Joyce Carpenter

Born Joyce Constance Gladys Carpenter, Helleur was born on 15 October 1923. She took up diving when a junior swimming championship was being held in Nelson: at the suggestion of the pool superintendent, Harry Davy, she entered the diving competition. She went on to win the New Zealand national women's diving championship twice, in 1944 and 1950. Carpenter worked as a physical education instructor. At the 1950 British Empire Games, she finished seventh in the women's 3 m springboard. ==Later life and death==

Helleur was involved in the establishment of a new free kindergarten in the Nelson suburb of Tāhunanui in the early 1960s. She also taught children at the King George V Memorial Health Camp in Marsden Valley, Stoke. An accomplished amateur golfer, Helleur won the Nelson provincial women's match play title in 1968 and 1969. Helleur died on 9 June 2016. ==References==