Chest-thumping send-off for staff

MAORI moves. . . Ginny performs the haka with Kiwi actor Guy Hepworth

HATHERSHAW College staff took part in a thigh-slapping, chest-thumping, rugby-style “haka” to send off two colleagues who have chalked up 53 years between them.

The traditional Maori dance was performed for business manager Ginny Robertson, who is leaving after 23 years to move to New Zealand.

The father-of-two, who plays rugby for Sedgley Park fourth team, plans to travel and hopes to visit his daughter who lives near Machu Picchu in Peru. He will continue to be involved with Hathershaw College as a governor.

Ginny (58) is moving to Napier, where her son Bill and his wife are expecting their first child.

“Hathershaw is an amazing place to work,” she said. “I will miss a lot of things, but most of all I will miss the people.”

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