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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER <strong>27</strong> <strong>2016</strong> 379 7100<br />
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Bank’s withdrawal puts<br />
mall future in jeopardy<br />
• By Andrew King<br />
PART OF Bishopdale Village<br />
Mall may die due to the lack<br />
of “drawcard” businesses after<br />
Westpac announced it will close<br />
its doors next month.<br />
That’s the fear of the Bishopdale<br />
Community Trust and a<br />
long-term business owner who<br />
says shops on the eastern side of<br />
the mall will struggle financially.<br />
Bishopdale Sports World<br />
owner Tony Ralfe has been in<br />
the mall for about 30 years and<br />
he said losing businesses such as<br />
Mitre 10 and Westpac will hurt<br />
financially.<br />
“Financially, people are going<br />
to struggle on this side of the<br />
mall I’m sure . . . it is a real blow<br />
to Bishopdale,” he said.<br />
Community trust development<br />
worker Tania Smith said<br />
losing key elements of the mall<br />
would make it hard for it to<br />
survive.<br />
“People who used that bank<br />
also visited other shops in<br />
the area, with it gone, those<br />
customers will use the facilities<br />
near another branch which will<br />
really hurt businesses here,” she<br />
said.<br />
The eastern side of the mall<br />
lost Mitre 10 last month after it<br />
closed its doors and moved to<br />
LOSS: Bishopdale Community Trust development worker Tania Smith (left) fears losing Westpac in the Bishopdale Village Mall will<br />
hurt businesses on the eastern side. Residents such as Tracey Neithe (right) are annoyed they will have to go elsewhere to bank<br />
and possibly shop. Top right: The eastern side of the mall has little foot traffic when compared to the western side.<br />
Papanui.<br />
But the western side of the<br />
mall is busy in comparison to<br />
the eastern side.<br />
Hopes are pinned on the new<br />
$4m Bishopdale Community<br />
Centre and Library expected<br />
to be complete in March 2017<br />
and Development Christchurch<br />
working with local businesses to<br />
rejuvenate the area.<br />
Development Christchurch<br />
chief executive Rob Hall said it is<br />
in initial discussions with property<br />
owners in and around the<br />
mall to understand what kind of<br />
development can be done.<br />
Bishopdale Business Association<br />
secretary Jenni Hague said<br />
the new library will attract quite<br />
a few people to the area.<br />
Westpac released a statement<br />
on Thursday confirming<br />
16 branches throughout the<br />
country including Bishopdale<br />
and Fendalton will be closing in<br />
November due to 85 per cent of<br />
PHOTOS: ANDREW KING<br />
transaction happening outside of<br />
the bank.<br />
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Tuesday <strong>September</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
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NOR’WEST NEWS<br />
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EDITOR’S<br />
DESK <strong>News</strong>...........................3, 5, & 7<br />
ANOTHER BLOW to the<br />
Bishopdale Village Mall as<br />
reported on the front page.<br />
Businesses have struggled in the<br />
area since the community centre<br />
closed due to earthquake damage.<br />
Fortunately, the community centre<br />
is now being rebuilt, but with the<br />
announcement Westpac is closing<br />
its branch just weeks after Mitre 10<br />
exited, businesses are feeling the<br />
pinch. Get out and support them if<br />
you can.<br />
Finally, if any of you are<br />
still making up your mind<br />
who to vote for in the local<br />
body elections, page 6 could<br />
help. We ask Harewood Ward<br />
candidates about whether the<br />
public transport system is good<br />
enough. Meanwhile, on page 5 two<br />
candidates have a war of words<br />
over the troublesome Harewood,<br />
Breens and Gardiners Rds<br />
intersection.<br />
Hei kona, Shelley Robinson<br />
Rangi Ruru cyclists come out on top in time trial<br />
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Local Views......................4<br />
Elections...................................6<br />
Schools...................8 & 10<br />
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Our People.....................15<br />
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NOR’WEST NEWS Tuesday <strong>September</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2016</strong> 3<br />
<strong>News</strong><br />
Call for car parking charges<br />
In Brief<br />
• By Andrew King<br />
A CYCLING group says Jellie<br />
Park Recreation and Sports<br />
Centre users who drive to the<br />
facility should be charged for<br />
parking.<br />
Spokes Canterbury chairman<br />
Don Babe said instead of the<br />
city council’s proposal to offer<br />
free gear, food or discount cards<br />
if people travelled by cycle or<br />
used the bus, they should simply<br />
charge for car parking.<br />
The Fendalton-Waimairi<br />
Community Board decided<br />
in May to form a committee,<br />
chaired by board member<br />
Bridget Williams, to gather ideas<br />
around how to encourage people<br />
to leave the car at home.<br />
The survey is open now and<br />
will run for the next three weeks<br />
at Jellie Park.<br />
The idea came about because<br />
there was not enough parking at<br />
the facility during summer.<br />
Between December 2015 and<br />
March <strong>2016</strong>, 238,024 people<br />
used the facilities, the park has<br />
114 car parks available.<br />
Among the idea was to offer<br />
discount cards, give out towels<br />
or free food as a reward to those<br />
who cycled or used the bus.<br />
But Mr Babe said the community<br />
board has got it wrong.<br />
He said it would be difficult to<br />
IDEAS NEEDED: Fendalton-Waimairi Community Board member Bridget Williams wants<br />
to hear any ideas about how to encourage Jellie Park users to get out of their cars and use<br />
alternative transport.<br />
PHOTO: ANDREW KING <br />
police who had actually cycled<br />
and who had just taken a helmet<br />
along to get a discount.<br />
He said the idea should be<br />
flipped on its head and for car<br />
parking to be charged instead.<br />
“Let us discourage the use of<br />
cars to get to a sports facility if<br />
people live close,” he said.<br />
Once the committee has gathered<br />
those idea it will use the<br />
best one in a trial in November.<br />
Miss Williams said it would<br />
be better to encourage cycling<br />
or public transport rather than<br />
charge for parking.<br />
“It is one way of controlling<br />
parking issues, however, I feel<br />
that encouraging cycling provides<br />
a benefit to the environment,<br />
the person and relieves<br />
parking issues,” she said.<br />
Extending the car park was rejected<br />
by a city council committee<br />
in May after overwhelming<br />
public response to the consultation.<br />
“The hope is to free up car<br />
parks, create healthy habits and<br />
make sure there is community<br />
involvement,” Miss Williams said.<br />
Currently, it costs adults $5.80<br />
to use the pool, while children<br />
under 16 pay $3.10.<br />
•HAVE YOUR SAY: Should<br />
motorists be charged for<br />
parking at Jellie Park. Email<br />
your views to andrew.king@<br />
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ROUNDABOUT REMOVED<br />
The removal of the Courtney<br />
and Westminster Sts roundabout<br />
is expected to completed at<br />
the end of the month. It will<br />
be replaced with two stop<br />
signs, one in Courtney St and<br />
one in Roosevelt St. The work<br />
will include new kerbs and a<br />
pedestrian island in the middle<br />
of the road near an entrance to<br />
St Albans School to assist pupils.<br />
NEW HOUSING OPENED<br />
The city council has opened<br />
eight new social housing units in<br />
Mairehau. The new units were<br />
officially opened at the Innes<br />
Courts housing complex, bringing<br />
the total number to 38. They<br />
are part of a number of new<br />
city council units being built to<br />
help replace those that were redzoned<br />
or deemed uneconomic to<br />
repair. Tenants will begin moving<br />
in next month.<br />
ROAD ONE-WAY<br />
The top end of Aikmans Rd,<br />
from Papanui Rd to Akela St, is<br />
one-way south-west bound for<br />
about six weeks from today for<br />
SCIRT repairs. It will be fixing a<br />
major wastewater pipe called the<br />
Wairakei Collector. The detour<br />
to get to Papanui Rd from Aikmans<br />
Rd is Akela St, Cox St and<br />
Office Rd.<br />
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Having served as an elected<br />
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for twelve years, I will bring a<br />
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With your support, I will work<br />
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My priorities include:<br />
• Making streets and intersections safer for<br />
everybody especially school pupils, cyclists, the<br />
elderly and people with disabilities;<br />
• Protecting the purity of our water supply;<br />
• Restoring and protecting our streams and<br />
waterways;<br />
• Rebuilding our community facilities;<br />
• Revamping the Bishopdale Mall in collaboration<br />
with the community and local business;<br />
• Efficient and cost-effective public transport;<br />
• Enhancing parks and green spaces;<br />
• Protecting our strategic assets;<br />
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NOR’WEST NEWS<br />
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Recently I referred a 7 year old<br />
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had personal experience with the<br />
team at VSA and great results in the<br />
past. Dusty is a patient we have seen<br />
a lot of recently. He was recently<br />
neutered and treated for an enlarged<br />
prostate and more recently I have<br />
examined and treated Dusty for what we believed<br />
to be unrelenting lower back pain.<br />
Dusty is the perfect patient, amenable to a lot of<br />
manipulation and palpation, although he now<br />
often freezes and drops when he sees me coming.<br />
Previously Dusty has had CT scans, radiographs<br />
and blood testing to try to understand why at<br />
times he seems crippled with pain. He is unable to<br />
run with other dogs, play vigorously, jump, swim<br />
for long periods of time – in other words, “just be a<br />
dog”. His onset of pain<br />
is quick and he wears<br />
his pain on his little<br />
face. We have treated<br />
Dusty with numerous<br />
types of pain and<br />
inflammation<br />
modifying drugs<br />
with no real<br />
success, as well as<br />
physiotherapy and<br />
hydrotherapy.<br />
Dusty’s owner<br />
and I discussed in depth our next step<br />
which had to be an MRI at St Georges Hospital<br />
to determine whether Dusty was a surgical<br />
candidate or not. Dusty’s owner is a nurse herself<br />
and fully understands an accurate diagnosis is<br />
crucial if we are to understand Dusty’s pain better<br />
and do the best for him. Luckily it also helps to<br />
have pet insurance, as MRI diagnostics and spinal<br />
surgery are right up there in cost for the average<br />
client. Dusty may make the move to the UK soon,<br />
so I wanted to make real sure we were doing all<br />
we could for him.<br />
The staff at St Georges are helpful, knowledgable<br />
and lovely with our canine patients. I regularly<br />
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radiologist to get good<br />
pictures. Ear plugs are<br />
inserted as the machinery<br />
is very noisy.<br />
In Dusty’s case, even I<br />
could see the cause of<br />
his severe pain. He had a<br />
severe disc prolapse and<br />
soft tissue hypertrophy at<br />
the lumbosacral junction<br />
( L7-S1) causing spinal<br />
cord compression. His<br />
L6-L7 disc space was also<br />
moderately prolapsed.<br />
The radiologist also<br />
noted a congenital<br />
abnormality of his aorta, an<br />
incidental finding.<br />
The surgeon in Auckland had access to this<br />
MRI and could read the images. He concluded<br />
that Dusty would benefit from spinal cord<br />
decompression and stabilisation of the<br />
lumbosacral disc space, which would allow Dusty<br />
a far better quality of life.<br />
The surgeon liased with Dusty’s owner<br />
immediately and within weeks Dusty was flown<br />
to Auckland for a referral consultation, operated<br />
on successfully and is now<br />
rehabilitating in Auckland post<br />
operatively for 6 weeks, until the<br />
follow up xrays show that there is<br />
bony healing and stability of the<br />
plates and screws. Dusty is also<br />
receiving physiotherapy to help with<br />
a quicker recovery.<br />
A real success story for Dusty and his<br />
family and it just goes to show that<br />
the best veterinary medicine is often<br />
a collaborative team effort, where our<br />
primary objective is to successfully<br />
cure, heal and care for our patients.<br />
At McMaster & Heap we are also extremely lucky<br />
to have the expertise and knowledge of Steve<br />
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diseases and Catherine Morganti, who regularly<br />
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to working up a sick patient. We also employ a<br />
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Steve’s caseload at McMaster & Heap would be<br />
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One of the them, the<br />
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night, ended up as a fourth<br />
alarm which means eight<br />
fire trucks, an aerial<br />
appliance and a command<br />
unit.<br />
While we sometimes<br />
read about Auckland’s<br />
ability to respond dozens<br />
of trucks to a single incident<br />
sending those eight<br />
fire appliances is quite<br />
unusual in a city of our<br />
size.<br />
It means fewer trucks<br />
left to attend other incidents<br />
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Lyttelton’s crew had to<br />
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evening which attracted<br />
four fire trucks and the<br />
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The Fire Service’s<br />
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South Island down to the<br />
Waitaki River. The last<br />
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our share of fatal fires.<br />
While none of them are<br />
identical there seems to be<br />
a group of people more at<br />
risk than others.<br />
Being older, having<br />
restricted ability to move,<br />
drinking alcohol and<br />
smoking all appears to<br />
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It’s not a nice way to go<br />
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NOR’WEST NEWS Tuesday <strong>September</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2016</strong> 5<br />
<strong>News</strong><br />
Council rivals square off<br />
• By Andrew King<br />
TWO HAREWOOD Ward<br />
election hopefuls are locked in a<br />
war of words over an intersection<br />
both are trying to improve.<br />
Faimeh Burke and Aaron<br />
Keown say they are concerned<br />
about safety issues at the<br />
intersection of Harewood, Breens<br />
and Gardiners Rds.<br />
The Nor’West <strong>News</strong> has<br />
reported that residents, schools<br />
and elected officials want a<br />
change to the intersection due to<br />
near misses with school pupils,<br />
cars and cyclists.<br />
But Mr Keown’s petition<br />
to have lights installed at the<br />
junction is nothing more<br />
than “grandstanding and<br />
electioneering,” according to Mrs<br />
Burke.<br />
“It is about getting publicity – a<br />
little bit of coverage in the paper,”<br />
she said.<br />
Mr Keown said it was “a bit<br />
rich” to run down his petition<br />
when she has had 12 years to<br />
listen to the community and help<br />
them with the issue.<br />
“Don’t throw your toys out the<br />
cot now I’m campaigning on it . . .<br />
why not support those coming up<br />
with really good ideas,” he said.<br />
Mrs Burke has been on the<br />
Fendalton-Waimairi Community<br />
Board for the last 12 years.<br />
Aaron Keown Faimeh Burke<br />
More than 1600 people<br />
signed Mr Keown’s petition,<br />
in what he has described as an<br />
overwhelming response.<br />
“The feedback has been that<br />
the residents of the area have felt<br />
ignored for decades over safety<br />
concerns at this intersection,” he<br />
said.<br />
City council transport<br />
operations manager Steffan<br />
Thomas said currently there is no<br />
project in the Long Term Plan for<br />
upgrading the intersection.<br />
Mrs Burke has also been<br />
fighting to get lights installed<br />
at the intersection and said that<br />
city council staff had told her it is<br />
unsafe and something needs to be<br />
done.<br />
“They [city council staff] have<br />
made some improvements for<br />
pedestrians, but that wasn’t<br />
enough for us [community board]<br />
so we have asked them to look at<br />
it again,” she said.<br />
• Also standing in the<br />
Harewood Ward: Rod D<br />
Cameron, Rod S Cameron and<br />
Brian Gargiulo.<br />
CONTROVERSIAL INTERSECTION: City council candidates<br />
are concerned about safety at the Harewood, Breens and<br />
Gardiners Rds intersection.<br />
•March 14: Harewood<br />
resident Julianne Grant<br />
speaks with the Fendalton-<br />
Waimairi Community<br />
Board about the<br />
intersection’s safety. City<br />
council staff to produce<br />
“urgent” report<br />
April 4: New Zealand<br />
Automobile Association<br />
support investigation into<br />
traffic lights<br />
July 4: City council report<br />
says it does not need<br />
upgrade due to lack of<br />
crashes. Signage to go in<br />
warning about pedestrians.<br />
The board asked city<br />
council staff to investigate<br />
further<br />
July 26: Shirley-Papanui<br />
Community Board deputy<br />
chairman Aaron Keown<br />
starts a petition for traffic<br />
lights. About 1600 people<br />
sign it.<br />
In Brief<br />
ROAD WORKS<br />
Fendalton Rd and Harper Ave will<br />
be reduced to one lane for the next<br />
two weeks while SCIRT repairs the<br />
wastewater system. Fendalton Rd<br />
will be reduced to one lane both<br />
ways. Harper Ave will drop to one<br />
lane heading west. There will be no<br />
right turn from Wood Lane onto<br />
Fendalton Rd.<br />
NEW PLUNKET NURSE<br />
Bishopdale has a new nurse at the<br />
Kendal Ave Plunket Clinic. Morag<br />
Neale has come back to her home<br />
town after spending seven years in<br />
Melbourne as a paediatric nurse.<br />
Her hours will be Tuesday to Thursday,<br />
8.30am to 4.30pm.<br />
NO-STOPPING LINES<br />
The Shirley-Papanui Community<br />
Board has approved no-stopping<br />
lines near the intersection of<br />
Glasnevin Dr and Glencullen Dr<br />
in Casebrook. The lines will be<br />
installed in response to residents’<br />
requests to prevent cars from the<br />
Papanui Club parking on Glasnevin<br />
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NEIGHBOURHOOD WEEK<br />
The Shirley-Papanui Community<br />
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43 Neighbourhood Week applications.<br />
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Tuesday <strong>September</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
NOR’WEST NEWS<br />
Traffic issues need to be addressed<br />
In the lead up to the<br />
local body elections,<br />
the Nor’West <strong>News</strong> is<br />
asking candidates their<br />
views on topical issues<br />
within the community.<br />
Is the public transport<br />
system adequate for the<br />
residents to get in and<br />
out of the Harewood<br />
Ward or does it need to<br />
be improved?<br />
Faimeh Burke<br />
– Harewood<br />
Ward city council<br />
candidate<br />
The current<br />
public transport<br />
system in the<br />
Harewood Ward<br />
is very poor. With no bus routes<br />
in Bishopdale, residents have<br />
to go a long way to access bus<br />
transport, which is very difficult<br />
for the elderly and people with<br />
poor health. The residents of<br />
Northwood would also like to<br />
have a bus route taking them<br />
to the city. Currently the city<br />
council can decide about the<br />
bus stops but not the routes. I<br />
think it would be logical for the<br />
city council to take over this<br />
responsibility as the bus routes<br />
should be designed to fit the<br />
needs of the community.<br />
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Rod (D) Cameron<br />
– Harewood<br />
Ward city council<br />
candidate<br />
Obviously the<br />
public transport<br />
system in the<br />
Harewood Ward<br />
is inadequate through being<br />
adversely affected in travel<br />
times and timetables. Because of<br />
exponential population growth<br />
in the north of the city creating<br />
unsustainable traffic congestion.<br />
Expeditious introduction of light<br />
rail with obligatory government<br />
part-funding would immediately<br />
relieve congestion. Priority must<br />
be given for a major planning<br />
overhaul of the entire city future<br />
transport network applying a<br />
more visionary approach by<br />
identifying and appropriately<br />
zoning transport corridors to<br />
meet our future needs. Peak<br />
time public transport needs to<br />
be fast, efficient, accessible, and<br />
affordable to attract increased<br />
patronage. Light rail would<br />
provide this economically. I fully<br />
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from ECan to city council<br />
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Aaron Keown –<br />
Harewood Ward<br />
city council candidate<br />
As we have a<br />
number of major<br />
roads running<br />
through the Harewood<br />
Ward, the majority of our<br />
population is well served by regular<br />
bus services. With our ageing<br />
population we need to be looking<br />
at what the future of public<br />
transport looks like and we need<br />
to look at new solutions such as<br />
door to door services funded by<br />
the city council, but operated by<br />
local community organisations to<br />
be cost effective. We also need to<br />
continue the conversation around<br />
rail and look to make this a cost<br />
effective option.<br />
Rod (S) Cameron<br />
– Harewood<br />
Ward city council<br />
candidate<br />
Public transport<br />
is part of our civic<br />
infrastructure<br />
and should be<br />
regularly reviewed and updated<br />
to meet demands. However it<br />
involves complex issues, which<br />
in our relatively spread out ward<br />
means there is no simple answer<br />
to create best solutions. I regard<br />
there needs to be a region-wide<br />
study of needs, suggestions and<br />
options, with each city council<br />
working with ECan. Society is<br />
on the cusp of major change<br />
with the prospect of autonomous<br />
vehicles being ‘just around the<br />
corner’ and this needs to be taken<br />
into account, together with more<br />
mundane elements such as public<br />
‘hire’ bicycles. When elements<br />
such as these are put into the<br />
mix, I believe we will see a new<br />
dawn of useful, readily available,<br />
efficient, public transport. It is<br />
exciting.<br />
Aaron Campbell<br />
- Harewood Ward<br />
community board<br />
candidate<br />
For some<br />
residents in<br />
Harewood public<br />
transport will be<br />
adequate but for many others<br />
it won’t. It certainly needs to be<br />
improved. After ECan changed<br />
the bus routes usage has gone<br />
down and we as both users<br />
and as residents should not<br />
be satisfied with it. We should<br />
be voting for ECan candidates<br />
who will actively advocate for<br />
the return of control of the bus<br />
routes to the city council. I lived<br />
in cities with integrated public<br />
transport systems for several<br />
years and know the benefits of<br />
such programmes. Christchurch<br />
has its own set of challenges but<br />
ones that can be overcome with<br />
community decision making and<br />
leveraging the use of technology.<br />
Linda Chen – Harewood Ward community board candidate<br />
Currently there are at least 10 bus routes that allow our residents to get in and out of<br />
the ward. There is plenty of room for improvement when it comes to the public transport<br />
system being adequately available for all residents across the entire ward. More bus<br />
routes, more frequent bus times and cheaper bus fares will be convenient for our residents<br />
and beneficial to the environment. However, we need to see how realistic and cost<br />
effective this is for Christchurch. Improvements on any issues are great, but we do have a<br />
limited budget and it is important to prioritise the utilisation of our budget.<br />
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NOR’WEST NEWS Tuesday <strong>September</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2016</strong> 7<br />
<strong>News</strong><br />
Changing face of Papanui<br />
• By Murray Williams, Papanui<br />
Heritage Group.<br />
THE PAPANUI Herald of<br />
March 21, 1989 reveals an<br />
interesting glimpse of life in<br />
Papanui a generation ago.<br />
This was a significant year<br />
as two major administrative<br />
reforms affected the area.<br />
Local government reorganisation<br />
meant that the<br />
Waimairi District Council,<br />
which had continued to<br />
administer some parts of<br />
Papanui, was undergoing a<br />
forced amalgamation with the<br />
Christchurch City Council.<br />
The education system was<br />
also facing a shake-up with the<br />
arrival of Tomorrow’s Schools.<br />
The Canterbury Education<br />
Board faced termination<br />
in favour of a more direct<br />
relationship between primary<br />
schools and central government<br />
agencies.<br />
A meeting at Papanui<br />
Primary School was advertised<br />
and “all parents, teachers and<br />
interested people” were invited<br />
to find out more about the<br />
changes.<br />
Local news items included<br />
reference to the repair of the<br />
over-bridge that provided<br />
an access point to Waimairi<br />
Primary School.<br />
The bridge had been<br />
destroyed by an overloaded<br />
goods wagon but had since been<br />
repaired.<br />
Mike Moore, the local MP,<br />
who was shortly to become a<br />
very short term prime minster,<br />
was reported to be carrying out<br />
his pastoral duties presenting<br />
prizes for the Papanui<br />
Beautifying Association.<br />
He cheerfully admitted that<br />
his own garden, in Dormer St,<br />
was a mess.<br />
Paparoa Street School was<br />
front page news with an article<br />
on a social studies topic about<br />
cave dwellers.<br />
The Herald reporter attended<br />
the culminating activity, a<br />
“mammoth hunt in the school<br />
grounds” and noted that<br />
the junior troglodytes were<br />
“generally a very polite and<br />
well-mannered tribe.”<br />
An example of technological<br />
change is hinted at in a large<br />
advertisement trumpeting the<br />
expansion of the local videohire<br />
business.<br />
Griff’s Movie Specialists<br />
had taken over the premises of<br />
Video Shack at <strong>27</strong> Main North<br />
Rd and promised 364-day<br />
service.<br />
A generation later this is very<br />
REPAIRS: Local news items included reference to the repair<br />
of the over-bridge that provided an access point to Waimairi<br />
Primary School.<br />
much a sunset industry.<br />
An advertisement from<br />
Redwood Electrical regretting<br />
that it would no longer repair<br />
jugs, irons or toasters hinted at<br />
the advent of cheap imports in<br />
such consumer goods.<br />
The Herald was a free weekly<br />
tabloid and it is not surprising<br />
that a large percentage of space<br />
was taken up by advertising.<br />
For example, an eight page<br />
feature, titled “the Herald’s<br />
Easter Bride”, promoted a range<br />
of goods and services to assist<br />
“Karen and Tom” plan their<br />
wedding and invited “other<br />
couples to follow their footsteps<br />
to the recommended business<br />
places.”<br />
Chlorination<br />
plan down<br />
the drain<br />
CHLORINATION OF water<br />
in the north-west will not go<br />
ahead but the city council will<br />
bring forward the completion of<br />
a programme to replace shallow<br />
wells with deeper bores.<br />
The north-west water supply<br />
zone, which stretches from Belfast<br />
to Yaldhurst and includes parts<br />
of Riccarton and Addington, is<br />
graded D due to its 22 shallow<br />
wells which supply about 80,000<br />
people.<br />
On Thursday, city councillors<br />
approved a staff recommendation<br />
to speed up a programme to<br />
replace those wells with deeper<br />
ones and reject the use of chlorine<br />
in the mean time.<br />
Most of the shallow, unconfined<br />
wells will be shut down by the<br />
end of March 2017. They are<br />
considered the most susceptible to<br />
microbiological contaminants.<br />
Speeding up the well replacement<br />
programme is expected to<br />
cost about $480,000.<br />
They also agreed that information<br />
should be prepared for<br />
residents to explain the risks of<br />
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Spreading the message of peace<br />
St Andrew’s College hosted a dance revue<br />
recently. Fifty-eight students spent many hours<br />
rehearsing for 26 items which kept the audience<br />
well entertained. School spokeswoman Georgia<br />
Harvey said the dancers worked hard preparing for<br />
the performances this term. “Well done to Courtney<br />
Johnson for leading the organisation of the event,”<br />
she said.<br />
ENTHUSIASTIC: St Andrew’s College students at rehearsals.<br />
HAVING FUN: Courtney<br />
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revue.<br />
LOOKING GOOD: William<br />
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the revue.<br />
COLLABORATION: Rangi Ruru Girls’ School’s service committee spent International Day of<br />
Peace, <strong>September</strong> 21, with some of the pupils in the pre-school. They acknowledged the day<br />
by making peace sign artwork with their juniors. International Day of Peace is a day devoted to<br />
strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations.<br />
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From 5 October,* the layout of the Russley Road/Wairakei Road<br />
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Russley Road and left in to Wairakei Road from Russley Road.<br />
HOW TO USE THE NEW LAYOUT<br />
• To go north on SH1 from Wairakei Road you turn left from Wairakei Road onto SH1<br />
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large roundabout at present).<br />
• If you are coming from the south on SH1 and want to access Wairakei Road you do<br />
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SCHOOLS<br />
COTSWOLD SCHOOL hosted<br />
its own Olympic day with horse<br />
jumping, plastic chicken tossing and<br />
egg and spoon races.<br />
To start the day, pupils were separated<br />
into mixed age and house<br />
colour groups and given the task<br />
of making headbands and flags for<br />
their chosen country.<br />
In the afternoon it was time for<br />
the events with a variety of different<br />
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Pupils throw themselves into activities<br />
activities for the pupils to participate<br />
in.<br />
“I liked watching the chicken<br />
throw shot put. I threw the chicken<br />
quite far,” eight-year-old Brooke<br />
Nuualiitia said.<br />
“I liked the scooter race. My team<br />
came first,” nine-year-old Shaquille<br />
Temaiharoa-Hoet said.<br />
Points were allocated to winning<br />
houses in each event and for Olympic<br />
values.<br />
“Red won the house points but<br />
I’m in blue house. I felt disappointed<br />
because blue didn’t win,” eight-yearold<br />
Brayden Williams said.<br />
The children thoroughly enjoyed<br />
the day and the sunny weather made<br />
for a fantastic day.<br />
“My favourite part of the day was<br />
the scooter racing,” nine-year-old<br />
Adam Ibrahim said.<br />
OUT AND ABOUT: Selwyn House School pupils put aside<br />
their books and got on their bikes to tackle the Otago<br />
Central Rail Trail. It is the 11th year the school’s year 8 pupils<br />
have taken up the challenge, now it is considered one of<br />
the highlights of the year. The rail trail is a 150km walking,<br />
cycling and horse riding track that runs in an arc between<br />
Middlemarch and Clyde, along the route of the former Otago<br />
Central Railway. The trail is a popular tourist attraction, with<br />
about 12,000 users per year.<br />
GREAT WORK: Harriet<br />
Lord of Rangi Ruru<br />
Girls’ School received<br />
special recognition for<br />
her work Tantalising<br />
Torus as one of only<br />
four students to win an<br />
outstanding award in<br />
the recent Cantamath<br />
competition. The<br />
school entered a<br />
number of individual<br />
and team entries in<br />
the competition and<br />
returned with seven<br />
excellent awards and<br />
14 highly commended<br />
awards.<br />
HEAD TO HEAD: Emmy Sandford,<br />
5, and Isaak Bone, 8, give it their all<br />
during a scooter race.<br />
THE OPENING: Cotswold School<br />
pupils all prepare for the day’s<br />
events.<br />
CONCENTRATION: Emily Simpson, 7, makes sure her<br />
egg stays on the spoon during a race.<br />
POINTS: Stephane<br />
Baudet, 5, adds the<br />
points gathered<br />
during the Olympic<br />
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Tuesday <strong>September</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
RANGI RURU Girls’ School<br />
cyclists have won the Scotty<br />
Brown Christchurch under-20<br />
team time trial series.<br />
Competing in a five-race series,<br />
the team of Sarah McLeod, Jaimee<br />
Miller, Chloe Jenkins, Ava Morrow<br />
and Isabella Carter won the<br />
title at the final event held at Old<br />
Tai Tapu Rd on Wednesday.<br />
In addition, Charlotte Spurway<br />
won the Christchurch School<br />
SPORTS<br />
TOP CYCLISTS: Rangi Ruru Girls’ School cyclists Sarah McLeod,<br />
coach Scotty Brown, Chloe Jenkins, Jaimee Miller and Ava<br />
Morrow won an under-20 team time trial series.<br />
PHOTO: SANDI SCOTT<br />
Rangi cycle team win<br />
Award as the best under-14 rider<br />
with the most accumulated points<br />
throughout the season.<br />
Coach Marc Prutton said it’s a<br />
young squad this season.<br />
“We have a lot of talented young<br />
riders this year and they have<br />
grown really quickly in skills and<br />
ability through the hard work we<br />
have put in,” he said.<br />
Prutton said all the riders have<br />
now finished for the year.<br />
Burnside HS dominates<br />
• By Gordon Findlater<br />
BURNSIDE HIGH School made<br />
it three years in a row when they<br />
won the under-20 Canterbury<br />
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The Canterbury Basketball<br />
Association finals day was one to<br />
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The team has dominated<br />
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have held a remarkable<br />
record over the last three years<br />
not just being crowned champions<br />
but going unbeaten in all<br />
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ST ANDREW’S College runner<br />
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Akiko Omori won the year 5 girls’<br />
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Canterbury captain Sam Idiens of<br />
Medbury School was the first across<br />
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Canterbury captured the Phil Costley<br />
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In what was a busy day,<br />
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PERFORMANCE: Cameron<br />
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RICHARD CONNELLY<br />
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VICTORY: Canterbury captain Sam Idiens (Medbury<br />
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Tuesday <strong>September</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
NOR’WEST NEWS<br />
EQC UPDATE KEEPING YOU INFORMED | SEPTEMBER <strong>2016</strong><br />
EQC confirms Canterbury staff numbers for 2017<br />
The Earthquake Commission (EQC) has<br />
confirmed the shape of the organisation<br />
for 2017, including the number of positions<br />
in Canterbury.<br />
“As our work in Canterbury enters its final phase<br />
in 2017, we will obviously need to be smaller.<br />
From January 2017, EQC will be an organisation<br />
of about 458 people. Of these, at least 216 will<br />
be based in Christchurch,” EQC Chief Executive<br />
Ian Simpson says.<br />
“The new structure retains a core of specialist staff<br />
who will continue to meet the needs of our<br />
remaining Canterbury customers.<br />
“In 2017, EQC will continue to resolve remedial<br />
inquiries on properties where we have managed a<br />
repair, and to resolve claims for drains damaged by<br />
the earthquakes. There is also a range of<br />
administrative and financial tasks to be completed,”<br />
Mr Simpson says.<br />
Remedial inquiries<br />
An important focus for EQC in 2017 will be resolving<br />
the remaining remedial inquiries from Canterbury<br />
customers who have had a managed repair.<br />
With about 68,000 managed repairs carried out as<br />
part of the Canterbury Home Repair Programme<br />
(CHRP) largely completed, EQC and Fletcher EQR<br />
have jointly agreed a new approach to completing<br />
the remaining remedial work in Canterbury.<br />
From January 2017, EQC will expand its role<br />
managing all remedial inquiries to include<br />
management of any resulting remedial repairs.<br />
This means it will liaise with customers and<br />
contractors to complete any additional work, where<br />
it’s required.<br />
“The new approach will streamline decision making<br />
by bringing all the elements of resolving remedial<br />
inquiries into one organisation,” Mr Simpson says.<br />
Fletcher has agreed to continue its role in 2017 but<br />
likely with a smaller team and a focus on managing<br />
any underfloor work arising from the joint CHRP<br />
subfloor review. More detailed proposals on this<br />
will be finalised over the next month or two.<br />
As well as its work in Canterbury for 2017, EQC<br />
needs to be ready to respond to any future natural<br />
disaster events anywhere in New Zealand and<br />
continue its work of negotiating and managing<br />
natural disaster reinsurance for the country. EQC<br />
will also continue settling the average 5,000 to<br />
EQC Chief Executive Ian Simpson<br />
8,000 natural disaster claims received nationally<br />
each year, funding research to the tune of $16<br />
million per year, and educating the public on<br />
natural hazards and how to mitigate them.<br />
3,000 kids descend on the Alpine Fault<br />
Expert Sam and teacher Shelley talk about tsunami risk on the West Coast.<br />
EQC’s newest virtual field trip,<br />
“Geohazards”, was launched<br />
last month with 130 classes<br />
taking part (that’s over 3,000<br />
Kiwi kids). The CORE Education<br />
LEARNZ virtual field trips allow<br />
New Zealand’s school children to<br />
visit some of our most fascinating<br />
locations without having to leave<br />
the classroom. From Cape<br />
Reinga to the Bluff – we’ve got<br />
you covered.<br />
A LEARNZ teacher travels alongside<br />
subject experts to go on location<br />
and communicate their<br />
experiences with students through<br />
online video and audio feeds.<br />
The trips are designed to help<br />
improve understanding of<br />
geohazards, how we as a nation<br />
manage those hazards, and to raise<br />
awareness of EQC’s role in helping<br />
build New Zealand’s resilience.<br />
Last month’s trip was the ninth<br />
funded by EQC and it explored<br />
earthquakes, landslips and tsunami<br />
on the West Coast as well as what<br />
might happen when the Alpine<br />
Fault next ruptures.<br />
On the Coast, LEARNZ teacher<br />
Shelley Hersey joined Alistair<br />
Davies, a natural hazards PhD<br />
student from the University of<br />
Canterbury, and Dr Sam Hampton,<br />
organiser of geology field<br />
programmes in New Zealand and<br />
University of Canterbury lecturer.<br />
They showed students where you<br />
can see the Alpine Fault in the<br />
landscape, they pointed out scars<br />
created by past earthquakes and<br />
explained how tsunami, in lakes as<br />
well as the sea, could be triggered<br />
by quakes.<br />
All our field trips are created so<br />
that teachers can continue to use<br />
them anytime. To experience this<br />
virtual field trip and more, visit<br />
www.learnz.org.nz<br />
$25million paid out for Feb <strong>2016</strong> quake claims<br />
The Earthquake Commission has passed the<br />
halfway mark for settling the February <strong>2016</strong><br />
earthquake claims, says EQC’s February<br />
<strong>2016</strong> Event Response Manager, Jayne Lapin.<br />
Ms Lapin says that of the total 14,574<br />
claims received for the 14 and 29 February<br />
earthquakes this year, followed by the<br />
aftershocks, EQC has resolved 8,595<br />
by cash settlement of just over $25 million<br />
as at 19 <strong>September</strong>.<br />
“You can tell that Cantabrians know what is<br />
and isn’t earthquake damage, because up to<br />
75% of the claims received so far have been<br />
accepted, and average $4,761 per claim.<br />
“With the help of customers providing most<br />
information up front – claims are taking an<br />
average of three weeks to reach settlement.”<br />
she said.<br />
Ms Lapin says it is heartening to see that the new<br />
approach which uses both on site and phonebased<br />
assessments has empowered customers to<br />
provide their earthquake damage data,<br />
supported by photographs, was working well.<br />
“We have been surveying every customer who<br />
has been through the process and whose claims<br />
have been resolved – whether their claims were<br />
accepted or declined. We wanted to see how<br />
the process worked so we could make changes<br />
as we went where we needed to.<br />
“To date, 87% agreed that EQC valued and used<br />
their time wisely when dealing with them<br />
through the claims process.<br />
EQC will have contacted almost every customer<br />
to discuss the details of their February claims by<br />
the end of <strong>September</strong> to book their assessment.<br />
“This means that, other than people who delay<br />
their claim or whom we can’t get hold of, we will<br />
meet our target to resolve all claims by the end of<br />
<strong>2016</strong>, hopefully earlier,” Ms Lapin said.<br />
EQC is continuing to work with customers who<br />
have lodged claims from the Canterbury sequence<br />
earthquakes, including those in the Canterbury<br />
Home Repair (CHRP) and land programmes, and<br />
the settlement of the February claims will not slow<br />
the progress of these programmes.<br />
EQC sets out<br />
process for<br />
remedial requests<br />
The Earthquake Commission (EQC) has streamlined<br />
its process for handling new remedial requests from<br />
customers received from 1 August, <strong>2016</strong>.<br />
EQC’s Head of Dwelling Settlement, Michael Price, says<br />
the new process aims for faster resolution with customers<br />
having the opportunity to provide information upfront and<br />
state their preference for a cash settlement or a managed<br />
repair where remedial work is required.<br />
The changes have been introduced after positive<br />
customer feedback on the process used to manage<br />
claims from the February <strong>2016</strong> earthquake, where<br />
customers had the opportunity to submit more<br />
information upfront to enable quicker turnaround.<br />
“Many customers going through the February <strong>2016</strong><br />
claims management process are positive or very positive<br />
about their experience,” Mr Price says.<br />
“EQC will now use this approach for new remedial<br />
requests, and customers will be asked to send in<br />
information such as photographs and builders’ quotes.”<br />
Mr Price says while cash settlement will provide a quicker<br />
resolution, it may not suit everyone.<br />
“So if a customer prefers that a contractor do the work,<br />
then EQC will arrange for that to happen during 2017.<br />
EQC’s Community Contact Team and independent<br />
customer advocate groups will be available to support<br />
any cash-settled customers who aren’t confident in<br />
sourcing their own contractors,” says Mr Price.<br />
Of the approximate 6,900 open remedial requests<br />
currently on EQC’s books, 3,000 properties have been<br />
identified as not being able to have any remedial repair<br />
completed before 2017. The new process, while largely<br />
designed for new remedial requests, will be available to<br />
these customers also and EQC is making contact with<br />
them to ask if they would prefer a cash settlement or wait<br />
for a managed repair during 2017.<br />
CONTACT EQC AT 0800 DAMAGE (0800 326 243) OR VISIT WWW.EQC.GOVT.NZ
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Zealand groups which I meet a lot<br />
of cool people through.<br />
How has arranging the conference<br />
been going?<br />
It really stuck me in starting<br />
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help high school students pursue jobs they are passionate<br />
about.<br />
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Limitless how many generous<br />
people are. We have got about<br />
50 people who are speaking and<br />
volunteering their time at the<br />
conference. We are also a charitable<br />
trust. I have three trustees<br />
who have great experience in<br />
their respective professions.<br />
What got you interested in<br />
social enterprise?<br />
I went to the Festival For The<br />
Future programme last year.<br />
They bring together a whole<br />
group of people who are innovators<br />
or thinkers passionate about<br />
a better future. Social enterprise<br />
was talked a lot about there. A<br />
lead-on from the Festival of the<br />
Future was the programme Live<br />
the Dream which is a social enterprise<br />
accelerator programme.<br />
You go into the programme with<br />
a problem you see in the world<br />
and in nine weeks they help you<br />
develop a solution. Limitless is<br />
what I developed over the summer<br />
with the programme.<br />
Tell me about your trip to<br />
Palo Alto in June?<br />
It was amazing. There were<br />
incredible speakers. US President<br />
Barack Obama and CEO of<br />
Facebook Mark Zuckerberg<br />
spoke. I also enjoyed meeting<br />
entrepreneurs from around the<br />
world and hearing about their<br />
experiences. It was amazing<br />
in spite of our differences how<br />
much we have in common. After<br />
the programme I connected with<br />
people including a guy from<br />
Montreal and a lady in Jordan<br />
who had really similar enterprises<br />
to Limitless.<br />
What was the most inspiring<br />
story or person you came<br />
across?<br />
I think meeting this lady from<br />
Jordan who had been working<br />
on a similar concept to Limitless.<br />
Wanting to get girls on a<br />
course she had been working on<br />
for 15 years. She started with a<br />
business that was separate to the<br />
education system and now she is<br />
creating curriculums that are being<br />
used in the education system<br />
and works with a big team. It was<br />
cool how one idea has developed<br />
and made an awesome impact.<br />
Also hearing President Obama<br />
was an obvious stand-out. A key<br />
moment in my life. He spoke<br />
about the biggest issues of today<br />
and how he sees the entrepreneurial<br />
spirit of being able to<br />
start your own business to create<br />
solutions to problems to where<br />
you live. He spoke about how the<br />
Government needs to step up<br />
and make it easier for people to<br />
start their own businesses.<br />
What do you like to do in<br />
your spare time when you are<br />
not setting up new businesses?<br />
I quite enjoy playing hockey<br />
and photography and I am still<br />
involved with World Vision. Just<br />
spending time outdoors with<br />
friends is what I love.<br />
•Registrations are open for<br />
the Limitless conference. To<br />
register go to www.limitless.<br />
org.nz
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THaumatropes: Make a<br />
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Today, 11–11.30am.<br />
School holiday craft activity:<br />
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however a caregiver is required.<br />
For extra fun come along to the<br />
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Marshland Rd, Shirley.<br />
Old-Fashioned Games –<br />
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Wednesday, 10.30–11.30am.<br />
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parents and grandparents used<br />
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ladders, hopscotch and more.<br />
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Paper Doll Making – School<br />
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Thursday, 2pm and October 6,<br />
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but a caregiver is required. There<br />
are two sessions to choose from.<br />
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941-7923.<br />
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36 Marshland Rd, Shirley.,<br />
Christchurch<br />
Antique and Collectors Fair<br />
Friday to Saturday, 10am-5pm<br />
and Sunday 10am-4pm.<br />
Quality antique fair presented<br />
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Bumps, Bubs and Beyond<br />
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HEALTH & BEAUTY<br />
Tips for untreated<br />
hearing loss<br />
Hearing is a sense that many of us<br />
take for granted. Throughout our lives, we<br />
subject our ears to loud sounds–music,<br />
power tools, lawn mowers, air travel–<br />
without using ear protection. regrettably,<br />
this can cause hearing loss. also, the<br />
natural aging process generally results<br />
in hearing loss. even certain illnesses<br />
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hearing. Unfortunately, hearing loss that<br />
occurs from such causes is permanent.<br />
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have a little hearing loss, it’s never too<br />
late to preserve your hearing for the<br />
years ahead. The first thing you can do is<br />
protect your ears in noisy environments.<br />
also, avoid using cotton swabs to clean<br />
your ears. and, make it a priority to get<br />
a baseline hearing screening to see if<br />
hearing loss has already occurred.<br />
if hearing loss is found during your<br />
hearing evaluation, it could be due to<br />
excess ear wax or infection. This type of<br />
hearing loss is reversible. if hearing loss<br />
stems from chronic exposure to loud<br />
noise, aging, or certain illnesses and<br />
medications, hearing aids are the best way<br />
to preserve your good hearing.<br />
The great news about today’s hearing<br />
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if you suspect you may have hearing<br />
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Here are 10 ways you can limit hearing<br />
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2. Learn about proper ear protection.<br />
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3. Put physical distance between you<br />
and loud noise when it is present. if<br />
possible, stand at an angle from the noise,<br />
not directly in front of it.<br />
4. Take breaks when you are exposed<br />
to noise.<br />
5. When listening to music through<br />
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6. Know the signs of hearing loss, and<br />
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21 Whareora Terrace, Cashmere<br />
Auction Date: Thursday 6 Oct <strong>2016</strong> - unless sold prior<br />
5 bedrooms | 4 bathrooms | 4 toilets | 3 living rooms | 2 dining rooms | 2 offices/studies | 2 car-garage | 2 carports | 6 off-street parks | Listing # BE192677<br />
This stunning home is for those who want<br />
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Clare reilly 40 years of exhibiting.<br />
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Upstairs may also be available on negotiation.<br />
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Main Rd, Little River | 03 325 1944 | art@littlerivergallery.com<br />
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544-35011 Email: reception@mandolin.com.au<br />
www.mandolin.com.au<br />
Personals<br />
GENTLEMAN seeks<br />
some female company.<br />
Im single, athletic, live on<br />
own, financially ok<br />
and a tad lonely ph/Text<br />
0<strong>27</strong>6594425<br />
OLDER MAN available<br />
(to a sexy female) to be<br />
your affectionate partner<br />
Ph 3583634<br />
To Let<br />
HOUSEME<br />
Portable sleepout or office<br />
available to rent<br />
Insulated and value for<br />
money at $75.00 per week,<br />
you wouldn’t live in<br />
anything else. Contact<br />
Amanda<br />
today on 0<strong>27</strong>9570920 or<br />
houseme2015@xtra.co.nz<br />
Tours<br />
Rexellent<br />
Rentals<br />
Cars, Vans, Brisbane, Coolangatta<br />
FREE CALL<br />
0800 601 508<br />
e: rexellent@bigpond.com<br />
Trades & Services<br />
eqc cASH SeTTLeMeNT<br />
EQC CASH SETTLEMENT<br />
We will re-scope your property to ensure<br />
you have been paid in full to cover<br />
all your repair costs.<br />
After 5 years of scoping for EQC claims<br />
we have found that most claims<br />
have been under paid.<br />
Examples of Clients EQC Payments:<br />
Payment Initially $3,800 after our re-scope<br />
payment received $46,320<br />
Payment Initially $7,575 after our re-scope<br />
payment received $38,182<br />
Payment Initially $19,8<strong>27</strong> after re-scope<br />
payment received $60,<strong>27</strong>3<br />
For re-scoping and all earthquake repairs<br />
including painting and redecorating.<br />
Enquire now Phone 021-667-444<br />
landscape design<br />
T: 03 421 8460<br />
M: 021 433 418<br />
E: office@xteriorscapes.co.nz<br />
W: xteriorscapes.co.nz<br />
PAINTER<br />
Michael Kelly Painters<br />
Locally owned and<br />
operated family<br />
business.<br />
25+ years Experience<br />
• Painting • Wallpapering<br />
• Interior • Exterior<br />
Free Quotes<br />
Tours<br />
Rexellent<br />
Rentals<br />
Cars, Vans, Brisbane, Coolangatta<br />
FREE CALL<br />
0800 601 508<br />
e: rexellent@bigpond.com<br />
Phone<br />
Paul 0<strong>27</strong>6 475 755<br />
Michael 0212 649 492<br />
michaelkellypainter@hotmail.co.nz<br />
Trades & Services<br />
Appliance Sales & Service<br />
388 4780<br />
Appliance Services<br />
14 Brighton Mall, New Brighton<br />
Trades & Services<br />
Appliance Sales & Service<br />
388 4780<br />
Appliance Services<br />
14 Brighton Mall, New Brighton<br />
• Alarm systems & servicing<br />
• Access control<br />
• Safes<br />
• Keys<br />
• Padlocks<br />
• Door & window locks<br />
inquiry@rossgalt.co.nz<br />
www.rossgalt.co.nz<br />
SECURITY<br />
RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL<br />
CITY BRANCH<br />
95 Kingsley Street<br />
(cnr of Kingsley St and Waltham Rd)<br />
Ph: (03) 365 0298<br />
Trades & Services<br />
• CCTV systems & servicing<br />
• 24x7 monitoring<br />
• 24x7 emergency service<br />
• Window & door hardware<br />
• Car & garage door remotes<br />
spouting<br />
HORNBY BRANCH<br />
The Branston Centre<br />
(Shop 12 393a Main South Rd)<br />
Ph: (03) 349 4119<br />
• Continuous spouting made to<br />
measure<br />
• New or existing homes<br />
• Steel fascia<br />
• Snow fall protection<br />
• No job to big or small<br />
• Will replace or repair any<br />
gutter profiles<br />
• All coloursteel colours available<br />
• All works guaranteed<br />
www.superiorspouting.co.nz<br />
Ph. Jem 0<strong>27</strong>7 515250<br />
Trades & Services<br />
MDC<br />
BUILDERS<br />
Renovations & Repairs<br />
All forms of Home<br />
Maintenance<br />
Bathrooms & Kitchens<br />
Site clears<br />
Excavating Driveways<br />
& Paths<br />
All forms of Foundations<br />
Free Quotes<br />
Give me a call today<br />
Ph 022 407 8581<br />
mdcbuildersnz@gmail.com<br />
15% Discount with this Advert<br />
Trades & Services<br />
• Replacement/new roofing<br />
• Colour Steel gutter & fascia<br />
• Flue & log burner installs<br />
• Skytube/light installs<br />
• Earthquake repairs<br />
Licence Building<br />
Practitioner LBP<br />
Member of the Roofing<br />
Association<br />
DCM ROOFING LTD<br />
The Roofing Specialists<br />
PHONE IAIN<br />
0<strong>27</strong> 445 5597<br />
iain@dcmroofing.co.nz<br />
Trades & Services<br />
PLUMBER<br />
PROMPT SERVICE<br />
For all<br />
Plumbing<br />
•Roofing/<br />
spouting<br />
•Maintenance<br />
•Installations<br />
8790441AA<br />
Trades & Services<br />
Michael<br />
Gale<br />
Plumbing Ltd<br />
Small work<br />
no problem<br />
Ph 364 7080 (24 hour)<br />
Mob 0<strong>27</strong> 438 3943<br />
Trades & Services<br />
Lawns, Gardens<br />
& Home Cleaning<br />
9185885AA<br />
Free Quotes<br />
Professional, personalised<br />
service. Regular &<br />
one-offs. Fixed price.<br />
Ph: 377-5814<br />
For all your property and<br />
cleaning requirements<br />
Trained, insured & security<br />
screened owner/operators<br />
Multi-award winning<br />
systems & Franchises<br />
Franchises Available<br />
www.fviphomeservices.co.nz<br />
GLAZING<br />
Stephen Thom<br />
Glazing 2012 Ltd.<br />
(Under New Management)<br />
• Mirrors<br />
• New Glazing<br />
• Pet Door<br />
Specialists<br />
• Frameless<br />
Showers<br />
• Splashbacks<br />
WE CAN DO YOUR<br />
WORK NOW<br />
9155874AA<br />
ALL BROKEN<br />
WINDOWS<br />
Phone Cushla<br />
03 352 6225<br />
or 0<strong>27</strong> 352 6225<br />
ROOF<br />
PAINTING<br />
Rope & harness<br />
a speciality,<br />
no scaffolding<br />
required,<br />
30 years of<br />
breathtaking<br />
experience.<br />
FREE QUOTES<br />
Exterior staining,<br />
exterior painting,<br />
moss and mould<br />
treatment and<br />
waterblasting<br />
Phone Kevin<br />
0<strong>27</strong> 561 4629<br />
Trades & Services<br />
BEST BATHROOMS<br />
full renovation specialists,<br />
LBP, repairs &<br />
maintenance ph 03 387-<br />
0770 or 0<strong>27</strong> 245-5226<br />
Trades & Services<br />
BRICKLAYER<br />
George Lockyer. Over<br />
30 years bricklaying<br />
experience. UK trained.<br />
Licensed Building<br />
Practitioner number<br />
BP105608. Insurance<br />
work. EQC repairs.<br />
Heritage brickwork a<br />
speciality. No job too<br />
small. Governors Bay.<br />
Home 329-9344, Cell<br />
0<strong>27</strong> 684-4046, email<br />
karengeorge@xtra.co.nz<br />
BUILDER<br />
For all building work<br />
but specialist in bathroom<br />
renovations, 30 yrs<br />
experience, with service<br />
and integrity. Free Quotes.<br />
Ph Lachlan 383-1723 or<br />
0<strong>27</strong>4 367-067.<br />
BUILDER<br />
LICENSED, available for<br />
all aspects of building.<br />
Please call 0<strong>27</strong> 241-7471<br />
or 335-0265<br />
CARRIER<br />
Local, experienced,<br />
friendly, trade-me<br />
purchases, single items<br />
to truck loads, furniture<br />
to whatever, removals &<br />
trade deliveries a specialty.<br />
Ph GEH 341-5069<br />
CARPET & VInYL<br />
LAYIng<br />
Repairs, uplifting,<br />
relaying, restretching,<br />
E mail jflattery@xtra.<br />
co.nz,<br />
ph 0800 003 181<br />
DRIVEWAYS<br />
Replace, repair or new.<br />
We are a local company<br />
with over 10 yrs exp.<br />
We also operate a<br />
digger for all other<br />
earthworks.<br />
Ph. R.M. Solutions<br />
021 02866981<br />
for a free quote.<br />
performance test $60 +<br />
DRAInLAYER<br />
Reg, all types incld soak<br />
holes & culverts etc<br />
ph 028 408-0121<br />
ELECTRICIAn<br />
REgISTERED<br />
or all electrical<br />
installations & repairs Ph<br />
03 322 4209 or 021 026<br />
73375<br />
ELECTRICAL<br />
Affordable electrical<br />
services, wiring,<br />
alterations & repairs,<br />
LED conversions.<br />
HEATPUMPS full service<br />
including pressure &<br />
GST. Ph 326 4992 or 0<strong>27</strong>4<br />
329755.<br />
FEnCE PAInTIng<br />
Staining Quality at a<br />
reasonable price. Free<br />
quotes. Phone Warren<br />
today on 980-1676 or 0<strong>27</strong><br />
2014713<br />
FURnITURE<br />
REMOVALS<br />
Large Trucks $95 +<br />
GST per hour 7 day NZ<br />
wide, packing & moving,<br />
Professional Company,<br />
Professional Service.<br />
Canterbury Relocations<br />
Ltd. ph 0800 359 9313<br />
PAInTER<br />
Top quality work, interior/<br />
exterior, pensioners<br />
discount, free quotes, 30<br />
years experience, I stand<br />
by Canterbury, ph Wayne<br />
your friendly painter<br />
03 385-4348 or 0<strong>27</strong> <strong>27</strong>4-<br />
3541
22<br />
Trades & Services<br />
PAINTER<br />
Available, All aspects in<br />
painting. Very competitive<br />
in roofs and fences. Please<br />
call 0<strong>27</strong> 241-7471 or 335-<br />
0265<br />
PAINTER<br />
Qualified, 25 years<br />
experience, interior &<br />
exterior, high quality, up<br />
to your expectations, for a<br />
free quote, call Mike 021<br />
023-91148<br />
PAINTING<br />
DEcoRATING<br />
interior & exterior,<br />
gib fixing, plastering,<br />
paperhanging, Est 50 yrs<br />
in ChCh, ph Wingfields<br />
Ltd, ph Mark 021 171-<br />
1586 or 355-5994<br />
PLASTERER<br />
Gib Stopping, Small<br />
job specialty. 30 + years<br />
experience. Ring 0800<br />
387-369<br />
PLUMBER<br />
ALF THORPE<br />
PLUMBING Certifying<br />
Plumber for all types of<br />
plumbing, maintenance,<br />
spouting, alterations etc.<br />
Phone 352-7402 or 0<strong>27</strong>4-<br />
350-231<br />
PLUMBER<br />
A Top Plumbing job<br />
completed at a fair price,<br />
prompt service, all work<br />
guaranteed, Ph Brian 960-<br />
7673 or 021 112-3492<br />
RooFING<br />
Qualified & Licenced<br />
Practitioner. Re-Roof &<br />
Repairs, all types. Member<br />
New Zealand Roofing<br />
Association. Over 35 years<br />
experience. Phone John<br />
0<strong>27</strong> 432-3822 or 351-9147<br />
email johnmill@ihug.<br />
co.nz<br />
SHoE REPAIRS<br />
Tuesday <strong>September</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
Classifieds<br />
Trades & Services<br />
SToNEMASoN<br />
BRICK<br />
&<br />
BLOCKLAYER,<br />
Earthquake Repairs, Grind<br />
Out & Repoint, River/<br />
Oamaru stone, Schist,<br />
Volcanic Rock, Paving,<br />
all Alterations new & old,<br />
Quality Workmanship,<br />
visit www.featureworks.<br />
co.nz or ph 0<strong>27</strong> 601-3145<br />
TREES<br />
BIG oR SMALL<br />
tree removal, trimming,<br />
stump grinding, shelterbelt<br />
clean up, section clearing,<br />
rubbish removals,<br />
excavation work, ph Trees<br />
Big or Small, for a free<br />
quote, 021 061 4783<br />
TREE WoRK<br />
Hedge trimming, stump<br />
grinding, rubbish removed,<br />
small job specialty Ph<br />
Andrew 03 322-8341 or<br />
0<strong>27</strong> 435-8759<br />
T.V. SERVIcE<br />
cENTRE<br />
Repairs, tvs, microwaves,<br />
stereos, DVD. Aerial<br />
installations and kitsets,<br />
480 Moorhouse Ave, ph 03<br />
379 1400<br />
UPHoLSTERER<br />
Dining Chairs, Lounge<br />
suites, Caravan Squabs<br />
etc. recovered. Free<br />
Quotes. Phone Graeme<br />
383-1448<br />
VHS VIDEo TAPES<br />
all camera tapes converted<br />
to DVD, video taping,<br />
weddings, twenty firsts,<br />
special occasions, www.<br />
grahamsvideo.co.nz ph 03<br />
338-1655<br />
WATERBLASTING<br />
Quality Job, Quick Service<br />
by skilled tradesman, Ph<br />
Richard Severin at Jet-X<br />
0800 538 969 Free quotes,<br />
visit www.jetx.co.nz<br />
Belfast engraving.Shoe WINDoW cLEANING<br />
repairs,key cutting & Average 3 bdrm house<br />
engraving.(10 yrs exp)683<br />
Main North Rd<br />
ph 0<strong>27</strong> 3113423<br />
inside or out $40. Both<br />
$70. Phone Trevor 344-<br />
2170<br />
WINDoWS & DooRS<br />
SPoUTING cLEANING<br />
,Joiner 25 yrs experience,<br />
Spouting Unblocked,<br />
Repair of rot or full<br />
Cleaned Out and Flushed<br />
replacement of sashes<br />
Out. Also Full Handyman<br />
& existing windows &<br />
Services Available. Call<br />
doors, Glazing, door<br />
Trevor 332 8949 or 021<br />
locks, security stays<br />
043-2034<br />
fitted, New house<br />
SPRING cLEANS installation of doors &<br />
need your home spring<br />
hardware, ph Mykle 0<strong>27</strong><br />
cleaned, reas rates, ph 0<strong>27</strong><br />
399 1673<br />
502 9289 or 03 926 43<strong>27</strong><br />
Public Notice<br />
Wanted To Buy<br />
AAA Buying goods<br />
quality furniture,<br />
Beds, Stoves, Washing<br />
machines, Fridge Freezers.<br />
Same day service. Selwyn<br />
Dealers. Phone 980 5812<br />
or 0<strong>27</strong> 313 8156<br />
A+ Household effects,<br />
fridges, freezers, washing<br />
machines, ovens. Good<br />
cash paid. Ph Paul 022<br />
0891 671<br />
TOOLS Garden,<br />
garage, woodworking,<br />
mechanical, engineering,<br />
sawbenches, lathes, cash<br />
buyer, ph 355-2045<br />
Public Notices<br />
Weka Pass Railway<br />
Waipara, North Canterbury<br />
We Are Running<br />
SunDAY 2nd October<br />
Running 1st & 3rd<br />
Sundays of every month<br />
Phone 0800WEKAPASS<br />
Depart Glenmark Station<br />
11.30am & 2.00pm<br />
www.wekapassrailway.co.nz<br />
Public Notices<br />
Public Notices<br />
DEMOLITION<br />
With care and respect we<br />
will remove your dwelling.<br />
Our policy is to recycle as<br />
much as we can. We are a<br />
local company specialising<br />
in residential properties. We<br />
will endeavor to cater for<br />
your individual needs.<br />
Ph. R.M. Solutions<br />
021 02866981<br />
for a free quote.<br />
Situations Vacant<br />
CA$H<br />
Strippers<br />
& Podium<br />
Dancers<br />
Wanted!<br />
18+ TO APPLY<br />
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021 193 0118<br />
business video<br />
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• Corporate and<br />
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• Competitive rates<br />
• 25 years experience<br />
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THE shared title of the Christchurch Casino “The<br />
Jazz Library” Charity Poker Event champion for<br />
<strong>2016</strong> went to REACH Child Cancer represented by<br />
Nick Henare and to Heart Kids Canterbury<br />
represented by Pat Lodge. Lynne Taylor took an<br />
admirable third place on behalf of the Diabetes<br />
Christchurch Inc.<br />
The Jazz Library Charity Poker Event was held<br />
by Christchurch Casino with $10,000 up for grabs<br />
for the eleven deserving charities to play for. The<br />
event was held on Thursday 15th <strong>September</strong> in<br />
Sixty6 on Peterborough. The multipurpose<br />
function venue had a prohibition theme with a<br />
library at the front entrance and a speak-easy<br />
below, including “Myrtle”, the 1929 Austin 7C- Cab<br />
Van from by Happy Tours and scintillating<br />
dancing and entertainment throughout the<br />
evening by the talented Epic Entertainment team.<br />
The invited guests in their 1920’s & 30’s<br />
ensembles relaxed with the sultry jazz tones of the<br />
“River City Jazz Men” and enjoyed learning to play<br />
black jack and roulette with some even testing<br />
their croupier skills, all of which combined to<br />
create a fun atmosphere throughout the evening<br />
and a memorable occasion. Mike King was a<br />
masterful MC, adding humour, energy and poker<br />
knowledge to the tournament.<br />
With $10,000 at stake for three lucky charities,<br />
competition at the tables was fierce as even though<br />
this was a fun gaming event the players soon<br />
realised they were playing in a structured poker<br />
tournament and got their game faces on! The top<br />
eleven players then competed at the final table to<br />
play off for the top three spots to take home the<br />
cash for their charity; finalists only found out<br />
who they were playing on behalf of once they had<br />
played their last chip – creating an exciting energy<br />
amongst players and viewers alike.<br />
The eleven charities who were represented at<br />
this event were the Cystic Fibrosis Association,<br />
Ronald McDonald House, Child Cancer<br />
RESTAURANT & CAFÉ<br />
‘Famous for their roasts!’<br />
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Great Kids menu plus designated play area.<br />
NOR’WEST NEWS<br />
Christchurch Casino “The Jazz Library” Poker Event<br />
Charities take home $10,000!<br />
Foundation, Cholmondeley, Canterbury Charity<br />
Hospital Trust, Diabetes Christchurch Inc.,<br />
Canterbury Down Syndrome Association,<br />
Christchurch Children's Holiday Camps Trust,<br />
Heart Kids Canterbury, Key to Life, REACH Child<br />
Cancer.<br />
Christchurch Casino CEO, Brett Anderson says<br />
“Another great charity poker night, this time held<br />
in Sixty6 on Peterborough with eleven deserving<br />
charities and their supporters in attendance. For<br />
the Casino it is a pleasure to host such an event<br />
and talk to those involved with the charities and<br />
get a better understanding of the challenges faced<br />
by them. Congratulations to REACH Child Cancer,<br />
Heart Kids Canterbury and Diabetes Christchurch<br />
Inc.”<br />
Results: 1st shared place went to Reach Child<br />
Cancer (played on behalf of by Nick Henare) who<br />
received $4,000 and to Heart Kids Canterbury<br />
(played on behalf of by Pat Lodge) who received<br />
$4,000 and 3rd place went to Diabetes<br />
Christchurch Inc. (played on behalf of by Lynne<br />
Taylor,) who received $2,000.<br />
All charities received a charity auction pack<br />
with a fun gaming night from Christchurch Casino<br />
and a voucher from Champs-Elysées Day Spa.<br />
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20<br />
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the Kids<br />
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& Motorlodge<br />
118 Racecourse Rd, Sockburn,<br />
Christchurch. Ph 03 342 7150<br />
www.racecoursehotel.co.nz<br />
We are moving to<br />
19 Sheffield Crescent, Burnside.<br />
We are looking for good, new, welcoming homestay<br />
families in this area for our International Students!<br />
We are especially interested in homes that are near to the<br />
No 17; No 120; No 125; No 29 or the Purple Line Bus routes.<br />
Educational<br />
Institute<br />
You will be well paid for this service!<br />
For more information contact:<br />
Margaret Bray, Alpha Homestays Coordinator<br />
Email: homestay@alpha.school.nz<br />
Phone: 0<strong>27</strong> 348 0535<br />
or Kathryn Thorne, Principal, AEI<br />
Email: office@alpha.school.nz<br />
Phone: 03 359 1525<br />
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Cafe open from 11am<br />
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NOR’WEST NEWS Tuesday <strong>September</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2016</strong> 23<br />
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Tuesday <strong>September</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
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Go Local
Papanui Rd Congestion <br />
Ever since the Northlands mall expansion Papanui Rd congestion has become an issue.<br />
I favour HOV (High Occupany Vehicle) access to the bus lane on Papanui Rd. This would<br />
allow cars with two or more occupants (what Auckland calls "T2") to co-use the bus-lane<br />
from 3-6pm weekdays (it is empty most of this time) to help clear northbound cars. Super<br />
Shuttles already use it. Why can't we?<br />
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apanui Commercial<br />
ntensification?<br />
aving lived on several streets off Papanui<br />
d (Grants Rd, Tomes Rd-Rutland St), I've<br />
ndured –as we all have– the increasing<br />
raffic congestion on Papanui Rd. With it<br />
as come commercial intensification (such<br />
s NZ's largest Mitre10 MEGA store on<br />
arewood Rd and the new industrial parks<br />
n Langdons Rd). Added to that the<br />
arthquake transferance to NW<br />
hristchurch we have added challenges to<br />
hat has been a residential suburb since<br />
he 1830s with heritage significance.!<br />
'm not saying this is either good or bad.<br />
he question is the future interplay and<br />
ressures of this growing commercialsation<br />
alongside the traditional residential<br />
ulture of Papanui since its beginning. It's<br />
omething we should discuss.!<br />
here is the added impact of more light<br />
ndustrial traffic around the five schools on<br />
r just off Papanui Rd: St Andrews, St<br />
argarets, Heaton Intermediate, Paparoa<br />
treet school and Grants Rd Seventh Day<br />
dventist school. We will be forced to plan<br />
o alleviate these stresses and to think<br />
reatively to preserve the pleasant<br />
esidential nature of our ward. !<br />
Go Local<br />
You've probably noticed in recent years that<br />
almost every other residential property on<br />
Papanui Rd has been bought up and<br />
transformed in to a commercial business<br />
(especially para-health entities: dentists;<br />
eye, ear facilities; physiotherapy; podiatry;<br />
etc). Papanui Rd south of Merivale is now<br />
almost completely commercial (mainly<br />
motels) so the question for us is: do we<br />
want the northern end of Papanui Rd from<br />
Heaton/Innes Rds up, to go this way too and<br />
become a commercial main street?!<br />
!<br />
Businesses are mushrooming and filling-in<br />
the residential gaps between the shopping<br />
hubs of Bealey Ave – Merivale – Papanui<br />
Shops and Northlands. This brings more<br />
cars and noise and could choke suburban<br />
access. Do we want Papanui divided in half<br />
by bumper-to-bumper traffic?!<br />
!<br />
If elected I would survey the residents of<br />
Papanui to ascertain the collective wisdom<br />
of the community on this issue.<br />
I'm A Double Dog Lover <br />
We have two dogs. One of our favourite<br />
walk places is a hidden treasure of<br />
Papanui ~ St James' Park beside the<br />
railway line. We're also frequent users of<br />
the Styx Mill Dog Park which is a<br />
wonderful local facility.<br />
Selfie<br />
Happy & Holly<br />
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Education & Papanui's Youth<br />
I loved coaching U13 kids' rugby at !<br />
Christchurch Football Club in the red &<br />
black and appreciate the value of team<br />
sports for developing character and<br />
perseverance in young people. That's<br />
something Graham Condon taught us all.<br />
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Meaning of "Papanui" <br />
(1) Papa means "flat," nui "big," so "big flat"<br />
could mean the Canterbury Plains. !<br />
(2) It might refer to a legendary funeral pyre<br />
on which some enemies were burned; or !<br />
(3) relate to a papanui - a tree platform for<br />
Maori bird-spearers as a rare patch of native<br />
forest existed at Papanui. From 1850 a<br />
sawmilling village developed beside it and<br />
the forest was quickly cut out for timber and<br />
firewood leaving only the Deans brothers'<br />
reserve of native timber (including tall<br />
Kahikatea) at Riccarton.<br />
For many years I was a local youth &<br />
young adults' pastor. We have five adult<br />
children. !<br />
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We've done much in Papanui to assist our<br />
young people with: the Papanui Youth<br />
Development Trust beside the Papanui<br />
RSA and St Paul's; and the Graham<br />
Condon Recreational & Sport Centre next<br />
to Papanui High. My wife and I were both<br />
local high school teachers and my kids<br />
went to several local schools as did I.!<br />
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Parents should have choices about where<br />
and how their children are educated<br />
beyond the simplicity of strict zoning. I also<br />
want vocational trade options for young<br />
people such as apprenticeships. !<br />
!<br />
We have drop-off and pick-up safety issues<br />
outside several of our local schools due to<br />
commercial intensification on Papanui Rd -<br />
something I'd like to fix.<br />
Go Local !<br />
Vote John Stringer!<br />
www.facebook.comjohnstringerchristchurch.!<br />
1877<br />
Historic St Paul's <br />
Historic St Paul's church built 1853 (rebuilt<br />
1877) remains an icon of Papanui. St Paul's<br />
was the center of life for early pioneers<br />
drawn to the stand of timber at Papanui<br />
north of the new city. It has one of the last<br />
carillon bell sets in a wooden spire in the<br />
southern hemisphere. Hear the 8 bells: !<br />
www.facebook.comjohnstringerchristchurch.!<br />
!<br />
St Paul's was one of the first churches to be<br />
refurbished after the quakes.<br />
Bit of a Bio:<br />
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Your only Local Candidate. <br />
We live here. Vote Local!<br />
How Good Are You? <br />
Papanui Quiz:<br />
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1) Which famous NZ warrior is buried in Papanui?<br />
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2) What is the link between birds and Papanui?<br />
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3) The iconic St Paul's Papanui church is unique in the southern<br />
hemisphere for what reason?<br />
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4) Papanui has the largest what in all of NZ?<br />
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5) What is the link between Papanui and Weetbix?<br />
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Answers: www.facebook.com/johnstringerchristchurch<br />
BUS-ted!<br />
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Authorised by: John Stringer, 151 Harewood Rd, Papanui, CHCH 8053