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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 />

FROM<br />

THE<br />

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 />

SPORT<br />

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Local Views......................4<br />

Elections...................................6<br />

Schools...................8 & 10<br />

Sports........................................12<br />

Our People.....................15<br />

Events........................................17<br />

Health & Beauty.........19<br />

Real Estate..........................20<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 />

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Rd is Akela St, Cox St and<br />

Office Rd.<br />

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Having served as an elected<br />

Community Board member<br />

for twelve years, I will bring a<br />

strong mix of local government<br />

experience, leadership skills and<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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Tuesday <strong>September</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />

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Recently I referred a 7 year old<br />

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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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very still in order for the<br />

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 />

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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 />

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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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and dogs, allowing us more diagnostic options<br />

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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sending those eight<br />

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evening which attracted<br />

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The Fire Service’s<br />

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Being older, having<br />

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drinking alcohol and<br />

smoking all appears to<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 />

Dr.<br />

NEIGHBOURHOOD WEEK<br />

The Shirley-Papanui Community<br />

Board has approved $4000 towards<br />

43 Neighbourhood Week applications.<br />

Neighbourhood Week is a city<br />

council initiative which runs from<br />

October 28 to November 6. Most of<br />

the funding will go towards street<br />

barbecues and community lunches.<br />

A fun, free, festival of arts,<br />

science and creativity for all ages!<br />

10am–2pm<br />

1&2 October<br />

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6<br />

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 />

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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 />

support returning bus services<br />

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 />

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<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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SCHOOLS<br />

NOR’WEST NEWS<br />

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 />

Johnson organised the dance<br />

revue.<br />

LOOKING GOOD: William<br />

Thomas struts his stuff during<br />

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 />

Changes at the Russley Road/<br />

Wairakei Road roundabout<br />

From 5 October,* the layout of the Russley Road/Wairakei Road<br />

roundabout will be removed. Wairakei Road on the western<br />

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Russley Road and left in to Wairakei Road from Russley Road.<br />

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• 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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Russley Road<br />

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are necessary<br />

for traffic safety,<br />

as certain<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 />

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CONCENTRATION: Emily Simpson, 7, makes sure her<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 />

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In addition, Charlotte Spurway<br />

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SPORTS<br />

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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 />

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The Canterbury Basketball<br />

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The team has dominated<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 />

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Canterbury captured the Phil Costley<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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involved in World Vision New<br />

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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 />

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Old-Fashioned Games –<br />

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Tuesday <strong>September</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2016</strong> 19<br />

HEALTH & BEAUTY<br />

Tips for untreated<br />

hearing loss<br />

Hearing is a sense that many of us<br />

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SPECIALS. Phone 61 7<br />

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 />

NEISHA<br />

021 193 0118<br />

business video<br />

PRoduCTion<br />

A video will bring your business<br />

alive & into your customers mind.<br />

Promote your<br />

services or business<br />

with a professionally<br />

created video with us<br />

• Corporate and<br />

Business video a speciality<br />

• Competitive rates<br />

• 25 years experience<br />

• Start to finished product<br />

• Professional quality guaranteed<br />

PHone KeRRY 021 635 083<br />

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 />

School’s Out<br />

FAMILY FRIENDLY<br />

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Two courses<br />

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 />

SENIORS SPECIAL $<br />

20<br />

Two courses:<br />

Soup/Roast or Roast/Dessert<br />

Special available lunch only<br />

Monday - Saturday 12pm - 2.30pm. Conditions apply<br />

Treat<br />

the Kids<br />

$<br />

10<br />

Open daily from 6.30am - Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner<br />

The<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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A classic, contemporary<br />

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Cafe open from 11am<br />

TAB & Gaming, Function Facilities,<br />

HOUSIE Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday<br />

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Restaurant open<br />

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RETRO ROAST LUNCH<br />

12PM-1.30PM<br />

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SUNDAY<br />

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10.30am-2.30pm<br />

- downstairs -<br />

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Wednesday,<br />

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Open FRIDAY,<br />

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FRIDAY SPECIAL:<br />

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SUNDAY 30 OCT<br />

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«WHAT'S ON«<br />

THURSDAY 29 SEPT<br />

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TICKETS $25<br />

FRIDAY 30 SEPT, 8pm<br />

Madsen promotions presents<br />

EAGLES, BEEGEES,<br />

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SATURDAY 1 OCTOBER<br />

4.30PM THE BUSKER<br />

8PM TH’ ART OF CHEESE<br />

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24<br />

Tuesday <strong>September</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />

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(c)Fairfax: THE PRESS <strong>2016</strong><br />

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 />

.Happy


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 />

!<br />

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 />

!<br />

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 />

X<br />

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

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