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Christchurch earthquake kills workers who restored St Mary’s Cathedral organs BY ANTHONY BARICH TWO workers who worked onsite in Perth to restore and install the Dodd and Hobday organs in St Mary’s Cathedral in the lead up to its December 2009 completion were killed during the 22 February earthquake that devastated Christchurch. A third worker from the South Island Organ Company, who had not worked in Perth, was also killed. Dead are company co-founder Neil Stocker and factory employee Scott Lucy who were part of a team of eight dismantling an organ at the Durham St Methodist Mission

Church in Christchurch which had been damaged in the 4 September 2010 earthquake when the 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck at lunchtime on 22 February. Both had worked on the St Mary’s organs. Also killed was company worker Paul Dunlop, who had not worked in Perth on the Cathedral organs. Their bodies were recovered on 23 February after search teams, first with sniffer dogs and later heavy equipment, worked through the night of 22 February searching the debris for them. South Island Organ Company

restored and rebuilt St Mary’s Cathedral’s Dodd and Hobday organs during 2008-2009, installing both organs in the Cathedral from September in readiness for the Cathedral’s opening on 8 December 2009. Mr Stocker had been with the company for 42 years. “As factory foreman, Neil made a very significant contribution to the St Mary’s Cathedral organ restorations, working extensively both in the factory in New Zealand and here in Perth at the Cathedral during the installation,” Director Please turn to Page 3

Peter Hannon, a ‘cradle Catholic,’ tells listeners at the Anglican Ordinariate Festival at Holy Family parish, Como last Saturday why he is excited about the new Church structure soon to be a reality in Australia. PHOTO: ANTHONY BARICH

BY BRIDGET SPINKS T WO Perth Catholics explained the personal significance of the new Anglican Ordinariate in Australia to an audience at Holy Family parish in Como last Saturday, 26 February. Many of those gathered were Traditional Anglicans who will soon be members of the Catholic Church’s Anglican Ordinariate. The festival launching the Anglican Ordinariate (a nongeographical diocese) in Perth was hosted by Perth Traditional Anglican Communion Bishop Harry Entwistle as a measure to

explain the details of the new structure. Robert Andrews, a PhD student at The University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle who wrestled with becoming a Catholic for ten years, said the Apostolic Constitution is one of a number of Pope Benedict XVI’s moves to attempt to unify the Body of Christ. “I’ve often emphasised to people who have some criticism of the Anglican Ordinariates that this ‘Anglican spirituality’ is Please turn to Page 16. Anglican Ordinariate Festival related coverage: Pages 15-17.

Neil Stocker, at far right, who was killed in the 22 February earthquake that devastated Christchurch, pictured in midSeptember 2009 when the Dodd organ was being installed in St Mary’s Cathedral’s choir-loft. The organ’s windchests PHOTO: COURTESY JACINTA JAKOVCEVIC and frames are seen.

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