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Tuesday January 17 2017
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News History of famous property developing SUCCESS: Warner and Patsy Mauger – from a North Beach garage to the captain’s table on the passenger liner QE2.
The Mauger family has owned and developed properties in the eastern suburbs for more than 60 years. Warner and Patsy Mauger bought 60 acres of land in 1990 and developed it into what is now called Northshore. And now, the Mauger family’s history has been documented in a book. By Fraser Walker-Pearce THE FAMILY responsible for many property developments in North New Brighton and Northshore can now sit down to read their own story. The Mauger family has owned property in the eastern suburbs since Ron and Jean Mauger bought a property on Rookwood Ave in 1945 for just £60. Now, Ron and Jean’s son Warner and wife Patsy own Maugers – a company with many divisions and arms including residential and commercial property and building projects across the city. Warner and Patsy were raised in North New Brighton in the 1930s and, by 1955, Warner was managing the well-known Maugers Garage on the Bower Ave and Travis Rd corner on
behalf of Ron. It was the couple’s first business venture. The garage was later sold to petroleum giants BP and a station is situated on the corner to this day. Warner’s late father Ron was a house builder and began the family’s business in 1945. He went on to purchase and build
WEDDING BELLS: Warner and Patsy married in Christchurch in 1957.
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properties in popular eastern suburbs streets such as Travis Rd, Bower Ave, Bassett St, Pages Rd, Beach Rd, Shaw Ave and Bowhill Rd. The Mauger family net has now been cast far and wide, with Warner and Patsy’s own children Philip, Timothy, Stephen and Penelope also having families of
their own. One of Philip’s sons, Jordan, was the star of television programme The Bachelor last year. Warner and Patsy live in Eastwood Rise, Northshore, one of many subdivisions that Warner started developing in the early 1990s. The family also does a great
BACK IN TIME: The Shell Maugers’ Garage Ltd in about 1963. The company was later sold to BP and a petrol station is still there today.
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deal of charitable work, which is not often talked about. After Warner suffered an eye injury requiring surgery in 1964, Ron and Jean donated a set of surgical equipment, along with a supporting holder designed for infants undergoing retina surgery, to the Canterbury District Health Board’s ophthalmology department a year after Warner’s surgery. Later, Warner and Patsy donated a Kowa Fundus (retina scanning) camera and committed more than $470,000 of their own money to the Canterbury Charity Hospital for a “muchneeded” expansion. In 2011, Warner and Patsy donated Olympus Endoscopic Ultrasound equipment to the Department of Gastroenterology at Christchurch Hospital after reading a newspaper article on the subject. It allowed the hospital to test bowel and liver cancer patients on-site rather the patients having to fly to Auckland for the same test. Some of the patients who, before that, had to fly to Auckland for treatment were too sick to do so, and were forced to stay put. By June of 2012, the machine had provided the specialised investigation tools to meet the needs of 160 cancer patients in the South Island. But the Maugers’ generosity did not stop there. In 2015 they knew the Canterbury Charity Hospital Trust needed more space following the earthquakes’ increased strain on the community and its health, and so injected the trust with more capital. In a charity hospital newsletter shortly after the Maugers’ donation, it stated “the Maugers’ have not only provided the hall at Innovation Park at no charge as the venue again for the Canstaff Charity Hospital Christmas Ball but have also bought a house next door to the hospital with the potential to expand the hospital’s services in the future.”
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