Trade Me - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Wed, 28 Sep 2016 09:44:58 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Trade Me - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 How do you sell an unwanted coffin? https://cathnews.co.nz/2016/09/30/sell-unwanted-coffin/ Thu, 29 Sep 2016 16:20:40 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=87568 A couple of Whanganui flatmates have turned to Facebook to offload an unwanted homemade coffin. Jesse Hosie made the coffin last year while he was student at City College. It was intended for his nana but she didn't want it so it sat lying around his flat until now. Continue reading

How do you sell an unwanted coffin?... Read more]]> A couple of Whanganui flatmates have turned to Facebook to offload an unwanted homemade coffin.

Jesse Hosie made the coffin last year while he was student at City College.

It was intended for his nana but she didn't want it so it sat lying around his flat until now. Continue reading

How do you sell an unwanted coffin?]]> 87568 'Cathedral' piano sale a mystery https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/07/03/cathedral-piano-sale-a-mystery/ Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:30:43 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=28773 A baby grand piano advertised on Trade Me sold for $6000 this week. The seller listed it as "from Christchurch Cathedral". The listing said the seller, called Bridgewater, bought the mahogany piano at a charity auction in 1995. "This piano was originally the only piano in the Christchurch Cathedral up until then," the listing said. Read more

‘Cathedral' piano sale a mystery... Read more]]> A baby grand piano advertised on Trade Me sold for $6000 this week. The seller listed it as "from Christchurch Cathedral".

The listing said the seller, called Bridgewater, bought the mahogany piano at a charity auction in 1995.

"This piano was originally the only piano in the Christchurch Cathedral up until then," the listing said.

However, Anglican musician Lennox Willett and Christ Church Cathedral secretary Chris Oldham do not remember it.

Catholic cathedral music director Don Whelan said the piano pictured on Trade Me "certainly was not" in the cathedral, where he has worked for more than 40 years.

 

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