a Black Marlin weighing in at 1,231½lb. A fitting tribute to a truly magnificent fish. Giant Bluefin (tuna) had always interested Sir William – he had taken big ones off New Foundland and the Bahamas but the quest for a 1,000lb tuna to go with the 1,000lb billfish was a hard one as there had been probably no more than to fifteen ever landed on rod and reel. However in 1975 at Carracut, New Brunswick, in the St Laurence estuary the search paid off. After the disappointment of losing the first giant, estimate around 1,200lb, while the wire was in the mates hand and just out of the gaffing range, another thrill was realised when he landed a 1,080lb Blue Fin just 40lb short of another World Record. Half the unique challenge was met and the search was on for the magic four figure shark. In June 1976 Queensland's Cape Moreton, famous for its great white sharks whose feeding grounds were associated with the now discontinued whaling stations, was chosen for the most likely success. It was, however, a Tiger Shark that clinched "The Big Three" when, after what was considered probably unprecedented fishing – four tigers over 800lb in four hours, the last monster caught weighed in at 1,002lb. Sir William's fishing feats were recognised in NZ when in 1976 he was awarded the "Old Man of the Sea" trophy for the most meritorious catch.
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Karapiro". In 1950, he was named manager of the Empire games rowing camp at Karapiro and four years later he managed the NZ rowing contingent to the Vancouver Empire Games. In 1964 he was appointed manager of the NZ team to the Tokyo Olympics- the team that included Peter Snell, Murray Halberg and John Davies. Privately, Sir William's donations and endowments were impressive. These ranged from financing the rebuilding of St Thomas Church, St Heliers, Auckland, and generous equipment donations to hospitals, endowing the chairs of orthopedics and plastic surgery and a lectureship in ophthalmic studies at Auckland University and helping set up the Laura Fergusson Trust for Disabled persons. In spite of Sir William's extensive business interests, be found time for local-body politics, fishing, breeding horses and financing Lochinver Station on the Napier/Taupo Road which was developed by his son, Ross Snr. In 1979 Sir William broke a five-year-old world fishing record, catching a Black Marlin off Cairns weighing 1,231.5lbs. He never became obsessed with wealth or the intricacies of high finance. He told the Auckland Star in 1970: "Finance was never one of my greatest worries because I knew what I could do and where I was heading ... Big finance is only a matter of common-sense.... Sir William's governance of WA Stevenson & Sons was characterized by grit, hard work, self belief and determination. The years following were marked by expansive growth and diversification, which eventually built Stevenson's into one of New Zealand's major contractors.
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were ferns kept in an enclosed verandah, and a rockery planted with bluebells and other traditional plants. WA took care of the vast rose collection and the myriad of fruit trees. In the garden wisteria grew over a pergola to shelter plants that favored dark and damp conditions, in later years this grotto became a favourite place for the grandchildren to play. Even after WA had relinquished much of the gardening work on the property he continued to care for the fruit trees when he was in his 70's. Unfortunately he was on a slope in the orchard when he slipped and fell and wound up having to have hip replacement surgery. This gave him the idea to build a swimming pool at home to help his rehabilitation. The family had a pet budgie called Peter and a collie dog called Pat. Pat was so gentle he even allowed young
Colleen to ride his back. At Christmas everything was cooked out of the garden, Lady Ruby and the housekeeper would make a traditional pudding months before. Later on the meat came from Lochinver, and at the back of Drury Quarry there were turkeys which they would also enjoy for Christmas dinner. There was a food storage safe in a tree near the clothesline and Ruby would pull a string to lower and raise it. The wind would blow through the tree and keep the butter, milk, cooked meat cool for a day or two.
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Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery which funded teaching and research in that area. He also provided Middlemore Hospital with micro-surgery equipment necessary for plastic surgery. In 1977 Sir William endowed a further Chair at the Auckland School of Medicine known as the Sir William and Lady Stevenson Chair of Ophthalmology. It was the first established professorship in NZ dealing with and made Sir William the only person to have established three chairs at the University. He also provided Christchurch Hospital with equipment for diagnosing certain diseases of the eyes. eye diseases Sir William gained enormous please from meeting people who had benefited from his benevolence. They included a man who, unable to see for seven years because of an eye disease was able to drive his car following surgery; a man, who after a factory accident had his hand sewn on again using the micro-surgery equipment and Middlemore and numerous people underwent cardiac surgery with equipment provided by himself. In 1983 he set up the Sir William and Lady Stevenson Deafness Research Fellowship, funding research and development in deafness and related ear problems.
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Government in 1958 the family farm at Cockle Bay, for the Vice-Regal Residence (the property we know now as Waikiteroa Subdivision): drained and developed Nixon Park for Bowling Greens; provided grants of thousands of dollars to local sporting clubs, schools and service organisations. In 1961 he set up a special trust for an annual award to enable and encourage young engineers to work and study overseas to improve their knowledge and techniques in civil engineering construction. His involvement with opencast mining at Kopuku led him to provide funds for the establishment of a Fellowship to accelerate coal research in 1964. In 1968 Sir William and Lady Stevenson provided funds to purchase the historic Shamrock Cottage which they handed over to the Howick Borough council enabling restoration work to be carried out. The Stevenson Village- a pensioner housing project with recreational and hospital facilities- is further tribute to the benevolence of Sir William and Lady Stevenson. The Village, opened May 1975, was run in conjunction with the Howick RSA of which Sir William was Patron for over 20 years.
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were spent listening to the wind up phonograph, playing carpet bowls, and sitting in front of the fire. The uninsulated corrugated roof made listening to the rain a pleasure. WA didn't want the phone there for years, if he wanted to check for messages he would go in the boat to the Post Office and use their phone. Electricity and phone lines were eventually installed and a green asphalt tennis court was also added. WA enjoyed fishing on the lake, often taking other businessmen, and they smoked trout in a purpose built shed on the property. WA also bought a property at
Tarawera and employed a boatman, Norm Keene, to maintain both the boats and properties. When the children became adults and married; Bill to Nari, Jack to Pam, Ross to Norma and Colleen to Don, the Waikiteroa residence remained a special place to celebrate family gatherings such as birthdays and Christmases surrounded by their four children, their spouses and thirteen grandchildren.
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Engineer with W. Stevenson & Sons at that time. In keeping with his marine interests, Sir William sponsored the late Kelly Tarlton and co-diver Wade Doak in 1968 in the excavation and salvage of the "Boyd", which was burnt and sunk in Whangaraoa Harbour in 1809. Many of the salvaged artefacts are now on display in Northland Museums. Boaties who have strained their eyes in the darkness looking for a safe approach to Kawau Island have probably heaved a sigh of relief once sighting the familiar "Martello 'light, to guide them past the dangers of the outer reefs. Few would realise that the true thanks should go to Sir William, who in 1962 financed the two automatic electronic beacons. One was placed on Martello Rock, the other on Kawati Point and named, on Sir William's instruction, Dyson and Thornton lights respectively after two former Senior Auckland Engineers.
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farmland for grazing cattle and keeping horses. The house had been named Waikiteroa meaning 'long water view'. The boys started school in Howick, often riding ponies there. WA built stables and bred ponies, then as the boys got older, he bred hunters. Later they also got involved in thoroughbreds, breeding horse racers and trotters. WA also built a full-sized boxing ring in an old tennis pavilion that he had obtained from the Takapuna Tank Farm site and each week an ex heavyweight boxing champion, Mack McCarthy, used to come to train the three brothers. At Howick the three boys shared an outside bedroom where a fourth bed was periodically used by Grandpa Stevenson. Grandpa Stevenson unfortunately was later diagnosed with dementia and had to be moved to a care home. Grandpa Ross also lived there in a converted garage and helped with the gardens.
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enjoy a traditional roast dinner with her brothers and parents. The dining room looked over the harbour and there was a great view of the boats passing by. The boys went on to attend Auckland Grammar School and at the age of 12 Colleen moved to board at Diocesan School for Girls in the city. WA bought a 200 acre farm at Whitford during the war where he had horses, this was later sold at a reduced price on the understanding that it would be developed as a country club. The Whitford Park Golf Club opened on the site in 1968 with swimming pools, tennis courts and other facilities. In conjunction with the RSA, proceeds from the sale went to fund Stevenson Village, a returned servicemen's housing complex.
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